TV-PGSeason 5
Heroes for hire.
Synopsis
The A-Team Season 5 — watch online on iFILM, 13 episodes, NBC 1986, the show's final run. It opens nowhere near a black van or a client in need. It opens in a courtroom. The verdict is a death sentence.
The escape route is General Stockwell — retired, connected, and completely willing to commute the sentence in exchange for black-ops work the team cannot refuse. The assignments shift from hired-gun freelancing to Cold War operations: extract hostages from a hijacked plane in Spain, smuggle a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany, navigate a coup in a Third World country mid-revolution. The tone is heavier than anything the show tried before. Face gets close to walking away for good. Murdock uncovers something about Face's past that neither of them was prepared for. In Episode 6 the dynamic flips entirely — Stockwell is the one taken hostage and the team has 18 hours to get him back or lose their pardon chance permanently. Thirteen episodes, the shortest season, and the one that finally answers the question the show had been circling since 1983. Stream The A-Team Season 5 online on iFILM.
13 episodes
S5·E1Dishpan Man
The A-Team is blackmailed by retired General Stockwell, who kidnaps Hannibal and threatens to have him prosecuted if the A-Team fails to secure the release of hostages held on a plane in Spain.
S5·E2Trial by Fire
The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.
S5·E3Firing Line
General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.
S5·E4Quarterback Sneak
The A-Team uses a football game as a cover to sneak a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany.
S5·E5The Theory of Revolution
The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.
S5·E6The Say UNCLE Affair
Stockwell is kidnapped by his former partner who has "gone bad" and the A-Team has 18 hours to find him or forever loose any chances of securing a pardon.
S5·E7Alive at Five
Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.
S5·E8Family Reunion
A former political adviser offers to trade a diary for a reunion with his daughter- who Face is hitting on, but Murdock learns that the man may be Face's father and the daughter Face's sister.
S5·E9Point of No Return
Stockwell refuses to allow the A-Team to go after Hannibal when he fails to check in while on a solo mission in hostile territory.
S5·E10The Crystal Skull
The A-Team's effort to secure a valuable religious artifact involves them with warring island tribes who mistake Murdoch for a God and some unusual missionaries.
S5·E11The Spy Who Mugged Me
Murdock poses as suave secret agent to catch a killer before he can complete another assignment.
S5·E12The Grey Team
The A-Team must bring a girl in who has stolen a briefcase from her father, filled with material she believes he's selling to the Soviets.
S5·E13Without Reservations
Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.
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