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The Unit

Tue, Mar 7, 2006
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

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Cast

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  • Dennis Haysbert
    Dennis Haysbert
    as Jonas Blane
  • Regina Taylor
    Regina Taylor
    as Molly Blane
  • Scott Foley
    Scott Foley
    as Bob Brown
  • Audrey Marie Anderson
    Audrey Marie Anderson
    as Kim Brown
  • Max Martini
    Max Martini
    as Mack Gerhardt
  • Abby Brammell
    Abby Brammell
    as Tiffy Gerhardt
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Episodes

4 seasons · 69 episodes

Ended · 69 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    First Responders
    Aired · Wed, Mar 8, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit is a covert team of U.S. Special Forces operatives who must undertake missions around the world. The latest newcomer is Bob Brown who joins Jonas' team and they set out to rescue an airliner filled with European businessmen who have been hijacked by terrorists. Meanwhile, Bob's wife Kim is struggling with how much control the Unit has on her own personal life.

  • E2
    Stress
    Aired · Wed, Mar 15, 2006 · 60m

    The team, minus Bob, are in search of a fallen Chinese satellite. This quickly turns into an opportunity to capture one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Meanwhile, Bob is questioned about the Unit's role in the rescue of the hijacked plane. Molly decides to visit the Unit's psychiatrist about the shooting at her home. Kim is frustrating about moving and then comforts a woman who has just learned her husband has died in combat.

  • E3
    200th Hour
    Aired · Wed, Mar 22, 2006 · 60m

    Jonas attempts to rescue a group of American missionaries in hiding in Indonesia. However, he soon realizes the mission is going to take more manpower then he expected. At the base, Mac ends up being shot by Bob during a training exercise and Molly, Kim and Tiffy prepare to host a visiting senator.

  • E4
    True Believers
    Aired · Wed, Mar 29, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit is sent to Los Angeles to protect Mexico's drug minister who has been threatened with assassination and soon his wife and sons are kidnapped. At the base, a former Unit wife makes a return appearance in the hopes of luring the Unit members away. Tiffy is upset when Ryan orders Mack to take time off.

  • E5
    Non Permissive Environment
    Aired · Wed, Apr 5, 2006 · 60m

    Jonas and the team carry out an assasination of a terrorist in Spain. However, they soon find out that the government called off the mission and will now not protect them in the country which means there only hope is to escape. Back at the base, Molly learns that her daughter Betsy wants to drop out of college and Kim thinks about taking a college course herself.

  • E6
    Security
    Aired · Wed, Apr 12, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit must try to get a listening device to an agent inside the Iranian embassy where U.S., Iranian, and Russian diplomats are meeting. Many are speculating that the Russians are attempting to sell the Iranians material to make a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile at the base, Tom tries to end his affair with Tiffy but she won't listen to him and Kim notices Tiffy at a motel room and does not know what she should do.

  • E7
    Dedication
    Aired · Wed, Apr 19, 2006 · 60m

    The crew must fly to Afghanistan to assassinate a high ranking member of the Taliban. However, one of their team helicopters ends up going down in enemy territory, placing the entire crew in jeopardy. Back at the base, Molly confronts a friend and retired Unit veteran about his addiction to painkillers and Kim ends up getting a job at the local radio station.

  • E8
    SERE
    Aired · Wed, Apr 26, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit enters the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance Escape) training course and they are lead to believe that they will be guards. The group is soon shocked to discover that they are actually the POWs for an undetermined amount of time.

  • E9
    Eating the Young
    Aired · Wed, May 3, 2006 · 60m

    After an effort to buy the surface-to-air missiles from a drug lord falls through and the missiles disappear, Jonas and his team must track down the weapons before they are taken out of the country. Jonas bonds with a local boy who directs the team to where the SAMs have been taken to be shipped and now it is in the Unit's hands to destroy them. Meanwhile on the home front, Kim stirs up more trouble when she insists that the "Family Readiness Group" deals with more serious issues, and Williams struggles with how and when to tell the woman he wants to marry that he is a Unit member and not a clerk on base.

  • E10
    Unannounced
    Aired · Wed, May 10, 2006 · 60m

    After Bob gets his cover blown in Africa, he tells Jonas to cancel a visit a dignitary is taking to the area because of the danger. However, the official refuses and something shocking is quickly learned about why he really wants to go there. Meanwhile, Kim has an encounter while at the radio station and Molly gets offered a real estate opportunity.

  • E11
    Exposure
    Aired · Wed, May 10, 2006 · 60m

    Keith Soto returns to the base for a reunion and it's quickly discovered by Jonas and Col. Tom Ryan that he is a newspaper reporter who is writing an article that will expose the Unit. Jonas decides there is only one way to get him to not print the story. Meanwhile, with some help from Tiffy and Kim, Molly tracks down the woman who scammed $40,000 of the women's investment fund.

  • E12
    Morale, Welfare and Recreation
    Aired · Wed, May 17, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit is called in to consult on a bomb planted in an Atlanta bank, but they soon learn that the bomb might be nuclear. Meanwhile, Bob and Kim decide to take a much needed vacation, but Kim soon discovers that Bob has whisked her away on a mission and wants her to help him out.

  • E13
    The Wall
    Aired · Wed, May 17, 2006 · 60m

    The Unit ends up detaining a former Yugoslav general who was wanted for war crimes and then allows lets the U.N. take credit for their capture. However, the criminal soon escapes U.N. custody and he is now seeking retaliation against Jonas for capturing him. Meanwhile at the base, Tiffy is convinced that Mack has decided to re-up with the Unit and she's thinking of divorcing him, and Kim is the recipient of some disturbing news.

Season 2
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    Change of Station
    Aired · Wed, Sep 20, 2006 · 60m

    Mack and Tiffy prepare to leave the Unit, but she begins to feel conflicted when one of her former students, who claims to be physically abused, comes to her for help. The rest of the team are sent to Pakistan to prevent a plan to spread a deadly disease throughout the western world.

  • E2
    Extreme Rendition
    Aired · Wed, Sep 27, 2006 · 60m

    The team must help a rogue former Unit operator escape from a Bulgarian prison in order to have him help assassinate the world's leading arms dealer. On base, Molly takes a one time recruiting job to hire someone away from the Unit so she can put her sick mother in a nursing home.

  • E3
    The Kill Zone
    Aired · Wed, Oct 4, 2006 · 60m

    The team is sent to Paraguay to eliminate a militia rebel leader, but the mission is put on hold when they must rescue two operators trapped by a sniper. On base, the wives help the fiancée of a deceased Unit member gain custody of her two would be step-daughters.

  • E4
    Manhunt
    Aired · Wed, Oct 11, 2006 · 60m

    The team must find a terrorist who is planning to attack a nuclear waste train. On base, Kim becomes upset when she sees a strange man talking to her daughter, Serena, outside of school.

  • E5
    Force Majeure
    Aired · Wed, Oct 18, 2006 · 60m

    The team must evacuate an exiled dictator from an American hospital during a hurricane, but discover that other patients have been left behind. On base, Molly struggles over whether to honor Jeremy's request to be sent to Iraq and Tiffy and Mack decide to have another baby.

  • E6
    Old Home Week
    Aired · Wed, Nov 1, 2006 · 60m

    The team is sent to Africa on a mission to track down smuggled diamonds. On base, the wives organize "Old Home Week" to raise funds to help those in service in Iraq. Kim discovers an undelivered letter written by a soldier to someone he deeply loved, shortly before he was killed in action in 1944. She attempts to find the soldier's widow through his friend-in-arms and deliver the letter to her.

  • E7
    Off the Meter
    Aired · Wed, Nov 8, 2006 · 60m

    Jonas enlists Bob to take part in an unofficial operation to extract Ron Cheals' illegitimate daughter from a religious cult whose members are about to flee the U.S. On base, Tiffy covers forCharlotte Ryan when she is questioned by the police after she sees her driving erratically and discovers pills in her car.

  • E8
    Natural Selection
    Aired · Wed, Nov 15, 2006 · 60m

    Bob and his translator are stranded in the Russian wilderness after their helicopter crashes. As Bob fights to save his translator's life, he remembers his experience during Unit selection through a series of flashbacks.

  • E9
    Report by Exception
    Aired · Wed, Nov 22, 2006 · 60m

    The team are sent to assassinate a prominent Latin American official who threatens the U.S. oil supply, but the mission is made difficult for Jonas when the woman posing as his wife begins to take her role very seriously. Colonel Tom Ryan travels to Washington, D.C. and is questioned about the Unit's mission during a congressional briefing.

  • E10
    Bait
    Aired · Wed, Nov 29, 2006 · 60m

    Colonel Ryan is shut down by his contacts in Washington when Jonas becomes a prisoner of war in Georgia. Since his contacts refuse to cooperate with him, Colonel Ryan sends the team to rescue Jonas. On base, Tiffy learns she may face time in prison for her involvement in covering up Charlotte's reckless driving.

  • E11
    Silver Star
    Aired · Wed, Dec 13, 2006 · 60m

    Jonas' father is awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Korea. Jonas recalls his father's actions to his nephew, also a soldier, after he learns that his nephew beats his young wife. On base, Mack and Bob must help land a plane that has flown into a restricted area.

  • E12
    The Broom Cupboard
    Aired · Wed, Jan 17, 2007 · 60m

    The team is assigned to protect a U.S. Senator who plans to meet a rebel leader wanting to overthrow his government. Jonas receives a top secret mission from the President of the United States to evaluate the rebel leader. Molly, Tiffy, and Kim help Jeremy with a surprise engagement party for Crystal.

  • E13
    Sub-Conscious
    Aired · Wed, Feb 7, 2007 · 60m

    Kim is overheard discussing a dream she had which inexplicably contains secret details of the team's dangerous mission to North Korea. Colonel Ryan learns of the dream and believes Bob told Kim about the plan. Meanwhile, Jonas has to deal with the captain of a South Korean submarine.

  • E14
    Johnny B. Good
    Aired · Wed, Feb 7, 2007 · 60m

    The team is sent into Iran to deploy sensors for detecting nuclear weapons, but the mission becomes complicated when civilians become involved. On base, Tiffy considers whether she should help a soldier who went AWOL and Molly visits Jeremy in the burn unit. She becomes disappointed when Crystal does not come to visit him.

  • E15
    The Water is Wide
    Aired · Wed, Feb 14, 2007 · 60m

    The team is sent on a mission to protect a Middle Eastern dignitary at the United Nations, but must defuse a bomb found in the office of the U.N. Secretary General. Meanwhile, Molly and Tiffy visit Vietnam to honor the soldiers who fought there. On base, Crystal tries to seduce Mack and threatens to tell Tiffy about their relationship.

  • E16
    Games of Chance
    Aired · Wed, Feb 21, 2007 · 60m

    The team competes against other elite military forces from around the world in counter-terrorism games staged in Hamburg, Germany, but the games turn deadly when someone tries to use them to stage a real act of terrorism. Meanwhile, Kim meets a former boyfriend while on a business trip and learns that he is now a multimillionaire and recently divorced.

  • E17
    Dark of the Moon
    Aired · Wed, Feb 28, 2007 · 60m

    The team captures three Pakistani men from a Waziristan village to take in for questioning, but they are pursued by the local militia. After arriving at an Army support base in a remote area of Afghanistan, the team find the base in a state of disarray and must prepare the troops against an attack from the militia.

  • E18
    Two Coins
    Aired · Wed, Mar 21, 2007 · 60m

    Grey becomes involved in a relationship with a female Israeli soldier when the team travels to Israel to study advanced desert warfare. When the two go off into the desert alone, they become surrounded by hostile Arab militia. On base, Tiffy stumbles upon a windfall which makes her question her motives.

  • E19
    Outsiders
    Aired · Wed, Apr 4, 2007 · 60m

    Brown and Williams are sent to Papua New Guinea to retrieve an aircraft's black box. Back on base, Mack discovers that Crystal may be talking to a reporter about the Unit.

  • E20
    In Loco Parentis
    Aired · Wed, Apr 11, 2007 · 60m

    The team must work with a SWAT unit to rescue the students of an elite international private school in the Washington suburbs who have been taken hostage by unknown captors. On base, Lissy becomes interested in the son of an Officer.

  • E21
    Bedfellows
    Aired · Wed, Apr 25, 2007 · 60m

    Bob's loyalty to Jonas and the Unit is challenged when he is recruited to work with the CIA on a covert mission. On base, Mack becomes convinced that Tiffy is having an affair.

  • E22
    Freefall
    Aired · Wed, May 2, 2007 · 60m

    Mack, Grey and Williams protect a Thai prince on American soil and uncover scandalous family secrets that include murder. Meanwhile, Bob's life is endangered when a parachute jump goes awry.

  • E23
    Paradise Lost
    Aired · Wed, May 9, 2007 · 60m

    The team is investigated by a government agency that is probing into possible infractions that could result in criminal charges. Mack confronts Tiffy about Wilson and the CIA continues to try and recruit Bob.

Season 3
11 episodes · 11 aired
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  • E1
    Pandemonium, Part 1
    Aired · Wed, Sep 26, 2007 · 60m

    The team is in shambles as Jonas runs from a deadly assassin; Bob may be secretly reporting to another agency; and Ryan tries to put them back together. Part one of the two part season premiere.

  • E2
    Pandemonium, Part 2
    Aired · Wed, Oct 3, 2007 · 60m

    Jonas needs to uncover the conspiracy that has torn the team apart to bring them back together and clear Col. Tom Ryan's name; while Kim keeps the other wives safe from CIA scrutiny.

  • E3
    Always Kiss Them Goodbye
    Aired · Wed, Oct 10, 2007 · 60m

    The reunited team races to stop a plane armed with a deadly nerve gas aimed at Ft. Griffith; and Kim is ordered to broadcast a fake weather report from her radio station to get all personnel to take cover.

  • E4
    Every Step You Take
    Aired · Wed, Oct 17, 2007 · 60m

    Bob, Williams, and Grey are charged with rescuing a group of Embassy personnel and their families who under attack in Abidjan; while Jonas tests his daughter's strength and conviction when she decides to enlist.

  • E5
    Inside Out
    Aired · Wed, Oct 24, 2007 · 60m

    As the team works to recover a chip with invaluable information that could prevent a possible terrorist attack, a pregnant Kim is sent to bed rest and Bob proves inept at childcare.

  • E6
    M.Ps
    Aired · Wed, Oct 31, 2007 · 60m

    Jonas, Mack and Grey have their hands full keeping a pop diva safe from harm while Bob and a Justice Department escort face extreme danger as they return a prisoner to his own country to face his execution.

  • E7
    Five Brothers
    Aired · Wed, Nov 7, 2007 · 60m

    Jonas and Williams perform emergency battlefield surgery on Grey in an effort to keep him alive after he is critically injured during a mission...then must endure the teams's most devastating loss.

  • E8
    Play 16
    Aired · Wed, Nov 14, 2007 · 60m

    Jonas seeks revenge for the murder of his fallen colleague, Brown deals with a rescued journalist to be sure he doesn't betray them, and the team copes with William's death.

  • E9
    Binary Explosion
    Aired · Wed, Nov 21, 2007 · 60m

    Jonas and Bob watch from the outside as Grey gathers information on gang members he knows from his past who are stealing weapons and deadly explosives that could wind up in the wrong hands.

  • E10
    Gone Missing
    Aired · Wed, Nov 28, 2007 · 60m

    Bob's moral conflict over the team's deadly tasks distracts him during a sniper mission, putting the whole team at risk.

  • E11
    Side Angle Slide
    Aired · Wed, Dec 19, 2007 · 60m

    As Jonas works with a British agent, he realizes that the agent may also have connections to the scientist they are tracking. Back home, Kim tries to help a desperate woman who has called in to her radio show.

Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Sacrifice
    Aired · Mon, Sep 29, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E2
    Sudden Flight
    Aired · Mon, Oct 6, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    Sex Trade
    Aired · Mon, Oct 13, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E4
    The Conduit
    Aired · Mon, Oct 20, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    Dancing Lessons
    Aired · Mon, Oct 27, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    Inquisition
    Aired · Mon, Nov 3, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E7
    Into Hell, Part 1
    Aired · Mon, Nov 10, 2008 · 60m

    When Betsy Blane is taken hostage, Jonas and his team go to Iraq and begin their plan to rescue her. On the home front, Mack works on making Ryan pay for having an affair with Tiffy.

  • E8
    Into Hell, Part 2
    Aired · Mon, Nov 17, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    Shadow Riders
    Aired · Mon, Nov 24, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    Mislead and Misguided
    Aired · Mon, Dec 1, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E11
    Switchblade
    Aired · Mon, Dec 22, 2008 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Bad Beat
    Aired · Mon, Jan 5, 2009 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    The Spear of Destiny
    Aired · Mon, Jan 12, 2009 · 60m

    Jonas and a seriously wounded Mack take refuge in a monastery where he is ordered to steal the monk's most prized possession.

  • E14
    The Last Nazi
    Aired · Mon, Feb 16, 2009 · 60m

    The unit is assigned 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.

  • E15
    Hero
    Aired · Mon, Mar 9, 2009 · 60m

    As Jonas coaches Betsy before her military-ordered media tour, the Unit initiates a new team member.

  • E16
    Hill 60
    Aired · Mon, Mar 16, 2009 · 60m

    Without any communication to the outside world, the Unit and their families must survive when a deadly gas poisons anyone in their community who steps outside.

  • E17
    Flesh & Blood
    Aired · Mon, Mar 23, 2009 · 60m

    Time is running out for the Unit when a broken helicopter gas tank and nearby guerillas impede their rescue mission of Jonas's old friend.

  • E18
    Best Laid Plans
    Aired · Mon, Mar 30, 2009 · 60m

    When Jonas and Mack go undercover to find the terrorists who killed the Vice President, the mission's plans go awry and Bob must run interference.

  • E19
    Whiplash
    Aired · Mon, Apr 13, 2009 · 60m

    The Unit hunts down one of their own after Sam attacks Bridget.

  • E20
    Chaos Theory
    Aired · Mon, Apr 27, 2009 · 60m

    A random incident throws Jonas and Bob's carefully planned mission into chaos.

  • E21
    Endgame
    Aired · Mon, May 4, 2009 · 60m

    While Jonas is tracking down a Russian terrorist cell, Molly is used as bait.

  • E22
    Unknown Soldier
    Aired · Mon, May 11, 2009 · 60m

    The Unit must locate and diffuse three sets of dirty bombs headed for unknown locations across the United States.