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Episode Guide > Season 2, Episode 21

Twice in a Lifetime: Final Flight

 

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Air Date

Wednesday May 9, 2001

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Episode Summary

Capt. Luke Sellars and his second wife Connie are on their annual flight to Paris so that Luke's son Rick can visit his mother, a French lady who moved there after she and Luke were divorced. When he refuses to sit down as the flight is taking off, Luke falls and dies.

Judge Othniel gives him a chance to correct his deepest regret: not turning around a trans-Atlantic flight in order to save the beloved dog of a young man who has had his leg amputated. The dog had been accidentally placed in the wrong cargo hold and froze to death. Luke, now a flight attendant, must convince his younger self to set aside his pride and turn the plane around.

In a touching side story, Mr. Smith helps an elderly woman named Anne who is suffering from cancer and is contemplating taking her own life.

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  • Luke Sellars is sent back to earth on May 19, 1990, which was the date of his first trans-Atlantic flight as Captain. The Flight number is 7707. []
  • Additional Credit: Laird Special Effects (Special Effects) []
  • Willie (Capt. Sellars): Excuse me, where is your son?
    Phoebe: He couldn't be very far, could he?
    Willie: You must not allow him to run wild and bother the other passengers, the paying passengers.
    Phoebe: He is a little boy, he must explore.
    Willie: No, he must sit down. There are rules you know.
    Phoebe: Now you sound like my husband.
    Willie: Must be a very sensible man.
    Phoebe: Oh he is, terribly. That's why he's about to be my ex-husband. D'accord! []
  • (on her secret to long life)
    Phoebe: Love wisely and with abandon. []
  • Mr. Smith: Dogs are divinely designated as man's best friend.

    (closing soliloquy)
    Mr. Smith: Does the sun forget you when it goes away? No, because its light is reflected on the moon to remind us we're never alone. Tomorrow always comes bringing us the promise of a new day. And what is that promise? A new life, another chance to love our families, our neighbors, the earth, the sky and dogs named Willie. []

Allusions

  • D'accord!
    French for OK. []
  • Don't tell me, God is your Co-Pilot
    This is a takeoff on the title of the 1945 film God Is My Co-Pilot in which Dennis Morgan stars as Col. Robert Lee Scott, a man who, for his entire life, dreamed of being a fighter pilot. The film is based on Scott's autobiography of the same name. []
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