Dead Drop (Burn Notice)

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“Dead Drop”
Burn Notice episode

Michael Westen.
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 11
Written by Matt Nix
Directed by Jace Alexander
Production no. BN110
Original airdate September 20, 2007
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"Dead Drop" is the eleventh episode of Burn Notice, an American television drama series created for the USA Network. It was originally aired with the following episode, "Loose Ends", as a two hour season finale.

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Sam Axe has a job for Michael Westen involving a woman named Gillian, who is under threat of blackmail and is being forced to smuggle drug shipments through her office. Sam has to take the job for himself, however, while Michael is focusing all of his efforts on tracking down Philip Cowan, the man he believes burned him. Cowan proves to be especially paranoid when he aborts their first meeting after Michael brings Sam along as backup.

Sam investigates the job on his own, talking with Melissa, Gillian's married co-worker whose boyfriend is said to be blackmailing the two of them after stealing files from their company. Melissa is uncooperative, leaving Sam to recruit Fiona Glenanne for help in tracking the boyfriend, to their surprise, to a gay singles bar. The boyfriend, Ray Wagoner, turns out to be a false lead, hired by Melissa and her husband, Kent, to take the very pictures used to blackmail Gillian. She turns out to be the victim of a double blackmail, to which Sam and Fiona respond by exploring ways to pin the heroin shipments on Melissa and Kent.

Michael, at his mother's request, hurries back home when she receives frightening phone calls from a man who leaves only an address for him, presumably to meet. Amid growing suspicions from Madeline, Michael asks his brother, Nate, to make sure their mother is safe. At the address given to Michael, he finds a "cutout," who leaves him a message describing a place and time to meet again.

Gillian's case eventually needs assistance from Michael, who has to go undercover as a potential business partner looking to run more drugs through Kent's operation. Sam and Fiona, meanwhile, work Melissa into believing the investigation is reaching a dead end. They tap her cell phone, used in conversations between her and Kent where they reveal their fears of their bosses in their smuggling operation finding out that they are being investigated.

The meeting between Michael and Kent, set up in order to record incriminating evidence, goes awry as a paranoid Kent threatens to shoot Michael. He barely escapes to hear another tapped conversation where Kent resolves to "clean up this mess," an expression that the team believes leads to killing Gillian after one last drug shipment.


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