Episode 1 – Pilot – Original Air Date – 06/28/2007
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While on assignment in Nigeria, covert operative Michael Westen learns that he's been "burned." For a spy, it's the equivalent of being fired. A burned spy is blacklisted from all government agencies and resources; his bank accounts are frozen and his credit is trashed. Michael barely escapes Nigeria and wakes up, battered, in a Miami motel. In order to survive and fund his own personal investigation, Michael enlists the help of the only two "friends" he has: Fiona, an ex-IRA operative who also happens to be an ex-girlfriend and Sam, a washed-out military intelligence contact who the feds have keeping an eye on Michael. He's also forced to deal with the family he went halfway around the world to get away from – particularly his mother, who couldn't be happier to have her son back in town.
Through a former associate Michael gets a lead on a small investigation job: a caretaker of an estate, Javier, has been accused of stealing valuable art from his employer, Graham Pyne. All evidence points to it being an inside job and Javier, with very little money to offer, has nowhere else to turn. When Michael begins to dig around he quickly discovers that it was in fact an inside job: Pyne orchestrated the robbery and framed Javier in order to collect insurance.
Michael confronts Pyne with the incriminating evidence. When Pyne and his bodyguard come after Javier and his son, Michael is already a step ahead of them and has set up a trap at Javier's house. After the smoke clears, Pyne has accidentally shot his bodyguard, and Michael has enough evidence to send both of them to jail for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. With the mounting evidence hanging over his head, Pyne agrees to clear Javier's name and provide financial support to Javier and his son.
Meanwhile, Michael keeps trying to get in touch with his old government handler, Dan Siebels, who won't accept his calls. Deciding to get creative, Michael resorts to mailing Siebels a fake bomb in order to get his attention. The ploy works, and Michael finally gets to confront Siebels about the burn notice. Siebels believes Michael's probably been framed, but there's nothing he can do to help him. He tells Michael not to leave Miami, unless he wants an FBI manhunt after him. To top it all off, Michael returns home to find his door open and the floor covered with surveillance photos. It's not the FBI, but whoever it is, they've been tracking his every move. And they've left a message: Welcome to Miami.
Episode 2 – Identity – Original Air Date – 07/06/2007
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Michael discovers that his mother's house has been bugged, but by the time he finds a nearby listening post, the surveillance team has disappeared and destroyed their equipment. Madeline agrees to tell him crucial information if he helps Laura, a neighbor of hers who has been scammed out of all her finances.
With the aid of Fiona and Sam, Michael outwits Quentin, the con-artist who victimized Laura, and returns the money. Madeline rewards him with important information that gets him one step closer to the origin of his burn notice…
Episode 3 – Fight Or Flight – Original Air Date – 07/12/2007
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Oleg, Michael's landlord, asks him to help his best waitress Cara, who stopped showing up to work after receiving threats against her life. Michael sees it as a golden opportunity to live rent-free for a few months, until he finds out that a Colombian cartel is involved. Cara was the only witness to a brutal beating, and visually ID'd the attacker, Alvaro DeSantos, for police. She's been receiving "anonymous" death threats ever since and the cops are providing no protection. Michael tries to help Cara escape Miami but her seventeen-year-old daughter's reluctance to leave her life behind makes that very difficult. Michael must turn the cartel against DeSantos in order to keep mother and daughter alive and safe in Miami. Meanwhile Michael makes contact with an old spy friend of his who is in town attending a conference under diplomatic cover. This man is his key to obtaining privileged information concerning his burn notice and Michael isn't afraid to use a little blackmail to get it. In the end, Michael saves the lives of a desperate mother and daughter and obtains his first concrete lead: the tracking number from his burn notice.
Episode 4 – Old Friends – Original Air Date – 07/19/2007
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An assassin with a grudge against Michael arrives in Miami. Hoping to get some information regarding his burn notice, Michael attempts to capture his would be killer. Meanwhile, Michael’s childhood friend Bill is in desperate need of help. Following the promise of a modeling career, his eighteen-year-old daughter Jenna has been lured into a prostitution ring. Posing as a client, Michael meets the man who runs the ring, Carl Wilhelm, and learns that Jenna is scheduled to leave the country in a matter of days. With Sam, Fiona and his brother Nate’s help, Michael tries to rescue Jenna. When that fails, he kidnaps Oscar and uses him as leverage to bring Jenna back to her father.
Episode 5 – Family Business – Original Air Date – 07/26/2007
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Michael's brother Nate introduces him to Jake Miller, an airport supervisor, who has been accepting small gifts from a family of exporters for doing them small favors. When they offered him a large gift for a larger and highly illegal favor, Jake turned them down and the threats began. Michael quickly learns that these "exporters" are really gun runners trading in stolen military weaponry and that the patriarch of the family is a former Mossad officer who is not easily intimidated. To infiltrate the family Michael poses as an international arms dealer and befriends Eli's black sheep son, Ari. By convincing Ari that he could impress his dad by doing a huge deal with him, Michael is able to see the inner workings of the operation, disrupt it, and spook Eli and his family into leaving Miami.
Meanwhile the FBI is turning up the pressure on Sam to get something on Michael, so Michael has Sam "steal" his burn notice and turn it over. This draws the attention of people higher up the federal chain and a new round of intelligence officers are sent to Miami to check it out.
Episode 6 – Unpaid Debts – Original Air Date – 08/02/2007
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A former Navy Seal who once saved Sam's life is beaten when he attempts to repo a speed boat from a Jamaican gang. Virgil hires Michael to finish the job he started. But when Michael tries to return the boat to Virgil's "client", he discovers that the client is a crooked cop and that the boat is hiding ten million dollars. Knowing that they'll both come looking for Virgil, Michael hides him at his mom's house never suspecting that a romance could be sparked between the two. Both the Jamaicans and the cops want the money. Michael, posing as Homer, one of Virgil's devoted employees, must broker a solution. By promising the money to both, he keeps them at bay long enough to come up with a plan. The plan is quickly abandoned when Virgil, out on a date with Madeline, is kidnapped by the Jamaicans. This all leads to an abandoned bridge where the money is set on fire and the cops shoot it out with the Jamaicans. With the help of Fiona and Sam, Michael is able to escape with Virgil and some of the money.
If he didn't have enough on his hands, Michael must also contend with a CSS agent who refuses to identify himself, and tries to bully Michael into backing off his burn notice. Michael turns the tables on the agent and with the help of Fiona's pick-pocket skills discovers his identity.
Episode 6 – Broken Rules – Original Air Date – 08/09/2007
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Ernie Paseo's business is being destroyed by local thugs who terrorize him and his customers. Michael agrees to help but soon finds out that they are part of a much larger and more dangerous criminal organization run by a beautiful but ruthless woman named Concha Ramirez. To scare off the gang, Michael poses as an out of control thief who out- thugs the thugs. Michael so impresses Concha that she recruits him for a very important assignment: to kill Ernie Paseo and his entire family. By befriending Concha's right hand man, Diego, and convincing him that he's about to be killed by his boss, Michael is able to turn the tables on Concha.
During this job Michael manages to get the upper hand on Agent Bly who is now using his bullying tactics on Sam and Fiona. By setting up off-shore bank accounts in Bly's name he is able to blackmail Bly into giving him a copy of his burn notice dossier.
Episode 7 – Wanted Man – Original Air Date – 08/16/2007
Fiona’s new gig as a freelance bounty hunter nets an accused jewel thief and bumbling fugitive named Thomas McKee. Believing he’s innocent, she hides him instead of turning him in and gets Michael to help clear his name. Michael must first locate the brooch and the real thief. After discovering that the culprit is Thomas McKee’s boss, Lawrence Henderson, a financially desperate hotel owner, he devises a plan to steal it back. After doing recon on Lawrence’s home Michael realizes that his security is so tight that a break in would be impossible. Instead, Michael must use psy-ops techniques to convince Lawrence that being robbed is not only possible, but likely, so Lawrence will move the brooch into the open, where he can be caught red handed. Meanwhile, Fiona uses her time with Thomas to make Michael jealous, with mixed results.
At the same time Michael needs to flush out the man behind his burn notice…Philip Cowan. By dangling information that would be beneficial to Fiona’s Libyan connections, he is able to manipulate the Libyans into framing Cowan. Michael’s ploy pays off when he receives a call from a very angry Philip Cowan, the man who got him burned.
Episode 8 – Hard Bargain – Original Air Date – 08/23/2007
House-sitter Nick is living large on his client's wealth – living in mansions, driving Ferraris and bragging in nightclubs. Nick gets more than he bargained for when his fiancée, Dawn, is kidnapped and held for a ransom he couldn't even dream of paying. He hires Michael to get him out of the mess and save the woman he loves. Michael abducts Lucio, one of the kidnappers, and turns him against his own organization by making him a double agent. With Lucio's help, they set up the kidnappers with an enticing target – Sam poses as a disgruntled bodyguard looking to make easy cash by offering up his "boss", Fiona.
Once they infiltrate the gang, they soon discover where Dawn is being hidden. While Michael runs interference, Fiona and Sam stage a rescue attempt and are successful in reuniting Nick with his fiancÈ.
Meanwhile, Michael is confused by the arrival of a milquetoast bureaucrat named Perry Clark who promises him a possible way out of his Burn Notice troubles. Unfortunately, Perry turns out to be neither milquetoast nor a bureaucrat when he attempts and nearly succeeds in murdering Michael.
Episode 9 – False Flag – Original Air Date – 09/13/2007
Michael is hired by Evelyn, an attractive woman whose ex-husband, Doug, has taken their son and gone into hiding. Michael connects emotionally with Evelyn, whose passion for protecting her troubled, gifted son strikes a deep chord. Fiona is angry and frustrated by the way Michael is allowing his emotions to interfere with his judgment, and drops off the case. Michael finds Doug hiding in the woods… only to discover that Evelyn is actually an assassin, hired to kill Doug before he can go into witness protection. She used Michael to do the legwork of finding her target; now she's going to finish the job.
No longer the fragile housewife she was pretending to be, Evelyn turns out to be a cunning adversary, as well as a long-time admirer of Michael's. A former operative, Evelyn will stop at nothing to find Doug and kill him. She's not above going after the people Michael cares about to get the information she wants. With help from Fiona and Sam, Michael comes up with a plan to save Doug. Michael must think like an assassin and use the connection he had with Evelyn to turn the tables on her.
Meanwhile, Michael's plans to travel to Washington D.C. to confront the man who burned him are put on hold when he discovers that the man is coming to Miami to confront him instead.
Episode 10 – Dead Drop – Original Air Date – 09/20/2007
With Michael preoccupied with his burn notice, Sam takes the case of Gillian Walsh, a supervisor at a defense contractor who is being blackmailed and forced to use her security clearance to help smuggle Turkish heroin into the U.S. Gillian's friend and fellow blackmail victim Melissa is oddly reluctant to help… and Sam and Fiona soon discover why. Melissa and her husband Kent are actually involved in the heroin smuggling operation and have been using Gillian to do their dirty work. Sam and Fiona turn to Michael for help in orchestrating a reverse-blackmail scheme.
But cornering Kent proves to be a very dangerous and difficult proposition. Attempts on Michael and Gillian's lives leave Sam and company with no choice but to help Gillian smuggle one last batch of heroin… and set Kent and Melissa up to take the fall. But when Kent's bosses show up to clean up loose ends, Kent and Melissa are murdered, Sam is kidnapped, and Fiona barely escapes with her life.
Meanwhile, Michael has his hands full on the burn notice front. Phillip Cowan, the man who burned him, has come to Miami and he wants to sit down with Michael face-to-face. When their first rendezvous doesn't work out, Michael and Cowan must play a delicate game of cloak and dagger, trading coded messages to set up a secure meeting where all will be revealed… but it doesn't go as planned. Cowan is taken out by a sniper's bullet, leaving Michael to wonder why he wasn't the target.
Episode 11 – Loose Ends – Original Air Date – 09/20/2007
With the help of his brother Nate, Michael escapes the government agents who just assassinated Philip Cowan and rescues Fiona from the heroin smugglers who are still pursuing her. In the meantime, Glen Harrick, a former Special Forces officer turned drug trafficker, has taken Sam hostage and is using violent tactics to force Sam to give him information about his "team." Sam wants to keep Michael from trying a rescue attempt that will put him in danger, so he encourages the beatings and tries to goad Harrick into killing him. Michael and Fiona make contact with a local drug dealer and locate Harrick, who is holding Sam in a barge on the Miami River. At the same time Michael has to convince the government agents that are after him that he will cooperate if they give him the time to save his friend.
Michael makes a daring rescue attempt that puts all his skills to the test, fighting and killing Harrick, then escaping with Sam. He then makes good on his deal, following directions planted in Sam's car and giving himself up to the government agency that is hunting him…he disappears into a truck on a remote bridge and is taken with the promise that he will finally get some answers…
