A gang of outlaws invade a small island in order to create their own sovereign nation where they can produce opium without interference. In the process they injure retired US Army medic Captain Fallone, who sends one of the island children to America to enlist the help of the A-Team. The team arrives to find the evil Vescari holding the islanders as slaves to grow opium poppies for him, and the team takes him down.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: After rescuing Fallone, B.A. explains why they risked so much to do so, recounting the story of a badly wounded man that nobody thought would survive but who did thanks to Fallone, then tells him "that man was me."
- Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: The villain Vescari rules with a literal iron hand - a prosthetic that doesn't seem to have much dexterity to it but which is heavy enough to smash down doors, and at one point has a hapless hostage whining in pain just by being placed on the boy's shoulder.
- Diplomatic Impunity: The reason why the villains chose this island to attack was because of its sovereign nation status. Since it's not a territory of any existing country and therefore not subject to any other country's laws, he could do whatever he wanted (in this case, enslaving the indigenous population to grow opium poppies) without technically being considered a criminal for it.
- Feed the Mole: Kalani, the Girl of the Week, is afraid of Vescari wiping out her village as revenge for the team's actions, so when she overhears the A-Team planning their attack, she goes to Vescari and warns him in exchange for his promise to spare her village. It turns out the Team saw it coming and intentionally let her hear a false plan with a different route of approach and a different time of day.
- I Lied: As mentioned under Feed the Mole, Kalani sells out the A-Team in exchange for Vescari promising not to take revenge on her village. No sooner does she leave, then Vescari orders his people to prepare for their own attack, to wipe out the team and her village at the same time. His henchman is the one tocall him out on this, to which Vescari simply says "that's too bad for her."
- I Owe You My Life: As said under …And That Little Girl Was Me, B.A.'s life was saved by Fallone back in Vietnam. Fallone actually doesn't even remember, saying that "there were so many" and he taught himself to forget the faces in order to make his job easier. He called in the A-Team because they were the only people he thought could help, not because he thought they owed him any favors.
- Shout-Out:
- Partway into the episode, Murdock finds and adopts a lost baby crocodile, which he names Wally Gator.
- Face pretends to be a lost (and heavily intoxicated) tourist in order to get the outlaws to take him back to their hideout. When found, he mentions the last thing he remembers was "kissing Flipper".
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: After taking over the island, Vescari has been forcing its people to farm opium poppies for him. Hannibal confronts him and tells the villain that the two things he hates most in the world are hard narcotics and slavery.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The episode never makes it clear exactly where the island is, except that it's a sovereign nation. There are hints given throughout the episode, but they seem to contradict one another. Murdock makes mention of Montrichardia arborescens, also known as the moco-moco plant, which is native to the Caribbean islands. He also mentions the Caimaninae family of crocodiles, which are also native to the Caribbean, but later changes his tune when he finds what he claims is a Crocodylus niloticus, better known as the nile crocodile, which is native to sub-Saharan Africa. (Of course, all of that is coming from Murdock so should likely be taken with a grain of salt, and the mother "crocodile" that shows up later looks more like an alligator than a crocodile.) When Face infiltrates the villain's compound in disguise as a lost tourist, he claims to have come from a ship that was headed for Hawaii, implying the island is somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and the Girl of the Week is a native islander named Kalani, which is a Hawaiian name.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The kid sent to the bring the A-Team gets their attention by means of a want ad in the newspaper. Decker sees the ad as well and bursts into the hotel room where the kid is staying in hopes of catching the team. When he realizes the person who put out the ad was a child, his demeanor softens considerably, and he seems more amused at the kid's gumption than anything else. This is in stark contrast to the villain Vescari, who absolutely Would Hurt a Child.
