Desperate Journey Page #2

If we had the flight here,

we might try it with one plane.

But since we're the only plane

and the objective must be knocked out...

...we'll cruise around.

Keep your eye open...

...for a break in the clouds.

- All right.

What's that?

- What's what?

I don't know. Looks like a shadow.

Jed. Get him out of here, quick.

We got him. We got him.

You got him. Get 42 more,

you'll tie your old man's record.

Nice shooting. Hang on to something.

- I'm going down through this muck.

- But skipper said...

Brace yourself, boy. Ready up front?

- Ready here.

- All right.

First one to spot anything,

give me a call. Hang on.

Hello, Johnny. Drop a flare. Drop a flare.

There's the rail line.

Hello, Johnny. Hello, Johnny.

We're gonna circle and come back in.

Bomb doors open.

Going in now. Going in now.

One thousand feet at 300 per.

One thousand feet at 300 per.

Ten degrees right. Ten degrees right.

You're on.

Steady as you go.

Both port engines are gone.

Hello, Edwards. Hello, Edwards.

Communicator's knocked out.

Tell the men to stand by

for a crash landing.

- Are we hit bad?

- Yeah.

Take the skipper back.

I think we're gonna land hard.

Motorcyclists, attention!

To the scene of the crash, approximately

three kilometers cast of the main road.

Terry.

Terry.

You all right?

Yeah, I think so.

Johnny, Johnny, how are you?

I'm all right.

Had the wind knocked out of me.

Who's got that light?

- It's me, Edwards.

- Somebody give me a hand with Hollis.

- Go ahead, Johnny.

Jed, give me a hand with the skipper.

I can make it. Don't bother with me.

I'll go back and help the others.

- Is he badly hurt, sir?

- Pretty bad. Give me that flash.

Yes, sir.

I'm all right. Just a bit dizzy.

Get them away.

Everything's soaked with petrol.

- Are the others?

- Yeah, all of them.

Hey, what's that?

Into the bushes, quick.

- But Kenton, Warrick, Evans.

- All dead, kid.

- But their bodies.

- He had to do it. The bomb sight's in there.

Come on, quick. Get moving.

Don't go so close. It may explode.

- Prussians.

- Did he say so?

No, but I know the accent.

You understand that stuff?

- Come again?

- I said sure.

Come on. We can go.

They are all burned, anyhow.

I think so too.

The sergeant guessed

they'd all been killed in the crash...

...and the trooper agreed with him.

Come on. We gotta get out of here.

The skipper's bleeding pretty badly.

Look, blood.

Did we...?

Did we did we flatten the target?

Sure, you bet, skipper. Knocked it cold.

Three direct hits.

I knew we could.

If we stayed high.

Told you.

Going in low...

...suicide.

Hands up. You are prisoners.

The major orders to bring in

the English prisoners right now.

The major orders to bring in

the English prisoners right now.

Come on. Come on.

Line up the prisoners

in front of the desk.

Says line up.

Step back.

Major, the prisoners

have been brought in.

The questions I will ask you

are purely routine.

Your names will be given

to the International Red Cross...

...so that your country may be notified

that you are prisoners of war.

Your name and rank.

Go ahead, kid. You can tell him that.

- Your name and rank.

- Lloyd Hollis II, flight sergeant.

By any chance the son

of the English ace of the last war?

He's my father.

I see. Too bad you will not have

the opportunity...

...to follow in your father's footsteps.

- You?

- Flying Officer Johnny Hammond.

You?

Flying Officer Jed Forrest.

You?

- Well?

- Kirk Edwards, sir. Flight sergeant.

T. Forbes, flight lieutenant.

Lieutenant,

your squadron and station numbers.

- Don't tell him that.

- Why not?

Group 929, station 428.

I am quite aware

there're not so many units...

...in the British Air Force.

You will give me the correct numbers.

Okay. Group one, station one.

As senior officer,

you will have the good sense...

...to tell your men that full cooperation

will be to their advantage.

We have decent instincts,

but we have also an iron fist.

No?

You are prisoners, gentlemen,

and you are going to a prison camp.

That is a circumstance

over which you have no control.

Your stay at the camp

can be either tolerable or otherwise.

That depends upon you.

If I make a little check mark here...

...it will indicate that you are eligible

for exchange at a later date.

If I make it here,

it will tell an entirely different story.

I can assure that a prison camp

can be most annoying.

It's all right for a visit.

Wouldn't care to live there.

Oh, we could stand it for a month or so.

Already counting

upon the possibility of escape?

We won't have to bother

about escaping.

Your blitzkriegs have stopped blitzing.

War will be over before we gnaw our way

through your barbed wire, even if ersatz.

A most deluded viewpoint.

Nothing can stop our armies.

And your bombing attacks

have been little more than an irritation.

As for the assistance

of a few decadent democracies...

I see you find the view most interesting.

Let it go. Already too late.

Too bad you saw that.

Now you cannot even

be considered for exchange.

You will be placed in separate confinement

for the duration of the war.

How unlucky to be so observant.

Just at a moment when we seem to be

reaching a realistic view of your problem.

I regret that it must be the iron fist.

And so, gentlemen,

our interview is concluded.

You are dismissed.

Lead the prisoners out.

You, the last man.

- Me?

- Yes. Come back here.

I have some questions to ask you.

- Your name is?

- Johnny Hammond. What's yours?

Major Otto Bau...

You will find that, in your position,

impertinence does not pay.

I didn't join up with this war

to make money.

- You are an American?

- Half American, half Jersey City.

You may sit down, Hammond.

- You may go.

- Yes, major.

Americans are good businessmen.

They are noted for their ability

to make smart deals.

Means they had the good sense

to take advantage of the situation.

That plane you were flying,

American-built, wasn't it?

One of the new ones.

We have heard a good deal about them.

We know that they are capable

of operating at amazing altitudes.

How do you manage

to supercharge the engines...

...at the extreme cold

of those high altitudes?

If I told you,

the others wouldn't find out?

Certainly not.

Sure they can't hear us out there?

Quite sure.

Now, about the supercharger.

- It's done with a thermotrockle.

- A what?

Thermotrockle amfilated

through a daligonitor.

Of course, this is made possible because

the dernadyne has a franicoupling.

- I do not understand you.

- I knew you wouldn't.

The amsometer on the side

prenulates the kinutaspel hepulace.

That's the entire secret.

There you have it.

I do not follow you.

Well, maybe I could make it more clear

if I drew a diagram.

Certainly.

There's three things

you gotta understand.

As I said before, the daligonitor

is amfilated by the thermotrockle.

It's made by its connection

with the franicoupling of dernadyne.

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