Paradise Lost

 

While out on patrol BRAVO CO. is saved from a VC ambush ,

 by a native Montagnard tribe.

These natives hate everyone (VC, NVA, ARVN) except Americans. They take our guys in as their guests. This is against the better judgment of a mysterious American , KITHEM , who seems to have deserted the Army and joined the tribe.

Our guys get orders to help fortify the native "compound" against the VC.
 

They also help build shelters, inoculate the children, and teach the women modern agricultural techniques,
and Ruiz teaches them a new fishing technique.
 
 

Kithem warns Anderson that all this will only help make the tribe a target for the Drug Baron’s.
 

Bravo company and the tribesmen whilst out on patrol intercept a NVA convoy which turns out to be a major drug run .

The villagers throw a party for Bravo Squad
 
 
 
 

Then its the turn of Bravo Squad to entertain the villagers
Marcus Taylor does his best James Brown impression miming Please Please Please,
as the rest of the guys mime along as his band.
    
 

 
 
 
 It turns out that the local ARVN Major, TUNG is somehow connected to the drug trafficking and arranges to have the village bombed in retaliation for their interference.
The small girl that befriended Horn is killed and Anderson tells Horn he must give her back to the villager ( Edmund Cosma )

   

     
  

Horn is beside himself over the plight of the villagers and the small child,
as he was glad that at last since he arrived this was the first time he had built something rather than destroying it

Of course this was a 'mistake' and TUNG uses his 'contacts' in Saigon and then our guys are ordered out and back to base.
Just as the village mourn for their dead.
 
 
The ARVN troops are to come in and take over. Not before meeting up with the leaving Bravo company.
When words are spoken
 
After they do leave, our guys can’t bear leaving the villagers to a fate that TUNG has instore for them.

Hearing gunfire in the village, the guys return and a firefight ensues.
 

 

 

 
With the help of  the tribe, they annihilate Tung’s troops, but TUNG makes a break for it and Anderson goes after him , TUNG hides in the undergrowth and is about to kill Anderson when Kithem saves Zeke's life.
       

  
Bravo squad return to the village and then help them organise a relocation of the tribe to a refugee camp.
And Kithem hands them his dog tags and asks that they let some people know he's ok.

 

The songs used in the original airings
Paint It Black The Rolling Stones -(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Shoot Your Shot Jr Walker & The All Stars

Hip Hug Her  Booker T & The MG’s

Please Please Please  James Brown

Everett McGill	Kithem / Sgt.Carter
Keone Young	Major Tung
Bruce Gray	Lt. Colonel Dalby
Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad	Katu Chief
Edmund Cosma	Uncredited Dead NVA Soldier & Villager/Tribesman
Baby Suzy	Played the young child that dies - Uncredited

       

 

 

Paradise Lost -The Alternative Beginning  - A look at an earlier script of this episode

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