No one else in the "Burn Notice" cast had the TV pedigree of Sharon Gless when the show began, nor do they now. She rose to fame in the early '80s by playing Detective Christine Cagney on the ...

Michael Westen, a seasoned U.S. spy, is suddenly "burned", i.e. discredited, without any form of procedure. He survives by doing impossible jobs for desperate people in Miami, where his mother lives.