List of Burn Notice Characters - Foes - Anson Fullerton

Anson Fullerton (Jere Burns) was the final member, and original leader, of the organization that burned Michael. He and Management started the organization together when Anson was evaluating burned spies as a psychiatrist for the DIA. Having gone underground during Michael's hunt for the organization, he resurfaced after Max and Michael began researching evidence of more agents, killing the former and framing the latter. With the cover-up foiled, he then orchestrated a plot to gain leverage on Michael: tricking Fiona into thinking she killed two innocent people and recording her confession to blackmail Michael into continuing to work for him. Having written Michael's psychological evaluation, along with knowledge of his family, he meticulously locks out any moves Michael could use on him to exonerate Fiona.

His first mission is to have Michael use his clearance to wipe all traces of him from the CIA database with a specialized virus; in the meantime, he blackmails Madeline's new boyfriend Benny to surveil Michael's team. Just as Michael and Madeline determine Benny is unwillingly complicit, Anson sends a bomb to Benny's house that kills him in front of them. Meeting with Anson revealed Benny was always an asset, having been provided with all the background information of Madeline to provide her a "soulmate". Anson then assigns Jesse and Fiona to the Caymans to free up 20 million dollars from his flagged account. When Sam's old friend Beatriz is hunted by an outed Russian operative, Sam proposes to bring in Anson to identify and analyze the agent, which Anson grudgingly does as Michael notes how he would go to any lengths to save his friends, including dying or being imprisoned. Anson requires Michael's full disclosure into his mindset during the operation in return, and he also provides the insight to allow for the safe return of Beatriz.

However, at the end of the episode, Anson reveals the fact that Michael's father was ultimately remorseful about his actions to his family during his reevaluation by Anson. However, once he became suspicious of Anson's operation, he was poisoned to induce cardiac arrest. Anson also locks out Sam from talking to the FBI deputy director, framing him as a Russian operative.

Anson's endgame is revealed through information Michael gets from imprisoned Management operative Vaughn, which is to rebuild the organization through the logistical infrastructure that was not dismantled in the CIA operation. Needing operatives to restart his work, Anson enlists Michael to frame Pearce and a visiting CIA team for embezzlement and have them burned; unbeknownst to Michael, he also planted a mole, Rebecca, onto the team, whose role was to kill Jesse and their target with a plane bomb, to limit Michael's options in retrieving the situation without burning anyone. Displeased with Michael's ultimate failure to burn the operatives, Anson meets up with Rebecca and flees. Anson calls Michael, but all Michael says is, "see you in hell". With Fiona having turned herself in to the FBI, Anson had lost any leverage he had over Michael, though he remained at large, while Michael eventually turned Rebecca against Anson.

At the start of season 6, Michael manages to convince Pearce of Anson's schemes that landed Fiona in prison. The team tracks Anson to a chemical plant, and Michael catches and fights with him just as Anson is about to board a boat and flee the country. But Anson reveals a remote trigger for a bomb inside the plant, and Michael regrettably has to release him as Sam and Pearce are still inside the plant. In the episode "Shock Wave", he is finally caught by Nate but both of them are killed by an unseen sniper soon after.