Hector Williams

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Sergeant First Class Hector Williams (United States Army, callsign: Hammerhead) was a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit. He was portrayed by Canadian actor Demore Barnes.

Hector was a Unit operator assigned to Alpha Team of the 1st Special Actions Group (official cover as the "303rd Logistical Studies Group"), and was an experienced marksman, frequently serving as a sharpshooter for the team. He was also an offensive driving instructor. According to his uniform, he was both Special Forces and Ranger qualified. Williams was likely the most diverse member of Alpha Team. He served as one of the team's medics, and was possibly an SF medical sergeant prior to joining the Unit, and was also cross trained in breaching demolitions. He, along with Charles Grey, also served as an instructor in closed quarters battle for a SWAT unit, and designed the deliberate assault plan for the Braydon School Takedown in the "In Loco Parentis" episode. He was fluent in Arabic and Spanish, as well as a Papuan tribal dialect, and could speak German, Portuguese and a Pashto/Urdu dialect. Hector's cover was that of a "logistics clerk".

In Season 1, Hector was engaged to the daughter of a retired paratrooper who looked upon Hector with disdain due to his career in "logistics." The paratrooper was familiar with Colonel Tom Ryan, and asked for Hector to be transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division. Ryan let the father know subtly that Hector was not in logistics but actually a counter-terrorist. The father's attitude toward Hector changed, which Hector's fiancée noticed. He came clean to her that he was in counter-terrorism, and she, not seeing job security out of the Army in his future, ended the relationship.

In Season 3, Hector met at a local bar a woman named Annie, a waitress and former US Army medic who happens to know Tiffany. They went on a date and then shortly thereafter (with some encouragement from the other Unity woman) met up at local motel in a nearby town, at which time upon he discovered Tiffy and Colonel Ryan are having an affair. He is believed to be the first male member of the 5-man unit to discover Tiff and the Col's affair.

Nearing the Season 3 episode "Five Brothers," Hector was fatally injured when he was hit in the neck with a bullet fired by a sniper as the team made its escape from Hezbollah during the rescue mission in Beirut; the sniper's bullet ricocheted from a bone in Hectors neck into his chest whilst caring for injured team-mate Charles Grey. The irony of this is that during the episode, and also during the episode's promotional spots, the team member Charles, Hector's roommate, is speculated as being killed, but survives the ordeal due to Williams' medicinal efforts.

The cover for his death was that he was transporting documents across an airfield in Turkey when unexploded ordnance blew up, rolling his jeep and killing him instantly. This scenario is called "Play 16."

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At the time of his death, Hector's patches, tabs, badges, awards and decorations were as follows:

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