Theme Week, Part The Van

Lessons From "The A Team" Week! When taking prisoners, avoid locking them in a room with a toolbox and a welding torch


Part "The Van"?


I made a critical mistake in developing this Theme Week. There are only four members of The A Team, and there are 5 days in the work week.


Could have gone with Lynch, or Decker...


Colonel Morrison may have actually been more appropriate, and there was also the reporter, Amy Allen, who only showed up in the first season, but those all seemed like stretches, so I had to choose between the Van and one of Murdock's alter egoes (Captain Bellybuster immediately sprang to mind for some bizarre reason). Since I already used Murdock for a title, I decided on The Van.


Alright...so anyway...taking prisoners.


It never made sense to me why these criminal organizations always took members of The A Team captive. The masterminds were hidden safely away in their offices, and their jabronis would capture one or more of the heroes, and would invariably want to either take them to a meeting with the mastermind, or lock them into a room to await the arrival of the aforementioned mastermind. If you're a good criminal jabroni, you should probably just deal with these types of nuisances yourself, and not leave them for your boss...I mean, come on...show some initiative! That's why you're a jabroni.


Focus, Jeremy.


Sorry. So anyway, when they locked their prisoners in a small room or barn or something, they invariably made the mistake of not properly preparing a room for prisoners. Step one should be cleaning the place out so there's nothing that can be used as a weapon against you. Important things to look for are tanks of potentially explosive gasses, automobiles, heavy construction/demolition equipment, toolboxes, and welding torches. It seems pretty obvious when you're reading it here, but in the heat of the moment, apparently, it's pretty easy to overlook.