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Crockett's friend Ira Stone arrives in Miami with proof that old adversary Colonel Maynard is running a covert CIA paramilitary operation in war-torn Nicaragua. In this episode, the ongoing Contra rebellion against the Sandinistas was paralleled here, as a private group of "freedom fighters" are sent to help the rebels because Congress forbade direct aid to the Contras in 1985 (the congressional action leading to the Iran-Contra scandal). Saundra Santiago (Gina) and John Diehl (Zito) do not appear at all in this episode. Maynard never appears again, making him the only recurring villain in the series to not only survive but escape prosecution altogether. Crockett gets his new cover car, a 1986 Ferrari Testarossa, in this episode. It would remain his car for the rest of the series, though his Daytona reappears in "El Viejo" as the result of a change to the running order of the episodes. Some of the footage of the firefights at the beginning of the episode would be reused in the series finale "Freefall".