Michael Westen quotes from Burn Notice

Jesse

Just goes to show. Payback is a...

Michael

Fiona...

Fiona

You should see the other guy.

Fiona

[referring to Michael's prison uniform] That's not a great color on you.

Michael

Great to see you too, Fi.

Fiona

So, you and Jesse are poking Barrett with a stick. Why does the phrase sitting ducks come to mind?

Michael

Jesse and I are pretty well-armed ducks.

Fiona

[smiles] I hope so.

Michael

I just want to find evidence Dennis set the bomb yesterday and turn this mess over to the police.

Sam

I never thought I would hear those words from you.

Michael

I never had to walk around with hole in my clavicle before.

Fiona

[referring to Natalie] I still hate that we're going on this heist with her.

Michael

Fi, we can't always pick our teammates in the field.

Fiona

I am not a spy. I can't pretend someone doesn't make my skin crawl.

Michael

I thought you hated the idea of me working for the government again.

Fiona

Oh, I do. But I want you to have a choice.

Michael

You want me to have the choice, but you want me to choose to turn it down? Either way, don't we end up at the same place?

Fiona

Michael, I hope you're never in a situation where your survival depends on your ability to understand relationships. You'll be dead in seconds.

Michael

[referring to Vaughn] His organization has never faced this kind of exposure before. I imagine he'll marshal all of his forces and send them this way.

Sam

So, the gates of hell will open...

Jesse

The apocalypse will be upon us...

Fiona

And everyone we know and love will be in danger of becoming very dead.

Madeline

So what else is new?

Michael

Everything okay, Fi?

Fiona

We used to talk about where we were going, what we wanted our lives to be. And now the only time we talk about our future is when someone's coming to end it.

Michael

(preparing for his last stand) And for what it's worth, Agent Porter, I'm sorry for what I did to you. I never said it, but I am truly sorry.

Jesse

(embarrassed) Come on, man, just... I signed up to fight the bad guys, right? That's all you were ever doing. So we're in this together. You good with that?

Michael

Yeah, I'm good with that.

Fiona

I want to know what this means in the end. Who wins? 'Cause honestly, I feel, however this turns out, I lose.

Michael

Maybe this isn't your fight, Fi. Just because it's my path doesn't mean it's yours.

Fiona

How was the job?

Michael

The job was good.

Fiona

I missed you.

Michael

Yeah, I got that. I think you broke a rib.

Is this seriously the way you do things?

Michael

When I have to.

How are you still alive?

Michael

That's a good question. [fires three shots] I eat a lot of yogurt.

Fiona

When you got burned, it wasn't just you. These last four years have been hard on all of us.

Michael

I know. I know, and I'm really sorry about that, but we are so close to wrapping this up and then I can move on.

Fiona

I hope you find what you're looking for, Michael. I really do. Then we can all move on.

Michael

I had to upset you. I didn't know how else to do it.

I know. It's just--I hadn't seen that in a long time.

Fiona

Seen what?

Nothing. I'll be alright, I just need a minute.

Fiona

What was she talking about, Michael?

Michael

It's not something I want to talk about right now, Fi.

Sam

He's gonna have to shove you around, maybe tear your shirt a little--

Tear my shirt? Why don't you just hit me?

Michael

I'm not going to hit you, Mom!

Michael, it's not like I've never been hit before.

Michael

[after a long moment] Turn your face away when you feel the impact. It'll distribute the force. But it'll still hurt.

I know.