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1st Episode: "In Friends We Trust"
Aired week of Sept 16, 1996
and week of Dec 2, 1996

ZEKE IS THROWN INTO A CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE WHEN A WAR BUDDY CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEATH OF A FELLOW ASCAN ON 'THE CAPE'.

Plot: (pasted from the official "The Cape" Web Site)

When ASCAN and expert pilot Jimmy Wilson's T-38 jet fatally crashes during routine training, Zeke becomes embroiled in a crisis of conscience. Zeke peeled off from the flight exercises when a healthy rivalry between Jimmy and Wade Campbell, a cocky flyboy and Interspace test pilot, escalated into a battle of skill.

Zeke served in the Gulf War with Wade and felt he must repay a debt of gratitude by keeping mum about Wade's very possible involvement in Jimmy's death. But, crushed by the loss of one of his only friends at NASA, D.B. doggedly investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding Jimmy's unnecessary demise. As the controversy over the crash intensifies, Zeke must decide where his loyalties really stand.

Meanwhile, after an emotionally-charged fight with Reggie, Barbara crashes her motorcycle and falls into a life-threatening coma. Distraught, Reggie keeps unwavering hospital vigil at her side, until he is stunned by the arrival of another concerned visitor.



Barbara in a coma

Barbara is in a coma from the motorcycle accident. (Remember in the Premier, when she and Reggie were fighting and she took off on the motorcycle?!) Reggie meets a stranger at Barbara's bedside who turns out to be her fiance.


Peter and Jimmie prepare to practice flying

Peter and Jimmie (played by ???) prepare to jump into their T-38's to do some flying. Jimmie meets with an unfortunate accident that turns out to be Wade's fault (played by ???).


Fancy flying scenes

This episode includes some pretty flying scenery and some computer generated air sequences too.


DB finds a clue

DB finds a clue to the cause of Jimmie's accident on the tail of the airplane wreckage.



Did you know...

that each one-hour episode of The Cape has a different director? Apparently this is pretty common in the television industry.



The Poem:

The poem read by DB in the funeral scene is called "High Flight"; it was written by John Gillespie Magee Jr., who was killed in the Battle of Britain at age 19. It reads:

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.



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