EX-AGENT GOING FOR THE ‘BURN’
Jul 27, 2007 Burn Notice
Life was never like this for James Bond.On the breezy summer series “Burn Notice,” Michael Westen is a spy down on his luck. He’s been “burned,” literally: cut from the ranks by the U.S. government with no prior notice or reason. Jeffrey Donovan, who plays Weston, sums it up succinctly.
“‘Burn Notice’ is an actual term used by government agencies to tell spies that they are no longer affiliated with the government. All their assets have been killed. They are left with no identity, no way to travel and no money. It’s kind of like catching the plague,” he says.
Westen has no place to go to but home Miami where life is anything but a beach. There, he faces familiar nightmares. For starters, there’s his mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless), a hypochondriac, and his ex-girlfriend, an IRA terrorist named Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar). The 11-episode summer series stars Jeffrey Donovan (”Touching Evil”) as spy Michael Westen. He’s just been “burned”: excised from his agency with no prior notice or reason.
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