Burn Notice — Season 1
Spies don't get fired, they get burned
About this season
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Episodes (12)
1. Pilot
7.2Aired 28 June 2007 • 67 min
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
6.2Aired 5 July 2007 • 45 min
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
7.6Aired 12 July 2007 • 45 min
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
6.2Aired 19 July 2007 • 45 min
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
6.1Aired 26 July 2007 • 45 min
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
6. Unpaid Debts
5.8Aired 2 August 2007 • 45 min
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
6.2Aired 9 August 2007 • 45 min
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
7.5Aired 16 August 2007 • 45 min
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
9. Hard Bargain
5.9Aired 23 August 2007 • 45 min
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
8.6Aired 13 September 2007 • 45 min
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)
8.4Aired 20 September 2007 • 45 min
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)
8.6Aired 20 September 2007 • 45 min
Michael must rescue Sam from heroin smugglers, who happen to be ex-Special Forces, while also evading agents who are out to get him.