The WORST episodes of Strike Back

Every episode of Strike Back ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 4/2/2024Network: Sky1Status: Ended
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Episode 1
star
7.33
1056 votes

#1 - Episode 1

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/2017

The man behind some of the worst terrorist attacks on the west escapes during a prison break masterminded by his British wife, and Col Adeena Donovan needs the situation cleared up quickly and decides to reinstate the disbanded Section 20. The all-new members of the unit set out on a life-or-death mission that will take them across the Middle East and Europe, and plunge them into the paths of Saudi princes and Russian FSB agents.

Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 3
star
7.39
846 votes

#2 - Episode 3

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/2017

As Jane Lowry surfaces in Budapest, Mac and Wyatt are forced to go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous group of white supremacists that has something she needs.

Directors: Brendan Maher
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Episode 2
star
7.39
873 votes

#3 - Episode 2

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/2017

Section 20 start to close in on terrorist Omair Idrisi and his wife Jane Lowry, but the team is forced to extract devious arms dealer Morgan Ives from Libya.

Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 4
star
7.45
823 votes

#4 - Episode 4

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/2017

Things aren't looking good for Mac. He's blown his cover and is now facing certain death. Donovan digs into Zarin's past... and she doesn't like what she learns.

Directors: Brendan Maher
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Episode 3
star
7.48
496 votes

#5 - Episode 3

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/2019

Section 20's search for the missing nuclear warhead leads them to India, where three scientists have been kidnapped by a militant; the team gains valuable intel on Anjali Vartak, a rich Hindu with a personal vendetta against Muslims.

Directors: Paul Wilmshurst
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 2
star
7.48
1123 votes

#6 - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2015

Reeling from a deadly explosion, Locke and Section 20 regroup at a new crib in Bangkok, with Scott and Stonebridge tasked to bring in McQueen – who is also targeted by Changrok, captain of a corrupt SWAT unit at the Bangkok PD. The boys soon realize that Chloe's kidnapping is the tip of a much larger plot, one involving a North Korean crime syndicate, Office 39, and it's ruthless Bangkok leader, Lee Dae-Ho

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Episode 6
star
7.50
375 votes

#7 - Episode 6

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/31/2020

Long after the incident in Munich, Wyatt and Novin reunite with Mac, who has since left the military. But while he lives out a seemingly idyllic existence with his wife and daughter, his violent past haunts him.

Directors: Jon Jones
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 6
star
7.50
717 votes

#8 - Episode 6

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/31/2018

Lowry calls on a young jihadi to unleash the deadly gas in a busy airport, while Reynolds is forced to make a life-defining decision as Section 20 races to prevent the attack.

Directors: Debs Paterson
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Episode 7
star
7.53
756 votes

#9 - Episode 7

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2018

It's Section 20 vs Jane Lowry in a race to get to Omair Idrisi. It's a mission that hurls comms officer Jensen into extreme danger.

Directors: Bill Eagles
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Episode 5
star
7.53
1522 votes

#10 - Episode 5

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/25/2013

While recovering from a shocking turn of events, Section 20 faces a different threat: a new enemy joining forces with an old one. Locke draws Kamali in closer to the team. Scott looks for an old friend, while Stonebridge gets closer to a new one.

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Episode 5
star
7.53
473 votes

#11 - Episode 5

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/28/2019

Following a high-speed jungle ambush in Myanmar, the suitcase nukes end up in the hands of a brutal Rwandan drug lord with a jealous streak; Colonel Beshnov, the Russian Alpha Group leader, surprises Pavel with a revelation about Zarkova.

Directors: Steve Shill
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 4
star
7.55
1554 votes

#12 - Episode 4

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2013

Section 20 attempts a risky rescue for a potential new ally. Now veering close to the edge, but determined to find the truth, Dalton goes AWOL with a detainee.

Directors: Julian Holmes
Writer: James Dormer
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Episode 1
star
7.55
555 votes

#13 - Episode 1

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2019

Reuniting for what they think is a routine "cleanup" exercise in Malaysia, Gracie Novin, Samuel Wyatt and Thomas "Mac" McAllister learn that a British operative in possession of intel about a downed Russian plane has been killed in Kuala Lumpur.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 2
star
7.56
531 votes

#14 - Episode 2

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/2019

Section 20 forges an uneasy alliance with Zarkova in hopes of tracking down a stolen nuclear warhead in Kuala Lumpur; the group grows frustrated when Police Inspector Amy Leong pulls them off the job after a false alarm.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 5
star
7.57
795 votes

#15 - Episode 5

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/2017

Section 20 must stop Lowry and Dr Markov from making and unleashing a deadly chemical weapon. In desperate need of intel, Novin infiltrates a drug lord's home.

Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 9
star
7.57
435 votes

#16 - Episode 9

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/25/2019

In pursuit of Pavel, Section 20 clashes with two other Russian renegades, Natasha Petrenko and Artem Orlov, as they attempt to purchase sophisticated software designed to short-circuit a ghost satellite containing precious cargo. After a brief respite with his wife Madison, Wyatt takes a temporary security job working for an obnoxious military-tech tycoon, Caleb Montgomery, but soon finds himself thrust back into the danger zone.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 4
star
7.58
481 votes

#17 - Episode 4

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/21/2019

As Wyatt is tortured by Vartak's henchmen, Mac presses her corrupt lawyer to hand over an encrypted hard drive that might hold clues to the whereabouts of a pair of "nuclear suitcases."

Directors: Paul Wilmshurst
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 6
star
7.59
2001 votes

#18 - Episode 6

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/2011

The first attempt to rescue Clare ends with Scott in the hospital and Stonebridge in pursuit with Crawford and Jacoub. Tahir takes Clare to a Janjaweed camp. Soldiers look for Scott at the hospital. Grant threatens Maggie about her story.

Directors: Alex Holmes
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Episode 4
star
7.59
1519 votes

#19 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2012

Scott and Stonebridge prepare for an attack by Al Qaeda while holed up in an Algerian farmhouse with the nomad leader and the wounded courier. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, Dalton is called on the carpet for her relationship with the courier.

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Episode 8
star
7.59
1830 votes

#20 - Episode 8

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/2011

Scott and Stonebridge are held captive with the four EU hostages in the wilderness of Kosovo. Hasani plans to sell Dana as a sex slave, and Allen, the double agent who has been providing information to Latif.

Directors: Paul Wilmshurst
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Episode 7
star
7.61
477 votes

#21 - Episode 7

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/2019

As Wyatt convalesces, Coltrane, Mac and Novin embark on a covert, 24-hour mission inside Russia to extract an FSB analyst with potentially vital information. Katrina questions Pavel's true identity, but chooses to stand by her commanding officer.

Directors: Mark Everest
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Episode 7
star
7.62
1467 votes

#22 - Episode 7

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2013

The team tracks stolen property to Russia, where Scott and Stonebridge continue their side careers as "outlaws." As Stonebridge's health continues to deteriorate, they discover new mysteries about a piece of Al-Zuhari's plan. Kamali worries that his cover identity may not hold.

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Episode 1
star
7.63
454 votes

#23 - Episode 1

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2020

The members of Section 20 are thrown back into combat when a seemingly-straightforward mission in Kosovo to rescue a British scientist uncovers a conspiracy.

Directors: Paul Wilmshurst
Writer: Jack Lothian
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Episode 9
star
7.63
1513 votes

#24 - Episode 9

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2012

Knox plans on unloading nuclear bombs into politically unstable African nations, while Matlock reveals why he joined Knox.

Directors: Bill Eagles
Writer: Tony Saint
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Episode 5
star
7.63
1866 votes

#25 - Episode 5

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/18/2011

Stonebridge and Scott pose as aides for arms dealer Gerald Crawford to negotiate the release of hostage, Dr. Clare Somersby.

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