"The Unit"
The Kill Zone (2006)

Director:

Steve Gomer

Writers:

Eric L. Haney (book)
David Mamet (creator)

TV Series:

"The Unit" (2006)

Original Air Date:

3 October 2006 (Season 2, Episode 3)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller | War

Plot:

The unit is diverted from a mission to retrieve the body of another unit's ranger, and rescue his partner. Back at home, the wives deal with the fiancée of the dead man and his in-laws. |

Cast

Dennis Haysbert	...	Jonas 'Snake Doctor' Blane
Regina Taylor	...	Molly Blane
Robert Patrick	...	Colonel Tom Ryan
Audrey Marie Anderson	...	Kim Brown
Max Martini	...	Mack 'Dirt Diver' Gerhardt
Abby Brammell	...	Tiffy Gerhardt
Michael Irby	...	Charles Grey
Demore Barnes	...	Hector Williams
Scott Foley	...	Bob 'Cool Breeze' Brown
Robin Weigert	...	Annette Terry
Rebecca Pidgeon	...	Charlotte Ryan
Matt Gerald	...	Beau Dauber
Ned Schmidtke	...	Dan Rohmer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alex Castillo	...	Militia Leader
Todd Cattell	...	Kevin Gidney
Jan Devereaux	...	Lee Rohmer
Stephanie Fabian	...	Refugee
Margot Farley	...	Judith
Jayson Floyd	...	Tilly
Chris Foreman	...	Rollie Cass
Mario Quinonez Jr.	...	Refugee Boy
Alyssa Shafer	...	Serena Brown
Henry Vega	...	Refugee Older Man

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Goofs:

Factual errors: The figures given for the amount of life insurance the military pays is incorrect and lower than the actual figures.

Another Very Tense Episode

So far, this makes it 3-for-3 this year: three outstanding shows out of three. This was a very tense episode filled with lots of gunfire and dramatic action scenes coupled with a heartfelt emotional plea (the subplot) for benefits for widows.

Billy Gill, a member of "Charlie Team," is killed in an ambush at the tri-border of Paraguay- Brazil-Argentina. We don't see that, but we see Jonas and a small Unit crew in the area, involved in a mission to knock out a dangerous rebel. When he hears of the nearby situation with Gill and and his ranger-partner who is still alive, Blane postpones his mission for a brief time to go save that nearby solider who is under siege. That's exactly what it is, too, as an expert sniper has the man "Beau Dauber" pinned and is holding hostages.

The tense situation involves a number of factors that put everyone's life in danger, and then gets worse when the rebel forces move into town.

Meanwhile, to give us a few breaks from that very tense scene in South America, the company - mainly the women - are trying to help out with a situation with Gill's finance with benefits for her and the two kids she's been taking care of for 4-5 years. Greedy grandparents, who have never seen the kids, want to take them for all the financial benefits. This episode also emphasizes the need for the wives to have insurance benefits in case their husbands are killed on the job.

Overall, this was an outstanding episode and another reason why this is such a terrific TV show.