The Boomerang Raid

"The Boomerang Raid" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of The Rat Patrol. It first aired on January 8, 1968.

Synopsis
The Rat Patrol go to the north African coast on the Mediterranean to pick up Lt. Kemper (Dick Sargent) from a sub. Kemper has blood on his dog tags, which makes Sergeant Troy suspicious. Just then, Captain Dietrich shows up. Kemper and the Rat Patrol fire back, and several Germans die, including Dietrich, who is gunned down by Kemper.

Still, Troy suspects Kemper is not who he says he is. Adding to the Rat Patrol's suspicions, as Kemper reviews the map for an upcoming naval barrage, he seems to be more interested in mapping Allied positions than German positions. Kemper says he needs to know the strengths of the Allied positions as well as the enemy's to properly plan the upcoming naval barrage, which is certainly plausible. Troy sends Hitchcock to contact American headquarters and get more information.

Sergeant Moffitt and Private Pettigrew go back to the beach and find the corpse of an American without dog tags, but he has the tattoo "BK &hearts; SM" on his arm, with BK presumably referring to B. Kemper. Moffitt tells Troy about the dead man, Troy confronts Kemper, who says it's just a misunderstanding and they can clear it up at the radio house.

But at the radio house, they're ambushed by several Germans commanded by the apparently resurrected Dietrich, who had pretended to die earlier. Now he demands Troy take them to the fire control point. Troy refuses, then acquiesces. They all exit the radio house.

Meanwhile, Private Hitchcock, who's been separated from the others, has been observing these events. He skulks around the ceiling of the building, then opens fire on the Germans, allowing his comrades to escape. Dietrich chases them back to the coast.

Soon Troy's in a fistfight with Dietrich as Moffitt watches and the map gets lost in the water. The Germans retreat, and the Rat Patrol set off to the fire control point, the location of which is in Troy's head.

Main cast

 * Christopher George as Sergeant Sam Troy
 * Gary Raymond as Sergeant Jack Moffitt
 * Hans Gudegast as Hauptmann Hans Dietrich
 * Lawrence Casey as Private Mark T. Hitchcock
 * Justin Tarr as Private Tully Pettigrew

Supporting cast

 * Dick Sargent as Lt. Kemper