The Unit“Flesh & Blood”
Original Air Date: March 22, 2009
Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
We’ve only got maybe five episodes left in the fourth (and possibly final) season of The Unit…so where are our answers? Hopefully, starting with this episode directed by Dennis Haysbert, we’ll get some.
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Original Air Date: March 22, 2009
Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
We’ve only got maybe five episodes left in the fourth (and possibly final) season of The Unit…so where are our answers? Hopefully, starting with this episode directed by Dennis Haysbert, we’ll get some.
The episode opens with our boys in a helicopter under fire, out to rescue one of Jonas’ old friends. Of course, the helicopter is now damaged – a plot device we’ve already seen twice in the earlier episode “Mislead and Misguided,” but who’s counting? Unfortunately, the guy isn’t doing so well. Not unlike “The Spear of Destiny.” But of course, the President – I mean Jonas – always has a handle on the situation. In case of emergency, I want to be standing behind this guy. He orders everyone around with controlled precision, which is good because in 45 minutes, the bad guys are coming to town.
Things get tight when the bad guys turn up early, and manage to shoot the attending doctor, which means Jonas gets to play medic. He does well enough, while New Guy captures one of the bad guys and uses him to extract information. Unfortunately, Jonas’ old buddy doesn’t make it. Do TV shows just like bad endings now? It seems like this, and Law & Order, everything ends badly a lot of the time.
Meanwhile, for some reason we’re still in California. I really thought we were done with this. What I also thought we were done with: Charles’ random blond fiancee-to-be. He’s trying to dump her without telling her what he actually does. Then they have a couple of beers and he basically comes out and says it anyway. Isn’t that a massive security breach? I don’t recall her getting cleared. It doesn’t seem to matter, though, because Joss is soon bonding with Kim and Tiffy like an old friend.
Not to mention, Kim is psychoanalyzing Tiffy and Tiffy’s cheating behavior, blaming it on domestic violence in her family. This could not be more obvious if someone beat me over the head with it. If I wanted to see people psychoanalyzed I’d watch daytime talk shows.
Molly is back hanging out with Susan Guilum, whose husband has dumped her. (Darn, no more John de Lancie guest spots.) Didn’t Colonel Ryan tell these guys to go home? Regina Taylor sounds like she’s guest counseling on Sober House. And hey, there’s Colonel Ryan. Apparently, he still wants to poke and prod about a bit to see what happened to the missing husband – even if it means getting the woman drunk. Wow, nice morals, Tom. Especially since he decides to go do it himself.
My love of Robert Patrick pretty much gets me to forgive his characters for anything. T-1000 is still one of my favorite characters. I even love Rome from The Marine, and the guy was a sociopath who killed a couple people. But I’m starting to get cranky when it comes to Tom Ryan, who is once again showing his promiscuous habits. I want to slap him. Granted, it may be for supposedly noble purposes (remember that in “Dancing Lessons,” it was said there was pretty much nothing found on Guilum in the first place), but he’s out there getting a woman drunk and throwing himself at her. He flushes ten years of her sobriety down the drain and strings her on. It’s downright ruthless, not to mention I don’t want to watch it. When the synopsis said “extreme measures,” I was hoping for some cool interrogation a la Jack Bauer, or something. Instead, I get more of my favorite character basically being a professional Lothario. And what do we learn? Really, not all that much! Wow. I’m impressed. I get that Tom is probably a little bit of a bastard (look at the last couple seasons), and there are things you do in the line of duty, but – especially considering the end was pretty fruitless – this is kind of a new low.
At least Molly comes back to pick up the pieces and get Susan into AA meetings again. But Tom has zero remorse, at least that I can feel (he says it, after he says a bunch of usual diatribe), and I hate him just a little bit more. Yet we’re all supposed to feel better because the episode ends with Charles and Joss getting engaged. Um. Okay? Way to take a step back, show. Is anyone else as disappointed as I am especially after two very strong episodes? Sound off below.