Burn Notice2007

[first lines]

Michael Westen:
[narrative] In the world of intelligence, taking down an entire covert network is the ultimate challenge. It's not something you can do alone.

Michael Westen:
[black-and-white flashback] You.

Raines:
[black-and-white flashback] Welcome back.

Michael Westen:
[narrative] You need the resources of an entire intelligence agency behind you. You need solid intelligence that can point you in the right direction

Michael Westen:
[v.o. flashback] That list is the key to destroying the people who burned me.

Michael Westen:
[narrative] But that's just the starting point. You're not after an individual person; you're after dozens of people, all of them hiding, all of them with resources and skills, all of them fighting you by any means necessary. It's a gigantic jigsaw puzzle of information that requires months of research and analysis where one target leads to the next: a courier picked off the suburban street leads to a spy hiding out as a diplomat in a foreign embassy leads to a hardened group of armed assassins in another place entirely. Sometimes it's a surgical operation done with discrete teams that no one ever hears about; other times, it's all-out war; but one thing is always the same: with each piece of the puzzle, you find you understand your enemy more clearly, you penetrate the secrecy that shields people behind the scenes, working your way to the top of the network to the people pulling the strings. You keep fighting, trying to put that last piece of the puzzle in place, trying to find that last person who will give you the answers you're looking for.