The Unit

TV Show (2006 - 2008)

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Synopsis:

Special forces operatives tackle missions around the world.

Cast:

Dennis Haysbert as Jonas Blane, Scott Foley as Bob Brown, Robert Patrick as Thomas Ryan, Regina Taylor as Molly Blane, Max Martini as Mack Gerhardt, Michael Irby as Charles Grey, Demore Barnes as Hector Williams, Abby Brammell as Tiffy Gerhardt, Audrey Marie Anderson as Kim Brown

Credits:

David Mamet - Executive-Producer, Shawn Ryan - Executive-Producer

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Episode Guide

Season 4 - The Unit

Season 4 Episode 3: Sex Trade (2008) Next on: Sunday 12th October 7:00pm PDT - KTVT (CBS) Jonas learns that the team's main contact in its search to find a nuclear weapons smuggler is also selling young girls as sex slaves.
Season 4 Episode 2: Sudden Flight (2008) The team follows a scientist who may have been targeted by terrorists, hoping to link those same terrorists to a presidential assassination plot.
Season 4 Episode 1: Sacrifice (2008) While women are being secretly relocated and moved off the base for their own safety, Jonas and the team must unravel an assassination plot against the vice president and president elect.

Season 3 - The Unit

Season 3 Episode 11: Side Angle Side (2007) Jonas realizes that the British agent with whom he is working may have connections to the scientist they are tracking; Kim tries to help a desperate woman who has called her radio show.
Season 3 Episode 10: Gone Missing (2007) Bob suffers a crisis of conscience at a time that threatens a mission, while Molly is troubled by a dark secret from her past
Season 3 Episode 9: Binary Explosion (2007) Grey gathers information on gang members from his past who are stealing weapons and explosives that could wind up in the wrong hands.
Season 3 Episode 8: Play 16 (2007) Jonas embarks on a solo mission to take down a terrorist known as the Butcher, and enlists the help of local militants to find his target
Season 3 Episode 7: Five Brothers (2007) Grey is critically wounded during a mission in Lebanon, forcing Jonas and Williams to perform emergency surgery
Season 3 Episode 6: M.P.s (2007) Jonas is joined by Mack and Grey on an assignment to protect a female pop star who is visiting Iraq to entertain the troops. Bob returns a prisoner to his own country
Season 3 Episode 5: Inside Out (2007) The team works to recover a chip with information that may prevent a terrorist attack; pregnant Kim must rest; Bob proves inept at child care.
Season 3 Episode 4: Every Step You Take (2007) The team are sent to rescue personnel and their families when violence erupts near the American Embassy in Abidjan. Drama, starring Dennis Haysbert
Season 3 Episode 3: Always Kiss Them Goodbye (2007) Kim fakes a weather report from her radio station to get all personnel to take cover as the team races to stop plane armed with deadly nerve gas headed for Fort Griffith.
Season 3 Episode 2: Pandemonium, Part Two (2007) Concluding the two-part series opener. Jonas devises a plan to reunite the team and restore their credibility, while Kim tries to keep the CIA away from the other wives
Season 3 Episode 1: Pandemonium, Part One (2007) New series of the special forces drama. Jonas remains in hiding, while Hector and Mark languish in jail. Bob is on a CIA mission to Mexico, and Col Ryan faces a Congressional hearing

Season 2 - The Unit

Season 2 Episode 23: Paradise Lost (2007) The team face a tough test when they are investigated by the government, and dubious answers put the unit in jeopardy. Last in series
Season 2 Episode 22: Freefall (2007) Mack, Grey and Williams perform bodyguard duty for a visiting Thai prince, while a mission goes awry for Bob when his parachute fails to open
Season 2 Episode 21: Bedfellows (2007) The team track down a criminal in Belarus, but Bob faces a difficult decision when the CIA pressure him into changing the mission parameters without Jonas's consent
Season 2 Episode 20: In Loco Parentis (2007) A prominent school in Virginia is overrun by gunmen - leaving the team deciding how to free the hostages without endangering their lives
Season 2 Episode 19: The Outsiders (2007) Bob and Hector are sent to retrieve an aircraft's black box from New Guinea, but it is located on sacred ground - forcing them to win the acceptance of local tribes
Season 2 Episode 18: Two Coins (2007) Charles becomes interested in a sergeant when the team learn anti-terror tactics in Israel - but his involvement with the woman leads to a dangerous situation
Season 2 Episode 17: Dark of The Moon (2007) Three suspected terrorists are tracked down in Pakistan - until the team run into trouble with the local forces. The unit discover an American base and prepare it for impending attacks
Season 2 Episode 16: Games of Chance (2007) The team participate in a competition with other Special Forces units, but one of the group members takes the challenge a little too far. Kim visits Utah to save her job - and meets an ex-lover
Season 2 Episode 15: The Water Is Wide (2007) In New York the team protect a foreign dignitary in the United Nations building, while Molly and Tiffy visit Vietnam to pay tribute to the soldiers who fought there
Season 2 Episode 14: Johnny B Goode (2007) When things go awry during an Iranian mission, Mack must decide whether to leave their guide behind to be tortured or to kill her himself; wounded Jeremy has Molly at his bedside.
Season 2 Episode 13: Sub Concious (2007) The team take control of a South Korean submarine to assist in the defection of a scientist from the north. Back home, Kim has a dream that suspiciously mirrors the mission, leading Ryan to accuse Bob of telling her about the plan
Season 2 Episode 12: The Broom Cupboard (2007) Jonas is assigned to protect an American senator during a humanitarian mission in Asia, but the real reasons for her visit quickly become apparent when her host is revealed to be a general seeking American support for a coup. Back home, Molly, Kim and Tiffy join Jeremy in planning a surprise for Crystal
Season 2 Episode 11: Silver Star (2006) At a celebration honoring his father, Jonas witnesses some disturbing behavior by his nephew; Mack must identify a mysterious passenger (Ed O'Neill) aboard a plane in restricted airspace.
Season 2 Episode 10: Bait (2006) Jonah lands himself in a difficult situation in the Democratic Republic of Georgia, and Tiffy continues with her legal battle
Season 2 Episode 9: Report by Exception (2006) Jonas is sent undercover when a South American official threatens the US oil supply, and Colonel Ryan is scrutinised by a congressional committee
Season 2 Episode 8: Natural Selection (2006) Bob struggles to keep himself and his translator alive after their helicopter crashes in Siberia, and reminisces about how he became a member of the Unit
Season 2 Episode 7: Off the Meter (2006) Jonas and Bob try to save Ron Cheals' illegitimate daughter from a cult, but it puts the two Unit members in jeopardy of losing their jobs, reputations and more.
Season 2 Episode 6: Old Home Week (2006) Bob sees a fellow Unit member pocket some smuggled diamonds that the team was sent to intercept; the ladies of the Unit organize 'Old Home Week' to raise funds to help those serving in Iraq.
Season 2 Episode 5: Force Majeure (2006) During a hurricane, the Unit must choose between saving a hospitalized African dictator or 10 patients left behind during the facility's evacuation.
Season 2 Episode 4: Manhunt (2006) The Unit must hunt down and stop a wanted terrorist with an attack plan; the Unit wives worry that a stranger is putting their families in danger.
Season 2 Episode 3: The Kill Zone (2006) Two of the team are trapped by snipers, causing a mission in South America to be suspended while their comrades try to rescue them. The soldiers' wives rally round to help one of their number who was widowed by the job
Season 2 Episode 2: Extreme Rendition (2006) A former Unit operator must be rescued from a Bulgarian prison if the team is to find a leading arms dealer. Desperate for money, Molly takes a job as a headhunter for a mercenary corporation
Season 2 Episode 1: Change of Station (2006) The team help an undercover operative foil a large-scale terrorist plot in Pakistan, Molly helps Tiffy assist one of her former students and Kim and Bob welcome the newest member of their family

Season 1 - The Unit

Season 1 Episode 13: The Wall (2006) A war criminal from the former Yugoslavia is captured by the Unit, but allow the UN to take the credit - only for him to escape and seek vengeance against Jonas. Back home, Tiffy becomes convinced Mack has decided to re-enlist with the Unit and considers the prospect of a divorce. Last in series of the Special Forces drama
Season 1 Episode 12: Morale, Welfare and Recreation (2006) The team are called to help defuse a bomb found in an Atlanta bank, but quickly realise the device may be nuclear. Bob and Kim take a much-needed holiday, but she soon realises she has been duped into joining him on a mission. Drama, starring Scott Foley and Audrey Marie Anderson
Season 1 Episode 11: Exposure (2006) The son of a former unit member returns to base for a reunion, but Jonas discovers he is now a newspaper reporter working on a story that threatens the secrecy of the team.
Season 1 Episode 10: Unannounced (2006) Jonas faces a difficult situation when a dignitary refuses to follow his security recommendation to cancel an African visit, and is shocked when he realises the VIP's true motives. Kim has an encounter at the radio station and Molly receives an offer of a real estate opportunity
Season 1 Episode 9: Eating the Young (2006) Jonas and the team travel to Brazil to track down some surface-to-air missiles, while Kim becomes unpopular at the base. Drama, starring Demore Barnes and Robert Patrick
Season 1 Episode 8: SERE (2006) A few surprises are in store for the team, when they take part in a specialist training exercise
Season 1 Episode 7: Dedication (2006) The team are forced to make an emergency landing on enemy territory when they are on their way to assassinate a senior member of the Taliban
Season 1 Episode 6: Security (2006) The covert team tries to plant a listening device inside the Iranian embassy to help them to prevent the trade of nuclear weapons
Season 1 Episode 5: Non-Permissive Environment (2006) The team conduct an assassination at the behest of the Spanish government, but soon find the official sanction has been revoked, forcing them to flee the country
Season 1 Episode 4: True Believers (2006) The team must protect the Mexican drug minister, targeted for death by a cartel, during an official visit to Los Angeles: a task that becomes more difficult when the man's family is kidnapped.
Season 1 Episode 3: 200th Hour (2006) Jonas attempts to rescue a group of missionaries from Indonesia but soon finds himself outmanned. Plus, Molly, Kim and Tiffy welcome a visiting senator, and Mack is shot in training
Season 1 Episode 2: Stress (2006) While the team go in search of a fallen Chinese satellite, Bob is questioned about the unit's role in the rescue of a hijacked plane. Molly visits a psychiatrist, and Kim comforts the wife of a man who died in combat. Drama, starring Demore Barnes
Season 1 Episode 1: First Responders (2006) Drama about a covert team of US Special Forces operatives who take on missions around the world. The newest addition to the team sets out on his first assignment, as his wife struggles to deal with the lack of privacy her husband's job has created for them