It does kind of delight me that Sam met Michael at a restaurant, told Michael to rest, gave him a gift certificate for a massage, went to do surveillance that did not in any way require Michael...and Michael showed up like an hour later pretty much just to hang out with Sam. Like, no he won't use that massage, but he sat at a sports game with you for a bit.
(I mean also so there can be some expositional dialogue, but in character there's nothing about this that couldn't be a phone call and a texted photo)
Burn Notice s5e3
I wonder if Michael wanted to hang out with Sam bc he's calming. Sam helps ground Michael and calls him out on his bullshit. Michael does like massages but he was prob like I'll do that later, right now I need to hang out with Sam bc my mind keeps spinning
My theory is he was actually hoping that sitting with Fi and Sam would be a nice and comforting thing to do and then they made it an intervention. But he still wanted to sit with Sam, so he did.
