In January 1968, during the Tet lunar new year truce, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch coordinated assaults on more than a hundred cities and towns across South Vietnam, including an attack on the U.S. embassy compound in Saigon and a monthlong battle for the ancient capital of Hue. This episode covers the American and South Vietnamese counteroffensive that follows, drawing on archival combat footage and firsthand accounts from soldiers and civilians who lived through the fighting. It tracks how a battlefield defeat for the communist forces becomes a political turning point at home, as television images of the embassy attack contradict official assurances that the war was being won. The film connects the offensive to the year's wider turmoil, including rising troop levels, an expanding draft, and the political fallout that reshapes the 1968 presidential race toward Richard Nixon. The gap between the military outcome and the public reaction is the episode's real subject.