Burn Notice: Season Six (2012)
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Fall of Sam Axe


Tagline: Spies don't get fired, they get burned.

There's trouble in paradise for former CIA operative Michael Westen and his cohorts, and the streets of Miami are hotter-and deadlier-than ever before in the action-packed, adrenaline-charged sixth season of Burn Notice! In hot pursuit of his old nemesis, Michael must take down Anson Fullerton and find a way to free Fiona from prison, where she is being targeted by a murderous foe. Michael goes full force to save Fiona as he takes on cold-blooded assassins, diabolical drug cartels, uneasy alliances, and explosive danger at every turn, until an unthinkable tragedy leaves him reeling and rocks his team to the very core.

The sixth season, consisting of 18 episodes, begins with Fiona's arrest. Michael does work for the CIA agent who trained him, Tom Card, to gain visitation rights to Fiona and eventually have her released. He is also working with Pearce, trying to track down Anson. The team finally captures Anson with the help of Nate, but shortly after the CIA arrives, a gunshot from an unseen location kills both Anson and Nate. Fiona is released from prison and helps Michael in his search for the man who killed his brother. They eventually learn that the killer's name is Tyler Gray, and Card sanctions an off-the-books operation in Panama to take him down. However, when Michael finally captures him, Gray reveals that the operation is a sham: Card hired Gray to kill Anson and is planning a move that will kill Michael and his team. They escape, and Michael eventually confronts and kills Card, making every member of his team, as well as Maddie, targets in a CIA manhunt headed by Olivia Riley. They consider escaping the country, but, while trying to gain leverage on Riley, they discover she has been working with a drug cartel in order to bring Michael down. Michael gets in contact with Jason Bly to help get evidence for Riley's treason, but their mission fails and Bly is killed. Michael eventually forces a confession from Riley while on a boat under fire from the Coast Guard. Sam, Fiona, Jesse and Madeline spend about a month locked up, and when released, they find that Michael "made a deal" once more in return for his family and friends being freed from lifetime imprisonment. Fiona feels betrayed, reminding Michael he promised it would just be the two of them after this was all over. She backs away and tells Michael to leave her alone.


Disc One: (2:51) --- Scorched Earth - Mixed Messages - Last Rites - Under the Gun
Disc Two: (3:35) --- Split Decision - Shock Wave - Reunion - Unchained - Official Business
Disc Three: (3:35) --- Desperate Times - Desperate Measures - Means & Ends - Over the Line - Down & Out
Disc Four: (2:51) --- Best Laid Plans - Odd Man Out - You Can Run - Game Change


6.01 Scorched Earth - Michael looks all over Miami for Anson, but does not have very much time to find him. An old nemesis, Agent Bly (Alex Carter), interrogates Fiona after she is arrested. Bly tries to get Fiona to give up information on Michael's involvement by saying he died in a truck explosion. Fiona sees through the deception and stays with her story that she acted alone at the British consulate. Michael, Sam and Pearce corner Anson at a chemical plant. As Michael is about to bring him in, Anson reveals a dead-man switch that will trigger a bomb in the plant, and Michael allows him to escape. Michael warns the others, who make for the exits. Pearce and a colleague make it out in time, but Sam stays behind to free a hostage that Anson had chained to a pole. After the plant explodes, several seconds pass before it is revealed that Sam and the hostage got out alive. Meanwhile, Jesse and Madeline deal with a paranoid Army Ranger patient of Anson's, whom the latter sent to Madeline's home in order to buy time. Pearce alerts every major agency about Anson, putting him on every watchlist.

6.02 Mixed Messages - To gain visitation rights, Michael offers his services to the CIA Agent who trained him personally: Tom Card (John C. McGinley). A fellow incarceree gang leader goes after Fiona because she disrespected her. Michael gets Jesse to sell a cover as a corrupt DEA Agent wanting a piece of the action of a cartel drug moving shipment. In the end, Jesse gets the second in command of the cartel to become a cooperating witness and ring in a major bust to the cartel. This huge a victory allows Michael to see Fiona. While the others took down a cartel, Fiona fights and overpowers the cellblock queen D.B. during a fire in the cellblock earning respect in prison. Afterwards, Fiona is washing dishes with a new friend. This friendship is shortlived as she tries to drown Fiona, but fails and Fiona learns that the girl was ordered to kill Fiona or the girl's sister would die.

6.03 Last Rites - Having learned that she has been targeted for murder, Fiona attempts to learn her would-be assassin's name. She befriends Ayn, who supplies black market goods to the prisoners. Ayn wants Fiona to arrange for the guards to be locked out of the cell block in order to knock her new competitor out of commission. Fiona does so after creating a makeshift explosive device. Meanwhile, Pearce gets Michael's team to help her take down the man who killed her fiancé years ago. The man, CIA asset Ahmed Damour, has a hard drive full of MacGuffins that protect him. Michael, Jesse, and Pearce accompany Ahmed on his vacation cruise, dose him with a drug that replicates the symptoms of meningitis, and quarantine him. Sam, Maddie, and Nate go to Ahmed's home, convince his son Sharif that he is in danger of infection, and find the MacGuffin hard drive, rendering Ahmed useless. Michael visits Fiona in prison, where he learns the name of a guard trying to kill her.

6.04 Under the Gun - Michael, Sam and Jesse head to the Everglades to track the guard trying to kill Fiona in prison, but find the man dead at the hands of Rebecca (Kristanna Loken), the burned CIA agent now on Anson's payroll. Rebecca takes Sam as a hostage, forcing Sam to creatively get a message back to Michael and Jesse, who eventually rescue him. In the end, Rebecca reveals she has only been following Anson's orders to keep her brother alive, and she becomes an ally for the team. Meanwhile in prison, Fiona has to do another favor for Ayn in order to get two inmates who are trying to shiv her thrown into solitary confinement. This involves retrieving a special package on the outside for Ayn, but with Michael and the team gone, Fiona can only call on Maddie.

6.05 Split Decision - Tom Card offers Fiona a deal to become a CIA asset, which will get her out of prison and protect her from extradition, in exchange for helping the Agency bring down her old arms dealer, Greyson Miller (Wayne LeGette). Before he can carry out Card's mission, Michael must first protect Rebecca's criminal brother, Trent, from a mob boss who believes Trent is responsible for his father dying in prison. Through an elaborate ruse, Michael manages to convince the mobster that Trent is not the one who sold his father out. Finally, Michael meets with Greyson, who is then captured. However, Fiona remains jailed until Anson is found. Rebecca reveals that she knows where Anson will be in the future.

6.06 Shock Wave - Fiona is about to get released from prison but an agent from MI6 tries to prevent that from happening. In the wake of Greyson Miller's arrest, his "cleaners" come after Barry, causing Sam and Barry to get trapped in a beach house. Despite Barry suffering multiple gunshot wounds, Barry and Sam escape the beach house alive. Michael, Jesse, Pearce and Nate travel to Atlantic City to capture Anson. Michael and his team stake out in a motel room and Nate almost blows their cover twice. Michael, in anger, tells Nate to leave Atlantic City so he will no longer be a threat to the operation. Nate, now separated from the group, sadly prepares to leave Atlantic City when he receives a call from Michael saying that Nate is closer (in distance) to Anson than the rest of the team. Nate in response, locates Anson, confronts him (against Michael's orders), and incapacitates him. Nate then proceeds to hold Anson at gun point (while standing behind Anson) and takes him outside. Michael, Jesse, Pearce and the rest of the team then show up on the scene and prepare to arrest Anson. Michael, Jesse and Pearce began to walk towards Anson and Nate when an unknown assailant fires one bullet from a sniper rifle at Anson's chest. The bullet penetrates through Anson's chest and goes straight into Nate's body. Anson is killed instantly while Nate dies moments later in Michael's arms as Pearce, Jesse and several pedestrians who heard the gunshot look on. Michael returns to Miami where he informs Madeline about Nate's death, causing Maddie to immediately break down. Later that day, Fiona is released from prison and Michael and Fiona hug. Michael tells Fiona, who did not know about Nate's death, that he needs her more than ever.

6.07 Reunion - Sam agrees to help Evan, the son of his girlfriend Elsa, when he falls into trouble with a ruthless loan shark. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona reconnect as they search for the person whom Michael believes sabotaged his last mission, and they discover that Rebecca has gone on the run. But with Michael hell-bent on avenging Nate's death, he must look past his emotions to get to the truth.

6.08 Unchained - Teaming up with Sam and Fiona, Michael intentionally gets arrested in order to help an FBI agent take down a vicious Boston mobster, in exchange for which Michael receives sealed FBI information on Nate's death. Jesse and Pearce follow up on the gun sale that put the weapon in the hands of Nate's murderer, but run into danger. Having circumvented CIA procedures in this operation, which includes using blackmail, Pearce gets reassigned to Mumbai and has to bid farewell to Michael and the team.

6.09 Official Business - In her first assignment as an official CIA asset, Fiona has to break into a heavily guarded safe to help out another CIA asset who has been investigating a businessman with possible black market connections. Meanwhile, to track the sniper who killed Nate, Jesse and Sam pose as clients to a security firm that trains an army of mercenaries. It turns out the man they are looking for was training "off the books." However, the sniper kills the security firm's boss after he gives Michael a name: Tyler Gray.

6.10 Desperate Times - The team tracks Tyler Gray (Kenny Johnson) to Panama, where they meet up with Brady Pressman (Chad Coleman), the CIA agent who was in charge of the botched attempt to capture Anson Fullerton. The group fights through Gray's hired guns to bring him to justice for Nate's murder. Meanwhile, Madeline confronts Tom Card and blackmails him into showing her the file for the operation that got Nate killed. Gray is later captured alive by Michael, but reveals that Card set up the entire operation to be a suicide mission for Michael and the team. With Brady sacrificing himself, the team narrowly escapes an F-18 sent to kill them. Card is told that everything has been "taken care of" and believes everyone involved to be dead. The group is left stuck in Panama, out of resources, and wondering what their next move should be.

6.11 Desperate Measures - To get out of Panama, the team must hijack a plane, which puts them in the crosshairs of a vicious drug runner. Michael is forced to trust Tyler Gray, the man who shot Nate, in order to escape. Meanwhile, to hide the flight from Card and the FAA, Michael contacts Madeline and asks her to seek the help of a computer hacker.

6.12 Means & Ends - While trying to hide from Card, Fiona and Sam agree to help Ayn, Fi's old prison mate, when she reveals she is the target of a dirty cop. Meanwhile, after Gray convinces Card that Michael and the team have been eliminated, Card asks him to dig up any info Michael may have had on the Anson operation and then torch Michael's loft. This allows Michael to feed misleading information to Card, before eventually confronting him. Card shoots Gray in front of Michael, and leaves Michael to make a split-second decision that will put the entire team in danger.

6.13 Over the Line - Having killed Tom Card and with CIA agents surrounding the building, Michael manages an uneasy escape. Sam remains behind, hoping to divert the task force and buy Michael time to escape. He plans to leave in the confusion but is recognized and arrested by the head of the task force, Agent Olivia Riley (Sonja Sohn). Michael, Fiona and Jesse go on the run and, after evading the road blocks and pursuit vehicles they reach their storage shed to resupply. They set up an ambush to rescue Sam, and eventually succeed, also taking Riley as a hostage. Michael explains to Riley what really happened, then releases her, despite Riley threatening to hunt the team down. Michael then visits his mother who decides to remain in Miami, even after Michael warns her that the CIA will come for her.

6.14 Down & Out - As Michael suspected, Riley and the CIA attempt to go through Madeline to locate his whereabouts; after Sam realizes the team's hideout has been discovered, he tries to make a deal with smuggler Colin Schmidt, who promises he can get them out of the country undetected. But in order to get Schmidt's help, Michael has to allow himself to be captured by a Syrian intelligence officer who has a grudge against Schmidt. Sam is angry at Michael for causing him to abandon his girlfriend, Elsa, and he considers staying in Miami rather than flee the country with Michael.

6.15 Best Laid Plans - Sam visits Elsa, who talks him into escaping with the team, despite knowing that she will be interrogated by the CIA. Schmidt says he can still get foolproof passports for the team, but learns from his supplier that the price has gone way up. This forces the team to recover a high-tech alarm-disarming gadget that Schmidt says he can instantly sell to a client named Thorne for $1 million. The recovery doesn't go smoothly, and the device is shot up in the team's escape, forcing them to make convincing-but-cosmetic repairs and try to sell it anyway. Meanwhile, Michael needs to deceive Agent Riley as to the team's true escape plans, so he has Maddie meet with Barry Burkowski to give him information on making bogus money transfers. Barry is arrested by Riley's men and Maddie tells Michael that she will be arrested too. Michael tells Maddie to escape the country with him.

6.16 Odd Man Out - The team gets its needed passports, but the necessary microchip implants have to be supplied by a rival smuggler, Vanek, who wants revenge against Schmidt for costing him millions in a past deal. Michael, Schmidt, Fiona and Sam seek refuge in an abandoned warehouse when Vanek's team comes gunning for Schmidt. Survival becomes a challenge, with supplies running low and the exits blocked, so Michael has to do some improvising to salvage the situation. Meanwhile, Jesse is trying to protect Maddie, but she insists on going to visit Nate's grave one more time before leaving the country. After visiting Nate's grave one last time, Michael uncovers a message in a bundle of flowers at the grave from "A Friend", which provides a phone number if Michael needs help.

6.17 You Can Run - Michael has agreed to meet Agent Bly ("a friend"), who says he now has evidence of Card's transgressions, and offers a deal. Michael doesn't like the deal, and instead chooses to make a last-ditch effort to get himself and his team out of the country. This is thwarted when Riley and a CIA team track Michael, Sam and Jesse to their rendezvous point. In the melee, Jesse is captured and Sam is shot. Michael escapes with an incapacitated agent and a badly wounded Sam. They call on Fiona's EMT ex-boyfriend, who reluctantly helps patch up Sam, but tells them that Sam needs proper surgery as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Jesse is being beaten and interrogated by Riley's team, to no avail. Back at the house, Michael leaves his captive alone in a room, knowing he'll try to fashion a phone to contact Riley. When he does, Michael and Fiona are able to trace the call and get the location of the building where Jesse is being held. After nerve-gassing the building, Michael manages to get Jesse out.

6.18 Game Change - Despite the best efforts of Fiona's EMT friend, Sam is getting worse. The team takes him to the home of a recently unlicensed doctor, who is none too pleased but manages to save Sam. As the team spends the night at the doctor's house, assassins sent by Riley storm the home. After the team thwarts the raid, Michael identifies the assassins as members of a drug cartel with a vendetta against him resulting from a previous CIA mission. Michael contacts Bly to tail Riley to a meeting with the cartel kingpin at a marina. However, a cartel member (disguised as marina security) blows up Bly's car, killing him and destroying the evidence they collected on Riley. Michael desperately boards the cartel leader's yacht, incapacitates the leader, and tells Riley at gunpoint that approaching Coast Guard vessels are there because he called them. Riley agrees to confess after the Coast Guard threatens to sink their ship. Later, Fiona, Madeline, Sam and Jesse are released from their prison cells and meet with a sharply dressed Michael, who is giving out orders to other agents. Michael reveals he made a deal to get them all freed, using his favorite line, "I did what I had to do." However, Fiona turns away disgustedly, reminding him of his promise to quit when this was all over, and telling him "you did what you wanted to do".

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