Burn Notice: Season 1

2007 · 12 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 1 of Burn Notice

Michael Westen is an intelligence agent who, in the middle of a mission overseas, learns that he has been burned. With no explanation, the agency cuts him loose, sends him back to Miami, his hometown, and leaves him with no bank accounts, no contacts and no official past. Watched and out of resources, he makes a living as an unlicensed private investigator. To find out who betrayed him and why, he relies on his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, and his friend Sam Axe, a retired former soldier. His mother, Madeline, completes the team. The jobs pit him against drug traffickers, arms dealers and gangsters, and each case brings him closer to whoever burned him.

12episodes

Jun 28, 2007released

Sep 20, 2007last episode

9.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Jun 28, 2007 · 67 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Jace Alexander · Writing: Matt Nix · Starring: Ray Wise, China Chow, Chance Kelly, Dan Martin
1x02 Identity
Jul 5, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
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.
Directing: Jace Alexander, Rod Hardy · Writing: Matt Nix · Starring: Josh Randall, Mark Pellegrino, Cindy Taylor, Marc Macaulay
1x03 Fight or Flight
Jul 12, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Colin Bucksey · Starring: Dedee Pfeiffer, Natalie Dreyfuss, George Tasudis, Steve DuMouchel
1x04 Old Friends
Jul 19, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Michael's friend, Bill, asks for the spy's help in freeing his daughter from a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, Michael dodges multiple assassination attempts.
Directing: David Solomon · Starring: Seth Peterson, Eric Lange, William Haze, Susie Abromeit
1x05 Family Business
Jul 26, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
Starring: Seth Peterson, Joel Swetow, Marc Macaulay, Scott Michael Campbell
1x06 Unpaid Debts
Aug 2, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
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.
Directing: Paul Holahan · Starring: Chris Ellis, Audrey Landers, David S. Lomax, Antoni Corone
1x07 Broken Rules
Aug 9, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
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.
Directing: Tim Matheson, Jace Alexander · Writing: Matt Nix, Mere Smith · Starring: Esai Morales, Idalis DeLeon, Tony Perez, Alex Carter
1x08 Wanted Man
Aug 16, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
Directing: Ken Girotti · Starring: Richard Schiff, Jeff Chase, Michael Robinson, Brett Cullen
1x09 Hard Bargain
Aug 23, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Starring: Gonzalo Menendez, Steven Bauer, Arye Gross, Kelvin Yu
1x10 False Flag
Sep 13, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 8.4
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.
Directing: Paul Shapiro · Writing: Ben Watkins, Matt Nix · Starring: Anthony Starke, China Chow, Lucy Lawless, Tim Ware
1x11 Dead Drop (1)
Sep 20, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 8.5
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.
Directing: Jace Alexander, Jeremiah S. Chechik · Writing: Matt Nix · Starring: Richard Schiff, Seth Peterson, Nicholle Tom, Maya Stange
1x12 Loose Ends (2) Season Finale
Sep 20, 2007 · 45 min · ★ 8.7
Michael must rescue Sam from heroin smugglers, who happen to be ex-Special Forces, while also evading agents who are out to get him.
Directing: Jace Alexander, Stephen Surjik · Writing: Matt Nix · Starring: Todd Stashwick, Seth Peterson, Raymond Lloyd, Carmen López