Synopsis
Terrorists holding a commune hostage threaten to destroy a hydroelectric dam unless jailed extremists are freed.
Episode recap
Terrorists seize a commune in the shadow of a hydroelectric dam and issue their terms: free their jailed comrades, or they open the floodgates on everyone downstream. "Dambreakers" is engineering-scale hostage-taking — the wall of water is the gun, and an entire valley is in the room. The team has to thread a rescue where any wrong move triggers the catastrophe it's preventing, and Airwolf's usual solution set is exactly wrong: you cannot shoot a dam into holding. One of the season's best examples of the show building an action hour around restraint rather than firepower.
Transcript
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