- The barbershop quartet is in the middle of an old Bing Crosby number when their plane whacks into the side of Sugarbush Mountain, in Vermont.
- Everyone is killed except Billy and the copilot.
- The people who first arrive on the scene are a couple of Austrian ski instructors from a nearby ski resort.
- Billy has fractured his skull, and thinks they are part of World War II.
- When they find Billy, he whispers his address to them: Schlachthof-fünf. Slaughterhouse-Five.