Tuhia tētahi tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko Norman Grant (James Garner) he toa whawhai o mua i noho hei seneta e whakatairanga ana i te hōtaka mokowā o Amerika ahakoa te ātete e kore e taea. 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 ope 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 wira wira e tumanako ana ki te whai hua i te wehi o te UFO 1947
; He kaipūtaiao rokiroki Tiamana a Dieter Kolff (Michael York), ko ana 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 kaua nga tangata penei i a Kolff e mau e nga Soviet i muri i te hinganga o Tiamana.