Jarod becomes an Army Ranger to help a woman whose father was accused of selling secrets to the enemy during the Vietnam War. Miss Parker babysits Debbie Broots and is confronted with her unfinished business with her mother.
This episode contains examples of:
- Babysitter from Hell: Subverted. You'd think letting Miss Parker look after Debbie Broots would be the worst. idea. ever., but as it turns out, it's good for both of them.
- Coordinated Clothes: After Miss Parker and Debbie Broots bond, Miss Parker takes her out shopping and they appear in their last scene in the episode wearing matching outfits.
- Deus ex 'Scuse Me: Debbie Broots has to stay at Miss Parker's house for a few days while her father is out of town for work. When they arrive, Miss Parker opens the wardrobe to hang up Debbie's dresses then has to leave the room to answer a phone call, giving Debbie an opportunity to discover a parcel hidden at the bottom of the wardrobe that drives the rest of the subplot.
- Flag Bikini: A pair of models wearing flag bikinis appear in an infomercial Lenny Duc is filming.
- Going Fur a Swim: A couple girls wear fur coats over swimsuits in a commercial that is a spoof of Tom Vu's
infomercials. - If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: At the end of the episode, Miss Parker tells Broots that if he ever fails to be a good father to his daughter Debbie, she'll hunt him down and kill him herself. She knows perfectly well that he doesn't need the warning; it's her sideways approach to admitting how much she's come to like Debbie.
- Intimate Hair Brushing: Miss Parker spends the episode reluctantly looking after Broots's daughter Debbie while he's out of town, and the two of them gradually bond. One sign of this near the end of the episode is when Miss Parker offers to brush Debbie's hair the way her mother used to brush hers when she was Debbie's age.
- Japanese Ranguage: Invoked by Lenny Duc, a Vietnamese immigrant flogging self-improvement videos ("I here to show you how to get lich quick, with my new video selies, 'How To Get Lich Quick'!") who reverts to utterly normal English as soon as the camera stops rolling.
- Land Mine Goes "Click!": Jarod investigates an incident during the Vietnam War where a soldier was killed after stepping on a land mine, which is specified to be the tropey kind that clicks audibly when you step on it and then doesn't explode until you release the pressure. This lets Jarod set up a dramatic confrontation with the soldier's murderer that begins with tricking him into stepping on another mine of the same type. It also allows for a couple of twists in the original incident when Jarod learns the details: It was the soldier's friend who stepped on the land mine, and he came up with a plan to slide something between his friend's foot and the mine trigger and step on it so his friend could get off. The next step would have been finding something to weigh the mine trigger down until they were both safely away, but that was when the murderer shot him in the leg to make his foot slip.
- Naturalized Name: Vietnamese refugee Le Xuan Duc became Lenny Duc after emigrating to the US.
- Parrot Expo-WHAT?: Jarod is undercover in the Army; when one of his colleagues makes a comment about knowing what it feels like to be Rambo, the pop-culture-deprived Jarod's response is "Ram-who?".
- Swiss Bank Account: Jarod hacks into the villain of the week's Swiss bank account to confirm that he's been receiving payoffs from a drug cartel.
- Timeshifted Actor: Jarod investigates an incident during the Vietnam War, and interviews a Vietnamese immigrant who witnessed the incident as a child. In a variation from the "Young/Old Character" crediting convention, the child actor who plays him in the flashbacks is credited as "Le Xuan Duc", while the actor playing his adult self is credited as "Lenny Duc", the Naturalized Name he adopted after immigrating.
- Wealthy Yacht Owner: Lenny Duc claims in his infomercial that he came to America on a tiny boat, "and now I own big boat!" We never actually get to see the big boat, and it may be as fictional as the tiny boat (Lenny later admits he actually came to America in an airplane).
- Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?: Broots brings his daughter to work because all his usual babysitters are unavailable and he's not prepared to trust her with someone he doesn't know, and then he's ordered on an out-of-town job. He asks Sydney to look after her while he's away, but Sydney has his own work to deal with. After a moment of thought, Broots and Sydney simultaneously turn and look expectantly at Miss Parker.
- You Are Not Alone: Denise Clements has spent years trying to prove her father was framed as a traitor and that his name deserves to be on the Vietnam Memorial, but she keeps suffering one setback after another.Denise: I don't have the strength to do this alone anymore.
Jarod: You're not alone.
