While investigating who burned him, Michael makes a living as a freelance troubleshooter and P. The series benefitted from a solid cast, well-written dialogue and slick action. The show was also unique for Michael's near-constant narration, where he seemed to directly address viewers about what was happening or how he was pulling off another seemingly impossible task. Burn Notice ran for seven seasons, with its final scene appearing to answer the mystery of just who the hell Michael was talking to the whole time.
While he eventually cleared his name and even got back in the CIA's good books, the first couple of seasons focused on the central mystery of why was Michael Westen burned in the first place and by whom? Burn Notice season 2 revolved around Mike's conflict with Carla Baxter Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica who works for a mystery organization, and its revealed she burned him specifically so they could recruit Michael to their cause. Then the season was being reworked and they decided to kill Frank offscreen.
Did you have thoughts about who would be the one to do it and did you ever guess it would be Doug? I definitely had thoughts about how they were going to do it. We were all talking so often. Robin, the writers and myself, we were all collaborating.
Dedicated enough that he would kill him. There are many signs throughout the season that can be viewed with a renewed lens once you know Doug is the one who killed Frank. We may have even decided that day. And that was so much fun to play with her. I think she knew pretty soon thereafter it happened. I prefer watching this showdown between Doug and Claire. Claire and Frank already had their face-off in season five — and Frank lost. For me, personally, you lose a friend, a co-star.
Those guys are incredible writers and to get to say those words is a great honor. Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson made a deliberate choice to have Frank haunt the final season. I spoke to them about it and they explained why they wanted him to be felt, but not seen or heard. How did that choice make sense to you? On one hand, it was a tool for Doug.
For me, it became this incredibly compelling story to tell for Doug, to have that be his driving force. He always has to have something to obsess about and pour 1, percent of his body into. It was not an easy task, by any means, as an actor, but it was an easy thing for me to wrap my head around, that Doug would again funnel everything into one thing and navigating that with all of the other characters. Having to pull that through line through it all. It does feel that even if all the other characters moved on, Doug would never.
If you think back to the beginning of the season, here is a guy whose whole life has been that. And now that is gone. And to have everything unravel. At the beginning of the season, you really find a man who is so incredibly lost. Jumping to the last scene and his death: After playing Doug for six seasons, how do you feel about the final card he was dealt? I think it was beautiful, in a way. We know Doug Stamper. That was it. You saw his family, his brother and family, come once and he spoke to him for a minute or two every now and then.
But his life was Frank and his life was work. And when both of those were gone, it was, to me, this beautiful moment. Once he drew blood from Claire, there was no walking out of that Oval Office without walking straight into a prison. He was never going to get another job in D. EW: You mentioned that in the finale we see Michael and Fiona and Charlie off somewhere at the very end.
NIX: It is certainly like Ireland. It is probably Ireland, yes. EW: Did you ever consider having Fiona going back to her Irish accent that we saw her with at the start of the series, or would that have been too jarring for the audience? The idea is they to some extent have left that behind. Was it your idea to come full circle and give that little nod?
NIX: If you go through the episode, everybody gets a nod like that, with saying their little lines from the intro at the top of the episode. So if you look closely, Madeline has her moments where she echoes her lines, Michael has his, Jesse has his, Fiona has hers. EW: Tell me what it was like personally filming this final installment. Seven seasons is a long time. One nice thing about ending a series is it takes so long to make an episode that you do have a lot of opportunities to say goodbye and people give a lot of speeches.
EW: Is Burn Notice really gone? To me, this feels like a franchise that could pump out a TV movie from time to time, like The Fall of Sam Axe one that you already did.
NIX: I would love to do that. I totally think it could. So yeah, if we could get something like that going, I would love to do it. It would have to be something that made sense dramatically. Save FB Tweet More.
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