All language subtitles for Capricorn One 1978-English

Good morning, ladies and
gentlemen. This is Paul Cunningham,

Capricorn Control.

The time is three minutes after six,
Eastern Daylight Time.

Were coming up on
T minus 32 mins. 21 secs... mark.

To facilitate the broadcast media,
we will precede each announcement

with a 5 secs. tone, followed
by a 1 sec. pause.

Anyone who hasn't got a press kit
can pick one at the information trailer.

At the present time,
all systems are go,

all lights are green.

To review the morning for you,
at T minus 8 hrs. 5 mins.,

Launch Complex thirty-nine
was cleared

and we began to load liquid
propellant into the launch vehicle.

At T minus 4 hrs 30 mins.

Colonel Charles Brubaker,
the Command Pilot,

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis
and Commander John Walker

were awakened by Dr. Roger
Burroughs, the flight surgeon.

They were given a final physical
examination and pronounced all fit.

The crew then had a breakfast
consisting of half a grapefruit,

a ten ounce steak,

twelve ounces of orange juice,
two eggs and toast.

The crew is now in the gantry
access arm,

where they're preparing to enter
the spacecraft.

We're at T minus 30 mins.
and counting.

This is Capricorn Control.

- Good morning, gentlemen.
- Good morning, Horace.

Are we late?

Traffic was terrible.

Well, I see you're all in good spirits.

- Have you done the EDS test yet?
- They're almost completed.

- Do you want us to enter?
- In a moment.

What's up?

I'm not very good at things like this.

I've known you, especially
Colonel Brubaker,

for some time.

What you're about to do today,
I've spent my life.

I'd just like yuh to know that I feel
that all I've ever worked for,

it has meaning today,
and I'm very proud.

Proud of the program

and proud of what I've been able to
contribute in some small way, and

proud of you.

I'd like for you to take
this Bible with you,

from me, from all of us.

Why, Horace, I don't know
what to say.

- Well, try saying nothing for a change.
- Horace...

thank you.

We'd be honored to take this with us.

Well, gentlemen, let's go to Mars.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

We're now at T minus 21 mins.
and counting.

Wives of the flight crew at the Cape
will be flown back to Houston

- following launch.
- Good morning, Congressman Peaker.

We've reserved three of the best seats
for you and for General Enders,

right next to Vice President.

Is he here yet?

No, sir, he's due any moment.

Asshole probably thinks they'll delay
the launch for him.

Someone should tell him this is not
a bridge opening.

I hope you and Mrs. Peaker will be
very comfortable.

The Agency would like you to have
these commemorative binoculars

to help you watch the launch
and to remember this day.

That's very nice. Look, Emily.

They have the date,
Capricorn One emblem in gold.

- Very nice, Hollis.
- I'm glad you like them.

Well, we'll need another pair
for my wife.

I, I beg your pardon, sir?

Oh, don't make a fuss, Hollis,
it's all right.

I said, 'we'll need another pair
for my wife.'

- It's really not necessary.
- Here, Emily, take mine.

- I really won't need them.
- No, I don't...

Congressman Peaker,
there's only a limited...

I didn't quite hear what you said.
Would you mind repeating it, please?

Oh, there's no problem.
I'll get another pair right away.

Very thoughtful of you.

This is Capricorn Control. We are at
T minus 15 mins. and counting.

All systems are go.
All lights are green.

Mission Control has reported the
spacecraft is now on external power.

The launch vehicle will transfer to
full internal power at T minus 50 secs.

Both Ascension and Canary
tracking stations

report clear reception.

The prime recovery ship,
in the event of a terminated flight,

will be the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, which
is located 350 nautical miles

South, Southeast of Bermuda.
This is Capricorn Control.

- Hello, Emily.
- How are you?

- Phyllis?
- Hello, Hollis.

Emily, glad to see you.
Hollis, how are you?

Very well, Mr. Vice President.

- How is the President today?
- Oh, just fine, thank you, Hollis.

He asked me to personally express
his regrets at being unable to be here.

There were some pressing matters

that needed his attention
in Washington.

Like getting re-elected?

Mr. Vice President? I hope you and
Mrs. Price will be very comfortable.

The Agency would like you to have
these commemorative binoculars

to help you watch the launch
and to remember this day.

- Thank you.
- Thank you, very much.

- They're very nice.
- What is your name, son?

Hughes, sir. Mark Hughes.

You learn pretty quick.

- You'll do all right.
- Thank you, sir.

We're at T minus 10 mins.
and counting.

Stage one is green.

Stage two is green.

Stage two is green.

Malfunction Detect System,
on second panel.

Roger. M.D.S. On second panel.

Capricorn One, we confirm T.A.R. S
and M.D.S. You are green on both.

You are go for Inertial Guidance
and O.A.M.S. Checks.

Roger, Houston.

Gentlemen, we're ready
to close the hatch.

Anybody wanna get out,
this is your last chance.

Hey, Horace, is Mars the red one
or the green one? I forgot.

Twenty-four billion dollars to put
crazy people into space.

Keeps us off the streets.

Colonel Brubaker has reaffirmed
the completion of the EDS checks.

Mission Control reports
all systems are go,

all lights are green.

James Kelloway, Director of the
Manned Space Program,

is in Houston at this moment.

He is in full voice contact
with the flight crew.

Landing Module O.I. Shutdown.

O.I., shutdown complete.

Capricorn One, you should have
full C.M. Internal power.

Roger, Houston.
We have internal power.

Vehicle final status check.

Begin status check.

- T.L.R. pressure reading is 45.2
- Roger, Houston.

Roger, Capricorn, we copy.

Bru, would you and your men,
please, follow me?

Hey, what the hell is this?

There's no time to explain.
Please, follow me.

Are you nuts?

I said there's no time to explain!
This is an emergency!

Please, follow me, now!

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

The space vehicle final checks
have been completed

and the access arm is swinging
into a final retract position.

The destruct systems
are now fully armed.

- T.L.R. pressure reading is 45.2.
- Roger, Houston, 45.2.

The flight crew has completed the
launch vehicle range safety checks.

T minus 50 secs. The launch vehicle
will be on full internal power,

that begins the actual
launch sequence.

The weather is reported good.
Scattered clouds at 10.000 feet.

All systems are go.
All lights are green.

We're at T minus 3 mins. 6 secs.,
mark.

An officer has given a go to begin
the firing automatic sequence.

From now until T minus 50 secs,
that system is pre-set.

Initial stage thruster check is normal.

We're coming up on
T minus 1 min. 30 secs.

The final range safety checks
are completed.

The Launch Safety Officer
reports all systems

are normal and we are Go
at this time.

The launch escape tower is now
fully armed.

In the event of an abort,

the tower will carry the command
module away from the launch vehicle

and will activate a system of
control shift at 10.000 feet.

The flight crew reports all guidance
and navigation systems

functioning properly.

The Range Safety Officer reports
alternating systems are operating.

This is Capricorn Control.

It's that big tall white thing over there.

You can't miss it.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

We're at T minus 1 min.
And still counting.

All systems are go.
All lights are green.

We should have launch vehicle
power transfer right about now.

Roger, Houston, we read
nominal A.L.C.S.

Roger, Capitain.

We're at T minus 30 secs.

At the present time, all systems
are go. All lights are green.

Gentlemen, we're going to be
a little while.

You and your men might be more
comfortable in these.

We're at T minus 18 secs.
from lift-off.

We're T minus 15 secs.

T minus 10 secs., nine, eight
- we have ignition-

six, five -we have outboard
engines-

three -we have inboard engines-
one, zero.

We have a launch commit. We have
a lift-off at 35 mins. after the hour.

Roger. We are starting yaw.

Roger, roll program complete.

Vehicles on targets and running
smoothly.

Looking good, Capricorn.

We're coming up on Tplus 40 secs.

Staging should be in the next
- 300 secs.

Outboard cutoff should be 10 secs.

- Obeco, Capricorn.
- Roger, Houston.

Have outboard cutoff.

Obeco at Tplus 2 mins. 29 secs.
Going for staging.

You are go for staging, Capricorn.

Roger, Houston.
Five,

four, three,

two, one.

We reached staging.

We copy.

We have separation. Confirmed.
Tplus 2 mins. 43 secs.

- S-two ignition.
- We have S-two.

We have second stage ignition.

S- two ignition at Tplus
- 2 mins. 46 secs.

The vehicle is 47 miles down range.

Altitude: 43 miles.
Velocity: 6.100 miles per hour.

Mr. Vice President, please,
give my regards to the President.

Oh, yes, I'll be very happy
to do that, Hollis.

I, uh, hope that whatever problems
he found so important

not to be here today,

I hope he has considerable success
with them.

Well, that's really very sporting
of you.

I'm sure the President will be very
pleased to learn of your support.

The President would get considerable
more of my humble support

if he would only be a little more
helpful with this program here.

Now, Hollis, you know the President
is most interested in this program.

I am most interested in a lot of things,

including my wife's bridge game.

That is not the same as
supporting something.

Hollis, there are many people who feel
that we have problems here, on Earth

that merit our attention

before we spent billions of dollars
on outer space.

There are a number of people who feel
there are no more pressing problems

than our declining position
in world leadership.

It was wonderful seeing you again,
Hollis.

The pleasure was all mine,
Mr. Vice President.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

You're at Tplus 2 hrs. 16 mins.
into the flight.

The spacecraft is now
in elliptical orbit

with an apogee of
- 141 nautical miles

and a perigee of 122 nautical miles.

Mission Control reports full voice
contact with the flight crew.

This is Capricorn Control.

Welcome, Colonel.
Would you please come with us?

I'm not going anywhere till somebody
tells us what the hell's going on.

- Everything will be explained to you.
- Bullshit, I wanna know right now!

Colonel, I know this sounds strange,
we are all working for the same thing.

We are not your enemy.

Please, wait here.

I suppose you're wondering
why I called you up here.

Good morning.

Hi there, Dr. Kelloway,
nice to see you.

A funny thing happened
on the way to Mars.

Well, why don't you all sit down?

Well.

Okay,

here it is.

I have to start by saying that
if there was any other way,

if there was even a slight chance
of another alternative,

I would give anything not to be here
with you now, anything.

Bru, how long have we known
each other?

Sixteen years, that's how long,

sixteen years.

You should have seen yourself then.

You seemed walked out
of a Wheaties box.

And me, all sweaty palmed and
deadly serious.

I told everybody about this dream I had
of conquering the New Frontier

and they all looked at me
like I was nuts.

You looked at me and said, "yes".

I remember when you told me
Kay was pregnant.

We even went out and got crocked.

I remember when Charles was born.
We went out and got crocked again.

The two of us, Captain Terrific
and the Mad Doctor

talking about reaching the stars

and the bartender telling us
maybe we'd had enough.

Sixteen years.

And then, Armstrong,

stepped out on the Moon
and we cried. We were so proud.

Willis, you and Walker, you came in
about then, both bright and talented.

Looked at me in my
wash and wear shirt,

carrying on this hot love affair
with my slide rule

and even you were caught up
in what we'd done.

I remember when Glenn made
his first orbit in Mercury.

They put up television sets in
Grand Central Station,

and tens of thousands of people
missed their trains to watch.

You know, when Apollo Seventeen
landed on the Moon,

people were callin' up the networks
and bitchin'

because reruns of I Love Lucy
were cancelled.

Reruns, for Chrissake!

I can understand if it was
the new Lucy Show.

I mean, what the hell is
a walk on the Moon?

But reruns?

Oh, Jesus!

And then, suddenly,
everybody started talking

about how much everything cost.

Was it really worth twenty billion
to go to another planet?

What about cancer? What about
the slums? How much does it cost?

How much does any dream cost?
For Chrissake!

Since when is there an accountant
for ideas?

You know who was
at the launch today?

Not the President,

the Vice President, that's who.

The Vice President
and his plump wife.

The President was busy.

He's not busy.

He's just a little bit scared.

He sat there two months ago

and put his feet up on Woodrow
Wilson desk.

And he said, "Jim...

make it good.

Congress is on my back.

They're looking for a reason
to cancel the program.

We can't afford another screw-up!

Make it good!
You have my every good wish."

His every good wish. I got his
sanctimonious Vice President,

that's what I got!

And so there we are,
after all those hopes

and all that dreaming.

He sits there with those flags
behind his chair

and tells we can't afford
a screw-up.

And guess what?
We had a screw-up.

A first-class, bonafide,
made-in-America screw-up!

The nice people from Con-Amalgamate
delivered a life-support system

cheap enough so they could make
a profit on the deal.

Works out fine for everybody.
Con-Amalgamate makes money,

we have our life-support system,

everything is peachy!

Except they made a little bit
too much profit.

We found out two months ago,
it won't work.

You guys would all be dead in three
weeks. It's as simple as that.

So all I have to do is report that
and scrub the mission.

Congress has its excuse,

the President still has his desk
and we have no more program.

What's sixteen years?
An actual drop in the bucket!

All right, that's the end of the speech.
Now, we're getting

to what they call
the moment of the truth.

Come with me,

I wanna show you something.

Roger, Houston. TMI burn time
will be 5 mins. 45 secs.

Roger, Capricorn.

Delta vapor burn time 3.3 secs.

There's a door here. I'm gonna open it
and walk into another area.

If you follow me, you'll see a bit more.
I'll answer some questions and...

and we're going to...

Why don't you just follow me?

You don't really think you're gonna
get away with this?

Well, I don't know, it's a chance.

Maybe it's not a very good one,
but it's a chance.

- Who knows about this?
- Almost nobody.

Houston is monitoring the actual flight.

All the telemetry is coming from
the Command Module,

so are your voices and medical data.

We recorded everything from
the practice simulations.

They don't know.

All we need from you is the actual
television transmissions

durnig the flight and the Mars landing,
that's all.

Just the television transmissions.

That's all?

Just the television transmissions.

We inserted a change in
the onboard computer,

so the spacecraft will land
two hundred miles off target

when it returns to Earth.

You'll be flown to an island
near that point.

From there you'll be transferred
to a helicopter.

The helicopter will fly you to the space
capsule and you'll be put inside.

It'll take the Recovery Forces
a minimum of an hour and a half

to reach the splashdown site.

By then, you'll be inside the capsule.

When the prime recovery carrier
arrives,

they'll find you inside the capsule
and take you out of the spacecraft.

You've thought of everything.

I don't know. I hope so.

Of course, you're sure we'll go along,
right?

No, I'm not.

What if we say no?

I don't know.

Don't say no.

When does Allen Funt come running in
and tell us we're on Candid Camera?

Jesus! You think I like this?

You think I really believe I'm standing
here in this craziness

telling you about patching
and tape recordings

and telemetry and an island two
hundred miles from the target zone?

I don't, I don't know what the hell
I'm doing, either!

I just case so Goddamn much,
I think it's worth it.

I'm not even sure of that.
I just think it.

I think I'm gonna throw up.

Well, that'll solve everything.

Well, what's this all gonna solve?

It'll keep something alive
that shouldn't die!

Before you all begin to moralize,
you take a look around.

You look at what we've done and
how much more we can do.

You look at what we've meant
to this country.

Nobody gives a crap about anything
any more.

People close their garages,
and triple lock their doors,

they hide under the beds,
they even, they're even afraid

to turn on their television sets
for fear of what they might find out

in the evening news.

There's nothing more to believe in.

Now, you wanna blow this whole thing
wide open?

God knows what it might do
to everybody.

I'm sorry. I'm so Goddamn sorry.
I just don't know what else to do.

I'm hanging on by my fingernails,
just like everybody else.

Go on, you, you wanna be the ones

who give everyone another reason
to give up?

Go on!

This is really wonderful.

We go along with you

and lie our asses off,
and the world of truth and ideals is...

protected.

But we don't wanna take part in
some giant ripe-off of yours

and some how or other
we're managing to ruin the country.

You're pretty good, Jim.
I'll give you that.

Now, now, now, you're twisting
my words.

- Don't sell yourself short!
- Don't sell the program short!

Don't oversell it. I'm not so sure
that cancelling a flight

or cutting off appropriations
means America folds up.

It's not as simple as that
and you know it!

I don't know it.

If the only way to keep
something alive

is to become everything I hate,

I don't know if it's worth
keeping it alive.

Please, Bru, don't talk like that.

What the hell's the matter with you,
'Please, Bru, don't talk like that? '

I don't think this is right!
All the rest is bullshit!

You have to help!

- What do you mean I have to?
- You have to help!

And what if I don't?

Please, don't put me in a corner.

You're crazy.

You know that? You are crazy! You've
got us in the middle of this nuthouse!

And you don't wanna be put
in a corner?

Your families!

- What about our families?
- Please, you have to help!

- What about our families?
- You have to help!

Shit, this thing is outta my hands!

You think it's all a couple
of looney scientists?

It's not! It's bigger!

There are people out there,
forces out there,

who have a lot to lose!
They are grown-ups!

It's gotten too big!
It's in the hands of grown-ups!

What about our families?

They are flying back from the Cape to
Houston! They are all on the plane!

Naw, you're not serious.

- Please, Bru, don't make me!
- You son-of-a-bitch, tell me!

They're on the plane together!
You want it in writing?

There's a device! It's on the plane!

There's some people...! If I don't give
the 'all clear' signal they'll explode it!

Don't you understand?
It doesn't have to be like this!

You have to help!

It's gotten outta control! It's too big!

You wouldn't.

Tell me you wouldn't.

I, I can't tell you that, Bru.

This coffee is horrible.

- It's not that bad.
- It is. It's that bad.

Don't drink it.

I'm always unwrapping things.

I wake up and take the cellophane
off the drink glass.

The soaps in the Holiday Inn wrapper,

even the toilet has a paper band on it
with a nice little note from the hotel

saying they put the band on the toilet
for my protection.

I'm afraid that if I stay
in bed too long,

the maid walks in the room
and surround me and

the breadspread with a paper band.

I don't mind.

You wait. After a while you won't
know what city you are in.

I defy anyone to tell me the difference
between the Holiday Inn in Houston

and the Holiday Inn in Cincinnati.
The rooms are the same.

The music in the elevators
is the same,

even the ladies with too much makeup
in the coffee shop are the same.

You never know where you are
until after breakfast,

- when you read the paper.
- I don't mind it.

Well, I don't mind it that much, either.

It's just that I would like it all to be
with someone I care for,

someone I could share it with.

- Bullshit.
- You're so damn cynical.

I'm not cynical. It's just that your act
could use a little polish.

- What do you mean by that?
- Liz Haller, for starter.

It was at the California Primary?

I believe you used the one about both
witnessing to the unfolding of history.

You've got to admit it's better
than soap wrappers.

You think all I wanna do is jump you.

Yes.

You wouldn't know sincerity
if it ran over you.

- Not if you were driving it.
- I'm glad I'm not like you.

I have better legs.

Okay, I give up.

Don't give up so easily,
just change your approach.

What approach would you like?

How about something like, uh,
'I would like to jump you'?

Think that would work?

It has more chance than wanting
to share a life together.

- I would like to jump you.
- Go jump yourself.

I'm sorry that you had to wait outside
the house all day like this.

There is not much that I can say
except that

I'm very excited
and proud.

Everything seems to be going
smoothly.

Dr. Kelloway called to say that Bru
and the crew were in excellent spirits.

How has all this disrupted
your family routine?

- Terrific question.
- Shove it!

Well, the children will continue
to go to school

and we'll try to maintain
a normal existence.

I suppose that's all that I have to say.

Thank you all for coming.

Uh, I just came out to say hello
and go back inside now.

Thank you. Goodbye.

Dr. Bergen?

- Yes, Elliot?
- I wonder if I could talk to you

- for a moment.
- What is it?

Well, there's somethin'...
I have a problem, sir.

- Oh, are you feeling all right?
- Oh, yes, sir. It's the readout.

What about the readout?

Well, I, I just can't figure
something out.

- Well, perhaps I can be of some help.
- Well, I hope so.

See, I ran a check on the transmission,
on my own on the signals.

- On your own?
- Yes, sir.

- I like your dedication.
- The readout...

The television signals are coming in
ahead of the spacecraft signals.

It's like they're closer or something.

Oh, that's not possible. There must be
some malfunction in your equipment.

Well, I don't think so, Dr. Bergen. You
see, I doubled checked that console.

- Which console are you on?
- Thirty-six, sir.

Well, that's the answer.

We've been having problems
with the circuitry on thirty-six.

We've had trouble with it before.
I'll make sure it's repaired and,

thank you for showing me the problem.
You have initiative, I like that.

This is Paul Cunningham.
Capricorn Control.

We are at Tplus one 131 days
- 4 hrs. 15 mins. into the flight.

5 mins. from landing.

The wives of the flight crew
arrived at Mission

Control at 2.31 Eastern
Daylight Time.

In just a few minutes

we should be receiving a signal
from the spacecraft.

It's important to know that it takes
- 21 mins. for the signal

from Mars to reach Earth.

We have no way of communicating
with Capricorn One

and what we will see actually
happened 21 mins. ago.

This is Capricorn Control.

We're getting something now.

We are changing to a secondary
frequency.

Houston, this is Capricorn One.

CM-LM separation was normal.

I have CM visual contact
through port window.

Delta-Vburn time: 3.3 secs.

3.3 secs. Burn is correct.

We should be hearing from
the CM... soon.

- Houston, this is Capricorn CM.
- Just wait.

I see the LM.

5 mins. after the landing,
that asshole Price'll be callin'

to tell me how pleased
the President is.

If our data is correct, their altitude
is 2.2 miles,

pitch angle, 20 degrees.

Vertical descent 44.6 feet per second.

We have passed Low Gate.
Altitude: 950 feet. Looking good.

- 15 secs.
- 15 secs.

10 secs.

10 secs.

Nine...

eight...

seven...

six...

five...

four...

three...

two...

one...

zero.

Houston, this is Capricorn One.

We have landed.

- Yes?
- Vice President Price on the line.

Hello.

Hello, Mr. Vice President.

Yes, it's wonderful, isn't it?

Proud moment for all Americans.

You can tell the President
that's very gracious of him.

I appreciate it, I really do.

Thank you.

And my very best to your lovely wife.

Yes.

Goodbye.

Asshole.

Dr., I wonder if I can speak
to you for a moment.

Certainly, what seems to be
the problem?

Well, I just can't figure
something out, sir.

What is that?

Well, I'm not exactly sure,
but it's the readout.

I told Dr. Bergen about it a long time
and he said it was in the console.

I'd like you to take a look at it.

- Well, what console are you on?
- Telemetry, sir, thirty-six.

Oh, yes, Dr. Bergen told me about that.
We had that console repaired.

I know, sir, it's just...

I keep on having the same readouts.

Well, what readout?

Well, sir, I ran a program on my own
just to check something

and the readout is different.

You ran your own program?

Yes, sir,

and...

I don't think it's the console.

Well, we'll have it shut down and
I'll see that it's serviced.

Thank you, Elliot, for bringing
the matter to my attention.

You're welcome, sir.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

The Flight Director advises that
the LM crew has been given a Go

for the first DVA on
the Martian surface.

Because the time delay would make
a conversation impossible,

the crew has taken a prerecorded
message

from the President with them.

This is Capricorn Control.

Houston, we're activating
the camera.

Roger, Capricorn.

Houston, you should have
a picture now.

- We have a pretty good picture now.
- Houston, I am outta the hatch.

I am on the ladder.

Houston, the suit is functional.

The ladder is steady.
I am three steps from the bottom.

I'm two steps from the bottom.

Houston, I'm on the bottom step.

Houston, I am gonna set foot
on the surface.

Ready slow-mo.

I take this step

in the journey of peace

for all mankind.

Take slow-mo!

Houston, I am on the surface.

Roger, Capricorn. We copy.

I am starting to walk now.

Houston, the surface is solid.
Visibility is good.

I'm walking toward the camera
now.

The footing is solid.

Surface seems powdery.

I am picking up the camera now.

I have the camera.

The picture will get shaky
for a while.

The footing is good.

Houston, I am setting
the camera down now.

The rocks seem very porous.

Houston, I am outside the hatch.

Houston, I am on the ladder.

Ready slow-mo.

Houston, I'm stepping
onto the surface

Take slow-mo!

Houston, I am on the surface.

We are going to set the flag
on the surface.

We do not claim this planet
in the name of America.

We claim it in the name of all the
the people of the planet Earth.

We hope that our visit will increase
the understanding

of the human race.

Walker should be activating
the tape soon

with the prerecorded message
from the President.

Houston, I am starting the tape.

"To the men of Capricorn One.

I bring you greetings
from your fellow Americans

and all the citizens of the world."

You are so far away.

It takes light more than 20 min.
To reach you from here.

One could say not only light,

one could say time.

You are in another time from us,

the future.

We will never be the same,

for this moment

more than any moment
in our history,

has made all of the people
in the world realize

that we are part of the planet,

that is part of the system,

that is part of the Universe.

We are a small energetic species,

capable of pettiness,
yet capable of brilliance.

We know how bad we can be,

now you, the men
of Capricorn One,

have shown us how wonderful
we can be

by showing us how high
we can reach.

You have crossed
the last great frontier

and you have shown us
what we are:

People.

Of different colors and religions
and ideologies,

however, a single people.

You are the basic truth in us.

You are the reality.

We will never let you down

and we will always be grateful."

I have decided after
a careful deliberation

and a painful soul-searching
to give you an opportunity

- to win your 50 dollars back.
- I don't feel like playing.

- Eight ball, five dollars a game.
- I don't feel like it.

- 10 dollars.
- I'm serious.

So am I. I'll even let you break.
Can a person be more serious?

You're drunk.

I knew there was a reason
I was feeling this good.

I need a drink.

Underneath that wash and wear shirt,
you have some heart.

It may be sanforized, but it's a heart.

Mike?

- You said I break.
- I must'a' been drunk.

- Hard day at the office, dear?
- I don't wanna talk about it.

- Did you break your slide rule?
- I'm not really sure.

I ran a check on my own
transmissions signals.

The numbers came up screwy,
so I told Dr. Bergen about it.

It was like he was pissed at me
for running a check.

He said it must be a console
malfunctioning.

So I told Dr. Kelloway about it
and he said the same thing.

Big deal. What did you expect,
a merit badge?

I guess so.
They must know what they're doing.

Those numbers couldn't have been
right anyway. No way.

If you know the numbers
couldn't have been right,

why are you so upset?

It was the way they reacted.
No double check or anything.

They looked at me like I was a kid
and offered me a cookie.

- What were the numbers?
- I have to admit it is ridiculous.

Good, let's play pool.

Those signals couldn't have
come from 300 miles.

Which signals?

The television transmission.

I think I just sobered up. Would you
tell me what you just told me again?

Hey, Caulfield, telephone.

Hello?

Yes, this is Caulfield.

What?

I'm sorry, you'll have to speak
more clearly.

I think we have a bad connection
or something. I can't hear you.

Who?

I don't understand what you want.

Look, if you call the assignment desk,

they'll be glad to send someone over
to cover that for you.

Yes, ask for the assignment desk.

Assignment. That's right.

You're welcome.

Anybody hungry?

No.

Oh, the marvels of american
science.

Here we are, millions of miles
from the Earth

and we can still send out for a pizza.

I'm not gonna do it.

Not gonna do what?

Tomorrow, I'm not gonna sit
in this thing

and talk to my wife and tell her
everything is going fine.

I'm not gonna do it.

I tried.

I got two little kids with big bright eyes.

And I used to tell them their daddy
was gonna make them proud of him

like he was of them.

And now I gotta go home,

I gotta kiss them and
gotta look in their eyes

and tell them I really did this?

I don't know. Maybe that's better that
telling them I really didn't do it.

I wish I knew what was right.
I really don't.

We've been sitting around here for
months, telling their lies for them.

And I don't wanna do it any more.

Okay, so we go and blow the whole
thing tomorrow, on national TV,

then what have we done?

- We'd screw up a lotta people's dinner.
- We've already screwed ourselves.

Okay, so what do we accomplish
by screwing everybody else?

He's got a point there, you know.
We went along with this for you.

You and our families.

Now you wanna go out in
some terrific blaze of glory?

And we get pulverized in the process?

And our families?

- What about our families?
- I know!

I know.

Shit!

That's the best thing I've heard
anybody say in three weeks.

- What's the best thing?
- Shit.

I just don't think I can do it.

Get me Dr. Kelloway.

Why, all of a sudden,
are we standing up for the bad guys

and you're on the side
of truth and justice?

We may have a problem with
Brubaker tomorrow.

- I wish I had the words.
- Damn the words, Bru!

These people... they're capable
of anything.

And we got our families out there.

Now, we're in this thing and I think
we're in too deep to stop now.

No one os us is gonna decide.

It's got to be all of us.

Operator, I'm trying a number now
for over an hour and it's busy.

Would you kindly check to see
if it's out of order?

I know you don't do that.

Yes, it's an emergency.

Thank you. 8733657.

No, 3657, Mr. Elliot Whitter.

Out of order?

Thank you very much, operator.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

We are a Tplus 223 days
- 6 hrs. 32 mins.

All systems are go.
All lights are green.

We are awaiting the start of the
final television transmissions

from the Command Module
on its return to Earth.

This is specifically a conversation
between the crew and their wives.

This is the first time the crew has
been close enough to Earth

to make normal conversation
feasible.

This is Capricorn Control.

Capricorn One, this is Houston.
Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Roger, Houston,
this is Capricorn One.

Houston, do you have a picture?

Roger, Capricorn, we have a picture.

We have three anxious ladies here
who would like to talk to you.

Roger, Houston.

We'd sure like to talk to them.

Okay, go ahead, but keep it short.

Remember, this is long distance.

Jack?

Jack, it's Betty.

- Hey, Betty, how are you?
- You look fine.

Thanks. You know we can't see you
up here, but you sure sound terrific.

I miss you. So do the kids.

Okay, I miss them too,
more than you all know.

Peter?

It's Sharon.

I told you never to call me here.

Are you feeling well?

I'm feeling very well.

How's Sandy?

Well, she's got the part of Wendy
in her school play.

They're doing Peter Pan.

That's terrific.

You sound so close.

It's hard to believe you really are
that far away in space.

It's hard for me to believe it, too.

Bru?

Hello, Kay.

We're all so proud of you.

Can you hear me, Bru?

Yes.

- I'm not sure of Brubaker.
- Keep watching.

Bru? I have a surprise for you.

What?

I said I have a surprise for you.

What is it?

Charles wrote a composition in school
and he won an award.

May I read it to you?

Bru, can you hear me?

Yes...

please, read it to me.

It doesn't look good.
Do I cut the transmission?

Not until I tell you.

'My father, by Charles Brubaker, Jr.'

'My father is far away from me now.

He is flying to Mars.

I miss him very much.

I always miss him when
he goes away.

I'm not sad, though.

I used to be sad when
he went away.

One day he told me that people
can't live only for themselves.

He said he was trying to do something
that would be good for everybody.

I know that is what
he is doing now.

He is doing something for
everybody, to give them a better life.

That means he is doing something
for me, too.

So even though he is far away,

he is thinking about me
and I am with him.

That is why I'm not sad.

That is why I'm so proud of my Dad.

I love him so much.'

Kay.

What is it?

There's something I...

I wanna say.

Bru?

What is it?

Not until I tell you.

I know this hasn't been easy
for you and the kids.

I want you to know

I love you.

Tell Charles thanks for
the composition, please.

I will.

Tell him when I get back,

I'm gonna take him to Yosemite again,

like last summer.

I will.

And I want you to know
that I love you.

Very much.

Time's up, gentlemen.

Roger, Houston.

The next time we see you,
you'll be on the way home.

- Roger.
- Well done, Capricorn.

Yes?

Is Whitter in?
Tell him it's Caulfield.

- Who?
- Whitter. Elliot Whitter.

There's no one here by that name.

You must have the wrong apartment.

Well, this is apartment 228,
isn't it?

Yeah. Oh, you probably have
the wrong building.

You know, they are all sorta look alike.

Yeah, that's right.
This is 4311 Claridge, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

Elliot Whitter lives at 4311 Claridge,
in apartment 228.

Is this a joke?

Look, I've been here a million times.

Elliot's a friend of mine and
he lives in this apartment!

Look, Mister..., whoever you are.
I'm cleaning an oven.

It's my oven. It's in my kitchen.
In my apartment.

If you don't mind,
I'd like to get back to it.

Wait a minute! Just wait! Look, I'm not
a crazy person and I'm not a mugger!

I'm looking for my friend and he lives
in this apartment! I swear it!

Would you get your foot out of my door
or I'm gonna call the police!

Now I don't think this is
funny any more!

Wait. I can prove I've been here before.
I know this apartment.

Now, will you get outta here,
or do I have to call the police?

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

We are 259 days 14 hrs. 12 mins.
into the flight.

All systems are normal.
All lights are green.

The prime recovery ship,
the U.S.S. Oriskany, is in position.

An on-target landing should result
in recovery time

of 18 mins. from splash-down
to the opening of the hatch.

After the crew delivers its speech
on the Oriskany deck

and is welcomed aboard
by Captain Earl Marks,

they'll be taken below deck
for a medical debriefing.

Tonight, at 8 o'clock
Pacific Daylight Time,

the crew will attend the victory
banquet topped by a special dessert,

a 40 feet red cake,
depicting the Martian surface.

We are 23 mins. 12 secs. from
the beginning of the re-entry phase.

This is Capricorn Control.

We have a chopper waiting
on the island

to take you to the spacecraft
when it splashes down.

It'll take the Oriskany about 1.30 hr. To
reach you, so there won't be any rush.

All lights are green.

Roger. All green.

Separation thruster check list?
De propulsor?

Separation thruster check list.

Outboard thrusters.

Outboard thrusters on.

Inboard thrusters.

- Inboard thrusters on.
- How we doin'?

We might have a slight problem, sir.

- What is it?
- They're a little bit off target.

How far off?

- As much as 200 miles.
- That far?

It could take up to 1.30 hr. For
the recovery forces to reach them.

- Keep me posted.
- Yes, sir.

Six...

five...

four...
three...

two...

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, we show red
on the heat shield.

Do you copy?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

We show red on the heat shield.
Do you read?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, this is Houston.
We show red on the heat shield.

Do you copy?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, we show red on
the heat shield. Do you copy?

- Capricorn One...
- That is, Kelloway.

Capricorn One, this is Houston.
Do you read?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, we show red on
the heat shield. Do you copy?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.
Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Capricorn, we show red light on
the heat shield. Do you copy?

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

This is Paul Cunningham,
Capricorn Control.

We are advised that there appears
to be a malfunction.

We do not know what the problem
is. We will keep you advised.

This is Capricorn Control.

Charles, take Sandy and go inside.

- Mom, what's...
- Charles, go inside now!

- Mom...
- Charles, I said right now!

Capricorn One, this is Houston.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I have a brief statement

and then I will answer
your questions.

It must have been re-entry.

Something went wrong
during re-entry.

Why haven't they told us anything?

They don't want us to know
what went wrong.

What went wrong?

- Whe the hell is Kelloway?
- Where the hell are we?

At Tplus 259 days 15 hrs. 11 mins.
in the flight of Capricorn One,

which is 2 mins. 18 secs.
after interface,

the heat shield light on the Mission
Control monitoring panel turned red.

We...

are dead.

- What?
- We're dead.

Shit, I was such a terrific guy!

We tried to establish radio contract,
contact with the spacecraft

an we were unsuccessful.

It landed off course.
Why haven't they said anything to us?

And if it never landed,
either the heat shield separated

or the chutes never opened.

Either way, we are dead.

The heat shield evidently separated
from the Command Module

and, as you know, the heat shield

is the only protection the Module has

against the heat build-up on
the re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

The spacecraft disintegrated within 12
secs. after the loss of the heat shield.

Right now Kelloway is making
a speech

about what brave, wonderful guys...

we were.

I cannot adequately describe
how we feel.

These men were an integral
of the family...

here in the program.

If anybody ever sees us again,
the whole thing falls apart.

It's as simple as that.
They can't have us around.

That is the end of my statement.

- Have you spoken to the families?
- Yes.

I don't know how we have
a lotta choice in this matter.

I say we get the hell outta here.
Anybody disagree?

When was the last time the heat shield
was checked?

All during the re-entry phase there
were a series of status checks.

All of them gave us every indication
the shield was in place.

No, I have not spoken to the President
yet, but I'm sure I will very soon.

I'd like to say that
the President has been

a constant source of encouragement
to all of us in the program.

This mission meant as much
to him as it did to us.

Do you think this will end
the Manned Space Program?

I don't know.

You can't reach that far without
stumbling somewhere along the way.

That doesn't mean that your goal
isn't worthwhile.

So many people have given so much.

In 1967 we had the Apollo One fire.

But we didn't just...

give up even though we were crushed.

We went on as they would have
wanted us to.

Now, these three remarkable men

have given their lives in an effort to...

widen the horizons of their species.

They died striving for a goal.

You tell me.

I ask you... I ask all of you here.
You be the ones to tell me.

How could we best serve these men?

By giving up on their dream?

By saying that

it was all for nothing?

You give me the answer.

- That was the left gear we lost.
- See if you can retract the other one.

- Do you have any idea where we are?
- No.

Which direction are we headed?

West. Once we hit the coast,
we'll go North.

All we've got to do is get to any city,
any place there are people,

a newspaper, a television station.

Any place we can show up and
be seen. Then it's over.

I'm not sure it's exactly over.

Our families, our kids.
They think we're dead.

I wonder,

when we show up,
when everybody finds up,

I wonder if they'll be happy.

Maybe it'd be better for them
if we were dead.

Oh, Christ!

Fuel! There's no Goddamn fuel!

I told you never to take a trip
without checking the tank.

- What about the reserve?
- We're on reserve.

That's great.

I'll start to circle.
See if you can find a lever area.

There.

Over there, beyond those cliffs.

Are you sure you know
how to land this thing?

Full flaps.

I think we're on Mars.

We got about 20 mins.
head start on them.

It's not gonna be hard to spot
this plane from the air.

We got two choices,

either we stick together, or we split up
and go in different directions.

Hey, I just found a survival kit in here.

There's a can of water each.

A flare each.

John, you take the flint.
Peter and I'll split up the matches.

Anybody want the gun?

I'd shoot my foot.

I'd shoot his foot.

You can take the knife.

Remember, if any of us gets caught,

or he can't make it,
shoot off a flare,

so the others'll know.

I'll continue West. John, you go North.
Peter, you go South.

We came from the East,

so we know that's the wrong way.

There's not a lotta time.

There's too much to say, so let's go.

If any of us makes it...

Well...

Did I ever tell you the one about
the guy who had a job giving enemas

to elephants, and...?

Thanks.

Did you ever hear it?

You can tell me about it
when we get home.

Tell Charles that...

thank him for the composition,
please.

I...

Well, tell him when I get back...

I'm gonna take him to
Yosemite again,

like last summer.

- I will.
- Right there. Run it again.

Like last summer.

I will.

'Look, sir. Look, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir, let's do tricks
with bricks and blocks, sir.

Let's do tricks
with chicks and clocks, sir.'

- Blocks! Look, blocks!
- Right.

There are the blocks
and those are the...

- Clocks!
- Right.

'First, I'll make a quick trick,
brick stack.

Then I'll make a quick trick,
block stack.

You can make a quick trick,
chick stack.

You can make a quick trick,
clock stack.

- Chicks!
- And...?

Clocks!

'And here's a new trick,
Mr. Knox.

Socks on chicks
and chicks on fox.

Fox on clocks,
on bricks and blocks.

Bricks and blocks
on fox and box.

Now we come to

ticks and tocks, sir.

Try to say this,

Mr. Knox, sir,

clocks...

clocks on fix tick,

clocks on Knox tock.

Clocks!

Clocks!

Clocks.

Right, Sandy, very good.

'Six, sick,

bricks,

tick... '

Yes?

I'd like to see Mrs. Brubaker.
My name is Caulfield.

Mrs. Brubaker isn't seeing
anyone.

I telephoned this morning.
I believe I'm expected.

- What was that name again?
- Caulfield. Robert Caulfield.

Oh, yes. Mrs. Brubaker
is expecting you.

She's out on the patio.
It's right through there.

Thank you

- Mrs. Brubaker?
- Mr. Caulfield?

Sit down, please.

Mrs. Brubaker, first of all,

I'd like to say I'm really sorry.

- Everyone is sor...
- I know, and I appreciate it.

Don't be too uncomfortable with me.
I couldn't put up with that right now.

I understand that you think
you're interrupting me,

and you are,
but I welcome the interruption.

You called and said it was something
important. What is it?

Mrs. Brubaker, it may not be
important to you.

I'm looking for something that may be
important to me. It's personal.

You're a reporter, aren't you?

Yes, as I told you,
I'm not looking for an interview.

I would like to ask you
a few questions

about the last time you spoke with
your husband after the landing.

What about it?

Well, this may sound strange, Mrs.
Brubaker, don't be upset with me.

Just before the conversation ended,

Colonel Brubaker told you something
about going on a vacation

and your reaction was like you didn't
understand what he was saying.

Why would you wanna know
about that?

As I told you, it's something personal.

It's personal to me, too.

Please, I'm not trying to embarrass you
or anyone else.

Why would any of this be
your business?

Please, trust me.

Why?

You ask really good questions.

Well, it's all so silly.

It wasn't anything that dramatic.

Bru just forgot something, that's all.

I don't see the purpose in broadcasting
that my husband mistook a vacation

when he had so many other things
to think about.

No, no, no, I'm not looking for
anything to broadcast.

- What are you looking for?
- It has to do with a friend of mine.

- Is there something I should know?
- If there was anything, I would tell you.

Well, it's nothing.

Bru said that he wanted to go back
to Yosemite like last year.

Last year, we went to Flat Rock,
not Yosemite.

I don't think there's any cosmic
significance in that.

Mrs. Brubaker, I truly thank you.

I'm sure you had better things to do

than put up with a bunch of
stupid questions.

No, I didn't.
Have I been any help to you at all?

I don't know.
May I call you again, sometime?

Yes.

Yes?

There's no one inside?

Are you sure?

Get more personnel,
they can't go too far on foot.

Oh, a piece of cake.

Charles, cut it out.
You know you're bothering her.

I know you're bothering her and
she knows you're bothering her.

If you want to stay in the pool,
cut it out.

- Hi, Uncle Jim.
- Hello there, Charles.

- Hello, Kay.
- Jim.

You look just fine.

Thank you.

Can I offer you something to drink?

No, thank you.

- How are the children?
- Fine.

Charles is strong.

He's very much to himself,
but he's strong.

Sandy doesn't know.

There's gonna be a Memorial Service
on Tuesday, right here, in Houston.

President... The President'll be here.

- He's going to speak.
- That's nice.

Will I get a folded flag?

I would like you to be there.

Please.

I know how difficult everything is
for you right now.

I feel like Jack the Ripper even
asking you... It's just that...

it would be good for everyone
if you could go with me to the service.

- It's a horrible way to die.
- No, absolutely not.

When the heat shield separated,
it was over in less than 5 secs.

I know that sounds grizzly, but you just
have to know he never suffered.

He died doing what he wanted to do.

Something he felt was important
enough to die for.

I know, I know.

I don't think it was important enough
for him to die for.

I understand.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

I have no right to intrude on you
like this. I'll call you tomorrow.

Jim!

I'll go.

You're a very special woman.

He was a very special man.

Thank you.

- Hey, Uncle Jim!
- Yes?

- My Dad went to Mars.
- Yes! Yes, he did!

Oh, I'm dehydrating.

Dehydrating.

Sign.

Manual says...

Iook for signs.

Water.

Manual says...

signs for water.

Oh, dried river bed.

Signs.

Bend in the river.

Lower signs.

Bend in the river.

There's just...

Water.

River bed.

Water.

A drink of water.

Elizabeth, there's no water.

There's no water.

I wanna die.

Elizabeth.

Birds.

Elizabeth,

birds.

I got to get the birds.

Helicopters...

Yes?

He was alone?

Which direction was he heading
from the airplane?

Aah, look South and West only.

Call everybody off North and East.

The other two are South and West.

- Hello, again.
- Hello, again.

- Can I offer you something to drink?
- Yes, thank you.

- What would you like?
- Some scotch. Straight, please.

You haven't found what
you're looking for,

you're embarrassed about
bothering me again,

however there were one or two
questions more you'd like to ask me.

It's something personal and
you won't bother me any more.

I haven't found what I'm looking for.
I feel embarrassed about bothering you.

However, there are one or two more
questions I'd like to ask you.

It's something personal and
I won't bother you any more.

You're up to something, want my help
and you won't tell me what it is. Why?

You're a very smart lady,
you know that.

Yes.

I drink too much.

I get in trouble a lot because
I talk too much.

Sometimes I have an imagination
that's a bit too vivid.

Something's wrong and
I don't know what it is.

Believe me, I would never do anything
to harm you or your husband, I swear.

What are you after?

I'm taking a terrible risk telling you this.

You may throw me out of here and
I do not want to be thrown out.

I don't think your husband is the kind
of man who makes mistakes,

no matter how far away he may be.

I think he was trying
to tell you something.

- What?
- What did you do at Flat Rock?

Nothing much.

We came home after one day
because Charles got sick.

- What'd you do that one day?
- I don't remember.

We took a tour of the town.
They have those tours.

And...

I don't remember what.

- We took some home movies.
- Do you have them?

- Yes.
- May I see them?

Yes.

They were making a movie
the day we were there.

Bru got a big kick out of it.

He never knew it took so much time
to just do one simple scene.

Charles loves that one.
He wasn't in the greatest mood.

He didn't know it but he was sick.

Bru was fascinated with the detail.

He couldn't get over how something
so fake could look so real.

He kept on saying that with
that kind of technology

you could convince people
of almost anything.

There's this guy, you see!

He takes a trip to Europe.

It's his first vacation

in a long time.

He sees the sights, you know?

He has a real good time.

Anyway,

after a while he decides to call home.

He get his brother on the phone
and the guy says to his brother,

'How's everything at home? '

And his brother says,

'Your... Your cat died.'

And the guy says to his brother,

'You shouldn't tell me
bad news like that.'

'You should

break it to me gently.

You know...

You should say something like,

'The cat crawled out on the roof

and the was chasing the squirrels

and...

he got stuck.

We had to call the fire department

and when they finally got there,
a fireman crawled up,

he grabbed the cat

and on the way down he slipped
and the cat fell to the ground.'

'They had to take the cat to the vet.

They tried to save the cat.

They even operated

on the cat.

But it was too late.

They couldn't

save the cat.'

That's how you should break

bad news, like that.'

So the guy says to his brother,

'How's Mom? '

And the brother says,

'She's on the roof.

Get it?

She's on the roof.

She's on the roof.

Get it? '

Yes?

Which one?

What direction was he going?

Brubaker is going West.
Put everybody West.

Caulfield.

Right now?

Okay.

How nice of you to join us here!

- Listen, I think I got something.
- You need a dermatologist?

Don't tell me, I'll get it.

- George Raft! Right?
- Where the hell have you been?

I have to talk to you.

I think I'm onto something. It could be
your actual ball game. I mean it.

Golly, gee, Scoop, that sounds
very interesting!

Something is wrong. Something big.

They know I'm onto it and
they tried to kill me.

- Who's they?
- I can't tell you.

- Why not?
- You wouldn't believe me.

You don't think so?

Okay, listen to me.
I got a tip from a friend,

a good friend, then he disappeared.

Disappeared?

Like he never existed. There's some
lady living in his apartment.

His apartment is all different.

She said she's been living there
for more than a year.

I checked the building rental office.

They have receipts from her
for more than a year.

I checked NASA personnel.

They have no record
my friend ever worked there.

They say they never even heard
of him.

So this friend of yours,

who works at NASA,
gives you a tip, then disappears.

And it turns out that he never lived in
his apartment or worked at NASA.

This is the guy that gave you the tip
on your cosmic scoop,

- and you think I won't believe you?
- My car!

Someone tampered
with my car!

The one you decided to go
swimming with?

They did something to it!
I couldn't stop it!

Can you prove that?

The police said...

- They said that nothing was wrong.
- And you think I won't believe you.

Somebody took a shot at me!

- When?
- Yesterday.

- Thank God, I've got an alibi!
- I'm telling you the truth!

Listen to me and listen good.

I don't like you, Caulfield.
You're ambitious.

You think the way to get ahead is to
come up with the scoop of the century.

Woodward and Bernstein were good
reporters. That's how they did it.

Not by telling me they've located
Patty Hearst three times, like you did.

Or that brilliant piece of investigative
journalism you pulled off,

by finding an eyewitness to the 2nd
gunman in the Kennedy assassination.

The small fact that the man had been
in a mental institution at the time,

never deterred you,
not Scoop Caulfield!

Now, most reporters are like me.
They are plodders.

They spend a lot of their time checking
little things..., like facts.

They cover mundane stories
like wars,

and trials and hearings.

You never seem to have enough time
in your busy schedule

to stoop so low as to cover a story.

You occupy your time with tips from
people who never existed,

driving your car into water and then
claiming it wasn't your fault,

getting shot at by unseen gunmen.

Now, I really hate to interrupt
your meteoric career

with something so plebeian
as a legitimate story.

However,

a trainload of propane gas
had the bad taste

to derail near Galveston and there's
a whole town that just might blow up.

So it would be just really
peachy or you

if you would join you film crew
that's waiting for you on the plane

at this very moment while we speak.

- That was a speech.
- I thought so.

I cannot go to Galveston right now.

I don't think I heard you.

Look,

when a reporter tells
his Assignment Editor

that he thinks he may be onto
something that could be really big,

the Assignment Editor's suppose
to say,

'You got forty-eight hours, kid,

and you better come up
with something good

or it's gonna be your neck.'

That's what he's supposed to say!
I saw it in a movie!

Get your ass on that plane!

I can't! I have to follow this!

And you can't tell me what this
earth-shattering story is?

It sounds too crazy.
If I told you, I'd be in more trouble.

You're not crazy! I'm crazy!
I'm crazy for listening!

And I'm crazy for saying what
I'm about to say!

I'll give you twenty-four hours
come up with something!

Not forty-eight! I saw the movie, too,
and it was twenty-four!

Freeze!

- I'm not moving an inch.
- Robert Caulfield?

- Yeah, who the hell are you?
- Federal Agents.

We have a warrant to search
your apartment.

- You have a warrant? What for?
- Just don't move.

I promise. Just tell me
what this is all about.

Hey, come here! Look at this!

Could you come with me,
please, Mr. Caulfield?

Mr. Caulfield, I'm sorry.

However, you're under arrest
for possession of cocaine.

I don't believe it.

I don't believe it. You guys put it there,
you know you did.

You have the right to remain silent.

- You have the right to an attorney.
- I don't believe it. You put it there.

Anything you say may be held
against you in a court of law.

You're part of all this. You mothers.

Ow, that hurts!

You don't have to put
handcuffs on me!

Please, Mr. Caulfield, these are
serious charges against you.

- Don't add to them by resisting arrest.
- I don't bel...! That hurts!

I don't believe this.

Well, hello there, Caulfield!
So nice to see you!

It's at this point that Alan Hale says
to Richard Conte...

- Jimmy Stewart.
- Yeah, Jimmy Stewart, thank you.

Look, Scoop, I can't keep bailing you
out of trouble.

The front office is on my neck.

I don't know how much longer
I can keep them off, right?

- Right.
- Wrong!

I got you out of there so as not to
embarrass the Network.

I mean, you are a schmuck!
I can't trust you to cover a fire!

You'll probably fall down
and get burned!

You probably would be the cause of it!

A company car? You are fired!

I love that so much!
I'm gonna say it again!

You're fired! You're through!
Oh, I love it!

It's not what it looks like, really.

'Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn! '

I told you. You tell me about the lonely
plight of a dedicated journalist.

I tell you to stuff it.

You tell me about a meaningful
relationship.

I tell you to stuff it.

You tell me you're in trouble,
you're out on bail,

you just got fired,
I tell you I'll be right over.

- My head hurts.
- You look awful.

- Thank you, very much.
- You're quite welcome.

Did you find out what I asked?

One o'clock in the morning
I get a call from an unemployed junkie

to find out all the military installations
in a 300 miles radius

around Houston, Texas.

You certainly have a way with words.
Did you find out?

Yes, and it wasn't easy.
It took exhaustive research.

Well, I'm proud of you.
How many?

One. White Bluff. It's a SAC base.
My father used to be stationed there.

That's exhaustive research?

At one o'clock in the morning,
you call your father, that's exhaustive.

- White Bluff... That's too big.
- Too big for what?

- Too big for what I want.
- What do you want?

I'm thinking of enlisting.

- They'll never take you.
- That's why I'm thinking of enlisting.

- You're on a story, aren't you?
- I was fired!

You're on a story and I'm helping you.
This can't be happening.

I really appreciate that.

The only reason I'm doing it,
considering your track record,

whatever story you're on
will turn out to be garbage.

You shouldn't mince words.

I'll fix you some coffee.
Then you can jump me.

There's no other one besides
White Bluff?

No.

Except one abandoned base
they used for training

during World War II, Jackson.
There's nothing there now.

- Don't you want to jump me?
- Of course I do. Where's Jackson?

About 300 miles directly West.
I think I'm gonna get angry with you.

- Do you have any money on you?
- Do you want me to pay you?

How much?

About 100. Why don't I just leave it
on the dresser in the morning?

Give it to me now.

In advance?
That's the height of conceit!

Please, and your car keys.

You're really being terrific, why?

You're not as obnoxious
when you are helpless.

- Thank you very much.
- You're quite welcome.

Also, Liz Haller said you were super.

Well, when I get back,
we'll jump each other.

Maybe.

I'll get arrested again.

It's a deal.

Mornin'.

- Mornin'.
- You in charge here?

- You see that sign there?
- Yes.

Well, read it.

- I did.
- Out loud!

'A and A Crop Dusting Service'.

You wanna know who I am?

I'll bet you're one of the 'As'.

Well, which one? I'll bet you can't
answer that question, smart-ass!

- The first one.
- Wrong!

- Can I have one more gues?
- You got it.

The second one.

Wrong. I'm both of 'em!
'A' and 'A'. My name is Albain.

I got a son. The other 'A' was for him,
but he don't like to fly and is a lawyer.

He's a pervert, so I took the 'A'
away.

Wanna speak to somebody in charge?
You're speakin' to both o' them.

- My name is Caulfield.
- Hey, I can't help that.

Mr. Albain, how much do you charge
to dust a field?

- 25 dollars.
- I'd like to hire your plane.

- That'll be 100 dollars.
- You said you charged 25.

25 dollars t' dust a field, but you ain't
got no field because you ain't a farmer,

which means you ain't poor
and I think you're a pervert!

Okay, 100.

- 125.
- What?

Because you said 'yes' to 100
too quick,

which means you can afford 125!

Where do you wanna go,
smart-ass?

I'm not sure. I'm looking for someone
who's lost.

It's your money.

Put your Goddamn head down
so I can see!

Why didn't you sit in front?

- You know how to fly?
- No!

Then I gotta sit in back

and you gotta put your Goddamn
head down, smart-ass!

Now, what the hell is your friend doin'
out here?

He's lost!

- He rob a bank or somethin'?
- No!

- Well, I get a third!
- What?

We find him, I get a third of the loot!

Now, keep your Goddamn head down!

You think we should go
in another direction?

- Hey!
- What?

- Over there!
- Where?

Helicopters!

I seen them fly around here
last couple of days!

- Let's follow 'em!
- I would if I could see 'em!

They're goin' down over there!

He must be in there!

Let's go down.

They got guns, Sonny!

You said you wanted a third of the loot!

- Half!
- Okay, half!

Keep your Goddamn head down!

Pull that lever down by your feet
when I tell you, Sonny!

Now!

Perverts!

Remember, I get half!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Mrs. Brubaker

Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Walker,

my fellow Americans.

I come here today to talk of
unfinished hopes

and of unfulfilled dreams.

Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis
and John Walker

left this Earth for their dream
a little more than eight months ago.

They were never able
to return to us.

Their dream was able to grow
and flourish

because of the support of millions
of citizens

all across America

at a time when cynicism was
a national epidemic,

they gave us something
to take pride in.

It is a dream that
should not be allowed to die.

A nation is built on the spirit
of its people.

The test of the greatness
of any nation

is how that nation pulls together
in a time of crisis.

The only limits on what
we can achieve

are the limits we place on our hopes.

These three men reminded us
of the limitlessness of our hopes.

There was a moment
in these past few days

when we were all one people.

We were all hoping,

we were all a little bit taller,

a little bit prouder.

We were all feeling the same fears
and the same exhilaration.

These three men brought us together.

We knew together that
there are no goals we cannot reach

if just reach for them together.

There is no adequate way

in which we can express our gratitude
to the men themselves

because they are no longer among us.

However,
we can serve their memory,

what they stood for...