1 00:02:13,216 --> 00:02:17,177 There are no American combat forces in Laos. 2 00:02:41,119 --> 00:02:46,248 At the present time, we are concerned by the North Vietnamese move into Laos. 3 00:03:04,058 --> 00:03:07,269 There are 50,000 North Vietnamese there at the present time. 4 00:04:16,881 --> 00:04:20,717 As you know, the American participation in Laos... 5 00:04:20,802 --> 00:04:23,387 is at the request of the neutralist government... 6 00:04:23,471 --> 00:04:27,182 which was set up in accordance with the 1962 accords... 7 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:32,479 which were agreed to, incidentally, by Hanoi, Peking and the Soviet Union. 8 00:04:32,563 --> 00:04:37,609 We have been providing logistical support and some training... 9 00:04:37,694 --> 00:04:39,611 for the neutralist government... 10 00:04:39,696 --> 00:04:44,825 in order to avoid Laos falling under Communist domination. 11 00:04:44,909 --> 00:04:49,037 As far as American manpower in Laos is concerned... 12 00:04:49,122 --> 00:04:52,666 there are none there at the present time on a combat basis. 13 00:05:10,518 --> 00:05:12,019 Come on. Come on! 14 00:05:38,546 --> 00:05:40,047 Get over here! 15 00:05:46,012 --> 00:05:48,096 Gene, no. 16 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:51,391 It's too late. No chance. Get back! Get back! 17 00:05:52,268 --> 00:05:54,353 - Yes, sir! - Let the trucks through. 18 00:05:55,396 --> 00:05:57,356 Son of a bitch. 19 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,109 - Gene. - Get in here! The hell with the cargo! 20 00:06:01,194 --> 00:06:02,694 Is he dead? 21 00:06:04,405 --> 00:06:08,658 Well, Rob, if he's not dead, he's very, very calm. 22 00:06:08,743 --> 00:06:10,535 Jesus, I'm sorry. 23 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:12,287 Gene, listen-Hey. 24 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:14,331 Hey. Gene. 25 00:06:15,333 --> 00:06:17,167 We're not here right now. 26 00:06:19,295 --> 00:06:21,671 - Yeah, I saw Nixon on TV. - Yeah. 27 00:06:21,756 --> 00:06:24,424 So if we�re not actually here... 28 00:06:24,509 --> 00:06:28,178 then, of course, this didn't happen. 29 00:06:28,262 --> 00:06:31,765 Well, maybe it didn't happen for you and maybe it didn't happen for Nixon... 30 00:06:31,849 --> 00:06:35,352 but... I think it happened for Doug. 31 00:06:35,436 --> 00:06:37,687 We sure are going through pilots. 32 00:06:37,772 --> 00:06:40,607 Hey, Gene, you will remember what I said. 33 00:06:41,567 --> 00:06:43,026 Well, the problem is, Rob... 34 00:06:43,111 --> 00:06:45,654 since you and I aren't here, this conversation didn't happen... 35 00:06:45,738 --> 00:06:48,240 so I can't remember what the fuck you didn't tell me. 36 00:06:49,033 --> 00:06:51,827 Damn it, Major. These pilots are such head cases. 37 00:06:51,911 --> 00:06:56,123 Yeah. And the worst part of it is we need more of 'em. 38 00:07:28,823 --> 00:07:31,575 Pushin' too hard on me 39 00:07:31,659 --> 00:07:33,577 Too hard 40 00:07:33,661 --> 00:07:35,829 Too damn hard 41 00:07:41,335 --> 00:07:46,256 Now let's go to our Eye in the Sky traffic report with our Eye in the Sky pilot, Billy Covington. 42 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:48,258 Billy, how you doin' up there? 43 00:07:48,342 --> 00:07:52,095 Well, I gotta say I think the music speaks for me, Stevie. 44 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:54,806 All I want is to just a-be free... 45 00:07:54,891 --> 00:07:58,393 live my life the way I want a-be. 46 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:00,645 Hey, how's the traffic, Billy? 47 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:04,149 Well, northbound traffic is kind of depressing, kind of sad. 48 00:08:04,233 --> 00:08:06,443 Real congested, kind of bumsy-looking there... 49 00:08:06,527 --> 00:08:08,778 to tell you 100% there, Stevie. 50 00:08:08,863 --> 00:08:13,867 We understand that there's one whale of a traffic jam out there on the 103, Billy. 51 00:08:13,951 --> 00:08:16,870 Yeah, you got that right. You know why? 52 00:08:16,954 --> 00:08:19,289 Yeah, that's why we go to you, Bill. 53 00:08:19,373 --> 00:08:21,500 Yeah, I guess so. I'll tell you why. 54 00:08:21,584 --> 00:08:25,420 Because most normal drivers turn into complete pagan rubbernecks... 55 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:28,757 'cause they think they might see a fatality, and that creates a gawker's block- 56 00:08:28,841 --> 00:08:31,134 blocks things up for a couple of miles back there. 57 00:08:31,219 --> 00:08:33,970 Kind of not unlike this complete moron here... 58 00:08:34,055 --> 00:08:38,517 in the brown 18-wheeler from Rubio Moving and Hauling. 59 00:08:38,601 --> 00:08:39,935 Excuse me, Steve. 60 00:08:40,770 --> 00:08:44,397 Hey! Move your truck. There's an ambulance trying to get to the site of an accident. 61 00:08:44,482 --> 00:08:47,609 Hey, fuck you, Eye in the Sky! 62 00:08:47,693 --> 00:08:50,278 - Fuck me? - Fuck you! 63 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:53,240 - What did you say? - I said, fuck you! 64 00:08:53,324 --> 00:08:56,660 - Man, you want a convertible? I don't think so. - Come on down here, you fuckin' punk! 65 00:08:56,744 --> 00:08:59,162 Come out here. I'll kick your whirlybird ass. 66 00:08:59,247 --> 00:09:02,999 - You little airborne piece of shit! - All right. Well, this is Rock 1080. 67 00:09:03,084 --> 00:09:06,378 And where else are you gonna get that kind of in-depth look at the LA traffic situation? 68 00:09:06,462 --> 00:09:10,465 You little worm! You should be arrested! This is very dangerous! 69 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:16,304 - I got your "Eye in the Sky" right here. - I'm gonna bust that whirlybird! 70 00:09:58,306 --> 00:10:00,974 - Hey, Billy. - Who are you? 71 00:10:01,058 --> 00:10:03,476 Sorry to hear about your fall from grace. 72 00:10:03,561 --> 00:10:07,022 You're an adventurer without an adventure. Something's wrong, really wrong. 73 00:10:07,106 --> 00:10:09,983 Well, nothing lower than a grounded pilot. Who are you? 74 00:10:10,067 --> 00:10:11,985 Let me ask you a question. 75 00:10:12,069 --> 00:10:15,113 Why did you fly down so low into that accident site? 76 00:10:15,197 --> 00:10:18,158 'Cause there was an ambulance trying to get to the scene of an accident. 77 00:10:19,076 --> 00:10:22,037 All right, I'm tired of flying a thousand feet above the action. 78 00:10:22,121 --> 00:10:24,122 - I wanna be down in it. - Just what I thought. 79 00:10:24,206 --> 00:10:29,252 Now, the same thing that got you fired off the radio can get you hired in Laos. 80 00:10:29,337 --> 00:10:32,797 - 'Cause there's a war going on over there? - In Vietnam, not in Laos. 81 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,924 You saw the president on TV. 82 00:10:35,009 --> 00:10:38,762 I saw Heckle and Jeckle on TV. That doesn't mean that I believe that birds really talk. 83 00:10:38,846 --> 00:10:41,306 - Give me a break. - Your point's well taken. 84 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:45,644 But there is no war in Laos. You can take that to the bank. 85 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:47,228 Who'd be signing my checks? 86 00:10:48,439 --> 00:10:50,899 Our outfit's called Air America. 87 00:10:50,983 --> 00:10:54,653 Strictly civilian. American pilots. Men like yourself. 88 00:10:54,737 --> 00:10:56,863 Wild men, if I may say so, Billy... 89 00:10:56,947 --> 00:11:00,700 flying cargo and refugees in the wild, wild east. 90 00:11:01,452 --> 00:11:03,036 FAA pulled my ticket. 91 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,914 Get you a new one out of Taiwan. No sweat. 92 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,000 Who the hell are you, man? 93 00:11:10,127 --> 00:11:11,628 I'm your biggest fan. 94 00:12:10,438 --> 00:12:12,230 That's nice, Rob. What's that supposed to be? 95 00:12:12,314 --> 00:12:15,233 That is the sound of the torment of war. 96 00:12:15,317 --> 00:12:20,155 See, when the enemy hears those sounds coming from your planes, they're gonna be crazed. 97 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:24,200 The North Vietnamese, they're pouring into Laos. 98 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:26,953 They're heading into Saigon on the Ho Chi Minh Trail... 99 00:12:27,037 --> 00:12:29,456 and they're hooking up with their little Commie buddies. 100 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:33,251 So we blast them with this stuff. They panic. They scatter. 101 00:12:33,335 --> 00:12:36,004 And I admit. I admit. It's a dangerous mission. 102 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:38,882 - The point is- - It is worse than dangerous. 103 00:12:38,966 --> 00:12:41,050 All right, this is embarrassing, man. 104 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:44,137 I mean, they're gonna point up at us and laugh at this shit. 105 00:12:44,221 --> 00:12:47,056 Pirelli, this tape was designed by experts... 106 00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:49,809 for maximum psychological effect. 107 00:12:51,645 --> 00:12:53,688 You got no idea who you're fighting here. 108 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:58,067 You know more about it than American intelligence, Gene. 109 00:12:58,152 --> 00:13:02,071 Rob, I wish you wouldn't use the words "American intelligence"... 110 00:13:02,156 --> 00:13:04,365 to describe what it is that you do. 111 00:13:07,495 --> 00:13:08,995 - Rob Diehl? - Yeah. 112 00:13:09,079 --> 00:13:11,748 Hi. I'm Billy Covington. 113 00:13:11,832 --> 00:13:14,918 - Oh, yeah. Yeah. Welcome. - Thanks. 114 00:13:15,002 --> 00:13:17,754 - Yeah, do you have some paperwork? - Yeah. 115 00:13:17,838 --> 00:13:20,840 - Nice bat. - Billy's one of you guys. 116 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:25,345 Yeah. Thanks. So talk to 'em. 117 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:28,765 - Hi, guys. - Hey. What's happening? 118 00:13:28,849 --> 00:13:30,391 What brings you here, Billy? 119 00:13:31,227 --> 00:13:33,019 Well, I hear there's some good flying here, huh? 120 00:13:33,687 --> 00:13:34,729 Good flying? 121 00:13:35,856 --> 00:13:39,567 That's a thought. It depends on where you're coming from, man. 122 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:42,362 Where are you coming from? 123 00:13:43,405 --> 00:13:47,116 I'm from LA, from the West Coast of the United States, man. Where you coming from? 124 00:13:47,201 --> 00:13:49,577 I'm coming from the dark side of the moon. 125 00:13:51,038 --> 00:13:52,872 And I'm going back there too, soon. 126 00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:58,002 - Golden BB's coming for me. - Can I have my bat back? 127 00:13:58,087 --> 00:14:03,883 No. Nomenclature: BB, golden. Ordnance: Personnel, Neely. 128 00:14:05,845 --> 00:14:08,263 And what about the four rounds you can't see- 129 00:14:08,347 --> 00:14:11,140 Pilot high jinks. It's their way of coping. 130 00:14:11,225 --> 00:14:13,601 Pilot high jinks? This is psychotic behavior, man. 131 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:15,603 Well, here at Air America... 132 00:14:15,688 --> 00:14:18,815 what's considered psychotic behavior anywhere else is just company polivy. 133 00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:20,358 - Gene Ryack. - Hi. 134 00:14:20,442 --> 00:14:23,736 Gene. Gene, how'd you feel about taking Billy on his orientation flight? 135 00:14:23,821 --> 00:14:26,489 - Sure. It's okay with me if it's okay with you. - Good. 136 00:14:26,574 --> 00:14:29,075 - Yeah. Let's get in the wind. - Okay, just give him the bat. 137 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,412 - This place is called Long Tieng, right? - That's right. 138 00:14:32,496 --> 00:14:36,833 I put us right about here, but the map doesn't show a town here. 139 00:14:37,585 --> 00:14:40,545 Well, then I guess, as old Rob says, "We're not here." 140 00:14:42,089 --> 00:14:46,009 Which means you're not actually seeing the second biggest city in Laos- 141 00:14:46,093 --> 00:14:48,761 built from scratch, incidentally, by the US government. 142 00:14:49,638 --> 00:14:52,140 And we don't really run 400 flights a day out of here... 143 00:14:52,224 --> 00:14:55,602 or ship a hundred tons of cargo, medicine, weapons... 144 00:14:55,686 --> 00:14:58,855 platoons of local troops, like those guys over there. 145 00:14:58,939 --> 00:15:01,608 "Anything, anywhere, anytime" - that's our motto. 146 00:15:01,692 --> 00:15:06,696 Mainly we fly C-123s, Helio Couriers and Caribous-fairly normal machines. 147 00:15:06,780 --> 00:15:10,825 But the real fun is playing with these freaky little aircraft here. 148 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,911 They're not even legal back in the States. 149 00:15:12,995 --> 00:15:16,456 - Yeah? Well, this ain't the States. - Damn right. 150 00:15:17,374 --> 00:15:19,792 Hey, what do you got today? 151 00:15:19,877 --> 00:15:22,754 Peanut butter and mayo, salami. What do you got? 152 00:15:22,838 --> 00:15:25,381 - Wife schedule. - Better not be. 153 00:15:48,322 --> 00:15:50,281 You don't seem to be having much trouble with her. 154 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:53,076 Yeah. Well, I do all right up in the air. 155 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,370 It's down on the ground that I tend to fuck up. 156 00:15:55,454 --> 00:15:58,039 Hey, you mind if I look at your logbook? 157 00:15:58,123 --> 00:16:00,041 Nah. 158 00:16:01,043 --> 00:16:03,753 Fourteen months of bush flying up in Canada. 159 00:16:03,837 --> 00:16:06,464 - Bush flying? - Yeah. Bush flying. 160 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:10,301 Two months of crop dusting outside of Fresno. 161 00:16:10,386 --> 00:16:12,845 Fresno? What a fucking hero you are. 162 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:18,434 Flew traffic for Eye in the Sky? You flew a chopper? 163 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:20,436 Excuse me. Is that an Uzi? 164 00:16:20,521 --> 00:16:23,731 Hey, you know, that would make a great TV commercial, wouldn't it? 165 00:16:23,816 --> 00:16:25,608 "Excuse me. Is that an Uzi?" 166 00:16:25,693 --> 00:16:27,735 - "Why, yes, it is." - I can't believe this guy. 167 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,321 - "Self-defense is no laughing matter." - He says no war in Laos. 168 00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:33,741 "That's why when it comes to number one, I pack an Uzi. Accept no substitutes." 169 00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:35,660 - Show him your amulet, Gene. - Look at that. 170 00:16:37,538 --> 00:16:40,957 - Yeah? What's in there? - To be honest, the ashes of my left big toe. 171 00:16:41,041 --> 00:16:43,251 Got it shot off right through the floor of the cockpit. 172 00:16:43,335 --> 00:16:45,962 - Not far from here, as a matter of fact- - You've been shot? You get shot here? 173 00:16:46,046 --> 00:16:48,089 - Me and Babo had to crash-land. - They shoot at you here? 174 00:16:48,173 --> 00:16:50,675 - Yeah. - He takes it home, cremates it... 175 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,344 - puts it in that little jar around his neck. - Wait a second. 176 00:16:53,429 --> 00:16:55,138 No one told me anything about losing toes. 177 00:16:55,222 --> 00:16:57,682 I remember the whole conversation. He never mentioned toe loss. 178 00:16:57,766 --> 00:17:00,101 - Who? - The recruiter. He never- 179 00:17:00,185 --> 00:17:03,146 Why didn't you get it sewed back on? They have doctors here. 180 00:17:03,230 --> 00:17:04,814 Well, I could have, I suppose. 181 00:17:04,898 --> 00:17:08,526 But I figured once a piece of me gets shot off, I don't really want it back anymore. 182 00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,403 Besides, it's still with us in spirit. 183 00:17:10,487 --> 00:17:12,405 - Yeah. - You understand? 184 00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:15,241 Yeah. In spirit. Toe-ism. 185 00:17:29,673 --> 00:17:35,178 Royal Asian Airlines flight 704 now arriving at Gate 12. 186 00:17:35,262 --> 00:17:38,056 Morning. Glad you could make it, sir. 187 00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:45,480 A United States senator in my backyard... 188 00:17:45,564 --> 00:17:48,524 on a goddamn fact-finding mission, no less? 189 00:17:48,609 --> 00:17:52,278 He's not gonna find out any facts, I promise. 190 00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:55,531 He's certainly not gonna find out about our little deal. 191 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:57,867 Besides, he's a dimwit. 192 00:17:57,951 --> 00:18:00,912 He had a tractor dealership before he got elected. 193 00:18:00,996 --> 00:18:04,832 Hey. Harry Truman sold cheap suits in Missouri... 194 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:08,086 and he wound up dropping an atomic bomb, okay? 195 00:18:12,716 --> 00:18:14,217 There we go. Get that. 196 00:18:27,147 --> 00:18:30,733 - Welcome to Vientiane, Senator. - Thank you, Ambassador Barlow. 197 00:18:30,818 --> 00:18:35,238 Senator Davenport, this is Major Lemond. I'm sure you've heard of him. 198 00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,907 Oh, of course. Where's the uniform, Major? 199 00:18:37,991 --> 00:18:41,953 Too hot for all those ribbons and braids, huh? You going civvy on us? 200 00:18:42,037 --> 00:18:46,666 Well, I am civilian now, sir, but I'm still air force at heart. 201 00:18:49,586 --> 00:18:52,088 Thank you very much. Put bag in big car. 202 00:18:52,172 --> 00:18:54,924 - Senator- - I know. I know. 203 00:18:55,008 --> 00:18:59,428 Sorry. No have local dinero. Give tip later, okay? 204 00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:01,764 Senator, this is General Lu Soong... 205 00:19:01,849 --> 00:19:04,642 the supreme commander of our local allied forces. 206 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,897 Hello. 207 00:19:09,982 --> 00:19:11,566 Anybody home? 208 00:19:12,734 --> 00:19:14,861 Get a load of Senator Tact here. 209 00:19:14,945 --> 00:19:19,031 When you go to France, you have General de Gaulle carry luggage? 210 00:19:19,783 --> 00:19:21,701 Rob, get the senator's bag. 211 00:19:22,744 --> 00:19:24,871 I'll just take that, sir. 212 00:19:24,955 --> 00:19:28,082 - Would you like me to take your jacket? - Thank you. Thank you. 213 00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:37,508 All right, better lighten up on that stick. We're coming in for a landing. 214 00:19:38,468 --> 00:19:40,303 Landing? Where? 215 00:19:40,387 --> 00:19:43,556 - I guess I better show you. - Show me what? Landing where? 216 00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:47,310 Oh, come on. That's not a strip. That's a mountain. 217 00:19:47,394 --> 00:19:48,936 Give me full flap-three cranks. 218 00:19:57,613 --> 00:19:59,113 Please don't do this. 219 00:20:10,584 --> 00:20:12,752 Damn. That was great. How was it for you? 220 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:26,766 Yeah. 221 00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:39,612 There's people in the woods! Guys! 222 00:20:39,696 --> 00:20:43,324 - Hey, hey. No. I know them. I know them. - Who are they? 223 00:20:43,408 --> 00:20:46,202 Well, as a matter off act, they're friends of my wife. 224 00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:49,247 The little one's my brother-in-law with a business proposition. 225 00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:50,831 Don't do that. 226 00:20:54,294 --> 00:20:55,294 Gentlemen. 227 00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:17,400 We have six crates of guns. We'll make you a great deal. 228 00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:23,489 The Russians dropped them for the Pathet Lao. 229 00:21:23,824 --> 00:21:25,825 We stole them. 230 00:21:26,827 --> 00:21:28,202 Brand new. 231 00:21:31,665 --> 00:21:35,501 I'll pay you 400 kip. 232 00:21:36,503 --> 00:21:38,921 400? Go buy a slingshot. 233 00:21:39,673 --> 00:21:40,840 800. 234 00:21:40,841 --> 00:21:42,174 Okay. 235 00:21:43,510 --> 00:21:44,427 600. 236 00:21:44,428 --> 00:21:45,511 600. Take it. 237 00:21:50,892 --> 00:21:53,561 Brother-in-laws are the same all over the world, huh? 238 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:56,856 He's bleeding me dry. But... deal. 239 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:17,543 This is supposed to be my initiation flight. You use it to run some private scam. 240 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,879 Welcome to the Orient. 241 00:22:21,214 --> 00:22:24,050 This is not a scam. It's a retirement plan. 242 00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:26,761 I've been flying 15 years and I haven't got a pot to piss in... 243 00:22:26,845 --> 00:22:29,347 and I want my chunk of the American dream, okay? 244 00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,391 Running guns. 245 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:42,735 Okay, this is the hard part. 246 00:22:43,612 --> 00:22:46,113 Yeah, I notice. No radar. 247 00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:48,074 That's right. Just dead reckoning. 248 00:22:50,202 --> 00:22:51,744 I can handle it. 249 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:53,954 Good. 250 00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,969 Hey, Gene, sit down. Hey, check this out. 251 00:23:11,431 --> 00:23:13,265 It's pretty good, huh? 252 00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:33,994 Well, hey! 253 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:38,916 Okay, we almost hit that at 3,700 feet. 254 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,419 - There any higher peaks than that around here? - Wait till you see this. 255 00:23:41,503 --> 00:23:46,090 We're at 3,700 feet. There any higher peaks than 3,700 feet around here? 256 00:23:47,217 --> 00:23:49,343 - Yeah. - I need a green. 257 00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:51,387 - Don't use mine. Use yours. - Yes. 258 00:23:51,471 --> 00:23:54,932 Listen, guys, we're gonna have to establish a new safety elevation. 259 00:23:55,016 --> 00:23:59,645 - I was going for that. You did that on purpose. - I'll tell you the reason why. 260 00:23:59,729 --> 00:24:03,274 The last time you colored the sky all flesh-colored. It looked stupid. 261 00:24:03,358 --> 00:24:06,610 Are we south or east of the landing field? Guys! 262 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,780 Guys, are we south or east of the landing field? 263 00:24:09,865 --> 00:24:11,991 East! Don't bother me when I'm coloring, all right? 264 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:15,327 - I'm gonna draw a line. Stay on your side. - It's my book. 265 00:24:15,412 --> 00:24:19,331 You wanna draw in my book, you stay there. You're drawing over the lines. 266 00:24:35,849 --> 00:24:39,185 Hey, Senator, let us show you the real Laos. 267 00:24:42,063 --> 00:24:44,106 Sir, he's getting out. 268 00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:46,150 Senator. Senator, wait a minute. 269 00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:49,028 Senator, sir, those pilots are drunk. 270 00:24:49,112 --> 00:24:52,781 No, son, they're not just drunk. They're drunk Americans. 271 00:24:52,866 --> 00:24:54,366 Hey, fellas. 272 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:57,119 Hey, fellas, pitchin' a little woo, are ya? 273 00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:00,706 Now, don't be embarrassed, fellas. 274 00:25:00,790 --> 00:25:03,584 I know I may look like an old stick-in-the-mud. 275 00:25:03,668 --> 00:25:05,127 But back before I found the Lord... 276 00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:07,880 I partook of wine, women and song on a number of continents. 277 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:12,635 But on a serious note, fellas... 278 00:25:12,719 --> 00:25:15,304 even though none of you�ll ever wear any shiny medals... 279 00:25:15,388 --> 00:25:16,972 or be mentioned in the history books... 280 00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:18,641 there's a few of us back in Washington... 281 00:25:18,725 --> 00:25:21,435 who know exactly what you're doing for the war effort. 282 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,978 - This guy's great. - Yeah. 283 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:24,772 Could you explain it to us? 284 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:35,658 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 285 00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:48,379 - It's just as heavy as Vietnam. - No, no, no, no. 286 00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:50,339 You never compare the two. 287 00:25:50,423 --> 00:25:55,761 Now, Vietnam is a war for niggers and no-necks. 288 00:25:55,845 --> 00:25:58,514 Excuse the language. It's the Mai Tai talking. 289 00:25:58,598 --> 00:26:02,518 But this is a gentleman's war. 290 00:26:02,602 --> 00:26:04,687 This is a thinking man's war. 291 00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:05,938 Hello. 292 00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:09,942 Corinne Landreaux, this is Billy Covington. 293 00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:14,780 She does all sorts of noble humanitarian things for our little Asian brothers up in the hills. 294 00:26:14,864 --> 00:26:17,908 - Thanks. - Honey, I kid because I care. Okay? 295 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:23,080 You know what the whole problem with the Vietnam War is, Billy? 296 00:26:24,332 --> 00:26:28,919 It's too public. See, a secret war is the way to go. 297 00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:32,756 No reporters, no TV. You black out the war. 298 00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:35,217 Like a pro football game. 299 00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:37,469 And you know what? Do you know what? 300 00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:40,806 We can't lose. 301 00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:45,019 - Can I ask you one thing? - Yeah, sure. 302 00:26:45,103 --> 00:26:49,148 Is it a kinky turn-on for you to bring your girlfriend to a whorehouse with you? 303 00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:52,735 This is not just a whorehouse, friend. 304 00:26:52,819 --> 00:26:55,946 - This is a place where men talk business. - Business? 305 00:26:56,031 --> 00:26:58,824 I was just getting used to this being a war. 306 00:26:58,908 --> 00:27:00,534 Excuse me. 307 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,786 Who told you they were two different things? 308 00:27:03,788 --> 00:27:05,831 Rob, I need you outside now. 309 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,167 And I need you clear-headed, goddamn it. 310 00:27:21,389 --> 00:27:23,057 Something on your mind, Rob? 311 00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:25,351 I was just wondering what the Pepsi-Cola people would think... 312 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:28,771 if they knew what was happening here now that they're gone. 313 00:27:28,855 --> 00:27:32,274 - Well, don't you ever wonder about that? - No, Rob, I don't. 314 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,569 I wonder how many pilots already know about this place. 315 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:43,619 This stuff's good. Really good, Major. 316 00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:45,204 Do you want to try some? 317 00:27:45,872 --> 00:27:49,667 With all due respect, General, I'm not here for a taste test, okay? 318 00:27:49,751 --> 00:27:52,628 I am here to ask you again. 319 00:27:52,712 --> 00:27:57,716 Please, let's shut this lab down for one week only, just while the senator is here. 320 00:27:57,801 --> 00:28:03,138 Why don't you just tell baggage man senator to go home now, kick out? 321 00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:06,892 Well, I wish it was that easy, General. 322 00:28:06,976 --> 00:28:10,896 And in a civilized country like yours, it would be. 323 00:28:11,564 --> 00:28:16,610 But in this case, it's just easier to shut down this lab. 324 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:20,239 Then you and me be poor men and cannot pay for war. 325 00:28:20,323 --> 00:28:24,451 If we don't sell heroin, no money to feed my soldiers. 326 00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:28,330 No, Major. Better you and me stay good friends. 327 00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:32,710 You take care of silly suitcase man. Yes? 328 00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:36,463 Of course, General. 329 00:28:37,257 --> 00:28:41,427 As always, you are thinking more clearly than me. 330 00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:03,574 Is there something wrong? 331 00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:05,826 Just that I'm used to being the weirdest guy in the room... 332 00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:07,911 and all of a sudden, I'm not even in the running. 333 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:11,790 Don't sell yourself short. You can be as weird as anyone here. 334 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,418 Sure, kid. All it takes is a little time. 335 00:29:15,503 --> 00:29:17,713 I just feel like I'm on this roller coaster... 336 00:29:17,797 --> 00:29:21,800 of bar girls and strange, squiggly signs and weird vehicles... 337 00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:23,886 and more bar girls and Mai Tais- 338 00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,931 - What the fuck am I doing here? - Hey, I ask myself that question all the time. 339 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:31,018 - Why am I here? - Why am I here? 340 00:29:31,102 --> 00:29:33,103 Why am I here? 341 00:29:35,565 --> 00:29:38,317 There you are-a little taste of the States. You feel better? 342 00:29:38,401 --> 00:29:42,070 - Yeah. Everything�s back to normal now. - Good. 343 00:29:57,003 --> 00:30:00,172 - Nice silencer. - I am a very considerate person. 344 00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:05,928 If I wanna go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards... 345 00:30:06,012 --> 00:30:08,597 well, no reason to keep the neighbors awake. 346 00:30:08,681 --> 00:30:10,557 You follow me? 347 00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:14,812 - You follow me, punk? - Yeah. At a distance. 348 00:30:19,192 --> 00:30:22,236 You're all right. Fuckin' punk. 349 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,780 - Thank you. - Bet Jack�s the only man you ever met... 350 00:30:24,864 --> 00:30:27,157 who built his own personal miniature golf course, huh? 351 00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:30,911 Hey, I got a concept. What do you say you open this place up to the public... 352 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,996 and charge admission, Jack? 353 00:30:33,081 --> 00:30:36,959 You guys can do that after I'm gone. I'm leaving it to y'all in my will. 354 00:30:37,043 --> 00:30:38,961 Come on now, save it, will ya? 355 00:30:39,045 --> 00:30:41,588 No, wait. Jack's got a point here. Come on, let's face it. 356 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,132 The old-timers aren't in line for any government pension. 357 00:30:44,217 --> 00:30:47,678 Each pilot has to work out his own retirement scam. 358 00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:49,930 - Hey, Gino. - Yo. 359 00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:51,890 How's your floating guns and ammo shop doing? 360 00:30:51,975 --> 00:30:55,060 You building up some inventory or what? Ain't you ever gonna sell? 361 00:30:56,229 --> 00:30:58,480 Never make a move too soon, Nick. 362 00:30:58,565 --> 00:31:00,482 - I got a foolproof scam. - Oh, yeah? 363 00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:04,361 Yeah. I'm gonna take my money... You're gonna wind up back in Coney Island... 364 00:31:04,445 --> 00:31:07,573 flying a Coppertone banner over the beach... 365 00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:10,075 and telling war stories in bars. 366 00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:20,210 The golden BB is coming up to Neely now 367 00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:23,589 Coming up to Neely now 368 00:31:28,011 --> 00:31:29,595 Why you do that? 369 00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:32,014 Why the fuck did you do that? 370 00:31:32,098 --> 00:31:34,099 - Take it easy! - You fucking moron! 371 00:31:41,232 --> 00:31:43,442 - Professionalism. - Two shot. 372 00:31:44,944 --> 00:31:46,945 How often do you guys go on a bender like this? 373 00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:50,115 Bender? Nah, this isn't a bender. This is just nighttime. 374 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:24,274 O.V., wake Billy up. I gotta take him to work. 375 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:33,367 Up and at 'em, junior. Come on. Get up. Get up! 376 00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:49,174 It's okay. The kid likes to fly. 377 00:33:24,127 --> 00:33:26,128 Hey, hey! 378 00:33:26,212 --> 00:33:27,462 Hey! 379 00:33:31,092 --> 00:33:32,843 Fuck you, Gene! 380 00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:43,186 Good morning! 381 00:35:06,437 --> 00:35:07,896 - Gene. - Morning, Rob. 382 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:13,235 Morning. You pick up one Senator Davenport at the VIP lounge at the Vientiane Airport... 383 00:35:13,319 --> 00:35:15,987 and you take him up to the refugee camp at Ben Luc. 384 00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:19,616 Course you keep your lip completely zipped on the subject of this air base. 385 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:24,246 And if he's dying for a bit of local action, you just dazzle him with bullshit. 386 00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:26,248 Well, we got nothing else to dazzle him with. 387 00:35:26,332 --> 00:35:28,834 And it is such dazzling bullshit, Rob. See you later. 388 00:35:32,463 --> 00:35:35,799 Listen, don't fuck around with the senator, okay? 389 00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:39,302 - I don't know what you mean, Major. - Keep things on a need-to-know basis. 390 00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:43,140 Oh, you mean treat him like a mushroom. Keep him in the dark and feed him on shit. 391 00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,859 Hey, Gene, what's that guy doing to your plane, man? 392 00:35:53,943 --> 00:35:56,695 He's purifying it. It's a Buddhist ritual. 393 00:36:14,505 --> 00:36:15,630 Gene. 394 00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:21,052 - Senator. - Is the secret air base around here? 395 00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:23,346 Which secret air base would that be, sir? 396 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:28,894 Why do I get the feeling I'm being kept out of the loop? 397 00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:32,147 What do I know? I'm only boy for carrying luggage bags. 398 00:36:32,231 --> 00:36:36,651 Oh, now, please, General, don't pout about that. I apologized. 399 00:36:36,736 --> 00:36:39,446 If anything, I should be carrying your luggage. 400 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:43,617 That's how much the United States government values your support. 401 00:36:45,411 --> 00:36:49,581 I hear talk that maybe America stop war and leave Southeast Asia... 402 00:36:49,665 --> 00:36:52,000 not take any suitcase with them. 403 00:36:52,084 --> 00:36:54,002 General, if things get... 404 00:36:54,086 --> 00:36:57,547 too hairy for us politically and we do have to bug out... 405 00:36:58,257 --> 00:37:00,050 we'll bring you back to the States with us. 406 00:37:00,134 --> 00:37:03,553 - We take care of our buddies. - You take care of shit. 407 00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,430 I beg your pardon. 408 00:37:05,514 --> 00:37:08,433 We've made Marshall Ky in Vietnam a very nice offer. 409 00:37:08,517 --> 00:37:10,018 - Marshall Ky? - Yes, sir. 410 00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:12,520 I know Marshall Ky. He's small-time. 411 00:37:12,605 --> 00:37:15,899 He want to have liquor store in America when ending war. 412 00:37:15,983 --> 00:37:20,070 I not going from being warlord to being liquor store owner. 413 00:37:22,907 --> 00:37:27,077 Why don't you tell the senator what you really want, General? 414 00:37:27,161 --> 00:37:29,287 Go ahead. Don't be bashful. 415 00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:34,292 Holiday Inn. Southern California. 416 00:37:34,377 --> 00:37:36,044 Own and operate. 417 00:37:38,464 --> 00:37:39,965 That might be difficult. 418 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:45,804 - You find all this amusing, do you? - I sure do. 419 00:37:45,888 --> 00:37:47,430 But hell, Senator... 420 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:50,809 if you can't laugh at war, what's the use of fighting, huh? 421 00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:55,730 You got a good point there. 422 00:38:25,011 --> 00:38:27,679 Excuse me. Wanna tell me what that tin horn general is doing in my camp? 423 00:38:27,763 --> 00:38:30,015 Corinne, have you met US Senator Davenport? 424 00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:33,852 Welcome, Senator. 425 00:38:33,936 --> 00:38:36,646 I'm Corinne Landreaux, USAID. 426 00:38:36,731 --> 00:38:38,231 May I show you around? 427 00:38:40,151 --> 00:38:43,903 Bosses picked a hell of a spot to put you- right in the heart of opium country. 428 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:47,741 My first choice was Kansas. But apparently, it's unavailable. 429 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:50,785 - This is all mountains and poppy fields. - Yeah. 430 00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:53,079 What do you figure you got here, two, three weeks? 431 00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:56,374 Yeah. At best. And then we fold up tents and leave. 432 00:38:56,459 --> 00:38:57,959 Noble work, Miss Landreaux. 433 00:38:58,044 --> 00:39:00,795 - This is truly noble work. - Thank you, Senator. 434 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,340 Senator, I'll meet you back at the plane. I'll see you later, Corinne. 435 00:39:03,424 --> 00:39:04,924 Thanks, Gene. 436 00:39:08,512 --> 00:39:10,221 Look at that little devil operate. 437 00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:14,726 General Soong's come here to shanghai all these men and boys for his private army. 438 00:39:14,810 --> 00:39:16,936 Well, now, shanghai's an ugly word. 439 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,646 Well, how would you describe what he's doing? 440 00:39:18,731 --> 00:39:22,108 - Well, I'd say he's showing a lot of charisma. - Charisma? 441 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:26,529 What you got to remember, Miss Landreaux, is these people have different values than you and I. 442 00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:30,617 But the nice part is, we're all pulling together for the same cause. 443 00:39:30,701 --> 00:39:32,285 The same cause. 444 00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:35,455 General Soong's only cause is General Soong. 445 00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:38,583 Don't you get it, Senator? The CIA flies drugs for him. 446 00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:41,544 In return, he loans us his troops. Plus, he's kicking money back into the CIA- 447 00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:45,090 You know what? You've been working your little fanny off... 448 00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:47,801 in this hot sun for a darn good cause. 449 00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:51,596 And God bless you for it. But you're starting to rave. 450 00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:55,266 I think you need a little air conditioning. 451 00:39:59,438 --> 00:40:02,190 Have a nice day, Senator. Thanks for coming. 452 00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:07,112 You do me great honor for come to Nino's, excellency. 453 00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:11,699 - Thank you, Nino. - Thank you. Thank you. 454 00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:17,247 Now, frankly, gentlemen, I'm concerned. 455 00:40:17,331 --> 00:40:20,208 We're not children in Congress. Now, we know General Song- 456 00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:22,335 - Soong. - Soong. 457 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:25,380 Is up to some kind of hanky-panky with opium and whatnot. 458 00:40:25,464 --> 00:40:27,966 Now, nobody's perfect, not even our allies. 459 00:40:30,636 --> 00:40:32,345 But seriously... 460 00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:36,391 when we hear rumors of Americans lining their own pockets with dope money... 461 00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:38,726 gentlemen, that endangers this entire war. 462 00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:42,564 Now, I wanna know the truth. 463 00:40:42,648 --> 00:40:45,483 I'm afraid we've been keeping the truth from you, sir. 464 00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:47,735 We have reason to suspect... 465 00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:51,114 that our planes are being used to fly opium from the highlands... 466 00:40:51,198 --> 00:40:55,118 down here to Vientiane, where it is processed into heroin. 467 00:40:55,202 --> 00:40:57,620 Dear God. Christ. 468 00:40:57,705 --> 00:40:59,956 Why wasn't I told about this before? 469 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,626 Senator, we've made a grave mistake. 470 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:08,756 We were trying to protect the good name of our pilots, sir. 471 00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:10,717 You mean our pilots... 472 00:41:12,636 --> 00:41:14,596 are involved in smuggling narcotics? 473 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,182 Not all of them, sir. 474 00:41:17,266 --> 00:41:19,476 Just a few rotten apples. 475 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,896 They know we can't inspect every piece of cargo... 476 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:25,148 and so they take advantage of our trust. 477 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:28,860 - Do you know who they are? - We'll find out. 478 00:41:28,944 --> 00:41:31,362 I pledge to you, sir... 479 00:41:32,364 --> 00:41:34,157 we'll find those rotten apples. 480 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:27,710 Hey, General, what's the cargo? 481 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:29,420 None of your business. 482 00:42:31,966 --> 00:42:33,591 Covington, your cargo's loaded. 483 00:42:35,427 --> 00:42:37,262 Here's your copilot. 484 00:42:39,139 --> 00:42:40,848 Enjoy the animals, fellas. 485 00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:45,770 What? 486 00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:48,648 I got a bad feeling this morning. 487 00:42:49,316 --> 00:42:52,902 Don't worry about it. We're not gonna run into any golden BB's, okay? 488 00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:54,487 - I'll be your good-luck charm. - Right. 489 00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:56,239 No BB's, no bullets, no bombs. 490 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:16,968 Rice drop's coming up first, then the three little pigs. 491 00:43:17,052 --> 00:43:19,887 There's no destination on this last cargo. 492 00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:22,432 That General Soong guy was supervising the on-load. 493 00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:25,184 What kind of cargo would that be? 494 00:43:28,647 --> 00:43:30,148 Coming up to a 12:00. 495 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,529 All right, first drop zone's coming up. 496 00:43:39,074 --> 00:43:40,366 Stand by. 497 00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:43,786 All right, coming up on it. 498 00:43:46,665 --> 00:43:49,542 Looking good. Airspeed's good. 499 00:43:50,919 --> 00:43:52,754 Altitude's good. 500 00:43:59,303 --> 00:44:04,349 Three, two, one. 501 00:44:05,142 --> 00:44:05,892 Now. 502 00:44:14,193 --> 00:44:16,277 Cargo's gone! It's gone! Kwahn's gone! 503 00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:17,820 - Kwahn? - He went out the back. 504 00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:20,114 - What do we do? Did he have a chute on? - No. 505 00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:22,367 What do we do? We gonna go back for him? 506 00:44:22,451 --> 00:44:25,912 - No. You never go back. Never go back. - What? 507 00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:27,622 What do you mean? You just lost your kicker, man. 508 00:44:27,706 --> 00:44:29,290 - You never go back. - Don't you get it? 509 00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:30,875 - He just went out the back. - Keep it steady. 510 00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:38,091 You meet someone, and then they die, you know- 511 00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:43,888 They should wear chutes all the time. 512 00:44:51,021 --> 00:44:52,230 Hey! Come on! 513 00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:57,944 That's not funny, okay? That's not funny. 514 00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:08,579 Hey, Billy, how's it going? 515 00:45:09,540 --> 00:45:11,749 It's great. 516 00:45:15,087 --> 00:45:18,631 Now, listen, Nino's serving up some lobster tonight... 517 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:20,633 but you gotta order it in advance. 518 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,219 - You up for some of that, Jack? - Lobster again? 519 00:45:23,303 --> 00:45:25,638 Yeah, if I'm still alive, I'd like some lobster. 520 00:45:25,723 --> 00:45:29,851 Good, good. I'll radio on ahead to make some reservations... 521 00:45:29,935 --> 00:45:32,311 have Nino chill a bottle of M�con-Villages. 522 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:34,772 - 9:00 okay for you guys? - Yeah. Great. 523 00:45:34,857 --> 00:45:36,566 - Roger that. - Peachy. 524 00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:41,487 - Hell of a war, man. - Yeah. 525 00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:44,574 340. 12:00 coming up. 526 00:45:44,658 --> 00:45:46,159 Stand by. 527 00:45:54,042 --> 00:45:56,043 Coming up on it. 528 00:45:56,128 --> 00:45:59,589 Three, two, one. 529 00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:01,132 Now. 530 00:46:21,361 --> 00:46:22,361 Shit! 531 00:46:22,446 --> 00:46:24,947 Ow! Jesus Christ! 532 00:46:25,908 --> 00:46:27,450 Hey! Quit it! 533 00:46:31,663 --> 00:46:32,663 Jesus! 534 00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:36,459 - Who the hell's shooting at us? - Over here, everybody shoots at us. 535 00:46:40,881 --> 00:46:44,634 All right, I'm not gonna die dropping pigs from the sky. That's not gonna happen. 536 00:46:44,718 --> 00:46:47,094 - No! - The golden BB. 537 00:46:47,179 --> 00:46:49,847 I knew it. I knew it. 538 00:46:49,932 --> 00:46:51,516 Just a question of when. 539 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:56,062 The golden BB. I knew you were coming for me, you son of a bitch. I told you. 540 00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,439 I saw it in the mirror this morning when I cut myself shaving- 541 00:46:58,524 --> 00:47:00,691 bright as the sun-coming right at me. 542 00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:09,283 We're hit! Number two! Jack, we're hit! Number two! 543 00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:12,370 - Pull the extinguishers! - There goes an engine. Of course. 544 00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:21,170 Hey, wake up, man! Check the oil pressure. 545 00:47:22,130 --> 00:47:24,298 - Oil pressure. - Check the oil pressure. Oil pressure! 546 00:47:24,383 --> 00:47:27,426 - Oil pressure dropping. - Okay, check number one. 547 00:47:29,012 --> 00:47:30,638 Number one's okay. 548 00:47:30,722 --> 00:47:33,975 Hey, is 9:30 okay at Nino's? He said he can't get us a table- 549 00:47:34,059 --> 00:47:37,270 Gene, we're hit. We're badly hit. We're throwing fuel. We're going down. 550 00:47:37,354 --> 00:47:40,064 - Are you still in gun range? - Yes! 551 00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:44,735 Change your altitude and heading every few seconds. Jack, give me a location. 552 00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:50,199 Hey, Jack! Got a minute? Location! Stop snoozing. 553 00:47:53,078 --> 00:47:54,871 Two miles south of Tango Seven. 554 00:47:55,914 --> 00:48:00,001 There's an old Jap airstrip just the other side of Tango Seven. Can you make it? 555 00:48:01,128 --> 00:48:04,422 - Doubt it. - Come on, man. You can make it. 556 00:48:05,090 --> 00:48:07,592 Geez! I'll make it. 557 00:48:07,676 --> 00:48:11,053 - Come right 10 degrees. - Welcome back. Where you been? 558 00:48:11,972 --> 00:48:13,472 Did I leave? 559 00:48:18,645 --> 00:48:20,771 Wild Dog to Base. Wild Dog to Base. 560 00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:24,775 Pilots in jeopardy over near Tango Seven. Am heading over there now. 561 00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:28,863 Maintain course, Wild Dog. We'll send a recon plane. 562 00:48:28,947 --> 00:48:31,115 Base to Wild Dog, do you copy? 563 00:48:31,867 --> 00:48:33,618 Wild Dog to base, fuck off. 564 00:48:38,790 --> 00:48:41,459 - Okay, where we at? - You see it? 565 00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:44,420 - No, I don't see it. - Right there. 1:00. 566 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:48,132 Okay, I got it. Let's get the landing gear down. Let's go. 567 00:48:48,216 --> 00:48:49,717 Coming down. 568 00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:53,346 - Shit. - What? 569 00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:56,223 It's not going down. 570 00:48:56,308 --> 00:48:58,643 - Don't worry about it. Go to manual. - Got it. 571 00:49:04,483 --> 00:49:06,609 - What do we got? - Nothing so far. 572 00:49:07,611 --> 00:49:11,447 Okay, forget it. We're gonna jump. Kwahn! Put your chute on. 573 00:49:16,370 --> 00:49:20,039 You too, Neely. Neely, let it go. Put on your parachute, man. Come on. 574 00:49:20,123 --> 00:49:22,041 - I'm riding in with you. - No, you're not. 575 00:49:22,125 --> 00:49:24,919 You're gonna listen to what I say. Put on your parachute. I want you off. 576 00:49:26,672 --> 00:49:29,423 Kwahn, when I level out, you gotta jump, okay? 577 00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,842 - I'm taking it in with you. - No, you're not. 578 00:49:33,303 --> 00:49:35,763 The only thing God intended to drop from the sky is bird shit. 579 00:49:35,847 --> 00:49:37,848 Yeah, I know. You and bird shit, okay? 580 00:49:37,933 --> 00:49:39,850 Bird shit and you. That's a new amendment. 581 00:49:39,935 --> 00:49:43,312 Bird shit and catatonic pilots. Jump! 582 00:49:51,405 --> 00:49:53,406 Okay, he's off. You're next. 583 00:49:54,491 --> 00:49:57,827 They say you're most vulnerable when you're floating down in a parachute. 584 00:49:57,911 --> 00:50:00,454 Just my luck I'll get a golden BB right up my ass. 585 00:50:00,539 --> 00:50:03,290 If it doesn't open, use your reserve. 586 00:50:03,375 --> 00:50:07,169 - Suppose I don't have a reserve? - Okay, get off! Get off, man, please! 587 00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:09,922 - You ass- - See you down there. Good luck. 588 00:50:14,761 --> 00:50:19,598 I have never, ever, ever had to jump out of an airplane before. 589 00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:23,894 I'm a fucking den mother. 590 00:50:31,987 --> 00:50:34,572 Okay, can you run, man? Let's go. 591 00:50:46,084 --> 00:50:48,753 What the fuck are you doing back here? 592 00:50:48,837 --> 00:50:51,797 - I forgot my Nikon. - Yeah? Here it is. 593 00:50:51,882 --> 00:50:53,841 - You gonna stop fucking with me? - Give me the camera! 594 00:50:53,925 --> 00:50:55,593 - You gonna get off the plane? - Yeah! 595 00:50:55,677 --> 00:50:57,845 You put on your parachute! 596 00:50:57,929 --> 00:50:59,513 I'm afraid of heights. 597 00:51:11,818 --> 00:51:14,570 Okay. Jump! 598 00:51:16,531 --> 00:51:17,990 Jump! 599 00:51:18,992 --> 00:51:20,493 Bye now. 600 00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:46,704 Oh, shit! 601 00:52:50,876 --> 00:52:51,876 Shit! 602 00:53:00,552 --> 00:53:03,387 Oh, God- 603 00:54:01,863 --> 00:54:05,115 Come in, Billy. Billy, come in. Give me voice, please. 604 00:54:18,463 --> 00:54:21,090 Hey, Neely, are you satisfied or disappointed that we're still alive? 605 00:54:21,174 --> 00:54:26,428 The jungle is full of Communist soldiers and bandits and tribes of fucking headhunters, okay? 606 00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:28,889 - We're not alive yet. - Okay. 607 00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,393 - Want a piece of Juicy Fruit? - No, I do not. 608 00:54:32,477 --> 00:54:33,978 - You sure? - Yes, I'm sure. 609 00:54:34,062 --> 00:54:37,856 - We going home. - Soon, Kwahn. 610 00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:40,442 No. We going home now. Look. 611 00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:44,280 Look. We going home. 612 00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:15,811 Hey. 613 00:55:28,366 --> 00:55:29,867 Good afternoon. 614 00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,036 Yep. 615 00:55:33,872 --> 00:55:35,497 Hi there, General. 616 00:55:38,585 --> 00:55:40,836 Yeah, I guess you missed us back there, huh? 617 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,464 Sure is nice to see some friendlies around here... 618 00:55:43,548 --> 00:55:45,049 I'll tell you, man. 619 00:55:45,884 --> 00:55:47,760 Got a couple dings on it. 620 00:55:48,845 --> 00:55:51,263 Sure hope they don't take it out of my paycheck, you know. 621 00:55:53,183 --> 00:55:56,226 Yeah. Nothing a couple days in the shop won't fix, I guess. 622 00:55:59,147 --> 00:56:00,814 Let me give you a hand here. 623 00:56:07,405 --> 00:56:10,240 Guess you're in a hurry, huh? Wouldn't wanna stick around here too long, huh? 624 00:56:11,576 --> 00:56:13,077 God, these are heavy. 625 00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:14,828 Gonna be a tight squeeze, huh? 626 00:56:16,456 --> 00:56:19,333 Hey, man. Come on, guys. 627 00:56:19,417 --> 00:56:21,001 Hey, what about us? 628 00:56:21,086 --> 00:56:25,255 Hey! Hey! Hey, you! Hey! 629 00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:27,674 You're not taking us? 630 00:56:27,759 --> 00:56:31,428 - Let it go, Billy. - Goddamn it! 631 00:56:32,430 --> 00:56:34,098 Stop! 632 00:56:46,653 --> 00:56:50,030 We no go home now. 633 00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:52,366 Opium go home now. 634 00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:55,828 What? There was opium on that? 635 00:56:55,912 --> 00:56:57,621 You said it-opium. 636 00:56:58,581 --> 00:57:00,958 And he took his opium instead of us? 637 00:57:01,042 --> 00:57:02,584 You helped him load it, pal. 638 00:57:14,806 --> 00:57:18,058 Hey, fellas, when we get to the strip, you go north and I'll search this side. 639 00:57:18,143 --> 00:57:23,313 We'll find 'em. And if we hurry, we can still make that 9:30 table at Nino's. 640 00:57:23,398 --> 00:57:25,858 Sounds good, Gene. We'll see you there. 641 00:57:30,655 --> 00:57:33,198 Come on. Where is everybody? 642 00:57:37,829 --> 00:57:39,329 Quit it, okay? 643 00:58:00,351 --> 00:58:03,020 There's a little trouble off your right wing down there in the jungle, boys. 644 00:58:03,104 --> 00:58:07,107 We got the other team moving in on our buddies-crawling with black pajamas. 645 00:58:35,011 --> 00:58:36,929 Billy, move! 646 00:58:50,235 --> 00:58:51,235 Hey, Pirelli! 647 00:59:02,038 --> 00:59:03,413 I'm quitting. 648 00:59:19,430 --> 00:59:21,431 - Got any extra holes in you? - No. 649 00:59:21,516 --> 00:59:25,060 Wild Dog to Base. Wild Dog to Base. Unfriendlies near Tango Seven. 650 00:59:25,144 --> 00:59:30,232 Unfriendlies? Everyone's unfriendly here! Even the friendlies are unfriendly. 651 00:59:30,316 --> 00:59:33,277 - Why is everyone so unfriendly? - Well, they haven't gotten to know us yet. 652 00:59:36,531 --> 00:59:39,283 - Why are they shootin' at us? - Because they're unfriendly. 653 00:59:48,251 --> 00:59:52,713 - You're losing oil pressure in the gearbox. - That's nothing. I lost tail rotor response. 654 00:59:53,923 --> 00:59:55,966 Put your belt on. 655 00:59:59,804 --> 01:00:01,680 I don't wanna crash twice in one day! 656 01:00:01,764 --> 01:00:04,516 Don't worry. I crash better than anyone I know. 657 01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:07,894 - Gene! You're at 40! - Yup. 658 01:00:10,857 --> 01:00:13,233 - You're redlining! - Yup. 659 01:00:13,318 --> 01:00:15,694 - Gene, watch the controls! You're redlining! - Yeah. 660 01:00:17,739 --> 01:00:19,823 Gene, you gotta auto rotate now! 661 01:00:19,907 --> 01:00:24,286 Wild Dog to Base! We're going in, approximately 3/4 of a mile southwest of Tango Seven. 662 01:00:48,519 --> 01:00:50,228 Hell of a rescue, huh? 663 01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:52,773 I thought you had this helicopter blessed this morning. 664 01:00:52,857 --> 01:00:56,443 I did. I had a feeling the monk wasn't concentrating that well. 665 01:00:56,527 --> 01:00:58,737 There's no two ways about it, you know? We gotta drop. 666 01:00:58,821 --> 01:01:01,990 - No, man. - Yeah. We gotta drop. We're sniper bait. 667 01:01:02,075 --> 01:01:03,784 What's the procedure? Who goes first? 668 01:01:03,868 --> 01:01:08,413 There's not really any hard and fast rules about crashing straight through a cockpit. 669 01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:10,290 - Why don't you go first? - No, I don't wanna go first. 670 01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:12,376 - Okay, okay. I'll go first. - No, I don't wanna go second. 671 01:01:12,460 --> 01:01:14,294 All right. Okay. We'll toss a coin. 672 01:01:15,213 --> 01:01:17,673 - Call. - Tails. 673 01:01:19,258 --> 01:01:21,885 - Is that heads? Tails? What is that? - Tails. 674 01:01:21,969 --> 01:01:23,470 - That's heads, isn't it? - That's tails. 675 01:01:23,554 --> 01:01:25,097 I'll go and look, okay? 676 01:01:41,197 --> 01:01:44,408 Come on. Pretty soft. 677 01:01:45,451 --> 01:01:47,119 I hate going second. 678 01:02:05,096 --> 01:02:08,390 That fall seemed to go pretty well, all things considered. 679 01:02:20,069 --> 01:02:23,488 - We should get moving. - Okay. Okay. 680 01:02:23,573 --> 01:02:27,117 - Can you walk? - Walk? What do you mean, walk? 681 01:02:27,201 --> 01:02:28,994 We're in the middle of the goddamn jungle. 682 01:02:54,896 --> 01:02:58,440 Give me voice. Gene, Billy, give me voice. 683 01:03:00,651 --> 01:03:04,237 Gene, Billy, it's Jack. Come in. 684 01:03:04,322 --> 01:03:06,281 Come on, guys. Let me hear from you. Over. 685 01:03:23,216 --> 01:03:27,302 Pirelli to Gene. Pirelli to Billy. Where are you? Over. 686 01:03:32,225 --> 01:03:34,017 Billy, Gene. Do you read me? 687 01:03:56,165 --> 01:03:58,291 You know, I swiped some things when I was a kid. 688 01:03:59,836 --> 01:04:03,380 Wiffle Balls, model airplanes, stuff like that. 689 01:04:03,464 --> 01:04:06,383 I've used a fake I.D. to drink underage. I've smoked a little reefer. 690 01:04:06,467 --> 01:04:08,969 I've performed oral sex in states where it's against the law. 691 01:04:09,053 --> 01:04:12,889 But until I worked for my own government, I never, ever, smuggled dope. 692 01:04:13,558 --> 01:04:16,560 Hey, we're not smugglers. We're just pack mules. 693 01:04:16,644 --> 01:04:21,439 Look, no one's ever won a war in this part of the world without the control of the opium trade. 694 01:04:21,524 --> 01:04:25,068 We just help General Soong get his local crop to market, and he helps us fight the war. 695 01:04:25,152 --> 01:04:26,653 It's as simple as that. 696 01:04:26,737 --> 01:04:29,030 Don't give me that cooled-out Buddhist cowboy shit! 697 01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:31,199 Our government's running a war with drug money... 698 01:04:31,284 --> 01:04:32,951 and over there, across the border in Vietnam... 699 01:04:33,035 --> 01:04:35,203 our G.I.s are getting strung out on this stuff. 700 01:04:35,288 --> 01:04:39,040 You know, you might as well be dropping rattlesnakes in a school yard, man! 701 01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:42,335 You tell me that it doesn't bother you in your soul? 702 01:04:42,420 --> 01:04:44,296 Hey, leave my soul out of this, will you? 703 01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:47,757 Anyway, we don't officially work for the US government, remember? 704 01:04:47,842 --> 01:04:51,136 Well, everybody knows who's running the show here. What's the big secret? 705 01:04:51,220 --> 01:04:54,264 What happens if we say CIA? Does the whole sky fall in? 706 01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:03,189 Let's change our course. With some luck, we'll be out of here by the morning. 707 01:05:03,274 --> 01:05:04,900 How many more miles? 708 01:05:04,984 --> 01:05:07,152 Been through the desert on a horse with no name 709 01:05:07,236 --> 01:05:11,281 It felt good to be out of the rain 710 01:05:11,365 --> 01:05:15,035 In the desert you can't remember your name 711 01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:19,331 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain 712 01:05:20,791 --> 01:05:24,711 Now, look. When that sales rep from Bell Helicopter gets here tomorrow... 713 01:05:24,795 --> 01:05:27,339 don't slobber all over him right from the get-go- 714 01:05:27,423 --> 01:05:30,342 the way you did with that asshole from Dow Chemicals. 715 01:05:30,426 --> 01:05:35,555 Nice and easy. You bring him here, vintage wine, blah, blah, blah... 716 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:39,184 elegant dining, get him blown at the White Rose. 717 01:05:39,268 --> 01:05:42,896 Then at the end of the night, brandy, espresso... 718 01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:45,398 then you hit him up for the two free choppers. 719 01:05:45,483 --> 01:05:47,442 I'm a little nervous about it. I mean- 720 01:05:49,528 --> 01:05:52,906 I hear about your pilots shooted down. 721 01:05:52,990 --> 01:05:56,159 I hope they safe. I pray for them. 722 01:05:56,243 --> 01:05:58,954 Thank you, Nino. Every little prayer helps. 723 01:05:59,038 --> 01:06:00,956 Give you no pain 724 01:06:04,669 --> 01:06:07,128 I have to have coffee with Davenport. 725 01:06:07,213 --> 01:06:09,214 What should I do? Vamp for a little more time? 726 01:06:09,298 --> 01:06:12,801 I tell you what. I'll do what you say. I'll take him to the White Rose, get him blown. 727 01:06:12,885 --> 01:06:14,678 - No! - No, what? 728 01:06:14,762 --> 01:06:18,390 Davenport runs the Senate prayer group. 729 01:06:18,474 --> 01:06:21,935 With a guy like that, you don't bring up the subject of blowjobs. 730 01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:24,479 You wait for him to bring it up. 731 01:06:35,157 --> 01:06:37,951 Jesus! Again? 732 01:06:38,035 --> 01:06:41,287 Restaurant closed! Health violation! 733 01:06:41,372 --> 01:06:43,415 All go home now. All finished! 734 01:06:43,499 --> 01:06:48,628 Everybody go now. Free dinner! Nobody pay! 735 01:06:50,423 --> 01:06:53,717 I do business with round eyes all my life! 736 01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:57,012 - What you doing? - For sure, no Corsican fuck me! 737 01:06:57,805 --> 01:06:59,305 You crazy! 738 01:06:59,390 --> 01:07:02,475 I picked up stuff from crashed plane, in bad danger! 739 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,936 You men in Vientiane don't want to pay same as last time? 740 01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:08,064 Stop! No more break things, General. 741 01:07:08,149 --> 01:07:09,649 You understand? 742 01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:12,318 Now I tell you something. 743 01:07:12,403 --> 01:07:15,280 I talk to Marseilles. I talk to New York. 744 01:07:15,364 --> 01:07:17,574 They say opium not so good this year. 745 01:07:17,658 --> 01:07:20,201 They say heroin been cut with baking powder. 746 01:07:20,286 --> 01:07:22,328 So who fucking who, eh, General? 747 01:07:22,413 --> 01:07:25,123 No, no. I no gonna pay you same-same, you give me shit! 748 01:07:25,207 --> 01:07:27,834 Nino! You listen to me. Okay? 749 01:07:27,918 --> 01:07:31,463 Nino, you pay same-same... 750 01:07:31,547 --> 01:07:34,382 or you will never use any of my airplanes again. 751 01:07:35,634 --> 01:07:40,055 Okay. Okay. Pay same-same. 752 01:08:28,145 --> 01:08:30,730 So this is the face of modern Communism? 753 01:08:30,815 --> 01:08:34,275 Wrong again. A devout Communist carries an AK-47... 754 01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,444 and these guys have got the oldest weapons known to man. 755 01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:41,449 Look at 'em. No, these are hillbillies, kind of like Kentucky moonshiners. 756 01:08:41,534 --> 01:08:43,618 And they're pissed about something. 757 01:08:43,702 --> 01:08:45,995 They don't cotton to outsiders, I guess. 758 01:08:56,465 --> 01:08:58,591 How's the conversation coming? 759 01:08:58,676 --> 01:09:03,638 - I'm surprised they haven't knocked us off yet. - Surprised, huh? 760 01:09:03,722 --> 01:09:05,598 - Yeah. - How come you're so relaxed, man? 761 01:09:05,683 --> 01:09:08,434 Maybe you don't get this, but when you die, that's it. All right? It's over. 762 01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:11,229 - End of story. Blackness. - Yeah. 763 01:09:11,313 --> 01:09:14,983 They stick you in a box, cover you up with dirt... 764 01:09:15,067 --> 01:09:17,318 and don't even let you out of it for weekends. 765 01:09:17,403 --> 01:09:20,029 - It's really depressing. - Right. Nothing. 766 01:09:20,114 --> 01:09:23,491 - Buddha says- - Stop with the Buddha thing, all right? 767 01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:27,620 I just don't believe that a true Buddhist would be in the gun-running business, okay? 768 01:09:27,705 --> 01:09:30,415 You're a hustler, man. All right, you cover it up with a little jasmine incense... 769 01:09:30,499 --> 01:09:32,542 you call it Eastern religion, but you're a hustler. 770 01:09:33,711 --> 01:09:35,920 I didn't say I was a good Buddhist. 771 01:09:40,843 --> 01:09:42,760 They're gonna do it. 772 01:09:45,264 --> 01:09:46,764 No need to speed things up. 773 01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:51,603 Those guns are all wrong for rainy conditions. 774 01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:53,813 What you need is some good, all-weather weapons. 775 01:09:54,899 --> 01:09:59,903 The French designed those guns for desert warfare. 776 01:10:00,905 --> 01:10:01,863 Get back. 777 01:10:01,947 --> 01:10:06,576 I hope you didn't pay more than two pigs for them. 778 01:10:08,579 --> 01:10:10,371 A cow. 779 01:10:10,372 --> 01:10:12,081 A cow. I know. 780 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,417 A cow? 781 01:10:14,418 --> 01:10:17,086 A cow? For that lousy flintlock? 782 01:10:18,088 --> 01:10:19,756 You got ripped off, man. 783 01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:26,054 Can you believe it? This guy swapped a cow for this gun. Don't you find that hysterical? 784 01:10:28,098 --> 01:10:31,726 Have you tried it in the rain? 785 01:10:37,483 --> 01:10:38,858 My point exactly. 786 01:10:38,943 --> 01:10:43,738 For all-weather guns at rock bottom prices... 787 01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:47,951 we'll go see my brother-in-law. 788 01:10:49,828 --> 01:10:52,455 Two days walk. 789 01:10:52,539 --> 01:10:53,957 What do you say? 790 01:10:54,041 --> 01:10:57,085 Gentlemen, these guns are cherry. 791 01:11:03,634 --> 01:11:05,468 Deal. 792 01:11:11,809 --> 01:11:14,644 Hello! Hello, May Ling! 793 01:11:15,521 --> 01:11:17,480 - Hello? - Gene! 794 01:11:23,988 --> 01:11:26,239 - I miss you. - I couldn't tell. 795 01:11:28,742 --> 01:11:30,243 Where are the kids? 796 01:11:32,997 --> 01:11:33,997 Hey. 797 01:11:43,632 --> 01:11:46,843 Oh, Billy, May Ling. 798 01:11:46,927 --> 01:11:48,594 My wife. 799 01:11:48,679 --> 01:11:51,097 Come on into civilization and get cleaned up. 800 01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,188 You don't look like the kind of guy that'd live in a place like this. 801 01:12:02,192 --> 01:12:05,445 Well, never look at looks. Looks will fool you every time. 802 01:12:06,655 --> 01:12:08,614 What the fuck are you doin' here, man? 803 01:12:08,699 --> 01:12:10,199 Do you believe in this war? 804 01:12:11,660 --> 01:12:13,828 You know, I used to believe in all these wars. 805 01:12:16,957 --> 01:12:18,708 See, I had this theory once. 806 01:12:19,376 --> 01:12:22,211 I believed in the politics of Saturday night. 807 01:12:22,296 --> 01:12:24,922 - Yeah? - I rated all governments and countries... 808 01:12:25,007 --> 01:12:28,176 by how good or bad their Saturday nights were, and I- 809 01:12:28,260 --> 01:12:33,222 I knew that Moscow and Peking had to be a stone drag at that time of the week. 810 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:36,267 So I was flyin' for a cause. 811 01:12:36,352 --> 01:12:39,145 I was fightin' to defend chicken barbecues... 812 01:12:39,229 --> 01:12:42,607 and weenie roasts and Ray Charles songs... 813 01:12:42,691 --> 01:12:45,902 and drinkin' Southern Comfort till you pass out behind the bar. 814 01:12:46,612 --> 01:12:48,404 Politics of Saturday night. 815 01:12:48,489 --> 01:12:51,866 - I can relate to that theory. - Yeah, it's not bad, is it? 816 01:12:51,950 --> 01:12:54,285 Just not particularly true, that's all. 817 01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:56,788 I hear they party pretty hard in Moscow. 818 01:12:56,872 --> 01:13:00,083 No need to give up a good theory just because it isn't true. 819 01:13:00,167 --> 01:13:01,376 Yeah. 820 01:13:16,058 --> 01:13:17,892 So why don't you go home? 821 01:13:20,938 --> 01:13:24,232 Look at me. Look at Neely, the rest of us. We're all a bunch of trouble junkies... 822 01:13:24,316 --> 01:13:27,693 and we've been mainlining danger and adrenaline for so long that nothing else gets us off. 823 01:13:27,778 --> 01:13:29,278 It's kind of sick. 824 01:13:30,864 --> 01:13:32,865 Quit before you pick up the habit. And you will. 825 01:13:32,950 --> 01:13:35,159 You'll pick up the habit. You'll get to like it. 826 01:13:37,287 --> 01:13:40,623 Go back to LA and be the weirdest guy in the room again. What do you think? 827 01:13:41,959 --> 01:13:44,293 Just gonna take care of a couple of things first. 828 01:13:45,504 --> 01:13:48,464 You wanna get even. You wanna get even. 829 01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:51,426 With who? Rob? General Soong? 830 01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:55,805 Hey, forget it, will you? This is the Orient. 831 01:13:56,598 --> 01:14:00,143 What Soong did to you was nothing. Nothing. 832 01:14:01,687 --> 01:14:04,689 I've seen things here that I could never possibly have imagined. 833 01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:09,193 And I'm a guy with a pretty broad imagination. 834 01:14:09,278 --> 01:14:11,404 Why don't you just go home? 835 01:14:15,075 --> 01:14:18,870 What we have here, Senator, is one of the most famous temples in Laos. 836 01:14:18,954 --> 01:14:21,080 Gentlemen, I've been here four days. 837 01:14:21,165 --> 01:14:25,168 I've seen 19 Buddhas, three tailor shops, a silk factory... 838 01:14:25,252 --> 01:14:28,421 but you haven't told me one new thing about the dope trade. 839 01:14:28,505 --> 01:14:32,467 Now, I'm leaving soon, and I'm not going back empty-handed. 840 01:14:32,551 --> 01:14:35,136 I'd better go back to D.C. with a couple of heads on the platter. 841 01:14:36,638 --> 01:14:38,764 Otherwise the rumors alone would kill you on the Hill. 842 01:14:38,849 --> 01:14:41,267 Rumors? Who are you hearing rumors from, sir? 843 01:14:41,351 --> 01:14:46,022 You heard the man, Rob. Heads on a platter. 844 01:15:01,872 --> 01:15:05,416 All right. Easy now! 845 01:15:11,423 --> 01:15:13,007 Move it! 846 01:15:19,598 --> 01:15:21,557 That looks like Paul Bunyan's condom. 847 01:15:23,393 --> 01:15:26,187 That is the whole point of air-dropping them, Pirelli. 848 01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:29,065 Penis size is very important to Asian people. 849 01:15:29,149 --> 01:15:31,442 So if we can convince them... 850 01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:34,195 that Americans use this jumbo size... 851 01:15:34,279 --> 01:15:36,906 then their men will start to fear us. 852 01:15:36,990 --> 01:15:40,910 Okay? Okay. You're excused. 853 01:15:41,578 --> 01:15:44,372 Oh, guys, guys-One more thing, guys. 854 01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:50,836 The body of Jack Neely was recovered last night by Allied soldiers on patrol. 855 01:15:50,921 --> 01:15:53,714 Apparently, he was shot down by Pathet Lao soldiers... 856 01:15:53,799 --> 01:15:56,425 while on rescue recon for Covington and Ryack. 857 01:15:57,594 --> 01:15:59,720 I understand how you guys must feel... 858 01:15:59,805 --> 01:16:01,806 but in the interest of base security... 859 01:16:01,890 --> 01:16:04,684 I have to remind you to be absolutely quiet about this- 860 01:16:04,768 --> 01:16:06,269 Rob! 861 01:16:06,353 --> 01:16:10,231 Before you tell us to keep quiet again, could we please have a moment of silence? 862 01:16:40,387 --> 01:16:43,472 "Visit colorful native village." That's what my schedule reads, Gene... 863 01:16:43,557 --> 01:16:45,558 but we've been here nearly six hours. 864 01:16:45,642 --> 01:16:48,352 I think we could safely say I visited it. 865 01:16:48,437 --> 01:16:50,896 I'm sorry, Senator. They're nearly finished. 866 01:16:51,898 --> 01:16:54,483 What is that thing, Gene? A boat? 867 01:16:55,986 --> 01:16:57,737 Sort of. 868 01:16:57,821 --> 01:17:00,865 Gene, you strange man. 869 01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:04,327 Thank you for noticing, General. 870 01:17:04,411 --> 01:17:08,372 You love old ways, Asian ways. 871 01:17:08,457 --> 01:17:13,127 But General Soong love tomorrow ways... 872 01:17:13,211 --> 01:17:14,837 modern world. 873 01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:17,048 Yes. 874 01:17:19,968 --> 01:17:21,844 I think our friend here is a little tipsy. 875 01:17:22,804 --> 01:17:24,430 Yeah. 876 01:17:24,514 --> 01:17:27,433 He's high on America too. I've seen it before. 877 01:17:27,517 --> 01:17:31,145 That's a... stronger high than whiskey. It's a bigger high than opium. 878 01:17:32,773 --> 01:17:35,566 Our friend is stoned on dreams of the USA. 879 01:17:37,778 --> 01:17:40,821 Gene, a moment ago, you mentioned opium. 880 01:17:42,699 --> 01:17:45,576 So now tell me, and just let the chips fall where they may. 881 01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:48,996 Is it true Jack Neely was flying dope when he went down? 882 01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:03,302 - Let's take this back to the plane. Gentlemen. - You takin' that kayak with you? 883 01:18:03,387 --> 01:18:07,056 It's not a kayak, Senator. This is Jack Neely's coffin. 884 01:18:07,140 --> 01:18:11,227 I promised him I'd make sure they didn't send him home back to Texas in a body bag. 885 01:18:11,311 --> 01:18:14,563 And no, he wasn't flying dope. 886 01:18:15,399 --> 01:18:16,899 General, wake up! 887 01:18:21,154 --> 01:18:24,490 Hey, I'm here to drink to Jack Neely. Is anybody gonna join me? 888 01:18:24,574 --> 01:18:26,951 - Here you go. - Yeah, all right. 889 01:18:27,035 --> 01:18:28,828 - To Jack. - To Jack. 890 01:18:28,912 --> 01:18:31,831 He wouldn't want it any other way. He'd been real pissed to die in bed. 891 01:18:45,262 --> 01:18:48,556 I'm leaving, guys. I'm sending May Ling and the kids on ahead. 892 01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,016 What the fuck you talkin' about? Where you gonna go? 893 01:18:51,101 --> 01:18:52,685 I got a buyer for all my guns. 894 01:18:52,769 --> 01:18:57,148 I'm gonna go around, pick up all my stashes and get rid of 'em in one hit. 895 01:18:57,232 --> 01:19:01,235 What are you gonna do? Become some fuckin' gentleman farmer in Thailand? 896 01:19:01,319 --> 01:19:04,864 - Yeah. - What about the rest of us, Gino? 897 01:19:04,948 --> 01:19:08,993 Are we supposed to go back to Dry Crotch, South Dakota and sell aluminum siding? 898 01:19:09,077 --> 01:19:11,787 - Really. - Shit, they're gonna shut this war down anyway. 899 01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:15,249 There'll be another new war opening soon in a theater near you. 900 01:19:15,333 --> 01:19:17,626 - You can bank on it. - Promise? 901 01:19:17,711 --> 01:19:19,754 - I promise. - I heard that. 902 01:19:23,341 --> 01:19:25,259 Gentlemen, I just spent the day with the senator... 903 01:19:25,343 --> 01:19:27,720 and the spooks, they're lookin' for some fall guys... 904 01:19:27,804 --> 01:19:29,722 so be careful, huh? 905 01:19:29,806 --> 01:19:31,307 See you tomorrow. 906 01:19:34,436 --> 01:19:37,229 - Hey. - Hi. 907 01:19:40,817 --> 01:19:42,318 Where you been? 908 01:19:43,153 --> 01:19:45,196 - Just around. - Yeah? 909 01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:47,239 Oh, we did some shopping on the black market. 910 01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:50,493 Got some grenades. Now I'm gonna go have some fun. 911 01:19:50,577 --> 01:19:54,830 - Fun? - Yeah, I'm gonna have some big fun. Serious fun. 912 01:19:54,915 --> 01:19:57,166 - Yeah. - Lots of noise. 913 01:19:57,250 --> 01:19:59,543 Hey, this doesn't sound like well-planned fun. 914 01:19:59,628 --> 01:20:04,006 No. Like I said, down on the ground is where I tend to fuck up. 915 01:20:04,090 --> 01:20:08,260 - I wouldn't do this if I was you. - Yeah, I know. 916 01:20:08,345 --> 01:20:10,679 But then, you wouldn't do anything. 917 01:20:12,140 --> 01:20:15,351 See you later. It's Pepsi time. 918 01:20:26,947 --> 01:20:28,447 Can I have a soda? 919 01:22:38,328 --> 01:22:41,747 I know who doing this. That fucking new kid doing this! 920 01:22:41,831 --> 01:22:43,332 The guard saw him running away. 921 01:22:43,416 --> 01:22:46,043 Word on the street, Major, is it's Communist sabotage. 922 01:22:46,127 --> 01:22:50,589 Gentlemen, right now I don't give a rat's ass who tried to blow this place up. 923 01:22:50,674 --> 01:22:53,258 The point is, this whole operation... 924 01:22:53,343 --> 01:22:56,845 is about to blow up in our faces right when the senator is here. 925 01:22:56,930 --> 01:23:00,724 We need to give Davenport a head on a platter, right now. 926 01:23:04,646 --> 01:23:08,649 General, if I might beg your indulgence. 927 01:23:09,317 --> 01:23:12,236 Could I have the use of two kilos? 928 01:23:13,321 --> 01:23:14,822 Here you go. 929 01:23:19,035 --> 01:23:22,538 These two kilos are for the cause. 930 01:23:24,666 --> 01:23:25,666 Yes, sir. 931 01:23:30,630 --> 01:23:33,340 That's right, Charlie. C-123 just for me, personal use here. 932 01:23:33,425 --> 01:23:36,260 - That's a hell of a big plane for personal use. - Exactly. 933 01:23:36,344 --> 01:23:38,303 Guess you got a buyer for all your weapons? 934 01:23:38,388 --> 01:23:39,847 Nail on head, Charlie. 935 01:23:39,931 --> 01:23:41,432 - Hi, Charlie. - Hey. How's it goin'? 936 01:23:41,516 --> 01:23:43,058 - Hey. How you doin'? - Very well. 937 01:23:43,143 --> 01:23:44,977 Good. What are you takin' today? 938 01:23:45,061 --> 01:23:47,646 I'm taking flour sacks over to Viengthong in the Porter. 939 01:23:47,731 --> 01:23:50,065 - Right. - That's right near Tango Seven. 940 01:23:50,150 --> 01:23:52,401 Planning on crashing any more airplanes on the runway today? 941 01:23:52,485 --> 01:23:54,403 - Not today. - Nope? That's good. 942 01:23:54,487 --> 01:23:56,155 You already cost this company enough as it is. 943 01:23:56,239 --> 01:23:57,906 - Thank you, Charlie. - Sure. 944 01:23:57,991 --> 01:24:01,076 I don't know quite what you're talking about. What does that mean? 945 01:24:04,289 --> 01:24:07,332 - Feel better now? - So much better. 946 01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:11,879 Yeah, there was a cloud of opium smoke over the town last night, got everybody stoned. 947 01:24:11,963 --> 01:24:15,299 And they actually shut that plant down for three whole hours. 948 01:24:15,383 --> 01:24:17,426 Didn't start again till early this morning. 949 01:24:18,928 --> 01:24:20,429 That's the way it is. 950 01:24:28,980 --> 01:24:31,190 - Okay, Gene. - Okay. 951 01:24:39,991 --> 01:24:42,951 - How we doin'? We set? - Okay. All set. 952 01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:50,417 Viengthong, huh? 953 01:25:27,956 --> 01:25:31,166 You! You! Move truck out. Quick! 954 01:25:37,465 --> 01:25:39,091 Keep moving, Audrey. Come on. 955 01:25:39,175 --> 01:25:41,260 Come on! Get going! Hurry up! 956 01:25:41,344 --> 01:25:43,762 - Hey! Wait a minute! Hey! - You get truck out! 957 01:25:43,847 --> 01:25:46,932 Calm down. You'll get your opium fields. 958 01:25:47,016 --> 01:25:49,726 Now, we're gonna need a few more hours to move 'em out of here. 959 01:25:49,811 --> 01:25:51,520 Get them out! 960 01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:54,690 Easy. Hurry up! Come on! 961 01:26:01,698 --> 01:26:04,116 Base to Stagger Lee. Base to Stagger Lee. Come in. 962 01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:07,119 Stagger Lee to Base. Over. 963 01:26:07,203 --> 01:26:10,455 Slight change in your flight plans, Stagger Lee. Hold off on the drop. 964 01:26:10,540 --> 01:26:13,667 We want you to take her down to LS-18 for a routine inspection. 965 01:26:13,751 --> 01:26:16,795 - Routine inspection? - That's affirmative, Stagger Lee. 966 01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:20,674 - We don't make 'em up. We just read 'em. - Check. Heading towards LS-18. 967 01:26:26,389 --> 01:26:29,516 Hey, Babo, I'm going over to LS-18 for routine inspection. 968 01:26:29,601 --> 01:26:31,101 - Routine inspection? - Yup. 969 01:26:31,186 --> 01:26:32,686 Never heard of it. 970 01:26:35,023 --> 01:26:36,523 Then it ain't routine. 971 01:26:39,861 --> 01:26:42,613 - Babo, check your cargo. - What's up? 972 01:26:42,697 --> 01:26:45,240 I don't know. Something's up. Check the cargo, will you? 973 01:27:00,340 --> 01:27:03,342 Well, I hope to God our information is wrong, Senator. 974 01:27:04,010 --> 01:27:07,054 It would break my heart if we found heroin on that plane. 975 01:27:07,138 --> 01:27:10,057 On the other hand, sir, the pilot is a young man from California. 976 01:27:10,141 --> 01:27:14,311 Oh, I see. Caught up in all that doggone youth culture bit, huh? 977 01:27:14,395 --> 01:27:17,397 Boy, all those years of rock and roll. 978 01:27:18,566 --> 01:27:21,401 Still and all, he is only one young man. 979 01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:23,403 How come we need all these fellas helpin' out? 980 01:27:23,488 --> 01:27:26,198 Well, pilots are tough men, Senator. 981 01:27:26,282 --> 01:27:29,034 This one might resist, with force. 982 01:27:29,118 --> 01:27:32,996 If our information is correct, he is a cool and ruthless customer. 983 01:27:38,795 --> 01:27:40,462 Hey, Billy, I got nothing back here. 984 01:27:40,546 --> 01:27:43,131 Listen, man. We're being set up, okay? Keep looking. 985 01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,176 - Are you serious? - Yeah, I'm serious. Cut 'em open. 986 01:27:54,769 --> 01:27:57,312 - What do you got? - Nothing. 987 01:28:14,539 --> 01:28:16,331 Come on. Hurry up! 988 01:28:18,543 --> 01:28:19,668 Got it. 989 01:28:21,170 --> 01:28:24,172 God, I knew it! I knew it. 990 01:28:25,341 --> 01:28:27,926 Look at those bastards down there, just waitin' for us. 991 01:28:33,141 --> 01:28:36,226 - Damn. Looks like they want us busted. - Dead and busted. 992 01:28:41,983 --> 01:28:43,275 Oh, no. 993 01:28:43,359 --> 01:28:45,777 Somebody messed with that fuel gauge, 'cause we're runnin' out. 994 01:28:47,155 --> 01:28:50,657 Forget this. I'm gonna go for that abandoned airstrip over by Tango Seven. 995 01:28:50,742 --> 01:28:52,242 Wait a minute, Billy. 996 01:28:52,327 --> 01:28:55,162 If they�re waitin' for us down here, they can follow us to Tango Seven. 997 01:28:55,246 --> 01:28:57,706 - We'll figure something out. - No, no. Don't say "we," man... 998 01:28:57,790 --> 01:29:01,543 'cause I'm 42 years old and I never figured out anything in my whole fuckin' life. 999 01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:18,560 - He's not landing, Rob. - He's got to, sir. He's only got enough fuel to- 1000 01:29:21,397 --> 01:29:23,774 Start 'em up. Let's go after 'em. 1001 01:29:40,375 --> 01:29:43,251 We're VSF, man. We're VSF! 1002 01:29:43,336 --> 01:29:46,088 - What? - Very Severely Fucked! 1003 01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:16,284 Good flying, Covington. Ever do any valet parking? 1004 01:30:21,082 --> 01:30:22,541 Looks like we're gonna make it. 1005 01:30:22,625 --> 01:30:25,335 But what the hell are we gonna do once we get on the ground, huh? 1006 01:30:25,420 --> 01:30:27,170 I'm workin' on it. 1007 01:30:39,058 --> 01:30:41,685 Come on. Come on! 1008 01:31:03,124 --> 01:31:05,375 - You're going pretty fast, Covington. - Hold on! 1009 01:31:05,460 --> 01:31:06,918 Hold on? 1010 01:31:07,003 --> 01:31:09,504 Pull up! Pull up! Pull up! 1011 01:31:09,589 --> 01:31:12,716 - Goddamn it! What are you doing? - Shut up! 1012 01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:16,970 - What are you, nuts? - Get your head down, now! 1013 01:31:17,054 --> 01:31:18,221 - What- - Get down! 1014 01:31:36,157 --> 01:31:38,909 - See, I never would have thought of that. - Yeah, it just came to me. 1015 01:31:40,536 --> 01:31:42,537 I'm gonna buy you some beers. 1016 01:31:49,504 --> 01:31:51,004 Lousy week, man. 1017 01:31:52,048 --> 01:31:54,841 - Lousy week. - Gene. Come in, Gene. 1018 01:31:55,635 --> 01:31:57,135 Come in, Gene. 1019 01:31:59,931 --> 01:32:01,890 - Bullshit. - Gene, come in. 1020 01:32:01,974 --> 01:32:03,558 - Excuse me for a minute. - You there? 1021 01:32:04,477 --> 01:32:08,980 Gene, this is Babo. Gene, come in. 1022 01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:11,399 Yeah, this is Gene. What? What do you want? 1023 01:32:11,484 --> 01:32:13,944 He what? He what? He did it again? 1024 01:32:14,028 --> 01:32:16,404 Son of bitch! Can't he keep the thing in the air? 1025 01:32:16,489 --> 01:32:17,989 Well, I'll think about it. 1026 01:32:21,786 --> 01:32:23,286 Come on. 1027 01:32:24,247 --> 01:32:26,289 No. No more money. Speak English. 1028 01:33:26,392 --> 01:33:29,686 - Where did he go, Rob? - I don't know! 1029 01:33:29,770 --> 01:33:32,272 Senator, I'm afraid we've lost him. 1030 01:33:33,649 --> 01:33:37,193 Well, maybe my trip hasn't been a complete loss. 1031 01:33:37,278 --> 01:33:39,821 Maybe I found those rotten apples after all. 1032 01:33:40,656 --> 01:33:42,157 Beg your pardon, sir? 1033 01:33:42,241 --> 01:33:44,993 You know, I may wear short pants in the jungle... 1034 01:33:45,077 --> 01:33:47,162 say things like "gosh darn" and "deep doo-doo"... 1035 01:33:47,246 --> 01:33:49,414 but I sure know a frame-up when I see one. 1036 01:33:49,498 --> 01:33:52,917 - Unless my eyes deceive me- - Oh, they probably do! 1037 01:33:53,002 --> 01:33:56,880 Now look here, pal. I know you were a highly decorated soldier- 1038 01:33:56,964 --> 01:34:00,842 Senator, kiss my highly decorated ass! 1039 01:34:02,428 --> 01:34:06,348 I've been trying to make it easy for you, but there's just no way to please you people. 1040 01:34:07,016 --> 01:34:10,101 I tell you what. You go back to Washington... 1041 01:34:10,186 --> 01:34:13,271 you take a cab from the airport right straight to the White House... 1042 01:34:13,356 --> 01:34:16,941 and you just pour your heart out about what you think you saw over here. 1043 01:34:17,026 --> 01:34:22,322 And then you stand back and watch the slow, painful death of your political career. 1044 01:34:22,406 --> 01:34:25,784 You can't touch me without cutting your own throat! 1045 01:34:25,868 --> 01:34:27,369 You know why? 1046 01:34:28,704 --> 01:34:31,873 Because the president loves my ass! 1047 01:34:33,334 --> 01:34:35,585 You really are second level, Rob. 1048 01:34:38,547 --> 01:34:40,173 We go home now! 1049 01:35:23,759 --> 01:35:26,469 Hey! Glad you could make it. 1050 01:35:27,930 --> 01:35:31,766 - Where's your bus? - It's a... long story. 1051 01:35:43,154 --> 01:35:45,530 Well, it's my last stop, boys. 1052 01:35:45,614 --> 01:35:48,491 One more pickup, then I off-load. Home free. 1053 01:35:48,576 --> 01:35:50,285 It's gravy from there on in. 1054 01:35:51,537 --> 01:35:55,039 Hey, I had a map around here someplace where the stops were marked in crayon. 1055 01:35:55,124 --> 01:35:57,000 - You seen it? - Yeah, here it is. 1056 01:35:57,877 --> 01:36:00,336 Navigate me to sky blue, please. 1057 01:36:03,215 --> 01:36:05,216 Did you check all the friendlies down there? 1058 01:36:05,301 --> 01:36:08,344 Yeah, that's Soong's troops. I've been listening to them all morning. 1059 01:36:08,429 --> 01:36:10,722 They're marching in to take over the poppy fields. 1060 01:36:10,806 --> 01:36:13,433 He's shittin' kittens 'cause he thinks someone else is gonna get there first. 1061 01:36:13,517 --> 01:36:16,311 It's right by that refugee camp too. 1062 01:36:16,395 --> 01:36:18,146 Yeah, that's where the poppies are. 1063 01:36:42,213 --> 01:36:45,715 Corinne, there's no more trucks. There's no more choppers. 1064 01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,759 - You get on. Go ahead. - Come on! 1065 01:36:47,843 --> 01:36:49,719 No, you go ahead. I gotta call. Go! 1066 01:36:49,804 --> 01:36:51,513 - Corinne! - Go! 1067 01:37:09,031 --> 01:37:12,659 Mayday! Mayday! This is Scout Camp One. 1068 01:37:12,743 --> 01:37:16,913 Enemy troops are moving in on General Soong and we're caught in the cross fire. 1069 01:37:16,997 --> 01:37:19,082 Request immediate assistance. 1070 01:37:20,709 --> 01:37:24,045 Mayday! Mayday! This is Scout Camp One. 1071 01:37:24,129 --> 01:37:26,339 Scout Camp One requesting assistance. 1072 01:37:27,383 --> 01:37:30,218 Mayday. We're under heavy mortar fire. Do you read? 1073 01:37:32,721 --> 01:37:35,431 This is Pirelli. We're 15 minutes away. 1074 01:37:35,516 --> 01:37:37,475 Is anyone closer? 1075 01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:40,478 We're gonna head in if nobody is closer. Call us, please. 1076 01:37:40,563 --> 01:37:42,313 Anyone nearby? 1077 01:37:42,398 --> 01:37:44,858 Mayday. Mayday. We're out to all aircraft. 1078 01:37:44,942 --> 01:37:47,735 Heavy mortar fire at Scout Camp One. 1079 01:37:47,820 --> 01:37:50,488 Do you read? All aircraft. 1080 01:37:50,573 --> 01:37:54,325 Saunders and Pirelli are nearly as close as we are. They can get her. 1081 01:37:54,410 --> 01:37:58,746 Yeah, we're only about five minutes closer. Five minutes at most. 1082 01:38:01,083 --> 01:38:02,667 - Seriously, I looked- - Shut up, will ya? 1083 01:38:02,751 --> 01:38:05,086 - What? - Look, I planned this day for a long time. 1084 01:38:05,170 --> 01:38:06,880 - I got it all worked out. - I was agreeing- 1085 01:38:06,964 --> 01:38:10,383 I haven't got time to pick up lost social workers in the jungle, okay? 1086 01:38:10,467 --> 01:38:13,803 She chose to be there. I'm not saying you have to take care of her. 1087 01:38:13,888 --> 01:38:16,055 I did my Boy Scout shit when I picked you two guys up. 1088 01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:18,308 - I appreciate it. - Well, thank you! 1089 01:38:18,392 --> 01:38:20,935 - I appreciate it. - She knew what she was doin' when she got- 1090 01:38:21,020 --> 01:38:22,812 Oh, goddamn it! 1091 01:38:22,897 --> 01:38:24,522 Five minutes isn't gonna kill us. 1092 01:38:25,357 --> 01:38:28,318 She's skinny. We can fit her in the back with the machine guns. 1093 01:38:29,403 --> 01:38:32,405 - Give me a heading, will you? - 160. 1094 01:38:32,489 --> 01:38:35,700 - Are you sure? It's a tight squeeze back there. - Shut up! 1095 01:38:39,955 --> 01:38:42,832 And keep your hands off the wheel. We know what happens when you fly. 1096 01:38:45,461 --> 01:38:49,339 We haven't heard. Is anybody gonna go in? Please, come in. 1097 01:38:49,423 --> 01:38:52,800 Sorry, Pirelli. I was in a phone booth, changing clothes. We'll get her. 1098 01:39:18,827 --> 01:39:19,911 Jesus. 1099 01:39:19,995 --> 01:39:22,288 Yeah, this was a good idea of yours, wasn't it? 1100 01:40:26,895 --> 01:40:28,479 I knew you guys would make it. 1101 01:40:28,564 --> 01:40:31,357 If you give me a hand, I think we can get everybody on board. 1102 01:40:31,442 --> 01:40:32,942 No. We just came back for you. 1103 01:40:33,027 --> 01:40:34,944 He can't bring these people. He's fully loaded back there. 1104 01:40:35,029 --> 01:40:38,656 - Well, dump the fucking cargo! - No, that's a big problem. 1105 01:40:38,741 --> 01:40:41,576 Billy, I brought all these people here. I'm not leaving without them. 1106 01:40:43,287 --> 01:40:45,621 Well, let's get this kid and get out of here. Come on! 1107 01:40:49,501 --> 01:40:50,877 Come on. 1108 01:40:52,171 --> 01:40:53,421 Come on! 1109 01:40:59,261 --> 01:41:01,179 Let's go, let's go, let's go. Get on the plane! 1110 01:41:01,263 --> 01:41:03,056 I'm not leaving without these people. 1111 01:41:03,140 --> 01:41:06,684 Hey, we came here to get you. Now get on the fuckin' plane. 1112 01:41:06,769 --> 01:41:08,478 Dump your cargo. 1113 01:41:23,786 --> 01:41:25,328 Jesus. 1114 01:41:26,914 --> 01:41:28,706 One minute. 1115 01:41:28,791 --> 01:41:31,793 Gene, I got a crazy idea. 1116 01:41:31,877 --> 01:41:34,128 Let's just dump the cargo and take the refugees instead. 1117 01:41:34,213 --> 01:41:36,714 - Oh, great. Great! - Come on. Do me a favor. 1118 01:41:36,799 --> 01:41:39,092 - We'd better hurry. - You've gotta do it... 1119 01:41:39,176 --> 01:41:42,637 or else you're just another version of Major Lemond with a slightly hipper rap. 1120 01:41:45,140 --> 01:41:46,641 Knock it off, will ya? 1121 01:41:54,483 --> 01:41:55,983 Goddamn it. 1122 01:41:57,277 --> 01:41:58,986 Hey, Mother Teresa! 1123 01:41:59,905 --> 01:42:02,824 I was gonna do it anyway. I just hate being lectured. 1124 01:42:10,332 --> 01:42:11,833 Okay. That's it. 1125 01:42:26,557 --> 01:42:30,726 "Slightly hipper rap"? Slightly- 1126 01:43:00,382 --> 01:43:04,051 Let's go. Come on, come on, come on. Quickly. Quickly. 1127 01:43:08,932 --> 01:43:11,058 You better hop up front and give it some stick. 1128 01:43:11,143 --> 01:43:12,643 Those shells are getting accurate. 1129 01:44:36,144 --> 01:44:39,355 Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome about Air America flight number 1. 1130 01:44:39,439 --> 01:44:41,857 On behalf of our flight crew- 1131 01:44:41,942 --> 01:44:45,069 We'll turn off those fasten seat belt signs after we get out of gun range. 1132 01:44:46,154 --> 01:44:47,863 We'd like to apologize for that ground delay. 1133 01:44:47,948 --> 01:44:51,659 Captain Ryack was experiencing some material turbulence. 1134 01:44:51,743 --> 01:44:54,287 We'll be serving some light refreshments and entertainment on Channel 3... 1135 01:44:54,371 --> 01:44:57,248 by that new group, Gene Ryack and the Redemption- 1136 01:44:57,332 --> 01:44:59,458 tops in rock and roll. 1137 01:44:59,543 --> 01:45:01,585 Currently, our captain is figuring out... 1138 01:45:01,670 --> 01:45:04,630 how to tell his family that he misplaced their nest egg. 1139 01:45:04,715 --> 01:45:06,215 Meanwhile, our flight plan today... 1140 01:45:06,300 --> 01:45:10,428 takes us over the Plain of Jars, Anaheim, Azusa and the Mekong Delta... 1141 01:45:10,512 --> 01:45:13,347 leading us down into- 1142 01:45:14,516 --> 01:45:16,183 Where are we goin'? What are we gonna do? 1143 01:45:16,268 --> 01:45:19,729 You're gonna help me get the cash back I lost when you made me dump off my cargo. 1144 01:45:19,813 --> 01:45:21,272 - Made you dump your cargo? - Yes. 1145 01:45:21,356 --> 01:45:23,733 I didn't make you dump your cargo. I merely suggested. 1146 01:45:23,817 --> 01:45:27,528 Do not blame me for the single decent act of your adult life, okay? 1147 01:45:27,612 --> 01:45:30,531 Besides, where are we gonna get that kind of money? You out of your mind? 1148 01:45:32,284 --> 01:45:35,453 Down here at Crazy Gene's Used Airplanes, people think we're out of our minds... 1149 01:45:35,537 --> 01:45:38,456 since we slashed the prices on our used C-123s. 1150 01:45:38,540 --> 01:45:41,000 You got a private army to get into a battle... Forget it. 1151 01:45:41,084 --> 01:45:44,337 Or you wanna rent some guns, you find you're hassled by those pesky border guards. 1152 01:45:44,421 --> 01:45:46,922 Gene! You can't sell the plane. It's US government property. 1153 01:45:47,007 --> 01:45:51,052 The US government doesn't exist in Laos, and neither does this plane. 1154 01:45:52,054 --> 01:45:53,679 Good point. 1155 01:45:53,764 --> 01:45:57,224 So just sit back, relax, and we'll do what we do best. 1156 01:45:57,309 --> 01:45:58,809 We fly.