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Season 2 of the Vietnam drama Tour of Duty opens with the transfer of Bravo Company -- headed up by the relatively new Lt. Myron Goldman (Stephen Caffrey) and his world-weary sergeant, Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox) -- to a new base, Tan Son Nhut, outside of Saigon. This season also sees the introduction of two new characters: Kim Delaney as wire service correspondent Alex Devlin, and Dan Gauthier as hotshot helicopter pilot Lt. John McKay. The Tet Offensive heats up this season, and many of the missions reflect this, as series regulars Purcell, (Tony Becker), Ruiz (Ramon Franco), and Taylor (Miguel Nunez, Jr.) get more screen time than last season. In the two-part season opener, "Saigon," Anderson's wife comes to visit, only to tell him she's remarrying, while Ruiz becomes convinced that he's going to be next one to die. In "For What It's Worth," Anderson goes to the hospital to straighten out some records and rescues psychiatrist Jennifer Seymour (Betsy Brantley) from a homicidal patient. Eventually they embark on a romance, but it’s short-lived, as Jennifer takes a teaching position back in the States in "Terms of Enlistment." Johnson faces a problem in "True Grit" when a Vietnamese girl he met in-country turns up and claims he's the father of her baby. Anderson runs into near-psychotic sniper, Sgt. Greg Block (the appropriately creepy Michael Madsen), who enjoys his kills so much he takes trophies. The harrowing episode "Nightmare" focuses on the common Vietcong practice of booby-trapping the bodies of dead GIs, when Bravo Co. must recover the remains of a wiped-out patrol. Anderson gets a trip home when he accompanies a fallen buddy's body back to the States -- and gets an eye-opener on race relations in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in "Promised Land." And in the season finale, "The Volunteer," Malcolm-Jamal Warner guest stars as a bright-eyed clerk who wants to get into the war; Taylor gets close to a new lieutenant (Angela Bassett) and gets caught in a blackmail plot; and Goldman and Anderson are pinned down in the bush, forced to call in artillery on their own position. Christina Urban

Product Details

• UPC: 043396083721
• Source: SONY PICTURES
• Region Code: 1
• Presentation: Pan & Scan
• Language: English
• Time: 12:25:00
• Sales Rank: 13,062

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Tour of Duty: Saigon - Part 1
• Tour of Duty: Saigon - Part 2
• Tour of Duty: For What It's Worth
• Tour of Duty: True Grit
• Tour of Duty: Non-Essential Personnel
• Tour of Duty: Sleeping Dogs
• Tour of Duty: I Wish It Would Rain
• Tour of Duty: Popular Forces
• Tour of Duty: Terms of Enlistment
• Tour of Duty: Nightmare
• Tour of Duty: Promised Land
• Tour of Duty: Lonesome Cowboy Blues
• Tour of Duty: Sins of the Father
• Tour of Duty: Sealed With a Kiss
• Tour of Duty: Hard Stripe
• Tour of Duty: Volunteer

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