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I'll just put it up online.

Welcome to sunny California, gentlemen.

Starting to think we wouldn't be seeing you tonight.

We're having the same thoughts, sir, along about Point Magoo.

Pax River and Oceana and North Island.

It's a mess out there, sir.

At least you won't have to wait on your plane.

Upgrade was finished three days ago. Five minutes to an hour.

Sure you don't want to bunk down for the night? No, thank you, sir.

Got a little waitress waiting for me at the barefoot bar.

Wouldn't want to ruin her, either.

Gotcha, John Hancocks.

That's one fully upgraded F -14 officially released to the U .S. Navy.

Say hi to China Lake.

You got it. We'll do, sir.

This will be automatic.

Check. Flaps down.

Check. Tyler, this is Navy Jet 234.

Navy Jet 2348, you're clear to take off.

All right.

What the hell is this?

Found it in the cockpit.

Hey, I don't leave my tools anywhere, Bob.

Guess the screwdriver fairy must have left it there, huh?

Herskovich borrowed that. Look, had a buddy once. Some idiot left the wrench

the cockpit, flew up while he was doing a loop, and hit him in the face.

Man, that dungeon's getting close.

That was a plane going to China Lake!

College catalog, Tyner?

You cruising for co -ed?

I'm taking some courses, Gunny.

Looking for ways to make myself more valuable around the office.

They have a major in alphabetical order? Maybe improve your filing skills?

I'm thinking about finishing up my bachelor's degree. Then going to law

Will you file?

Did the meeting start again?

Yeah, I moved up five minutes ago, ma 'am.

Five minutes and twelve seconds. You owe me a buck.

Mick, what are you doing here?

You're three hours early for lunch.

Yeah, but who's counting?

Okay, well, you want to come back later, maybe wait downstairs?

All right, now that we're all here, we'll get started. First up is the F -14

crash at Prol Technologies, which was in the midst of a third -party aircraft

upgrade. Rav, you and Lieutenant Roberts will handle the investigation with the

assistance of the Prol Tech representative.

You're the Prol Tech representative.

My firm's on retainer.

Who would have thought we'd all be working together again so soon? Yeah,

would have thought?

Well, good to see you, sir.

Mick's fine, mate.

Admiral, do we have the aircraft's heads -up display recorder?

No, it was burned up with all the rest. Preliminary reports are inconclusive,

but they're leaning toward pilot error.

I see it had been raining, sir.

Now, Commander Ortiz was a good stick, second in his class at Top Gun, 40

missions over Kosovo. It would take more than a little rain to trip him up.

Well, he had more than a little rain, mate.

They've been ferrying planes back and forth for three straight days. Bromby,

sure your employers would love to blame two aviators rather than a faulty

hardware upgrade, but I think it's a little premature to be... Well, looks

you two guys are going to save the government a lot of time and money.

How's that, sir?

Have a debate instead of an investigation.

Well, I should have thought of that years ago.

Sarah, what's the matter?

Surprise, I moved to America. Surprise, you're my new brunch date, babe.

Surprise, we're working together.

You made me look stupid in there.

I didn't feel like discussing business last night. Or this morning. You should

have warned me.

I didn't want to mix business with pleasure.

Cut back on the surprises, Mick, or there won't be any more pleasure.

No worries.

Won't happen again.

You're all invited to a sneak preview of my latest project.

The re -election of Congresswoman...

Bobby Latham. When Congresswoman Bobby Latham learned there wasn't enough money

to buy Michigan students their own textbooks, she said no. When she learned

Pentagon wanted $40 billion for the flawed spyglass surveillance system, she

said no.

Now she's leading the fight against wasteful military spending.

Our current prosperity should be an opportunity to build our schools and our

cities, not to throw money away on unneeded and overpriced weapons and

hardware. I'll work for you, the people of Michigan.

Paid for by the committee to re -elect Bobby Latham.

On second thought, maybe you're not my target audience.

Renee.

Excuse me.

Thank God none of you live in Michigan.

What?

Oh.

Lunch is off?

No, no, no. Let me guess.

Zimbabwe in five hours.

Well, you're close. San Diego in four.

Oh. Oh, that's good, Harm.

The sooner you tell your mother, the better.

Oh.

Renee, Mom's in Europe.

Look, I'm not even so sure I'm going to tell her.

I mean, what am I going to say?

Hey, Mom, Russia was great. I got to ride in a helicopter.

Oh, by the way, when Dad was at POW there, he lived with a woman. They had a

son. I met him. Real nice guy.

So how was your trip?

Did I ever tell you the story about my old actress roommate in L .A.? She had

this fiance.

And one day, he decides he's had it. He is moving back to Indiana.

Or Idaho.

Well, one of those I states.

Anyway, he wants her to marry him and to come with.

So she asks me, is she a good enough actress that she should stay in L .A.

instead of going and being with the man she loves?

Okay, well, she was the worst actress I had ever seen. But I didn't want to hurt

her feelings.

And so I lied.

And she stayed.

And he married somebody else.

And the last I heard, she is still living in that same apartment.

Your mom was tough enough to raise you on her own.

She's not going to break.

And for all you know, she might actually be happy that your dad found a little

bit of joy after all of his pain.

Let's have lunch.

You can drive me to the airport afterwards.

Okay. Yeah.

Big contract, sir. Upgrading 130 F -14 Deltas and F -14 Echos on a deadline.

I've been the nav pro in charge of quality assurance since the project

What are they doing exactly?

Turbine blades, automatic flight control systems, you name it, Lieutenant.

Tell me about the night of the crash, Commander.

I never should have let those guys go.

They were just plain beat.

Anything else might be a question of their fitness to fly.

The younger one, Burke, was pretty anxious about getting home. What about

aircraft? Work was done.

Checked by ProTech, double -checked by me, and by him. Well, test pilot.

They're investigating.

Too bad about those boys.

Yes, it is.

You checked out their plane, correct?

Six -day time.

Functional test flight after each job was done, then try to pick up full -car

test flight. Two full hours. That's the drill.

What do you fly, Commander?

14.

How are you?

Bad. It's a shame to have you on the ground then.

You ever get the itch?

We'll take one out. Well, if you can find the time.

You fly every aircraft half a dozen times, huh?

Austin, Austin. Counselor.

My SDF card's on file.

I'll be here. You got any more questions?

Aye.

Yeah, I worked on that plane. It's all in the report.

Well, I'd like to hear firsthand exactly what you did on it. Turbine shroud,

blade upgrades, like all the others. That one also needed a main mount brake

assembly. And everything was fine?

Looked okay to me, and to Holsford, and the test pilot.

Oh, Wilson.

Yeah, he doesn't seem the type to let anything slide.

Wilson? Yeah, that's an understatement.

You know what pilots use for birth control?

Yeah, their personalities.

What's the difference between a pilot and a jet engine?

Jet engine stops whining when it lands.

Look, I feel real bad about what happened.

What are you doing to this one?

Replacing the heads -up display computer.

Our hudded sometimes jitter so bad we shut it off mid -flight.

Yeah, we removed and replaced a lot of huds for that reason.

Oh, yeah?

Where's the CSD?

What's that?

You're missing a CSD.

It's a CSD.

Constant speed drive, sir. Supplies electrical power to the aircraft.

A bad CSD could account for the loss of control that caused the crash, sir.

An upgraded F -14 was due for pickup, but it had a faulty CSD, sir.

Commander Holtzford pulled a replacement from the mishap 14.

What did he replace that one with? A CSD from another aircraft that had just

come in.

But without cannibalization paperwork, test procedures, or inspection.

He lied to us, sir, and he's probably responsible for the death of those two

aviators. Dereliction of duty, at least, sir. Maybe negligent homicide.

All right.

Inform the convening authority that a court -martial's in order.

Aye, sir. Aye, sir.

Bud, let's see if Holzer's records have come in from Bupers.

On it, sir.

Commander Rapp.

Congresswoman Latham.

I didn't realize I was on your whistle -stop tour, ma 'am.

You are?

I've come for any report you picked up in the Froltec investigation.

Now, what makes you think I would give you files from an active case?

We're investigating a naval officer assigned to Froltec. Lieutenant

Bob Holtzford.

His attorney's been in contact with me.

I'm holding a congressional hearing on waste and fraud at Froltec.

Lieutenant Commander Holtzford has agreed to testify.

In exchange, I'm giving him full immunity from prosecution.

Immunity? You can't do that, Bobby. I'm going to nail this guy. Is that an

order, Commander?

Well, Coltsford is probably responsible for the death of two good men and he

needs to pay for it. No, no, no. What he needs to do is help me expose the waste

and incompetence at Froltec.

This isn't about this case at all, is it?

Froltec has the contract to the Spyglass project, your big campaign issue. For

good reason.

It's a $40 billion waste. Don't make speeches to me. If there wasn't an

election, there wouldn't be a hearing.

I wouldn't want your subordinates hearing me call you an ass.

Holsford didn't set up the system that caused that plane to crash.

Froltec did. Let us convict him, then you can have him as a witness. A witness

for what?

Conditions at Leavenworth?

Come on, you know he's not going to talk without immunity.

It's the best way. This is the quickest way. The best way is to nail Froltec and

Holsford. Oh, come on. Listen, you've done this a thousand times.

This is the battle we lose to win the war.

This is not my war.

How many Froltec planes are supposed to fall out of the sky before it is?

Holtzford has his immunity.

The papers are signed.

Fine.

But I'm going to be there.

Dinner!

You want to see me, sir?

Oh, yeah. Come on. Have a seat.

Dr. Walden's son, Danny, mentioned that her birthday was coming up.

So I thought that... I'd love to see what you got her, sir.

Well, if you insist.

That's a really big book, sir.

Complete works of Shakespeare.

She said she wanted to make it her mission to read all the classics she

out on as a pre -med student.

Um, permission to speak freely, sir?

Sure.

While this gift is very thoughtful, um, it might be a little too thoughtful.

Maybe something more romantic, like, um, cooking her a candlelit dinner.

More romantic?

If I could write the beauty of your eyes and in fresh numbers number all your

graces, the eight to come would say this poet lies.

Such heavenly touches ne 'er touch earthly faces.

Sir, please disregard everything I just said.

Bobby, Commander Rav, great to see you again.

Congressman Porter. I'm afraid you're up here on a fool's errand now. Which

would make me the fool? Oh, she's fantastic.

Wish our party had ten like her. But this time she's taken off after a good

valuable corporate citizen, I'm afraid.

It's valuable to Congressman Porter. You see, Frotek's in his district and his

people are major campaign contributors.

Legal contributions from a company that helps keep America strong and free. Do

you know what Spyglass will do, Commander, unless Congresswoman Latham

to use this hearing to kill it?

I'm aware of it, Congressman. Oh, it's going to change air warfare forever.

Satellites that can read the label on Castro's cigar, deployable to any target

area, all sending real -time data to our bomber pilots so those pilots can tell

the difference between a school bus and a tank without exposing themselves. If

it worked, which it doesn't.

You know, is she even opposed to spending the money to build a prototype?

Because once you've spent the first few billion, it just never stops.

Why don't we go hear what the gentleman has to say, shall we?

Hmm?

My client agreed to testify at a public hearing only.

We're entitled to interview him first, so we know what to expect. There's got

be some limit. There is when we've heard enough.

I've got my immunity in here too, right?

As long as you tell the truth.

That's why I'm here. I thought you were here to avoid a court -martial and a

jail sentence.

I did exactly what Proltech expected.

Go on.

They never had enough manpower to upgrade 130 F -14s in 18 months.

So they had to cut corners. And they made that clear to everybody.

No, they sent out a memo.

Don't fix the planes. No, but they hired inexperienced mechanics.

I've seen personnel that didn't know which panels to remove for pre -flight.

Well, if this is so widespread, why don't we have planes crashing left and

right? Why can the only crash...

that's occurred up until now be traced directly to you? Because up until now,

they've been lucky.

Froltech has one message for its employees.

Those aircraft go out the door, or you do.

They have too few personnel, too many aircraft. There's only one way to meet

those quotas.

Cannibalize parts, falsify reports, gun deck inspections, so that Froltech can

fulfill this job and get the next one.

Why didn't you say something, Commander?

That's why you were there.

To look out for the Navy's interest.

I've been passed over twice for commander, sir.

I'm out of the Navy next year.

Froltek offered me a good paying job. All I had to do was make sure those

aircraft got out the door on time.

The next time that we go out to lunch, we have to go to some place that has

vertebrates on the menu.

A .J., where is your sense of adventure?

Well, my dear Dr.

Walden, I was a Navy SEAL. I've eaten bugs and bark, but at least I could tell

which was which.

Oh, by the way, don't make any plans for your birthday.

My birthday.

Are we doing something?

Rooms have been reserved, maitre d's have been bribed, and opera classes have

been purged. Oh, did I say opera classes?

I'm afraid you did.

It sounds wonderful, A .J.

Hello, Harms. Ma 'am?

Sir.

I'll call you.

Commander Rapp, you're Moscow Herald, sir. Oh, thanks, son. Any good news,

Commander?

Caviar crop is up, rippling it down.

There are casualties in Chesney.

Any word from Sergei?

Oh, not for two weeks. He's still flying Eureka.

They reopened the Lindbergh case?

Worse. Three Navy divers stole 80 lobsters from underwater traps. One of

Singer's cases. She's out sick. Sounds tough. Hope you crack it. Have you tried

sputtering up the judgment?

One more word from either of you and I'm bringing you both up on charges.

Oh, she's reaching her boiling point.

Sir, it's going to be justifiable homicide.

Gentlemen, we maintain a harassment -free workplace.

Colonel, I expect a Marine to have a tougher shell.

Commander, you just came from debriefing Lieutenant Commander Holsford? Yes,

sir. The man's despicable, but half of what he says is true, sir.

So is Proltech.

Yes, sir.

My office.

What's the problem? You got stock in Proltech?

No, sir.

Admiral, if Proltech is responsible for the crash of that F -14, sir, they

should be held responsible.

It's just that my investigation started this ball rolling.

Did a good job.

Sir, if Spyglass works, it could save a lot of lives.

If this hearing makes Proltech look bad, they could lose their funding.

Let me see.

We don't make procurement policy here, Commander. That's at the Pentagon.

Sir,

I just feel that we need to consider the consequences of our actions.

Well, it's hard to know the consequence of any action.

You know, if they'd have had spyglass 30 years ago, it might have saved your

father. Could have saved a lot of lives.

Or maybe not.

So what do you want to do?

Lieutenant Commander Holtzford, would you please describe the working

at Proltech?

It was very high pressure, ma 'am.

Finish the contract on time.

Avoid the late completion penalty at all costs.

Even at the cost of safety?

Heard a lot of talk about time and money, ma 'am. Not too much about

And you went along with this depraved attitude because you wanted a job, hmm?

Yes, sir, that's right.

Who'd you speak to about this job? Was it the head of Pearl Tech's aeronautics

division? Jim Hefferly?

No, sir.

He didn't like to get his suit messy.

Nobody ever saw him, including me. Mr. Porter, you will get your turn. Oh, I

believe I should take my turn now, Madam Chairwoman.

I think not, Mr. Congressman. Because I have important new information that

bears directly on this witness's testimony. Well, if you would only let

witness... This witness doesn't deserve to testify. You, sir, are out of order.

Madam Chairwoman, he is.

Lieutenant Commander Holtzford.

Did you know that Jim Hepperly kept a tape machine in his office?

You heard him testifying in that hearing?

Gonna put me through the ringer, I guess.

I imagine so. Could be tough for you, too.

What are you talking about?

I figure my testimony's gonna have a big effect on Froltec, one way or the

other. Just say what you came to say.

I came to say that what I say is up to you.

You've got $40 billion riding on my testimony.

What's it worth for me to deliver the right testimony?

Get the hell out of my office.

We'll take a recess.

Well, how bad is it?

Extremely bad tells me nothing.

Oh, that is extremely bad. All right, cancel the Shriners and get me on Larry

King.

My opponent already has his press release out.

I was either the accomplice or the dupe for a lying extortionist, and he doesn't

know if the voters should be more concerned about having an unethical

congresswoman or a stupid one. You just canceled the hearing half an hour ago.

Welcome to the Beltway.

Harm, look, I'm sorry about the way things turned out. It was all for

You're backing off Proltech?

Backing off? Try wind sprinting away.

You know that Holtzford's accusations are true. Proltech is responsible for

crash of the F -14. It doesn't matter.

If Holtzford said it, it doesn't count. But his immunity still does. So I don't

get Proltech, and you don't get him.

I don't know about that, Bobby.

When Porter asked Holtzford if he'd ever spoke to Jim Hepperly about a job, he

said nobody ever saw Hepperly, including him.

Well, he obviously saw him when he went to his office to shake him down. Well,

after extortion and negligent double homicide, what's a little hyperbole? He

under oath.

It's perjury.

Making his immunity null and void.

Congratulations, Commander.

You got your little fish.

Nice job, Commander.

Looks like we got a court -martial on our hands after all. Thank you, sir.

Now, the first thing we ought to do is get you back to Proltec so you can pick

up where you left off before Congresswoman Latham ambushed us.

If Colonel McKenzie's through with her lobster poachers, she can defend

Commander Holtzford.

Actually, sir, I'd like to defend Commander Holtzford. I've spoken to the

commander. He's accepted my offer, sir.

I'm sure Colonel McKenzie would be more than happy to prosecute.

They say hearing's the first thing to go.

Sir, I don't like him and I certainly don't respect him, but as you're very

of saying, Admiral, everybody deserves a vigorous defense.

I see.

Am I correct in assuming that the name

Froll Technologies might come up at some point in your vigorous defense?

Well, there's a strong possibility, sir.

Commander... This court -martial is being convened for the purpose of

establishing guilt or innocence of Lieutenant Commander Holtzford, period.

There are other venues to expose corporate misdeeds.

Aggressional hearings, 60 minutes. Understood.

Commander, a defense attorney must have his client's interest and only his

client's interest in mind.

Am I clear?

Absolutely, Admiral.

Yes? Danny Walden to see you, sir.

Send him in. That'll be all, Commander.

Thank you.

Hello.

Hey there.

What are you doing in the neighborhood?

Well, I'm here to enlist.

No, not really. I'm just kidding.

No, actually, it's about your plans for my mom's birthday.

Oh. Well, here. Have a seat.

She didn't want to say anything, but we have this thing where we go to have

dinner at the Willard Hotel every year.

It's something we used to do with my dad.

Oh, no problem. I'll just make her a date for another night.

Well, no, I have a better idea. Why don't you join us at the Willard?

That'd be my pleasure.

Great.

Last time I was here, Mr. Cartwright, you were working on an aircraft with a

missing CSD.

Temporarily, it was replaced.

You said then that used parts were often swapped around.

Well, yeah, sometimes Bob Holtzford would tell people to do stuff like that.

Always Lieutenant Commander Holtzford, never anybody else.

Not that I know of.

You were the mechanic Lieutenant Commander Holtzford had to remove the

the mishap aircraft.

It was my second day on the job. Navy guy tells me to do something, I do it.

You been asked to do anything like that again?

Nope.

Seen anybody else do anything like that? Nope.

What about sign off on work that hasn't been done?

Nope. Except, of course, for Lieutenant Commander Holford, right?

Oh, yeah.

Him. You did a good job of cleaning this place up.

Did I?

Yeah, it's almost a total whitewash.

Though you may have missed one spot.

That crater out there.

Fill that in yet?

Hey, come in.

You still turning over rocks?

Ah, the worms have a lawyer. I'm calling it a day.

Unless you've seen anything sloppy in the upgrade program.

Rav, everything looks beautiful from 20 ,000 feet.

So is your offer still good from the last time?

You want to go up?

It's either that or watch Shamu eat fish guts for lunch.

Got one they just finished working on.

Ferry crew won't be here till tomorrow.

and it's good to get out of the office.

This is my office.

Oh, damn, son. You fly like you've never been out of the cockpit.

What do you say we take her out over the water?

No time.

Got to be back by four.

You got a beat somewhere?

No. Pro -Tech's closing down the airstrip. 1 ,600 sharp.

Well, you can't take us back a few minutes late. Do that, and they'll find

500 bucks.

Ouch. Never happens, never will.

VSD contamination.

VSD. Hit stabilization system.

Cutting it.

No good.

Cutting off stab system.

Switching to emergency hydraulic control.

Too late to eject.

Two and a half. Negative gain.

Master reset.

No good.

Okay, I'm hitting. Keep doing that.

You hate it.

You son of a... We land, you run.

Better be fast.

Now you know how they felt.

You could have killed us.

How did it feel knowing you were going to die because those idiots keep doing

this?

I can't help you.

You know what's going on down there, Wilson.

I won't testify.

They'd never let me fly again.

Flying is my life, boy.

All right.

Do you tell me where to look for what I need?

It's a fishing expedition, Your Honor, intended to harass and embarrass my

client. On behalf of Fraud Technologies, I move to quash the defense subpoena.

Producing maintenance planning and budget documents would harass and

your client.

Well, first of all, it'll take a boxcar to haul them all to Washington.

And that's embarrassing?

It's harassing. And second, those documents contain trade secrets.

classified data and insight into Fraultech's competitive bidding for

contracts, the disclosure of which would be an unfair boon to its competitors.

Certainly the interest of justice would override any commercial considerations,

ma 'am. What interest of justice?

There's no indication how any of this is relevant to the guilt or innocence of

Lieutenant Commander Holsford, which reinforces the company's claim that the

subpoena is solely intended to harass and embarrass Froltec. I grant it would

embarrassing to be found complicit in the crash of the F -14 that killed

Commander Akizu and Lieutenant Burke. A budget document's going to tell you

that. If it indicates that Froltec wouldn't or couldn't run the upgrade

with an acceptable standard of care and safety.

Yes. Your Honor, nothing contained in any kind of document would absolve

Lieutenant Commander Holtzford of responsibility for his own actions.

There's been no allegation that anyone from Froltec Management was even present

when the defendant ordered the installation of untested used parts in

aircraft that crashed.

I believe it's customary in a tag team situation to slap your teammate's hand

before switching.

Exactly what are you looking for at Froltec, Commander Rabb? Ma 'am, I

show that the company created an atmosphere where negligence was the

and that it coerced its employees, including Lieutenant Commander

into placing productivity before safety.

Your Honor, it doesn't fly, Commander.

Short of a gun being pointed at his head, the defendant is still responsible

his own actions.

The motion to quash the subpoena is granted.

We will continue with the trial of Lieutenant Commander Holtzford alone.

No. Discussing strategy?

Yeah, he wants Italian.

I want Chinese.

Do what he wants. Why should outside of the courtroom be any different?

Excuse me?

You're walking a pro -tech party line, Matt, making a scapegoat out of

Holtzberg. I'm supposed to make him a scapegoat. I'm prosecuting him,

You should work on your good loser skills.

A little premature, Counselor.

McKinney? Sir?

Gunny, I've been thinking more about this law school stuff.

Whatever you put your mind to, Tyner.

It's not that, Gunny.

When I first joined the Navy, I thought I'd be seeing action.

Being a lawyer, it's too calm, too peaceful.

Calm and peaceful?

Just look at this office. No conflict, no confrontation.

Everybody's so pleasant.

Tyner, it would be a crime to deprive the legal world of your uncanny powers

observation.

Thank you, Gunny.

I finished the final upgrade on that aircraft on the 24th, but it still

have a CSD.

Lieutenant Commander Holtzford told me to pull one out of a plane that had just

come in.

I refused.

I said we should order a new one.

What did Lieutenant Commander Holtzford say?

That that would take too long, and we couldn't afford to wait.

What happened next?

I don't know exactly. I was working the night shift.

When I left at midnight, there still wasn't a CSD in that aircraft.

When I got in the next afternoon at 3, there must have been one because Wilson

was just taking off for a test flight.

And to your knowledge, there were no new CSDs that stopped in there?

That's correct. But do we still have the card? So the only place it could have

come from would be another plane?

Yes, ma 'am.

It's in here, sir.

Port's taking off at 1505 and doing a full card test flight. The whole

checklist. Yeah, you know how long that takes?

I don't, sir.

Two hours.

Jack Wilson here.

Wilson, it's Commander Rapp.

I've been expecting to hear from you, Commander.

I need you here.

I already bought my plane ticket.

I'll testify, but it means I'll never fly again.

I signed off on the full card test flight, but I did not do the

full post -maintenance checklist.

Did you check the CSD?

No. Seemed to be working. Plane was flying.

What about the emergency generator?

No. I only checked the major primary systems.

The emergency generator should have kicked in when the CSD failed, correct?

That's right.

And why didn't you check everything you were supposed to check, Mr. Wilson?

Because I didn't take off till after three o 'clock.

Proltech closed the airstrip four o 'clock sharp.

But even when an aircraft was due for pickup and needed to be tested?

That's right.

They don't care about aircraft at Proltech.

They care about money.

How do you know that?

They overscheduled me that day, ma 'am.

Overscheduled me a lot of days.

I had three test flights to complete starting at noon.

No way I could finish by four. Everybody knew that.

Still, they shut down the damn strip.

The aircraft that crashed took off at night, after 4 p .m.

They always open up the strip to meet a delivery deadline, avoid paying a

penalty.

I don't care about money.

I just wanted to keep on flying.

The defense renews its request for the production of maintenance planning and

budget records from Prol Technology.

No objections, Your Honor.

So ordered.

Thank you.

That'd be a second traffic.

He has a cell phone, which he's not answering.

Could be out of range.

Forty -five minutes.

I don't like him.

You know, you're right.

He's a big boy.

Let's just enjoy ourselves.

He gets here when he gets here. Drink to that.

Now, Henry Clay brought this recipe for mint juleps from Kentucky in 1850. I've

never tried it.

You know, until last year, Danny would only order the burger and fries.

You know, I think that's the special one you made.

Let's go find him.

Did you have to subpoena everything?

Yeah, I should have just demanded the criminally negligent policies files.

I think I found something, sir.

The employees are complaining because they disbanded the commissary softball

team.

Never mind.

Orders for drill bits, employee's dental records, division manager's expense

accounts. They swamped us.

The old lawyer's trick.

So we go back to the judge with a motion to compel a more specific production of

records.

Who ordered the pizza?

What are you doing here?

I should ask you the same.

I'm an officer of the court out for the truth.

My compliments on your client's filing system.

It looks like it's somewhere between Dewey Decimal and Chaos Theory.

Well, things are much less orderly in the private sector.

I was at corporate headquarters when they were pulling this material.

Yeah? You help them mix it and stir it, probably?

As a matter of fact, yeah.

The whole top corporate echelon was there helping out.

But even with all that help...

One file still accidentally fell behind the desk.

Luckily, I found it.

Report cost and benefits F -14 upgrade program risk reward analysis.

Thanks, pal.

Just doing my job as an officer of the court.

What is it?

Due to the necessity of underbidding the original F -14 manufacturers, this

program must be considered a loss leader, one we lose money on as we

a new area of Pentagon procurement.

Just some dry accounting stuff.

Nevertheless, we can limit our downside exposure by limiting the parameters of

our infrastructure support.

By tightly controlling man hours and parts expended, we can hold our losses

tolerable level. While this would increase the risk of catastrophic

incidents, it would be less expensive to compensate the government.

for one or two such losses than to raise our standards of service.

Two pilots' lives are worth less than doing the job right?

They calculated that?

I love Washington.

You don't get this with a pizza in Detroit.

Danny?

Danny?

What are you guys doing here?

What are we?

What are you doing here?

Dinner at the Willard, remember?

Well, I thought maybe you guys wanted to be alone.

And that's why you didn't answer the phone?

I turn off the ringer when I do my homework.

Next time you decide to be thoughtful, be a little more thoughtful and pick up

phone.

I'm sorry, you guys. I didn't ruin your night or anything, did I?

if I see him one night a month.

Mom.

Hi.

Hey.

Well, I hope I'm not too late for the showing of the bathtub photos.

I wouldn't show those pictures to your mother.

I thought you were in Europe. I was.

Can I stop by on my way home and say hello to my favorite son?

Your only son.

Frank gave me a diamond in Venice and we renewed our wedding vows.

It was really quite romantic.

Maybe you should ask Frank where he got the ring.

But, Trish, it was wonderful meeting you. Oh, you don't have to go, do you?

I do.

Sorry.

You don't have to go. Yes, I do.

You hang tight, Baylor.

Keeping you on your toes?

Oh, she's doing her best.

You know, Harm, I haven't talked to you since you came back from Cuba or Russia.

I've been meaning to talk to you about the trip. Yeah, I can't wait to hear

about your meeting with Castro.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, that was interesting. I meant Russia.

Ah, Russia.

You know, Harm, after you came back that last time, when you told me you had

proof your father was dead,

I grieved again after all those years.

I'm so sorry, Mom.

No.

Something good happened.

It helped me move on. You see, I've always held myself back a little.

One last sliver waiting for your father. But now, that's all in the past.

I've accepted it.

So, my life is better.

Thank you.

Well, you can tell me all about Russia over dinner.

Hmm. Yeah.

It was uneventful, really.

Nothing important happened.

It's all over the front page, huh? I'm Congresswoman Latham, the smoking gun

frill tech memo.

Good. That doesn't change anything about Lieutenant Commander Holsford. He's

still guilty.

Well, a little less than he used to be.

Willful dereliction, six months hard labor.

Negligent homicide, two years.

Eighteen months.

Deal.

Ten

million

dollars. A traffic ticket.

You did what you could, Harm. Life goes on.

Well, for some it does.

I'm on my way to memorial service for Commander Akiza, Lieutenant Burke.

You busy?