Burn Notice

Season 5

Company Man

1. J.C. MacKenzie and Dylan Baker each had supporting roles in Steven Bochco's "Murder One."

Bloodlines

1. The Burn Notice crew shows up on Google Street View (Apr 2011 view) at 3236 SW 27th Avenue in Miami. You can see the Google car driving by in the background at 39:31.
2. Takeda has a missing ring finger, supposedly as a self inflicted punishment for failure. However Yakuza members severe their little fingers first as this has the biggest impact on traditional Japanese swordsmanship

Mind Games

1. Sam (Bruce Campbell) describes Carter (Wade Williams) as the "guy who looks like he's made out of scrap metal". Wade Williams previously played a character in a Season 8 episode of The X-Files who was a man who's body was slowly turning in to metal. Bruce Campbell had also appeared in an unrelated previous episode of The X-Files.

No Good Deed

1. When Michael makes a scene to distract the tablet thief he calls Max "James" which could be a nod to James Bond since Michael's opening narration about spies and tuxedos is a subtle reference to the British spy.
2. The actor playing Barry's brother also plays a character named Barry on The Big Bang Theory.

Square One

1. When getting the security tapes from the bodega, Fiona's name is Detective Sharon Stone

Enemy of My Enemy

1. At the end of the episode, when Jacob Starky is collecting the hand gun, the mysterious man in the car delivering the weapon is episode director Jonathan Frakes.

Besieged

1. The idea that Michael is an ex-Army Ranger had previously been advanced in the tie-in novel "The Reformed."

Hard Out

1. The weapons manufacturer that Sam and Fiona steal the truck from is called "Riker Industries". Jonathan Frakes who played Commander William T Riker in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has directed several episodes of "Burn Notice" and even appeared on screen as a driver in the episode "Beseiged" (uncredited).

Eye for an Eye

1. Fiona Glenanne makes references to having dinner at The Forge, a restaurant owned by Gabrielle Anwar's real-life boyfriend Shareef Malnik.
2. The character Dan Tesmond is an anagram of Edmond Dantès, the main character who was framed by his best friend, in the Alexandre Dumas novel "The Count of Monte Cristo"
3. Under interrogation the character Lucien (played by Patrick Bauchau) mentions "a man with white hair, like albino." In the TV series "The Pretender" (that both Patrick Bauchau and Jeffrey Donovan had roles in) there was a character named "Gare" with very white hair. The character was once referred to as "The Snow Man" because of his hair colour.
4. Patrick Bauchau "Lucien Balan", who is interrogated by Michael and Sam was one of the main characters on "The Pretender (1996)". Jeffrey Donovan played in 3 episodes of The Pretender in 1997-1998.
5. James Frain, who plays the man who betrayed his friend and took over his life, also played the character Villefort, one of the people responsible for Edmond Dantes betrayal, in the 2002 movie the Count of Monte Cristo based on the classic novel by Alexander Dumas.

Army of One

1. Jeffrey Donovan and Michael T. Weiss used to play together in few episodes (S1.E21/S1.E22/S2.E19) of "The Pretender". Jeffrey Donovan was the main character's brother "Kyle".
2. Michael T. Weiss is not the first cast member from the TV show "The Pretender" to appear in "Burn Notice". Patrick Bauchau who played Sydney Green in "The Pretender" played Lucien in the episode "Eye for an Eye".

Better Halves

1. Despite their animosity, Sam and Fiona have posed as a married or dating couple many times throughout the series. Whereas Michael and Fi only once posed as a couple.

Dead to Rights

Damned If You Do

1. When Michael and Oswald are at the storage unit and the Escalade shows up to attack them, Michael gets on a forklift. When he gets on the forklift and pulls the lever he is actually setting the parking brake. And, in the next shot the parking brake is back off again.
2. When Michael, Fi, Oswald and Sherry are escaping her house, a 3rd SUV pulls up, and is a current-generation (GMT-900, 2007-present) Cadillac Escalade. but in the very next scene, people are climbing out of a ten-year-old (GMT-400, 1999-2000) Cadillac Escalade. This SUV "swap" was also seen in Season 4: Episode 12 "Guilty as Charged"

Breaking Point

1. Ben Watkins, who portays Michael's childhood friend Ricky Watkins, is also a member of the writing team on Burn Notice. This episode was written by him.

Necessary Evil

Depth Perception

Acceptable Loss

1. When Fiona finds the copy of Vaughn's passport in the file, the birthdate used is September 14th, 1953, the same birthday of Robert Wisdom - the actor who plays Vaughn.
2. The Porsche that Fiona blows up has different rims than the one that Jesse normally drives.

Fail Safe