Australia S-Unit (season 2)

Australia S-Unit is a series developed by Daniel Isaac and James Burnell. The first season began on 8 September 2011 and concluded on 15 June 2012. Both the fourth and fifth episodes coincide with James Burnell and Daniel Isaac's birthdays, respectively.

The season follows Derek Peterson and Marcus Andrews, portrayed by Isaac and Burnell respectively, who work together to try and find Marcus' girlfriend, Cynthia Solomos. The season follows a story arc in which Marcus receives a phone call from an unknown caller who informs him that his deceased girlfriend is still alive. The mystery behind the season asks the questions "Who is the caller?" and "Is Cynthia still alive?", both of which are resolved in the finale.

Cast
Other cast members include Alex Franklin as Jeremy Louis, Kyle Cropper as Allan Faraday's Body Guard, Kristian Atkins as Harry Phelps, and Alex Nikolas and Jessica Laughton Smith as News Readers.

Writing
Daniel Isaac had originally planned for James Burnell to pen two episodes this season, having thoroughly enjoyed Burnell's episode from the first season, and Isaac planned to write three episode. However, Burnell had other commitments to his horror film Mass Asphyxia and the filming process of the thriller. Isaac then decided he would only get Burnell to write one episode, asking him to write a direct sequel to his season one episode which would reintroduce the character of Roman. Isaac had written four episodes of season two by late 2012 and was awaiting Burnell's script for episode 3, provisionally entitled "Trigger". Still in the filming process of Mass Asphyxia, Isaac asked Burnell to send him what he had for the script so far and tried to see if he could come up with a story to complete the script. However, when Isaac read the script, he didn't like it, claiming the opening sequence to be good but the following to be a "killer". Isaac then came up with the story and rewrote the entire script, titling it "Trigger of Deception". He focused it heavily on the murder of Cynthia and Marcus' struggle with her death. The script was completed and initially still retained the title of being a sequel to Burnell's season one episode "Addiction".

Filming
Filming for Season Two began in May 2012 and ended in January 2013, making it an eight month schedule. Episode One filmed in May and June and a short break was taken, to resume filming in August. James Burnell stated in July however that he was tired of S-Unit and claimed that "it wasn't going anywhere" and "wasn't fun to make", but that he would continue to act in it until the end of the second series. Isaac then wrote in the death of Marcus in the finale. However, after the filming of the second episodes, Burnell stated that he was "back in the mood" and once more loved the series.

Over the Christmas holidays, the third and fourth episodes were filmed. The fifth episode began filming in early December and finished in mid-January.

Post-production
Isaac returned as editor and edited all the episodes of the second season. Daniel claimed that season two was "fun to edit" and the story line was "amazing", and enjoyed editing it together. Starting in January and ending in May, season two was released on a monthly basis to allow suspense, and allowing the viewers to eagerly await the next episode, as each episode ends with a cliffhanger.

DVD Release
Australia S-Unit Season Two released as a DVD in May 2013 containing the complete five episode season spread over two discs.