Big Sammy's report isn't mistaken, right?
That's certain.
It spotted a transport plane with four fighters escorting it.
Kazama and Kim are in that area.
If I leave it to them, I assume there will be no mistakes, but...
That's a strange formation, isn't it?
Do you suppose they're transporting something important?
Viewfinder in the Blue Sky
Aircraft confirmed at three o'clock.
I'll show you! Today's the day I score before you, Shin.
If I can't, I'll buy you breakfast.
Kim, you're buying.
If I'm alive.
Amazing as always, Shin. Now it's my turn.
Shin! Are you okay?!
Made it somehow.
The last one got away.
Did he?
Area 88, double-echo.
This is Shin Kazama, zero-zero section.
The train has been derailed.
Repeat: the train has been derailed.
However, cannot confirm the transport plane went down.
Over and out.
Shin!
Kim, the one whose life was saved is the one who buys, right?
Huh?
That's...
Thank you.
Returning to base.
Good work.
That's a good face.
The Japanese hero returns.
Hey, wait!
Come on, Kim.
Oh, yes.
Hey, is it getting to you?
I don't envy you, out in this heat.
That's Randy's Skyhawk.
You can see it through the heat haze?
I can tell by the sound.
He didn't put in a real fuel pump.
It's that knockoff he bought from you,
so it has coughing fits sometimes.
I pinched that one off the enemy. That's why it coughs.
Fuel her up!
Fill the reserve tank for me too!
Unassigned sorties are at your own expense, Randy!
Doesn't matter, just hurry it up!
Randy's paying from his own pocket to fly?
That's a lot of trouble to go to.
Smells like money.
Upsy-daisy...
Skyhawk ladders are too high.
Nobody told you to come up, old man.
Nobody told me not to come up either.
Hey...
I'll pay for ten percent of your fuel, so tell me.
About what?
Don't play dumb with me!
It's hot as crap and in the worst of it you wanna go back up at your own expense.
There must be a reason.
Just want to be in the air, that's all.
Really?
Your cost for booze and cigarettes just went up fifty percent.
What? Give me a break!
Can't help it. Guess I'll be going.
If you'd pay twenty percent of my fuel cost, I could tell you.
Depends what it is.
Start talking.
Dammit, guess I've got no choice.
Don't tell anyone.
Greg got shot down in that sortie, and I was looking for his plane.
And then I saw an enemy ground force going like mad.
But I was out of ammo.
I'd hate to be hit by an anti-aircraft missile,
so I immediately tried to break away.
But even though they saw my plane the enemy didn't try to escape.
It was like they were searching for something.
Then I tuned my radio in to the enemy's, and...
Search... should be... nearby.
Transport plane... gold...
Our army's loss...
Oh-ho!
Then I remembered,
yesterday Shin said he shot down a transport plane.
There's gold in it.
The enemy's military funds were on board.
So that's it. And Greg?
That guy's a cockroach. He won't die even if he gets hit!
And which would you take, the bearded Buddha or gold?
That's a good point.
Randy, it's full, as you ordered.
Okay! I'm gone!
For that, ten percent.
I told you, pay twenty percent!
I'll be generous: fifteen percent.
You old bastard!
It's because of your own greed.
What is it? Did you hit something vital?
No, no, I always make this face when I hear something profitable.
I want a full tank!
Out of the way! I'm first!
Pull off all the weapons. It'll buy me more flying distance.
Control! I'll pay $1 0 if you let me take off first. Pull off all the weapons. It'll buy me more flying distance.
Control! I'll pay $1 0 if you let me take off first.
I'll pay $1 5.
I'm getting the most treasure!
Don't talk nonsense! That $5 million bucks is mine!
Isn't it $6 million?
At times like these a Harrier is the best!
Is it okay to just let them go?
This bunch won't obediently listen to my orders, right?
But with this we'll be unable to secure the personnel
for our nighttime operation.
Roundell, aren't you curious?
Uh...
About the cargo on that transport plane last night, escorted by four fighters.
This bunch probably wouldn't be so eager to look into it for us if I ordered it.
They cleared the whole place out.
Hey, photographer, you're late!
Shin! Mickey!
What? Aren't you guys going?
I've got no interest in gold,
and Shin's not about to get involved when the story may or may not be true.
You're the one that should have gone with that bunch.
You could probably get good pictures.
I don't want to take those kind of pictures.
Wouldn't securing the enemy's military funds be a scoop?
For a battlefield photographer, you've got no ambition.
Shin, Mickey...
Tonight's operation is cancelled.
Okay.
Perfect timing!
Old McCoy, can I make a long-distance call yet?
I've talked to them.
It'll work fine if the switchboard operator gets cash in his hands.
Is that so? Thank you!
I've got work to do.
See you!
What is that guy up to?
We're going!
Yeah, I know.
This place is nothing but sand and sweat.
You wouldn't understand, sitting in your chair with your armrests.
That's right.
The deposit money is long gone.
I'm asking because I want to set some things up.
Hey, hey, no need to get so testy.
Who besides me do you think could get this shot?
Right, right!
That's what I'd like you to appreciate.
Do this one thing for me.
Yeah, talk to you later.
At first I intended to take the requested shot
and say a quick goodbye to this place.
But it's a pretty tough order, your request.
On top of that, he's an interesting subject.
This is screwing me up.
K-chak!
A sidewinder and three hundred rounds of 20mm.
I'll give you a whopping discount and call it, say, $1,000.
About Shinjou...
Seems his sponsor isn't a newspaper.
You're interested, right?
And I went to the trouble of warning you.
Oh! Shin!
Could you take me up on a flight?
I want to get some shots of the sky!
The sky that you see!
I'm surprised he had a Phantom.
Old McCoy said this is about the only one he could rent out.
The tradeoff is it's unarmed.
Drove a hard bargain, huh?
I paid for your fuel too, so my bargaining was pointless.
As an escort and for photographing,
I'm the bes...
Shin?!
Be gentle with me, please!
Why do you follow me around?
We're both Japanese, such hard words...
Are you saying you're gonna demand a modeling fee?
Is money that...
Shin's giving him too much for a civilian.
He's gonna puke.
I apologize if I've upset you.
I'm not interested in your past.
I'm interested in Area 88.
But naturally since you're the only Japanese person here,
you're my number one subject.
Stop fooling around with your radio shut off!
Big Sammy spotted two enemy aircraft.
They're headed this way!
I'll let you get some shots.
Shots of my sky.
Idiot!
You're unarmed! Don't take the lead!
A missile! A missile! A missile!
It's coming!
It's coming! It's coming!
Mickey, I'll leave the rest to you.
You got it!
Your sky just came into view.
Alex's aircraft has returned!
There are three more fools who haven't returned yet.
Mark down three planes as not returned!
Yes, Sir!
Kim,
all you did is lose money on fuel, huh?
Sheesh, they all pushed their planes too hard.
It's an all-nighter for us mechanics.
Once again, parts are gonna sell.
Hey, Greg's back!
It's the rescue chopper!
The bearded Buddha's alive!
He's a tenacious one.
Yeah...
The Angel of Death said he don't need a superbly handsome guy like me.
Had a pretty close brush with death, huh, Greg?
Man, I was ready to give up.
Not bad enough I went down, but I lost my survival kit!
If I hadn'a found the wreckage of that transport plane,
I'da bought the farm by now!
Did you say transport plane?!
What happened to the gold?
What about the $6 million in gold bullion?
Gold?
Nothin' like that in there.
Just some important-looking dead guy.
You're lying!
The enemy was searching frantically for gold!
So, as I suspected,
J.C. Gold was their cargo?
Yeah, that's him.
That's what was written on the briefcase.
So what, Saki? Did you know that guy?
He's the enemy's tactical advisor.
With Gold dead,
it changes the situation of this fight.
And the documents? What happened to the contents of the briefcase?
Oh...
There were a few documents,
but they was rows of meaningless numbers.
And it gets cold at night.
But there were only them few, so I caught a cold.
You're saying you burned classified documents?!
If we had those encoded documents,
we could possibly have put an end to this civil war by striking the enemy all at once.
What? A different kind of gold?
If you knew that, you should have told us! What? A different kind of gold?
If you knew that, you should have told us!
And that was out of our pockets!
This is all...
McCoy!
What are you talking about?
I told you straight it wasn't a sure information source, right?
On top of that, it's a fact that something more valuable than gold was on board.
They were more valuable than gold!
You burned those!
Greg!
I didn't know anything like that!
Shut up! Bearded Buddha!
You all right, Shinjou?
Yeah...
What'll you do when this war's over?
Will you go back to Japan?
...could possibly have put an end to this civil war...
Will you go back to Japan?
Ryoko...
Guess I've got a ways to go yet too.
I've shot enough that there'll be no shortage at his funeral,
but I haven't gotten the one shot you want,
Mr. Kanzaki.
Betrayed souls roam the arid desert.
Mocking voices echo in the wavering haze.
Why are you here? Why fight? Why go on living to such extremes of suffering?
Through it all, men keep shedding tears, for pride, or just for love.
The Treacherous Sky Through it all, men keep shedding tears, for pride, or just for love.
The Treacherous Sky
This is Area 88.
The Treacherous Sky
This lonely land dries out the heart.
The Treacherous Sky
Burned through by the sun
I look at stars in the lonely night sky
The faintly-heard melody
I ' m so nostalgic for it that I can't remember it
The warmth I turned my back on
Dance in the battlefield
I shut my eyes
Play in a brief moment's dream
Gentleness isn't needed here
The moon illuminates the darkness