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Wings of Gold Synopsis: After a North Korean pilot shoots down an American F-16 on the border of the Demilitarized Zone, the Sea Dragons are called on to support U.S. troops in the area. Knowing they’re preparing for a dangerous mission with an unknown conclusion, the team members reach out to loved ones, longtime and newfound: Lt. Col. Bill Kelly says good-bye to base physician Dr. Valerie West; First Lt. Bobby Griffin calls his girlfriend Janine Kelly, Bill’s daughter, and First Lt. Wendell McCray unsuccessfully tries to reach Christopher, his young son. When the team arrives in Korea at Camp Casey, they find intrigue beyond the mission. They meet Captain Brett "Fingers" Langham of the Royal Australian Air Force, assigned to patrol the skies with pilots Kelly and Griffin. After an unanticipated close encounter of the unpleasant kind with Korean pilots, Kelly and Griffin learn their new colleague isn’t particularly interested in playing by the rules. Also, Kelly notices a distraught American on the base and, approaching to help, meets George Tomlin, who has traveled from Massachusetts to locate his daughter, Sheri, who has been missing in Seoul for weeks. Kelly and First Lt. A.J. Conaway decide to help Tomlin -- their first clue to Sheri’s whereabouts comes from a photo of her in front of a Korean nightclub...which Fingers easily identifies as The Rose Petal. Unbeknownst to the Sea Dragons, Sheri is actually being held captive by Rae, the cold-hearted proprietor of The Rose Petal. Sheri had innocently auditioned there for a singer’s job -- instead, her passport and ID were confiscated by the club bouncer and the vulnerable young woman was being forced to work as an "escort" to wealthy businessmen. Back at Camp Casey, First Lt. Annalisa Lindstrom, Conaway and McCray are assigned to collect North Korean intelligence information from a high-level government official. The team also preps for its mission with a new type of hybrid vehicle: the Assault Amphibian Vehicle (AAV). McCray, the recon expert, additionally prepares with a crash course in Korean -- upon meeting his instructor, Pak "June" Joon Ja - a stunningly beautiful Korean woman - he can’t wait to start one-on-one tutoring. At a party welcoming the Sea Dragons, June surprises McCray by showing up with her four-year-old son and anticipating the officer’s rejection of her. But June is the one caught off-guard when McCray and the boy bond almost instantly. Conaway, Lindstrom and Fingers leave the party early to accompany Tomlin to The Rose Petal in search of his daughter. Although Rae swears no American girls are working in the club, Tomlin finds his daughter’s teddy bear in an upstairs room. The next day, Lindstrom, Conaway and McCray set out to recover the intel from a North Korean contact, but a snag in the plan forces the drop-off to be rescheduled. Meanwhile, Sheri Tomlin begins to lose hope in being found when the other American girls working the Rose Petal are shipped to another club, while she’s kept behind in a warehouse. Fingers’ reputation for being able to get his hands on anything - legal or not - makes Griffin question what really happened to Sheri...and whether his new colleague had a part in it. As pieces of the missing girl’s puzzle start falling into place and Griffin concludes that Fingers had a role in Sheri’s disappearance, a protective ally of Fingers’ pulls a gun on Griffin. Disarming the man, Griffin questions him, now at gunpoint, for another link in the hunt for Sheri. As he prepares for his mission, McCray also finds himself drawn to June and begins considering whether he might want to make the Korean base his permanent location...breaking away from his Sea Dragons assignment and the fragile relationship he’s building with his son back in the U.S. His ideas are challenged by his friend and colleague Lindstrom. Meanwhile, Lindstrom, McCray and Conaway get more than they bargained for when their second attempt to pick up the intel package turns into an unexpected firefight. It only ends when Conaway’s explosive demolition concoction blasts a jeep full of hostile rifle-toting North Korean soldiers into a ravine. When the dust settles, there’s another surprise: their "package" is actually the defecting North Korean Minister of Science. Back at the base, Kelly receives equally-unanticipated news: having taken control of an F-18, Fingers is threatening to violate the DMZ and, in turn, escalate tensions between U.S. troops and the North Koreans. Bobby sets out into the skies in pursuit of Fingers, reeling him in after calmly threatening to blow him out of the sky. With their official mission completed, the Sea Dragons turn their attention to more personal issues. Determined to help George Tomlin find his missing daughter, the Sea Dragons squeeze more information out of Fingers. It leads them to a remote warehouse which they ambush, finding Sheri being held hostage by Rae and her henchmen. The thugs are no match for this crack crisis task force: the Sea Dragons defuse the tense hostage situation with unhesitating force and teamwork, reuniting father and daughter. McCray, however, takes an alternate route with matters of the heart. In a final meeting with June, both of them realize that the practical concerns of their lives make McCray’s idea of staying in Korea - and together - impossible. STARRING GUEST STARRING |
