Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Norman Grant (James Garner) he toa pakanga o mua i huri hei seneta e kaha ana ki te whakatairanga i te kaupapa mokowhiti a Amerika ahakoa te whakahe tino kaha. Ko etahi atu kaitakaro matua ko John Pope (Harry Hamlin), i muri i te kore e wikitoria i tana ara ki Annapolis, ka whakauru mai i te Navy ki te rangatira o te moana, Naval Aviator, paerata whakamatautau me te kaipuke aorangi paionia i roto i te kamupene o te hoa haere-aorangi a Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges); Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), he kaitohutohu hihiri me te ataahua ki a Senator Grant mai i tana pooti me te wahine a John Pope; Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), he kaihokohoko wheeler-hokohoko e tumanako ana ki te whai hua i runga i te
1947 te wehi o te UFO; Ko te kaiputaiao rokiroki Tiamana a Dieter Kolff (Michael York), ko ona whakaaro (ko te korenga ranei) ka whakamatautauria i a ia e huri ana i tana pono mai i nga Nazis ki nga Amerikana; me Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), he kaipūkaha rererangi ko tana mahi muna ko te whakarite kia kore nga tangata penei i a Kolff e mau e nga Soviet i muri i te hinganga o Tiamana.