Enjoyed last night's episode, and while I've watched Burn Notice from the beginning, I still enjoy the micro- so much more than the macro-. I enjoy the hardcore spy-rig toys, the MacGyver/James Bond portions.
All of this, "Oh no, there's yet another super-secret person behind the curtain" is like the show 24 -- oh no, there's a mole at Division (again). I prefer the simple, "Michael's-Mom's-Cousin's-Former-Prison-Cellmate's-Hairdresser's-Daughter-was-scammed-out-of-money-by-the-local-hood" storylines of previous seasons.
It is what it is, and I'll be with it 'till the end, but the old days of thermite and cathode-tube X-ray machines were better than the stuff they do now, which seems to be, "Fi-brings-C4." (This week's big thing was running up a ramp?!)
As much as I love Kenny Johnson, I figured his character was kept alive to give the show options for the next-season premiere (they can interrogate him to learn about Card, they can have more discussion and drama about whether to kill him in cold blood, he could have some way to get out of Panama that they exploit...), etc.
The only things I can imagine happening to Tyler Grey by the end of the next premiere are (A) death (probably not at Michael's hands, even though Mike has killed before, and this guy would really deserve it), (B) imprisonment (at which point, he'd probably be off the show as much as Robert Wisdom or Garret Dillahunt are, able to come back for guest spots if needed), or (C) escape, and they've already done a plotline about hunting him down.
I guess they could end up in some situation like Victor or Anson, where he or some other enemy gets some leverage on the group, and Grey becomes their new contact. Preferably, for at least half-a-season. We need more Shield supporting-alumni on television.