Drones
Target acquired.
Three, two, one, launch.
Yeah!
Major terrorist, one civilian...
that's pretty good.
We should really
get back to work.
This is work, lieutenant.
- It's a video game.
- Exactly.
We're required to play this
video game 10 hours a week.
- Airman,
if there's activity at the location,
we're gonna miss it.
Trust me, ma'am,
there's never been any activity
over at mahmoud's parents' house.
I've been surveilling for an
entire month now. It's a dud.
He's probably holed up somewhere
over the border in Pakistan.
- A lucky shot.
- You look like you could handle level three.
- You wanna give it a run?
- Airman.
Put the monitors back now.
Yes, ma'am.
I'm sorry,
but that music's driving me nuts.
No, good idea.
We should turn it off.
Going telephoto.
Listen, ma'am,
they're just waking up over there.
- Nothing's going on.
- Can you check for corrections?
There's no change, ma'am.
We're in a straight up orbital pattern.
Autopilot, actually.
There.
Roger that.
I just wanna make sure I don't
f*** up on my very first day.
There's no chance of that, ma'am.
That's why I'm here...
to take care of you.
Airman, I'm aware
that you know more
than I do about this aircraft.
I mean, you're the pilot
and you've been doing these
missions a long time, so I will...
Value your input.
Thank you.
Ma'am, you don't mind if I ask
you a personal question, do you?
How'd you end up here?
You wash out of flight school?
If you don't wanna talk
about it, I understand.
I didn't wash out.
Okay.
- It's just what I heard.
- I was top stick.
You were top stick?
Well, then why
the hell are you here?
They found out I have
a detached retina...
partially detached...
and it's fixed,
and with contacts I can see better
So even a general's daughter
gets f***ed
by the big blue dildo, huh?
Yeah, I'm sorry, ma'am.
That's shitty.
Well, hey, u.A.V.S are the air
force of the future, right?
Pushing a button and hitting
So precise that there's practically
zero collateral damage?
How awesome is that?
Yeah.
No, that's awesome.
I mean, it's not as awesome as
flying in the wild blue yonder
at supersonic speeds
in a kick-ass fighter jet,
all your academy buddies.
I mean I'm just saying
in the middle of Nevada desert
with a hotshot punk who
barely graduated high school.
Airman, you want coffee?
My mom always says
I talk to much.
So there must be a lot of pressure
being a four-star general's daughter
and then washing out
of flight school.
I didn't wash out.
Sorry, ma'am,
that just came out wrong.
Airman, did anyone ever tell you
you're supposed
to push down on the razor?
Ha ha, very funny.
Well, you're not a real pilot
until you can grow one of these.
Try it.
So when's the action
start over there?
Two words, ma'am:
"Money shot."
- We should play.
- Colonel said this was a prime location.
Yeah, well, the colonel's intel
is f***ed half the time.
You should get your old man
to give him a call.
Maybe he could hook us up
- with a bitching mission.
- I don't play the daddy card.
It's not my thing.
I don't understand that.
I mean, if my dad was your dad
instead of a half-drunk cab driver,
I'd be all over him for this.
See those swings?
That's the closest my dad
ever came to flying anything.
When he would push me on those
f***ers when I was a kid.
- When is bingo time?
- He would call me "flyboy."
What time is bingo?
Going stir crazy already, ma'am?
I just want to keep track here.
Well, we run out
of juice in an hour 21.
Are you sure we'll have
enough to get back to base?
Well, if not, we'll have
one hell of a ka-boom.
Yeah, that's all
I need right now...
crash a $12-million aircraft.
God,
is it always this stuffy in here?
I'll go
turn on the a.C.
You're not worried about
washing out of this, are you?
I'm sorry. That came out a lot
worse than I thought it would.
I wasn't even in a plane
until last year,
but I was such a kick-ass gamer,
they gave me a shot.
They threw me
in the f***ing training program
with all these
hot-sh*t baggers...
dudes who flew
two tours in the sandbox.
They wouldn't even sit next to
me in the f***ing cafeteria,
but I blew 'em all out of the water.
And since then I've had
23 successful target
prosecutions in 11 months
on that console.
Air force of the future.
Can't fix
a goddamn air conditioner,
but they can target haji halfway
around the f***ing world.
It screws with your sleep
when you've been hot all day.
Gives you weird f***ing dreams.
- Oh God.
- So if somebody's a jock,
I imagine they can pick up video
games without too much trouble.
It's okay, ma'am.
I've got you covered.
I'll take care of you.
I'll teach you "money shot,"
which is important,
'cause it's
our flight simulation.
And then we can just
play around,
maybe "call of duty."
You've got three weeks in that chair,
then your six weeks of pilot training.
You'll be fine.
My last sensor operator,
desean, he was...
he was from Compton,
but he was a college guy like you.
Became one hell of a pilot.
'Course I wouldn't want you
to turn out like desean.
Why?
What happened to him?
- Pizza?
- What?
Do you like pizza?
- Why?
- Celebrate your first mission, ma'am,
even if it is a Turkey.
- You like pepperoni?
- Sure.
Base operations,
this is chi-town boy.
Let me guess:
Your air conditioner
broke down again
and you want a large pepperoni.
- And two pops.
- You've got it.
- Umm...
- You don't like pepperoni?
- How about onion?
- Onion.
Actually, can I make that half onion,
half pepperoni, please?
Okay, but you'd better
chew some breath mints
before you try to put
the moves on me tonight.
Thanks, Annie. Out.
Thanks, airman.
You're welcome.
I mean, except for that
f***ing air conditioner,
take out a few bad guys,
make the world safe
for democracy,
down a few brewskis,
eat some pizza.
The job's not too bad,
is it, ma'am?
You don't have to call me
"ma'am" all the time.
Okay, sorry, m... er...
It's a habit.
So, sue...
What's that short for?
Susan? Susanne?
# Oh, Susanna,
don't you cry for me... #
"Lieutenant" is fine.
Just don't think too much.
I can tell that you're
obviously a smart individual.
It's kind of what
I'm worried about.
What do you mean?
You know, the colonel,
he tells you who to take out
and you do it.
Some people are good at that,
some people aren't,
- because they think too much.
- Airman...
f-22 at night
in the middle of a blizzard
If mahmoud kahlil shows up today,
I'll have no problem pushing this button.
Too bad you won't
get the chance.
- Oh... sh*t.
- What?
Communications checklist.
E.F.P. Operational?
Umm...
- E.F.P. Operational.
- Okay.
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