Carla Baxter is the main antagonist in the second season of the USA series Burn Notice. Carla is a mid-ranking member of the organization that burned Michael Westen and acts as his "handler" throughout the season before her demise. She was a ruthless and conniving organization member who cared only about personal gain.
She was portrayed by Tricia Helfer, who also played Boodikka in Green Lantern: First Flight, Goddess in Lucifer, the Espheni Queen in Falling Skies, Dracula in Van Helsing, Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft, Izzy Rogers in Criminal Minds, Aphrodite in Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Agent Jackson in Key and Peele and Kilian Qatar in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars.
Biography[]
Carla had Michael burned prior to the events of Burn Notice for him to do her bidding. She had no morals whatsoever and cared only about personal gain even if it meant exploiting the organization's resources. Her superiors were oblivious to to her dealings and kept her as a mid-ranking member of the organization.
It is revealed Carla had Michael burned for him to perform black ops. Throughout the season she forces Michael to perform several seemingly unrelated errands which he learns were connected as part of an assassination attempt. But before he can stop the assassin, someone beat him to the punch and the assassin was killed in a bomb wired to his front door, the same type of bomb Michael narrowly avoids.
It turned out a man named Victor, a former employee of Carla's had been responsible when she revealed not even she knew about it. Michael would use Victor to take down Carla rather than give him up to her men by revealing her abuse of the organization's resources for personal gain.
In the process, Michael learned that Carla had been responsible for burning Victor and for also organizing the explosion in Mexico City that had killed Victor's unnamed wife and four year old son, which had ultimately tipped Victor over the edge and eventually led to him joining the Organization.
Fiona later shot and killed Carla when she was about to kill Michael by detonating the C4 in Victor's boat.
Personality[]
Carla was a ruthless and psychopathic member of the organization which burned Michael, having no qualms threatening his family. She had no compromise when it came to what she wanted and was effectively a cold, ruthless operative for management.
Trivia[]
- She was Michael's first major enemy.