8.0/101,259 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/28/2007
While on assignment, agent Michael Westen gets a "Burn Notice" and becomes untouchable. Having no idea what or who triggered his demise, Michael returns to his hometown, Miami, determined to find out the reason for his sudden termination.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: Matt Nix
7.7/10940 votes#2 - Identity
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/5/2007
Michael helps Madeline's friend retrieve money from a swindler, and in return he receives information about some visitors that came to his mother's home.
Director: Jace Alexander, Rod Hardy
Writer: Matt Nix
7.8/10866 votes#3 - Fight or Flight
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/12/2007
A drug dealer is witnessed brutally beating up a man by a single mother. Oleg asks Michael to help the woman, Cara, his best waitress, after she stops showing up for work.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: N/A
7.6/10803 votes#4 - Old Friends
Season 1 Episode 4 - 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.
Director: David Solomon
Writer: N/A
7.6/10783 votes#5 - Family Business
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/2007
Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10762 votes#6 - Unpaid Debts
Season 1 Episode 6 - 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.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: N/A
8.0/10800 votes#7 - Broken Rules
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/9/2007
Michael works to rid a community in little Havana of a crime boss, all the while baiting Jason Bly at the risk of his family and friends.
Director: Jace Alexander, Tim Matheson
Writer: Matt Nix, Mere Smith
7.7/10729 votes#8 - Wanted Man
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/16/2007
With Michael's assistance, Fiona helps a man who has been framed for the theft of an expensive brooch.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: N/A
7.7/10722 votes#9 - Hard Bargain
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/23/2007
A slightly dim house sitter's fiancée has been kidnapped, and Sam guilts Michael into a rescue while he's negotiating with a D.C. bureaucrat to stop the burn notice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10766 votes#10 - False Flag
Season 1 Episode 10 - 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.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Matt Nix, Ben Watkins
8.1/10703 votes#11 - Dead Drop (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/20/2007
Sam takes on a case for a woman named Gillian, who is being blackmailed into using her security clearance to help smuggle heroin into the United States. Meanwhile, Michael is busy trying to arrange a meeting with Philip Cowan.
Director: Jace Alexander, Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Matt Nix
8.4/10732 votes#12 - Loose Ends (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/20/2007
Michael must rescue Sam from heroin smugglers, who happen to be ex-Special Forces, while also evading agents who are out to get him.
Director: Jace Alexander, Stephen Surjik
Writer: Matt Nix
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A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Network:USA Network
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Burn Notice" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 1259 votes. Directed by Jace Alexander and written by Matt Nix, it aired on 6/28/2007. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Identity".