![]() I'm a spy" resurfaced as something much more meaningful. That's as satisfying as it can possibly be."īurn Notice's last hour featured many fond references back to the show's history, such as Sam calling spies "a bunch of b-y little girls." But it was in the final moments of the episode, when Charlie was asleep in Michael's lap, that Michael's famous introduction, "My name is Michael Westen. You really want to see them come together. "By the end of the series, that is really what you're looking for. ![]() "It was really important to me that Michael and Fiona ended up together," Nix says. ![]() ![]() But the episode's final moments revealed that, in true Burn Notice fashion, the lovebirds faked their deaths and ran away to live a quiet life raising Charlie as their own. Sam and Jesse even attended Michael's funeral. "In a series that has often been about Michael coming in and saving the day, I also thought it was important to have the finale really be about everybody has to come together and save Michael in a way," Nix says.Īt first, it looked like Michael and Fiona were goners too following a huge explosion. After Madeline went out in a blaze of glory - literally - Jesse was able to get away safely with Charlie, and Sam ( Bruce Campbell) was able to recover the drives containing information about James' network and bring it to the CIA. "Madeline is the emotional core of the series."įortunately, viewers didn't have to keep the Kleenex handy for too long. The concern that's been building over seven years in her mind of was she a coward when her children were young and what's the consequence of that? Her growing in strength over the course of the series," Nix says. Madeline's feelings of failure around both of her sons. "We've been laying the seeds and the groundwork for that for quite some time," Nix says of Madeline's tragic end.Īfter fans endured weeks of teases about a big death in the finale, why was Madeline the one to go? Nix points to several factors: "This theme of Michael's skills having come from Madeline. Knowing Michael had only so many options, Madeline made the ultimate sacrifice for her son and blew herself up in her house when it was raided by James' men. James felt betrayed, and the CIA had no way of getting the information they needed about James' terrorist organization.Ī desperate Michael turned to desperate measures to find James, but James threatened to kill Jesse ( Coby Bell), Madeline ( Sharon Gless) and her grandson Charlie if Michael didn't do as he demanded. After picking Fiona ( Gabrielle Anwar) over Sonya ( Alona Tal) and scaring off James ( John Pyper-Ferguson), Michael seemed to find himself between a rock and a hard place. There were plenty of car chases, fist fights and explosions, natch, but there were also a few tears on Thursday's series finale. "That's much harder for Michael Westen than facing any sort of adversary - him dealing with the idea that he has failed people and betrayed them, that he's disappointed himself and all the people that depend on him." "It's this feeling that Michael has that he's failed everyone," creator and executive producer Matt Nix tells. In the final chapter of Burn Notice, Michael Westen ( Jeffrey Donovan) faced his biggest enemy of all: himself. ![]()
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