The Unit“Every Step You Take”
Original Air Date: October 16, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
Ah, a lovely family dinner with Jonas and the rest of the Blaine family. Their daughter, Betsy, has decided to leave college before her senior year. Molly is not happy with that. Betsy hands over a stack of papers to Jonas – she’s enlisted in the military. Molly thinks Betsy isn’t ready and Jonas wants to give Betsy the chance. The next morning Jonas takes Betsy on a little adventure. He hands her a pack full of gear and commands her to put it all on and get out of the car. Camp is 3 miles away – see you there.
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Original Air Date: October 16, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
Ah, a lovely family dinner with Jonas and the rest of the Blaine family. Their daughter, Betsy, has decided to leave college before her senior year. Molly is not happy with that. Betsy hands over a stack of papers to Jonas – she’s enlisted in the military. Molly thinks Betsy isn’t ready and Jonas wants to give Betsy the chance. The next morning Jonas takes Betsy on a little adventure. He hands her a pack full of gear and commands her to put it all on and get out of the car. Camp is 3 miles away – see you there.
Meanwhile, on the Ivory Coast, Bob Brown, Hector and Mac are attempting to get people packed and out of the U.S. Embassy amid rapid gunfire. The Americans keep trying to get in the way of the Unit members and just in time for the theme song, Mac gets shrapnel in the arm. With a bus loaded of Americans, Mac makes his way out of the compound while Bob goes in search of a missing wife and baby of one of the Americans. The bus hits a roadside mine and everyone gets off the bus with one member getting severe damage to her eyes, she can’t see. Bob catches up in a car with Daddy, Mommy and baby in tow. The bus driver goes crazy, doesn’t listen to Mac and meets his end on a land mine. Yup, they are all in the middle of a mine field. Bob and the little family take on the job of creating diversions for the shooters to keep them away from the group in the mine field.
Two hours later, Betsy shows up at camp. She is quite hungry and thirsty. Jonas hands her a gun and points out that in her pack she has a poncho and a canteen. She needs to fend for herself. She’s asleep up in a tree when Jonas finds her and tells her that she could have been killed three times over by now. He’s trying to get her to ‘be all that you can be’. Next mission has Betsy attempting to climb a rock face, she wants Jonas to coach her and not coddle her.
The group is in the minefield and still not listening to the Unit guys. Someone tosses a stick and BOOM – the blind lady gets dropped onto a mine and blows her leg open. She has to use her own belt to stop the bleeding. It’s too late, she’s dead. The gunmen start making their way towards Bob and the family. Dad and Bob go head on to take them out. Dad drops his gun but luckily Hector makes the shot from within the mine field. Bob gets Dad to man up, they are running out of time. Bob is going all A-Team and MacGyver - setting up booby traps around them with trash. A truck load of soldiers show up and with the trash grenades, 2 guns and Molotov cocktails, Bob and Dad defeat them.
Jonas and Betsy set up a night camp. Jonas even invited her for a hotdog and a beer at his fire. Proud Papa has arrived to shed his wisdom.
The shot are getting closer and the Americans keep trying to kill themselves in this mine field. Mac goes nuts and screams his head off, I think they’ll be more disciplined now. US Military shows up.
Jonas and Betsy meet the morning doing pushups and while Jonas is making Betsy count off until she pulls her gun… a viper was about to get Daddy and she shot the snake right between the vertical split pupils. Her gift for saving Dad’s life? A secret it took him 25 years to learn – how to say goodbye to Mom without getting an emotional frying pan upside the head.
The group gets out of the mine field and make it safely to their ride home. All in a day’s work for The Unit.