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* "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E4ProsAndCons 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 (under their real names, even!) 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.

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* "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E4ProsAndCons 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 (under their real names, even!) without even one person figuring out who they were and calling the Military Police? I get that Granted 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.
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* 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...

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* 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!) Creator/MrT!) they should have had no problem disabling some untrained thugs in the first encounter without even batting an eyelash...



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* 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 (under their real names, even!) 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.

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* Season 1, episode 4: "Pros "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E4ProsAndCons Pros and Cons." 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 (under their real names, even!) 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.



* 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...? Maybe BA drove through the plot hole and ended up on the dirt track.

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* 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...? Maybe BA drove through the plot hole PlotHole and ended up on the dirt track.



* In the end, they "expose" Lynch by having him "execute" Morrison (Murdoc in Disguise) inside a container and then lifting up the container, exactly as Face planned. Small Question: Didn't the whole ship explode three minutes ago, with containers spilling all over the peer? How the hell did they set this up? Where did they get the crane, how did they even find the container? What the heck?

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* In the end, they "expose" Lynch by having him "execute" Morrison (Murdoc (Murdock in Disguise) inside a container and then lifting up the container, exactly as Face planned. Small Question: Didn't the whole ship explode three minutes ago, with containers spilling all over the peer? How the hell did they set this up? Where did they get the crane, how did they even find the container? What the heck?
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***** [[RuleOfThree Flashing clue:]] CIA is apparently code for, "Do some good, run at the first opportunity, and ClearMyName.


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** Discharged because of some bullshit. The Team is, it's pretty clear, not rank and file soldiers or even commandos, more professional volunteers that could operate outside the chain of command and with relative impunity. RuleOfCool and all that.
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** Best guess? They're trying to avoid drawing attention too much attention to their very shitty prison techniques. After all, it did take those three driving into the police station to get arrested.
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****But it is a movie, and clearly the CIA had a large amount of power in the movie (They call in an airstrike in Western europe to kill the team, which isn't very covert.)
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* How did B.A. become a part of the unit after Mexico? He introduces himself as having been dishonorably discharged, and you don't get to reenlist after that.
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** The episode occurs in the fictional 'Republic of San Marcos'. As an imaginary nation created by the author it can have whatever legal system the author wants to give it -- such as, oh, not having any extradition treaties with the US.

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