:43:01
Of course,
if it's not crowded, l...
:43:05
Here's the ticket.
lt's flight 103.
:43:09
-Oh, thank you.
-Oh, no, you don't.
:43:15
My, she has a suspicious nature.
:43:18
Well, go on.
You were saying...
:43:20
you prefer the flights
that aren't direct.
:43:22
Yes. That's why your flight 86
is my favorite--
:43:26
St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago.
:43:28
Yes, but l should think
they check...
:43:30
at all the intermediate stops.
:43:32
l pretend to be asleep.
Usually they don't disturb me.
:43:35
But this time they caught you.
:43:37
lt was that man
sitting next to me.
:43:40
l confided in him,
:43:41
and he betrayed me
to the stewardess.
:43:44
He was a policeman
from San Diego.
:43:48
l think they should make them
always wear their uniforms.
:43:52
Otherwise,
how's a person to know?
:43:57
Hi, Mel. l was just
going to have you paged.
:44:00
-l had to go out in the field.
-We got trouble, Mel.
:44:03
l talked to the lawyer
for those Meadowood people,
:44:05
and he says
unless we stop planes...
:44:07
from taking off
over their houses by midnight,
:44:09
he's starting a damage suit...
:44:11
first thing in the morning
for $10 million.
:44:14
That's a nice round figure.
He hasn't got a prayer.
:44:17
He might not win,
but he can sue.
:44:20
Any legal action
will only make...
:44:21
our public relations
worse than they already are,
:44:24
and that's something
the other commissioners and l...
:44:26
don't want to risk.
:44:29
What do you propose to do
about it?
:44:31
Well, there's only one answer--
shut down runway 22...
:44:33
and cut out the noise
over Meadowood.
:44:35
And with two-niner out,
:44:36
that means closing down
the airport completely.
:44:38
Only until morning.
:44:39
After all, you've promised them
dozens of times...
:44:42
you wouldn't disturb
their sleep.
:44:44
l promised we wouldn't take off
over their houses...
:44:46
unless there was an emergency,
:44:47
and l promised them
something else:
:44:49
ln the foreseeable future,
:44:50
the noise problem would not
get any better.
:44:52
lf you don't want to spend
a couple of months in court,
:44:55
you better start
conning them a little.
:44:58
You think lying to them
is the answer?