Masters of the Air
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Masters of the Airs seventh chapter leaps ahead several months to March 1944.
Use the bucket, Bucky tells him wearily.
No one bothers to look up from the table.
Buck briefs a POW colonel, who tells him to pass the grim news to the other internees.
We want expectations to be realistic.
Bucks jury-rigged radio, concealed inside the leg of a table, is found and confiscated.
Bob Rosenthal helped us want to win the war.
So the lucky bastards got a ticket home, Croz tells us.
Try harder, Jack.
An air-raid siren goes off, sending everyone back inside.
Later, he tells Bucky shes agreed to marry him and asks Bucky to be his best man.
They agree on this much but not on whether they should be planning an escape.
They dont care if they kill us all, do they?
But Rosie shows no sign of anxiety as he briefs his crew.
Lets go to Berlin, he says, smiling.
As this underpopulated armada gets airborne, we get another piece of Croz narration that feels weirdly incomplete.
All but one of the 15 ships have made it home.
Shoens does not take the news well.
They want us all to fuckin die up there, and no one gives a shit!
She knows exactly how to counter this.
Do you want to know where Ive been?
she asks, that charming accent makingbeensound likebean.
Or do you want to know where Ill be in 20 minutes?
The song that plays over their subsequent tryst is a canny choice, the monogamy-sucks ballad Prisoner of Love.
At Stalag Luft III, the internees are awakened in the night by the alarm.
This is going to make life worse for the POWs still locked down.
This you will be the one worth knowing, Buck consoles him.
There are only Americans at Stalag Luft III, the Colonel tells him.
He signs his re-up papers, vowing to stay until the job is done.
It sounds like a very big risk.
