Strike Back: Revolution

Strike Back: Revolution/Silent War
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	Sky One Cinemax
Original release	25 January 2019 (2019-01-25)
Season chronology

Strike Back: Revolution (Strike Back: Silent War in the UK) is a ten-part British-American action television series, and serves as the seventh series of Strike Back featuring returning cast members Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown and Alin Sumarwata. New cast members include Jamie Bamber and Yasemin Allen. The series premiered 10 January 2019 on OCS Choc in France, 25 January 2019 on Cinemax in the United States and is set to premiere on 28 February 2019 on Sky One in the United Kingdom.

Cast

Section 20

• Daniel MacPherson as Sergeant Samuel Wyatt, US Joint Special Operations Command
• Warren Brown as Sergeant Thomas "Mac" McAllister, British Army (ex-United Kingdom Special Forces)
• Alin Sumarwata as Lance Corporal Gracie Novin, Australian Army Special Operations Command
• Jamie Bamber as Colonel Alexander Coltrane, British Army, the new temporary commanding officer of Section 20
• Varada Sethu as Lance Corporal Manisha Chetri, British Army

Federal Security Service (FSB)

• Yasemin Allen as Captain Katrina Zarkova, FSB Alpha Group
• Alec Newman as Lieutenant Pavel Kuragin, FSB Alpha Group Support
• Marek Vasut as Colonel Beshnov, the leader and commanding officer of Alpha Group

Law Enforcement and Government Officials

• Ann Truong as Inspector Amy Leong, Royal Malaysia Police
• Adrian Edmondson as James McKitterick, British High Commissioner to Malaysia
• Victoria Smurfit as Special Agent Lauren Gillespie, United States Drug Enforcement Administration
• Naeim Ghalili as Colonel Aldo, Indonesian Special Forces Command

Antagonists

• Tom Wu as Laoshu, a mercenary and enforcer for the Shun-Ko Triad
• Teik Leong Lim as Kim Wei-Fong, the leader of the Shun-Ko Triad
• Shivani Ghai as Anjali Vartak, a wealthy Indian Hindu nationalist
• Aidan McArdle as Connor Ryan, a corrupt Irish lawyer working for Vartak
• Rudi Dharmalingam as Gopan Laghari, the leader of a Hindu militant organisation
• Chris Obi as Jean-Baptiste Zaza, a Tutsi Rwandan drug lord based in Myanmar and leader of the Punchan Cartel
• Faizal Hussein as Hassan Ahmed, the leader of an Indonesian Islamic terror group

Episodes

Main article: List of Strike Back episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	U.S. air date	U.S. viewers (millions)	U.K. air date	U.K. viewers (millions)
57	1	Episode 1	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian	25 January 2019 (2019-01-25)	0.116	28 February 2019 (2019-02-28)	TBA
Six months after the events of Retribution, Mac, Wyatt and Novin remain on suspended duties on base in Nairobi, Kenya. Reynolds is mentioned to have taken the fall for the events of Retribution, and is now working with NGO’s in Sudan. Royal Signals Lance Corporal Zoe Davis approaches FSB Captain Katrina Zarkova in Kuala Lumpur about a potential deal, but is later killed in her apartment and her intel stolen. Section 20 are reactivated and sent to investigate under the temporary command of Colonel Alexander Coltrane. In Malaysia, they ambush and confront Zarkova’s Alpha Group safehouse, although the Russians deny killing Davis. The safehouse is then ambushed by Triads, and after a gunfight which kills Zarkova's team, Mac and Wyatt are arrested. After being released by Inspector Amy Leong, the team discover Zarkova’s team was investigating the disappearance of a Russian supersonic bomber, from which a nuclear missile was stolen by the triads. They trace Zarkova and the Triad’s operations officer to a skyscraper in the city to determine the location of the missile, but are heavily ambushed and only just able to escape via helicopter with the help of Coltrane.
58	2	Episode 2	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian	1 February 2019 (2019-02-01)	0.113	TBA	TBA
After a planned STAFOC raid to obtain the nuke fails, Inspector Leong revokes Section 20’s clearance to operate in Kuala Lumpur. Fearing that someone in Moscow was paid off to reveal her team's location to the Triad’s, Zarkova forms an uneasy alliance with Section 20. After obtaining intel from Zarkova’s handler, Pavel Kuragin, Coltrane discovers British High Commissioner James McKitterick is being forced to work with the Triads to pay off a gambling debt. The team follows him to a meeting with the triads where he is forced to authorise a diplomatic transfer to transport the nuke out of the city. Zarkova and Wyatt are able to evacuate an injured McKitterick, although he later commits suicide. Wanting to avenge Davis, Novin disobeys orders and pursues Laoshu, engaging in a brutal fight and eventually killing him. The rest of the team and Leong pursue the nuke to the Hulu Langat District, and although they are able to arrest the leader of the Triad, the nuke is transported away via helicopter. Contacting her superior, Colonel Beshnov, Zarkova indicates she intends to betray Section 20, once she has used them for their resources to locate the missile.
59	3	Episode 3	Paul Wilmshurst	Jack Lothian	8 February 2019 (2019-02-08)	0.06	TBA	TBA
The warhead arrives in Goa, India where it is delivered to Anjali Vartak, a wealthy Islamophobic Hindu nationalist, who appears to want it converted into two suitcase nukes. Professor Yamal Shah, a scientist kidnapped to work on the project, escapes and is rescued by Section 20, however due to a mistake by newcomer Lance Corporal Manisha Chetri, he is killed by Vartak’s men when the exfil is interrupted by the Holi Festival. Having been approached by Kuragin during the festival, Zarkova attempts to duplicate files from the team's computer system, but is caught by Coltrane and restrained. Novin, Wyatt and Mac attend a charity fundraiser hosted by Vartak with the intention of cloning her hard drives to discover the location of the nukes, however the operation is interrupted by Professor Shah’s daughter Samira, who attempts to avenge her father and is shot, causing Wyatt to be apprehended by security. Mac and Novin are able to escape with Connor Ryan, an Irish lawyer working for Vartak, in the hope that he can provide them with intel. Meanwhile, the Crib comes under attack, with Coltrane, Chetri and Zarkova narrowly escaping and destroying their systems, however Zarkova is shot by Gopan Langhari, a Hindu militant working for Vartak, before she can enter the escape vehicle.
60	4	Episode 4	Paul Wilmshurst	Jack Lothian	15 February 2019 (2019-02-15)	0.114	TBA	TBA
With Zarkova having been saved by her bulletproof vest, the team retreats to an MI6 safehouse to continue the mission. Wyatt is able to escape from Vartak’s men, not before noticing her confusion at his mention of the suitcase nukes. Wyatt and Mac accompany Ryan to his law firm to retrieve the information, however the building is attacked by Gopan and his men and Ryan is killed. Unable to crack Ryan’s hard drive, the team ambushes Kuragin and use his equipment to track down the secondary location of the nukes. Vartak confronts Gopan about building the devices, having only enlisted him to build small scale dirty bombs to detonate in Mosques around the city. Upon discovering a national newspaper has evidence of her dealings with Gopan, Vartak desperately flees with one of the dirty bombs and is pursued by Wyatt, who is able to stop her detonating the device in a Muslim family's house by pushing her from a window, killing her. The rest of the team follows the nukes and engage in a firefight, but are unable to stop the transport from escaping (although Chetri is able to use a drone to identify the driver as Nemo Kyaw, a Burmese national). Zarkova shoots Gopan, who reveals as he dies that he was told to spare her during the attack on the Crib, and that the Russians are behind the whole ordeal.
61	5	Episode 5	Steve Shill	Jack Lothian	22 February 2019 (2019-02-22)	0.09	TBA	TBA
Nemo Kyaw, is run off the road whilst driving through the fictional Punchan region of Myanmar (part of the Golden Triangle) and has the product stolen by Jean-Baptiste Zaza, a Rwandan born drug lord and influential leader of the Punchan Cartel. The team meets with Coltrane’s contact in the region, DEA Special Agent Lauren Gillespie, who provides them with intel allowing them to destroy Zaza’s communication network and eavesdrop when he switches to regular channels. She also blackmails Wyatt into killing Zaza’s lieutenant instead of bringing him in for questioning. Section 20 discover Zaza intends to sell the devices to Al-Shabaab, but when the groups arms broker Gabrielle Barre is accidentally killed on arrival, Novin takes her place at the deal. During the deal, Novin uses Zarkova’s data leeching device to try and ascertain the location of the nukes, but before the extraction is complete Zaza receives a message informing him of her true identity and a firefight breaks out. The team narrowly escape, with Novin and Zarkova getting away via Barre's seaplane. Colonel Beshnov arrives in the country and meets with Kuragin, telling him be believes Zarkova is the mysterious “Kingfisher”, and part of an ultra-nationalist plot within the FSB. He is then shot by Kuragin, who reveals it is he, not Zarkova, who is behind the plot before killing him.
62	6	Episode 6	Steve Shill	Jack Lothian	1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)	0.096	TBA	TBA
Having crash landed the damaged seaplane, Novin and Zarkova are captured by soldiers and taken to a local prison. Mac confronts Wyatt about him being blackmailed by Gillespie, causing Wyatt to reveal he was part of a special operations unit in Iraq that went rogue and started killing civilians, forcing him to kill his colleagues to stop it. Zaza and the corrupt prison warden agree to have Novin and Zarkova killed in a prison fight, but they end up teaming up with the inmates sent to kill them to escape the facility. The two escape with the help of Mac and Wyatt, but discover the intel has been destroyed. Chetri discovers it was Gillespie that betrayed Novin to Zaza. Confronted by Coltrane, she reveals an alliance with Zaza to gain information about other cartels in the region, having used a DEA slush fund to help finance his rise to power. After abandoning Coltrane, she is kidnapped by Kuragin and taken to where Zaza is keeping the nukes. Section 20 follows, and is able to kill Zaza and acquire the devices, although Gillespie is killed. On exit, Wyatt is shot by Kuragin who takes the devices with Zarkova, although he is eventually found by Mac and Novin. Zarkova confronts Kuragin, who admits to killing Beshnov and her team in Malaysia. Zarkova calls 'Directorate 338' in Moscow to report Pavel's crimes, however after a brief conversation she lowers her weapon and salutes Kuragin.
63	7	Episode 7	Mark Everest	Jack Lothian & Chris Cornwell	8 March 2019 (2019-03-08)	TBA	TBA	TBA
Wyatt returns to work, with the gunshot having missed all of his vital organs. Kuragin travels with Zarkova to Jakarta, Indonesia, where they are forced to raise their own funds by robbing a jewellery store as punishment for killing Beshnov. Chetri uncovers information on Roman Lesnitsky, an FSB analyst with information on Kuragin. Although extracting him from Saratov is forbidden by Whitehall, Coltrane tells the team it has been approved. In Russia, Lesnitsky informs Coltrane, Novin and Mac that he is the architect of the “Kingfisher” project, a response to Western economic sanctions after the annexation of Crimea. The team are attacked during the exfil and Lesnitsky flees, but tells them of a man involved named Hassan Ahmed, the recently released founder of an Indonesian Islamic terrorist group. Kuragin and Zarkova meet with Ahmed, but are followed and ambushed by Section 20. Ahmed is able to escape, but the team, Zarkova and Kuragin are arrested by Indonesian Kopassus commandos, who take the Russians away in separate transport. Coltrane confesses to Chetri the team hasn’t had permission to operate since Myanmar. Novin deduces the soldiers are corrupt and plan to execute them, but they are rescued by Coltrane. Chetri tracks Ahmed alone to an abandoned shopping mall in the city, but is captured when she sees his team preparing one of the suitcase nukes.
64	8	Episode 8	TBA	TBA	15 March 2019 (2019-03-15)	TBA	TBA	TBA
65	9	Episode 9	TBA	TBA	22 March 2019 (2019-03-22)	TBA	TBA	TBA
66	10	Episode 10	TBA	TBA	29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)	TBA	TBA	TBA