 When Eddie (Eugene Roche), a chronically drunk friend of Dom s, spouts off about UFO-type lights he s been seeing near his desert trailer, everyone writes him off as a crackpot until one night while taking Eddie home, Dom spots them, too. He and String investigate and discover a military compound nearby headed by a renegade general who is planning a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, while escaping, Dom is shot and it s up to Eddie to ride shotgun aboard Airwolf with String even though he doesn t believe he can do what may be asked of him.