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Burn Notice
Series Information:
The 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. The television series is a
first-person narrative (including frequent stream of consciousness
voice-overs providing nuggets of esoteric exposition) from the viewpoint
of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan.
After fleeing a Nigerian operation blown apart by the sudden and
unexplained non-cooperation of his U.S. contact, Westen finds himself in
his hometown of Miami, Florida, USA, attended to by his ex-girlfriend
but abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts, under continuous
surveillance, and 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 the city he will "heat up fast", i.e., he will be hunted down and
taken into custody, whereas by staying there he can remain relatively
free. Consumed by the desire to find out why he's been burned, and by
whom, he goes to work as an unlicensed private investigator and
freelance spy for anyone in town who can pay him any money in order to
fund his personal investigation into his own situation as a blacklisted
agent. For more visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Notice_(TV_series)
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