Season 2, Episode 13 · Episode 24 of 79

The American Dream

First aired Saturday, January 12, 1985

Synopsis

Hawke aids a Vietnamese ally whose crops are sabotaged by a ruthless rival landowner known as 'The Spider'.

Episode recap

A Vietnamese ally from Hawke's past has built exactly what the episode's title names — an American dream, acres of it, worked by his own hands. Then his crops start dying, and the sabotage points to a rival landowner called 'The Spider', a man who prefers his empires unchallenged. Airwolf's answer to the classic land-war western, this hour swaps missile counts for moral clarity: an immigrant family standing on their rights, a bully assuming no one will stand with them, and Hawke — who owes this man from the war — proving the assumption fatal. Sometimes the Lady's job is simply to even odds that should never have been uneven.

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