Mack Gerhardt
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Master Sergeant MacDonald "Mack" Gerhardt (United States Army, callsign: Dirt Diver) is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit. He is portrayed by Max Martini.
Gerhardt is a former Army Ranger and is now the assistant team leader of Sergeant Major Jonas Blane's Alpha Team of the 303rd Logistical Studies Unit. He and his wife, Tiffany, have two daughters.
Gerhardt has worked with Blane and his team on a multitude of missions, including the recovery of a radioactive component of a Chinese satellite, the rescue of the drug minister of Mexico, the assassination of a terrorist financier in Spain, the bugging of an Iranian official's car at their embassy in Beirut, the recovery of seven Stinger Missiles from a Brazilian arms dealer, and the apprehension of a Serbian war criminal in the Balkans.
At the end of season 1, the apprehended war criminal, a Yugoslavian General named Razlan Dragovich, got a good look at Blane and suspected him of firing the shot that killed Dragovich's wife. When Dragovich escaped UN custody, he tracked Blane back to Fort Griffith, the 303rd's headquarters. When the team and their families went off post to celebrate the marriage of Unit commander Colonel Tom Ryan, Dragovich and his men attacked. They killed several restaurant employees and injured both Blane and the new Mrs. Ryan.
A few months later (during Season 2), Gerhardt prepared to leave the Unit at the behest of his wife, but Tiffy decided to rescind her request and ripped up Gerhardt's transfer papers. Since then, he has helped take down the world's foremost weapons dealer, and helped take out a rebel leader in Paraguay.
In the episode Johnny B. Good, Mack and the team are in Iran to determine its Weapons of Mass Destruction capability. Mack kills a herder who would have compromised the mission, as well as their local contact after an explosion's debris pinned her to the ground so as to spare her from imminent capture, torture and death. When he returned home, he and Tiffy bickered, and Mack went to a bar to blow off steam. While there, he assaulted a civilian before being guided out by Crystal Burns, the fiancée of a former 303rd staffer. Crystal offered to drive Mack home, and commented on how screwed up the both of them were, as Crystal's fiancée had recently suffered an extensive traumatic burn injury. Crystal then kissed Mack. He resisted at first, but gave in, and the two had sex in the car.
Later on, Crystal threatened to divulge the affair to Tiffy if Mack didn't continue the affair. This did not faze him, and he ordered her to go back to Jeremy and to stay away from him.
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| The Unit | |
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| Production: | Episode list • DVD releases |
| Main characters: | Jonas Blane • Bob Brown • Mack Gerhardt • Charles Grey • Hector Williams • Tom Ryan Molly Blane • Kim Brown • Tiffy Gerhardt |
| Supporting characters: | Charlotte Ryan • Crystal Burns • Jeremy Erhart |
