The pilot film for the successful 1980s American television series about a hi-tech helicopter gunship. It begins, in typical 80s fashion, with the helicopter stolen by Libyan mercenaries and a Vietnam veteran assigned by the CIA to track it down. In this case the veteran is Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and he sets to work immediately, enlisting the help of Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine) and heading for the desert.