The Unit: Season 4

2008 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.0

What Season 4 of The Unit

Season four opens with The Unit in Yemen, where they wrap up a mission with the help of Bridget Sullivan, who soon joins the team. Once it's over, the agents realize they have killed the U.S. Vice President, and that crime becomes the thread running through the rest of the season. Alpha Team, led by Jonas, Bob, Mack and Grey, runs one operation after another in Argentina, Kosovo, Colombia and Iraq, where the kidnapping of Jonas's daughter, Betsy, forces his teammates to act against the clock. Colonel Thomas Ryan leads the soldiers with direct orders from the President, while their families continue to live on the sidelines of what they do.

22episodes

Sep 28, 2008premiered

May 10, 2009latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Sacrifice
Sep 28, 2008 · 45 min
While women are being secretly relocated and moved off the base for their own safety, Jonas and the team must unravel an assassination plot against the vice president and president elect.
Directing: David Mamet · Writing: Frank Military · Starring: Benito Martinez, Alyssa Shafer, Sammi Hanratty, Danielle Hanratty
4x02 Sudden Flight
Oct 5, 2008 · 45 min
The team follows a scientist who may have been targeted by terrorists, hoping to link those same terrorists to a presidential assassination plot.
Directing: Steven DePaul · Starring: Veronica Milagros, Sammi Hanratty, Danielle Hanratty, Kavita Patil
4x03 Sex Trade
Oct 12, 2008 · 45 min
While the Unit is investigating a man they believe to be smuggling nuclear weapons, they discover that he is also smuggling women.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Starring: Brando Eaton, Hank Stratton, Ajla Hodžić, Danielle Hanratty
4x04 The Conduit
Oct 19, 2008 · 45 min
Bob and Mac both find themselves in trouble when they each take assignments undercover. Bob as a chemist who hides cocaine by converting it to paint and Mac as a fighter trying to bust an illegal betting ring.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: David Mamet · Starring: Kate Orsini, Danielle Hanratty, Jordi Caballero, Max Arciniega
4x05 Dancing Lessons
Oct 26, 2008 · 45 min
A nuclear scientist insists on making a deal with the team before revealing information about an imminent terrorist attack on a major U.S. city; Kim, Molly and Tiffy are asked to work under cover with Jonas.
Directing: Steve Gomer · Writing: Lynn Mamet · Starring: Ann Cusack, John de Lancie, Hank Stratton, JB Blanc
4x06 Inquisition
Nov 2, 2008 · 45 min
Hoping to con a terrorist into exposing his accomplices before they escape, the team produces phony evidence of an attack.
Directing: David Paymer · Starring: Stacy Edwards, Ann Cusack, Hank Stratton, Anthony Azizi
4x07 Into Hell (1)
Nov 9, 2008 · 45 min
The team travels to Iraq to save Jonas' daughter, who has been kidnapped; Col. Ryan must face the consequences for his adultery with Mack's wife.
Directing: Krishna Rao · Starring: Sammy Sheik, Kavita Patil, Angel M. Wainwright, Michael Shamus Wiles
4x08 Into Hell (2)
Nov 16, 2008 · 45 min
The team keeps trying to rescue Betsy Blane from Syrian captors; Mack has an opportunity to get revenge on Ryan for his affair with Tiffy.
Directing: Fred Gerber · Written by: Frank Military · Starring: Bashar Rahal, Linda Hunt, Kavita Patil, Angel M. Wainwright
4x09 Shadow Riders
Nov 23, 2008 · 45 min
Jonas and the team must travel through enemy territory to bring a young bride to her groom, preserving a truce between two warring Afghanistan tribes; Kim and Bob try to expose a man who is linked to terrorists.
Starring: David Rees Snell, Hal Ozsan, Hank Stratton, David Diaan
4x10 Misled & Misguided
Nov 30, 2008 · 45 min
The team's attempts to raid an anthrax lab are thwarted by an official from the Department of Defense (Michael McKean), who believes his high-tech intelligence is superior to field logic.
Directing: Steven DePaul · Starring: Michael McKean, Hank Stratton, Kavita Patil, Matt Gerald
4x11 Switchblade
Dec 21, 2008 · 45 min
Jonas and the team force a Department of Defense official to go with them on an assignment and experience the realities of war; A mysterious women shows up at Aerodyne headquarters. Kim is finally reunited with her kids.
Directing: Oz Scott · Written by: David Mamet · Starring: Michael McKean, Alyssa Shafer, Sarah Hollis, Bre Blair
4x12 Bad Beat
Jan 4, 2009 · 45 min
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.
Starring: Shaun Toub, Keone Young, Hank Stratton, Byron Mann
4x13 The Spear of Destiny
Jan 11, 2009 · 45 min
Jonas and a seriously wounded Mack take refuge in a monastery where he is ordered to steal the monks' most prized possession. Back home, Bob is asked to perform a dangerous mission that will reveal the darkest side of his job to Kim.
Directing: Scott Foley · Written by: Lynn Mamet · Starring: Demore Barnes, Stacy Edwards, David Rees Snell, Raoul Max Trujillo
4x14 The Last Nazi
Feb 15, 2009 · 45 min
The President orders the unit to capture a Nazi war criminal from his hiding place and deliver him to The Hague. In Washington, Tom Ryan confronts his past when he is offered a promotion to General
Written by: David Mamet · Starring: Benito Martinez, Jack Betts, Nigel Gibbs, Rebecca Pidgeon
4x15 Hero
Mar 8, 2009 · 45 min
The unit initiates a new team member while Jonas coaches his daughter Betsy, on how to respond to media questions about her kidnapping and rescue without blowing the cover story.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: R. Scott Gemmill · Starring: James Remar, Julie Chen, Kevin McCorkle, Angel M. Wainwright
4x16 Hill 60
Mar 15, 2009 · 45 min
Unable to communicate with the outside world, the Unit and their families must survive when a deadly gas poisons anyone in their community who steps outside.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Starring: Tom Everett, Haley Ramm, Sammi Hanratty, Peter James Smith
4x17 Flesh & Blood
Mar 22, 2009 · 45 min
As the Unit fights to rescue Jonas's old friend, a broken helicopter gas tank and nearby guerillas impede their mission. Meanwhile, Tom goes to extreme measures to extract information from a recovering alcoholic whose husband may have been behind a terrorist attack.
Directing: Dennis Haysbert · Written by: Lynn Mamet · Starring: Ann Cusack, Wes Chatham, Bre Blair, Marco Rodríguez
4x18 Best Laid Plans
Mar 29, 2009 · 45 min
The mission's plans go awry and Bob must run interference when Jonas and Mack are undercover to find the terrorists who killed the Vice President.
Directing: Dean White · Starring: David Rees Snell, Lothaire Bluteau, Leilani Sarelle, Gina Torres
4x19 Whiplash
Apr 12, 2009 · 45 min
When Sam attacks Bridget, the other members of the Unit must hunt him down.
Starring: Brooklyn Sudano, Andy Fischer-Price, Kavita Patil, Wes Chatham
4x20 Chaos Theory
Apr 26, 2009 · 45 min
A random incident throws Jonas and Bob's carefully planned mission into chaos.
Directing: Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Starring: Ann Cusack, David Rees Snell, John de Lancie, James Saito
4x21 Endgame
May 3, 2009 · 45 min
Molly is kidnapped and used as bait, while Jonas is out of the country looking into a Russian terrorist cell.
Directing: Lesli Linka Glatter · Starring: David Rees Snell, Marika Domińczyk, Kavita Patil, Wes Chatham
4x22 Unknown Soldier Season Finale
May 10, 2009 · 45 min
When several dirty bombs are found on American soil, The Unit is deployed to find and diffuse.On the home front, the wives prepare for a wedding and a possible divorce.
Starring: Benito Martinez, David Rees Snell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Alyssa Shafer