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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 7 - Besieged
    7.5/10(500 votes)

    S5:E7

    Michael and Sam try to retrieve a boy from an armed compound. Fiona and Jesse babysit a day laborer.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 4 - Old Friends
    7.6/10(897 votes)

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  3. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 5 - Family Business
    7.6/10(867 votes)

    S1:E5

    Michael takes on arms dealers for an airport worker, while Nate obsesses about the car and their dad's will together.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 14 - Truth & Reconciliation
    7.6/10(641 votes)

    S2:E14

    Michael takes on a sympathy case for a Haitian man whose daughter was murdered by a corrupt government official he believes is hiding in Miami. Michael gets closer to tracking down the person who tried to kill him.

    Director:Ernest R. Dickerson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 14 - Breaking Point
    7.6/10(443 votes)

    S5:E14

    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 Fiona's weapons scheme.

    Director:Renny Harlin
    Writers:Ben Watkins, Rashad Raisani

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  6. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 2 - Identity
    7.7/10(1042 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Directors:Jace Alexander, Rod Hardy
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  7. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 8 - Wanted Man
    7.7/10(802 votes)

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 9 - Hard Bargain
    7.7/10(792 votes)

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Burn Notice Season 3 Episode 14 - Partners in Crime
    7.7/10(544 votes)

    S3:E14

    Sam convinces Michael to investigate a robbery at a chic fashion house, but they quickly realize the world of design isn't always pretty. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona gain the trust of a Polish intelligence officer to get information on an unlisted "black flight," transporting dangerous cargo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Horowitz

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  10. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 1 - Company Man
    7.7/10(578 votes)

    S5:E1

    Michael works with his old agency to go after the people who burned him in a case that leads the group to Venezuela.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  11. Burn Notice Season 6 Episode 16 - Odd Man Out
    7.7/10(424 votes)

    S6:E16

    Michael seeks refuge in a warehouse when he's caught in the middle of a smuggler's attempt to get revenge on his former client. Survival becomes a challenge as supplies run low and the exits are blocked.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 3 - Fight or Flight
    7.8/10(959 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  13. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 6 - Unpaid Debts
    7.8/10(837 votes)

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown

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  14. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 6 - Bad Blood
    7.8/10(711 votes)

    S2:E6

    When someone's suspected of embezzling from a hip-hop mogul's charity, Michael attempts to trick the thief into stealing a larger sum.

    Director:Bronwen Hughes
    Writers:Matt Nix, Rashad Raisani

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  15. Burn Notice Season 3 Episode 5 - Signals and Codes
    7.8/10(691 votes)

    S3:E5

    A paranoid mathematician enlists Michael's help to stop the vice president of a defense firm from selling company secrets; Michael tracks down a new contact in the intelligence community.

    Director:Jeremiah S. Chechik
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Burn Notice Season 3 Episode 12 - Noble Causes
    7.8/10(547 votes)

    S3:E12

    Michael is caught off guard by a visit from his drug dealing neighbor Sugar. But to Michael’s surprise, Sugar isn't looking for trouble; He needs Michael's help fending off a crew of notorious thieves. Meanwhile, Michael struggles with working beside an unexpected partner.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Ben Watkins

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  17. Burn Notice Season 4 Episode 3 - Made Man
    7.8/10(528 votes)

    S4:E3

    When dangerous mobsters threaten a port worker, Michael takes on the case. With Jesse, Michael also looks for intel on an underground-artillery operation.

    Directors:Jeffrey Donovan, Tim Matheson
    Writers:Matt Nix, Alfredo Barrios Jr.

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  18. Burn Notice Season 4 Episode 6 - Entry Point
    7.8/10(514 votes)

    S4:E6

    Sam and Jesse interrogate a captured contract killer in order to find out who ordered a recent assassination. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona pose as security consultants to stop a notorious antiquities thief from stealing a priceless artifact.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Burn Notice Season 4 Episode 9 - Center of the Storm
    7.8/10(508 votes)

    S4:E9

    Michael impersonates a hitman in order to protect the target who is a crucial witness to criminal activity.

    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 9 - Eye for an Eye
    7.8/10(481 votes)

    S5:E9

    Fiona and Jesse work together for a pharmaceuticals magnate, but soon realize that he is hiding something. Meanwhile, Michael and Sam take on a bomb-maker involved in Max's death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Horowitz

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  21. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 10 - Army of One
    7.8/10(481 votes)

    S5:E10

    Michael goes undercover with a group of hijackers in order to assist Jesse with a security job, but he changes the plan when the hijackers take hostages at the airport. Madeline assists Michael by organizing the hostages and trying to lead them to safety.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 13 - Damned If You Do
    7.8/10(451 votes)

    S5:E13

    Michael and Fiona plan to abduct a hacker in Puerto Rico in order to obtain his software, but the man has several other enemies to contend with. Elsewhere, Madeline learns to retrieve information from the police under the tutelage of Sam and Jesse.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  23. Burn Notice Season 6 Episode 8 - Unchained
    7.8/10(453 votes)

    S6:E8

    Michael intentionally gets arrested in order to help an FBI agent take down a vicious mobster. Jesse and Pearce follow up on the gun sale that put the weapon in the hands of Nate's murderer, but run into danger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Burn Notice Season 7 Episode 8 - Nature of the Beast
    7.8/10(391 votes)

    S7:E8

    Michael goes after a drug smuggler at the bidding of the organization he's trying to infiltrate. Elsewhere, Fiona, Jesse and Strong visit a mental hospital in a search for more information about James.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 1 - Breaking and Entering
    7.9/10(801 votes)

    S2:E1

    Having been recruited by the people who burned him, Michael's new handler, Carla, tasks him with helping a computer tech, whose wife and daughter were kidnapped, liberate some information that is guarded by mercenaries.

    Director:Paul Holahan
    Writer:Matt Nix

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Besieged" is the worst rated episode of "Burn Notice". It scored 7.5/10 based on 500 votes. Directed by Stephen Surjik and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/4/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Old Friends".