"Strike Back" Retribution: Part 6 (TV Episode 2018) Poster

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Call of Duty!!!
Rat_2717 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
OK, nothing great happens in this episode. The Tough Chick and the IT Guy get busy. She has interesting ink, but a manly gait. The Captain has a moral dilemma about her actions in the field, and the team tracks the bad guys to Chernobyl. Anyone who played COD4 should recognize some of the landmarks that they show. I kept looking for that damn pack of dogs. Anyway, there is a ridiculous bar fight, and Tough Chick rescues one of the action guys. ... Again. The Captain has a one-night stand, but then blows up the guys' life. Here's the rub: the scene was meant to show her dealing (poorly) with her problem. She decks the guy and tells his girlfriend that she just got cheated on. But, he exits stage left, as he wasn't the focus of the scene. The grrl power is strong in this episode. Then Pickle Yuri shows up, but ... loses a hand fight with a 100-pound woman. He's a solid 260. Whatever.

Let's do the time warp again! While killing a trained, armed soldier The Captain gets exposed to the nerve agent. Oh no! However, she has enough time to see the warning sign that says Atropine (in Russian), and run out of the room before the first safety door shuts. They prop open the second safety door, which makes me question the integrity of a secure facility, but ... whatever. She is foaming at the mouth, and our action guys hold off some bad guys. They actually don't need saving for once. They then talk to the evil scientist who created the nerve gas, but he can't find the one syringe he has of the antidote. Yes, I am serious. There is a serum, and there is only one. Moving on. The Evil Scientist explains that her body is shutting down, yada yada yada, and they tell him to make more of the antidote. I'm still not kidding. So, he breaks out his My First Chemistry set and starts doing evil scientist stuff. Then he gets 360 noscope headshotted, but the inject her with the almost ready new serum, and she ... lives! Yup. There is another scene later that illustrates why this was so ridonkulous. Before we wrap that up, the Tough Chick gets in another dig at one of the action guys, because that's always fun.

So, during the episode the main bad chick was trying to pull as fast one on the Evil Russian Villain, but she gets caught. However, during his monologue, she grabs the now open container of nerve gas (why in hell he would have opened it is anyone's guess. Oh yeah, plot necessity.) and then she smashes it to release the gas. Everyone in the room dies, but she is able to inject herself with the Atropine (this is the missing syringe from earlier), and she lives too. Of course. However, everyone else in the room died within seconds. I guess the Captain just had a time dilation bubble around her or something.

The episode ends with another plot twist, but ... I really don't care. It feels unimportant.
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2/10
Let Down
largentgary4 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I enjoyed the fist 5 seasons of Strike Back , but Series 6 is just not doing it for me the script is poor and the chemistry between the actors is missing , there are moments that actually make me cringe.
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