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(RADIO STATIC)
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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.
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Can you read me?
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Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.
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Can you read me? Do
you require assistance?
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♪ In the bleak midwinter ♪
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♪ Frosty wind made moan ♪
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♪ Earth stood hard as iron ♪
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♪ Water like a stone ♪
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(MEN LAUGHING)
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♪ Schnee ging
nieder, bergeschwer ♪
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♪ Schnee auf Schnee lag schwer ♪
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- (MALE VOICE GRUNTS)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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FEMALE VOICE: (INDISTINCT
CHATTER IN GERMAN) Jacob!
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MALE VOICE: We're gonna get you!
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- (CHRISTMAS SONG PLAYING OVER STEREO)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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- MALE VOICE: I'll get a round!
- FEMALE VOICE: Nice! Who's this guy?
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- (CHUCKLES)
- Whoo!
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- FREDDIE'S MUM: Hello?
- FREDDIE: Mum?
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- FREDDIE'S MUM: Freddie!
- Hi, Mum.
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I'm... I'm just calling
to say Happy Christmas.
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FREDDIE'S MUM: Oh, so your
leave didn't come through?
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Uh, I'm afraid not. But I... I'll
be home in a couple of weeks.
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- FREDDIE'S MUM: Oh, have you told Lizzie?
- FREDDIE: I'm gonna call her now.
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FREDDIE'S MUM: Well, Happy
Christmas, darling. We'll miss you.
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FREDDIE: Me, too. Tell
that sister of mine...
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- Happy Christmas, Stinky.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
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Happy Christmas, Sal.
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- SALLY: Give my love to Lizzie!
- Okay. Bye, sis.
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- (LINE DISCONNECTS)
- Mum?
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(SONG CONCLUDES)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(DASHWOOD CLEARS THROAT)
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What happened to you?
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Snowball fight of all things.
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Some other lucky bugger
gets home for Christmas.
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So you're not flying tonight?
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Really?
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Sorry.
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SHIP SECURITY OFFICER:
You're sure about this?
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You've only just got
your night rating.
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- It's over an hour to Lakenheath.
- It's a straight run across the North Sea.
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Well, the weather has
changed unexpectedly.
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Forecast is clear skies till
morning, so perfect night for flying.
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Everything seems to have
stacked up in your favor.
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Looks like you're going
home for Christmas.
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Thank you, sir.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER IN GERMAN)
- (WOMAN CHUCKLES)
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Hey. No time to call your girlfriend.
I've gotta get you out of here tonight.
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- All right. Come on then.
- Talk to you from the tower.
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(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
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{\an8}- Evening, Jack.
- They're nearly ready for you, sir.
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SHIP SECURITY OFFICER:
You'll turn onto course 265,
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climb to 27,000 feet over the
Dutch coast to the North Sea.
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Got it.
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Sixty-six-minute flight.
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You've got fuel for more
than 80 minutes in the air.
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Touch down to
Lakenheath, 23, 25.
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On reaching height, maintain
course and keep speed to 350 knots.
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Soon as you leave our airspace,
we'll be shutting down.
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You'll have the sky to yourself.
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Good luck.
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- (CLEARS THROAT) All ready, Jack?
- Yeah. Nice clear night, sir.
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FREDDIE: Mm.
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Well, uh, Merry Christmas, sir.
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Frohe Weinachten, Jack.
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If you say so, sir.
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(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
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JIM: (OVER RADIO) Charlie
Delta, taxi for runway 24.
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Quebec, Foxtrot, Echo, 1014.
Surface wind, 230 degrees,
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10 knots.
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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta,
taxi for runway 24,
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Quebec, Foxtrot, Echo, 1014.
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JIM: (OVER RADIO) Charlie Delta,
clear line up and takeoff.
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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta rolling.
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JIM: (OVER RADIO) Celle
Approach, Charlie Delta,
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signing on to 265, climbing
the level 280. And away you go.
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- JIM: (OVER RADIO) Charlie Delta.
- FREDDIE: Charlie Delta, Celle.
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JIM: (OVER RADIO) Charlie
Delta, clear for takeoff.
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FREDDIE: Roger that, tower.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta. Clear
airfield. Wheels up and locked.
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Happy Christmas, Jim.
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JIM: (OVER RADIO) Happy
Christmas, Freddie.
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♪ Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells
all seem to say, throw cares away ♪
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♪ Christmas is here,
bringing good cheer ♪
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♪ To young and old,
meek and the bold ♪
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♪ One seems to hear words of good cheer
from everywhere, filling the air ♪
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♪ Oh, how they pound, raising their sound
o'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪
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♪ Gaily they ring while people sing
songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪
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♪ On, on they send, on without end
their joyful tone, to every home ♪
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♪ Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells
all seem to say, throw cares away ♪
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♪ Christmas is here,
bringing good cheer ♪
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♪ To young and old,
meek and the bold ♪
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(FREDDIE INHALES DEEPLY)
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♪ One seems to hear words of good cheer
from everywhere, filling the air ♪
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♪ Oh, how they pound, raising their sound
o'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪
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♪ Gaily they ring while people sing
songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪
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♪ Merry, Merry,
Merry Christmas ♪
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♪ On, on they send, on without end
their joyful tone, to every home ♪
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(LIGHTS BUZZING)
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(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: (SIGHS) Bloody compass.
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(GRUNTS)
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Compass failure.
Compass failure.
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Come on.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Celle, Charlie Delta.
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Calling North Beveland
Control. Compass failure.
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Request a radio-assisted
approach. Alert RAF Lakenheath.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Celle, Charlie Delta.
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Do you read me? Request a
ground-controlled approach.
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Uh, RAF Lakenheath, ETA 2340.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: Celle, Charlie
Delta. Celle, Charlie Delta.
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Require radio assistance.
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Come on. Someone talk to me.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Celle, Charlie Delta.
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Calling Lakenheath Control.
Electrical failure. Come in.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Calling Lakenheath Control.
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Multiple instrument failure.
Do you read me? Come on!
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{\an8}Come on, come on!
Just work! (SIGHS)
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How can I land if I've got
no one to talk me down?
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(SIGHS) Switching to
emergency channel.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Celle, Charlie Delta.
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(CLEARS THROAT) Calling
Lakenheath Control. Come in.
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(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: If anyone can hear me,
this is Celle, Charlie Delta.
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Instrument failure.
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Only speed and altitude functioning,
will attempt visual navigation.
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Attempting to fly to Norwich.
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Land at the nearest airfield...
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Miriam St. George.
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Fuel status, only
1,200 pounds remaining.
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God. (BREATHES HEAVILY)
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(GROANS) Fog as well now. Oh no.
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Celle, Charlie Delta.
Emergency. Calling all channels.
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Throttling back and descending
to 10,000 feet to save my fuel.
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Commencing emergency distress procedure.
Flying triangular flight pattern.
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Hopefully someone will
pick me up on radar.
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It's my only hope.
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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: Fuel status critical.
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Seven hundred pounds remaining.
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Lord, please get me out
of this bloody mess.
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Please send someone
to lead me down.
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(GROANS)
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Fuel level critical. Three
hundred pounds remaining.
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Current estimation, ten minutes
remaining before ditching.
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Continuing to fly
triangular flight pattern.
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(BREATHES HEAVILY)
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Why can't anybody
see my up here?
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Why won't somebody listen to me?
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Emergency fuel level reached.
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Estimate five
minutes to ditching.
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Lizzie...
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(BREATHES HEAVILY) if
this is it, then...
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I want you to know that...
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I don't seem to
be afraid anymore.
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Just really sad.
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Sad for all the things
that we'll never do...
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all the places we'll
never see together.
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All I wanted was to come home
to spend Christmas with you.
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(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
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LIZZIE: Why don't you come
inside? It's freezing out here.
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Come in. Out of the cold.
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FREDDIE: This is Charlie
Delta calling all channels.
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Sea ditching now inevitable.
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This may be my
last communication.
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(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO) Croc...
Lima... Can you... read...
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- Identify your position.
- FREDDIE: Charlie Delta. Do you read me?
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Charlie Delta, request your ID.
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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.
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Can you read me?
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FREDDIE: This is Charlie
Delta, not Monkey Delta.
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En route Miriam. Instrument
failure. Request assisted approach.
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Come on. Come on.
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(GRUNTS)
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Charlie Delta, Crocodile
Lima. Do you read me?
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He can't hear me.
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Charlie Delta, Crocodile
Lima. Do you read me?
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He can't hear me.
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What the hell's going on?
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Why can I hear him,
but he can't hear me?
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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO) Have
you sustained structural damage?
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Do you require assistance?
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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta to Crocodile
Lima. Yes! Require assistance.
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(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta to Crocodile Lima.
Please confirm you have a visual on me.
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A Mosquito...
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Thank you.
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(BREATHES DEEPLY)
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Do you read me?
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Charlie Delta. Yes, I...
Yeah, I can hear you.
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Roger that.
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Negative on your transmissions,
I can't hear you.
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Use your hand signals.
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Do you have structural damage?
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Electrical failure.
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What's your fuel status?
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Okay. Three minutes.
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Line up on me, and
let's start our descent.
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- You're doing fine.
- Thank you.
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Okay. You've got four
miles to touchdown.
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Make sure your landing
gear is down and locked.
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That's it.
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Okay, we're three miles out. Follow
me down, I'm taking you home.
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Here we go. Now, don't
lose sight of my wing.
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Two miles out. Start down,
five hundred feet per minute.
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How's your fuel?
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Stay with me.
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We've got a mile to go. We're
slowing down to 110 knots.
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Continue descent,
300 feet per minute.
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Okay, there's your runway straight
ahead. You're clear to land.
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Merry Christmas.
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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(EXHALES SHARPLY)
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(PANTS)
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(CHUCKLES, EXHALES HEAVILY)
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(CAR HORN HONKS)
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MALE VOICE: Hello, there!
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- Hello.
- MALE VOICE: That yours?
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Sergeant Joe Marks, jump in.
I'll run you back to the mess.
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- Thank you. It's good to be in the warm.
- I expect it is.
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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
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Flying Officer, Freddie Hook.
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- That was close.
- You were lucky in this fog.
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Yeah. My radio and electrics
failed out of the North Sea.
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I was guided in by
another aircraft.
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- Surprised you managed to find the place.
- What do you mean?
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We're not an operational
station, haven't been for years.
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We're just a storage depot now.
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- So this isn't RAF Miriam St. George?
- That's another ten miles away, sir.
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- This is RAF Minton.
- Minton?
237
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I've never heard of it.
238
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I saw your runway lights...
239
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and... Well, looks like I've plonked my
Vampire down onto the wrong airfield.
240
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- Sorry.
- Don't mention it, sir.
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You got the short straw,
242
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having to spend your
Christmas on duty here?
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JOE: (CHUCKLES) Yes.
244
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Let's get you settled.
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- This will warm you up, sir.
- Thank you.
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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Come on, Lizzie.
248
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(PHONE LINE TRILLING)
249
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- FREDDIE: Come on, Lizzie. Pick up.
- (PEOPLE SINGING INDISTINCTLY)
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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
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(JOE GRUNTS)
252
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- Did you get through?
- Strange.
253
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Well, it is Christmas.
254
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FREDDIE: You've
been here long, Joe?
255
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Since the beginning of the
war when the station opened.
256
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- It's different then.
- Hmm.
257
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Back then, it was full of young
pilots flying mission after mission,
258
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even after their
nerves were in shreds.
259
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,708
- Did you have family in the Force, sir?
- Yeah. Yeah, my father.
260
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- I'm sorry.
- Missing in action over Germany.
261
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- So you followed him into the Force?
- Yeah, yeah, I did.
262
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Not right away, though.
National Service.
263
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Well, thank God
there's no war on.
264
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Let's hope we don't have to go
through anything like that again.
265
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- May I, sir?
- Thank you.
266
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
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Who's the pilot, Joe?
268
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Oh, that's Mr. John Kavanagh.
269
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- He was here during the war, sir.
- Kavanagh?
270
00:29:59,458 --> 00:30:00,458
Yes.
271
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Often used to sit at that
table where you were sitting.
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A Canadian pilot.
273
00:30:07,208 --> 00:30:11,290
- What squadron was that, Joe?
- Pathfinders. Mosquitoes they flew.
274
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I believe Mr. Kavanagh
was the best of them all.
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But then, I'm biased.
(CHUCKLES) I was his batman.
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- Johnny Kavanagh.
- When the squadron returned
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after dropping marker flares
over targets in Germany,
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he'd have his Mosquito
refueled. Take off again. Alone.
279
00:30:38,750 --> 00:30:40,958
- He used to guide them back here.
- Yes.
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He used to go out
over the North Sea...
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looking for a crippled plane,
sometimes in fog so dense
282
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you couldn't see your hand.
283
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Just like tonight.
284
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:04,875
Well, he brought
me home tonight.
285
00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:07,250
Oh, I don't think so, sir.
286
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Mr. Johnny went out on his last
patrol Christmas Eve, 1943.
287
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Just 14 years ago tonight.
288
00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:21,083
He never came back.
289
00:31:22,958 --> 00:31:24,333
He went down with his plane...
290
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somewhere out there
over the North Sea.
291
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,625
Well, good night, sir.
292
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Oh, and uh... (CHUCKLES)
Happy Christmas.
293
00:32:08,458 --> 00:32:11,291
(PLANE ENGINE WHIRRING)
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(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
295
00:32:44,083 --> 00:32:47,375
DRIVER: We saw you on the radar looked
like you were heading for Miriam.
296
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- Then you just vanished.
- We lost you around about here.
297
00:32:52,791 --> 00:32:54,541
- Why did you...
- I was led down.
298
00:32:55,750 --> 00:32:58,708
Old guy here turned on the
runway lights and saved my life.
299
00:33:01,291 --> 00:33:03,916
This place shut down years
ago at the end of the war.
300
00:33:04,625 --> 00:33:06,374
Uh, it's been
abandoned ever since.
301
00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:12,625
(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
302
00:33:24,958 --> 00:33:25,958
Come on.
303
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,333
Let's get you back
to civilization, sir.
304
00:33:30,250 --> 00:33:31,458
Home for Christmas.
305
00:33:57,958 --> 00:33:59,749
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.
306
00:33:59,750 --> 00:34:02,500
Can you read me? Do
you require assistance?
307
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,916
SKIPPER: Monkey, Delta,
Crocodile Lima, Skipper here.
308
00:34:06,083 --> 00:34:08,750
Flank damage and hit from
pursuing enemy fighter.
309
00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:12,500
Instrument failure. Require
ground assisted approach.
310
00:34:13,083 --> 00:34:15,208
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta,
311
00:34:15,416 --> 00:34:18,416
it's time to follow me
down. I'm taking you home.
312
00:34:47,625 --> 00:34:49,041
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
313
00:34:50,041 --> 00:34:54,500
(CAROL OF THE BELLS PLAYING)
314
00:35:52,958 --> 00:35:58,000
- (VOCALIZING CONCLUDES)
- (MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
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00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:53,958
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
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