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A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Seasons & episodes
1
Pilot
2007-06-28
While on assignment, agent Michael Westen gets a "Burn Notice" and becomes untouchable. Having no idea what or who triggered his demise, Michael returns to his hometown, Miami, determined to find out the reason for his sudden termination.
2
Identity
2007-07-05
Michael helps Madeline's friend retrieve money from a swindler, and in return he receives information about some visitors that came to his mother's home.
3
Fight or Flight
2007-07-12
A drug dealer is witnessed brutally beating up a man by a single mother. Oleg asks Michael to help the woman, Cara, his best waitress, after she stops showing up for work.
4
Old Friends
2007-07-19
Michael's friend, Bill, asks for the spy's help in freeing his daughter from a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, Michael dodges multiple assassination attempts.
5
Family Business
2007-07-26
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
6
Unpaid Debts
2007-08-02
Michael discovers a surprise aboard a boat he has retrieved from Jamaican gangsters. Meanwhile, a CSS agent urges Michael to stop his investigation into who burned him.
7
Broken Rules
2007-08-09
Michael works to rid a community in little Havana of a crime boss, all the while baiting Jason Bly at the risk of his family and friends.
8
Wanted Man
2007-08-16
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
9
Hard Bargain
2007-08-23
A slightly dim house sitter's fiancée has been kidnapped, and Sam guilts Michael into a rescue while he's negotiating with a D.C. bureaucrat to stop the burn notice.
10
False Flag
2007-09-13
Michael is hired to track down a woman's estranged husband, who has disappeared with their son. Michael soon finds himself pitted against somebody just as skilled and dangerous as he is.
11
Dead Drop (1)
2007-09-20
Sam takes on a case for a woman named Gillian, who is being blackmailed into using her security clearance to help smuggle heroin into the United States. Meanwhile, Michael is busy trying to arrange a meeting with Philip Cowan.
12
Loose Ends (2)
2007-09-20
Michael must rescue Sam from heroin smugglers, who happen to be ex-Special Forces, while also evading agents who are out to get him.