Final Approach

It Sure Looks Beautiful.

God. Sometimes I Wish I Could Stay Up Here.

System Status Check.

Everything's Looking Good.

Ready To Take Her Down.

Roger.

Flight Plan Calls For A Turn To Heading 1-2-0.

Please Don't Make Me Puke My Guts Out.

I'll Do My Best.

Turning To 1-2-0.

Grey Eagle, This Is Blackstar 2.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Eagle.

Go Ahead.

Grey Eagle, I'm Requesting Clearance To Beale.

Roger, Blackstar.

We Have Radar Contact On You.

You're Cleared As Filed To Beale, Direct Las Vegas.

Jet 110 To Clovis, Direct.

Descend And Maintain Flight Level 5-2-0.

What The Hell You Doing Back There?

Jesus Christ,

Everything's Full Of Static Electricity.

That's Strange.

I've Got Static, But Not More Than Usual.

You Got A Problem?

No. I Just Look Like A Troll Doll.

Uh-Huh.

Approaching Start Point.

What's Our T-O-T?

Time Over Target Is, Uh, 0-700.

O.K. Going Down.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Eagle.

We Show You Descending Through 4-8-0.

Do You Concur?

O.K., Tommy, Here We Go. Mission Checklist.

Efis And Pilot's Aide Emergency Battery?

Efis And Backup Power On.

Static Interference Computers?

Static Interference Computers Armed.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Eagle.

We Show You Descending Through 3-9-0.

You Have Traffic 8:00,

12 Miles Northeast Bound At 3-7-0. Do You Read?

Tommy?

I See Him. We've Got Plenty Of Room.

Radar Deflection Shield Switch

In Unguarded Position.

Roger. Radar Shield Switch

In Unguarded Position.

Present Altitude 3-2-0...

3-1-0...

2-9-0...

They're Going To Have A Shit Fit Any Minute.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Eagle.

We Show You Going Through 2-5-0.

Do You Read?

Terrain Following Radar Switch On.

TFR On.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Eagle On Guard.

Ident If You Read.

Cloaking Switch In Unguarded Position.

Roger. Cloaking Switch In Unguarded Position.

Arm All Systems.

Roger. All Systems Armed.

Grey Eagle, This Is Denver Center On Guard.

Roger, Denver Center.

We've Lost Blackstar 2. Do You Have Them?

Uh...Denver Center,

We Seem To Have, Uh... Lost Radar Contact

With Blackstar Also.

Poof. And They Were Never Heard From Again.

Tommy, Turn Off Grey Eagle

And Go Secure On Channel 3.

Turning Off Grey Eagle.

Blackstar 2, This Is Grey Ea--

You're Scrambled On Channel 3.

Black Magic To Operation Overcoat.

Commencing Scrambled Transmission.

Overcoat To Black Magic. We Read You.

Standing By For Flight Status.

Stealth System Control Checklist.

Roger.

Stealth System

Control Checklist Complete.

Tommy, The Hud's Gone.

Black Magic To Overcoat.

Stealth Mission Commenced At 1-2,000.

Roger. Going To Hud Failure Checklist Matrix.

Confirm That Your Hud Switch

Is In The On Position.

Roger. It's In On Position.

Still Don't Have It.

Roger. Recycling Hud Switch.

Still Nothing.

Black Magic To Overcoat.

Mission Time 0-7-0-8.

How Do We Look?

We Hear You, But We Definitely Don't See You.

Roger, Overcoat. Tommy, How We Coming?

I'm Still Trying. Hang On.

Hello. Hud's Back.

Roger.

Stealth System Nominal.

Black Magic, Good News--

Based On Grey Eagle And Denver Center,

You're Completely Off The Scope As Advertised.

Looks Like We've Suckered Our Own Darn Air Force.

Roger, Overcoat.

Hey, You Back There...

Hold On.

It Works. The Son Of A Bitch Really Works.

Black Magic, Give Us A Systems Status Check.

Roger. Tommy?

Everything's Green.

Overcoat, Everything's Green,

Except Thompson's Got Static Cling In His Underwear.

Do You Mind Not Discussing

My Lingerie Over The Air?

Roger, Black Magic.

You Have A Low-Pressure Front Building At Your 11:00.

You May Be Experiencing

Some Pre-Lightning Static Activity.

I Don't See Anything.

Looks Like, Uh... 12 Miles Visibility,

And The Clouds We've Got

Don't Look Like The Kind Lightning Leaps Out Of.

Holy Shit!

Whoa, Nellie.

Tommy, You Want To Give Me A Status Check?

So Much For Your Lightning Theory, Einstein.

Any Damage?

Everything Looks O.K.,

But That Doesn't Mean It Works.

Overcoat, I Think We've Been Hit By Lightning.

We're Pretty Sure. Running A Systems Check.

Black Magic, There's A Line Fail

In Your Telemetric Flight Transponder.

We're Switching You To Auxiliary.

Roger, Overcoat.

Black Magic, Do You Read?

Roger, Overcoat.

Black Magic, This Is Operation Overcoat.

We Have A Line Fail In Your Transponder.

Do You Read?

Going To Number 2 Radio. Great.

Try It Again.

Overcoat, This Is Black Magic.

Do You Read?

I Show Three System Failures

And A Fuel Line Leak In Number 2.

Running A Diagnostic.

We've Got A Fire In Number 2.

Tommy?

Fire Extinguisher Bottle

To Number 2 Engine.

Fire Handle Pull.

Starting To Lose Thrust In Number 2.

It's Going Through 80%.

Looks Like Possible Computer Damage.

Tommy, I'm Dumping Aft Fuel.

Roger On Aft Fuel.

There's Still A Fire Warning On Number 2.

Ahh...Shit.

Grey Eagle, This Is Blackstar 2.

We Have An Engine Fire.

Running An Engine Fire Checklist.

Grey Eagle, This Is Blackstar 2.

We Obviously Have A Major Malfunction Here.

Dump Complete.

Tommy, I'm Going To Try And Get Us Down

On One Of These Flats. Lowering Gear.

We've Got An Eject Message.

Roger.

I'm Going To Engine Checkdown.

Can You Move The Throttle?

Roger.

Grey Eagle, This Is Blackstar 2.

Do You Read?

Auto Eject System Active.

Auto Eject--

We're Getting Spit Out

Unless You Can Land.

I See A Clearing.

I Can Get Us Down. I Can Get Us Down.

Reducing Thrust.

Shit! We're Too Low.

Pulling Up Gear. Pulling Up Gear!

Oh, My God.

System Abort...

System Abort...

System Abort...

System Abort...

System Abort...

Colonel Halsey?

Colonel Halsey,

Dr. Gottlieb Will See You Now.

Is She Talking To Me?

She's Got To Be Talking To Me.

There's Nobody Else In Here.

Mm-Hmm.