Brown's membership in the Unit has at times strained his marriage, such as when he was late returning from a mission in Spain, conducted a mission under the guise of taking his wife on a vacation, and became hospitalized during a SERE exercise. [2], The fourth and final season began on September 28, 2008, and concluded on May 10, 2009. Though it becomes hard for the two of them to marry because of her Russian relations, he and Joss do get married in the season finale. In the episode "Five Brothers" Grey was severely wounded by a gunshot but survived until the team was extracted by Marines. During "Five Brothers" Brown was left no choice but to kill a Lebanese teenager to avoid detection. Though it becomes hard for the two of them to marry because of her Russian relations, he and Joss do get married in the series finale. Tom Ryan. ^** Promoted from staff sergeant during "Side Angle Side". Charles Grey ( Michael Irby) uses a Glock 17 during the opening scene of "Sacrifice" (S4E01). The irony of this is that during the episode, and also during the episode's promotional spots, Hector's roommate, Charles, was speculated as being killed, but survives the ordeal due to Williams' medical efforts. See also . When he finally discovers that she has been having an affair with Colonel Ryan, teammate Bob Brown has to physically restrain him from killing the Colonel. His tombstone gives his dates of birth and death as February 12, 1981 - November 6, 2007. During "Side Angle Side," Brown was promoted to the rank of Sergeant First Class. It was going to be a long, sort of final mission for Jonas. The show purports to describe the daily lives of Delta Force (called "The Unit" in the show) operators during training and operational missions, as well as their families back home. After the mission had been carried out and the unit was regrouping, Brown held back a second and tracked down the abusive father. According to an interview with Michael Irby, Grey has been an operator with the Alpha Team of the 1st Special Actions Group (official cover as the "303rd Logistical Studies Group") for roughly six years, and is single. JustWatch | The . The newly wed Charlotte is shot twice in the back when a Serbian war criminal discovers the Unit's headquarters and attacks Alpha Team at Ryan's post-wedding celebration. In the final wedding scene of season four, however, Mack is shown with E-7, or sergeant first class, rank on his uniform. Sergeant Major Jonas Blane (United States Army, call sign: Snake Doctor) is the main protagonist in the series. "It was going to be a whole new show in the sense that we were going to be training some young people, Bob was going to be training some people for a whole new organization". Michael Irby holds an Micro Draco Pistol fitted with an MP5K foregrip as Zizi in Fast Five (2011). The character was a fan favorite, and the writers and producers chose to kill off Williams to retain an air of believability in the storylines that some times, the good guys and heroes do get killed in combat. Sergeant First Class Charles Lewis Grey (United States Army, callsign Betty Blue) is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit. Mack killed a goatherd who would have compromised the mission, as well as their local contact after an explosion's debris pinned her to the ground to spare her from imminent capture, torture and death. The team takes Dr. Metz into combat to rescue an embattled president, Charles meets the woman of his dreams - and more trouble than he could dream, and Kim reaches the breaking point. Molly urges Jonas to join a private military company in order to help their financial situation, but he states that he is not interested in a job as a mercenary. The reporter starts poking around the base, trying to learn more about Mack to try and build a story, but is quickly shut down once SGM Blane gets involved. [3] Cast and characters [ edit] Main cast [ edit] Dennis Haysbert as Sergeant Major Jonas Blane, a.k.a. Bob is also the only Unit member to not have the Purple Heart. During the third episode of the first season, 200th Hour, Mack is accidentally shot during a live fire training course by Bob Brown. The English statesman Charles Grey, 2d Earl Grey (1764-1845), served as prime minister from 1830 to 1834. Although the show focuses on an Army special ops unit, "Fired Up" is an adaptation of a Marine Corps running cadence called "Fired Up, Feels Good". Master Sergeant MacDonald James "Mack" Gerhardt, call sign: Dirt Diver (portrayed by Max Martini), is a former US Army Ranger and paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, and a senior Unit operator. Back at home, Tiffy is victimized by a patron of the bar. The paratrooper was familiar with Colonel Tom Ryan, and asked for Hector to be transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division. Charles Grey. The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Sergeant First Class Grey. On the same day, terrorists hijack an airplane in the fictional city of Wyndham, Idaho. He led a private mission to rescue her and succeeds in doing so. At first, she is confused by the new rules of the wives of Unit team members, but soon Jonas Blane's wife, Molly, takes Kim under her wing and shows her the ropes. Gerhardt is second in command of Alpha Team, 1st Special Actions Group (official cover name "303rd Logistical Studies Group"). Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Kavita Patil. Jonas is Alpha Team's Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge. He later tries to kill Ryan while on a combat mission but eventually cannot bring himself to do so, mindful of his own adultery with Crystal, as well as a threesome he had with a pair of Russian prostitutes while on foreign assignment. The theme music for the first and second seasons was "Fired Up" by Robert Duncan. Synopsis. He's not medically cleared, Mac has to go in and sort of change the medical records so that Jonas can keep on [going on missions]. Before his service in the Army, he was a member of a latino gang called the "Byz-Lats" based in Farmington, Los Angeles. Cool Breeze Between the 1st and 2nd seasons of the show their son, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Brown, is born. The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Sergeant Major Blane. In early Season 3, Col. Ryan discovers that Charlotte, has been selling secret information about his unit, and rogue CIA agents use it against him and his unit. When Alpha Team went off post to celebrate the marriage of Unit commander Colonel Tom Ryan, the war criminal struck, killing a few workers and injuring Charlotte Ryan and Sergeant Major Blane. When the Unit was on lockdown pending an Article 32 hearing, Grey decided to escape Federal uniform and civilian custody by going AWOL. At the end of the second season, Gerhardt and Williams were placed in prison for unnamed actions which they committed on a mission. His fighting style is based on the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga, a trait based on actor Michael Irby who is a student of it in real life. In season 4 he meets Joss Morgan and falls in love with her. His off-duty gun is a Colt .32 pistol and he also has a Smith & Wesson .38 'throwaway gun'. In a later episode, he appears to have an affair with his ex-wife but is still pining for Tiffy. Sergeant First Class Robert Davis "Bob" Brown (United States Army, call sign: Cool Breeze) (portrayed by Scott Foley) was the newest member of the Unit, after first passing selection, Bob was a little shy, not talking if not addressed; however Bob soon proved himself and is now a valuable member of the Unit. Blane later met up with Grey and Brown and figured out the map was of a location in the ocean off the coast of South America. Charles Grey ( Michael Irby) uses a Glock 17 during the opening scene of "Sacrifice" (S4E01). At the start of the third season, Gerhardt was brutally tortured by the CIA, but later released soon after other team members threatened members of the CIA. He is best known for securing the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832. 2nd Lieutenant Elizabeth "Betsy" Blane, US Army (Angela Wainwright[1]) is the daughter of Jonas and Molly Blane. Bob would be badly injured in a parachuting accident and join the CIA as their Unit liaison. "The Unit: Seek and Destroy" was published in 2008 and "The Unit: Lock and Load" was published in 2009. When Mack suspects that Tiffy is having an affair with a lawyer she has been working with, he obtains an untraceable gun and plots to kill him. The wives, if suspected of speaking about the unit's existence, can cause their husbands to be expelled and returned to regular Army service. Jonas' personality is of a hard taskmaster. The Unit is what this wiki is based on. It was going to be a long, sort of final mission for Jonas. They used the platform of apparent crimes committed by Jonas Blane to try and recruit them, and ironically, Blane signed off on it, saying that the Unit could use a man within the CIA. Ultimately, after convincing the reporter that Crystal is psychologically unstable (with fake medical records), he gives him the option to drop the story and leave for good. He was an experienced marksman, and frequently served as a sharpshooter for the team. Season 2, Episode 23 is about an investigation of illegal activity by The Unit, whose primary purpose is to perform actions that would otherwise be illegal in the countries they operate in. (2018-) and Cristobal Sifuentes on the HBO series Barry (2018-). Michael Irby holds an AKM as Sergeant 1st Class Charles Grey in The Unit (2007). In the season-one episode "True Believers", his wife says to him "come here sergeant major, and give me a report", but his rank is later established as master sergeant. It was this contact that Blane sought to find out to figure out what happened to the oil minister, whom a Congressional review panel believed was killed by Blane after watching some doctored security footage. They barely escaped and decided to link up with a CIA agent who was her contact. Their uniforms are commonly not standard Army issue, which makes denying their connection with the US Army easier if they are killed or captured. At the end of the first episode, when a mechanical speaking toy repeats an Arabic phrase, he pivots around and fires two rounds from his pistol into a bedroom mirror, a reaction presumably caused by stress. They are only referred to as "The Unit" and their DOD designation is "Combat Applications Group". The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Lieutenant Blane. He is presumed to be in his 40s and has a daughter, Betsy, and a wife named Molly Blane. Grey did most of the bomb inspections, and was the one that determined that the bomb was not nuclear-the bomb maker had sprinkled plutonium around the bomb in order to set off the Geiger counter. Earlier in Season 2, Blane was ordered to kill the oil minister until Colonel Ryan had a change of heart after talking to a Congressman of another political party, and realizing it was a conspiracy by the big oil lobby to get rid of an actor in the oil market they could not control. While there, he punches a patron and before a fight breaks out, he is lead outside by Crystal Burns, the young fiance of a former Alpha Team support staffer. The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Sergeant First Class Williams. He is presumed to be in his 40s and has a daughter, Betsy, and a wife named Molly Blane. Kim Brown (portrayed by Audrey Marie Anderson) is the loyal wife of the now Sergeant First Class Bob Brown. Blane was found out by Brown who had him in sight through the scope of a sniper rifle. Welcome to The Unit. He is also very ruthless, never hesitating to kill in cold blood and nearly always putting the mission first. Stream. Greay is a Unit operator whose specialty is electronics, engineering, explosives and is also trained as a medic. The reactions of Mrs. Blane and the Colonel suggest something similar might have happened before. In season 4 Jonas' daughter Betsy Blane was captured in Iraq whilst serving as an army officer there. He is also something of a womanizer, as well as a bit of a hothead; during Season 1, Episode 7, SERE, upon learning that Alpha Team had been "captured" and were prisoners of war, Grey rushed and struck the guard, an action he repeated later in the episode. After returning from a mission in Cyprus, Brown and Alpha Team found that the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division was investigating Alpha Team, and had shut down the 303rd completely. He's not medically cleared, Mack has to go in and sort of change the medical records so that Jonas can keep on [going on missions]. He is a confidant of two different US Presidents who both use him for personal secret missions outside the normal chain of command. Instead he accepted promotion to become a brigadier general. Blane gave the officer the doctored passport of the CIA agent he had killed as Kim was returning with the documents. Grey brought Brown to Blane's boat where Brown insisted he was not trying to kill Blane, despite being caught by Grey in the compromising position he was in. This discrepancy has not been explained. He is portrayed by Michael Irby. He customarily uses a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol, the same weapon as Hector. Based on show producer Eric L. Haney's book, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit, The Unit was created for television and executive produced by David Mamet and Shawn Ryan. In many ways Mack is the toughest and most ruthless member of the Unit, never hesitating to kill in cold blood and even going undercover as a bare knuckle fighter. His team is also responsible for the downfall of the world's foremost illegal weapons dealer. These are mentioned to Bob Brown by a CIA handler who wishes to recruit Brown to the Agency. 8.6 /10 Rate Browse episodes Top-rated 4 seasons 4 years Videos 10 Clip 2:17 In the episode "Binary Explosion" it was revealed that Grey had past history with the Hispanic gang "Byz-Lats" and that his late mother had been the last of his only real family. She is instrumental in helping Colonel Ryan recruit and train more women into the Unit. According to an interview executive producer Shawn Ryan gave to The Futon Critic "[David] Mamet and I and our writers, we came up with a lot of great stuff," Ryan said about his pitch to CBS executives for a potential fifth season. When the criminal escaped from UN custody, he tracked Blane back to Fort Griffith, the Alpha Team's headquarters. Jonas was finally going to be seeing his run end. She would have entered into a relationship with Jonas Blane, but eventually break it off as she would fear that his feelings for her are clouding his tactical judgement. Gerhardt has worked as an operator with Blane and his team on a multitude of missions, including the recovery of a radioactive component of a Chinese satellite, the rescue of the drug minister of Mexico, the assassination of a terrorist financier in Spain, the bugging of an Iranian official's car at their embassy in Beirut, the recovery of seven Stinger Missiles from a Brazilian arms dealer, and the apprehension of a Serbian war criminal in the Balkans. Snake Doctor Scott Foley as Sergeant First Class Bob Brown, a.k.a. According to Grey his old roommate Hector Williams considered him 'cheap'. Whereas a Special Forces Operational DetachmentAlpha (ODA) is commanded by a captain, the unit sends five-man teams into the field under noncommissioned officers, such as the team led by Command Sergeant Major Jonas Blane, the Unit's NCOIC of Alpha Team. At the end of Season 4, Molly decided to live away from Jonas after he refused to retire for her. A Unit that size would normally have a Captain as its commander or possibly a Major. He is also a friend of Col. Ryan but this is stretched by Ryan's behavior in the later seasons.
