Jason wrestles with his accumulated physical ailments, yet is most hostile when the brass orders his team to collaborate being assigned to a Pentagon project to have female physiologist coach them to better understand and deal with corporal challenges related to the crushing job requirements. Ray is finally in line to lead his own team, but is inquiring to be promoted -formally above Jason- warrant officer, with higher pay and less absence from home, but dares not tell the team. Sonny's illicit secret lover decides this can't go on and dumps him. to protect their careers. Candidates to join the team are interviewed, giving diverse answers. Jason initially leans to Clay's buddy David Yoder, Ray to Vic Lopez, less compatible but more complementary. Jason exhausts everyone, refusing to adapt the plan, training over and over for a near-impossible liberation of hostages, including three US citizens, one approaching medical emergency, from a pirate vessel in the South Chinese Sea, which isn't even located yet, so it's hush-hush when it's found, dangerously close to Chinese territorial waters.
—KGF Vissers