The sixth season of Cinemax’s action thriller Strike Back finishes up with three new episodes airing this month. The one-hour series stars Warren Brown (Luther, The Dark Knight Rises) as Thomas “Mac” McAllister, Daniel MacPherson (A Wrinkle in Time) as Samuel Wyatt, and Alin Sumarwata (Neighbours, Burning Man) as Gracie Novin.
Additional season six cast members include Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica, Monday Mornings) as Col. Alexander Coltrane and Yasemin Allen (Water and Fire) as Katrina Zarkova. The series is executive produced by Andy Harries, Sharon Hughff, Jack Lothian, and Richard Burrell. Nuala O’Leary served as a producer.
Strike Back March 2019 Episodes:
- Season 6, episode 8
Debut date: FRIDAY, MARCH 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Coltrane (Jamie Bamber) defends his decision to go rogue with S20. After tailing Hassan (Faizal Hussein) and the nuclear suitcase to a deserted shopping mall in Jakarta, Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson) and Novin (Alin Sumarwata) face down threats from Komodo soldiers and, later, Colonel Aldo (Naeim Ghalili) and his insurgents. As Katrina (Yasemin Allen) weighs her allegiances, Pavel (Alec Newman) resets the parameters of the Russian plans to overthrow the Indonesian government.
Written by Jack Lothian; directed by Mark Everest. - Season 6, episode 9
Debut date: FRIDAY, MARCH 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
In pursuit of Pavel (Alec Newman), Section 20 clashes with two other Russian renegades, Natasha Petrenko (Marama Corlett) and Artem Orlov (Alex Waldmann), as they attempt to purchase sophisticated software designed to short-circuit a ghost satellite containing precious cargo. After a brief respite with his wife, Madison (Kelly B. Jones), Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson) takes a temporary security job working for Caleb Montgomery (Giles Matthey), an obnoxious military-tech tycoon, but soon finds himself thrust back into the danger zone.
Written by Jack Lothian; directed by Bill Eagles. - Season 6, episode 10 (season finale)
Debut date: FRIDAY, MARCH 29 (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
Section 20 faces an ultimate dilemma as it battles Pavel (Alec Newman) and his team of Russian turncoats for keys to Soviet-era missiles thought to have been destroyed years earlier. The conflict takes S20 from a remote village in the Philippines to Saloglu, Azerbaijan, where three long-range missiles are ready to be fired on major cities in the West. Can the team stop Pavel and save the world from Armageddon?
Written by Jack Lothian; directed by Bill Eagles.
The Season 6 Plot:
When a Russian bomber crashes in the South China Sea, the covert special-ops soldiers of Section 20 — Thomas “Mac” McAllister (Brown), Samuel Wyatt (MacPherson) and Gracie Novin (Sumarwata) — are sent to investigate. There, they cross paths with Katrina Zarkova (Allen), a rogue Russian operative with questionable loyalties.
Under orders of the new commanding officer, Col. Alexander Coltrane (Bamber), Section 20 pursues stolen contents of the Russian jet across Southeast Asia. They will work alongside the Malaysian police to shut down a Triad gang in Kuala Lumpur, uncover a corrupt plot by a wealthy Indian businesswoman running for Parliament and plunge into the jungles of the Golden Triangle in Myanmar, facing off against mercenary drug agents and terrifying warlords as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens to push the world to the brink of global conflict.
