Project UFO - 1x12 - The Rock-and-Hard Place Incident
Gatlin and Fitz find themselves under investigation after they witness a flying saucer leaving a trail of exploding colors over a restaurant.
Transcript
00:00Music
00:16Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw.
00:22These are unidentified flying objects that people say they are seeing now.
00:29Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars?
00:34Or just what are they?
00:37The United States Air Force began an investigation of this high strangeness in a search for the truth.
00:44What you are about to see is part of that 20 year search.
00:49Music
01:19Music
01:31Sound of a helicopter
01:40Sound of a door opening
01:46Sound of a helicopter
01:58Screaming
02:04Silence
02:07Oh Vanessa, I am just tickled pink over this new tape recorder you sent.
02:11It is so much more fun talking back and forth to you this way than writing those darn letters that I never get around to.
02:17And you don't realize how much I enjoy hearing your voice in Jim's and Mary's.
02:23Especially now that I am back on duty up here at the lookout tower.
02:27Hold on a second.
02:29Sound of helicopter
02:39Huh, I thought I heard something strange.
02:44I better not start getting cabin fever my first week back.
02:49Now isn't that silly, I am up here all by myself and I am hearing things.
02:54Sound of helicopter
03:22Music
03:32June 3rd.
03:35Date in my memory book.
03:38Made you make it impossible for me to savor food with names I can't pronounce, can't translate, and to totally ignore those numbers on the right side of the menu.
03:47I'll get it back when football comes.
03:54Evening Major, how you doing Harry?
03:56See they got you out here in the boondocks this week, don't they Peters?
03:58Are you kidding Major? An old jackrabbit with his tongue hanging out just crawled by.
04:02Asked me where I could fill his canteen.
04:05Well have a good night now, yeah?
04:10Sound of helicopter
04:33Music
05:02Sound of helicopter
05:31Sound of helicopter
05:38Music
05:54In that case, could you please tell me about the Kelmer?
05:58Major, for your information the Kelmer is only $12.50.
06:01Way to Ohio State in Michigan Harry.
06:03At the L.E.C. we poach our Kelmer in most delicate white wines.
06:07A hint of bay leaf, a sprinkling of capers, and a bouquet sierre of scampi.
06:13We are lucky to have some just flown in today sir.
06:16Nice change from the mess hall.
06:19But underneath the white wine and the poach, what is the Kelmer?
06:24Oh, only the most tender squid sir. A great delicacy.
06:29You mean squid with those thin gruesome...
06:33A squid sir.
06:35Like in Cap Nemo.
06:38Ours are somewhat smaller.
06:45We didn't order another round.
06:46Compliments of the lady at the bar for the Major and the Sergeant.
06:54I don't know her do I?
06:55Who is she?
06:56It's Teresa Ball.
06:57Teresa?
06:58Fasten your seat belts.
07:01Evening Teresa.
07:02Harry.
07:03I don't know if you know Major Jay Gatlin my...
07:05Not as well as I'd like. No I do not.
07:08Hello, how are you? Thank you very much for the drink. I don't think I've had a lady buy me a drink before.
07:12Oh, well ladies are doing lots of things these days that they didn't used to Major.
07:15That's very true.
07:17I realize that you two cannot be drinking while in uniform together.
07:21Regulation isn't it?
07:24But I certainly admit that a man looks at his best in a uniform, don't you agree?
07:29Yes.
07:30Class A.
07:32Ribbons, wings, and you Harry.
07:36Where have you been lately? I've missed you.
07:38Oh, we were in Wisconsin about a week ago on a...
07:41Major, there's an emergency call from the base.
07:45Excuse me.
07:53Do you have my new number Harry?
07:55I'm only giving my new one out to my very close friends.
07:58You know my phone has been ringing off the hook.
08:00Take this down, huh?
08:01Incredible.
08:02We were just there at 1940 hours.
08:04The fellow general won our way back.
08:0777.
08:0877.
08:0984.
08:1084.
08:11That's it.
08:12Base operations.
08:13There was a sighting half hour ago.
08:14Back gate.
08:15We were just there.
08:16Yeah.
08:17Sorry Teresa, we're going to have to scratch this one.
08:19Oh, come on.
08:21These boring technology fellas get spooked every time somebody sees a model airplane.
08:26Look, no UFO is going to sit down at right path.
08:30So come on Jake, let's have a good time.
08:32Rain check, Teresa.
08:34Why don't you investigate that?
08:36Now that looks like a pretty good flying saucer to me.
08:39What the heck?
08:40Mage?
08:42Look for detail Harry.
08:43Listen hard.
08:45What the hell is it?
08:46Anybody have a camera?
08:48Mine's in our car.
08:50Circular.
08:52Symmetrical saucer.
08:56Three rows of small lights at the circumference.
08:58Red and yellow.
08:59It's green too.
09:00I see green.
09:01Look at that port.
09:02It's pure white.
09:07Mage, it's not symmetrical.
09:08It's cigar shaped.
09:20It's not symmetrical.
09:43200 feet high.
09:44More.
09:45Trailing wires.
09:46See those cables below the fuselage?
09:48No.
10:02This is Major Gatlin.
10:03Give me Wright-Patterson merch.
10:19Here you go, Master Captain.
10:21Ed?
10:22Jake Gatlin.
10:23I've got a UFO sighting.
10:26Yes, me.
10:30Call Fort Lee and ask region for an intercept.
10:32I'm 20 miles east of the base.
10:34Very low altitude craft, traveling northwest, maybe 150 knots.
10:38Unknown.
10:39Absolutely unknown.
10:42Definitely unknown.
10:44What is it?
10:45Trailing barriers.
10:46All the way to our base.
10:47Right.
10:48This is a field.
10:49I see a field of clouds.
10:50Nearby.
10:51Maybe 150 knots.
10:52Unseen.
10:53Unseen.
10:54Unseen.
10:55What is it?
10:56I see a cloud.
10:57In the sky.
10:58In the sky.
10:59The first cloud.
11:00No, no.
11:01Central sky.
11:02Central sky.
11:03Central sky.
11:04It's red.
11:05No, no.
11:06It's clear.
11:07It's clear.
11:08First cloud.
11:09Second cloud.
11:10Are you sure you want to pick this up now?
11:19We could go over it in a couple of hours.
11:20No, Major.
11:21I want to.
11:22It's okay.
11:23Not that bad in daylight.
11:25Just start at the beginning, Jeff.
11:28Okay.
11:29I clocked you through exactly 1942 hours, and I went on writing a letter.
11:36I turned the radio on.
11:39At first, I thought it was full of static.
11:42That sound was like nothing on Earth.
12:39After that, I called base security.
13:03I don't mind telling you, I was shook.
13:07They came out.
13:08Did you talk to the judge advocate yet?
13:11Ammon fires a weapon, automatic investigation.
13:14They billed me 18 cents per round fired.
13:17I'm on the hook for 54 cents.
13:18Jeff, why don't you draw some sketches of what it looked like?
13:21It must have been justified, wasn't it?
13:24I mean, snapping off three rounds at something he thinks is going to kill you, that's understandable,
13:28isn't it?
13:29All right.
13:30You keep saying it'll never happen to you, but it did happen to me.
13:37They're kind of like the one at the restaurant, but I'm surprised they're so different, aren't
13:44you?
13:45Yeah.
13:46If he saw it approaching, then from below, then speeding off, and he said it made that
13:51little maneuver before the lights went out, I thought somewhere along the line he'd bring
13:55out that it was cigar-shaped.
13:56Harry, what we saw was not cigar-shaped at all.
14:00It was almost round.
14:02It was round like it had trailing wires.
14:04Mage, that was smooth as a baby's bottom.
14:07No wires, no nothing.
14:08And I never saw any green lights, either.
14:10I saw...
14:11You think you saw.
14:12Pardon me, sir, but what I saw and what somebody else out there saw was, oh, man.
14:18Perceptions, huh, Harry?
14:22I guess so, sir.
14:24I guess we're not too different from all those people we've interviewed.
14:34No one had any background information on this farmer, Arlie McCoy?
14:45He reported his sighting less than 24 hours ago, and already he's hollering about an Air
14:49Force cover-up.
14:50He's making a statement to the free press of the U.S. of A, the state of Ohio, and the
14:56county of Boone.
14:58And he's making it in front of the post office.
15:01What else do you need for orders?
15:04Come on, Mage, we keep everything open, including our minds, right?
15:26Now, after I finally get through to the switchboard and this sassy operator that our taxes support
15:32and our taxes are going to pension off, what do you think she sniffs at me when I tell
15:37her I've just seen a flying saucer?
15:39Anyway, to this minute, to this very minute, they have not done one iota of interviewing
15:44me.
15:45Oh, they said they got a whole staff of investigating UFOs.
15:50They said they was going to interview me immediately, but I ain't seen nobody.
15:55And do you know why?
15:56Yeah, because they cover up this like they cover up everything.
16:00They want to keep it from us.
16:02They're trying to hide the fact that there's real honest hallelujah flying saucers flying
16:07around up there.
16:09That's not quite accurate.
16:10Mr. McCoy.
16:11We don't have anything to cover up, but it does take a while to respond to all the calls.
16:17We're responding to yours right now.
16:19You mean you heard about this press conference?
16:21Yes, sir.
16:22We did.
16:23Ah, see?
16:24It's the old squeaky wheelie.
16:27But they're going to cover it up.
16:29You can bet your bottom dollar on that.
16:31Mr. McCoy, can we go someplace private?
16:33We'd like to hear your story.
16:34Everything.
16:35For the record.
16:36Private?
16:37I'm going to tell it to the whole world.
16:40And that whole world begins right here and right now.
16:44Get your pencils sharp, fellas.
16:46Okay.
16:47I'm disking the South 40.
16:48It's an hour past sundown.
17:31That darn thing tried to kill me.
17:48It was them laser beams.
17:51I got away.
17:52I hid behind the barn.
17:54Then I seen it zoom off toward Dayton, scooting along a thousand miles an hour.
17:59Now, there ain't an airplane or anything on this earth can fly like that.
18:03Harley, we agree on politics.
18:05But that tale sounds like horse malarkey to me.
18:08Now, you listen to me, Cockrum.
18:10I'm telling the truth.
18:12On my mother's grave, my father's poke, and my right to be judged by the Almighty.
18:16Truth.
18:17Come on, Harley.
18:18You ran your tractor in a ditch, now you're just trying to make an excuse.
18:21Don't you start second-guessing me, Max Stacy.
18:24I'm telling you exactly what I saw.
18:26You sure you're not just trying to get a little attention here?
18:29Now, press conferences, laser beams.
18:32Now, what's your angle, huh?
18:34Okay.
18:35So, I am only a poor dirt farmer, and not some hotshot mash pilot that flew over Korea
18:40like you.
18:41But I'm honest, that's for darn sure.
18:44I raised my family, I worked my farm, and I sure as shooting ain't going broke like
18:49you and that charter service of yours.
18:52So, you just attend to your business, and I'll attend to mine.
18:55All right, Harley.
18:56Anything you say.
18:57Just don't count on believing those pipe dreams.
19:01Now, you flyboys gonna bury this, or you gonna say it's a weather balloon, or maybe a star?
19:09Mr. McCoy, we would like to get a few more details.
19:12Details?
19:13What kind of details?
19:14I told you, size, color, shape, speed.
19:17It's good to corn a coffee shop.
19:19We'll talk about it there.
19:21All right.
19:22It is getting toward dinner time.
19:24I guess you boys will be picking up the check, seeing as how it's official business.
19:42I just want to know why the Office of Special Investigation is tailing Sergeant Fitz and me.
19:46The surveillance was ordered by the General.
19:48Why?
19:49I mean, is there something that we've done to justify being investigated by the OSI?
19:53The General has to be sure.
19:55He's got a lot of people asking him questions, too.
19:57Did you ever think of it that way?
20:00The entire project has to make sure that you're not getting prejudice.
20:04We're leaning backward to make sure we document every small possible tiniest piece of evidence.
20:09Including the fact that you had consumed a glass of wine and Airman Fitz's scotch and soda,
20:14and that there was a second round in front of you?
20:16Your guys are good, sir.
20:18They're really good.
20:23Well, so is somebody else who outranks the General.
20:25And believe it or not, there's a lot of them.
20:27Taxpayers.
20:28Any one of whom could make an issue out of that.
20:30The ounce and a half of booze and the glass of wine are in the report.
20:34I did not audit the bar checks of the 46 others who said they saw the same thing as Harry and I saw.
20:40Jay, listen.
20:42If you didn't have a lot of fans in this organization, do you think you'd be doing what you are doing?
20:49You know what I'm telling you?
20:50This is just a little special.
20:54Now, do you think you can handle anything that anybody's likely to throw at you?
20:57Sir, tell the General that I've been in this man's Air Force too long.
21:00There isn't any place anybody can hit me that isn't scar tissue.
21:51Tell me, ma'am.
21:53How many times a day do you make that climb?
21:56Four, four, five.
21:58Wanna race?
22:00Major's your pigeon for sucker pants.
22:04This is Sergeant Fitz. I'm Major Gatlin.
22:06Nice to meet you in person, ma'am.
22:08Nice to know you.
22:09Come on in. Sit down. Catch your breath.
22:13Right over there.
22:14Oh, thank you.
22:19Come on, sit down.
22:21Let me do the talking for a minute.
22:23I know after we talked on the phone, you called the District Ranger.
22:27And when Barney started explaining to you about a grandmother who spends 28 days out of every 30
22:32perched up in a lookout tower,
22:34you gotta figure this old man's some kind of a nut, right?
22:37Oh, I wouldn't say that.
22:38I think anybody who wants to enjoy this fantastic view all the time is pretty smart.
22:42Flattery will get you almost anywhere, Major.
22:45Oh, you know what I mean.
22:46Heck, even my kids think I'm a screwball.
22:48Well, the Ranger did go into detail about your routine.
22:51And it certainly is isolated.
22:53And it's gotta be lonely.
22:55And loneliness can affect one's perceptions.
22:57No offense, Mrs. Butler.
22:59No offense taken.
23:01Now, we both know where we stand.
23:03But I think I have proof that I am not seeing things or hearing things.
23:08Like what, ma'am?
23:10Well, from what I've read about your work, and believe you me, I have time to read plenty,
23:15I think I have what you define as hard evidence.
23:20That is the term, isn't it? Hard evidence?
23:22It depends.
23:23What have you got?
23:24Well, I was taking a letter to my daughter
23:28when this thing came in at about 195 degrees, right over there.
23:32So I put this down to pick up my binoculars, of course.
23:36But it kept right on recording.
23:38I think the sound is pretty clear.
23:40Of course, I know you can horse around with tapes.
23:42I mean, I don't know how you do it, but I know it can be done.
23:45But I swear, I swear, this is the original.
23:49That isn't often you get real solid evidence, is it?
23:52That's not, ma'am.
23:54Well, listen. You tell me.
23:56I'm up here all by myself, and I'm hearing things.
24:05That is the same sound, isn't it?
24:07Gotta be. I'll never forget that sound.
24:11You mean you heard this before?
24:14Where? Who else heard it?
24:17Several people.
24:19But this provides corroborative evidence.
24:22And you being a trained observer, Mrs. Bulter,
24:25you're the best news we had in ages.
24:28You want to start at the beginning?
24:30Well, like I said,
24:33I was taping this letter to my daughter, Vanessa.
24:36She lives out in Anchorage with her husband.
24:38And I was taping this letter,
24:41and I heard this fantastic roar.
24:49Hold on, gal!
25:06Hold on, gal!
25:36Hold on, gal!
26:06Hold on, gal!
26:36Barney, you won't believe what I just saw!
26:39And after it went around the tower,
26:41I watched it real close.
26:43I kept the Osborne firefighter trained on that thing
26:45when it went out of sight.
26:47And it disappeared behind that ridge right over there.
26:49See?
26:50Here, take a look.
26:52195.
26:53Look through this little hole right up through here and you see it.
26:56See?
26:58That ridge is three miles away.
27:01Now, that's the second ridge.
27:03Mm-hmm.
27:06You see this contour right here?
27:10That contour there.
27:12I hope you'll let us take the tape with us, Mrs. Butler.
27:15Well, will I get it back?
27:17I mean, I'd sure like to keep it for a souvenir.
27:19Of course.
27:23All right, on one condition.
27:25What's that?
27:26You bring it back in person.
27:28You know, I've kind of forgotten how nice it is
27:30to have a couple of gentlemen in my parlor.
27:34How about a cup of tea?
27:36Sure.
28:03Them?
28:18New team.
28:20You know, Mage, the energy crisis and all,
28:23it'd be a heck of a lot simpler if all four of us just carpooled.
28:27Forget about them. Let's get on back.
28:29Turn in this car to the motor pool and I'll pick you up at the barracks in my car.
28:32We'll stop at the office and then grab some chow.
28:34Best thing I heard all day, mate.
28:44There's no mistaking that sound, is there?
28:46She got it. Chance of a million.
28:49Alba Hutch, everybody we interview is going to recognize it right away.
28:52Well, lose some, win some.
29:03Oh, man.
29:06Thirty-seven civvies.
29:08What a day.
29:10Now, can we grab some dinner?
29:13You still owe me, remember?
29:15As soon as we give her tape to the lab.
29:25What's all that?
29:26Look.
29:28What is that stuff?
29:29You got me?
29:31You got me?
29:39Give me a flashlight.
30:01Interview 24.
30:10The crazy sound.
30:12Strange navigation lights, but no burst of light from the fuselage.
30:15Number 25.
30:17Ear-splitting sound.
30:18Unusual flying lights.
30:20No illumination from below.
30:22Right, Major, but I still don't look.
30:24Only the people who were down there at the restaurant saw the shower of lights.
30:28Or the explosion, as that young kid called it.
30:31McCoy didn't see it, Peters didn't see it at the gate, Annie didn't see it from the tower.
30:35Okay, but, uh...
30:36So those pieces of confetti, or whatever they were, on the car could have landed there while we were parked down there.
30:42The confetti gave off a brief light source after it was charged from the light in the car, or the flashlight.
30:50Okay, this is the area. Run the light around.
30:58All right, shut it off.
31:02Well, I'll be.
31:12Moresa?
31:13Confetti?
31:18No.
31:19No.
31:20No.
31:21No.
31:22No.
31:23No.
31:24No.
31:25No.
31:26No.
31:28Fuck me.
31:34Any color lights, red lights, blue, green, yellow.
31:37We're trying to find out if any supplier sold an unusual amount of small, powerful bulbs.
31:45We're not sure. A month, two months, in the past year.
31:49Just anything unusual.
31:55Yes, sir.
31:56Okay, thank you very much.
31:58How we doing?
32:00I've called practically all over this area and nobody remembers selling an unusual number of light bulbs, colored or otherwise.
32:07Except Christmas tree lights, you know?
32:09Yeah.
32:10I'm stymied too.
32:11Well, that's not going to satisfy the Major, Harry.
32:14Yeah, tell me about it.
32:15He knows it's a hoax. I know it's a hoax.
32:18How was it done?
32:20How did they do it?
32:26Major, that confetti was treated with fluorescent paint all right.
32:36Captain Juergens located the manufacturer.
32:38Tested as far as I got.
32:40Nobody can track down a single can of fluorescent paint.
32:43Well, at least we know how they did it.
32:46Surprise me.
32:47Give me some more good news.
32:49Supplies, wiring, light bulbs, special building materials.
32:53Nothing unusual has turned up so far.
32:55Not in Dayton, not in the major shopping centers.
32:58It's a stone wall.
33:00How you doing?
33:02Not bad.
33:03Let's give it to him in stereo, Johnny.
33:05Come on.
33:15We took it apart and separated 14 different tracks.
33:25Recognize that?
33:27Sure not on the top 40 country western.
33:32That's part of our sound?
33:34We have to speed it up to 140 IPS.
33:38Now mix in some more long hair.
33:47Long hair for sure.
33:48This one was tough to find.
33:50Like almost impossible.
33:51We lose up to 211.9.
33:55.9?
34:01How fast do you speed that up?
34:03We don't.
34:04Slow it down to six or eight, don't we, Johnny?
34:11Put them all together and spell weirdo.
34:28Yeah, that's it.
34:30That's it, only not quite.
34:35Something's missing, right?
34:38Can't put my finger on it.
34:40That's the sound, but not exactly.
34:49Yeah, that's it.
34:50That's it.
34:51Now what's that last one?
34:53Don't tell me Johnny Cash.
34:55Johnny, kill the first three.
35:14Use 500 turbine power chop.
35:287.10 p.m., Arlen McCoy plowing his field here.
35:3220 minutes later and 38 miles from there, we have the guard sighting at the back gate.
35:37Check.
35:38About 150 knots airspeed.
35:40Okay.
35:41Move to the restaurant, 8.40 p.m.
35:43That doesn't check, Major.
35:45No, it doesn't.
35:46The restaurant's no more than 15 miles from the gate.
35:49But we didn't see it until 8.30.
35:52Whatever it was, it sure went darn slow after it left the back gate.
35:56Okay, that's one piece of the puzzle that doesn't sink.
35:58What's next?
36:00Good old Annie Butler up in the lookout tower.
36:02Time?
36:039.15.
36:05Say, 60 miles from the restaurant.
36:07Whatever it was, it got us airspeed back, huh?
36:10Annie's reading puts the UFO going out of sight about here, over that ridge.
36:16Round trip, huh, Major?
36:18Let's see if we can cancel their ticket.
36:31We're just heading to right past back gate.
37:02Mage, look at that.
37:05Next to the road.
37:07Looks like the ground's all chewed up.
37:10Put her down.
38:02I bet my next paycheck on it.
38:06What do you suppose that crash smashed down like that?
38:17What you got?
38:19Some evidence.
38:21I got a hunch that Peters didn't completely miss when he fired those shots at that saucer.
38:26And I got a hunch we just explained why the timing was out of sync.
38:57Okay, straight to the lookout tower.
39:05About 280 degrees.
39:27Okay, what was the lookout lady's reading?
39:31195 degrees.
39:34Fly the course.
39:36195 degrees.
39:43Okay, this is where Annie lost it.
39:48Major?
39:49Is that anything?
39:56I don't know.
39:58Hello?
40:27Stacy?
40:28Yeah, that's me.
40:30I'm Gatlin. This is Sergeant Fitz. We're from Right Pad.
40:33Yeah, yeah. What's on your mind?
40:35Didn't we see you at the post office Wednesday, Mr. Stacy?
40:38We sure did.
40:40You showed up just like me at Arlie McCoy's fancy interview.
40:44Can we step into your office?
40:46Yeah, come on in.
40:52What happened, Major? You confirm that as a new interceptor or what?
40:56What do you think it was? Now that you've had time to read and think about it.
41:00Wait a minute. Hold on. They're paying you to come up with the answer.
41:04You certainly had your doubts about Mr. McCoy's story.
41:07Well, sure I did, didn't you?
41:09And we think we know why you were positive it wasn't a UFO.
41:17Or a new interceptor.
41:19Tell me more.
41:20You seem to like music as well as you like flying.
41:25I certainly like classical music.
41:30I guess I could bluff it out to next Christmas if I wanted to, but if you come up with those three, wow.
41:43How did you figure it out? It was me that did it.
41:45Mr. Stacy, why don't you tell me why you did it?
41:48You see, I am losing my business here. I'm losing everything.
41:52The GI Bill's running out. They're not clamoring at me for helicopter lessons anymore.
41:57I got no charter business. Every note I've got is due. They already repossessed my other chopper.
42:05Just desperate. Just desperate in trying to save my business.
42:08To save it this way? A hoax?
42:11I had no idea all this was going to happen. I was going to make one more flight over Dayton.
42:15Just one more flight. Now that flight the other night, that was just experimental.
42:19But I was going to fly over Dayton and all those flashing lights were going to turn into a sign that said Stacy's Flight Instruction.
42:26I just thought I could bail myself out if I could get a little extra advertising. That's all.
42:31I still haven't got it figured. I know we didn't see a chopper.
42:35The chopper was lifting the UFO you saw.
42:40There. I built that saucer myself. Did the plans and everything. Started from scratch.
42:46It took me months because I was working by myself.
42:51But all the parts. We checked every wholesaler and retailer in the area. Electrical contractors.
42:56No, no. I got those parts in the mail. Everywhere from New Jersey to California.
43:00But how did you make it that nobody saw the chopper from the ground?
43:03Come on. I'll show you.
43:17Non-reflective cloth. 100 mile an hour tape.
43:21By that scale model, the real saucer must be 15 feet across.
43:24Exactly 5 meters, Major. That's a very good guess.
43:27You just lifted off with it. That took flying.
43:30Well, I made my share of pickups under fire in Korea.
43:33How did you control the sound system?
43:35Come on. I'll show you.
43:41Well, there she is.
43:44Well, there she is. The one and only.
43:52She soloed once and washed out.
43:58You controlled the lights from your cockpit?
44:00Yeah, yeah. All that's remote.
44:07That's our sound.
44:10Minus the chopper.
44:14I'll say this, Mr. Stacy.
44:16You gotta be good to get all that operating in the air without wrecking everything.
44:19Including yourself.
44:21Well, I am good. I'm just a very lousy businessman.
44:24What all happened at Wright-Patterson's back gate?
44:27What all happened was I almost got myself shot down. That's what happened.
44:30That guy started firing. I couldn't believe it.
44:33I couldn't believe it when I got hit either.
44:35I knew I was in trouble, so I just shut down the lights.
44:39I left the sound going. I just moved off.
44:41He knocked out part of the electrical system.
44:43I had to put down for emergency repairs.
44:45Yeah, we found your landing spot.
44:47But what about all that confetti?
44:49Fluorescent. Charged with a spot from above.
44:52Look it.
45:04Well, that's how it works, gentlemen.
45:06That's how it works, and I'm sorry.
45:08I'm sorry.
45:10I know it's a little late now, but I just want you to know that I am sorry about it.
45:14You were that desperate?
45:15Well, to save everything I got, you're damn right.
45:19I got the best leg that money can buy.
45:21But there's not an outfit in the country that will hire a chopper pilot with an artificial leg.
45:25But you can still fly. I'll hand you that.
45:28Well, thank you.
45:30I feel like I can do better now than I could before I lost my leg.
45:34Well, what happens?
45:35Channels.
45:36Mr. Stacy, we send everything to the proper authorities.
45:38You know about channels.
45:40Oh, yes, sir. I know all about channels just like you do.
45:43Only thing is, I think I'm in a spot you fellas don't have any experience in.
45:47What's that?
45:49I'm between a rock and a hard place.
45:52Something tells me you never been there.
46:02Ah, gentlemen.
46:04Your table by the window, please.
46:06I trust there will not be the same kind of floor show for all of us.
46:31Some things are just the same.
46:35Well, I guess she won't be sending us any drinks tonight.
46:46You ever try the squid?
46:48Major, I got news for you.
46:50I'm gonna have me one of them fine big hamburgers they got right next to Burnt,
46:54and I ain't even taking a peek out that window.
47:34THE END