List of Strike Back characters

Strike Back is a British/American action and military television series, based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service soldier Chris Ryan.

The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service, who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe.

The first episode of the ten-part second series, under the banner title Project Dawn in the United Kingdom, first aired on Cinemax on 12 August 2011.

In 2003 he took part in a botched operation to rescue Kenneth Bratton, a weapons contractor held hostage in Iraq on the eve of the American-led invasion, where two soldiers were killed and a third left in a persistent vegetative state.

[5] In the second series, Project Dawn, Porter worked to capture terrorist Latif in Pakistan, who is planning the eponymous operation.

In the series, Stonebridge is a Royal Marine Commando turned SBS operator working for Section 20, and is married to his wife Kerry.

In Shadow Warfare, he and Scott are ordered to capture Kamali, a lieutenant of elusive terrorist al-Zuhari, in Colombia, and kill Viktor Ulyanov of the Russian mafia in the process.

During the events of Legacy, Stonebridge begins to seriously contemplate his life when he is forced to confront the idea that his government would consent to having him killed if it would fulfil a political end.

He faces an uncertain future as he tries to adjust to civilian life, but chooses to join Scott and his son on a road trip to Las Vegas.

Since the events of Legacy they have become "independent contractors" carrying out sensitive and dangerous intelligence operations on behalf of the British government, giving Whitehall plausible deniability.

Scott was a member of the US Army Rangers before joining Delta Force working to investigate possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In Shadow Warfare he and Stonebridge are wanted by the Russian mafia for killing the son of mob boss Arkady Ulyanov during a mission to capture Kamali.

Once the three escape North Korea, Scott begins contemplating life after Section 20 having previously admitted that he expects to die in action.

When he and Stonebridge evade a CIA-sanctioned hit squad, Scott stages his own death, allowing him to return to the United States and be a father to Finn.

By the end of the series, it is revealed that she took part in "Operation Trojan Horse", a project to plant VX nerve gas in Iraq to prove the existence of weapons of mass destruction there.

In the season's seventh episode he and the rest of Section 20 (sans Scott and Stonebridge) were arrested by corrupt South African officials and sent to a prison.

Whitehall later appoint her to command Section 20, replacing Grant, to hunt the nuclear triggers, which are later in the hands of philanthropist Conrad Knox.

Sergeant Liam Baxter is a field operative introduced in Vengeance, working for Rachel Dalton to find four nuclear triggers.

Sergeant Thomas "Mac" McAllister is one of the three series protagonists, alongside Samuel Wyatt and Gracie Novin, from Retribution to Vendetta.

The only survivor of a disastrous mission to render the terrorist Omair Idrisi, he was due to be court martialled for striking a senior officer until the revived Section 20 reassigned him.

Sergeant Samuel Wyatt is one of the three series protagonists, alongside Thomas McAllister and Gracie Novin, from Retribution to Vendetta.

American intelligence agencies refuse to work with him because of his abrasive personality and insubordinate streak, and it is implied that a failed mission saw him disavowed after it resulted in civilian casualties.

Believing that locals were harbouring the insurgents responsible, the survivors started to massacre them and only stopped when Wyatt turned his weapon on his squadmates.

The events of Revolution reveal that Reynolds was held most responsible for Donovan's death and that she was assigned to guard Non-governmental organizations in Sudan as punishment.

The events of Vendetta reveal that he was stationed as a peacekeeper in the former Yugoslavia during the Balkan War, where he tried to turn captured Serbian army officers into intelligence assets.

He later gives Novin a reprieve after she disobeys a direct order and confronts a friend's killer, reasoning that he can empathise with her loss; he also forgives Wyatt for trusting an unreliable source as he made the same mistake.

The team continue their mission regardless, thwarting a plot by Russian intelligence to take control of organised crime in Eastern Europe.

She claims to have been given a medal for her role in stopping Operation Kingfisher, but she was instead branded a traitor for accepting help from Section 20 and forced to work high-risk missions alone.

Coltrane later calls her and asks her to use her contacts to locate Russian sleeper agents stationed in Croatia, despite knowing that she risks her life to do so.