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Today, we're looking
at some of the hottest weather…
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{\an8}Hey.
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What is it?
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What?
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We've been ordered to stand down.
They're scrapping the program.
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They say we fell short.
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The contract threshold is Mach 10.
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Mach 10 is supposed to be in two months.
Today's test point is Mach 9.
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Well, that's not good enough.
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Says who?
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Admiral Cain.
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The Drone Ranger.
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He wants our budget
for his unmanned program.
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He's on his way to kill the test
and shut us down personally.
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Well, he isn't here yet.
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They want Mach 10,
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let's give 'em Mach 10.
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Now remember,
the contract threshold is Mach 10.
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Not 10.1. Not 10.2. Mach 10.
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That should keep the program alive.
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I don't like that look, Mav.
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It's the only one I got.
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Control, this is Dark star.
How do you read?
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Dark star, Control. Loud and clear. How me?
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Loud and clear.
Takeoff precheck's complete.
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Ready for APU start.
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Ready left engine start.
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Ready right engine start.
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Thumbs for taxi.
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We are ready for taxi.
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Tower, this is Dark star.
We are taxiing with information Alpha.
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Dark star, you are clear to taxi.
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Runway 21. Winds 210, 10.
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- Fuel temps are looking good.
- Control concurs.
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Battery's holding at 95%.
Cabin pressure looks good.
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Control concurs.
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Tower, this is Dark star.
We're ready for takeoff.
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Requesting an unrestricted climb
to 600 and above.
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Dark star, the runway and skies are yours.
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Rear Admiral Chester Cain.
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Maverick, Cain just pulled up to the gate.
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It's not too late to stop, buddy.
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You know what happens to you
if you go through with this.
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I know what happens
to everyone else if I don't.
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Dark star is ready for takeoff.
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Everyone,
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go for takeoff, starting with engine.
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- Engine, go.
- Thermals, go.
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- Fuel, go.
- Electric, go.
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Control surfaces, go.
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Dark star, Control.
You're cleared for takeoff.
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All right, sweetheart,
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one last ride.
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Dark star, you are cleared above 600.
Increase to Mach 3.5.
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Cleared above 600. Increase to Mach 3.5.
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Admiral.
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- Just in time, sir.
- I'm early. So are you.
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You care to explain?
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Transitioning to scramjet.
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Mav, Admiral Cain is asking...
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- Ordering.
- Ordering that we bring her down.
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…within six…
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This is where we've had trouble
with comms, sir.
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It's the Earth's curvature.
It's called "Earth Bulge."
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Did anyone offer you a coffee?
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Okay.
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He's at Mach 7, pushing 8.
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- Flight data?
- Receiving. Data is good.
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Temperature's climbing.
Response is still stable.
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We're feeling good.
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Mach 8.8.
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8.9.
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Mach 9.
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He's the fastest man alive.
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Talk to me, Goose.
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Mach 9.1.
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9.2.
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Mach 9.3.
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9.4.
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Approaching high hypersonic.
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Windshield hot caution.
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Surface temp rising.
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Come on, sweetheart, just a little more.
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Just a little.
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Come on!
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Come on!
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Mach 10!
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Put that in your Pentagon budget!
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Sir.
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Don't do it. Don't do it.
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Just…
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A little push.
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Holy shit.
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You got some balls, stick jockey.
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I'll give you that.
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Oh, shit.
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Maverick.
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Maverick!
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Thank you.
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Where am I?
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Earth.
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Maverick.
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Thirty-plus years of service.
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Combat medals.
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Citations.
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Only man to shoot down three enemy planes
in the last 40 years.
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"Distinguished."
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"Distinguished." "Distinguished."
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Yet you can't get a promotion,
you won't retire,
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and despite your best efforts,
you refuse to die.
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You should be at least a two-star admiral
by now, if not a senator.
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Yet here you are:
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Captain.
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Why is that?
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It's one of life's mysteries, sir.
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This isn't a joke. I asked you a question.
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I'm where I belong, sir.
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Well, the navy doesn't see it that way.
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Not anymore.
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These planes you've been testing,
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Captain,
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one day, sooner than later,
they won't need pilots at all.
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Pilots that need to sleep, eat,
take a piss.
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Pilots that disobey orders.
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All you did was buy some time
for those men out there.
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The future is coming,
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and you're not in it.
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Escort this man off the base.
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Take him to his quarters.
Wait with him while he packs his gear.
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I want him on the road to North Island
within the hour.
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North Island, sir?
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Call came in with impeccable timing,
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right as I was driving here
to ground your ass once and for all.
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It galls me to say it, but…
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For reasons known only to the Almighty
and your guardian angel…
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You've been called back to TOPGUN.
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- Sir?
- You are dismissed, Captain.
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The end is inevitable, Maverick.
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Your kind is headed for extinction.
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Maybe so, sir.
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But not today.
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Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.
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Your reputation precedes you.
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Thank you, sir.
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Wasn't a compliment.
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I'm Admiral Beau Simpson.
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I'm the Air Boss.
I believe you know Admiral Bates.
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Warlock, sir.
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Must admit,
I wasn't expecting an invitation back.
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They're called orders, Maverick.
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You two have something in common.
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Cyclone here was first in his class
back in '88.
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Actually, sir, I finished second.
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Just want to manage expectations.
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The target…
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Is an unsanctioned
uranium enrichment plant
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built in violation
of a multilateral NATO treaty.
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The uranium produced there
represents a direct threat
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to our allies in the region.
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The Pentagon has tasked us with assembling
a strike team and taking it out
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before it becomes fully operational.
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The plant sits in an underground bunker
at the end of this valley.
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Said valley is GPS-jammed
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and defended by an extensive
surface-to-air missile array
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serving a limited number
of fifth-generation fighters,
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which in turn are backed up by
a plentiful reserve of surplus aircraft.
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Even a few old F-14s.
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Seems like we're not the only ones
holding on to old relics.
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What's your read, Captain?
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Well, sir, normally this would be
a cakewalk for the F-35's stealth,
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but the GPS-jamming negates that.
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And a surface-to-air threat necessitates
a low-level laser-guided strike
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tailor-made for the F-18.
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I figure,
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two precision bombs, minimum.
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Makes it four aircraft flying in pairs.
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That is one hell of a steep climb
out of there,
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exposing you
to all the surface-to-air missiles.
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You survive that,
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it's a dogfight all the way home.
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All requirements for which
you have real-world experience.
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Not in the same mission, sir.
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No.
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No, someone's not coming back from this.
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Can it be done or not?
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How soon before the plant
becomes operational?
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Three weeks. Maybe less.
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Well, it's been a while
since I've flown an F-18, and…
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I'm not sure who I'd trust
to fly the other three.
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But I'll find a way to make it work.
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I think you misunderstand, Captain.
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Sir?
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We don't want you to fly it.
We want you to teach it.
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Teach, sir?
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We've recalled 12 TOPGUN graduates
from their squadrons.
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We want you to narrow that pool
down to six.
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They'll fly the mission.
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Is there a problem, Captain?
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You know there is, sir.
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Yeah.
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Bradley Bradshaw, aka "Rooster."
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I understand you used to fly
with his old man.
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What was his call sign?
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"Goose," sir.
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Tragic what happened.
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Captain Mitchell was cleared
of any wrongdoing.
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Goose's death was an accident.
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Is that how you see it, Captain?
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Is that how Goose's son sees it?
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With all due respect, sir,
I'm not a teacher.
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You were a TOPGUN instructor before.
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That was almost 30 years ago.
I lasted two months.
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It's not where I belong.
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Then let me be perfectly blunt.
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You were not my first choice.
In fact, you weren't even on the list.
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You are here at the request
of Admiral Kazansky.
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Now, Iceman happens to be a man
I deeply admire,
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and he seems to think that you have
something left to offer the navy.
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What that is, I can't imagine.
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You don't have to take this job.
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But let me be clear:
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This will be your last post, Captain.
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You fly for TOPGUN,
or you don't fly for the navy ever again.
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Twenty bucks you can't get three in a row.
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Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
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Pete.
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Penny?
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- What are you doing here?
- I should ask you the same thing.
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- Well, that is a long story.
- I doubt that.
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Yeah.
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Who'd you piss off this time?
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Another admiral.
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Exactly.
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- Are you mad at me?
- Oh, Pete.
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I can never stay mad at you.
That's the problem.
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I got to say,
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North Island is the one place
I thought for sure I'd never run into you.
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- How long you been here?
- Bought this place about three years ago.
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- Three years?
- Yeah.
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Not long after you got shipped off to the
desert for pissing off that other admiral.
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That was three years ago?
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You must be in a lot of trouble.
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No way you'd come back here willingly.
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Well,
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you'll sort it out.
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No, I think…
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- I think this is it.
- Come on, Pete.
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You've been saying that
as long as I've known you.
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You said it after they busted you for
taking me on a joyride in that F-18.
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Then the next thing I know,
you're off to Bosnia.
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Then Iraq. Both times.
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You get yourself in trouble,
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Iceman makes a call,
and you're back in the air.
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Penny, this is different.
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Pete, trust me,
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as improbable as it seems right now,
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somehow you'll be back in a fighter plane
with your tail on fire.
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- Penny…
- Too late.
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What?
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00:23:49,930 --> 00:23:52,099
You were about to ask me
what time I get off.
261
00:23:55,686 --> 00:23:57,354
Don't give me that look.
262
00:23:58,522 --> 00:24:00,983
I'm not giving you any look. I swear.
263
00:24:01,692 --> 00:24:04,194
It always ends the same with us, Pete.
264
00:24:05,696 --> 00:24:07,531
Let's not start this time.
265
00:24:11,952 --> 00:24:12,952
Okay.
266
00:24:13,704 --> 00:24:14,705
Okay.
267
00:24:19,543 --> 00:24:20,878
You look good.
268
00:24:31,054 --> 00:24:32,639
Much appreciated, pal.
269
00:24:35,392 --> 00:24:36,476
What am I missing?
270
00:24:38,896 --> 00:24:42,816
"Disrespect a lady, the navy,
or put your cell phone on my bar…"
271
00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:44,776
"…and you buy a round."
272
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:46,486
For everyone?
273
00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:49,323
I'm afraid rules are rules.
You're lucky it's early.
274
00:24:50,532 --> 00:24:52,159
Oh, come on!
275
00:24:52,743 --> 00:24:54,703
What do we have here?
276
00:24:56,413 --> 00:24:58,665
If it ain't Phoenix!
277
00:24:58,749 --> 00:25:01,168
And here I thought we were special,
Coyote.
278
00:25:02,586 --> 00:25:05,464
Turns out the invite went to anyone.
279
00:25:06,256 --> 00:25:07,883
Fellas, this here's Bagman.
280
00:25:07,966 --> 00:25:09,718
- Hangman.
- Whatever.
281
00:25:10,260 --> 00:25:12,513
You're looking at the only naval aviator
on active duty
282
00:25:12,596 --> 00:25:14,097
with a confirmed air-to-air kill.
283
00:25:14,181 --> 00:25:15,015
Stop.
284
00:25:15,098 --> 00:25:19,102
Mind you, the other guy was in
a museum piece from the Korean War.
285
00:25:19,186 --> 00:25:21,939
- Cold War.
- Different wars, same century.
286
00:25:22,022 --> 00:25:23,023
Not this one.
287
00:25:23,106 --> 00:25:24,483
Who are your friends?
288
00:25:24,566 --> 00:25:26,568
- Payback.
- Fanboy.
289
00:25:26,652 --> 00:25:28,654
- Hey, Coyote.
- Hey.
290
00:25:28,737 --> 00:25:30,280
- Who's he?
- Who's who?
291
00:25:33,367 --> 00:25:34,660
When did you get in?
292
00:25:35,285 --> 00:25:37,371
I've been here the whole time.
293
00:25:38,038 --> 00:25:40,082
- The man's a stealth pilot.
- Literally.
294
00:25:40,165 --> 00:25:42,543
Weapons systems officer, actually.
295
00:25:43,210 --> 00:25:44,628
With no sense of humor.
296
00:25:46,588 --> 00:25:47,756
What do they call you?
297
00:25:48,465 --> 00:25:49,800
Bob.
298
00:25:49,883 --> 00:25:51,134
No, your call sign.
299
00:25:54,054 --> 00:25:55,055
Bob.
300
00:25:55,556 --> 00:25:56,556
Bob Floyd.
301
00:25:57,349 --> 00:26:00,185
You're my new backs eater? From Lemoore?
302
00:26:01,353 --> 00:26:03,063
Looks like it. Yeah.
303
00:26:06,650 --> 00:26:07,985
Nine-ball, Bob.
304
00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:09,735
Rack 'em.
305
00:26:11,572 --> 00:26:12,823
Okay.
306
00:26:13,490 --> 00:26:15,492
- Penny, my dear.
- Yeah.
307
00:26:15,576 --> 00:26:17,744
I'll have four more on the old-timer.
308
00:26:34,595 --> 00:26:36,096
Bradshaw!
309
00:26:36,847 --> 00:26:38,348
Is that you?
310
00:26:43,979 --> 00:26:46,064
This is how I find out you're stateside?
311
00:26:46,190 --> 00:26:48,066
Yeah, I just thought I'd surprise you.
312
00:26:50,861 --> 00:26:52,988
I guess I surprised you back.
313
00:26:54,698 --> 00:26:56,498
- It's good to see you.
- Good to see you too.
314
00:26:59,203 --> 00:27:00,954
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
315
00:27:01,038 --> 00:27:02,748
Much appreciated, Pops.
316
00:27:10,214 --> 00:27:13,050
How about ringing me up
before the evening rush?
317
00:27:27,189 --> 00:27:28,440
Bradshaw.
318
00:27:28,524 --> 00:27:30,108
As I live and breathe.
319
00:27:30,943 --> 00:27:31,944
Hangman.
320
00:27:32,027 --> 00:27:34,196
You look… good.
321
00:27:35,364 --> 00:27:37,115
Well, I am good, Rooster.
322
00:27:38,951 --> 00:27:39,952
I'm very good.
323
00:27:40,536 --> 00:27:42,079
In fact,
324
00:27:42,162 --> 00:27:43,956
I am too good to be true.
325
00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:45,290
So,
326
00:27:45,374 --> 00:27:47,918
anybody know what this special
detachment is all about?
327
00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:51,046
No, mission's a mission.
They don't confront me.
328
00:27:51,797 --> 00:27:54,758
What I want to know:
Who's gonna be team leader?
329
00:27:55,467 --> 00:27:59,471
And which one of y'all has what it takes
to follow me?
330
00:28:00,973 --> 00:28:04,476
Hangman, the only place you'll lead anyone
is an early grave.
331
00:28:13,318 --> 00:28:17,072
Well, anyone who follows you
is just gonna run out of fuel.
332
00:28:17,906 --> 00:28:20,200
But that's just you, ain't it, Rooster?
333
00:28:20,993 --> 00:28:23,495
You're snug on that perch,
334
00:28:23,579 --> 00:28:25,789
waiting for just the right moment…
335
00:28:27,916 --> 00:28:29,251
That never comes.
336
00:28:32,671 --> 00:28:34,590
I love this song!
337
00:28:41,722 --> 00:28:43,390
Well, he hasn't changed.
338
00:28:44,433 --> 00:28:46,602
Nope. Sure hasn't.
339
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:52,232
Check it out.
340
00:28:53,317 --> 00:28:54,443
More patches.
341
00:28:54,985 --> 00:28:58,071
That's Harvard, Yale, Omaha.
Shit, that's Fritz.
342
00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:00,365
What the hell kind of mission is this?
343
00:29:01,366 --> 00:29:03,368
That's not the question
we should be asking.
344
00:29:04,161 --> 00:29:06,163
Everyone here is the best there is.
345
00:29:07,664 --> 00:29:09,625
Who the hell are they gonna get
to teach us?
346
00:29:13,045 --> 00:29:14,588
It's been declined.
347
00:29:15,172 --> 00:29:16,172
You're kidding.
348
00:29:31,688 --> 00:29:33,941
Hey, guys. Come on.
349
00:29:48,038 --> 00:29:49,081
How about…
350
00:29:50,624 --> 00:29:52,376
That won't cover it.
351
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,342
I'll come by tomorrow
and bring you the cash.
352
00:30:00,425 --> 00:30:03,303
I'm afraid rules are rules, Pete.
353
00:30:09,393 --> 00:30:12,271
Overboard! Overboard!
354
00:30:13,188 --> 00:30:14,439
Really?
355
00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:18,569
Overboard! Overboard!
356
00:30:25,784 --> 00:30:27,661
Great to see you, Pete!
357
00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:31,164
Overboard! Overboard!
358
00:30:34,793 --> 00:30:37,171
Thanks for the beers! Come back anytime!
359
00:30:48,807 --> 00:30:51,310
You shake my nerves
And you rattle my brain
360
00:30:51,393 --> 00:30:54,271
Too much love drives a man insane
361
00:30:54,354 --> 00:30:57,024
You broke my will, but what a thrill
362
00:30:57,107 --> 00:31:00,319
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
363
00:31:00,402 --> 00:31:03,071
I laughed at love
'Cause I thought it was funny
364
00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:06,283
But you came along and you moved me, honey
365
00:31:06,366 --> 00:31:09,119
I changed my mind, this love is fine
366
00:31:09,203 --> 00:31:11,955
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
367
00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:14,333
Kiss me, baby
368
00:31:19,922 --> 00:31:22,758
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
369
00:31:39,233 --> 00:31:42,319
Altitude 8,000… 7,000…
370
00:31:42,402 --> 00:31:44,738
Goose, I can't reach the ejection handle.
371
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:46,823
Eject, eject, eject!
372
00:31:52,746 --> 00:31:54,248
Goose! Oh, no!
373
00:31:54,331 --> 00:31:57,125
God, he loved flying with you, Maverick.
374
00:32:41,211 --> 00:32:42,421
Attention on deck!
375
00:32:53,348 --> 00:32:54,391
Morning.
376
00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:57,227
Welcome to your special training
detachment.
377
00:32:57,311 --> 00:32:58,353
Be seated.
378
00:32:58,937 --> 00:33:01,607
I'm Admiral Bates, NAWDC commander.
379
00:33:01,690 --> 00:33:03,442
You're all TOPGUN graduates.
380
00:33:04,234 --> 00:33:05,527
The elite.
381
00:33:05,611 --> 00:33:07,613
The best of the best.
382
00:33:08,197 --> 00:33:10,032
That was yesterday.
383
00:33:11,074 --> 00:33:15,078
The enemy's new fifth-generation fighter
has leveled the playing field.
384
00:33:15,162 --> 00:33:16,788
Details are few, but you can be sure
385
00:33:16,872 --> 00:33:18,916
we no longer possess
the technological advantage.
386
00:33:18,999 --> 00:33:22,294
Success, now more than ever,
387
00:33:22,377 --> 00:33:25,547
comes down to the man or woman in the box.
388
00:33:26,465 --> 00:33:28,759
Half of you will make the cut.
389
00:33:28,842 --> 00:33:30,719
One of you will be named mission leader.
390
00:33:31,470 --> 00:33:33,972
The other half will remain in reserve.
391
00:33:34,973 --> 00:33:36,975
Your instructor is a TOPGUN graduate
392
00:33:37,059 --> 00:33:39,603
with real-world experience
in every mission aspect
393
00:33:39,686 --> 00:33:41,271
you will be expected to master.
394
00:33:42,231 --> 00:33:44,441
His exploits are legendary.
395
00:33:45,901 --> 00:33:48,070
And he's considered
to be one of the finest pilots
396
00:33:48,153 --> 00:33:50,155
this program has ever produced.
397
00:33:51,573 --> 00:33:53,158
What he has to teach you
398
00:33:53,242 --> 00:33:56,620
may very well mean the difference
between life and death.
399
00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:59,790
I give you Captain Pete Mitchell.
400
00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:03,085
Call sign: "Maverick."
401
00:34:07,631 --> 00:34:08,632
Good morning.
402
00:34:17,014 --> 00:34:18,684
The F-18 NATOPS.
403
00:34:20,268 --> 00:34:23,772
It contains everything they want you
to know about your aircraft.
404
00:34:24,773 --> 00:34:27,568
I'm assuming you know the book
inside and out.
405
00:34:27,650 --> 00:34:28,902
- Damn right.
- Damn straight.
406
00:34:28,985 --> 00:34:30,152
You got it.
407
00:34:38,203 --> 00:34:39,705
So does your enemy.
408
00:34:40,289 --> 00:34:41,790
And we're off.
409
00:34:42,833 --> 00:34:46,043
But what the enemy doesn't know
is your limits.
410
00:34:46,837 --> 00:34:48,547
I intend to find them,
411
00:34:48,630 --> 00:34:50,257
test them,
412
00:34:50,841 --> 00:34:52,217
push beyond.
413
00:34:53,385 --> 00:34:56,972
Today we'll start
with what you only think you know.
414
00:34:58,891 --> 00:35:00,684
You show me what you're made of.
415
00:35:05,814 --> 00:35:06,815
Rooster.
416
00:35:07,983 --> 00:35:09,026
Bradley.
417
00:35:09,651 --> 00:35:11,403
Lieutenant Bradshaw!
418
00:35:13,405 --> 00:35:14,406
Yes, sir.
419
00:35:15,407 --> 00:35:17,117
Let's not do it like this.
420
00:35:17,910 --> 00:35:19,286
You gonna wash me out?
421
00:35:20,913 --> 00:35:22,623
That'll be up to you, not me.
422
00:35:24,917 --> 00:35:26,293
Am I dismissed?
423
00:35:43,852 --> 00:35:46,271
Good morning, aviators.
This is your captain speaking.
424
00:35:46,355 --> 00:35:48,482
Welcome to basic fighter maneuvers.
425
00:35:50,025 --> 00:35:52,986
As briefed,
today's exercise is dog fighting.
426
00:35:53,070 --> 00:35:54,696
Guns only, no missiles.
427
00:35:55,697 --> 00:35:58,825
We do not go below the hard deck
of 5,000 feet.
428
00:35:58,909 --> 00:36:01,828
Working as a team,
you have to shoot me down, or else.
429
00:36:01,912 --> 00:36:05,249
- Or else what, sir?
- Or else I shoot back.
430
00:36:05,332 --> 00:36:08,252
If I shoot either one of you down,
you both lose.
431
00:36:08,335 --> 00:36:10,212
This guy needs an ego check.
432
00:36:10,295 --> 00:36:11,630
We'll see to that.
433
00:36:11,713 --> 00:36:14,393
- What say we put some skin in the game?
- What do you have in mind?
434
00:36:14,466 --> 00:36:17,344
Whoever gets shot down first
has to do 200 push-ups.
435
00:36:17,427 --> 00:36:20,180
Guys. That's a lot of push-ups.
436
00:36:20,264 --> 00:36:22,391
They don't call it an exercise
for nothing, sir.
437
00:36:22,474 --> 00:36:24,393
You got yourself a deal, gentlemen.
438
00:36:24,476 --> 00:36:26,770
Fight's on. Let's turn and burn.
439
00:36:28,355 --> 00:36:29,606
Fanboy, you see him?
440
00:36:29,690 --> 00:36:32,693
Nothing on radar up ahead.
He must be somewhere behind us.
441
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,947
- Damn it!
- What the hell?
442
00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:38,030
Shit!
443
00:36:42,578 --> 00:36:43,412
Easy, Maverick.
444
00:36:43,495 --> 00:36:46,582
Let's try not to get fired
on the first day.
445
00:36:46,665 --> 00:36:49,585
Tally, tally, tally! Maverick's coming in!
Break left!
446
00:36:49,668 --> 00:36:50,836
Breaking left.
447
00:36:52,838 --> 00:36:54,882
Payback, where's your wing man?
448
00:36:54,965 --> 00:36:57,176
- Rooster, where are you?
- I got your back.
449
00:36:57,259 --> 00:36:59,761
I'm coming. Hang in there. Hang in there.
450
00:36:59,845 --> 00:37:01,180
Hurry up, man! Hurry up!
451
00:37:04,933 --> 00:37:06,894
- Payback, break right.
- Breaking right.
452
00:37:08,270 --> 00:37:11,690
Rooster just saved your life, fellas.
But it's gonna cost him.
453
00:37:11,773 --> 00:37:13,442
Not this time, old man.
454
00:37:16,111 --> 00:37:17,738
Don't let him get to you, Maverick.
455
00:37:24,703 --> 00:37:27,331
Rooster, you're too low! Pull up!
You're hitting the hard deck!
456
00:37:27,414 --> 00:37:29,917
- Altitude. Altitude.
- Oh, shit.
457
00:37:34,338 --> 00:37:35,339
That's a kill.
458
00:37:35,422 --> 00:37:37,799
Down! 109.
459
00:37:38,759 --> 00:37:41,386
Down! 110.
460
00:37:43,305 --> 00:37:45,057
That should be us down there.
461
00:37:45,140 --> 00:37:46,266
But it's not.
462
00:37:47,059 --> 00:37:49,561
And now you know a little something
about Rooster.
463
00:37:51,563 --> 00:37:53,750
Hold that tarmac down till we get back,
brother, all right?
464
00:37:53,774 --> 00:37:55,484
Get in there, boys.
465
00:37:58,612 --> 00:38:00,364
- That's a kill.
- Damn!
466
00:38:01,114 --> 00:38:02,699
- Smoked.
- Damn it.
467
00:38:03,408 --> 00:38:06,036
It was all fun and games in that selfie,
wasn't it? Down!
468
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:06,954
Say, Phoenix.
469
00:38:07,037 --> 00:38:09,873
How's about we tell everybody
"Bob" stands for something?
470
00:38:09,957 --> 00:38:12,292
- Other than Robert, I mean.
- Don't take the bait, Bob.
471
00:38:12,376 --> 00:38:14,419
Want to know why we call him Hangman?
472
00:38:14,503 --> 00:38:16,755
I got it. "Baby On Board."
473
00:38:19,174 --> 00:38:20,634
Shit!
474
00:38:21,927 --> 00:38:23,846
Greetings, aviators. Fight's on.
475
00:38:24,471 --> 00:38:26,723
All right, Phoenix,
let's take this guy out!
476
00:38:26,807 --> 00:38:27,975
Watch your back, Phoenix.
477
00:38:28,058 --> 00:38:29,935
- Break right!
- Breaking right.
478
00:38:32,354 --> 00:38:33,355
Where's he going?
479
00:38:33,438 --> 00:38:36,525
That's why we call him Hangman.
He'll always hang you out to dry.
480
00:38:37,526 --> 00:38:39,027
Leaving your wing man.
481
00:38:39,111 --> 00:38:40,839
There's a strategy
I haven't seen in a while.
482
00:38:40,863 --> 00:38:43,282
He called you a man, Phoenix.
You gonna take that?
483
00:38:43,365 --> 00:38:44,843
So long as he doesn't call you a man.
484
00:38:44,867 --> 00:38:46,827
Talk to me, Bob. Where's Maverick?
485
00:38:46,910 --> 00:38:48,912
Jesus, his nose is already coming around!
486
00:38:48,996 --> 00:38:50,372
Get him off me, Hangman!
487
00:38:50,455 --> 00:38:54,418
For all you folks at home,
this is how you bury a fossil.
488
00:38:54,501 --> 00:38:57,129
All right, Hangman.
Time to teach you a lesson.
489
00:38:57,212 --> 00:38:59,089
- You're out, Phoenix.
- Son of a bitch!
490
00:39:00,382 --> 00:39:01,383
That's it.
491
00:39:01,466 --> 00:39:03,969
- Let's go, Mav. Let's see what you got.
- Come get me.
492
00:39:06,388 --> 00:39:08,098
Evil be gone. Hangman's coming.
493
00:39:09,308 --> 00:39:11,518
Yeah, you're good. I'll give you that.
494
00:39:18,025 --> 00:39:21,278
Shit.
Phoenix, I can't see him. How close am I?
495
00:39:21,361 --> 00:39:23,739
- Phoenix?
- I'm dead, dickhead.
496
00:39:23,822 --> 00:39:25,699
See you in the afterlife, Bagman.
497
00:39:27,117 --> 00:39:28,702
Where is he? Where is he?
498
00:39:29,411 --> 00:39:30,704
That's a kill.
499
00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:35,000
Seventy-nine. Down. Eighty. Down.
500
00:39:35,083 --> 00:39:36,251
Let's go. Who's next?
501
00:39:37,503 --> 00:39:39,254
- I got you, Omaha.
- Damn it!
502
00:39:42,299 --> 00:39:44,551
- Lights out, Coyote.
- Copy kill.
503
00:39:44,635 --> 00:39:49,097
Down. Fifty-one. Down. Fifty-two.
504
00:39:51,934 --> 00:39:54,937
So, Rooster, mind if I ask you
a personal question?
505
00:39:55,020 --> 00:39:56,313
Would it matter if I did?
506
00:39:56,396 --> 00:39:58,649
What's the story with you and Maverick?
507
00:39:58,732 --> 00:40:01,777
- It seems like he's got you rattled.
- That's none of your business.
508
00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:03,695
Now where the hell is he?
509
00:40:03,779 --> 00:40:05,447
Been here the whole time.
510
00:40:06,532 --> 00:40:08,367
Holy shit.
511
00:40:10,452 --> 00:40:11,620
You see me now?
512
00:40:12,538 --> 00:40:14,331
Come on, let's get it over with.
513
00:40:14,957 --> 00:40:16,375
Fight's on!
514
00:40:18,085 --> 00:40:20,420
What is with these two?
515
00:40:24,967 --> 00:40:28,428
All right, you put us here.
How you gonna get yourself out?
516
00:40:29,012 --> 00:40:31,098
You can bail out anytime.
517
00:40:31,181 --> 00:40:32,516
How low you want to go, Rooster?
518
00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:35,853
I can go as low as you, sir!
And that's saying something.
519
00:40:39,690 --> 00:40:41,692
What's past is past. For both of us.
520
00:40:41,775 --> 00:40:43,610
You'd like to believe that, wouldn't you?
521
00:40:43,694 --> 00:40:46,780
Hard deck is 5,000 feet, fellas.
You are running out of room.
522
00:40:47,781 --> 00:40:48,782
Altitude.
523
00:40:48,866 --> 00:40:50,868
Your strategy
is about to run us into the ground.
524
00:40:50,951 --> 00:40:53,412
- What's your move?
- Altitude. Altitude.
525
00:40:53,495 --> 00:40:54,872
Altitude.
526
00:40:56,665 --> 00:40:59,543
Altitude. Altitude. Altitude.
527
00:40:59,626 --> 00:41:02,045
Altitude. Altitude.
528
00:41:04,089 --> 00:41:06,758
Pull up! Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!
529
00:41:07,467 --> 00:41:08,468
Pull up! Pull up!
530
00:41:11,722 --> 00:41:13,432
You got it. Don't think, just do.
531
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,144
Come on, Rooster, you got him!
Drop down and take the shot!
532
00:41:18,770 --> 00:41:19,770
It's too low.
533
00:41:20,731 --> 00:41:22,441
Too late. You had your chance.
534
00:41:28,572 --> 00:41:31,325
That's a kill. Knock it off.
535
00:41:32,326 --> 00:41:33,452
Damn it!
536
00:41:33,535 --> 00:41:35,412
Same old Rooster.
537
00:41:37,956 --> 00:41:40,292
Go see Hondo about your push-ups.
538
00:41:48,509 --> 00:41:50,010
All right, that's enough.
539
00:41:50,677 --> 00:41:52,763
Rooster. That's enough, man.
540
00:42:07,152 --> 00:42:10,822
Breaking the hard deck, insubordination.
Are you trying to get kicked out?
541
00:42:10,906 --> 00:42:12,366
Don't worry about it.
542
00:42:12,866 --> 00:42:15,369
Look, I'm going on this mission.
543
00:42:16,328 --> 00:42:19,122
But if you get kicked out,
you leave us flying with Hangman.
544
00:42:19,748 --> 00:42:23,377
- Talk to me. What the hell was that?
- He pulled my papers.
545
00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:26,922
- What? Who?
- Maverick.
546
00:42:28,090 --> 00:42:30,634
He pulled my application
to the Naval Academy.
547
00:42:31,718 --> 00:42:33,720
Set me back four years.
548
00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:37,683
Why would he do that?
549
00:42:43,522 --> 00:42:46,066
The hard deck is 5,000 feet
above ground level.
550
00:42:46,149 --> 00:42:48,485
A parameter is set
not just for the safety of our pilots,
551
00:42:48,569 --> 00:42:50,070
but for the safety of their aircraft.
552
00:42:50,153 --> 00:42:54,366
5,000 feet is not just a rule.
It is a law, as immutable as gravity.
553
00:42:54,449 --> 00:42:57,119
The hard deck will be much lower
for the mission, sir.
554
00:42:57,202 --> 00:43:00,330
And it will not change
without my approval!
555
00:43:00,414 --> 00:43:02,332
Especially not in the middle
of an exercise.
556
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,378
And that Cobra maneuver of yours?
That could've got all three of you killed.
557
00:43:06,461 --> 00:43:08,338
I never want to see that shit again.
558
00:43:09,423 --> 00:43:11,675
What exactly do you suppose
you were teaching, Captain?
559
00:43:11,758 --> 00:43:14,237
That as good as they are, sir,
they still have something to learn.
560
00:43:14,261 --> 00:43:16,906
You are talking about the best
fighter pilots on the planet, Captain.
561
00:43:16,930 --> 00:43:18,741
And they've been told that
their entire career,
562
00:43:18,765 --> 00:43:20,702
while they've been dropping bombs
from a high altitude
563
00:43:20,726 --> 00:43:22,477
with little to no dog fighting.
564
00:43:22,561 --> 00:43:25,373
The parameters of this mission call for
something they have never encountered.
565
00:43:25,397 --> 00:43:29,109
Okay, you have less than three weeks
to teach them how to fight as a team
566
00:43:29,943 --> 00:43:31,236
and how to strike the target.
567
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,071
And how to come home.
568
00:43:35,908 --> 00:43:37,910
And how to come home, sir.
569
00:43:43,582 --> 00:43:45,250
Every mission has its risks.
570
00:43:46,126 --> 00:43:48,003
These pilots accept that.
571
00:43:48,086 --> 00:43:49,671
I don't, sir.
572
00:43:53,884 --> 00:43:55,278
Every morning, from this day forward,
573
00:43:55,302 --> 00:43:58,013
you will brief us on
your instructional plans in writing.
574
00:43:58,096 --> 00:44:01,016
And nothing will change
without my express approval.
575
00:44:01,099 --> 00:44:04,269
- Including the hard deck, sir?
- Especially the hard deck, Captain.
576
00:44:06,355 --> 00:44:07,439
Sir.
577
00:44:08,357 --> 00:44:09,566
What is this?
578
00:44:09,650 --> 00:44:11,330
It's a request to lower
the hard deck, sir,
579
00:44:11,401 --> 00:44:13,881
to practice a low-level bombing run
per the mission parameters.
580
00:44:19,910 --> 00:44:22,538
You could learn a thing or two
about timing, Captain.
581
00:44:23,372 --> 00:44:24,372
Yo, Coyote.
582
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,333
Take a look at this.
583
00:44:30,254 --> 00:44:32,965
The man, the legend. There he is.
584
00:44:33,048 --> 00:44:35,050
No, no, no. Next to him.
585
00:44:36,009 --> 00:44:38,053
He look familiar to you?
586
00:44:39,972 --> 00:44:41,598
What have we here?
587
00:44:42,391 --> 00:44:44,101
Bradshaw.
588
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:46,728
As I live and breathe.
589
00:44:49,940 --> 00:44:52,484
Hey, Theo, you got big.
590
00:44:53,318 --> 00:44:54,444
Hey, Mav.
591
00:45:01,535 --> 00:45:02,578
Amelia?
592
00:45:02,661 --> 00:45:04,204
I know. I got big.
593
00:45:04,288 --> 00:45:05,539
Yes.
594
00:45:06,623 --> 00:45:07,916
Bar opens at 5:00.
595
00:45:08,750 --> 00:45:10,752
No, I just came by to pay off a debt.
596
00:45:10,836 --> 00:45:12,087
Mom!
597
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,761
- Hey, how's your dad?
- With his wife, in Hawaii.
598
00:45:19,845 --> 00:45:21,221
Mom!
599
00:45:22,181 --> 00:45:24,308
Mav says he owes you money.
600
00:45:25,809 --> 00:45:27,811
- Don't worry about it.
- I insist.
601
00:45:31,023 --> 00:45:34,693
Thank you, Captain.
Consider your tab closed.
602
00:45:35,694 --> 00:45:37,571
Captain? Still?
603
00:45:38,197 --> 00:45:40,324
A highly decorated captain.
604
00:45:40,407 --> 00:45:41,450
Finish up.
605
00:45:41,533 --> 00:45:43,327
We have to get the boat to the yard.
606
00:45:43,410 --> 00:45:45,370
- I can't go.
- What do you mean, you can't go?
607
00:45:45,454 --> 00:45:48,790
Test tomorrow. I have to study.
They only told us today.
608
00:45:48,874 --> 00:45:50,834
Well, I can't sail her alone.
609
00:45:50,918 --> 00:45:52,336
Just use the engine.
610
00:45:52,419 --> 00:45:54,588
Why are we taking her to the yard?
611
00:45:55,214 --> 00:45:56,673
To fix the engine.
612
00:45:57,466 --> 00:45:58,467
I can help.
613
00:46:04,723 --> 00:46:07,935
- Little rougher than I was expecting.
- You don't say.
614
00:46:08,644 --> 00:46:11,605
Pull on the back stay.
We'll de-power the sails.
615
00:46:11,688 --> 00:46:12,689
Okay.
616
00:46:13,232 --> 00:46:14,816
What does that mean?
617
00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:18,487
You're supposed to be in the navy!
618
00:46:18,570 --> 00:46:21,907
I don't sail boats, Penny. I land on them.
619
00:46:22,449 --> 00:46:25,661
It's sort of like raising the flaps
on an airplane.
620
00:46:25,744 --> 00:46:27,204
So how do I do that?
621
00:46:27,955 --> 00:46:30,165
You pull on that green line up there.
622
00:46:30,249 --> 00:46:31,583
Green line.
623
00:46:34,127 --> 00:46:35,671
Yep. Pull it hard.
624
00:46:35,754 --> 00:46:38,674
Yep. Crank that winch right there,
625
00:46:38,757 --> 00:46:40,551
tighten the jib.
626
00:46:41,260 --> 00:46:43,595
- Crank it. You okay?
- Yeah.
627
00:46:45,138 --> 00:46:46,138
Good.
628
00:46:47,349 --> 00:46:48,350
Now,
629
00:46:49,768 --> 00:46:51,186
you ready?
630
00:46:53,105 --> 00:46:54,189
For what?
631
00:46:54,773 --> 00:46:56,316
The afterburner.
632
00:47:16,628 --> 00:47:18,463
Now you're in the navy.
633
00:47:40,736 --> 00:47:42,571
Thanks for helping out today.
634
00:47:44,281 --> 00:47:45,699
I'm not exactly sure I helped.
635
00:47:51,163 --> 00:47:52,664
Don't give me that look.
636
00:47:52,748 --> 00:47:54,082
What look?
637
00:47:54,166 --> 00:47:55,792
That one.
638
00:47:59,087 --> 00:48:00,380
Good night, Pete.
639
00:48:01,173 --> 00:48:02,508
Night, Penny.
640
00:48:17,981 --> 00:48:19,483
Mom, is that you?
641
00:48:20,108 --> 00:48:21,401
Yeah, it's me.
642
00:48:22,402 --> 00:48:24,112
I'll make you dinner.
643
00:48:24,196 --> 00:48:25,197
Okay.
644
00:48:31,411 --> 00:48:33,664
Time is your greatest enemy.
645
00:48:35,082 --> 00:48:37,209
Phase one of the mission
will be a low-level ingress
646
00:48:37,292 --> 00:48:39,044
attacking in two-plane teams.
647
00:48:39,628 --> 00:48:41,839
You'll fly along this narrow canyon
to your target.
648
00:48:41,922 --> 00:48:45,342
Radar-guided surface-to-air missiles
defend the area.
649
00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:47,678
These SAMs, they're lethal.
650
00:48:48,345 --> 00:48:52,224
But they were designed to protect
the skies above, not the canyon below.
651
00:48:52,307 --> 00:48:56,186
That's because the enemy knows no one is
insane enough to try and fly below them.
652
00:48:57,104 --> 00:48:59,064
That's exactly
what I'm gonna train you to do.
653
00:49:00,107 --> 00:49:04,319
On the day, your altitude
will be 100 feet maximum.
654
00:49:04,403 --> 00:49:07,531
You exceed this altitude,
radar will spot you,
655
00:49:08,407 --> 00:49:09,908
and you're dead.
656
00:49:11,034 --> 00:49:12,995
Your airspeed will be 660 knots
657
00:49:13,829 --> 00:49:15,080
minimum.
658
00:49:15,163 --> 00:49:17,499
Time to target: two and a half minutes.
659
00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:21,837
That's because fifth-generation fighters
wait at an air base nearby.
660
00:49:22,713 --> 00:49:27,134
In a head-to-head with these planes
in your F-18s, you're dead.
661
00:49:27,885 --> 00:49:30,846
That's why you need to get in,
hit your target and be gone
662
00:49:30,929 --> 00:49:34,099
before these planes
even have a chance of catching you.
663
00:49:34,183 --> 00:49:37,019
This makes time your greatest adversary.
664
00:49:38,854 --> 00:49:42,149
You'll fly a route in your nav system
that simulates the canyon.
665
00:49:42,941 --> 00:49:44,610
The faster you navigate this canyon,
666
00:49:44,693 --> 00:49:47,362
the harder it'll be to stay
under the radar of these enemy SAMs.
667
00:49:48,363 --> 00:49:49,489
The tighter the turns,
668
00:49:49,573 --> 00:49:52,784
the more intensely the force of gravity
on your body multiplies,
669
00:49:53,452 --> 00:49:55,204
compressing your lungs,
670
00:49:55,287 --> 00:49:56,705
forcing the blood from your brain,
671
00:49:56,788 --> 00:50:00,000
impairing your judgment and reaction time.
672
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:02,461
So for today's lesson,
we're gonna take it easy on you.
673
00:50:02,544 --> 00:50:05,547
Max ceiling: 300 feet.
Time to target: three minutes.
674
00:50:07,424 --> 00:50:08,634
Good luck.
675
00:50:17,059 --> 00:50:18,852
Time to target is one minute 30.
676
00:50:18,936 --> 00:50:21,355
We are two seconds behind.
Increase to 480 knots.
677
00:50:21,438 --> 00:50:22,689
We got to move, Coyote.
678
00:50:23,565 --> 00:50:25,234
Copy. Increasing speed.
679
00:50:27,611 --> 00:50:28,611
Oh, shit!
680
00:50:32,324 --> 00:50:33,367
Why are they dead?
681
00:50:33,450 --> 00:50:36,245
We broke the 300-foot ceiling,
and a SAM took us out.
682
00:50:36,328 --> 00:50:37,955
No. Why are they dead?
683
00:50:38,038 --> 00:50:40,433
I slowed down and didn't give her
a warning. It was my fault.
684
00:50:40,457 --> 00:50:42,352
Was there a reason
you didn't communicate with your team?
685
00:50:42,376 --> 00:50:43,502
I was focusing on...
686
00:50:43,585 --> 00:50:45,505
One that their family will accept
at the funeral.
687
00:50:46,380 --> 00:50:47,380
None, sir.
688
00:50:48,298 --> 00:50:51,343
Why didn't you anticipate the turn?
You were briefed on the terrain.
689
00:50:51,969 --> 00:50:54,680
Don't tell me. Tell it to his family.
690
00:51:00,102 --> 00:51:02,646
Hangman, ease up.
The canyon's getting tighter.
691
00:51:02,729 --> 00:51:05,315
Negative, Payback. Increase your speed.
692
00:51:06,942 --> 00:51:10,279
- You're going too fast, man.
- No harm in being ahead of schedule.
693
00:51:12,489 --> 00:51:15,450
Damn it, slow down!
I can't stay on the course!
694
00:51:15,534 --> 00:51:18,120
You're gonna hit the wall!
Watch out! Watch out!
695
00:51:21,832 --> 00:51:24,543
- What happened?
- I flew as fast as I could.
696
00:51:25,127 --> 00:51:26,712
Kind of like my ass depended on it.
697
00:51:26,795 --> 00:51:30,007
And you put your team in danger,
and your wing man's dead.
698
00:51:31,216 --> 00:51:32,759
They couldn't keep up.
699
00:51:38,891 --> 00:51:41,518
Rooster,
we're 20 seconds behind and dropping.
700
00:51:41,602 --> 00:51:44,188
We're fine. Speed is good.
701
00:51:44,271 --> 00:51:45,814
Increase to 500 knots.
702
00:51:45,898 --> 00:51:48,942
- Negative, Yale. Hold your speed.
- Rooster, we're late!
703
00:51:49,026 --> 00:51:51,820
We're alive.
We'll make up time in the straightaway.
704
00:51:51,904 --> 00:51:53,488
We are not gonna make it.
705
00:51:53,572 --> 00:51:56,575
Just trust me. Maintain your speed.
We can make it.
706
00:51:56,658 --> 00:51:57,784
Why are you dead?
707
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:03,081
You're team leader up there.
Why are you, why is your team dead?
708
00:52:03,165 --> 00:52:05,834
Sir, he's the only one
who made it to the target.
709
00:52:05,918 --> 00:52:07,127
A minute late.
710
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,506
He gave enemy aircraft time
to shoot him down.
711
00:52:10,589 --> 00:52:12,424
- He is dead.
- You don't know that.
712
00:52:12,508 --> 00:52:16,011
You're not flying fast enough.
You don't have a second to waste.
713
00:52:16,094 --> 00:52:17,346
We made it to the target.
714
00:52:17,429 --> 00:52:21,141
And superior enemy aircraft
intercepted you on your way out.
715
00:52:21,225 --> 00:52:24,228
- Then it's a dogfight.
- Against fifth-generation fighters.
716
00:52:24,311 --> 00:52:26,897
- Yeah. We'd still have a chance.
- In an F-18.
717
00:52:26,980 --> 00:52:29,483
It's not the plane, sir, it's the pilot.
718
00:52:29,566 --> 00:52:30,692
Exactly!
719
00:52:37,824 --> 00:52:40,494
There's more than one way
to fly this mission.
720
00:52:40,577 --> 00:52:42,538
You really don't get it.
721
00:52:43,539 --> 00:52:46,208
On this mission,
a man flies like Maverick here,
722
00:52:46,291 --> 00:52:48,126
or a man does not come back.
723
00:52:49,127 --> 00:52:51,213
No offense intended.
724
00:52:51,296 --> 00:52:53,590
Yet somehow you always manage.
725
00:52:55,133 --> 00:52:57,928
Look, I don't mean to criticize.
You're conservative, that's all.
726
00:52:58,011 --> 00:52:58,846
Lieutenant.
727
00:52:58,929 --> 00:53:03,517
We're going into combat, son,
on a level no living pilot's ever seen.
728
00:53:05,060 --> 00:53:06,186
Not even him.
729
00:53:08,188 --> 00:53:10,023
That's no time to be thinking
about the past.
730
00:53:14,111 --> 00:53:16,154
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Rooster.
731
00:53:16,238 --> 00:53:18,883
I can't be the only one that knows
that Maverick flew with his old man.
732
00:53:18,907 --> 00:53:20,426
- That's enough.
- Or that Maverick was flying
733
00:53:20,450 --> 00:53:22,410
- when his old man...
- Lieutenant, that's enough!
734
00:53:24,121 --> 00:53:25,998
- That's enough.
- You son of a bitch!
735
00:53:26,081 --> 00:53:27,081
Hey, come on!
736
00:53:27,124 --> 00:53:29,626
I'm cool, I'm cool. Hey, hey, hey.
737
00:53:29,710 --> 00:53:30,544
That's enough.
738
00:53:30,627 --> 00:53:32,713
- He's not cut out for this mission.
- That's enough!
739
00:53:32,796 --> 00:53:34,047
You know it.
740
00:53:37,092 --> 00:53:38,093
You know I'm right.
741
00:53:44,558 --> 00:53:45,684
You're all dismissed.
742
00:54:49,998 --> 00:54:51,375
Maverick.
743
00:54:53,710 --> 00:54:55,003
It's come back?
744
00:54:55,671 --> 00:54:57,130
No one knows.
745
00:54:59,299 --> 00:55:01,009
There's nothing else they can do.
746
00:55:01,885 --> 00:55:04,888
Even speaking is painful now.
747
00:55:10,894 --> 00:55:12,604
Sarah, I'm so sorry.
748
00:55:32,291 --> 00:55:33,292
Admiral.
749
00:55:44,845 --> 00:55:46,054
How's my wing man?
750
00:55:57,691 --> 00:55:59,985
Please, don't worry about me.
751
00:56:00,944 --> 00:56:02,696
What can I do for you?
752
00:56:11,163 --> 00:56:12,247
All right.
753
00:56:15,083 --> 00:56:18,212
Well, Rooster's still angry with me
about what I did.
754
00:56:19,713 --> 00:56:22,466
I thought eventually
he would understand why.
755
00:56:24,718 --> 00:56:26,386
I hoped he'd forgive me.
756
00:56:34,811 --> 00:56:36,730
The mission is less than three weeks away.
757
00:56:37,314 --> 00:56:38,899
The kid's not ready.
758
00:56:47,241 --> 00:56:49,201
He doesn't want what I have to give.
759
00:56:50,410 --> 00:56:51,662
Ice, please,
760
00:56:51,745 --> 00:56:54,081
don't ask me to send someone else to die.
761
00:56:54,164 --> 00:56:55,290
Please don't…
762
00:56:56,291 --> 00:56:57,876
Don't ask me to send him.
763
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:59,545
Send me.
764
00:57:31,326 --> 00:57:32,995
I don't know how.
765
00:57:46,216 --> 00:57:47,968
I'm not a teacher, Ice.
766
00:57:50,387 --> 00:57:52,222
I'm a fighter pilot.
767
00:57:54,808 --> 00:57:56,226
A naval aviator.
768
00:57:58,729 --> 00:58:00,814
It's not what I am.
769
00:58:02,065 --> 00:58:03,650
It's who I am.
770
00:58:05,402 --> 00:58:07,154
How do I teach that?
771
00:58:09,031 --> 00:58:11,658
Even if I could teach it,
it's not what Rooster wants.
772
00:58:12,618 --> 00:58:14,786
It's not what the navy wants.
773
00:58:14,870 --> 00:58:17,206
That's why they canned me the last time.
774
00:58:20,042 --> 00:58:23,003
The only reason I'm here is you.
775
00:58:30,344 --> 00:58:32,179
If I send him on this mission,
776
00:58:33,597 --> 00:58:35,474
he might never come home.
777
00:58:39,228 --> 00:58:40,854
And if I don't send him,
778
00:58:41,563 --> 00:58:43,398
he'll never forgive me.
779
00:58:46,109 --> 00:58:48,570
Either way, I could lose him forever.
780
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:00,040
I know.
781
00:59:00,874 --> 00:59:02,209
I know.
782
00:59:13,387 --> 00:59:17,015
The navy needs Maverick.
783
00:59:19,059 --> 00:59:22,604
The kid needs Maverick.
784
00:59:23,689 --> 00:59:25,941
That's why I fought for you.
785
00:59:27,943 --> 00:59:30,279
That's why you're still here.
786
00:59:38,328 --> 00:59:40,080
Thank you, Ice,
787
00:59:40,747 --> 00:59:42,165
for everything.
788
00:59:47,087 --> 00:59:48,547
One last thing.
789
00:59:49,173 --> 00:59:50,924
Who's the better pilot?
790
00:59:51,008 --> 00:59:52,301
You or me?
791
00:59:55,429 --> 00:59:58,015
This is a nice moment. Let's not ruin it.
792
01:00:38,388 --> 01:00:40,098
All right, all right.
793
01:00:50,317 --> 01:00:52,027
Touchdown!
794
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:02,681
Sir.
795
01:02:02,764 --> 01:02:04,808
- What is this?
- This is dogfight football.
796
01:02:04,892 --> 01:02:07,060
Offense and defense at the same time.
797
01:02:07,895 --> 01:02:08,896
Who's winning?
798
01:02:08,979 --> 01:02:11,899
I think they stopped keeping score
a while ago.
799
01:02:11,982 --> 01:02:15,027
This detachment still has some training
to complete, Captain.
800
01:02:15,110 --> 01:02:17,321
- Every available minute matters.
- Yes, sir.
801
01:02:17,404 --> 01:02:19,615
So why are we out here playing games?
802
01:02:19,698 --> 01:02:21,575
You said to create a team, sir.
803
01:02:23,076 --> 01:02:24,620
There's your team.
804
01:04:04,011 --> 01:04:06,597
Should I go? Before Amelia gets back?
805
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,016
- She'll be at her friend's house tonight.
- Oh, good.
806
01:04:12,186 --> 01:04:13,854
You and Amelia, you seem…
807
01:04:16,607 --> 01:04:19,026
A lot closer than when I last saw you.
808
01:04:19,109 --> 01:04:21,528
- Yeah. Yeah, we are.
- How do you manage?
809
01:04:23,697 --> 01:04:24,823
Well,
810
01:04:26,491 --> 01:04:29,703
you know, she always wanted more freedom
than I thought she was ready for.
811
01:04:30,454 --> 01:04:32,414
Where'd she get that from, I wonder?
812
01:04:36,043 --> 01:04:37,461
I guess I realized
813
01:04:38,378 --> 01:04:40,464
I also had to trust her.
814
01:04:42,049 --> 01:04:44,551
Let her make some
of her own mistakes sometimes.
815
01:04:47,054 --> 01:04:48,722
Not an easy choice.
816
01:04:53,060 --> 01:04:55,062
Is that what happened with Rooster?
817
01:04:58,732 --> 01:05:01,485
I pulled his papers
from the Naval Academy.
818
01:05:04,530 --> 01:05:06,240
Took years off his career.
819
01:05:12,538 --> 01:05:13,539
Why?
820
01:05:16,458 --> 01:05:19,962
His mother never wanted him to fly,
not after what happened to Goose.
821
01:05:22,756 --> 01:05:26,176
She made me promise before she died, so…
822
01:05:26,260 --> 01:05:28,178
Does Rooster know that?
823
01:05:31,723 --> 01:05:34,768
He will always resent me for what I did.
824
01:05:36,770 --> 01:05:38,772
Why should he resent her too?
825
01:05:43,694 --> 01:05:45,404
Not an easy choice.
826
01:05:48,365 --> 01:05:50,868
I was trying to be the father he lost.
827
01:05:53,954 --> 01:05:54,955
I just...
828
01:05:57,833 --> 01:06:00,002
I wish I would've done it better.
829
01:06:02,254 --> 01:06:05,090
But the truth is…
830
01:06:07,634 --> 01:06:09,469
I didn't think he was ready.
831
01:06:13,056 --> 01:06:14,766
Is he ready now?
832
01:06:18,228 --> 01:06:19,646
Mom, I'm home!
833
01:06:21,398 --> 01:06:23,817
I thought you were staying
at Karen's tonight.
834
01:06:23,901 --> 01:06:26,653
Karen's sick. And I've got homework to do.
835
01:06:26,737 --> 01:06:29,156
- I should go.
- You should go.
836
01:06:29,740 --> 01:06:32,534
- Have you had dinner yet?
- Not yet. You want to go out?
837
01:06:32,618 --> 01:06:35,579
No, it's okay. I'll make you something.
838
01:06:35,662 --> 01:06:36,747
I'll be down in a sec!
839
01:06:37,623 --> 01:06:39,583
- Wait! Not that way.
- What?
840
01:06:41,251 --> 01:06:43,462
Look, I have an example to set.
841
01:06:43,545 --> 01:06:46,006
I can't be bringing guys home
on a first date.
842
01:06:46,089 --> 01:06:47,424
This is not our first date.
843
01:06:48,592 --> 01:06:50,135
You know what I mean.
844
01:06:52,888 --> 01:06:53,889
Okay.
845
01:06:55,057 --> 01:06:56,099
Fine.
846
01:06:57,142 --> 01:06:59,436
But this is the last time
I go out your window.
847
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:00,979
We'll see.
848
01:07:01,063 --> 01:07:02,481
No. No, I mean it.
849
01:07:03,232 --> 01:07:05,150
I'm never gonna leave you again.
850
01:07:07,152 --> 01:07:08,779
Oh, shut up.
851
01:07:08,862 --> 01:07:10,739
Go on, get out of here.
852
01:07:24,294 --> 01:07:26,255
Just don't break her heart again.
853
01:07:38,225 --> 01:07:39,226
Good morning.
854
01:07:39,309 --> 01:07:41,436
The uranium enrichment plant
that is your target
855
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,981
will be operational earlier than expected.
856
01:07:44,064 --> 01:07:47,192
Raw uranium will be delivered
to the plant in ten days' time.
857
01:07:47,901 --> 01:07:50,988
As a result, your mission
has been moved up one week
858
01:07:51,071 --> 01:07:54,700
in order to avoid contaminating
the target valley with radiation.
859
01:07:54,783 --> 01:07:57,619
Sir, no one here has successfully flown
a low-level course.
860
01:07:57,703 --> 01:07:59,621
Nevertheless,
you've been ordered to move on.
861
01:08:00,831 --> 01:08:01,832
Captain.
862
01:08:04,877 --> 01:08:07,254
We have one week left
to focus on phase two.
863
01:08:07,337 --> 01:08:09,214
It's the most difficult stage
of the mission.
864
01:08:09,298 --> 01:08:11,091
It's a pop-up strike with a steep dive,
865
01:08:11,175 --> 01:08:14,094
requiring nothing less
than two consecutive miracles.
866
01:08:15,262 --> 01:08:18,432
Two pairs of F-18s will fly
in a welded wing formation.
867
01:08:18,515 --> 01:08:19,765
Teamwork.
868
01:08:19,850 --> 01:08:22,352
Precise coordination of these aircraft
is essential
869
01:08:22,435 --> 01:08:25,147
to both the mission's success
and your survival.
870
01:08:25,229 --> 01:08:27,941
As you know,
the plant rests between two mountains.
871
01:08:28,066 --> 01:08:32,112
On final approach,
you'll invert directly into a steep dive.
872
01:08:33,113 --> 01:08:35,782
This allows you to maintain
the lowest possible altitude
873
01:08:36,992 --> 01:08:38,785
and the only possible attack angle.
874
01:08:42,538 --> 01:08:46,376
Your target is an impact point
less than three meters wide.
875
01:08:47,627 --> 01:08:50,546
The two-seat aircraft will paint
the target with a laser bull's-eye.
876
01:08:52,006 --> 01:08:53,884
The first pair will breach the reactor
877
01:08:53,966 --> 01:08:57,638
by dropping a laser-guided bomb
on an exposed ventilation hatch.
878
01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,932
This will create an opening
for the second pair.
879
01:09:00,765 --> 01:09:02,225
That's miracle number one.
880
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:05,979
The second team
881
01:09:06,063 --> 01:09:07,397
will deliver the kill shot
882
01:09:08,732 --> 01:09:10,526
and destroy the target.
883
01:09:11,777 --> 01:09:13,111
That's miracle number two.
884
01:09:14,488 --> 01:09:16,740
If either team misses the target…
885
01:09:19,033 --> 01:09:19,910
That's a miss.
886
01:09:19,993 --> 01:09:21,995
- …the mission is a failure.
- Damn it!
887
01:09:22,703 --> 01:09:26,500
Egress is a steep high-G climb out
to avoid hitting this mountain.
888
01:09:29,377 --> 01:09:32,673
A steep climb at that speed,
you're pulling at least eight G's.
889
01:09:32,756 --> 01:09:34,258
Nine, minimum.
890
01:09:34,341 --> 01:09:37,135
The stress limit
of the F-18's airframe is 7.5.
891
01:09:37,219 --> 01:09:38,595
That's the accepted limit.
892
01:09:38,679 --> 01:09:40,889
To survive this mission,
you'll pull beyond that,
893
01:09:40,973 --> 01:09:43,642
even if it means bending your airframe.
894
01:09:44,977 --> 01:09:48,354
You'll be pulling so hard,
you'll weigh close to 2,000 pounds,
895
01:09:48,438 --> 01:09:51,316
your skull crushing your spine,
896
01:09:51,441 --> 01:09:54,486
your lungs imploding
like an elephant's sitting on your chest,
897
01:09:54,570 --> 01:09:57,990
fighting with everything you have
just to keep from blacking out.
898
01:10:00,075 --> 01:10:02,578
And this is where you'll be
at your most vulnerable.
899
01:10:03,537 --> 01:10:06,415
This is Coffin Corner.
900
01:10:06,498 --> 01:10:09,251
Assuming you avoid crashing
into this mountain,
901
01:10:09,334 --> 01:10:12,921
you'll climb straight up into enemy radar
while losing all of your airspeed.
902
01:10:13,505 --> 01:10:16,133
Within seconds,
you'll be fired upon by enemy SAMs.
903
01:10:17,634 --> 01:10:19,845
You've all faced sustained G's before,
but this...
904
01:10:20,596 --> 01:10:24,266
This is gonna take you and your aircraft
to the breaking point.
905
01:10:24,349 --> 01:10:27,102
Sir, is this even achievable?
906
01:10:27,186 --> 01:10:28,854
The answer to that question
907
01:10:29,438 --> 01:10:31,440
will come down to the pilot in the box.
908
01:10:41,366 --> 01:10:43,619
- Talk to me, Bob.
- We are 12 seconds late on target.
909
01:10:43,702 --> 01:10:46,413
- We got to move! We got to move!
- Copy. Try to stay with me.
910
01:10:50,417 --> 01:10:51,627
Wait, who's that?
911
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:54,296
Blue Team, you've been spotted.
912
01:10:54,379 --> 01:10:57,007
- Shit, it's Maverick.
- What the hell is he doing here?
913
01:10:57,090 --> 01:11:00,219
I'm a bandit on course to intercept.
Blue Team, what are you gonna do?
914
01:11:00,302 --> 01:11:03,514
He's 20 miles left. Ten o'clock.
700 knots closure.
915
01:11:03,597 --> 01:11:05,432
Your call. What do you want to do?
916
01:11:05,516 --> 01:11:08,227
Continue. We're close. Stay on target.
917
01:11:08,310 --> 01:11:11,522
- He's swinging around to the north!
- Stand by for pop-up.
918
01:11:11,605 --> 01:11:13,690
- Be ready on that laser, Bob.
- Copy. I'm on it.
919
01:11:15,943 --> 01:11:17,653
Blue Team, bandit is still closing.
920
01:11:17,736 --> 01:11:18,904
Popping now.
921
01:11:25,077 --> 01:11:27,204
Talk to me, Bob. Where's Maverick?
922
01:11:27,287 --> 01:11:29,331
He's five miles out. He's coming fast.
923
01:11:35,212 --> 01:11:37,714
- Target's in sight.
- Where's my laser, Bob?
924
01:11:38,549 --> 01:11:41,927
Dead eye! Dead eye! It's no good.
Sorry, I can't get a lock.
925
01:11:42,010 --> 01:11:43,846
We're out of time. I'm dropping blind.
926
01:11:47,099 --> 01:11:48,517
Damn it, missed!
927
01:12:00,112 --> 01:12:02,281
- That's tone.
- Maverick's got missile lock on us.
928
01:12:02,364 --> 01:12:03,407
Shit! We're dead.
929
01:12:04,241 --> 01:12:06,994
Blue Team, that's a fail.
Level out, Coyote.
930
01:12:09,663 --> 01:12:11,582
Coyote? Do you copy?
931
01:12:14,418 --> 01:12:15,878
Coyote, come in.
932
01:12:16,503 --> 01:12:18,422
Coyote, level wings.
933
01:12:18,505 --> 01:12:20,090
Oh, God. He's in G-LOC.
934
01:12:20,841 --> 01:12:23,385
Coyote? Coyote?
935
01:12:23,468 --> 01:12:25,679
- He's gonna burn in!
- I'm going after him.
936
01:12:29,391 --> 01:12:31,685
Come on.
Give me tone, give me tone, give me tone.
937
01:12:32,227 --> 01:12:34,646
Snap out of it, Coyote. Come on! Come on!
938
01:12:37,691 --> 01:12:40,444
Come on, Coyote, come on. Come on!
939
01:12:40,527 --> 01:12:42,696
- Damn it! Coyote!
- Pull up!
940
01:12:42,779 --> 01:12:45,407
- Coyote! Coyote!
- Pull up! Pull up!
941
01:12:50,621 --> 01:12:52,414
Coyote, you okay?
942
01:12:53,457 --> 01:12:55,209
I'm okay. I'm good.
943
01:12:56,210 --> 01:12:59,046
Good. Good. That's enough for today.
944
01:13:01,256 --> 01:13:02,466
That was close.
945
01:13:03,050 --> 01:13:04,050
Too close.
946
01:13:04,843 --> 01:13:07,012
Bird strike! Bird strike!
947
01:13:07,095 --> 01:13:08,222
Bird strike!
948
01:13:11,558 --> 01:13:14,228
- Phoenix, left engine's on fire!
- Climbing.
949
01:13:16,230 --> 01:13:18,732
Throttling back.
Shutting off fuel to left engine.
950
01:13:18,815 --> 01:13:20,442
Extinguishing fire.
951
01:13:22,819 --> 01:13:23,820
Right engine is out!
952
01:13:23,904 --> 01:13:25,584
It's still spinning. Trying to restart it.
953
01:13:28,075 --> 01:13:30,702
- Phoenix, it's on fire. Don't start it.
- Throttling up.
954
01:13:32,287 --> 01:13:33,539
Oh, my God.
955
01:13:36,917 --> 01:13:39,336
- We're on fire! We're on fire!
- Damn it!
956
01:13:39,419 --> 01:13:42,172
- Engine fire. Right.
- Extinguishing right engine.
957
01:13:45,467 --> 01:13:47,386
Phoenix, Bob, punch out, punch out!
958
01:13:47,469 --> 01:13:49,680
Warning lights everywhere!
Hydraulic failure!
959
01:13:49,763 --> 01:13:51,473
- Flight controls.
- I can't control it.
960
01:13:51,557 --> 01:13:54,309
We're going down, Phoenix!
We're going in! We're going in!
961
01:13:54,393 --> 01:13:57,020
You can't save it. Eject, eject!
962
01:13:57,104 --> 01:13:58,272
Eject, eject, eject!
963
01:13:58,355 --> 01:14:01,191
Altitude. Altitude.
964
01:14:22,713 --> 01:14:25,716
They'll keep Phoenix and Bob
in the hospital overnight for observation.
965
01:14:25,799 --> 01:14:27,301
They're gonna be okay.
966
01:14:31,388 --> 01:14:32,723
That's good.
967
01:14:35,976 --> 01:14:37,811
I've never lost a wing man.
968
01:14:38,562 --> 01:14:39,771
You're lucky.
969
01:14:40,355 --> 01:14:42,191
Fly long enough, it'll happen.
970
01:14:44,985 --> 01:14:46,653
There will be others.
971
01:14:49,406 --> 01:14:51,408
Easy for you to say. No wife.
972
01:14:53,368 --> 01:14:54,578
No kids.
973
01:14:55,412 --> 01:14:57,915
Nobody to mourn you when you burn in.
974
01:15:01,168 --> 01:15:02,503
Go home.
975
01:15:03,629 --> 01:15:05,088
Just get some sleep.
976
01:15:07,633 --> 01:15:09,843
Why'd you pull my papers at the Academy?
977
01:15:09,927 --> 01:15:11,553
Why did you stand in my way?
978
01:15:14,139 --> 01:15:15,474
You weren't ready.
979
01:15:15,557 --> 01:15:16,850
Ready for what?
980
01:15:18,519 --> 01:15:20,312
- Ready to fly like you?
- No.
981
01:15:20,395 --> 01:15:22,022
Ready to forget the book.
982
01:15:22,105 --> 01:15:24,816
Trust your instincts.
Don't think, just do.
983
01:15:24,900 --> 01:15:27,569
You think up there, you're dead.
Believe me.
984
01:15:28,862 --> 01:15:30,531
My dad believed in you.
985
01:15:33,242 --> 01:15:35,702
I'm not gonna make the same mistake.
986
01:15:41,375 --> 01:15:42,876
Maverick.
987
01:15:53,428 --> 01:15:56,306
Ready, aim, fire.
988
01:16:01,061 --> 01:16:02,229
Ready,
989
01:16:02,729 --> 01:16:03,772
aim,
990
01:16:04,314 --> 01:16:05,649
fire.
991
01:16:15,701 --> 01:16:16,910
Ready,
992
01:16:17,953 --> 01:16:19,329
aim,
993
01:16:19,413 --> 01:16:20,706
fire.
994
01:16:54,489 --> 01:16:56,658
I can only imagine
what you must be feeling right now.
995
01:16:57,743 --> 01:16:59,995
Take some time. Whatever you need.
996
01:17:01,455 --> 01:17:03,683
I appreciate that, sir,
but there is no time. The mission...
997
01:17:03,707 --> 01:17:05,792
I'll be taking over the training
from here.
998
01:17:06,793 --> 01:17:07,794
Sir?
999
01:17:09,213 --> 01:17:11,053
We both know you didn't want this job,
Captain.
1000
01:17:11,089 --> 01:17:13,485
- Sir, they're not ready.
- It was your job to get them ready.
1001
01:17:13,509 --> 01:17:16,970
Sir, they have to believe
that this mission can be flown.
1002
01:17:17,054 --> 01:17:19,806
And all you've managed to do
is teach them that it can't.
1003
01:17:20,641 --> 01:17:22,976
- Sir...
- You're grounded, Captain.
1004
01:17:23,060 --> 01:17:24,561
Permanently.
1005
01:17:28,440 --> 01:17:29,733
- Sir...
- That is all.
1006
01:17:48,252 --> 01:17:49,253
I heard.
1007
01:17:51,547 --> 01:17:52,714
I'm sorry.
1008
01:17:53,590 --> 01:17:55,259
What are you gonna do?
1009
01:17:56,426 --> 01:17:57,719
Ice is gone.
1010
01:18:00,264 --> 01:18:01,974
What choice do I have?
1011
01:18:03,183 --> 01:18:05,769
You'll have to find a way back
on your own.
1012
01:18:05,853 --> 01:18:07,104
No, Penny.
1013
01:18:08,897 --> 01:18:10,232
I'm out.
1014
01:18:11,984 --> 01:18:13,235
This is over.
1015
01:18:13,777 --> 01:18:14,778
Pete.
1016
01:18:14,862 --> 01:18:17,322
If you lost your wing man up there,
1017
01:18:18,073 --> 01:18:19,783
you'd keep fighting.
1018
01:18:19,867 --> 01:18:21,159
You wouldn't just give up.
1019
01:18:21,952 --> 01:18:23,912
Those are your pilots.
1020
01:18:25,205 --> 01:18:27,374
If anything happens to them,
1021
01:18:28,208 --> 01:18:30,252
you'll never forgive yourself.
1022
01:18:34,298 --> 01:18:36,175
I don't know what to do.
1023
01:18:40,220 --> 01:18:41,763
But you'll find a way.
1024
01:18:44,183 --> 01:18:45,392
I know you will.
1025
01:18:47,561 --> 01:18:49,938
Captain Mitchell
is no longer your instructor.
1026
01:18:50,022 --> 01:18:52,441
And as of today,
there are new mission parameters.
1027
01:18:53,192 --> 01:18:55,068
Time to target is now four minutes.
1028
01:18:55,819 --> 01:18:58,363
You'll be entering the valley level
at reduced speed.
1029
01:18:58,447 --> 01:19:01,408
Not to exceed 420 knots.
1030
01:19:01,491 --> 01:19:04,286
Sir, won't we be giving their planes
time to intercept?
1031
01:19:04,369 --> 01:19:06,931
Well, Lieutenant, you have
a fighting chance against enemy aircraft.
1032
01:19:06,955 --> 01:19:10,042
What are the odds of surviving
a head-on collision with a mountain?
1033
01:19:10,125 --> 01:19:12,711
You'll be attacking the target
from a higher altitude,
1034
01:19:12,794 --> 01:19:14,004
level with the north wall.
1035
01:19:14,087 --> 01:19:16,507
Gonna be a little harder
to keep your lase on target,
1036
01:19:16,590 --> 01:19:18,509
but you will avoid the high-G climb out.
1037
01:19:18,592 --> 01:19:20,802
We'll be sitting ducks for enemy missiles.
1038
01:19:26,225 --> 01:19:27,476
Who the hell is that?
1039
01:19:29,269 --> 01:19:32,105
Maverick to Range Control.
Entering Point Alpha.
1040
01:19:32,189 --> 01:19:33,857
Confirm green range.
1041
01:19:34,483 --> 01:19:36,818
Maverick, Range Control,
1042
01:19:36,902 --> 01:19:38,529
green range is confirmed.
1043
01:19:38,612 --> 01:19:41,990
I don't see an event scheduled
for you, sir.
1044
01:19:42,074 --> 01:19:43,283
Well, I'm going anyway.
1045
01:19:43,951 --> 01:19:45,202
Nice.
1046
01:19:45,953 --> 01:19:48,997
Setting time to target:
Two minutes 15 seconds.
1047
01:19:49,081 --> 01:19:50,832
2:15? That's impossible.
1048
01:19:50,916 --> 01:19:53,460
Final attack point. Maverick's inbound.
1049
01:21:31,141 --> 01:21:34,353
Popping in three, two, one.
1050
01:22:00,838 --> 01:22:02,214
Bombs away.
1051
01:22:19,690 --> 01:22:21,608
Bull's-eye! Holy shit!
1052
01:22:22,901 --> 01:22:24,486
Yes.
1053
01:22:27,364 --> 01:22:28,490
Damn.
1054
01:22:41,253 --> 01:22:43,463
You have put me
in a difficult position, Captain.
1055
01:22:44,381 --> 01:22:48,135
On the one hand, you have demonstrated
that this mission can be flown.
1056
01:22:48,218 --> 01:22:50,304
Perhaps the only way it can be survived.
1057
01:22:51,722 --> 01:22:53,432
On the other hand,
1058
01:22:53,515 --> 01:22:56,435
you did it by stealing
a multimillion-dollar military aircraft
1059
01:22:56,518 --> 01:22:59,396
and flying it in such a manner
that it may never be airworthy again.
1060
01:23:00,814 --> 01:23:03,108
Iceman is no longer here to protect you.
1061
01:23:03,942 --> 01:23:06,570
I have everything I need
to have you court-martialed
1062
01:23:06,653 --> 01:23:08,405
and dishonorably discharged.
1063
01:23:09,198 --> 01:23:10,574
So what do I do?
1064
01:23:11,575 --> 01:23:14,703
Risk the lives of my pilots
and perhaps the success of this mission
1065
01:23:16,205 --> 01:23:17,206
or…
1066
01:23:18,749 --> 01:23:20,209
Risk my career
1067
01:23:21,293 --> 01:23:23,045
by appointing you team leader?
1068
01:23:26,381 --> 01:23:27,382
Sir...
1069
01:23:27,466 --> 01:23:31,094
I think the admiral's asking
a rhetorical question, Captain.
1070
01:25:11,945 --> 01:25:13,530
Talk to me, Goose.
1071
01:25:16,867 --> 01:25:18,368
Captain Mitchell!
1072
01:25:25,334 --> 01:25:27,002
You're where you belong.
1073
01:25:31,924 --> 01:25:33,425
Make us proud.
1074
01:25:59,535 --> 01:26:01,662
It has been an honor flying with you.
1075
01:26:02,746 --> 01:26:06,208
Each one of you represents
the best of the best.
1076
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,711
This is a very specific mission.
1077
01:26:10,546 --> 01:26:13,841
My choice is a reflection of that
and nothing more.
1078
01:26:13,924 --> 01:26:15,759
Choose your two Foxtrot teams.
1079
01:26:17,344 --> 01:26:18,971
Payback and Fanboy.
1080
01:26:20,055 --> 01:26:21,390
Phoenix and Bob.
1081
01:26:25,686 --> 01:26:26,979
And your wing man.
1082
01:26:31,775 --> 01:26:32,776
Rooster.
1083
01:26:37,322 --> 01:26:39,616
The rest of you will stand by
on the carrier
1084
01:26:39,700 --> 01:26:42,578
for any reserve role that's required.
1085
01:26:43,453 --> 01:26:44,621
Dismissed.
1086
01:26:52,421 --> 01:26:55,257
Your target is a clear and present threat.
1087
01:26:56,758 --> 01:27:00,596
A secret uranium enrichment site
under rogue state control.
1088
01:27:01,221 --> 01:27:02,598
It's an underground bunker,
1089
01:27:02,681 --> 01:27:04,474
tucked between these two mountains.
1090
01:27:05,934 --> 01:27:09,730
Your route of ingress is heavily defended
by surface-to-air missiles
1091
01:27:09,813 --> 01:27:12,316
backed up by fifth-generation fighters.
1092
01:27:12,399 --> 01:27:15,152
Once your F-18 strike team
crosses the border,
1093
01:27:15,235 --> 01:27:17,237
Tomahawk missiles from the USS Leyte Gulf
1094
01:27:17,321 --> 01:27:20,949
will launch a synchronized strike
on the enemy's airfield here.
1095
01:27:22,242 --> 01:27:24,453
This will knock out their runway.
1096
01:27:26,246 --> 01:27:29,625
But you'll have to contend with
any planes already in the air.
1097
01:27:29,708 --> 01:27:32,544
The moment those Tomahawks hit,
the enemy will know you're coming.
1098
01:27:33,754 --> 01:27:37,799
Your time to target
will be two minutes and 30 seconds.
1099
01:27:39,468 --> 01:27:41,470
Any longer than that,
and you will be exposed
1100
01:27:41,553 --> 01:27:44,181
to any aircraft
the Tomahawks may have missed.
1101
01:27:47,559 --> 01:27:49,978
This is what you've all been training for.
1102
01:27:51,939 --> 01:27:53,440
Come home safely.
1103
01:28:08,121 --> 01:28:09,873
You give 'em hell!
1104
01:28:22,511 --> 01:28:23,512
Sir.
1105
01:28:24,012 --> 01:28:25,013
Sir?
1106
01:28:27,266 --> 01:28:28,267
I…
1107
01:28:31,186 --> 01:28:32,813
I just want to say...
1108
01:28:41,905 --> 01:28:43,240
We'll talk
1109
01:28:44,741 --> 01:28:46,118
when we get back.
1110
01:28:52,207 --> 01:28:54,001
Hey, Bradley! Bradley!
1111
01:28:55,127 --> 01:28:56,128
Hey.
1112
01:28:59,631 --> 01:29:01,049
You got this.
1113
01:29:09,474 --> 01:29:10,475
Maverick.
1114
01:29:12,728 --> 01:29:13,728
Maverick?
1115
01:29:15,522 --> 01:29:17,441
Hey, you with me?
1116
01:29:19,026 --> 01:29:20,861
I don't like that look, Mav.
1117
01:29:23,697 --> 01:29:25,199
It's the only one I got.
1118
01:29:29,828 --> 01:29:31,163
Thank you.
1119
01:29:32,664 --> 01:29:34,750
If I don't see you again, Hondo,
1120
01:29:34,833 --> 01:29:36,168
thank you.
1121
01:29:43,926 --> 01:29:45,761
It's been an honor, Captain.
1122
01:30:18,919 --> 01:30:21,964
Dagger One, up and ready on Catapult One.
1123
01:30:22,047 --> 01:30:24,174
Dagger Spare standing by.
1124
01:30:24,258 --> 01:30:26,051
Dagger Four, up and ready.
1125
01:30:26,134 --> 01:30:27,636
Dagger Three, up and ready.
1126
01:30:27,719 --> 01:30:29,847
Dagger Two, up and ready.
1127
01:30:31,014 --> 01:30:33,684
Support assets airborne.
Strike package ready.
1128
01:30:33,767 --> 01:30:35,644
Standing by for launch decision.
1129
01:30:36,270 --> 01:30:37,271
Send them.
1130
01:30:57,916 --> 01:30:59,209
Dagger Two away.
1131
01:31:00,210 --> 01:31:02,171
Dagger Three away.
1132
01:31:02,754 --> 01:31:04,173
Dagger Four away.
1133
01:31:15,184 --> 01:31:17,603
Comanche, Dagger One. Standby check in.
1134
01:31:18,979 --> 01:31:20,439
Comanche 11, set.
1135
01:31:20,522 --> 01:31:22,774
Picture clean. Recommend Dagger continue.
1136
01:31:22,858 --> 01:31:24,818
Copy. Daggers descending below radar.
1137
01:31:44,713 --> 01:31:47,382
Daggers now below radar.
Switching to E-2 picture.
1138
01:31:55,891 --> 01:31:58,477
Here we go. Enemy territory up ahead.
1139
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:01,522
Feet dry in 60 seconds.
Comanche, Dagger One. Picture.
1140
01:32:01,605 --> 01:32:04,399
Comanche. Picture clean.
Decision is yours.
1141
01:32:04,483 --> 01:32:05,776
Copy.
1142
01:32:14,076 --> 01:32:15,202
Dagger attack.
1143
01:32:20,499 --> 01:32:21,792
Tomahawks airborne.
1144
01:32:21,875 --> 01:32:23,961
No turning back now.
1145
01:32:29,716 --> 01:32:31,760
Daggers, assume attack formation.
1146
01:32:40,853 --> 01:32:42,813
Daggers set. Proceeding to target.
1147
01:32:42,896 --> 01:32:47,442
Two minutes and 30 seconds
in three, two, one, mark.
1148
01:32:47,526 --> 01:32:48,861
- Two mark.
- Three mark.
1149
01:32:48,944 --> 01:32:49,944
Four mark.
1150
01:32:54,783 --> 01:32:55,783
Going in.
1151
01:33:11,341 --> 01:33:13,552
First SAM site overhead.
1152
01:33:17,931 --> 01:33:19,433
Looks like we're clear on radar, Mav.
1153
01:33:19,516 --> 01:33:21,268
Let's not take it for granted.
1154
01:33:24,771 --> 01:33:26,982
More SAMs! Three o'clock high!
1155
01:33:29,318 --> 01:33:31,695
- We got two minutes to target.
- Copy.
1156
01:33:31,778 --> 01:33:34,114
We're a few seconds behind, Rooster.
We got to move.
1157
01:33:35,657 --> 01:33:38,535
Thirty seconds to Tomahawk impact
on enemy airstrip.
1158
01:33:46,919 --> 01:33:47,920
Dagger, Comanche.
1159
01:33:48,003 --> 01:33:50,231
We're picking up two bandits.
Single group, two contacts.
1160
01:33:50,255 --> 01:33:53,008
- Where the hell'd they come from?
- Long-range patrol?
1161
01:33:58,013 --> 01:33:59,473
Comanche, what's their heading?
1162
01:33:59,556 --> 01:34:02,059
Bull's-eye 090, 50, tacked southwest.
1163
01:34:02,142 --> 01:34:04,287
They're headed away from us.
They don't know we're here.
1164
01:34:04,311 --> 01:34:06,271
The second those Tomahawks
hit the air base,
1165
01:34:06,355 --> 01:34:08,524
those bandits are gonna move
to defend the target.
1166
01:34:08,607 --> 01:34:11,193
We have to get there before they do.
Increase speed.
1167
01:34:12,569 --> 01:34:14,863
We got you, Mav. Don't wait for me.
1168
01:34:20,827 --> 01:34:23,830
Sir, Daggers Two and Four
are behind schedule.
1169
01:34:23,914 --> 01:34:25,916
Time to target, one minute 20.
1170
01:34:27,125 --> 01:34:29,294
Tomahawk impact in three, two…
1171
01:34:33,674 --> 01:34:36,134
Impact. Enemy runway is destroyed.
1172
01:34:36,927 --> 01:34:38,595
They know we're coming now.
1173
01:34:41,974 --> 01:34:44,309
Bandits are switching course
to defend the target.
1174
01:34:44,393 --> 01:34:45,519
Rooster, where are you?
1175
01:34:47,229 --> 01:34:48,981
Come on, Rooster. Bandits inbound.
1176
01:34:49,064 --> 01:34:51,233
We got to make up time now.
Let's turn and burn.
1177
01:34:59,199 --> 01:35:00,242
Heads up, Phoenix.
1178
01:35:10,043 --> 01:35:14,423
Sir, bandits are two minutes from target.
Daggers are one minute from target.
1179
01:35:14,506 --> 01:35:16,800
Come on, Rooster. Move it or lose it.
1180
01:35:19,052 --> 01:35:21,889
Guys, we're falling behind.
We really got to move.
1181
01:35:21,972 --> 01:35:23,765
If we don't increase our speed right now,
1182
01:35:23,849 --> 01:35:26,643
those bandits are gonna be waiting for us
when we reach the target.
1183
01:35:28,437 --> 01:35:29,646
Talk to me, Dad.
1184
01:35:30,981 --> 01:35:32,482
Come on, kid, you can do it.
1185
01:35:32,566 --> 01:35:34,610
Don't think, just do.
1186
01:35:43,118 --> 01:35:44,578
Jesus, Rooster, not that fast!
1187
01:35:44,661 --> 01:35:47,206
That's it, kid, that's it.
All right, let's go.
1188
01:35:51,293 --> 01:35:53,045
Damn, Rooster, take it easy.
1189
01:35:53,712 --> 01:35:56,340
Sir, Dagger Two is reengaging.
1190
01:35:56,423 --> 01:35:58,800
All right, now hit your target
and come home.
1191
01:36:03,222 --> 01:36:05,933
Thirty seconds to target.
Bob, check your laser.
1192
01:36:06,016 --> 01:36:09,520
Air-to-ground check complete.
Laser code verified, 1688.
1193
01:36:09,603 --> 01:36:10,687
Laser is a go!
1194
01:36:13,023 --> 01:36:14,399
Watch your heads.
1195
01:36:16,151 --> 01:36:17,611
Holy shit!
1196
01:36:17,694 --> 01:36:19,613
- Payback, you with me?
- Right behind you.
1197
01:36:20,697 --> 01:36:22,533
Phoenix, stand by for pop-up strike.
1198
01:36:22,616 --> 01:36:23,951
Dagger Three in position.
1199
01:36:24,618 --> 01:36:27,287
Popping in three, two, one.
1200
01:36:55,315 --> 01:36:57,568
- Get me eyes on that target, Bob.
- Dagger Three.
1201
01:36:58,443 --> 01:36:59,736
Stand by, Mav.
1202
01:36:59,820 --> 01:37:02,239
- Come on, Bob, come on.
- Stand by.
1203
01:37:02,823 --> 01:37:05,576
- I've got it. Captured!
- Target acquired. Bombs away.
1204
01:37:26,638 --> 01:37:30,017
We've got impact!
Check, direct hit! Direct hit!
1205
01:37:30,100 --> 01:37:31,935
That's miracle number one.
1206
01:37:32,603 --> 01:37:34,021
Dagger Two, status.
1207
01:37:34,104 --> 01:37:35,606
Almost there, Mav. Almost there.
1208
01:37:38,275 --> 01:37:39,860
Fanboy, where's my laser?
1209
01:37:40,444 --> 01:37:42,571
Rooster, there's something wrong
with this laser.
1210
01:37:42,654 --> 01:37:44,281
Shit! Dead eye, dead eye, dead eye!
1211
01:37:44,364 --> 01:37:46,700
Come on, guys, we're running out of time.
Get it online!
1212
01:37:46,783 --> 01:37:48,243
- I'm trying!
- Come on, Fanboy!
1213
01:37:48,327 --> 01:37:49,995
Nearly there! Nearly there!
1214
01:37:58,879 --> 01:38:01,524
- Come on, Fanboy, get it online.
- There's no time. I'm dropping blind.
1215
01:38:01,548 --> 01:38:03,759
- Rooster, I got this!
- No time. Pull up.
1216
01:38:03,842 --> 01:38:05,219
- Wait!
- Bombs away! Bombs away!
1217
01:38:18,774 --> 01:38:20,609
Bull's-eye, bull's-eye, bull's-eye!
1218
01:38:24,571 --> 01:38:25,864
Miracle number two.
1219
01:38:25,948 --> 01:38:27,574
Now they're in Coffin Corner.
1220
01:38:27,658 --> 01:38:29,743
We're not out of this yet.
1221
01:38:31,578 --> 01:38:32,996
Here it comes.
1222
01:38:36,041 --> 01:38:38,210
Radar warning! Smoke in the air.
Phoenix, break right.
1223
01:38:38,293 --> 01:38:40,587
Emergency jettison.
Dagger Three defending.
1224
01:38:40,671 --> 01:38:42,464
Here comes another one!
1225
01:38:42,548 --> 01:38:44,216
Dagger One defending.
1226
01:38:50,514 --> 01:38:51,598
Rooster, status.
1227
01:38:59,815 --> 01:39:00,816
Oh, my God.
1228
01:39:03,026 --> 01:39:04,444
Smoke in the air!
1229
01:39:05,821 --> 01:39:07,698
- Break right, Payback!
- Breaking right.
1230
01:39:09,116 --> 01:39:10,951
Oh, my God, here they come!
1231
01:39:11,034 --> 01:39:12,411
SAM on your six, Rooster!
1232
01:39:13,871 --> 01:39:15,247
Deploying countermeasures.
1233
01:39:18,083 --> 01:39:19,585
Negative contact.
1234
01:39:21,628 --> 01:39:22,713
Dagger One defending.
1235
01:39:24,131 --> 01:39:27,009
- Talk to me, Bob.
- Break right, Phoenix! Break right! Mav!
1236
01:39:27,092 --> 01:39:28,594
Nine o'clock! Nine o'clock!
1237
01:39:29,428 --> 01:39:31,388
Rooster, two more on your six.
1238
01:39:31,471 --> 01:39:32,931
Dagger Two, defending.
1239
01:39:37,519 --> 01:39:39,855
- Payback, SAM on your nose.
- Dagger Four defending.
1240
01:39:39,938 --> 01:39:41,583
- Rooster, tally, seven o'clock!
- Talk to me, Bob!
1241
01:39:41,607 --> 01:39:43,001
- On our six!
- Dagger Two defending.
1242
01:39:43,025 --> 01:39:44,693
- Phoenix, break right!
- I see it!
1243
01:39:52,075 --> 01:39:53,452
Dagger Two defending.
1244
01:39:54,828 --> 01:39:55,996
Shit, I'm out of flares!
1245
01:39:56,079 --> 01:39:58,415
Rooster, evade, evade!
1246
01:39:58,498 --> 01:40:00,751
I can't shake 'em!
They're on me! They're on me!
1247
01:40:10,886 --> 01:40:12,513
Mav! No!
1248
01:40:14,515 --> 01:40:18,018
Dagger One is hit!
I repeat, Dagger One is hit!
1249
01:40:18,101 --> 01:40:19,603
Maverick is down.
1250
01:40:19,686 --> 01:40:20,854
Dagger One, status.
1251
01:40:20,938 --> 01:40:22,564
Status!
1252
01:40:22,648 --> 01:40:24,775
Anyone see him? Does anyone see him?
1253
01:40:24,858 --> 01:40:27,069
- Dagger One, come in!
- I didn't see a parachute.
1254
01:40:27,194 --> 01:40:28,820
We have to circle back.
1255
01:40:28,904 --> 01:40:31,406
Comanche. Bandits inbound.
Single group, hot.
1256
01:40:31,490 --> 01:40:32,991
Recommend Dagger flow south.
1257
01:40:33,825 --> 01:40:35,827
One minute to intercept.
1258
01:40:39,081 --> 01:40:40,666
Get 'em back to the carrier now.
1259
01:40:40,749 --> 01:40:43,252
All Daggers flow to ECP.
You have bandits headed for you.
1260
01:40:43,335 --> 01:40:44,378
What about Maverick?
1261
01:40:44,461 --> 01:40:47,464
Tell him there's nothing he can do
for Maverick, not in a goddamn F-18.
1262
01:40:47,548 --> 01:40:50,384
Dagger Spare request permission
to launch and fly air cover.
1263
01:40:52,678 --> 01:40:53,679
Negative, Spare.
1264
01:40:54,847 --> 01:40:57,450
- Launch search and rescue.
- Negative. Not with bandits in the air.
1265
01:40:57,474 --> 01:41:01,019
- But, sir, Maverick is still out there.
- We are not losing anyone else today.
1266
01:41:02,980 --> 01:41:04,481
Get 'em home now.
1267
01:41:04,565 --> 01:41:07,109
Dagger, you are not to engage.
1268
01:41:07,192 --> 01:41:09,278
Repeat, do not engage.
1269
01:41:09,361 --> 01:41:12,447
Dagger Two, return to carrier.
Acknowledge.
1270
01:41:12,531 --> 01:41:13,532
Acknowledge.
1271
01:41:13,615 --> 01:41:17,077
Rooster, those bandits are closing.
We can't go back.
1272
01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:20,038
Rooster, he's gone.
1273
01:41:21,707 --> 01:41:23,208
Maverick's gone.
1274
01:42:53,674 --> 01:42:54,675
Oh, no, no.
1275
01:43:01,431 --> 01:43:02,891
Dagger Two is hit.
1276
01:43:04,059 --> 01:43:05,143
Dagger Two is hit.
1277
01:43:06,728 --> 01:43:08,105
Dagger Two, come in.
1278
01:43:09,815 --> 01:43:11,650
Dagger Two, do you copy?
1279
01:43:12,317 --> 01:43:14,611
Dagger Two, come in.
1280
01:43:39,887 --> 01:43:41,096
You all right?
1281
01:43:41,180 --> 01:43:42,764
Yeah, I'm good. You all right?
1282
01:43:45,350 --> 01:43:46,435
What the hell?
1283
01:43:46,518 --> 01:43:48,896
- What are you doing here?
- What am I doing here?
1284
01:43:48,979 --> 01:43:51,416
You think I took that missile
so you could be down here with me?
1285
01:43:51,440 --> 01:43:53,275
You should be back on the carrier by now!
1286
01:43:53,358 --> 01:43:55,068
I saved your life!
1287
01:43:55,194 --> 01:43:58,280
I saved your life. That's the whole point.
1288
01:43:58,363 --> 01:44:00,157
What the hell were you even thinking?
1289
01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:02,284
You told me not to think!
1290
01:44:19,009 --> 01:44:20,093
Well,
1291
01:44:21,428 --> 01:44:22,804
it's good to see you.
1292
01:44:25,224 --> 01:44:26,850
It's good to see you too.
1293
01:44:30,896 --> 01:44:32,356
So what's the plan?
1294
01:44:43,325 --> 01:44:44,701
You're not serious.
1295
01:45:00,217 --> 01:45:01,844
You've got to be shitting me.
1296
01:45:03,846 --> 01:45:04,888
An F-14?
1297
01:45:05,597 --> 01:45:07,391
I shot down three MiGs in one of those.
1298
01:45:07,474 --> 01:45:09,893
We don't even know
if that bag of ass can fly.
1299
01:45:12,604 --> 01:45:14,565
- Let's find out.
- Mav!
1300
01:45:16,441 --> 01:45:17,442
Okay.
1301
01:45:26,994 --> 01:45:28,996
- There's guys up there, Mav.
- Yeah.
1302
01:45:30,247 --> 01:45:32,165
- There's more over there.
- Okay.
1303
01:45:33,458 --> 01:45:35,627
- Let's start running.
- Yeah, run. Run.
1304
01:45:45,095 --> 01:45:47,472
Once I give you the signal for air,
1305
01:45:48,182 --> 01:45:50,893
you're gonna flip this switch
until the needle gets to 120.
1306
01:45:50,976 --> 01:45:52,144
When the engine starts,
1307
01:45:52,227 --> 01:45:54,730
you got to pull out the pins
and disconnect everything.
1308
01:45:54,813 --> 01:45:56,481
- You understand?
- Yeah.
1309
01:45:58,650 --> 01:45:59,651
Yes!
1310
01:46:01,528 --> 01:46:03,697
Once I'm up, stow the ladder.
1311
01:46:11,622 --> 01:46:13,665
Okay. Wow.
1312
01:46:14,833 --> 01:46:16,668
It's been a minute, huh, Mav?
1313
01:46:45,531 --> 01:46:48,492
Oh, my God. This thing is so old.
1314
01:46:49,493 --> 01:46:50,494
All right.
1315
01:46:55,582 --> 01:46:57,125
- Canopy?
- Clear.
1316
01:47:15,352 --> 01:47:17,229
Both runways are cratered.
1317
01:47:17,938 --> 01:47:20,023
How we gonna get this museum piece
in the air?
1318
01:47:30,409 --> 01:47:31,827
Why are the wings coming out, Mav?
1319
01:47:38,500 --> 01:47:41,211
Mav, this is a taxiway, not a runway.
1320
01:47:41,795 --> 01:47:44,715
This is a very short taxiway, Mav.
1321
01:47:44,798 --> 01:47:46,008
Just hang on.
1322
01:47:47,342 --> 01:47:48,719
Holy shit!
1323
01:47:54,766 --> 01:47:56,059
Come on, come on, come on.
1324
01:47:56,143 --> 01:47:57,186
Needle's alive.
1325
01:48:00,606 --> 01:48:02,858
- Mav?
- That's it. Come on, come on!
1326
01:48:02,941 --> 01:48:03,984
All right.
1327
01:48:04,902 --> 01:48:06,904
- Mav!
- Here we go.
1328
01:48:08,363 --> 01:48:09,781
Holy shit.
1329
01:48:23,545 --> 01:48:26,632
Sir, we're receiving a signal
from Rooster's ESAT.
1330
01:48:26,715 --> 01:48:28,634
But there seems to be a malfunction.
1331
01:48:28,717 --> 01:48:30,052
- Have you lost him?
- No, sir.
1332
01:48:31,053 --> 01:48:32,513
He's supersonic.
1333
01:48:33,138 --> 01:48:34,223
He's airborne.
1334
01:48:35,474 --> 01:48:37,059
- In what?
- Sir.
1335
01:48:37,768 --> 01:48:42,022
Over watch reports an F-14 Tomcat is
airborne and on course for our position.
1336
01:48:42,940 --> 01:48:45,484
Can't be. It can't be!
1337
01:48:47,194 --> 01:48:48,195
Maverick.
1338
01:48:50,447 --> 01:48:52,783
Okay, Rooster,
get us in touch with the boat.
1339
01:48:52,866 --> 01:48:54,326
I'm working on it.
1340
01:48:54,409 --> 01:48:57,829
Radio's out. No radar.
Everything's dead back here.
1341
01:48:58,497 --> 01:49:00,874
- What do I do? Talk me through it.
- Okay, first the radio.
1342
01:49:00,958 --> 01:49:02,125
Throw the…
1343
01:49:02,960 --> 01:49:05,170
The UHF-2 circuit breaker.
1344
01:49:05,254 --> 01:49:06,255
Try that.
1345
01:49:06,839 --> 01:49:09,299
There's 300 breakers back here.
Anything more specific?
1346
01:49:09,383 --> 01:49:11,343
I don't know.
That was your dad's department.
1347
01:49:11,426 --> 01:49:12,886
I'll figure it out.
1348
01:49:16,223 --> 01:49:18,225
Mav, tally two, 5:00 low.
1349
01:49:23,730 --> 01:49:24,857
What do we do?
1350
01:49:25,524 --> 01:49:27,651
Okay, listen. Just be cool.
1351
01:49:27,734 --> 01:49:29,695
If they knew who we were,
we'd be dead already.
1352
01:49:32,072 --> 01:49:34,032
Well, here they come.
1353
01:49:34,700 --> 01:49:37,202
- What's your plan?
- Just put your mask on.
1354
01:49:38,453 --> 01:49:40,789
Remember, we're on the same team.
1355
01:49:43,500 --> 01:49:45,294
Just wave and smile.
1356
01:49:45,919 --> 01:49:47,546
Just wave and smile.
1357
01:49:54,678 --> 01:49:56,471
What's that signal? What's he saying?
1358
01:49:56,555 --> 01:49:59,433
No idea. I have no idea what he's saying.
1359
01:50:00,309 --> 01:50:03,687
- What about that one? Any idea?
- No, never seen that one either.
1360
01:50:07,024 --> 01:50:10,819
Oh, shit. His wing man is moving
into weapons envelope.
1361
01:50:11,653 --> 01:50:13,197
All right, listen up.
1362
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:15,991
When I tell you,
you grab those rings above your head.
1363
01:50:16,074 --> 01:50:17,659
That's the ejection handle.
1364
01:50:18,744 --> 01:50:20,913
Mav, can we outrun these guys?
1365
01:50:21,580 --> 01:50:23,290
Not their missiles and guns.
1366
01:50:28,295 --> 01:50:29,671
Then it's a dogfight.
1367
01:50:30,380 --> 01:50:33,217
An F-14 against fifth-gen fighters?
1368
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:36,970
It's not the plane, it's the pilot.
1369
01:50:38,555 --> 01:50:40,516
You'd go after 'em if I wasn't here.
1370
01:50:41,183 --> 01:50:42,851
But you are here.
1371
01:50:43,644 --> 01:50:44,978
Come on, Mav.
1372
01:50:46,104 --> 01:50:47,272
Don't think.
1373
01:50:48,565 --> 01:50:49,608
Just do.
1374
01:51:05,249 --> 01:51:07,209
Tell me when you see smoke in the air.
1375
01:51:11,588 --> 01:51:13,674
- Smoke in the air! Smoke in the air!
- Hang on.
1376
01:51:16,510 --> 01:51:19,012
Yeah, Mav! Splash one! Splash one!
1377
01:51:24,351 --> 01:51:25,561
Here comes another one.
1378
01:51:28,814 --> 01:51:30,858
Rooster, flares! Now, now, now!
1379
01:51:34,278 --> 01:51:35,529
Splitting the throttles.
1380
01:51:37,698 --> 01:51:38,824
Coming around.
1381
01:51:43,161 --> 01:51:45,622
- Give me tone, give me tone.
- You got him, Mav! You got him!
1382
01:51:45,706 --> 01:51:46,706
Taking the shot.
1383
01:51:53,297 --> 01:51:54,548
What the...
1384
01:51:55,549 --> 01:51:57,676
Holy shit! What the fuck was that?
1385
01:51:59,094 --> 01:52:01,346
Hang on. We got to get low.
1386
01:52:01,430 --> 01:52:03,724
The terrain will confuse
his targeting system.
1387
01:52:05,851 --> 01:52:06,851
Here he comes!
1388
01:52:19,573 --> 01:52:21,491
Talk to me, Rooster. Where is he?
1389
01:52:21,575 --> 01:52:23,243
He's still on us!
1390
01:52:30,417 --> 01:52:32,503
- We took a hit! We took a hit!
- Damn it!
1391
01:52:37,591 --> 01:52:40,010
- Come on, Mav. Do some of that pilot shit.
- Brace yourself.
1392
01:52:50,479 --> 01:52:51,522
Holy shit.
1393
01:52:58,570 --> 01:53:00,405
I got tone. Taking the shot.
1394
01:53:04,868 --> 01:53:06,119
Damn it!
1395
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:09,373
Out of missiles. Switching to guns.
1396
01:53:15,712 --> 01:53:16,839
Come on, Mav, come on.
1397
01:53:19,508 --> 01:53:21,134
- You got him, Mav!
- It's not over yet.
1398
01:53:25,848 --> 01:53:27,683
- One last chance.
- You can do this.
1399
01:53:28,851 --> 01:53:30,060
Come on, Maverick.
1400
01:53:40,153 --> 01:53:42,072
Yes! Splash two!
1401
01:53:53,125 --> 01:53:55,043
- Mav, I got the radio on.
- Outstanding.
1402
01:53:55,127 --> 01:53:57,087
- Get us in touch with the boat.
- Copy that.
1403
01:53:59,298 --> 01:54:00,507
Oh, my God.
1404
01:54:02,509 --> 01:54:04,178
Where the hell is this guy?
1405
01:54:05,512 --> 01:54:07,097
He's on our nose.
1406
01:54:10,517 --> 01:54:11,727
Damn it, we're out of ammo.
1407
01:54:13,854 --> 01:54:16,190
Smoke in the air! Rooster, flares!
1408
01:54:18,734 --> 01:54:20,027
That was close.
1409
01:54:22,487 --> 01:54:24,406
We're out of flares, Mav.
1410
01:54:28,619 --> 01:54:30,579
Shit, he's already on us.
1411
01:54:35,417 --> 01:54:37,127
This is not good.
1412
01:54:45,302 --> 01:54:47,262
- We took another hit!
- No, no, no!
1413
01:54:52,059 --> 01:54:54,353
We can't take much more of this.
1414
01:54:54,436 --> 01:54:56,188
We can't outrun this guy. We got to eject.
1415
01:54:56,271 --> 01:54:57,523
- What?
- We need altitude.
1416
01:54:57,606 --> 01:54:59,375
Pull the ejection handles
the second I tell you.
1417
01:54:59,399 --> 01:55:01,860
- Mav, wait!
- Rooster, there's no other way.
1418
01:55:05,113 --> 01:55:06,698
Eject, eject, eject!
1419
01:55:07,533 --> 01:55:09,576
Rooster, pull the handle! Eject!
1420
01:55:09,660 --> 01:55:11,245
It's not working.
1421
01:55:21,922 --> 01:55:23,257
Mav!
1422
01:55:25,592 --> 01:55:26,927
I'm sorry.
1423
01:55:28,428 --> 01:55:29,930
I'm sorry, Goose.
1424
01:55:42,651 --> 01:55:46,655
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
This is your savior speaking.
1425
01:55:46,738 --> 01:55:48,282
Please fasten your seat belts,
1426
01:55:48,365 --> 01:55:51,410
return your tray tables
to their locked and upright positions
1427
01:55:52,369 --> 01:55:54,621
and prepare for landing.
1428
01:55:56,957 --> 01:55:59,209
Hey, Hangman, you look good.
1429
01:55:59,293 --> 01:56:02,629
I am good, Rooster. I'm very good.
1430
01:56:04,506 --> 01:56:06,216
I'll see you back on deck.
1431
01:56:28,113 --> 01:56:29,573
Maverick is downwind.
1432
01:56:29,656 --> 01:56:33,118
No front landing gear. No tail hook.
Pull the cable and raise the barricade.
1433
01:56:33,202 --> 01:56:35,287
Foul deck! Raise the barricade!
1434
01:56:36,371 --> 01:56:37,748
Go!
1435
01:57:00,270 --> 01:57:02,397
Please don't tell me we lost an engine.
1436
01:57:02,481 --> 01:57:05,108
- All right, I won't tell you that.
- Okay.
1437
01:57:28,882 --> 01:57:29,882
You good?
1438
01:57:30,551 --> 01:57:32,219
Yeah. I'm good.
1439
01:58:17,890 --> 01:58:20,392
- Chalked yourself another kill.
- That makes two.
1440
01:58:21,143 --> 01:58:23,937
Mav has five. Makes him an ace.
1441
01:58:42,164 --> 01:58:44,333
Captain Mitchell! Captain Mitchell!
1442
01:58:51,173 --> 01:58:52,424
Sir.
1443
01:59:00,015 --> 01:59:01,642
Thank you for saving my life.
1444
01:59:03,060 --> 01:59:04,937
It's what my dad would've done.
1445
01:59:44,184 --> 01:59:45,185
Hey, Mav.
1446
01:59:46,270 --> 01:59:47,354
Jimmy.
1447
01:59:48,564 --> 01:59:49,565
Is…
1448
01:59:50,482 --> 01:59:51,984
Is Penny around?
1449
01:59:52,067 --> 01:59:55,320
She took Amelia on a sailing trip.
1450
01:59:57,906 --> 02:00:00,158
Did she say when she'd be back?
1451
02:00:00,242 --> 02:00:01,743
You know, she didn't.
1452
02:00:04,079 --> 02:00:05,747
Can I get you anything?
1453
02:00:19,178 --> 02:00:20,178
Get in there.