Well alrighty, then! He's back! I was afraid it was Cancellation City there for awhile.

We pick up Mr. Chapel and KC as they are discussing her deplorable financial situation. Of course, she's broke. Her job at the DA's doesn't pay squat and she spends a goodly amount of her time away from work anyway, helping HIM! They witness a squabble between a young Latin American woman - Elena - and a guy she recognizes as a brutal cohort of the General responsible for killing her family and many others in El Salvador. The guy - Colonel Oscar Ponce (I'm not too good at catchiing some of these names, mind you) is hiding along with his superior, in the USA courtesy of the CIA and the State Department. Politics can be an ugly thing. Remember Iran/Contra? It's THAT bunch and the two vicious assasains are aware that the White House is not actually on their side anymore. They are using assumed names and hiding a great deal of money and diamonds - ill gotten gains from El Sal.

Elena harasses Ponce and says she knows who he is and she will make him pay for his crimes in El Salvador. He tries to evade her, but she chases him and attacks him. In the struggle, he pushes her over the top of the building. Chapel, following close on their heels, barely saves Elena from certain death. KC wants to help her, but she turns down their offer of help and Chapel tells KC he doesn't help someone who says "no" to his offer. Concern for her safety prevails as they realize Elena is going after the guy, come Hell or high water. They hide in the back of her car and as Chapel is chloroforming her, KC holds her, trying to be as big a comfort as she can. She says tenderly to Elena, "Think of this as an intervention. Breath. Just breath." They take her to a safe place and lock her in with KC as guard dog.

Chapel goes to the State Department and finds Joe, a former recipent of his help who owes him "The Favor". He tells Joe they're going to scare Oscar and his friend, General Romano. Joe is wishing he just had the million dollar fee and it could be over with, but. . . . .

Chapel goes to Oscar Ponce posing as a CIA agent (using Joe to back him up) and they convince Ponce that his cover is blown, he is without support, and there is a plot by the El Sal survivors to kill him and Romano. First, they have to find Romano. They go to a guy who last knew of the General's whereabouts (Tim Thomerson in a little cameo role) as well as experienced their brutality first hand. Thomerson: "Have you ever been beaten half to death with wooden rakes?" Chapel : "Well, I sat through The English Patient." (I just love this stuff)

Elena pulls a fast one on KC and escapes, going directly after Ponce with a gun. She finds him and is overpowered, naturally, but Chapel has, by now, won the confidence of Ponce and offers to dispose of Elena for him. He leads her away and asks for her shoes. Then he meets Oscar in a basement beside a big, fiery furnace - shoes in his hand. Says he kinda liked the little girl, and would probably have treated her in a different manner in other circumstances. "But, with a guy like me, I always end up by some incinerator holding footware. Beats alimony."

DISCOVERY NOTE: Mr. Chapel shows Oscar a tattoo that commemorates 100 recognized "kills" for the regime in El Salvador, so Oscar readily accepts him. (Unfortunately, Oscar has TWO of the tattoos on his arm.) So now we know that Chapel at one time has at least pretended to be a mercenary.

They go to find the General and convince him that it's time to get outta Dodge so the two will unearth the bucks they have stashed somewhere. At first, the General is cocky and arrogant and isn't intimidated at all, then JOE arrives spraying the place with bullets. Chapel rescues everyone by overpowering and "shooting" Joe. Then he takes the two assasains to get on a private plane to beat it outta the States. Joe sits up after they're gone and touches his painful bruises through the bullet-proof jacket. In his hand is a note from Chapel, "We're even. I'm out of your life forever." Joe breathes the inevitable, "Thank God!".

Chapel and his two fugitives are on the plane settling down to leave when Chapel announces he's not going, but these people will keep them company. He opens the door and all the El Sal survivors file onto the plane. Chapel leaves the bad guys with their surviving victims and bids everyone adios.

Later, KC and Chapel get a card from Elena. It seems the survivors let the two murderous traitors go somewhere between Miami and South America - from 10,000 feet up. KC is only slightly mortified by now. (She's into it; she's so cool). Chapel asks how her financial situation is and she give a gloomy report, prompting him to open a secret safe disclosing a BUNCH of money that he has confiscated from Oscar. He grins that melting grin and tosses her a big wad of it. The End