Burn Notice

S1.E1 (OA 7/28/2007) Pilot-In the premiere we meet Michael Weston and ex spy who was burned (government totally denies your existence). Michael's life is in the dump. In order to get some more cash Michael decides to become a private detective. He gets help from Sam (spy who was also burned), and Fiona (his ex-girlfriend and also an ex spy). Michael is continually annoyed by his mother who he doesn't really like. Michael takes his first case from a house caretaker (Javier). The police believe that Javier stole paintings and jewelry from his employer. Michael discovers that his employer, Mr. Pyne actually stole the valuable in order to collect the insurance. Michael doesn't turn him over to the cops but gets him to leave Javier alone and give him a huge severance package.

S1.E2 (OA 7/5/2007) Identity-Michael determines that some spies visited his mother's house and planted bugs. When he asks his mother about them she tells him that the only way she will help him is if he helps her neighbor who identity was recently stolen by some con-artists. With the help of Sam and Fiona Michael pretends to be a con artist and meets the man responsible for the theft, Quentin. Quentin breaks the group up and gets Quentin so paranoid that he gives Michael his account numbers in order to hire a hitman to kill his partners. Michael steals all of his money and gives it back to the people he stole it from. Michael's mother gives Michael a phone number the men left behind. He calls it and a man answers and tells him that they are friends.

S1.E3 (OA 7/12/2007) Fight or Flight-Michael helps a friend of his landlord. She has been threatened by the Columbian mob since she witnessed one of their members (Santos) beating up someone. Michael at first makes her leave Miami but figures out how to frame Santos. He gets a video of Santos saying several different words. He cuts and pastes part of the tape together in order to make it look like he set up a hit on someone. Sam then give the tape to the FBI. The Columbian mob finds out that the FBI is after Santos and decides to kill him first. Michael gets part of his burn notice from a former friend. He gets a case number and a name to help him find out why he was burned.

S1.E4 (OA 7/19/2007) Old Friends-Michael helps one of his brother's (Nate) friends Bill. His daughter ran away and he wants to know if she is ok. Michael finds out that she has been hired by an escort service but she thinks she is actually in a modeling service. Michael kidnaps one of the brothers that own the company and use him as leverage to get the daughter out and make them give all the money they have made off the girls to the girls who earned the money. Michael also gets chased around town by a hitman. He gets shot once but gets his revenge when he gets peanuts into the hitman's food (the hitman is allergic to peanuts). He gets the information that some old friends want him dead. Michael gets a balloon and flowers outside his door showing that his old friends know where he lives.

S1.E5 (OA 7/26/2007) Family Business-Michael and the gang help out a man who is being blackmailed into helping out a arms dealing family (The Zamars). Michael befriends the youngest son and gets him to show him their warehouse. After several failed attempts to get the family arrested he decides to scare them away by making them see that he knows a lot about their operation and could at any time turn them into the police. The Zamars leave the country. Meanwhile Sam has to break into Michael's apartment (Michael give him permission). Sam gives the document that Michael got in Fight of Flight to the Feds. The Feds wonder how he got such a document and tell Sam that they are sending a new man to watch Michael.

S1.E6 (OA 8/2/2007) Unpaid Debts-Michael and the new FBI agent repetedly try to get back at one another. Michael finds out that the FBI agents name is Agent Bly. Michael's case is to help one of Sam's friends (Virgil) retrieve a boat for his repo business. Michael gets the boat from the Jamaicans and takes the boat where Virgil tells him to. When he arrives at the drop off location, Mason (the guy who he was supposed to drop the boat off with starts shooting at him. He escapes and finds out from Virgil that Mason is a dirty cop that forced Virgil to get the boat in order to free his daughter from charges that Mason and his fellow cops framed her for. Michael discovers $10 million hidden in the boat. Virgil is kidnapped by the Jamaicans and they demand to get their money back. Michael sets up a meeting with the Jamaicans in order to give them their money back. Virgil is released. Mason and his men show up and the Jamaicans get into a fire fight with them. Michael burns the money and escapes with Virgil. Virgil's daughter is dropped of all charges.

S1.E7 (OA 8/9/2007) Broken Rules-Michael and Agent Bly continue their feud. Agent Bly threatens him family and friends. Michael retaliates by creating a fake business, business transactions, and pictures that show that they are friends. If he would leak this information Agent Bly would get fired. Michael tells him to get him his burn notice and Agent Bly gets it for him. Michael's case of the week is to help a business owner, Ernie, get rid of some local gangsters (led by Concha) who are terrorizing the neighborhood. Michael infiltrates the gang and eventually gets one of the older members to kill Concha with a bomb because he wants to get out of the business. Fiona asks Michael about their relationship and they get into a fist fight. They eventually kiss and sleep together.

S1.E8 (OA 8/16/2007) Wanted Man-Michael is forced into helping a man named Tom by Fiona who was supposed to capture him (she is now a bounty hunter) but she thought he was innocent. It turns out that the hotel owner (where the jewelry that Tom is charged with stealing was stored). Michael pretends to be a buyer of piece of jewelry. In order to get him to be more willing to sell Michael makes it look like someone is trying to steal it from him. The hotel owner finds out who Michael really is and almost kills him. Michael finds out that the hotell owner plans on bringing the jewelry to his bank so Michael, Fiona, and Sam make it look like he and his men are trying to rob the bank. The police discover the piece of jewelry on him. Michael makes a deal with some Libyans in order to get them to pretend to be friends with the man who wrote the burn notice that got him burned. The government starts watching Phillip (the man responsible for getting Michael burned) and Phillip calls Michael and is furious.

S1.E9 (OA 8/23/2007) Hard Bargain-Michael helps a man (Nick) whose fiance was kidnapped and the kidnappers want $5 million dollars. The problem with it is that he is not rich but is just the house sitter for rich people. Michael and company discover the loaction of his fiance (Dawn) by having Fiona pretend to be a rich wife and Sam be her body guard. Sam meets with the man responsible for the other kidnapping and offers to help them kidnap Fiona as long as they show him the loaction where they keep the people they kidnap. They eventually show him the location. Michael distracts the boss of the operation while Sam and Fiona rescue Dawn. When Dawn meets Nick she is furious that he pretended to be rich. Meanwhile Michael meets with Mr. Clark a man who could get him off the burn list. It turns out that he is not really Mr. Clark but a bounty hunter hired by the man who burned Michael. Michael shoots and kills the man. Fiona also celebrates her birthday and Michael gets her a gun.