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- The platoon is assigned to defend Firebase Ladybird under siege by a regiment of North Vietnamese troops. At the same time they come under siege by NVA soldiers, they are assigned a new, ambitious commander who complicates an already dangerous situation.
- Bravo Company has to leave four men behind - Taylor, Ruiz, Wozniak, and Lamb who was killed. McKay takes Goldman, Anderson, and Duke Fontaine back to pick them up. However, some VC get Lamb's radio and lure the chopper in. Taylor, Ruiz, and Wozniak see the VC doing this and release other smoke, and McKay has to leave them behind again. "Pop" Scarlett joins Bravo Company.
- With Goldman recovering from his wounds and transferring to Intelligence, Anderson meets the replacement Lieutenant Miller, who is keen on appearance by the book, which is something the new medic, Francis Hockenbury aka:' Doc Hock', takes lightly. Meanwhile, Alex Devlin gets the rare opportunity to interview NVA General Thoc in the tunnels. After surviving a B-52 strike on the complex, she is happy to be back in Saigon and spend her last night with Myron before leaving Vietnam for good.
- With Thanksgiving 1968 as a backdrop; Colonel Brewster's decision to go to the press about the Phu An massacre lands him a lot of trouble with the higher echelon, especially when he goes on the record with journalist Sid Boyle. Meanwhile, Percell, after quitting heroin cold turkey, is physically fine, but psychologically still shaken. Also, Lt. Goldman, Sgt. Anderson and the squad are gathering evidence for Colonel Brewster's theory that the NVA must have fuel storage dumps at regular intervals along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
- Bravo Company takes Hill 1000 - again - and finds no trace of the enemy. All the men, especially Horn, question why they take a hill suffering casualties and then abandon it, only to be required to take it again. A day or so later, a helicopter spraying Agent Orange is shot down, and Bravo Company again goes up Hill 1000 through the dripping Agent Orange. Horn walked down the hill but decides that his friends are worth fighting for. Horn is wounded throwing explosives into the VC bunker. And then the men are ordered yet again to abandon the hill. Medals are handed out that highlight a number of the episodes.
- The squad is deep in enemy territory assigned to kidnap a high-ranking NVA officer. Percell is not with them, after spending the night in jail. He is fed up with the military and, despite Ruiz's efforts, deserts. Meanwhile, McKay helps out an orphanage run by nuns. He is happy being useful in a different way for a change, until he witnesses a Buddhist commits suicide in the streets. Elsewhere, the Army wants to keep the Phu An massacre quiet; Beller's platoon is dissolved and Beller and his men are transferred to other units.
- Bravo Company gets 15 newbies and is sent into the bush to set sensors along a train and to reestablish a base. Anderson's group, reestablishing the base, is attacked by VC, and Goldman's group cannot get to them. Likewise, there is no air support to be had before the next morning. One of the newbies, Griner, is from South Carolina, and Taylor immediately decides he is racist. Griner proves himself an excellent shot, which Taylor recognizes and appreciates. Another newbie, Bell, from Texas, looks very young and is, in fact, only 15.
- As Bravo Company returns from a mission, they are interviewed by a television reporter. Sgt. Hannagan has received a pile of wrapped presents from groups back home. Bravo Company decides that the presents should go to the orphanage as Hannagan had told the television reporter. Hannagan tries to prevent that from actually happening, but Percell, Ruiz, and Taylor take the presents and load them onto a truck. Nurse Susanna Lozada is grieving a soldier they lost on the operating table. Ruiz comforts her and invites her to the Christmas party at the orphanage. She and several other nurses ride the truck to the orphanage. The truck is attacked en route, and the guys chase down the attackers. They stay the night so that they can go home in the light. As Anderson says, they are standing guard, which is what soldiers do.
- Anderson and Goldman are listed MIA in the aftermath of an artillery strike. The platoon, McKay, and Alex Devlin deal with the loss in different ways. Johnson gets promoted to sergeant and has to fill in the shoes of Zeke. Alex Devlin wants to put Vietnam and Myron behind her and accepts a position as correspondent in Paris. Anderson and Goldman in fact have been taken POW. In a stopover village they figure out where they are and realize that they are ferried northwards. They need to escape because their chances to make it back to their own lines are dwindling.
- Hockenbury, who moved out of the barracks and into a room in the dispensary, joins Bravo Company at mess, but he is still ostracized. Col. Brewster has developed a very sensitive mission in which he expects perhaps heavy casualties. Even though Goldman, Percell, and Ruiz are short, all the men volunteer. Fontaine is the intelligence liaison. Also, Air Force Major Chapman, who escaped three months previously from a prison camp in Hanoi, is also part of the mission. The mission: to raid a POW camp and bring home 38 guys.
- Zeke struggles to get through the military bureaucracy. SPC Sweet volunteers to help him in exchange for a place in his platoon to go out into the field.
- Lt. Goldman is shot loading a captured, injured VC colonel onto a helicopter. At the base hospital, he learns that Nikki Raines, the nurse he is in love with, had an abortion and she wants to break up with him because he is a soldier, a bad risk. The ARVN aide to the intelligence officer who wants to question the VC colonel tries to kill the colonel so that he cannot reveal the plans for a big offensive at the Tet.
- Anderson, Ruiz and the guys yank Percell out of Cholon. Although safe from being branded a deserter, he now has to face drug withdrawal symptoms for the next several days. Meanwhile, the platoon is tasked in finding out how the NVA is getting truckloads of supplies into an area without roads. Also, Colonel Brewster learns that the Army isn't doing anything regarding the massacre at Phu An and has no other option then to go to the press to tell his story.
- In their quest to capture or kill the sniper that has been picking off Americans at Camp Bennett, several Americans die by friendly fire as McKay attempts to support Goldman's patrol who had come under fire. After the sniper shoots at McKay again, he takes off into the bush to track him down. McKay finds the sniper's tree and stakes it out. Doc Hockenbury meets a local girl, Tien Ly, and goes to her house for dinner.
- Goldman's father shows up and after telling him he doesn't have long to live, they start talking and get to know each other for the first time in years. Meanwhile, Johnson becomes a short-timer, and his friends in the platoon want to know his plans. Ruiz gets acquainted with Susana, an OR-assistant. Also, the squad tries to get an enemy helicopter in order to destroy it or possibly fly it back. Percell goes along but keeps a low profile, but proves he hasn't lost his edge after encouragement by "Doc" Hockenbury.
- Bravo Company is sent into the bush to rescue the wife of a local potentate who is denying the Army access to use their artillery until she is home. Bravo Company finds her and learns that she ran away to her home village and was kidnapped from there. The home villagers don't want her around because the VC punish them because she is there. She has nowhere to go. She is sick and they are being chased by VC. So Bravo Company takes her back to her village. The VC attack. The woman dies. Lt. Goldman and Taylor take her baby girl to her husband, who refuses to accept her.
- Anderson has to bring the body of a (black) soldier to the U.S. and meet with his family. And it all coincides with the recent assassination of Martin Luther King. At the same time several of the black soldiers are reeling from it and the Lieutenant in charge of these men who is black, tries to get them to go on. When they disobey his orders, he considers action but Goldman tries to talk him out of it.
- The platoon is visited by reporter Vickie Adams. She joins them on a patrol.
- Camp Barnett is suffering from food poisoning, affecting everyone except Lt. Goldman and Sgt. Anderson. As a result, they have to go pick up a deserter, SSG Jonathan Digby, an outstanding soldier Anderson knew in Germany.
- Anderson receives a letter from his ex-wife saying that their three year-old daughter is asking about him. Anderson fights back tears and asks the chaplain if he could send his daughter a letter telling her that he loves her and misses her. Lt. Goldman tells Anderson that they must go to the Don Ho Valley to rescue any pilot that lands in their area. Anderson is against it as his previous unit was almost wiped out the last time he was there. They go anyways and reach a downed Air Force pilot surrounded by a company of VC.
- 1987–1990TV-148.4 (59)TV EpisodeThe board of inquiry convenes. Anderson leads the men, including Pop Scarlet and his son Spc. Robby Scarlet, into the bush where Agent Orange is being sprayed. They arrive at a village that had been sprayed previously; the people do not look very healthy. Later, back at base, Griner gets a very itchy rash. In the barracks, Hockenbury blames it on the Agent Orange, but none of the guys believe him.
- After a group of performers' chopper crashes the team ventures out to bring them back to safety, which leads to some unexpected developments.
- An elusive NVA sniper makes life hard for everybody, but particular for McKay as the sniper targets helicopters. The squad assists ruthless CIA-operative Duke Fontaine in removing an important VC official from the ranks. The mission becomes complicated when Taylor and Johnson are captured by the VC.
- General Goldman, Lt. Goldman's father, is on base on a fact-finding mission. He agrees that Myron has disobeyed orders by withdrawing rather than advancing against his better judgment toward what appeared to be a burned-out NVA facility. It turned out that the NVA were dug in a bit further on the trail. A pal of Ruiz tripped a wire and was killed. He was high on heroin. Sent to chill out with Sgt. Ecksley in supply, Ruiz discovered that Ecksley was selling Army goods in the black market and enabling soldiers to score heroin through the local drug lord. General Goldman saw more "truth" than he anticipated and realized that this war is not the same as previous wars.
- After a series of incidents, racial divisions develop within Bravo Company. When one of the men is found dead, Johnson is suspected, making matters worse.
- Among other casualties, Lt. Goldman temporarily loses his sight when his Jeep hits a mine. Horn leaves him with a female VC soldier (named Li Kiem) and goes for help at Goldman's demand. He removes her gag in an effort at civility but she tries to get a local woman who comes across them to help her escape by speaking Vietnamese. He manages to sense what she is doing but he counters and they leave, with her as his prisoner/shield. It turns out she speaks English but still implacably considers him her enemy; they debate politics briefly. During this time she tries several times to have him killed or captured but he manages to evade these threats as well. They come across an embittered farmer who hates both sides and initially refuses them food but then reconsiders. She seems to soften towards Goldman, whom she calls "GI". He later regains his sight after a dunking while they cross a very deep river. He saves her from drowning but they come under fire from a VC team chasing them, with ultimately deadly consequences.
- The platoon is on patrol when they encounter CIA operative Jim Doyle in the Free Fire Zone. He conscripts them to carry back a new Russian rifle. Lt. Goldman suspects that he's in business for himself after two men are killed by an ambush.
- The United States does not go into Cambodia.
- Colonel Brewster sends the platoon out searching for a recon-squad that disappeared. During the various patrols, Johnson's leadership abilities are severely put to the test and he has doubts whether he still got the edge. Meanwhile, Sgt. Anderson meets up with Jennifer Seymour and proposes to marry her. She says 'yes' to share her life with Zeke, but she also senses that Anderson isn't ready yet to end the life he shared with his men in Vietnam.
- The U.S. Army is training South Vietnamese soldiers. They prove resourceful and reliable. Dr. Seymour shoots a VC and has trouble with her feelings. Alex chases a story about orphans and survives a VC attack on their compound.
- Zeke is being recruited for private mercenary work. Alex investigates Pentagon waste. She's desperate for Myron to take a desk job but he's scheduled to lead his men on a joint operation with the SEALs.
- When Purcell's father had a heart attack in Honolulu, Ruiz and Taylor change their R&R to Honolulu to give Purcell support. They are confronted by the anti-war attitudes and demonstrations back home. Purcell is shocked by the veterans' ward at the hospital, while he deals with his feelings towards his father, who has left his mother and has taken up with a younger woman.
- When a drunken Sargeant is arrested for stealing a jeep, Anderson recognizes the soldier as his old Drill Sergeant. After recommending him to the Lieutenant, Anderson organizes to have him transferred to the platoon. Anderson's new addition soon creates problems for the whole group on their first patrol due to his willful disobedience and lax attention to regulations.
- Taylor and Ruiz have been MIA for three weeks. Bravo Company gets a slew of newbies and returns to its previous platoon status of going out on reconnaissance. A photojournalist is embedded with Bravo Company.
- Lt. Beller, an old friend of Goldman, and his platoon function as a blocking force, while Goldman's squad searches for weapons and the enemy in several villages. Beller is disillusioned and his platoon is war weary, due to time in combat, casualties, and not getting results. During a search, Anderson and Goldman hear gunfire, then run into Beller, in the nearby village of Phu An. Percell is strung out from the war and the drugs he is taking affect his mood and fighting ability.
- Anderson, Johnson and Baker's Huey is downed. They find an orphaned baby while fleeing a father with a vengeance.
- The platoon must find a leak in a top secret operation. The only lead, Sgt Jackson, turns up dead. A Vietnamese boy is shot by VC while leading the team to Jackson and later accused of being the informant for the VC. Anderson and Goldman must find the true leak.
- In a VC village, Purcell shoots a VC and Bravo Company rescues a Quaker woman who is providing care for children in the village. She takes a little girl back to Saigon to find her mother. There, Purcell interrupts two Vietnamese trying to rape the Quaker woman. In his struggle with one of the men, the Vietnamese man is killed with his own gun, but the Quaker woman will not testify that Purcell was acting in self defense. The little girl's mother witnessed the fight, however, and Anderson, with the help of the widow of his friend who was killed in action, persuades the woman to come forward and clear Purcell. McKay's chopper is shot down after leaving Bravo Company on this mission. He survives and is rescued by Bravo Company who volunteered to go find him.
- Zeke has to do some soul-searching after he kills a female sniper in self-defense. Someone is killing Saigon prostitutes and Alex is determined to get to the bottom of the story, contrary to Goldman's feelings.
- After getting what they think is an easy mission, Bravo Company discover that the village that they are protecting is surrounded by the enemy. What's more, the enemy seem to know their every move.
- The platoon is transferred to Camp Barnett MACV-SOG under the command of Colonel Brewster, from where they will conduct unconventional warfare and counter-insurgency operations. Sgt. Anderson decides not to extend his tour and uses his saved up free time to return to the US to go see his daughter Katie for the first time in two years. The squads' first assignment is to snatch a VC tax collector. Myron, mourning the loss of Alex, is distracted, and Johnson is trying to adjust to his role as the new "sarge".
- Hockenbury refuses to shoot a VC, resulting in the death of an American soldier. As a result, Hockenbury is ostracized. Col. Brewster is back because he has managed to get an investigation of the village massacre. Ruiz and Taylor get back to the base. Goldman, McKay, and Anderson lead men into the bush to find a depot. They find what appears to be an empty village, not on any maps, no animals or dung, and find a tank and the men to operate it.
- When Baker's twin brother visits Bravo Company on their birthday a misunderstanding drives a wedge between them. Things get complicated when Baker's brothers helicopter is shot down and Baker believes that his brother is still alive.
- A U.S. Platoon on reconnaissance patrol with Goldman's platoon is ambushed by the NVA, the enemy soldiers appearing to vanish before Goldman and his men can intersect them, the inexperienced Lieutenant mistakenly calling fire on the surviving members of the other platoon as they emerge from the heavy undergrowth. Dispersed to an adjacent village and amid further tension between Anderson and Goldman, the platoon find the village deserted. Marcus Taylor, a slick, fast talking black private disappears and the platoon discovers evidence of the enemy's vast underground tunneling system. After the first exploratory duo sent into the tunnels is attacked Goldman insists on following Anderson into the dank confines of the tunnel network. Held captive by the NVA in the bowels of the earth and tortured for information Taylor finds humanity in the form of the idealistic communist doctor traveling with the North Vietnamese contingent. Finding a cache of hijacked U.S. supplies and equipment in the tunnels and engaging the enemy, Goldman and Anderson are engulfed in a cave-in. During their efforts to extricate themselves from their earthen prison they come to a better understanding of each other. Meanwhile Taylor's captives are on the move, determined to slaughter the remainder of the platoon, the commanding officer ordering the doctor to kill Taylor. Unable to carry out the order, the doctor is killed during a struggle between Taylor and the commanding officer, Taylor escaping in time to warn his buddies of the ambush. As the platoon celebrate their survival with a spit BBQ of the village pig killed by an NVA sniper an explosives ordinance squad lays 500lbs of explosives in the tunnels and Taylor digs a final resting place for his friend the doctor.
- The troops are under attack by the VC. Percell accidentally kills an unarmed boy. Lt. Goldman reconnects with an old flame.
- Bravo Company was saved from a group of VC by some Montagnards, who then brought the guys back to their village, home of a former Special Forces agent. Brigade determined that Bravo Company should train the villagers on weapons. The Special Forces agent opposes giving the tribe the weapons, as it will cause them to become a target. Brigade wants the Montagnards to cut off the VC trail running near the village. Bravo Company runs afoul of a local martinet who takes out his anger on the village.
- Two months or so after the raid on the POW camp, Percell, Ruiz, Griner, and McKay are home and out of the military. Adjustment is difficult. Back in Vietnam at Camp Barnett, Lt. Goldman, Sgt. Anderson, and Taylor are dealing with new men.
- After the platoon are hit in a nighttime raid, Sgt. Anderson recruits some fresh troops before going on a mission to find the enemy units that hit them.
- Pilot Lt. McKay says rock 'n roll is here to stay and blasts it from his chopper. He flies back to where Bravo Company is pinned down by VC and joins the fight from the air, playing rock 'n roll the whole time. Alex Devlin, a reporter, is working a drug story but learns from Jake Bridger, the owner of a hotel in Saigon, that there has been a big increase in VC activity all around with the Tet coming. Taylor and Johnson want to invest in a hotel chain with Bridger, even though Anderson warns them that Bridger is a hustler. Anderson meets with his ex-wife in Saigon.
- Taylor is a short timer, anxious to go back to Detroit. However, as the time for him to leave nears, he is less sure that he wants to leave his friends in Nam.
- Battle fatigue can be totally enervating. McKay verbally abuses a soldier in the field who could not let go of a tree and get into the helicopter; they manage to get him into the chopper and back to base where Dr. Seymour deals with him. The policy is to get men without casualties back in to the field as soon as possible, but Anderson requests that Dr. Seymour find a way not to send Martsen back to the field. The major in the psych ward orders Martsen back to active duty, and he is shot in the next skirmish. Ruiz finally goes to see Dr. Seymour about his view that he is a coward because he is afraid to go into battle. A Vietnamese girl tells Johnson he is the father of her baby, and though the truth of the claim is questionable, Johnson wants to help her.
- Bravo Company are tasked with moving the inhabitants of a village to a safer location. When all does not go according to plan they get some unexpected help.
- Soldiers need someone to talk to regarding the horrors they experience. Tan Son Nhut has a priest who is there to listen. The Army also has a contract with a psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Seymour. A fragger kills the priest, making the base paranoid. Anderson listens to tapes of Dr. Seymour's notes about her patients and figures out who the fragger is, saving lives by doing so. Yet Dr. Seymour is angry that he violated her patients' privacy.
- Bravo Company gets a new lieutenant, as Lt. Goldman is the new press officer for Major Darling. Lt. Escobar is shot and brought back by Ruiz. Lt. Escobar comes from a family with connections, and his father arranges for an early out for Escobar - and Ruiz. Ruiz turns him down. McKay and Bravo Company pick up two additional injured soldiers who had items for Major Darling apparently looted from a temple. Major Darling grounds McKay for doing this. Devlin picks up the story about the artifacts and offers a deal to Darling: he is to quit looting and he is to put Goldman back in the field. Major Darling threatens McKay with a court martial when he goes out to help Bravo Company despite his grounding, and McKay says he would welcome the opportunity to tell the court about Major Darlin's looting. Dr. Grennly, a colleague of Dr Seymour, arrives. Part of the deal to get Dr. Grennly to come over was that he is to get all the publicity he wants to help his state-side clinic succeed.
- When Block starts to put his hand with pressure on Alex Devlin's neck and she says, "You are hurting me", he backs off and then she asks him for a one-on-one interview. No journalist would ask that after an assault like that.
- Bravo Company have to team up with a gung-ho special forces team in order to destroy a bridge. Bravo Company discovers that things are not always black and white in war.
- Dr. Seymour is offered a direct commission as a major and a posting at Fort Sam Houston to teach her methodologies. PFC Thayer admits to Dr. Seymour that he is a homosexual. The Army doesn't allow homosexuals and it doesn't allow officers to fraternize with non-officers. To take the men's attention away from Thayer's attempted suicide, they set up a boxing match. Taylor promotes Woods to box. Woods, though, is hesitant because he will lose his amateur status, as the fight is not sanctioned. Taylor's conscience bothers him, but Woods proceeds with the match. When Woods learns that his amateur status is protected after all, Army defeats the Air Force in the boxing match.
- Carol Anderson informs Zeke that she is marrying a nice guy; he wants her to be happy. Stacy Bridger travels to Saigon to meet her father, Sgt. Jake Bridger. He was killed by VC a week before. Except Bridger is in hiding and getting information about the VC to pass on to Command. McKay sends Goldman on a wild goose chase down the Fu Loc Highway so that he could be alone with Alex; McKay didn't know VC were all over the area. He flew to the rescue. That night, the VC launch a coordinated attack in Saigon, on Tan Son Nhut (the American base), and in cities throughout South Vietnam.