Taken

My mother always talked to me

a lot about the sky.

She liked to watch the clouds in the day

and the stars at night... especially the stars.

We would play a game sometimes.

a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?"

We would imagine darkness or a blinding light

or something else that we didn't know how to name.

But. of course. that was just a game.

There's nothing beyond the sky.

The sky just is. and it goes on and on.

and we play all of our games beneath it.

Comin'in. twelve o'clock high!

Tail gunner. get the bogey!

Gunners...

give'em short bursts when they're in range.

Do not waste ammunition.

Watch out!

Bandit, twelve o'clock.

Watch out, they'll come back around.

There's one! There's one!

- That was too close! - Roger that!

Nine o'clock!

He's comin' around. I'm on him!

Come on. you lousy Kraut! Come to papa! Yeah!

Whoo! I got him!

Nine o'clock. keep your eyes open!

There's another one!

Whoo-hoo!

Captain!

What do you got, Toland?

Lights...blue ones.

- We see them. too! - Holy Mary!

- What the hell are they? - Let's get a look at these.

- Are they Germans? - They're too bright. I can't see!

Three bogeys. moving fast!

Everybody keep calm. We're gonna take care of this.

- Bandit. twelve o'clock! - F-1s coming down on our left.

Head right. full throttle!

- I'm hit! - Oh, Christ! Russ!

- We're losing altitude! - We're losing engines!

Co-pilot. take the plane!

- Co-pilot, take the plane! - Yes, sir!

Captain Keys is on fire!

Cover his tail!

You hang on. Russ! We're gettin' out of here!

- We lost an engine! - Shut it down!

They're comin' back!

Christ. all around us! Keys is going down!

She's breakin' up!

We're goin' down! Get a parachute!

We gotta get out of here!

Let's go. guys!

We've gotta bail out now!

Captain, we've got to bail out!

I don't want to die!

Trust me, Johnson...we won't die.

ALLlE: Russell Keys came home from the war

Iike a lot of other soldiers.

He was tired of fighting.

and he was very glad to be coming home.

There were things that had happened to him.

and he knew that he was not the same person

he had been when he left.

He had changed.

and he wondered about all the things here at home

that might have changed. too. while he'd been away.

But sometimes when you go somewhere far away

and then come back.

the part that bothers you most

is not the things that have changed.

but the way that other things have stayed the same.

Iike you hadn't been anywhere or done anything at all.

Hello, Mum.

The kids would still play ball on the vacant lot

where he and his friends had played every summer.

The high-school band would still play every Friday night

in the park downtown.

and old Mrs Parker would still be waiting.

as the kids came home from school.

to yell at them if they stepped on her flowers.

All of that might still be the same.

but he was different.

and so nothing would really be the same at all.

- I know you will. - Miss?

Who do I talk to about getting one of those G.I. Ioans?

I remember the day I proposed to your mother.

I was nervous as hell.

I can't picture anything making you nervous.

I had to walk around the block five times,

and then I walked halfway home after that

before I finally managed to get my nerve up.

Of course, I hadn't had the life experience that you've had.

- Dad. - Hmm?

My car looked real nice.

Well, we hid her from a couple of scrap drives.

Kind of unpatriotic, I guess,

but we did our bit in other ways.

Was it very terrible?

Nah, it wasn't so bad.

What do you got. Toland?

Lights! Blue ones!

What the hell are they?!

Captain. we've got to bail out!

I don't want to die!

Trust me. Johnson...we won't die.

ALLlE: They say some men

carry their war with them for the rest of their lives.

and some men put it behind them like an old pair of shoes.

And then. I guess. there are others who go on fighting.

even if they have no idea who their fight is with

or why it's so important not to give up.

Some people will tell you the war was won

by superior manpower.

Some people say that it was strategy

or a just cause

or the fact that we're so damn tough.

None of that is true.

What won the war was secrets...

knowing theirs and keeping ours.

Gentlemen, meet the Enola Gay.

When the Enola Gay dropped her payload on Hiroshima,

only 107 men in the entire country

knew what that specific payload was.

The B-29 had been redesigned to carry its load,

and a new crew, selected to carry an atomic bomb, was onboard.

They were carrying out a mission so secret

that even they didn't know what it was.

The secret was kept until the ultimate moment.

As a result, the war was won.

As members of the lntelligence Corps,

it will be your job to keep secrets.

Here at the 509th Bomb Group,

that responsibility is made all the more awesome

by the fact that we are the only base authorized

to store atomic weapons.

At any given moment,

your ability to keep your mouth shut

and, if necessary, to lie through your teeth

may very well determine the course of history.

Group, ten-hut!

We had 18 more sightings today.

Dancing lights, mostly.

The bulk of them over the Pacific Northwest

and three, I think, over the Great Lakes.

Something Russian?

I heard something on the radio.

People were saying that they're from another planet.

We used to hear that a lot at Los Alamos.

We never knew if it was something of ours

or something the Germans had going.

That's right, Owen, I forgot. You were at Los Alamos.

We got a new mare in at the stables.

I thought you might like to join me for a ride.

- I'd like that very much. - Fine.

Will you be joining us?

No. She doesn't ride.

Her constitution...

it's a little too delicate.

He's a bit of a bully, your father.

It's not personal. He just-he's like that.

Captain, are you gonna ride or stand around yappin'?

If he doesn't let you ride,

how does he feel about you going to the movies?

Man named Kenneth Arnold-

private pilot out of Boise flying over the Cascades-

says he saw nine saucer-shaped disks in the sky.

This is all over the Seattle papers.

Wire services picked it up, and they're running with it.

"And they're running with it, sir. "

You don't want to forget about the "sir."

Some officers around here

that can really get their shorts in a bunch over that, Howard.

Just something to keep in mind.

What do you make of all this?

Russians.

Some sort of reconnaissance coming over the Bering Strait.

It has to be.

You don't think we're being invaded by Martians, then?

No...sir.

I don't.

I did. I thought it was swell.

Hey there, soldier.

You looking for some fun?

Not now, Sue. I'm on duty.

You look ready for action,

but you don't look like you're on duty.

I'm meeting the colonel to go over something.

Sure you are.

Call you later?

I won't be there.

Welcome back to KGFL studios

in Roswell. New Mexico.

It's a breezy July 2. 1947.

and here is Dinah Washington with Stairway To The Stars.

# Let's build a stairway to the stars #

# And climb that stairway to the stars #

# With love beside us #

# To fill the night with song #

...second season as manager...