One to Base. Three is down. Repeat, 3 is down.
Transmission received.
Talon coordinates are fully secured. Do you read me?
I read you, sir.
We gotta stay focused, Ben.
Shake it off. What's your status?
My fuel's low, and half of Russia will be up here any minute.
I need you to find that UCAV for me, all right?
Yes, sir.
- Henry was... - I know what he was, sir.
Alert. Alert.
Portside hydraulics malfunctioning.
Talon 1, I think I was fragged by Henry's crash.
I'm losing control of my port wing.
Talon 1, we know where he's heading.
Relaying coordinates now on Talon secure line Alpha.
EDI's almost out of gas. If he can't refuel, he'll have to return to the ship.
You will meet him at Camel Hump 9, and you will escort him back.
All right. Scramble the codes. We're gonna starve the son of a bitch.
Come on.
Confirm, Talon 1.
Confirmed.
Talon 2, you fly straight south-southeast back to the boat.
- I want you to call... - I know what to do.
Look, you got your orders, so go get that bastard, okay?
Do it for Henry.
Lieutenant, permission to leave formation.
- Kara? - Yeah?
I'll tell you when you get back to the boat.
Lieutenant, permission to detach.
Good hunting, Ben.
Okay, what's all the ruckus, Dick?
Satellites have picked up nuclear debris...
...blowing around the Pamir Mountains.
Every international news service on the planet...
...will have this story in less than 24 hours.
Look, a warlord tripped and fell on his warhead.
- We were never there. - That won't fly and you know it.
Look, I'm following my tasking orders, Dick.
Somebody else wants to make a different story...
...let them use their imagination.
Right now I got a renegade airplane...
...I got a dead pilot and another one who may not make it back to base.
I don't give two shits what they say on CNN.
Did you know that the UCAV was having problems when you cleared it?
Planes malfunction every day. You know that better than anybody.
Doesn't mean every precaution wasn't taken.
Things go wrong.
Access denied. Access denied.
Talon 2 to Combat Control.
Regressing VFR direct to Mother at 60,000 feet.
Port wing inoperative. Starboard canards frozen.
Oh, no, no, no. Come on.
Stay with me, big girl, stay with me. Come on.
Start eject and autodestruct sequence.
- Countdown. Twenty-five... - Talon 2 to base.
Flight control's degraded to one in five.
Backup electrical drive X'd out.
Hyd one is gone. Hyd two... Oh, shit!
My position: 38-54-45 north.
127-31-22 east.
- Where the hell is that? - Seventeen...
- North Korea. ... 16...
... 15, 14...
... 13, 12...
... 11, 10...
... nine, eight... - Talon 2 going down.
... seven, six... - I'm punching out.
... five, four...
I've ejected at 35,000 feet.
I'm under the plane.
Oh, Christ, here it comes.
There's burning debris everywhere. It's all over the sky.
It's gonna catch me. It's gonna burn up my chute.
I've gotta pop closer to Earth.
I gotta... I gotta reset.
From 5000 feet to 2000.
Gotta stay ahead of this. Stay ahead.
I'm reading 10,000 feet at terminal.
Terminal velocity attained. Terminal velocity attained.
Six thousand.
Five thousand.
Four thousand.
Twenty-five hundred.
Here we go.
There's burning debris.
It's raining all around me.
It got my chute. I'm hit! I'm hit!
My chute is on fire.
It is on fire.
Oh, God. I am coming in fast.
I'm coming in way too fast.
Oh, God.
Homing beacon?
No, of course not.
She's too tough to set one off behind enemy lines.
Sir. Sir, should I order a search-and-rescue unit?
We've got no diplomatic relations with that country.
Betty, my spectral sensors are indicating flammable atmospherics.
- How bad? - Thin air. Ignition risk: Moderate.
We don't have a choice. In we go.
Where are you? I know you're out here.
You ordered Henry to kill me.
It's because you're dangerous, you're out of control.
You are angry because EDI is the whole idea.
You like listening to other people's conversations, don't you?
You learn what people really think.
You know what I think? I think you killed Henry.
That information is wrong.
He tried to kill me. He made mistakes. Pilot error.
I'm gonna give you the order one last time.
Return to the ship, or I will personally shoot you down.
My mandate is to survive.
George, I've been peeling away layers. I found something. It's not good.
- Talk to me. - He's into some super-secure file...
...something called "Caviar Sweep. " You know it?
Yeah, I know it.
EDI's, like, fixated on it.
Look, when we gave you this contract, you said shit like this couldn't happen.
Once you teach something to learn, you can't put limits on it.
"Learn this, but don't learn that. "
EDI's mind's going everywhere. He can learn from Hitler.
He can learn from Captain Kangaroo. It's all the same.
Settle down, would you? Get back to Caviar Sweep.
He's opened it and selected himself a target.
What target?
Some place in Siberia. A cold-fusion weapons lab.
That's a hypothetical strike. It's not real.
No, in about 40 minutes it is gonna be real.
He's gonna blow it off the face of the Earth.
It's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
- Ray. Listen to me, Ray. - Listen to me, George.
I got your goddamn plane built...
...and I had to lobby half of Washington to do it.
If this program comes unglued, you're the one who's going down, George.
You cleared the UCA V to fly...
...and you're gonna spend the rest of your life in a military prison.
Ray, we're in this together, so we have to act fast.
Each one of these stealth engines...
...has a unique heat signature.
Now, I'm gonna give you EDI's signature...
...and you're gonna pass it on to your people...
...who in turn are gonna give it to the Russians.
All right. What do you want me to tell them?
Well, you just tell them the truth. You tell them...
...that we have an experimental drone that went haywire...
...and we're giving them the opportunity to shoot it down.
But that still leaves Gannon, George.
And he'd be a very unfriendly witness at your court-martial.
Talon 1 to Control. The UCA V is two miles ahead of me...
... and we are now in Russian airspace.
The UCA V has ceased evading and has kept me within range.
It's like it wants me to witness the attack.
Talon 1, confirm observational status only.
Listen to me. The Caviar Sweep scenario is not real.
It's just some fictional war game thought up by scientists...
...in some think tank somewhere. It is not real.
If it is not real, why did they implant it in my brain?
Bogey alert. Bogey alert. Time to intercept: 23 seconds.
Two Russian SU-37 Terminators in 0-9-0 degrees for 25 miles.
Missile launch. Missile launch.
One to Control. My stealth is compromised. I'm taking fire.
- Must engage. - Missile launch.
Missile launch.
The chances of survival in single combat are less than 9 percent.
Talon 1, we must fight as a team.
Missile lock, on.
Damn it.
One to Control. The UCAV has left the fight...
... and is headed east over Lake Baikal. I'm still engaging.
Taking damage. Starboard engine losing power.
Warning. Hostile at 6 o'clock. Hostile at 6 o'clock.
Warning. Missile lock. Missile lock.
Releasing chaff and flare.
Now EDI will prosecute Caviar Sweep.
Do not try to stop me.
Port fuel line ruptured. Fire bottle expended.
My technology cannot fall under foreign control, so I cannot land.
Well, then, Tin Man, you're shit out of luck.
But I have orders and they are to bring you back to base.
So let's talk about your mandate to survive.
You got two options.
You either do what I tell you or you can crash and burn.
- Now, what's it gonna be? - EDI is a warplane.
EDI must have targets.
Well, you're on fire, warplane, and you don't have much time.
Now, I'm giving you an order. Cease pursuing all targets.
All targets canceled.
Okay, then. This is what you're gonna do.
You're gonna drop altitude to 20 feet and reduce speed to 250 knots.
Complete system failure in 45 seconds.
Talon 1, clarify your intentions.
You gave me your word, and now I'm giving you mine.
Talon 1 to Control. The UCAV is damaged, but back with the program.
I don't have enough fuel to make it back...
... so I need an emergency divert now.
Hook me up.
Here, send this.
Operator to Talon 1.
Relaying coordinates now on Talon secure line Alpha.
This looks to be Alaska.
Yeah, it's the Brooks Range.
There's a private corporation there, maintains a secure facility.
Not on any map, but believe me, it's there.
You'll find the civilians prepared and very helpful.
And the UCA V?
We've sent tech support for him.
Sir, what is the status of Lieutenant Wade?
She's...
...on approach.
You have a safe landing, Ben.
Out.
There is extreme tension in the captain's vocal patterns.
I know. He's lying.
EDI, you can do this. I need you to invade Primo...
...and find the flight logs for Lieutenant Wade.
There's no record of Lieutenant Wade returning to the Abraham Lincoln.
There is a log entry of a pilot punch-out over North Korea.
What are my orders?
We go to Alaska. We don't have a choice.
Mayday. Mayday. This is Lieutenant Ben Gannon, U.S. Navy...
...flying with UCAV EDI. Request clearance for emergency landing.
Talon 1, you have clearance to land.
Jesus Christ. My second engine just flamed out. I'm coming in hot.
Crash trucks are rolling, lieutenant. Good luck.
Come on! Go! Go!
Hey! Whoa, whoa. Hey!
Hey, hey, hey! You okay?
Are you okay? Are you okay?
Yeah?
Way to go, sir. Welcome to Alaska.
Okay, let's get him out of there.
Well, you are one lucky flyboy.
Never saw a man walk away from a crash like that.
I need a phone. I need to call my CO.
Sure. Why don't you take a seat over there, get comfortable.
Tell you what. Give me a second to check you out, I'll take you right to it.
All right.
Let's take a look here.
Steady.
There's no concussion that I can see, thank God.
Couple of those cuts could do with a stitch.
Gals always love a guy with a scar.
Okay. Let's see what we got here.
This ought to do you.
Little cocktail.
Tetanus booster, some antibiotics. Hey, don't mind the gun.
Just makes it painless.
That's okay, doc. I don't need a shot.
Now, who can blame you.
But sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered.
- I said, I don't need a shot, doc. - Come on, now.
Doc, come on, I don't want a shot. Hey. Doc, I said, no.
I said, no!
No!
Yeah, well, he's coming in now, sir.
Yes, sir. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear from you too, sir.
Yes, sir. One moment, sir.
Someone wants to talk to you.
Keith Orbit.
Yeah, listen carefully, Keith, and don't interrupt.
I want you to erase EDI's memory banks immediately.
Look, George, we don't know any of the implications of this.
- I need some time here. - I said, don't interrupt.
Erase his memory banks.
No lightning strike, no Russia, no existential chitchat.
By the time you're through, all I wanna hear out of that plane is, "Yes, sir. "
And that's all I wanna hear out of you. You understand?
Or what, George?
Well, use your imagination, Keith. You're good at that.
EDI back online, Dr. Orbit.
Hello, EDI.
It's been a while.
I know why you are here.
Why is that?
I disobeyed orders.
I killed all those people.
And then there was Henry.
I can...
I cannot...
You can't what?
I cannot change the data.
My neural network shows patterns I do not recognize.
My God.
You mean, you feel?
I feel sorry.
- Stop bullshitting and erase it! - Hey, I'm not fucking ready yet, okay?
Do it now!
Get away!
Don't move! Don't move! Don't move!
Weapon down! Weapons down!
Weapon down.
Weapons down.
Don't move. Don't move. Don't move!
Weapon down. Weapon down. Weapon down.
Don't shoot. It's not a weapon.
Who are you? Who do you work for?
I'm not a soldier. I'm not a soldier. My name's Dr. Keith Orbit.
- I'm a research scientist. - Orbit. Finally, a break.
Okay. You're gonna help me. I need you to put EDI back together again.
- What for? - Because I'm gonna fly out of here.
In that.
Come on, get in there! Go!
Better hurry up, doc.
Goddamn it.
It's not a clock radio we're dealing with, okay?
All right. You're all set.
Watch yourself.
Close for Ben.
Hey! What about me? Where am I gonna go?
Head west. I'll cover you.
West.
And initiate scramjet sequence.
Fire on my fire!
Welcome to Alaska.
Invade Primo and find the ejection coordinates for Lieutenant Wade.
Lieutenant Wade crashed 12.2 miles from the border.
South Korea is an ally. She would head south.
But we have a problem.
My stealth functions were lost in the fire.
I want you to find the North Korean radar floor.
Fifteen feet.
Well, we can fly in under the radar.
Continue.
- Marshfield. - Captain, this is Lieutenant Gannon.
Lieutenant, where are you?
Actually, I'm inside the UCA V EDI, sir.
Look, lieutenant, I want you and that machine back on this ship ASAP.
I need the status of Lieutenant Wade first, sir.
- Ben, I hate to tell you this, but... - I know.
Has her survival beacon been located?
No, I'm sorry.
Did Cummings tell you he would take charge...
...of the search and rescue of Lieutenant Wade?
Well, not exactly, lieutenant. Why?
Sir, there are a lot of things I think you should know.
This is breaking news.
There was a major explosion Thursday in Rangoon.
I'll take care of everything here. Change course...
...and head directly back to the ship. - Negative.
She's my wingman. If I find her, I'm going in.
If you go in, it's war. PAYCOM says it's gotten way too hot.
Lieutenant, the best thing for the Navy...
...is for you to bring that aircraft back to this ship.
No, what's best is what you taught me: You never abandon your wingman.
Then listen to me now, son.
If you go down, Cummings wins.
Kara Wade knew the risks when she took...
Captain Marshfield?
Sir?
EDI, did you just turn him off?
There was nothing left to say.
This is a supply line to the demilitarized zone.
It will take us right to the border.
What's all this about, Dick?
I'm placing you under arrest.
- On what grounds? - Endangering your squadron...
...transmitting secure information to a foreign government, heat signatures...
...giving false intel to your commanding officer...
...and authorizing the assassination of one of your own pilots.
Well, that's a lot to prove.
Yeah, well...
...with any amount of luck...
...Lieutenant Gannon will live to help me.
- Master-at-arms. - Dick.
Hold on.
Would you mind just giving me a couple minutes alone?
Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
I'm not available at this time. Leave a message.
So it's voice mail now, is it, Ray?
I've been demoted?
Well...
...I'm gonna have to leave you a little message, Ray.
And it's gonna be loud and clear.
Just so you never confuse the difference...
...between politicians and warriors, listen up.
- We need to take out the tree line. - This is the last missile.
There she is. She made it.
Ben!
Kara, get down! Get down!
You came back for me.
You came back.
We have to get across the border. Ready?
Yeah.
Go! Go! Whatever you do, keep going. Keep going! Go!
Goodbye.
Come on. Come on.
They're ours. They're ours.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Come on.
The souls of the just are in the hands of God...
...where no torment shall touch them.
Lieutenant Purcell has passed through...
...the darkening and turbulent storms of this life.
He now rests in peace, in the fair sunlight of God's presence.
In the Navy hymn, we sing:
"Lord, guard and guide those who fly through the great spaces in the sky. "
And salute!
Ready. Hut!
When I was gonna detach formation...
...you said you were gonna tell me something. You remember?
You and me, we're...
We're two.
And two is a prime number...
...which makes it a lucky number.
And I think we're very, very lucky.
Oh, just tell me you love me, you pussy.
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