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THE NEIGHBORS: Watch in stunned amazement while

the chopper hovers briefly overhead.

Now Amanda runs out the front door with one of her

father's old shotguns, the wind of the blades whip- ping

her dress. She aims the gun up at the helicopter.

AMANDA: (screams) LET HIM GO!

Ducking and rushing at her from behind, the M.P.'s from

the second Jeep tackle Amanda. Prepp to the ground

while she kicks at them and the helicopter scuds off into

the night sky.

NIGHT SKY OVER PENNSYLVANIA - HIGH ALTITUDE

Streaking silver out of the dark blue western horizon

appears GENERAL BIF YEAGER'S F-14 Tomcat.

BIF YEAGER'S TOMCAT. NIGHT.

He seems to be taking in the darkening sky like an

astronomer when abruptly his eyes drop to a rapidly mov-

ing digital needle on his flight console.

MILITARY AIR CONTROLLER'S VOICE: (on Yeager's

headphones)

General, calls to Rockland are now being re-routed to

Langley Air Force Base and then kicked on to Briggs

Marine Headquarters in Virginia. We don't know what

the hell's going on.

GEN. YEAGER: (eyes on digital readouts) I have

requested base landing access, but I have as yet had no

response. In fact, I am getting a NO-FLY-BY code

response from the base. You don't think they'll shoot me

down, do you?