![]() He had not been allowed to go to the funeral to 'protect him' but still carry's a St. When he was nine, his mother was shot and allowed to bleed to death in a convenience store robbery. And within a week he was dead from getting drunk and taking an overdose of heart medicine.' Her hypochondriasis increased as did her smoking and, although she didn't communicate with Michael for months or years at a time, he usually did call on her birthday and she did receive money from him for doctor bills. She later told Mike that 'after you left, Nate went to pot.' Sometime afterward, Frank, who had heart trouble, began 'asking about Michael out of the clear blue. She recognized that Michael's leaving put a great deal of stress on Nate who then had to deal with their father alone. She did recognize that M was smart enough to get himself into real trouble if he didn't get out of the situation he was in so, forged her husband's signature on a parental permission form which allowed M to get into the military service early, at seventeen. She was accepting (at least tolerant) of Michaels childhood “delinquent” behavior but, not above using it to blackmail him for her own purposes. #Burn notice characters series#She helped her sons negotiate around the situation, with their drunken abusive father, through a series of verbal codes and by overlooking their increasing daliances with the law. For example when her husband stole electrical cable and wood for an addition onto their house, she called it 'finding.' They had a secret hiding place behind a secret panel in their closet for her husband to keep his 'confidential' things - neither M or Nate ever found out about it. She is a very manipulative, hypochondriac chain-smoker who put up with an abusive husband, Frank, apparently through a lot of pretending. The mother of Michael and his younger brother Nate who made home at 947 Shady Lane in Miami Florida. The bits and pieces we've been able to glean about Mikes life history are as follows: He has a brother, Nate, who his mother, a hypochondriacal chain-smoker named Madeline, says went to pot after Mike left. He came from an abusive family and missed his estranged father’s funeral by eight years. Besides Fiona Glenanne, a semi-retired IRA explosives expert, he only had two known contacts in Miami: Lucy Chen and Sam Axe (in addition to his mother Madeline.) Pretty much everyone except Sam calls him 'Michael.' Sam frequently shortens it to 'Mikey' and gets away with it. Unconscious after the beating he took, the airline personnel would only say 'they were told' to bring him back to Miami where he regained consciousness in a sleazy hotel by a kick in the butt from his 'emergency contact' he had stopped dating years before. One day he graduated and 'poof' he was gone. The son of Frank and Madeline Weston, he lived in Miami until age 17 when his mother forged her husband’s name on a permission document so he could join the military. No small event in that line of work, which got him severely beaten and nearly killed. Michael Westen is a more than simply-average, field-operative spy, but he was notified that he had been “burned” while in the middle of a mission in Warri Nigeria. ![]()
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