Sorry, if that were true then why did a plane fly over at that time and drop food and supplies right next to the Swan station? It was a pre-planned lockdown.

I suspect that was the reason why Benjamin was there in the first place.

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"The Naked Gun!"

Frank Drebin remembers a lost love.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.