Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 1: Company Man

In this episode Michael is now working alongside his old agency to bring down the people who burned him. Following the trail leads them to the heart of Venezuela.

• Michael Westen has received a burn notice”. Dumped in his hometown of Miami, Florida, he’s been left in the cold with no money, no job and no information. With no job history, cash or credit, he becomes a private eye with the skills he picked up as an intelligence operative. With the help of his old friend, the drinking, womanizing Sam Axe, and his gun-running, trigger-happy ex-girlfriend Fiona, he makes people’s problems go away. Brennan vows to release valuable data; Michael must try to turn the tables. Although still burned, Michael is now working alongside his old agency to bring down the people who burned him. Following the trail leads them to the heart of Venezuela. But when he’s done, Michael’s biggest problem becomes finding out who burned him and trying to get back into the game. Burn Notice is produced by FOX Television Studios in association with Fuse Entertainment and filmed on locations in Miami. The original plot is something like this one! The series 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 spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network in essence, no identity. Watch Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 1: Company Man. Michael Westen, a covert-operations agent in the employ of the U.S. Government, is on an assignment in Nigeria when he suddenly and unexpectedly gets “burned”. He barely escapes with his life and takes the first flight he can out of the country, which dumps him in Miami, Florida; his home town. Michael, after reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Fiona Glenanne, sets out and finds his accounts are frozen by a government code, and his contacts are cut off, but nevertheless tries to reach Dan Siebels, his now-former case officer and handler and friend. After fleeing a blown operation in Nigeria and being kidnapped and beaten, Westen finds himself in his hometown[5] of Miami, Florida. He is tended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, but he has been abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts and is under continuous surveillance with his personal assets frozen. Extraordinary efforts to reach his U.S. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him "on ice" in Miami. If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody; whereas, if he stays, he can remain relatively free. Consumed by the desire to find out why he has been burned, and by whom, Westen is reluctantly drawn into working as an unlicensed private investigator and problem solver for ordinary citizens to fund his personal investigation into his situation as a blacklisted agent.
  Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them. With the occasional assistance and sometimes hindrance of his mother, Madeline, Westen battles an array of such criminal figures as mobsters, con artists, arms traffickers, kidnappers, money launderers, and drug traffickers. At the same time, Michael must follow the trail that leads him to the people responsible for his being burned, and later finding out why.