The Unit (Season 4) [R]

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The new season begins on Sunday, September 28th and will air regularly on Sundays now.

The show (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/) went from being a pretty good show throughout its first two seasons to improving quite a bit near the end of that second season to airing an absolute humdinger of a cliffhanger season finale and subsequent season premiere to literally being the series I looked forward to watching the most each week last season until the Writers' Strike cut it short by December (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13494204&postcount=46).

I can't wait to see (among other things) whether the Unit will finally replace the late Hector and if Molly's imprisoned father eventually finds his way to the army base. :eek:


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[Goodsport]

It'll also be interesting to see what Mack will do now that he seems to know that there's been something going on between Colonel Ryan and Mack's wife Tiffany. :eek:

In any case, here (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/video/video.php?cid=544192186&pid=6Tt3F5v8z76BDntp4rmEyBLZBU1QGUkM&play=true&cc=1) is the one-minute trailer for the season premiere.


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[Foosinho]

Less soap opera, more blowing shit up, please.

[Goodsport]

Season premiere tonight! :D

What's particularly notable is that unlike many other shows that returned to production shortly after the end of the Writers' Strike, this'll be the show's first new episode in nearly a full calendar year. :eek:


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[Foosinho]

Holy crap, that was a fantastic episode.

[Goodsport]

Holy crap, that was a fantastic episode.

Abso-friggin'-lutely! What a way (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/recaps/401/) to start the season (which you can watch again here (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/video/video.php?cid=446409735&pid=W9kxLAHowMdrlkJYXNnMTfle2rukL0KS&play=true&cc=0))! :eek:

As with last season, this is absolutely one of the must-see shows of the season. :cool:

Next week: The Unit members pose as regular passengers on a foreign commercial flight to follow a nuclear scientist whom they believe is the next target of the terrorists that assassinated the Vice President and the Vice President-elect (and attempted to kill the President and the President-elect).


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[Moishe]

Very good first episode. Right off the bat the tension mounts.

[Goodsport]

Very good first episode. Right off the bat the tension mounts.

That's something the show didn't do quite so well in its second-season premiere but did really well in its second-season finale/third-season premiere, and again for this season's premiere.


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[Goodsport]

A pretty good episode last night. The action was a bit more restrained compared to the season premiere (which is wont to happen when the Unit members have to blend in with airplane passengers during a hijacking), but in the end they got the situation under control and got the nuclear scientist and his notes delivered safely. :cool:

Perhaps troubling for the Unit are the still-unanswered issues of who hired the hijackers and whether they were connected to the attackers from last week's episode, what they wanted with the scientist and his notes, and who tipped off the hijackers to the planned assault of the plane as it was to land in Mexico City.

At the home front, the relocated families have a hard time adjusting to their new identities at their new digs in Sierra Ridge, California, particularly with Kim desperately wanting to see her children in Texas and Tiffy not being able to control hers (as well as later finding out who her new neighbors really are).

Next week: The Unit members are on another mission while the wives seemingly discover that being relocated to Sierra Ridge was more than just a coincidence.


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[Goodsport]

I can't believe that it took me until now to watch the latest episode from my HD-DVR. :eek: It's been a hectic week.

Anyway, an interesting episode involving the Unit's mission to obtain plutonium from a smuggler in Pristina, Kosovo, and to save the girls the local contact forces in trafficking in the sex trade. In the end, they were able to obtain the plutonium but couldn't save the girls. :(

Meanwhile, the mysterious dying radiation expert who helped Colonel Ryan throughout the mission still didn't reveal who had ultimately hired him (at least not by the end of the episode).

Also, teacher Tiffy got blackmailed by a male high school senior, who then (with the help of her older daughter Lizzie) turned the tables on him. Meanwhile, Kim received a babysitting job in which she eventually found a copy of the "company" brochure that shouldn't have been there.

Next week: The Unit members go on yet another mission while Mack & Tiffy's oldest daughter apparently goes "homicidal" at school.


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[Goodsport]

A pretty good episode this week involving Bob, Jonas and Grey posing as university chemists to infiltrate a Columbian drug cartel that wanted the "chemists" to fuse cocaine into airline paint, with the painted planes then flying into the U.S. so that the paint could then be stripped and the cocaine extrapolated. They succeeded in fusing the cocaine into the paint, but then destroyed the evidence and captured one of the cartel's leaders in the firefight during the escape from the compound.

Meanwhile, Mack posed as an Australian cockfighter in Columbia to get close to one of the other of the cartel's leaders, eventually succeeding in capturing him as well.

However, the extractions ultimately failed because the leader the trio had caught got fatally shot during the escape, while Colonel Ryan couldn't get the proper senatorial signature in time before the submarine that was to pick up Mack and his captured cartel leader aborted the pick up, forcing Mack to discreetly kill the leader and abandon him in the vehicle on the beach.

Also, the wives barely fended off Lissy's school principal when she got too close to discovering and exposing Lissy's and her mother's true identities.

Next week: the wives are apparently somehow given an official mission.


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[Goodsport]

This week's episode had the wives and Jonas go undercover to retrieve intel on suspected members of the community they've been hiding in.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Unit extracted the family of the bedridden radiation expert that was rescued by the Unit from the airplane hijackers a few episodes ago (and who helped them during their mission in Kosovo soon afterward), who were unknowingly held hostage at a Mexican resort by the terrorists that the expert was working for. Successfully extracting the family led to the expert revealing the location of the poison water filtration system that was to be used for a reservoir somewhere in the U.S., but thankfully was stopped in time.

Next week: Mack confronts Tiffy about her infidelity while the rest of the Unit searches for a bomb.


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[Moishe]

....and to thicken the plot Molly goes off the reservation thus defying Jonas and Colonel Ryan.

[Goodsport]

....and to thicken the plot Molly goes off the reservation thus defying Jonas and Colonel Ryan.

I'm sure that Jonas learned the hard way by not simply letting go of his first mission after it was over. I guess it's now her turn... :D


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[Goodsport]

This week's episode had the Unit (except Mack) both successfully diffuse a bomb they found in the Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston and deceive a detained terrorist into killing his own terrorist cell head.

Meanwhile, Mack confronted Tiffy about her infidelity with Colonel Ryan after first admitting to his own with Crystal Burns (from Season 2) and with a few other unnamed women overseas. They eventually forgave each other, though Mack still hadn't forgiven Colonel Ryan.

Also, Molly and Kim clandestinely obtained a blue envelope handed between two of the community members they'd collected intel on during last week's episode, much to Colonel Ryan's chagrin.

Next week: Mack finally confronts Colonel Ryan about his affair with Tiffy, the rest of the Unit attempt to rescue Jonas' and Molly's kidnapped daughter, and an angry Molly hits Tiffy for some reason.


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[Goodsport]

This week's episode featured the Unit operators' clandestine trial of Colonel Ryan, Jonas' and Molly's daughter Betsy and her convoy captured in an ambush in Iraq, the Unit's mission to rescue her and her convoy mates, Molly's unsuccessful attempt at sending a message to her daughter on the local TV news station and Mack confronting Colonel Ryan in the middle of the mission.

Next week: the Unit enters Syria against orders to rescue Betsy and Colonel Ryan from their captors.


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[Goodsport]

This last week, the Unit crossed into Syria and found where Colonel Ryan and Betsy were being held captive. After successfully rescuing them, Mack administered his punishment on Colonel Ryan but ended up just short of killing him.

Next week: Kim further infiltrates her babysitting employer's house for the Unit to find evidence that he's indeed laundering money for the terrorists responsible for the attacks in the season premiere.


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[Foosinho]

It drives me nuts how dumb the women act on this show sometimes. Especially Molly over the past two episodes. She's smarter than that, and yet... she honestly believes getting on TV, compromising her cover (and her family's safety, as well as the rest of the Unit's!), and begging for her daughter's life would actually make a difference? C'mon.

[Goodsport]

It drives me nuts how dumb the women act on this show sometimes. Especially Molly over the past two episodes. She's smarter than that, and yet... she honestly believes getting on TV, compromising her cover (and her family's safety, as well as the rest of the Unit's!), and begging for her daughter's life would actually make a difference? C'mon.

Could it be that Molly was so emotional over her daughter's capture that it pretty much took over her rational thinking? :confused:


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[Foosinho]

Could it be that Molly was so emotional over her daughter's capture that it pretty much took over her rational thinking? :confused:


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That's probably a reasonable rationale, but that did not seem to be how they were playing it, and even if it was, she's normally stoic, strong, and level headed.

Kim also has a propensity for boneheadedness.