Strike Back is a British/American action-adventure/spy-drama television series based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier Chris Ryan. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service (DI), who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe. The series began broadcasting on Sky1 on 5 May 2010, showing the first six-part series. After a second series was commissioned, it was announced that Cinemax would co-produce the franchise. The first episode of the ten-part second series, under the banner title Project Dawn in the United Kingdom, first aired on Cinemax on 12 August 2011. The ten-part third series, under the title Strike Back: Vengeance, began airing on Cinemax on 17 August 2012. On 3 October 2012, Cinemax and Sky commissioned a fourth series, which was broadcast on Cinemax beginning 9 August 2013.
Episodes
Episode 1 – When a Pakistani terrorist kidnaps Section 20 agent John Porter, ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott joins forces with British Section 20 agent Michael Stonebridge to track down them down in New Delhi.
Episode 2 – Scott and Stonebridge discover the identity of Mahmood as the hotel siege in New Delhi escalates.
Episode 3 – Latif is trailed to South Africa; an IRA mercenary threatens a weapons-system designer; Scott trades places with a computer hacker.
Episode 4 – Scott and Stonebridge rush to thwart Connolly’s plan to deliver the WMD device to Latif.
Episode 5 – Stonebridge and Crawford track down Clare; Scott discovers that hospitals can be hazardous to your health.
Episode 6 – Stonebridge and Crawford track down Clare; Scott discovers that hospitals can be hazardous to your health.
Episode 7 – The kidnapping of four hostages by a heroin overlord sends the agents from Vienna to the forests of Kosovo.
Episode 8 – Scott, Stonebridge and the four EU hostages find themselves in a tight spot following a double-cross involving KFOR troops and the drug overlord Hasani.
Episode 9 – The search for Latif and a lethal stash of chemical weapons leads Scott and Stonebridge to Chechnya.
Episode 10 – Scott and Stonebridge are on the trail of a pair of suicide bombers who are determined to bring Budapest to its knees.