Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1Pilot 2007-06-28 · 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.
S1 · E2Identity 2007-07-05 · 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.
S1 · E3Fight or Flight 2007-07-12 · 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.
S1 · E4Old Friends 2007-07-19 · 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.
S1 · E5Family Business 2007-07-26 · 45 min
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
S1 · E6Unpaid Debts 2007-08-02 · 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.
S1 · E7Broken Rules 2007-08-09 · 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.
S1 · E8Wanted Man 2007-08-16 · 45 min
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
S1 · E9Hard Bargain 2007-08-23 · 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.
S1 · E10False Flag 2007-09-13 · 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.
S1 · E11Dead Drop (1) 2007-09-20 · 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.
S1 · E12Loose Ends (2) 2007-09-20 · 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.