" Stating that he ruled by the "power of fear," Falcone replied that the privileged Wayne was ignorant of criminal behavior and the "ugly side of life.He called out: "Kristen, help!" as he was repeatedly pushed underwater, stabbed, and eventually murdered(# 2 death).He has been drinking straight from the bourbon bottle and succumbing to the stress and pressure, but they are ahead "eighteen housand.There were at least four inspirational sources forAirplane""splot:Flight into Danger (1956)- an episode of the 1950s Canadian TV showEncounterZero Hour! (1957),from director Hal Bartlett, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden; with a script by Arthur Hailey, who was later responsible for the screenplay forAirport (1970), based upon his own best-selling 1968 novel of the same nameThe Crowded Sky (1960), segmentsTerror in the Sky (1971), a CBS-TV movie, a remake ofZero Hour!The storyline of a distressed airliner was an excuse for a frantic, slapstick parody filled with visual-sight gags, puns, deadpan and absurdist humor, gross-outs, sexual double entendres, verbal literalism ("Surely you can""t be serious.[Did Skynet deliberately let him go, or was he accidentally activated by the explosion?] He stole a uniform (with a red band, a symbol of blood) from a dead Resistance fighter.