Location Doubling: South Africa and Hungary for a lot of other places.Stonebridge just gets more angst as the series goes on. Porter's issues are set up from the start, while the reasons why Scott is brooding are revealed over his first two seasons. Full-Frontal Assault: Scott and Stonebridge have ended up in fights while being completely naked.Scott's life philosophy seems to be "see the world, meet interesting people and have gratuitous explicit sex with the attractive female ones". There's a lot of this (for both genders), especially after Cinemax got involved. One of the better aversions is during the prisoner exchange in Kosovo, when Stonebridge takes out one of Hasanis men with a rifle shot, with the bullet prominently kicking dirt up behind him. Disappearing Bullets: Sometimes played straight, though they also frequently take pains to avert it.Combat Pragmatist: The main characters have no problem using every dirt trick they can think of.That sole survivor buys the farm in Legacy. Midway through Shadow Warfare, only one person from Project Dawn is still alive. Anyone Can Die: Stonebridge and Scott aside, a lot of Section 20 regulars end up killed off, frequently with little warning.It's scheduled to end after the eighth season, known as Vendetta. A seventh season, subtitled Revolution ( Silent War in the UK), started airing in January 2019. While the fifth installment was the final one, a sixth series, with a completely new cast and new characters, has been green-lit and started airing in November 2017, with the subtitle Retribution. So much so that the producers have begun work on a cinematic adaptation that will feature the two characters. The Scott-Stonebridge iteration of the show delivered strong ratings through its run. This series also takes a back to basics approach, with Section 20 being stripped down until it's just the two of them and Locke trying to save the world on their own. In this series, Section 20 gets caught up in a North Korean conspiracy as both Scott and Stonebridge start giving serious thought about what they'd do once they're no longer able to go out into the field. It was originally planned for 2014 but production had to be delayed after Sullivan Stapleton was involved in a near-fatal accident as the passenger of a tuk-tuk after a night out in Thailand. The fifth series, Strike Back: Legacy, premiered in 2015. While Scott and Stonebridge are deployed in Colombia to recover Zuhari's top lieutenant, Dalton, who was trapped in Lebanon after Section 20's original mission was compromised, begins searching for a rogue MI-6 operative who may have sold the team out to al-Zuhari. after another member of Section 20 is killed in Lebanon while tracking the terrorist al-Zuhari. Shadow Warfare begins with Scott and Stonebridge being recalled from vacation in the western U.S. The fourth series, Strike Back: Shadow Warfare, is also ten-episodes, with Cinemax continuing its partnership and Winchester, Stapleton and Mitra reprising their roles. Stonebridge's semi-retirement as an SAS training officer is shattered when a vengeful former colleague murders his wife, and he returns to Section 20 to seek revenge meanwhile, Scott is reunited with CIA officer Christy Bryant, who threatens to expose the secrets of his past. In Vengeance, a simple exchange gone wrong puts Section 20 on the trail of nuclear triggers and competing against the forces of Conrad Knox ( Charles Dance), a businessmen with an agenda. The third series, Strike Back: Vengeance, is another ten-episode Cinemax co-production and a direct sequel to the previous series, once again starring Winchester and Stapleton, with Rhona Mitra also starring as Rachel Dalton, the new commander of Section 20. The pair are also trying to unravel the mystery of "Project Dawn", which is linked to Scott's unfair dismissal from Delta Force, the final fate of John Porter, and Latif's plan to acquire a WMD.
It follows Section 20's attempts to track down Pakistani terrorist Latif, who is attempting to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction their efforts are led by Michael Stonebridge ( Philip Winchester), a straight-laced SBS trooper, and Damien Scott ( Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced former-Delta operator. The second series, Strike Back: Project Dawn, ran for ten episodes in 2011 and was co-produced by Cinemax with an entirely new cast and abandoning the storyline set up in the previous series.