In a small South Vietnamese village a child announces the arrival of armed North Vietnamese soldiers with a high ranking official on a three wheeled bicycle.
He is greeted by the villagers and he and the solders sit and he tells them about plans to "Attack everywhere, Attack together" in the New Year. 
 
 Meanwhile in the bush Baker is telling Johnson about how he's been afflicted by just everything he could catch even though he takes care of himself, unlike Ruiz, who he describes as a pig. Baker is losing his struggle with dysentery and is told to hold it till the reach the village.
 

 As the squad approach the village the child runs back into the village and warns of the approaching G.I.'s.
The NVA official and soldiers quickly make their escape using tunnels in the village.
 

As Bravo Company begin the search of the village , Percell and Baker stand watch.
 

Baker tells Percell he can't wait any longer and goes off into the long grass. 
As he comes out of the long grass he spots movement and spots the VC, he quickly raises his rifle and his pants fall down.
 
 As Baker pulls his pants up and starts to fasten them he doesn't know that a toad has jumped in.
Baker panics when he realizes something is in his pants and starts shouting,

 
Percell hears his cries and alerts Anderson and the guys set out to find Baker.

The VC spot Baker dancing around and open fire , Anderson and the guys arrive and a fire fight ensues, the VC make a run for it and Anderson and the guys chase after them.

Bravo squad manage to kill or severely wound a number of the enemy. A couple escape and go of to get help. 
The high ranking NVA Colonel is alive but badly wounded , he manages to crawl to his pack and tries to set alight some documents.
 

 Bravo squad arrive and manage to stop him. Goldman radios that they need a E.V. for the NVA Colonel,
 
as the chopper arrives the VC come back to try to rescue the Colonel.
In the fire-fight Lt. Goldman is hit, so it falls to Anderson to get both men onto the ropes for extraction out of there and to hospital.
 

NIKKI is shocked to see Goldman, but is relieved that he’s ok.
 

 Meanwhile , intelligence officers from the army and from ARVN have arrived to interrogate Trang.
 
who is almost killed mysteriously. But the ARVN intelligence officer, BA THO, is actually an NVA operative and tries to shoot out his way through the halls of the hospital.