Burn Notice
Spies don't get fired. They get BURNED... BURN NOTICE is a sexy, action-packed series about a formerly blacklisted spy who uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
- Metascore70
- 2007-2013
- 7 seasons
- USA Network
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Spies don't get fired. They get BURNED... BURN NOTICE is a sexy, action-packed series about a formerly blacklisted spy who uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2007
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Jun 28, 2007 65 mins
Michael Westen is a US freelance secret agent, takes on assignments the government can't officially recodnise. During an operation in Nigeria, he finds himself the victim of a 'burn notice' - he's discredited and his accounts are frozen. Until that's cleared-up he's effectively constrained to Miami. Meanwhile a sleazy contact helps him find lodgings and look for an income as a PI/problem fixer.
Episode 2
Identity
Fri, Jul 6, 2007 43 mins
Michael learns from his nosy mother that government agents questioned her and wired her neighbor Laura's house. Finding she was terrorized and robbed, Weston, Sam and Fiona take on con artist Quentin King and his young sidekick, Greg, playing them against each-other.
Episode 3
Fight or Flight
Thu, Jul 12, 2007 42 mins
Michael's landlord, Oleg, is having a problem with one of his waitresses. She hasn't come into work because she witnessed a crime committed by a man who just happens to be a member of a local drug cartel. Michael is (mostly) happy to look into it, as he also continues his investigation into who stuck him with his burn notice.
Episode 4
Old Friends
Thu, Jul 19, 2007 43 mins
Michael's mother tricks him into helping his cheeky kid brother Nate Westen, a compulsive gambler. Nate accepted Mike's former employer Bill Reese's money in advance to track down his missing daughter Jenna. She was last seen with 'model recruiter' Brandon Diggs, who introduced her to the glamorous Wilhelm brothers' dodgy escort service. Meanwhile Czech hit-man Jan Haseck has turned up, determined to settle an old account with Michael the 'permanent' way. However Jan may have valuable info about his 'burn'.
Episode 5
Family Business
Thu, Jul 26, 2007 43 mins
Nate 'volunteers' the brothers' 'joint services' to an airport official who accepted bribes from the Lebanese Zamar family. Eli, a retired Mossad, agent, runs an illegal arms business with his sons. Michael makes friends with the dumber junior, Ari, whose girlfriend Debbie falls for him a bit too much. Meanwhile late pa Weston's 'heirloom' car is coveted by both boys.
Episode 6
Unpaid Debts
Thu, Aug 2, 2007 42 mins
Michael helps out an old SEAL buddy of Sam's who has gotten himself on the wrong side of a smuggler while trying to repossess his boat, and a new agent hits town set on making Michael's life miserable since he won't give up on finding his burn notice.
Episode 7
Broken Rules
Thu, Aug 9, 2007 43 mins
Shopkeeper Ernie Paseo hires reluctant Michael to get ruthless restaurant owner Consuela 'Concha' Ramirez's racketeering gang off his neighborhood's back. Mike poses as an even worse extortionist, 'til she hires him, only to discover her real purpose, requiring a different approach. Meanwhile government agent Jason Bly threatens Westen's loved ones to make him accept a measly security job, but gets an ever harsher reaction.
Episode 8
Wanted Man
Thu, Aug 16, 2007 43 mins
Fiona calls a marker on Michael to help catch a bounty hunter mark, Thomas McKee, and fight off her competitor Wayne Ray, then another to earn double by proving his innocence. He was set up for the theft of a $2,000,000 diamond broach from Lawrence Henderson's hotel. Leaning on the fence Cristo. Meanwhile Sam Axe gets Westen an NSA agent's name. Michael turns to the Libyans to negotiate a crafty deal.
Episode 9
Hard Bargain
Thu, Aug 23, 2007 42 mins
Michael finally has an appointment with bureaucrat Perry Clark, who might review his burn-status, but treats him with ruthless suspicion as probably too good to be true. Meanwhile Sam makes Mike take the case of desperate mansion house-sitter Nick Lam, whose girlfriend Dawn just became the latest kidnap victim of Colombian Lucio Velasquez's ransom-specialized gang. Nick's insecurity forces the team to capture and 'turn' gang member Lucio Velasquez while setting up Sam as Fi's corrupt bodyguard by way of lures.
Episode 10
False Flag
Thu, Sep 13, 2007 43 mins
Mike needs a professional 'false flag' (fake identity) to go and find his enemy in Washington D.C. without being caught by the FBI. Corporate spy, Lucy Chen, is prepared to help him, if he helps Evelyn find her son Jasper. He was picked up at school by her husband, accountant Doug Baker, a crime suspect. Alas, Michael isn't the only user of a fake identity.
Episode 11
Loose Ends, Part 1
Thu, Sep 20, 2007 43 mins
Michael focuses on arranging a meeting with Phillip Cowan, the paranoid agent who presumably burned him. When Mike's mother receives a covert threat, he asks Nate to look after her. Meanwhile Sam gets only Fiona's help for Gillian, his special forces friend's friend. She is blackmailed with her friend Melissa as unwilling accomplice in her Marine partner Kent's Turkish heroin smuggling. When it turns out the plot is more devious, Michael accepts to help counterattack. The meeting with Cowan takes a dramatic turn.
Episode 12
Loose Ends, Part 2
Thu, Sep 20, 2007 42 mins
Now Cowan has been shot before his eyes and his family is threatened, Mike makes sure Nate takes care of bringing himself and ma to safety before he accepts a meeting at 'their' terms. First he and Fiona deal with the vindictive heroin dealers who took Sam hostage. Leaning on a money launderer lead to identifying Glenn Harrick, who works with other ex-commandos. Despite Sam's clever non-code warning, they come to his rescue 'comando style'.
