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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Episode 6
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/2019
Novin and Zarkova find themselves at the mercy of corrupt police, while Mac and Wyatt take temporary refuge in a local village; Coltrane finally learns the location of the suitcase nukes, but the revelation comes at a high price.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Episode 8
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/2019
Coltrane defends his decision to go rogue with S20. After tailing Hassan and the nuclear suitcase to a deserted shopping mall in Jakarta, Wyatt and Novin face down threats from Komodo soldiers and, later, Colonel Aldo and his insurgents. As Katrina weighs her allegiances, Pavel resets the parameters of the Russian plans to overthrow the Indonesian government.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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?
#7 - 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.
#8 - Episode 2
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2020
After catching wind of a feud brewing between Edon and his son Loric, Section 20 launches a raid on their family business; wedding arrangements between the Demachi and Vironi families sour; Mac considers a career-changing offer from Coltrane.
#9 - Episode 3
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/10/2020
S20 is in Tel Aviv, tracing a man with stolen Russian military tech that he plans to sell to Zayef and Mahir. A notorious Israeli gangster makes matters even more complicated. Luckily, S20 picks up a highly-trained friend along the way.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Episode 7
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/2020
Spencer joins S20 to take down Zayef for good. But when intel leads them back to the Demachi's, S20 finds itself embroiled in a feud that may expedite Zayef's plans and place military-grade weapons in the hands of terrorists across Europe.
#14 - Episode 8
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/14/2020
S20 plans to storm a freighter carrying weapons, but when Spencer administers a kill order, Coltrane grows suspicious. As members of S20 contemplate following their conscience, Zayef divulges intel that could drastically change their fate.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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."
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.