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11 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Fri, Aug 17, 201248 mins
Season 3 finds Scott and the mysterious agent Rachel Dalton in the Kenyan desert securing the transfer of a Libyan functionary seeking asylum. Back in Britain, Stonebridge is training Section 20 recruits. Nothing goes as planned for either of them.

Episode 2
Fri, Aug 17, 201247 mins
Stonebridge learns about his mate's failed operation and volunteers to rescue him at extreme peril for Section 20, including Rachel, who now reveals being a military intelligence captain on a mission to retrieve at all costs the nuclear detonators the Libyan sold to the Somali war lord. Damien survives torture from war lord Waabri, a former London-trained boxer. Stonebridge and Rachel pulls off his rescue, with pussyfooting assistance from the Section and very belated African Union intervention, but diplomat Patrick Burton is fatally shot and the detonators lost. The mercenary hired to buy them from the Libyan reports to his South African employer. Jake's surviving brother, sniper Craig, kills Stonebridge's wife there.

Episode 3
Fri, Aug 24, 201248 mins
Sergeant Michael Stonebridge is allowed to cut short his therapy for Craig Hanson's sniper-murder on his wife when Damien accepts to be his partner again. Section 20 resumes the hunt for the nuclear detonators, which have been traced to Niger. The duo nearly dies in a failed retrieval because of US air revenge for a CIA plan being shot down by fundamentalist Muslim rebels. They get caught, without armed backup, between nomadic Touareg independence fighters, who captured Othmami, the man who eluded them in the capital with the triggers, and El Soldat's Islamist guerrilla force from over the Algerian border, who 'cheat' bloodily at an auction. The quest shifts into the Algerian Hogar desert, with apparently innocent locals caught up.

Episode 4
Fri, Aug 31, 201248 mins
Mike, Damien, hostage and locals are stranded in the Hoggar desert, where no help can be provided against El Soldat's approaching guerrilla force. Section command does however work out that Othmani is El Soldat's brother and treason may be the key to the whole situation, but it turns out more people have double faces. After surviving the superior assault, the duo has to concede the detonators to South African Conrad Knox's US mercenary henchman Karl Matlock, so Mike and mates return to Cape Town, practically his wife's murder site.

Episode 5
Fri, Sep 7, 201247 mins
Having failed to keep the detonators from falling into Karl Matlock's hands, Section 20 hopes to catch him and prevent him from recruiting Dr. peter Evans, who turns out to be an undercover nuclear scientist blackmails with his kidnapped offspring. The Cape Town police proves rather uncooperative i practice, also due to Conrad Knox's cloud. Mike, in mourning, is shortly distracted, Damien was seduced by Mosad agent Rebecca and tries to redeem himself by fielding former US comrade in arms Curtis, only to see him shot without success.

Episode 6
Fri, Sep 14, 201247 mins
Section 20's research finally works out that the 'pacifist' African foundation headed by Conrad Knox's daughter Ava also serves as a front to deal in confiscated rebel weapons, his political connections are a mighty problem. Still obsessed with his wife's killer, Craig Hanson, who now heads Knox's security, Mike is distracted long enough for nuclear scientist Evans to be captured. He and Damien give chase and intrude the Knox Cape Town compound, while the old man escapes. Damien's Mosad lover chooses country over love and justice.

Episode 7
Fri, Sep 21, 201247 mins
Having lost Karl Matlock's trail and hence the nuclear detonators, the team focuses on his boss Conrad Knox. He sent Matlock's commando team to free from Harare's jail Zimbabwean opposition leader Walter Lutulu. After Damien consults his CIA friend Christy Bryant, major Oliver Sinclair is caught trying to find and defend his daughter Lilian Lutulu, imprisoned with a Section 20 party after the South Africans expel them and is executed. Mike and Damien manage to join and protect Lilian, a humanitarian lawyer. Knox's expert needs more time to assemble the nuclear warheads.

Episode 8
Fri, Sep 28, 201247 mins
After Walter Lutulu learned about Knox's plans and refused to play along, he was murdered by a mob covering Matlock's men. Daughter Lilian soon decides to counter the plot by taking his place as opposition leader. Section concentrates again on their key mission, retrieving the nuclear detonators, by now assembled into four bombs at Knox's disposal. A raid on his camp is a partial success. Christy Bryant continues her dirty game.

Episode 9
Sat, Oct 6, 201247 mins
Stonebridge fears he can't control his obsession with the man who killed his wife. With a nuke en route for delivery, the team races to intervene with explosive consequences for an entire village. Christian Lucas, a local lawyer who arranged for the delivery, gets pressured to make amends by the terrorist gang who paid him to set up the deal. Section 20 races to save him and his family. Meanwhile, Stonebridge gets his chance to avenge the death of his wife, but can he pull the trigger? Damien still hopes on collaboration with CIA agent Christy, but he knows from experience he can never really trust her.

Episode 10
Sat, Oct 13, 201248 mins
Damien has to choose between vengeance and duty to Section 20. Knox finds his sphere of influence diminishing drastically and will do almost anything to leave his mark. Section 20 goes airborne to assault the Nigerian gang protecting Knox and a major firefight ensues. Matlock reaches the end of his patience with Knox's amoral behavior. The team has to race to try to prevent Knox from carrying out his nefarious plan to destroy an entire city. Stonebridge comes face to face with the man who killed his wife, while Maj. Dalton hears Knox's secret.

Episode 11
Strike Back: Locked & Reloaded is a 30 minute preview of the hotly anticipated upcoming series "Strike Back: Vengeance", starring Phillip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton and Rhona Mitra, which explores the making of this explosive military drama.