11/19/2023 0 Comments Strike back season 1 episode 1![]() Porter breaks free and kills the kidnappers, whilst As'ad wishes to join them, claiming he knows who killed the soldiers seven years ago. Later, they decide to execute Dartmouth one day sooner after realising the British will not give into their demand. After finding and removing a tracking device on one of his teeth, the terrorists move both hostages to another location. In the end, Porter goes on his own to the same apartment building during the same operation seven years previous.Īfter capturing a "Sword of Islam" member, Porter persuades him to lead him to where Dartmouth is being held, and then allows himself to be captured. A separate unit is tasked with retrieving Dartmouth after tracking the live feed, but it is a decoy they are killed when the building rigged with explosives detonates. Upon realising one of the kidnappers is As'ad, Collinson "reactivates" Porter. They chop off Dartmouth's hand over a live video feed. Seven years later, journalist Katie Dartmouth (Brady) is kidnapped outside Basra by the "Sword of Islam" the kidnappers demand the release of one of their comrades from Belmarsh Prison. Fellow officer Hugh Collinson (Lincoln) becomes the head of Section 20 of MI6. Believing the boy was responsible, and that Porter did not kill him, he is dishonourably discharged. After the hostage is found, two soldiers are killed and one is left in a vegetative state. ![]() On the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Special Forces unit takes part in an operation to release a hostage, weapons contractor Kenneth Bratton, during which, John Porter (Armitage) disarms a boy named As'ad wearing a suicide vest. The series plays out as three two-part episodes. In this table, the number in the first column refers to the episode's number within the entire series, "UK viewers in millions" refers to how many Britons watched the episode on Sky1. since Cinemax aired Strike Back: Project Dawn, Strike Back: Vengeance, and Strike Back: Shadow Warfare prior to the first season. įollowing success of the second through fourth series, Cinemax began airing the six-part series starting 25 October 2013 in the United States. A third series of Strike Back, also consisting of 10 parts, was released in August 2012. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 7 June 2010.Ī 10-part second series, known as Strike Back: Project Dawn, a co-production between Sky and the American network Cinemax, was first broadcast in August 2011. It was met with generally positive reviews comments of the series ranged from a positive "British action series that packs a Die Hard-style thrill around every corner," to a more negative "pathetic male fantasy". The first episode received unofficial overnight ratings of almost 400,000 viewers in the United Kingdom, which increased to just over one million according to the more highly regarded Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Strike Back commenced airing on with two episodes showing a week. The series ran on a multi-million pound budget, and was filmed on location in South Africa, particularly in Gauteng. The series follows John Porter (Armitage), a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Defence Intelligence (DI) of the Ministry of Defence. The cast of Strike Back is led by Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, also starring Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Colin Salmon and Jodhi May, including a variety of guest appearances including Toby Stephens, Ewen Bremner, Dhaffer L'Abidine, Shaun Parkes and Alexander Siddig. It was produced by Left Bank Pictures for Sky1. Chris Ryan's Strike Back, also known as Strike Back: Origins on Cinemax, is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan, and is the first series of Strike Back.
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