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Fiona's attitude is great, you're a guy in Miami, let's live our lives, let's not worry about all this stuff that has been getting in the way of us being together but Michael is like 'This is the opportunity I've been wanting to get back in.' This season their relationship gets really rocky and it's really fun. MN: What they're dealing with for the season is that Michael now is just essentially a guy in Miami. JH: Going into the current season, how are we going to see Michael and Fiona's relationship progress? I just feel like those relationships are what anchor the show in a human drama as opposed to just the sort of spy/criminal procedural.

I want the show to continue being about the people and not about the gags or the action or that kind of thing. So, in seeing life and work and family through the eyes of someone who had lived in that world is really interesting to me. We never talked about his work particularly because a lot of things he had done we couldn't talk about so we'd talk about his life and his family. MN: For me, what's interesting is a lot of the inspiration for the show originally came from talking to a guy named Michael Wilson, who is a consulting producer on the show and worked in intelligence. JH: We know Michael really cares for his family even though they bug the hell out of him but how did that become such an important part of the show? So if your identity and bank accounts and everything depend on you being a spy then you're totally screwed. Essentially, it's just a 'don't work with this guy' notice but the impact that that has on you varies based on who you were in the intelligence community. A real burn notice can take any number of forms. When I stumbled across the 'burn notice' phenomenon, it was kind of in the news at the time because various people got burn notices around the Iraq war. I was more interested in spies as people and those abilities and habit of mind and a way of looking at the world than doing an actual espionage show where we run around the world and break into the Embassy of Guam. I was interested in doing a show that showcased spy skills outside of a spy context. MN: I stumbled upon it in research kind of before I pitched the pilot so it was something that I happened to cross. JH: Before the show, did you know about 'burn notices' or did you stumble about it in researching the show? Magnum would talk about his feelings about things or attitudes about things and Michael Westen is usually talking about technique but the tone of the voiceovers is absolutely influenced. Part of it was just that the voiceovers were a big part of the conception of the show and it's a voiceover of a different kind. I've never laid eyes on the man but I grew up initially knowing about my aunt's friend, Tom, and then realizing that that was Tom Selleck who had a television show. I've never met him but, oddly enough, I've met Selleck's parents.

It's funny, my great aunt, almost for Tom Selleck's entire career пїЅ she retired recently - she was his publicist. I think I saw it but it wasn't a big thing in my life. I have nothing against 'MacGyver' and obviously I know why they say 'MacGyver' but I was never a 'MacGyver' watcher. Jim Halterman: Did shows like 'Magnum PI' or 'MacGyver' influence you when you were creating 'Burn Notice?'

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Our Jim Halterman talked to series creator Matt Nix about the current season, the romantic entanglements of its characters and its recurring rogue's gallery.

True to form though, Michael's life continues to be complicated whether it's a result of the cases he takes on, former foes he encounters or his erratic personal life.

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USA's 'Burn Notice,' which opened season three with series-high ratings, is exploring life for former intelligence agent Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) now that he's free of those who burned him. Interview: 'Burn Notice' Creator Matt Nix