Jonas Blane - Temporary Dismantling of The Unit

Temporary Dismantling of The Unit

At the end of season 2, Blane is targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency due to unnamed crimes that he may have committed. These are mentioned to Bob Brown by a CIA handler who wishes to recruit Brown to the Agency. After returning from a mission in Cyprus, Blane and his team find that the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division is investigating Alpha Team, and has shut down the 303rd completely. After finding that the CIA is behind the investigation, Blane fakes his abduction and disappears to Panama City. His official duty status is "Missing", though in reality he is AWOL.

The Season 3 premiere has him changing his appearance by shaving his head and growing a goatee (similar to Dennis Haysbert's famous character in the Major League series, Pedro Cerrano). Blane is found out by Brown, who has him in sight through the scope of a sniper rifle. Brown is then surprised by a gun to his head by Charles Grey, who himself had gone AWOL upon the Unit's being shut down. Grey took Brown to Blane's boat, where Brown insisted he was not trying to kill Blane, despite being caught by Grey in a compromising position. Blane tests Brown by asking him to put a spoonful of rice cereal into his mouth and then spit it out, if Brown were not trying to kill him. Brown did this successfully and Jonas believed him, citing that when humans lie, saliva is not produced in sufficient quantity to spit out rice.

Blane, through his networked contacts, learned about how the Oil Minister of Venezuela was assassinated. Earlier in Season 2, Blane was ordered to kill the oil minister, which order Colonel Ryan had a change of heart about, after talking to a Congressman of another political party and realizing the assassination was a conspiracy by the Big Oil lobby to get rid of an actor in the oil market whom they could not control. Blane and his local CIA contact (whom he slept with in order to preserve his cover) were eventually found out, and Blane barely escaped with his life. It was this contact that Blane sought to find, to figure out what happened to the Oil Minister, whom a Congressional Review panel was led to believe had been killed by Blane, by showing them doctored security footage.

Shortly after Blane found his contact in her apartment, they were visited by a CIA assassin. They barely escaped and decided to link up with a CIA agent who was her contact. During the drive to the agent's house, Blane's contact revealed to Blane that she was supposed to obtain a thermal imaging map for the CIA. She told Blane that she informed the CIA that he was the one with the map, so that they wouldn't kill her for knowing about it. She explained that she used him as the scapegoat because she felt the Unit was secure enough to not have the government go after it, and she told him that the map was in a secure safe deposit box in Dallas. When they reached the agent's house, the CIA agent shot her and was then subsequently killed by Blane. Blane, assuming the agent's identity, doctored his passport and returned to the United States with coffins carrying both bodies.

After returning Stateside, Blane knew he had to use a woman to pose as the girl in order to retrieve the map. He correctly deduced that Bob Brown's wife, Kim, was going to be in Texas staying with her parents and contacted her. When Kim went to retrieve the document while Blane waited outside, he was approached by a local police officer who suspected him of being a jewel thief. Blane gave the officer the doctored passport of the CIA agent he had killed, as Kim was returning with the documents. When the officer discovered the passport was a fake, he tried to take Blane into custody. Blane eventually struggled free before taking the document from Kim and driving off in Kim's car, making it look as if he and Kim didn't know each other.

Blane later met up with Grey, and Brown and figured out the map was of a location in the ocean off the coast of South America. When the three got there, Blane uncovered a CIA dump site of human bodies.

The Unit later found out that the bodies were of prisoners at the terrorist detention camp on board a modified oil tanker (which constantly stays at sea in international waters). A rogue group of CIA agents, who had ties to the military-industrial complex, had been illegally killing the terrorist prisoners and dumping them at this location. The Oil Minister had found out about the CIA body dump, and thus the rogue group put in motion the orders for the Oil Minister's assassination that The Unit had originally been assigned.

After rescuing Hector Williams and linking up with Colonel Tom Ryan, Blane and the rest of the Unit (without Mack Gerhardt—who was being tortured by the rogue CIA officers—devised a plan to get Mack returned safely. Ryan's wife, Charlotte Ryan, had links to important people in the military-industrial complex who wanted to give Tom Ryan a lucrative job, and they used this opportunity to meet one such man in person at a public dinner, where The Unit ambushed him. The two parties struck a deal, allowing the Unit to be reinstated and Mack Gerhardt to be returned safely, in return for the Unit's silence about the CIA gravesite.