Virgil's back in town, helping the daughter of a former partner in his former repo business. The clinic she works at is out a boatload of valuable medicine thanks to hijackers. The team has to infiltrate the thieves in order to retrieve them. As for the burn notice, Michael and Fi meet up with an arms dealer she knows, Seymour, for help finding info on the item Victor stole last time, a Russian Draganov, a high powered rifle.
- Bad Boss: Seymour constantly calls his bodyguard "Jackass".
- The Dreaded: Michael convinces Gerard that Sam's "Chuck Finley" persona is this, spinning a story that Chuck is a former CIA agent involved in black ops, who now has a racket of hiring criminals to do jobs for him, then killing everyone as soon as the job is over.
- Faking the Dead: When Michael realizes the hijackers intend to Leave No Witnesses on the boat, he and Virgil have to improvise with Michael's cover shooting Virgil at point-blank range (he fired the shot between Virgil's body and arm) and Virgil using his Navy SEAL training to hold his breath underwater to fake his apparent death.
- Loony Fan: Seymour is a big fan of Michael's and keeps trying to rope him in on a buy that went wrong.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Michael discovers where Gerard stores his stolen goods until they can be sold—but it's a massive warehouse mainly used by an office supply company. (Gerard bribes the security guards and warehouse manager to let them store his stuff off-the-books.) Sam and Virgil don't have enough time to search about 10,000 crates for the stolen antivirals, so they have to scare Gerard into getting them into the open himself.
- Obfuscating Disability: To further sell his persona as "Jackson", the harmless chemist, Michael pretends to have asthma and takes a puff from an inhaler any time he gets particularly upset.
- Parent with New Paramour: Michael hated it when Maddy hooked up with Virgil last time. He does everything he can to keep them separate this time.
- Retired Badass: Virgil still has some chops.
- Shoot the Fuel Tank:Michael: Most people think that shooting the gas tank of a vehicle makes it explode. Unless a car's on fire, you'll just spill a few bucks worth of gas. An explosion requires something extra like a few bags of acetone peroxide taped to the gas tank.
- Technicolor Science: Exploited. Sam and Vergil need fake mega-steroids for Gerard to hijack, so they just pour some bright yellow-green energy drinks into skinny glassware and pass those off as the steroids. What helps sell the switch is they also rig up a fake cyogenic pod, to scare the hijackers away from examining the "steroids" too closely, lest they lose a finger to frostbite.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Michael infiltrates the gang by tricking Gerard into forcibly recruiting him. To that end, Michael plays the role of "Jackson", a nerdy chemist in the lab that makes the steroids Gerard wants to steal. To sell Jackson as a complete wimp and make Gerard underestimate him, he slouches his shoulders, walks with a shuffle, doesn't fight back when Gerard's thugs rough him up, talks in an awkward and uncertain manner, and fakes a case of asthma.
- Women Drivers: Fiona deliberately exploits this assumption. Gerard's thugs won't let Michael out of their sight, so Fiona rear-ends the thug's car and pretends to be a Brainless Beauty who just hit the car by mistake. The thug falls for it completely and just asks for Fi's phone number, so she asks Mike for a pen to write it down, allowing Mike to surreptitiously give her a message.Michael: When you need to distract someone without raising suspicions, it helps to play to preconceptions. "Tourists are fat", "old people are cranky", and "girls can't drive".
- You Are Too Late: The initial plan to get the antivirals is just to have Sam in his "Chuck Finley" persona pose as a possible dealer interested in them, but Gerard tells him he sold them off recently and he's got enough personal honor as a "businessman" to not be interested in "unselling" them to an imaginary client's deep pockets.
