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It takes a great deal of courage to die.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to live.

What are you doing out here with these kids?

We were out hiking.

Government troops destroyed our village.

If these kids were to die today, they could all be replaced tomorrow.

I've always taught them life is sacred. But every one of them's got a lot more

courage than most adults I've ever known.

Why hasn't he checked in yet?

Si, senor.

Don Ceres Hawk.

Yes.

This is Dominic Santini.

El gato. Mucho gusto de conocerlo, senor. El placer es mio.

Bienvenido. Gracias.

You have brought some very fine equipment.

This is Miss Capon.

From this moment on, I will never have to say the flies fall into my one.

Bienvenidos a mi pais.

Welcome to my country.

Hola.

Six months ago, I would have said, arm a thousand of my men with this, and we

would eat freedom for Christmas dinner.

I want this American scientist of yours out of my country.

These tanks he has designed, nothing can stop them.

I do not understand how the men survive inside.

Grenades, bombs, even fire. Because there are no men inside.

These tanks are known as ALVs, automated land vehicles.

And they're operated by computers.

Computadoras?

Increible. Well, how is it this man is involved with the Russians?

They kidnapped him about a year ago.

Yeah, I've got a great idea.

Why don't we just take her in? The four of us, together.

No, no.

Señor.

The camp is too well fortified.

There are only two places we can take air weapon for the rendezvous.

It'll be here or here.

Bueno, si me permiten. Si.

You'll be safe here. It is only a few miles from Santa Teresa.

I have enough soldiers well hidden there to make a real offensive.

If we eliminate the tanks.

We'll be there.

And now...

But crying out loud, if you get into any kind of trouble, will you get on the

horn and yell?

Señor Dominic, there will be no trouble.

La señorita Caitlin and I are destined to meet for dinner and mountain wine in

Santa Teresa.

Without flies?

I will explain everything over dinner. Yes?

Yes.

Gato, will you keep an eye on him for me?

Con mucho gusto, señor.

Gracias.

Goodbye. Gracias.

Enjoy dinner.

Adios.

I don't see any tanks.

I thought you said they kept them guarded inside the compound.

They always have, until now.

I hope your Mr. Keith knows where the hell they are.

My name is Hawk.

Consider the firm.

Yeah, well, I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but the firm has botched two

rescue attempts on me already.

If you don't have enough firepower to cover me, please just forget it. Colonel

Ross made a very nasty promise that he was going to execute me if I tried to

escape again.

Well, if you'll just shut up long enough and listen, we'll get out of here.

I need to know the location of those ALVs.

I don't know where they are.

Ross moved them out last night. He's planning some kind of...

combat test called Operation Blackstone. Blackstone? What's that supposed to

mean? I'm a scientist, not a soldier.

You have to leave or we'll be killed.

Yes, Huck.

Do as he says, Huck.

Hell, I will.

Amigo, I'm El Gato. I still have a few of those nine lives left.

Let me do what I have to do.

I cannot fly Airwolf.

My country, my people, they need you now more than they need me.

Go, amigo, go!

Just remember me on Christmas. Let's go!

Go, go, go! Both of you! Andale!

Welcome, Dios.

The legend dies.

A man has died.

I hope you're right about the legend.

But now I'm afraid we have a more pressing problem.

Our prisoner is gone.

Don't worry, Colonel Mayorga. I'll have him back by morning.

And I'll have the satisfaction of shooting him myself.

I'd say about eight miles.

Through this?

Where's our cover?

How the hell we get there on it with just us two, Fred?

This is insane.

That's why it just might work.

Oh, damn it.

The radio took a bullet. It's worthless.

I thought this whole area would be crawling with soldiers by now.

You think we lost them?

No te mueves.

Las manos para arriba.

Don't move. Put your hands up.

Quieto. She means it.

Tira las pistolas.

Drop your pistol.

What the hell's going on?

You're both Americans?

Yeah.

You want to call off your infantry out there? We'll discuss it.

My infantry?

Oh, of course.

This is Roth.

That gun's old. It doesn't work.

Irene, Lorena, Clemente... ...Riud, Xavier

and Solita.

She says they're pleased to meet you.

She's just learning English.

Captured by a bunch of deaf kids?

They're hearing impaired and they're young, but every one of them's got a lot

more courage than most adults have ever known.

Lady, who are you?

Jenny Burton.

And you?

Stringfellow Hawk.

This is Jason Keith.

What are you doing out here with these kids?

There's a war going on.

I'm their teacher.

We were out hiking.

Government troops destroyed our village.

We've been practicing survival skills and, uh, baseball.

Have you seen any tanks or heavy artillery?

Yes, we've seen tanks, three of them, armed with rockets and flamethrowers.

They came with the soldiers and, uh... Well, now there's nothing left to go

back to.

Did they see any of that?

I saw it all.

We're gone for now.

Hidden east.

Whatever you're here for, good luck. We're being high. Where do you think

you're going?

Santa Teresa. If the soldiers are going east, we can get through now. We'll be

safe there.

It's just one patrol.

What about the others?

My kids are good outdoorsmen, but they can't stay out here forever.

No.

They might just make it if they had an escort.

Are you serious?

We have a rendezvous to make.

Listen, I feel as sorry for this group as you do, but you have a job to do.

Look, we didn't ask for any help. We'll be fine. Just fine.

There's a pass about a mile from here.

Make real good cover.

String. String, come in, String.

String, come in, please.

Ah, nuts.

I don't like it.

He should have checked in by now.

Well, I'd be a lot more worried about him if he wasn't with Gustavo.

Yeah.

Hey, uh...

The way he smiled at you, I bet that cat would go through fire just to collect

that dinner.

It was just being polite, Dom.

Polite.

You kind of like him, don't you?

It's not every day you meet a legend.

Yeah.

You know, there could be a lot of reasons why they haven't checked in.

Yeah, and every one that I've thought of, I don't like.

Maybe we should go look for him No, we'll sweat it out

But if they're not here in exactly four hours in one minute, I'm

gonna make sure that all hell breaks loose I'll be right beside you

Look, over here.

These kids are something else.

They just ran a whole two miles, not one of them stopped.

They'd run all day if I'd let them.

Why don't you?

What would that offend your sensibilities?

You know, you're really pushing your luck.

Listen, Hawk, this may not sound very nice to you, but if these kids were to

die today, they could all be replaced tomorrow.

I have abilities that cannot be replaced, abilities that the free world

may depend upon in the near future. I didn't ask for these talents, but I have

them, and I've got to live up to my responsibility.

Keith, sit down and shut up.

And do it somewhere away from me.

You see them?

No. That doesn't mean they're not there.

They could be spotting us from any place.

He seems like a very frightened man.

People say awful things when they're frightened.

Why make excuses for him?

I've hurt people without trying.

I find that kind of hard to believe.

Where did you get all these kids?

Well, Salida was the first.

Found her hiding in the streets of Granada.

Parents were very wealthy, big house, servants of works.

But they supported the Freedom Front. They were executed.

At lock, it's all she's got left.

I wanted to get her as far away from the city and those memories as I could, so

we came up here to the mountains.

People heard about me.

The others just sort of appeared one by one.

Must take an awful lot of patience.

Not only because they're kids.

The other's just a language barrier, which you are about to break.

Go ahead, try it.

Now you can tell them yourself.

Yeah, but what did I say?

Let's go.

Follow me.

How come Central America?

All my life I wanted to be useful.

Tried a lot of different things, but I was never really successful until now.

I think he's saying it's time for us to go.

Get him under cover!

You could have gotten us all killed. Don't you understand?

It wasn't a game.

His brother was killed last month by one of those. He was only 15.

He wants his own gun. He wants to fight them with you.

We don't have time for this.

I do.

Tell me how to say this to him.

He can read lips and hear some, Hawk. He'll understand.

It takes a great deal of courage to die.

Your brother...

Had that courage. I believe you do, too.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to live.

That spotted plane is gonna turn around any second!

Let me go. What are you doing?

Bushmaster.

Very deadly snake.

The kid led me right into it. He could have gotten me killed.

Ruff was just trying to warn you.

He probably noticed it before we passed by.

I don't think he spotted us, but keep the jamming system on just to be sure.

Right.

Two hours to go.

Just two hours to go.

Why hasn't he checked in yet?

If you ask me that one more time, you're going to make us both crazy.

I'm sorry.

I know you're as worried about him as I am. I'm sorry.

It's not the waiting that bothers me. It's the wondering. It's not knowing.

Did they get in the camp? Did they get out okay where they are now?

All that stuff about the flies and the wine.

Mosca's in el vino.

You really don't know what that means, huh?

No. Do you?

Oh, sure.

Dom!

Well, you see, down here they got an expression that means bad luck in love.

Mosca's in el vino.

flies in the wine.

He sees you, no more bad luck.

He thinks you're beautiful.

Dom, I've got something on the ground radar.

They're headed toward a south-southwest about a thousand yards.

How many?

Two.

Two?

There should be three.

One of them didn't make it.

I better go down and meet him.

Don, wait a second. There's three. There are three.

No, there's more than three. It looks like a patrol headed straight for us.

Distance?

950 yards.

What's the bottom line?

200 yards.

What is it?

It's just a feeling like I used to get.

That something's there watching you.

You can't see them.

They're just waiting.

Keep those kids together.

Shouldn't we be at that village already?

I can't shoot.

I will.

The feeling was pretty right on.

Why has it not gone away?

You know, any patrol around might have heard that shot.

Ay, ayude.

Dios mio.

Dios mio.

That's it, Ben.

Let's get this baby out of here.

Patrol raided her village, her farm.

She said she'd be damned if she didn't get her cow. We've got to keep moving

for Santa Teresa. We're going to eat freedom for Christmas. We're going to

have to fight one way or the other.

El Gato.

You've heard of him?

No.

He... He gives these people hope year after year. Maybe one Christmas.

He's dead, you know.

Keith was being held by the government.

He died helping me get him out.

I try so hard to focus on the positive.

So much death.

I never thought I could kill anyone.

You just did what you had to do.

I have this dream of building a real school for the hearing-impaired kids,

where they can learn and grow and develop all their talents.

I've always taught them life is sacred. What can I teach them now?

Maybe that it's not perfect.

They'll probably understand it better than you do.

You're set.

Move them out.

One hell of a day, Colonel.

Nelgunno dead.

Our final testing will wipe out his little army and the Americans.

Moscow should be very pleased with both of us.

This is Sister Agnes Marie.

I know her. They heard about our village being destroyed.

Ask her if she's seen any government troops.

No. She says no.

I knew we'd be safe here.

I told them about El Gato.

I think we better go now.

I still got that same feeling.

We haven't seen a patrol since earlier this morning.

Well, maybe we lost them.

Maybe they don't give a hang about Santa Teresa.

Maybe we just walked into a big trap.

What's

this?

Some kind of pre-Columbian relic. The villagers say it was a mine outpost at

one time.

Outpost, huh?

Senor.

El Gato.

You saw him die.

Yes.

He saved my life and this man

here.

Keith, you said that Ross was going to test the ALVs, call it Operation

Blackstone? That's right.

Gustavo said he had some troops at Santa Teresa.

Maybe they got in trouble and had to go there.

We're on our way.

How many men do you have?

25 men, 6 women.

We're going to need your help.

SACRAMENTO CHIEF!

Full combat mode. I'm giving you all she's got.

Will I ever see you again, Hawk?

Well, you've got a standing invitation any time you want to visit me up the

lake.

Take me up on it.

I mean it.

You know, I've got a feeling that you're gonna be building that school pretty

soon.

You might think about this village.

Santa Teresa might just be the perfect place.

When everything gets repaired.

It really is a pretty little village, and all I have to do to teach history is

take the kids for a walk.

A string fellow, Hark, who could ever forget a name like that?

I miss you, Hark.

I miss you.

Now there's a sight for sore eyes.

No.