David Hemmings who played the villain in the pilot episode returns to direct this episode.
Although I admire the producers for entering the world of realpolitik which was actually happening under the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Here you have Hawke being suspicious of Archangel's motives. After all in a previous episode Archangel was using a wanted Nazi as an arms dealer. In this episode Archangel is funding criminal paramilitary organisations in order to fight communists.
This episode is rather pants and the culprit is the character of Santini. He is a comedy sidekick, a bit of a buffoon to give the viewer some light humour.
Santini makes an unauthorized visit to Cuba to pay a ransom of $2 million dollars for two anti communists political prisoners. He does this without informing Hawke, which is unfortunate because the exchange is interrupted by another group of fighters who steal the money. Santini is made to look like a chump, a patsy.
To make matters worse, Santini flies off without checking his helicopter properly as it has bullet holes and losing fuel. Santini has to crash land in Cuba and Hawke must go looking for him as Archangel suspects Santini might give the secrets of Airwolf to the Cubans. Back in Miami, the anti Castro supporters who raised the money suspect Santini of stealing the ransom money.
Just a rather silly episode and I think the decline in the quality of writing is now evident. No wonder Jan-Michael Vincent was hitting the booze already.
Although I admire the producers for entering the world of realpolitik which was actually happening under the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Here you have Hawke being suspicious of Archangel's motives. After all in a previous episode Archangel was using a wanted Nazi as an arms dealer. In this episode Archangel is funding criminal paramilitary organisations in order to fight communists.
This episode is rather pants and the culprit is the character of Santini. He is a comedy sidekick, a bit of a buffoon to give the viewer some light humour.
Santini makes an unauthorized visit to Cuba to pay a ransom of $2 million dollars for two anti communists political prisoners. He does this without informing Hawke, which is unfortunate because the exchange is interrupted by another group of fighters who steal the money. Santini is made to look like a chump, a patsy.
To make matters worse, Santini flies off without checking his helicopter properly as it has bullet holes and losing fuel. Santini has to crash land in Cuba and Hawke must go looking for him as Archangel suspects Santini might give the secrets of Airwolf to the Cubans. Back in Miami, the anti Castro supporters who raised the money suspect Santini of stealing the ransom money.
Just a rather silly episode and I think the decline in the quality of writing is now evident. No wonder Jan-Michael Vincent was hitting the booze already.
