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The Hunted has a keep jobs in America industrialist, which is like today's political theme with Trump, of a leaders who will update and keep factories in America, with a twist. Hawk and Santini are hired for protection, because globalist forces are out to get the leader and hired a pilot hit man. Caitlin the new be is let in on the mission, who has a new man in her life which is the Casanova style hit man; Played by the Val Character for the movie Payback. The guy always plays great scumbags. We have the great Airwolf matched against the hitman's prop plane. A big no contest. A bad miss match final. 6 stars.

I'm still at odds with the second season and the decision by those in charge of the stories involved in each episode moving away from a linear story arc. I haven't been able to just fully enjoy any episode of the second season so far because the characters and plots are all over the place in terms of tone and development. Case in Point: The Hunted. This almost feels as if it is at the very least a two-episode story arc squeezed into a single episode. Gregg Henry is perfectly fine as the mild-mannered assassin who kills without hesitation or guilty conscience, only losing his cool once when a girlfriend threatens to call law enforcement while he's busy in the photograph room preparing to hunt down and kill a wealthy industrialist looking to economically enrich companies in need of financial stability. Henry's Robert Villers leaves the episode as his Corsair plane is on fire and descending into crashdown as if he would return, a villain certain to seek revenge when the time is right. Yet Robert Villers is merely an assassin who tries to shoot Caitlin's plane (carrying the industrialist, Carter Anderson III (Joseph Chapman)) and his entourage which includes mouthpiece, Rosalind (Maggie Cooper (Space Academy)) down while String and Santini chase him down in a malfunctioning Airwolf, a bit worse for wear. Caitlin's still sort of a character in search of her place on the show, Santini finally deciding to give her a job as a pilot full-time, but she ends up dating Robert Villers, realizing he was using her to get to Anderson III at the episode's end. Robert is dating his "employer" and "hires" a machinist to fashion him a rocket / missile launcher out of shop parts, eventually assassinating both of them when they threaten to "out him" (she wants to give him "her and the business" but needs to inform her family of the decision, signing her death warrant, while the machinist asks for more money for the weapon, sealing his fate). A trailer is blown to smithereens by Robert before his mission to seduce Caitlin (after photographing her, Santini, and String when they were busy during the day at Santini's plane company). The episode goes out of its way to emphasize Airwolf's ongoing mechanical issues, hindering String and Santini while in flight, so that when Robert in his Corsair is on the attack towards Caitlin it provides some suspense. Airwolf's vulnerabilities are exploited rather effectively although I still don't think anyone watching is in doubt of the outcome. String using the cello to calm and cheer up Caitlin at the end is charming but Robert's story just seems incomplete...if this was just an episode for a killer/threat of the week, why even bother including a lover and Robert's minor romantic back story? And Robert's fate does appear to be in question, as if he was destined to have a follow up on the show...a lost opportunity, perhaps? I guess in today's television, I like the story arc approach, feeling a bit spoiled by introducing new characters and seeing them developed over a season (or at least beyond one since episode). Anderson III, Rosalind,and Robert all are potential seasonal characters that arrive and leave never to return...just a bit frustrating, I must admit.