Masters of the Air
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John Bucky Egan isnt haunted by the memory of the Munster mission hes hunted by one of its targets.
When some creepily symmetrical Aryan children spot him, they call for their parents Amerikaner!
Get in the house and call the police, one of the grown-ups orders them in German.
His fellows are in much friendlier circumstances.
Croz is arriving by train to Balliol College, Oxford.
He does have a roommate, though one Subaltern A.M. Wingate.
Who could that be?
Bucky is in one of the livestock boxcars the Nazis repurposed to shuttle captured airmen around.
This is, of course, when Subaltern Westgate makes her entrance, thatherthrowing Croz for a loop.
Big family, small house, few doors, she tells him.
I can see that youre married.
Your wife has nothing to fear from me.
Except maybe she does?
(You say Sandra Westgate, I say Landra Wingate.)
Crosby describes Landra as having all the same brave and mysterious qualities that Sandra has in this episode.
Theyll pretty muchtupanything that moves, she says.
At the flak shak, Rosie is not warming to the relaxed environment.
On the other side of the channel, Bucky finds himself in front of a Luftwaffe interrogator named Hausmann.
He even offers to tell Bucky who won the World Series, which happened after Bucky was shot down.
Bucky makes a good show of divulging only his name, rank, and serial number.
Bucky narrows his eyes and repeats his name, rank, and serial number again.
That Gestapo threat is evidently a bluff.
Bucky is put on yet another train to a POW camp.
Its the first glimpse Bucky has had of the full horror of the Nazi enterprise.
As the sequence ends, the sun rises, and Croz and Sandra walk back to their quarters.
Croz, ever the gentleman, tries to take his leave before Sandra reminds him theyre roommates.
A messenger brings her a note requiring her immediate departure.
All of this only deepens her mystery to Croz.
She gives him her number and a kiss on the cheek, and shes gone.
The episode ends with Buckys arrival at Stalag Luft III, an officers camp in Sagan, Germany.
But the big news is Buckys reunion with Buck, the friend hed feared dead.
Watching Bucky being marched from behind the wire, Buck asks him, What took you so long?
He says Tracy; she thought Gable.
Gable was arguably the more heroic of the two stars ofTest Pilot.
Other sources say Hitler was a Gable fan and offered a reward to have him delivered intact.
