The Unit

GasX

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Due to the delays caused by overtime games, My Tivo has recorded only parts of several recent Unit episodes. There is one storyline I'd like to know about.

When they recently went into Syria to rescue President Palmer's daughter, they had decided to kill Col. Ryan. I got as far as when they busted into the looney bin before losing the rest of the episode.

How did it end and why is the Colonel still breathing?
 

fuzzybabybunny

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SPOILER ALERT

Busted into looney bin. Next up for execution was Snake Doc's daughter. Ryan went berserk on the guards and they took him for execution instead of the daughter. Ryan sits in front of the camera and says that his men mean everything to him over and over, ignoring what the terrorists want him to say. The team busts in, kills the terrorists, rescues Ryan, the daughter, and one other Marine. Police storm the asylum and the team are trapped inside the basement. Ryan and Snake Doc stay behind to hold off the police by holding an AK to the neck of their translator hostage while the rest of the team escape through a sewer. Ryan says he will stay behind to keep on holding the AK to the hostage's neck, but the hostage is a holy man and identifies with Snake Doc's love for his daughter, and says he will hold the AK on himself while Ryan and Snake Doc escape (the police can't see who is holding the AK because they are in a doorway and the wall blocks sight of the guy holding the AK.)

Everyone escapes and arrives at a safe house waiting for extraction by a helo. The team go into a private room to settle the matter of Ryan and Mack takes out his revolver. Jonas won't let Mack use the gun, and so they go into hand to hand combat. Ryan gets defeated and is on the ground waiting for Mack to kill him when Jonas says to Mack that he doesn't give a damn if Mack kills him but asks if killing him will make him a better warrior. Scene cuts to helicopter extraction. Ryan is the last guy to hop on the helo.

Scene turns to the hospital. Ryan is in one of the beds conked out. Daughter and mother reunite and the daughter says she did everything that her mom had told her to do - walk slowly, show no fear, and don't look back - alluding to the time when their car had broken down, and showing that perhaps there was some sort of connection between the two after all.
 

GasX

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Thanks, but that sounds like a lame way to keep Ryan alive. Mack doesn't seem like the type to be worried about being a better warrior when it comes to this revenge issue...
 

slsmnaz

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Pretty good recap. The dvr thing happened to me too so I watched them all on cbs.com.
 

ScottFern

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Yeah, the same thing has been happening on my U-verse DVR. Quite annoying, although a way around it is to record the local news that comes up right after The Unit on the schedule.

Btw, The Unit is pretty much the best action show on TV! Just something about Delta Force.
 

fuzzybabybunny

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Thanks, but that sounds like a lame way to keep Ryan alive. Mack doesn't seem like the type to be worried about being a better warrior when it comes to this revenge issue...

Eh, other factors at play. Ryan was already beat to shit. Tiffy said that if Mack killed Ryan he would never see her nor their children again, which could directly impact his effectiveness as a warrior. Mack forgave Tiffy. Mack's also got a lot invested into the team, being second in command after Jonas and all, so being a better warrior would be in his interest.
 

GasX

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I am hoping that wife gets killed off next week. She annoys the hell out of both me and my wife.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: rh71
why not get the torrent? That was a pretty good ep.

I don't do bit torrent...

I also have a ton of tv shows to catch up on, so backtracking just never happens...
 

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Due to the delays caused by overtime games, My Tivo has recorded only parts of several recent Unit episodes.

Tell your TiVo to stop recording 30 minutes or 1 hr late. Works unless you have something scheduled to record immediately after The Unit on a different channel, in which case a 2nd TiVo is a solution.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: allisolm
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Due to the delays caused by overtime games, My Tivo has recorded only parts of several recent Unit episodes.

Tell your TiVo to stop recording 30 minutes or 1 hr late. Works unless you have something scheduled to record immediately after The Unit on a different channel, in which case a 2nd TiVo is a solution.
The Unit is now a 2 hour show as fars as Tivo is concerned...