All language subtitles for Airwolf - S04E08 - Code of Silence

Heavy ground fire.
Looks like we're expected.

It wasn't supposed to go down like this.

What's the package?

The ambassador to Colombia.

He was kidnapped by guerillas three
months ago. We're getting him back.

Coombs chopper outfit is a military unit.
What are we doing here?

Strictly support.

Telltale Leader, this is Telltale Ground.

Package secure. Ready for pickup.

Telltale Ground, Telltale Ground,
this is Telltale Leader.

You are to pop smoke.
I have your LZ in sight.

Roger, Telltale Ground. I have your smoke.

COOMBS: Airwolf, Airwolf, Airwolf.

SAINT JOHN: I read you, Telltale leader.

COOMBS: Roger, Airwolf.

You are to secure the package.
Then proceed to Farmer's Garden.

Combat Team will complete
Operation Telltale.

Airwolf is flying support
for this mission, not decoy.

Your job, Hawke,
is to pick up Ambassador Reynolds.

You were Captain Courageous
in the Mekong Delta

but Combat team is my team,
not your company's.

Listen, Coombs...
The ambassador is waiting.

Telltale Two, Telltale Two,
this is Telltale Leader.

Prepare to pick up ground forces.

Telltale Four, cover the retreat.

Telltale Two going down.

COOMBS: Roger, Telltale Two.

Have no fear. Telltale Four is here.
I'll guard your flanks, boys.

Do it, don't jock about it, boy.

(CHUCKLES)

Going in for the pickup.

Heavy ground fire.
Telltale Leader, bring us support.

COOMBS: We've got you covered.

Give us everything you got.

Come on, Telltale Ground, move him closer.

We better be quick. He doesn't
look like he's going to make it.

SAINT JOHN: And we're out of here,
Telltale Leader.

Telltale Leader, this is Airwolf.

We have the package and are
heading for Farmer's Garden.

(SINGING) Man who shot Liberty Valance

He shot Liberty Valance

He was the greatest of them all

Can the music, Lacey.
We ain't home free yet.

That guy just never lets up.

What is it with you and Coombs, anyway?

It's a long story.

We have time.

No, we don't.
We've got company. Two o'clock.

Incoming, right on your tail. Chaff!

You got it.

Okay, buddy, come to papa.

Coombs, this is Airwolf.

MiG fighter destroyed en
route to Farmer's Garden.

Watch your tail. Over.

Roger that, Airwolf. Thanks.

THOMPSON: Colonel, we have a Code Red.
Ground fire.

(GUNS FIRING)

You son of a...

THOMPSON: Hey, what's Coombs doing?

What the hell?

COOMBS: Brad, watch it!

JENNINGS: Oh, my God!
THOMPSON: Lacey's hit.

Mayday! Mayday! He's going down!

JENNINGS: He's out of control.

Pull up!

What's going on?

THOMPSON: Brad, get control.
Pull up. Pull up!

Telltale Four! Telltale Four!

Telltale Four! Telltale Four! Acknowledge!

Brad! Brad! Brad!

THOMPSON: Coombs hit Lacey.
Did you see it?

Coombs hit Lacey!

JENNINGS: Yeah, I saw it.

What the hell happened?

You still look out of place in uniform,
even as a Reserve.

Skip the niceties,
and answer the question.

You know what I never liked about you,
Hawke, no discipline.

You were good,
probably the best flyer I ever saw.

But the rules,
rules never got in your way, did they?

General Lacey's son is dead,

you're up on charges and
you wanna talk about rules?

I want you to defend me
at the hearing tomorrow.

You gotta be kidding.

Look, Hawke, the whole damn Army knows
that you and I can't stand each other.

But you also know my record.

Well, I hope you got a plan B.

Because there is no authority that
can make me get involved in this.

This is not orders. It's a request.

I'm not a lawyer!

Look, Hawke, they gave me some
green kid fresh out of law school.

Now, you can't do any worse.

What's this all about, Coombs?

I can't tell you.

But I do want you to know one thing.

I'm a believer, by the book.

And very judge on that panel
knows it because they are, too.

The Army takes care of its own.

Brad Lacey was one of their own.

So be it.

It's in their hands.

PRIEST: It has been said
that old soldiers fade away.

But what of young soldiers?

We must keep the memory
of our departed brother,

Lieutenant Bradley Frederick Lacey,
near in our hearts,

and remember him as man
who loved his country.

Like many others before him,

he gave his life in the service of it.
Amen.

Major Hawke. Thank you for coming.

I'm truly sorry, General.

Oh,
I've always despised these damn things.

I thank God, Mrs.
Lacey, bless her soul, was spared this.

I want you to defend Coombs.

General, I... I know the reply, son.

I want you to understand something.

Steve Coombs is as much
a son to me as Brad was.

This is a father's request,
not a General's.

General, I wouldn't know where to begin.

Saint John, I love these two men.

And now one is dead, the other...

He won't talk to me,
he won't even look at me.

Why me?

Your record is exemplary.

Your honesty unassailable.

And Steve asked for you.

Well,
Coombs always said I flew on the edge.

But even though we were always at odds,
there was a mutual respect.

Thank you.

Captain Parkinson is a topnotch lawyer.

Young but competent.

She'll be assisting you
in the preliminaries.

If it should go to trial...

Well, we'll cross that bridge.

Let's get one thing straight.
I didn't ask for this assignment.

But I'm gonna do my best
to defend that bastard.

But I've been on this case for three days.

And? And?

What do you think?

What's there to think?

The charges are voluntary
manslaughter and criminal negligence.

So far the man has offered no defense.

O offense, but how many of these hearings

have you participated in, Miss Parkinson?

I am a career officer in
the United States Army.

My name is Captain Parkinson,

not Miss, not honey, not babe.

Do you read me, Mr. Hawke?

That's Major to you, Captain.

It's standard procedure for the
defense and prosecution attorney

to meet with the judge before trial.

Who is the prosecutor?

I have it right here in my case.

Ah, Captain Parkinson...
Good afternoon, sir.

Major Hawke.

I'd like you to meet prosecuting attorney.

We've met.

I was with the US Attorney's
office in Washington for two years

before joining the Company.

And since I was on the mission,

I guess I was the logical choice.

Well, I certainly had no idea
you'd be on the other side.

Neither did I.

The Company wants this
thing wrapped up quickly.

It's messy.

But not at the expense of a fair trial.

Of course not. But let's face it,

there really isn't any issue
about the outcome of this one.

He didn't do it, Jason.

I've talked to all the witnesses,

I've reviewed all the evidence

and I've read Coombs' statement.

He's as guilty as hell.

Steve Coombs may be a lot of
things but he's not a murderer.

And you're not a lawyer.

You're damn right!

But I flew with him and despite
his lack of social graces,

he was one hell of a soldier.

He's a soldier with one
hell of a case against him.

(SCOFFS)

And he doesn't even wanna defend himself.

Well, I guess, unless you flew with him,

you just can't understand.

So, you flew with him. You're gonna
introduce that as evidence in court?

That and anything else it takes.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Compliments of Lidia.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hi! How you doing? You all right?

Lidia, my dear.
Brewskies in a bucket, por favor.

That's Thompson and Jennings.

The very same.

Major Hawke, sir!

Gentlemen, I've been trying to
reach you for the last three days.

We have contact, sweet thing.

Back off, peaches.

Now, I want all three of you to report to
me in my office tomorrow at 1100 hours.

Come on, even the big co-pilot
in the sky takes Sundays off.

Not when your commander's
career is at stake.

The man's a machine.
He doesn't need or want our help.

The man's in trouble.

It's trouble of his own making.

How can you be like that when a member
of your own team has just been killed?

Brad was a nice kid and
I'm sorry he's dead.

But what's done is done.

You know, Thompson, your attitude stinks.

(PARKINSON GASPS)

Come on, get out of here! Get out of here.

Sorry about that, Lidia.

He deserved it.

Besides, it's been dull since Brad died.

Come on, everybody. Drinks on the house.
Drinks on the house.

Be right with you.

And then what happened, Sergeant?

Colonel Coombs' chopper just veered left.

Into Lieutenant Lacey. That's right.

And you were filming at the time?

Yes, sir. But when I was hit,

the camera and the film were lost.

Would you say your view of
the incident was unobstructed?

Absolutely.

From what you could see,
was there any apparent reason whatsoever,

for Colonel Coombs to
have made such a maneuver.

None.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Saint John, that camera can't
be bigger than a pencil box.

Do you have the coordinates?

Yeah, yeah, it happens to be jungle.

Just imagine you're looking for a
clean pair of socks in your apartment.

Very funny.

Captain Thompson,
you were flying third in formation,

which would put you right here.

Is that correct? THOMPSON: Correct.

Did you see anything?

Yes.

Would you please tell the court?

Telltale mission had been a blue.
A blue, Captain?

A success.

Colonel Coombs had
ordered Felix Formation,

what you see diagrammed there.

LOCKE: Anything unusual about that?

No. Standard defensive maneuver.

So the Combat team was heading for home.
What happened next?

Colonel Coombs' aircraft veered
hard to left into Lieutenant Lacey.

Was Colonel Coombs' hard left
turn standard defensive maneuver?

It was not.

Lieutenant Lacey was forced to
take radical defensive action.

LOCKE: From what you saw, did it appear,

that Colonel Coombs flew intentionally
into Lieutenant Lacey's aircraft?

Sir, this man doesn't know
what Colonel Coombs intended.

JUDGE: But he can draw
inferences from what he observed.

Overruled. Proceed.

Yes, sir. It did appear intentional.

LOCKE: Lieutenant Jennings,

do you have any opinion as to why
Colonel Coombs would ram Brad Lacey?

No, sir, I do not.

Lieutenant, I understand there is a code
of silence that Army pilots adhere to.

And I respect that.

But it is an Army pilot
who's lost his life here.

He deserves your loyalty also.

(SIGHS)

A few nights before the mission,

some of us were at Lidia's.

It's a bar a couple of miles off base.

Colonel Coombs was there.

So was Brad. They were arguing.

What were they arguing about?

I'm not sure,

but, during the fight,
Colonel Coombs told Lieutenant Lacey,

that if he didn't stop...

He said he would kill Lieutenant Lacey.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(GAVEL BANGING) MAN: He's guilty.

WOMAN: Can you believe this?

So, Colonel Coombs said that
he would kill Brad Lacey

if he didn't stop.

Stop what, Lieutenant?

I don't know.

Thank you, Lieutenant Jennings.

Thank you for doing your duty.

The prosecution rests.

A short recess, sir.

Well, it's after 1600 hours now.

We'll adjourn for the day to
reconvene tomorrow at 0900 hours.

Court is adjourned.

Give us a minute.

You've got to take the stand, Colonel.

No, I can't do that.

What are you afraid of?

I was raised with that boy.

Now he's gone and I can't change that.

What happened up there, Coombs?

He's dead and that's
all I'm gonna tell you.

Come on, baby.

Mike, you have such a way with women.

Women, words. Just wait till you
see what I do with computers.

Just keep her steady, Jo.

I'm holding. I'm holding.

Bingo!

Winch activated.

MIKE: Going down.

JO: Let's hope that camera
is still in one piece.

Have you got it?

MIKE: Almost.

Damn it!

JO: Uh-oh! We got company.

MIKE: Great timing guys.

I'll increase the electromagnetic voltage.

Just do it fast. If we have to
change position, we'll lose it.

Got it.

JO: I'm reeling it in.

MIKE: If they hit that camera, we're sunk.

Safe and sound.

Great. Let's do the same for us.

So, you still think he's innocent,
don't you?

Yeah, I do. Don't you?

Nope.

Nor does your friend, Locke.

So, I am the only one that
believes Coombs didn't do it.

Then what happened up there?
What's he trying to hide?

I don't know.

But I do know he's an honorable man.

You gotta believe that honor
means everything to him.

Okay.

But even if you're right,
that's no reason for him to surrender,

and that's what he's doing.

I don't buy that.

Yesterday in court, he relived that
whole tragedy and he really hurt.

Well, that's still no
reason for him to roll over.

Maybe it is. If he's protecting someone.

Like Brad.

Thank you, Sergeant.

This is ridiculous.

We don't even know what we're looking for.

It's like trying to find
a needle in a haystack.

(SCREAMING)

You all right? Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay.

I found something.

We ran a computer check
on our friend here.

He's Oscar Mendoza.
A civilian gardener who works on the base.

A few arrests for petty theft.
There's nothing here.

SAINT JOHN:
There must be 30 units in that complex

and you pick a dead man's to rob?

Just dumb luck, I guess.

I don't think so, Mendoza.

What were you looking for?

If you tell us, we can help you.

I don't need no help from you.
I'm a civilian, man.

That means I get tried
in a civilian court.

I'll be out on bail in 24 hours.

He's right, and you're reaching.

You got a problem with that?

I got a problem with
you looking everywhere

but at Coombs for Brad Lacey's killer.

Well, maybe if you quit going
by the book for one minute

and give some thought to the people
involved, you'd solve your problem.

The defense may begin its case.

Call your first witness.

The defense calls General Wilbur Lacey.

(WHISPERS) What the hell
do you think you're doing?

This wasn't in the game plan.

If Coombs won't speak for himself,

we'll get the man who knows
him best to speak for him.

You leave him out of this.

It's too late for that, Coombs.

I won't allow it.

Then I walk.

Major?

The defense calls General Lacey.

General Lacey,
you've seen Colonel Coombs under fire,

you know him as a soldier.

I do.

Please tell the court about Steve Coombs,
the soldier,

the officer, the leader.

I would be proud to have Colonel Coombs
as a member of any unit I command.

You, in fact,
named him in-flight commander of

the Combined Basic Assault Team.

I did.

Why, General? Why Coombs?

At this time,
the Combat team, essentially,

is in a constant state
of war against terrorism.

Colonel Coombs is a man who
thrives on that pressure.

How so?

He is a fighting machine.

He, his aircraft, his weapons,
his team, he sees them all as one.

Objection, sir.

We are all well aware of Colonel Coombs'
past record.

But it is irrelevant
to the present charges.

Colonel Coombs is charged with an act

which is absolutely
contrary to his past record.

His character and his accomplishments
couldn't be more relevant.

I agree. Objection overruled.

Colonel Coombs is tough on his team.

No tougher than he is on himself.

If he has one flaw, that is it.

He's tough, but fair with his men.

Has he ever let you or
your team down in battle?

Objection, sir.

Prior to this incident.

No.

Considering all that you've
testified to here today,

all that you know of the man,

do you believe

that Steve Coombs
intentionally downed your son?

Brad had made some mistakes
but he was shaping up.

(INHALES)

Brad was a good man and he
was becoming a good soldier.

I respected him for that,

just as I respected Steve Coombs.

But...

I loved them both as sons.

Don't ask me to choose between them,
Major.

I'm sick to death with the whole thing.

Coombs was a tough piece of leather.
Maybe too tough.

But he deserves better than this

after what he's given those bastards.

You mean Thompson and Jennings?

And the rest.

He took a bunch of floppy-eared puppies

and turned them into fighting men.

You have to admit,
Thompson is one hell of a flyer.

Thompson and the others are fanatics.

They see themselves as the elite,
the best and the brightest.

It's their mission to rid
themselves of weak links, like Brad.

What are you saying?

They wanted him out. Brad was a screw-up.

He got onto the team on his father's wings

and the team resented Coombs'
covering for him.

Why not just report Brad?

He was a coward, a gambler,
always scrounging money

but he was also the General's son.

Well, if Coombs and Brad were so close,

then what was all this fighting about?

Maybe Coombs finally had enough of Brad,
too.

I don't know.

(EXCLAIMS SOFTLY)

(SIGHS)

Man, there is nothing here.

I have an idea.

That's more like it.

What would two men fight over?

There's gotta be something in here.

Well, if your buddy,
Coombs would tell us something,

then we wouldn't have to
play Dick Tracy like this.

Yeah, well, why don't we get started?

You take the bedroom
and I'll look in here.

O! Why don't you take the
bedroom and I'll start in here.

Did anybody ever tell you that you're
beautiful when you're a pain...

Search.

Allie.

Did you find something?

What do you make of this?

It's stopped up.

Uh-huh. And here's the stopper.

Looks like it's been dripping for days.

Probably since Brad died.

Yeah.

This is heavyweight stuff.

A combat plan to attack and destroy three
munitions stockades in Central America,

dates, times, locations.

Do you know what this means?

Yeah, Brad Lacey was a traitor.

No wonder Coombs took the fall.
He was protecting the General.

This would kill him.

Well, this just ruins our case.

We've just hung our client.

What is it? Well, he's gone.

Gone? Coombs?

He managed to take out his guard
and somehow got hold of a chopper.

Innocent men don't run, Hawke.

SAINT JOHN: Where was he headed?

MIKE: He was last seen north northwest
from the place where he stole the chopper.

He's headed for Twenty-Nine Palms.

Damn! The missile testing grounds.

SAINT JOHN: Coombs, come in, Coombs!
Answer me, damn it!

Standby.
I think I got him coming up on the scope.

And coordinates locked.

You're flying into restricted airspace,
Coombs.

For God's sake, talk to me!

Run a check on ground
activity in the area.

Way ahead of you.

I know about the Ring, Coombs.

I'm picking up readings
of a maneuver in progress.

MAN ON PA: All
personnel, clear launch area!

All personnel, clear launch area!

Surface to air missile testing
commences in T-minus 30 seconds

and counting.

Coombs, come in. I know you can hear me.

I don't want a confrontation, Hawke.

In about 20 seconds, you're going
to get one. You'll be blown to bits.

You can't run away from it.
I'm not running.

I'm just doing the only
thing I know how to do.

MAN ON PA: Test site is secure,
drones are airborne.

T-minus 20 seconds and counting.

You can't win this way, Coombs.

Well, that's the hell of it, isn't it!

If we don't turn around, this test
site is gonna have two new drones.

Turn around, Coombs. What do you
think you'll accomplish by this?

I'm a flyer, Hawke, not a speech maker,

and I know that I gotta crash and burn

but I ain't got to take
all that BS down below.

All you have to do is
tell us what happened.

(SIGHS)

I already told you. I can't do that.

Fire.

I've got three incoming missiles.

Sunburst, coming up.

One down.

Another missile is right on Coombs' tail.

Let's take it. Give me turbos, Mike.

You got it!

Ooh, this one has our name on it.

Use the sunburst.

Temporarily out of stock!

I better try something else fast! Hang on.

It's still dogging us.

You dragged me into this, Coombs.

You and all that talk about being a
soldier, a believer, going by the rules.

We can't shake this one.

Was that all BS too, Coombs?

If it was,
you can blow me out of the air right now,

but, by God, that's what you'll have to do

before I let you leave this unfinished.

That's a nice shot.

We're even now. And thanks.

But, sir... Counsel,

your client has escaped.
He has left himself without defense.

Major Hawke, what is the meaning of this?

Sir,
we've wasted enough of the court's time.

I move that the defense
rest and a verdict rendered.

I'm sorry, sir,
but there are extenuating circumstances.

Yes, we'd like to request a short recess,
sir.

But there will be no further delays.
Am I understood?

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

Prosecution motion denied.
Reconvene at 1500 hours.

(GAVEL BANGS)

What's going on?

I can't tell you right now.
But don't let him out of your sight.

(SIGHS)

Here they are.

We've got a little over two hours
to run these through ballistics.

Think you can you do it? Two hours?

Yeah, I think I can do it.

Let's go.

This is a film of the incident

involving Colonel Coombs
and Lieutenant Lacey

taken by the Army photographer.

That's Lieutenant Lacey on the left,

and Colonel Coombs on the right.

Where were you?

I was out of frame on the upper right.

Now, you've already testified
that Colonel Coombs' helicopter

veered into Brad Lacey without
any provocation whatsoever.

The picture tells the story.

Watch the screen, sir.

SAINT JOHN: Now this is a
computer-enhanced image of the film

we've just seen.

It brings up images which
the human eye cannot detect.

The timer reads .39 seconds.

That's .39 seconds between the time that

Colonel Coombs veered into Brad Lacey

and this burst appears in
the upper right of the frame.

Where you've already testified

that your helicopter was flying formation.

THOMPSON: So?

What is that burst?

I have no idea.

You're a liar, Thompson.

Objection!

The defense is harassing the witness.

I will allow you to proceed, Major.

But I caution you as to the seriousness
of an accusation of perjury.

You had better be able to back it up.

Yes, sir.

I'll ask you again, Captain.
What is this burst?

And I told you, I don't know!

It's machine gunfire, Thompson.

The mission was a blue! The enemy
had been contained on the ground.

You weren't firing at the enemy, Captain.

You were firing on Brad Lacey.

(ALL MURMURING)

(GAVEL BANGING)

Order!

Colonel Coombs veered into your
line of fire to protect Brad.

Not to force him down.

What, because there's little white
dots on your computer, I'm a murderer?

Get off it, Hawke.

Do you recognize these, Captain?

Not specifically, no.

These are standard 7.62 millimeter rounds

that each combat machine-gun uses, right?

Yeah, they look like it.

I'm going to ask you one more time,
Thompson.

Did you fire on Brad Lacey?

This is craziness.

You're right.

These were taken from the skids of Coombs'
aircraft this morning.

They're from your guns.

(PEOPLE MURMURING)

But you weren't alone in this...
This conspiracy.

The whole team,
except for Coombs, was in on it.

And what about Colonel Coombs?

Why didn't he expose this crime?

The fight between Coombs and Brad,

was about the Ring, wasn't it, Captain?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Operation The Ring.

Brad Lacey was being paid to sell
information to the enemy. He was a traitor.

You and the others found out about it,
and then after blowing him away,

you hired Oscar Mendoza,
to steal this back for you!

The General

was a father and a mentor to Steve Coombs.

Coombs would rather have cut off
his arm or given up his career

than have Brad's treason exposed
in court and disgrace the old man.

And you let him!

You stood by and let your
commander sacrifice himself!

Brad Lacey was suspect in battle.
A coward, wasn't he?

Yes.

You and the others demanded that he
resign his appointment to the team.

But he refused.

Were you elected to
carry out the execution

or was yours just to be the first blow,

the others to follow like
the murderers of Caesar?

So you murdered him in cold blood.

You and your precious
elite team planned it out.

You waited till Brad was alone in a
helicopter and then you shot him down!

He was a danger to us all! To the team!

(PEOPLE MURMURING)

Coombs would never let a son
of General Lacey's wash out.

There was no other way!

And you were willing to use
the honor of Steve Coombs,

to cover your bloody tracks.

But Brad Lacey is not on trial here.

Steve Coombs is.

And because he loves
General Lacey as a father,

and as a General,
you knew he'd play the scapegoat.

When I was a soldier,
I thought I could recognize evil.

And I fought it.

Now I'm faced with this diabolical plot,

this perverse code of silence,

so that these men, this elite team,

could maintain its standard,
no matter what the cost.

And everything that
Steve Coombs stood for,

believed in...

Honor, loyalty,

truth,

was used against him.

Steve Coombs was not the assailant.
He was the victim.

So was General Lacey,

Brad,

(SIGHS)

And so are all of us.

Damn, I hate to lose.

You didn't lose, Jason. You did your job.

What do you say we go get a beer?

You're on.

Losers buy.