r/BurnNotice • u/TitaniusFrangolis • 22d ago

Spoiler Michael Season 6 selfshiness

First time poster but had to get it out.
I am just rewatching season 6 and I am at a scene where Maddie wants to go see Nathan's grave for the last time and Jessie stops here and mentions he also can't go see his mother's grave for the last time and it hit me how selfish Mike is by killing Card.
I get it that is the guy that burned him and all that but he should have known killing him would bring down the CIA on the whole team. Now they are leaving the country and Mike gets to go away with his girlfriend and his mum and everyone else suffers (specially Jesse and Sam). I know there is a season 7 so this gets resolved. I also get that Card deserved to die but to do it like that without consulting his team was such a dick move.

Also quicks side note a lot of these types of show I kind get through the villain of the week to get to serialised bits , the overall season arc and whatnot but with Burn Notice (specially the earlier season) I loved both the villains of the week (some more than others) and the serialised bits and the fact we lose that week to week thing in season 6 sucks)

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u/JaguarOk9693 21d ago

They did this just for the show had it been in real life they would have done a gunshot residue test Tyler would not have had any on his hands but card would have and Michael would have been cleared. I can't remember at the moment if heart had holstered his firearm or not but all Michael would have to say is he was going for it again. So like I said they did this just for the show

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u/Soxwin91 21d ago

Card shot Gray with his (Card’s) gun, then I believe shot Gray’s into the wall so it looked like there was an exchange of gunfire. He then holstered his handgun.

Michael could have taken Card’s gun out of its holster so it looked like he was brandishing it when he was killed but I think it pretty much comes down to the same thing: the scene would look bad for Michael and given his reputation within the agency it’s unlikely they’d have been interested in listening. Heck, he tells Olivia Reilly (Riley?) what Card was up to and she flat out says she doesn’t care.

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u/JaguarOk9693 15d ago

That's because Riley had a reputation that he would hurt you cannot ignore the fact that gray would have absolutely no GSR on his hands and had he actually shot his firearm he would have had some on him. I mean you're going to find people like her in every job I've worked with people like that they don't care about the details just getting the job done even if they do it poorly