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Unit 42 (original title: Unité 42) is a Belgian television series written by Julie Bertrand, Annie Carels and Charlotte Joulia. It premiered in Belgium on La Une on 19 November 2017, and it was released worldwide on Netflix on 14 June 2019.[1][2]
| Unit 42 | |
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| French | Unité 42 |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Julie Bertrand Annie Carels Charlotte Joulia |
| Screenplay by | Charlotte Joulia, Julie Bertrand, Sammy Fransquet, Annie Carels, Anne-Charlotte Kassab |
| Directed by | Mathieu Mortelmans, Indra Siera, Hendrik Moonen |
| Starring | Patrick Ridremont Constance Gay |
| Composers | Michel Duprez and Thierry Plas |
| Country of origin | Belgium |
| Original language | French |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 52 minutes |
| Production companies | Left Field Ventures RTBF |
| Original release | |
| Network | La Une |
| Release | November 19, 2017 – December 17, 2019 |
After The Break and Public Enemy, Unit 42 came out of the second joint call for projects between RTBF and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
A Federal Police unit fights against new forms of cybercrime. Members include:
Belgium| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Face to Face" (French: Face à Face) | Indra Siera | Julie Bertrand | November 19, 2017 | |
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Several women are found dead, naked, in front of their computer screen. Their internet installation completely disconnected suggests a hacking. Sam and Billie will have all the trouble in the world to stop the serial killer who uses his computer skills to put them on false leads. Can they stop him before he makes a new victim? | |||||
| 2 | "Of Faith and Law" (French: Foi et Loi) | Indra Siera | Annie Carels | November 19, 2017 | |
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The assassination of a cyber-preacher who has just returned from Syria is causing trouble and revealing rivalries between recruiters. Sam and Billie will have to find the truth at the heart of human conflict, but also at the heart of the infernal machine that is propaganda 2.0. An infernal machine that sometimes pushes the best of us to the irreparable. | |||||
| 3 | "Avatar" (French: Avatar) | Indra Siera | Annie Carels | November 26, 2017 | |
| 4 | "Blood and Virtue" (French: Sang et Vertu) | Roel Mondelaers | Annie Carels | November 26, 2017 | |
| 5 | "Live Memory" (French: Mémoire Vive) | Roel Mondelaers | Annie Carels | December 3, 2017 | |
| 6 | "Helpful Votes" (French: Vote Ultime) | Roel Mondelaers | Annie Carels | December 3, 2017 | |
| 7 | "Connected" (French: Connectée) | Hendrik Moonen | Annie Carels | December 10, 2017 | |
| 8 | "An Eye for an Eye" (French: Oeil pour Oeil) | Hendrik Moonen | Annie Carels | December 10, 2017 | |
| 9 | "Standby Mode" (French: Standby Mode) | Hendrik Moonen | Annie Carels | December 17, 2017 | |
| 10 | "Reboot" (French: Reboot) | Indra Siera | Annie Carels | December 17, 2017 | |
Season 2 was produced in 2019 and aired on RTBF La Une on 3 November 2019 after its first exclusive run on Belgian payTV platform Proximus.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Blog Mom - Part 1" (French: Blogomum - part 1) | Mathieu Mortelmans | Charlotte Joulia | November 3, 2019 |
| 2 | "Blog Mom - Part 2" (French: Blogomum - part 2) | Mathieu Mortelmans | Charlotte Joulia | November 3, 2019 |
| 3 | "Game Tort" (French: Délit de jeu) | Christophe Wagner | Xavier Vairé, Sammy Fransquet | November 26, 2019 |
| 4 | "Hot Spot" (French: Hot Spot) | Christophe Wagner | Nacim Mehtar, Vincent Guillemot, Daphnis O. Boelens | November 26, 2019 |
| 5 | "Fire Wall" (French: Pare-feu) | Hendrik Moonen | Vincent Robert, Daphnis o. Boelens | December 3, 2019 |
| 6 | "Cyber Love" (French: Cyber Love) | Hendrik Moonen | Julie Bertrand | December 3, 2019 |
| 7 | "Skin Deep" (French: Sous la peau) | Hendrik Moonen | Charlotte Joulia, Daphnis O. Boelens | December 10, 2019 |
| 8 | "The Afterlife" (French: La vie d'après) | Hendrik Moonen | Sammy Fransquet, Xavier Vairé | December 10, 2019 |
| 9 | "False Pretenses" (French: Faux-semblants) | Mathieu Mortelmans | Julie Bertrand | December 17, 2019 |
| 10 | "Chaos" (French: Chaos) | Mathieu Mortelmans | Vincent Robert, Nacim Mehtar, Charlotte Joulia | December 17, 2019 |
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