My husband and I watched the summer finale of Burn Notice the other night. Who picked up the silver case holding the Bible and left Michael clinging to life by the totalled black Cadillac Escalade? I didn’t think to rewind to see what Jesse was wearing before I deleted the episode. I wonder if I can re-watch it online at USA or Hulu. I probably can. Thank goodness the show will return in November. I won’t get to find out what happens on Royal Pains or White Collar as soon. But I digress.
On the Burn Notice summer finale Michael comes to the aid of a five-year-old girl who has gotten mixed up in her father’s unsavory dealings. The child’s father is a defense attorney to some of the lowest of the underworld. When it doesn’t look like he’s going to gain an acquittal for one particular baddie, Baddie’s brother kidnaps the child out of her own backyard as an incentive for the brother to not end up in prison. Michael and the team ultimately rescue the girl and the father manages to send her far enough and secret enough away that she shouldn’t end up as collateral again.
A toddler was playing in the safety of his backyard in Delaware when a strange woman leaned over the fence to attempt to entice him to her and out of the yard. The boy’s mother witnessed this and got her son safely back inside. As I read the story, the woman and the man with her had not yet been caught.
I am so glad that this story has a happy ending. I am so happy that this little boy didn’t need a mercenary to rescue him. I don’t understand crime to begin with and will never understand crimes against children.