In the Republic of San Marcos, 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.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Actually, I Am Him: Done rather amusingly. The board of directors of the company in charge of Rivertown is discussing their problem when the cleaning lady comes in. They sit her down and explain their situation and what they need the team to do for them, only to discover that she's not Hannibal in disguise as they thought. She really is the cleaning lady, and is very distraught at not being recognized by her employers after having been with the company for ten years.Cleaning Lady: Don't you know your own employees?!
Hannibal: (Coming out from the corner, where he was posing as a security guard.) No, he doesn't, Miss Dickerson. - Borrowed Catchphrase: B.A. borrows Hannibal's "I love it when a plan comes together" after getting back at his teammates for their method of getting him to South America.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: 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.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: 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.
- Hypocritical Humor: B.A. breaks up a bar fight by shooting his gun into the ceiling and shouting that they're peace officers.
- Kansas City Shuffle: 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 actually wasn't laced with the sleeping powder. It was the milk that did the job.
- Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: An interesting variation. The team is locked in a cave that was being used by guerillas plotting to overthrow their country's government, and the guerillas left some of their weapons behind when they left. Hannibal mentions how ironic it is that, for possibly the first time, they have all the weapons and ammunition they could ever want... which does nothing to help them clear the cave-in that's trapped them inside, forcing them to build a machine to help them escape anyway.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Combined with Faking the Dead, 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 No Body Left Behind, 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 his diabetes medication. The team realizes the only reason they would want that medicine is so the prescription holder 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.
- Serial Escalation: A gag early in the episode involves the team discussing a villain they need to apprehend. As the conversation goes on their descriptions keep making him taller and heavier bit by bit.
- Shout-Out: After rescuing B.A. from a mook that tried to kill him with a forklift, Murdock says "we're brothers just like from that Bonanza show. Can I call you 'Hoss'?"
- Would Not Hit a Girl: Face hits the person coming into Lupin's rooms without seeing them, and he's aghast to find out that he slugged and knocked out Boyle's girlfriend rather than the mook he thought he was hitting.
