Burn Notice
Dead or Alive
TV Flash files “Dead or Alive” as hour 60 of 111 in the TV Flash guide — Burn Notice (2007–2013) on USA, season 4, episode 16, aired 2010-12-09, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E16: listed hour 60 of 111 in the Burn Notice guide, hour 16 of 18 in season 4. It aired 2010-12-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Brotherly Love” (S04E15). Next is “Out of the Fire” (S04E17).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Sam tries to help a friend who's been deemed a dirty cop clear his name. Elsewhere, Michael plans to meet with Jesse's former handler in order to make sure government documents end up in the right hands.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dead or Alive sit in the Burn Notice guide?
S04E16 is listed hour 60 of 111 — hour 16 of 18 in season 4, season 4 episode 16.
When did Burn Notice S04E16 air?
Dead or Alive aired 2010-12-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Burn Notice just mission-of-the-week?
Standalone jobs are the weekly candy; the serialized wound is who burned Michael. Voiceover tradecraft around a grudge that does not close in one hour.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A burned spy narrates tradecraft from a Miami loft, taking odd jobs while hunting who erased his career. Burn Notice is blue-sky USA action with a grudge underneath — Jeffrey Donovan's deadpan, Bruce Campbell's Sam Axe, and weekly how-to candy around a serialized wound.
USA put a burned spy in a Miami loft and windowed tradecraft as weekly how-to candy. Burn Notice (2007–2013) is Matt Nix's blue-sky action brand: Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, Gabrielle Anwar's Fiona, Bruce Campbell's Sam Axe as a cable favorite, Sharon Gless, later Coby Bell. Odd jobs as the A-plot. A serialized burn mystery in the drawer. Voiceover from the loft like a tutorial that happens to have a grudge. Seven seasons, 111 episodes. Rex can keep the living-room spy with a theme song. This one shipped…
Filed against
- Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen
Jeffrey Donovan’s Michael Westen narrated tradecraft from a Miami loft on Burn Notice — burned spy, odd jobs, a hunt for who erased the career. Blue-sky USA action with a grudge underneath, Bruce Campbell’s Sam Axe, weekly how-to candy…
- Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne
Gabrielle Anwar detonated as Fiona Glenanne on Burn Notice — blue-sky USA action, a burned spy's Miami loft, weekly how-to candy around a serialized wound. Jeffrey Donovan's deadpan, Bruce Campbell's Sam Axe, and Anwar as the ex who made…
- Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe
Bruce Campbell’s Autolycus stole Hercules: The Legendary Journeys like a syndicated comic — 1990s catalog King of Thieves, camp with a chin, then Burn Notice recasting the grin as Sam Axe’s Miami how-to. TV Flash files him as the thief…
- Sharon Gless as Madelaine Westen
Sharon Gless’s Christine Cagney made Cagney & Lacey a once-in-a-generation partnership — two women detectives, badge culture that had to make room, Emmys after a near-cancellation letter campaign — then played Burn Notice’s Miami grudge…
- Coby Bell as Jesse Porter
Coby Bell played Jesse Porter on Burn Notice — a burned spy narrating tradecraft from a Miami loft, odd jobs while hunting who erased his career. Blue-sky USA action with a grudge underneath: Jeffrey Donovan's deadpan, Bruce Campbell's…