The Friendly Skies

Infobox Television episode
Title =The Friendly Skies
Series =Miracles


Caption ="The dark is its own thing...tell Paul..."
Season =1
Episode =2
Airdate =February 3, 2003
Production =103
Writer =Richard Hatem
David Greenwalt
Director =Jesús Salvador Treviño
Guests =Christopher Cousins
Ann Cusack
Todd Waring
Ashley Edner
Jeff Allin
Steven Dennis
Lily Knight
William O'Leary
Episode list =
Prev =The Ferguson Syndrome
Next =The Patient

The Friendly Skies is the second episode of the television series "Miracles". It was the third episode produced. It was first aired in the United States on February 3, 2003, and in Canada on October 10, 2003.

Plot

When a plane disappears for 64 seconds just before landing, SQ is called to investigate. They discover that each of the passengers had a different experience during that time, and their experience was exactly what they were thinking when the plane disappeared.

Paul talks to a woman named Karen, who was completely physically disabled 21 years earlier in a skiing accident. She was asleep, dreaming like always about being able to walk and talk again. She tells Paul she has to find her husband, Mark, and show him. He tries to sneak her out, but are caught by soldiers and are transported back to the hangar, both of them landing themselves in trouble with the government. They are let go when Alva shows up and "claims them", but not before scolding Paul of his actions. Karen begins to feel a twitch in her hand.

Alva attempts to translate the Aramaic ramblings of a flight attendant named Phil, who was thinking about his mistreatment by all the passengers when the plane disappeared. When he begins speaking in English, they discover he is explaining a method on how to destroy the world. His complex thoughts begin to fade, as he starts to use simple analogies of theories to children's toys' functions.

Evelyn talks to a 10 year old girl named Deanna Thompson, who was thinking about what she would be when she grew up. She saw every detail from her future life, from her loser husband to her obnoxious kids, and her father dying from lung cancer on her 39th birthday. When she asks Evelyn for a cigarette, she realizes that she is forgetting the negative experiences of her future, and when the three investigators reunite an hour later, they all confirm that the effects are starting to wear off: Karen is finding it hard to move, Phil is forgetting what he knows, and Deanna is forgetting what she saw.

By the end, all the passengers forgot what happened to them or what they saw, and the passengers are released, except for Phil the flight attendant, who for security reasons, had to be tested to make sure he forgot all the apocalyptic theories he was explaining. Sad that Mark will never see what Karen could do, Paul steals a tape from a camcorder that was recording her room (like all the others), but is caught with it on the way out of the airport. It turns out to be a blank tape, as Evelyn hid the tape for Paul (Evelyn has an inoperable .38 caliber bullet in her brain, which will always set off metal detectors; as long as she shows a special card, she can pass through).

Paul shows up at Mark's house and gives him the tape of Karen, instructing him never to tell anyone he has it. While watching it, Karen stares at Mark from her wheelchair as he cries.

Cast

*Main Cast
**Skeet Ulrich as Paul Callan
**Angus Macfadyen as Alva Keel
**Marisa Ramirez as Evelyn Santos

*Guest Cast
**Christopher Cousins as Charles Jergensen
**Ann Cusack as Karen Longview
**Ashley Edner as Deanna Thompson
**Todd Waring as Phil
**Jeff Allin as Mark Longview
**Lily Knight as Nurse Joyce Fried
**Roy Fegan as Hanger Guard
**Eamonn Roche as Lionel
**Steven Dennis as Air Traffic Controller
**Carey Scott as Video Tech
**David Alan Graf as Dr. Price
**William O'Leary as Alan
**Stephanie Erb as Lisa
**Gina St. John as Felicia Phelps
**Gary Carlos Cervantes as Michael Garcia
**J. Karen Thomas as Airline Representative [ [http://www.tv.com/miracles/the-friendly-skies/episode/209913/summary.html/ TV.com] .]

Notes

*According to DVD commentary, the original plot of the episode centered around a plane that had flown out of Tel Aviv five years earlier and then suddenly reappeared on radar and in the airspace.

References

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/miracles/the-friendly-skies/episode/209913/summary.html/ "The Friendly Skies"] at TV.com
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0648898/ "The Friendly Skies"] at the Internet Movie Database