♪
Glennie: When the U.S.
promised to dismantle Hitler
and n*zi 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
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
I should have known
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 b*aner
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
I should have known
I should have known
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!
And step!
And step!
And step!
And step!
And step!
And step!
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!
And step!
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,
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 n*gro 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!
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 n*zi 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.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
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