the third episode of the first season, 200th Hour, Mack is accidentally shot during a live fire training course by Bob Brown. It is later discovered that the incident occurred because Mack had entered Brown's sector without Brown noticing. He also has an altercation with his wife. The reactions of Mrs. Blane and the Colonel suggest something similar might have happened before. During the seventh episode of the first season, Dedication, Mack is offered charge of his own team by Ryan, but turns the offer down, instead preferring to continue serving with his friend Jonas. At the end of the first season, the Unit assisted a UN military unit in apprehending General Razlan Dragovich, a Yugoslavian war criminal. During the raid, the General's wife was shot and killed by a UN soldier, however from the General's position, it appeared that Blaine fired the fatal shot. After Dragovich escaped UN custody, he tracked the Unit back to their home base at Fort Griffith. 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 newly married Mrs. Ryan. A few months later, during the second season, 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 and the Unit took down the world's foremost weapons dealer, and helped take out a rebel leader in Paraguay. In the episode Johnny B. Goode, Mack and the team were in Iran to determine its Weapons of Mass Destruction capability. Mack killed a goatherd who would have compromised the mission, as well as their local contact after an explosion's debris pinned her to the ground to spare her from imminent capture, torture and death. When he returned home, he and Tiffy have an argument and Mack goes to a bar and gets drunk. While there, he punches a patron and before a fight breaks out, he is lead outside by Crystal Burns, the young fiancée of a former Alpha Team support staffer. Crystal offers to drive Mack home, but after discussing their sorrows with each others, they end up having sex in her car in the bar's parking lot. The next day, she shows up at his home, hoping to pursue an affair