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I love you, Tess.

What's over is over.

They got us. Hang on.

With what she's got on us, they could hang us all with the same rope. Do

whatever is necessary to silence her. This lady's life is in great danger.

Let me have a light, man.

Jim!

You mean to tell me you saw nothing?

Yes, sir.

I mean, no, sir. I mean, one minute she was there and then she wasn't. Yeah, she

just disappeared.

You were responsible for her.

You were responsible.

Yes, sir.

I have no tolerance for fools.

Thank you.

Hello, String.

Hawk, wait a minute. Wait. Hold it. Would you have come if I told you who

you were going to pick up?

Will someone tell me what's going on here? Who is this lady, anyway?

Six years ago, I...

I knew her as Tess Rogers.

It's Mrs. Dixon now.

Mrs. Dixon?

Mrs. Cullen Dixon?

Who told you about us?

No. I did some flying for your husband one time. I still haven't been paid.

Let me ask you something.

What is one of the richest men in America doing, letting his wife

gallivant around here to meet country's number one spy?

Perhaps you should ask the spy.

This is classified top secret. Even I don't have all the details.

Michael, quit tap dancing.

Dom and I are going to sit this one out.

Okay. Okay.

A high-level Washington investigative committee has been formed to hear

testimony from Mrs. Dixon.

She's agreed to appear at a hearing late this evening.

In exchange for what?

I'm afraid that's privileged information.

Hawk, they've put a lid on this one. Not even the president is talking to me.

So what can you tell us?

Only that the mission calls for you to transport Mrs. Dixon to the hearing by

way of a computerized flight plan that'll deliver you to a classified

location which will be transmitted in code to Airwolf's onboard flight data

system. That's all I... Hold it, hold it. Hold it right there.

Are you saying there will be flying automatic pilot under firm's control?

No way. I don't like it, String.

We get in trouble, we'll be hanging out there in our shorts.

Who's to say it isn't some scheme cooked up by the firm to regain control of

Airwolf?

Me.

All you've got is my word.

And the fact that I do know that this lady's life is in great danger, Hawk.

Close your request.

Thank you.

All systems green.

Turbo's on a line, String.

She can destroy years of work and planning.

She may have already done so.

I have been assured she hasn't revealed any of our identities yet. You don't

know that.

I know she's running scared.

And I know she doesn't know who to trust.

If she's allowed to testify before the committee, none of us will ever see the

outside of a prison again.

With what she's got on us, they could hang us all with the same rope.

Well, gentlemen, you all know me.

As an ingenuous man, so I'll be perfectly candid, what I am here is a

man caught in the middle.

God knows how crazy I am about her.

I've seen the way you all looked at her, the way every man looks at her.

You all wanted her.

But not in the way you wanted her.

You wanted her the way you want everything.

You had to possess it.

There's a lot more at stake here than one more of your possessions.

My ambitions have served me well, Mr. Case.

To be sure.

You take pride not being hypocritical, Barclay, so don't be sanctimonious.

You want to talk about greed?

Let's be truthful and admit that that's why we're all here.

This conversation has become convoluted to the main issue. We should be talking

about our survival.

Gentlemen, to be honest, I'd do anything, anything to have her back

again.

But I am sane enough to realize that she can do us all irreparable harm.

As much as I despise it, I see no other recourse but to stop her.

What I'm hearing here is a commitment to do whatever is necessary to silence her.

Is that what you're saying?

Yes, I'm saying do what's necessary.

Whatever's necessary.

Put these on.

No, you told me.

We're not used to being told.

Just the opposite.

Look, put them on. We've got to have clear communication here, please.

There now.

Isn't that better?

we talk about?

How about what our position is and where we're going?

Well, we just cut inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and according to the azimuth

and range resolution, we should be crossing Baja and entering Southern

California in about five minutes.

And I'll say it again, String, I don't like this. I just don't like it one bit.

Well, maybe you ought to call up Michael and tell him again.

I would if I thought it'd do any good.

Uh-oh, we got company.

Two HX-10 gunships on a closing course.

Time to intercept.

Two minutes, 20 seconds.

All right.

Either they're mighty serious or they're a flying advertisement from Missiles R

Us.

Uh-huh. They're serious, and they're sending us a sample. Air Express.

Give me a copperhead.

By the numbers.

Evade. Evading.

That a boy string.

You

know,

this cloak and dagger stuff has gone far enough.

Dom and my butts are on the line out there.

Yeah, lady.

And I kind of hate to lose mine on account that we were up here flying

blind. I want to know what's going on, and I want to know now.

I guess I owe you both that much.

You owe me a hell of a lot more than that.

This will do for a start.

I'm sure they were after me.

Looks like they want you pretty bad.

Why?

I... I can name names.

Because I... I know about a conspiracy to assassinate key international

heads of state.

Including some of the highest ranking officials in Washington.

A hit squad?

You seem kind of surprised, Michael.

I'm stunned, particularly by the fact that they knew where to try to make a

hit on Airwolf.

Well, we've been flying into your computerized machine guidance system.

If this is supposed to be such a top-secret caper, Michael, why don't you

go talk to some of your people in the firm?

That is precisely what I'm going to do.

Yeah, well, meanwhile, we'll be flying in our own fight van. You call us when

you find this leak.

Talk to you later.

All our radio communications are being scrambled.

And GCS is also encoding all command signals to Airwell's flight director via

satellite transmissions.

Then we'll start with our ground control station and talk to the flight

controller.

Call security and have them meet me there. And then pull all the personnel

files on the GCS section.

You may have underestimated the capabilities of this machine they call

Airwolf. From the after-action report, I'd say you overestimated yours,

Barclay.

Pull.

At this very moment, her position is being transmitted to a second fighter

group.

Do you have any ambivalence connected with this, Barclay?

I have no illusions about my part in this.

I'm fully aware of my involvement.

Your integrity will probably kill you someday.

Someday.

Devils!

Tess.

How do you feel about her?

I wish there were some other way.

Yes, I'm sure.

I understand you two were quite friendly.

We talked.

I was one of the few allowed that privilege.

That's my mistake.

There was never anything but talk between us.

There was nothing more than talk between her and the Arab.

He's responsible for what's happened right now.

And I hold you responsible for introducing him to Barclay.

You got this whole thing twisted around.

Have I? It was you who drove them together.

It was him who tore us apart, Case?

You'll excuse me.

I got to see about picking up some pieces.

Bob!

I never saw you miss before, sir.

Hey, you're not headed where I think you are, are you?

Can you think of a better place?

What about her?

I mean, taking her in where the lady sleeps?

I just have to blindfold her going in and coming out.

What are you talking about?

About a nice safe place for us to sit down.

Only get a few things ironed out.

No.

No. No way.

Listen, I'm very sorry, but right now I don't think you have any other choice.

I should have known.

I should have known something like this was going to happen. I knew it.

I can't trust anybody.

I want out of this thing. Set this thing down now. I want out of here. Not going

to be afraid of? Right, like those planes.

What?

Those planes, those damn planes.

You think we had something to do with them? How do I know?

How do I know this whole thing isn't just a setup? How do I know?

You've got to be kidding, lady.

Look, how do I know it's not a setup to get me to talk before I can testify?

Look, you said yourself there might be a traitor inside the firm. Well, how do I

know it isn't you?

We just dusted two planes.

All we wanted from you was information. We just hold a gun to your head.

Hawk, this is ground control. Come in.

Hawk, this is Michael. Come in.

Go ahead, Michael.

We have sufficient evidence to believe we have our man in custody.

Why is it, then, Michael, that I hear such reservations in your voice?

Well, you know me, Hawk, the eternal spy. I never believe anything until I

see it in black and white.

Yeah, but you're asking us to.

Hawk, I just got off the phone with the White House.

This thing has much bigger implications than I thought. You're just gonna have

to trust me on this one.

We'll try it one more time.

Tom, put us back on remove.

Well, if you can't get us to the rendezvous point, we'll just do it on

our own.

Fair enough.

Okay, Michael.

She's all yours.

You're making a big mistake.

Look at the facts.

You were the flight control officer on duty.

You're having financial difficulties.

I've got two ex-wives.

You show me a guy with two ex-wives who's not having financial difficulties.

So how does $50,000 suddenly show up in your personal checking account two days

after you were given this assignment?

I told you, I don't know anything about that money. Now, this whole thing is a

setup.

No one else inside the firm had access to the fly plant, including Archangel.

But it was transmitted directly to GCS from the committee headquarters on a two

-way data link system with only a 15-second lead time. Now you tell me how

I could have relayed that information out of here, huh?

I have to admit, we'll need more time to corroborate.

Still got flight control.

How's the lady doing?

Under the circumstances, String.

She's okay.

Keep your eye on her, okay?

Check.

Really scared, aren't you?

How come, Colin Dixon?

You know me, String.

I was raised on Hollywood movies.

Hollywood yearnings.

I wanted to be Grace Kelly.

But instead of ending up a princess, I ended up a prisoner.

The dream became a nightmare.

Bearing 3-4-0, two F-16 fighters closing at Mach 1.7.

Take it off the autodrome.

Combat mode.

Negative function on the automatic pilot disengage.

The ground control must be overriding.

We've been hit.

They nearly stuck a rocket up our tailpipe.

Regards, ADF pod.

They won't deploy.

Dom,

I can't hold her. She's losing altitude fast.

Airwolf to ground control.

Mayday. Mayday. We're going down.

Mayday. There's nothing here, Dom. I can't even muscle it. It'll tear her

apart.

Mayday. Mayday.

Control, civil right.

Missiles, Dom. Give me all you got.

Red flight leader, this is ground control. We're still picking up a homing

signal from the aircraft. Can you confirm the kill?

Roger. There's a hole in the ground deep enough. It should be pumping oil.

Hold it. I'm getting it.

Incoming!

Tell me you just lost two jet fighters.

I suggest, Mr. Case, you think of activating your ground forces.

Nice shooting string.

That's one hell of a way to spend $50,000.

You can double that. Those two stingers you used on those jets.

Not to mention the fact of firing off half of our armament just to make a

great big smoking hole in the ground.

But I gotta admit, it was pretty slick. Pretty slick.

Well, thank you.

So how we doing here?

Well, most of the electrical's fried, which means the radio's out, of course.

And, uh, this engine has a cracked turbo section. I can probably jury-rig the

wiring to get us back up into the air.

But she'll be limping.

I was already on my second Hail Mary, so I know she was about ready to give up

the ghost.

Hey, uh, if I'm out of line, tell me, will you?

But, uh, what the hell is it between you two?

We were in love.

At least I was.

She was pregnant with my baby.

I guess we were just too young.

I'd like to freshen up a little.

Look... I'm sorry.

For what?

For doubting you.

For thinking you could ever be like them.

I know you're not.

You know, it just may be that you do not realize what the stakes are here,

Bartley. We're running out of time, man.

Perhaps Mr. Case isn't capable of carrying out his role.

The only thing I fail to do is to anticipate the abilities of the crew and

the capabilities of Airwolf.

You have another plan.

Now that Airwolf has disabled them down, it's most vulnerable to a ground attack.

And if this one fails, also?

I have a backup plan.

Which is?

An insurance policy against failure.

Code name, Blue Star.

Blue Star.

Blue Star.

Isn't that lovely?

It's appropriate.

Well, I trust this falls short of us all committing suicide, Mr. Case.

I'll see to Blue Star personally.

Now we bypass the capacitor and the circuit breaker, and now we go red wire

to red wire.

That's going to work.

Like putting a penny in a fuse box, baby.

We'll find out.

God, I need some help. On my way, buddy.

but Ash is heading for the main road.

up and spit him out, Dom.

Well, looks like this is my lucky day.

What the hell do they want? They're after me.

Hang on.

the hell didn't you tell me about this?

Do you know why?

That was a long time ago.

What's over is over.

Is it, Hawk?

Is it?

Uh, listen, I'll stand by on radio, huh?

You never have forgiven me, have you?

I loved you, Jess.

I really wanted our baby.

I know you did.

But we were so young.

I wanted so much.

It isn't Cullen's baby.

I told you.

He made a prisoner of me.

He isn't happy unless he can encompass everything and everybody around him.

You've never been stupid enough to let anybody do that to you.

Well, I was stupid enough to have an affair.

Maybe you're just looking for a way out.

Maybe.

He was a... a visiting

dignitary from an Arab state.

He was a prince.

Kind of like your fairy tale.

But it only lasted long enough for him to tell me that East and West could

never really meet.

But I know one thing.

I want this baby more than I've ever wanted anything in my whole life.

And this might be my only chance.

What do you mean?

Because I chose to... to terminate our baby.

The doctors told me that I might never be able to have another one.

Roger that. Just get her to the meeting before anything else goes wrong. We'll

meet you there. Angel One out.

Well, Barclay, this has been very interesting, but you do realize, of

course, if your plan fails, the next meeting we'll be holding will be in

hell. I assure you, Cullen, it will not fail.

So, um, after their hit squad knocks off these heads of state, then what?

The leadership vacuum will spawn a monetary crisis, after which they plan

to step in and take control of the International Banking Committee.

That'll give them regulatory power over world currency.

Exactly.

The committee's waiting.

I trust you're ready to testify, Mrs. Dixon.

You're damn right she's ready.

Easy, easy, boys, easy.

Easy, easy.

There's your traitor.

What?

Will you please take the witness stand, Mrs. Dixon?

Raise your right hand.

Now.

Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the

truth? So help you God.

Mrs. Dixon?

Mrs. Dixon?

Yes, I do.

How did you know?

Tom uncovered this listening device.

It was tuned into the same one your girl wore.

You know, I picked it up on radar.

That's how they were able to track us.

So Vivian planted it in the clothes she gave to Mrs. Dixon.

What about your girl?

You ever find out why she turned over?

Yeah.

Something new.

Money.

That and an excuse about her disenchantment with the way the firm's

been handling world affairs.

How'd your lady do?

She's still at it.

She'll probably be testifying until morning. What about her husband, Cullen

Dixon? The Mexican federales took his yacht down for us.

They've got everybody in custody.

Well...

Guess I owe you both on this one.

Yeah, you do.

You take care of Tesla. We'll be even.

I will.

Yeah, you better.

Because she promised to name the baby Stringfellow if it's a boy.

Or Dominique if it's a girl.

Poor kid will never have a chance.

Looks like I'm driving.

Oh, allow me.