Flyboys Page #4

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

No, not the kids. You.

Would you like to see me again?

All right, bye.

What are you gonna do?

(SIREN BLARING)

(CHATTERING)

The Germans just bombed

the railway yard at Revigny.

If you hurry, you can cut them off.

It is a chance to be more aggressive

in your tactics.

I want those chocks.

If you do well,

you may get another chance at Jametz.

Let's get the jump

and dictate the engagement.

Hurry.

Come on, let's go.

(MAN SHOUTING)

Come on, I'm keeping you guys alive.

(GUNS FIRING)

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(GUNS FIRING)

(SINGING HYMN)

(GUNS FIRING)

(HAMMER CLINKING)

(GUN FIRING)

SKINNER:
Now that's more like it.

We really stitched them up good today.

What?

It's so goddamn noisy up there.

I can't hear a thing.

You got two today, Blaine.

You're our ace so far.

Well, you fired enough to take down six.

You ever think about trying to miss,

Beagle? You might do better.

I told you, my gun's all screwy.

Oh, really? It's your gun, is it?

What are you trying to say, Lowry?

Cut it out.

Someone should mention Porter.

He got one.

Yeah, well, I was lucky.

Germans just didn't want

to hear you sing anymore.

Hey. Where's Higgins?

No.

I gotta sit down.

- Is it bad?

- You're all right.

Bullet went right by you.

(MEN CHATTERING)

(ALL APPLAUDING)

There's our men!

The Yanks got their first Huns.

- Good show.

- Well done. Excellent.

Now you're officially killers.

GRANT:
Come here, lads.

Well done.

We call this the Bottle of Death.

You get one swig

for every plane you down.

Only reason I'm still alive is some German

let me go when my gun jammed.

I don't know why the hell he did it.

CASSID Y:
Did he have

two crossed swords on his plane?

Franz Wolfert. A triple ace.

He did it

because of what happened to Nunn.

He won't let you off again.

We know what happened to Higgins.

Drink up.

(MEN CHEERING)

- Porter.

- I don't drink.

(ALL EX CLAIMING)

- Come on.

- Take a drink...

- I don't drink.

- Come on.

- Take a drink.

- Drink up.

- Drink, drink, drink, drink!

- Drink, drink, drink, drink!

(ALL CHEERING)

(COUGHING)

(PIANO PLAYING)

(MEN SINGING)

PORTER:
Those guys sure can

tie one on. I mean...

BEAGLE:
Yeah.

...the more they fly, the more they drink.

- Yeah.

Except for Cassidy.

He just goes on even more missions.

The man's a mystery. He's not human.

We don't even know where he's from.

I heard that he lost his family

in an electrical fire.

- Did you hear that?

- I heard he flew for Pancho Villa.

So he's a mercenary?

Why don't somebody just ask?

Well, he's not too chatty

about his personal life.

I'd just be happy he's flying on our side.

Yeah.

Especially with the new tri-wings

the Germans got,

Nine-millimeter Spandau machine guns

with twice the ammo capacity.

They can out-turn us

and they have a 1,000 feet-a-minute climb.

They're the most maneuverable planes

in the sky.

Well, yeah, maybe you'd be happier

fighting for them.

Yeah. A lot fewer of our guys

would get shot.

Real funny.

- Hey, listen.

- What?

There's something not right about Beagle,

you know?

What do you mean?

- I mean, he doesn't get any mail, right?

- So?

Yeah, he never hits

any of the Germans he shoots at.

Well, a lot of guys don't have kills.

And now he's an expert on German

aircraft. When did that happen?

Man, you're scratching fleas

on a stuffed dog.

Nothing there.

Right, we'll see.

Blaine, hey, I'm telling you,

there's something not right with that guy.

Hey, you asleep?

No.

(SIGHS)

A few years ago,

we didn't even have airplanes.

Now there's thousands of us,

with one half trying to kill the other half.

Yeah, that's how it goes.

You really have your own ranch?

I did, 900 acres.

Was in my family for 85 years.

It was a tradition.

Grow up and you work the ranch.

Till my ma left and

my dad died all mortgaged out.

It was kind of hard to make a go of it.

So what you gonna do now?

I mean, when the war is over?

I don't know.

Maybe I'll keep flying

if there's any call for it.

Or get a new ranch.

How about you?

Hard to say.

I came here

'cause I heard they treated Negroes better.

- Do they?

- They were good to me.

I don't wanna go back to boxing.

I'm tired of pounding on people,

keeping my anger up all the time.

And I like flying.

Hell, if you're not fighting,

it's nice and peaceful up there.

Nobody can touch you.

Nobody can make you feel low.

You think there'll be any future

in flying after the war?

Maybe.

I mean, there's always giving people

rides at fairs and things like that.

And I hear they might use planes

to deliver mail from city to city.

Really?

Yeah, I like that.

That'd be a good job for me.

I figure as long as I'm up in the air,

they can't see me,

they won't mind if I'm black.

There's something wrong with Jensen.

BEAGLE:
He's down here.

RAWLINGS:
Hey?

Hey?

Jensen?

Can you hear me?

- Jensen?

- CASSID Y:
Thought this might happen.

Jensen?

You're going through a little shock.

Don't think about flying for a while.

You don't have to go up again

until you're ready.

You understand me?

Do you understand me, Jensen?

(SIGHS)

He tries flying tomorrow, stop him.

CASSID Y:
Not that you'll have to.

Meantime, get him some bourbon.

- Go get the bourbon.

- I'll get it.

(WHIMPERING)

(LUCIENNE SPEAKING FRENCH)

- How you are?

- Non, Say, "How are you?"

"How are you?"

(AIRPLANE APPROACHING)

(CHILDREN SPEAKING FRENCH)

(GREETING IN FRENCH)

- How you are?

- How are you?

That's good.

You speak English now.

Then we can have a conversation.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Let me hear your English.

Good you see?

Yeah, good.

Good to see you, too.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

See?

This is my rabbit. Wanna pet it?

Better be gentle. He's jumpy.

(GASPS) Oh.

He looks a little cold.

I think we'll give him a little blanket there.

How's that? There you go.

What about you?

Do you ever have any fun?

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

No time.

No, you're wrong.

Right now's the perfect time.

We don't know how many chances

we're gonna get.

Want to take a ride? In my avion?

- Come on.

- No.

- Come on.

- No.

Here.

(GIGGLING)

Picked a great day to fly, didn't I?

Did you have fun in the air?

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Fun in the plane?

Okay.

What's this?

"It's not good

"for me to like you."

Why?

(QUESTIONS IN FRENCH)

"Because I worry."

You're worried about me?

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

For me?

From Marie?

Maybe he'll bring me good luck.

Paris?

I've never been.

Maybe you could take me.

Show me all them lights.

Afraid?

- There's a war.

- Am I afraid of the war?

No.

- No?

- No.

Okay.

Yes.

Every time I go up,

I'm afraid.

Rawlings.

- You hear about Beagle?

- No, what?

I went to Thenault about him.

- Why would you do that?

- Thenault had him checked out.

His whole background's all wet laundry.

- PORTER:
Everything in his file is made-up.

- They think he's a spy.

Your behavior has raised suspicion

among the men,

and now we discover

that Eddie Beagle is not your real name.

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