Introduction

Strike Back: Vendetta (sometimes referred to as Strike Back: The Final Season) is a ten-part British-American action television series, and serves as the eighth and final series of Strike Back.

The series features returning cast members Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata, Jamie Bamber and Varada Sethu.

Outline

Section 20 are sent to Pristina, Kosovo to extract a hostage, Dr. Helen McCluskey, from the Albanian mafia.

She reveals she told them about a strain of Marburg virus the British have developed as a bioweapon, improved on from Serbian research during the Balkan War. She informs the team Coltrane has been given orders to kill her for trying to blow the whistle about the research.

The team escape, but McCluskey is killed by Jovan, a mafia enforcer. The mafia raid McCluskey’s lab and escape with the bioweapon samples, engaging in a firefight when Section 20 arrive.

Novin accidentally kills a civilian in the confusion and Jovan is captured. Coltrane meets with the Deputy Chief Spencer of MI6 in Macedonia, who emphasises the British government want the weapon captured as to not implicate them if it is used in a terror attack.

Edon Demachi, the mafia leader, returns home and speaks to his son about his impending arranged marriage to a member of the Vironi crime family to end a blood feud. The Demachis travel to Venice to sell the virus, followed by Section 20. Coltrane interrogates Jovan, believing him to be Branko Hajrovic, a Serbian military officer he encountered in Bosnia who was behind the massacre of a village.

Jovan denies this, but reveals Demachi is providing a virus sample to the buyers, who Chetri identifies as men representing someone named Zayef. Mac and Wyatt narrowly stop one releasing the sample in the city. Novin hesitates, allowing another to escape. Coltrane and Jovan are attacked in the hospital by Demachi hitmen, and Jovan later dies after confessing he is Branko.

Strike Back Series

You can find a full index of Strike Back: Vendetta here.

You can find a full index of the Strike Back series here.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Paul Wilmshurst and Bill Eagles.
• Writer(s): Jack Lothian.
• Release Date: 14 February 2020.
• Running Time: 42-48 minutes.
• Country: UK and US.
• Language: English.