Disavowed spy Michael’s long-desired meeting with the people behind his burn notice doesn’t go as planned, when instead of a meet, Michael gets a smokey female voice at the other end of a phone line calling herself Carla and a new “job” as assigned by her — assisting a blackmailed computer technician in obtaining heavily secured data from the databases of private security firm Security Associates. Eager to get his life back and driven by what’s at stake, Michael completes the job with the help of his friend Sam and trigger-friendly ex-girlfriend Fiona, but is again snubbed of an opportunity to meet the mysterious Carla, whom he narrowly misses at a local cafeteria, where he’s left with only a filled out crossword puzzle and the message, “Enjoy the puzzle. I’ll see you soon.”

I’m afraid Tricia contribution to the season premiere mainly consisted of voice work as the “smokey” voice on the phone, but she does make an onscreen appearance right at the end of the episode — and as always, she looks amazing. Roughly 40 medium-res screen captures have been added to the gallery.

Don’t forget to tune into episode 2.02 “Turn and Burn” next Thursday (July 17), in which Tricia will make her second confirmed guest appearance as Carla. If you can’t wait that long, check out the weekly preview clip (feat. Tricia!) of the upcoming episode on the series official site index page. Please visit Tricia Helfer Fan again next week for more coverage! Meanwhile, enjoy the caps.

New Photo Albums:

• ‘Burn Notice’ Episode 2.01 “Breaking and Entering” Screen Captures

While you wait for the season premiere to air, you might want to check out TV Guide’s Burn Notice Season 2-oriented article with some interesting details about the show and interview quotations from the series’ production team, including Tricia. Don’t worry, the article should be rid of any major spoilers. From TVGuide.com:

When presented with the opportunity to make the cast a party of five, Helfer enthusiastically signed on, even though it means whirlwind commutes to the Battlestar set in Vancouver while both shows are in production. “You can’t be a Cylon forever,” laughs the 34-year-old Canadian, who’ll soon shoot Battlestar’s series finale, due in 2009. “And I tell ya, we were starting to get to the point where we’d have to discuss how Cylons age. Because I don’t really look like I did five years ago.”

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In other news, the site revamp is coming along very well. I’m hoping to be able to launch the new site around the Season 2 premiere of Burn Notice (Jul 10), so please keep checking back! Thank you.

Here are some news tidbits on the aforementioned series, as revealed by the Chicago Tribune interview:

• Filming of Battlestar Galactica will in all likelihood wrap up this month, either on Jul 7, 10 or 12 (exact date varies with source), after which Tricia will return to Miami to shoot more Season 2 material for Burn Notice until October ‘08. While she keeps all Battlestar Galactica series’ finale secrets to herself, Tricia promises Red Eye Chicago the concluding episode will answer a lot questions.

• Tricia will appear as Carla in the first two episodes of Burn Notice, after which Carla again returns in the series’ mid-season finale, episode 9. Carla will also be featured in some of the post-hiatus episodes, but which these episodes are is yet to be revealed.

• Tricia confirms she has signed on to do Fox’s Inseparable pilot, for which filming takes place in August ‘08.

Press Links:

• Helfer of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ puts the sizzle in ‘Burn Notice’ (Chicago Tribune)
• Helfer on ‘Battlestar’ finale: It’s awesome (Red Eye Chicago)

Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Lost, Mad Men, The Tudors, The Wire.

Personally, I can’t say I agree with even half of these choices (and certainly not over Battlestar Galactica), but oh well…