I Wish It Would Rain

 

Alex is at the daily briefing given by Lt. Driscoll and there is a French journalist Jack Fournier they question the Lt. over reports of American troops entering Cambodia. This of course he denies as the US government continues to claim this never happens.

 
Lt McKay flies lt. Goldman's squad out on anther mission , close to the Cambodian border. They find sandal prints and Sgt Anderson tell the new guy 'Short Round' he'll see plenty more on his tour. Short Round is shadowing Specialist Taft  , it's not long after the enemy makes contact. A fire fight ensues.
 

The guys are under serious fire and take casualties, the VC throw a grenade and use the time to get a head start to run and escape , the squad returns fire and then follow. The VC run straight across a river which marks the border , in a flash they are in Cambodia. Percell and Taft reach the river and take the crouch position to fire and Lt.Goldman orders them to stay and not go any further. Begrudgingly Taft and Percell return to the Vietnam riverside and moan to Lt Goldman, Sgt Anderson cools the situation and tells Percell and Taft that if any American goes into Cambodia they are alone , no air support or artillery can be called to help them out. The situation defuses and the squad head back to complete what they came to do which was to plant sensors to detect movement along the trails the VC and NVA are thought to use.

    
 

Taft and Short Round are ahead of the group and start setting up the devices, Taft tells Short Round to go forward about 40 metres and set up another device.

 
There's an explosion and Taft runs to where it comes from  and finds Short Round blown in half but still alive , from a spring mine that exploded at waist height. Short Round pleads with Taft to shoot him to end his pain, Taft is in pain but shots him with his pistol to end the suffering.
   

 

The rest of the squad hear the explosion and head in the direction it came from, Percell is on point they soon come across Short Round, they have a look of horror.

 
 Meanwhile Taft has gone to the river looking for the VC , he crosses and comes across a group of VC taking a break , thinking they are safe on the other side of the border, Taft unleashes his pain onto them stabbing one , opening fire and using a grenade.
 

Bravo squad hear the M16 and have a quick discussion , and then head to the border and cross.

They find Taft , just standing still where he took revenge for Short Round. They return across the border and return to base.

Sgt Anderson tells Taft , he might want talk to Dr Seymour.

Alex and Lt Goldman are out later in the evening , but as normal she needs to finish up on a story. They meet up with a business man in a bar. he makes the mistake of asking Lt Goldman what its like for him in the field, Lt Goldman unleashes the days happenings and tells him about Short Round.

Meanwhile back on base Taylor and Percell tell Ruiz and Johnson who have KP duties that they have to go and help Lt McKay , when they arrive at were Lt McKay has his business meeting , what ever McKay is buying isn't there so the guys have time to explore , Percell wants to go and meet the French journalist Jack Fournier at the Golden Dragon.

Sgt Anderson and Dr Seymour are about to go for dinner, then they get the news that Taft has run out of the hospital  he's soon found by the MP's but he's holed up in the middle of the ammo dump.

The MP's are ready to shoot on sight, Dr Seymour distracts and Zeke sneaks in , then she calls out to Taft that's she's coming in to see him ,,they find him with a grenade and he pulls the pin out. Dr Seymour talks him down and Zeke takes the grenade from him.

Meanwhile Fournier has talked the guys into going to see deserters' first hand.  Of course this is not going to end well and Taylor and Percell end up in the hands of some , bad guys who intend to do them no good. Luckily Fournier is allowed to go free.

He rushes back to camp to raise the alarm , he find Lt. McKay who has also raised the alarm , they rush of to get help in the shape of Lt.Goldman  , who's at Alex's apartment*******, (If you have seen the gag reel I think this is the scene)
They head of to find Taylor and Percell.

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Taylor has taken a beating but Percell has got away , just as the guys arrive to search for them both ,

Taylor breaks free from his captures and tells Lt Goldman to hold fire as there is a family inside where he was being held and beaten. The VC , tax collectors , come out holding the family as hostages, Jack Fournier helps translate that if they let the family go Lt.Goldman and they guys wont open fire and kill the VC.

Director: Bradford May      Writers: R. Husky, Cooper & S. P. Smith (story)    

Robert Burns Clark (Teleplay)
Songs used in the original airing
Paint It Black The Rolling Stones
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)


Beautiful Morning
The Rascals

I’m Sorry
Brenda Lee

In The Midnight Hour
Wilson Pickett

Sleepwalk
Santos & Johnny

Tell It Like It Is
Aaron Neville


Ooo Baby Baby
Smokey Robinson

Betsy Brantley

Dr J. Seymour

Andrew Masset

Jack Fournier

Mark Albert

Soldier (Uncreditied)

Danny Wong

VC Soldier (Uncreditied)

James McIntire

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Louie Bonanno

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Dierk Torsek

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Michael Paul 

Chan

John Shepard

Specialist Taft

John DeMita

Lt. Henery Driscoll

Raymond Ma

Mr Tsung

Thom Richardson,Jr 

Deserter in Cholon

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 Lieutent Sledge - MP

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 Short Round/Verducci

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MP Phillips

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Hospital Orderly

 
Stephen Caffrey from the Tour of Duty Gag Reel

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