Is there a way to get a TV episode from my iPad to my MacBook?

This was the first time I've ever downloaded video content from iTunes. I decided to buy it via my iPad 2 and download it there.
Everything worked smoothly. But now I can't figure out how to back it up on my MacBook. I thought it would happen automatically when I synced, but it didn't. From what I'm seeing, it looks like performing a sync in iTunes will just wipe out the episode on the iPad entirely, in favor of the zero episodes on my MacBook. Do I really need to buy third-party software?
Any thoughts? Should I just chalk this up to a learning experience and let this episode go once I can buy it on DVD next year? Any third-party software recommendations? (Note that my MacBook is several years old and cannot run Mac-based apps.)
I'd like to download more episodes, but I don't want to do anything until I get a handle on what's best. (And my apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere in the community. I've done searches for keywords then scrolled through several screens, though, and I've found nothing. I've also checked two iPad 2 books. Nothing seems to address this situation.)
Thanks!

Crazily enough, as soon as I posted my message, a helpful link popped up on the right-hand side that led me to a different discussion that also referred to the transfer-purchases option. Why didn't that show up when I was searching for a solution in the first place???
Thank you so much for confirming. I'll check it out next time I sync. (Given how user-friendly Apple products are, I couldn't imagine that you'd  need third-party software for something so basic. That's all I was seeing in Google searches earlier this week. I should've come straight to this forum!)

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