Secret agent Michael Westen finds himself cut off from his contacts and his cash, so he agrees to help a man clear his name in a high-priced art theft. Along the way he gets help from his ex-girlfriend and a retired agent, and receives plenty of grief from his mother who is unaware of his career.
To get his mother to agree to tell him about a listening device planted in her house, Michael agrees to help his mother's friend get back the money she lost in a scam.
A witness to a brutal beating is threatened by the drug dealer who did the crime. Michael agrees to help her get out of Miami, but the woman's daughter refuses to leave, forcing Michael to find a way to alienate the dealer from his drug cartel.
A friend of Michael's asks for help in getting his daughter out of a prostitution ring. As Michael does so, he must protect himself during a series of assassination attempts.
A family of gunrunners threaten an airport supervisor, so Michael infiltrates their organization in an attempt to scare them away. Elsewhere, Sam is pressured by the FBI to gather more info on Michael.
Michael is hired to take a boat from Jamaican gangsters and discovers $10 million stashed onboard. Elsewhere, a CSS agent tries to make Michael back off his investigation into the burn notice.
Michael poses as a thief to infiltrate a criminal gang that has been terrorizing a local merchant. Elsewhere, Michael blackmails an agent into handing over information about the burn notice.
Fiona hunts down an alleged jewel thief she believes is innocent. So Michael investigates to find the real culprit. Elsewhere, Michael plots against the man who had him fired.
A house sitter for a millionaire is living the high life until his fiancée is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom. Meanwhile, a bureaucrat offers Michael information on how to clear the burn notice, but he's suspicious of the man's motives.
Michael becomes emotionally vested in a case involving a woman trying to track down her son, whom she accuses her estranged husband of kidnapping. Elsewhere, Michael learns the man behind the burn notice intends to visit him in Miami.
In the first-season finale, Sam is held hostage by heroin smugglers who also happen to be former Special Forces operatives. Michael must use his underworld connections to rescue his friend as he tries to dodge agents out to get him.
Michael must rescue Sam, who is being held hostage by heroin smugglers, all while helping and friend and evading agents who continue to target him.
Michael must take on cutthroat mercenaries to retrieve information which will help his client free his kidnapped family members.
Sam asks Michael to help Sophia, a waitress who is being stalked. However, not all is as it seems when it comes to Sophia and her identity.
It's a battle of pros versus cons as Michael poses as the perfect victim to lure in a con artist and protect his client.
Michael must befriend a smuggler of human beings in order to locate the missing sister of his client.
In an effort to free his client from a crime ring which is planning a job, Michael coordinates a jewel heist.
When it is discovered that money is being embezzled from a hip-hop star's charity, Michael uses the thief to help him steal a large sum of money.
Michael is hired to track down an expensive amount of pharmaceuticals that were stolen in transit to Tanzania.
A fellow former spy from Michael's past hires him to assassinate a woman, but he decides to defender her instead.
Michael tries to stop a kidnapping plot with ties to an oil company by posing as an alcoholic security guard.
While still searching for the person who tried to kill him, Michael helps a father who was swindled by a medical scam artist.
In order to defend a high school football star, Michael, Fiona and Sam must pose as high end car thieves. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona try to find the culprit who caused the explosion in Micheal's loft.
A wealthy art dealer has track a hacker and posing as a corporate-security specialist.
Micheal is trapped together with an old enemy, Jason Bly, forcing them to work together to help stop a bank robbery
Michael agrees to help Sam and Fiona in capturing a Haitian murderer. Elsewhere, Michael makes some headway to finding the suspect of who tried to kill him.
Michael's ex-fiancé comes to him for help when her son is kidnapped by an ex-spy. Meanwhile, Michael extends a hand of truce towards a fellow rouge burned agent.
After losing the protection from those who burned him, Michael finds himself being questioned by the police. He also is given a job from an old friend to extradite a criminal from Latin America.
A detective must work fast to obtain a warrant after discovering Michael's stash of explosives, before he can hide them. Elsewhere, the team searches for a victim of a kidnapping and uses a bizarre form of interrogation.
Nate is kidnapped by an arms dealer with a grudge against Michael and forces Michael to help in a heist. Meanwhile, Paxson continues the investigation of Michael.
Michael infiltrates a gang to get his hands on a highly-sought-after criminal and winds up befriending a gang member who doesn't seem as bad as believed. Elsewhere, Sam contends with an IRS agent who is related to a women from Sam's past.
Michael helps in stopping a defense executive from selling company secrets, which may have led to the deaths of American spies if they had fallen into the wrong hands. Meanwhile, Michael discovers a new intelligence contact.
Michael discovers an operative has him targeted and soon becomes kidnapped along with a prominent member of Miami's underworld and left in the wilderness. Elsewhere, Michael meets a former spy who sells his services.
Michael convinces an abusive stepfather of a young boy to leave town by telling him he is the target of an assassination plot. Elsewhere, Strickler makes a promise to Michael that he will help him get back into the intelligence community if they can work together.
Michael hunts for the thief who has stolen Barry's client list. Meanwhile, Fiona and Michael squabble over his urge to get back into the intelligence community.
Michael is forced to team up with Fiona's brother in order to save her from a dangerous man from her past.
Michael and Fiona are hired by a woman to help her get free from violent con men.
When Sam gets an unexpected visit from a former Seal buddy asking for help, Michael must infiltrate a protected urban barrio and hunt down a child predator. Michael also befriends a psychotic former spy runner in order to learn more about his destructive plans while in town
Michael is caught off guard by a visit from his drug dealing neighbor Sugar. But to Michael’s surprise, Sugar isn't looking for trouble—he needs Michael's help fending off a crew of notorious thieves. Meanwhile, Michael struggles with working beside an unexpected partner.
Michael ends up in hot water when the black ops sociopath he's been dealing with asks him to steal sensitive flight information.
Sam convinces Michael to help him investigate a robbery at a chic Miami fashion house. When the prime suspect is conveniently framed for murder, Michael and Sam must uncover who is really behind the theft...and the murder.
Fiona seems to get more than she bargained for when she becomes involved with a paranoid kidnapper, only to discover that he's more than what he appears.
Michael's worst fears come to life when a world class terrorist is unleashed on Miami, threatening to detonate a bomb if Michael doesn't give him what he wants.
Michael helps Fiona and Sam protect a lawyer against the city's most dangerous outlaw biker gang "The Breakers". The Lawyer is trying to get away from them but Michael and the team want to make it so he is not going to be able to be touched. They get him attached to "The Breakers". Meanwhile, he must team up with an unlikely ally named Vaughn to stop a looming terrorist threat that could be dangerous for a lot of people. But he quickly finds that no mission is without its price when he blacklists someone he did not even know.
Michael meets Jesse, a recently burned counter-intelligence agent, when he saves him from getting killed by Ming Khan and Mr. Lee. After the ordeal, Jesse searches out the help of Michael and he helps him. Through trying to get in with Khan on a weapon's deal things go south and Michael has to improvise to get good with Khan and make sure that Jesse doesn't get killed in the process. The recently burned spy has moves to help him not get caught but for how long? Michael must show his skills and try to protect Jesse and the information that is in his head for Vaughn.
Michael and his crew welcome a new team member. Jesse the newly burnt spy joins in and the first assignment is a dock that has connections with a criminal named "Cobra" and they bite a little more when they help Hank, a security guard at the docks, clean up the docks from the mobsters taking from the cargo. This involves a mob boss that wants more then just cookies and milk, he wants it all. The team takes this as an advantage and make sure that he is not going to hurt the docks again with the crime.
a hostage situation at a local bank. Meanwhile, Fiona helps Jesse track down information about a recently deceased weapons runner
A reluctant doctor turns to Michael for help when a group of vicious drug dealers terrorize his neighborhood clinic. Along the way, Michael is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a sadistic killer
Sam and Jesse interrogate a captured contract killer in order to find out who ordered a recent assassination. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona pose as security consultants to stop a notorious antiquities thief from stealing a priceless artifact
When an ex-CIA spy is in trouble, Michael sees that it is his duty to protect him from the Russian operatives that arrive at a spy convention. While Michael is protecting the ex-spy, Jesse is getting deeper into knowing who burned him and meets with his former employer. Michael has his hands full with controlling the information that is given to Jesse and protecting anyone from getting killed and Fiona is on the fence to whether or not back Michael and his "secret" any longer.
Michael, Sam, and Jesse must try to rescue Fiona when their plan to protect a wealthy business bigwig at his house party go horribly awry.
After being asked by the FBI to find an important witness to the FBI in a case, Michael must find the killer before he has the chance to kill his target. Along the way he has to pretend to be someone he's not to gain the trust of the assassin. Meanwhile, after turning down Vaughn to give him the Family Bible, Vaughn decides to switch tactics and attempts to offer someone's old job back if Fiona will give him the Family Bible.
Michael gets to meet the man he has been waiting for a long time and Simon tells him to listen to a cassette tape found at a cementery. Meanwhile, Sam's friend is in trouble which requires Michael to infiltrates a prison in order to protect an inmate with the little help from some friends in black. When they open the Simon's package of goodies, the tape has information that might persuade Michael to do something drastic.
Michael and Sam get a doctored file to show to Jesse on Barrett and he takes it. They have a plan to draw Barrett out and for them to get the information they need. Meanwhile, Fiona and Sam help out a friend of Fiona's and take down a con man that proves to be a little bit more slippery then they thought. At the end of the episode, there is a twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Fiona attempts to find Jesse and convince him to meet with Michael. Meanwhile, Michael helps a criminal defense attorney rescue his daughter after she is kidnapped by one of his clients.
Michael tries to prevent a bombing arranged by a lawyer out for revenge against a local gang. Elsewhere, Michael and Jesse must track down a highly sensitive document that's been stolen.
Michael must work with an enemy to keep chemical weapons out of the wrong hands.
When Michael's brother Nate comes for a visit, he is all business with the fact that someone of his acquaintance had some cars stolen. Michael offers to help and find themselves wrapped in a drug ring as well. Meanwhile, Jesse and Sam arrive in Dominican Republic for the auction, but they have plans to make sure that there is not going to be an auction at all.
Michael and Sam work to clear an old friend of Sam's; Michael must meet with Jesse's handler.
Brennan vows to release valuable data; Michael must try to turn the tables.
Michael's actions force a tactical assault team to pursue him.
Before Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall of Sam Axe tells the story of how Sam went from respected Naval Commander to the man of mystery we've come to know on Burn Notice. On what will turn out to be Sam's last military mission, he is sent to the jungles of Colombia to investigate claims of a vicious terrorist organization known only as the "Espada Ardiente" (Flaming Sword). His mission: to determine whether U.S. military aid is necessary to deal with the threat. But when he arrives, things are more complicated than he'd imagined. He receives word that the rebels have targeted a small civilian clinic deep in the jungle. Sam must now save the clinic's doctors and patients from certain death. However, nothing is as it seems and the Espada Ardiente may not be the biggest threat Sam Axe faces.
Although still burned, Michael works alongside his old agency to bring down the people who burned him. Following the trail leads them to the heart of Venezuela.
Michael helps a woman track down her cousin, who's caught up in a human-trafficking scheme, but is dismayed when Madeline becomes involved in the plot to rescue her.
Nate returns to Miami to seek Michael's help to go after a loan shark who's harassing a widow. The guys soon discover that the loan shark is not all that he seems, however.
When Barry's brother is framed for a server heist by a ruthless hacker, the team tries to track down her super-computer before it's too late.
Michael is involved in a CIA murder investigation; the team helps a former Army sniper.
When an attack drone is sold to the Serbians, Michael is called in to try to get it back. With the help of Sam, they stage a theft from a Drug King-Pin and frame the Serbs for it. However, when the situation is close to be compromised, Michael tries to lean on the CIA to help, but a feud between Sam and two CIA agents might blow their chance to save Sam in time.
Michael is called in by Sam when Elsa's friend has an ex-husband who has taken their son to a militia compound. Michael and Sam tell that they will get him back. Meanwhile, Jacob, the man who framed Michael, gets on the side of Michael and his team to try to track down Jacob's contact. One problem. The contact wants Jacob dead.
Fiona has to reunite with an old partner in crime against her wishes while Michael has to go on a secret mission with Pearce to find that it is a kidnap mission to secure very important documents. Madeline starts seeing a new man in her life.
When Fiona and Jesse are called to take a surveillance job for a group, they find that there is more then they suspected at first. Meanwhile, Sam and Michael find the man who was in the cover-up of Max's murder and all the information that goes with it.
When Michael is asked to help on simple hacking job, it turns for the worse when it really is a highjacking to get the bank details to a successful businessman. Madeline comes in to help out and winds up saving more then she had thought she was going to have to. Meanwhile, Pearce inches closer to finding out who she thinks is Max's killer.
Michael and Fiona are sent to Venezuela to get a Bio-weapons expert and his wife and bring them back stateside. Meanwhile, Sam and Jesse try to trap the person who framed Michael. When Michael returns, Pearce has a surprise that Michael knew was coming.
Michael tries to clear his name of Max's murder by taking drastic action. Elsewhere, Larry resurfaces and insists Michael help him with a job.
Michael and Fiona plan to abduct a hacker in Puerto Rico in order to obtain his software, but the man has several other enemies to contend with. Elsewhere, Madeline learns to retrieve information from the police under the tutelage of Sam and Jesse.
When gang warfare claims the life of one of Michael's childhood friends, he teams up with the victim's brother to entrap the gang in a weapons scheme.
Michael heads up a rescue mission for a scientist kidnapped by an African warlord. Sam and Jesse go undercover but soon find themselves in big trouble. Elsewhere, someone Madeline trusts hides a secret from her.
Sam has a surprise reunion with Beatriz, whose newspaper articles have made her the target of a murderous Russian spy.
Michael needs Pearce's help to get in touch with a prisoner from his past who has information on Anson. Jesse tries to help his old friend expose his corrupt boss, who uses diplomatic immunity to get away with dealing diamonds.
As the team reaches a breaking point with Anson and his sinister plans, Pearce puts Michael in charge of his biggest CIA mission yet.