Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas Wright), tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen (Stephen Lobo) has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar (Vik Sahay). Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.

A wrongly convicted man, escaping from prison after gaining superhuman strength and endurance, becomes a superhero mercenary.

A wrongly convicted man, escaping from prison after gaining superhuman strength and endurance, becomes a superhero mercenary.

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20 November 2004 (Season 30, Episode 6)

Explores U.S. Special Forces role in the massacre of about 3,000 unarmed Taliban prisoners of war in Afghanistan from the battle of Mazar-e-Sharif by Northern Alliance soldiers.

Lucas Jackson（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰），一个越战的退伍兵，在一个喝醉酒的夜里拆掉了镇上的停车计时器而被判两年的监禁。一开始，他就挑战监狱里的领袖人物Dragline（乔治·肯尼迪 George Kennedy 饰）。Dragline个头比Lucas大得多，把Lucas打得毫无还手之力，但Lucas却一直拒绝屈服，因此赢得了Dragline的尊重。而在监狱的扑克比赛中，Lucas屡屡取胜，得名Cool Hand Luke。Lucas的母亲和侄子的来访让他备受鼓舞，虽然他在监狱里要忍受许多恶劣的环境和非人的待遇，但他依旧对前途充满了希望。然而母亲的逝世却让他陷入了深深的痛苦。他比之前更想要逃狱，然而一次次的失败，和监狱长的无情，让他的路越来越难走。