You know, I was dreaming about him all night.
KLM 779 into Jesse Hawks.
KLM 779 into Jesse Hawks. Come on back, Jesse.
This is Flying Tiger. I read you five by five, Flash.
Hold on. I'm patching a call through to you.
Jesse?
Hi, Mom. He's not back yet.
There's something wrong, isn't there?
There's no sign of him.
Matt, Cody and I think there's something wrong with Jesse.
I think you can feel it, too. I can hear it in your voice.
Maybe we're all having a major attack of drama.
With too much imagination.
If he's okay, we're all going to look pretty silly.
Well, we'll chance it.
Cody and I are going to come back.
Can you pick us up?
Go to the ranger station. I'll pick you up there.
Matt, any idea where he might have gone?
There's a dozen places he likes.
Could be anywhere.
It's too cold for hell.
It's too painful for heaven.
It must be that.
I either have to try and walk out of here, or I'm going to die here.
I'm going to walk.
Say, Mr. Bodeen, isn't it?
There's some memory you got there.
I figured you'd remember.
Something I can do for you?
Yeah, those two officers that were up here yesterday.
I think they're who I need to talk to.
You know where I might find them?
You look kind of beat up, Mr. Bodeen.
Well, I've been driving all night.
I turned around just outside Sacramento.
It strikes me you're a man with a problem.
Something happened up there yesterday, didn't it?
Yeah, something happened up there.
Hell, I knew it. You two were just looking for trouble, you know that?
I suppose so.
They're my mountain rangers. That's who you want to see.
The man at the shop told me where I could find you.
Aren't you one of the guys we talked to yesterday?
Who was your friend?
He's long gone.
He's probably home by now. I just couldn't leave.
I couldn't leave with myself.
What's this all about?
It was an accident, I swear.
We were hunting...
Calm down. Just tell us everything you remember.
We were hunting.
Way up. I don't know where. A canyon or...
I saw something move.
And we had a few.
I didn't even mean to shoot.
You're not going to die, are you, Dad?
No.
Not here.
Let's go on your feet.
I don't think I can make it.
You have to.
Does it really make any sense?
How can you say that?
I haven't taken very good care of you.
You cared. You've done everything you could.
I haven't been easy to live with.
I've been a tough taskmaster sometimes.
I haven't given you the freedom that you want.
I don't know.
I haven't given you the freedom you need.
Whether that's true or not, it's cruel to say that I wouldn't mind if you died.
I don't always say what I mean, son.
Not that I've got the chance.
I want to tell you...
I love you.
I'm proud of you.
And I've always been proud of you.
Mr. Bodine could only give us a general direction.
There's about a dozen canyons in this area.
That's rough country.
In good weather.
I want us to start out in two groups.
Frank and I will take the helicopter and check all the obvious areas.
I want you to fan out on snowmobiles over here where Cutler and Hart saw Mr. Bodine and Mason leave the mountain.
Any questions?
No offense, but what's the point?
What's that supposed to mean?
I mean, why not just take the helicopter?
Because he might try and get down the mountain on his own.
Depending on his condition.
Cody and I want to go with you in the helicopter.
I don't think that's a very good idea.
We're not going to be in the way, I promise you, Matt.
That's not the point, Mom.
We're going with you.
No, you're not.
Listen, I'll take orders from you.
It's my dad, too.
Look, we have to take Mr. Bodine with us.
We might need the extra room in the helicopter.
Cody, I think Matt's right.
We're going.
Cody, look, we don't know what's out there.
I want you to stay with Mom.
Take her up to the house and wait for me to radio.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go.
Your sequence is frostbite, black magic, and flash.
Where are you?
I am just below radio four.
Okay, move two-four, flash up to six, bearing three-three-zero.
Roger that.
Better start a crisscross pattern.
You copy that, black magic?
That's affirmative, Flash.
What's our grid sequence?
Black magic, I want you to move to five-zero-zero.
Watch your sight line.
Easier said than done.
Do your best.
White tiger out.
Anything?
I don't know.
It all looks the same from up here.
I'm moving on to location two.
Here.
Here, this looks like it.
All right, show us where.
There's something at ten o'clock buried in the snow.
I see it.
Put me down right on that ledge.
All right.
Let's go.
I found his path.
Looks like he's trying to walk out.
What's going on here?
I'm good at this.
Sharing my feelings.
Trying to sort out my emotions.
Come on, tough guy.
Let me see how tough you can really be.
You're unrelenting, aren't you?
Okay.
I was in favor of you and Cody getting together.
And when it finally started to happen, I was scared.
Yeah, I think I was scared.
That world I tried to escape from.
I was afraid of being lonely.
I realized how much I needed them.
I did the very best that I could.
I thought that I was making them stronger, not weaker.
Surviving up here is a lot different from surviving down there.
For our sprites of Flying Tiger, I lost sight of the search team, so I had to slow down.
We could miss them by 100 yards and never see them.
Wide Eagle, give me a coordinates and a relative bearing.
We're at map coordinates 26 Foxtrot.
Track from this position bearing 2, 3, 5 degrees. Over.
Got it. We're rendezvous at 14 Foxtrot.
Frank, pick me up on the ridge.
Looks like he's heading for his cabin. Prepare for immediate medevac.
Matt, the trauma center in Tahoe is standing by. I have an ER resident on the line.
Can you give me an idea of the severity of the balloon, the amount of blood loss in the ETA?
It's hard to say. An hour, maybe more. Nothing solid on severity.
But blood loss appears considerable.
How long has he been out there?
Over 24 hours.
Well, you better find him soon.
Have you picked up the tracks?
No sign of him.
Music
There he is.
Music
Dad!
Music
The stars Ray Charles and Bruce Hornsby and The Range.
Willie Nelson, Texas style, next.
Music
You lost my job.
These three men are being put out to pasture.
Today the market is geared toward the young people.
To make room for the sons.