Episode Rec: North (pulsar4529)
I love this episode. It's got singing, aircraft, Red Green, and a ton of wonderful moments.
The opening scene cracks me up every single time. Fraser and Vecchio are in the small country airport and they can't seem to get service. And we get new haircuts.
Vecchio: He's been on the same page for an hour now. Can we get some service over here?
Fraser: You know Ray, things move at their own pace in small places.
Fraser: Ray, Ray, Ray.
Vecchio: I give up 2 weeks vacation in Miami for this.
Fraser: Well as I recall it was your idea.
Vecchio: No As I recall I said maybe as in maybe we should go up north and fix up your father's cabin. You on the other hand could have said no.
Fraser: Well you don't have to do this.
Vecchio: Oh yes I do because it's like a ... what do you call it... a death bed confession... you have to honor it... Besides where else but Canada can I spend 2 weeks hard labor living off the land.
Fraser: Well I for one am glad we're going.
Poor Ray, he can never just go to Miami. He always ends up helping Fraser instead.
Vecchio: I know how they're different, they're Canadian and I'm American. That is how they're different. Are you discriminating against me because I'm American because if you are let me tell you something--
Fraser: Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray. Excuse me, Sir. I wonder if you could just check the manifest and see if this extra weight might not be permitted within the maximum pay load.
Hamish: All right. I'll see what I can do.
Fraser: Thank you kindly.
[Hamish takes another swig of coffee]
Vecchio: I hope you burst.
Hamish: Is that a hand gun there?
But they finally get out to the ramp. The aircraft that they are using is a Beechcraft King Air registered in Canada (It starts with a C). The number is C-GJ8V. This is the actual plane.
Back in the hangar Jack, who is the pilot of the aircraft, gets shot by a convict that is escaping. He then takes over Jack's job.
Hamish [over radio]: Clear for take off any time Jack. Weather's good to zero nine thousand heading two niner eight all the way up to the Territories.
Jim : Roger.
Hamish: Are you coming back tonight after you drop off the cops?
Jim: Cops?
Hamish: That's right. The Mountie's fine but that other guys going to take some getting used to.
Fraser: Huh.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Nothing.... Huh.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Oh it's nothing. It's probably nothing...
[Plane lurches]
Vecchio: That was not nothing. I'm going to have a little talk with this guy. Hey Jim. You want to keep your eyes on the road?
Jim: Is there a problem here?
Vecchio: No I love having my kidneys.
Fraser: Actually we're quite fine, thank you, Jim.
Jim: You guys better keep your seat belts on.
Vecchio: Yeah you'd better watch the road.
Fraser: You wouldn't happen to have your backup gun?
Vecchio: No
Fraser: Oh well
Vecchio: Oh well what?
Fraser: It's just an observation. Probably ill timed but I don't think this is our pilot.
Vecchio: You're telling me.
Fraser: No, I mean, I think he maybe a pilot I don't think he's our pilot. There's dandruff on the collar of his flight suit, none on his scalp.
Vecchio: And for that we shoot him?
Fraser: The Territories are North West we've been flying south for two hours. Also he's ignoring radio calls, and occasionally flying under radar coverage.
Vecchio: So what are you saying we're being hijacked?
Fraser: No not necessarily but the chaffing on his wrists is consistent with a man whose recently been in hand cuffs add tot hat the blood on the back of his flight suit and the prominent bullet hole - well, I leave it up to you.
Vecchio: You couldn't have mentioned this earlier?
Fraser: It's a mute point Ray, he has a gun, we don't.
Vecchio: This isn't a trick is it?
Fraser: On my word of honor. [Ray produces a gun from his ankle holster] But I will have to arrest you, of course, once we land.
Fraser: It's a light plane Ray, I don't think we have enough fuel to reach the middle east. My guess is he's a smuggler and we're heading for Mexico.
Vecchio: Yeah where 50 of his friends are going to be waiting for us with oozies. You know what happens to hostages, Fraser, Cop Hostages. Bodies on the tarmac, CNN. This is not happening to me. You got to get him to turn this plane round right away.
Fraser: You're right. On the other hand, there could be a struggle, he might refuse to co operate and in which case we have to fly this plane ourselves. Now that might be possible with some assistance from air traffic control, and I did read a flight training manual in my grandmother's library. There were a couple of pages missing, but I'm sure nothing vital. And I'm guessing that there are a lot of similarities between a Sopwith Camel and toady's light aircraft.
This is the body of a Sopwith Camel:
[Jim jumps out of plane with a parachute... Plane is going down... Fraser rushes to the controls.]
Vecchio: The radio!
Fraser: It's broken, sit down.!
Fraser: Strap yourself in. Hold on!
Fraser: The emergency equipment, the ELT and the radio were all destroyed in the crash. The plane's under cover of trees, it will never be found. Now on the way down I noticed a river. There's bound to be a road that crosses it. Undoubtedly the hijacker saw it as well. That's where he'll head. If we move hard and drive fast we should be able to intercept him by nightfall. Any questions?
Vecchio: Yes. How far do you think you're going to get with that gash on your head.
All of that was destroyed in the crash, yet they sustained minimal injuries. In Canada ELTs are required to withstand ultimate inertia forces of 10g upward, 22.5g downward, 45g forward and 7.5g sideward. But that's television for you.
Vecchio: You're really, really blind.
Fraser: As a bat.
Vecchio: Well why didn't you say something?
Fraser: No point making a bad situation worse.
Vecchio: Worse? Fraser, you can't see come on we're going back to the plane.
Fraser: But Ray I still have four senses left.
Vecchio: You can't see!
Fraser: I'm blind, Ray, I'm not deaf. I've spent my whole life in the northern woods tracking criminals I have a natural advantage here. There isn't a thing in this forest that I cant hear, taste, touch, smell, feel. It's a finely tuned ability gained from years of experience. So if you'll just stand aside I'll be on my way.
[Fraser walks into a tree]
Vecchio: That was a tree.
Fraser: Yes it was. A white ash. Fraxinus americania to be exact. Shall we?
Hamish: We haven't located them yet and there's no sign of the plane either.
Welsh: All right I'll notify the family. You get any news I want it. Right thanks.
I'm kind of glad that we really didn't see a whole lot of what was going on in Chicago. I just feel that it would have destracted from the main plot.
Fraser: So we should start to come to a river valley. The trees should thin out. The floor will become more low lying. Willow, Buckthorn, possibly, infantile cotton wood.
Vecchio: That's supposed to mean something to me?
Fraser: Trees only shorter. Ah the river valley should be just about here Tell me what you see Ray.
Vecchio: Oh I well see trees.
Fraser: Good, good describe them.
Vecchio: Green mostly.
Fraser: What time is it Ray?
Vecchio: It's uh one thirty.
Fraser: I think you're a little off.
Vecchio: Hehe. How do you know that?
Fraser: Because of the sun on my nose.
Vecchio: There is no sun on your nose.
Fraser: Ray will you just check the compass, even an error of one or two degrees could put us hundreds of miles off course.
Vecchio: I know that, I'm not an idiot.
Fraser: Well I'm not saying you are.
Vecchio: OK good. And by the way I have gone camping before.
Fraser: You have not gone::
Vecchio: I have too.
Fraser: When?
Vecchio: When I was a kid.
Fraser: With who?
Vecchio: My Dad and to prove a point we are heading west..see... of course not what was I thinking. [Fraser starts to walk off cliff] Fraser!
Fraser: Ray you all right?
Vecchio: Yeah you, okay?
Fraser: Oh I'm fine, next time watch where you're going please. You could get us both killed.
Vecchio: We're lost.
Fraser: No we're not we just don't know where we are.
Vecchio: Like there's a difference?
Fraser: Well being lost is usually accompanied by a feeling of panic, Ray.
Vecchio: Are you saying I'm panicking?
Fraser: On the contrary. You see Ray, people who are lost, panic. They walk aimlessly in the woods very often in circles until eventually well they die, either from starvation or from lack of water. Now we by comparison, we have remained calm. Now you see this is the secret to surviving in the woods, remaining-- Ray I smell something. I smell fuel. Burnt plastic...metal.. what is it?
Vecchio: It's a plane crash.
Fraser: My God, Ray another plane crash, what are the odds?
Vecchio: It's our plane crash, you moron we've been going around in circles this whole time. What's the matter with you? Get down, get down, get down! [Hijacker fires shots at them]
Fraser: I'm going to handle this Ray, in the name of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I... [more shots]
Vecchio: I don't think he heard you.
Fraser: Good shooting Ray, let's hope he's alive to testify.
[Hijacker runs off]
[Ray starts scavenging through the wreckage]
Vecchio: OK let's see what the hijacker left us. Well, tube of toothpaste. [tosses it away] Sun screen. [tosses it away] Oh here's something we can use... Haemorrhoid paste. [tosses it away]
Fraser: I almost had him.
Vecchio: A breath mint. I suppose we could boil it. [puts it in his pocket]
Fraser: Text book situation maybe he heard us approach.
Vecchio: Dief's got peanuts... here Dief. You didn't really think he'd surrender did you?
Fraser: Well not with you firing at him.
Vecchio: Oh yeah you're right next Time I'll just let him shoot us.
Fraser: Oh Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray with a little perseverance and a little ingenuity and a fundamental understanding of how to go about it. One can live like a king in the woods. [Fraser lifts a stone revealing meal worms]
Vecchio: No way
Fraser: Oh Ray, they're very nutritional. Far more strengthening than fish or meat.
Vecchio: You eat them then.
Fraser: Sh...Shhh
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Shhh. I think I hear a nest of furry night crawlers.
Fraser: All right. All right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Ray! I think I know what happened today.
Vecchio: Great.
Fraser: One of my legs is probably fractionally, just a little bit longer than the other one you see. Which caused us to walk in a giant circle. I should have taken this into account. Ray. Measure my legs.
Vecchio: I'm not going to measure your legs.
Fraser: Hey you know what?
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: I think the head injury's thrown me off a tad.
Vecchio: I'd say just a little more than a tad.
Fraser: You know what I'm guessing... I'm guessing the blow I received caused a subdural hematoma the resulting swelling of the anterior cerebrum put pressure on the optic nerve. Well at least it's not getting any worse. If I became disorientated, we'd really be in a pickle. ]Fraser falls into fire] Ray if you're going to insist on moving this thing you really should tell a body.
Uhhh, I'm just studying to be an aircraft mechanic, not a doctor...so don't ask me if that's accurate.
Fraser: No. No need to apologise Steve.
Vecchio: Steve?
Fraser: What?
Vecchio: You just called me Steve.
Fraser: I most certainly did not.
Vecchio: You did too.
There's been numerous thoughts on who "Steve" is. I've seen them from suggesting that Steve was a lover of his to a mentor from his early years in the RCMP. But then Fraser Sr. shows up.
Robert: You're never going to teach him how to start a fire that way.
Fraser: Well I believe he thinks we're going to die out here and not without justification.
Robert: Well he's right you've got yourself into one hell of a predicament.
Fraser: Well it was hardly of my making was it?
Robert: Umm grubs.. [Sticks a grub in his mouth]
Robert: Go get your man.
Fraser: Oh good I'm glad you brought that up. Would you explain to me please just once and for all explain to me, why is it we always have to get our man?
Robert: Well... it's the motto, son.
Fraser: It is not.
Robert: It is.
Fraser: It is not. It is definitely not our motto. Our motto actually is 'Maintain the Right'
Robert: Maintain the Right?
Fraser: Maintain the Right. Now what you're saying is we're supposed to pursue people to the ends of the earth for a motto that isn't even our motto.
Robert[muttering]: Well must be the new one then the old one used to be just go get your man or bring him back alive.. or just something... go get him...[Wanders off]
Then Ray's Dad shows up.
Vecchio: My father hated cops.
Fraser: Where are you going?
Vecchio: Oh I'm going to go get some of those dry sticks.
Fraser: Ah.
Vecchio: And maybe some rocks.
Fraser: Good. Dad? [No answer] Good.
[We rejoin Ray a little way from the campsite, Ray's dead father appears]
Pa Vecchio: I heard that.
Vecchio: Nobody's talking to you.
Pa Vecchio: You tell a stranger something like that about your family?
Vecchio: He's not a stranger he's my friend.
Vecchio: It's always the way it is with you, Pop, ain't it? Just you, screw the rest of the world huh?
Pa Vecchio: Something wrong with that?
Fraser: Yes. I didn't want to wake you. I've made breakfast.
Vecchio: No, no thanks, you go ahead. Listen.
Fraser: A search plane, someone's in trouble.
Vecchio: Yeah us... come on come on. [Fires flare gun] I don't think they saw it [Goes to reload gun]
Fraser: It's no use Ray, search planes fly in grid patterns. He won't be back.
Vecchio: Why didn't you say something. What the hell is wrong with you? That might be the only chance to get out of here alive.
Fraser: Ray we still have a man to catch.
Vecchio: What are you - okay, okay I'll pack up, then we'll get out of here. [Fraser laughs hysterically] What's so funny?
Fraser: [laughs a bit more] Well it would appear that I have lost the use of my legs. [On the move. Ray is carrying Fraser.] Ray if at any point during our trip I should become a burden to you, you would let me know wouldn't you?
Pa Vecchio: You're going to give him all the water?
Vecchio: What's it to you?
Pa Vecchio: You're doing all the work, you should keep it for yourself.
Vecchio: Get away from me Pop.
Pa Vecchio: Yeah well don't blame me if you die out here...
Robert: He's slowing you down.
Fraser: He's slowing me down?
Robert: When I first joined the mounted police all the equipment we got was a paper bag and a pointed stick. We used the bag to boil tea and the stick was for killing game and if you lost either they charged you!
Fraser: Are you ill?
Robert There's nothing to be ashamed of son, you've got a man to catch.
Then, the singing...
Robert: Leave him, take the raft you can still get your man.
Fraser: Absolutely not.
Robert: They'll have you up on charges.
Fraser: Do you ever listen to yourself?
Vecchio: I'm not going to leave you here.
Robert: If they survive.
Pa Vecchio: All right if you're not going to do it, I'll do it for you.
Vecchio: Get away from me.
Fraser: I'm no where near you.
Vecchio: I'm not talking to you. This man is going to die if I don't get him out of here. Now I don't care what that makes me but what it doesn't make me is you. Now back off all right.
Fraser: Ray, who are you talking to?
Vecchio: Okay, if nothing else springs to mind I want to get something off my chest. *Go-go-go-go-go*. My Dad when I was a kid - *down-down-down*- used to hang out down the pool hall, shooting pool and drinking expresso with the guys and acting like a real jalook, which he was - *Go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go* - So I'm 10 right. I get this idea in my head that I want to go camping. I don't know where I get it.. out of a book or something.. but the point is that I just want to be with him, you know I just want to spend some time with him. So finally he says 'yes' and I go and I get a tent right?
Fraser: Is this a particularly long story Ray?
Vecchio: So my Mom being the sweetheart that she is, goes and gets me her best sheets, her really good sheets. So I get some wood cause I want to start a fire, right? But what I really want is for him to teach me how to make a fire. So I'm waiting for him to come, right? And it starts to rain.
Fraser: Ray - the river.
Vecchio: *Go-go-go-go-go* I waited and waited but he never came. So I go down to Finelli's and sure enough, there he is shooting pool with his friends. I go home I take the tent down and we never speak of it ever again.
Fraser: We can't choose our families Ray.
Vecchio: Fraser I never camped with my father. Not once.
Fraser: And where's the bola?
Vecchio: Fraser he's got a gun. I'm not going to leap out into the open and start flinging stones at his head.
Fraser: Oh no Ray, I am. I think I can find his range with your help.
Vecchio: Fraser, you can't see!
[Ray gets up to find the bola]
Fraser: I can see!
[Fraser bangs his head.. and is knocked out. Ray throws the bola and it hits a rock above the hijacker causing a very big rock to fall on his head.]
Vecchio: Wow Fraser, Fraser?
Fraser: Ray.
Vecchio: How many fingers?
Fraser: Four. What happened?
Vecchio: Oh you're not going to believe this.. nobody's going to believe it. It was the most improbable natural phenomenon I have ever seen.
Robert: Good work son.
Fraser: Thank you.
Vecchio: For what?
Robert: You got your man.
Fraser: We got our man.
Vecchio: Yes we did, Benny, yes we did.
Robert: But I think he's dead.
Fraser: Oh... Oh dear.
Vecchio: You can avoid nature, Fraser, you got to work with it. See we're perfectly fine. I know what I'm doing.
Fraser: I never doubted it.
Vecchio: Admit it I know what I'm doing.
Fraser: You know what you're doing.... Ray.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Is that a water fall?
One of the things about this episode is that both of their Father's weren't great at it. So, we get to see their reactions to them. Frasier, I think, enjoys seeing his father somewhat, even if he is slightly annoying at times. Vecchio, on the other hand does not. He doesn't want to become his Dad, and his path in life shows that he hasn't.
We also see a more outward emotional Fraser, due to the head injury. I don't think it was out-of-character, we just happen to see him with his guard down.
Plus, Dief with the peanuts!
If you do want to write a story which deals with them plane crash here are some resources:
Aircraft Identification
Airliners.net Oooooohhh...pretty pictures! (civilian and military)
List of Civil Aircraft
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge This is four pdf files that details pretty much everything you'll need to know to write something. It's pretty detailed, but it's also a rather simple read (it's for pilots of course...sorry I had to). However, this covers more of the background, scientific knowledge.
Aeronautical Information Manual This is more information then you'll probably ever need. However, if you truly want to write a very, very accurate fic you might want this. It details all about navigational beacons, ATC procedures, weather, and a whole lot more.
Airplane Flying HandbookThis is more about the actual flying, than the science behind flying. For example, you can read about pre-flight inspections, starting, flight maneuvers, landing, and emergency procedures (That's chapter 16).
Aircraft Accidents
NTSB-Aviation Accident Aircraft This is a goldmine of aircraft accidents. For example, if your story involves flying on a Cessna 172R that will crash (in order for them to bond in the wilderness or something like that), just plug in Cessna 172R into the Make/Model box and you'll find a whole lot of accident reports. Some are very simple summaaries, and some are very detailed (such as for the commerical flights).
Emergency position-indicating Radio beacons (EPIRB), Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) and Personal Locator Beacons Key frequencies: 121.5 MHz (Civil), 243 MHz (Military), and then 406 Mhz (Uses Satelites to locate the plane's ELT).
Flying Stories:
Canadian Snowbirds
Other Stuff:
International Phonetic Alphabet
Radio and Interphone Communications Example of radio communications, how to properly state numbers, identification (aircraft and facility).
Flight Aware Track aircraft (civilian-GA & Commerical).
Listen to live ATC communications
Various Articles about Maintenence
Aviation Terminology
But I apologize for posting this so late in the day, the flight schedule got changed and I had to spend some extra time at work.
The opening scene cracks me up every single time. Fraser and Vecchio are in the small country airport and they can't seem to get service. And we get new haircuts.
Vecchio: He's been on the same page for an hour now. Can we get some service over here?
Fraser: You know Ray, things move at their own pace in small places.
Fraser: Ray, Ray, Ray.
Vecchio: I give up 2 weeks vacation in Miami for this.
Fraser: Well as I recall it was your idea.
Vecchio: No As I recall I said maybe as in maybe we should go up north and fix up your father's cabin. You on the other hand could have said no.
Fraser: Well you don't have to do this.
Vecchio: Oh yes I do because it's like a ... what do you call it... a death bed confession... you have to honor it... Besides where else but Canada can I spend 2 weeks hard labor living off the land.
Fraser: Well I for one am glad we're going.
Poor Ray, he can never just go to Miami. He always ends up helping Fraser instead.
Vecchio: I know how they're different, they're Canadian and I'm American. That is how they're different. Are you discriminating against me because I'm American because if you are let me tell you something--
Fraser: Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray. Excuse me, Sir. I wonder if you could just check the manifest and see if this extra weight might not be permitted within the maximum pay load.
Hamish: All right. I'll see what I can do.
Fraser: Thank you kindly.
[Hamish takes another swig of coffee]
Vecchio: I hope you burst.
Hamish: Is that a hand gun there?
But they finally get out to the ramp. The aircraft that they are using is a Beechcraft King Air registered in Canada (It starts with a C). The number is C-GJ8V. This is the actual plane.
Back in the hangar Jack, who is the pilot of the aircraft, gets shot by a convict that is escaping. He then takes over Jack's job.
Hamish [over radio]: Clear for take off any time Jack. Weather's good to zero nine thousand heading two niner eight all the way up to the Territories.
Jim : Roger.
Hamish: Are you coming back tonight after you drop off the cops?
Jim: Cops?
Hamish: That's right. The Mountie's fine but that other guys going to take some getting used to.
Fraser: Huh.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Nothing.... Huh.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Oh it's nothing. It's probably nothing...
[Plane lurches]
Vecchio: That was not nothing. I'm going to have a little talk with this guy. Hey Jim. You want to keep your eyes on the road?
Jim: Is there a problem here?
Vecchio: No I love having my kidneys.
Fraser: Actually we're quite fine, thank you, Jim.
Jim: You guys better keep your seat belts on.
Vecchio: Yeah you'd better watch the road.
Fraser: You wouldn't happen to have your backup gun?
Vecchio: No
Fraser: Oh well
Vecchio: Oh well what?
Fraser: It's just an observation. Probably ill timed but I don't think this is our pilot.
Vecchio: You're telling me.
Fraser: No, I mean, I think he maybe a pilot I don't think he's our pilot. There's dandruff on the collar of his flight suit, none on his scalp.
Vecchio: And for that we shoot him?
Fraser: The Territories are North West we've been flying south for two hours. Also he's ignoring radio calls, and occasionally flying under radar coverage.
Vecchio: So what are you saying we're being hijacked?
Fraser: No not necessarily but the chaffing on his wrists is consistent with a man whose recently been in hand cuffs add tot hat the blood on the back of his flight suit and the prominent bullet hole - well, I leave it up to you.
Vecchio: You couldn't have mentioned this earlier?
Fraser: It's a mute point Ray, he has a gun, we don't.
Vecchio: This isn't a trick is it?
Fraser: On my word of honor. [Ray produces a gun from his ankle holster] But I will have to arrest you, of course, once we land.
Fraser: It's a light plane Ray, I don't think we have enough fuel to reach the middle east. My guess is he's a smuggler and we're heading for Mexico.
Vecchio: Yeah where 50 of his friends are going to be waiting for us with oozies. You know what happens to hostages, Fraser, Cop Hostages. Bodies on the tarmac, CNN. This is not happening to me. You got to get him to turn this plane round right away.
Fraser: You're right. On the other hand, there could be a struggle, he might refuse to co operate and in which case we have to fly this plane ourselves. Now that might be possible with some assistance from air traffic control, and I did read a flight training manual in my grandmother's library. There were a couple of pages missing, but I'm sure nothing vital. And I'm guessing that there are a lot of similarities between a Sopwith Camel and toady's light aircraft.
This is the body of a Sopwith Camel:
[Jim jumps out of plane with a parachute... Plane is going down... Fraser rushes to the controls.]
Vecchio: The radio!
Fraser: It's broken, sit down.!
Fraser: Strap yourself in. Hold on!
Fraser: The emergency equipment, the ELT and the radio were all destroyed in the crash. The plane's under cover of trees, it will never be found. Now on the way down I noticed a river. There's bound to be a road that crosses it. Undoubtedly the hijacker saw it as well. That's where he'll head. If we move hard and drive fast we should be able to intercept him by nightfall. Any questions?
Vecchio: Yes. How far do you think you're going to get with that gash on your head.
All of that was destroyed in the crash, yet they sustained minimal injuries. In Canada ELTs are required to withstand ultimate inertia forces of 10g upward, 22.5g downward, 45g forward and 7.5g sideward. But that's television for you.
Vecchio: You're really, really blind.
Fraser: As a bat.
Vecchio: Well why didn't you say something?
Fraser: No point making a bad situation worse.
Vecchio: Worse? Fraser, you can't see come on we're going back to the plane.
Fraser: But Ray I still have four senses left.
Vecchio: You can't see!
Fraser: I'm blind, Ray, I'm not deaf. I've spent my whole life in the northern woods tracking criminals I have a natural advantage here. There isn't a thing in this forest that I cant hear, taste, touch, smell, feel. It's a finely tuned ability gained from years of experience. So if you'll just stand aside I'll be on my way.
[Fraser walks into a tree]
Vecchio: That was a tree.
Fraser: Yes it was. A white ash. Fraxinus americania to be exact. Shall we?
Hamish: We haven't located them yet and there's no sign of the plane either.
Welsh: All right I'll notify the family. You get any news I want it. Right thanks.
I'm kind of glad that we really didn't see a whole lot of what was going on in Chicago. I just feel that it would have destracted from the main plot.
Fraser: So we should start to come to a river valley. The trees should thin out. The floor will become more low lying. Willow, Buckthorn, possibly, infantile cotton wood.
Vecchio: That's supposed to mean something to me?
Fraser: Trees only shorter. Ah the river valley should be just about here Tell me what you see Ray.
Vecchio: Oh I well see trees.
Fraser: Good, good describe them.
Vecchio: Green mostly.
Fraser: What time is it Ray?
Vecchio: It's uh one thirty.
Fraser: I think you're a little off.
Vecchio: Hehe. How do you know that?
Fraser: Because of the sun on my nose.
Vecchio: There is no sun on your nose.
Fraser: Ray will you just check the compass, even an error of one or two degrees could put us hundreds of miles off course.
Vecchio: I know that, I'm not an idiot.
Fraser: Well I'm not saying you are.
Vecchio: OK good. And by the way I have gone camping before.
Fraser: You have not gone::
Vecchio: I have too.
Fraser: When?
Vecchio: When I was a kid.
Fraser: With who?
Vecchio: My Dad and to prove a point we are heading west..see... of course not what was I thinking. [Fraser starts to walk off cliff] Fraser!
Fraser: Ray you all right?
Vecchio: Yeah you, okay?
Fraser: Oh I'm fine, next time watch where you're going please. You could get us both killed.
Vecchio: We're lost.
Fraser: No we're not we just don't know where we are.
Vecchio: Like there's a difference?
Fraser: Well being lost is usually accompanied by a feeling of panic, Ray.
Vecchio: Are you saying I'm panicking?
Fraser: On the contrary. You see Ray, people who are lost, panic. They walk aimlessly in the woods very often in circles until eventually well they die, either from starvation or from lack of water. Now we by comparison, we have remained calm. Now you see this is the secret to surviving in the woods, remaining-- Ray I smell something. I smell fuel. Burnt plastic...metal.. what is it?
Vecchio: It's a plane crash.
Fraser: My God, Ray another plane crash, what are the odds?
Vecchio: It's our plane crash, you moron we've been going around in circles this whole time. What's the matter with you? Get down, get down, get down! [Hijacker fires shots at them]
Fraser: I'm going to handle this Ray, in the name of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I... [more shots]
Vecchio: I don't think he heard you.
Fraser: Good shooting Ray, let's hope he's alive to testify.
[Hijacker runs off]
[Ray starts scavenging through the wreckage]
Vecchio: OK let's see what the hijacker left us. Well, tube of toothpaste. [tosses it away] Sun screen. [tosses it away] Oh here's something we can use... Haemorrhoid paste. [tosses it away]
Fraser: I almost had him.
Vecchio: A breath mint. I suppose we could boil it. [puts it in his pocket]
Fraser: Text book situation maybe he heard us approach.
Vecchio: Dief's got peanuts... here Dief. You didn't really think he'd surrender did you?
Fraser: Well not with you firing at him.
Vecchio: Oh yeah you're right next Time I'll just let him shoot us.
Fraser: Oh Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray with a little perseverance and a little ingenuity and a fundamental understanding of how to go about it. One can live like a king in the woods. [Fraser lifts a stone revealing meal worms]
Vecchio: No way
Fraser: Oh Ray, they're very nutritional. Far more strengthening than fish or meat.
Vecchio: You eat them then.
Fraser: Sh...Shhh
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Shhh. I think I hear a nest of furry night crawlers.
Fraser: All right. All right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Ray! I think I know what happened today.
Vecchio: Great.
Fraser: One of my legs is probably fractionally, just a little bit longer than the other one you see. Which caused us to walk in a giant circle. I should have taken this into account. Ray. Measure my legs.
Vecchio: I'm not going to measure your legs.
Fraser: Hey you know what?
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: I think the head injury's thrown me off a tad.
Vecchio: I'd say just a little more than a tad.
Fraser: You know what I'm guessing... I'm guessing the blow I received caused a subdural hematoma the resulting swelling of the anterior cerebrum put pressure on the optic nerve. Well at least it's not getting any worse. If I became disorientated, we'd really be in a pickle. ]Fraser falls into fire] Ray if you're going to insist on moving this thing you really should tell a body.
Uhhh, I'm just studying to be an aircraft mechanic, not a doctor...so don't ask me if that's accurate.
Fraser: No. No need to apologise Steve.
Vecchio: Steve?
Fraser: What?
Vecchio: You just called me Steve.
Fraser: I most certainly did not.
Vecchio: You did too.
There's been numerous thoughts on who "Steve" is. I've seen them from suggesting that Steve was a lover of his to a mentor from his early years in the RCMP. But then Fraser Sr. shows up.
Robert: You're never going to teach him how to start a fire that way.
Fraser: Well I believe he thinks we're going to die out here and not without justification.
Robert: Well he's right you've got yourself into one hell of a predicament.
Fraser: Well it was hardly of my making was it?
Robert: Umm grubs.. [Sticks a grub in his mouth]
Robert: Go get your man.
Fraser: Oh good I'm glad you brought that up. Would you explain to me please just once and for all explain to me, why is it we always have to get our man?
Robert: Well... it's the motto, son.
Fraser: It is not.
Robert: It is.
Fraser: It is not. It is definitely not our motto. Our motto actually is 'Maintain the Right'
Robert: Maintain the Right?
Fraser: Maintain the Right. Now what you're saying is we're supposed to pursue people to the ends of the earth for a motto that isn't even our motto.
Robert[muttering]: Well must be the new one then the old one used to be just go get your man or bring him back alive.. or just something... go get him...[Wanders off]
Then Ray's Dad shows up.
Vecchio: My father hated cops.
Fraser: Where are you going?
Vecchio: Oh I'm going to go get some of those dry sticks.
Fraser: Ah.
Vecchio: And maybe some rocks.
Fraser: Good. Dad? [No answer] Good.
[We rejoin Ray a little way from the campsite, Ray's dead father appears]
Pa Vecchio: I heard that.
Vecchio: Nobody's talking to you.
Pa Vecchio: You tell a stranger something like that about your family?
Vecchio: He's not a stranger he's my friend.
Vecchio: It's always the way it is with you, Pop, ain't it? Just you, screw the rest of the world huh?
Pa Vecchio: Something wrong with that?
Fraser: Yes. I didn't want to wake you. I've made breakfast.
Vecchio: No, no thanks, you go ahead. Listen.
Fraser: A search plane, someone's in trouble.
Vecchio: Yeah us... come on come on. [Fires flare gun] I don't think they saw it [Goes to reload gun]
Fraser: It's no use Ray, search planes fly in grid patterns. He won't be back.
Vecchio: Why didn't you say something. What the hell is wrong with you? That might be the only chance to get out of here alive.
Fraser: Ray we still have a man to catch.
Vecchio: What are you - okay, okay I'll pack up, then we'll get out of here. [Fraser laughs hysterically] What's so funny?
Fraser: [laughs a bit more] Well it would appear that I have lost the use of my legs. [On the move. Ray is carrying Fraser.] Ray if at any point during our trip I should become a burden to you, you would let me know wouldn't you?
Pa Vecchio: You're going to give him all the water?
Vecchio: What's it to you?
Pa Vecchio: You're doing all the work, you should keep it for yourself.
Vecchio: Get away from me Pop.
Pa Vecchio: Yeah well don't blame me if you die out here...
Robert: He's slowing you down.
Fraser: He's slowing me down?
Robert: When I first joined the mounted police all the equipment we got was a paper bag and a pointed stick. We used the bag to boil tea and the stick was for killing game and if you lost either they charged you!
Fraser: Are you ill?
Robert There's nothing to be ashamed of son, you've got a man to catch.
Then, the singing...
Robert: Leave him, take the raft you can still get your man.
Fraser: Absolutely not.
Robert: They'll have you up on charges.
Fraser: Do you ever listen to yourself?
Vecchio: I'm not going to leave you here.
Robert: If they survive.
Pa Vecchio: All right if you're not going to do it, I'll do it for you.
Vecchio: Get away from me.
Fraser: I'm no where near you.
Vecchio: I'm not talking to you. This man is going to die if I don't get him out of here. Now I don't care what that makes me but what it doesn't make me is you. Now back off all right.
Fraser: Ray, who are you talking to?
Vecchio: Okay, if nothing else springs to mind I want to get something off my chest. *Go-go-go-go-go*. My Dad when I was a kid - *down-down-down*- used to hang out down the pool hall, shooting pool and drinking expresso with the guys and acting like a real jalook, which he was - *Go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go* - So I'm 10 right. I get this idea in my head that I want to go camping. I don't know where I get it.. out of a book or something.. but the point is that I just want to be with him, you know I just want to spend some time with him. So finally he says 'yes' and I go and I get a tent right?
Fraser: Is this a particularly long story Ray?
Vecchio: So my Mom being the sweetheart that she is, goes and gets me her best sheets, her really good sheets. So I get some wood cause I want to start a fire, right? But what I really want is for him to teach me how to make a fire. So I'm waiting for him to come, right? And it starts to rain.
Fraser: Ray - the river.
Vecchio: *Go-go-go-go-go* I waited and waited but he never came. So I go down to Finelli's and sure enough, there he is shooting pool with his friends. I go home I take the tent down and we never speak of it ever again.
Fraser: We can't choose our families Ray.
Vecchio: Fraser I never camped with my father. Not once.
Fraser: And where's the bola?
Vecchio: Fraser he's got a gun. I'm not going to leap out into the open and start flinging stones at his head.
Fraser: Oh no Ray, I am. I think I can find his range with your help.
Vecchio: Fraser, you can't see!
[Ray gets up to find the bola]
Fraser: I can see!
[Fraser bangs his head.. and is knocked out. Ray throws the bola and it hits a rock above the hijacker causing a very big rock to fall on his head.]
Vecchio: Wow Fraser, Fraser?
Fraser: Ray.
Vecchio: How many fingers?
Fraser: Four. What happened?
Vecchio: Oh you're not going to believe this.. nobody's going to believe it. It was the most improbable natural phenomenon I have ever seen.
Robert: Good work son.
Fraser: Thank you.
Vecchio: For what?
Robert: You got your man.
Fraser: We got our man.
Vecchio: Yes we did, Benny, yes we did.
Robert: But I think he's dead.
Fraser: Oh... Oh dear.
Vecchio: You can avoid nature, Fraser, you got to work with it. See we're perfectly fine. I know what I'm doing.
Fraser: I never doubted it.
Vecchio: Admit it I know what I'm doing.
Fraser: You know what you're doing.... Ray.
Vecchio: What?
Fraser: Is that a water fall?
One of the things about this episode is that both of their Father's weren't great at it. So, we get to see their reactions to them. Frasier, I think, enjoys seeing his father somewhat, even if he is slightly annoying at times. Vecchio, on the other hand does not. He doesn't want to become his Dad, and his path in life shows that he hasn't.
We also see a more outward emotional Fraser, due to the head injury. I don't think it was out-of-character, we just happen to see him with his guard down.
Plus, Dief with the peanuts!
If you do want to write a story which deals with them plane crash here are some resources:
Aircraft Identification
Airliners.net Oooooohhh...pretty pictures! (civilian and military)
List of Civil Aircraft
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge This is four pdf files that details pretty much everything you'll need to know to write something. It's pretty detailed, but it's also a rather simple read (it's for pilots of course...sorry I had to). However, this covers more of the background, scientific knowledge.
Aeronautical Information Manual This is more information then you'll probably ever need. However, if you truly want to write a very, very accurate fic you might want this. It details all about navigational beacons, ATC procedures, weather, and a whole lot more.
Airplane Flying HandbookThis is more about the actual flying, than the science behind flying. For example, you can read about pre-flight inspections, starting, flight maneuvers, landing, and emergency procedures (That's chapter 16).
Aircraft Accidents
NTSB-Aviation Accident Aircraft This is a goldmine of aircraft accidents. For example, if your story involves flying on a Cessna 172R that will crash (in order for them to bond in the wilderness or something like that), just plug in Cessna 172R into the Make/Model box and you'll find a whole lot of accident reports. Some are very simple summaaries, and some are very detailed (such as for the commerical flights).
Emergency position-indicating Radio beacons (EPIRB), Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) and Personal Locator Beacons Key frequencies: 121.5 MHz (Civil), 243 MHz (Military), and then 406 Mhz (Uses Satelites to locate the plane's ELT).
Flying Stories:
Canadian Snowbirds
Other Stuff:
International Phonetic Alphabet
Radio and Interphone Communications Example of radio communications, how to properly state numbers, identification (aircraft and facility).
Flight Aware Track aircraft (civilian-GA & Commerical).
Listen to live ATC communications
Various Articles about Maintenence
Aviation Terminology
But I apologize for posting this so late in the day, the flight schedule got changed and I had to spend some extra time at work.