Legacy is the first episode of the first season of Wings.
Synopsis[]
On Nantucket Island, Joe Hackett, owner and sole pilot of Sandpiper Air, receives a letter from the executor of his late father's will. The letter contains a package to be opened only in the presence of his brother, Brian, who had run off with Joe's fiancée Carol six years ago, and to whom Joe had not spoken to since. At the urging of Helen, proprietress of the airport lunch counter and longtime friend to both brothers, Joe calls up Brian to invite him to the island. After Brian's arrival, the two open the package only to discover a key to a security deposit box. Expecting to a find a fortune, the two brothers head of to the bank. But they return with another key, this one to a lock in Boston. The trail of keys continue, until they return to Nantucket with a key belonging to an unknown lock. Frustrated at the meaningless chase, the strained peace between the two brothers dissolves. The painful subject of Carol is brought up, but Brian reveals that Carol ran off with another man only two weeks ago. Just as Brian is ready to leave the airport, Fay discovers that the key belongs to one of the lockers at the airport. Inside is one last suitcase, and inside that suitcase....is nothing but joke snakes and a picture of young Joe and Brian together. Their father's last wish was to have his estranged sons reunited, and that wish is granted when Brian accepts Joe's job offer to be a pilot for Sandpiper.
Credits[]
Main Cast[]
- Timothy Daly as Joe Hackett
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
- Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
- David Schramm as Roy Biggins
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
Guest Cast[]
- Trish Monaco as Aeromass Gal (uncredited)
- Brigitte Kempt as Woman
- Torrey Hanson as Passenger
Quotes[]
- Fay Cochran - "You've got six passengers and a crate of lobsters that have to be delivered alive. The lobsters, not the people. Although I'm sure the people would appreciate it too."
- Fay Cochran - "For those of you going out to meet arriving passengers, we found out, due to one particularly nasty incident, it's best to wait for the propellers to come to a complete stop."
- Joe Hackett - "It never fails, every time I fly, I come back a little surer there's a God."
Lowell Mather - "I go down to the dump and shoot rats."
- Joe Hackett - "Ok now, remember Brian, whatever is in this suitcase, we split in two."
Brian Hackett - "What if it's a puppy?"
- Brian Hackett - "Whoa! Major hooters!"
Passenger - "What did you say?"
Brian Hackett - "Hooters... Major Bob Hooters..."
- Joe Hackett - "What does this mean?"
Brian Hackett - "That pop's funnier dead than you are alive."
Trivia[]
- The episodes opens on Joe waxing his airplane in the hangar and talking to Lowell before the opening credits. Afterward, until the fourth season, the series always opened on the credits.
- This episode's plot was revisited in season eight in the one hour finale Final Approach.
- Joe's regular Tuesday order at Helen's Lunch Counter is a B.L.T. with four slices of bacon on whole wheat bread lightly toasted with mustard on top and mayonnaise on the bottom and two pickles on the side.
- Donald Hackett's last words were "Sit on my lap Eydie" because he thought Joe was Eydie Gormé.
- Joe reveals that Helen moved to Nantucket with her family at age 10.
- Joe reveals that the Mather family his lived on Nantucket for five generations.
- The scavenger hunt goes to the First National Bank of Nantucket to a post office in Boston, two more banks, two bus stations, a post office, a train depot, and back to the terminal at Tom Nevers Field.
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DVD[]
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On Nantucket Island, Joe Hackett, owner and sole pilot of Sandpiper Air, receives a letter from the executor of his late father's will. The letter contains a package to be opened only in the presence of his brother, Brian, who had run off with Joe's fiancée Carol six years ago, and to whom Joe had not spoken to since. At the urging of Helen, proprietress of the airport lunch counter and longtime friend to both brothers, Joe calls up Brian to invite him to the island. After Brian's arrival, the two open the package only to discover a key to a security deposit box. Expecting to a find a fortune, the two brothers head of to the bank. But they return with another key, this one to a lock in Boston. The trail of keys continue, until they return to Nantucket with a key belonging to an unknown lock. Frustrated at the meaningless chase, the strained peace between the two brothers dissolves. The painful subject of Carol is brought up, but Brian reveals that Carol ran off with another man only two weeks ago. Just as Brian is ready to leave the airport, Fay discovers that the key belongs to one of the lockers at the airport. Inside is one last suitcase, and inside that suitcase....is nothing but joke snakes and a picture of young Joe and Brian together. Their father's last wish was to have his estranged sons reunited, and that wish is granted as Brian accepts Joe's job offer to be a pilot for Sandpiper.
Cast
Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
Crystal Bernard as Helen Chappel
Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
David Schram as Roy Biggins
Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
Torrey Hanson as Passenger
Brigitte Kempt as Woman
Crew
Executive Producers: David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee
Casting: Jeff Greenburg C.S.A.
Executive Story Consultant: Philip LaZebnik
Assistant Producer: Maggie Randell
Director of Photography: Rey Christopher
Editor: Billy Fox
Unit Production Manager: Stephen Lim
1st Assistant Director: Lenny Garner
2nd Assistant Director: Sam Epstein
Music Composed and Adapted By: Anthony Cooke
Theme By: Franz Schubert
Set Decorator: Tom Buggenhogen, Laura Richarz
Script Supervisor: Sonny Flippini
Casting Executive: Helen Mossler
Music Editor: Chips Swanson
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Palmer
Costume Supervisor: Joyce Beren
Production Coordinator: Janice Carr
Production Mixer: Robert Crosby C.A.S.
Make Up Artist: Bruce Hutchinson
Hair Stylist: Patricia Phillips
Assistants To The Producers: Keith Bickford, Yvette Culver, Teena Heim, Suzanne Holmes, Larry McCallister, Lori A. Moneymaker, Sheila Gutherie Nevil, Eddie Pardella, W. Dean White, Eddie Williams
Episode Quotes
Fay: You've got six passengers and a crate of lobsters that have to be delivered alive. The lobsters, not the people. Although I'm sure the people would appreciate it too.
Fay: For those of you going out to meet arriving passengers, we found out, due to one particularly nasty incident, it's best to wait for the propellers to come to a complete stop.
Joe: It never fails, every time I fly, I come back a little surer there's a god.
Lowell: I go down to the dump and shoot rats.
Joe: Ok now, remember Brian, whatever is in this suitcase, we split in two.
Brian: What if it's a puppy?
Brian: Whoa! Major hooters!
Trivia[]
- This episode's plot was later revisited in season eight in the one hour finale "Final Approach"