History Headscratchers / TheATeam

* Season 1, episode 4: "Pros and Cons." The A-Team infiltrates a Florida prison where the corrupt warden is forcing inmates to fight in gladiatorial combat to the death. How do they infiltrate the prison? The easy way, of course: they get arrested. One problem: how did Murdock, B.A., and Hannibal get through the process of being arrested, booked, tried in court, and sentenced to prison without even one person figuring out who they were and calling the Military Police? I get that the authorities of Strikersville aren't big on proper procedure but still, you'd think at the very least they would have run the team's fingerprints, and the episode "Black Day At Bad Rock" (two episodes later, mind you) showed that the team's fingerprints are on file.

** Combat training is about VIOLENCE, and is therefore useless if they are limited to peaceful behavior. Same goes for B.A.'s strength.

* What's the deal with the bad guys always scaping in a Jeep and then flipping over?

** It was in South America. Handing over fugitives merely accused of robbing a bank in enemy territory during a wat was not a high priority for them.

* How has the A-Team not been caught? Murdock is in a freakin military hospital, were his full name is on record. Colonel Lynch even knows that he's in there. So why doesn't the Army go arrest Murdock or stake out the place or something?

* So one of the episodes has the A-Team working for some religious commune who frown on using violence and explicitly forbid the team to beat up their enemies. Which is of course a typical SingleEpisodeHandicap ploy, but considering all of them are combat trained (and one's freaking Me. T!) they should have had no problem disabling some untrained thugs in the first encounter without even batting an eyelash...

* So one of the episodes has the A-Team working for some religious commune who frown on using violence and explicitly forbid the team to beat up their enemies. Which is of course a typical SingleEpisodeHandicap ploy, but considering all of them are combat trained (and one's freaking MR.T!) they should have had no problem disabling some untrained thugs in the first encounter without even batting an eyelash...

** That is assuming that Sosa had any involvement in who was available to send. Just assuming that she could pick anyone in the world to recover the plates is farfetched. Even further, chances are that if you were in a warzone where civilian contracters were operating side by side with the a squad of insanity, they are all there for a reason. It's not like she walked in thinking "Oh gee, it's nice to see Hannibal and Face taking a vacation in the middle of the warzone".

* What was with the logic on retrieving the plates at the start of the film? Sosa comes in, adamant that the plates are her responsibility and warning the A-Team not to get involved. Instead, Pike and his team of mercenaries is picked. [[FlatWhat What.]] Why are civilian contractors being given a mission to recover highly sensitive government property? Sosa outright acknowledges that the A-Team is the best there is? Unless she's snubbing them because she dated Face, why not just ''ask them'' to get the plates for her? They're happy, she's happy, her superiors are happy. It's like she's concerned that the A-Team is going to steal them, which either makes her a fucking psychic (at least partially) or a total bitch.

**** '''[++ SLIGHTLY BIGGER HINT: cia++ ]'''. Pulling some strings hither and yon, even with a slightly disgraced spook, would work.

* Did Hannibal's plan of rescuing Face at the beginning of the movie count on a car to drive over a dirt road in the general direction of many corrupt cops, or would he have been there on time if he kept jogging...?