- Michael volunteers to help the CIA find Max's killer, even though he is the prime suspect. At the same time, he helps out a former Army sniper who wants revenge on the people who nearly beat his sister to death.
- Ethan, a young soldier back from Afghanistan, needs Michael's help finding the dangerous con man who put his sister in the hospital. In order to take him down, Michael has to teach Ethan some tricks of the spy trade and as they work together, Michael begins to see a younger version of himself in Ethan. Michael has problems of his own, however, trying to find the person who killed Max and framed him for it. Michael is introduced to AGENT PEARCE (Lauren Stamile), who's been sent by the CIA to investigate Max's murder and serve as Michael's new agency contact. Michael must do what he can to aid the CIA's investigation while keeping the evidence from leading to his own doorstep.—USA Network
- Michael finds that CIA agent Pearce, in charge of investigating their common friend Max's murder, set aside her first impression to make him prime suspect, so he helps her 'cyt corners'. His team finds out the only logical suspect must be the man who bought a prepaid phone locally and gets hold of the shop's security videos, but the result he already boosted coming up is problematic. Meanwhile Mike accepts to help hot-headed young Afghanistan veteran Ethan, whom the CIA wants to recruit as genius, deal with the abusers of his sister. The team finds the physical culprit was actually blackmailed by ruthless insurance crook Brad Ramsey, so Mike poses as chief of a crime syndicate which offers to make Brad their Miami division chief, so he'll liquidate his own team and loose everything.—KGF Vissers
- Previously on: Max, Michael's CIA contact has been killed and it appears that Michael is being framed for the killing. He covered his tracks to get out of the building and prepared to get himself an alibi.
Michael puts the murder weapon in 4,000 degrees of burning thermite. Jesse shows up and tells them he's pieced together credit card receipts that places the whole group in Key West on a little vacation. They try to theorize about who else would have wanted Max dead. Jesse notes that once a cover-up starts there's no going back, but Michael reminds him it already started when he cleared the key log to the murder scene and wiped away his fingerprints.
Michael meets Agent Pearce at the investigation scene. She pieces together the steps, using Michael as "the killer" and then admits she was suspicious of Michael when she heard he'd been mixed up with Max. But Michael convinces her she can count on him to find the killer. She's also his new agency contact.
Fi can't believe Michael is involved in an investigation that could lead right back to him. Michael gets a visit from a former Army sniper named Ethan who wants to avenge an injury to his sister. Michael insists that the guy Ethan is looking for, Brandon, will go to jail, not to the morgue.
Fi and Sam drop off a $2,000 check to Brandon's mother, claiming he's benefitting from a class-action lawsuit. Now they just have to wait for his mom to find Brandon or for him to show up at his mom's house.
Michael meets Pearce and she says she's going to have the FBI check Max's cell phone records, but Michael says he could do it faster because he's unofficial. He takes the massive binder with him.
Brandon shows up at his mom's house and Michael and Ethan meet him outside. Brandon claims he didn't hurt Ethan's sister. It was his boss, a scam artist who he stole some money from. Ethan still blames Brandon.
Michael tells Ethan he knows how to find Ramsey, the guy who beat up Ethan's sister. They decide to get into Ramsey's world and get in on a scam to uncover his scam operation. Sam and Ethan play themselves up as big-time scammers and try to tempt Ramsey into working with them.
Jesse shows up at the loft and is shocked at how much Fi has worked on the place. Michael it's "a process." Jesse shows Michael that he's traced cell phone activity around Max's place down to one call from a burner and he's going to trace it back to the bodega where it was purchased.
They draw Ramsey to a mansion where the whole crew is portraying itself as a group of scam artists who put up fake medical facilities around the world. They need Ramsey to help them break into South Florida. Michael comes in last, playing the role of the ring's boss who flew in from Pebble Beach for the meeting. He tries to convince Ramsey they aren't cops by tossing a molotov cocktail into Ramsey's car, then guiding him into a Porsche instead (saying it's Ramsey's new car if he joins up with Michael and his crew). After Ramsey drives away, Jesse tells him he'd better get his car back.
They hide a bug into a new watch they're giving Ramsey as a gift. Ethan gives Ramsey the watch. They ask Ramsey to get more details about his operation. He's going to have to talk to his people, and those conversations will be heard with the planted bug.
Jesse and Fi go to the bodega and pose as cops looking to get the store's surveillance videos. The owner wants cash but they instead threaten to arrest him for selling bootleg DVDs and selling booze to minors. He hands over the tapes and Michael takes them to Maddy so she can mark every purchase of a cell phone.
Ramsey talks to one of his men, who says Ramsey's judgment has been off lately. Ethan is upset when he hears a reference from Ramsey about doing violence to his sister, and he leaves. Jess and Fi realize Ethan likely went to the clinic where Ramsey was headed and when they get there, sure enough, Ethan has set up on a nearby roof with his sniper rifle ready to take aim at Ramsey. Fi distracts Ethan by shooting through the windshield of Jesse's Porsche, which Ramsey is still driving. Ramsey takes off quickly, doing more damage to the Porsche.
Back at Maddy's house, Ethan says he's done pretending to be Ramsey's friend and he just wanted to kill Ramsey. Maddy tells Michael that Ethan is a scared kid just like Michael once was, and he needs someone to teach him how to keep his anger under control. Michael convinces Ethan he has to pretend to be Ramsey's best friend just once more. Michael and Ethan go meet with Ramsey and convince him to turn the cops on his whole crew. Ramsey agrees to the whole deal and even goes along with burning his own house down to disconnect himself from his crew.
Before jumping on a private jet to Monaco, Ethan asks Ramsey if he has any loose ends and Ramsey admits there's a girl in the hospital (Ethan's sister). Ethan, working to keep his emotions in check, tells Ramsey to "take care" of that situation by putting some poison in her IV. Ramsey agrees and when he sneaks into the hospital, he's tackled by security just before doing anything with the syringe.
Ethan tells Michael he's going to talk to CIA recruiters.
Michael goes to meet with Pearce. He tells her about the burner and that he's already sifting through the tapes of the bodega's surveillance camera. She reminds him she and Max's family are counting on him.
Maddy is stunned when Michael comes over for a report on the surveillance tapes. She soon explains why by showing Michael the footage. It appears the man on the tape buying the cell phone at the bodega looks just like Michael -- his clothing, appearance and posture make for a near-perfect impersonation.
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