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100 Things #9
Haven't done one of these in a while! Let's do Burn Notice this time. Burn Notice isn't a show that really mashes down my buttons in general, it's more of a "watch every now and then" kind of show, but it does have its moments.
100 Things: 100 favorite scenes from anything (books, movies, TV, fanfic, etc)
#9: Sam's crowning moment of awesome in the Burn Notice season one finale.
In 1x11/1x12, Team Good Guy really annoys a group of drug dealers, who end up taking Sam hostage, planning to double-cross and kill Michael and Fi when they come to rescue him.
Sam, after sending a "don't come for me" message that Michael and Fi (naturally) ignore, tries to antagonize his captors into shooting him so there will be no one to rescue.
That scene kicked me in the heart, for one thing because it's fairly subtle. You don't see Sam angsting that his friends might get killed trying to save him. It's basically just Sam being a dick like always, but with the dickness turned up to the maximum level. Throughout the whole hostage situation, he's dealt with being a prisoner by being snarky and obnoxious, but now it's cranked up to eleventy because he's trying to get his captor angry enough to shoot him. At first you don't realize what he's trying to do, and then you do and, just ... SAM! He's sitting in a dark room, tied up and beaten half to death, trying to be as much of a jerk as possible in order to get a drug dealer to shoot him in the head. (And it almost works, until the bad guy catches onto what he's doing.)
And what makes it even more gut-punching as a hero moment is that, if it had worked, no one would ever know about it. Michael and Fi would never know how he'd died; all they'd know is that he'd been killed (and probably rain down absolute hell on the bad guy, for what that's worth). Even the bad guy might not have realized what had actually happened.
It's just a lovely little piece of understated heroism and loyalty, and especially coming from Sam, a character who doesn't exactly display his bravery and loyalty on his sleeve.
100 Things: 100 favorite scenes from anything (books, movies, TV, fanfic, etc)
#9: Sam's crowning moment of awesome in the Burn Notice season one finale.
In 1x11/1x12, Team Good Guy really annoys a group of drug dealers, who end up taking Sam hostage, planning to double-cross and kill Michael and Fi when they come to rescue him.
Sam, after sending a "don't come for me" message that Michael and Fi (naturally) ignore, tries to antagonize his captors into shooting him so there will be no one to rescue.
That scene kicked me in the heart, for one thing because it's fairly subtle. You don't see Sam angsting that his friends might get killed trying to save him. It's basically just Sam being a dick like always, but with the dickness turned up to the maximum level. Throughout the whole hostage situation, he's dealt with being a prisoner by being snarky and obnoxious, but now it's cranked up to eleventy because he's trying to get his captor angry enough to shoot him. At first you don't realize what he's trying to do, and then you do and, just ... SAM! He's sitting in a dark room, tied up and beaten half to death, trying to be as much of a jerk as possible in order to get a drug dealer to shoot him in the head. (And it almost works, until the bad guy catches onto what he's doing.)
And what makes it even more gut-punching as a hero moment is that, if it had worked, no one would ever know about it. Michael and Fi would never know how he'd died; all they'd know is that he'd been killed (and probably rain down absolute hell on the bad guy, for what that's worth). Even the bad guy might not have realized what had actually happened.
It's just a lovely little piece of understated heroism and loyalty, and especially coming from Sam, a character who doesn't exactly display his bravery and loyalty on his sleeve.
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