NORTH & SOUTH: EPISODE TWO     85/11/05

GEORGE TRACKS DOWN BENT -- SPECIAL GUEST STAR GENE KELLEY -- Bent (Philip Casnoff) continues his cruelty toward George (James Read), Orry (Patrick Swayze), and their friends. The men, with some help from other cadets, arrange for Bent to be caught with a prostitute and he is forced to leave the Academy. When Bent learns that Orry and George were involved, he vows revenge. George and Orry graduate from West Point two years later. They leave to fight in the Mexican War. During the Battle of Churubusco, Bent, who has blackmailed his father (Special Guest Star Gene Kelley) in order to obtain a superior rank, orders George and Orry to lead a suicidal charge against the Mexican forces. Both men survive, but Orry is shot in his left leg and permanently crippled. Meanwhile, George meets Constance Flynn (Wendy Kilbourne), the Irish Catholic daughter of an Army surgeon, and falls in love. They plan to marry. Orry drowns his sorrows in alcoholism. With the Mexican War over, George quits the army, finds Bent, and beats him, threatening to kill him if he ever tries to harm him or Orry again. Traumatized by his injuries, Orry temporarily becomes a recluse. When Madeline (Lesley-Anne Down) helps one of Orry's slaves escape, one of the other slaves gets whipped for helping him. Kirstie Alley, Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francis, Wendy Fulton, Terri Garber, Lewis Smith, and John Stockwell also star. TV14