7.7/10458 votes#1 - First Responders
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/2006
The Unit is a covert team of U.S. Special Forces operatives who must undertake missions around the world. The latest newcomer is Bob Brown who joins Jonas' team and they set out to rescue an airliner filled with European businessmen who have been hijacked by terrorists. Meanwhile, Bob's wife Kim is struggling with how much control the Unit has on her own personal life.
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Writer: David Mamet
7.5/10334 votes#2 - Stress
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2006
The team, minus Bob, are in search of a fallen Chinese satellite. This quickly turns into an opportunity to capture one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Meanwhile, Bob is questioned about the Unit's role in the rescue of the hijacked plane. Molly decides to visit the Unit's psychiatrist about the shooting at her home. Kim is frustrating about moving and then comforts a woman who has just learned her husband has died in combat.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: David Mamet
7.5/10327 votes#3 - 200th Hour
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2006
Jonas attempts to rescue a group of American missionaries in hiding in Indonesia. However, he soon realizes the mission is going to take more manpower then he expected. At the base, Mac ends up being shot by Bob during a training exercise and Molly, Kim and Tiffy prepare to host a visiting senator.
Director: Steve Gomer
Writer: N/A
7.6/10306 votes#4 - True Believers
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2006
The Unit is sent to Los Angeles to protect Mexico's drug minister who has been threatened with assassination and soon his wife and sons are kidnapped. At the base, a former Unit wife makes a return appearance in the hopes of luring the Unit members away. Tiffy is upset when Ryan orders Mack to take time off.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: Eric L. Haney, Shawn Ryan
7.5/10322 votes#5 - Non-Permissive Environment
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2006
Jonas and the team carry out an assasination of a terrorist in Spain. However, they soon find out that the government called off the mission and will now not protect them in the country which means there only hope is to escape. Back at the base, Molly learns that her daughter Betsy wants to drop out of college and Kim thinks about taking a college course herself.
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Writer: N/A
7.6/10298 votes#6 - Security
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2006
The Unit must try to get a listening device to an agent inside the Iranian embassy where U.S., Iranian, and Russian diplomats are meeting. Many are speculating that the Russians are attempting to sell the Iranians material to make a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile at the base, Tom tries to end his affair with Tiffy but she won't listen to him and Kim notices Tiffy at a motel room and does not know what she should do.
Director: David Mamet
Writer: David Mamet
7.9/10303 votes#7 - Dedication
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/18/2006
The crew must fly to Afghanistan to assassinate a high ranking member of the Taliban. However, one of their team helicopters ends up going down in enemy territory, placing the entire crew in jeopardy. Back at the base, Molly confronts a friend and retired Unit veteran about his addiction to painkillers and Kim ends up getting a job at the local radio station.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: N/A
8.0/10349 votes#8 - SERE
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/25/2006
The Unit enters the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance Escape) training course and they are lead to believe that they will be guards. The group is soon shocked to discover that they are actually the POWs for an undetermined amount of time.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Carol Flint
7.7/10277 votes#9 - Eating the Young
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/2/2006
Jonas and his team must track down surface-to-air missles before they are smuggled out of Brazil after a deal with a drug lord falls through. Jonas gets help from a local boy who informs the team where the SAMs have been taken to be shipped. Meanwhile back on the base, Kim ends up causing even more trouble when she insists that the “Family Readiness Group” deals with what she deems more serious issues. Also, Williams tries to find a way to tell the woman he wants to marry that he is actually a Unit member and not a clerk on the base like she believes.
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: Sterling Anderson
7.7/10283 votes#10 - Unannounced
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/9/2006
After Bob gets his cover blown in Africa, he tells Jonas to cancel a visit a dignitary is taking to the area because of the danger. However, the official refuses and something shocking is quickly learned about why he really wants to go there. Meanwhile, Kim has an encounter while at the radio station and Molly gets offered a real estate opportunity.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: N/A
7.2/10267 votes#11 - Exposure
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/2006
Keith Soto returns to the base for a reunion and it's quickly discovered by Jonas and Col. Tom Ryan that he is a newspaper reporter who is writing an article that will expose the Unit. Jonas decides there is only one way to get him to not print the story. Meanwhile, with some help from Tiffy and Kim, Molly tracks down the woman who scammed $40,000 of the women's investment fund.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10258 votes#12 - Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/16/2006
The Unit is called in to consult on a bomb planted in an Atlanta bank, but they soon learn that the bomb might be nuclear. Meanwhile, Bob and Kim decide to take a much needed vacation, but Kim soon discovers that Bob has whisked her away on a mission and wants her to help him out.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Sterling Anderson, Paul Redford
7.9/10286 votes#13 - The Wall
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2006
The Unit ends up detaining a former Yugoslav general who was wanted for war crimes and then allows lets the U.N. take credit for their capture. However, the criminal soon escapes U.N. custody and he is now seeking retaliation against Jonas for capturing him. Meanwhile at the base, Tiffy is convinced that Mack has decided to re-up with the Unit and she's thinking of divorcing him, and Kim is the recipient of some disturbing news.
Director: David Mamet
Writer: Eric L. Haney
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Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"First Responders" is the best rated episode of "The Unit" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 458 votes. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and written by David Mamet, it aired on 3/7/2006. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Stress".