High

A big fat 0

Two

Very neat and combed back. Still surfer blonde Tully is also only wearing the jacket again. Sneak peeks at his chest.

No Dietrich

Jan's notes: Exhibit A Raid a.k.a. The Case of the Duplicitous Colonel
21 April 1999

This is one of what I consider a Musketeer episode. The guys closing ranks to save one of their own -- in this case, Troy is the "rat" in trouble.

The patrol's mission was to find Colonel Beckman, otherwise known as the Beast. His favourite activity is torturing POWs. Troy knows Beckman because he was one of those POWs. The four had split up because they didn't know which route Beckman would be taking. Troy and Hitch are lucky ones and they capture Beckman and his travel companion, Captain Seidel. Unfortunately, Hitch was wounded (again), and is unconscious, the jeep has been put out of commission, and the German Staff car is on its last legs. Troy radios Moffitt letting him know that he has captured Beckman but he will need Moffitt and Tully to follow him due to their precarious circumstances. So far so good.

While Troy is waiting for Moffitt and Tully to show up, Hitch starts to groan, distracting Troy. Captain Seidel takes this opportunity to jump Troy, knocking the gun out of Troy's hand. The Beast picks up the gun and knocks Troy unconscious. Seidel then screams at The Beast to shoot him. The Beast must have misunderstood because he shoots Seidel instead. Then while Troy is still unconscious, the Beast exchanges identities with Seidel and throws the gun beside Troy. Troy regains consciousness, retrieves the gun, and then sees Seidel lying dead on the ground. Troy is kneeling in the sand. Then Moffitt and Tully drive up and the Beast runs up to them claiming, Troy shot Beckman and please protect me because he has gone berserk. Troy is still kneeling in the sand with a very confused expression on his face.

Later on back in camp, an inquiry is made into the circumstances surrounding the fake Beckman's death. The Beast is still claiming to be Seidel. I suppose neither of the German officers had any sort of identification papers on them. The Beast says that Troy was angry and out of control but that was understandable because of the situation -- stress, etc. Gee, what a sweet guy. Sort of like having Jeffrey Dahmer come to your defense. Troy of course is very upset since Captain Foster seems to be buying this load of malarkey. Then Foster questions Moffitt. Now, Moffitt never mentions that Troy was on his knees, which would be consistent with Troy's testimony -- that he was unconscious and was dazed when Moffitt and Tully arrived. Where is Perry Mason when you need him? Both Hitch and Tully are present but they don't get to say anything. Of course, Hitch was unconscious the whole time but Tully could have said something about the kneeling. Of course, then we wouldn't have had a show.

Moffitt goes to talk to Troy, who is under arrest. Troy figures that the Beast has them all convinced, except of course Moffitt, Tully, and Hitch. What I don't understand is that they send Troy out to get the beast because he can identify him and then when he says this is the Beast, HQ doesn't believe him. Why they believe a German over one of their own men is something I don't understand. I guess what they say about military intelligence is true.

Moffitt then goes to the Beast to try to trip him up. I don't understand this either. Okay, Moffitt has spent time in Germany but so has the Beast. After all, he is German. And how did Moffitt get all this information about Seidel, who the Beast is impersonating. All that ridiculous stuff about Seidel's hometown. And then Moffitt tries calling the Beast by his real name but the Beast doesn't fall for it. And if they have so much info about Seidel, shouldn't they know how old he is? Seidel is definitely younger than the Beast.

So Moffitt goes back to his tent, has a game of chess with Tully and brews up a cup of tea. So this is what the guys do between raids. Hitch then arrives with the news that HQ is going to court-martial Troy tomorrow. This gives the guys approximately six hours to come up with evidence to clear Troy. But what would be conclusive enough to convince HQ. A picture of the Beast with his name under it -- such as his personnel record, which Moffitt imagines would be kept at the local German HQ. Off they go, Moffitt, Tully, and Hitch, to do a little breaking, entering, and stealing to save their doomed comrade. Tully gets a kick out of Moffitt's willingness to sidestep proper procedure by not informing Foster of their intentions or asking permission. Definitely Tully's style. Oh, by the way, Hitch's arm has made a miraculous recovery.

First, they "borrow" the German staff car with the dicey carburetor and head toward their destination. They eliminate the lone German guard who stupidly sticks his head right into the car and drive right up to German HQ. Over the balustrade, past General Von Freleng who is having a "cognac tasting" with a few fellow officers, and into the building. They are forced to kill another officer who just happens by and they stuff him in a convenient empty cupboard. Then they peer into the Personnel office which is manned by five German officers. Isn't this overkill? Boy, do the Germans take their paperwork seriously or what? Now, Tully, Moffitt, and Hitch have to figure out a way to get those five guys out of the office without raising a ruckus. This is extremely unusual behavior for the guys. They are more used to just running in and shooting everyone in sight and throwing a grenade or two for good measure. However, they need time to look for the Beast's files.

Just then, an orderly arrives with a coffee cart complete with coffee, sugar, curdled cream, and assorted pastries. The orderly is stopped by another officer (played by Manfred Lantig, I think, who for once doesn't get killed) and is told to go get fresh cream. The officer and orderly leave. At the same time, two of the Germans in the personnel room leave for a smoke and water break. Moffitt takes the cart and moves it to within sight of the two Germans. The two Germans see the cart, go into immediate ecstasy, and call the other three to come have some coffee and pastry.

While the Germans are occupied with filling their stomachs, Moffitt, Tully, and Hitch sneak into the Personnel room to look for the Beast's records. Unfortunately, the records are not there. At this point, Tully starts to aid Moffitt by looking through various papers, etc. Either he is just looking for pictures or Moffitt is teaching him German encouraged by Tully's response to Alistair's book. Moffitt then finds a reference to the files being checked out to General Von Freleng, the cognac king. So back they go to the quarters of the General, who conveniently has just stepped out to return a hat. And there is the Beast's file complete with cognac stain.

Off the guys go to take their evidence back to Captain Foster. Unfortunately, the staff car finally decides that it has had enough. Cognac King sees Hitch standing on the balcony and calls out the "Amerikaner" alarm. This signal immediately causes all German soldiers to leap up and provide easy targets for the Patrol. There are concrete balustrades and pillars. Do they hide behind them? Nooo! In fact, one actually leaps up onto the balustrade just to make sure they do see him. Twit.

Meanwhile, Hitch commandeers a motorcycle with a sidecar to make their escape. Tully jumps into the sidecar and Moffitt rides pillion behind Hitch. And they make a successful escape after killing all Germans in sight. Back at the camp, the evidence is presented and Troy is released. Here we see another of Troy's Kill looks when he sees the Beast being taken to prison. Troy thanks the guys for going to all that trouble -- Tully gives a succinct "Forget it." and Moffitt says "It was a piece of cake." Hitch says that line which will remain unsaid and untyped. Off the guys go to find another convoy to destroy.

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