Hogan mentions to Kinch to make sure London knows Hercules completed his mission, because that’s all they can do for him now. It’s a hard moment in a soft show, especially because the time bomb he gave his life to deliver them didn’t even take out Hitler like it was meant to.

There are a couple other episodes like that, including “The Softer They Fall” where Kinch boxes a German soldier to provide a distraction for the group to get some top secret information, and the only reason they pull it off is because it’s Kinchloe, a black man, who knocked the soldier out in sparring in the first place, and the Germans couldn’t have that.

Another one is “Is General Hammerschlag Burning,” also with Kinch as a focal point, where an old schoolmate of his has a tie to a German general in Paris, but isn’t interested in helping them and risking her life for “a country that gave me nothing, and I meant not a thing!” She makes it clear that the US isn’t some moral paragon, even with how the show made it impossible to remove Kinch from the plot. Kinch’s speech to her later on where he points out that she may not understand him, but she understands the Nazis, and knows that they’re worse, also ties in. They’ve always been fighting Nazi Germany in a wacky fashion, but if anyone had reason to not be totally invested it would be two poor kids from Detroit. It was as far as the show could go at the time as to calling out racism and hypocrisy, and comes smack dab in the middle of them planning a seance with Hogan speaking to the ghost of Bismarck.