Mike Rivers

Mike Rivers

Background

Mike Rivers is a pilot and major in the United States Air Force in the special intelligence division.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 1 Blackjack played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Jason Locke visits with Rivers who he then recruits. He later finds Rivers sitting at his desk and gives Rivers the Airwolf file. Later, Rivers tells Locke that he has located Airwolf. As they are driving to Airwolf's lair, they see it in the air. They follow it and find out Jo Santini was the person flying it. She tells them she knows where St. John is and they take Airwolf to rescue him. St. John tries to warn Airwolf away and escapes from his cell. Burke gets into a helicopter and attacks Airwolf. Rivers then shoots Burke's helicopter out of the sky. Locke, Jo and Rivers go back to the lair and Airwolf lands. St. John gets out and Locke recruits him to continue Stringfellow Hawke and Dominic's work.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 2 Escape played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Jo calls the lair and tells St. John she has the package and is on her way to Stockholm. Locke tells St. John and Mike that Jo's flight is being forced to land in Bulgaria and St. John and Mike get into Airwolf and take off. In West Berlin, Germany, St. John and Mike meet with Arkov and convince him to try and save Jo. Locke contacts St. John and tells him where Jo is located. Airwolf arrives at Stara Zagora Prison and starts shooting up the prison. Barracks Guard is shot and killed by Airwolf. Jo, Svetlana Linski and Taaja get into Airowlf, which then flies away. Back at Santini Air, Svetlana and Taaja thank the crew and Locke for saving them and Locke tells them their testimony will be given to Amnesty International to help shut down Stara Zagora Prison. Mike asks Svetlana to get him tickets to the next gymnastics competition and Svetlana hugs Jo.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 3 A Town for Hire played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Locke and Mike land Airwolf in the lair and start downloaded the photographs they took on their mission. Mike tries to contact St. John or Jo, at Santini Air, but can't reach anyone. As St. John is talking to Mike, the calls suddenly hangs up. Mike tells Locke that St. John and Jo might need help and Locke tells him to trace the number. They get into Airwolf and leave the lair. Locke and Mike arrive at Jo's crash site and they use their monitors to find the wreckage, which is now buried. They scan the town of Santa Mira and notice it has had quite the population jump. They then do further scans and find a large weapons cache in Martin Lundahl's factory. Locke drops off Mike so Mike can snoop around. Lundahl is giving a demonstration to potential weapons buyers when Mike sneaks in to the building. St. John, Dr. Tracy Kinsington, Dr. Kinsington and Jo are driven to the Lundahl Industries building and Sheriff Lou takes them to Lundahl. Mike radios Locke and tells him he has found St. John and Jo. Lundahl tells Sheriff Lou to kill them. Mike starts shooting at Lundahl and the guards and St. John manages to take away Hank Nelson's rifle and knocks Sheriff Lou into a fire and Sheriff Lou burns to death. Locke blows the buildings doors open and St. John and the others drive out in Sheriff Lou's vehicle. Hank starts shooing at Airwolf and Lundahl tries to use the laser cannon on Airwolf. Locke fires rockets into the building, but Airwolf is hit. He starts to lose power, but switches to manual override and fires a rocket at Hank and Lundahl, killing them. He lands Airwolf and flies away with the others.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 4 Salvage played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John and Mike are training in Airwolf when Locke radios them and tells them Lorrie Grant contacted him. They return to base and pack for a trip to Devil's Ridge and before leaving, Jo suggests they bring Lorrie back this time. Mike and St. John argue over making Lorrie come with them. St. John walks in to a bar and walks Lorrie out of the bar and Mike says hello to her. St. John and Mike drop Lorrie off at her house and she tells them she isn't seeing things this time and what she is seeing is real in the old Native American burial ground. She notices they don't believe her and she demands they take the necklace Charlie Rising Moon gave her and to ask him what he saw. St. John and Mike go to see Charlie and give him the necklace and he suggests Lorrie leave for her own safety. The next day, Mike and St. John visit Lorrie at Devil's Ridge Hospital and she asks them if she saw Charlie or animal tracks. St. John and Mike fly over the area and as they are flying over the mine they take a few photos.

Lorrie tells Mike she wants to get back into the FIRM and suddenly the lights appear outside her home. They go outside and stare at the lights and are captured. In the morning, Strafe slaps Mike when Mike defends Lorrie. Nokomo tells Bronson to get rid of Mike and Lorrie. As Strafe is about to shoot Mike and Lorrie, Bronson suggests they let them live. He grabs at Strafe's gun, but Strafe knocks him away. Nokomo pulls out a knife and tells Strafe to get the Scorpion ready while he kills Mike and Lorrie. St. John kills Nokomo by kicking him over a railing while Charlie shoots the guards. St. John frees Mike and Lorrie and they escape with Charlie in Bronson's jeep. Strafe starts shooting at them and they abandon the jeep and hide among the rocks near a creek. Charlie is hit with a laser fired by the Scorpion in the stomach. Locke and Jo arrive in Airwolf and get into a fight with Strafe and shoot the Scorpion out of the sky. Afterwards, Locke tells Lorrie that she can rejoin the FIRM. St. John, Mike, Locke and Lorrie then go to visit Charlie in the hospital.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 5 Windows played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John and Locke are pulling surveillance on Phillip Devereau in a car, while [Mike is pulling surveillance in Airwolf. Locke tells Mike that Devereau is carrying a circuit board for the satellite that will be used in an upcoming space shuttle launch. Uri Tatloff walks up to Devereau and then after shaking hands walks off. St. John follows Tatloff while Mike follows Devereau. Locke starts to worry that they have been setup and Devereau isn't their man. Mike spies on another apartment where Teenage Boy is playing a computer game. Mike then monitors Hannah Molner when Jo leaves and notices she appears to be lonely. He sees Eric trying to climb out of the basement window and contacts Jo. Later, as Ann Delaney is trying to escape with Eric and "Oscar" the Dog, Eric and Oscar run away. Mike sees them and tells the others where she is at. Oscar bites Ann as she is about to shoot Locke and she is grabbed by St. John. Eric gives Locke the circuit board and the space mission proceeds.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 6 A Piece of Cake played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John and Mike are in Airwolf following behind a jet fighter. Mike contacts Jo, who is monitoring their modem feed at Santini Air. Air traffic control notifies the pilot that he is being followed and he turns around and orders Airwolf to identify themselves and they fly off. The phone rings and she tells Mike that someone is in the building. Outside Juvenile Court, Bobby is arguing with Susan about having to go on a hiking retreat. Susan reminds him that if it was either the retreat or being on probation. Mike and Jo walk up to them and Mike threatens to rescind his offer to have Bobby join them on The Wilderness Program.

Later, Mike drives a van to Santini Air and introduces the hikers, Bobby, Carlos, who assumes Jo is the stewardess, Dwayne and Leigh. Jo lands the helicopter at Mt. Seymour Park and Mike asks Arnie his advice on what trail to take. Leigh helps Mike gather wood while the boys stay behind. Leigh notices someone stole the water from her canteen and Dwayne tells everyone Bobby did it. During the night, Dwayne tells Mike that Bobby left and Mike has to go find him. Mike tells Bobby a story of how he hung out with hoodlums when he was young, but then admits it was just a story.

As Leigh is walking across a bridge crossing a gorge, Carlos runs across, putting too much weight on it. The bridge breaks and Carlos' leg gets stuck. Bobby goes to help him and then Leigh. Max shoots Mike and then takes the hikers hostage. While Souza is checking to see if Mike is dead, Mike grabs him and they go tumbling over the ridge. Mike manages to crawl back up the ridge and Dwayne bandages his leg. Mike finds Arnie in the radio room and helps him. He calls St. John and Locke and tells them what happened. Back at Santini Air, Jo is teaching Bobby how to maintain helicopters as Mike milks his injury. Susan walks in and is surprised Bobby is working. As Mike starts telling another make believe story, everyone slowly walks away.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 7 Deathtrain played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John, Locke, Mike and Jo arrive in a military jeep at a train depot. Two cars drive up, one American and one Soviet. Locke spots Gregori Nobokov stepping out of the Soviet vehicle and he and Locke go inside a train car holding a nerve gas, after receiving a key card. The train starts and St. John, Jo and Mike get into Airwolf. Lt. Walters drives his jeep up to checkpoint 1 and contacts Airwolf. St. John is told they can leave now, and Airwolf continues on the path of the train. The surveillance helicopter tries to contact the train, but gets no response. The surveillance helicopter pilot sees the dead engineer in the decoy train and contacts Airwolf. Airwolf catches up with the decoy train and as Mike is about to rappel onto the train a bomb goes off, destroying the train. Mike and Jo scan the area and tell St. John that the area is clear of gas. St. John decides to head back to checkpoint 2. Jo finds the train in the tunnel and Mike homes in on the canister locks. St. John gets out of Airwolf to try and rescue Locke. Randolph's men start firing at Airwolf and Airwolf fires back at the soldiers and kills them. St. John sneaks into the mountain and Locke grabs Nobokov and he and St. John escape from the mountain as it explodes.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 8 Code of Silence played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John, Mike and Jo go to Brad Lacey's funeral and afterwards, General Lacey asks St. John to defend Coombs. During Colonel Coombs' trial, St. John asks Mike and Jo to recover the combat camera in the jungle. Jo and Mike track down the camera in Airwolf and use a magnet to grab it as they come under fire. They then go over the video from the rescue. After Coombs escapes from custody in a helicopter, St. John and Mike get into Airwolf and chase after Coombs, who is heading towards Twentynine Palms Missile Range. St. John convinces Coombs to land after both of them narrowly avoid being blown up. Mike and Jo show St. John bullets embedded in Coombs' helicopter and St. John asks Mike to run them through ballistics.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 9 Stavograd Part 1 played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John, Jo and Mike are test firing weapons in Airwolf as Locke is monitoring them in the lair. Locke tells them NORAD has requested they check on a reading it picked up with high radiation. They fly there and pick up large amounts of radiation and Locke tells them the location matches Stavograd Nuclear Facility within the Taimyr region of the USSR. Locke gives St. John the details on Stavograd and St. John decides to head to Stavograd. Locke calls St. John and tells him to return to United States territory. Two MiG jets confront Airwolf and Uri Kolcheski orders the crew of Airwolf to land. After St. John refuses, Kolcheski starts firing on Airwolf, but St. John tells Rivers not to return fire. After landing, Airwolf is brought into a hangar and the crew is met by Arkov. Rivers argues that they are there to help and Commander Kirov suggests a Soviet pilot use Airwolf to fly into the reactor. Kolcheski offers to fly Airwolf, but Jo refuses.

Kirov brings the Airwolf crew to meet Alexandria Rostov and asks where Dr. Vladimir Bronski is. Kirov's Aide stays behind while Kirov, Rostov and the Airwolf crew return to Airwolf. Jo is forced to stay behind as Rostov goes in her place. St. John updates Locke on the situation. Rostov tells St. John the reactor is going into meltdown and they drop a harness to Bronski. The reactor explodes and Bronski is taken to the clinic. Arkov accuses St. John and Rivers of sending classified data. The crew of Airwolf is detained, but break out of the room they were put in. Kirov's Aide discover St. John, Jo and Mike gone and find them donating blood for the injured mitigation team members. They are detained once more and Kirov updates Dimitrievich on the deteriorating situation.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 10 Stavograd Part 2 played by Geraint Wyn Davies

St. John looks for a way for him, Mike and Jo to escape from their room, but doesn't find a way out. Arkov walks in and tells Jo, they need help in the infirmary. Later, Arkov tells St. John and Mike that he believes them and sneaks them out. Locke, who had managed to sneak in, finds St. John, but they are caught by Kirov. Mike manages to evade capture and walks into Kolcheski and Boris. Mike tries to convince Kolcheski not to go on the mission and convinces Boris to allow him to take his place in the jet. Mike and Kolcheski get into their jets and fly towards reactor 1. Kolcheski fires his missile, but then crashes. Jo lands Airwolf and Mike lands the jet. Kirov and the rest of the military leave and St. John has the idea to collapse the walls of reactor 1 and Bronski thinks they might be able to use coolant from reactor 3 to prevent reactor 2 from overheating. St. John and Mike manage to collapse the walls to reactor 1 and the temperature in reactor 2 drops. Mike says goodbye to Boris, who asks him to send him a Mickey Mouse hat.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 11 Mime Troupe played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Anna LeBlanc gives a mime performance and Anton Durrell criticizes her for taking an extra bow. Mike and Jo are also backstage and wonder why he is so upset about an extra bow and Anton tells them, if he hadn't accepted their protection, he would fire them. Anna asks Mike if he and Jo are in a relationship and invites him to dinner. Mike tells Anna that he and Jo were sent to protect her. She refuses to leave and gives Mike back the tracking necklace he gave her. Mike watches as Tourand and Jean practice and they follow Jo and Anna as they go outside with Jean. As they are walking a van drives towards them and they barely manage to get out of the way.

Jaggerman is brought to Santini Air and Jo and Mike bring Anna to Santini Air. Mike convinces Anna to wear the necklace and they kiss. As rehearsal is happening, Hugo walks into the theater and shoots towards Tourand and Jean. The lights go out and St. John shoots and kills Hugo and Mike runs over to Tourand and Jean and Tourand is dead. Locke and St. John get in Airwolf while Mike and Jo follow the vehicle that left with Anna and Jaggerman with Peter using the tracking device. Locke tells Mike they spotted four heat signatures in a building nearby. Mike and Jo go into the warehouse and save Anna and Jaggerman. Later, back at the theater, Anna gives Mike a letter and says goodbye.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 12 X-Virus played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Locke and Mike are testing a hands free piloting device on Airwolf, which turns out to be a success. Mike radios Jo and tells her they are returning to base and she tells him that St. John is running with Tim Shimizu. St. John goes to the lair and Jo tells him, Locke and Mike that Bar-Med had recently spent over 2 million dollars on research. St. John and Jo go to Bar-Med while Mike and Locke fly in Airwolf as backup. Jo radios Locke and tells him, Clive Harper's office has been ransacked already. Jo finds the door to the underground lab and goes inside, but is caught. St. John tells Mike to blow up the lab and Mike shoots a missile at it. Professor Barton Saunders escapes in a van towards the city with a canister full of the X-Virus. He gets into an elevator with a mother and her child and then climbs to the top of a building and Mike and Locke fire a laser from Airwolf at the vial of X-Virus, killing the virus and setting Barton on fire. St. John, Jo and Tim go to a bar and Tim tells them that the X-Virus vaccine is going to be used as a treatment for malaria. Locke and Mike are playing a game of pool nearby and Mike scratches the cue ball.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 13 Rogue Warrior played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Mike and Locke are flying in Airwolf to Czechoslovakia, while Jo and St. John are back at the lair. A message comes through at the lair ordering the mission cancelled and Airwolf to return to base. Jo radios Locke and Mike and relays them the message, but Locke acts like they are suffering from a communication malfunction and tells Mike, the person they are supposed to pick up is an old friend named Allen, and he has no intention of leaving him behind. Allen turns on his location beacon which is picked up by Airwolf. Mike notices two other people heading in Allen's direction. Airwolf lands and Locke goes and hugs Allen. One of the two men shoots Allen in the back. Allen is shot once more and killed. Airwolf takes off and four MiG jets fly after them. Mike shoots down two of the MiGs before Airwolf makes it into West Berlin airspace.

Mike and Locke arrive back at the lair and Locke tells St. John and Jo that they were set up. Locke tries to log on to the FIRM's network, but his access is denied. Mike, St. John and Jo go to a bar and Mike sees Lynn looking at him. He walks up to her and she invites him to leave with her. As they leave, Tom Harris watches them and then he and J.S. Carson pull guns on Mike. Lynn helps Mike and then they drive away. They go to a motel and St. John calls their room and asks if Mike is okay and Mike tells him, he will call him in the morning. Mike and Lynn start kissing and she shows him a photo of Locke with Tom and Carson and says Locke is dirty. She tells him that Allen knew the identity of a mole and Locke got him killed to keep it a secret. At the lair, Locke and Mike argue and then Mike and Jo go to find Tom and Carson. Mike and Jo find the rental car Tom and Carson used, crashed in a ditch with Tom and Carson dead inside. They bring back their IDs to the lair and show it to Locke and Mike accuses Locke of not being honest with him. Locke admits that the FIRM no longer trusts him.

Mike meets up with Lynn and tells her that Locke is trying to get into the FIRM's network access and she asks him to give her Airwolf to keep it from Locke. Lynn shows up at Santini Air and pulls a gun on Mike when he tells her Airwolf is in the hangar. St. John and Jo pull guns on Lynn and she takes Mike hostage. She and Mike get into a Santini Air helicopter and she demands Mike take her to Airwolf. Lynn invites Mike to live with her and Mike struggles with Lynn for the gun and shoots her and she dies. Back at Santini Air, Jo asks Mike if he is alright and they and Locke and St. John agree to make a fresh start in trust.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 14 Ground Zero played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Mike sees Jo placing a camera mount on the Santini helicopter and asks her if she has seen St. John. She tells him that St. John will be at Santini Air in the morning, but a contractor specifically wanted St. John as his pilot so he won't be able to fly with Mike. St. John rides his motorcycle to Santini Air and leaves with Mike. St. John and Mike participate in war games with the military. Mike and St. John arrive back at Santini Air and are concerned Jo isn't back yet. Mike finds Takeshi Yahara's business card and St. John radios him from Airwolf and tells him, he found Jo's helicopter, but she isn't nearby. Mike tells him that he called Yahara's business and he had already returned and paid Jo. Mike tells St. John that Jo strayed into restricted airspace and St. John thinks Yahara seems suspicious.

Mike goes to Yahara Investments and finds the building empty. At FIRM headquarters, Locke tells Mike that he can't find any information on Yahara. He gives Mike information on Yahara's background and Mike figures out Yahara was a kamikaze pilot. Back at Santini Air, Locke brings Ibo Tanabe, who tells Mike and Locke how during World War II Yahara was trying to kamikaze the USS Saratoga, but was shot down and rescued by St. John's father. Mike figures out that Yahara might be planning on blowing up the nuclear facility as revenge and jets are sent to patrol the facility.

Yahara gets into a restored plane which he flew in World War II and flies the plane to Santini Air and Mike and Locke are taken hostage. Yahara threatens to kill Jo and Mike if Locke doesn't order the jets to leave. Locke makes a phone call and the jets return to base. St. John is brought outside to be executed and Yahara flies in his plane while taunting Locke, Mike and Jo, who are forced to watch via a video feed as Yahara flies to his target. St. John gets into Airwolf and flies after Yahara. He shoots down Yahara's plane as Yahara tries to kamikaze the plane into Airwolf. Back at Santini Air, St. John tries to show the others how to pick a pair of handcuffs. Locke offers to help him when St. John is taking a long time and St. John asks Locke to show him how he did it. Locke handcuffs him to a chair and he, Mike and Jo leave St. John, until he offers to buy them all a round of beer.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 15 Flowers of the Mountain played by Geraint Wyn Davies

Sandra is riding her bicycle along a mountain trail while St. John and Mike fly Airwolf nearby. As Sandra is riding her bicycle she almost crashes over a cliff, but manages to hang on to a vine. St. John and Mike see her struggling and land Airwolf before bringing her to Saint Matthews Retreat. Reverend Mother stands over Sandra's bed and tells Sandra that St. John saved her. Sandra thanks St. John and before he and Mike leaves, Reverend Mother asks St. John to tell their employer Conklin Aerotech to stop flying planes over the Retreat. Later, St. John is doing a test flight in the S-19 Viper, while Mike and Jo follow nearby in Airwolf. Alarms start to go off on the instrument panel and when St. John tries to eject, the canopy won't open due to the circuits being fried. Mike uses the laser on Airwolf to melt the canopy and St. John is able to eject.

After St. John is apparently murdered, Jo, Mike and Locke go to Conklin Aerotech to survey the scene and Jenkins tells them that St. John is dead. As Jenkins tells Jo and Locke what he heard before the explosion, Mike looks around and finds the floppy disk St. John had. Locke starts looking at the schematics file and tells Mike it will take time for the computer to tell them everything. Jo is on the phone and then tells Mike and Locke that the morgue somehow lost the dental records from the body pulled from the car. Locke thinks there is a cover-up going on and he thinks the body didn't belong to St. John. The next day, Mike, Locke and Jo listen to a recording left by Sandra. Mike and Locke fly Airwolf to the Retreat while Jo continues looking at the Viper's schematics. Yarma starts to shoot at St. John and Mike and Locke arrive in Airwolf and start shooting at Yarma, who is blown up when he stands next to barrels of fuel and Mike fires a rocket at him. Mike tells everyone that Jerry Conklin and the other members of the board are awaiting trial.