The Friendly Skies
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| “The Friendly Skies” | |
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| Miracles episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Guest stars | Christopher Cousins Ann Cusack Todd Waring Ashley Edner Jeff Allin |
| Written by | Richard Hatem David Greenwalt |
| Directed by | Jesús Salvador Treviño |
| Original airdate | February 3, 2003 |
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The Friendly Skies was the second episode of the 2003 ABC television series Miracles. It was first aired in the United States on February 3, 2003, and in Canada on October 10, 2003.
[edit] 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 hanger, 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 Hebrew 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, he 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; along 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.
