The Unit Season Finale - Drama at Its Finest

PJ Richards
Fans who wondered how The Unit could ever top last year's season finale will wonder no more. The Unit pulled out all the stops, producing a top quality episode in the finest Unit tradition.

The Unit's 2007 season finale raises the stakes. Big time. Unlike last year's season finale when the team and their families together faced a hail of bullets, this year's finale threatens to rip the team apart, going so far as to possibly separate some from wives and some from life itself.

Someone wants the Unit shut down. The team returns from a successful mission only to find they're restricted to base and unable to speak even with each other due to charges (classified, of course.) brought against them. The guys now face court martial and prison. Not to mention the loss of reputation and everything they and the Unit have stood for.

Regrouping secretly, Unit team members analyze the threat against them. It is very real. There's only one way to prove they were ordered to carry out the missions they performed. Efforts to get the evidence only prove it is gone. Each team member must now decide for himself what to do.

Refuse to give fellow team members up and go to prison. Give up the other members of the Unit and save self. Disappear and save self and family.

A CIA operative threatens Molly in her driveway. When the guy returns, Molly points him out to Jonas who gives the guy a rude and painful message to get lost. Bob arrives home to find a stranger, a self-confessed CIA operative, in his home. Bob shows the guy the door.

Tiffany is packing in case Mack wants to run when Mack comes in from the mission, sees the suitcase and loses it. Mack is already convinced Tiff's cheating on him. A showdown results in Tiff scoring the side of her face with Mack's razor before fleeing to Molly's. Tiff ultimately takes the kids and flees.

Mack appears in front of the current commander, refuses to go against the team, and is locked up. So is Charles. Hector, still sitting in the drunk tank where he's been tossed after creating a diversion and injuring military police, hasn't been offered any options yet.

Jonas flees. Molly finds her home looking like a cyclone hit it and blood on the wall. The CIA is upset. As long as Jonas is missing, they cannot do anything about him. Molly gets a coded message that Jonas is safe in Panama. He's out of the Unit and into a new job.

Kim pleads with Bob to make everything safe again. She pushes the offered CIA agreement. Bob finally gives in and meets the CIA operative in a dark area of the base. Accepting the CIA position, Bob expects to go home and pack his family up for the move.

No such luck. Another man steps into the light. The creepy CIA guy who's been trying to steal Bob from the Unit for some time. He informs Bob that his first CIA mission starts now. The mission? Find Jonas Blane or join the other members of the Unit for court martial.

Colonel Ryan prepares to go down with his men. His wife refuses to allow him to do so. Even when Ryan tells her that, at the end of the day, his honor is all he has. It's what the Unit is all about. Giving up his men is giving up his honor. Mrs. Ryan isn't satisfied. (She's a lawyer.) She tells Ryan that in choosing to side with his men he's walked away from his marriage. She leaves to pack. Colonel Ryan takes out his pistol.

Why hasn't Hector been processed? Can Jonas evade capture? What will Bob do about his first CIA assignment? What will Col. Ryan do with the pistol? Will we ever find out?

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  • handlingthetruth5/21/2007

    I thought The Unit finale was one of the best episodes they've run. I am a fan of the show and watch it religiously.

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