History Trivia / BurnNotice

** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Cordelia]] [[{{Angel}} Chase]] grew up and married a bio-weapons specialist.

** [[BattlestarGalactica Number Six]] is Carla.

** Patrick Bauchau is back in a show with Jeffrey Donovan again - they were last in ''ThePretender'' together.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[The4400 Tom Baldwin]] gets scammed out of a painting by Michael in "Seek and Destroy."

** In one episode, Sam is doing surveillance on Carla, who takes time to swim. Commenting on her ability, Sam says: "The woman is a machine." Carla's actress, Tricia Helfer, played a robot on ''BattlestarGalactica''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This may [[{{Understatement}} take awhile]].
** [[CagneyAndLacey Cagney]] is Michael's mother.
*** [[CagneyAndLacey Lacey]] guest starred in one episode leading to some cute scenes between Gless and Tyne Daly.
** [[{{Lost}} Jacob]] is a con artist in "Identity." Michael refers a "job in Tampa" in trying to get on his good side.
** Michael's very first handler, Carla, is played by [[BattlestarGalactica Number Six]].
** [[StargateSG1 Daniel Jackson]] guest-stars as Michael's second handler.
** MarkSheppard from ''everything'' as Prescott.
*** The episode with Mark Sheppard is worth noting, as it also had HeyItsThatGuy Alex Carter as Jason Bly, a recurring antagonist of Michael's. In that episode, Bly and Michael are forced to team up against Prescott, as Prescott is holding them hostage in a bank heist. Under a week later, Sheppard and Carter were working together on TNT's competitor show {{Leverage}}. Just shows you how cable staple actors can get around.
** [[spoiler:[[{{Frasier}} Marty Crane]]]] is the BigBad of Season 3, known as "Management". [[PlayingAgainstType Indeed]].
** And Michael Westen is that guy from {{Hitch}} who got his arm broken by WillSmith.
*** Sometimes I wonder if [[ThePretender the Centre]] is going to show up.
**** He does decide who lives or dies, if you think about it.
** Not to mention [[XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]] as a CareerKiller.
** [[{{Dexter}} Detective Angel Batista]] is Michael's first client.
** Paul Bennett is...some dude who beats up old ladies. (Poor guy is probably typecast as "abuser" by now.)
** [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] is a pissed-off Irishman come to kill Fiona.
** The mark in "Shot in the Dark" is the lead of BetterOffTed, in a much worse suit.
*** [[TheXFiles Alex Krychek]] shows up in the same episode as his brother.
** The villain in "Friendly Fire" is Danny "Machete" Trejo, found in every film that features at least one scary Mexican.
** The episode which features a Russian kidnapping ring guest stars a [[RedAlert3 certain Russian general]]
*** Or Blackbeard La Cutte, one of the men that killed [[TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr Brisco County Sr.]] depending on your viewing habits.
** Speaking of [[TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr Brisco County]], Big Smith is a killer tricked into believing his art dealer partner is double-crossing him.
** [[TwentyFour Tony Almeida]] is the villain of the week in "Good Intentions".
** In the season 3 finale, Simon is [[TheSarahConnorChronicles Cromartie/John Henry]]. Or Roman if you're a ''{{Life}}'' fan. Or Jack McCall/Francis Wolcott if you prefer ''{{Deadwood}}''.
** Larry is played by Tim Matheson, who's also directed a few episodes, though he may be more recognizable as [[TheWestWing Vice President John Hoynes]].
** [[TheShield Detective "Dutch" Wagenbach]] guest stars in numerous episodes as villain arms dealer Tyler Brennen.
** Michael convinces a Libyan operative to hassle Cowan for him. The third time they meet, the Libyan is behind the wheel of a car with Michael in the back. Who's the Libyan? [[HowIMetYourMother It's Ranjit!]]
** Season 4 kicks off with the introduction of Gregory Hart, who turns out to be [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Darkseid himself]]. About a minute later, he's shredded to pieces by a Predator UAV.
** [[MadMen Harry Crane]] needed help after getting in trouble with a biker gang.
** [[PrisonBreak Lechero]] has apparently gotten out of Sona and become Michael's "new best friend" Vaughn.
*** Or, if you prefer; [[TheWire Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin]] went into spy work after his epic burnout trying to "fix" Baltimore.
*** Lechero would have recognized Whistler from Sona now going by the name Gilroy and his accent changing from Australian to an over the top British accent.
** [[{{Numb3rs}} Amita]] has undergone a serious personality reboot and become an evil spy.
** [[CriminalMinds Jordan Todd]] was [[UglyBetty Bradford Meade's]] assistant [[spoiler: and "Mr. Slippery", international thief]].
** Burt Reynolds in 4x07 as retired spy Paul Anderson.
** [[TheTerminator The T-1000]] is Merchant of Death John Barrett, which is ''really'' awesome casting.
** [[BostonLegal Edwin Poole]] is head of the Department of Irrigation something-or-other.
** BruceCampbell, of course, as Sam.
** A somewhat uncanny one, [[XenaWarriorPrincess Lucy Lawless]] played a damsel in severe distress in the first season. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, since she is Lucy Lawless, her revelation that she was only playing the role of the damsel comes as rather no surprise at all. Then, after a rather forced moment of romantic tension which lacks any depth because of the very, very short time she's appeared, she offs herself by deliberately falling backwards off a roof.]]
** In what the creators called (on the commentary for the episode) his highest per-minute salaried appearance ever, [[TheWestWing Richard Schiff]] plays a representative of Michael's enemies in the first season finale. In which he shows up, gives Michael the "Worse is yet to come" speech, and [[spoiler:promptly gets shot dead by the higher ups in "Management."]]
** A somewhat obscure but still cool one, [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Carth Onasi]]/[[MassEffect Kaiden Alenko]], also known as Raphael Sbarge, played the [[spoiler:A plot villain]] in season 4 episode 16, "Dead or Alive."
** Erik King ([[{{Dexter}} Sgt. Doakes]]) gets stabbed in the neck with a syringe by Michael.

** Speaking of Brisco County, [[TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr Big Smith]] is a killer tricked into believing his art dealer partner is double-crossing him.

** In one episode, Sam is doing surveillance on Carla, who takes time to swim. Commenting on her ability, Sam says: "The woman is a machine." Carla's actress, Tricia Helfer, played a robot on ''[[BattlestarGalactica]]''.

** Perhaps a subtle or unintentional one but in Season 3 finale [[spoiler: while fighting, Simon takes Michael from behind and slams him repeatedly against a wall. The short sequence uses the much of the same cinematography as the fight between the T-800 and T-1000 from Terminator 2. Earlier in the episode, Simon walks out from behind the heat haze of an explosion in a police outfit - again, sharing similar cinematography to what the Terminator series of works have used prior. Garrett Dillahunt (Simon) previously played a Terminator and AI in TheSarahConnerChronicles.]]

** In "Where There's Smoke", a gang of kidnappers is led by two brothers named [[{{Twilight}} Eddy and Jacob]].

** [[TheWestWing Toby Ziegler]] was Philip Cowan, the one who burned Michael....or not.
** MarkSheppard from ''everything'' as Prescott

** [[TheXFiles Alex Krychek]] shows up in a supporting role.

** The aforementioned Larry is played by Tim Matheson, who's also directed a few episodes, though he may be more recognizable as [[TheWestWing Vice President John Hoynes]].
** [[TheShield Detective "Dutch" Wagenbach]] guest stars in two episodes as villain arms dealer Tyler Brennen.

** And [[PrisonBreak Lechero]] has apparently gotten out of Sona and become Michael's "new best friend" Vaughn.

** In "Where There's Smoke," a gang of kidnappers is led by two brothers named [[{{Twilight}} Eddy and Jacob]].
** In "Breach of Faith," Sam mentions how he really wanted a [[ChristmasStory Red Rider]] BB rifle as a kid.

*** Lechero would have recognised Whistler from Sona now going by the name Gilroy and his accent changing from Australian to an over the top British accent.

** In a sci-fi casting-gasm, [[{{Stargate SG-1}} Michael Shanks]] and [[BattlestarGalactica Tricia Helfer]] played two of Management's more vicious agents in the second season.