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Episode

Tour of Duty: Saigon (1)

Tour of DutySeason 21989-01-03

Overview

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

Details

Series
Tour of Duty
Season
Season 2
Episode
Episode 1
Air date
1989-01-03
Runtime
60 min

Episode context

Saigon (1) is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Tour of Duty. It aired on 1989-01-03. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 2: Saigon (2) 1989-01-10 | 60 min 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.

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Episode 3: For What It's Worth 1989-01-17 | 60 min 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. Episode 4: True Grit 1989-01-24 | 60 min Anderson risks court-martial to delay the return of battle-weary men to combat. Episode 5: Non-Essential Personnel 1989-01-31 | 60 min Alex sets out to expose a major whose questionable judgement has caused casualties. Episode 6: Sleeping Dogs 1989-02-07 | 60 min Anderson goes into the jungle to find a disturbed friend who refused a transfer home. Episode 7: I Wish It Would Rain 1989-02-14 | 60 min Alex and a French correspondent investigate illegal incursions of Cambodia by U.S. troops. Episode 8: Popular Forces 1989-02-21 | 60 min Anderson, Johnson and Ruiz train four Vietnamese recruits whose inexperience poses problems. Episode 9: Terms of Enlistment 1989-03-21 | 60 min 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. Episode 10: Nightmare 1989-03-28 | 60 min Goldman searches for McKay after the Army gives up; Percell faces charges for killing a social worker's attacker. Episode 11: Promised Land 1989-04-04 | 60 min Word of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination lowers black soldiers' morale, Episode 12: Lonesome Cowboy Blues 1989-04-11 | 60 min Anderson and Goldman find a leak in a top-secret operation; Alex must prove herself to a shady new boss.

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