NARRATOR: In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a miIitary court...
for a crime they didn't commit.
These men promptIy escaped from a maximum-security stockade...
to the Los AngeIes underground.
Today, stiII wanted by the government, they survive as soIdiers of fortune.
If you have a probIem, if no one eIse can heIp...
and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
[Theme music]
[Slow instrumental music]
MlCKEY: What did Gunderson want, for Pete's sake?
RANDY: He does work for the City Planning Commission.
RANDY: l think what he wants is the building finished, Uncle Mickey.
RANDY: The contract that they signed when we took this bid...
was for four payments.
RANDY: They've advanced the second when they didn't have to.
You want them to pay again and we still haven't taken down the steelwork?
They know l have problems. l'm working on a short crew.
-That's not Mr. Gunderson's fault. -lt's Denham's fault.
He's sabotaging the whole project.
l can't get this job finished. He should get the chair.
RANDY: What's the matter? MlCKEY: Nothing.
RANDY: You want to sit down? MlCKEY: No.
RANDY: Did you take your pill before? You haven't been taking your medicine.
MlCKEY: Will you leave me alone? l just have a little indigestion.
RANDY: Angina.
MlCKEY: Angina, whatever. Shouldn't have had that--
Uncle Mickey!
DENHAM: Hey, Stern.
The word's out it ain't safe working around here.
MlCKEY: Damn it. My payroll was in there.
DENHAM: You're out of business, Stern.
This time it was just the payroll, but next time...
you and your pretty niece...
get inside the trailer first.
Capisci?
[Mickey exclaims]
lt's over, Uncle Mickey.
Denham's not going to stop for anything.
Neither am l.
Come on, you're not gonna risk the lives of these men and you know it.
Denham will steamroll over anyone who gets in his way.
You know what kind of animal he is.
You're worried about me getting a heart attack and you bring me here.
All those crazy hours on street corners...
Chinese laundries, winos in alleys, and now sharks.
RANDY: l told you not to come.
Since when do you tell me things?
l'm your uncle. You don't tell me.
MlCKEY: What are you looking at? RANDY: Uncle Mick.
MlCKEY: Jerks like that looking at you.
What are you dressed like that for?
So they'll look at me like that.
TOUR GUlDE: We'II take a 10-minute break now.
You'II find refreshment stands and restrooms here.
There are aIso shops if you need more fiIm so you can take photos of yourseIf...
with Frankie and Drac to take home to show your friends and famiIy.
Remember your tram and seat number. Thank you.
Would you get lost with that thing? Go on, get out of here.
What is it with that guy?
Where do we go now?
HANNlBAL: You want a picture with Aqua Maniac? Scream-scream, glub-glub?
No, thanks. We don't have a camera.
HANNlBAL: Take a ride, or don't you want to hire the A-Team?
The A-Team?
HANNlBAL: Hannibal Smith, at your service.
MlCKEY: For real? HANNlBAL: About as real as it gets.
HANNlBAL: You go over to the main gate.
HANNlBAL: You'll see a tram that looks like a trolley car.
HANNlBAL: l'll meet you there.
WOMAN: Thank you!
Wait till your mummy sees this picture.
HANNlBAL: Cover for me, Mel. l'll be back in ten.
Will you get out of here? l'm not gonna tell you again.
Sorry. Parties with VlP passes only.
You hard of hearing, sucker?
You heard what the man said, VlP passes only.
Now get out of here!
FACE: How are you doing, Hannibal? HANNlBAL: Thanks, Face.
Look, what am l doing here anyway?
l mean, it wasn't my idea to contact these people.
lt was mine. Have you spoken with Mr. Lee?
HANNlBAL: l hear you may lose a demolition contract...
due to unnatural accidents at the building site.
Unnatural, yeah.
We're being sabotaged by a competitor, Carl Denham.
l can speak for myself.
We're being sabotaged by Carl Denham.
Denham Construction and Wrecking? That's a very big outfit.
-They have contracts with the city-- -The guy is a bum!
He never ran a legitimate business...
always manages to underbid everybody...
because the concrete that he pours and the steel that he uses...
is never up to specifications. He had a bridge collapse on him last year.
MlCKEY: He managed to skate out from under it without losing his license.
l'll tell you something else. They gave him the deal to build the new bridge.
He can't have a monopoly.
What does he care about one building in the city?
All l know is l was lucky to get the contract. lt was a fluke.
The city re-zoned the territory and they want me...
to tear down the building that's there and they'll put up a new high-rise.
MlCKEY: They gave me the contract and now he's furious.
MlCKEY: Denham's blown so many holes in my dyke l can't finish the job.
MlCKEY: He's put men in the hospital, he's sabotaged my supplies...
and now he's blown up my payroll this week.
RANDY: The insurance company is looking at us sideways...
and we can barely get the men to work for us anymore.
l can't blame them. l only have until Wednesday to pay their salaries.
After that they're gonna walk.
lf you can't get them to work for you, what do you want us to do?
-There's only four of us. -l don't know.
What you can do is make Denham back off.
l said l can talk for myself.
Now, what you can do is make Denham back off.
You two have a very interesting relationship.
l don't want to see my men trying to feed their families on workmen's comp.
They can't beat the bricks forever.
And they sure as hell can't get a job from Denham.
Anybody who has heId a card for me is zero over there.
What do you think, B.A.?
l think maybe l wanna meet this dude.
Maybe help him with his bridgework, like busting up his mouth.
B.A., that's very funny. You know you're developing a sense of humour?
Slowly, but it is developing.
[B.A. snarling]
Face, you spring Murdock.
We'll regroup at B.A.'s as soon as l get off the shift.
Enjoy the rest of the tour.
HANNlBAL: Bread and butter.
l thought the guy in the Chinese laundry was crazy.
[Slow instrumental music]
[Murdock barking like a dog]
Get back! Stay back!
l was looking for H.M. Murdock's room. Well, l guess l've found it.
Well, he started up earlier this morning...
but we're used to this sort of behaviour with Mr. Murdock.
But he's gotten much worse.
lf l didn't know better, l'd actually believe he has been bitten...
-and has contracted rabies. -Nurse, believe it.
But that's not possible.
You see, Mr. Murdock's dog is a figment of his imagination.
l'm sorry, Doctor.
l don't know you and you're not familiar with this case.
That's because l'm not a doctor.
''The United States Department of Animal Health and Welfare''?
One of your superiors was aware of the impending epidemic...
and didn't want to take any chances.
He's crazy. He's gone.
-He's foaming at the mouth. -l can't believe it.
-He has never been this violent before. -He bit me.
He bit you? l'm going to have you in for an entire series of blood scans...
and a full rabies and tetanus board.
Could you get me that wheelchair, please? Thanks.
How can he have rabies when his dog isn't real?
From animals that escaped last night...
from Germany, came in on a Lufthansa flight.
They're supposed to be transported under airtight security...
to the Wadsworth Research Facility.
Could you grab the door, please?
Now.
FACE: Easy boy, easy. Get on the chair.
Open up.
[Murdock whining like a dog]
Could you step inside, please?
Come on, step inside. That's right.
FACE: Keys.
Come on. lt's for your own good.
FACE: l want you to remain in quarantine until l check back with you in a couple days.
FACE: By then l will have developed the serum you need.
FACE: And you're to speak of this to no one except Nurse Billings.
Contact me immediately should he develop any strange symptoms...
such as the desire to scratch behind his ears.
Wait! Mr. Murdock is a patient here.
l can't just release him to someone from the pound.
We happen to be a division of the Federal Government...
working in conjunction with the Department of Health Services...
which gives us jurisdiction over any and all state institutions.
So please be careful before coughing up the word ''pound'' like that.
And l need not remind you to speak of this to no one.
All hospitals in.... Easy, boy, easy.
All hospitals in the city have been warned of the possible outbreak.
NURSE: Well, hopefully Mr. Murdock's condition was caught in time...
and you can develop a serum.
Yeah, well, we hope.
This man could single-handedly save...
the entire population of Los Angeles.
Down, boy!
BOYLE: Do you understand? This is Denham's last offer.
BOYLE: You got till tomorrow to think it over.
BOYLE: After that, the offer is no good.
Then we're gonna have to do it the hard way.
Just what do you think you're doing?
What are you doing here? Get off of this lot!
BOYLE: l just do what Mr. Denham tells me to.
On this lot, you do what l tell you. Get out of here.
l was being kind enough to offer jobs to anyone who wants them...
when Denham Construction takes over this contract.
Denham Construction's not taking over.
-These men are on my payroll. -What payroll?
You guys finished signing the roster?
What do you expect them to do? They all got families.
Denham can keep them working. He can also keep them on unemployment.
You said your piece. Denham doesn't have this contract yet...
so you take your ugly guys and get them out of here.
When l'm finished, old man.
MlCKEY: Don't you call me.... RANDY: Uncle Mickey!
The man said ''go.''
l take my orders from Denham. Be smart. Do the same.
You guys look like you can work steel pretty well.
Sign in, and you're on the roster.
You got anything else you want us to chew over?
You should let the boys tell you what can happen to you if you work for Stern.
l'd rather you told me.
[Fast-paced instrumental music]
lt's almost predictable by now, isn't it?
[Slow instrumental music]
Sure glad you guys got here in time.
That's the trouble with that car. You're never late for anything.
You did a good job.
[Barks]
Murdock, what are you doing?
l'd say it was just an expression of pure enthusiasm.
[Barking]
l find it simplistic and naive of you to assume...
that l can be placated with an ersatz morsel of this kind.
A shallow, culinary trinket.
Now if there were two of them....
[Barking excitedly]
You know l ain't going for it. You got that?
-Absolutely. -Good.
Now, we got to let Denham know that we're taking care of business here.
Yeah, l'm sure his goons will pass that bit of data along to him.
Never send somebody to do a chore like this when we can do it much better.
DENHAM: l'm doing the best l can.
l don't want to hear this, Carl.
l don't come here to hear that your boys got their beanies handed to them.
l come here so you can tell me that building isn't coming down anymore.
-You hear me, Carl? -l do, Tommy.
You do, but meanwhile...
l get to drive by and see the walls come tumbling down.
Every day l have my driver swing out of our way to take a peek...
and you know what l see, Carl?
They're still tearing down the building.
l don't want it torn down!
This is something l can't have right now. l want you to stop it.
Or maybe l take my business elsewhere.
Maybe someone else needs me to bankroll them, don't you think?
DENHAM: l swear to you, it'll be all over by tomorrow, Tom.
Tomorrow is Wednesday. lt's payday.
And Stern has no money to pay these guys.
And nobody can afford that kind of charity, to keep working for nothing.
DENHAM: These guys got families to feed. They gotta put food on the table.
So, as of tomorrow, Tom.... l mean, forget it.
Stern's out of business.
Then we'll just step in and we'll take over the contract.
Okay. That's very good, Carl.
Or l may have to get somebody else to handle a different kind of contract.
Face.
Stick with the guy in the stretched chariot.
Looks Iike he makes Denham nervous.
Yeah. l can see that. What are you gonna do?
l'm going to check out Denham's petty-cash situation.
Seems like he doesn't believe in social security...
FlCA and Federal withholding.
He's paying the guys out of that Iunch truck.
Undermining everything this country stands for.
l can't allow that.
l'm glad l'm not gonna be around to see this.
[Car engine starting]
Murdock, stand by.
How's it going?
l guess l could complain, but that wouldn't do any good.
So l won't.
-These doughnuts fresh? -Yeah, sure.
As long as you dunk them in the coffee.
l was expecting something to come along with it.
You asked for a sinker, that's what you got.
lsn't today payday?
l don't pay people for eating my doughnuts. They pay me.
DRlVER: Sorry l don't have what you want.
l guess l'll just have to eat what my wife fixes me.
You know, it always gives me indigestion.
l think it's the lead slugs that keep repeating.
HANNlBAL: Now this looks a little more like dessert.
You're gonna be dead before you reach the corner.
HANNlBAL: You think so? MAN: Yeah, l know it.
BOYLE: l know every man on this crew. Who are you?
HANNlBAL: l'm the Wicked Warlock of the North.
When l come down on you...
there won't be anything left except a smear of grease.
[Murdock singing]
[Pop instrumental music playing on radio]
MURDOCK: Hi, fellas!
[Dramatic instrumental music]
They're trying to rip us off!
[Fast-paced instrumental music]
MURDOCK: Beware of the dogs of war! DENHAM: Get him!
[Fast-paced instrumental music continues]
[Car tyres screeching]
[Fast-paced instrumental music intensifies]
[Suspenseful instrumental music]
LEANN: Good afternoon. FACE: Good afternoon. How are you doing?
Fine. We're not open till 7:00.
See, actually, a gentleman just came in here...
and he dropped this outside. Tough-looking customer.
FACE: Short, dark hair. LEANN: That's the owner.
l'm sure he'll be pleased to have it returned to him.
l wonder, would it be possible for me...
to hand it over to him personally, do you think?
LEANN: Mr. Tillis is right in there. FACE: Thanks.
Tillis. Oh, no. Why him of all people?
Look, l'm having a little cocktail party at my place this evening.
l wonder, would you like to come?
-That'd be nice. -May l use your phone?
-Sure. lt's right behind you. -Thanks.
Tommy Tillis?
Crazy Tommy T?
That's right. Crazy Tommy T.
A guy like that has mob connections out the wazoo, know what l mean?
Yeah, but the question is, what's he got to do with Denham?
Why put the pressure on Mickey to keep from putting his high-rise up?
Whatever his reason...
l don't think we wanna get in his way.
Crazy Tommy T hits a wall head on and there's nothing left but a pile of bricks.
When B.A. pays off the crew, l'll take him and Murdock...
and l'll scout Denham. You see what else you can find out from Tillis.
Stick with Tillis?
l didn't plan on making a career out of this, l'm in my Vette.
Not exactly the most inconspicuous car to do a tail job in.
That will work for you.
He'd never think that anybody would be crazy enough to follow him in a flashy car.
You don't believe that?
No, but l thought you'd feel better. Bye.
[Stammering]
Why me?
''Stick with him.'' How am l gonna do that?
JlLLY: Mr. Tillis wants to talk to you. FACE: Me?
JlLLY: You. FACE: Great.
[Face clears throat]
Nice place you have here.
l understand you have my wallet.
-Your wallet? -Yeah.
lsn't that what he said, sugar?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah, right. No, l made a little mistake.
-A big one. -Why don't we check it out?
FACE: Now, listen.
TOMMY: You're right. lt's not my wallet. FACE: You see?
Sing me a song. Make it a top ten.
-Well, you see, the truth is, you see-- -''Maury Birnbaum, talent agent.''
l don't know who represents this girl, but she's gorgeous.
She ought to be in pictures. Fantastic bone structure.
''Arturo Wainwright, tractor salesman. Herbert Digby, coffin salesman.
''You just ask it, we've got the casket.''
You got trouble holding down a job or you're some kind of con artist.
Which l hate con artists.
l mean they make me wanna puke, know what l mean?
I mean they're aIways trying to turn peopIe off their Iife savings.
Understand me?
lt's not really an honest crime like gambling or drugs.
Talk to me, or l'll have Jilly here use your head for an anvil.
Okay, l'm sorry, Mr. Tillis.
On the level. J. Pierpont Finch, NationaI Insider.
You know how some peopIe hate the press.
Sometimes you have to come from the inside or sideways...
even to get them to open up.
-Car keys. -What?
TOMMY: Car keys. FACE: Yeah. Right, sure, car keys.
We're going for a ride?
lf these keys fit that white Corvette parked outside...
we might just do that, because that'll mean...
you were tailing me from that construction site on Sixth and Figueroa, and then...
l won't believe you're a reporter.
LEANN: Mr. Tillis, Carl's on the phone.
This is Tommy. Yeah, go ahead, Carl.
What? When did this happen?
FACE: Doesn't sound like good news. TOMMY: What's going on?
What are we doing getting pushed around Iike that?
No, you stay there in the office. l'll be right over there.
Let's go.
We can finish this interview another time. Perhaps l could speak with the girl.
TOMMY: Bring this bracioIe along.
TOMMY: l think he's got a couple of hundred grand of mine.
lf that's true, you're gonna see me get very angry.
TOMMY: You don't wanna see me angry, do you?
No, l can't say that l do.
[Popular '80s pop song playing]
[Murdock singing along]
B.A.: Shut up, Murdock! This noise is driving me crazy.
B.A., we are window washers.
Window washers listen to music. You get a rhythm--
B.A.: lf you turn this music up, l'll throw this radio down.
MURDOCK: You wouldn't dare. B.A.: Yeah?
[Warped pop music playing]
MURDOCK: Hannibal!
Will you guys keep quiet? l'm trying to hear something in here.
DENHAM: CooI out, wiII you, Tommy.
TOMMY: You Iet them make off with $150,000...
l'm supposed to cool out?
DENHAM: Didn't know what else to do. l couldn't report it or nothing.
Was I supposed to teII the cops.:
''Yeah, we pay off my workers in cash to avoid taxes''?
Hey, it's not the money that bothers me. Now Stern made his payroll.
He still has his crew out there...
and they're pounding up the foundation to my warehouse!
-l know. -You know. You don't know nothing.
What do you think happens when they turn up my old partner...
stuck in that cement floor? What then?
You don't think they're gonna put two and two together?
They'll know that if he didn't take the money from out of our safe...
that maybe I whacked my partner, JuIes, took the dough and bIamed it on him.
Not to mention the insurance l got to cover the payroll.
They're not gonna find the body.
They're not gonna find the body or the skeleton or whatever.
It's in the sub-foundation.
Unless they specifically look for it, they'll never find it.
l can't take a chance like that. What the hell's going on out there?
DENHAM: lt's the window washers.
Tommy, don't you think it's kind of easy for them to figure out...
check out who put that building up for you in the first place?
lf they find Jules' body, they'll know l planted him for you.
I'm Iooking at a prison sentence, too.
No, you wouldn't.
That body turns up, they'll never get a chance to find you to even prosecute you.
That's a promise from me to you.
Tommy!
All right, look.
l'll get a bunch of boys, go find the guys who're helping Stern.
No, you've mucked it up enough. l'll take care of it, okay?
l already have one of them. He's in the limo with Jilly.
TOMMY: We'II have a nice taIk and he'II teII me Iots of cute things.
And while he's at the river learning how to breathe underwater...
l'll go over and show these guys how to pour some concrete.
B.A., get us down.
B.A.: What? HANNlBAL: They got face.
You got a light?
-Sure. -Thanks.
Nice.
Mr. Tillis has excellent taste.
'58, if l'm not mistaken.
Even l know sherry doesn't have years.
No, l was speaking of the original vintage upon which the sherry was based.
[Face exclaiming]
[Rhythmic instrumental music]
FACE: Catch!
[Fast-paced instrumental music]
-What happened? -Never mind. Just get them!
[Fast-paced instrumental music continues]
lt was them!
Look at that.
lt had to be. lt's the same guys that took the payroll.
-You think? -Yeah.
TOMMY: All right, that's it.
l tried it your way. A couple of accidents, knock out his payroll.
l'll go in there and do it the way it should've been done.
The way you should've done it from the top, you hear me?
Tommy.
TOMMY: Jilly.
TOMMY: You get me together a good bunch of soldiers.
TOMMY: Tell them we got four bozos here with automatic weapons.
And we're gonna wrap them in white satin by morning.
Animal cracker, big guy?
-Now? -[Growling] Come on!
What kept you guys anyway?
l told you to stay close to Crazy Tommy T, but you got a little ridiculous.
You know what that means now, don't you?
You don't just kick Tommy T in the face and then walk away.
You probably slide away on a roller board...
by the time he's finished working on your knee caps.
l thought we were caught up in a jurisdictional dispute between hardhats.
But it looks like we kicked over a rock and found a scorpion.
l think better with a fresh cigar. Face?
Sorry, Hannibal. l had to use my last cigar to escape.
-Too bad. -Too bad?
[Comical instrumental music]
[Soft instrumental music]
lt shouldn't take more than an hour to get somebody to help you if you need it.
RANDY: How's it going, Uncle Mick? MlCKEY: lt couldn't be better.
We really beat those guys this time.
-With a little help. -Yeah, with a little help.
MlCKEY: Buy me a jelly roll. RANDY: No. No jelly rolls for you.
lt looks like maybe l spoke a little too soon.
B.A., get on that machine. Mickey, get your guys off the job.
What's going on?
Denham's not the problem. We kicked over the real monster.
-Crazy Tommy Tillis. -The mobster?
He used to own this warehouse once.
Yeah, and he turned your building site into a mausoleum for his ex-partner.
Tillis killed him and Denham poured the concrete?
HANNlBAL: That's why you've had so much interference.
They don't want you messing with the foundations here.
You mean we've been digging up a grave?
l'm more worried about our graves.
That's why l want you, your niece and your men off this job. Now move it.
RANDY: But there's only four of you. MlCKEY: Yeah, he's got an army.
HANNlBAL: Well, the poor suckers haven't got a chance.
MlCKEY: All right, all you men!
MlCKEY: Get down and let's get out of here!
MlCKEY: Come on! Hurry up! On the double! Let's move it!
MlCKEY: Come on! Get everybody out of here!
MlCKEY: Hurry up! Come on!
MlCKEY: You move out of here, too.
[Military instrumental music]
MlCKEY: Let's go!
[Rhythmic instrumental music]
[Rhythmic instrumental music continues]
[Military instrumental music]
[Suspenseful instrumental music]
They haven't found it yet.
Where is everybody? Haven't they blown the whistle yet?
Stern is usually here by now. He's probably in the office.
Hey, Stern!
TOMMY: You in there?
What do you say, Tommy?
What gets you up so early in the morning?
Come to pay your respects to your dear departed partner?
You don't know who you're messing with.
HANNlBAL: l do.
You're the king cockroach around here.
Now, we can do this the hard way or the easy way.
ln about a minute, l and my three friends...
are gonna unleash on you your worst nightmare.
You're gonna wish the earth opened up underneath your feet...
and swallowed you whole.
-What's the easy way? -That was the easy way.
[Dramatic instrumental music]
[Gunshots firing]
[Dramatic instrumental music continues]
[Tense instrumental music]
Nice.
We're back on schedule again. The city's happy.
Once they understood what was going on...
they gave us the time we needed to catch up.
We're glad to hear it.
You're not the only one who has plenty of time.
Crazy Tommy T is gonna spend a lot of years looking at walls.
Hard times. He gave it. Now he's doing it.
-lt couldn't happen to a sweeter fellow. -Let's not forget Denham.
Yeah. Denham buried Tommy's victim...
and then cheerfully poured concrete all over him.
My boys just jackhammered through the cement and found the evidence.
Talk about knowing where the bodies are buried.
l am telling you, the mere presence of a dog...
would have helped you locate the deceased more quickly.
And l just happen to represent a few highly available dogs...
and l'd be glad to arrange their services for you in the future.
For a reasonable cost, of course.
Like how about a few dozen of those animal crackers you had there?
Murdock, cool it, will you?
B.A., weren't you going to the barbershop to get a haircut?
Yeah. My hair is getting a little long.
Face, you take Murdock back. l'm going with B.A.
FACE: l picked him up. Now wait a minute.
Would you get your hand out of my jacket? l picked him up!
FACE: l don't want him in my Vette! What if he woofs out on me again...
and get hair on my seat, drool on my....
Don't be absurd. You're talking to me as if l was a dog.
[Barks]
[Theme music]