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Drop the phone!

Kaelin.

Next on Airwolf.

Does it hurt badly?

Everything on my body hurts.

I have been your only lover.

How could I forget?

We've got live what's hot.

Hell, there it is.

A lucky old flight jacket took me all the way through the war.

This is mighty good of you, Dom.

I bet it is.

I know how much that means to me.

Yeah, it sure brings back a lot of memories.

I can remember when your dad and me, we used to tear up a Rhine mine ridge.

and shoot down a couple of Messerschmitts and then fly home on the

fumes, party all night long.

I'm kind of glad those days are over. I can't drink like that anymore, you know.

You may have to take these iced teas back.

Oh, no.

You're just telling old war stories.

Which one this time?

The Rhine-Main-Ridge run.

Oh, that's the one where you shot down three Stukas all in one day, right?

No, it was four Stukas and it was over the Black Forest.

That's a new one.

Oh, you never heard that one before?

Let me tell you.

We were operating up around bad stalls. Now, bad stall, bad is baths, you know

what I mean? We used to go up there for those nice steam baths and hot water

baths and everything else.

We gotta talk.

This is not the right time or place. I don't care. You know what I mean?

Back in Saigon, the right time was any time.

Especially if somebody had the right amount of script. Or maybe a couple of

tie sticks.

The boss already warned me, all right? I don't care if he fires you.

Aliyah, I don't know if I'm interrupting something I shouldn't. You tell me if I

am. Well, I'm telling you, pal.

I'm telling you I'm talking to the lady.

It's all right, Hulk.

Look, it's a different time and a different place.

So why don't you grow up and leave me alone?

Just a minute, friend.

I suggest you bail on out of here before Hawke here decides to rearrange your

nose gear.

Leah, why don't you join us for lunch?

Yeah, come on over.

Come on over and sit down here. I was just telling the boys about the time I

was over the bad towels, you know, and this Yonkers is just about ready to put

some traces up my tailpipe.

What the hell's so funny about being shot in the butt?

Oh, I ate too much.

Yeah. If I still did that to me, I wouldn't drink it.

Next time you'll have to tell us how you won the Boer War.

Oh, I missed that one.

Only because it was before the airplane.

Oh, listen, I'll see that Leah gets home. I'll get your cab back.

Nine and a half.

Nine and three quarters.

Ten.

Okay, guys, time for bed. Up the daisy. No, nothing.

Come on, lights out.

Lights out at the ocean.

You know, I can't believe this, Michael.

Jim's family taken by terrorists, and there's Ralph and Pete's too?

Believe it.

Oshiro's family was taken last night, Kovacs almost a week ago, and Miller's

family two weeks back.

You won't get an answer.

How the hell do you know?

Oshiro's at the firm.

Saw Kovacs and Miller undergoing questioning.

Listen. I'm in this because of Oshiro. He has access to top-secret documents,

so this could be terrorist action directed against the army.

Now, I know you're upset, and I know you want to help your friends, so I want you

to just listen before you go off half-cocked.

All right.

Now, you four men have a connection to each other, a very strong connection.

Well, I've been close since Nam.

And you're still buddies.

You call each other, you stay in touch.

Ashura told me last month he and his family came to visit you and Dom took

the kids for a ride in a chopper.

Michael, what are you getting at?

You guys are so close that if you had a family of your own, I'd be worried

they'd be next.

You don't.

But maybe there's something that you note, something that these guys all have

in common.

Of what?

What do you want from me? I want you to think about it.

Try to remember if something could have happened that would link all of you

together with these kidnappings.

I have no idea, Michael.

Okay.

My debriefing team should be finished this afternoon.

I'll let you know when I find out.

Yeah, Santini here.

Hello, Hawk.

I feel like a fool for calling you, but... What's the matter, Atlas?

Is the squid bothering you again?

I'm really starting to get scared.

Okay, I'll be right over.

He helped arrange my evacuation through his contacts.

I was able to get out at Tan Son Nu.

It was years after the war, but he was able to track me down in the States.

I felt obligated to him.

Yeah, I could understand that.

But he had changed.

He wasn't the same.

I tried to break it off with him, and Art got mean.

He's been making my life miserable, and it's getting worse.

You have family or friends or anyone you could stay with?

Yeah, hi, Caitlin.

Hawk, hi, how's Leah?

This, uh, this guy's getting a little mean.

You think maybe you could put her up for a week or so?

Yeah, sure, she can stay at my place. In fact, she'll have it all to herself. I'm

gonna be here working on this engine most of the time.

Drop it!

Drop the phone!

Caitlin!

Wait, what?

Caitlin!

Straight pedal, Hawk.

Who the hell is this?

This is the guy who's got your little family, pal.

Now you just shut your face and keep it shut until you hear from me, or they're

as good as dead.

Park?

Somebody's got Kate and Don.

I'm going to double the number of agents I've got working on this.

My initial gut reaction was that this is retaliatory.

What, for something to happen to Nam?

More than likely.

But so far, you guys haven't been able to pinpoint it. I think it's time to put

your heads together. I'll arrange a meeting.

I'll be there.

My own problem doesn't seem very important now.

The fact is, you still have one.

You know, I think I found a place for you to stay.

I gave this to him when my dog chewed up his old one.

Boy, was he hot.

Just so everything is up front.

Hold it, old man.

You don't want to get on the bad side of Dow. He's flat mean.

Just what the hell's going on around here?

It would be better if you didn't ask questions.

Just obey orders and don't try to escape.

Do as you're told and you'll be released in three days.

Caitlin.

Come in.

I've never been so happy and so sorry to see two people in my whole life.

You all right?

So far.

How about your kids?

Not bad, Kate.

Not too good.

I miss my dog.

Well, we'll get you all out of here. Don't worry about it.

Carol, who are these guys?

You know what they want?

I wish I knew.

The Kovacs are here, too.

And the Millers.

They said they're gonna keep us here for just a couple of days and then let us

go. Yeah, they said about three days. Yeah.

Yeah, well, if you believe that, you still believe in a tooth fairy.

I do.

The kids and I are all right, Jimmy.

Except Billy, he misses Rusty awful bad.

Jimmy, I love you, Jimmy.

Rusty's Jimmy's puppy.

and everybody's trying real hard not to be afraid.

Hey, Dad, look who's here, Mr.

Santini.

Remember when he gave us a ride in his chopper? He says Hawk's going to give us

a ride in a real special one. That's right. You know the one I mean, String.

Oh, we really got it good here. We're right up close to some pretty granite

mountains, and we can hear the sound of... I love you, too.

I sure wish you could introduce the lady to these folks, String.

Jim, listen. Why?

That's what's really driving me crazy, Hawk. Why would anybody want to do

something like this, huh?

What do they want?

You got anything?

Nothing. Except that tape. It arrived at the firm this morning.

And that means that they know you're in on this now.

Yeah, and they don't care either.

Gentlemen, we're all agreed that the root cause has to be in Vietnam, but

what is it?

Now, I know we've gone over this hard, but either you're not remembering or

maybe you're holding something back, something that you'd all rather not talk

about. What is that supposed to mean?

What the hell are you saying, huh?

That we might have done something in Vietnam we can't talk about?

We're buddies, chopper pilots, that's all.

Michael, you listen to this.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that any of us have to apologize

for. We went there to fight a war, and that's it. I believe that.

You had better think about this, Michael.

You've got to figure out a way to get those women and children back here now.

Or else we're gonna have to make our own moves.

And Lord help anybody that gets in our way.

I wish you could introduce the lady to these folks, Tring. Daddy, I don't like

this. These people are bad.

I want to go home.

Please come and take us home, please.

Hawk, I saw your friends leave.

I'm sorry about having to ask you to take a walk.

It's all right.

Do you know her?

You know, I can't understand anybody would want to harm innocent women and

children like that.

It's crazy. It's insane.

Clark, I think it would be best if I left.

You have enough going on without having to worry about me.

I'll be alright, really.

How is it out there?

It's clear.

Doc, do you really have a plan?

Kate, the greatest plan in the world never could replace...

dumb luck.

Watch, watch.

Now, if I could find myself a loose board...

After all the sacrifices that have been

made to bring this about, after all the loneliness and the... bitterness of a

thousand nights of tears, now to finally realize the sweetness of revenge.

You have done well, Dauf.

Very well.

Thank you.

It's taken him a long time to come around, but I think he finally can

appreciate me.

How about that?

Hey, what's with you?

I'm surprised.

You do not seem to share in our joy.

Perhaps you're having second thoughts about what we are doing?

Lear?

No way.

The pictures have been burned into my mind.

Our village destroyed. My parents murdered.

My wife and children dead and dying.

How could you so easily forget?

Thou's family slaughtered, yours also.

I kept you alive when you wanted to die.

I became your family.

We became your only friends.

I have been your only lover.

Why do I lean in your locked out reservation?

I saw the tape that Dao made.

And I saw a little girl.

And she had my eyes.

Eyes of fear.

Hawk and his friends.

How much do they know?

Very little.

Then they must know a little more.

Enough so when they find the bodies of their loved ones.

They will know exactly why they died.

I want you to say precisely what I tell you.

Yeah?

Hello, Hawk?

Where? Are you okay?

Yes, I'm okay.

The question is, have you found out anything more?

Hey, Michael promises he'll pull out all stops. So far, nothing's come in.

Perhaps I have someone who can help.

Well, we're still looking for all the help we can get.

He can't promise anything.

But he was once very influential in Vietnam.

He still has contacts.

Well, you just tell him anything he wants.

Anything.

And get it.

I'm sure he'll ask for it.

Call me back.

How's it look out there?

Same as it did when you asked me a minute ago. It's quiet.

Carol, are you sure she's going to do it? She said she would.

Wait a second.

There it is. She did it. She did it.

How's it look?

Are you still here, Dom?

I'm gone.

You made a mistake partner you made a big mistake

You were warned not

to try to escape but you wouldn't listen would you partner, huh?

Now, just so there's no more misunderstandings, okay?

Hold on, kids. Let's play

a game, okay?

Get him out of here.

I'll get this fixed later.

Meanwhile, anyone tries anything else and I'll kill everyone in here.

Make sure that this is right.

Yes.

Looking for someone?

No!

Yes, I'm fine.

Why are you looking at me like that?

I've got a real funny feeling.

What are you talking about?

I don't sure.

But I don't believe in coincidences.

Maybe we didn't just meet.

Could be you called me when you did to keep me away from the hangar And maybe

you knew these guys were gonna be here And that your influential friend was not

gonna show You're wrong. Mr. Hawk I

Am here I have in fact been here for some time

You were in Vietnam during the war.

So were a lot of guys.

Like Miller, Kovac, or Shiro.

I came here because this lady told me that you might be able to answer some

questions. The answer to that question begins with the destruction of a village

in Vietnam.

There was a lot of villages destroyed.

I believe you knew this one.

It's village 1-0.

108.

Was that an operation, or did this village have a real name?

Undoubtedly.

That's all I can tell you for now.

I'm certain you'll make the connection.

Hey!

Hey, what connection?

Let him go.

That's all I got.

Village.

Running on my second nom tour, 71-72.

That's when we're all there together.

Yeah. Look, I'll clean up and I'll meet you.

I'm sorry. Does it hurt badly?

Everything on my body hurts.

What else can I do to help?

You can start by telling me if this was a setup or not.

Hook, I swear to you, I...

Look,

if I had known anything, why would I help you when they attacked you?

Who's this guy you call Tron? Where do you know him from?

The American-Vietnamese community is a tight one.

What about the others?

Their names would mean nothing.

They told me we'd destroyed that village.

If that had happened, I would have remembered.

You said you flew a lot of missions during the war.

Yeah. And if we'd hit that village, I would have remembered it.

The hardest part was to forget.

108 just... 108.

But you were there.

My brother.

Sinjin.

Sinjin. I was scheduled to go on a mission. The code name...

It was 108.

That's right, 108.

You said you were scheduled.

Yeah, yeah, I was.

But during the flight briefing, a recon team came in, and they had a VC

prisoner. They picked up real close to where my brother had last been seen.

And I requested that I be allowed to interrogate the prisoner.

And my commanding officer scrubbed me from 108.

That was it, 108.

Are you sure?

Yes. I can remember the day and the month.

108.

Hawk. I never went on that mission.

Did you ever find your brother?

No.

No, still there.

Hawk.

Cross-checking the mission roster.

I'm telling you, I stood down on that one.

Some company clerk just failed to take me off the duty roster.

What have you got on the village?

Looks like the mission was a search and destroy operation on a suspect Viet Cong

village.

Oh, my God.

An entire village destroyed because of a false intelligence report.

What kind of a fallout was conducted on this?

The files indicate that the village's survivors were compensated by the United

States.

How the hell do you repay somebody for something like that?

We killed 33 innocent people just to get four Viet Cong.

Those three names in the bottom there, Tron, Leah, and Van Lott, can you

isolate those?

The woman was at the hangar with you.

What about him? What do you got on him?

And the other two?

I'd like to see you sponsor them.

It all fits, Hawk.

Yeah, it does, but where do we start?

Hopefully at the top.

Let's go.

You lied to me, both of you.

He wasn't supposed to be hurt.

What's with you?

This hawk dude's gotten to you?

Tomorrow at sunrise, it will matter little.

Stringfellow Hawk and the others have a rendezvous with destiny.

We can't go through with this, Tron.

Please.

Leah. What we are planning is ugly and horrible.

What was done to us was ugly and horrible.

Or have you forgotten?

I haven't.

I couldn't.

But it was a mistake.

It was an atrocity.

It was a wartime mistake.

And we convinced ourselves that it wasn't because we were crazy with grief.

And now we are crazy with revenge.

Huck wasn't even on that mission that killed our families.

How do you know that?

He told me.

He also told me that he lost a brother in the war.

We've suffered enough.

Every time I recall that picture of that little girl on that obscene tape.

Perhaps you're right, though.

Maybe our Leah has fallen for this... Stringfellow Ock.

There's only been one man in my life.

And because of my love for you, I was fooled into thinking that I, too, wanted

revenge.

But the war is over.

The enemy is only in our minds.

And if we follow through with this, we become no better than those who killed

our loved ones.

Please.

For the sake of our love, don't do this.

Could I have made such a terrible error?

Then before I make another mistake, I must correct it.

Oh, yes.

Please, before it's too late.

Our best bet is Tran's business address.

What more can you tell me about Tran?

Only what Leah told me.

That he had connections.

From his file, looks like these connections are still tied heavily to

Vietnam.

Fourth floor.

I'm afraid that I know what this is all about.

Village 108 was destroyed 14 years ago to the day, at exactly 0730.

And only two hours away.

If you had four families hostage, where would you keep them?

Somewhere that I could control the situation.

In some place that was familiar.

Like Tran Van Hu's property holdings. Right.

Looks like Tran's got more than just a cabbage patch.

He's got 10,000 acres up in Los Osos Canyon.

10,000 acres is a lot of ground to cover.

Not an airwolf.

Let's do it.

Nine minutes.

This is the last section of Harvest Valley land.

Stand that scanner.

Let's try the audio scan.

Maybe we'll pick something up.

Right after breakfast, we'll move those 30 head down off of the North 40.

We've got live ones, Hawk. Voices.

Just a bunch of cowboys.

Less than five minutes, Hawk.

There's more structures five miles north.

Listen, get everybody ready. I don't think anybody's left out there.

Come on.

Everybody's gone, all right.

Come on, let's go.

Get him down there by the van. Yeah.

Out, out. Come on, let's go. Hurry up, we're leaving.

Beautiful sight!

It's them. We found them.

Hawk, check the scanner. Something's coming in over those hills.

Where'd they come from? There are no military bases around here, and they've

got enough hardware to blow up... They're headed straight for the

compound. This is insane.

They're going to repeat here what happened to Village 108.

Just like that.

See ya.

Dom, you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Where's the women and the kids?

What women?

What kids? In the van. It's empty.

Well, of course it's empty.

And I came stumbling out of the van, and the first thing I knew, String grabbed

me and he says, Hey, where's the women and the kids?

And I said...

What women and what kids? He said, those women and the kids.

I said, oh, those women and the kids.

He said, yes.

I said, what do you think I am, crazy?

I left them back there under a tree.

Dom, a toast.

No, no, no, wait a minute. Let me finish. Let me finish.

See, what I didn't tell him is that it wasn't my idea about leaving them under

the trees.

It was Caitlin's.

Here's your toast to a pretty good mechanic and a pretty smart cookie,

Caitlin O'Shaughnessy.

I want to further this toast.

I'm going to include the kids.

And it's for my family, Caitlin and Dom, and to all our families.

To us. To us.