Strike Back: Retribution Explained

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Num Episodes:	10
Network:	Sky One Cinemax
Prev Series:	Legacy
Next Series:	Revolution
Episode List:	List of Strike Back episodes

Strike Back: Retribution is a ten-part British-American action television series, and serves as the sixth series and second revamp of Strike Back, with a new cast including Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Roxanne McKee and Alin Sumarwata. The series premiered on 31 October 2017 on Sky One in the United Kingdom and 2 February 2018 on Cinemax in the United States.

The series focuses on Section 20, a clandestine multinational Special Forces team. Section 20 has been re-formed after the events of Legacy and placed under new leadership. The team is tasked with locating notorious terrorist Omar Idrisi and his British wife, Jane Lowry, before they can seemingly start a terrorist attack against the West.

Cast

Section 20

• Daniel MacPherson as Sergeant Samuel Wyatt, US Joint Special Operations Command
• Warren Brown as Sergeant Thomas "Mac" McAllister, British Army (former United Kingdom Special Forces)
• Roxanne McKee as Captain Natalie Reynolds, British Army (former Special Reconnaissance Regiment)
• Alin Sumarwata as Lance Corporal Gracie Novin, Australian Army Special Operations Command
• Nina Sosanya as Colonel Adeena Donovan, British Army, the commanding officer of the revived Section 20
• Phil Dunster as Lance Corporal Will Jensen, British Army Intelligence Corps

Special Guest

• Philip Winchester as Michael Stonebridge, former Special Boat Service operator and Section 20 operative, who disappeared after the events of .
• Sullivan Stapleton as Damien Scott, former Delta Force operator and Section 20 operative, who disappeared after the events of .

Military officials

• Corey Johnson as Colonel Parker, US Joint Special Operations Command
• Selva Rasalingam as General Ajeeb Farid, leader of a breakaway section of the Libyan National Army
• Attilla Árpa as Major General László, Hungarian TEK (the character previously appeared in )
• Louise Gold as Crowther, Section 20's superior based in Whitehall
• Scott Young as Director Mikhailov, Russian GRU

Antagonists

• Don Hany as Omair Idrisi, the renowned leader of a terrorist group
• Katherine Kelly as Jane Lowry, Idrisi's radicalised wife
• Trevor Eve as Morgan Ives, an international arms dealer dealing with Idrisi
• Adrian Bouchet as Johannes Krieger, the head of Octagon, a private military company owned by Ives
• Kelly Gough as Rosa Varga, the leader of Magyar Ultra, a white nationalist organisation
• Mark Strepan as Josef Varga, the younger brother of Rosa and second-in-command of Magyar Ultra
• Daniel Cerqueira as Dr. Kamil Markov, a Chechen chemical weapons scientist
• Peter Firth as Milos Borisovich, a Belarusian drug lord

Episodes

See main article: List of Strike Back episodes.

Production

On December 8, 2016, Cinemax and Sky1 announced they had greenlit a brand new series of Strike Back with a brand new cast, no longer focusing on former stars Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester. Daniel MacPherson, Alin Sumarwata, Roxanne McKee and Warren Brown have been cast to star in the new series instead.

• MacPherson as Sergeant Samuel Wyatt, a bar-room philosopher who works best alone and has no intention of being dragged into a team situation.
• Sumarwata as Lance Corporal Gracie Novin, a gear-head who is looking to make the step up. Genuine, honest to the point of bluntness, she’s the heart and soul of the team.
• McKee as Captain Natalie Reynolds, who comes from a military family, excels at psychological profiles and seeking weaknesses in others, although she might be blinded to her own fault-lines.
• Brown as Sergeant Thomas “Mac” Macallister, a man of his word, affable, physically capable, and driven by a desire to avenge the team he’s lost.

The new series focused on the now disavowed and disbanded Section 20 that is restored in order to track down a notorious terrorist following a brutal prison break. Tasked with covert military intelligence and high-risk operations, the resurrected unit embarks on a lethal manhunt that would uncover a vast web of interconnected criminal activity. As the team journeys across the Middle East and Europe, they uncover a deadly conspiracy which threatens to overwhelm them all and change the face of modern warfare forever.

The new series was written by Jack Lothian who also served as showrunner and executive producer with Andy Harries and Sharon Hughff for Left Bank Pictures. M. J. Bassett served as director and executive producer, Bill Shephard as producer. The new Strike Back series was filmed sometime in 2017.^[1] The new series debuted in the UK on Sky One on October 31, 2017^[2] and in the US on Cinemax on February 2, 2018.

On February 13, 2018, it was announced that former stars Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester would reprise their roles as Damien Scott and Michael Stonebridge for two special guest appearances later in the new series.^[3]

External links

• Strike Back at Sky1
• Strike Back at Cinemax

Notes and References

1. Web site: ‘Strike Back’ Reboot Gets Series Order By Cinemax & Sky, Sets Core Cast. Andreeva. Nellie. Deadline. December 8, 2016. 31 October 2017.
2. Web site: ‘Strike Back’ Season 6 Get’s UK premiere date Of Tuesday, 31st October At 9pm On Sky 1. Elliot. Dave. GeekTown. October 9, 2017. October 31, 2017.
3. Web site: ‘Strike Back’: Sullivan Stapleton & Philip Winchester Return In Season 5. Petski. Denise. Deadline. February 13, 2018. February 14, 2018.