Broken Arrow Page #2

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- Thank you, sir.

- We'll go with that.

Wait!

We're making a mistake.

Giles?

You have some input

you wish to share with us?

Yes, sir.

Aviation Week...

..has been following the development

of the B-3 for years.

They have stringers,...

..guys camping in lawn chairs

by the Whiteman perimeter fence...

..watching for one ofthese things to take off.

They're gonna know...

..that one took off last night

and they're gonna know...

..that it didn't come back.

When our press release says

a C-141 went down in Utah,...

..they'll put two and two together.

Aviation Weekwill run a story.

Everyone will know what really happened...

..and we're all gonna look extremely stupid.

(murmuring)

We're better offjust telling the truth.

The truth?

- How did you get this job?

- (laughter)

- Rewrite it, like Giles said.

- Yes, sir.

I want you to go to Utah.

I'll have my C-21 standing by.

It was good work in there.

Guys in lawn chairs...

I don't know, Giles...

Sometimes you scare me.

Hell, sir,...

..sometimes I scare myself!

Go! Move! Move!

Thomas, over there!

Reed, check over there!

Kelly, check over there!

(bleeping)

Anything?

Not a goddamn thing!

Colonel! This is Rhodes!

Go, Max.

Aircraft disintegrated.

Negative survivors on site.

Checking payload!

You watch your needles there, Chief!

Over here!

(whistles)

Over here!

Take that end!

The nukes are gone.

Colonel!

We got ourselves a Broken Arrow.

You find those nukes, Chief.

If your Geigers pick up more rads

than you get off a toaster, I want you out!

A broken what?

Broken Arrow.

It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency.

It's what we call it

when we lose a nuclear weapon.

I don't know what's scarier.

Losing nuclear weapons,...

..or that it happens so often

there's a term for it!

They found the wreckage

about 90 miles outside of McMurran.

No bombs on board.

This is a real nightmare.

We don't know where the hell

the damn things are.

- Captain.

- Sir?

Put two more teams in the air.

I want Chief Rhodes backed up.

Why didn't they go off?

They have to be armed to detonate.

They're designed to survive crashes intact.

They could lie in burning jet fuel

for five hours, no problem.

So what the hell happened?

In his last transmission, Major Deakins

said that Captain Hale lost control.

It's possible one ofthem may have hit

weapons release during the confusion.

Agh!

Deakins...

You won that round.

Sir! Please turn around.

Who the hell are you?

Park ranger.

Just put it down and I won't have to kill you.

This isn't a standoff. I've got the gun.

I never keep it loaded.

I thought you said it wasn't loaded.

I lied. Now, who the hell are you?

I'm a captain in the United States Air Force.

Well, Captain, you're under arrest.

Lady, you're missing the bigger picture here.

Hold still.

All right?

I have already had a hell of a morning, lady.

Now, I can't tell you what's going on,

but I need your help.

This is a good way to convince me.

We both know the gun is loaded,...

..so if I wanted,

I could blow your head off. Right?

Yeah.

But I'm not going to.

Come on.

I got a radio in my truck.

It's this way.

Got 'em!

(rapid bleeping)

We got one.

(truck)

- How are you doing?

- Hey!

You guys need any help?

Air Force training exercise, sir.

I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

Hey, no problem. We just, uh...

Oh, Jeez...

Argh!

Any sign of Deakins?

Maybe the son of a b*tch is dead.

(Deakins) What a terrible thing to say!

Get 'em.

You assured me

everything would go smoothly!

It is going smoothly, I assure you.

Our merchandise

is not where it's supposed to be!

It's right down there, Mr Pritchett.

Everything's on schedule.

(rapid bleeping)

Sir? We got one intact.

Let's go find the other one!

Move! Let's go!

Care for a Coke or something?

Two gunships just left McMurran,

headed this way.

Oh, wonderful!

- Don't worry about them.

- I worry.

What about the other pilot?

We saw him eject.

Hah!

Captain Hale...

Well, I seriously doubt he's alive.

I punched him out

when we were scraping the valley floor.

A park ranger called in a report.

She saw a pilot come down

and was gonna look for him.

Find her.

- I got it!

- (rapidbleeping)

Hello! McMurran, come in!

Go, Max.

McMurran, come in. Over.

- (static)

- McMurran!

Max, are you there?

- McMurran?

- Max!

McMurran, come in!

(machine-gun fire)

Move!

Gonna open up the access panels.

Gonna drop in a couple of grenades.

It won't go nuclear,

but it will destroy the bomb.

And who's ever trying to steal it.

I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Chief.

And why not?

All clear!

- Where is this truck ofyours?

- Just around the bend.

- How did you find me?

- Saw your chute.

Don't step on that stuff!

There, on that black stuff!

- What is it?

- It's cryptogamic soil. Very fragile.

One footprint takes centuries to repair.

- Oh...

- Come on, jump.

I thought it was a mine or something.

Endangered dirt. That's a new one.

(buzzing)

Colonel Wilkins! This is Airman Kelly, sir!

- Go.

- ChiefRhodes is dead!

They're all dead!

What the hell happened?

What the hell happened!

(razor buzzes)

It's the nuke! It's open!

It's wide open!

Kelly! Come in!

What happened?

Oh, God!

What am I gonna do!

- Whoo!

- (laughs)

Recall Search and Rescue.

Get me Washington.

I want NEST on this right now.

- You missed your calling, boy!

- Hell, Deak! leven bought it!

Make sure you get Hale! Go!

There are still two attack helicopters

headed this way!

Not any more!

They've just been recalled!

I'll check further ahead!

That's where they're headed!

Get to work!

You see, Mr Pritchett,

they believe they've got an exposed core...

..and that changes things remarkably.

Cos it wouldn't be right to just send people

into an active radiation area.

First you have to take a picture

from a satellite.

It takes about an hour and a half

just to change orbit.

Then they gotta send in a NEST.

That's a Nuclear Emergency Search Team.

Closest one is about two hours from here.

So, by the time they find us, we'll be gone!

So relax!

- Think your radio can reach McMurran?

- Clyde will patch us through.

We can get your people in here,

then I can go home and feed my dog.

Clyde, this is Terry. Do you read me?

Hello, Clyde. This is Terry.

Do you read me?

- Why are they shooting at us?

- No time to discuss it right now.

Come on!

Let's have some fun!

(machine-gun fire)

- You okay?

- Yeah.

Gimme your gun.

Come on!

(gun clicks)

- You have any more bullets?

- Yeah.

We need to get out ofthis canyon.

We can get out up that way.

If that bastard would just hold still...

I have an idea!

Wait! I didn't mean...

Oh, sh*t...

Don't shoot!

- Where is he?

- I don't know!

Oh, no!

Go, go, go!

(Pritchett) Holy sh*t!

Novacek must have hit a canyon wall.

- Do you think?

- Maybe.

Maybe?

You said you'd planned this thing carefully!

How are we going to move those things now?

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