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Chris Vance, who’s currently headlining Fox’s shrink procedural Mental, is Burn Notice-bound.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that the ex-Prison Breaker has booked a four-episode arc as Gilroy, a sophisticated and ruthless former MI-6 bigwig who now oversees freelance black ops.
Translation: He’s about to make life hell for one Michael Westen.
Vance will appear during the second half of Burn Notice’s current third season, tentatively scheduled to air in early ‘10. The gig won’t conflict with Vance’s Mental duties since production on the drama’s first (and likely only) season wrapped months ago.
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In episode of Burn Notice - “Fearless Leader” - Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) gets a hold of a crime lord who seems to be the prime suspect in a Miami PD investigation, so he wants to hand him over to get the Miami police off his back. Yes, his stunt last week may have gotten more than what he expected.
As for Sam, the son of one of his exes enters the picture as an IRS agent, in what can be very funny scenes.
Judging from the result of our poll on the preview of the last episode, Burn Notice fans may be a little divided over the character of Detective Pasxon (Moon Bloodgood), who was introduced two weeks ago. She was certainly not among the main concerns of Michael on the last episode, since a dear old “friend” made a return. The team, including Nate (Seth Peterson), Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), and Sam (Bruce Campbell), needed to pull off an elaborate heist.
It seems as if getting Paxson’s partner suspended may not be such a good idea after all, since she made it clear that she wasn’t about to give up on Westen. Knowing this full well, he’ll try to deal with one of Miami’s most wanted criminals and save himself in the process.
In other news, Anwar, who plays sassy Fiona on Burn Notice, tells Redbook magazine that she has a feminine side compared to the former IRA terrorist she plays on the series. “Because my character on ‘Burn Notice‘ dresses in minis and mile-high heels, it’s important to me that my weekends aren’t necessarily about Jimmy Choos.”
Catch Burn Notice tonight 9pm on the USA Network.
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Sharon Gless plays women with toughness, drive and, when it counts, a comic streak.
No matter how vulnerable her character may be, she’s no shrinking violet, nobody’s patsy.
She’s in her third season on her latest series, the action drama “Burn Notice,” which airs Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT on USA.
But for many viewers, Gless will always be Det. Chris Cagney, the crime-busting, disappointed-in-love cop partnered with matriarchal Det. Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) on the classic CBS drama “Cagney & Lacey.” A “buddy drama” with realistic women heroes, it broke new ground in the 1980s.
Since then, Gless, to no one’s surprise, has remained an unstoppable force.
A few years ago she tackled an unusual role, even for her: The fiercely proud mother of a young homosexual man in Showtime’s “Queer as Folk,” which depicted a gay lifestyle in startlingly frank terms. Gless’ supporting character — quirky and colorful — worked at a diner.
“I always said ‘Queer as Folk’ was about this waitress,” says Gless with a hearty chuckle.
And what about now, with “Burn Notice“?
“It’s about this chain-smoking mother,” she replies, beaming.
That’s not entirely accurate, of course.
The lighthearted caper show centers on Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a mysteriously blacklisted spy stranded in Miami, where he’s trying to wangle some work while he clears his name and flushes out the person who “burned” him. He keeps his sanity with the help of fellow renegades including Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona, a gorgeous ex-IRA operative, and Bruce Campbell as Sam, a washed-up intel contact and Michael’s closest pal.
Also in the picture is Madeline, Westen’s meddlesome mom who, a Miamian, just loves having her formerly wayward son stuck close at hand.
Westen is tied up on a case when his cell phone rings: Mom calling.
“It’s somebody’s birthday todaaaay,” she coos. “I thought you’d come over for a nice dinner.”
“We’re celebrating birthdays now?” he scoffs.
“It’s never too laaaaate!”
“Where are we getting takeout from?” he brusquely replies.
“Who said anything about takeout?” says Madeline, at that moment juggling her cell phone, a cigarette and a takeout flier from a Greek restaurant.
In this show about fighting crime, Gless is a culprit whenever she appears: She is likely to steal any scene within reach.
How did she land the role? She has a theory: “They needed the mother from hell. ‘Let’s get Gless!’”
A native of Los Angeles, Gless has logged movie, stage and TV credits reaching back to “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” where in the mid-1970s she was cast as the love interest for series co-star James Brolin. “They said there was no chemistry between us,” she recalls with no argument.
At 66, she sports a sleek, ivory-white haircut and great round eyeglass frames. She’s on a publicity hop to New York from her native Miami, where she lives with her husband of 18 years, producer Barney Rosenzweig, whom she met when he cast her for his show, “Cagney & Lacey.”
“He’s the first feminist I ever met,” she declares with clear admiration. “The kind of feminist who says, ‘You want to be equal? Open your own door.’” She bursts out with a laugh. “So there’s an edge.”
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Episode 3.05 - Signals and Codes
A paranoid mathematician enlists Michael’s help to stop the vice president of a defense firm from selling company secrets; Michael tracks down a new contact in the intelligence community.
Episode 3.06 - The Hunter
When he hears about an operative from his past who is hunting him, Michael turns to a prominent member of Miami’s underworld for help; a man approaches Michael with an offer.
Episode 3.07 - Shot in the Dark
Michael, Sam and Fiona help a young boy whose family is being terrorized by his abusive stepfather; Michael’s new contact returns with an interesting proposition to help Michael get back into the intelligence community.
Episode 3.08 - Friends Like These
Barry enlists Michael’s help in tracking down his money-laundering client list, which has been stolen; Fiona disagrees with Michael’s attempts to reconnect with the intelligence community.
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A widow whose husband died during a fake insurance scam begs Fiona for help getting her husband’s dangerous associates away from her and her son.
[CALIA] Female, African American, mid 30s. A tearful and frightened widow, she recently lost her husband to an apparent car accident that was actually an insurance scam gone wrong. Now her husband’s dangerous associates are threatening her and her son, forcing her to continue the scam by suing the city for millions and giving them the money. Referred to Fiona by a friend, Calia assumes that Michael and Sam are Fiona’s employees, and she’s grateful for their help…GUEST STAR
[RYAN LEGRAND] Male, Caucasian, late 20s to early 30s. This petulant young man, on parole for fraud and assault, wears designer clothes and watches and drives a Porsche. He works with his greedy, amoral father on a series of insurance scams using naive strangers as the victims. Ryan is a bit spooked by Michael’s reckless act, but proud to bring him into the fold as an asset — until Michael begins taking over the operation and making Ryan look bad in front of his father…GUEST STAR
[CARSON LEGRAND] Male, Caucasian, in his 60s. He is Ryan’s amoral, dangerous, difficult-to-please and greedy father (he considers himself a “businessman”) who masterminds a series of insurance scams. He prefers a death toll for higher payouts. Before agreeing to let Michael oversee a job, Carson tests Michael by sending him to collect $10,000 from a group of tough bikers who owe him.sptv050769..GUEST STAR
[TINA] Female, Caucasian, 55-65 years old. She is a no nonsense but friendly clerk at the county records office who proves to be immune to Sam’s charms. However, she smokes the same brand of cigarettes as Madeline and the two become fast pals, playing cards and heading to the beach together. When Madeline asks her to steal some medical records and risk her job, Tina is stunned and hurt…GUEST STAR
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Michael sucks it up and does a small but vital job for the slippery Stickler, who promises to clear Michael’s burn notice as a quid pro quo. At the same time, he agrees to help Barry (who’s just as slippery financially as Stickler is slippery politically) to retrieve a vital business ledger that has been stolen by extortionists…
[NATALIE RICE / WOMAN] Female, Caucasian, 30s, MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH AN AMERICAN AS WELL AS ANY OTHER NON-AMERICAN ACCENT. Natalie is an attractive woman local realtor with a picture of her son on her keychain. She’s been blackmailed into accompanying villainous Serbian extortionist Milovan Bakic on a driving tour of Miami while he sets up a chain of safe houses. Captured by Michael and Sam along with Milovan, Natalie puddles up, convincingly acting like a terrified, sobbing, wailing mess of a woman who insists that she’s just the driver. Busily pleading for a chance to save her life and see her son once more, it turns out that Natalie is not as vulnerable and innocent as she appears…GUEST STAR, POSSIBLE RECURRING.
[MILOVAN BAKIC / MAN] Male, Caucasian, 40s-50s, MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH AN AUTHENTIC EASTERN EUROPEAN ACCENT. Milovan is a foreign looking and scary as hell extortionist. He is a former torturer for an Eastern European intelligence service. Part of an elaborate scheme to extort $5 million from a hapless Barry, Milovan is captured along with his “stupid American driver,” realtor Natalie Rice. Familiar with every trick in the interrogator’s handbook, Milovan is stonily impervious to Sam’s best efforts to crack him wide open and find the location of the stolen ledger.sptv050769..GUEST STAR
[AMY] Female, Any ethnicity, 30s. She is the feisty girlfriend of Barry, the money launderer with the priceless ledger. In fact, Amy is not as interested in Barry as she appears, and she’s been offered $100,000 in order to help a pair of extortionists facilitate the theft of his ledger. Basically a clueless dupe who betrayed her doting boyfriend for a fistful of dollars, Amy is unpleasantly dragged into the real world when Michael and Fiona point out an awkward fact: her employers attached a huge firebomb to her brand new BMW… PLEASE SUBMIT MIAMI LOCAL HIRES ONLY FOR THIS ROLE, WHICH MEANS ACTOR IS WILLING AND ABLE TO TRAVEL AND BOARD THEMSELVES IN MIAMI.
