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Small Post at 3-30-2012 11:38 Author Only
Season 1
Episode 1: Out of a Clear Blue Sky (Jan/10/2012)
After a decade in the Vancouver business world, Bobby returns to his hometown of Yellowknife to find his late father's airline in trouble. The reunion with his dad's old partner, Mel Ivarson, is lukewarm but Bobby isn't home to reconnect with the Arctic Air family. He's here to ink a lucrative mining deal with an old friend, Jim McAllister. Unfortunately, Bobby's only the middleman and slimy Calgary businessman, Ronnie Dearman, stands to walk away with all the profits. Meanwhile, the stress of his struggling airline lands Mel in the emergency room. His daughter Krista begs him to take some down time, but Mel has an airline to run. He cuts the recovery short and books himself in the pilot's seat of the next flight. Bobby and Krista reignite an old and unspoken attraction, but when they hear that one of Mel's passengers is in labour and bad weather has forced an emergency landing, the two of them abandon a client to embark on an increasingly desperate search-and-rescue mission.
Episode 2: All In (Jan/17/2012)
Arctic Air is paying the price for Bobby's run-in with the well-connected and vindictive Ronnie Dearman as contracts drop faster than the temperature in Yellowknife. Unable to make payroll, Bobby orchestrates a chance meeting with Rafael Silva, a wealthy industrialist who needs a lift and just happens to have a mining contract that could save Arctic Air. Bobby hasn't done much flying over the last ten years and the take-off is rough. The landing... even worse. Rafael figures out Bobby's plan and isn't pleased to have been conned. Still needing a way to cover payroll, Bobby charms his way into a high-stakes poker game with none other than Ronnie Dearman across the table. Without the buy-in, Bobby is forced to use Mel's plane as collateral. Meanwhile, Arctic Air accepts a supply run that has to go perfectly if they hope to turn a profit. But when the load breaks free mid-flight, pinning Blake underneath, Krista is forced to choose between her duty as a captain and her personal feelings for Blake. With the DC-3 running low on fuel, Krista risks the lives of everyone on board in an attempt to save Blake.
Episode 3: Hijacked (Jan/24/2012)
The DC-3 is loaded to the brim with rowdy rig-pigs eager for a weekend in the city. But Bobby, Krista and Dev don't know that one of the passengers is a prisoner being transferred by a plainclothes police officer. A coordinated ambush by the prisoner's brothers leaves the officer stabbed and one of the brothers shot. They need medical attention, fast, but the hijackers won't let Krista fly to Yellowknife. Without thinking, Dev suggests they land at Doc Hossa's lodge - putting Bobby's ex-girlfriend, Petra, and her 10-year-old son Connor, in danger.
There's a further complication: Connor is Bobby's son too - the son he has never met, or acknowledged. At Petra's angry insistence, Bobby hides the truth from Connor. But his heart is twisting as he does everything in his power to protect the boy.
Meanwhile, when Mel learns Krista's flight has been hijacked, he disregards his doctors' orders and leaps into the pilot's seat to help. With the engine killed to avoid detection, Mel glides in behind Hossa's lodge with police aboard, but the lead hijacker forces Bobby to take off in the DC-3 - a plane Bobby doesn't know how to land. Now everything rests on Mel's ability to talk Bobby back down out of the sky...
Episode 4: All the Vital Things (Jan/31/2012)
While trying to salvage a multi-million dollar contract at a remote northern mine, Bobby spots a Dene elder collapse. The man is Louie Beaulac, an old friend of Bobby's father. Exhausted and disoriented, Louie has spent two months walking home from Yellowknife to escape treatment for dementia. Worried that Louie can no longer survive on the land, Bobby resorts to lying: he promises to fly Louie home. But it isn't long before Louie realizes Bobby has tricked him into flying south. He lunges at the cargo door, forcing Bobby to restrain him before he jumps from 7,500 feet.
Meanwhile, Mel puts Kirby to the test, determined to find out if the kid really has what it takes to be a flight engineer for Arctic Air. And to Krista's annoyance, Mel insists on making a detour to Sibbeston Lake to deliver insulin to the community health centre. The stop has less to do with altruism and everything to do with the attractive nurse, Rita. In her arms, Mel feels safe to unburden his darkest fears.
While waiting to take off again for YK, Bobby wonders if he made a mistake "rescuing" Louie up north; maybe bringing him back to the city is a fate worse than death. But before he can make it up to Louie, a freak storm hits, stranding them in white out conditions. Kirby, desperate to impress Mel, braves the elements to check on the plane and is swallowed by the blizzard. Bobby must trust Louie with his life in order to save Kirby's.
Episode 5: Northern Lights (Feb/07/2012)
The Northern Lights Festival is in full swing, leaving Arctic Air short-staffed and Loreen scrambling to recruit any employee sober enough to work, and dumb enough to answer his phone. A few hours away in the remote community of Sibbeston Lake, Mel's romantic rendezvous with Rita is cut short when her son, Brandon, overdoses on tainted drugs. Worried that the drugs entered the community via Arctic Air, Bobby interrogates an employee and confirms his worst fear - his airline is being used to smuggle drugs. Meanwhile, bad weather makes it impossible for Krista and Blake to medevac Brandon to Yellowknife. Mel puts his own life on the line in a heroic attempt to save Rita's son.
Episode 6: C-TVAK (Feb/14/2012)
After spotting what could be his father's airplane wreckage, Bobby insists on checking it out, despite Cece's warnings. Sure enough, Bobby's rough touch down damages the landing gear, stranding them with no radio contact and little chance of being spotted. Bobby does confirm that the wreckage he saw from above belongs to his late father's airplane, missing for seventeen years. But before he has time to fully process this, Cece injures his leg. With the temperature dropping and Cece's wound becoming infected, Bobby realizes they can't wait for rescue. To save Cece, Bobby must fix the plane himself. Meanwhile, Krista and Blake sneak off for a long weekend at Mel's lodge, but it isn't exactly the romantic getaway Blake had in mind. And Mel drives hopeful applicants crazy as he attempts to choose a new pilot for Arctic Air.
Episode 7: Vancouver is Such a Screwed-Up City (Feb/21/2012)
The Arctic Air crew travels to a plane auction in Vancouver to buy a new DC-3. A competing bidder drives up the price and leaves Mel and Bobby scrambling to find the extra money to pay for the plane they just bought. Bobby decides to hit up his ex-boss for a loan, but first he needs to finish selling his upscale condo - his last tie to his old life. Bobby arrives at the condo expecting to meet his realtor, but instead, discovers his volatile ex-girlfriend hasn't moved out. Meanwhile, Blake, hurt by Krista's refusal to go public with their relationship, meets with a recruiter from a large Canadian airline. When Krista discovers Blake has accepted the new job, she takes it as a personal betrayal and turns to Bobby for support. Bobby invites Krista up for a drink, only to have his ex-girlfriend drop a bombshell that sends Krista running and leaves Bobby scrambling. Bobby has less than twenty-four hours to raise almost two hundred grand and put things right with the women in his life. And that's when things really go off the rails...
Episode 8: The Professional (Feb/28/2012)
Mel flies Caitlin and her raucous teammates home from a volleyball tournament in Inuvik. Above the din, he befriends one of the other passengers on the plane - Ben Berdee - not realizing Berdee is a hitman sent up by a southern gang to "fix" a rat problem. Their flight lands just as the ice-fog rolls in, stranding the dangerous hitman in Yellowknife. Berdee enlists the help of local drug kingpin, Zach Ward, to get him out of town before the cops arrest him for the murder in Inuvik. But Zach has a problem of his own: Nelson, the kid he's been using to smuggle drugs on Arctic Air flights, is a police informer. When Mel and Bobby realize Nelson is Berdee's next target, they put their own lives on the line to find him before the killer does.
Episode 9: New North (Mar/06/2012)
Krista finds herself caught in the middle when Bobby's ambitious plan for expansion leads him to lease an expensive helicopter without consulting Mel. As a furious Mel tries to raise enough money to buy Bobby out of Arctic Air, Bobby sets his sites on new capital. His old college roommate, Gavin Kwan, a charming real estate mogul from Calgary, is in town to invest in Ronnie Dearman's uranium mine. Attempting to steer Gavin away from Dearman and to entice his investment in Arctic Air, Bobby convinces Gavin to tag along on a supply run, playing up the Great Northern Adventure. He even lets Gavin take the yoke - a great idea, until Gavin hits the wrong lever, wrecks an engine, and forces a dicey emergency landing. Stranded at a remote airstrip, Bobby assumes he blew his chance to win over Gavin and his cheque book. But Gavin surprises him, buying into the company for two million dollars. Returning to Arctic Air victorious, Bobby expects Krista and Mel to be impressed by his business acumen. Instead, they receive the news with icy fury and Krista takes Bobby's secret dealings as a personal betrayal. Bobby is confident his friends will come around - until he discovers that Gavin is a pawn in an elaborate payback scheme orchestrated by an old enemy, Ronnie Dearman.
Episode 10: Drop in for Lunch (Mar/13/2012)
A faulty gauge grounds Mel's plane, stranding Mel, Doc Hossa, Loreen and Caitlin near Watson Lake where they've traveled for a funeral. They hitch a ride back to Yellowknife on a competing airline, subjecting the pilot to Mel as his backseat driver. But Mel's concerns are warranted when the pilot fails to act on a warning light indicating a potential fire in the electrical system. As smoke fills the cockpit, Mel takes over and braces everyone for the inevitable crash. In YK, news of the downed plane throws the Arctic Air family into chaos. The search and rescue team, based out of Ontario, is hours away and the temperature is dropping. Bobby orders Cece and Kirby to outfit the DC-3 as a medevac to retrieve survivors. Meanwhile, Krista and Blake fly over the crash site - it's impossible to imagine anyone could've walked away from the wreckage below. But Krista is determined to land. After a frantic ground search that reveals the dead pilot, Krista and Blake are shocked to find Mel, alive and tending single-handedly to the others. Bobby prepares to fly the DC-3 to the crash site, but he has never flown the plane on skis. With Mel, Loreen, Doc Hossa and Caitlin's lives hanging in the balance, Cece and Dev volunteer to fly the daring rescue mission with Bobby.
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contributed by codebreaker
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