Michael Westen
Created by Matt Nix
From spy to eye. When the tough get burned, the burned get going...
When spies get fired, they don't get a pinl slip or a form letter from human resources. They get a "burn notice" and became untouchable.
In the USA Networks original series Burn Notice, Jeffrey Donovan plays MICHAEL WESTEN, a former CIA operative who, in the middle of an overseas operation, is burned by the agency. With no funds and and no clue as to why he's suddenly persona non grata in the intelligence community, he hightails it to his hometown of Miami, where he works as an unofficial P.I., drawing on his Special Ops training to use to help those who the police can't or won't help, as a way to fund his ongoing personal investigation.
He is helped and hindered by his once -- and maybe once again -- girlfriend Fiona, a trigger-happy ex-IRA operative played by Gabrielle Anwar. Also on board is his best friend and former partner Sam Axe, a boozy party animal and would-be ladies' man who also currently an informant for the FBI, dispatched to keep an eye on Michael. Sam's played with considerable aplomb by cult film fave Bruce Campbell, while Michael's manipulative mother is played by Sharon "Cagney and Lacey" Gless.
It's probably the best new crime With no choice but to return to his hometown of Miami., With no choice but to return to his hometown of Miami., show of the 2007 season and gets a lot of comparisons to Magnum P.I., though I'm more apt to liken it to The Rockford Files. Heady company either way.
UNDER OATH
TELEVISION
BURN NOTICE
- Season One...Buy this DVD set
- "Pilot" (June 28, 2007)
- "Identity" (July 5, 2007)
- "Fight or Flight" (July 12, 2007)
- "Old Friends" (July 19, 2007)
- "Family Business" (July 26, 2007)
- "Unpaid Debts" (August 2, 2007)
- "Broken Rules" (August 9, 2007)
- "Wanted Man" (August 16, 2007)
- "Hard Bargain" (August 23, 2007)
- "False Flag" (September 13, 2007)
- "Dead Drop (Part One)" (September 20, 2007)
- "Loose Ends (Part Two)" (September 20, 2007)
- Season Two
- "Breaking and Entering" (July 10, 2008)
- "Turn and Burn" (July 17, 2008)
- "Trust Me" (July 24, 2008)
- "Comrades" (July 31, 2008)
- "Scatter Point" (August 7, 2008)
- "Bad Blood" (August 4, 2008)
NOVELS
Burn Notice: The Fix (2008; by Tod Goldberg) ...Buy this book
RELATED LINKS
Report respectfully submitted by Glen Davis. Additional info by Kevin Burton Smith.
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