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

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

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

Anderson risks court-martial to delay the return of battle-weary men to combat

Alex sets out to expose a major whose questionable judgement has caused casualties

Anderson goes into the jungle to find a disturbed friend who refused a transfer home

Alex and a French correspondent investigate illegal incursions of Cambodia by U.S. troops

Anderson, Johnson and Ruiz train four Vietnamese recruits whose inexperience poses problems

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

Goldman searches for McKay after the Army gives up; Percell faces charges for killing a social worker's attacker

Word of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination lowers black soldiers' morale,

Anderson and Goldman find a leak in a top-secret operation; Alex must prove herself to a shady new boss

Alex risks her life by investigating a prostitute's murder in which Taylor is implicated

Zeke considers a job offer as a mercenary for the CIA; Zeke and Goldman go on a dangerous mission with a Navy SEAL

While out on patrol, the unit stumbles across CIA recruiter Jim Doyle. He has taken possession of a case of Russian-made sniper rifles, and claims that finding him there was an accident. It is obvious that Goldman and his men have been used by Doyle to provide himself with an escort out of the bush

A young desk clerk seeking to prove himself is assigned to Anderson's platoon