Season 4, Episode 3 · Episode 58 of 79

A Town for Hire

First aired Friday, February 6, 1987

Synopsis

Laser attacks lead the team to a secret weapons-testing facility hidden in the town of San Maria.

Episode recap

Mysterious laser attacks lead the team to San Maria — a town that exists, on paper, to be ordinary, and in reality hosts a hidden weapons-testing facility. "A Town for Hire" runs one of the genre's best premises: the community as cover story, every neighbor a possible employee of the secret. The new crew has to peel the town apart layer by layer while the weapons tests escalate from anomaly to threat. It's the Season 4 formula settling in — bigger conspiracies, leaner budgets, and Airwolf as the one instrument that can cut through a town-sized lie.

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