A covert operative receives a burn notice, which is effectively a death sentence for a spy.

Burn Notice

Pilot

Michael helps his mother's friend, Laura, a retiree who was scammed out of her life savings by a group of con artists.

Identity

Michael protects a single mom from a drug trafficker who wants to prevent her from testifying against him, and he contacts a former associate who may know who ordered his burn notice.

Fight or Flight

Michael dodges assassination attempts by a Czech assassin from his past while trying to rescue a friend’s daughter from a prostitution ring.

Old Friends

A family of gunrunners threatens an airport supervisor, prompting Michael to infiltrate their organization to scare them away—meanwhile, the FBI pressures Sam to gather more information on Michael.

Family Business

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.

Unpaid Debts

Michael poses as a thief to infiltrate a criminal gang terrorizing a local merchant. Elsewhere, Michael blackmails an agent into handing over information about the burn notice.

Broken Rules

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.

Wanted Man

Dawn, the fiancée of Nick Lam, who house-sits the vacation homes of millionaires, is kidnapped.

Hard Bargain

Michael comes to the aid of a woman whose estranged husband has disappeared with her son. He tracks down the husband, and finds himself matched against an opponent just as skilled and deadly as he is but more ruthless.

False Flag

Sam takes on a case involving a woman who faces blackmail from drug smugglers, and he ultimately becomes a victim. Michael meets with Cowan and learns that the individuals behind his burn notice have significant plans for him.

Dead Drop

Michael tracks down the kidnappers' location and launches a rescue mission with Fiona's help. Meanwhile, he moves his family to safety after someone kills the agent who burned him, just as the agent was about to hand over information.

Loose Ends

Pluto

Michael accepts a sympathetic case for a Haitian man whose daughter was murdered by a corrupt government official, whom he believes is hiding in Miami.

Truth and Reconciliation

To save his client’s kidnapped wife and daughter, Michael must help steal some highly secure data from a team of ruthless mercenaries.

Breaking and Entering

Michael helps a female client who is being stalked by an obsessed cartel soldier by turning the soldier’s own organization against him.

Turn and Burn

To save his client, Michael pretends to be the perfect mark for a con artist–– then pulls a con of his own.

Trust Me

To find the location of a client’s captive sister, Michael must pose as a friendly cellmate to a human smuggler.

Comrades

When his client can’t back out of a crime ring, Michael must join the planning for a jewelry heist and destroy the group from within.

Scatter Point

To catch an embezzler from a hip-hop mogul’s charity, Michael needs to convince the thief to steal a larger amount.

Bad Blood

To find some stolen cargo, Michael tricks a group of modern-day pirates into committing another heist.

Rough Seas

A former operator approaches Michael, using his spy skills to make a living by doing odd jobs, just like Michael.

Double Booked

When kidnappers force a client into their scheme, Michael poses as a security consultant.

Good Soldier

Having narrowly escaped death, Michael decides to help a desperate father recover money from a medical scam artist.

Do No Harm

Michael, Fiona, and Sam pose as a gang of ruthless car thieves to stop a thug who is threatening a local high school football star.

Hot Spot

Michael poses as a Corporate security specialist to help a wealthy art dealer track down a hacker in the company.

Seek and Destroy

Jason Bly, a federal agent who has a knack for giving Michael trouble, returns to Miami to force Michael to hand over some blackmail materials.

Bad Breaks

A mysterious woman from Michael's past shows up at his loft with a plea: Help her retrieve her kidnapped son from a black market trader.

Sins of Omission

In the explosive season finale, Michael uncovers surprising facts about Victor's past and confronts Carla in a final showdown.

Lesser Evil

A sexy, action-packed one-hour series starring Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy. When spies get fired, they don’t get a letter from human resources – they get BURNED.

Truth and Reconciliation

Full Episodes

Season 2, 16 episodes