The Unit

2006
4.8
26 reviews
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Season 4 episodes (22)

1 Sacrifice
28/9/08
Season-only
Jonas and the team are assigned the task of unraveling an assassination plot involving high government officials at the same time as the women are being secretly relocated from the base for their own safety.
2 Sudden Flight
5/10/08
Season-only
The team follows a scientist on a commercial flight, who they believe will be the next target of terrorists they hope to link to a presidential assassination plot at the same time as their wives are relocated and given new identities back home.
3 Sex Trade
12/10/08
Season-only
Jonas vows to help save a group of girls who are being trafficked as sex slaves by the man he hopes will lead the team to a nuclear weapons smuggler they are trying to find.
4 The Conduit
19/10/08
Season-only
Bob is held hostage by a drug cartel after he poses as a chemist who can turn cocaine into paint for easy smuggling. Meanwhile, Mack penetrates the group posing as a prize fighter in an illegal betting ring to help bring them down.
5 Dancing Lessons
26/10/08
Season-only
A nuclear scientist insists on making a deal with the team before he will reveal vital information about a terrorist attack in a major U.S. city. Back home, Molly, Kim and Tiffy are drafted into service to work undercover with Jonas.
6 Inquisition
2/11/08
Season-only
The team produces fake evidence of an attack to con a terrorist into exposing his accomplices before the truth comes out and they can get away. At home, Mack wants Tiffy to reveal details about her relationship with Ryan.
7 Into Hell - Part 1
9/11/08
Season-only
Jonas and the team make getting his daughter, Betsy, returned their top priority when she is kidnapped in Iraq. Also, Mack is considering his revenge toward Ryan for having an affair with Tiffy.
8 Into Hell - Part 2
16/11/08
Season-only
While Jonas and the team continue to try to rescue his daughter, Betsy Blane, from Syrian captors, Mack has the opportunity to carry out his revenge on Ryan for his affair with Tiffy.
9 Shadow Riders
23/11/08
Season-only
Jonas and the team must go through enemy territory to bring a young bride to her groom in order to preserve a truce between two warring Afghanistan tribes. At home, Bob and Kim work together to expose a man who is linked to terrorists.
10 Misled and Misguided
30/11/08
Season-only
The team's efforts to raid an anthrax lab are thwarted by an official who thinks his high-tech intelligence is superior to their field logic. At home, Kim's life is in danger when her boss commits a murder and forces her to help get rid of the body.
11 Switchblade
21/12/08
Season-only
Jonas and the team make a Dept. of Defense official, whose bad judgment caused a mission to fail, go on an assignment with them where he will experience the realities of war first hand. Back home, Kim is secretly reunited with her children.
12 Bad Beat
4/1/09
Season-only
Jonas plays a game of high stakes baccarat to win back the services of a CIA spy who has gone over to the other side. His success is also key in getting court martial charges against team member Bridget Sullivan dismissed.
13 The Spear of Destiny
11/1/09
Season-only
Jonas and a seriously wounded Mack take refuge in a monastery where he is ordered to steal the monks' most prized possession. Back home, Bob is asked to perform a dangerous mission that will reveal the darkest side of his job to Kim.
14 The Last Nazi
15/2/09
Season-only
The President orders the unit to capture a Nazi war criminal from his hiding place and deliver him to The Hague. In Washington, Tom Ryan confronts his past when he is offered a promotion to General.
15 Hero
8/3/09
Season-only
As Jonas coaches Betsy before her military-ordered media tour, the Unit initiates a new team member.
16 Hill 60
15/3/09
Season-only
Unable to communicate with the outside world, the Unit and their families must survive when a deadly gas poisons anyone in their community who steps outside.
17 Flesh & Blood
22/3/09
Season-only
As the Unit fights to rescue Jonas's old friend, a broken helicopter gas tank and nearby guerillas impede their mission. Meanwhile, Tom goes to extreme measures to extract information from a recovering alcoholic whose husband may have been behind a terrorist attack.
18 Best Laid Plans
29/3/09
Season-only
The mission's plans go awry and Bob must run interference when Jonas and Mack are undercover to find the terrorists who killed the Vice President.
19 Whiplash
12/4/09
Season-only
When Sam attacks Bridget, the other members of the Unit must hunt him down.
20 Chaos Theory
26/4/09
Season-only
A random incident throws Jonas and Bob's carefully planned mission into chaos.
21 Endgame
3/5/09
Season-only
While Jonas is tracking down a Russian terrorist cell, a kidnapped Molly is used as bait.
22 Unknown Soldier
10/5/09
Season-only
The Unit must locate and diffuse three sets of dirty bombs headed for unknown locations across the United States.  Meanwhile, the team prepares for a wedding of one couple and the end of a marriage for another.

About this show

THE UNIT is an action drama that follows a covert team of special forces operatives as they risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
26 reviews
Ben Wong
27 May 2016
Not just a shoot em up. Quite a lot of creative scenarios with no use of firearms at all. And yet gripping viewing. A lot of accurate reflections of dealing with big government, and the layer upon layer of inane bureaucracy.
Cam Macintosh
18 June 2020
Loved this show when it was airing live. Great characters, short term and long term plot, you develop familiarisation as the story grows, few big twists but in the end sound writing and easy viewing.
Jonathan Romanov IX
4 February 2021
I Love this mini Series I thought it was a great viewing platform of getting those interested into the military. But is was a great sadness when CBS had asked for all of its shows to reduce their budgets. The Unit is actually already cheaper to produce than it looks. Shot primarily in Southern California, it costs less than $3 million per episode to produce but it was still cancelled the final Fifth Season which would have closed up all the unanswered questions the completed script now sits on a shelf collecting dust and maybe one day they will redo this miniseries from beggining to end of season 5.