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Burn Notice: Season 4

18 episodes Premiered Jun 3, 2010 Updated Oct 5, 2026
Previously on Burn Notice

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Burn Notice Season 3.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (15): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Friends and Enemies

Jun 3, 2010 · 45 min

Michael helps Fiona and Sam protect a lawyer against the city's most dangerous biker gang. Meanwhile, he must team up with an unlikely ally to stop a looming terrorist threat... bu

S4·E2 Core

Fast Friends

Jun 10, 2010 · 45 min

Michael meets Jesse, a recently burned counterintelligence agent looking for Michael's help. Michael agrees to help Jesse clear his name, but first must get him out of the crosshai

S4·E3 Core

Made Man

Jun 17, 2010 · 45 min

When dangerous mobsters threaten a port worker, Michael takes on the case. With Jesse, Michael also looks for intel on an underground-artillery operation.

S4·E4 Core

Breach of Faith

Jun 24, 2010 · 45 min

A hostage situation at a local bank. Meanwhile, Fiona helps Jesse track down information about a recently deceased weapons runner.

S4·E5 Core

Neighborhood Watch

Jul 1, 2010 · 45 min

A doctor seeks help when drug dealers terrorize his clinic; Michael is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a killer.

S4·E6 Core

Entry Point

Jul 15, 2010 · 45 min

Sam and Jesse interrogate a captured contract killer in order to find out who ordered a recent assassination. Meanwhile, Michael and Fiona pose as security consultants to stop a no

S4·E7 Core

Past & Future Tense

Jul 22, 2010 · 45 min

Michael helps an ex-CIA operative who has become a target of Russian spies.

S4·E8 Core

Where There's Smoke

Jul 29, 2010 · 45 min

Michael, Sam, and Jesse must try to rescue Fiona when their plan to protect a wealthy business bigwig at his house party go horribly awry.

S4·E9 Core

Center of the Storm

Aug 5, 2010 · 45 min

Michael impersonates a hitman in order to protect the target who is a crucial witness to criminal activity.

S4·E10 Core

Hard Time

Aug 12, 2010 · 45 min

Michael infiltrates a high-security prison in order to protect an inmate (a good friend of Sam’s) who is marked for death by a fellow prisoner

S4·E11 Core

Blind Spot

Aug 19, 2010 · 45 min

Michael and team come to the aid of a woman who has her entire life savings wiped out by a sleazy womanizer.

S4·E12 Core

Guilty As Charged

Aug 26, 2010 · 45 min

Fiona attempts to find Jesse and convince him to meet with Michael. Meanwhile, Michael helps a criminal defense attorney rescue his daughter after she is kidnapped by one of his cl

S4·E13 Core

Eyes Open

Nov 11, 2010 · 45 min

Michael tries to prevent a bombing arranged by a lawyer out for revenge against a local gang. Elsewhere, Michael and Jesse must track down a highly sensitive document that's been s

S4·E14 Core

Hot Property

Nov 18, 2010 · 45 min

Michael must work with an enemy to keep chemical weapons out of the wrong hands.

S4·E15 Core

Brotherly Love

Dec 2, 2010 · 45 min

When Nate gets in over his head tracking down a stolen car filled with a drug kingpin's merchandise, Michael brings back an old alias to save his brother's life.

S4·E16 Core

Dead or Alive

Dec 9, 2010 · 45 min

Sam tries to help a friend who's been deemed a dirty cop clear his name. Elsewhere, Michael plans to meet with Jesse's former handler in order to make sure government documents end

S4·E17 Mytharc

Out of the Fire

Dec 16, 2010 · 45 min

Michael's enemy Brennen and Michael's former friend Larry team up to pressure Michael into killing the individuals on the stolen NOC list. Meanwhile, Sam, Jesse, and Fiona try to

S4·E18 Mytharc

Last Stand

Dec 16, 2010 · 45 min

Michael, Fiona, and Jessie try to keep the NOC list away from Vaughn and his strike team. Meanwhile Sam and Madeline try to convince Congressman Cowley to pass the list higher up.

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