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Burn Notice

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Michael Westen is a trained spy; while on assignment he receives a "burn notice" for an unstated reason, effectively he is fired. Penniless and dumped in his hometown of Miami, he tries to get his life in order. So Michael freelances his skills to earn money in an effort to find out who burned him and why.

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	5x01 Company Man Although still burned, Michael is now working alongside his old agency to bring down the people who burned him. Following the trail leads them to the heart of Venezuela.	Jun. 23, 2011
	5x02 Bloodlines Michael has to balance his new agency duties and helping a woman recover her cousin, who is one of many being trafficked into the U.S. by the Yakuza. Against Michael's wishes, Madeline ...	Jun. 30, 2011
	5x03 Mind Games Michael's brother, Nate, returns to Miami and recruits him to help take down a loan shark that's been harassing an old friend's widow. But the loan shark and his boss may be more brutal ...	Jul. 07, 2011
	5x04 No Good Deed When Barry's brother is framed for a server heist by a ruthless hacker, the team tries to track down her super-computer before it's too late.	Jul. 14, 2011
	5x05 Square One Michael is involved in a CIA murder investigation; the team helps a former Army sniper.	Jul. 21, 2011
	5x06 Enemy of My Enemy Michael helps the CIA retrieve a weapon from a violent Serbian mob. As part of the plan, Sam goes undercover with a heroin dealer, but Sam is left hanging when the CIA disagreed with ...	Jul. 28, 2011
	5x07 Beseiged When a woman's ex-husband takes their ailing son to an armed compound, Michael and Sam vow to bring him back to her. But the compound has more firepower than anyone was expecting. Meanwhile, ...	Aug. 04, 2011
	5x08 Hard Out Michael and Jesse join Agent Pearce for a CIA extraction mission on a Caribbean island, but an army of mercenaries makes it impossible for them to leave. Meanwhile, Fiona does a favor ...	Aug. 11, 2011
	5x09 Eye for an Eye Fiona and Jesse take a surveillance job for a powerful pharmaceuticals magnate, but there's more to his company than meets the eye. Michael and Sam interrogate a bomb-maker involved ...	Aug. 18, 2011
	5x10 Army of One Michael goes undercover with hijackers who end up taking hostages.	Aug. 25, 2011
	5x11 Better Halves Michael and Fiona pose as a wealthy couple at a South American resort in order to extract a bioweapons specialist. Elsewhere, Sam and Jesse try to trap Max's killer	Sep. 01, 2011
	5x12 Dead to Rights With all evidence pointing to him, Michael must perform a desperate act in order to clear his name as Max's murderer. And in a bit of bad timing, Larry returns with a job for Michael ...	Sep. 08, 2011
	5x13 Damned If You Do Michael and Fiona head to Puerto Rico to abduct a financial hacker whose software they need for Anson, but the hacker has some dangerous enemies waiting for him in Miami. Meanwhile, ...	Nov. 03, 2011
	5x14 Breaking Point When gang warfare claims the life of one of Michael's childhood friends, he teams up with the victim's brother to entrap the gang in a weapons scheme.	Nov. 10, 2011
	5x15 Necessary Evil Michael runs point on a CIA rescue mission involving a scientist kidnapped by an African warlord. Meanwhile, Sam and Jesse go undercover as microchip specialists but quickly get in ...	Nov. 17, 2011
	5x16 Depth Perception Sam has a surprise reunion with Beatriz, whose newspaper articles have made her the target of a murderous Russian spy. Michael has to trust Anson's profiling ability to track the Russian, ...	Dec. 01, 2011
	5x17 Acceptable Loss Michael needs Pearce's help to get in touch with a prisoner from his past who has information on Anson. Jesse tries to help his old friend expose his corrupt boss, who uses diplomatic ...	Dec. 08, 2011
	5x18 Fail Safe As the team reaches a breaking point with Anson and his sinister plans, Pearce puts Michael in charge of his biggest CIA mission yet.	Dec. 15, 2011