C.A.T. Squad

Squad (also titled Stalking Danger) is a 1986 television film starring Joseph Cortese, Jack Youngblood, Steve James, Bradley Whitford, and Barry Corbin.

The film follows the titular squad, an elite black ops unit, investigating a terrorist plot to sabotage a NATO defense project.

After the murder of several scientists around the world who are working on Project Grass Valley, NATO's space-based laser weapon system, a special inter-governmental task force known as the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.)

A team is composed of leader Richard "Doc" Burkholder (Joseph Cortese), a ruthless man with a dancer girlfriend who wants him to marry her so that she does not have to take back her ex-husband to raise their daughter, his second-in-command Bud Raines (Steve James), whose wife fears that he will miss the teenage years of his hearing-impaired son's life, John "Roadmaster" Sommers (Jack Youngblood), an explosives expert who hates urban centers and has to be collected from his hunting grounds in rural Alaska, Nikki Blake (Patricia Charbonneau), a forensics expert, and new recruit Leon Trepper (Bradley Whitford), a young language expert whose graduation is fast-tracked so that he can join the mission.

There they interrogate a young soldier who admits that he stole it for a supposed Nicaraguan freedom fighter with a medical background named "Alain" and provides the address of the man's girlfriend in Paris.

The hitman uses a counterfeit ID infiltrate the home of and kill the policeman assigned as motorcycle escort for Spivek in order to take his identity.

They piece together information pointing them to Sir Cyril Sharpe (Michael Sinelnikoff), curator of the British Museum of World Art, connecting the timing of his movements to the murders, and attempt to identify the person he is meeting with in their photographs.

Doc recognizes a scar on the hand of the other man in the photograph and identifies him as Jorge Vialobos (Eddie Velez), also known as "Carlos", a terrorist-for-hire believed to be already dead.

Bud remembers him from a Rome airport attack but Doc knows him from the assassination of the Royal Governor in Jamaica in 1980 and the bombing of a Parisian drugstore in 1982.