Previously on "Arctic Air."
So you and mom...
Looks like we're gonna try to be together.
Do you like it?
Love it.
I can't follow you around the world forever.
I don't know what else to do.
So I guess that's it.
Laird flew in some booze last night
for Kimbo Comstock. - Eric worked for Kimbo?
Kimbo, I have two kids.
I can't be involved in this.
You can't jam on me now. We're family.
I know you had nothing to do
with the booze in Collins Bay.
Come on, we were friends once, Bruce.
Screw you.
Really? You're thinking of giving up your place?
We've been talking about it for a while.
Spending so much time at Petra's lately.
Seems like the next logical step.
Congratulations or condolences.
I think it'd be good.
That way I could take care of Connor. Petra too.
Sounds noble, but I'm not hearing you're in love.
You don't think I should take care of my family?
All I'm saying is right decisions get righter
and wrong decisions get wronger.
If you're gonna bail out, do it now.
Can't do that to them.
Yeah, well, your call.
You said the cop still haven't found that guy
who was flying booze in here for Kimbo, right?
Yeah. Laird.
Kimbo probably told him to get outta town for good. Why?
I think somebody's taking over his route.
Hey, what are you doing?
Staying hello to a fellow aviator.
We don't know what's in those crates.
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
I'm working out a strategy with the cops
to stop these bootleggers.
Sounds promising. Let me know when you get that going.
Evening! - How's it going?
What you bringing in?
Just some stuff for a friend.
Yeah? We know pretty much everybody in Collins Bay.
Who's your friend? - What do you care?
I'm curious by nature, I guess.
Yeah, well, it killed the cat. Bugger off.
I don't think so.
Hey!
Hey, this is my brand.
Mind if I try some? - I don't want no trouble.
Why don't you go ahead and take that one
and we'll call it square?
You can't do that!
Take this. You're done here.
I suggest you get in your plane,
fly back to wherever you came from,
and tell whatever maggot you work for
that Mel Iverson says hello.
Two climbers?
Married couple on their honeymoon.
They went ice climbing
on Cat Mountain for their honeymoon?
Guess they wanted to put
any future marital problems into perspective.
Well, they've sure done that.
Lindsay give you any details?
They set off a personal locator beacon.
All she had was their names and coordinates, Kyle and Zoe.
Is everybody ready to go?
Bobby's picking up Petra.
Dev and Astrid are loading up the chopper.
We only have five hours of daylight.
Sun's been up for an hour and a half already.
How long to get there in the 212?
Couple hours.
Skids up ASAP.
Let me change. I'll do the flight plan.
Hey, it's me. How soon can you guys get here?
10 minutes, Petra's just getting
somebody to cover her shift.
Well, can she do it on her cell?
We'll be lucky if we have 45 minutes to get these climbers
off the mountain before it gets dark.
- I'll find her. - Okay. See you here.
Hope you're wearing long underwear.
Just about froze my ass of coming back from New Vic.
I'll show you the route.
I'm not saying I don't wanna meet them.
So what is the problem with them visiting?
Come on, Dev, you know what it means
when parents come to visit.
It implies expectations.
My parents may already have expectations.
We should get moving.
No, no, what do you mean? What kind of expectations?
They may have the impression that we are engaged.
What?
I was on Skype with them,
preparing them for the news that we had moved in together.
I told them we had taken a big step
and my mother assumed we had gotten engaged.
And you did not correct her?
My father burst into tears.
I'd never seen him cry before.
You will call them right back and you will tell them.
It was actually three months ago.
All you have to do is play along for a week
until they return to Delhi. - Absolutely not.
These are my dreams, Astrid.
To get married, have children.
And if I ever get married,
it won't be to fix some confusing Skype call.
You created this situation and you will deal with it.
Are we all set?
Yes, we are.
Let's get this thing in the air.
You're certified, after all this time.
Thought he'd never speak to me again
after I borrowed that plane. - Stole that plane.
Well, he certified me.
So he must think that I'm a good pilot.
You're no crazier than he was.
Thanks for flying Arctic Air.
A lovely couple with their grandson.
You're in an awfully good mood.
Am I? Yeah, I guess I am.
Is that why you certified this lunatic?
Her solo flight was a little unorthodox,
but she didn't kill anybody, can't ask much more than that.
See?
Okay, so what's up with you?
Cece, last night I realized I have
fire in the belly and piss in the tank.
I am ready for the next chapter.
- Of what? - My life.
I figured the business is running smoothly.
Krista has her search and rescue, doesn't need me anymore.
So I'm ready to start a chapter three.
Which is what?
Answering that, my friend, is the next great adventure.
- Hey, Iverson. - Kimbo Comstock.
Let me guess, you're missing some whiskey.
Martin put you up to this, didn't he?
Bobby has been an inspiration to all of us.
You two are messing with the wrong guy.
No, apparently we got the right guy this time.
Don't get smart-ass with me, geriatric piece of crap.
I will take you apart--
Get the hell off of him.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Get him outta here.
Mel.
You are still crazy.
That was great! I haven't had a good scrap in years.
Yeah, and now you're done.
Let me take a look at you.
I am definitely back in the saddle.
That's it, Cat Mountain dead ahead.
Do you see them?
Nothing yet.
I don't think they're on the plateau.
Maybe they didn't make it to the top.
Let's try lower.
♪ I am the one, yeah ♪
Got him, there, on the side of the ice space.
The shadow of that overhang. But there are more than two.
Bring us around.
I don't know what happened,
but I don't see any ice axes, they're stuck.
I think one of them is dead.
There's no way a line
will reach them under that overhang.
Somebody's gonna have to
climb down and bring them up.
We only have 45 minutes of daylight left.
What are they doing?
I need to talk to them.
If I get any closer, I could bring
the rest of that cornice down on top of them.
Hey, we need help! We can't move.
We're gonna have to come back tomorrow, first light.
What? You can't leave them out here overnight.
They're injured. - I can see that,
but we can't get to them in the dark.
I need something to write on.
Astrid, I need photos of everything.
Can't reach you? What does that mean?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They can't leave us out here for another night.
No, you can't leave us.
They can't climb in the dark.
We have people here who are hurt.
Rachel, stop.
We have to get off this mountain.
There's nothing we can do!
Sun up is at 10:03 tomorrow.
The chopper will have to leave early to refuel at Wrigley.
Thanks, but I think we've got bigger problems.
Hey guys, can you clear the table?
Astrid's printing photos and maps. Whatever you can get.
Can you grab Cece? We're gonna need ideas.
I'll explain everything once we're all together.
Okay. But, well, you'll see.
Tag.
I don't understand. Why are you here?
I thought you were staying in Patagonia,
spending Christmas there. - Yeah, that was the plan.
Then I realized I didn't wanna be there without you.
So if you can't leave to see the world with me,
I figure I'd bring the world to you. Oh, come on.
I spent 39 hours on airplanes figuring out how to say that.
I can't get into this now.
Yeah, right, sorry. It can wait.
Loreen said that you are on a search and rescue.
Yeah, we're still in the middle of it.
Krista. We're set up.
Tag! Hey.
Are you joining us? I believe we could use your help.
I don't get it. How could you leave those guys out there?
We didn't have a choice.
The question is, how do we get them off in the morning?
Five hours of daylight.
That's if they survive the night.
All right, well, we've got five ice climbers
stuck on the north face.
We couldn't get to them using the long line
because they're stuck under a cornice.
My guess is somebody already tried to rescue them.
Cornice has broken off here in this wind bowl
and they've cut ropes on the right side of the ledge.
It looks like somebody tried to get down to them
and set off an avalanche.
Tag, you're not a part of this.
To get down to these climbers,
you're gonna have to free climb down this fracture wall
and then traverse all five of them across an ice face.
They obviously can't cross by themselves.
Look, by tomorrow, they're gonna be
in worse shape than they are now.
I've got the experience to do that.
You aren't the only one who can climb.
It's not about training. It's about weight.
The ice and the fracture wall while will be unstable.
The more people we put out there,
the more chance the ice breaks and we kill everybody.
All right. How long to get the climbers up?
Well, I'd guess at least 45 minutes per climber.
Does that include hoisting them up to the chopper?
I'll start my next traverse verse
while you guys pull 'em up.
We can hoist them from there.
Okay, you've got five climbers to bring up,
not counting a dead one.
That's almost four hours just to get 'em to the chopper.
Where they won't fit.
There's a nursing station in Wrigley.
- How far away is that? - 10 minutes.
After Tag brings them up,
we can take 'em there and drop them off.
Leaving him with no backup on the mountain.
And we're gonna have to refuel
with that many trips.
Well, it sounds like
you're gonna need two helicopters.
Which would be fine
if we could find another helicopter.
Joe has a 210.
What do you think I've been doing for the last two hours?
All the private choppers are helping out
with the flooding down south
and Trenton's got all their people
in the 737 that went down in Northern Ontario.
I've got some maybes.
We can't make a plan based on maybes.
Okay, there is another option.
We could use the DC3 outfitted as a medevac.
We've done it before.
Well, we remember.
We can't land closer than Wrigley.
How's that gonna save us time?
You're talking about landing it on the mountain.
I've been looking at Astrid's photos
and based on the scale on the map,
it looks like this should be a long enough landing run.
Can you do it?
What's the elevation?
About 1600 meters.
We need at least 4000 feet of roll out.
You mean you wanna land the plane on skis?
That's what skis are made for, landing on snow.
On frozen lakes, not mountain plateaus full of crevices
and rocks and whatever else is hiding under the snow.
I do a short field landing, minimize my run.
What about take off? You're gonna need a lot more runway.
We could turn the plane around.
Go back to our original landing position.
Use the tracks in the snow for takeoff.
I think it's too risky.
It's dangerous, nobody should volunteer to go
unless they're prepared to accept that.
How long will it take to put on the skis?
It takes five people all day.
We need to leave here at 7 a.m. to make sure
we touch down on the plateau at first light.
That gives you and your crew 12 hours.
I don't have a crew! At least not one that can do this.
I remember. I'll give you a hand.
I've been reading the manual. Somebody should.
Just tell me what to do.
I'm gonna need you on the ice tomorrow.
I'll be fine.
Well, if he's staying up all night, so am I.
Let's do it then.
All right, so that means we still have
12 hours to outfit the DC3 as a medevac.
Can you take point on that?
Look, I know you have Connor to think about,
so if you wanna bow out.
No, I just, I need to inventory our supplies.
And I wanna go to the hospital to pick up
some units of blood because I don't know
what kind of condition these people are gonna be in.
We can take my truck.
Okay. Can you guys show me what we have in stock?
♪ Talk about revolution, the constitution, the movement ♪
♪ When we decide which way we wanna go ♪
♪ Now you know we all will move along ♪
♪ See my people rise, focused, no distractions ♪
Excuse me. We've gotta take out order for Arctic Air.
Yeah, I'm kind of busy right now.
Look who it is.
Who the hell do you think you are, huh?
Got a problem, Kimbo?
Yeah, somebody broke into my storage locker
and smashed 20 cases of my product.
Maybe he was Iverson.
Word is he's the one who poured out
all your booze in Collins Bay.
Maybe you should ask Martin about it.
We should go.
No, this is something that I started.
I don't do that kind of business anymore.
- Liar. - Kimbo, stop it!
What, are you on his side now?
Not on anybody's side.
You're dead, both of you. Dead.
I wonder which one of us he'll go after first.
Let's go.
♪ Now you know we all will move along ♪
Zoe, right? Zoe, can you check on Marty?
So, I got you a present.
It's not Christmas yet.
It's a key to my place.
What?
Nothing. It's great, thank you.
- Do we have an issue? - Definitely not.
Why do I feel like you are always on the verge
of telling me what you really think?
It just happened so fast.
Then I tried to grab Petra.
What kind of vehicle?
Pickup truck. Didn't sound like a diesel.
We might get lucky.
A lot of hit and run drivers turn themselves in.
That what you're gonna call this, a hit and run?
That's what it sounds like.
Kimbo threatened me.
So I've heard, but it's Saturday night
and there's a lot of drunk drivers out there.
I think I was a target and Petra got the worst of it.
Look, we're not gonna get a conviction
based on assumptions, so just let us do our job
and we'll see where the evidence leads, okay?
Bobby! Hey, are you okay?
Yeah, but Petra, she's in surgery.
What happened?
Hit and run. Maybe a drunk driver.
We'll find him.
I'll be in touch, all right? See ya.
What can I do?
I talked to Connor already.
Deanna's gonna pick him up and we'll just wait
until Petra's out of surgery.
I'm gonna stay here with you.
I'll put Blake in charge of the rescue.
No! As far as I can tell, Petra's gonna be okay.
You're the leader. You have to be there.
Okay, but I'm gonna stay here
until Deanna and Connor get here.
Thanks.
Blood's in the fridge for the night.
Those for the chopper?
So we can refuel on the mountain.
That's one good thing about this plan.
What are we doing for a paramedic?
Loreen's making some calls.
Get that first ski on?
Almost. So, hit and run, that's all they said?
Yeah. Krista said she'd call if anything changed.
How are the ribs?
They're fine.
Petra gonna be okay?
They'll know more when she gets out of surgery.
You know where I can find your brother?
Why? Oh, you think Kimbo did it?
All I know is that he threatened Bobby Martin publicly.
Bobby see who hit him?
Where's Kimbo?
- He's innocent. - That's not what I asked you.
I just wanna talk to him. - I'm not my brother's keeper.
Call me when he turns up.
Really? You hit Bobby and Petra with your truck?
I told you, the truck was stolen.
Petra's in a coma.
Someone's trying to frame me.
Come on, man. Cops are all over you now.
I don't care. I didn't do it.
Russell, you don't believe me?
I've spent my whole life believing you.
Right now I'm wondering if I'm a sucker.
Yeah, I never lost faith in you.
I lost faith last time we went ice fishing
and put a body in the lake.
- Hey. - Hey, any word on Petra?
Deanna and Connor are with Bobby now.
I talked to the police.
They don't have the resources to help with the rescue,
but they want us to keep them informed.
Can you push on Lindsay?
She's on the hit and run. Any luck finding a paramedic?
Yes, actually. A friend of Jim McAllister's named Nazim.
Oh, that's great.
And Jim volunteered to fill in for Bobby.
They'll both be here at 6 a.m.
Thanks for all your hard work, everyone.
Still got a couple hours. Try to get some rest.
And that includes you. I need a functioning copilot.
Hey, thanks for all your help today.
I'm just gonna crash here if that's okay.
Yeah, sure.
Goodnight.
Bobby.
How is she?
Well, the surgery was successful in as far
as we've set her fractures and we stopped
the retroperitoneale bleeding. - But?
She has a closed head injury.
Now we've induced a coma to allow the swelling in her brain
to go down, and once it does we'll be able
to better determine the extent of the damage.
You can see her now if you like.
You guys go in.
Tag.
Hey.
- Wheels up in an hour. - Okay.
Yeah.
Morning, morning.
Hey, Krista. How's Petra doing?
Yeah, we're still waiting to find out.
You must be Nazim. Thanks for coming on such short notice.
My pleasure.
I'm just gonna be at my desk.
Let me show you our medevac set up.
Skis are on, medevac's set up.
We're fueled, ready to go.
Chopper's all ready on its way to Wrigley
so they can top up their tank.
We're gonna meet them on the mountain at sun up.
Is everybody ready?
You're gonna need heavy coats in the cockpit.
Mel, here you go.
Are you all right?
Just a little sore for my scrap with Kimbo.
So put your coat on.
I will, on the plane.
No, I think you should put it on now.
- Dad. - It's just a cracked rib.
If you're in that much pain it may be broken.
Yeah, tape me up. I'll be fine.
You need to see a doctor and get some painkillers.
The hell I do.
There's no way you can land a DC3
on that mountain in your condition.
You're putting everybody's lives in danger.
Mel's the only one who's ever
done anything like this before.
So what are we gonna do?
I think your daughter could pull it off.
Yeah, she could do it.
You're copilot. Everybody, let's go.
Dev, you have control.
It'll be another hour before we get there.
You should try and get some sleep.
Came back here to tell me that?
I'm grateful that you're coming with us.
I figured it was the only way we'd get a chance to talk.
- Tag, you broke up with me. - No, you're wrong.
I didn't have the guts to break up with you.
So instead I just pulled back until I made you say it.
- Still. - Still, it was my choice.
So what's changed?
That's the problem. Nothing's changed.
I still love you.
I was hoping it would fade, but it didn't.
Watching you drift away was excruciating.
I don't ever wanna feel like that again.
It'll be different this time.
We know each other better, we can work it out.
The reasons we broke up are still there.
The point is, I don't know if I wanna open that wound again.
I mean, I don't.
You should get some rest.
Charlie, Echo, Tango, Victor, Lima.
This is Whiskey, Echo, Sierra, come in.
Tango, Victor, Lima, it looks like the winds
on the plateau from the southeast, not the south.
Repeat, from the southeast.
Okay. That means we'll have crosswind, not headwind.
And it means my calculations
for our landing are not correct.
We'll need a longer run.
We picked this landing site because of the terrain.
We have to stick with it.
We're gonna be tight on approach.
So we have maximum landing distance.
That is a very good plan. 75 feet above the plateau.
Bet you're glad you joined us.
Who gets to do this, huh?
This is not good.
That wind gets behind them they could go over the edge.
Okay. Now we see.
- They're down. - With no brakes.
Standby.
That was awesome.
- You are the man. - Blake?
Copy. Epic landing, by the way.
Let's get those people off the mountain.
We gonna be here long enough to cover the engines?
Those engines freeze up, we'll be here until next spring.
Hey. We're gonna get you outta here.
I'm under the cornice now.
Looks like a second climber's dead.
How's everybody doing?
Paul's in really rough shape.
Rachel and I can't feel our hands and feet.
All right, I brought some more equipment.
There's axes and rope in here.
Now I know you guys have had a rough night,
so I'm gonna take you out one at a time, all right?
I want you to tell me your names.
- Jace. - Rachel.
Paul.
Zoe.
Marty. He died last night.
My husband, Kyle.
Sorry. So what happened?
We were almost at the top. Kyle's ice ax slipped.
He slid and took me with him.
Rachel and I were on top of the cornice.
We heard her yelling. So we got Marty and Paul
to lay us over the cornice.
The whole thing just broke away.
And Paul and Marty fell.
We pulled him back up, but all the gear was gone.
We didn't find our beacon till the morning.
You guys have been out here for two nights?
Yeah.
Okay, well, I've got an anchor station
set up on the fracture wall.
If it's all right with you guys,
I think I should start with Paul first, okay?
Okay, once we get out from under the cornice,
I'm gonna hook you up to the hoist line
and they'll pull you up.
But in order to get there,
I'm gonna need you to do some of the work, okay?
- Mhmm. - All right.
Okay, all right, okay.
All right, let's get you out here.
We found Kimbo's truck.
Where?
Burned outside the sandpits.
So he got rid of the evidence.
Forensics will go over it,
but finding anything we can use is a long shot.
You haven't found Kimbo yet?
Looking, but I don't get
why he'd use a vehicle you could recognize.
I guess he didn't think I'd live to talk about it.
- Where do you want him? - There.
You got it.
You're gonna get my friends too, right?
Absolutely.
Well, there you are, Bruce.
Kimbo, it's Sunday.
You want a job, you'll have to come back
during regular business hours.
Cut the crap. I know you stole my truck.
Now why would I do that?
To set me up for that hit and run.
That was you.
50 people saw me eating
over at Bullocks when that happened.
You got nothing.
Come on. You think I'm stupid?
You hired someone to do it. You're playing everybody.
But it's over now. - Yeah, it is.
Alarm company called me when and you broke in.
Figured it'd be a good idea
to call the cops before I came by.
Loaded gun, empty bottle.
Good thing I'm here to do the explaining.
Gun, gun!
Put the gun down now!
Get out of the car, Kimbo! Kimbo!
Let's go, let's go!
I can't. I can't leave him.
Zoe, you said you wanted to go last
and now it's time.
No, I can't leave him here.
- We'll come back for him. - When?
All right, I'm not gonna lie to you.
We won't be able to take your husband today.
But once everyone is at the hospital,
we'll come back for him.
I'll even get him myself, I promise. Okay?
I'm sorry, but we gotta go.
I can't feel my left hand.
Well, then you're gonna have to use your right.
I'm sorry.
Come on, I got you, I got you, I got you.
Rachel. Rachel! Hey, baby.
We're gonna make it. We're gonna be okay, it's okay.
He's got the worst of the frost bite.
I have to put him under, he's gonna be in agony
when his hands and feet start to thaw.
How's he doing?
He's in shock. Blood pressure's low and he may
lose a couple of toes, but he's stable.
Base to Lady Lou. Do you read?
Five by five, Loreen.
Krista, I'm getting some crazy reports
about the winds at your altitude.
You need to load everyone up and get off that mountain.
Okay, just one more climber. Shouldn't be long.
Okay. Just one more, we can hook you up to the hoist line.
Okay?
I'm slipping!
Tag, no!