Burn Notice: Season 1, Episode 9

1 - 9: Hard Bargain

The fiance of Nick Lam, Dawn, is kidnapped. The kidnappers ask for $5,000,000, a figure far beyond the reach of Nick Lam. During a surveillance operation, Nick gives away Michael's position and Michael is forced to kidnap a kidnapper, Lucio, who he blackmails into helping him. Sam and Fiona develop a new plan to have Fiona be "kidnapped." Sam learns from the kidnapper the location of the warehouse where Dawn is being held, so he and Fiona attack the guards and free her. Michael, who is acting as a hostage negotiator, leads the kidnapper to the warehouse just as the police come and arrest the kidnapper. Afterward, Michael meets with a supposed CSS bureaucrat assigned to review his case. When the bureaucrat attempts to kill him, the three theorize that Michael's would-be killer was not the real bureaucrat after all, but merely an impersonator.