The Rat Patrol: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Rat Patrol Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Truce at Aburah Raid
Sep 11, 1967
Captain Dietrich monitors a broadcast sent to the Patrol from HQ and then intercepts them on their way to meet and escort a supply convoy. With the odds decidedly against the Rats,
The David and Goliath Raid
Sep 18, 1967
The Patrol ambushes a German courier and finds that his papers contain charts showing desert waterholes and some oases which are unknown to the Allies or the Germans. Suddenly a Ge
The Trial by Fire Raid
Sep 25, 1967
The Patrol attempts to destroy a small village that currently has a train in it that the Germans are loading with ammunition. However, there is a small group of Arabs (including wo
The Darers Go First Raid
Oct 2, 1967
Troy determines that the Rat Patrol's only chance to destroy a supply depot inside an enemy-held fortress is by capturing a German tank and using it to get past the guards.
The Love Thine Enemy Raid
Oct 9, 1967
When the patrol ambush an Afrika Korps supply column, Troy accidentally wounds a German nurse. Feeling guilty, Troy decides to take her to a German field hospital. The only problem
The Darkest Raid
Oct 16, 1967
Troy infiltrates a German H.Q. posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer to steal vital information.
The Death Do Us Part Raid
Oct 30, 1967
En route to a meeting with an Arab agent, the patrol is ambushed by Dietrich. With the exception of Troy, they're all captured and taken to Dietrich's desert base. Troy eventually
The Do-Re-Mi Raid
Nov 6, 1967
The Patrol is ordered to rescue pop star Mickey Roberts (singer Jack Jones), who is a P.O.W. in a small Afrika Korps compound, with the S.S. also turning up to make Roberts into a
The Kingdom Come Raid
Nov 13, 1967
Hitchcock is supervising a transport convoy of new anti-aircraft shell fuses when the convoy is attacked by a German unit. Hitchcock is wounded by a deserter.
The Hide-and-Go-Seek Raid
Nov 20, 1967
The young mute son of British General Simms is kidnapped in a commando raid by Dietrich and taken to Rhodes. The patrol must rescue the boy from the island's garrison with only the
The Violent Truce Raid
Nov 27, 1967
Lieutenant West is on his way to stop a medical supply convoy, when he's ambushed by an Afrika Korps patrol. Wounded and rescued by Moffatt and Pettigrew, before he dies he informs
The Life-for-a-Life Raid
Dec 4, 1967
Dietrich traps the Rat Patrol in a cellar. In the cellar are a pregnant woman who has a valuable map, and a resistance fighter who has a personal vendetta with the woman.
The Fifth Wheel Raid
Dec 11, 1967
A British colonel is captured by the Germans after attending a staff meeting which centered on an upcoming Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol is ordered to either rescue or kill him
The Two If by Sea Raid
Dec 18, 1967
Moffitt gets into a German-held lighthouse by posing as an electrician, to try to gain information about a German naval convoy headed for North Africa which is carrying Tiger tanks
The Street Urchin Raid
Dec 25, 1967
Troy hides aerial photographs of secret German installations before being captured by the Gestapo. Then a street urchin finds and tries to sell the photos.
The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
Jan 1, 1968
A British general is rescued in the desert. He insists upon leading the Rat Patrol on a mission to disrupt a German oil pipeline, despite his deteriorated condition.
The Boomerang Raid
Jan 8, 1968
A lieutenant is infiltrated by submarine to set up naval gunfire coordinates, but Troy gets suspicious when the officer appears more interested in mapping the Allied positions than
The Fatal Reunion Raid
Jan 15, 1968
The Rat Patrol uses Moffitt's old flame as a guide to rescue her husband, a French rocket scientist, from the Germans.
The Decoy Raid
Jan 22, 1968
A village's typhus serum is confiscated by the S.S. in order to exchange it for capturing the Rat Patrol. Dietrich questions their methods.
The Touch-and-Go Raid
Feb 5, 1968
Dietrich and his men capture the Rat Patrol and assume their identities, and thus are able to enter an Allied munitions dump.
The Field of Death Raid
Feb 12, 1968
Troy's brother is captured by a German colonel who was injured in an earlier raid by the Rat Patrol.
The Double Jeopardy Raid
Feb 19, 1968
The arrival of a team of teenage guerrilla fighters spells ""Double-trouble"" for the Patrol.The embittered young partisans, lead by a 17-year-old Jean-Claude, and his fiery girlfr
The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid
Feb 26, 1968
On the Eve of a dangerous mission, Moffitt receives word that his younger brother has been killed by a German bomb in London.
The Tug-of-War Raid
Mar 4, 1968
Troy goes undercover to get microfilm from a French Resistance fighter, but they are captured by Dietrich. After Troy refuses to give up the location of the microfilm, Dietrich sen
The Never-Say-Die Raid
Mar 11, 1968
Troy and Hitchcock are captured by a German colonel who has a scheme to use them to radio false information back to their headquarters. Meanwhile, Moffitt and Pettigrew's rescue at
The Kill at Koorlea Raid
Mar 18, 1968
The Rat Patrol is ordered to go with a South African sniper on a mission to kill a German general, but Troy decides to try to capture the general alive.