in his burning and confronts Fiona, whom he leaves alive, amid an operation to take down John Barrett, a major player in the organization that he was hunting. While Fiona, Sam, and Madeline are unsuccessful in convincing Jesse to forgive or work with Michael, he nonetheless appears at the meet and saves Michael from Barrett's men. The meeting ends with the bible cipher missing, and Barrett dead. Jesse later agrees to work with Michael and recover the book cipher for them. Surprisingly, Madeline brokers peace between Michael and Jesse, calling both 'my boys' and stating that they have to get past their mistakes; she appeals to their sense of family and forces both to look at the emotional pain their rift has caused the team, comparing it to ripping a family apart. With no way of making amends, and both Michael and Jesse appreciating the other's position, they reconcile and find common ground in helping Michael's 'clients'. By the fifth season, Jesse has been reinstated into an official agency but finds the bureaucracy and red tape unbearable. He quits and begins working at a private security firm, where his position enables him to give Michael, Sam, and Fiona extra work. Foes Jason Bly Central Security Service Agent Jason Bly (Alex Carter) is assigned to Michael's case after Michael gained access to his burn notice and his FBI surveillance team is pulled. In the first season, Bly attempts to coerce Michael into giving up his attempts to return to the intelligence fold by harassing him and threatening his friends and family. Michael finally gets Bly to lay off by creating a file framing him for taking bribes, which he also uses to blackmail him into providing a copy of his classified dossier. In the second-season episode "Bad Breaks", Bly returns with enough blackmail material on Michael to force him to hand over Bly's file. Then Bly shows up at a bank where Michael is there helping the episode's client, and the two are taken hostage by a team of bank robbers and Bly is shot. After Michael treats his wound and foils the robbers, the two develop mutual respect. They exchange respective blackmail files and part ways on good terms. In the sixth season, Bly returns as the lead interrogator handling Fiona's case. He also tries to convince Fiona that Michael did not survive an explosion and is "presumably deceased" during