Season 3, Episode 13 · Episode 46 of 79

Wildfire

First aired Saturday, January 11, 1986

Synopsis

Hawke tries to pull an old friend's son out of a deadly drug-smuggling scheme.

Episode recap

An old friend's son is deep inside a drug-smuggling operation, and Hawke takes on the extraction no aircraft can perform: pulling a young man out of the life before the life closes over him. "Wildfire" burns along the series' recurring generational line — fathers, sons and the debts between them — with the smuggling network supplying the firepower and the deadline. The title names the way trouble spreads through families: one ember, then everything. It's a mission where success is measured not in wreckage but in whether the kid is still worth saving by the end, and whether he believes it himself.

Transcript

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