Season 1: Episode 16: Gray-Brown Odyssey

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Overview

Directed by: Randy Roberts
Written by: Bruce Reisman

Guest Star: Rosalind Chao ... Li Kiem

Also Starring: Ron Genta ... Pointer; Bryan O'Dell ... Calhoun; Le Tuan ... Vietnamese Farmer; Florence Koko ... Old Viet Woman; Lloyd Kino ... Viet Father; Ned Van Zandt ... Army Officer; Loc Tan Nguyen ... Little Viet Boy

Original Air Date: 25 February 1988

Title Card: In 1965, the Viet Cong announced that over 1,000,000 women were active in their movement.

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Episode Summary

Ho Chi Minh came across as a grandfatherly old school teacher who wanted what was best for his beloved Vietnam. However, this is the story about one of the most harshest realities of Communist Vietnam.

Women and children were the tragedies of war that was hard to comprehend. The women and children were casualties and that is sad for most people, but Chairman Ho required women and children to serve in the military. Most often, men were sent to the towns and villages to recruit and if anyone refused, the entire village was usually destroyed.

This is a story about a young, idealistic woman who was recruited from the college in Hue and served alongside her husband in the battles near Camp Ladybird. She is captured and is held prisoner by a temporarily blinded Goldman.

Stephen Caffrey and Rosalind Chao were great in this drama. He was blinded and had to be lead by an angry woman who was bound and tied for most of the journey. The scene of an angry woman tied up and struggling with a blind man in a river had to have been a hard part to play.

With the frailties of humanities, these two were strengthened by anger and bitterness as they debated dogma and ideologies. The journey of differences strangely ends up at the same place. And somehow this is a trip well worth the walk. (By Ernest Johnson)

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Transcript (see transcript listing)

Excerpt from [29:06] Here's A Bowl Of Rice

GOLDMAN: Haven’t eaten in a while, huh?

GOLDMAN: You know, that guy really hated us. You can feel it.

LI KIEM: He still feed us.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, even though we’re his enemies. Doesn’t that make you feel somethin’?

LI KIEM: The Revolution need food.

GOLDMAN: The Revolution? Give me a break. The guy did something that went way past any revolution. He’s just being a decent human being.

LI KIEM: Everyone can't afford that luxury.

GOLDMAN: You know what your problem is? You’re a slave to your own ideas. You could walk past the most beautiful sunset in the world, and you’d never even see it because you’d be flapping your gums about revolution and politics.

LI KIEM: You enjoy your beautiful sunset, rich American. Political indifference is the reason you’re here. That’s what’s going to kill you.

GOLDMAN: Maybe. But just for a second there, I thought I felt that VC hate slip away. Or was that just your stomach growling?

LI KIEM: I’ve eaten enough, GI.

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