Ultimate Force

Name: Ultimate Force
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
Released: 2002-09-16
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Ross Kemp, Miles Anderson, Christopher Fox, Alex Reid, Danny Sapani

★ 6.5 /10 (20) • 2002–2008

Action & Adventure Drama War & Politics

Creator Chris Ryan, Rob Heyland

This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.

Seasons

Episodes

Country

United Kingdom

Status

Ended

Cast

Ross Kemp

Henry Garvie · 17 eps

Miles Anderson

Aidan Dempsey · 21 eps

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Christopher Fox

Louis Hoffman · 15 eps

Heather Peace

· 15 eps

Jamie Draven

Jamie Dow · 12 eps

Richard Armitage

Capt. Ian Macalwain · 5 eps

Chris Ryan

Sgt. Johnny Bell · 6 eps

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

· 1 eps

Jamie Michie

· 2 eps

Goran Kostić

· 2 eps

Alex Caan

Rugby Referee · 2 eps

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Episode Guide

The Killing House

16 Sep 200270 min

It's a baptism by fire when new recruits Jamie Dow and Alex Leonard join the SAS's elite fighting force team. Hot on the heels of an explosive hostage-rescue exercise in the regiment's Killing House, Red Troop led by charismatic Sergeant Henno Garvie is called to take command of a bank siege. This time the life or death situation is dramatically and tragically real.

Just a Target

18 Sep 200270 min

As Red Troop bury Sam Leonard, a gunman shoots at a prominent European banker using an awesomely powerful sniper's rifle. He misses and the SAS are scrambled to find the gun and the British anti-globalist group suspected of carrying out the shooting. Jamie infiltrates the eco-warriors, convincing them of his skills as a sniper. But when things go wrong, it's not just a banker's life that is threatened.

Natural Selection

25 Sep 200270 min

Ten hopeful recruits to the SAS face their final and toughest challenge yet - a three-day combat survival course in the Welsh mountains, where they must evade capture by 40 Paras while navigating rough terrain and swollen rivers. Mick Sharp hopes to join his mate Jamie in the regiment, but Henno is out to make life difficult for him. But when two soldiers are found dead, it appears an even greater danger lurks in the woods.

Breakout

02 Oct 200270 min

Red Troop is called to a pharmaceutical laboratory after three Chechens break in to an area where scientists are working on a vaccine for a deadly form of anthrax. The gang threaten to release the anthrax, killing thousands, unless they are given money. Caroline gains access by posing as a doctor but Henno is captured and shot. Is blowing up the building and everyone inside it the only solution?

The Killing of a One-Eyed Bookie

09 Oct 200270 min

Jamie is kidnapped during a violent ambush in Northern Ireland while impersonating Bill Gracey, a politician whose life is in danger. Henno is furious, knowing his protégé faces torture and likely death. Breaking orders, he heads off into the Republic with Caroline in search of Cullen, a republican double agent, while Jem and Twamley do some digging of their own. Can they find Jamie before time runs out?

Something to Do with Justice

12 Oct 200270 min

Henno and Twamley are kicked out of the regiment, despite saving Jamie's life in Ireland. The others, under Johnny Bell's command, are sent on a classified mission to Bosnia to 'lift' wily war criminal Glasnovic. To their surprise, Henno and Twamley are also there, training militia men. Reunited, Red Troop close in on Glasnovic but the blood bath leaves one of them fighting for their life.