History Awesome / BurnNotice

* The prison fight. ''Fiona Glenane is nobody's bitch.''

->'''Bly''': "How can you tell?"
->'''Fiona''': "Because I know explosions. And I know Michael."

** At the end of the episode, Fiona is about the cross the DespairEventHorizon, after a CIA agent shows her pictures of a burnt truck and a coroner's report, and tells her Michael was killed when the truck's gas tank exploded. He urges her to give up Michael, saying that he's dead and there's no point to protecting him anymore... and then Fi pauses, looks carefully at the photos, and with a big smile tells him that he's lying, Michael is alive and set the truck on fire in a different way to form a roadblock.
->'''CIA Agent''': "How can you tell?"

* In the season six opener, [[MagnificentBastard Anson]] sends a schizophrenic former soldier to Maddie Westen's house in an attempt to get Michael off his back. Team Westen sends Jesse and the Miami PD rescue her, but the soldiers kills the cops who show up before Jesse gets there. Jesse gets ambushed, disarmed, and held at gunpoint within minutes...only to be saved by Maddie, who shoots the soldier with a shotgun. Through the attic floor.

* Fiona ''finally, finally'' (apparently) killing Larry at the end of "Dead to Rights" only giving him enough time to [[OhCrap comprehend how screwed he was]]. And then, [[MagnificentBastard Anson]] making his grand debut by ''successfully blackmailing Michael''.

-->'''Fiona''': Clean yourself up. You look like hell.

* Michael and Maddie pulling a con on a bank robber in "Army of One" - while Michael does his double agent thing convincing Holcomb, the leader, that he's their tech guy and there's a rogue Special Forces guy on the loose trying to kill them, Maddie starts out as a hostage but works with Michael to get all of the hostages to safety. Plus, she saves Michael's ass by bashing a guy's skull in who's about to shoot Michael.

* In the second season episode "Do No Harm", Sam fights with Michael to keep him from going to Carla for money to save the little kid. By "fights", I mean that Sam blocks Michael's door and gets in a fist-fight with him to keep him from going to Carla.

* Maddie's entire bravura performance in "Bloodlines". Not only does she successfully convince the Yakuza hostage that she's a fellow victim and nurse, she [[spoiler: does so while being smacked around by Michael in full Frank-Westen impression and successfully stages an "escape" to get the Yakuza to lead Team Westen to his hideout]]. Maddie is starting to put everyone else to shame with her dedication to the job.

** For this troper, the most awesome part of the episode is when the hotel's phone rings. [[spoiler: There stands Michael, Jesse and Fi trapped with about three guns between them. Outside stands an army of special forces with millions of dollars of equipment backing them up. Jesse's slowly bleeding out, and Vaughn is calling to let them know exactly how screwed they are. Michaels answer? "Bayview hotel how may I direct your call?"]]

--->'''Fiona''': When the time comes, we'll go together.

** For this troper, the most awesome part of the episode is when the hotel's phone rings. [[spoiler: There stands Michael, Jesse and Fi trapped with about three guns between them. Outside stands an army of special forces with millions of dollars of equipment backing them up. Jesse's slowly bleeding out, and Vaughn is calling to let them know exactly how screwed they are. Michaels answer? "Bayview hotel how may I direct your call?"]]

** Jesse, [[spoiler: on a leg that was impaled by a rebar, pulling a Last Stand with Michael and Fiona]].

** Later, Michael's trying to get his mom and brother out of the city, and Shadowy Bad Guys are tracking them with a bugged cell phone. Michael stops the car in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, gets out with a gun, ''points it at his own head'' (while simultaneously having a crapload of thugs also pointing guns at him), and says into the bugged phone that he knows the Shadowy Bad Guys want him for a specific purpose, and if they don't talk to him ''right the hell now'' he's going to kill himself. A couple seconds later, the phone rings, and he answers it with a casual, flippant "Hello?"

** Fiona's [[spoiler: suicide run to be with Michael when she thinks they're both going to be killed by Vaughn's men]].

* The circle of trust from "Dead or Alive". Also a CMOF
* In context of explosions and explosive stunts for season 4, WordOfGod Matt Nix says that, if the interview was aired before the season finale as he suspects, his favorite was the mid-season finale. But he teases that he thinks the season finale is even better.

* The circle of trust from "Dead or Alive". Also a CMOF

** Let's not forget about Nate Westen in the A-plot either -- first hotwiring and driving off with a stolen [[CoolCar '69 GTO]] [[BigDamnHeroes just in time]] to keep both Michael and the [[VictimOfTheWeek Client of the Week]] from being executed, '''then''' [[spoiler: disassembling said car, and ''reassembling it, piece by piece, right in the VillainOfTheWeek's own backyard'' in order to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame the guilty party]]]]. {{Badass}} takes on many different forms.

** Let's not forget about Nate Westen's contribution either -- first hotwiring and driving off with a stolen [[CoolCar '69 GTO]] [[BigDamnHeroes just in time]] to keep both Michael and the [[VictimOfTheWeek Client of the Week]] from being executed, '''then''' [[spoiler: disassembling said car, and ''reassembling it, piece by piece, right in the VillainOfTheWeek's own backyard'' in order to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame the guilty party]]]]. {{Badass}} takes on many different forms.

** Let's not forget about Nate Westen's contribution either -- first hotwiring and driving off with a stolen [[CoolCar '69 GTO]] [[BigDamnHeroes just in time]] to keep both Michael and the [[VictimOfTheWeek Client of the Week]] from being executed, '''then''' [[spoiler: disassembling said car, and ''reassembling it, piece by piece, right in the VillainOfTheWeek's own backyard'' in order to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame the guilty party]].]] {{Badass}} takes on many different forms.

* The B-story scene in "Brotherly Love" where Team Weston gets to show off their skills and teamwork. Sam as the Obfuscating Idiot, Fi making things go boom, Michael with the hand work, and Jesse with the planning and support. Finishes off with a slow walk of all four of them looking badass. Oh yeah.

--->'''Jesse:''' [[spoiler:Sometimes you got to put the rabid dog down.]]

* [[spoiler:Jesse's EleventhHourRanger moment]] in "Guilty as Charged", [[spoiler: shooting Michael through the shoulder to save his life]].

* Jesse's EleventhHourRanger moment in "Guilty as Charged", [[spoiler: shooting Michael through the shoulder to save his life]].

* ''{{Burn Notice}}'' has a lot of these; Michael is pretty much made of Pure Awesome. A couple from the first season finale:
** The club scene with Carmello, the heroin dealer (second biggest). After planting explosives all over, threatening to blow up the place, and drinking Carmello's expensive champagne, he gets up to leave. Carmello asks, "Who ''are'' you?" Michael stops, glances back, and says very calmly: "I'm Michael Westen. I used to be a spy." Total HELL YEAH moment.
** Later, he's trying to get his mom and brother out of the city, and Shadowy Bad Guys are tracking them with a bugged cell phone. Michael stops the car in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, gets out with a gun, ''points it at his own head'' (while simultaneously having a crapload of thugs also pointing guns at him), and says into the bugged phone that he knows the Shadowy Bad Guys want him for a specific purpose, and if they don't talk to him ''right the hell now'' he's going to kill himself. A couple seconds later, the phone rings, and he answers it with a casual, flippant "Hello?"
** Fiona, too, is Made Of Awesome: there's her leap off the bridge at the end of the first half of the finale. Also the scene in the warehouse later, when Michael tosses her a gun, she makes a running catch, and starts shooting without missing a beat. In season 2 she tasers a Russian mobster holding on to her leg - fully knowing that it means she will be shocked as well.

*** Notable too, the whole reason he wants to get killed so not because he wants a quick death but to prevent Michael and Fi from trying to rescue him (and getting killed in the process) as he knows that his captors are very dangerous and very willing to kill without hesitation as well as being very well prepared. The moment works on many levels since it was established previously that Sam had lost his squad in a similar situation and held a lot of guilt over it.

** That episode also had an amazing moment at the finale, after Weston and co. had successfully framed the head kidnapper's underlings as backstabbers. The head guy confronted his henchmen and ended up in a MexicanStandoff with them. Sam, watching from nearby, drops a match into the powderkeg by firing his own gun into the ground, and is instantly greeted with the pleasant sound of nearby gunfire.

*** Even Michael's unwilling criminal partner get's one, trumping Chechik's KGB Colonel with his KGB General

* Michael was something of a legend pre-burning, so much so that foreign intel agencies figured he didn't exist, that he was either a code name used by a group, or something along the lines of the boogeyman. Whenever this is brought up (and subsequently shot down) is generally a CMOA.

** This is excellent LaserGuidedKarma, considering Charles is an extreme-{{Jerkass}} version of Sam. Not to mention Fiona's NotMyDriver / ClickHello to Charles as the exclamation point on the whole con.

** That episode also had a Crowning Moment for the ''client'' (the boy's father, whom the kidnappers were trying to leverage into giving them info to pull off a heist): [[spoiler: The father has to set up a meeting with the kidnapper so that Sam and Mike can ID the guy. One glance in the wrong direction, and the kidnapper might realize he's being watched. The father--a civilian with NO training in withstanding forceful methods--takes a beating without slipping up; the only person he looks at is the kidnapper. Some PapaWolf methods are subtler than others.]]