Carrier (2008–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Groundhog Day - full transcript

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♪ Uh-huh it's a long road to
paradise and, oh, I feel the pain

oh oh oh they tell me
things are different now

but I still hurt the same

Haze gray and underway

a world away from you and

miles and miles of blue ♪

Subs rip, edit, and resnyc by
© VJ Me 2010



The hardest part about being
in the Gulf is keeping

the troops motivated and keeping
everybody going despite the

horrible atmospheric conditions.

♪ Too many moments continually out
here same old relationship... ♪

oh, no.

No?

No.

After the first few weeks,
the Gulf starts to become

monotonous, where every day
looks like the day before.

The same stuff over and over
again.

It's like groundhog day.

It's the same day every
single day.

Seven days a week.

Every day, it's the same thing.



Work, sleep, work, sleep.

I don't even know what day it
is.

I think today is Monday.

At least that's what they tell me.
I'm not sure.

♪ An action replay identical
twins photocopy, once again

ancient history... ♪

yes, yes, USA... ♪ repeated like
grains of desert sand, monotony... ♪

Our mission out here?

I don't even know.

When it comes to the mission, I
think everybody has the same

idea, that we're here for a
reason and it's for a very,

very good reason.

It's my job.

I just be here
and follow orders.

♪ ...And fly across the
boundaries of your heart monotony

can't you see it's killing
you it's killing me? ♪

I wouldn't mind dropping some
bombs.

I know that sounds kind of sick
and demonic, but I've trained

for five years to do it.

It's kind of what I want to do.

It is like the big game, and
you're on the sideline.

♪ Monotony monotony, yeah monotony
monotony monotony oh, yeah

it's like a merry-go-round
monotony ♪

On the deployment, you go from
seconds of pure adrenaline

to sheer boredom.

You don't know what to do with
yourself, and I think a lot of

people on the boat... on the deployment...
Start to feel that.

♪ Slippin', slip away in
space ♪

My name is lieutenant Booher.
I'm a pilot in the Black Aces.

♪ ...
Drifting a smile upon his face ♪

I was 24 when I started flying.

♪ There's no turning
back what's done is done

he's heading for the bright
and shining sun... ♪

My brother was a race car driver,
and he was Florida state

champion, and he was really
great at what he did.

And I saw that he got
a lot of attention,

especially girls, so I decided
that the only way I could

go faster than him was
to become a pilot.

♪ And so I run I run to the
bright and shining sun... ♪

It looked like a lot of fun.

What couldn't be fun
about raging around?

There's a lot of incredible adrenaline,
flying down low at 500 knots,

constantly pushing your self
every day, putting yourself in

a new challenge every day.

Everybody leaves the squadron
after 3 years, and I found out

today that I'm leaving in
6 days.

I'm heading home.

After a long, long journey,
it's time to go home.

♪ And so I run I run to the
bright and shining sun ♪

When I got married and
especially when my wife gave

birth to our child, it changed me.
It certainly did.

I think it allowed my opinions
to be much more flexible

I think I learned how to think
more than I ever had in my life.

I may have found something in
me that made me question what

we're doing here.

Are we doing the right thing or
are we doing the wrong thing?

So that's a personal struggle
that I think anybody that does

this, anybody that's over here
and pulling the trigger, has to

ask themselves that
question at some point.

And I think, sure, there are other
ways to go about fighting this war.

I think we are fighting a war
that may be more futile than we

recognize.

It was my natural, you know,
paternal, you know, protection

of my family that made me start
thinking about these things.

So, yeah, my wife did
change me quite a bit.

♪ And so I run I run to the
bright and shining sun ♪

Hello.

Hey, kiddo.

Hey, hey, hey.

So, uh, first thing...
We were just talking about you.

Oh, really?

Well, first thing, I've got a
piece of news I think you'd like.

1:00 at Meridian airport
on the 21st.

I think I'm gonna try and stay
up, like, the entire day and

night before so I can just sleep
through that entire flight.

I'm sure I'll be tired when I
get back to the States anyway.

Well, don't, don't get
home too exhausted.

I'm aware of that.

I'll save a little strength.

Ha ha!

Hopefully they'll edit that.

Can you believe we're doing
this?

I'm in a surreal state.

It's funny.

As badly as I want to get
home, you don't realize

how much you're going to miss
this.

Well, I was wondering, you
know, if that had sunk in yet.

You know, it won't sink in
until, you know, I get home

because right now, I mean,
it's not my concern.

My concern is getting home.

And you know what?

In 2 weeks, I may miss it,
but I got you and Ciera

to remind me of what's
important, and that's it.

I've got a little poem
here from E.E. Cummings.

You ready?

Sure.

We are so both and oneful
night cannot be so sky

sky cannot be so sunful I am
through you so I... get home.

Ha ha!
Well-said, well-said...

I'm airman Christopher Altice.

I'm from Manassas, Virginia.

I'm 21 years old.

I'm almost 3 years into
the Navy.

Not married, but I got
a baby on the way.

What's going on one?
Huh? He's doing to launch.

Just prepping it?
Yeah.

Just... taking all the...Off.
All right.

Then we'll be done.

I don't have the slightest
idea how things are even gonna

work when I get back.

It's definitely gonna be a big
change.

My girlfriend, her name's Tanya.

She's really sweet,
and she's very cute.

I had a great time
being with her.

She always did things for me.

And we're fine, but since I've been
gone, there are some big problems.

I was bummed earlier, dude.

I don't know if you saw.

I wasn't talking to no one,
dude.

I was so frustrated this
morning.

She hadn't e-mailed me
again in, like, 6 days.

It's crazy.

I've gotten 2 e-mails
from her this month, man.

Look what we're doing.

I've got time to e-mail.

She got a computer at home?

Yeah.

She's got, like, 3 of them.

Wireless Internet.

Matter of fact, she can pick
up her laptop and go up to the

couch, sit down, being
pregnant and all. And...

You should get at least
one e-mail a day.

That's the minimum.

Her best friend even e-mailed
me a baby name they thought was

cute, not Tanya.

Her friend.

And then her friend also sent me
pictures of Tanya, not Tanya.

So I'm sitting up here
on deck this morning.

She hasn't wrote me.

I'm pissed off, and then it's
just all that worry running

through my head, you know,
every possible scenario.

The bad thing is, dude,
I'm sick of asking her.

It seems like I'm begging,
begging for her to e-mail me.

We had to make a line-up
change.

We just ran into probably about
a 4-day stint where everything

was just bad, everything
was going wrong.

I think having the marines
on the ship, it's good.

They're cool.

But their jets are old and
busted.

They go down all the time.

This jet goes down,
this jet goes down.

Time's up on those jets.
Those things are old.

Hey, Gerber, try to
get a hold of base.

I got a barger up here on 310
and a high leak on 53 left,

says it's leaking out of every
weephole that he has on the damn door.

So, when it drops down to
the hangar bay, he needs to

find out where that leak is.

My name is Randy Brock.

I'm a staff sergeant
in the Marine Corps.

I joined this squadron in 2000.

I've been here for five years.

This is my third deployment
with this squadron.

I don't know if 4 is
going to make it out.

So we're probably going to have
to start up 307 and have it

launch out... before we came out on
this deployment, we had no clue.

I think there was eight people
when we started off with that

had any type of boat experience.

The Navy guys, they think we
suck.

How come we can't fix your jets?

How come your stuff is always
broken?

Ok, guess what.

We're still the new guys.

We are still learning.

This is still our first cruise.

Every squadron goes
through a hard time.

Every shop goes through
a difficult time.

Ridiculous.

Yeah.

The CAG is very upset because
this thing's been leaking for

the last 2 or 3 weeks.

Ok, give me a damn clean fuel
control, and a strut, and then

I can work on the damn thing.

You know as well as I do...
You know, everybody has their problems.

Yeah, we're new.

And the last thing I want is
to freaking lose a pilot.

But there are some pilots who
think that they know my job

better than I know my job.

I've got some pretty big questions
for corporal Molinado, so...

Those questions you
can pose to me, sir.

Well, my question is, why
did he sign off the math?

Because if I get...
Where's my water bottle at?

Tell me what's wrong with
my water bottle sir.

The cap leaks.

Cap leaks?

Can you tell that by
physically looking at it right

here? No, you can't.

It's the same thing that would
happen with the ATS duct.

All the fingers were on the ATS duct.

The only reason why they fell
off is because freakin' Willows

went up there to look at it, and
he noticed something was loose.

He pulled it...
The squadron is a symbol of who I am.

Molinado!

And when people bad mouth
my squadron, I get pissed.

How come you put something on
there that now, once we shut

everything off and you see all
the stuff that's wrong with it?

I'm not saying that you
don't know your job.

But the fact of the matter is,
is now we have eyes pointed on

you and eyes pointed on me and
eyes pointed on the division,

which I know you don't like and
I sure as hell don't like...

The guys that I work with, the
guys who work for me, this is

my family and I'm the dad.

I'm the daddy.

Take your medicine.

Take it like a man.

Let's move on.

If this ever happens again,
it's not going to be pleasant.

It's not going to be pleasant
for me, and if it's not going

to be pleasant for me, I'm
gonna make it terrible for you

or for whoever else who does it.

And since I joined the Marine
Corps, me and my family

back at home have
been sort of distant.

Just certain things come up.

I was left at a carnival.

I know that sounds pretty
funny, but I was left at

a carnival when I was three.

It's called the Pride of Texas shows...
Just a carnival that traveled

from Texas to Oklahoma.

That's all they did.

My biological parents were
carnies that worked on the show

and they took off and took my
sister with them and left me

there with a guy that I call Uncle Ed...
Ed Burlingame.

You know how last time you
went up, and it sort of...

See how it pokes out?

See how it sort of
goes out, like that?

Round it up next time.

When you ask about my biological
parents and if I knew them or

remembered them, Anna and Larry.

That's pretty much all I
remember.

I know my mom was short and
my dad was 6'2", 6'3".

But other than that, I sort of
want to forget everything else.

We have our small boat here
off the stern of the ship

that's going to take on some
of our personnel to go over to

a ship that's in distress
that's taking on water.

So we have a pump, and we also
have the personnel to go over

there and provide that assistance
in order to keep that ship afloat.

It looks to me like
it's getting lower.

Might be underneath
towards the keel.

Rising... what is the status
of the water level right now?

Is it rising, holding, or
falling?

The water is steadily rising.

Freeboard on the starboard side.

My obvious concern is getting
our people off there before it

sinks like a stone and
getting them off there, too.

You know, we can put them up
overnight, which is probably

preferable than trying to fly
them off up north in the dark.

6-1-4 is inbound
with two pumps.

Once he lands, we're going
to run them to the fantail.

Roger. Once they arrive on
station, I'll call the rib in.

Copy.

Please make sure they
understand the most important

thing they're doing is getting the
pumps off the helo and to expedite.

The dhow is about to sink,
and we need to get the pumps

off the helicopter and over
to the elevator in motion.

Yes, sir.

We're getting everything out
as quickly as we can, sir.

Expedite.

Expedite.

If you have anyone involved
in this rescue and assistance

operation, please get them moving
and get them moving quickly.

Mini, you're just absolutely
killing me with this elevator.

I tell you what, his rail, his
starboard side rail is under

the water on the rolls.

He's low.

Yeah, we might have both pumps pumping,
but I'm not convinced they're

making progress.

Let's call the dhow and get the
Iraqis to abandon their boat.

Aye.

Let first know that we are
abandoning and we are going to

be bringing them back.

He's saying he wants
money for his sunk ship.

I don't know anything about
that.

I am just trying to take care of
you while you are on-board here.

Sorry. Arms up.

Are we allowing lighters chief?

He's got a lighter.

Am I allowed to let him have it or...
A lighter?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Stand by for words from
your training officer.

Good evening,
"Nimitz" and airwing 11.

I'm sure you heard the commotion
this morning with the Iraqi boat.

He was just having all
kinds of trouble.

We sent a rescue and assistance
team over there, and they

worked at it all afternoon, but
unfortunately the leaks were

too bad for the pumps to overcome,
and the damn thing just sunk.

But it wasn't because
of the lack of effort.

All our guys did just a heck of
a job.

I guess the good news part of
the story is we went over there

and we rescued 7 Iraqi nationals
that were on-board the boat,

and we have them on-board now.

And we will host them in fine
hotel "Nimitz" fashion, and

probably tomorrow we will fly
them back off and take them

home to Iraq.

Well, it's been, how many
days, 36?

36 days out to sea.

36 days.

Now I'm in Bahrain...
In the pool.

Yeah, soaking up the
wonderful Bahrain sun.

Well, Bahrain's not the happening
spot, but it's nice, I guess.

It's changed a lot in
the last 10 years.

It's become a lot more
conservative than it used to be,

Muslim conservative.

You can really only go
out during the daytime.

There are some curfews, when we
have to be back in our hotels

and places that we can and
cannot go, things that are easy

targets for, you know, you
could set off an explosive.

It's like, before you pull
into port, they try to scare

your pants off so you don't
want to go anywhere.

They told us, "you guys are not
allowed to go off base probably

unless you go to the mall.

Everything else is restricted.

Hotels, restaurants, cafes,"

this and that.

"But you can go if you go on a
tour, and if you already have

a hotel room, but everything
else is restricted.

When I go on liberty, I love
to experience the different

people and the culture
and the history.

I love it. I mean, I think it's
the greatest thing to join the

Navy and see the world.

I honestly do.

♪ Prince Ali, fabulous
he, Ali Ababwa ♪

But Bahrain is kind of like,
there's not a lot here.

Finally, I can find one thing in
Bahrain that likes Americans.

Bahrain is a small island.

280 square miles and
made of 33 islands.

Today we're gonna drive
through a few islands.

The population, 720,000.

The king is the head of
the nation, king Hamad.

Today we gonna see his palace...
Smallest kingdom in the world.

London bigger than here,
New York bigger than here.

Bahrain a little
bigger than Singapore.

I'm thirsty.

How many waters have we got
left, 4?

Uh, three.

No, in my bag.

Three.

We got...
You slugged 2 of them down?

Yeah. I was dehydrated.

We see the view of the tree
of life all the way there.

Archeologists have discovered
evidence of life around here.

So they believe this is maybe
what is left from Garden of Eden.

The middle of Garden of
Eden, the tree of life.

Anybody find any evidence of
life yet?

Look, there are some
plastic bottles over here.

Oh, wow! Another sign of...
Somebody's underwear.

Adam or Eve's?

Well, whoever used to live here
was smart and got the hell

out of here, that's why
they're not here anymore.

You know what that phrase
means?

Prayer is better than sleep,
prayer is better than sleep.

It will get the lazy bones
out of bed, you know?

It's very early, and it's very
challenging, so we have to get

an extra push.

We are all children of Adam.

That's what Islam teaches, that
all mankind is one family,

one brotherhood.

We are all descended
from Adam and Eve.

They are our parents.

So if you have the same parents,
what is our relationship?

We are brothers and sisters.

So as far as God is concerned,
it doesn't matter what's your

color or nationality or
whatever differences that you

may have here in this world.

Everybody is equal, so we don't
distinguish people because of

their color or race
or status in society.

Look out at the...
Two rocket ships.

You know what I haven't heard...
The call to prayer go out...

No, I haven't either.

That's the Indian call.

Oh, sorry.
I got my languages mixed up.

Well, we'd like to get
a few good meals.

We could catch up on some
sleep, lots of sleep.

We go down by the pool.

Just kind of hang out,
I guess you'd say.

Being very low profile is
what we really want to be.

We haven't left the hotel
since we got here.

This is my family.

And, you know, I have a family
and I'm extremely eager to live

that side of my life.

I've got a wife and a kid, and
that's really all I want to do.

What?

Yeah, I'm gonna miss...
It's gonna be probably a very difficult time

getting used to not having 40 of
your best friends living with

you at all times.

I'm gonna miss every
single one of these guys.

It seems like it would
be fun to be an officer.

I've seen you guys party
like in Guam and stuff.

Like, I know this really
like older officer girl.

She was like freak dancing!

I was like, she had to be
at least like 40, you know.

Like, how can you do that
at your age, you know?

So you feel, like, the same way
as us?

You do your job, you go to
sleep, do your job again?

We're flying 5-1/2-, 6-hour
flights.

We're sitting in a hard chair.

You know, imagine sitting in
that chair for six hours and you

can't move.

It's only a little bit more
comfortable than that because

there's a little padding.

That's about the only reason.

You know, it's things like that
actually, they wear on you.

That's when you're not
dropping bombs?

We haven't been, actually.

We haven't dropped a single one.

Not since you left...
Not at all.

I heard they were
dropping lots of bombs.

6? Uh, decimal what?

Ok, I'm gonna read them back 2-8-4-6
decimal 5-5-0-0-2-2-9-4-9 decimal

5-5-0-1-1-5-0-0-6 decimal 5-5.

All right, Rog. Thanks.

And you want me to stay out
of the box, I assume? Ok.

Come right to 2. Go to 3-0-0.

Continue right. Stay on course...
3-0-0 degrees.

Continue right. Stay on course...
3-0-0 degrees. Aye, sir.

This morning on the "Princeton,"

they found out that somebody was
missing, so they looked around

the ship, tried to see
if they could find him.

They asked a lot of questions,
when was the last

time somebody saw him?

The last time somebody saw him
was about 1900 yesterday.

So what they're doing now is
they're kind of backtracking,

where were we the last,
since 1900 last night?

6-3. Got it.

Cooper, 6-3.

Start coordinator.

Request you search southwest
corner of your search area...

2-8-1-5 north, 0-5-0-0-0 East.

Request search road to the East,
over.

603. What we'll be doing now,
one more north-south pass,

and we'll RTB for a hot pump.

And then we'll be back.

Well, let's concentrate the
next couple of hours on this

area right here.

Then we're gonna take the box,
we're gonna split it up, and

we're gonna start an expanding
square here, and we'll just

have the p3 just go over
the top.

Because I think he's in
this southern half somewhere.

I think he's in the
Southern half, too.

We've taken the box...
It's a 16-by-21 mile area... that we

figured out that this guy's in,
broken it down into sections,

and so we give an aircraft
a section.

We use latitude and longitude.

So we have one helicopter moving
north to South in the Southern

half of the box.

We have another helicopter in the
northern half of the box by itself.

And over the top of them, we
have a p-3 going back and

fourth East to West.

So when that all changes, we are
gonna turn everybody around and

they're gonna search the same
box, but they're gonna be

searching from a different
angle.

You always want to go over that
same thing at least 2 to 3

times, because it's amazing how
things look differently in the

water when you're looking which
way the waves are coming and

the wind and the white
caps and everything.

You look at it from a different
angle and you actually see

things in the water.

I can't really describe it.

It's just a terrible feeling for
me as a Captain to know that

one of my sailors is missing.

The first I knew was, I got woken
up by a phone call from the xo at

about 5:15, and he said that
the sailor was missing and had

been missing, actually, hadn't
shown up for watch at about 2:00.

We called about him with the
commander and started our search

and rescue both on the ship and
the rest of the strike group.

Seaman Macrum is a boatswain's
mate.

He's one of the guys who
used the announcing system.

He's, like, one of the
voices of the ship.

We've had sailors looking
for him all day, 12 hours.

Never left, didn't make a head
call, didn't get a drink of water.

I mean, they just wanted
to find their shipmate.

And we all feel like that.

I've been on-board for a while,
and we never had a man

overboard, so I never really
had to think about it.

But I always thought, wow, if
somebody falls over, yeah,

they'll find us, you know?

A helo will come pick us up
in like an hour, you know?

They'll see us go over
or something like that.

I never thought I
would just disappear.

It's kind of shocking, but...
I wish I could figure out

what happened, because knowing
Bobby, it's like, he's a very

careful person, not somebody
that I would imagine would

have had an accident like this.

It's our culture that when
something goes wrong, we want

to work at it to fix it.

And we will look as long as we
have to find our shipmate.

The last friend that I lost
in the Marine Corps was my

buddy, John Maloney, in Ramadi.

But 4 or 5 personal friends of
mine have been killed over here

in the last year.

He was the closest.

When you know guys are dying on
the ground, you don't even need

to know them.

It just still hurts the same,
especially when you are up

there and you've got all of
this firepower at your disposal

and a random, you know,
improvised explosive goes off,

kills somebody with you
overhead.

You're like, "what could I
have done to prevent that?"

And there's nothing you can do.

There's nothing you can do to stop
that if it's already gone off.

I don't know.

That part's pretty frustrating.

Everybody know what
happened to 301 last night?

Ok, the fact is, they said that
there was no safety wire on

the cannon plug whatsoever.

Do I believe that? No.

Can it fall off?

Yes. We all know it
does, and it happens.

It happened once on the 38th day,
and it happened again last night.

If you've got to double safety
wire the damn thing, I don't

care how we do it.

We're gonna find a way
to fix that damn part.

You understand?

I will not have something
happen to my guys on the ship.

I can't live with myself if
something happens to someone.

They're a part of me.

Turn it up.

Uh-oh!

Here we go, here we go.

The guys that work for me, we go
through a lot of stuff together.

A lot of crap, but a lot of going
out, having some good times.

I mean, we're close.

He's break dancing now.

He's break dancing now.

I would hate to see where I
would be if I didn't join the

Marine Corps.

Don't know where I would be, don't
know what I would be doing.

Get a drink of water, take off
your boots and get on the mat.

I joined the Marine Corps for a reason...
Because I had no

place to go.

So what you're gonna do is
you're gonna be in your basic

warrior stance just like this.

My biological parents were
drug addicts, alcoholics.

The things that my sister and I
have gone through... the abuse,

the things said, the things done...
I wouldn't wish upon anybody.

Then like this.

Now what? Now what?

I've never, ever let
my temper go all out.

I fight hard not to let it
happen.

In High School and junior high,
I got into fights all the time.

I lost my temper.

I'm not an angry person, but
there is so much anger at the

stuff that my parents pulled.

If I ever see those guys again,
I will kick the......

Out of them and kill them.

It's really not that big of
a deal.

He would still be out
there to find him.

If this guy's kicking and
swimming, you know, his drift

and the distance that he could
move based on your computations

means that if he's still floating,
we should be flying over him.

I don't know if this guy can
tread water for 12 hours or not.

I mean, this water's that'

out there is pretty salty,
it's dense, and it's easier

for you to tread water.

Plus it's over 66 degrees, so
there are sharks out there and...

Yeah...
Jellyfish.

Essentially, this is the
worst-case scenario to have to

swim in the water.

It's a guy without flotation, without
any kind of a signal device.

Can this guy survive 20
jellyfish stings and still

be able to tread water?

Or is some shark nibbling at
his toes?

We're hoping for the best, that
this guy wants to live, that

he's gonna fight for his life,
and we're gonna do our best

to make sure we're covering
this area so that if he's in

it, if he's in the box
that we've established,

then we're gonna find him.

It's hard to believe after a long,
long journey, it's time to go home.

I was actually on my way out
the door.

I was supposed to leave on
March 1st.

My three years were done,
and I had my orders.

Andy, I'm gonna leave
you my stash of cereal.

Yeah, buddy.

Take care of it.

My wife and kid have
moved to Mississippi.

On February 27th, we kind of had
a party, and everybody said

good-bye, and the skipper that
night asked me to stick around.

So here I am six months later.

Getting ready to go home, so
I'm still, I'm once again one

day away from leaving.

Hopefully, this time there's
no extension involved.

One thing I've learned on this
job is, you have very little

control at any time.

So we'll see what happens.

I had the silver ones.

You remember this one.

Oh, this is the wedding.

Yeah, that's the wedding.

I met my wife salsa dancing.

She was dating somebody at the
time.

I was just a friend.

Really didn't go out at all.

We just danced.

This one here...
No, here's this one.

They broke up.

I stepped in there.

I'm like, hey, you want to go
out?

This is a fold-out.

And to tell you the truth,
I think she's probably...

I think it's this one.

The four years from meeting my
wife until now, I mean, it's

been great.

And I got my sonogram.

My wife and I are expecting our first kid...
A little boy.

Well, he don't look like daddy
yet because he ain't had

his nose busted open to
the side.

For me, I'm a little scared.

Am I gonna be a good dad?

Am I gonna hold him right?

Is he gonna love me?

Am I gonna love him?

You know, I mean, given the
stuff that I've been through,

my biggest fear is turning into
the person that I came from.

6-1-3. Ok, we're...
Admiral's at desron.

What's the latest?

Ok, we have, initially we went
through, we had an initial

search pattern for our helos.

Worked it up, yeah, like
I briefed this morning.

Currently, at this time,
have an Australian p-3.

We have a US p-3.

We have a battle cat from Princeton,
and we also have our 613.

What are the pilots telling
you about the ability to pick

out things on the surface
with these water conditions?

Yes, sir, the winds have come down
slightly, which has been favorable.

They are definitely able to see
in through the white caps and

pick things up.

So we've had a pretty good chance
to see things this morning.

Well, my intention is just...
You know, I've talked to the

Captain about it...
Is to stay with this tonight while we

have the illumination and just
stay with it again tomorrow.

And maybe the next day,
you know?

I'm hoping 10 minutes from now,
this will be o-b-e, and we

won't have to do this anymore,
because we will have found our

guy and found him alive.

Yes, sir.

But in the meantime, I just
want you to know, I feel

like we're in this for the long
haul.

So thanks for the work of your guys...
Yes, sir.

This is important.

Hello.

Hey.

Hello?

Hello?

Hi.

What are you doing?

Hello?

Can you hear me?

I think I can hear you.

Are you sure?

Yes. Uh-oh.

What?

Nothing.

Have you checked your e-mail
lately?

No.

You haven't?

Why?
I don't know.

I was just wondering.

Well, not...Not...
I was just wondering.

Not since the last time I
checked it.

When was that, like a week ago?

No. I got that one.

Did you write me back?

No. Well I don't know.

Maybe I did.

I don't remember.

You don't remember if
you wrote me back?

Well...
I got to know something.

Do you plan on moving in with
me when I get back, honestly?

Yes.

You want to?

Yeah.

You don't seem...
Why?

You don't want me to anymore?

No, I want you to.

That's what I want to know.

But I have trouble believing you
sometimes because you never write.

Even if you sent me an e-mail
that just said, "I miss you,"

or "I miss the hell out of you,"

or whatever it is, and that's
it.

Nothing else.

I'd be happy, I guess.

I think that's boring.

Well, not writing me at all
is really boring for me.

It's boring?

You know I worry enough
already.

All right, baby.

I'm gonna go.

'Cause like I said, it's hotter
than hell, and I'm sweating my

ass off standing here.

Besides it's probably...
Ok.

It's going on 2 A.M. here.

I got to go take a
shower and get into bed.

I got another great day
tomorrow aboard USS "Nimitz."

Bye.

Bye.

Good-bye.

Almost 3 years I've been in the
Navy.

I've seen a lot of
relationships go down.

I just don't want it to be the
case this time because I have

a little girl on the way.

It must feel like, it's just
like, all right, I'm gone

and she's there doing all this
on her own and she just... I

don't know... just doesn't include
me if anything's going on.

Oh, man. I just turned 21.

Hey, guys.

How you doing?

I heard a nasty rumor there
is no cods tomorrow.

That may or may not be.

I can find out for you right
now if you want me to.

I know we're putting in an
ato request to get me off

the ship tomorrow.

And I just found out kind of
through some roundabout circles

that it's not happening.

And if it's not, then I have to kind of...
Hold on one second..

Figure it out.

Let me find out.

Yes, sir, I've got a
lieutenant inside the office.

He wants to find out, we got
cods running tomorrow, sir?

Negative.

There's none.

If you get your paperwork signed,
and go see your ops, the ops-o...

Yeah.

And he approves it, you
can get out today.

I got to go.

I'll keep working on it.

What's your last name, sir?

Booher.

I can't tell my wife one thing
and then let her down again.

I just feel like I'm
not keeping my word.

So every time I tell her that
I'm gonna be home, and then,

you know, every hour that I'm
not there

from the day that, or,
you know, the minute that I

tell her I'm gonna be there
is just brutal at this point.

She's been doing this on
her own for 12 months.

Hey, Bung, there's no
flight on the 17th.

There is no cods.

The cods are on no fly day.

And I had them double check, all right.
I'll check.

If it is, then it's either 2
hours from now is my last shot,

or I don't leave until next
Tuesday.

Yeah, all right, let me find
out.

According to, if you call the...

How about chief Jensen
or senior chief...

Yeah, everybody wants to go home.
It's not that I hate this.

It's just that I'm ready to go.

That's what I've been
prepaired to do, is go home.

I've been
counting down the days.

That's where I'm at right now.

This may be my last flight
ever in this aircraft.

And that's a big deal to
anybody.

I think if you ask anybody,
whether they're 40 or whether

they're 25, it's never easy to say
good-bye to something fantastic.

I think everybody's last
flight, especially in the best

jet that the Navy has, is tough.

On the link?

Affirmative. That was the
approximate position of where

we saw the object float.

The ops guy.

One of the helicopters has
found a small khaki-colored

object in the water.

We know that that's what
the guy was wearing.

So they've come back around
to try and relocate this.

It's a small object.

You know, may or may not be him.

So we're hoping for the best.

Sir, coordinator, rudders, 6-2,
it's just a piece of orange

plastic, man-size, but no Joey.

I got on and checked my
e-mail, right?

Tanya finally writes me for
the first time in a week, OK?

So I'm all happy about that.

I call her again on the phone
the other night to ask her why

she hadn't been writing me.

And I said, you know, "what's
the deal when I get back?

Are you gonna move in with me?"

You know?

And she said, yeah.

So, yeah, it's pretty much
a go, then.

Yeah.

They still haven't found
the Princeton guy.

Oh, 72 hours.

Yeah.

That's crazy, man.
I mean, you don't expect for that... you

know, you always know in the
back of your mind that......

Could happen, but it's
unfortunate, dude.

When I got back, the skipper told
me that I was good to go home.

Despite the ride that it's been
and as desperately as I want to

get home right now, I
know I'm gonna miss this.

It's never easy to say good-bye.

I know for me, I set my sights
as high as I could go and I was

lucky and fortunate enough to
end up here, so saying good-bye

to it is tough.

Am I gonna miss the guys? Yeah.

Unfortunately, I'm not gonna be
able to call them, you know,

every night and say, "hey,
let's have dinner."

I just can't do that anymore.

Yeah, I'm gonna miss it.

But I think one look at my wife
and kid, I'll be all right.

Almost home.

I don't think I'll take a deep
breath until I get off this

thing, though.

It's gonna be a while.

They're unloading.

The reason why it's
taking so long is they're

loading 4 Jacks right now.

You'll see when you get in that
bird.

They loading this
bird down right now.

They're loading 4 aircraft Jacks
on the cod with us and the bags.

There's room for that?

Plus all your boxes,
plus all their luggage.

Ha ha!

The only time I've ever taken
off or landed on an aircraft

carrier, I was the guy flying.

So I'm sure these guys.

Good buddies and all.

I'm sure they're great.

It's just one of these
pilot control things

where you just like, if you're
gonna do something like that,

you want to be doing it.

The admiral suspended

the search today, and
that's been the big deal.

We went easily a hundred
hours, heavily searching.

I think, I'm just adding
up the figures here.

I'm well over 4,000
square miles of search.

You know, it's a lot of water,
and, you know, we tried,

we tried our absolute best.

Princeton is still continuing
to look for their sailor, but

she's headed back up north,
'cause she has to rejoin the

carrier here tonight to
continue to be our escort.

At least they got to spend some
time looking for their guy.

You know, best cruise in the
world is when you bring every

single person home.

But the reality is that people
do die.

Oh, my God. She wrote me.

Oh.

Did you get anything?

Yeah, she's pissed.

Basically, I wrote her, really
pissed off the other day, that

it had been like 51/2, 6 days
since she wrote me again.

Yeah, I should probably
at least write her back.

She probably won't check
it for a week but...

♪ Can't say how I'll feel tomorrow
'cause I've been known to fall

apart and I'll look for
words that I could borrow

but that don't seem to change the
way we are all I got is time time

for livin'

all I got is time time with you

everything I know is in my heart ♪

I'm just kind of worried,
you know.

I don't know if you...
I don't know what you're thinking.

I don't know what's going on.

♪ It makes me crazy when you do
this it burns like fire in my veins

now, how could someone

be so careless?

It reminds me of myself once again

all I got is time time for Vin'

and all I got is time time to
give you everything I know

is in my heart ♪

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