Burn Notice (season 7)

The seventh and final season of the American television spy drama Burn Notice aired from June 6, 2013 to September 12, 2013, on the cable television channel USA Network. The 13-episode season was ordered by USA Network on November 7, 2012.[1] In May 2013, the network announced that this season will be the show's last.[2] Production on the series wrapped on July 31, 2013.

Burn Notice
Season 7
DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	USA Network
Original release	June 6 – September 12, 2013
Season chronology

Cast

Jack Coleman plays Andrew Strong, a CIA officer who pushes Michael to do whatever it takes to complete a mission that has consumed Strong for eight years. Stephen Martines plays Carlos Cruz, a bounty hunter who is Fiona's new boyfriend. Nick Tarabay plays Dexter Gamble, a freelance operative, in two episodes.[3] Adrian Pasdar plays Randall Burke, a former special ops soldier who is suspected of running a freelance terrorist ring.[4] Ricardo Antonio Chavira guest stars in two episodes as international terrorist Rafael Serrano.[5] Charles Mesure makes a guest appearance as Jack Frakes, the head of a criminal hacking syndicate. Alona Tal plays Sonya, the woman Burke calls "the key to everything", while John Pyper-Ferguson plays her boss, James Kendrick.[6]

Tim Matheson reprises his role as "Dead Larry" Sizemore in one of Michael's hallucinations. Garret Dillahunt returns as Simon Escher in the season's eleventh episode.[7]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
99	1	"New Deal"	Stephen Surjik	Matt Nix	June 6, 2013	BN701	4.32[8]
As part of his deal with the CIA, Michael's new handler, Agent Strong, sends him to the Dominican Republic on deep cover, with the difficult task of breaking up a terrorist network they suspect is being run by an old friend of his named Burke. While working to gain Burke's notice and become part of the organization, Michael is called back to Miami to go after a mysterious man (Guest Star: Nick Tarabay) attempting to find out where he is by bothering his friends and family, even as they try to move on with their lives.
100	2	"Forget Me Not"	Jeffrey Donovan	Ben Watkins	June 13, 2013	BN702	4.29[9]
Michael returns to Miami with strict instructions not to contact anyone, except for his mother who is endangering his operation. While tracking down the mystery man, Michael finds that the man is connected to people who can ruin his cover with Burke while at the same time covertly listening to his friends' complaints about the mess he made in leaving them. Along the way, the man kidnaps Fiona to flush Michael out, only to be shot dead by the CIA when they and Michael come to her rescue, using a line that hearkens back to the time when they first met in Ireland, a story told in small flashbacks throughout the episode, except in the present, unlike in Ireland, she chooses her current boyfriend over Michael.
101	3	"Down Range"	Scott Peters	Craig O'Neill	June 20, 2013	BN703	3.40[10]
Despite being wanted by Dominican authorities, Michael is forced to return to the Caribbean nation to help Burke steal a multi-million dollar satellite truck, purportedly to sell it to a fellow terrorist, so Michael asks Strong to let him use Sam and Jesse. Nothing goes as expected at the exchange, as Burke reveals it was all a ruse so he could kidnap the terrorist for his bosses, and Michael's team has to provide assistance when the CIA's presence is exposed. Back in Miami, Nate's former bookie comes after Madeline to collect his outstanding debt, so she teams up with Fiona to gain the upper hand on him so that none of Nate's debtors will have the same idea.
102	4	"Brothers In Arms"	Dennie Gordon	Alfredo Barrios, Jr.	June 27, 2013	BN704	3.87[11]
In order to find an associate of Burke's, a woman named Sonya being imprisoned by Russian spies, Michael is dispatched to threaten the captured terrorist's family in order to find out what he knows about Sonya's location. Before Burke pushes the man to suicide, he points them to Cuba, and Michael's team combines their efforts to get Sonya where they can grab her, but their initial bluff is called so they divert her captor's attention long enough to sneak in and grab Sonya. To help Michael escape with her, Burke sacrifices himself, but, without Sonya's trust, Michael's team goes after her when she slips their grasp.
103	5	"Exit Plan"	Marc Roskin	Michael Horowitz	July 11, 2013	BN705	3.04[12]
To calm Sonya down, Michael convinces her he and his team are friends who will help her escape Cuba as soon as possible, but a ruthless Russian agent familiar to Sonya keeps getting in their way, forcing them to improvise their exit plan as Strong blackmails Fiona to assist Michael. Once the four get back to Miami, Sonya discovers that the reason the Russians are after her is she's been exposed by a hacking syndicate, and she asks Michael to help destroy them.
104	6	"All or Nothing"	Jonathan Frakes	Rashad Raisani	July 18, 2013	BN706	2.86[13]
True to his word, Michael teams up with Fiona to become part of the specialized hacking group that outed Sonya to the Russians, intending to wipe their hard drive after infecting it with a virus. As part of their cover, they send Sam and Jesse to contract help from the recently freed Barry, but he won't budge until they track down his girlfriend, who disappeared while he was in jail. With all this going on, Michael negotiates with Sonya to take him to her superiors, but she wants to ensure his commitment to the cause, so, after he completely opens up his emotions, she agrees to make contact.
105	7	"Psychological Warfare"	Larry Teng	Ryan Johnson & Peter Lalayanis	July 25, 2013	BN707	3.06[14]
After a thorough interrogation from Sonya's boss, Michael is locked in a padded room for torture involving sensory disruption and drug-induced hallucinations to reveal every secret he has, everything from his personal/family life to his work, especially a mission with Larry that completely changed Michael. Meanwhile, after Sonya raids his loft for evidence to destroy, his friends tail her to the waterfront compound, where she helps him escape under false pretenses, but another memory of his dad, whose abuse has motivated Michael in life, clinches his commitment to the cause. Out on the water, his watching friends are shocked by this, but Sonya and her boss, James, approvingly welcome him to the family before sending him home to recuperate.
106	8	"Nature of the Beast"	Tawnia McKiernan	Bridget Tyler	August 1, 2013	BN708	3.60[15]
Deep undercover in James' organization, Michael unintentionally loses contact with the CIA, as his first assignment for James sees him working to complete Burke's unfinished mission, which involves exposing a corrupt Dominican drug enforcement official as the major drug smuggler he's become. As time goes on, and he gains understanding of his boss, Michael becomes drawn to James' ethos, so his friends track down a man James institutionalized after their time in the Delta Force to learn about Michael's new friend. When the soldier meets Michael, he reveals a secret about an operation they did for the military that went bad, and Michael begins to realize that, despite his high ideals, James is incredibly dangerous.
107	9	"Bitter Pill"	Bill Eagles	Alfredo Barrios, Jr. & Daniel Tuch	August 8, 2013	BN709	3.69[16]
In order to help a peace-seeking Middle Eastern diplomat get to an important conference in another country, everyone in James' organization is put on the man's security to keep bounty hunters at bay. After he ingests a deadly poison while under their watch, they turn to an associate (Guest Star: David Meunier) to help track down the one person who can provide the antidote, which is in a heavily guarded facility. Meanwhile, Madeline worries when James' people begin following her, so he comes to assure her he's only trying to protect her and her grandson Charlie, son of Michael's deceased brother Nate. As for Michael's mission, it ends with mixed results: they secure the antidote to save their client, but James kills his friend in front of everyone because Michael had to rescue Fiona when the man selfishly left her for dead.
108	10	"Things Unseen"	Craig Siebels	Ben Watkins & Craig O'Neill	August 15, 2013	BN710	3.66[17]
For his next solo assignment, after someone starts probing for information about Michael's team, Sonya tells Michael to kill the guy, an international middleman he considers a friend (Sebastian Roché). To Michael's surprise, Strong gives him the go-ahead in order to preserve his cover, and, after Michael completes the mission, Sonya consoles him by saying he was a legitimate threat whose execution is justified by James' endgame. At the same time, Fiona's boyfriend learns that a drug dealer he helped imprison is now free and looking for blood, so, to avoid being spotted, he asks Fiona and the guys to track down a secretive witness from his old neighborhood who can help put the man back behind bars. After Fiona's beau is captured by his enemy, they turn to Sonya, and her questionable tactics, to liberate him, only to see him tearfully break up with Fiona over Michael's clear influence on her life.
109	11	"Tipping Point"	Scott Peters	Rashad Raisani & Michael Horowitz	August 22, 2013	BN711	3.64[18]
Michael arranges with Strong to have the CIA follow James' crew on a mission in Mexico, and Strong hires mercenaries to secretly help them ambush James' crew to kidnap their leader. In Miami, Fiona helps the effort by keeping an eye on Madeline, but, with James' men at the house, Fiona can't move until he's in CIA custody, except the operation fails. In the chaos, James, Michael and Sonya escape in opposite directions, culminating in Michael's reunion with an old acquaintance, Simon, and the revelation he's been running black ops for the CIA. With the CIA focused on James, the two look to do their part, but Simon's madness causes Michael to kill him, and, once everyone's safe, James blames Sonya. To protect her, Michael blows his cover and lays his life on the line, outlining Simon's influence on why he's now helping them, and James, amid mild dissatisfaction with Michael's confession, lets him live.
110	12	"Sea Change"	Stephen Surjik	Ryan Johnson & Peter Lalayanis	September 5, 2013	BN712	3.79[19]
To assuage doubts about his authenticity and commitment to their mission, Michael expresses no desire for his Miami life and makes a deal with James: to keep his friends and family out of jail, he'll take over James' organization with Sonya after giving him up to the CIA, working to undermine them as a triple agent. As things unfold, his friends become convinced he's now working for the enemy and plot to get him out of the country immediately, along with Madeline, but Michael and Sam come to blows when he sees their trap and they can't agree on if he's made the right choice in James. Despite Sam's warning, Michael regroups with Sonya to plan James' capture, while Sam and the team follow them to the handoff site, determined to save Michael from himself. James is bearing down in his helicopter when Fiona comes up to the roof, resolved to get "the old Michael" back even if it ruins the operation, and, with Sonya pressing, the screen goes black with a gunshot from a Mexican standoff.
111	13	"Reckoning"	Matt Nix	Matt Nix	September 12, 2013	BN713	4.97[20]
Following Sonya's death, Michael and his team flee from both law enforcement and James' organization, with taking him down their only option, so Jesse helps Madeline and young Charlie evade James' security, while the rest of the team kidnaps an engineer (Guest Star: Alan Ruck) who helped James secure information in a satellite up-link facility. As James threatens everyone, Madeline sacrifices herself by detonating the safe house while inside with intruders, allowing Michael's team to grab the hard drive for the CIA and take down James and his men despite diminishing resources. Mortally wounded, James blows the facility with a dead man switch, presumably killing Michael and Fiona. Some time after, Sam and Jesse take the hard drive to Strong, and, once its information pays off, Strong gives them a pass on their crimes while rewarding Michael with his CIA star. They decide to continue Michael's work helping people with tough problems, but they are aware that Michael and Fiona have survived and gone off the grid (perhaps somewhere in Ireland) with Charlie. There, they plan how to answer Charlie's future questions about their previous life, beginning with: "My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy..."

References

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External links

• Official website
• Burn Notice – list of episodes at IMDb
• List of Burn Notice episodes at TV.com