8.3/10251 votes#1 - Sacrifice
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2008
While women are being secretly relocated and moved off the base for their own safety, Jonas and the team must unravel an assassination plot against the vice president and president elect.
Director: David Mamet
Writer: Frank Military
7.8/10213 votes#2 - Sudden Flight
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2008
The team follows a scientist who may have been targeted by terrorists, hoping to link those same terrorists to a presidential assassination plot.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: N/A
7.5/10195 votes#3 - Sex Trade
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2008
While the Unit is investigating a man they believe to be smuggling nuclear weapons, they discover that he is also smuggling women.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10191 votes
#4 - The Conduit
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2008
Bob and Mac both find themselves in trouble when they each take assignments undercover. Bob as a chemist who hides cocaine by converting it to paint and Mac as a fighter trying to bust an illegal betting ring.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: David Mamet
- 7.6/10195 votes
#5 - Dancing Lessons
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2008
A nuclear scientist insists on making a deal with the team before revealing information about an imminent terrorist attack on a major U.S. city; Kim, Molly and Tiffy are asked to work under cover with Jonas.
Director: Steve Gomer
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10200 votes
#6 - Inquisition
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2008
Hoping to con a terrorist into exposing his accomplices before they escape, the team produces phony evidence of an attack.
Director: David Paymer
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10223 votes
#7 - Into Hell (1)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2008
The team travels to Iraq to save Jonas' daughter, who has been kidnapped; Col. Ryan must face the consequences for his adultery with Mack's wife.
Director: Krishna Rao
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10227 votes
#8 - Into Hell (2)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2008
The team keeps trying to rescue Betsy Blane from Syrian captors; Mack has an opportunity to get revenge on Ryan for his affair with Tiffy.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Frank Military
- 7.1/10187 votes
#9 - Shadow Riders
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2008
Jonas and the team must travel through enemy territory to bring a young bride to her groom, preserving a truce between two warring Afghanistan tribes; Kim and Bob try to expose a man who is linked to terrorists.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10196 votes
#10 - Misled & Misguided
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2008
The team's attempts to raid an anthrax lab are thwarted by an official from the Department of Defense (Michael McKean), who believes his high-tech intelligence is superior to field logic.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10200 votes
#11 - Switchblade
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/2008
Jonas and the team force a Department of Defense official to go with them on an assignment and experience the realities of war; A mysterious women shows up at Aerodyne headquarters. Kim is finally reunited with her kids.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: David Mamet
- 7.6/10191 votes
#12 - Bad Beat
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/2009
Jonas plays a game of high stakes baccarat to win back the services of a CIA spy who has gone over to the other side. His success is also key in getting court martial charges against team member Bridget Sullivan dismissed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10214 votes
#13 - The Spear of Destiny
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/2009
Jonas and a seriously wounded Mack take refuge in a monastery where he is ordered to steal the monks' most prized possession. Back home, Bob is asked to perform a dangerous mission that will reveal the darkest side of his job to Kim.
Director: Scott Foley
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10191 votes
#14 - The Last Nazi
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2009
The President orders the unit to capture a Nazi war criminal from his hiding place and deliver him to The Hague. In Washington, Tom Ryan confronts his past when he is offered a promotion to General
Director: N/A
Writer: David Mamet
- 7.7/10187 votes
#15 - Hero
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/8/2009
The unit initiates a new team member while Jonas coaches his daughter Betsy, on how to respond to media questions about her kidnapping and rescue without blowing the cover story.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
- 8.3/10230 votes
#16 - Hill 60
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/2009
Unable to communicate with the outside world, the Unit and their families must survive when a deadly gas poisons anyone in their community who steps outside.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10185 votes
#17 - Flesh and Blood
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2009
As the Unit fights to rescue Jonas's old friend, a broken helicopter gas tank and nearby guerillas impede their mission. Meanwhile, Tom goes to extreme measures to extract information from a recovering alcoholic whose husband may have been behind a terrorist attack.
Director: Dennis Haysbert
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10186 votes
#18 - Best Laid Plans
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/2009
The mission's plans go awry and Bob must run interference when Jonas and Mack are undercover to find the terrorists who killed the Vice President.
Director: Dean White
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10205 votes
#19 - Whiplash
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2009
When Sam attacks Bridget, the other members of the Unit must hunt him down.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10181 votes
#20 - Chaos Theory
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2009
A random incident throws Jonas and Bob's carefully planned mission into chaos.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10201 votes
#21 - Endgame
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2009
Molly is kidnapped and used as bait, while Jonas is out of the country looking into a Russian terrorist cell.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10242 votes
#22 - Unknown Soldier
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2009
When several dirty bombs are found on American soil, The Unit is deployed to find and diffuse. On the home front, the wives prepare for a wedding and a possible divorce.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Sacrifice" is the best rated episode of "The Unit" season 4. It scored 8.3/10 based on 251 votes. Directed by David Mamet and written by Frank Military, it aired on 9/28/2008. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Sudden Flight".