- Lee Goddard: We have to be back her at 0830 in the morning, which is 'militarese' for... too confounded early.
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- Reporter: [voice over] Good news from Alaska, where earlier this week search-and-rescue teams of the United States Air Force found the crew of a C-97 cargo transport, downed last week in a raging blizzard hundreds of miles west of Anchorage. Stranded on the slopes of the Kuskokwim Mountains near Stony River, the crew of the Dixie Damsel has little to protect them from the 10-below-freezing snow and sleet, except Yankee guts and ingenuity. Still missing are the flight engineer Sergeant Peter Gagliano and the plane itself. And the way the weather's been battering our northernmost territory, it may be summer before they're found somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness. Meanwhile, Navigator Frank Fletcher of Cabot Cove, Maine, says it all.
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- Lee Goddard: Not only that. Uh, I booked the two of us on a flight to Tucson. I mean, I'm not gonna let you come all this way and then just spend a couple of days. Who knows? You might learn to like it.
- Jessica Fletcher: Lee, I can't!
- Lee Goddard: Ah! That word's not even in my vocabulary. Now- Now, there's not anything back there in Cabot Cover that can't wait for a couple of days. Well, we got about an hour's ride to the airport.
- [chuckles]
- Lee Goddard: You better get set to have the darnedest sales pitch put on you that's ever been put on anybody.