► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo
plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces
of metal, striking some
of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads
of the
plane, and stands on the chest
of an unconscious agent, who
wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the
plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints
of the gorilla leading away from the
crash site (we do not see the bodies
of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots
of blood on the back
of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side
of her forehead.
In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the
wake of his death - from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love - but also reveals how Miles's death mirrored her father's death in a
plane crash, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.