He believes that his unhappy childhood, largely at the hands of an abusive father, has helped to make him into a natural covert operative, while also making close relationships difficult for him. Despite that, he cannot speak Spanish fluently although by the final season he demonstrates being capable of speaking and understanding Spanish, likely to maintain his cover while working in the Dominican Republic. He has an uncanny ability to assume cover identities and work in numerous regional dialects and international accents. He has two black belts, or as he puts it in one episode, "30 years of karate" and is "rated with anything that fires a bullet or holds an edge". Highly skilled and extremely clever, he can think on his feet often improvising electronic devices and using ordinary items ranging from duct tape to cake frosting in highly unorthodox ways to complete a job. With his assets frozen, he is forced to live off his wits and any small investigative jobs he can find while he searches for answers about who has burned him and why.
#Burn notice series
The series juggles these two narratives: the overall series dealing with why Michael was burned, and individual episodes focusing on the cases he works for clients. At the same time, Michael must follow the trail that leads him to the people responsible for his being burned and later finds out why. With the occasional assistance and sometimes hindrance of his mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless), Westen battles an array of criminals such as mobsters, gang members, con artists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers, foreign wet-work operatives, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, arms traffickers, and war criminals. Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe (Campbell) to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them. Consumed by the desire to find out who burned him and why, Westen is reluctantly drawn into working as an unlicensed private investigator and problem solver for ordinary citizens to fund his investigation into his situation as a blacklisted agent. If he stays, he can remain relatively free. If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him "on ice" in Miami. He is tended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar), but he has been abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts and is under continuous surveillance with his assets frozen. The voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.Īfter being "burned" in the middle of an operation in southern Nigeria and subsequently beaten and kidnapped, Westen finds himself in his hometown of Miami, Florida. The television series uses second-person narrative and frequent voice-overs providing exposition from the viewpoint of covert operations agent Michael Westen, played by Donovan. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network – in essence, no identity.
When spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence. The title of the series refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable.
#Burn notice movie
In addition to the television episodes, the show has a prequel movie and tie-in novels. In 2010, the series was the #2 cable scripted series by viewership with 6.7 million viewers, behind Royal Pains. The series received generally positive reviews for the show's pace, humor, dialogue, and combination of espionage and crime drama presented in an irreverent tone. Trapped in Miami with few resources, Westen takes jobs as an unlicensed private investigator while unraveling the mystery of who burned him and why. The premise of the show focuses on Michael Westen (Donovan), a former spy who was fired and cut off from the legitimate world by the agency he used to work for. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and (beginning in season four) Coby Bell.
American TV series or program Burn Noticeįlying Glass of Milk Productions (2008–13)īurn Notice is an American espionage television series created by Matt Nix, which originally aired on the USA Network for a total of seven seasons from June 28, 2007, to September 12, 2013.
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