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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 7 - Besieged
    7.5/10(492 votes)

    #1 - Besieged

    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(856 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:David Solomon
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 5 - Family Business
    7.6/10(834 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 14 - Truth & Reconciliation
    7.6/10(618 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Ernest R. Dickerson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 14 - Breaking Point
    7.6/10(434 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Renny Harlin
    Writers:Ben Watkins, Rashad Raisani

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  6. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 2 - Identity
    7.7/10(1002 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Directors:Jace Alexander, Rod Hardy
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  7. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 8 - Wanted Man
    7.7/10(771 votes)

    #7 - Wanted Man

    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(763 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Burn Notice Season 3 Episode 14 - Partners in Crime
    7.7/10(530 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Horowitz

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  10. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 1 - Company Man
    7.7/10(573 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  11. Burn Notice Season 6 Episode 16 - Odd Man Out
    7.7/10(417 votes)

    #11 - Odd Man Out

    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(918 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Burn Notice Season 1 Episode 6 - Unpaid Debts
    7.8/10(812 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Paul Holahan
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 6 - Bad Blood
    7.8/10(691 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Bronwen Hughes
    Writers:Matt Nix, Rashad Raisani

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  15. Burn Notice Season 3 Episode 12 - Noble Causes
    7.8/10(534 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Ben Watkins

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  16. Burn Notice Season 4 Episode 3 - Made Man
    7.8/10(513 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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

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  17. Burn Notice Season 4 Episode 6 - Entry Point
    7.8/10(501 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 9 - Eye for an Eye
    7.8/10(474 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Horowitz

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  19. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 10 - Army of One
    7.8/10(473 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 13 - Damned If You Do
    7.8/10(438 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Matt Nix

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  21. Burn Notice Season 6 Episode 8 - Unchained
    7.8/10(443 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Burn Notice Season 7 Episode 8 - Nature of the Beast
    7.8/10(386 votes)

    #22 - Nature of the Beast

    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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  23. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 1 - Breaking and Entering
    7.9/10(787 votes)

    #23 - Breaking and Entering

    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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  24. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 3 - Trust Me
    7.9/10(672 votes)

    #24 - Trust Me

    S2:E3

    Andy, a cell-phone salesman, was conned into investing in a fake Cuban nightclub. Michael helps Andy when the people he borrowed the money from come knocking.

    Director:Paul Holahan
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Burn Notice Season 2 Episode 4 - Comrades
    7.9/10(674 votes)

    #25 - Comrades

    S2:E4

    Michael helps a Russian woman, Katya, whose sister was smuggled into the U.S. by gangsters; however, Katya cannot afford their extortionate demands and her sister is being held captive.

    Director:John T. Kretchmer
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Besieged" is the worst rated episode of "Burn Notice". It scored 7.5/10 based on 492 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".