BOAT -- NIGHT
The two escapees paddle, trying to get across the bay.
EXT. HELICOPTER -- NIGHT
The search light WHITES OUT THE SCREEN
EXT. BOAT -- NIGHT
The two escapees continue paddling. THEYVE BEEN CAUGHT.
HELICOPTER PILOT
You have 10 seconds. Turn around. Start back to the island.
INT. HELICOPTER -- NIGHT
The pilot targets the boat on a computer screen in front of him.
EXT. BOAT -- NIGHT
Two s
pilot by the
silent stars. Like me, alone among
many. But most of all for us, the
crew of the brigantine Albatross, he
was always and would forever be...
our Skipper.
A SHIPS BELL turns him around. Ding ding. Ding ding. A
beautiful three masted schooner steady on the water slips
into port. A picture out of another time, another place.
It takes him away...
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. FOREST - WATER TOWER -
pilots are looking in
their direction. With practiced skill, MATT reaches down for something
in his tiny cockpit ... HE STANDS UP, wedging the control column between
his knees and turns back towards JACKS Camel ... a BASEBALL IN HIS
HAND!! With equal proficiency, JACK jams his control column between his
knees and stands, brandishing a BASEBALL BAT! Both pranksters have to
fight against the fierce
LITTLE SWEETHEART
Oyster Blues plays. Serene view of short pilings in the
water along Bob Sikes Channel, St. George Island.
NELSON ENTERTAINMENT presents
An ANTHONY SIMMONS Film
Flocks of sea birds are flying over the shore.
JOHN HURT
KAREN YOUNG
A bucket of seawater is being hoisted from a docked boat.
Thelma walks by, underneath the hoist. As she walks by she
watches it being dumped into a b
pilot error," hmm?
HAYES
Im really not prepared for any kind
of in-depth review of --
DEHAVEN
Id like to think our next Secretary
of the Navy would be prepared for
anything, Mr. Hayes.
A humorless smile. Shes roasting his nuts over an open
fire, and everyone knows it.
HAYES
The commission concluded that the
aviator in question failed to
execute a proper approach to the
carrier.
DEHAVEN
That aside