

There were no hard feelings, no guilt trips - everyone just got back to work. It was fantastic to see how quickly Michael’s team rallied behind him as soon as he went back into their midst. Burn Notice Season 7 Episode 10 recap: Will Michael ever come back? > Of course he wanted to do it by himself, but his team wouldn’t let him get away with it. Michael came to the conclusion that the only way to be safe was to capture James themselves. Strong (Jack Coleman), understandably disappointed to lose out on James, set the entire CIA and local law enforcement on them all and they had to run from James’ (John Pyper-Ferguson) people as well as the law. Once Michael decided to go back to the good side, he and the rest of his team faced some of their biggest challenges yet.
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Michael decided that the only way to get free was to catch James themselves. The team soon found themselves being pursued by James’ men and the CIA.Michael killed Sonya and went back with Fi to his friends.It's a dangerous gig, but it's the best he can do. Using his Special Ops training, some duct tape and his sardonic humor, Michael becomes a reluctant hero.

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.Īs he gets closer to the truth, Michael scrapes by helping out whoever needs his services - mostly desperate people who can't go to the police. He was 17 when he left home to join the military and he never turned back. Michael, on the other hand, is happiest when he is in a different hemisphere from the rest of his family. He's also forced to deal with the family he went halfway around the world to get away from - particularly his mother, Madeline, who couldn't be happier to have her son back in town. In order to survive in Miami and fund his own personal investigation, Michael enlists the help of the only two "friends" he has: Fiona an ex-IRA operative who also happens to be an ex-girlfriend and Sam a washed-out military intelligence contact whom the feds have keeping an eye on Michael. Meanwhile, he has to fend off a suddenly hostile world of old foes gunning for 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. 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. 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. When a spy gets fired, he doesn't get a call from human resources and a gold watch. While in the middle of a dangerous mission in Nigeria, Michael's "contact" informs him that he has been burned. Yet these are the least of his problems.Īfter 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. However, Michael Westen is not "most people." He's got a pesky FBI tail, a violence prone ex-girlfriend looking for closure, and a hypochondriac mother calling him 30 times a day. Most people would be thrilled to be on the warm, beautiful sands of South Beach.
