Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep22 – The Dilemma First Aired: 2 February 1991 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: When the team, along with a unit of the British Secret Service, discover an arms ring that sells warfare to the IRA, Colonel Nathan, the BSS leader, comes in conflict with Peter. Nathan warns Peter that in his organization these criminals have been prosecuted for some time and that he would not like to see if others interfere in his work. Then Peter gets doubts about the team and its own moral standards. He goes and tries to make Alexander decline the order. But Alexander has found out that one of the terrorists, Adrian Crisp, has links to the group which kidnapped his wife and refuses to withdraw. Peter, however, cannot agree on a compromise, and retires from that job. Alexander calls Nikki and Luke to go on with the plan, but Nikki quickly recognize that Peter is the reasonable head of the team. She tries to win him back, but initially without success.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep21 – The Millerton Papers First Aired: 19 January 1991 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Nikki accidentally meets her old flame Jason Denver, who is pursued by murderers because of a petty theft, again by chance. Nikki considers it the best returning the goods to the owner, millionaire toy manufacturer Bernard Millerton, As Nikki vanishes with Jason, Peter is highly concerned about them. Luke holds the suspicion that Peter is interested in Nikki not only on purely amicable terms and is accused of being jealous. Peter admits nothing yet but asks Luke and J.J. to pay attention to Nikki. The puzzle begins to come off, as the team discovers that Millerton buys stolen military plans in order to gain a foothold in military model market.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep20 – Verathion First Aired: 12 January 1991 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: While Suzanne stays in Toronto at a film festival, she will witness the murder of her whistle-blower friend, Tom Meagher, and inadvertently comes into possession of the briefcase which he carried. As the killers pursue her, Suzanne stashes the bag along with her coat in a locker, so as to change their appearance to escape the killers. When this fails, Suzanne hides the locker key in a beggar’s cup. The killers seize Suzanne and take her into a remote cabin in order to interrogate her. Meanwhile the briefcase with the evidence against a large pharmaceutical company is in the beggar’s hands.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep19 – Cinema Verite First Aired: 22 December 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The world-famous mystery author Michael Malow dies in an unusual way during an accident while fishing. As a fan of this author Alexander’s interest is sparked and so he sends his team off. At Malowe’s funeral, a murderous attack is committed on his widow. The team believes that the puzzle’s solution is to be found in a film, that is filmed based upon a novel of Malowe’s. Luke applies to be a stuntman and Nikki to be a reporter , while Peter masquerades under the guise of an insurance investigator to snoop around. The team learns that Malow and his managers differed on the screenplay. During the investigation, however, Nikki’s cover is blown and she is in mortal danger …
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep18 – Regal Connection First Aired: 15 December 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Suzanne’s computer science professor Robert Williams disappears and the team tries to explain the matter. While Peter and Nikki take the professor’s wife and her five-year-old daughter Liza to Addington’s house in order to protect them, Luke returns to Williams’ house and gets abducted. Through this strange course of events, the team discovers that the professor is heir to the throne of an African tribe.. At the same time Luke is interrogated by an officer, Von Van Gelder, from an opposing force to the monarchy interested in gaining control of the tribe’s valuable mineral deposits. Luke quickly recognizes that van Gelder ignores where the professor is hidden and invents a way to get in touch with Peter, he proposes an exchange: himself for the professor. Van Gelder calls Peter to negotiate the exchange and the trap is laid.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep17 – Mindbender First Aired: 1 December 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Luke is abducted by Sukova, a Soviet major, and his allies and is subjected to brainwashing. They program Luke so that he turns into a murderer for them and they can monitor him with a high frequency-sound. As he appears without explanation with the team again, Peter and Nikki suspect that something is not in order. They persuade Luke to undergo a psychological test in the hospital. However there he is caught by one of Sukova’s henchmen. When Luke turns up at an UN-summit conference, Nikki discovers that he has been given the job to murder President Gorbachov.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep16 – Masks First Aired: 24 November 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: George Stanopolis, a member of the Greek Parliament and the ‘International Alliance of Chemical Producers’ is murdered. The only witness – a small gypsy boy named Gregory – was hidden on a ship bound for New York. While the team is looking for the boy, Alexander, who also belongs to the ‘AICP’ and wants to announce the prohibition of chemicals for biological warfare on a conference, meets Amanda DiSanto. She is responsible for the death of Stanopolis and will kidnap Alexander, in order to use his dead ringer. This will prevent the signature of the document to forbid using chemical weapons in Alexander’s name and transfer his property over to her family.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep15 – Cry of the Children First Aired: 17 November 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Zoe MacFarlane, a former girlfriend of Luke’s, emerges unexpectedly and maintains that Luke is the father of her daughter. Shortly after Zoe is shot to death. Peter and Nikki join Luke in order to clear the murder. Soon they will discover that the baby is not Zoe’s. All the clues lead to an illegal adoption organization run by a well-known lawyer.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep14 – The Beginning First Aired: 10 November 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Chantal Addington, a millionaire’s wife, is abducted and later killed by terrorists. Alexander Addington, the widower, forms a special unit to deal with this kind of crimes. Alexander Addington had achieved everything that you can achieve: wealth, power, a loving wife and a charming daughter. Yet a fate blow changed his entire life: His wife Chantal becomes victim of a terrorist attack, she is abducted and Alexander shot on his leg. In order to find his wife again, he hires the best man recommended for the job: Peter Sinclair of Scotland Yard. Yet in spite of all their efforts, both men cannot save Chantal’s life – hindered through the conventional procedure of the police -. Thereupon Alexander concludes he’s going to dedicate his life of the worldwide fight of crime by assembling the elite force ‘Counterstrike’ led by Sinclair.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep13 – Escape Route First Aired: 28 October 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: George, a criminal, is arrested and sent to a prison in Paris. His brother Rene tries to free his brother and demands George’s release under the cloak of the terrorist organization ‘Social Liberation Front’ – otherwise they would begin to kill some prominent business people – among them Alexander as well. In order to detain the criminal, Nikki infiltrates the organization while Luke is smuggled into the prison in order to share the cell with George…
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep11 – Thanos First Aired: 7 October 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The team is ready to rescue two girls kidnapped by their dad, an arms dealer plotting to steal a missile-targeting device known as Thanos.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep10 – Extreme Measures First Aired: 16 September 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Alexander’s old friend Jean-Paul, who was a member of a revolutionary group called ‘Alpha Titan’ in the sixties, has barely escaped an assassination attempt. The trail leads the team to Salzburg, where elections are about to be held, and to Kurt Schmidt, one of the candidates. Schmidt’s real name is Otto Berger, a former member of the group, who was given for dead during many years. The Team finds out that Berger leads now a group that has had stolen the Treasury of an East African state and has decided to get rid of the surviving people who know his past in order to clear the road: The former members of ‘Alpha Titan’.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep4 – Art for Art’s Sake First Aired: 22 July 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Alexander and his team get involved in the world of art forgery and Post communist politics when a valuable piece of Russian art disappears from a museum.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep3 – Now and at the Hour of Our Death First Aired: 15 July 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The Counterstrike team protects a priest who is slated to testify about human rights abuses in his native South American country. The priest manages to flee to Boston, but hit-men track him down.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep2 – Dead in the Air First Aired: 8 July 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Paco Rojo, head of a drug dealing organization with close links to a Colombian drug baron, is planning an attack on a U.S. prosecutor. The lawyer will be sent to Colombia in order to Indict Paco. Alexander wins the contract to offer protection to the public prosecutor and clear the mysterious death of Paco’s girlfriend . Nikki has to become a friend of Paco’s drug courier, while Peter and Luke provide her with a cover. As Peter has discovered that an old acquaintance is after Paco and whose partner also works for the Colombian drug lord …
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S1Ep1 – The Dealbreaker First Aired: 1 July 1990 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: After a bomb attack, Counterstrike team suspects there is a connection between the complexity of explosives used in the bomb and the disappearance of Annette Morley, the wife of former CIA agent Eric Morley.
This is Simon’s first appearance as Peter Sinclair. This episode also stared Simon’s wife Susan George as Annette Morley
