The title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence businesses to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are thought of to have change into unreliable. When spies are burned, they are wiped off the grid, without access to money or influence. According to the narration throughout the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work historical past, no money; in essence, no identity. The tv sequence is a first-person narrative (including frequent voice-overs providing exposition) from the point of view of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, performed by Jeffrey Donovan.
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After fleeing a Nigerian operation blown aside by the sudden and unexplained non-cooperation of his U.S. contact, Westen finds himself in his hometown of Miami, Florida, attended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, however abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts, under steady surveillance with his personal property frozen. Extraordinary efforts to reach his U.S. authorities handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that somebody powerful needs him “on ice” in Miami; if he leaves town he will be hunted down and taken into custody, whereas by staying there he can remain relatively free. Consumed by the desire to seek out out why he has been burned, and by whom, Westen goes to work as an unlicensed personal investigator, spy, or soldier of fortune for anyone on the town who can pay him any money so as to fund his personal investigation into his personal situation as a blacklisted agent. The series juggles these two narratives, with the overall sequence dealing with why Michael was burned and individual episodes focusing on the instances he works for clients. Though reluctant to get involved within the problems of others, Westen invariably ends up serving to people unrelated to his private investigation in nearly each single episode.
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All through the series Westen battles and outwits an array of mobsters, con artists, contract killers, professional thieves, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, deadbeat dads, arms dealers, kidnappers and war criminals. The series makes frequent use of jury rigging, with the characters improvising units to do the job of more expensive, harder-to-receive items.
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