So he dabbles in crime-solving, helping folks in need using Special Ops training and assistance from Sam ( Bruce Campbell), a semiretired colleague, and Fiona ( Gabrielle Anwar), a sultry, ruthless IRA operative - and Michael's ex-girlfriend.Įach episode is like 'Spying for Dummies,' with Michael explaining how to tail a suspect, use a flash grenade, escape from a house when all exits are blocked. (In spyspeak, a 'burn notice' is like a pink slip, but worse.) He's desperate to figure out who 'burned' him and why, but he also needs to pay the rent. Michael, a former agent, is stuck in his hometown of Miami, broke and blacklisted. And Thursday, after nearly a year, Burn Notice returns for a second season (at 9 p.m.), as quirky and clever as ever.

The series, which debuted on the USA Network last summer, was a hit. He's Stephen Colbert with sunglasses, a hot babe sidekick and some combustible homemade thermite powder, outwitting villains with levity as well as pyrotechnics. 'You know, Mercedes makes an SUV now,' he says.

Like in the pilot, when Michael is stuck between two thugs in the back of a Mercedes. 'People run around saying' - he adopts a deep, basso acting voice - ' 'You don't understand! We're up against the hugest organization in the world, and we're all going to die unless we do this thing in the next 42 minutes!' 'īack to regular Matt: 'On Burn Notice, we kinda go in the opposite direction.' 'Those shows (depict) a very dramatic world,' Nix says. 'spy-ish.' He envisioned something un- Alias, a non- 24.

The last thing Nix wanted was for his hero to be, well.

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