The worst episodes of Strike Back
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Jensen starts to delve into Project Tenebrae, while Mac and Wyatt head to the black site where Idrisi is imprisoned to break him out before Lowry gets to him
- 02
Section 20 are desperate to clear their names. And to do so, they hatch a big and wreckless plan.
- 03
It's Section 20 v Jane Lowry in a race to get to Omair Idrisi. It's a mission that hurls comms officer Jensen into extreme danger.
- 04
Section 20 must stop Lowry and Dr Markov from making and unleashing a deadly chemical weapon. In desperate need of intel, Novin infiltrates a drug lord's home.
- 05
The team run into trouble as they race to get Idrisi back across Europe. The surprises keep coming as they learn the truth about Jensen and Project Tenebrae.
- 06
Things aren't looking good for Mac. He's blown his cover and is now facing certain death. Donovan digs into Zarin's past... and she doesn't like what she learns
- 07
Locked, loaded and set to resume their high-stakes mission, Section 20 are back. And they've got a big problem on their hands.
- 08
As Jane Lowry surfaces in Budapest, Mac and Wyatt are forced to go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous group of white supremacists that has something she needs.
- 09
Scott and Stonebridge make a major mistake and fall into the clutches of North Korean agent Li-Na, leaving Locke having to defy orders to get them out.
- 10
Section 20 forges an uneasy alliance with Zarkova in hopes of tracking down a stolen nuclear warhead in Kuala Lumpur. The group is frustrated when Police Inspector Amy Leong, who has connections to triad leader Godfather Kim and his henchman Laoshu, pulls them off the job after a false alarm. High Commander McKitterick finds himself in an untenable dilemma, while Novin defies Coltrane's orders to settle a score.
- 11
Locke works out that his long-time friend is working with the dangerous Yakuza and Office 39. Scott needs to protect his son after they find themselves under enemy fire.
- 12
Section 20 try to track down the real culprits behind the embassy attack, starting with getting information from gangster Ray McQueen.
- 13
Scott has a serious talk with his son whilst the rest of Section 20 form an uneasy alliance with a couple of CIA mercenaries as they go after Shiro and Mei Foster.
- 14
The battle with Li-Na moves to Europe as Section 20 try to get back on her trail. Locke gets a chance to confront his nemesis.
- 15
Just as Mac's revenge looks in reach, the team are sent on a life or death mission to extract a devious arms dealer (Trevor Eve) from war-torn Libya.
- 16
Six months after their last mission, three members of the British special-ops team Section 20 - Gracie Novin, Samuel Wyatt and Thomas "Mac" McAllister - reunite for what they think is a routine "cleanup" exercise in Malaysia. Things get complicated when their new commanding officer, borderline burn-out Alexander Coltrane, learns that a British operative, in possession of intel about a downed Russian plane, has been killed in Kuala Lumpur after meeting with Katrina Zarkova, a covert Russian operative.The trail leads Wyatt, Mac and Novin to a Russian safehouse, where Katrina and her team of Russian soldiers are attempting to track a mysterious "package" stolen from the plane, which crashed into the ocean under suspicious circumstances. The confrontation turns bloody when members of a brutal Malaysian triad arrive, setting off a chain of dangerous encounters in the skies and skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur.
- 17
Section 20's search for the missing nuclear warhead leads them to Goa, India, where three scientists have been kidnapped by Gopan, a militant under orders from a mysterious "kingfisher." When one of the scientists escapes, the team catches up to him and his daughter, gaining valuable intel on Anjali Vartak, a rich Hindu with a personal vendetta against Muslims. S20 infiltrates a suspicious fundraiser as Coltrane and new S20 computer whiz Olivia Chetri deal with a breach in security.
- 18
Following a high-speed jungle ambush in Myanmar, the suitcase nukes end up in the hands of Jean-Baptiste Zaza, a brutal Rwandan drug lord with a jealous streak. Even as they continue to suspect Zarkova's motives, Section 20 journeys to the Punchan Province and connects with Lauren Gillespie, a DEA agent with inside intel on Zaza and Dagon, his second in command. With the suitcase on the verge of being sold to a jihadist, Coltrane tasks Novin with impersonating the buyer in order to ascertain the WMD's location. Meanwhile, Colonel Beshnov, the Russian Alpha Group leader, surprises Pavel with a revelation about Zarkova.
- 19
When Section 20 discovers that Li-Na is mounting a nuclear attack, Locke neglects the mission in order to avenge the murder of his son.
- 20
The hit action drama storms back with a new team, a new enemy and new rules. A dangerous terrorist is on the loose and it's up to Section 20 to find him.
- 21
As Wyatt is tortured by Vartak's henchmen, Mac presses her corrupt lawyer to hand over an encrypted hard drive that might hold clues to the whereabouts of a pair of "nuclear suitcases." After being sorely tested in a deadly hostage standoff at an office building, the team is forced to lean on Zarkova to commandeer high-end Russian technology, crack the encryption code and make a final foray to a secret hideout, where Vartak, Gopan and the nuclear packages await.
- 22
After ditching the seaplane they hijacked, Novin and Zarkova find themselves at the mercy of corrupt police, while Mac and Wyatt take temporary refuge in a local village. Coltrane finally learns the location of the suitcase nukes, but the revelation comes at a high price. Finally, Section 20 tracks down Zaza and the nukes - as well as an unexpected interloper - in a remote compound, and all hell breaks loose. Expecting the worst, Wyatt makes a call back home, while Pavel forces Zarkova to come to terms with what happened to Alpha Group.
- 23
As Wyatt convalesces, Coltrane, Mac and Novin embark on a covert, 24-hour mission inside Russia to extract an FSB analyst with potentially vital information. Katrina questions Pavel's true identity, but chooses to stand by her commanding officer. Tracking Hassan to an outpost in the Indonesian jungle, Section 20 ends up facing off with Pavel and Katrina, as Chetri zeros in on the nuclear suitcase in a Jakarta mall.
- 24
The daughter of Thailand's British ambassador is kidnapped, so Stonebridge, Scott and the rest of the team sign up for another do-or-die trying adventure.
- 25
The action comes thick and fast as Section 20 super soldiers Scott and Stonebridge risk war (and family) to destroy the stolen Vanadium.
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