Friends and Enemies - Recap

Michael Westen, blacklisted spy, is back for another season and after a recap of what happend previously in the last season, the scene opens up with Michael sitting in a room. A tall black man enters the room and Michael wants to know why he is there in the room. We find out that the big man’s name is Vaughn and he is Michael’s new best friend according to him. He gives Michael a file. It is an intelligence file. In his cell, Michael is reading the file. He meets with Vaughn outside and Vaughn needs Michael’s help. Vaughn is in a tight spot and the case that needs attention is bigger then what Simon, the guy from the first season did. Michael is still upset from being burned and Vaughn wants to be partners in this. Michael tells Vaughn that Gregory Hart is a weapon’s dealer and that is where Vaughn is going to start with. Vaughn wants to speak to Gregory together with Michael. They arrive on an island and Michael and Vaughn meet with Gregory Hart. They want to know who he is working for but Gregory is not talking. Michael sees a plane and Vaughn shoots Gregory in the leg to get his attention, but Gregory informs that he was already dead before they came for him. Michael, remembering the plane, tells Vaughn that they need to leave now. They run as the drone starts shooting at its target. They run and Vaughn gets shot but he is alright. He asks Michael if he’s in or out.

Back in Miami, Vaughn is ok despite a hurt shoulder. Michael and Vaughn are talking about the mission and Michael is still undecided about it a little bit. Michael tells Vaughn that Gregory had a government file and that it is more then they know. He agrees to go on board but only on his terms. Michael goes back to his mom’s house and she is happy to see him. But there is tension. Michael asks about Fiona and apologizes for everything that happened. Michael goes to see Fiona and she is happy to see him. But there is something going on. Fiona and Sam took on a case of a lawyer named Winston who was helping a girl with a restraining order and things turned bad. The ex turned out to be an enforcer for “The Breakers”, a big outlaw biker gang. Sam tells Michael in the car that he and him are going to get a beer. Sam and Fiona give Michael the run down what is happening and they arrive at the home of Winston who is throwing money out to the bikers. But the bikers are not interested in it. The bikers are led by Hunter, an outlaw biker and ex-boyfriend to the girl that Winston helped and he is threatening him with death. Michael is going to attempt to talk it out. He walks out and shoots two m10’s in the air. The bikers face him. They tell that Winston has every “Breaker” coming for him because of the incident. Michael says that he doesn’t care and that he could take down two of the bikers if they don’t get out. The bikers agree and tell him that they’ll be back. Michael wants to know who the guy was.

Fiona apologizes to Michael for not telling him about the incident before hand and Michael is upset that Fiona and Sam took on a case like nothing happened to him. She smacks him and tells him that she and Sam were looking for him and after a while they took a case because they thought he was dead. She is worried about Michael but he tells her that he is fine and that he is working with the agency trying to figure out more about the stuff that Simon was in and tells Fiona that it is bigger then anything they have thought. She is upset and resumes duties in a sour mood. Sam and Winston are talking about “The Breakers” tailing him and Winston suggests that he go to Mexico. But Michael enters and tells him that is a bad idea and that they will just kill a relative. Michael wants to know what Sam knows about “The Breakers”. Not much besides being arrested, that they run a bar, and that Big Ed, the boss, is in charge. They need to convince them that keeping Winston alive is good for them. Michael suggests that they speak to Barry. Outside, Barry, Sam and Michael are talking and Barry tells that they need to put Winston on the books of being involved with “The Breakers”. Fiona infiltrates “The Breakers” at the bar and sees Big Ed in the corner. One particular takes an interest in her. She sits at the bar and Hunter is talking to Big Ed and Ed tells that Hunter should have shot Michael for interfering. Fiona walks out of the bar and goes upstairs. The man interested in her from before, catches her. She tells him that she was looking for some place private for them and she tases him. Fiona finds a document in the room and scans the pages with a digital page scanner. It is the paperwork they need to get the paperwork going to get Winston involved with the biker gang. The alarm is activated and another biker sees the door open a little bit upstairs. Fiona scans the pages and uses a wrench to escape out of a vent that leads outside. The biker is too late to catch her.

Back at the office, Winston says that he wants to get away from the gang, not work for them. But Sam tells him that this is the best thing for him. Michael takes a call from Vaughn and goes and meets him. Vaughn tells that Michael was right and that he needs to investigate further. Michael tells him that he has work to do and Vaughn laughs about him being wrapped in a biker gang issue. Michael returns and they are outside of Big Ed’s girlfriend’s house and they are going to go in there and talk. Sam is covering Ed’s girlfriend with a shotgun and Michael has Big Ed with a handgun. Ed’s girlfriend complains about the shotgun in her face and attacks Sam. She manages to overpower Sam and the shotgun goes off. Big Ed punches Michael and the fight is on. Sam is fighting the girlfriend and Michael jumps on Big Ed and succeeds to make him pass out after being slammed against the wall a few times. Sam punches the girlfriend in the face and the fight is over. Michael calls Fiona and tells him that Ed is ready to talk. They show Ed that if Winston dies, then every charter of “The Breakers” goes down because Barry came through on the paperwork and they show that Winston is now connected with the gang and if he dies, then “The Breakers” are over. Ed calls off the hit and tells Hunter to come alone.

Michael, Sam, and Winston are watching as Hunter and two other bikers come. It is apparent that the rules have changed. Hunter tells Big Ed that he’s gone soft and that he shouldn’t be in charge anymore. Big Ed ignores this and tells that the decision is final. Hunter draws the gun and shoots Big Ed in the shoulder. Michael, Sam, and Winston drive up to intervene. With guns blazing, they manage to get Big Ed out with the bikers on their tail. Trying to out run the biker gang proves harder then it looks. Michael calls Fiona and tells her to get all “The Breakers” to follow her to Big Ed. She walks up to one of the bikers and hits him in the face with a helmet. That gets their attention and she takes a bike and they follow. Meanwhile Michael is trying to shoot the bikers and it proves to be hard as well with the car swerving. Fiona arrives with the other bikers and Sam whips the car around. He makes Hunter crash and the bikers stop in front of them. Big Ed steps out of the car and tells them to stand down. He kicks Hunter in the face and then takes off his biker jacket. He puts it on Winston and tells the other bikers not to kill him. Big Ed tells Michael, Sam, and Fiona that he doesn’t want to see them again. This is fair enough for everyone and Winston jumps in the back of the car again.

Back at a tattoo parlor, Winston gets “The Breaker” tattoo and he tells that they should keep Michael around and that they all make a good team. Michael visits his mom again and he wants to talk to her. He admits that it was not easy for her. He tells that he was chasing Simon down because Simon was an agent just like Michael who went rogue and was hurting people. He had to break the law in order to catch him. His mother is not satisfied and Michael tells her that when he caught Simon, that Simon laughed and said that some day he would be just like him. His mother forgives him and gives him a hug and tells him that is the type of son he is. Michael and Fiona talk and she is not happy that he is continuing on the mission that got him black listed in the first place. Michael sneaks in to a military unit and hacks into a computer. He downloads files and is out quickly. It seemed too easily. After he gets the information and back to the car, FBI cars pull up and arrest a man. Turns out that someone got caught after all. Back at the office, it turns out the fall guy was a counter-intelligence agent Jessie Porter and Michael finds out that he just burned a spy!


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