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Colonel Francis Lynch was the main antagonist for Season 1 of The A-Team, a U.S. Army officer tasked with hunting down and arresting the team. He was mentioned as still chasing the team in the beginning of Season 2 before the introduction of Colonel Decker, but was never shown up close. His final appearance was in the Season 3 episode "Showdown!".
He was played by William Lucking.
Biography[]
Francis Lynch was the commander in charge of Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty), which housed the stockade from which the team escaped. Viewing the team's escape as the single unmistakable blemish on his career, he led the pursuit to recapture the fugitive veterans. Arrogant, ambitious, and not particularly bright, his pursuit of the team was entirely a personal vendetta; it is stated that the rest of the U.S. government and military didn't care at all about the A-Team, and that "most people don't even remember what they're wanted for."
Despite being generally portrayed as a bumbling fool, he bears the distinction of being one of the very few people to successfully capture the A-Team, in the Season 1 episode "One More Time". The team were quickly released by officials from the State Department, in exchange for the team going to rescue a general and his daughter who had been taken prisoner in Borneo. However, this does not change the fact that Lynch did in fact succeed in his mission. Of course, once the team returned to the United States, Lynch promptly resumed his chase.
Eventually, Lynch's constant humiliations at the team's hands caused enough embarrassment for the rest of the U.S. government to start taking the A-Team seriously. Lynch was reassigned elsewhere, and the pursuit given to the more competent but also less scrupulous Colonel Roderick Decker. He returned only once more, in the Season 3 episode "Showdown!", having been offered one final chance to capture the A-Team. After his failure there, he never appeared again.