Walking Wounded

Cung Co Phong escapes Camp Fifty-five and reaches Copra Inisfree, but Captain Dai Chim Sao kills him during a live television broadcast before he can fully present his evidence. Remo recognizes the tattoo of his old friend Dick Youngblood and is sent to investigate. After finding Amerasian prisoners at Camp Forty-seven, Remo leads them out of Vietnam; a mine destroys their bus, and Remo suffers a wartime memory regression that makes him believe the war is still underway. He and Lan fight Dai’s forces and capture a T-72, but the Americans and Amerasians are recaptured. Dick Youngblood confirms that years have passed and that Dai is the son of the wartime officer Remo remembers as Captain Spook.

Chiun frees the captives, but Dai tortures and kills Lan. Remo regains his bullet-dodging reflexes and kills Dai; the group travels toward a U.S. submarine. At the beach, Chiun disables Vietnamese patrol boats while Remo leads the captives through a chaotic battle. Youngblood first rides in the T-54, then commandeers a T-72 and uses it as a diversion; he dies after the other prisoners reach the water. Remo forces Vietnam’s defense minister to write an unconditional surrender document, but Smith later says it is worthless. Remo carries Youngblood’s body back and carves his name at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial. Smith says the POWs and Amerasians have been debriefed under a cover story that omits Remo’s role; Smith and Remo report that his memory has returned, and Remo says he remembers everything.