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The Unit enters the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance Escape) training course thinking they will be guards, but are shocked to learn that they are the POWs for an undetermined amount of time.
Based on the real-life training course that the military uses to prepare for capture by enemy forces, The Unit takes on a grueling exercise of torture and humiliation. The training proves to be especially difficult for Bob, who is sick when the training starts, and the torment pushes him close to death. To complicate matters, the CIA is orchestrating exercises with virtually no limits to the level of physical punishment and emotional manipulation that can be used in an effort to break them, which would result in them being kicked out of The Unit.
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Director:
Stephen De Paul
Writer:
Lynn Mamet, Carol Flint
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Broadcast: 2006-04-25
Production No.: 1ALF08
Episode Overall No.: 8
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Episode Notes -  |
Alyssa Shafer does not appear as a guest in this episode despite being credited in the official press release.
Quotes:
Tiffy: You're dating someone named "Puffy"?!
Charles: (laughing) Not anymore, apparently.
Col. Ryan: Mr. Williams...
Williams: Sir?
Col. Ryan: You in the habit of imitating your betters?
Williams: Only those, sir, I admire unreservedly.
Sarge: SERE ain't over! Breakout is not on the approved list of activities.
Jonas: And then I thought SERE meant "Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape".
Col. Ryan: (to Morrison about Brown) You don't kill that boy or you do kill him and any of his mates lives we better take a head count of our family members cuz my men motivated and angry will not be deterred.
Dr. Morrison: Your men are extraordinary. Don't you want to know why?
Col. Ryan: I don't give a rat's ass why.
Cheals: Do not mock the ways of the past they were born on the backs of the men and women who were there.
Col. Ryan: I'm pulling Brown.
Dr. Morrison: Absolutely not. They break here, they're out. They break in Iraq, Afghanistan, they're traitors.
(seeing the team escaping)
Dr. Morrison: You find this amusing colonel?
Col. Ryan: Ma'am I find this nothing short of hilarious.
Dr. Morrison: (putting Brown to sleep) He won't remember.
Cheals: He dies and they'll remember.
Col. Ryan: I finally figured you out lady. You're not here to train these men you're here to test some theory.
Dr. Morrison: It's not a theory. The Algerians...
Cheals: We do not follow in the footsteps of those who raise torture to an art form.
Col. Ryan: They're not our teachers.
Sgt. Ron Cheals: Alpha Team, welcome to SERE. You have been captured. You are now prisoners of war.
Jonas: You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!
Jonas: You swore on our friendship!
Ron: I had to prove her wrong.
Jonas: Yeah-all's fair.
Kim: (Seeing Bob in the hospital) What did you do to him?
Col. Ryan: Too much.
Sarge: SERE ain't over; breakout's not on the approved list of activities.
Jonas: And I thought SERE meant Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape?
Brown: I am an American fighting man.
Col. Ryan: Should these soldiers break in SERE what's in their Christmas stocking?
Grey: Promotion to civilian.
Trivia:
In this episode, it is revealed that Bob and Kim's baby is a boy.
Mack Gerhardt is a Master Sgt., while Jonas Blane is a Sgt. Major.
Sgt. Ron Cheals' new job is the head of SERE.
Allusions:
Glen Campbell
The DOD doctor refers to Mack, who is singing in the POW cell, as Glenn Campbell.
Campbell is an American pop-country singer, known for a series of hits in the 1960s and '70s, and for hosting a television variety show.
The Dirty Dozen
Williams pretends to break while being interrogated by Sarge, but is actually telling the plot to the 1967 movie The Dirty Dozen. |
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The Unit (2006) - 1x08 - SERE