The BEST episodes of Strike Back

Every episode of Strike Back ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Strike Back!

Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service (DI), who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe.

Last Updated: 1/6/2024Network: Sky1Status: Ended
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Episode 10
star
8.28
1017 votes

#1 - Episode 10

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/29/2015

Gone to ground after a daring helicopter escape, Scott and Stonebridge try to elude a team of mercenaries in the Swiss Alps in order to bring a traitor to justice. With their ammunition nearly spent, the boys get a helping hand from an unexpected source before ending up in a final, epic fight to the finish.

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Episode 10
star
8.02
1749 votes

#2 - Episode 10

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/23/2011

Latif is finally in Section 20's clutches. The team frantically tries to discover the bombers' target and for that they need Latif to talk. Scott and Stonebridge go after the bombers. Latif's henchmen attack Section 20 command.

Directors: Daniel Percival
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Episode 10
star
7.94
1457 votes

#3 - Episode 10

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2012

In order to stop Knox, Scott comes to Bryant for assistance. Meanwhile Stonebridge has trouble focusing on the mission as he is bent on revenge. Section 20 get assistance from South African police to stop Knox's plot.

Directors: Bill Eagles
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Episode 6
star
7.94
1037 votes

#4 - Episode 6

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2015

In North Korea, Mei - now embracing her real name, Li-Na - is tasked by her mentor, Moon Young-Su, to pry a confession out of Scott and Stonebridge, using Finn as leverage. Meanwhile Locke and Martinez recruit a familiar face in Russia to help get them into North Korea and attempt a dangerous rescue operation.

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Episode 9
star
7.90
986 votes

#5 - Episode 9

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/29/2015

On the trail of Li-Na and Kwon, Locke, Stonebridge, and Scott play a hunch and head to Geneva, where a nuclear disarmament conference is taking place. A face-off between Section 20 and the North Korean renegades ends in a flurry of gunfire - and an inconceivable betrayal.

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Episode 4
star
7.90
1013 votes

#6 - Episode 4

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2015

Hoping to track down the Yakuza's shipment of vanadium - a metal crucial to the making of nuclear weapons - Scott strikes a deal with Faber and Mason, a pair of bounty hunters looking to kill Shiro. Having convinced Finn that he's not a drug dealer, Scott sends his son on a bus to safety and heads off to rendezvous with his mates, who've got all they can handle in a firefight at the Kokura Foundation, a legal front for Shiro's drug operation. As Locke tries to uncover the truth about Shiro and his father, Mei looks to slip out of the crossfire, again.

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Episode 2
star
7.87
1692 votes

#7 - Episode 2

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2013

Out of options and hunted by the resourceful cartel, Section 20 goes for a longshot and attempts an assault in downtown Bogota, hoping to obtain intel on one of al-Zuhari’s key people. Meanwhile, Dalton looks for the source that exposed her team in Beirut, but discovers a surprising ally and a piece of al-Zuhari’s plan.

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Episode 10
star
7.86
1397 votes

#8 - Episode 10

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2013

Scott and Stonebridge face a new pivotal player in Al-Zuhari's plan, and with an imminent attack looming, the team resorts to questionable measures, sparking conflict within the unit.

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Episode 10
star
7.86
361 votes

#9 - Episode 10

Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/28/2020

After receiving shocking intel from an unlikely Russian informant, S20 decides to reunite for one final mission to track down Arianna and avenge their comrades. This time, however, they're doing things a little differently.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 5
star
7.84
393 votes

#10 - Episode 5

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/2020

When Zayef's location is compromised, S20 raids the premises, leading to Mac defying orders to keep his team safe. Suspecting that Zayef plans to deploy the stolen military tech during a U.N. conference in Munich, S20 sets out to stop him.

Directors: Jon Jones
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 2
star
7.84
2098 votes

#11 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/2010

After locating the terrorist safe house Katie is being held in, Porter is also taken prisoner, and Hugh Collinson and a team at Section 20 have to act quickly before it is too late.

Directors: Daniel Percival
Writer: Jed Mercurio
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Episode 7
star
7.84
1581 votes

#12 - Episode 7

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2012

Knox extricates a political leader from a Zimbabwe prison, and the unit tries to catch up with the escapee by tracking his activist daughter.

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Episode 9
star
7.84
694 votes

#13 - Episode 9

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/2018

The team run into trouble as they race to get Idrisi back across Europe. The surprises keep coming as they learn the truth about Jensen and Project Tenebrae.

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Episode 8
star
7.82
1468 votes

#14 - Episode 8

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2013

Scott looks for an escape from Black Bear Prison, while Locke becomes suspicious of Kamali. The team races to locate Stonebridge, whose condition grows more dire when he encounters Al-Zuhari's plan firsthand. Continuing his vendetta, Ulyanov closes in on Scott and Stonebridge.

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Episode 6
star
7.82
1633 votes

#15 - Episode 6

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/19/2010

Porter's life is in danger when he finds himself trapped in a rebels' base in Pakistan. When he manages to escape, he learns that Hugh Collinson, the man he blames for the fatal hostage extraction of 2003, has arrived in Afghanistan to meet him for a final showdown.

Directors: Daniel Percival
Writer: Jed Mercurio
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Episode 8
star
7.81
1518 votes

#16 - Episode 8

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/2012

Community unrest plagues South Africa and Zimbabwe following Lutulu's shooting. Stonebridge questions the shooter, while Scott, Lilian and Lutulu are on the run from assassins. Knox and his new ally make a new plan.

Writer: John Simpson
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Episode 10
star
7.80
441 votes

#17 - Episode 10

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/2/2019

Section 20 faces an ultimate dilemma as it battles Pavel and his team of Russian turncoats for keys to Soviet-era missiles thought to have been destroyed years earlier. The conflict takes S20 from a remote village in the Philippines to Saloglu, Azerbaijan, where three long-range missiles are ready to be fired on major cities in the West. Can the team stop Pavel and save the world from Armageddon?

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Episode 8
star
7.80
1005 votes

#18 - Episode 8

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2015

With the assistance of Nina, Scott and Stonebridge track down Matthias, an eccentric young encryption analyst hired by Kown and Li-Na to access vital nuclear-material codes. Later, Locke comes face-to-face with his nemesis, while Scott and Stonebridge intercept the interceptors of a key convoy.

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Episode 9
star
7.80
353 votes

#19 - Episode 9

Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/21/2020

With Chetri in the wind and Carolyn on their tail, Novin, Wyatt and Coltrane are blacklisted and left with scant resources. S20 seeks the help of Russian allies to combat Russian foes, and the hunt for Zayef's hard drive marches on.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 7
star
7.80
1004 votes

#20 - Episode 7

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/2015

In Vienna, the cloned phone of a Russian mob leader named Myshkin leads Locke, Nina, Scott, and Stonebridge into a public plaza - and a rendezvous between Kwon and Oppenheimer, the world's most dangerous bomb maker, and a man Locke dearly wants to apprehend. Later, Scott and Stonebridge crash a daring bank heist orchestrated by Kwon and Li-Na, in search of a one-of-a-kind document that holds the key to their diabolical plans.

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Episode 4
star
7.79
386 votes

#21 - Episode 4

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/2020

Novin is forced to cooperate with Topal and Danny, as Spencer gives the squad an ultimatum. After an explosive stand-off with Zayef and Mahir, Spiegel threatens to blow the lid off S20's operations in Tel Aviv, and later, the squad's arrangement with the local police reaches its tipping point. Meanwhile, a serious threat is posed to S20's alliance with Zarkova.

Directors: Bill Eagles
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Episode 1
star
7.78
1691 votes

#22 - Episode 1

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2013

Enjoying a long-deserved vacation, Scott and Stonebridge are recalled after a fellow Section 20 member dies while pursuing the elusive terrorist al-Zuhari in Beirut. A new lead sends them into the remote jungles of Colombia in pursuit of a known associate of al-Zuhari’s and deep in territory controlled by a powerful drug cartel.

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Episode 4
star
7.77
1946 votes

#23 - Episode 4

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/11/2011

At a remote facility outside Cape Town, Connolly closes in on his WMD prize, while Stonebridge and Scott are faced with dilemmas that could have far-reaching implications on their organization - and on the thread that connects them to Latif.

Directors: Bill Eagles
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Episode 1
star
7.76
1624 votes

#24 - Episode 1

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/2012

Damian Scott is sent to Mogadishu, Somalia to rescue British diplomats after they are kidnapped by warlord Huseyin Waabri. Meanwhile Michael Stonebridge adapts to his new career outside Section 20.

Directors: Bill Eagles
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Episode 1
star
7.76
2405 votes

#25 - Episode 1

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/21/2011

British sergeant Michael Stonebridge recruits help from Ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott when Section 20 agent John Porter is kidnapped by a Pakistani terrorist. The two then uncover clues to a possible terrorist attack at a New Delhi hotel and race to foil it.

Directors: Daniel Percival
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