♪ ♪
Glennie: When the U.S. promised to dismantle Hitler
and Nazi Germany,
they shipped all the able-bodied men overseas to fight.
What was left behind were migrants, illegals,
and, well, women.
♪ ♪
Glennie: Now, it didn't take much adjusting
for the women of the nation to find their voices.
Especially not Mabeline Williams.
She was a WASP.
Footage Narrator: The little blonde on the right
is serious about her flying.
For the duration, anyhow.
Glennie: A female pilot with a better flight record
than Chuck Yeager working off-book for the Feds.
You see, they needed women to fly.
They just didn't want to talk about it.
♪ You're my rock star ♪
Glennie: Mabel didn't care, though.
She found freedom in transporting small Navy trainers
up and down the east coast.
♪ 4-3-2-1 I'm ready for some fun
♪ I can't shake you off shake you off
♪ You're my rock star ♪
Mechanic: Oh, Rose Piper.
[phone ringing]
What?
[airplanes approaching]
Mechanic: Uh huh?
You're sure?
Hey, hey, lady!
- Is your name Mabeline? - Yeah?
Are you ferrying that, uh, Navy trainer on down
to South Carolina?
Mabel: Yes.
Did you stop over for a piss, or what?
Yes, sir.
And some fuel.
Yeah, I got eyes on her.
Glennie: This job would eventually lead
to a secret mission so sensitive in nature--
Woman [on phone]: Miss Williams, please hold for the General.
Glennie:--her husband doesn't even know it exists.
General [on phone]: Miss Williams?
Yes, sir?
General [on phone]: We've been callin' every air field
from Nevada to Kentucky lookin' for you.
Sir, protocol says I don't need to log my--
General [on phone]: You need to relieve yourself
from time to time, I get it.
That's not why I called.
We have a change of plans.
Sorry?
General [on phone]: Your new mission is highly sensitive
in nature.
And I'll need absolute discretion, that understood?
I said, is that understood, Miss Williams?
Understood.
General [on phone]: You're not to ferry that Cap 28
down to South Carolina.
You are to adjust course to the following landing strip.
41-28-25 by 73, 14 due west.
There'll be a package waiting.
You get that package today, see?
♪ ♪
- [birds chirp] - ♪ ♪
Well, I'll be.
Glennie: A secret mission that would take Mabel
right to Indian country.
♪ [theme] ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ I should have known ♪ - [crickets chirp]
Glennie: When a normal man loses his family,
he loses a piece of his identity.
His soul.
♪ I should have known
♪ I should have--♪
Mabel!
Glennie: Gordon Rogers, on the other hand,
was not a normal man.
♪ I should have known
♪ I should have known ♪
Circular in diameter.
Approximate...
♪ When I hung out the wash
♪ I should have known that it would fade
♪ When I hung out with you
♪ I should have known it wasn't safe
♪ I should have known ♪
[sighing]
♪ I should have known
♪ When I turned on the radio ♪
[screams]
[whimpering]
Glennie: Gordon was an impersonator,
an imposter.
And up until now, he played the part well enough
to go unnoticed.
This--this is Officer Rogers.
I need to rep--I need to report, um, an abduction.
[panting]
I need to--I need to report an abduction.
Eighteen feet in diameter, of a circular--
It was circular 18 feet in diameter.
Dammit, my family was sucked out the window!
That was my wife.
Ow--my, my sweet, sweet...
Mabeline Rogers, and my daughter,
my little girl, A-Abigail.
[eerie electrical buzzing]
Okay, okay.
I'll, I'll wait right here.
Glennie: Gordon Rogers should have known
that this would be different.
You just can't make good white folks disappear like that.
[chuckles]
♪ I should have known ♪
Glennie: Natives like us, on the other hand,
were fair game to disappear any way they saw fit.
[corn rustling]
[lights popping]
♪ ♪
We need to be tactile about this.
Glennie: Gibby was finally coming around to the idea
that the lawyer we don't pay, well, simply put,
it wasn't going to get our daughter back.
It was time to call in our brothers and sisters,
and prepare for a battle that I hoped would never come.
Gibby?
What is that?
Man: And step, and step--
Glennie: I had underestimated the lengths these men would go
to see us erased.
How'd you guys think this thing up?
If you can believe it,
it was a beaner in the mail room.
Gibby: Okay.
Okay, I'm gonna push the truck out onto the interstate.
You go get that deed, and meet me at the junction.
Glennie: Gibby was admittedly nervous.
He was taught to lay low, stay forgotten.
But I was raised different.
We would fight.
Men: And step!
♪ [radio playing] ♪
♪ When I hung out with you
♪ I should have known it wasn't safe
♪ I should have known
♪ When I turned on the radio
♪ I know that there'll be songs ♪
[radio station switches]
Broadcaster [on radio]:--Taylor Broadcast.
In the U.S. News and World Report article.
[radio channels switching]
[Mabel panting]
Come on.
[crickets chirp]
♪ ♪
Gordon: Joe!
What the hell are you doing here?
- ♪ ♪ - [crickets chirp]
What, they sent you?
They sent me.
I was--I was expecting a local officer.
Not for this one.
Do you mind if I, um--if I come in?
- [dog barks nearby] - Um...
♪ ♪
You have any Scotch?
Yeah, I got--I got Scotch, yeah.
Yeah, they sent me, um, to investigate
the Rogers house abduction.
A wife and a daughter sucked right out of the window.
Gordon: Yeah, very unfortunate.
♪ ♪
I don't wanna over-step.
But, uh, are you okay?
You know, I was raised proper,
always ask about the human condition
before you start talkin' shop.
Joe, set up the tape recorder and take a statement, all right?
Just--just lie this thing correctly.
There won't be a formal investigation.
Why the hell not?
Joe: Larry doesn't think the optics are complimentary.
- Optics, what optics? - Joe: Thank you.
Look, Larry says you need to lay low for a while.
I got--I gotta lay low?
There's too much at stake right now.
Too much at stake, yeah.
Well, don't I know it?
Don't I know it, Joe?
I just took drastic actions against my own wife,
because I think they're spies--
I don't--I don't need to hear this.
Because I believe that they're spies.
There's nothing I wouldn't do
to protect the sanctity of this mission.
You can't just make good people disappear like this.
♪ ♪
Okay, then I'll go and bring 'em back.
Your orders are to stay put until we've acquired Plot 57.
♪ ♪
Joe: Once the Suttons have been handled
we'll sort you out right as new.
♪ ♪
Yeah, and this is as uncomfortable for me
as it is for you.
I'm gonna follow orders, why wouldn't I follow orders?
Men: And step!
And step!
♪ ♪
- [insects buzz] - ♪ ♪
♪ ♪
There you are.
♪ ♪
Joe: Hey, did you know that I was an actor
before I joined the Bureau?
- No, I did not. - Oh yeah, yeah.
Mostly local community theatre and such.
But I'm well-studied, you know,
I'm quite fondest of the techniques of Uta Hagen.
♪ ♪
Are you familiar, do you know Uta?
Joe, how would I be familiar with Uta Whatsits?
Joe: Oh, she's wonderful.
I mean, she's German, but still,
she's quite a remarkable woman.
You see, she believed that no matter what type
of character you're trying to play,
you can never really escape who you truly are.
♪ ♪
Joe: Thus you use your own life, you know, your own experiences,
to inform those characters that you create.
And it'll be all the more powerful for the audience.
♪ ♪
Get to the point, Joe.
I've always been quite jealous of you, Gordon.
You know, you sort of had this, um--like this nice shortcut
to the top.
You know, a--a fine family, a two car house.
I mean, hell, you've got a television in your bedroom--
- Please, please stop. - --a nice shortcut to the top.
Just stop, stop talking.
- Please stop talking. - And a quick promotion.
♪ ♪
As Uta Hagen would say,
a fine multi-faceted character, indeed.
Men: And step!
And step!
Gordon: Joe, leave.
Please leave.
Get out of my house.
♪ ♪
Joe: Yeah.
Okay.
♪ ♪
Lay low, Gordo, you know?
You're here for your own good.
♪ ♪
Men: And step!
And step, and step, and step!
♪ ♪
- ♪ ♪ - [crickets chirp]
♪ [car radio] ♪
How'd it go in there?
It went all right.
- ♪ [car radio] ♪ - [crickets chirping]
♪ ♪
- [clock ticking] - [crickets chirping]
[sighs]
♪ ♪
[dog barking nearby]
♪ ♪
Man [on TV]:--señor, these Indians are not
such bad people.
They're accused of a lot of things they don't do, Lopez.
And some of the things they do, they're driven to,
by renegade white men.
Men who try to rob them of their land.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ ♪
[crickets chirp]
♪ ♪
[dog barking]
Man [on TV]:--señor, these Indians not such bad people,
not such bad people, not such bad people,
not such bad people...
♪ ♪
[test pattern tone]
[crickets chirp]
[dog barks nearby]
[sighing]
[crickets chirp]
Broadcaster [on radio]: That's a gorgeous Southberry Tuesday,
we have a light breeze out of the east,
with a whopping 52 degree high.
Yes, you heard that right, the Southberry Wildcats
beat the Trumble Lions 14-0 last night,
and I'm told the Sutton Farm abduction site
will be closed today due to staffing shortages.
- ♪ ♪ - [birds chirp]
♪ ♪
[bicycle approaches]
♪ ♪
[engine putters]
Hey, Glennie, we're here.
♪ ♪
[bird squawks]
- ♪ ♪ - [birds chirp]
Glennie: "The Rock."
That's what I remember it being called,
ever since I was a girl.
[coin rattling]
♪ ♪
Glennie: An ancient ceremonial meeting spot,
deep in the foothills of the Adirondacks.
We'd regroup while I called on the ancestors for help.
♪ ♪
Glennie: My husband was hopeless.
To him, our daughter was most likely gone forever.
He didn't know the ancestors like I did.
I would tell myself again and again--
Gibby: Doesn't look like anyone's been here for years.
Glennie:--there was always a way.
Gibby: I think we speak with the lawyer again.
We still have time.
There's no way they could've placed her yet.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna go up and get ready.
♪ ♪
[eagle screeches]
♪ ♪
Gibby: Hey, Glennie?
I wanna go to the station and fuel up.
I need to get some supplies, and maybe some dinner.
You hungry?
♪ [Glennie singing] ♪
♪ ♪
♪ [Glennie singing] ♪
Just hang low, I'll be right back.
Be right back.
- ♪ ♪ - [bird squawks]
[eagle screeching]
[phone trills]
- Mother [on phone]: Hello? - Hi, Mom.
- Mother [on phone]: Mabel? - [chuckles]
I was just driving through, and I thought maybe
I'd stop in for a cup of coffee.
[engine rumbling]
♪ [blues on radio] ♪
Fill 'er up?
♪ ♪
[dog barks]
♪ ♪
- [dog barks] - ♪ ♪
Huh.
♪ ♪
Woo!
[chuckling]
♪ ♪
You a, uh, refinery fella?
♪ ♪
'Scuse me?
You a--you a refinery fella?
- Sir, I prefer no trouble. - I was just askin' about--
Listen, I'm not bothering you,
and my money's the same as anyone's, right?
Right?
Good old American bills, see?
So why, why the hassle, what'd I do?
I'm just tryin' to put gas in my truck.
Did I offend you by breathing in the same air, is that it?
[laughing]
Take whatever you want, just--I just don't want
any trouble.
Glennie: Sometimes we can reach a level of despair so low,
it's reserved for the likes of animals.
Abby?
No, I'm--I'm not with her.
Mother [on phone]: You with Gordon?
No, just me.
[speaking in Mohegan language]
Glennie: You are not allowed to raise your voice,
act out, or even grow weary.
You must simply find a way.
- ♪ ♪ - [eagle screeches]
Glennie: When all hope is lost, you must remember
who took it away to begin with.
♪ ♪
Mom, I was just driving through, and I wanna see you.
Is that so peculiar, that I wanna see my mom,
for Christ's sake?
Mother [on phone]: Mabel, it's past six in the mornin',
what the hell's goin' on?
♪ ♪
Mother [on phone]: Did he kick you out?
Huh?
I told you.
I told you to settle down, fall in line.
Nosiree.
I don't know where you get it from.
Certainly not from me.
Or your father.
I think it was that damned Negro maid,
gave you that toy airplane,
puttin' those dreams in your head.
Amountin' to nothin'.
Ancestors?
We are the wolf people.
We are the Mohegan.
Children of the tree of life.
Our ancestors are the roots.
We are the trunk.
Help me!
Help me get my daughter back!
♪ ♪
- [vehicle accelerates] - Attendant: Ma'am!
Your car's ready.
♪ ♪
Glennie: But, as I said before--
I said your car!
- All fueled up. - I'm coming.
Glennie:--there was always a way.
- What's that you got there? - Attendant: What?
- That whiskey? - What, this here whiskey?
Mabel: Where'd you get it from?
♪ ♪
Attendant: Well, uh, you just missed him,
he pulled off down that road, a funny brown fella.
Had about 50 of these in the back of his pickup.
♪ ♪
[engine turns over]
♪ ♪
You're the package?
[birds chirp]
I'm Mabeline Williams.
I--I'll be your ride.
You must be somethin' special.
They had me divert from Nevada.
I break Nazi code.
Oh.
You one of them Navajo code talkers?
- Glennie: Which seat? - Oh, uh, right up front.
Nope.
And I'm just like all the other women
they recruited to break codes.
♪ ♪
[brakes squeak]
♪ ♪
[bird chirps]
♪ ♪
[bird squawks]
♪ ♪
Never met a Native before.
Always been fascinated though.
- ♪ ♪ - [bird squawks]
Never met a female pilot before.
[engine rumbling]
♪ ♪
Why you followin' me?
I'm looking for who I believe is your wife?
I don't have a wife.
I'm here alone, and you're trespassing.
I--I'm--I'm not, I'm--
- I'm looking for-- - Glennie: Gibby?
Are you back?
♪ ♪
Did somebody come?
Just tell Glennie that--that Mabeline Rogers is here.
♪ ♪
Glennie, what's goin' on?
♪ ♪
I know where your daughter is.
♪ ♪
And I wanna try to help you get her back.
♪ ♪