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Burn Notice
"Spies don't get fired, they get burned"
Overview
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Status
Ended
Created By
Matt Nix
Network
USA Network
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
Pilot
While on assignment, agent Michael Westen gets a "Burn Notice" and becomes untouchable. Having no idea what or who triggered his demise, Michael returns to his hometown, Miami, determined to find out the reason for his sudden termination.
Identity
Michael helps Madeline's friend retrieve money from a swindler, and in return he receives information about some visitors that came to his mother's home.
Fight or Flight
A drug dealer is witnessed brutally beating up a man by a single mother. Oleg asks Michael to help the woman, Cara, his best waitress, after she stops showing up for work.
Old Friends
Michael's friend, Bill, asks for the spy's help in freeing his daughter from a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, Michael dodges multiple assassination attempts.
Family Business
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
Unpaid Debts
Michael discovers a surprise aboard a boat he has retrieved from Jamaican gangsters. Meanwhile, a CSS agent urges Michael to stop his investigation into who burned him.
Broken Rules
Michael works to rid a community in little Havana of a crime boss, all the while baiting Jason Bly at the risk of his family and friends.
Wanted Man
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
Hard Bargain
A slightly dim house sitter's fiancée has been kidnapped, and Sam guilts Michael into a rescue while he's negotiating with a D.C. bureaucrat to stop the burn notice.
False Flag
Michael is hired to track down a woman's estranged husband, who has disappeared with their son. Michael soon finds himself pitted against somebody just as skilled and dangerous as he is.
Dead Drop (1)
Sam takes on a case for a woman named Gillian, who is being blackmailed into using her security clearance to help smuggle heroin into the United States. Meanwhile, Michael is busy trying to arrange a meeting with Philip Cowan.
Loose Ends (2)
Michael must rescue Sam from heroin smugglers, who happen to be ex-Special Forces, while also evading agents who are out to get him.
Top Cast
Jeffrey Donovan
Michael Westen
Gabrielle Anwar
Fiona Glenanne
Bruce Campbell
Sam Axe
Sharon Gless
Madeline Westen
Coby Bell
Jesse Porter
