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Burn Notice Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Friends and Family
Thu, Jun 4, 200942 mins
Michael jumps from the helicopter, literally 'dropped' by Carla's team and faces arrest. Former special forces colleague Harlan's lawyer manages to get him off the hook. Sam already agreed that Micheal would help save Harlan's girlfriend and her father, who is arrested in Venezuela as part of a massive land smuggle and extortion scheme. Michael poses as middleman so his team plus Harlan can get to the conspirators chief, Refino Cortez. But that's not the end of the danger.
Episode 2
Question and Answer
Thu, Jun 11, 200943 mins
Helping Fiona with a bounty hunt mark gets Miami PD detectives Lopez and Paxson on Michael's back, so the team must clear out his storage before the explosives etc. are found. That has to wait, like the birthday party Michael's mother throws for him, when it turns out that diamond trader Howard didn't try to deny his wife access to their darling boy Brandon: the kid was kidnapped by semi-amateur Santora. Michael poses as a dangerous witness, Sam as a dirty cop who helps new 'business partner' Santora deal with the problem, in fact to discover real, allegedly rogue accomplice Jimmy's hiding place.
Episode 3
End Run
Thu, Jun 18, 200942 mins
Miami detectives, Paxson and Lopez, are still on Michael's case, but that problem has to wait. Nate proudly visits his big brother Michael to announce he's finally getting ahead, if a deal for his limousine service goes well at the Miami negotiation. Alas, vicious arms dealer Brennen, whom Michael believed was killed by a Colombian cartel, is back and shows that Nate's deal is a trap. Michael must help him break in and steal at various top security locations or Nate will be slaughtered. The first assignments go well, but when Michael demands to know what he'll be stealing first, Nate is shot in the shoulder. Now Mike's team goes for broke.
Episode 4
Fearless Leader
Thu, Jun 25, 200942 mins
Detective Paxson's police escort annoy Michael and ruin another of Fiona's jobs. So they decide to earn the MPD's gratitude, hoping to get them off their backs. Sam discovers that another constant focus for Paxson is Rickie Matheson, a parasite who recruits small criminals and kills them after a lucrative job. Mike poses as Milo, an 'admirer' of Tommy T'Antonio, as expected the next Matheson recruit, so the team can set them up. Meanwhile Sam wrestles with meticulous, incorruptible tax auditor Stacey Conolly, who turns out to have a personal logic.
Episode 5
Signals and Codes
Thu, Jul 9, 200943 mins
Sam helps Mike identify Diego Garza as a CIA operative in Miami by spotting his cover firm airplane. Before then can force his hand, hoping to get Mike back in the game, they are spotted themselves by mathematical genius Spencer Watkowski. He has a loony theory about aliens, but also makes predictions and proves his colleague Brad was murdered. Mike's team checks out their employer, a firm which sells encryption to secret government agencies, and confirm the manager is copying the software keys, worth a fortune to state enemies.
Episode 6
The Hunter
Thu, Jul 16, 200943 mins
Michael refuses to 'play ball' with 'agent of secret agents' Tom Strickler, who offers to mediates in order to get him back into lucrative work. Sam helps him find out that the Ukrainian 'would be' client's contact is arrogant Miami businessman John Beck. While Michael meets him unsuccessfully, both are attacked by the goons of Weston's Cold War enemy Pyotr Chechik. Michael babysits the traitorous fool while they run for attack team leader Vlad trough the Everglades, deliberately forcing Chesniuk to coma charge himself.
Episode 7
Shot in the Dark
Thu, Jul 23, 200941 mins
Tom Strickler's new offer convinces Michael to pressure informer Diego to find out if Tom has the clout to deliver a burn-reversal. He suspends a vital matter after catching Joey (13) stealing his gun, because the kid feels desperately forced to eliminate his abusive stepfather, businessmen Erik Luna, who is likely to get custody of him and his step-brother at their mother's expense. Erik is protected by his gangster brother Quinn Luna, but has a lucrative scam behind his back. So the team tries to scare away Erik, which nevertheless ends up attracting Quinn's attention, so a plan B is improvised.
Episode 8
Friends Like These
Thu, Jul 30, 200944 mins
Michael is determined, despite Fiona's objections, to earn Tom Strickler's help in undoing his burnt status by helping him deal with a ruthless robber gang. Friendly money launderer Barry however calls markers urgently after his client's ledger is stolen, apparently by Milovan Dragas, who allegedly blackmails Realtor Natalie Rice by kidnapping her son.
Episode 9
Long Way Back
Thu, Aug 6, 200940 mins
Michael, already moody because his mother plans to sell the house, he grudgingly stomachs Fiona's plan to return 'home' to Ireland as their relationship seems to be going nowhere. He objects morally to the first counter-service Strickler wants for reopening his burn-case. Then Fiona's brother Sean, who only knows Michael under an alias used when he met Fi in Northern Ireland, appears, warning them Irish split terrorist leader Thomas O'Neill has tracked them down and brought a killing team.
Episode 10
A Dark Road
Thu, Jan 21, 201041 mins
When a recently widowed woman hires Michael and Fiona to get her away from a group of violent con men, Michael turns to Madeline for help - but he may ask her to go too far. Meanwhile, a mysterious contact goes to extreme lengths to get Michael's attention.
Episode 11
Friendly Fire
Thu, Jan 28, 201041 mins
Mason Gilroy, another well-connected psychopath and the master-killer who eliminated Diego, expresses an interest in hiring him. Sam 'welcomes' old mate Mack by punching him for being the man his wife left him for. Yet he agrees to mobilize the team to help Mack, under suspicion for the disappearance of child predator, Rincon. Michael poses as an even worse crime baron to lean on rival street gang leaders Omar Hernandez and Felipe Vega, who hold Rincon.
Episode 12
Noble Causes
Thu, Feb 4, 201040 mins
Scary Mason Gilroy recruits Michael and icy thief Claude to steal a file from the Chilean consulate, but the team gets rid of Claude more consequentially than they imagined. Sugar begs Mike for help to get his simpleton cousin out of the clutch of violent crime baron Lynch, but fails to keep his distance while the team infiltrates and still has to improvise as they misread the gang's plans.
Episode 13
Enemies Closer
Thu, Feb 11, 201041 mins
Nate proudly drops by to present his sassy wife, Las Vegas croupier Ruth Westen to everyone. Grudgingly he agrees to interrupt his honeymoon to look after his mother, who refuses to join them permanently. Mike has to handle his other visitor, former professional partner Larry Sizemore, who assumed Mike's identity to steal $2,000,000 from Colombian drug lord Carlos' Miami money laundry center. Larry eliminated 'sicario' Justino, but Mike decides to clear his name and save Jack Yablonski, the naive 'laundry man'. Meanwhile Sam hates researching flight data for Mason Gilroy, who lies about the purpose. As if shaken loyalty from Sam and Fi weren't bad enough, Mike gets bad surprise from Larry as well as Carlos.
Episode 14
Partners in Crime
Thu, Feb 18, 201042 mins
Sam convinces Michael to investigate a robbery at a chic fashion house, but they quickly realize the world of design isn't always pretty. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona gain the trust of a Polish intelligence officer to get information on an unlisted "black flight," transporting dangerous cargo.
Episode 15
Good Intentions
Thu, Feb 25, 201043 mins
Fiona seems to get more than she bargained for when she becomes involved with a paranoid kidnapper, only to discover that he's more than what he appears. Meanwhile, things spin out of control when Michael's plan to stop a black operative proves to have much deeper consequences.
Episode 16
Devil You Know
Thu, Mar 4, 201043 mins
Simon Escher, the rogue ex-spy who hired and killed Gilroy to escape, threatens to detonate a bomb in an unspecified hotel to coerce Michael into getting "Management" to come to Miami. While Sam and Fiona find and attempt to disable the bomb, Michael jumps through Simon's hoops and finds "Management" dangerously imprudent, to each party's detriment. Meanwhile FBI Agent Callahan leans heavily on his mother, who braves the risk of arrest.
