John Porter is a fictional character portrayed by Richard Armitage in the TV series Strike Back.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Iraq: Part One (season 1), they were 39 years old.
They appear in 8 episodes out of a total of 77 aired and have accumulated 5659 positive votes.
Episodes8
Iraq: Part One
episode S1.E1 august 2011John Porter leads his unit into battle trying to rescue the CEO of a British weapons manufacturing company captured in Iraq, just before the invasion started. His team is joined by Hugh Collinson, operative of British military intelligence. The operation almost goes awry when Collinson kills larger portion of Porter's team, and blames a teenage suicide bomber, As'ad, Porter previously saved. The surviving members of the team manage to rescue their target, and Porter rejects Collinson's offer to joint Section 20, a new unit within military intelligence, doubting Collinson's account of the rescue operation incident and resigns from the SAS.Iraq: Part Two
episode S1.E2 may 2010Seven years after the events of part one, Porter is reactivated and tasked with rescuing a kidnapped reporter Katie Dartmouth. Porter realizes that Katie was kidnapped by the same terrorists he fought seven years before, including that teenager, now a young man. He succeeds in saving Katie's life, but fails to rescue As'ad after Collinson orders the rescue helicopter crew not to allow the rescue of As'ad. Just before the helicopter arrives, As'ad tells porter that Collinson killed those soldiers and covered it up by blaming him.Zimbabwe: Part One
episode S1.E3 may 2010A sniper attempts to kill the President of Zimbabwe. Since there is evidence that the sniper could be British, Porter is sent in undercover to locate the sniper and silence him.Zimbabwe: Part Two
episode S1.E4 may 2010Collinson travels to South Africa to confront the contact who betrayed section 20, but finds it may be too late; while Colonel Tshuma launches a manhunt to find Porter and Masuku.Afghanistan: Part One
episode S1.E5 may 2010Porter is sent to Afghanistan to find a computer hacker who has cracked the British army's missile guidance codes. The hacker has successfully found a way to redirect missiles to strike American forces.Afghanistan: Part Two
episode S1.E6 may 2010Porter is sent to Afghanistan to find a computer hacker who has cracked the British army's missile guidance codes. The hacker has successfully found a way to redirect missiles to strike American forces.Project Dawn #1
episode S2.E1 august 2011British sergeant Michael Stonebridge recruits help from Ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott when Section 20 agent John Porter is kidnapped by a Pakistani terrorist. The two then uncover clues to a possible terrorist attack at a New Delhi hotel and race to foil it.Project Dawn: Part 2
episode S2.E2 august 2011Scott and Stonebridge discover that the terrorists in the hotel are searching for Mahmood. Grant learns that Latif's real goal is to capture a Pakistani chemical scientist who worked with the weapons inspection team in Iraq in 2003.
- Iraq: Part One
- Iraq: Part Two
- Zimbabwe: Part One
- Zimbabwe: Part Two
- Afghanistan: Part One
- Afghanistan: Part Two
- Project Dawn #1
- Project Dawn: Part 2
Best moments8
- Porter is sent to Afghanistan to find a computer hacker who has cracked the British army's missile guidance codes. The hacker has successfully found a way to redirect missiles to strike American forces.
- Seven years after the events of part one, Porter is reactivated and tasked with rescuing a kidnapped reporter Katie Dartmouth. Porter realizes that Katie was kidnapped by the same terrorists he fought seven years before, including that teenager, now a young man. He succeeds in saving Katie's life, but fails to rescue As'ad after Collinson orders the rescue helicopter crew not to allow the rescue of As'ad. Just before the helicopter arrives, As'ad tells porter that Collinson killed those soldiers and covered it up by blaming him.
- Collinson travels to South Africa to confront the contact who betrayed section 20, but finds it may be too late; while Colonel Tshuma launches a manhunt to find Porter and Masuku.
- A sniper attempts to kill the President of Zimbabwe. Since there is evidence that the sniper could be British, Porter is sent in undercover to locate the sniper and silence him.
- Porter is sent to Afghanistan to find a computer hacker who has cracked the British army's missile guidance codes. The hacker has successfully found a way to redirect missiles to strike American forces.
- John Porter leads his unit into battle trying to rescue the CEO of a British weapons manufacturing company captured in Iraq, just before the invasion started. His team is joined by Hugh Collinson, operative of British military intelligence. The operation almost goes awry when Collinson kills larger portion of Porter's team, and blames a teenage suicide bomber, As'ad, Porter previously saved. The surviving members of the team manage to rescue their target, and Porter rejects Collinson's offer to joint Section 20, a new unit within military intelligence, doubting Collinson's account of the rescue operation incident and resigns from the SAS.
- British sergeant Michael Stonebridge recruits help from Ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott when Section 20 agent John Porter is kidnapped by a Pakistani terrorist. The two then uncover clues to a possible terrorist attack at a New Delhi hotel and race to foil it.
- Scott and Stonebridge discover that the terrorists in the hotel are searching for Mahmood. Grant learns that Latif's real goal is to capture a Pakistani chemical scientist who worked with the weapons inspection team in Iraq in 2003.
- Afghanistan: Part One
- Iraq: Part Two
- Zimbabwe: Part Two
- Zimbabwe: Part One
- Afghanistan: Part Two
- Iraq: Part One
- Project Dawn #1
- Project Dawn: Part 2