Darkness and Trees

BOB We can see them from the plane - This long line of headlights coming through the darkness ALL Off of the airplane FLIGHT ATTENDANT Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items. Any checked luggage will remain in the hold ALL Into the airport DIANE The captain and flight attendants tell everyone To take the blankets and pillows off the plane ALL Out of the windows KEVIN We grab bottles of water too - no one has any idea where they're taking us ALL Darkness and trees BOB As we enter the airport, all those car lights are still aimed at us HANNAH We're scared. They're probably scared too FLIGHT ATTENDANT The people here don't know what to expect off of these planes KEVIN The airport looks like something left over from the Cold War. Kevin is like: Oh my god. We've gone back in time BOB The whole procedure - the soldiers and all the formality - It just makes me really nervous BEVERLEY There's a giant map on the wall of the airport And someone has written in red marker, "You are here." DIANE Excuse me. I need to find a phone. I need to call my son CUSTOMS OFFICER I'm sorry. The pay phones are out of order OZ They're all lined up at the airport pay phones So eventually we put an "Out of Order" Sign on them just so we can get people on the busses CLAUDE 11:48 pm. Busses and driver are now taking passengers to shelters, Not just in Gander, but also to Gambo, Appleton, And farther communities of Lewisporte, Norris Arm, and Glenwood COMPANY Our bus sits there forever While all the others leave Finally, this other passenger gets on This guy from the Middle East Someone says he got questioned Some says he got searched And now he's on our bus JANICE I try to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army - But they've got more important things to do than talk to me. That's when I see them, the Plane People, through the bus windows. The terror on their faces. They have no idea where they're going BEVERLEY They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm looking out the window, trying to see where we are, but it is pitch dark. I've flown over this area hundreds and hundreds of times. And it is just darkness - hardly and lights anywhere. And now here I am. Oh my god, this is just so remote MEN Into the darkness WOMEN Stars and the moonlight MEN But all around us WOMEN Nothing but darkness MEN Out of the windows WOMEN Into the darkness ALL Darkness and trees GARTH Every school bus we got is goin' back and forth all night. Out to the Salvation Army Camp, we've delivered passengers from Germany, England, and France. And around 3 in the morning, my bus is designated to take all these African people out there. ALL except GARTH and MUHUMUZA Into the darkness MUHUMUZA My family and I try to see out the bus windows. No one tells us where we are going ALL except GARTH and MUHUMUZA Onto a gravel road GARTH Silence comes on the bus. We get outside of Gander and you could hear a pin drop ALL except GARTH and MUHUMUZA And all around us MUHUMUZA My wife and daughter are scared. They ask me what is happening and I do not know ALL except GARTH and MUHUMUZA Darkness and trees GARTH Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice MUHUMUZA Wewe watuchukuwa wapi? GARTH What's that, now?