The Langoliers Page #4

Denver Center, come in, please.

This is American Pride Flight 29,

we have a problem.

- A big problem.

- What's going on?

I'm not getting anything.

Anything at all.

Mayday, mayday.

This is American Pride Flight 29,

requesting emergency aid.

Come in, please.

UNICOM,

this is American Pride Flight 29,

requesting immediate radio contact.

Over.

Denver, come in.

Come in, please.

This is AP Flight 29,

you answer me, damn it.

Easy, mate.

That dog won't bark either.

What are they doing down there,

having nuclear war?

Look, easy. Tell me what you mean,

"the dog won't bark."

I mean Denver Control. That dog.

I mean FAA Emergency, that dog.

UNICOM, which gives advisories

at small airports, that dog too.

This is a medium shortwave band.

People should be jumping all over this

like frogs on a hot sidewalk,

but I'm not even picking up static.

And the VOR beacon out of Denver,

that's not working either.

- What does that mean?

- It means we have no radio.

It means we have no Denver

navigational beacon,

and my board here says everything

is peachy keen.

Which is crap. It's gotta be.

Hey, kid, would you run back there,

look out the left side of the plane.

Look behind us,

tell me what you see.

My equipment says we're less than

50 miles south of Denver right now.

Well?

There's nothing out there,

nothing at all.

Denver's blacked out, isn't it?

Yeah.

Either that or it's gone.

All right, back to your seats.

We need a little peace and quiet.

We are being quiet.

Come on, my young friends.

Let's go sit in the back.

The captain has a lot of work to do.

What are you doing?

Using the military aircraft band.

Strategic Air Command

is never off the air.

What's going on?

The captain and that British fellow are

trying to raise an airport on the radio.

I suppose that we should

introduce ourselves.

I'm Bob Jenkins,

I'm a mystery writer.

I've written more than 40 novels.

None as strange as this.

My name is Laurel Stevenson

and I'm a schoolteacher

in the San Fernando Valley.

And this is the first vacation

I've had in eight years.

What's the matter, Dinah?

My name's Dinah Bellman

and I'm on my way to have

an eye operation in Boston.

Afterwards, I'll be able to see again.

Probably be able to see again.

The doctors say there's a 70 percent

chance I'll get some vision

and a 40 percent chance

I'll get all of it.

Albert Kaussner, I'm on my way

to the Berklee School of Music.

I play violin.

I'm Bethany Simms.

I was gonna spend a couple of days

with my aunt in Worcester, Mass.

But now...

And you, sir? What's your name?

How about you, what's your name?

I'm Don Gaffney.

And what do you do?

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