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Burn Notice Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Scorched Earth
Thu, Jun 14, 201243 mins
Fiona hoped her confession would allow to protect Michael by sending the federal authorities after Anson, but hostile interrogator Jason Bly even tries to trick her into believing Mike is dead. In fact Jesse found Andon's trail, so Mike and Sam, who gets it bad for not preventing Fi's 'escpae' to surrender, stage a truck accident to overtake him. Anson however anticipated and set an elaborate trap in a vast chemical plant, where he sets them up for his murder of a security guard. Mike however surprisingly gets almost unconditionally the limited rescue team agent Pearce can sort of spare after the air strip disaster.
Episode 2
Mixed Messages
Thu, Jun 21, 201243 mins
Desperate for leverage to help Fiona, who lingers in maximum security prison, Mike tells Nate he can't spare any time for a visit. He gets his old CIA mentor Tom Card to hire his team for a near-hopeless mission. They must stop ruthless Colombian Ramiro Salazar's drug cartel from establishing a Miami branch. Mike and Jesse are to pose as dirty DEA agents to reroute a first huge cocaine shipment, but the presence of a lawyer who knows Mike requires improvisation with Jesse in front alone against bloodthirsty cartel lieutenant Rafael Montero.
Episode 3
Last Rites
Thu, Jun 28, 201243 mins
Rather than see his CIA supervisor Pearce ruin her career for revenge on Ahmad Damour, Anson's deal-protected informer, who murdered her fiancé, Michael promises the team will help her land him in jail. They and Jesse will join him aboard a cruise to Bermuda to fake a fatal virus infection. Meanwhile Sam must do with Nate and Madeline to handle Ahmad's heir Sharif Damour, who is tricked into retrieving the crucial files for sale to Russian mobsters.
Episode 4
Under the Gun
Thu, Jul 12, 201242 mins
Michael hoped to remove the threat at Fiona's life in jail by dealing with Anson's presumed middler, a corrupt jailer, but he's murdered by rogue ex-CIA agent Rebecca Lang, who hate shim and takes Sam hostage. To buy inside dealer Ayn's crucial help to arrange a cells raid which will deal with the life term murderers hired to kill her, Fiona must promise her fiends will deliver a package within hours. Michael is engaged pursuing Rebbecca to save Sam, but Madeline can't handle Ayn's rogue ex.
Episode 5
Split Decision
Thu, Jul 19, 201242 mins
Michael decides to attempt turning Rebecca friendly by getting her brother Trent off the hook with crime lord Wes Foster. To this end, he impersonates his father's jail buddy to lead him to proof that someone else did set up father Foster, even if the result is trickier then either expected. Inexperienced Nate must team up with Jesse. Michael's mentor, Tom Card, offers to let Fiona earn CIA asset status to avoid extradition but the time window is very tight.
Episode 6
Shock Wave
Thu, Jul 26, 201242 mins
Dody financial consultant Barry, one of Mike's informers, needs urgent protection against an arms dealer and his goons. Sam, who is excluded from the CIA-sanctioned next chase for Anson, accepts to rescue Barry. Resourceful but rash kid brother Nate Weston is allowed to join the official mission, but Mike is excessively harder on the 'bumbling' novice now Fuona's release is finally within reach. To prevent being extradited on IRA terrorism charges to the British in extremis, she bribes the jail fixer to hide and find her. Tragedy hits murderously just when Mike's success seems complete.
Episode 7
Reunion
Thu, Aug 2, 201242 mins
Sam commandeers Jesse to help recuperate his girlfriend's jewelry from rascal son Evan, whom they find blackmailed for gambling debts by loan shark Morris to steal a truck from a drug baron. When they help do so, they discover it's a fully stocked drug lab, and both gangs are after them. To rescue them, Mike interrupts the chase for Nate and Andon's killers, trough document forger Bobby, only to find wounded Rebecca, who escaped after a firefight there, on his own door step.
Episode 8
Unchained
Thu, Aug 9, 201243 mins
Michael wants to see the FBI file on their investigation into Nate's shooting. The FBI agrees on the condition that Michael help them locate a criminal whom they want to prosecute. Michael agrees and he says that the best way is for them to let the criminal's right hand who's in custody escape and Michael pose as someone who is also in custody who escapes with the man who says he wants to meet his boss. With Fiona posing as his girlfriend. In the meantime Jesse and Pierce uses the info from the FBI to locate Nate's killer.
Episode 9
Official Business
Thu, Aug 16, 201242 mins
Bumbling CIA agents Gabriel Manaro and Matt Bailey call the terms Fiona signed, without even telling Michael, for her release: unlimited help as requested. Mike decides to help her working out if Ukrainian businessman Vincent Durov is selling classified military technology. She befriends his girlfriend, only to be cruelly surprised. This official mission leaves only Sam, posing as a major client, and Jesse to track down the rare weapon used to kill Nate and Anson at an exclusive private security company, where they resolve to corrupt their seemingly incorruptible account manager.
Episode 10
Desperate Times
Thu, Aug 23, 201242 mins
Mike musters the team to go after Nate's killer, master sniper Tyler Gray. Former CIA mentor Tom Card has him NSA-located in Panama and arranges an unofficial trip there, with the fatal mission's former HQ handler, Brady Pressman, for once volunteering for field work. Back home, grieving mother Weston blackmails him to disclose the context of Nate's death. In Panama, Mike's team walks into one trap after the other. They still catch Tyler, who points out a chilling truth.
Episode 11
Desperate Measures
Thu, Nov 8, 201243 mins
Having overpowered sniper Tyler Gray in Panama, but now convinced he was hired by Mike's CIA mentor Card to eliminate him after the jet strike failed to kill them both, Weston must repatriate his team while presumed dead. They can only get aboard an airplane piloted by Rico, whom Fiona seduces, which carries ruthless Vasquez's drugs. Tyler escapes during take-off, Mike jumps after him, Vasquez captures both, for torture. Sam tries to broker a deal, their lives for the drugs, while Madeline must press a hacker into covering up their air space tracks. Tyler proves a formidable element of surprise.
Episode 12
Means & Ends
Thu, Nov 8, 201243 mins
Grey helps trap Tom card, who must be kept believing Mike's own crew was killed in Panama, even if that means having his loft torched. Mother can't resist demanding on opportunity to question Nate's physical killer about that tragic semi-accident, then announces she's leaving Miami. Fiona drags the reluctant team along to help her prison-'ally' Ayn, just released from jail, who feels stalked by Miami PD detective Garza, whom she fears eager to have her young son taken away. Jesse poses as informer and would be-street drug gang baron, to trick him into stealing evidence, but finds him too honest a crime fighter, so the team saves him from Sherrod's real drug fiends. Poor Tyler also suffers aggressive suspicion from Mike after a well-played meeting with Card, who still ends up causing a bloodbath.
Episode 13
Over the Line
Thu, Nov 15, 201242 mins
Mike has executed traitor Card, on video. Sam, who stood guard, scolds him, but the must hurry to attempt an escape as haughty CIA contra-espionage specialist Olivia Riley's team arrives in time to lock down the hotel. Mike gets out, but Sam is caught and forced to help catch the team or face a long jail term. Sam still tries to fool her, but betrays himself so Mike decides to attempt a daring raid on his pursuers to free Sam.
Episode 14
Down & Out
Thu, Nov 29, 201241 mins
Mike and his team are desperate to leave the country to flee Riley's CIA posse. Sam twists hacker Jack Dixon's arm to contact Miami's smuggle king Calvin Schmidt. He promises to get them out if they first get off his back Syrian arms dealer and former secret agent Jabbar Hamady, whose wife Schmidt helped escape overseas. Mike sets a dangerous trap, involving himself getting captured, seemingly tortured by Schmidt. The trap still goes wrong, with Calvin getting himself captured and facing a torturous death, but Mike and Sam concoct a chemical alternative.
Episode 15
Best Laid Plans
Thu, Dec 6, 201243 mins
Smuggle Calvin Schmidt demands $200,000 a head to give the team new identities, way above their means, but agrees to accept instead stealing back the most valuable piece in his sequestered warehouse. It's an electronic-nuclear control device for gang lord Thorne, who warns for execution just for a minor delay. It gets wrecked in the robbery, so Sam has to play an expert professor and stage a demonstration. Meanwhile CIA agent Riley sees trough the smoke screen hacker Barry lays and comes so close to Maddie that Mike decides to take her along overseas.
Episode 16
Odd Man Out
Thu, Dec 13, 201243 mins
Michael's team believes they can flee overseas after fetching counterfeited documents crowning their new identities from hacker Jack Dixon's expert. Alas, master forger James Vanek seizes the opportunity to double the price and settle his long-standing grudge against Calvin Schmidt. Jesse, who was babysitting Madeline, who can't just leave behind her memories and Nate's grave, must be called in as backup when the others are pinned down in a factory by Vanek's goons gang.
Episode 17
You Can Run
Thu, Dec 20, 201243 mins
Mike's gang is ready to leave the country by boat, posing as crew-mates, but the bribed union representative was already worked over by the CIA hunters. During their escape, Mike captures an agent, but Jesse is overpowered and Sam badly wounded. Fiona's ex paramedic Campbell patches up Sam while each side plays spy games to locate the other, hoping to liberate their guy. Jesse is tempted by an offer to divulge his mother's killer.
Episode 18
Game Change
Thu, Dec 20, 201243 mins
Mike and his team having outsmarted her at every turn, CIA bully Riley 'outsources' stopping them to Alejandro Lopez, a drug baron she meets on his giant yacht. After seeing to Sam's emergency surgery in unwilling plastic surgeon Dr. Jed's villa and, at his insistence, in hospital, doubling as lure, Mike arranged for CSS agent Jason Bly to witness the diabolic alliance himself, but they're spotted and Bly is killed by an undercover Lopez henchman, all evidence is lost in the explosion. Realizing the team can't take on two such formidable adversaries, Mike swims to the yacht for a daring move provoking the Coast Guard to bomb Riley into confession.
