Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjsfs49SRbc
49 minutes, 34 seconds after start of film:
[Fletch is in an airplane hanger belonging to Boyd Aviation, in the Los Angeles area. He is posing as a technician who has come to assist one some repair work. He is looking inside the small airplane (a Cessna) that Alan Stanwyk uses as his personal aircraft. Two Boyd Aviation airplane technicians are present: "Bud" (played by Burton Gilliam) and "Willy" (Beau Starr).]
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Looks well-used.
Technician Willy (Beau Starr): Goes back and forth to Utah every weekend.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Oh is that right? What, is he a Mormon?
Technician Bud (Burton Gilliam): Ha ha! [Laughs loudly.]
Technician Willy: [Laughs.]
Technician Bud: I don't think he's doing a whole lot of singing with the Tabernacle Choir.
Technician Willy: These executives, they live high. You know what I mean?
Fletch (Chevy Chase): I sure do.
[Long pause. Willy knows that Fletch is lying about who he is.]
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Ah, that's a terrific wing. I love this shape.
[Willy decides to test Fletch's knowledge of airplane mechanics, to confirm his suspicion that Fletch is not really who he says he is.]
Technician Willy: Hey, do us a favor, pal.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Name's Liddy. Gordon Liddy.
Technician Willy: Gord, take a look at the seventh Fetzer valve, will you. I think it's been sticking.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): [Nods.] Probably the humidity.
Technician Bud: [Laughs.] That's funny. No, what I think it is myself is the, uh, by-pass line.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): It could be the by-pass line. Yeah. Maybe I should take a look at it.
[Nobody moves to assist Fletch. Fletch walks resolutely to the front of the airplane and lifts up an unlocked panel on the nose of the plane. It opens to reveal a storage area for luggage, clearly not where any sort of by-pass line might be found. Willy watches him closey.]
Technician Bud: Uh, Gordo? [Bud is still standing near the back of the airplane. He points to a spot near himself.] Back here.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Don't tell me my business, boy! Just checking the luggage. Somebody ought to clean these windows. There is a tremendous build up of gook all over them. [Rubs his hand on the outside of a cockpit window.] Look at that. [Walking to the back of the plane.] You use a lot of fuel to go to Utah?
Technician Bud: That's what I always ask.
Technician Willy: Burns enough to go to South America and back.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): South America and back? Huh? Is that right?
Technician Bud: Yeah. But I always kid him about it. I say, "What are you doing up there? You doing some stunt flying or something?" [Laughs.]
Fletch (Chevy Chase): [Laughs.] What's he say?
Technician Bud: Well, you know. He don't say nothing. He just gives me that look. You know, he's got that look. [Tries to contort his face into "that look."]
Technician Willy: Yeah, he don't say nothing. He just gives him that look.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Well, sure, he's the boss. Here, let me take a crack at this Fetzer, here. [Climbs on a small ladder to look some exposed airplane parts on the top of the plane.]
Technician Bud: Uh, Gord. [Points to a spot on the bottom of the plane.]
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Yeah, I know where it is. I'm just getting a bird's eye view, here... and, uh... Oh, ho ho ho.
Technician Willy: What do you think? It's the by-pass line, right?
Fletch (Chevy Chase): I think it's the by-pass line, yeah.
Technician Bud: Told ya.
Fletch (Chevy Chase): I'm gonna need some pliers and, uh, a set of 30-weight ball bearings.
Technician Bud: What?
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Yeah, uh... Tell you what. I gotta go to my truck. If Fred gets here before I'm back, you can tell him to start without me.
Technician Willy: What the hell do you need ball bearings for?
Fletch (Chevy Chase): Ah, come on guys... It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays... Now, you prepare that Fetzer valve with some, uh, 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads. And I'm gonna need about 10 quarts of antifreeze... preferably Prestone... No... No, make that Quaker State... And wash those windows. They got filth and muck on them.
[End of scene.]
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