Unit 42
{{Short description|Belgian television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| genre = Crime drama
| creator = Julie Bertrand
Annie Carels
Charlotte Joulia
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| screenplay = Charlotte Joulia, Julie Bertrand, Sammy Fransquet, Annie Carels, Anne-Charlotte Kassab
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| director = Mathieu Mortelmans, Indra Siera, Hendrik Moonen
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| starring = Patrick Ridremont
Constance Gay
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| language = French
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| runtime = 52 minutes
| company = Left Field Ventures
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Unit 42 (original title: {{lang|fr|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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sudinfo.be/id12657/article/2017-09-15/unite-42-la-nouvelle-serie-de-la-rtbf-interesse-deja-france-televisions|title="Unité 42", la nouvelle série de la RTBF, intéresse déjà France Télévisions|date=September 15, 2017|website=sudinfo.be}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-unit-42-review/|title=Netflix's 'Unit 42' soars on the chemistry of its unlikely lead partners|date=June 18, 2019|website=The Daily Dot}}
After The Break and Public Enemy, Unit 42 came out of the second joint call for projects between RTBF and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
Synopsis
A Federal Police unit fights against new forms of cybercrime. Members include:
- Billie, a hacker, codename: “Th3m1s”;
- Sam, a widowed family man;
- Nassim;
- Bob;
- Alice, a deaf Pathologist.
Cast
=Main cast=
- Patrick Ridremont as Sam Leroy
- Constance Gay as Billie Vebber
- {{ill|Tom Audenaert|fr}} as Bob Franck
- Roda Fawaz as Nassim Khaoulani
- Danitza Athanassiadis as Alice Meerks
- Thomas Demarez as Tom Leroy
- Simon Caudry as Robin Leroy
- Caroline Stas as Camille Leroy
- Nola Tilman as Emmy Leroy
- Hélène Theunissen as Hélène Janssen
=Series 1=
- Tania Garbarski as Manuela Desmet
- Anne-Pascale Clairembourg as Sandra Magnot
- Selma Alaoui as Dianne Wauters
- {{ill|Éric De Staercke|fr}} as Léon Neefs
- Alain Eloy as Henri Ravet
- {{ill|Jean-Michel Balthazar|fr}} as Lambert Hammers
- Bastiste Sornin as Michel Van Deck
- Olivier Bonjour as Dominic Dalmot
- Christophe Lambert as Le Ravisseur
- Adonis Danieletto as Marc Descamps
=Series 2=
- Mirza Kilic as Jocelyn
Production information
- Original title: Unité 42
- Director: Indra Siera (4 episodes), Mathieu Mortelmans (4 episodes), Roel Mondelaers (3 episodes), Hendrik Moonen (7 episodes)
- Screenplay: Charlotte Joulia, Julie Bertrand, Annie Carels, Sammy Fransquet and Anne-Charlotte Kassab
- Costumes: Vanessa Evrard
- Photography: Sander Vandenbroucke
- Editing: Marc de Coster, Philippe Ravoet and Steven Sanders
- Makeup: Elodie Lienard, Juan-Carlos Salazar, Valérie Tomasi
- Special Effects Makeup: Lionel Lê
- Music: Michel Duprez and Thierry Plas
- Producers: John Engel (producer/executive producer); Marie Queffeulou (associate producer); Christelle Mahy (line producer)
- Production companies: Left Field Ventures, Steel Fish Pictures, RTBF
- Country of origin: {{flag|Belgium}}
- Original language: French
- Genre: Crime drama, thriller
- Duration: 52 minutes
- Release dates:
- Season 1:
- Belgium: 19 November 2017 on La Une, 7 October 2019 on VRT
- France: 15 January 2018 on France 2
- Switzerland: 12 April 2018 on RTS Un
- Germany and Austria: November 2018 - January 2019 on Sony Channel (German TV channel) (dubbed in German)
- Season 2:
- Belgium: 3 November 2019 on La Une and Auvio3
Series overview
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Episodes
= Season 1 (2017) =
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|Title = Face to Face
| NativeTitle = Face à Face
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|11|19}}
| DirectedBy = Indra Siera
| WrittenBy = Julie Bertrand
|ShortSummary = 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?
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = Of Faith and Law
| NativeTitle = Foi et Loi
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|11|19}}
| DirectedBy = Indra Siera
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
|ShortSummary = 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.
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{{Episode list
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|Title = Avatar
| NativeTitle = Avatar
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|11|26}}
| DirectedBy = Indra Siera
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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|Title = Blood and Virtue
| NativeTitle = Sang et Vertu
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| DirectedBy = Roel Mondelaers
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Live Memory
| NativeTitle = Mémoire Vive
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|03}}
| DirectedBy = Roel Mondelaers
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Helpful Votes
| NativeTitle = Vote Ultime
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|03}}
| DirectedBy = Roel Mondelaers
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Connected
| NativeTitle = Connectée
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|10}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = An Eye for an Eye
| NativeTitle = Oeil pour Oeil
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|10}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = Standby Mode
| NativeTitle = Standby Mode
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|17}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|Title = Reboot
| NativeTitle = Reboot
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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|17}}
| DirectedBy = Indra Siera
| WrittenBy = Annie Carels
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= Season 2 (2019) =
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.
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|Title = Blog Mom - Part 1
| NativeTitle = Blogomum - part 1
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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|11|03}}
| DirectedBy = Mathieu Mortelmans
| WrittenBy = Charlotte Joulia
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|Title = Blog Mom - Part 2
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| DirectedBy = Mathieu Mortelmans
| WrittenBy = Charlotte Joulia
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Game Tort
| NativeTitle = Délit de jeu
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|11|26}}
| DirectedBy = Christophe Wagner
| WrittenBy = Xavier Vairé, Sammy Fransquet
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Hot Spot
| NativeTitle = Hot Spot
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|11|26}}
| DirectedBy = Christophe Wagner
| WrittenBy = Nacim Mehtar, Vincent Guillemot, Daphnis O. Boelens
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Fire Wall
| NativeTitle = Pare-feu
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|03}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Vincent Robert, Daphnis o. Boelens
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Cyber Love
| NativeTitle = Cyber Love
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|03}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Julie Bertrand
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Skin Deep
| NativeTitle = Sous la peau
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|10}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Charlotte Joulia, Daphnis O. Boelens
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = The Afterlife
| NativeTitle = La vie d'après
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|10}}
| DirectedBy = Hendrik Moonen
| WrittenBy = Sammy Fransquet, Xavier Vairé
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = False Pretenses
| NativeTitle = Faux-semblants
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|17}}
| DirectedBy = Mathieu Mortelmans
| WrittenBy = Julie Bertrand
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|Title = Chaos
| NativeTitle = Chaos
| NativeTitleLangCode = fr
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|12|17}}
| DirectedBy = Mathieu Mortelmans
| WrittenBy = Vincent Robert, Nacim Mehtar, Charlotte Joulia
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References
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External links
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- {{Netflix title }}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|tv/unit_42}}
- [http://laloidesseries.blogs.lalibre.be/archive/2017/11/17/unite-42-serie-rtbf-patrick-ridremont-cybercrime.html Les 7 clés d'Unité 42, la nouvelle série belge]
Category:2017 Belgian television series debuts
Category:Belgian crime television series
Category:Television shows set in Belgium
Category:French-language television shows
Category:Netflix television dramas