Six (2017–2018)
SIX: Ghosts of Kandahar (2025)
Genre: Military Drama | Action | Psychological Thriller
Created by: William Broyles Jr. & David Broyles
Starring: Barry Sloane, Juan Pablo Raba, Olivia Munn (new), Walton Goggins (flashbacks), Edwin Hodge
Plot Summary:
Years after the death of their former team leader, Richard "Rip" Taggart, and the disbandment of Navy SEAL Team Six, the ghosts of the past come roaring back when a failed mission in Kandahar uncovers a dark truth buried by the U.S. government.
SIX: Ghosts of Kandahar is a fictional continuation of the original History Channel series, blending intense action with a deep psychological portrait of soldiers haunted by their decisions, both on the battlefield and at home.
Joe “Bear” Graves (Barry Sloane), now retired and suffering from PTSD, lives off the grid in Montana. Estranged from his family and grappling with survivor’s guilt, he wants nothing more than to disappear. But when former teammate Alex Caulder (Kyle Schmid) is killed in a mysterious ambush while training Afghan special forces, Graves is pulled back into the fray.
Trent Sawyer (Juan Pablo Raba), now working in private security in Colombia, receives the same encrypted message:
“The mission never ended. Kandahar. 8/14. R.I.P. wasn’t wrong.”
They reunite at a secret CIA safehouse, where they meet Maya Jensen (Olivia Munn), a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who reveals classified intel: The Taliban has unearthed a covert American bioweapons site — codenamed Ghost Farm — once believed to be myth. It was part of a rogue program Rip tried to expose before his death.
The new team — Graves, Sawyer, Maya, and a young SEAL operative named Darnell “D-Train” Cross (Edwin Hodge) — go dark and deploy to Afghanistan, under the guise of a humanitarian escort. What they find isn’t just an abandoned base but a chilling scene: dead animals, scattered lab notes, and the remains of American scientists. All signs point to human experimentation — not by the enemy, but by U.S. black ops.
Flashbacks reveal that Rip had discovered the program in his final days and tried to blow the whistle, only to be framed and disavowed.
As the team delves deeper, they are hunted by a mysterious militant unit known only as Unit 14, ex-special forces operating off-book and determined to protect the Ghost Farm’s secrets. In a brutal firefight, Sawyer is wounded, and the team barely escapes with digital files that could unravel decades of classified war crimes.
Back in the U.S., Graves and Maya race to leak the data, only to discover that high-level officials are erasing all evidence. D-Train is captured and tortured by Unit 14, who plan to use him as leverage.
Graves must do the unthinkable: rally the remnants of SEAL Team Six for one final mission — not sanctioned, not legal, and not guaranteed to survive. Together, they mount a rogue extraction to save D-Train and expose the truth.
In a climactic raid on a hidden mountain compound, Graves confronts the commander of Unit 14 — revealed to be Colonel Vance Cutter, a decorated hero turned shadow agent. Cutter offers Graves a choice: join the dark world of permanent war, or die trying to end it.
Graves chooses to end it.
The mission succeeds, but at a price: Sawyer dies in the final battle, and Graves is severely wounded. However, Maya leaks the Ghost Farm files to global media. The world is shocked. Congressional hearings begin. Memorials are held.
In the final scene, Graves, now in a wheelchair, visits Rip’s grave.
He whispers,
“You were right. We were the ghosts all along. But now they know.”"Some missions never end. Some ghosts never rest."
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The psychological cost of modern warfare
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Corruption within military systems
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Brotherhood, loyalty, and redemption
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Facing the past to change the future
This fictional continuation of Six brings closure to its characters while exploring deeper moral questions, set against the harsh reality of black ops and psychological scars. Gritty, emotional, and action-packed, Ghosts of Kandahar reminds us that the battlefield doesn’t always end with the war.
