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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Burn Notice" is "Besieged", rated 7.5/10 from 455 user votes. It was directed by Stephen Surjik and written by N/A. "Besieged" aired on 8/4/2011 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Old Friends".
7.5/10 455 votes#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
7.6/10 792 votes#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
7.6/10 772 votes#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
7.6/10 581 votes#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
7.6/10 402 votes#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
7.6/10 385 votes#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
7.7/10 928 votes#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
7.7/10 718 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
7.7/10 711 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
7.7/10 497 votes#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
7.7/10 537 votes#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
7.8/10 852 votes#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
7.8/10 751 votes#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
7.8/10 648 votes#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: Rashad Raisani, Matt Nix
7.8/10 502 votes#15 - 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
7.8/10 477 votes#16 - 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: Alfredo Barrios, Jr., Matt Nix
7.8/10 468 votes#17 - 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
7.8/10 459 votes#18 - 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
7.8/10 444 votes#19 - 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
7.8/10 439 votes#20 - 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
7.8/10 437 votes#21 - 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
7.8/10 405 votes#22 - 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
7.8/10 415 votes#23 - 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
7.8/10 408 votes#24 - Unchained
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 8/9/2012
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 358 votes#25 - Nature of the Beast
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A