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Burn Notice is an American Action/Comedy series starring Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Campbell and Gabrielle Anwar.
The title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When a spy is burned, they are wiped off the grid, without access to cash or influence. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money; in essence, no identity. The television series is a first-person narrative (including frequent voice-overs providing nuggets of exposition) from the viewpoint of the covert-operations agent Michael Westen.
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[/B][I]Jeffrey Donovanas Michael Westen:[/I] A covert operative who has been [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_notice_%28document%29"]burned[/URL][/I] (identified as an unreliable or dangerous agent) who now finds himself in his hometown of Miami, unable to leave. With his assets frozen, he is forced to live off his wits and any small investigative jobs he can find while he searches for answers about who burned him and why. Highly skilled and extremely clever, he displays his abilities by quickly thinking on his feet, improvising electronic devices from commonly available commercial equipment such as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio"]radios[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellphone"]cellphones[/URL], and by using ordinary items ranging from duct tape or cake frosting in highly unorthodox ways in order to complete a job. He has two [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_belt_%28martial_arts%29"]black belts[/URL] (or as he put it in one episode "thirty years of karate") and is "rated with anything that fires a bullet or holds an edge." He believes that his unhappy childhood, largely at the hands of an abusive father, helped make him into a natural covert operative, but made relationships difficult for him. He presents himself as a cynic hardened by experience, but soon reveals a soft, and sometimes vulnerable, side.
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[B]Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe[/B]: An aging semi-retired intelligence operative and former Navy SEAL. With a low amount of cash-on-hand to his name, Axe spends most of his time sleeping with rich, older Miami women in exchange for food and shelter. He and Westen are old buddies; Sam is also Westen's last, tenuous contact in the official spy community. Sam presents himself as "the guy who knows a guy."
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[B]Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne[/B]: A former IRA operative and Westen's ex-girlfriend. Fiona re-enters Michael's life when he is dumped, half-dead, in Miami, and she decides to stay, quickly making herself valuable to him. Aside from serving as his explosives expert, she provides support to him on his investigations and at times, assists him in missions to find out who burned him. In the pilot episode, she speaks with an Irish accent. In the second episode, she changes to an American accent, along with a change in her style of dress, in an effort to distance herself from her past and blend in, showing her own ability to adapt.
This show is really worth watching, I've seen the two first seasons so far, waiting for the third to be released in Sweden and a fourth is to be made.
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What is Burn Notice?
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Can't watch in Sweden. :argh:
What are the odds? Two Burn Notice threads made 3 hours ago.
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