 While demonstrating the capabilities of the new prototype supercopter codenamed  Airwolf , Dr. Charles Moffet (David Hemmings) goes rogue, steals the chopper and kills almost all of the observers. At least one man -- Michael Coldsmith Briggs III (Alex Cord) survives. Briggs, codenamed  Archangel  is the head of a covert organization called  The Firm  and Archangel calls upon the one man in the world he knows that can retrieve the copter. The problem is Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) is not only a loner, but a recluse as well. The amount of money the Firm is willing to pay for Airwolf s recovery is irrelevant. Hawke wants just one thing - the safe return of his brother, Saint John, who was captured during the Vietnam war and is evidently a POW.