Beau Geste - Season 1 (1982)

John is reunited with Michael and Digby after being sent to Oran with a draft of new recruits. Their Sergeant-Major, Lejaune, takes a disliking to the three of them, and also to two American recruits, Hank and Buddy. Boldini overhears the three brothers discussing the Blue Water, and - with his criminal contacts - offers to help them, only to be rebuffed.

Boldini informs Lejaune that Michael has a stolen jewel on him. After Boldini fails to persuade two of the other recruits to steal it for him, Lejaune himself persuades Bolidar - a former pick-pocket - to do so. He is caught in the act, and only narrowly escapes being lynched. Lejaune, though, knows that they are to be sent to the isolated Fort Zinderneuf, where it will be easier to isolate Michael from his friends.

The column marches across country to Fort Zinderneuf; once there, Lejaune has Hank, Buddy and Digby sent on to a further post. Lejaune's harsh treatment of the men, and promotion of Boldini to corporal, cause increasing resentment; when the fort's CO, Captain Renouf, shoots himself Lejaune has to take command.

Some of the men are on the point of mutinying when the fort comes under repeated attack from the Tuareg. Before being killed, Michael reveals he has some letters and a parcel for his brothers and Lady Brandon on him. Eventually, the last two survivors of the garrison are John and Lejaune; John confronts Lejaune who had found the hidden jewel after searching Michael's body.

John kills Lejaune in the struggle, and then flees the fort on the approach of the relief column. Digby finds Michael's body and, remembering a childhood promise, gives it a Viking funeral - on a pyre - before fleeing himself. He finds John and the two set off together on foot, but is killed; only John is able to reach England where he returns the Blue Water to Lady Brandon - as Michael had known, a copy made when she had been forced to sell the original.