The burn notice wasn’t lifted. The evil organization just said that they’d stop trying to get him to join them (but also stop keeping his existence secret from his enemies.)
The CIA/US government still thinks that Michael was selling secrets to foreign nations.
It was lifted? I thought he just met “Management” and they were keeping him burned to work for them.
So there’s two sooper-sekrit organizations, Michael’s and the burn notice one, and the burn notice one is still trying to grab him, hoping that as his life goes downhill he’ll switch to them?
He didn’t know they were protecting him after he got burned. He wants to go back to being a spy/special ops dude, so he told Fraser’s dad to take a leap and jumped out of the helicopter.
I think I read someone (Sampiro?) surmise that Jeffrey Donovan might be gay. (Not that I care either way) but that niggles in the back of my head every time I see Michael turn down lunch with a very nicely dressed Fiona and a MichaelHeartsDiego user name on E-bay. It provides an interesting undercurrent to the show.
We were on vacation, so we had to play catch up on this one and the episode with the guy from ER and the guy from NYPD Blue. I liked that episode, especially with the takeout of the bad guys in the meth lab and Michael getting Paxson off his back for awhile.
Perha[s that comes from part of the storyline in [Touching Evil](Touching Evil (TV Series 2004) - IMDb), where Donovan’s character Creeger befriends a crazy guy.
Creeger died from a gunshot wound and was resuscitated. He was pretty much nuts. I really liked that show, and it was killed after twelve episodes.
That was cool.
And no Detective WhatsHerName.
Memo to self: Do not piss of Mike’s Mama.
Madeline is a great character. I liked her line to Sam: Remember you sleep in my guest room. I could smother you in your sleep.
And Sam was scared.
I still say she is Jewish. “I found my son. Are you going to go get him, or do I have to do that too?”
Did the gangster’s guys kill the Rooskies, or just turn them over to the Rooskie mobster to be killed?
Yeah, I’m still catching up as well…I have to think Paxson is going to be gone for only a little while and frankly I was a little surprised that she even took the bait, so to speak, and left him alone at all. I guess he did do a huge favor for her after all.
Michael is trying to get back into the CIA. The other organization, the one that burned him, was a private espionage outfit.
She’s quite obviously Irish.
I’m just a teeny bit scared it is going to turn out that she’s been running the show all along and is also a spy of some sort.
I have faith they won’t go there but see some groundwork if they wanted to. (Series finale: she burned him just so he’d be home more often).
That she and/or Fiona is the originator is the most likely from a motive standpoint, to be certain. However, the creators of the series have a greater motive to have Michael stuck with his mom and Fiona, so it’s more likely that it was serendipity for mom and Fi.
More proof of Jewishness. You couldn’t have time to visit your Mother already?
That would be the lamest explanation they could possibly conceive of. It’d put the ending of the show up there with Battlestar Galactica as one of the worst payoffs in the history of television.
My thought, too.
Eh, you know detectives, a bunch of bitchy little girls.
Is there anyone but me that is tired of watching Michael turn down money and yet always seem to have plentiful operating capital? Fiona talks about him borrowing money from her and yet we’ve seen his antics blow her business as well.
I love Burn Notice but I really hate the trope that good guys don’t take money.
Plus, Fiona is a doormat.
I still like the show, though.
He doesn’t always turn down the money - early on he took quite a bit (IIRC) from his clients - he obvioulsy turns down money from people he doesnt want to work with, or in cases where taking that money would imply a relationship that could keep him out of his goal.
Plus, a diet of yogurt isnt that expensive, its Sam’s Mohito budget that’s breaking him.
Fiona’s the obvious “in league with the folks that burned him” - how did she know to find him in Miami at taht hotel? Was she his emergency contact or somethng? Is there a phone tree? Mike’s been burned, call Fiona, Fiona, call his mom…