From Executive Producers David Mamet and Shawn Ryan. THE UNIT, is an action drama that follows a covert team of Special Forces Operatives as they RISK their lives on undercover missions around the globe. Meanwhile, their families maintain the home front, protecting their husbands secrets.

Jonas Blane (Dennis Haysbert) leads THE UNIT on missions and is responsible for taking new recruit Bob Brown (Scott Foley) under his wing. THE UNIT includes Jonas, Col. Tom Ryan (Robert Patrick), Mark Gerhardt (Max Martini), Charles Grey (Michael Irby), Hector Williams (Delmore Baines), and Bob Brown, all highly skilled, trustworthy, brave and dependable soldiers whose ability to rely on each other is what creates their brotherhood.

Jonas wife Molly (Regina Taylor) is the base matriarch who councils and comforts the other wives. Molly and Tiffy Gerhardt (Abby Brammell), a wife hiding her own dark secrets, help Bob's pregnant wife, Kim (Audrey Marie Anderson) acclimate to the stress of her new secret life. THE UNIT is loosely based on Eric Haney's book, "Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counter Terrorist Unit." According to Haney, the term Delta Force is never in the special operations community, they are only referred to as THE UNIT.