i am pleased to have my friend tom caplan back at thi table. welce. >> charlie, great to be back with you. >> rose: here's what's teresting about this. you begin withharacter, not narrative. >> that's true. begin with a character, ty hunter who is 32, i think, when we meet him. the number one film star in the rld, who uses that fame really as a cloak and is able to deflect spicion from him as he does lots of undercover missions. >> rose: at the request of the president. >> at the request the president. >> rose: take me back further, though. this is a man who was a military hero. >> yes, a secret military hero. memb of a specialson teams. >> rose: seals or something? >> yes. and international missions with s.b.s. ands.a. from england. >> rose: how did he go from that to movie star in >> he had an accident at the end of his military career. he had an accident. he went to rehab, he had to have lots of plastic surgery and emerged... although always a nice looking guy more of a heartthrob and by accident the man whwas filming an army commercial at w