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(RADIO STATIC)

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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.</i>

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<i>Can you read me?</i>

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<i>Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.</i>

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<i>Can you read me?
Do you require assistance?</i>

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<i>♪ In the bleak midwinter ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Frosty wind made moan ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Earth stood hard as iron ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Water like a stone ♪</i>

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(MEN LAUGHING)

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<i>♪ Schnee ging nieder, bergeschwer ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Schnee auf Schnee lag schwer ♪</i>

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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: <i>Hello?</i>
- FREDDIE: Mum?

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- FREDDIE'S MUM: <i>Freddie!</i>
- Hi, Mum.

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I'm... I'm just calling to say
Happy Christmas.

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FREDDIE'S MUM:
<i>Oh, so your leave didn't come through?</i>

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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: <i>Oh, have you told Lizzie?</i>
- FREDDIE: <i>I'm gonna call her now.</i>

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FREDDIE'S MUM: Well, Happy Christmas,
darling. We'll miss you.

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FREDDIE: <i>Me, too.
Tell that sister of mine...</i>

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- Happy Christmas, Stinky.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

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Happy Christmas, Sal.

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- SALLY: <i>Give my love to Lizzie!</i>
- 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:
<i>You're sure about this?</i>

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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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<i>On reaching height, maintain course
and keep speed to 350 knots.</i>

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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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<i>Frohe Weinachten,</i> 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)
<i>Charlie Delta, taxi for runway 24.</i>

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<i>Quebec, Foxtrot, Echo, 1014.
Surface wind, 230 degrees,</i>

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<i>10 knots.</i>

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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta,
taxi for runway 24,

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<i>Quebec, Foxtrot, Echo, 1014.</i>

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JIM: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Charlie Delta, clear line up and takeoff.</i>

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FREDDIE: Charlie Delta rolling.

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JIM: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Celle Approach, Charlie Delta,</i>

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<i>signing on to 265, climbing the level 280.
And away you go.</i>

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- JIM: (OVER RADIO) <i>Charlie Delta.</i>
- FREDDIE: Charlie Delta, Celle.

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JIM: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Charlie Delta, clear for takeoff.</i>

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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)
<i>Happy Christmas, Freddie.</i>

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<i>♪ Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells
all seem to say, throw cares away ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Christmas is here, bringing good cheer ♪</i>

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<i>♪ To young and old, meek and the bold ♪</i>

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<i>♪ One seems to hear words of good cheer
from everywhere, filling the air ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Oh, how they pound, raising their sound
o'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Gaily they ring while people sing
songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪</i>

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<i>♪ On, on they send, on without end
their joyful tone, to every home ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells
all seem to say, throw cares away ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Christmas is here, bringing good cheer ♪</i>

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<i>♪ To young and old, meek and the bold ♪</i>

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(FREDDIE INHALES DEEPLY)

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<i>♪ One seems to hear words of good cheer
from everywhere, filling the air ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Oh, how they pound, raising their sound
o'er hill and dale, telling their tale ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Gaily they ring while people sing
songs of good cheer, Christmas is here ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas ♪</i>

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<i>♪ On, on they send, on without end
their joyful tone, to every home ♪</i>

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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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<i>Current estimation, ten minutes remaining
before ditching.</i>

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<i>Continuing to fly
triangular flight pattern.</i>

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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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<i>Emergency fuel level reached.</i>

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<i>Estimate five minutes to ditching.</i>

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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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<i>Just really sad.</i>

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<i>Sad for all the things
that we'll never do...</i>

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<i>all the places we'll never see together.</i>

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<i>All I wanted was to come home
to spend Christmas with you.</i>

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(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

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LIZZIE: <i>Why don't you come inside?
It's freezing out here.</i>

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<i>Come in. Out of the cold.</i>

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FREDDIE: <i>This is Charlie Delta
calling all channels.</i>

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<i>Sea ditching now inevitable.</i>

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<i>This may be my last communication.</i>

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(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Croc... Lima... Can you... read...</i>

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<i>- Identify your position.</i>
- FREDDIE: Charlie Delta. Do you read me?

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Charlie Delta, request your ID.

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CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.</i>

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<i>Can you read me?</i>

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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)
<i>Have you sustained structural damage?</i>

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<i>Do you require assistance?</i>

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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.
<i>Please confirm you have a visual on me.</i>

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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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<i>- You're doing fine.</i>
- 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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<i>Here we go. Now,
don't lose sight of my wing.</i>

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<i>Two miles out. Start down,
five hundred feet per minute.</i>

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<i>How's your fuel?</i>

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<i>Stay with me.</i>

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<i>We've got a mile to go.
We're slowing down to 110 knots.</i>

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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?

227
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Sergeant Joe Marks, jump in.
I'll run you back to the mess.

228
00:25:03,583 --> 00:25:06,125
- Thank you. It's good to be in the warm.
- I expect it is.

229
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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

230
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Flying Officer, Freddie Hook.

231
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- That was close.
- You were lucky in this fog.

232
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Yeah. My radio and electrics
failed out of the North Sea.

233
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I was guided in by another aircraft.

234
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- Surprised you managed to find the place.
- What do you mean?

235
00:25:37,208 --> 00:25:39,666
We're not an operational station,
haven't been for years.

236
00:25:40,875 --> 00:25:42,500
We're just a storage depot now.

237
00:25:44,791 --> 00:25:48,541
- So this isn't RAF Miriam St. George?
- That's another ten miles away, sir.

238
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- This is RAF Minton.
- Minton?

239
00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:53,458
I've never heard of it.

240
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I saw your runway lights...

241
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and... Well, looks like I've plonked
my Vampire down onto the wrong airfield.

242
00:26:11,541 --> 00:26:13,666
- Sorry.
- Don't mention it, sir.

243
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You got the short straw,

244
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having to spend your Christmas
on duty here?

245
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JOE: (CHUCKLES) Yes.

246
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Let's get you settled.

247
00:27:09,250 --> 00:27:11,833
- This will warm you up, sir.
- Thank you.

248
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

249
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Come on, Lizzie.

250
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(PHONE LINE TRILLING)

251
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- FREDDIE: <i>Come on, Lizzie. Pick up.</i>
- (PEOPLE SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

252
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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

253
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(JOE GRUNTS)

254
00:28:25,583 --> 00:28:28,333
- Did you get through?
- Strange.

255
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Well, it is Christmas.

256
00:28:41,583 --> 00:28:42,958
FREDDIE: You've been here long, Joe?

257
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Since the beginning of the war
when the station opened.

258
00:28:47,583 --> 00:28:49,458
- It's different then.
- Hmm.

259
00:28:49,750 --> 00:28:53,458
Back then, it was full of young pilots
flying mission after mission,

260
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even after their nerves were in shreds.

261
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,708
- Did you have family in the Force, sir?
- Yeah. Yeah, my father.

262
00:29:04,291 --> 00:29:07,166
- I'm sorry.
- Missing in action over Germany.

263
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:13,166
- So you followed him into the Force?
- Yeah, yeah, I did.

264
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,750
Not right away, though. National Service.

265
00:29:17,541 --> 00:29:20,125
Well, thank God there's no war on.

266
00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:24,625
Let's hope we don't have to go through
anything like that again.

267
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,916
- May I, sir?
- Thank you.

268
00:29:43,083 --> 00:29:48,041
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

269
00:29:49,833 --> 00:29:51,208
Who's the pilot, Joe?

270
00:29:53,916 --> 00:29:55,500
Oh, that's Mr. John Kavanagh.

271
00:29:56,166 --> 00:29:58,791
- He was here during the war, sir.
- Kavanagh?

272
00:29:59,458 --> 00:30:00,458
Yes.

273
00:30:01,666 --> 00:30:03,916
Often used to sit at that table
where you were sitting.

274
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A Canadian pilot.

275
00:30:07,208 --> 00:30:11,291
- What squadron was that, Joe?
- Pathfinders. Mosquitoes they flew.

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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.

278
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- Johnny Kavanagh.
- When the squadron returned

279
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after dropping marker flares
over targets in Germany,

280
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he'd have his Mosquito refueled.
Take off again. Alone.

281
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- He used to guide them back here.
- Yes.

282
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He used to go out over the North Sea...

283
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looking for a crippled plane,
sometimes in fog so dense

284
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you couldn't see your hand.

285
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Just like tonight.

286
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:04,875
Well, he brought me home tonight.

287
00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:07,250
Oh, I don't think so, sir.

288
00:31:09,958 --> 00:31:14,291
Mr. Johnny went out
on his last patrol Christmas Eve, 1943.

289
00:31:16,041 --> 00:31:17,791
Just 14 years ago tonight.

290
00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:21,083
He never came back.

291
00:31:22,958 --> 00:31:24,333
He went down with his plane...

292
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somewhere out there over the North Sea.

293
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,625
Well, good night, sir.

294
00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:47,125
Oh, and uh... (CHUCKLES)
...Happy Christmas.

295
00:32:08,458 --> 00:32:11,291
(PLANE ENGINE WHIRRING)

296
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(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

297
00:32:44,083 --> 00:32:47,375
DRIVER: We saw you on the radar
looked like you were heading for Miriam.

298
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- Then you just vanished.
- We lost you around about here.

299
00:32:52,791 --> 00:32:54,541
- Why did you...
- I was led down.

300
00:32:55,750 --> 00:32:58,708
Old guy here turned on the runway lights
and saved my life.

301
00:33:01,291 --> 00:33:03,916
This place shut down years ago
at the end of the war.

302
00:33:04,625 --> 00:33:06,375
Uh, it's been abandoned ever since.

303
00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:12,625
(MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

304
00:33:24,958 --> 00:33:25,958
Come on.

305
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,333
Let's get you back to civilization, sir.

306
00:33:30,250 --> 00:33:31,458
Home for Christmas.

307
00:33:57,958 --> 00:33:59,750
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta.</i>

308
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<i>Can you read me?
Do you require assistance?</i>

309
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,916
SKIPPER: <i>Monkey, Delta,
Crocodile Lima, Skipper here.</i>

310
00:34:06,083 --> 00:34:08,750
<i>Flank damage and hit
from pursuing enemy fighter.</i>

311
00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:12,500
<i>Instrument failure.
Require ground assisted approach.</i>

312
00:34:13,083 --> 00:34:15,208
CONTROLLER: (OVER RADIO)
<i>Crocodile Lima, Monkey Delta,</i>

313
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<i>it's time to follow me down.
I'm taking you home.</i>

314
00:34:47,625 --> 00:34:49,041
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

315
00:34:50,041 --> 00:34:54,500
(CAROL OF THE BELLS PLAYING)

316
00:35:52,958 --> 00:35:58,000
- (VOCALIZING CONCLUDES)
- (MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)

317
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:53,958
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)