The Unit“Sudden Flight”
Original Air Date: Oct 5, 2008
Brittany Wells - TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
When last we left the men and women of Fort Griffith, the women were on a bus headed to nowhere and the men were getting ready to fly to Sarajevo to take on a new and serious threat to their security. As we rejoin them this week, the bus is still headed to nowhere…and apparently, the guys are in Argentina on a flight bound for South Africa.
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Original Air Date: Oct 5, 2008
Brittany Wells - TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
When last we left the men and women of Fort Griffith, the women were on a bus headed to nowhere and the men were getting ready to fly to Sarajevo to take on a new and serious threat to their security. As we rejoin them this week, the bus is still headed to nowhere…and apparently, the guys are in Argentina on a flight bound for South Africa.
I’m pretty sure Sarajevo is a long way away from Argentina.
Glaring continuity hole aside, Bob, Charles and Jonas are on this airplane, with Bob stuck next to the clueless overweight woman and her dog, and Jonas keeping an eye on some guy who apparently thinks a public airplane is a good place to do his top-secret science work. Everyone can guess where this is going. The plane gets hijacked by somebody who just told Jonas he was a salesman, and back at the Tactical Operations Center, it’s time for Col. Ryan to start beating his head against the wall. I wonder if he can ever walk through that main room without something bad happening.
Back on the TerrorPlane, apparently everyone on the team speaks Spanish. Who would’ve known? Why do bad guys always insist on giving ominous cliched speeches nobody believes? And in the event of an emergency, should Robert Patrick be unavailable, I am making like the flight attendant and hiding behind Dennis Haysbert. Nobody messes with Pedro Cerrano.
The bus is still going to nowhere. Apparently it’s been going to nowhere for ten days. Apparently nowhere is Sierra Ridge, California. Surprisingly, Mack has been reassigned to meet the wives on the ground and I breathe a sigh of relief that this half of the episode might be watchable now. He tries to cuddle up to his wife, who doesn’t want a damn thing to do with him. I’m sort of surprised, because if I knew my spouse had been cheating on me I’d just be putting a hole in their head. I guess he doesn’t want to do that in front of his kids.
At the TOC, Ryan tells the State Department to bite him. He then moves a satellite like he does this every day, just so his team can hopefully get a cell phone signal, and then gets one of the stupidest lines of dialogue I’ve ever heard. “Wish is the father to the thought,” he says, and we all blink.
Apparently Scientist Guy forgot to take his pills before getting on the plane and isn’t doing too well. When Jonas moves to help him, the two get locked together in a back room on the airplane.
Kim is complaining about not being able to talk to her kids to Bridget, who comes in and gives another useless speech about the Second World War. Meanwhile, Mack is trying again to come on to Tiffy, who has to peel him off of her. She breaks the news that she’s planning on divorcing him. He gets into her face about it, and she swears on their kids that there isn’t anyone else. Maybe there isn’t now, but they both know she’s lying because there definitely used to be. He tells her she’s pretty much stuck with him. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind being stuck with him, aside from the fact that he can be pretty scary when he’s pissed. Max Martini continues to pretty much singlehandedly steal every scene he shows up in.
After this, Mack ends up wandering into Bridget and the two of them have a friendly chat. And by friendly, I mean ‘excuse for her character’s life story while she very clearly is coming on to him’. I wonder if I can find a wall to beat my head into. I’m also not the only one that sees it, as Tiffy witnesses the whole thing and throws a tantrum over it…despite the fact that she’s the one that’s leaving him. Figure that one out.
The terrorists shoot their obligatory person when the annoying woman Bob was stuck next to won’t come out of the bathroom. Meanwhile, Charles gives a great acting job, pretending to have a panic attack so he can drag Bob back into some other part of the plane and rewire a bunch of stuff. And then start biting off wires with his teeth. I have no idea what he’s doing but it looks cool. Very MacGyver. To anyone who saw Line of Fire, Michael Irby being sneaky is no surprise. (Granted, I think that was me and two other people.)
Mack gets hauled out to go help with the TerrorPlane. How he plans to get there I have no idea. He’s not gone two seconds before Tiffy gets introduced to her new neighbor. Meanwhile, Kim’s found out her baby, who was sick last week, is headed for surgery and is busy pawning everything she can to afford to get to Texas and see her. Bridget is looking for Kim and enlists Molly’s help. Kim thinks Molly is helping her but in fact has sold her out and Bridget drags Kim back to the complex.
On the TerrorPlane Charles and Bob are doing something cool with wires and a big briefcase-looking thing that seems to have come out of nowhere. They need to think fast, because Ryan is saying he’ll blow the plane up if he has to which he really doesn’t want to. He’s saying this to Mack, who is on another plane going to intercept the TerrorPlane when it tries to refuel. That doesn’t work, however, because the terrorists get tipped off. So instead, Jonas sets off the smoke detector, gets himself sprung, and defuses the bomb on the salesman, while Bob and Charles basically shoot anything that moves toward them. How they can shoot that many bullets in an airplane and not do damage is beyond me. Anyway, they save the day.
Ryan debriefs the team, in his fourth scene of the episode. I swear the writers have forgotten that Robert Patrick is perfectly capable of beating someone up. Of course since all the terrorists are dead, they really don’t have anything to go on. Meanwhile, Kim is randomly reunited with Bob, leading me to wonder if they’re going to have Unit members wandering around why these women were relocated in the first place. Their baby pulled through surgery just fine and everything is calm, despite none of the problems from the previous episode really being solved at all. Go figure. Maybe they will next week…if the previews told us anything about next week. Then again it’s all about secrets on this show. I shouldn’t be so surprised.