Burn Notice

Michael Westen, a seasoned US spy, is suddenly 'burned', i.e. discredited, without any form of procedure. He survives by doing impossible jobs for desperate people in Miami, where his mother lives. Michael is usually aided by trusted former FBI informer Sam and his ex girlfriend Fiona.

Cast

• Jeffrey Donovan
• Gabrielle Anwar
• Coby Bell
• Bruce Campbell
• Sharon Gless
• Tricia Helfer
• John C. McGinley
• Seth Peterson
• Paul Tei
• Jere Burns
• Jack Coleman
• Sonja Sohn
• John Pyper-Ferguson
• Marc Macaulay
• Owen Meyer
• Alona Tal
• Lauren Stamile
• Tim Matheson
• Alex Carter
• Otto Sanchez

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot
  Michael Westen: [to Vince] Does that shirt come in men's?...
• Episode 2: Identity
  Sam Axe: So, you're helping old ladies now? Good for you, Mike. Hey, I saw a kitten up a tree on my ...
• Episode 3: Fight or Flight
  Michael Westen: [to Fiona after she tosses Molotov cocktails] Fi, it looks like Fallujah down there!...
• Episode 4: Old Friends
  Michael Westen: Hey, can I borrow your car?::Sam Axe: Where are you going?::Michael Westen: Uh, just...
• Episode 5: Family Business
  Michael Westen: How's it coming, Fi?::Fiona Glenanne: [Making homemade explosives] Dangerous, unstab...
• Episode 6: Unpaid Debts
  Michael Westen: [Voice Over] As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal b...
• Episode 7: Broken Rules
  Michael Westen: [voice-over] Being a spy, you have to get comfortable with the idea of people doing ...
• Episode 8: Wanted Man
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: [voice-over] Covert operatives have a hard time dating. Even if you f...
• Episode 9: Hard Bargain
  Dawn: [sunnily] Nick!::Nick Lam: Hey, babe...::Dawn: [angrily] You lied to me! [she slugs him]::Nick...
• Episode 10: False Flag
  Michael Westen: [voice-over] Shoot a propane tank and you'll just get a big cloud of cold gas. You n...
• Episode 11: Loose Ends, Part 1
  Sam Axe: [at a gay bar] How do you want to handle this?::Fiona Glenanne: Well, I think the balls are...
• Episode 12: Loose Ends, Part 2
  Michael Westen: [looking at the cache of weapons Fiona brought] If we need more than this, we're doi...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Breaking and Entering
  Michael Westen: [voice-over] It takes a good marksman to shoot you at 50 feet from a moving car, but...
• Episode 2: Turn and Burn
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: [voice-over] In the world of intelligence, if an operative hands you ...
• Episode 3: Trust Me
  [walking in on his mother's poker game]::Michael Westen: Fi, how's it going?::Fiona Glenanne: Down t...
• Episode 4: Comrades
  Madeline Westen: [about Nate] Do you know what his first word was? It was "Michael."::Michael Westen...
• Episode 5: Scatter Point
  Sam Axe: [briefing Michael] Okay, here's a doozy. Kandi, originally from California. Assault and bat...
• Episode 6: Bad Blood
  Michael Westen: I hope Sam wasn't too much trouble, Mom.::Madeline Westen: We had a lovely time. But...
• Episode 7: Rough Seas
  Fiona Glenanne: I bought an assault rifle from him last year. He doesn't know you. Seymour has trust...
• Episode 8: Double Booked
  [Michael has reluctantly been contracted to kill Jeannie; he confronts her to try to save her life]:...
• Episode 9: Good Soldier
  Sam Axe: Good news, Mikey. I just planted a tracker on Carla's bike.::Michael Westen: You had a trac...
• Episode 10: Do No Harm
  Michael Westen: [narration] Nearly getting killed shakes you up, no matter how much experience you h...
• Episode 11: Hot Spot
  Fiona Glenanne: It seems this "man", Felix? He took Tanya for a ride in his car, and then he - attac...
• Episode 12: Seek and Destroy
  [Michael was originally hired by Chandler to fix his security, but now he's spying on him]::Michael ...
• Episode 13: Bad Breaks
  Fiona Glenanne: [incredulous] Michael called you to tell you to blow a hole in the wall of a bank, a...
• Episode 14: Truth and Reconciliation
  Michael Westen: [first lines - narration] Bribery is a lot more difficult than it sounds. There's no...
• Episode 15: Sins of Omission
  Michael Westen: [narration - everyone has just met Michael's ex-fiancé] For a spy, compartmentalizin...
• Episode 16: Lesser Evil
  Michael Westen: [first lines - narrative] The most dangerous time in any operation is when everythin...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Friends and Family
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: [narration as he swims ashore from his helicopter jump] As an operati...
• Episode 2: Question and Answer
  Detective Paxson: So, you gonna answer my questions or am I gonna pick my way through everything you...
• Episode 3: End Run
  Michael Westen: How long you been in town?::Nate Westen: About six hours, five of which were spent l...
• Episode 4: Fearless Leader
  Michael Westen: [first lines - narration] In any operation, whether going into an embassy, or collec...
• Episode 5: Signals and Codes
  Diego Garza: If I report back that I made contact with a burned spy, do you know where they'll send ...
• Episode 6: The Hunter
  Michael Westen: [narration] Meeting a new operative is a lot like going on a blind date. You're boun...
• Episode 7: Shot in the Dark
  Michael Westen: [first lines - narration] Spies aren't much into nightclubs. In a career where heari...
• Episode 8: Friends Like These
  Michael Westen: [first lines - narration] In order to prepare for a mission, it's the little things ...
• Episode 9: Long Way Back
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: [narrative] When you work as a covert operative, there's no line betw...
• Episode 10: A Dark Road
  'Tyne Daly' (qv) appears in this episode; she and 'Sharon Gless' (qv) (Madeline Westen) previously p...
• Episode 11: Friendly Fire
  Rincon: Tell me who you are or I will make this so painful that you will beg for mercy and it will n...
• Episode 12: Noble Causes
  Michael Westen: You're getting the "Take a Bite Out of Crime" award?::Madeline Westen: It's for citi...
• Episode 13: Enemies Closer
  Sam Axe: All right, I'll do it, but I'm getting an itchy feeling.::Michael Westen: You sure that's f...
• Episode 14: Partners in Crime
  Sam Axe: [spoofs Horatio from CSI: Miami, putting on sunglasses and all while delivering his line] L...
• Episode 15: Good Intentions
  Michael Westen: Gilroy's doing this with or without me. We can't stop him til we know how he's pulli...
• Episode 16: Devil You Know
  FBI Agent Callahan: Are you leaving town?::Madeline Westen: I'm going on a day trip.::FBI Agent Call...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Friends and Enemies
  Michael Westen: Guys, *Guys*! I have a loaded machine pistol in my hand and I have no idea what I'm ...
• Episode 2: Fast Friends
  Sam Axe: Mike, you just burned a spy....
• Episode 3: Made Man
  While the team is after artillery smuggling by ship from Algeria, Jesse demands the team finishes th...
• Episode 4: Breach of Faith
  Lieutenant Seth Casey: Westen. I guess I should be thanking you. According to Patty, if you and your...
• Episode 5: Neighborhood Watch
  Fiona Glenanne: Someone's getting a little too flirty for his own good.::Michael Westen: Fi, I'm try...
• Episode 6: Entry Point
  Sam and Jesse interrogate a captured contract killer in order to find out who ordered a recent assas...
• Episode 7: Past & Future Tense
  Michael Westen: [During a standoff with Russians] I'm Michael Weston... Yes, that one....
• Episode 8: Where There's Smoke
  Christian Aikins: Somebody broke into my car yesterday. Luckily, all they got was a laptop with a fe...
• Episode 9: Center of the Storm
  Sam Axe: [upon hearing Simon's name] Oh I thought the quiet was the calm before the storm. No, it's ...
• Episode 10: Hard Time
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: When you're preparing to talk to a trained professional, the best inf...
• Episode 11: Blind Spot
  Emily: [about their game plan] Do you guys have a manual that you guys get this from or something?::...
• Episode 12: Guilty as Charged
  Michael Westen: [as shady operative] You don't need a lawyer, you need a miracle worker, and that's ...
• Episode 13: Eyes Open
  Michael Westen: Spies live in the shadows, but they dream of the light....
• Episode 14: Hot Property
  Fiona foppishly fell for pleading from Stuart to help him liberate his sister Victoria from her Vene...
• Episode 15: Brotherly Love
  Sam Axe: Jesse, hey. Could I get an invite?::Jesse Porter: To what?::Sam Axe: To the party in your h...
• Episode 16: Dead or Alive
  Jesse Porter: [Fiona puts her purse over abductee's head] What the hell is that?::Fiona Glenanne: Wh...
• Episode 17: Out of the Fire
  Larry Sizemore: [telling his game plan] Only one body to dump.::Michael Westen: That's one too many....
• Episode 18: Last Stand
  Jesse Porter: Sorry, man. Apparently, I'm allergic to rebar....
• Season 5
• Episode 1: Company Man
  Max: Glad you made it. I was beginning to wish I'd brought a magazine.::Michael Westen: There was a ...
• Episode 2: Bloodlines
  Carson Huxley: Marriage is like a loaf of bread. It tastes great at the start, but it goes stale ver...
• Episode 3: Mind Games
  Jessica: You know I can't pay you guys anything. Unless you can accept free yogurt.::Michael Westen:...
• Episode 4: No Good Deed
  Madeline Westen: [approaching Michael in the garage] Your friend Barry is here with his brother.::Fi...
• Episode 5: Square One
  Michael Westen: [voiceover] As a spy, you're in the information business - stealing it, protecting i...
• Episode 6: Enemy of My Enemy
  Michael stalls with CIA agent Pearce as the team must, before she's shown the at first sight incrimi...
• Episode 7: Besieged
  The idea that Michael is an ex-Army Ranger had previously been advanced in the tie-in novel "The Ref...
• Episode 8: Hard Out
  USA...
• Episode 9: Eye for an Eye
  USA...
• Episode 10: Army of One
  Dixon: I said I don't want to talk to you. Go away.::Sam Axe: Dixon, I just need a small favor, okay...
• Episode 11: Better Halves
  Despite their animosity, Sam and Fiona have posed as a married or dating couple many times throughou...
• Episode 12: Dead to Rights
  Larry Sizemore: Do you have any idea what they serve you in an Albanian prison?::Michael Westen: I d...
• Episode 13: Damned If You Do
  Michael and Fiona head to Puerto Rico to abduct a financial hacker whose software they need for Anso...
• Episode 14: Breaking Point
  [rolls out from under truck that is driving away; avoiding being run over]::Fiona Glenanne: Don't tr...
• Episode 15: Necessary Evil
  Sam Axe: So, Mike, that was one hell of a drive. What are we looking at?::Michael Westen: It's a che...
• Episode 16: Depth Perception
  Sam Axe: [someone is trying to kill Sam's friend Beatriz] Mike, uh, this may sound crazy, but we kno...
• Episode 17: Acceptable Loss
  Michael Westen: You read the files. What is Anson planning? Is he trying to disappear? What is his p...
• Episode 18: Fail Safe
  Sam Axe: You see the steel doors? That place is pretty well defended.::Fiona Glenanne: Yeah, well, i...
• Season 6
• Episode 1: Scorched Earth
  Michael Westen: [voiceover] The vehicle you want when hunting someone down depends on where you are ...
• Episode 2: Mixed Messages
  Fiona Glenanne: [narrating a letter she is writing to Michael] Dear Michael, I don't know if this le...
• Episode 3: Last Rites
  Michael Westen: [first lines, voiceover] In prison, there is no such thing as good attention. It's b...
• Episode 4: Under the Gun
  [first lines]::Madeline Westen: Michael, what the hell is going on? You went to see Fiona, what, uh,...
• Episode 5: Split Decision
  Michael Westen: Rebecca, we need to talk about your brother.::Rebecca Lang: You can't find him, can ...
• Episode 6: Shock Wave
  Sam Axe: [fashioning a badge out of a beer can] I need your wallet, some scissors, and a glass.::Bar...
• Episode 7: Reunion
  Michael Westen: [voiceover] When you're preparing equipment for an unknown tactical situation, more ...
• Episode 8: Unchained
  Michael wants to see the FBI file on their investigation into Nate's shooting. The FBI agrees on the...
• Episode 9: Official Business
  USA:16 August 2012...
• Episode 10: Desperate Times
  Card refers to Sam as "Mr. Chin, whatever his name is." 'Bruce Campbell (I)' (qv), who plays Sam, is...
• Episode 11: Desperate Measures
  USA:8 November 2012...
• Episode 12: Means & Ends
  Michael Westen: Let's show them how professionals send a message... Make them think hell is raining ...
• Episode 13: Over the Line
  When Michael uses his phone to call Sugar, you can see the producers' names (Tony Lara, Erik Lee etc...
• Episode 14: Down & Out
  USA:29 November 2012...
• Episode 15: Best Laid Plans
  Olivia Riley: Do you know what the bit for an obstruction of justice charge is?::[Madeline shakes he...
• Episode 16: Odd Man Out
  [first lines]::Michael Westen: [voiceover] In the intelligence world, when an operation demands that...
• Episode 17: You Can Run
  Westen wears a Chase-Durer Men's 246.4BB7-XL-BR Special Forces 1000XL Black Ionic-Plated Underwater ...
• Episode 18: Game Change
  Sam Axe: [Sam is recovering after getting shot] Hey, Mike. You look worse than me.::Michael Westen: ...
• Season 7
• Episode 1: New Deal
  USA:6 June 2013...
• Episode 2: Forget Me Not
  USA:13 June 2013...
• Episode 3: Down Range
  USA:20 June 2013...
• Episode 4: Brothers in Arms
  USA:27 June 2013...
• Episode 5: Exit Plan
  USA:11 July 2013...
• Episode 6: All or Nothing
  USA:18 July 2013...
• Episode 7: Psychological Warfare
  USA:25 July 2013...
• Episode 8: Nature of the Beast
  USA:1 August 2013...
• Episode 9: Bitter Pill
  USA:8 August 2013...
• Episode 10: Things Unseen
  USA:15 August 2013...
• Episode 11: Tipping Point
  Simon Escher: Guys like us, we are weapons. As long as we're useful, somebody will always want to ta...
• Episode 12: Sea Change
  USA:5 September 2013...
• Episode 13: Reckoning
  Madeline Westen: [her last words] This one's for my boys....