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The Unit Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Sacrifice
Sun, Sep 28, 2008 60 mins
The fourth season begins with the team attempting to stop an assassination plot targeting the president-elect and vice president-elect. The situation raises suspicion among high-level government officials. Back at the base, the Unit wives are relocated for their own safety due to the sensitive nature of their husbands' mission.
Episode 2
Sudden Flight
Sun, Oct 5, 2008 60 mins
The team boards a commercial flight bound for South Africa to protect a nuclear scientist in possession of plans for weapons of mass destruction who may be a target of terrorists. Soon after the plane takes off, it is hijacked. Back on the ground, the team wives arrive in California and try adjusting to their new locations and identities, but Kim finds it particularly difficult when she learns her baby in Texas needs surgery.
Episode 3
Sex Trade
Sun, Oct 12, 2008 60 mins
The Unit discovers young girls are being trafficked as sex slaves by a contact who is supposed to lead the team to a nuclear-weapons smuggler.
Episode 4
The Conduit
Sun, Oct 19, 2008 60 mins
Bob is taken hostage by drug dealers in Colombia when he poses as a chemist who can turn cocaine into paint to make it easier to smuggle. Jonas and Grey, posing as Bob's colleagues, are also captured to aid in the process. Their real mission is to bring down the cartel. Mack poses as a street boxer involved in an illegal betting ring to penetrate the cartel. Back at home, Lissy is confronted by a school principal about her keen knowledge of guns.
Episode 5
Dancing Lessons
Sun, Oct 26, 2008 60 mins
A dying nuclear scientist refuses to reveal vital information he has concerning an imminent terrorist attack against a major U.S. city until the team rescues his family, who are being closely watched by thugs in Mexico. Meanwhile, Molly, Kim and Tiffy are recruited to work undercover with Jonas to learn whether a prominent local businessman is linked to an assassination plot to kill the U.S. president.
Episode 6
Inquisition
Sun, Nov 2, 2008 60 mins
The team creates false evidence of a terrorist attack in Boston to trick an extremist into revealing his accomplices who attempted to blow up a tunnel in the city during rush hour. Meanwhile, Mack confesses to Tiffy that he's had affairs and tries to get her to confess that she's also cheated on him.
Episode 7
Into Hell, Part 1
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 60 mins
Part 1 of 2. Jonas' daughter, Betsy, is kidnapped in Iraq, and Jonas and the team go in to rescue her. When they arrive, they learn she has been taken into Syria and that crossing the border is forbidden by the U.S. military because to do so is an act of war. Col. Ryan joins the mission and Mack plots his revenge against him for having an affair with Tiffy.
Episode 8
Into Hell, Part 2
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 60 mins
Conclusion. Jonas and the team attempt to rescue Jonas' daughter, Betsy, from her Syrian kidnappers, who now also hold Col. Ryan. Back at home, Molly is summoned to Washington, D.C., to meet with a government psychologist (Linda Hunt) who believes Molly can help her daughter through the power of thought.
Episode 9
Shadow Riders
Sun, Nov 23, 2008 60 mins
Jonas and his team attempt to keep a truce intact between two warring Afghanistan tribes by delivering a bride to her groom, but it requires going through enemy territory. Back at home, Bob and Kim try to expose a man who may be linked to terrorists.
Episode 10
Misled and Misguided
Sun, Nov 30, 2008 60 mins
Jonas and the team are ordered to raid an anthrax lab in Uzbekistan, but have difficulty coming up with a workable plan because of a Department of Defense official who keeps interfering and pushing up their deadline. Back at home, Kim's boss commits a murder and forces her to help dispose of the body, and Ryan sends Bridget out of the country to avoid being arrested for a court-martial offense she committed in order to rescue the Unit from enemy fire.
Episode 11
Switchblade
Sun, Dec 21, 2008 60 mins
Jonas and the team trick an arrogant Department of Defense official, who jeopardized a previous mission due to his lack of field experience, into joining them on an assignment so he will observe war up close and personal. Back at home, Kim is secretly reunited with her kids.
Episode 12
Bad Beat
Sun, Jan 4, 2009 60 mins
Jonas enters a high-stakes poker game in China to meet a CIA spy now working for the enemy and attempts to persuade him to come back into the fold. Jonas agrees to help the CIA if the agency will get court-martial charges against Bridget dropped. Back at home, Kim tries to get Isaac, now under arrest, to confess his part in the assassination attempt against the president.
Episode 13
The Spear of Destiny
Sun, Jan 11, 2009 60 mins
Mack is seriously wounded on a mission with Jonas in Chili. The two take refuge in a monastery, where they are ordered to steal the legendary Spear of Destiny, the lance that pierced Jesus' side on the cross. It is the prize possession of the monks who are helping them. Back at home, Kim learns Bob is addicted to heroin and helps him on a surveillance mission, only to witness the dark side of his dangerous career.
Episode 14
The Last Nazi
Sun, Feb 15, 2009 60 mins
The president orders the team to capture a Nazi war criminal living in Switzerland and bring him to The Hague in the Netherlands before a group funded by a key contributor and survivor of the Holocaust can locate and kill him. In D.C., Tom confronts his dysfunctional childhood when he is offered a promotion to general, which would mean leaving the unit.
Episode 15
Hero
Sun, Mar 8, 2009 60 mins
The unit initiates a new team member, but his training mission goes awry when a judge is killed and federal authorities get involved in the investigation. Meanwhile, Jonas coaches his daughter on how to respond to media questions about her kidnapping and rescue without blowing the cover story; Hector's killer is located in the Philippines.
Episode 16
Hill 60
Sun, Mar 15, 2009 60 mins
A poisonous gas is released in the neighborhood where the unit families live, killing dozens of people. The attack strands Tiffy in a classroom, where she tries to keep her students calm. Grey is trapped in a refrigerator truck with frightened locals. Jonas and Sam attempt to pinpoint the deadly origin of the gas and cut it off before it claims more victims, including their loved ones who are trapped in an apartment.
Episode 17
Flesh & Blood
Sun, Mar 22, 2009 60 mins
A rescue mission to extract Jonas' wounded friend, who is leading a revolution against a tyrannical leader, is jeopardized by a helicopter's damaged stabilizer and sharp-shooting guerrillas. Back at home, Tom seduces a recovering alcoholic to learn if her now-estranged husband was involved in a recent terrorist attack on the community; and Grey proposes to Joss.
Episode 18
Best Laid Plans
Sun, Mar 29, 2009 60 mins
Jonas and Mack track a terrorist involved in killing the U.S. vice president. They help him steal passports that will hopefully lead them to his colleagues, but the mission goes awry when federal agents appear on the scene and one of them is killed. In Paris, Tom is ordered to assassinate a known terrorist who is a foreign dignitary. Back at home, Molly begins to question whether Joss can be trusted.
Episode 19
Whiplash
Sun, Apr 12, 2009 60 mins
After a night of heavy drinking, Sam attacks Bridget in a parking lot and attempts to rape her. The team learns of the assault, and Jonas becomes determined to track Sam down and bring him to justice. Meanwhile, Mack and Tiffy encounter a woman who kidnapped a newborn baby and try to get her to tell them where she has hidden the child.
Episode 20
Chaos Theory
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 60 mins
Jonas and Bob steal top-secret documents in Hong Kong, but their escape route via subway is disrupted when the city's trains are unexpectedly shut down and the military is called in to search and question everyone aboard. Back at home, Molly is kidnapped and comes face-to-face with renegade Sam; and Mack and Tiffy desperately search for Lissy after she disappears from a local shopping mall.
Episode 21
Endgame
Sun, May 3, 2009 60 mins
Molly is kidnapped by Sam and used as bait to prevent Jonas and his team from capturing a Russian terrorist cell that is planning to bomb several U.S. cities. Meanwhile, Kim calls the police and reports Molly missing, complicating matters for the Unit.
Episode 22
Unknown Soldier
Sun, May 10, 2009 60 mins
The fourth season concludes with the team attempting to track down and diffuse three nuclear bombs that are targeted for undisclosed locations across the U.S., and Col. Ryan is shocked to learn who is really behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Molly informs the other wives that she is leaving Jonas; and preparations are made for Grey's wedding.
