

With the occasional assistance and sometimes hindrance of his mother, Madeline, Westen battles an array of criminals such as mobsters, gang members, con artists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers, foreign wet-work operatives, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, arms traffickers, and war criminals. Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them. Consumed by the desire to find out who burned him, and why, Westen is reluctantly drawn into working as an unlicensed private investigator and problem solver for ordinary citizens to fund his personal investigation into his situation as a blacklisted agent. If he stays, he can remain relatively free.

If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him "on ice" in Miami. He is tended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, but he has been abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts and is under continuous surveillance with his personal assets frozen. The voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.Īfter fleeing a blown operation in Nigeria and being kidnapped and beaten, Westen finds himself in his hometown of Miami, Florida.
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The television series uses second-person narrative and frequent voice-overs providing exposition from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network – in essence, no identity. When spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence. The title of the series refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. She is an incredibly chaotic person who just thrives on disorder. He is attracted to her, but part of what we explore over the first season is they really are attracted with each other, and yet there is a reason they broke up. Anybody else is going to be afraid of what Michael does, and it sort of turns her on, and anybody else for Michael is going to be uninteresting. The thing about the relationship with Fiona is.They are two people who really don't have anybody else they can be with. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and beginning in Season 4, Coby Bell.

Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix which originally aired on the USA Network from Jto September 12, 2013.
