Burn Notice (TV Series)

Last Rites (2012)

Jeffrey Donovan: Michael Westen

Quotes 

• Michael Westen : [first lines, voiceover]  In prison, there is no such thing as good attention. It's better to be a number than to be known...

  Warden Mills : [to the guard escorting Fiona]  Take off her restraints.

  Michael Westen : [voiceover]  -because with anonymity comes safety. So whether you're dealing with a fellow inmate, a guard, or the warden herself... the last thing you want is for your name to be on their mind.

• Michael Westen : [voiceover]  When you've been marked for death, hiding is a short-term strategy. It might buy you time, but it won't solve your problem. To do that, you need contact. It means exposing yourself to more potential threats, but it also means having the opportunity to find potential allies.

• Agent Pearce : Thanks for meeting me.

  Jesse Porter : What's going on?

  Agent Pearce : I, uh... I honestly don't know where to start.

  Michael Westen : Why don't you start from the beginning?

  Agent Pearce : I came back from lunch yesterday. There was a message on my phone.

  Anson Fullerton : [voicemail recording]  Agent Pearce, this is Anson Fullerton. You've been making life awfully hard for me lately. Now, I'm sure Michael has filled your head with lies, but I am not the monster he makes me out to be, and to prove it, I'd like to offer you an olive branch. I had a chance to read your personnel file, and I noticed you spent many years trying to find out what happened to Jay Tunberg. I'd like to help.

  [Pearce ends the call and throws her phone onto the table] 

  Jesse Porter : The hell's he talking about?

  Michael Westen : Jay and Pearce were engaged.

  Jesse Porter : Oh. I'm sorry.

  Agent Pearce : [handing Michael a surveillance photo]  This was waiting for me at home. His name is Ahmed Damour. Meet the man who murdered my fiancé.

• Michael Westen : Sam, if I don't help Pearce, she's gonna ruin her career. Without her in the Agency, I'll never get Fi out of prison.

  Sam Axe : Okay, well, wait. Says here the guy's getting ready to take a cruise. Maybe you isolate him on the boat, make him think that he's sick.

  Michael Westen : If he doesn't think he's gonna make it...

  Sam Axe : He's gonna start talking.

  Michael Westen : And the first person he'll call is...

  Michael Westen , Sam Axe : His son, Sharif...

  Michael Westen : ...back in Bermuda. It's perfect, Sam.

  Sam Axe : So perfect it's not gonna work. We don't have the manpower. You got to have three on the cruise, three on the land side. And if the CIA can't know about this, well, they're not gonna pitch in.

  Michael Westen : I can get you a team.

  Sam Axe : [jocularly]  Ohh! Who? Nate and your mom?

  [Michael nods] 

  Sam Axe : Oh, wow. You're not kidding, are you? Look, Mike, nothing against the Westen clan, but I'm gonna be real glad when we get Fi out of the clink.

• Fiona Glenanne : [Speaking at the prison phones]  Now you see why I never wear orange.

  Michael Westen : You look beautiful!

  Michael Westen : I'm gonna get you out. I promise you that. And we're getting close. The CIA...

  Fiona Glenanne : I love you too, Michael. We don't have much time, I don't want to talk about that.

  Michael Westen : Know what I was thinking about the other day? That little dingy bar in Belfast. The Black Sand Pub.

  Fiona Glenanne : You mean where we met.

  Michael Westen : And I made the mistake of asking, "Would you like to dance". And you pulled a snub nose revolver on me.

  Fiona Glenanne : [Nodding and smiling]  That I did! And you said...

  Michael Westen : I assume that means yes!