When spies get fired, they don’t get a letter from human resources.

They get BURNED...

Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is a blacklisted spy. Dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, Michael struggles to put his life back together and find out why he's been burned. In the meantime, he uses his unique skills and training to help people in need ... mostly people who can't get help from the police.

After 10 years of serving his country working in Eastern Europe and the OPEC countries as a covert operative, Michael is living every spy's worst nightmare. While in the middle of a dangerous mission in Nigeria, Michael's “contact” informs him that he has been burned. When a spy gets fired, he doesn't get a call from human resources and a gold watch. In Michael's case, they jeopardize his life, freeze his bank accounts, dump him in Miami, and flag him on every government list known to man. They can't take away his skills or what's in his head, so they take away his assets and his resources to make sure he can never work again. They burn him.

Now Michael has a much different mission: he must find out who issued his burn notice and why he was blacklisted so that he can put his life back together. Meanwhile, he has to fend off a suddenly hostile world of old foes gunning for him. In order to survive in Miami and fund his own personal investigation, Michael enlists the help of the only two “friends” he has: FIONA GLENANNE (Gabrielle Anwar), an ex-IRA operative who also happens to be an ex-girlfriend and SAM AXE (Bruce Campbell), a washed-out military intelligence contact whom the feds have keeping an eye on Michael. He's also forced to deal with the family he went halfway around the world to get away from -- particularly his mother, MADELINE WESTEN (Sharon Gless), who couldn't be happier to have her son back in town.

Michael, on the other hand, is happiest when he is in a different hemisphere from the rest of his family. He was 17 when he left home to join the military and he never turned back. Now stuck in Miami, the one place he vowed never to return to, he must confront the bad memories of his childhood and repair the broken relationships he left behind.

As he gets closer to the truth, Michael scrapes by helping out whomever needs his services -- mostly desperate people who can't go to the police. Using his Special Ops training, some duct tape and his sardonic humor, Michael becomes a reluctant hero. It's a dangerous gig, but it's the best he can do... for now.

The second season finds Michael on a dangerous new mission that could give him clues about what or whom he is up against regarding his burn notice. Without money but with the help of Fiona, he continues to help those less fortunate while struggling to put his life back together.

"Michael, we're so looking forward to meeting you," a woman with a smoky voice says as Michael drives into the back of a container truck. Now, that smoky voice has a name… CARLA (Tricia Helfer). Or at least that's what Michael calls her until he can find out who she really is... her background is a mystery, her motives are unclear, and Michael's not even sure who she works for. All he knows is that she's a lethal combination of brains and beauty. Carla is Michael's only link to the people that burned him, and if Michael ever hopes to get his life back... he needs to find out more about her.

BURN NOTICE was created, written and executive produced by Matt Nix (Chasing Vermeer). Mikkel Bondesen (Catch That Kid) also serves as executive producer. The series comes from Fox Television Studios and Fuse Entertainment and is distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.