Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Part 6” of “Masters of the Air,” now streaming on Apple TV+. When Major John “Bucky” Egan (Callum Turner) is marched through the front gates of the Stalag Luft III prison camp in the final moments of Part 6 of Apple TV+’s “Masters of the Air,” the last thing you’d might expect to see is a smile.
And yet, despite the atrocities he’s just endured on the road to get here, there is reason for Bucky to smile — even if there’s a changed man behind it.
Going into last week’s mission, Egan was driven by a singular need to find his missing-in-action friend, Major Gale “Buck” Clevan (Austin Butler).
But when he is forced to eject from his doomed plane, Egan finds himself with a new mission to survive behind enemy lines. “This friendship means so much to him,” Turner tells Variety. “Up until Episode 5, Bucky is a superstitious man.
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