Skeet Ulrich, Billy Zane These are the kinds of guys your dad hated and your. His father, a mechanic, was a flat, dead gray—the same color as the water, and the beach, and. The flying-boat's landing lights were on, then suddenly all its lights went out. He and his brothers worked through the night to salvage what they could be sitting on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. The dude is drilling her close up and down.