![]() ![]() But Madeline ( Sharon Gless) is, as always, able to make Michael see things differently, and inspire him.Īnd then there was Max, Michael’s new handler/partner. Jesse was relegated to a small scene at the beginning, when he tried to boost Michael’s spirits – a job for which he’s not well-suited. On the plus side, Michael was much more open about Fi – actually calling her his “girlfriend,” and she was… unreserved in her…ardor to welcome him back from his mission. ![]() And no way can Fiona tolerate being frozen out again. But I can’t see Jesse being happy working private security, or Sam going back to romancing widows for beer money. So, aside from not giving us any sense of storyline, closure, what did the season premiere provide? Well, we’re starting to see hints of the possible new status quo: Michael’s a government man again, leaving Sam and Fi and Jesse ( Colby Bell) on the outside looking in. (Or by someone working for the REAL real guy who burned Michael.) In fact, I am going to predict that Kessler didn’t commit suicide – he was murdered by the REAL real guy who burned Michael. It’s such a non-reveal that it doesn’t even qualify as a denouement, so I am counting on there being more to the story. I know Nix is not above a downer ending, but this just feels too much like a fake-out. I simply cannot believe that when creator Matt Nix kicked off this series back in 2007, he had it in mind that the guy who burned Michael would turn out to be some day-player who never speaks and would die before Michael could get any answers. That wrap-up has got to be a red herring. But before Michael can get his hands on Kessler, the mastermind kills himself, leaving Michael with no answers. And when everything goes pear-shaped for the G-men, Michael has to rely on his improvisational skills to track the baddie. Michael has been teamed with the CIA’s top field operative, Max ( Grant Show), but in order to take down Kessler, Michael insists on using his regular team of Sam ( Bruce Campbell) and Fiona ( Gabrielle Anwar). Now there’s just one name left – the boss, John Kessler – between Michael and his twin goals: learning why he was burned, and getting his credentials back. The new season picks up six months after last season’s finale, which saw Michael ( Jeffrey Donovan) seemingly welcomed back into the CIA by Raines ( Dylan Baker), but we learn that Michael is still being treated as an intelligence asset – not an agent – while he hunts down every name on that secret list that was the central McGuffin of last season. So, when season five opened with the suggestion that Michael could finally be back with the CIA, I was hopeful – but wary of getting burned again. However, every time it looks like the status quo has changed, it just turns out that Michael is even more burned than last time. Over the course of four seasons, the show has threatened to reinvent itself on a regular basis by dangling the identity of the burner or appearing to offer Michael a new job. The premise of BURN NOTICE when it began read like this: Burned spy Michael Weston wants to find out who got him tossed out of the CIA, and then get back in with the agency. ![]()
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