
"The Unit" follows a covert team of Special Forces operatives as they risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their families maintain the home front. Part of the show's focus is the effect that the group's missions have on the guys' wives and girlfriends.

While Brown and Williams are in New Guinea, Mack learns that Crystal is feeding information to an inquisitive reporter and tries to stop the leak.

Captors who make no demands take children of government officials and foreign nationals hostage.

Bob must make a difficult decision in the field; thinking Tiffy is having an affair, Mack makes a fateful decision.