Burn Notice: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Burn Notice Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Friends and Enemies
Jun 3, 2010
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
Fast Friends
Jun 10, 2010
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
Made Man
Jun 17, 2010
When dangerous mobsters threaten a port worker, Michael takes on the case. With Jesse, Michael also looks for intel on an underground-artillery operation.
Breach of Faith
Jun 24, 2010
A hostage situation at a local bank. Meanwhile, Fiona helps Jesse track down information about a recently deceased weapons runner.
Neighborhood Watch
Jul 1, 2010
A doctor seeks help when drug dealers terrorize his clinic; Michael is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a killer.
Entry Point
Jul 15, 2010
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
Past & Future Tense
Jul 22, 2010
Michael helps an ex-CIA operative who has become a target of Russian spies.
Where There's Smoke
Jul 29, 2010
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.
Center of the Storm
Aug 5, 2010
Michael impersonates a hitman in order to protect the target who is a crucial witness to criminal activity.
Hard Time
Aug 12, 2010
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
Blind Spot
Aug 19, 2010
Michael and team come to the aid of a woman who has her entire life savings wiped out by a sleazy womanizer.
Guilty As Charged
Aug 26, 2010
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
Eyes Open
Nov 11, 2010
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
Hot Property
Nov 18, 2010
Michael must work with an enemy to keep chemical weapons out of the wrong hands.
Brotherly Love
Dec 2, 2010
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.
Dead or Alive
Dec 9, 2010
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
Out of the Fire
Dec 16, 2010
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
Last Stand
Dec 16, 2010
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.