" Hey, how are you doing?" " Hell if I know." "Man, a lot better than yesterday." "Morning, Captain." "Crank it under." "Look out!" " Where are you going, Toomey?" " You going to wash me out?" " You really want to fly airplanes?" " More than anything, sir." "OK, I'll give you another chance." "You've the makings of a good pilot." "You're just afraid to stall the airplane." "In order to land an airplane, you've got to make it stop flying, don't you?" "Stall it." "Most of us do that six inches off the ground, not 10 feet." "I know." " Get in the back." " What for, sir?" "Take us around and do three stall landings in the wind." " I can't." " I say you can." " You're almost there." " You really think I can?" "I know you can." "Point is, you've got to know you can." " What do you say?" " I'll try, sir." "Just so we show it to everybody, I'm gonna keep my hands outside." "I'm not gonna touch the controls." "I'm gonna be your first passenger." "All right, let's set." "Contact." "OK, it's all yours." " Who is that with Edgar?" " The kid who keeps landing too high." "He's afraid of the ground." "I couldn't help him." "Gave him to Anscombe." "Get it level." "Get it level...!" "Toomey, watch the shed." "Move left." "Get it over." "Move left!" " I can't!" " Watch the shed, Toomey!" "Toomey, I got it!" "Let go of the stick!" " Let go of the stick!" " Air speed!" " Jimmy, watch the road." " I keep forgetting to fix this chinstrap." "It's stretched out of shape and my ears keep freezing." "I'm going to punch a new hole in it." "I keep forgetting." "What would you do without somebody to take care of you?" " What are you doing?" " You don't want to go deaf, do you?" "Angel, that's the wrong tool." "I hit a bump, your hand slips, the chinstrap goes, we have to buy a new cap." "Where's that in the budget?" "There's a leather puncher at the shop in Boise." "I keep forgetting to use it." "Keep forgetting to use it." " How ya doing, pal?" "You awake yet?" " Getting there." "Tillie, I am tired of waiting." "You're making us late!" "He's speaking to you, young lady." "You're gonna go through this with your chin held high." "You're gonna come out the other side and you're gonna be fine." "Do you hear me?" "I expect only the best from you." "Tillie, I am waiting!" "Just a minute." "Come in." " Have a good trip, Tillie." " I'll try." "Ain't you gonna say anything?" "So long, Tillie." "I am doing this because I care for you and your future." " Hard as that may be for you to believe." " It's very hard, Father." "Hopefully your aunt will know how to raise you." "I confess I don't." "I'm not a mother." "I did the best I could under the circumstances." "Under the circumstances, so did I." "Hopefully you will return with a new attitude and a new sense of responsibility." "I sincerely hope so." " A nine?" " Yeah." "Pull it over." "Don't want to carry it." " Starboard weight is going around here." " All right." "Thanks, Jimmy." " See you in Boise." " See you in Boise." "Take care." "Meet me tonight, around seven." " Tony?" " Yeah?" " Come over for a second." " Should I bring my kit?" "Yeah, do bring your kit." " What's that?" " Lunch." "I was making one for Jimmy." "I thought I'd make one for you too." " Are you flying on Thursday?" " Schedule isn't out yet." "If you're not, I was gonna invite you to dinner." "I'm making turkey with chestnut stuffing, an old family recipe." "I'll probably get one run, for sure." "Thursday's Thanksgiving." " You never know around here." " Edgar." "Yeah." "Edgar, I'm not after your heart and soul, I'm just trying to be friendly." "I know that, Rose." "I was kind of getting the idea that you liked me." "I like you." "I like you a lot." "That's good enough for me." "You're a good woman, Rose." "I just think... it'd be better if you invite some other guy for dinner." "Thanks." " Morning, Probosky." " She's ready to go." "I told Stiller to change the oil lines at Boise." "You're almost at gross." " How many sacks?" " Only six." " Why's she so heavy?" " Didn't they tell you?" "You got a passenger." " Who's the pilot?" " Name is Edgar Anscombe." " I suppose he's qualified?" " As far as I know." "Aren't you sure?" "You mean does he have a thick logbook with lots of hours in it?" "Yes." "However, logbooks can sometimes be works of fiction." "I asked him certain questions, he answered them correctly, so I hired him." " I see." " Morning, Edgar." "This is Mr Hansen." "He owns Farmers Bank account along with most of my airplanes." " How do you do?" " Hello." " Maybe you've read his sign." " Yeah." "This is his daughter Tillie." "She's going to be flying with you this morning." "We have some details to discuss, Mr Hansen." "Do you mind waiting outside by the plane?" "It's number 14." "Number's on the tail." "Come along, Tillie." "Can't she take the train like everybody else?" "Maybe the family is air-minded or maybe she saw Buddy Rogers in Wings." "Maybe her father owns your airplanes." "She's 105 pounds of airfreight in a month when averages are down." "I was considering mailing the phone books to Pasco just to raise them." "She suits my needs better." "Want your weather?" "Twin Falls and Boise are calling overcast at 500." "Occasional breaks." "Visibility obscured to the west." "They don't know anything." "If you can't find a hole, try to be back by 11." "I can train the mail and avoid nasty phone calls from the postmaster." "Hey, you forgot this." "You think some guy's going to fly beside me and hold me up?" "It's regulation, you know that." "These bureaucrats are very sensitive people." "I wouldn't want them snooping around and finding we didn't take them seriously." "Well, I'm a pilot, not a babysitter." "I know how you feel." "I even think I understand why." "But you've gotta remember that passengers are the future of this business." "We're never gonna make money hauling mail." "We have to learn to haul human beings, and that includes you." "Have a good trip." " Your airplane's leaking." " Don't touch anything, OK?" "Father, the thing is a wreck." " Come on, get in." "Probosky." " I'll help you, lady." " What about mine?" " Your what?" "My parachute." "You have one." " It's a regulation." " What if I have to jump?" "Nobody's jumping anywhere." "I have to have one." "If you're coming, get in!" " I'm not going." " Do what the man says, Tillie." " Why are you doing this?" " For your own good." "You keep saying that." "Tillie, you are embarrassing me in front of these men." ""My own good!" You're not going up in a scary piece of junk..." "Go on, Tillie!" "These men have a schedule to keep like everybody else." "I can do it myself, thank you very much!" "Mr Anscombe?" "She is an affliction, but God made her that way, for reasons known only to Him." " How long do you stop at Boise?" " About 20 minutes." "I'd appreciate you keeping an eye on her." "Also, make sure that she meets her aunt in Pasco." " What's she going to do?" " Run away, possibly." "She is capable of anything." "I say this to you man to man, if you know what I mean." " I'll get her to Pasco anyway." " Thanks." "Tillie, have a good flight." "If you gotta go potty, go now." "Once we're up we don't come down." "No?" "OK." " When will they arrive?" " They'll have headwinds for sure." "1.30, around then." "I'll call you when they land at Pasco if you like." " I'd appreciate that." " You don't have to worry." "They disappear at this end and after a certain amount of time they reappear at the other - it's quite safe." "Hey, kid, did you ever do this before?" "Get down." "Here we go!" "Pretty." " Where are we?" " Starting down for Boise." " I don't see anything." " Don't worry, it's down there." "Boise." "About three more." "That's fine with me." " Hey, Jimmy." " Hey, pal." " You get a coffee." "I'll change the oil." " OK, thanks." "Coffee shop's out back." "Thank you." " Thanks." " Hi, Edgar." " Hi, Paul." "Morning, Lewis." " Edgar!" " Is that jelly?" " Last one." "Want it?" "Save it for me." "Do you mind?" "Boy, you really had me worried coming through those clouds." "I didn't think you knew where you were going." "There oughta be a tube for talking, so you know where you were." " Look, Millie..." " Tillie." "It's two more hours to Pasco, then I turn around and do it all again." "This is one of the few breaks I get." "OK?" "I was just trying to pass the time." "Have you always been a pilot?" "I got my license when I was one year old and I've been flying commercially since I was three and a half." "Are you married?" "Where I come from, you don't ask personal questions about people you don't know." "Where I come from, people are civil, especially employees to customers." "No." "I'm not married and I don't plan to be." "How about you?" " I feel the same way." " I think that's wise." "Considering the way you get along with men." " What's that supposed to mean?" " Your father wanted to smack you in Elko." "He smacks me all the time." "That's his idea of how to be a father." "This is all his idea." "He's sending me up to Seattle to stay with the Howards." "They have a son, William, my second cousin." "He's in medical school." "He's no looker." "They're trying to match us." "I've no interest in him or any other boy." "How did you get that scar?" "Moravia says you're the future of aviation." " Who's Moravia?" " He's my boss in Elko." "I hope he's wrong." "If you're the future, I don't like it." "You're 105 pounds of freight..." "Freight doesn't talk." "Boys, can you take advantage of that fishing?" "Yeah, good fishing." " Can I have that doughnut, please?" " Edgar, the lady wants your doughnut." " She can't have it." " You can't have it." " I don't see his name on it." "How much?" " A nickel." "I'll cut it in half." "It's impolite to read at the table." " Hey, Stiller?" " Yeah?" " You got a call." " Hold on a minute." " It's your boss." " I'll be right there." " You're dripping." " What?" "You're dripping jelly all over the place." "Look, you don't wanna be here and I sure as hell don't want you here." "We got another two hours and 10 minutes to Pasco, and then we don't have to see each other again, OK?" " Fine with me." " Fine." "Yes, sir, I just changed them." "OK, I'll pick up a couple of sets." "See you in Elko." " What's happening?" " I've got to set it down." "Get down!" "Goddamn it!" "Come on, baby, climb for me." "Hey, are you all right?" "Hey?" "Hey, kid?" "Tillie?" "Easy." " Are you all right?" " I'm all right." "Leave me alone." " Hey, kid, sit down." " I don't wanna sit down." "Where are you going?" "Come back." "You just crashed in an airplane." " I know what I just did!" " Suit yourself." " Don't do that!" " I'll do it if I want to." " What are you looking at?" " That river." " What about it?" " Which one is it?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's a fork of the Snake." " People live along rivers." " So?" "So, we ought to climb down there." "How do you get down there in one piece?" "We'll stay up by the wreck, that's the rule." "They can see a wreck from the air, they can't see people." " Go up and sit down." " I could make it if I had to." "Say you did." "You gotta walk maybe 15, 20 miles to the nearest place." "You've got no food, no equipment..." "Just sit down." "Are you going to argue with everything I say?" " I may." " Hey, kid." " You ever crash in an airplane before?" " No." " I have." " So?" " I got experience and you don't." " You're a two-time loser is all it means." " You're blaming this on me?" " You're the pilot." "Do you know what I had to do to get that plane through the trees, so we didn't wrap ourselves up in a ball?" " I know it wasn't my fault." " Yeah?" "Let's consider that." "That heap that was an airplane had a Wright J-Five engine in it." "It's the most dependable aircraft engine." "Lindbergh crossed the ocean behind one." "We've never had one go wrong on this line until today." "So who's the jinx?" "What's different about this trip on this day but you, kid?" "Stop yelling at me." "You're a prize." "You're a real goddamn prize." "How do you like it?" "Separate quarters." "Ladies in there and gents out here." " So we don't have to see each other." " Fine with me." "Hey!" "What do you smell?" "Gasoline!" "Light it!" "See how far you can fly without an airplane." "Stupid little brat!" "I don't fly passengers!" "If you hear anything, call me." "Good." "All right." "Hello, this is Moravia at Elko." "Give me station 36, will you, please?" "This should be fun." "The guy's a lush." "I don't know if it's an emergency." "It may and it may not." "I don't know yet." "Operator, just do your job and let me get on with mine!" "Jesus Christ!" "Number 36." "Whaddaya want?" "A plane?" "!" "I can't even see the track!" "How do you expect me to see a goddamn airplane?" "All right." "The answer to your question's no." "I don't see nobody." "On the other hand, number 12 came through half an hour ago." "Triple headed with 57 cars." "That's a pretty good haul, this time of year, if you know anything about railroading." "State trooper's got nothing." "They're putting out the word." "What about aircraft?" "What's available?" "OK." "I called the National Guard at Spokane." "They got three DH4s they'll lend us." "They don't know when they can get out." "They're socked in." "They're calling overcast and snow flurries in the morning." "I got a private Waco Taper Wing at Boise and maybe a guy with a Fleet." "Only his phone's down." "If the Guards get out we'll have 'em work south." "Our planes will stage through Boise." "If the weather holds." "This is one call I don't wanna make." "Have the operator get me Bruno Hansen." "Saw your fire." "I'm cold." " What's that?" " Oil." "What for?" "Make smoke, in case a plane comes over tomorrow." "We have a fire." "If we had some food we could almost live up here." " You got a gun." " This is accurate to about 50 feet." "It might hit something if it stood there waiting for you." "You could try." "I'm hungry." "Then they'll find us, that's all." "My father has friends in the State House." "He'll move heaven and earth, as will the Howards of Seattle, who have entertained the governor ofWashington." "Well, maybe all those nice folks will come out and look for us." "Except they'll be looking about 60 miles south of where I should have been." "I was taking a short cut over the mountains to Pasco, to get rid of you, instead of turning back to Boise." "They'll find us." "Next spring they'll take us down in two blocks of ice." " I can't listen." " That's the truth." "You want me to lie, like you're a kid?" "Hey!" "You wanted a way to talk to the pilot so you know where you are." "I'll tell you." "You called me a two-time loser." " It was just an expression." " Well, you're right." "You're absolutely right." "Last time I crashed like this I killed a man." "George Toomey, eighteen years old." "A perfectly good human being till I killed him." "Maybe you didn't wanna know that." "You're not the jinx." "It's me." "Big thing you did wrong today was to go flying with me." "Now you know where you are." "You better not hit me." "Why would I do that?" "What good would that do?" "Jimmy?" "You heard?" "What happened, Jimmy?" "Sorry to say, he may have picked up some ice." "Could have got stuck over the clouds with no way down." " Who's in there with Moravia?" " Mr Hansen, the banker." "His daughter's with Edgar." "Well, we may as well get in." "I was thinking I oughta stick around." " I got your dinner in the oven." " I don't know, Ev." "Everybody else is staying." "Maybe I should too." "They don't pay you to sit around and worry." "If they need you they'll call." "That's what we put the telephone in for." "Think of that poor girl, up there on a night like this." "I'm thinking about Edgar." " Morning, kid." " Morning." "Management regrets they're out of cornflakes and French toast." " Here." " What is it?" "Pine-needle tea." "Jesus." " It's nice and clear today." " The wind shifted to the west." " What are you making?" " A snare." " Can I help?" " No, thanks." "I grew up round boys." "I know something about hand tools." "I even know how to shoot a gun." " Are you still mad about last night?" " I'm not mad about anything." " I sure didn't do it on purpose." " Didn't say you did, did I?" "Anyway, I'm sorry." " Change your mind about leaving?" " Nope." "What are you gonna do with that thing?" " I'm gonna try some hunting." " I said you ought to do that last night." "I just think it's always better to do something than sit around." " On the basis of your vast experience?" " That's right." "What should I do?" "If a plane comes over, put oil on the fire." "Don't let it go out." "Can you handle that?" " Hey, kid, guess what?" "I nailed one." " What?" "I shot a rabbit." "Hope you can cook." "Easy, fella." "Here you go." "Mr Anscombe?" "Mr Anscombe!" " What happened?" " Goddamn wolves." "I had a rabbit too." " You better close that up." " I know what I have to do." "Get me your bag." "Take it off." " What are you looking for?" " The needle and thread." "Here." "I'll do it." "You can't reach." "I'll do it!" " Bleed to death and tell me you can!" " Do it!" "Well?" "You're one of a kind, Tillie." "You can do anything you put your mind to." "What would you have done if I wasn't here?" " You don't like to talk much, do you?" " You don't have that problem, do you?" "No." "No, I talk all the time." "I'm a flibbertigibbet." "That's what my English teacher, Mrs Wilson, calls me." ""Tillie Hansen, you are a flibbertigibbet."" "Sounds like a noise a chicken would make." "Mrs Wilson kinda looks like a chicken." " How come you ain't screaming?" " I am." "You just can't hear me." " All right, that's enough." " One more stitch." " Don't argue with me." " One more stitch." "Just tie that off." "Pull it through." "Tie it right there." "Jeez!" "All right." "Here, get..." "Just put that on." " Here." " All right." "That's it." "Come on, easy!" "Do it tight." "What was that you were saying before to yourself, "You're one of a kind"?" "I sometimes hear my mother talking to me." "Talking to you?" "Is she dead?" "Yeah." "She used to say things like that when I was down about something." "Here." "Sorry." "There you go." "If I start foaming at the mouth, just shoot me, OK?" "Found something." " Here." " I lost my appetite." "Have it later." "Do you hear those wolves?" "They're all around here now." "They're not going anywhere." "They don't have anything better to do." " Will they come over here?" " No." "You did OK." "It's good." "I can understand your point of view." "Now listen to mine." "Someday the world will be entirely populated with bureaucrats such as you because real people will do away with themselves out of frustration." "I myself do not want anything out of you." "They do." "They wanna be rescued." "This is what they would say if they could speak themselves." " What's it look like?" " There's a hole over the Tuscarora mine." " The whole front's breaking up." " Everybody go!" "Let's go!" "On the double!" "Well, at least the search is on." " Is that everyone?" " One more." "Stiller." "He's bringing the mail from Pasco." "He knows to keep his eyes open." "Got about two hours of light left." "What a mess." "Then let's go down the cliff." " Why do you do that?" " We can't make it, that's why." "Those wolves are gonna hang around." "Anyway, we were dead the minute the engine quit." " I didn't wanna say anything." " Why talk that way?" " It's the truth." " It ain't." "It's what you think'll happen." " You made a snare and shot a rabbit." " So what?" "I'd rather be trying things than sitting on my butt." "All right." "All right." "Let's go if we're going." "Take what you need." "I was thinking more like a couple of sweaters." "See?" "I told you I grew up with boys." "Jesus." " Do you live by yourself?" " Yeah, that's right." " Don't you have any friends?" " None in particular." " Who drove you to work?" " Where did you see him?" "Out the window of Mr Moravia's office." "I don't miss much." "That's Stiller, a guy I work with." " How about that woman?" " What woman?" "The one that gave you the lunch." "That's Rose, Stiller's sister." " Is she your pash?" " My what?" "Your passion." "I don't know." "When you're..." "when you're flying all the time, you don't really have much of a chance with women." "I think you hide behind that scar too much." " You ever do anything with her?" " What do you mean, "do anything"?" "You know what "do anything" means." "You're blushing." "Your veins'll be too close to the skin." "I've known people like that." "I'm hungry." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Wait a minute!" " It's Stiller!" "Hey!" " Hey!" " Jimmy!" "Hey!" " Hey!" "Hey!" " Jimmy, over here!" " Hey!" " Hey, Tillie." " Dammit!" " Did he see us?" "Is he coming back?" " Forget it." " What's up?" " Don't touch me!" "Don't touch me!" " I didn't expect this to happen." " Yeah, sure!" "We've only got 50 yards to the bottom." "Now, let's move." " Come on!" " I can't move." " What?" " I can't move." "All right, let me look." "It's probably broken." "Great!" " Here, take one of these." " What is it?" " A pain pill." " I don't want it." " Shut up and take it." " I don't want it!" "Now I'll have to think of something else." "We're going to lower you down." " How?" " Go back to the wreck for some cable." " You can't go back up there." " I'll just have to." "Just sit here and shut up." "Can you do that?" " It'll be dark soon." " You afraid of the dark?" "I was thinking of you coming back down." "Hey, kid..." "I'm sorry." "I'll get you down in the morning." " Did it look like an airplane?" " Can't say for sure." " What can you say for sure?" " It was a flash out the corner of my eye." "It might have been wings, it might have been a couple of trees." "Could you have gone back to make sure?" "It's pretty hard to tell one ridge from the other." "Besides, I was running low on gas and worried about getting back myself." " Show me on the map." " Well, that was the other problem." "My compass was messing up on me." "I didn't know where I was." "Not until I saw the rail line running into Baker, somewhere around here." "You let your pilots fly without knowing where they are?" "The wind blew me down there." "You can't always tell what the wind's going to do." "You're talking about hundreds of square miles - and suppose you were wrong?" "You'd be responsible for sending everybody in the wrong direction." "You were right to report the sighting." "But you see the problems it caused." "What do you think I should do?" "My wife." "All right, sit by the phone." "I'll call you if I need you." "Now that I've seen your company in operation, Mr Moravia," "I do not think much of the men you hire." "I can see why you might think that, Mr Hansen." "Stiller thinks mainly of his own ass." "Anscombe has half a face." "And myself, I have a leg made out of Philippine mahogany." "Look around a little more, you'll find Probosky, my chief mechanic." "He's missing three fingers due to a jenny propeller and an over-anxious student." "Carson, that pilot you met, was shot down in the war, spent the night in a fox hole, and he breathed some mustard gas, which left him with one lung." "All of us should have gotten out of this business a long time ago." "The only problem is, in addition to being cripples, we're all addicts." "Flying is all we care to do." "Stiller." "If I fire him and no one employs him - no one would, who has any choice..." "Stiller would wither and die..." "as we all would." "As I would." "Therefore, considering we are all cripples and addicts," "I'm of the opinion we're doing as good a job as could be expected." "If you have any complaints, take 'em to your congressman." "While you're doing that, ask him for some more money." "Some more rotating beacons." "Twin-engine planes that climb over the mountains instead of going through them." "Some radios so we don't have to spit into the wind to find which way we're going." "Besides from that, don't tell me how to do my job, Mr Hansen." "I don't tell you how to do yours." " It hurts." " I know." "Take your mind off it." "Think about something else, something nice." " Like what?" " I don't know." "Anything nice." "How about that boy up in Seattle?" "There ain't no boy in Seattle." " There isn't?" " I made that up." " Why did you do that?" " How should I know?" "I don't know half the reasons I do things." "The only boyfriend I ever had banged me on the floor of a caboose in a Western Pacific rail yard." " Watch your language." " That is the right language." "Sure wasn't love." "He promised he would take me to Reno." "But he lied." "Then my father found out about it and there was this big scandal." "He decided to get me out of town as fast as he could." "That's why I was in the mail plane in the middle of winter." "That was OK because they didn't want to see me." "I didn't want to see them either." "Don't cry, Tillie, you're not the type." " Yes, I am." " Sh..." "Underneath." "You're the one that called me a jinx." "Yeah, but I took that back, didn't I?" "My father..." "My father told me I was spoiled merchandise." " That I was ruined for life." " You're all right." "Somebody's going to snap you up, wait and see." "You saw what happened in Boise." "What happened?" "Didn't you see all the guys in the diner breaking their necks to look you over?" " I didn't see that." " Sure." "How often does a girl like you come into a place like that anyway?" "Now, you see, in the morning we'll take the old elevator down... and we'll be on our way." "I wish it could have been you." "It would have been better." "You go to sleep." "I think you should go back." "Back where?" "He wasn't even sure where he was." " What if it was them?" " He wasn't sure." "You did the right thing." "Let the National Guard go look." " It's what they're there for." " Ladies, would you mind holding it down?" "I'm trying to think." " What if it was my brother that was down?" " Now, quit!" "I don't even want to think about that." " Edgar'd go after him." " You don't know that for sure." "I think he would." "You marry a mail-plane pilot, see how anxious you are to send him off in one." "When the time comes, we all have to take care of each other." "Nobody else will." "You'd hold your breath every time he left and wouldn't let it out until he'd come home." "I hate airplanes." "I don't even know what keeps them up." "They're made out of sticks and bed sheets." "Why don't they just open up in two and drop Jimmy like a stone into water?" "That's right, Evelyn, you don't understand anything about it." "You've never done it." "You don't know why I do it." "So would you please just hold it down and let me think?" "That's Capital Peak." "Now, what's Edgar doing there?" "Easy." "Easy." "I'll give you another pill." " You can't carry me all day." " Don't talk with your mouth full." " You can't, we both know that." " I'm not gonna carry you." "You should just leave me here." "Go on ahead and if you find somebody send them back for me." "Just when I'm getting used to you?" " You mean that?" " Yeah, I mean that." " What are you doing?" " I'm going to make a travois." "The thing the Indians used to use to carry stuff around in the wintertime." "Pretty smart." "Well, a pilot's gotta be." "Put yourself down in a field someplace, it's up to you to get yourself out." "National Guard de Havillands got out after problems with their plumbing." "Why are you here?" "I didn't call you." " Been thinking it over, Mr Moravia." " That's always a good sign." "It had to be them." "I know where they are." "I'll get back to you, Frank." "Here, show me on the map." "I figured I must have been around here." "But I couldn't understand what Edgar was doing there." "Then I realised, if he was fighting the weather, and wound up somewhere east of the mountains, about here, he'd have a straight shot over the mountains into Pasco." "He must have took the chance that he had enough gas." "You always take chances like that?" "If not, the mail wouldn't get through." " This is Capital Peak." " They must be on this ridge." "About halfway down the big saddle, there's a clearing in the timber." "What I saw must have been wings." "Get the mail out by train." "He'll take out number eight." "Go as quickly as you can." "You'll have company." "I'm sending everyone up as soon as they refuel." " He comes through after all." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Maybe our luck is changing." "Jim." " We could get married." " What makes you say that?" "I cancelled the letters out in our names." "You ever do that?" "You write some boy's last name and then yours underneath, and you cross out the letters that are the same." "If there are a lot of crosses, you can get married." "A lot of ours do." "I don't know, kid." "I'm too old for you." "I'm 31." "How old are you?" "Almost 17." "Means when I'm 21, you'll be almost 36." "That ain't so bad." " Edgar, I have to pee." " God!" "How are you back there, Tillie?" " Hey, I'm pulling." "You talk." " It hurts too much." "You talk." "It's hard for me." "I haven't had a lot of practice at it." "When I was a kid up in Michigan, we'd go hunting." "For three days we'd not say ten words to each other." "Everybody just does what has to be done." " Never told you about my first instructor." " No." "His name's Sloaniger." "God, he could talk." "He'd yell at me, scare me to death." "I was all thumbs for a while, the way you are." "Dammit, he stuck with me." "You know, he finally sent me off soloing." "I cried." "It's true." "Before, I never felt I belonged anywhere and my parents didn't bother with me." "I kinda grew up all over the place." "That day I was up there by myself and I was just... weaving through clouds and..." "I knew that I belonged... someplace." "You know what I mean, Tillie?" "I don't think that..." "I don't think there's anything in the world that's more important than that." " Hey!" "What are you doing that for?" " Because I care about you." "Put that down." "You can't make it dragging me." " You look like a jerk." " You know me." "I'll do what I say." "What is this, your mother talking to you or something?" "My mother's dead and we're here." "You'll never make it if you have to take me." "You don't want me anyway." "Is that what you think?" "If you think that, then just do it." "What the hell." "Don't try to rattle me." "Your father gave me 20 bucks to keep you from running, but if you wanna do that, that's fine." "Blow your guts out all over the mountain." "See if I care." "Tillie, don't move!" "I won't get any further alone." "If you hadn't been with me, I wouldn't have got this far." "I would've sat down on that first night by the fire and waited for the snow to cover me over." "Tillie..." "I don't wanna go back there without you." " Really?" " Yeah." " Edgar." " What?" "What is that?" "My God, I think... that's a telephone line." "Look, you just stay here and I'll be back as soon as I can." "All right?" "I'll go see." "Hey!" "Hey, mister, can I use your phone?" "Hey, who are you?" " What are you doing?" " I'm a pilot that crashed." "Airplanes ain't safe." "Airplanes ain't dependable." "Look what happened to you." "Put that down." "That's railroad property." " Mister, I gotta eat something." " Put that down!" "You roach." "It's been a home for me, man and boy, for 50 years." "They still got a place for me on the railroad." "Mister, I got a kid who's hurt bad." "I gotta take her something to eat." " Leave it be!" " I'll pay for 'em." "You drop 'em." "Now you get outta here." "Take it easy." "Just take it easy." "You know you ain't gonna make it." "Damn!" "Edgar!" "No!" "Help!" "Come on, Tillie, you can do it!" "Come on, guys!" " Let's get out there." " I'm with ya." " OK, let's get her." " Hey, there's Edgar!" "Move the stretcher over here." " There we go." " I've got you." " Over here." " Let her breathe." " I got her!" " Give her some room!" " Watch your step, Edgar." " Come on down." " Daddy!" " Don't talk." "Everything is fine." "You don't have to go anywhere you don't want to." "I wanna go home." "Daniel... and George." "You really had me scared there, you know." "Gently, boys." "Edgar!" "Mr Anscombe, thanks." "Sorry I never got her to Pasco." "I wanna see Edgar alone." "You are going to the hospital, young lady." "I wouldn't argue with her, sir." "It's not worth it." "That's what people do when they love each other, isn't it?" "I'll never forget you." "Go to the hospital now." " You'll come and see me?" " I guarantee it." " Now I suppose you want some time off?" " A day or two." "Well..." "Take Thanksgiving." "Subtitles by sdl Media Group srt by OIFa"