Introduction
Chris Ryan’s Strike Back, also known as Strike Back: Origins on Cinemax, is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan, and is the first series of Strike Back.
The cast of Strike Back is led by Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, also starring Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Colin Salmon and Jodhi May, including a variety of guest appearances including Toby Stephens, Ewen Bremner, Dhaffer L’Abidine, Shaun Parkes and Alexander Siddig.
Outline
Computer hacker Gerald Baxter (Ewen Bremner) is responsible for killing several American Marines with a British air strike in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Porter is ordered to go there posing as a weapons dealer to locate and extract Baxter. Porter is captured by Zahir Sharq (Siddig) and taken to him, who is revealed to be working with the Taliban.
Quickly, the two are ambushed and apprehended by Marines. Although Porter reveals his true identity, the Marines receive orders to have the two killed.
When Porter and Baxter escape, Baxter reveals he worked with the CIA, but moved with Sharq after learning the Americans want him dead; the two set off to Pakistan to meet Sharq. When they meet him, Baxter reveals Porter’s true identity.
In the end, Baxter learns that Sharq is working with American liaison to the UK, Frank Arlington (Stephens), and offers the two in exchange for arms and intelligence.
Strike Back Series
You can find a full index of Series 01 here.
You can find a full index of the Strike Back series here.
Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): Edward Hall.
- Writer(s): Robert Murphy.
- Release Date: 19 May 2010.
- Running Time: 42-48 minutes.
- Country: UK and US.
- Language: English.
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