Season 1, Episode 3
Date of airing: May 4, 1988 (ABC)
Nielsen ratings information: 16.1 million viewers, 12.6 rating/22 share in Households
Written by: Susan Rhinehart
Directed by: Bethany Rooney
”What are you
looking for?”
“A little patch of peace. Do you know where
I can find it?”
This episode was more of a character study than a story about something, even though K.C.'s dealings in the black-market world of Da Nang, and Cherry's attempts at trying to find out information about her brother Rick, could be confused for a story. Only this attempt at a story became a bit annoying during the final minutes when Cherry showed up at the site of the deal and ruined K.C.'s deal of the century. Not that K.C. would not have been cheated out of her money without Cherry's surprise arrival, but maybe K.C. would have gotten the chance and the time to check for the vase's originality. But because Cherry showed up and ruined everything, gone was the money, and K.C. lost (so did Cherry by not finding out anything about Rick).
The scene with all the women in the bunker during the bombardment was without a doubt the highlight of the episode, with each of the women getting a backstory – family life, first boyfriends, the fact that Cherry is so inexperienced in life (no car, no boyfriend, still a virgin) that she had to resort to being the playmaker of the bunch because she didn't have any life experiences to tell the others about. It is a friendly reminder that some of the people on this base are too young to be in a warzone. The other women have had their hearts broken, and there is a reason why they are here, in Vietnam. Cherry, on the other hand, could not feel more in the wrong place.
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