By Kofi Outlaw

Something was in the air this week on THE UNIT and it definitely wasn’t love. More like a canister of toxic nerve agent that a small band of terrorists fastened to a small plane and sent flying towards the Unit’s home base, threatening their friends and family.

To stop the advance of the deadly aircraft Bob jumped in a second plane and flew of in pursuit. On the ground Grey and Hector had their hands full guiding Jonas (who spent most of the episode in a bio-hazard suit) through a booby-trapped hanger in the hope of finding clues that could help them down the deadly plane in time. Mack and Col. Ryan tried best they could to coordinate the operation from their dismantled command center, taking intermittent turns screaming at the team’s tech geek for not being able to complete days and days’ worth of work in half an hour.

On the home front, Bob’s wife Kim approached the base’s radio DJ with a solid proposal for a radio forum aimed at allowing military families to discuss and vent their concerns. To earn her spot, the DJ left Kim to run the station for a day—unfortunate timing, as Kim was forced to broadcast the emergency bulletin urging all base residents to seek shelter (though they’re told it’s only to avoid “severe weather.”) Erstwhile, Molly and Tiffy tried to console Mack’s daughters about their dad having been ordered to move away from home—the result of too many domestic disputes with his wife.

After springing a booby-trap that sprays him with nerve agent, Jonas has little time to secure a laptop with clues on how to stop the plane. In the sky, Bob decides to think outside the box, ramming the rouge plane (which is flying on autopilot) again and again until it goes into tailspin, crashing into the ground without leaking the deadly chemicals. At the radio station, Kim makes lemonade out of lemons, calming the frantic base residents by turning the whole threat into a contest. As reward for her efforts, she wins the chance to produce her own show. The episode ends with the Unit members all making it home to kiss their loved ones again having narrowly avoided death—save for Mack, who packs his bags and leaves home.


All in all a good episode, the one annoyance being the inexplicable cuts made to Jonas’ point of view from within the biohazard suit. Totally unnecessary. Also, I’m not sure what the deal was with the subplot involving the tech geek. It seemed rather flimsy; Mack and Ryan pretty much screamed in his face, shook him by the collar and the poor geek was still only able to do so much with the tattered command center. But these are minor issues. Overall THE UNIT is a good show and I’m happy to be watching.