Episode-List
Season 2
22. Saigon (Part I)
23. Saigon (Part II)
24. For What It's Worth
25. True Grit
26. Non-Essential Personnel
27. Sleeping Dogs
28. I Wish It Would Rain
29. Popular Forces
30. Terms of Enlistment
31. Nightmare
32. Promised Land
33. Lonesome Cowboy Blues
34. Sins of the Fathers
35. Sealed with a Kiss
36. Hard Stripe
37. The Volunteer
22 - Saigon (Part I)
Having received some warning of the upcoming Tet Offensive (In Angel of Mercy),
Bravo Co. is still unprepared for what happens to them after they are transferred to
Tan Son Nhut Base outside of Saigon. Zeke and Goldman catch up with one of their men in
an opium parlor and have a run-in with some Vietnamese thugs. The situation is basically
under control until a female wire service correspondent -- Alex Devlin -- butts in. Alex
explains that she was following up on a story lead. Lt. McKay is introduced as a chopper
pilot who will be shuttling Bravo Co. As they prepare to leave on a mission, Zeke opens a
letter from his ex-wife who claims she will soon arrive in Saigon to see him. The company
is landed in a hot-LZ and only gets saved from sure disaster when Lt. McKay uses his
helicopter to fire machine guns at the hostile position. Alex meets up with Jake Bridger
who tells a story about VC infiltrating the cities as peasants. McKay and Goldman start
to "argue" over both their increasing interests in Alex Devlin.
Guest cast: Leo Rossi (Jake Bridger), Penny Peyser (Carol Anderson)
Writer: Rick Husky....Director: Bill L. Norton
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23 - Saigon, (Part II)
Anderson meets with his wife and sees her off after her announcement that she is
remarrying.
Goldman begins a relationship with Devlin which almost ends as they are both nearly blown
up by a VC bomb. Percell is fed up with the senselessness of the war and Ruiz becomes
convinced that he is going to be the next to die. Johnson and Taylor go to check on
Bridger
only to be told that he is dead (he is faking it), while Stacy Bridger has arrived to find
her father. Goldman is ordered to have Alex pull her story about the soldier who died in
the opium parlor and Zeke runs into Stacy Bridger -- rescuing her from some Vietnamese
punks. He takes her back to the hotel where Zeke ends up trying to save a suicidal marine
deserter. The deserter has sold information to the VC and ends up killing himself.
Meanwhile
McKay sends Goldman on a "snipe" hunt so that he can be alone with Alex, and
inadvertently
exposes Goldman to serious danger.
Guest Cast: Leo Rossi (Jake Bridger), Kraista Errickson (Stacy)
Writer: Rick Husky.....Director: Bill L. Norton
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24 - For What It's Worth
While out on a patrol, Anderson and Goldman observe some VC transporting an American
prisoner and photograph him before leaving the area. Although they are badly outnumbered,
Ruiz stupidly goes back down the trail after a necklace he dropped, tipping their position
and getting a man killed. Alex drops by to see Goldman. Zeke goes to the hospital to try
to straighten out some records and ends up saving the life of psychiatrist Jennifer
Seymour
from a homicidally insane LURP. An explosion in the latrine sets of Major Darling,
while Anderson suggests that it might not be VC but an American solider who planted
the grenade. Taylor gets accused -- falsely -- of doing the dirty deed and now it is up
to Anderson and Goldman to find a way to clear him. Ruiz begins to completely breakdown.
Anderson's budding relationship with Seymour is short-circuited when he betrays her
confidence by sharing information he gained from her in an effort to clear Taylor.
Guest Cast: Jace Alexander (Bishop), Nicholas Hormann (Chaplain Underman), Mark Ginther
(Pvt. Nixon)
Writer: Dennis Cooper.....Director: Ed Sherin
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25 - True Grit
Alex goes to see Dr. Seymour to do an article about battle fatigue just as Anderson and
his men are prepared to leave for a mission. When they board McKay's helicopter, Ruiz gets
violently ill and ends up not going. With his struggle with cowardice continuing he ends
up going to see Seymour. The squad, meantime, has found a cache of wapons and ends up
capturing two VC. The unit comes under fire and one of the soldiers freak... Martsen...
who ends up going to visit Seymour as well. Martsen is sent back to the front, against
Seymour's wishes, and nearly gets himself killed. Meanwhile Johnson has met up with a
girl he met when he first came in country -- Ling. She is very pregnant and claims the
child is his. Elsewhere, Goldman is upset over Alex spending all her time with McKay,
and goes on a drunken binge that ends up inadventently turning him into a hero.
Guest Cast: Richard Brooks (Martsen), Bruce Newbold (Shively), Leila Hee Olsen (Ling)
Writer: Steven Phillip Smith.....Director: Ed Sherin
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26 - Non-Essential Personnel
A new commanding officer arrives, as well as Dr. Grennly, a physician friend of Dr.
Seymour. The MD promptly tries to talk Jennifer into returning to the States with him.
Meanwhile Major Darling turns a reluctant Goldman into a PR man. And a replacement officer
(Escobar) is sent out into the field in charge of Zeke. McKay picks up the squad --
with a number of wounded due to Escobar's incompetence -- but while rushing them back
Major Darling sends him after some VC with rockets. When Darling refuses McKay permission
to fly back with the wounded, McKay does it anyway -- and is brought up on charges. Alex
hears about it and she and Goldman go to bat with the brass for McKay.
Guest cast: Eddie Velez (Lt. Escobar), Charles Frank (Dr. Grennly)
Writer: Elia Katz.....Director: Jim Johnston
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27 - Sleeping Dogs
Zeke runs into an "adrenaline junkie", a man who likes battles and war better
than almost
anything. The man -- a sniper -- Sgt. Greg Block, goes out on a patrol with Zeke who
rapidly recognizes him for what he is. Zeke realizes that Block in near the breaking point
and starts to plot a way to get this man sent home. But when Zeke goes to help Block,
Percell ends up lost in the jungle. Meanwhile, Seymour attempts to help Johnson who is
getting pulled into his committment with Ling.
Guest Cast: Michael Madsen (Sgt. Greg Block), Leila Hee Olsen (Ling)
Writer: Jerry Patrick Brown.....Director: Steve Posey
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28 - I Wish It Would Rain
Goldman's platoon leaves on another mission that brings them close to the Cambodian border
--
which they are forbidden to cross. The VC attack and the Americans follow them to a stream
that marks the edge of Cambodia, where the Americans stop, allowing the VC time to
recover.
The platoon goes back to planting electronic sensors but a soldier is killed. His friend
(Taft) goes plunging across the stream after the VC (out of grief and rage). The rest of
the GIs have no choice but to follow him. Alex is working on a story about this issue :
American's crossing the border. Later Goldman and Alex go to an Embassy party while Myron
has little patience with, and Zeke and Jernnifer must cancel a date when Taft goes crazy
and plunges into an ammo dump holding a live grenade.
Guest Cast: Andrew Masset (Fourneir), John Shepherd (Taft)
Writers: Rick Husky, S.P. Smith and Robert Burns Clar....Director: Bradford May
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29 - Popular Forces
Taylor and Percell find themselves temporarily assigned to the base Motor Pool, where
they work for a fanatical sergeant. Goldman has finally scored wth Alex, but becomes
concerned when she tells him she is taking a ride in McKay's helicopter to a remote
village. Bravo company is assigned to take a group of peasant soldiers out into the
field. Once there they get ambushed by some VC soldiers, where the peasants prove to
be nearly useless. Alex flies out to the village and, once there, tells McKay to leave
her so she can finish her interview. She ends up in VC-infested territory. Meanwhile
Seymour ends up having to defend her own life -- and killing a man.
Guest Cast: Robert Vito (Vin)
Writers: D. Cooper, E. Katz, and J. Brown....Director: Bill L. Norton
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30 - Terms of Enlistment
A new man -- Woods -- walking point accidentally steps on a pressure-activated mine.
While they are trying to get him off it, they are told a squad of VC are heading straight
at them. McKay finally arrives to lift them out of the hot LZ. Zeke plans an R&R in
Tokyo
with Jennifer but the plans go awry when Major Darling offers Seymour a teaching post and
position back in the States -- and she only has 48 hours to make her decision. Meanwhile a
homosexual GI tries to commit suicide when he is being blackmailed. Jennifer tries to help
him -- at the cost of her own career. Meanwhile Woods ends up in a fight, and Taylor
realizes the man has career-potential abilities.
Guest cast: Kenneth Edwards (Woods), John Johnston (Pfc Thayer)
Writers: D. Cooper, R. Husky, S.P. Smith, J. Brown....Director: Charles Correll
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31 - Nightmare
Bravo is assigned to go recover the bodies of a wiped-out US patrol. A doubly-bad job
as the VC often booby-trap the bodies. McKay ferries them out. Anderson finds that one
of the bodies is a close friends. The VC open up on the company, after a brief fight
the VC retreat, Anderson in pursuit. There is some confusion in which the Americans end
up firing on some Quakers. When Goldman calls for a helicopter to lift them out, they
discover that McKay is missing. Back at the base, Goldman puts together a rescue mission.
Meanwhile the Quaker (Curtis) admits that she is helping both sides. Danny, who has
befriended the Quaker, ends up saving her from being raped but winds up with a man-
slaughter charge. And the Quaker will not testify for Danny as she is against murder
no matter what the cause. While McKay is on the run and Goldman's rescue mission is
delayed
because of the brass dragging their feet.
Guest Cast: Lar Park Lincoln (Abigail Curtis)
Writers: R. Husky, D. Cooper and Bruce Reisman.....Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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32 - Promised Land
Anderson and his men are out on patrol, working in unison with a tough black officer
(Lt. Sherman Douglas). A VC trap winds up with Binion (a good friend of Zeke's) dead.
With Binion dead, the unit finds a VC and Douglas decides to take him prisoner despite
the fact that the majority of the men want to kill him for Binion's death. Back at base,
Bravo company is told to stand down for a week -- and Myron wants to spend the time with
Alex, but Alex is busy with her "stories". Zeke accompany's Binion's body back
to the
States -- only to run into the racial problems following Martin Luther King's death.
The racial problems even work their way back to Vietnam.
Guest Stars: Randy Brooks (Lt. Sherman Douglas), L. Scott Caldwell (Selma Binion), Arnold
Turn
(Sgt. Art Binion)
Writer: Steven Phillip Smith....Director: Helaine Head
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33 - Lonesome Cowbody Blues
A Vietnamese approaches Alex to ask her to buy something for her at the PX -- which is
illegal. As an MP chases the woman off, Alex sees her drop a GI ID card. As Alex follows
up on this lead, she goes on a mission to find Sgt. Jackson -- the sole contact the
Special
Forces have with a village informant. They run into a kid who claims to be able to get
them
to Jackson. The kid ends up wounded by VC. After they get back to the base, Alex tells
Goldman that she is going to a dangerous part of town to find the Vietnamesse girl.
Goldman insists that she takes 2 troopers and the 3 of them end up in trouble. Meanwhile
the Kid is accused of being a VC informer. Anderson comes to his defense but in the very
next mission they end up being fired upon as they land. If the Kid isn't the informant,
then who is?
Guest Cast: Mitsuru Yamahata (the Kid)
Writer: W. K. Scott Meyer.....Director: Charles Correll
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34 - Sins of the Fathers
Zeke and the men are out looking for a sniper, and after entering a village Anderson
sees movement -- someone in typical "black pajama" garb of the VC, who fires on
them.
It turns out to be a sniper, but a mother carrying her child as well. After he kills the
woman, in obvious self-defense, Zeke has some soul-searching to do about his beliefs in
the war. His relationship with Christine Pierson -- a woman sent to help educated G.I.'s
--
gets more interesting. Meanwhile prostitutes are being murdered in Saigon. Alex goes after
the story, suspecting a red-neck soldier who Goldman has already given too many breaks.
The
red-neck is a bigot who has already run afoul of Taylor.
Guest cast: Tony Higgins (Cassidy), Melora Hardin (Christine Pierson), Michael Russo (Lt.
Hughes)
Writer: Rick Husky....Director: Jim Johnston
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35 - Sealed With a Kiss
A civilian, Ms Pierson, has set up classes for the soldiers, Zeke wants to drop out of
the classes, but she convinces him to stay since attendance has tripled since he signed
up -- and his is interested in him personally. Elsewhere, Alex is catching hell from her
new boss who wants her to expose the fact that a new Army radar system doesn't work.
Zeke runs into Jim Doyle, an ex-GI who is now making big bucks as a recruiter for the
CIA. The unit is to go out with a Navy SEAL team. Lt. Ross is to lead them to where
a Navy courier went down and is presumed dead. Zeke, who is questioning how well
he would fit in "back in the world", starts to seriously consider Doyle's offer
to work for
the CIA. Alex tells Myron that she is dating an Army Intelligence officer in an attempt
to get him a job in intelligence (and off of the front lines). Zeke and Goldman go out
with
Ross who gives them suicide pills in case they are captured.
Guest cast: Stephen Bogardus (Ross), James Purcell (Jim Doyle), Melora Hardin (Christine
Pierson)
Writers: D. Cooper and Elia Katz.....Director: Steve Posey
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36 - Hard Stripe
While out on patrol, the unit stumbles across CIA recruiter Jim Doyle. He has taken
possession of a case of Russian-made sniper rifles, and claims that finding him there
was an accident. It is obvious that Goldman and his men have been used by Doyle to
provide himself with an escort out of the bush. They get ambushed on the way out.
They get most of the rifles back, but Zeke and Myron wonder why they were ambushed
by Montagnards, a group known for their loyalty to Americans. Goldman decides to
investigate Doyle and enlists Alex's help. Doyle learns he is being investigated and leans
on Zeke to get the lieutenant to stop. McKay tries to convince Goldman that he should
take a non-combat job "for Alex's sake". Taylor is upset because a soldier named
Smith
gets his sergeant's stripes before Johnson gets them, and Taylor think race has something
to do with it.
Guest cast: James Purcell (Doyle)
Writer: Jerry Patrick Brown.....Director: Jim Johnston
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37 - The Volunteer
While out on a routine patrol, Goldman captures a VC and a bunch of weapons.
They find a ghost town -- everyone is gone but there are obvious signs of recent
activity. The VC throws himself on a booby trap -- killing himself. Goldman talks to
Major Darling once back on the base about the weird events but Darling gives the
unit some time off... thinking that they have been working too hard and are imagining
things. Anderson uses the time off to go to the personnel office to find out why his
ex-wife hasn't received a check in 3 months and meets Ben Sweet. Sweet wants
to get into the fighting and agrees to help Zeke if Zeke will "get him into the
war".
Taylor is developing a romance with Lt. Patterson -- a woman there to investigate
fraud and people stealing from the Army. The men she has been investigating catch
her and Taylor in bed (against the rules -- she's an officer/he's enlisted) and blackmail
her. Alex's relationship with McKay starts to heat up. The next day, Anderson and
Goldman get trapped in the bush and cut off, they have to call in artillery on their
position to have any hope of survival.
Guest Cast: Malcom Jamal-Warner (Spec. Ben Sweet), Angela Bassett (Lt. Camilla Patterson)
Writer: Steven Phillip Smith .... Director: Steve Posey
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