Burn Notice, for those of you without cable, follows the weekly adventures of Michael Westen, a former U.S. intelligence agent. Put on a blacklist (i.e., “burned”) by his employers, Michael got stuck in Miami with very little cash, no job history he can bank on and a globe full of enemies. To make ends meet while figuring out who burned him, and why, Michael helps people whose enemies live above the law. Think A-Team meets Miami Vice with some Bourne Identity thrown in.

Michael relies on the help of two of his most colorful friends – Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar), the ex-IRA assassin whose fondness for Michael matches her love for C-4; and Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a retired FBI agent who prefers socializing with beach bunnies to shooting it out with drug dealers. His mother provides him with equal measures of support and stress, offering him a place to crash but also questioning him about his shady dealings. And Michael leverages favors from law enforcement, the criminal underworld or any of his “clients” to learn more about the show’s overarching mystery: who burned him and why.