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The Worst Episodes of Burn Notice

Every episode of Burn Notice ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Burn Notice!

A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Network:USA Network

Worst Episodes Summary

"Besieged" is the worst rated episode of "Burn Notice". It scored 7.5/10 based on 459 votes. Directed by Stephen Surjik and written by N/A, it aired on 8/4/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Old Friends".

  • Besieged
    7.5/10459 votes
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    #1 - Besieged

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2011

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

    Director: Stephen Surjik

    Writer: N/A

  • Old Friends
    7.6/10803 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Family Business
    7.6/10783 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Truth & Reconciliation
    7.6/10590 votes
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    #4 - Truth & Reconciliation

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2009

    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: N/A

  • Breaking Point
    7.6/10407 votes
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    #5 - Breaking Point

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 11/10/2011

    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

    Writer: Ben Watkins, Rashad Raisani

  • Odd Man Out
    7.6/10390 votes
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    #6 - Odd Man Out

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 12/13/2012

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Identity
    7.7/10940 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Wanted Man
    7.7/10729 votes
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    #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

  • Hard Bargain
    7.7/10722 votes
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    #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

  • Partners in Crime
    7.7/10504 votes
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    #10 - Partners in Crime

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2010

    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: N/A

    Writer: Michael Horowitz

  • Company Man
    7.7/10543 votes
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    #11 - Company Man

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/23/2011

    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

  • Fight or Flight
    7.8/10866 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Unpaid Debts
    7.8/10762 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Bad Blood
    7.8/10657 votes
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    #14 - Bad Blood

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/2008

    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

    Writer: Matt Nix, Rashad Raisani

  • Signals and Codes
    7.8/10641 votes
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    #15 - Signals and Codes

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/2009

    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: N/A

  • Noble Causes
    7.8/10510 votes
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    #16 - Noble Causes

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2010

    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

  • Made Man
    7.8/10484 votes
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    #17 - Made Man

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2010

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

    Director: Tim Matheson, Jeffrey Donovan

    Writer: Matt Nix, Alfredo Barrios, Jr.

  • Entry Point
    7.8/10473 votes
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    #18 - Entry Point

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/15/2010

    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: N/A

  • Center of the Storm
    7.8/10466 votes
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    #19 - Center of the Storm

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/5/2010

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

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: N/A

  • Hard Out
    7.8/10448 votes
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    #20 - Hard Out

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/11/2011

    Michael and Jesse go on an extraction mission on a Caribbean island but end up trapped there by mercenaries. Meanwhile, Fiona tries to get information out of an ex by doing a favor for him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Rashad Raisani

  • Eye for an Eye
    7.8/10445 votes
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    #21 - Eye for an Eye

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 8/18/2011

    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: N/A

    Writer: Michael Horowitz

  • Army of One
    7.8/10443 votes
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    #22 - Army of One

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/25/2011

    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: N/A

  • Damned If You Do
    7.8/10409 votes
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    #23 - Damned If You Do

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/3/2011

    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

  • Split Decision
    7.8/10421 votes
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    #24 - Split Decision

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 7/19/2012

    Michael takes on a gangster with help from an unlikely ally. Card offers Fiona a deal to become a CIA asset, an arrangement that would prevent her from being extradited.

    Director: Scott Peters

    Writer: N/A

  • Reunion
    7.8/10423 votes
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    #25 - Reunion

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 8/2/2012

    Sam agrees to help his girlfriend's son, who is in deep trouble with a loan shark. Michael and Fiona reconnect while searching for the saboteur.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Rashad Raisani