" While Leo, now two years into duty from Earth, was receiving an electronic ""postcard"" from well-wishers, an approaching electromagnetic storm caused a brief power outage.Smith explains how he strayed away when magnetically attracted toward the Capitol Dome:I don""t think I""ve ever been so thrilled in my whole life, and that Lincoln Memorial! Gee Whiz! And Mr.A group of courier-aviators in a mythical outpost in South America (in a confined, tropical area centered around a kindly Dutchman""s bar), led by the flinty and often unlikeably rude "Papa" (Cary Grant), face hazards and mortality every day as they fly over fog-shrouded Andes mountains to deliver the mail within a banana republic.All officers are ordered to "the punishment hut" (or "the hole"), while Nicholson is summoned into Saito""s headquarters.