History Recap / TheATeamS33E10SheriffsOfRivertown

* KansasCityShuffle: Played with. As usual, the team has to drug B.A. so they can fly to their destination. They hand out burgers to the team and B.A., realizing that they're going to drug him, refuses to eat the burger he's handed, demanding Hannibal's burger instead. He thinks better of this, saying that Hannibal is smart enough to have been one step ahead and situated himself closest to B.A. specifically so his burger would be taken, so B.A. takes Face's burger. He then says that Hannibal might have thought that far ahead too, so takes Murdock's burger. At last he decides that he can't be sure of any of the burgers, but he is sure that they would know he wouldn't eat his own burger and so that would be the absolute last place they would think to put any sleeping agent, and so he goes back to the burger he originally was given... [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow which, naturally, is exactly where the sleeping powder was from the beginning.]]

* KansasCityShuffle: Played with. As usual, the team has to drug B.A. so they can fly to their destination. They hand out burgers to the team and B.A., realizing that they're going to drug him, refuses to eat the burger he's handed, demanding Hannibal's burger instead. He thinks better of this, saying that Hannibal is smart enough to have been one step ahead and situated himself closest to B.A. specifically so his burger would be taken, so B.A. takes Face's burger. He then says that Hannibal might have thought that far ahead too, so takes Murdock's burger. At last he decides that he can't be sure of any of the burgers, but he is sure that they would know he wouldn't eat his own burger and so that would be the absolute last place they would think to put any sleeping agent, and so he goes back to the burger he originally was given... which, naturally, is exactly where the sleeping powder was from the beginning.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Combined with FakingTheDead, it's made to look like various workers around town are being lost in tragic tunnel collapses with gas explosions and fires ensuring there's NoBodyLeftBehind, when they're actually being kidnapped to work for the villains. The tip off that they weren't really accidents was that so many of the missing persons were electrical engineers and others who would have no logical reason to be in the construction tunnels when their skillsets made them more valuable elsewhere. The team later realizes that the people weren't killed at all, when some goons break in to one of the victims' houses to steal the man's diabetes medication, and the team realizes the only reason they would want that medicine is so the man could use it, since diabetes medicines don't sell for much on the street and could be easily purchased at any drug store if there was a legitimate need for them.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The other three members of the team only let B.A. out of the cell after swearing him in as a sheriff, which means he can't attack them for putting him on a plane. After the stint has finished, B.A. turns on them and locks them in one of the cells, pointing out that he still has his sheriff's badge and they don't. Therefore, he's a law enforcement officer and they're civilians.
* HypocriticalHumor: B.A. breaks up a bar fight by shooting his gun into the ceiling and shouting that they're peace officers.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: One of the few occasions where the team aren't acting as fugitives and don't have to pretend to be someone they're not, as they've been legally hired to act as sheriffs in a foreign country where they're not wanted by the law. Face even lampshades it, saying how nice it is to actually be on the right side of the law for once.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Combined with FakingTheDead, it's made to look like various workers around town are being lost in tragic mining accidents with fires ensuring there's NoBodyLeftBehind, when they're actually being kidnapped to work for the villains. The tip off was that so many of the missing persons were electrical engineers and others whose skillsets meant there was no logical reason for them to be in the mines to begin with.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Combined with FakingTheDead, it's made to look like various workers around town are being lost in tragic mining accidents, when they're actually being kidnapped to work for the villains. The tip off was that so many of the missing persons were electrical engineers and others whose skillsets meant there was no logical reason for them to be in the mines to begin with.

Somewhere in South America is the city of Rivertown, a temporary community built to house the workers building a large power plant that will one day provide electricity to half the continent. When the inhabitants of this city begin going missing in a series of mysterious accidents, the power consortium that runs the city hires the A-Team to become sheriffs and figure out what's going on. They discover that the missing people are not dying in accidents as they've been told, but rather that people of great skill are being abducted to help build a missile, to allow local guerillas to assault the presidential palace and usurp the country.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: One of the few occasions where the team aren't acting as fugitives and don't have to pretend to be someone they're not, as they've been legally hired to act as sheriffs in a foreign country where they're not wanted by the law. Face even lampshades it, saying how nice it is to actually be on the right side of the law for once.