1. Pilot  

First aired: 6/28/2007

Michael Westen is a spy who receives a "burn notice" while on assignment. Spies are not fired, rather they are issued a burn notice to let the agent know their services are no longer required.

Penniless, Michael returns to his roots in Miami where he freelances his skills to earn money. First up: Michael helps a man clear his name after valuable pieces of art and jewelry are stolen.

2. Identity  

First aired: 7/5/2007

Michael helps Madeline's friend retrieve money from a swindler.

3. Fight or Flight  

First aired: 7/12/2007

A single mother witnesses a drug dealer brutally beating up a man. Oleg asks Michael to help the woman, Cara, his best waitress, after she stops showing up for work.

4. Old Friends  

First aired: 7/19/2007

Michael's friend, Bill, asks for the spy's help in freeing his daughter from a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, Michael dodges multiple assassination attempts.

5. Family Business  

First aired: 7/26/2007

Michael infiltrates a family of gunrunners who are pressuring an airport supervisor and his pregnant wife. Also, the FBI begin to put pressure on Sam to gather more information on Michael.

6. Unpaid Debts  

First aired: 8/2/2007

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.

7. Broken Rules  

First aired: 8/9/2007

Michael poses as a thief and infiltrates a crime gang that's terrorising a merchant.

8. Wanted Man  

First aired: 8/16/2007

With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive broach.

9. Hard Bargain  

First aired: 8/23/2007

A man's fiancée is kidnapped from the house he is looking after. Meanwhile, Michael is offered information on how he can clear his burn notice.

10. False Flag  

First aired: 9/13/2007

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.

11. Dead Drop (1)  

First aired: 9/20/2007

Sam works a case for a woman named Gillian. Gillian is being blackmailed into using her security clearance to help smuggle heroin into the U.S.

Michael, meanwhile, attempts to arrange a meeting with the man who burned him, Philip Cowan.

12. Loose Ends (2)  

First aired: 9/20/2007

Michael and Fiona work to rescue Sam from heroin smugglers after Kent and Melissa's deal goes sour. Meanwhile, Michael attempts to evade the government agents who assassinated Philip Cowan.