Michael Westen quotes from Burn Notice

Fiona

Hoping to scare off that lone-shark with your shirt?!

Michael

It's part of the Nate Westen collection. It won't get into my regular rotation, I promise.

Fiona

I should hope not.

Michael

We rip off Carmelo and leave Sam behind as a witness to the heist. He questions him. [to Sam] You steer him towards the Serbs. We play it right he hunts for his heroin and finds our drone instead.

Fiona

And if we don't play it right, we find out if Sam is bulletproof.

Michael

We're going on a boat ride with this guy? I thought it was just lunch.

Madeline

This guy's name is Ben. And it's not just any boat. It's the new glass-bottom boat that they're running out of Coconut Grove.

Fiona

Go easy on him, Madeline. He still doesn't know that some couples do things besides fight multinational conspiracies.

Fiona

How was your mission?

Michael

It was rough. I mean, it worked out.

Fiona

But you can't talk about it. Whatever. [slides a piece of paper his way] The lead on your bomber.

Michael

How did the job go?

Fiona

Does it matter? You got what you needed.

Michael

Fi, did something happen with Armand?

Fiona

Oh, now you're full of questions. A lot happened with Armand, years ago back in Ireland in the bad old days.

Michael

Were you and he --

Fiona

Yes, we were, Michael. Until I found out that he had paid to meet me by doing a favor for some of my associates. He killed a British customs agent, if you're curious. Quite a romantic gesture, don't you think?

Michael

I didn't know that, Fiona.

Fiona

No, you didn't. Ignorance is bliss.

Fiona

Do you know what kind of girlfriend drives all the way to Tallahassee to search a crusty old man's equally crusty apartment?

Michael

A good girlfriend!

Fiona

A great girlfriend. The kind of girlfriend that deserves dinner at The Forge.

Michael

Point taken. How about two dinners?

Fiona

[twirls in her new dress] How does the discretionary fund look?

Michael

Expensive.

Michael

Shall we tango?

Fiona

Let's.

Michael

Can I lead?

Fiona

Fine. Just this once.

Michael

They got you too?

Fiona

[lifts handcuffed wrists] Picked me up at the bridge. I heard what was going on and asked if I could say goodbye in case --

Michael

Hey, an hour ago I was on my way to jail for the rest of my life. How much worse is this really?

Fiona

The man is ruthless! He killed one of his own people to avoid capture. You won't even have a gun!

Michael

The only way I'm going to get out of this is if I get Tavian to talk. I can't ask anyone else to risk their life for this.

Fiona

Michael, come back to me.

Fiona

Forget it. I don't think you should do anything for that parasite.

Michael

I don't think I have a choice.

Fiona

Of course you have a choice! You can say no. You can tell the C.I.A. all about Anson and --

Michael

And watch you go to jail for the rest of your life for something you didn't do? I can't do that, Fi.

Michael

Well, Oswald sure knows how to stay protected. I count four armed guards covering just the rear of the compound.

Fiona

Michael, are you sure you want to do this now? We could wait and see what Sam and Jesse find. I mean, if I'm past saving, what's the point?

Michael

We have to assume we can get you out of this.

Fiona

What if we can't?

Michael

I've been past saving before, Fi. You didn't walk away and I'm not going to.

Fiona

Well, that's terribly romantic, Michael, but we don't have the numbers or the firepower to get past those guards.

Michael

Maybe we can get around them. If you set a diversion out front, I can make an approach from the water, grab Oswald before anyone knows I'm there. Please, Fi.

Fiona

Don't look at me like that! It's unsettling when you're that sincere! Fine, yes! I'll get the guns. [walks away in a huff]

Fiona

I should disappear. You'll be able to bring Anson down.

Michael

And you'd keep running for the rest of your life. Not after all this. I am not losing you, Fi.

Michael

What do you want? What do you want me to say, Fi? I'm doing this for you.

Fiona

Stop. Just stop. There has to be a line.

Michael

There is no line when it comes to you!

Fiona

I can't do this anymore. We can't do this. Let's just go. We'll go to the FBI, and I'll turn myself in. I'll make them understand.

Michael

They won't understand us. We start down that road, we can't come back. And I'll lose you. And I can't lose you.

Sam

There you are. I've been looking all over for you. Is Fi --

Michael

I was too late, Sam.

Sam

Look, Mike, you can't blame yourself. I mean, there was nothing you could do. It wasn't like any of us could stop her.

Michael

And what about you, Sam?

Sam

What are you talking about?

Michael

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Sam

No -- I don't.

Michael

You expect me to believe she knocked you out. How is that possible? [grabs Sam forcibly] How is that possible!

Sam

Mike, come on, man. What do you want me to say? Okay. Yeah, yeah, maybe I could have fought her off. That's right. But did it ever occur to you that maybe she was right? You were losing yourself, Mike! You were selling out everything you ever fought for!

Michael

I was fighting for her!

Sam

By burning spies? Mike, you were betraying your friends. You were about to betray your God damned government.

Michael

What do I do now, Sam? What do I do? I've just been fighting for so long, Sam, and she was all I had left.

Sam

Now you're just going to have to fight a little more.

Michael

I need to see Fiona Glenanne.

This is all about your girlfriend? I heard about that situation.

Michael

Trust me, she's innocent.

Look, just do yourself a favor and walk away.

Michael

Not with this. I can't.

Sam

Hate to say it, Mike, but I think your mouth wrote a check that your butt can't cash. I mean, you see the section here where the C.I.A. says Ahmed is untouchable? I think that means, you know, no touching.

Michael

Maybe you missed this page: the C.I.A. doesn't care about Ahmed, they care about the intel. He's got all the files on a hard drive. We find that drive, we turn it over to the C.I.A., they'll wrap him up.

Sam

Yeah, no I definitely saw that page. Just like I saw this one here: the Agency sent a team into his Bermuda compound back in '08 looking for the hard drive. They didn't find it. What makes you think we can?

Michael

Sam, if I don't help Pearce she's going to ruin her career. Without her at the Agency I'll never get Fi out of prison.

Sam

Okay, wait wait. It says here the guy is getting ready to take a cruise. Maybe you isolate him on the boat, make him think that he's sick.

Michael

If he doesn't think that he's going to make it --

Sam

He starts talking.

Michael

And the first person he calls is his son Sharif back in Bermuda. It's perfect, Sam!

Sam

Well, perfect isn't going to work. We don't have the manpower. You've got to have three on the cruise, three on the land side, and if the C.I.A. can't know about this, well they're not going to pitch in.

Michael

I can get you a team.

Sam

[laughs] Who? Nate and your ma? Oh, wow. You're not kidding are you? Look, Mike, nothing against the Westen clan, but I'm going to be real glad when we get Fi out of the clink.