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The Worst Episodes of Burn Notice

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The Worst Episodes of Burn Notice

A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.

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  1. Background image for Down & Out
    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Down & Out

    S6:E14

    Michael arranges to be captured by a Syrian intelligence officer in order to rescue an inept smuggler; Riley offers Madeline a deal in hopes of tracking down Michael.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Unchained
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Unchained

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Reunion
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Reunion

    S6:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Besieged
    7.5/10(471 votes)

    #4 - Besieged

    S5:E7

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Old Friends
    7.6/10(822 votes)

    #5 - Old Friends

    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.

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    Director:David Solomon
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Family Business
    7.6/10(800 votes)

    #6 - Family Business

    S1:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Truth & Reconciliation
    7.6/10(602 votes)

    #7 - Truth & Reconciliation

    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.

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    7.6/10(415 votes)

    #8 - Breaking Point

    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.

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  10. Background image for Identity
    7.7/10(960 votes)

    #9 - Identity

    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.

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  11. Background image for Wanted Man
    7.7/10(743 votes)

    #10 - Wanted Man

    S1:E8

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

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    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Hard Bargain
    7.7/10(736 votes)

    #11 - Hard Bargain

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Partners in Crime
    7.7/10(514 votes)

    #12 - Partners in Crime

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for Company Man
    7.7/10(553 votes)

    #13 - Company Man

    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.

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    Writer:Matt Nix
  15. Background image for Fight or Flight
    7.8/10(885 votes)

    #14 - Fight or Flight

    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.

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    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Unpaid Debts
    7.8/10(780 votes)

    #15 - Unpaid Debts

    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.

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    Director:Paul Holahan
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Bad Blood
    7.8/10(670 votes)

    #16 - Bad Blood

    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.

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  18. Background image for Signals and Codes
    7.8/10(650 votes)

    #17 - Signals and Codes

    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.

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  19. Background image for Noble Causes
    7.8/10(520 votes)

    #18 - Noble Causes

    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.

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  20. Background image for Made Man
    7.8/10(495 votes)

    #19 - Made Man

    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.

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  21. Background image for Entry Point
    7.8/10(483 votes)

    #20 - Entry Point

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Center of the Storm
    7.8/10(475 votes)

    #21 - Center of the Storm

    S4:E9

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

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    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Hard Out
    7.8/10(457 votes)

    #22 - Hard Out

    S5:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for Eye for an Eye
    7.8/10(455 votes)

    #23 - Eye for an Eye

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Army of One
    7.8/10(453 votes)

    #24 - Army of One

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Damned If You Do
    7.8/10(418 votes)

    #25 - Damned If You Do

    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.

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    Writer:Matt Nix

Worst Episodes Summary

"Down & Out" is the worst rated episode of "Burn Notice". It scored 6.2/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/29/2012. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Unchained".