The worst episodes of The Unit
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
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.
- 02
Jonas and a seriously wounded Mack take refuge in a monastery where he is ordered to steal the monk's most prized possession.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
The Unit must locate and diffuse three sets of dirty bombs headed for unknown locations across the United States.
- 07
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.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
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.
- 15
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.
- 16
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.
- 17
As Jonas coaches Betsy before her military-ordered media tour, the Unit initiates a new team member.
- 18
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.
- 19
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.
- 20
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.
- 21
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.
- 22
Morale, Welfare and Recreation
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
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