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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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00:20:56,423 --> 00:20:58,792
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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00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:23,283
Here we go. Now,
don't lose sight of my wing.

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00:21:25,819 --> 00:21:28,822
Two miles out. Start down,
five hundred feet per minute.

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How's your fuel?

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00:21:46,306 --> 00:21:47,307
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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00:22:03,156 --> 00:22:07,160
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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00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:13,780
(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?

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00:25:45,879 --> 00:25:47,800
I've never heard of it.

238
00:25:52,786 --> 00:25:55,321
I saw your runway lights...

239
00:25:57,157 --> 00:26:02,595
and... Well, looks like I've plonked
my Vampire down onto the wrong airfield.

240
00:26:05,165 --> 00:26:07,300
- Sorry.
- Don't mention it, sir.

241
00:26:39,699 --> 00:26:40,767
You got the short straw,

242
00:26:40,867 --> 00:26:42,702
having to spend your Christmas
on duty here?

243
00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,380
JOE: (CHUCKLES) Yes.

244
00:26:46,339 --> 00:26:47,407
Let's get you settled.

245
00:27:02,889 --> 00:27:05,458
- This will warm you up, sir.
- Thank you.

246
00:27:08,940 --> 00:27:11,965
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

247
00:27:11,965 --> 00:27:13,333
Come on, Lizzie.

248
00:27:15,268 --> 00:27:16,569
(PHONE LINE TRILLING)

249
00:27:22,242 --> 00:27:25,545
- FREDDIE: Come on, Lizzie. Pick up.
- (PEOPLE SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

250
00:27:51,538 --> 00:27:56,876
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

251
00:28:14,961 --> 00:28:15,962
(JOE GRUNTS)

252
00:28:19,199 --> 00:28:21,968
- Did you get through?
- Strange.

253
00:28:23,403 --> 00:28:25,538
Well, it is Christmas.

254
00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:36,583
FREDDIE: You've been here long, Joe?

255
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Since the beginning of the war
when the station opened.

256
00:28:41,221 --> 00:28:43,890
- It's different then.
- Hmm.

257
00:28:43,390 --> 00:28:47,930
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
00:28:51,631 --> 00:28:55,335
- Did you have family in the Force, sir?
- Yeah. Yeah, my father.

260
00:28:57,904 --> 00:29:00,807
- I'm sorry.
- Missing in action over Germany.

261
00:29:02,142 --> 00:29:06,780
- So you followed him into the Force?
- Yeah, yeah, I did.

262
00:29:08,114 --> 00:29:10,383
Not right away, though. National Service.

263
00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:13,753
Well, thank God there's no war on.

264
00:29:15,388 --> 00:29:18,258
Let's hope we don't have to go through
anything like that again.

265
00:29:20,627 --> 00:29:22,529
- May I, sir?
- Thank you.

266
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:41,681
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

267
00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:44,851
Who's the pilot, Joe?

268
00:29:47,554 --> 00:29:49,122
Oh, that's Mr. John Kavanagh.

269
00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:52,425
- He was here during the war, sir.
- Kavanagh?

270
00:29:53,930 --> 00:29:54,940
Yes.

271
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Often used to sit at that table
where you were sitting.

272
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A Canadian pilot.

273
00:30:00,834 --> 00:30:04,904
- What squadron was that, Joe?
- Pathfinders. Mosquitoes they flew.

274
00:30:04,904 --> 00:30:07,674
I believe Mr. Kavanagh
was the best of them all.

275
00:30:07,907 --> 00:30:11,544
But then, I'm biased. (CHUCKLES)
I was his batman.

276
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- Johnny Kavanagh.
- When the squadron returned

277
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,260
after dropping marker flares
over targets in Germany,

278
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he'd have his Mosquito refueled.
Take off again. Alone.

279
00:30:32,365 --> 00:30:34,601
- He used to guide them back here.
- Yes.

280
00:30:35,135 --> 00:30:37,370
He used to go out over the North Sea...

281
00:30:38,638 --> 00:30:42,509
looking for a crippled plane,
sometimes in fog so dense

282
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you couldn't see your hand.

283
00:30:46,179 --> 00:30:47,414
Just like tonight.

284
00:30:56,956 --> 00:30:58,491
Well, he brought me home tonight.

285
00:30:59,459 --> 00:31:00,860
Oh, I don't think so, sir.

286
00:31:03,596 --> 00:31:07,934
Mr. Johnny went out
on his last patrol Christmas Eve, 1943.

287
00:31:09,669 --> 00:31:11,404
Just 14 years ago tonight.

288
00:31:13,506 --> 00:31:14,708
He never came back.

289
00:31:16,576 --> 00:31:17,944
He went down with his plane...

290
00:31:20,246 --> 00:31:22,449
somewhere out there over the North Sea.

291
00:31:31,124 --> 00:31:32,258
Well, good night, sir.

292
00:31:36,996 --> 00:31:40,767
Oh, and uh... (CHUCKLES)
...Happy Christmas.

293
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,924
(PLANE ENGINE WHIRRING)

294
00:32:21,975 --> 00:32:23,543
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

295
00:32:37,724 --> 00:32:40,994
DRIVER: We saw you on the radar
looked like you were heading for Miriam.

296
00:32:41,628 --> 00:32:44,597
- Then you just vanished.
- We lost you around about here.

297
00:32:46,433 --> 00:32:48,168
- Why did you...
- I was led down.

298
00:32:49,369 --> 00:32:52,339
Old guy here turned on the runway lights
and saved my life.

299
00:32:54,908 --> 00:32:57,544
This place shut down years ago
at the end of the war.

300
00:32:58,244 --> 00:33:00,130
Uh, it's been abandoned ever since.

301
00:33:00,130 --> 00:33:06,252
(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

302
00:33:18,598 --> 00:33:19,599
Come on.

303
00:33:21,134 --> 00:33:22,969
Let's get you back to civilization, sir.

304
00:33:23,870 --> 00:33:25,710
Home for Christmas.

305
00:33:51,598 --> 00:33:53,366
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.

306
00:33:53,366 --> 00:33:56,136
Can you read me?
Do you require assistance?

307
00:33:56,636 --> 00:33:59,539
SKIPPER: Monkey, Delta,
Crocodile Lima, Skipper here.

308
00:33:59,706 --> 00:34:02,375
Flank damage and hit
from pursuing enemy fighter.

309
00:34:02,542 --> 00:34:06,112
Instrument failure.
Require ground assisted approach.

310
00:34:06,713 --> 00:34:08,848
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta,

311
00:34:09,490 --> 00:34:12,520
it's time to follow me down.
I'm taking you home.

312
00:34:41,247 --> 00:34:42,682
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

313
00:34:43,683 --> 00:34:48,121
(CAROL OF THE BELLS PLAYING)

314
00:35:46,579 --> 00:35:51,618
- (VOCALIZING CONCLUDES)
- (MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

315
00:38:45,125 --> 00:38:47,594
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)