We’ve seen that Michael Westen is good at lying. In fact, Carla says that’s one reason he was hired to work for her. But in this episode, he derives great pleasure from tossing the truth about his own duplicitous status into the face of his client, art dealer Scott Chandler (Joel Gretsch of The 4400). The irony proceeds as it turns out Chandler hasn’t been entirely honest with Michael, either.

Chandler hires Michael to help trace a security breach in his company, an art dealership with a high decree of confidentiality for clients. Michael agrees to take on the corporate security job, a gig Sam refers to as "going on the kiddie rides at the carnival." The first look shows that the place is primed with security devices, video cameras in all common areas, and the executive offices locked by keypad. It would seem that everything was in place to keep the data safe.

As Michel investigates further, he discovers that the office receptionist, Melanie Blake (Marla Sokoloff, The Practice’s Lucy), is the spy Chandler’s detected. Distraught, she claims Chandler will kill her if he finds out she was in the files. She reveals that her father was a famous pop artist, whose last painting, "Lady in White," disappeared after he was beaten to death and his studio torched. Worse, she believes Chandler, who was her father’s dealer at the time, had a hand in the murder, and is trying to sell the $7 million painting on the black market.

Intrigued, Michael and Sam look into Melanie’s story, and decide to help her,  seeing justice needs to be done.

Meanwhile, the team is also tracking down Derek Poole, the man who bombed Michael’s loft.

They enlist Fiona’s arms dealer friend, Seymour, who is willing to forgive the fact they beat him up several episodes ago if he can work with Michael and Fiona, whose teamwork he praises to his inept staff. He’ll find Poole, he says, if Michael will teach him how to be a "badass."

Michael reluctantly agrees, because, as he tells Sam, Seymour "doesn’t mix well with government types," but he finds he repeatedly has to rescue the plan from Seymour’s overeager assistance. Despite his blundering, Seymour actually does track Poole through the bomber's girlfriend, who leads them to Poole’s house, which is thoroughly booby-trapped like the house Fiona got trapped in during the previous episode.

Seymour also investigates the relationship between Michael and Fiona, guessing their passionate teamwork continues between the sheets. Sam, too catches on to their sizzling interpersonal chemistry, taunting Michael, "How many times do you have to touch the flame before you remember it burns?" He later jabs at Fiona as well: "You have a gift for getting men to make bad decisions."

In the end, justice is served, and more importantly, Michael gets from Poole the bank account number in the Caiman Islands from which Poole was paid $100,000 to kill Michael. Michael takes the number, hoping to trace whoever deposited the money there.

Despite the obvious, Michael continues to deny the two are a couple, and Fiona dismisses the night they spent together, saying the two were just "blowing off steam." But the looks between the two make it clear they’re fooling themselves. When Seymour gives them matching throwing daggers, engraved with the word "Destiny," we have to wonder whether they will eventually use them against common enemies—or each other.