BURN NOTICE SEASON 1 SERIES
But when you start doing that for series regulars, you say, "And that's a series wrap on Mr. And you just keep going through, and where it really hits you is when you wrap an actor on an episode one of the ADs will say, "That's an episode wrap on such and such a guest actor" or whatever. It was the last day in the writers' room that I was like oh well we just finished breaking the finale so I guess that's the last writers' room, and that's the last time I wrote an outline and that's the last time I wrote a script. When it hit me really was when I was alone in my office and I wrote "End of series" on the outline. NIX: It's funny, the weirdest thing about doing a final episode of television is there are so many lasts. And so the question has been, can he have both? And I think it was important to me that that not be a question that's answered trivially-that we don't just go, "Oh yeah it turns out he can have both, ha-ha great!' He's reconnected with them, he's resolved some family issues, all of those things, but it's also put all of them at risk. Having these connections and bringing these people into this world has had great consequences. It's something he's said explicitly to Fiona, and that's a price he's paid before when his brother died. It was really more in thinking what has this season been about? What has this series been about? This question of Michael's relationship to his family-why has he been disconnected from his family? Why has he been a guy who doesn't have a lot of friends? What is that about? What does that mean? A big part of it has been he's always been aware the closer you are to people the more that can be used against you and the less freedom you have as a spy. NIX: It certainly wasn't "let's kill a character". And Fiona sort of represents the person that he actually is and that he has actually become over the course of the seven seasons, which is somebody who really does have a family and friends and personal connections that he can't leave behind casually.
BURN NOTICE SEASON 1 PROFESSIONAL
Sonya is basically this path of the professional Michael, the person who for seven seasons he has thought he wanted to be. So that choice is in some sense a choice between two women that he has grown to care about, but on a deeper level, it's a choice between two paths.
BURN NOTICE SEASON 1 FREE
That choice has always been present in the series from the very beginning, he's really struggled with the question of does he want to be with Fiona? Not because there's a question of whether he loves her, because obviously, he does, but really, it's more a question of is he somebody who wants to love anybody? Is he somebody who wants to have those personal connections, or is he somebody who wants to be free to be an operative? The best spy is not somebody who's tied to family and people he cares about and people who can be used against him and all of that.
NIX: I think he absolutely needed that moment to snap him back. James is the guy who pretty much does the same kinds of things that Michael Westen does or wants to do for pretty much the same reasons, so at the end of the day, Michael's not really fighting James this season, Michael's fighting himself, and I think there was no desire on my part to be dark for the sake of being dark, but by giving Michael an antagonist that wasn't just another bad guy, and by making the conflict really about things that were inside of Michael-I think that naturally leads to some darker places and more interesting places to me and to the actors. In fact, the person he's nominally going up against this season is somebody who turns out to basically share his perspective on the world. So this season was about presenting Michael with something new. MATT NIX: There's an element of that, but really what drove this season for me was just this idea that if there's one question we have answered something like 110 times on Burn Notice, it's can Michael Westen defeat a bad guy by being clever and badass? And we kind of did that, right? The answer is yes, Michael Westen can defeat bad guys by being badass and clever.
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