the show had same plot on every single god damn episode!
The general plot used in
every script of the A-Team (meaning the
only script of The A-Team) is as follows:
0:00-3:00 minute mark - The innocent civilians and evil antagonists of the series are introduced, and helpfully provide the audience with a summary of their situation to date by telling each other things that they should all already know. The villains will at this point rough up the innocents, and usually damage their boat/store/crops/etc. just to prove how truly, one-dimensionally fiendish they are.
3:00-9:00 minute mark - Hannibal dons a laughable disguise. Everyone pretends to be fooled by this gambit and act 'surprised' when he reveals his true identity. Hannibal then tells the prospective clients that They have "just hired the A-Team!". .
10:00-12:00 minute mark - In order to get the team together and travel to the actual mission location, one of two things will now happen. In one scenario, Face will need to put on a doctor's coat and help Murdock escape from his internment in the mental hospital. In the other scenario, Hannibal will have to drug B.A. in order to get him aboard a plane. This is accomplished by slipping him a barbituate of some kind. Despite being near an airport/landing strip, and despite being fully aware that his C.O. will try and drug him, B.A will drink a handy glass of milk or a hamburger offered to him by Hannibal.
16:00-25:00 minute mark - The A-Team shows up at the doorstep, house, or place of business of the antagonists. The lead villain and his men are taken completely by surprise, and their personal property is riddled with bullets. A-Team will invariably leave them free to continue their evil plans at this point.
26:00-35:00 minute mark - Being evil, the villains shockingly ignore Hannibal's warnings. They take The A-Team by surprise.
36:00-44:00 minute mark - Despite being cunning enough to actually capture the A-Team, the evil villain defies all the laws of modern evil and does not actually choose to kill the A-Team on the spot. Instead, the villain thinks it best to lock the A-Team up somewhere out of the way.
45:00-48:00 minute mark - Regardless of where they have been imprisoned, there will be a mass of well maintained scrap metal, a myriad of tools, several oxyacetylene hand torches and a disused vehicle to hand. At this point, The team go to work transforming these ingredients into a fully armoured command vehicle with a mounted weapon of some kind.
49:00-55:00 minute mark - Using the newly constructed vehicle, The team break out of their makeshift prison at exactly the same time the villains finally show up to kill them. A firefight ensues in which the antagonist's automatic weapons prove to be no match for the non-lethal weapon Hannibal's men have produced. At some point during this sequence, a vehicle will flip over.
56:00-59:00 minute mark - More exposition follows, with Hannibal explaining to another character exactly what happened following the big showdown, even though they would already be fully aware. The villains are usually said to be locked up awaiting trial.
59:00-60:00 minute mark- Having gone to great time and expense to thwart the villains, The A-Team have earned their reward. Hannibal refuses even the paltry sum negotiated by Face earlier in the show.
