Burn Notice News

Title: Family Business
Production Code: BN104
Directed by: Sandy Bookstaver
Written by: Matt Nix
Originally Aired: July 26, 2007

Nate, Michael’s brother, introduces him to Jake Miller, a supervisor at an airport who has been accepting small gifts from a family of exporters in exchange for small favors. When offered a large gift for a highly illegal favor, Jake declined and then began receiving began. Michael quickly discovers these “exporters” are actually gun runners who trade in stolen military weaponry. The head of the family is a former Mossad officer who and not easily intimidated. Michael poses as an international arms dealer and befriends Eli’s black sheep son, Ari. He convinces Ari that he could impress his dad by doing a large deal with him. Through the friendship Michael is able to view the inner workings of the operation, disrupt it, and spook Eli and his family into leaving Miami.

In the meantime the FBI is starting to put more pressure on Sam to get something on Michael. Michael finds out about this and arranges for Sam to “steal” his burn notice and turn it in to them. This ploy gets the attention of people higher up the chain and a new group of intelligence officers are sent to Miami to investigate.