Transcript: (1x1) Pilot
From Bravo 3/44th
Written by: Steve Duncan & L. Travis Clark
Directed by: Bill L. Norton
See the Episode Guide
[1:40 / 1:44] Listening Post in the Jungle - Night
ANDERSON: Oscar Papa One, Oscar X-ray. Over. Oscar Papa One, how copy? Over.
ANDERSON: Do you have movement at this time, over?
JOHNSON: They sleepin'. They gotta be sleepin'.
MICKEY: Unless their radio's broke.
ANDERSON: Oscar Papa One, Oscar X-ray, come on, come on. Somebody talk to me, you jerks sleepin', or what? Over.
ANDERSON: All right. Johnson, you call the CO. You tell him what's goin' on out here. I'm gonna' wake those boys up.
JOHNSON: It's nothin, Mickey.
MICKEY: Bravo, Bravo, Oscar X-ray, over. Bravo, Bravo, Oscar X-ray, over.
ANDERSON: Come on, Peterson—
ANDERSON: Johnson, Mickey get in the hole! Drop down, Mickey! Down, down! Back, back back! Come on!
JOHNSON/ANDERSON: Come on! Get moving! Hurry up, Mickey! Come on!
MICKEY: Aah!
[4:18 / 4:24] Firebase Ladybird - Night
SOLDIER: Incoming!
ANDERSON: Don't shoot, Don't shoot! Comin' in, comin' in! Don't shoot! Don't shoot, comin' in!
TAYLOR: It's Zeke! Give him cover fire! Come on, Zeke!
SOLDIER: Come on!
TAYLOR: Move it, Johnson!
SOLDIER: Come on, you can do it!
TAYLOR: You okay, Zeke?
ANDERSON: Keep firing at the tree line!
JOHNSON: Mickey! God, where's Mickey?
[4:58 / 5:05] Firebase Ladybird, at the perimeter
ANDERSON: Lieutenant, call the weapons platoon leader. We need more illum.
LIEUTENANT: What position?
ANDERSON: 11:00. tree line. Tell 'em to mix it with HE.
LIEUTENANT: Oscar Papa, Oscar Papa, we—ugh!
ANDERSON: Medic! Come on, LT!
MATSUDA: Oh... Hang in there, Lieutenant. Come on, baby. Hang in there.
MATSUDA: Come on, you're gonna' be okay.
[5:45 / 5:52] Command Bunker - Night
WALLACE: I already called for TAC air, we got zips on the wire now! Where in the bloody hell are you?!
ANDERSON: We need napalm on the tree line!
SOLDIER: Tell me, where? Where?
ANDERSON: Right there—767-935.
WALLACE: Napalm at 767-935, southeast side. Napalm now! I need napalm now!
SOLDIERS [o.s.]: Come on! Let's go get that together! Go, go! Come on, move it!
[6:11 / 6:21] Firebase Ladybird - Dawn
JOHNSON: Mickey! You guys seen Mickey?
JOHNSON: Mickey...
JOHNSON: Oh God.
JOHNSON: Mickey. You got Mickey?
TAYLOR: Come on, Johnson, man. Come on, Johnson!
MATSUDA: He's gone, man. We lost 'im, come on.
JOHNSON: Mickey...
TAYLOR: Come on, Johnson, man. Let it go, brother. Let it go, man!
ANDERSON: All right, all right, forget about it.
JOHNSON: He was my best friend!
ANDERSON: All right, he was. Get up out of there. Come on, come on.
TAYLOR: Come on.
TAYLOR: Get 'im out of here!
TAYLOR: Come on Johnson, let it go, man! Come on, come on, let it go, man. Let it go.
[7:25 / 7:34] Firebase Ladybird, Wallace and Anderson
ANDERSON: He was a good man.
WALLACE: They were all good men. It shouldn't have happened. It's supposed to be gettin' easier, we're supposed to be winning this war.
ANDERSON: Oh yeah? Well I tell you somethin', Captain. We came about that far from gettin' overrun.
WALLACE: I know. Come on, Zeke. I want you to take a walk with me. There's somethin' I wanna' show you.
WALLACE: You were out there among them, Zeke. They all look like this?
ANDERSON: What, are you talkin' about the uniform?
WALLACE: Yeah.
ANDERSON: Yep. Every last one of 'em. And they ain't your typical rice paddie daddies, either.
WALLACE: Nope. We got something altogether new here. North Vietnamese Army regulars.
ANDERSON: Uh huh. First time I ever heard of 'em bein' this far south.
WALLACE: Yeah. We got a whole new war ahead of us, Zeke.
WALLACE: Hey, I got a job for you to do. I want you to police up these bodies. Battalion wants maps, papers, any identifying material we can find. Then I want you to hop the first chopper over to division headquarters. Major Braun's going to be very interested in this.
ANDERSON: Yes, sir. Uh, 'scuse me, sir, but while I'm over there, maybe I could do a little recruiting for you and the First Sergeant.
WALLACE: Good idea, Zeke.
ANDERSON: I was hopin' you'd say that.
WALLACE: By the way, you did a good job last night.
ANDERSON: Hell, I'm alive. Can't do any better 'n that.
[8:43 / 8:54] In a chopper, on the way to Chu Lai - Day
WOUNDED SOLDIER: Hey, partner?
ANDERSON: Yeah?
WOUNDED SOLDIER: I'm already dyin'. Don't kill me no more.
ANDERSON: Oh! I'm just learnin'.
WOUNDED SOLDIER: Yeah? Well... don't quit your day job.
[10:41 / 10:50] Chu Lai - Day
SOLDIERS [o.s.]: Open it up! Open it up! Open it up! . . . Let's go! Let's go! . . . Move! Move 'em on in!
[10:59 / 11:12] Major Braun's Office - Day
BRAUN: Magnificent weapon. I wish we had some of these.
CRIPPEN: You were in the L.P., and you say there was at least a battalion?
ANDERSON: No sir, I didn't say anything like that. I said I saw enough of 'em to make me run like hell, but there must have been a lot of 'em to do what they did to us.
BRAUN: The amazing thing is that they're this far south. They're a lot stronger than we thought.
CRIPPEN: What we need is more information. It's a shame you didn't take prisoners.
BRAUN: Yes, it's imperative that we get a prisoner. Tell your CO, if there's any further contact, to try to get one of them alive.
ANDERSON: Yes, sir. But speaking for myself, my number one priority is keeping me alive, I don't worry about their lives.
BRAUN: I hear you, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: Will that be all, sir?
BRAUN: Yes. Dismissed.
[11:45 / 12:03] Volleyball Nets - Day
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ANDERSON: Mad Dog! Jungle rules volleyball. Why aren't you playing?
DUNN: Hey, Zeke Anderson, how are you?
ANDERSON: Alive and well, and bearing gifts, too. I got you here a... This a genuine North Vietnamese Army belt, size 28. Now, they're skinny little fellas, but uh, you put a couple notches in it, it'll fit ya.
DUNN: Zeke, this thing is great!
ANDERSON: I'm telling you.
DUNN: What can I do for you?
ANDERSON: Well, to tell you the truth, I'm glad you asked me that, 'cause I've come to do a little recruitin' here.
DUNN: Well, there they are. Take your pick. All cherries. Just got back from combat orientation.
ANDERSON: Yeah? I like that.
[12:52 / 13:08] Anderson Recruits
ANDERSON: All right, who's winnin' over here?
PERCELL: We are. Nine to three.
ANDERSON: All right then. Winners, line up on the grass over there! Who's winnin' over there?
SOLDIER: We are! Ten to one!
ANDERSON: Ten to one, hell! You'd better line up over here too, then. On the grass. Come on, move it, move it, move it!
ANDERSON: All right. All o' y'all who are bleedin', take a step back. I do not want any bleeders, I cannot stand the sight of blood.
ANDERSON: Not you, son. Those are skinned knuckles. Skinned knuckles are okay. All right. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm lookin' for winners, survivors. 'Cause that's what I am, I'm a survivor. I'm very good at it. But it also helps if you have a certain amount of natural ability. Anybody wanna' get high? Huh? I got beaucoup Vietnamese dope. Good dope.
ANDERSON: Nobody? Nobody? That's good. I do not want any dopers. I do not want any dopers. If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin' to me, you don't listen to me, you're gonna' get me killed, and that's not gonna' happen.
ANDERSON: All right, what about dummies? Got any low IQ types? If we do, take a giant step back, mother may I.
ANDERSON: What is your name, soldier?
LAWRENCE: Lawrence. Clyde R. Lawrence.
ANDERSON: Clyde R. Lawrence. Where you from, Clyde R. Lawrence?
LAWRENCE: Motown!
ANDERSON: Is that in the U.S.A.?
LAWRENCE: Motown? That's in Detroit!
ANDERSON: Are you a survivor, Lawrence?
LAWRENCE: Damn straight.
ANDERSON: I'm glad to hear that. Step on out here. Line up over here.
SOLDIER: I'd be proud to serve with you, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: No, you wouldn't, son. No, you wouldn't.
ANDERSON: What's your name?
PERCELL: Corporal Daniel Percell.
ANDERSON: Corporal Daniel Percell. How, how come they made you corporal?
PERCELL: Well, I had ROTC in high school. I imagine that's why.
ANDERSON: Did you, uh, volunteer for Vietnam, Corporal Daniel Percell?
PERCELL: That's right. I did, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: You volunteered.
PERCELL: That's right.
ANDERSON: Well why didn't you step out with the other dummies when I said to?
PERCELL: I don't think patriotism is sumptin' to laugh about, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: Oh, son, when it gets you into the fine mess that you're into now, it is somethin' to laugh about. But it's all right now. It's all right. You just step out, you join us right over there on the line over there.
ANDERSON: Um... you mind if I ask you a personal question? How did you get to be so damn big?
BAKER: Well, I guess because I eat a balanced diet—uh, you know, plenty of protein, lots of uh, fresh milk and fish, and granola—but only the type with the um, nuts and raisins. And I exercise regularly—
ANDERSON: —Are you from California?
BAKER: Yeah! Anaheim! You know where Disneyland is—?
ANDERSON: Yeah, I know where Disneyland is—
BAKER: My—
ANDERSON: —Step out, Mr. Goofy.
ANDERSON: Now... where did you come from?
RUIZ: You called for winners, right?
ANDERSON: Yes, I did. What is your MOS, soldier?
RUIZ: Machine gun, and I'm good.
ANDERSON: Yeah, you're good. You're good at paper targets. Wait'll you try it on somethin' that bleeds.
RUIZ: Hmph. My man, I'm from the Bronx. Blood is nothing new to Alberto Ruiz.
ANDERSON: Well now. This is sumptin' I'm gonna' have to see for my own self. Come on.
RUIZ: Vaya.
ANDERSON Vaya.
ANDERSON: All right, rest o' you guys, you're winners. You've just volunteered for Bravo Company, third herd. The rest of you guys, you uh, you losers, why don't you just uh... Why don't you just play with each other?
ANDERSON: All right, you men are in my platoon. Pack your trash. We leave at 1400 hours. Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!
[16:42 / 17:05] Digger's Blues
DUNN: I felt bad about bein' rear echelon. I used to envy guys like you. Frontline guys. Not anymore. This war's gettin' crazy.
ANDERSON: Listen, listen, listen. That's 'Digger's blues,' and that ain't bad, either.
ANDERSON: That is good. I'm tellin' you, that is first-rate.
HORN: Hey, thanks.
ANDERSON: Where did you learn how to play like that?
HORN: Well, I'm from Chicago. A lotta' blues in Chicago.
ANDERSON: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Junior Wells, Paul Butterfield—
HORN: Paul Butterfield's a friend of mine.
ANDERSON: No.
HORN: Yeah. Him and Barry Goldberg... uh, Al Kooper, too.
ANDERSON: Those guys are the greatest! I can't even find C chord half the time!
HORN: I could show you. It's not that hard.
ANDERSON: Yeah? I tell you what, I'm gonna' put you in Bravo Company. You're gonna' be in my platoon—
DUNN: Hang on a minute, Zeke. You don't want this guy.
ANDERSON: Why?
DUNN: Says he won't fight. He's a war protester or sumptin'.
ANDERSON: Won't fight?
HORN: That's right.
DUNN: Tell him that crap you were tellin' me.
HORN: Oh, about the war? It's an unjust war. I mean, America's proppin' up a corrupt dictatorship and I won't fight for that.
ANDERSON: I'll tell you what. You will fight. You're also going to teach me how to play that harmonica. We're leavin' at 1400 hours. Pack your stuff.
[18:15 / 18:39] Load 'Em Up
ANDERSON: All right, let's load 'em up! Move it, move it, move it! Come on, move, move, move, move, move, move, move!
ANDERSON: All right, any of you men know which one of these officers is Second Lieutenant Goldman?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, I'm Lieutenant Goldman.
ANDERSON: I'm your platoon sergeant. I'm Anderson.
GOLDMAN: Well where's your salute, Sergeant?
GOLDMAN: All right, let's load these men up, Sergeant.
GOLDMAN: Let's go! Let's go! Let's load 'em up!
ANDERSON: Welcome to Bravo Company... sir.
[18:48 / 19:11] On the Road, to Ladybird
LAWRENCE: Hey. You scared?
PERCELL: Just sorta' lookin' out.
LAWRENCE: Me too. Hey.
PERCELL: Thanks.
BAKER: Hey, Sergeant, how can you tell if they're Viet Cong or not?
ANDERSON: Just pull 'em over and ask 'em for their driver's license.
SOLDIERS [o.s.]: VC! VC! . . . Where are they? Where are they?
GOLDMAN: What the hell?!
GOLDMAN: You think you're real funny?!
ANDERSON: It's all right. It's all right. It's just an initiation. They do it to everybody.
PRANKSTER SOLDIER: Sorry, sir.
ANDERSON: No more of that!
ANDERSON [to Goldman]: You can ride up in the jeep if you want.
GOLDMAN: No, I'll ride back here with the men, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: Are you a, you a West Pointer, Lieutenant?
GOLDMAN: No. Officer Candidate School.
PRANKSTER SOLDIER: Another butter bar.
ANDERSON: Hey! I said knock it off!
GOLDMAN: How long you been in Vietnam?
ANDERSON: I'm four months into my third tour.
GOLDMAN: Your third tour?
ANDERSON: Yeah.
ANDERSON: Maybe I'm a little crazy, huh?
GOLDMAN: Yeah!
[20:40 / 21:06] On the truck, Anderson and Horn
ANDERSON: Try this on for size.
[21:21 / 21:47] Firebase Ladybird - Day
ANDERSON: All right, ladies! This is it! Welcome home! Follow me, we'll get you bunked down! Right this way! Come on, come on! Move it, move it, move it!
ANDERSON: Lieutenant, the CO's bunker's right over there, he do wanna' talk to ya.
GOLDMAN: Thank you, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: Come on out, come on out, come on out!
[21:41 / 22:06] Wallace's Bunker - Twilight
GOLDMAN: Excuse me, sir?
WALLACE: Yes?
GOLDMAN: Lieutenant Goldman, reporting for duty.
WALLACE: I'm Rusty Wallace. At ease. Did you have a good trip out?
GOLDMAN: Yes, sir. Fast.
WALLACE: Yeah? Where you from, Myron?
GOLDMAN: New York. Queens, sir.
WALLACE: New York? You don't sound like it.
GOLDMAN: Thank you, sir.
WALLACE: Don't mention it. You know, there was a colonel in World War II, a famous colonel, Goldman.
GOLDMAN: Yes, sir. Probably my father. Martin Goldman. Won the Congressional Medal of Honor at the Battle of the Bulge...
WALLACE: That's a hard act to follow.
GOLDMAN: Yes, sir.
WALLACE: You know, I had a famous father too. He was a baseball player... So I played football.
GOLDMAN: Well I, uh, plan on following in my father's tradition, hopefully surpassing him in some ways.
WALLACE: You're going to be going into battle tomorrow, Myron. We're going after the same batch that hit us the other night.
GOLDMAN: Yes, sir.
WALLACE: I don't like to send a new lieutenant out, but I don't have too much choice. Now, I'm going to give you the same advice that I give all new lieutenants. Rely on your sergeant's experience. The men know him and they trust him.
GOLDMAN: Is my sergeant... "Anderson," sir?
WALLACE: That's right. You have a problem with that, Myron?
GOLDMAN: No, sir. Uh... The sergeant just has an odd sense of... uh...
WALLACE: He's a good man. Give him a chance.
GOLDMAN: Yes, sir. Will that be all, sir?
WALLACE: Yes. Dismissed.
GOLDMAN: Thank you, sir.
[23:10 / 23:38] Bunker #6 - Night
PERCELL: Is this tent six?
MATSUDA: This be the place. Come on in.
PERCELL: Is this rack taken?
TAYLOR: It was.
PERCELL: Was?
JOHNSON: It was Mickey's. He went home yesterday.
TAYLOR: In a plastic bag. One of the rare, good white boys gone.
PERCELL: What about that one?
TAYLOR: That was Williams'. They couldn't find all his parts to put in a bag.
BAKER: Wow, man. I'm going to sleep on the damn floor.
LAWRENCE: Don't bother me none. Ain't nobody gonna' kill Clyde Lawrence.
[24:00 / 24:29] Bunker #6, Ruiz enters
RUIZ: What's the matter? You niggers never seen a spic before?
TAYLOR: Not a ugly one like you, we ain't.
RUIZ: You got a problem, my man?
SOLDIER: Incoming! Incoming!
JOHNSON: That's Mr. Charles. Let's do it!
[24:29 / 24:59] Firebase Ladybird - Night
SOLDIERS [o.s.]: Where the hell am I supposed to go? . . . Get out of here! Get out of here!
[24:37 / 25:06] Inside a Bunker - Night
PERCELL: This happen very often?
TAYLOR: Standard operating procedure.
JOHNSON: Happens most every night, cherry boy.
TAYLOR: Yeah. They fire at us. We fire at them. It's like sex to those artillery guys.
ANDERSON: Don't worry about it. It'll be over in a few minutes.
RUIZ: Oh God. Oh God. Let me out. Let me out! Let me out!
ANDERSON: Hold it, troop! Stay in the bunker here!
RUIZ: It's over there!
ANDERSON: What?
RUIZ: A rat! I hate rats!
ANDERSON: No, no! Don't go out there!
RUIZ: Oh, God! Let me out! God, let me out!
ANDERSON: Calm down. Calm down.
JOHNSON: Rats ain't no big thing, man.
RUIZ: I hate rats!
ANDERSON: All right.
RUIZ: I hate 'em!
ANDERSON: All right. Where is he? Where is he?
RUIZ: He's over there.
ANDERSON: All right, right over there?
RUIZ: Yeah.
ANDERSON: All right. You guys, let's get him.
JOHNSON: Take that, you commie rat.
[25:52 / 26:30] Firebase Ladybird - Morning
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Company, fall in!
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Alpha Company, ready!
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Bravo Company, ready, sir!
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Charlie Company, ready, sir!
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Stand at ease!
WALLACE: Men, we lost a lot of good friends the other night. Now we have a chance to get even. We have reports of a large body of NVA regular troops in the vicinity. Now, they've never been seen this far south before, but we are going to stop 'em. Here and now. Bravo and Charlie Companies are going to play bait. We'll go out, make contact, and when we do, Brigade is going to come down hard and heavy—classic Sparrow and Hawk. Squad leaders! Check your men!
LAWRENCE: I don't believe it. Bait. They usin' my life to go fishin' with.
RUIZ: This is what it's all about: war.
ANDERSON: Percell, now you're gonna' have to tape these dog tags together, otherwise you're gonna' sound like Chinese wind chimes out there.
ANDERSON: These paid for, Taylor?
HORN: Hey, Sergeant. I just want you to know that I haven't changed my thinking. I'm not fighting.
ANDERSON: All right, now. Listen up, Horn, because I'm not messin' with you today. This ain't a protest march we're goin' on here, you understand me? Our lives are on the line here. We're all gonna' depend on each other.
ANDERSON: All right, Percell, get up here with that radio!
ANDERSON: You're gonna' be RTO, and I'm keepin' ya' real close to me and Lieutenant.
ANDERSON: Get the radio off.
[27:24 / 28:04] By the Choppers
GOLDMAN: Let's go! Let's load 'em up! Go!
[27:32 / 28:11] In the Choppers, above the Jungle, on the way to the LZ
ANDERSON: Lock and load!
JOHNSON: Okay. Let's do it.
[29:26 / 30:09] A Hot LZ
ANDERSON: We're goin' in hot!
GOLDMAN: All right, gentlemen, by the numbers!
ANDERSON: Go! Go! Go!
GOLDMAN: Let's go!
ANDERSON: Move it, Horn!
HORN: Medic! Medic!
LAWRENCE: They're leaving us! They're leaving us!
TAYLOR: Come on!
BAKER: God. Shoot. Kill them! Kill them!
HORN: Medic!
TAYLOR: Come on, Lawrence! Keep moving!
HORN: Medic!
GOLDMAN: Come on! Let's go, let's go!
ANDERSON: Stay down, Lieutenant! Down!
GOLDMAN: Move it! Move it!
ANDERSON: Stay down! Stay down!
ANDERSON: Look out!
GOLDMAN: Come on! Move it! Move it!
HORN: Medic!
GOLDMAN: Get to the tree line!
ANDERSON: Get down! Look out!
GOLDMAN: Come on, Sergeant, get these men moving—
ANDERSON: Get down! Keep your butt down, Lieutenant. Call in artillery, let them do it.
GOLDMAN: I'm in command here, Sergeant. Now we're takin' that tree line! You'll follow my orders!
ANDERSON: No, Lieutenant, I'm not dyin', and neither are these men—Horn! Get me that radio!
MATSUDA: Hang in there, hang in there.
ANDERSON: Red Leg, this is Bravo Two.
ANDERSON: Fire mission from Whiskey Delta at 1-0-0 mike—
ANDERSON: —Gooks in the tree line. Artillery fire. Over.
RADIO: We're on the way. First round is smoke.
SOLDIER: There it is, Sarge.
ANDERSON: All right. Red Leg, Bravo Two. Drop 1-0-0. Fire for effect. Over.
RADIO: Roger, Bravo Two. We copy.
ANDERSON: See there, Lieutenant? All you gotta' do is let arty do the work, and nobody gets hurt that way.
GOLDMAN: You keep up your fire, Baker! Keep firing, men! Come on Taylor, fire! Fire!
GOLDMAN: Where's your weapon, soldier?
HORN: I left it on the chopper.
GOLDMAN: You what?!
HORN: I'm not fighting, sir!
GOLDMAN: You're both gonna' get court-martialed when we get back—the both o' ya'!
ANDERSON: Horn, you are incredible. You're just incredible.
[32:09 / 32:55] Tree line
PERCELL: How could anybody survive this?
TAYLOR: You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised.
LAWRENCE: Man, this is spooky. No bodies, no nothin'.
TAYLOR: They move their dead. They don't leave nothin'.
JOHNSON: Blood trail! I got a blood trail here!
JOHNSON: It goes up that way.
ANDERSON: All right, we'll follow that trail.
ANDERSON: Keep your eyes open now; they're gonna' be lookin' for us.
ANDERSON: Lieutenant, call Six and tell 'im what we're doin'. We gotta' figure out some kinda' place to meet up with the rest of the company.
GOLDMAN: You seem to be makin' a lot of decisions here, Sergeant.
ANDERSON: I'm just tryin' to help, Lieutenant.
GOLDMAN: [to Horn] Gimme that. Bravo Six, this is Bravo Two. Over.
RADIO: This is Bravo Six. Come in, Bravo Two.
GOLDMAN: Bravo Six, this is Bravo Two. We're about one klick northwest of the LZ. We've got a blood trail. We're gonna follow it due west. Over.
RADIO: Due west. We copy. Over.
[33:07 / 33:54] Following the Blood Trail
RUIZ: This is great. We're supposed to be a full company, and we're stuck with half a platoon.
JOHNSON: Man, the lieutenant has a lot to learn.
TAYLOR: He better learn fast, or he's gonna get himself a bullet in his dunce cap.
GOLDMAN: Six, we've lost the blood trail. It completely disappeared. We're requesting you pick us up at the LZ. Over.
RADIO: Negative, I want you to circle around southeast. The rest of the company is landing at 223-472. I say again, 223-472. Over.
GOLDMAN: Roger. Rejoin you at 223-472. Out.
GOLDMAN: All right, gentlemen. We're movin' out southeast. We're gonna' rejoin the rest of the company.
ANDERSON: Woo!
GOLDMAN: Yeah! All right, let's move. Move, move, move!
ANDERSON: All right. Come on Percell, come on, come on. Taylor, what are you, a tourist? Come on, let's do it. Come on.
[35:02 / 35:53] Moving to Rejoin the Company
LAWRENCE: Hey, Taylor.
TAYLOR: What?
LAWRENCE: Tell me something. Be honest. Be real honest, okay? You ever kill anybody?
TAYLOR: Where you come from, fool?
LAWRENCE: I just asked a question, man.
TAYLOR: Don't ask.
BAKER: I'll just get a GTO, man, one that's candy apple red and has a four on the floor, man. And—
RUIZ: Hey, shut up.
BAKER: Oh, you don't like cars, man?
RUIZ: No, man. I hate cars. I like subways.
BAKER: Subways. You know what? New York, buddy—
RUIZ: Hey! You watch it, dumb and ugly—
BAKER: Who you callin' dumb and ugly?
GOLDMAN: Hey! Shut up up there!
[35:35 / 36:26] Johnson Spots a Wire
ANDERSON: What have you got?
JOHNSON: A wire.
ANDERSON: Oh yeah.
JOHNSON: Careful, Zeke.
JOHNSON: C-4.
ANDERSON: Johnson, you got yourself an eagle eye.
JOHNSON: It's my tail.
ANDERSON: Lieutenant, we've got a C-4 block here.
ANDERSON: Now the way I see it, we can either blow it up, in which case everybody's gonna know we're here in the vicinity, or we can, uh, disarm it.
GOLDMAN: Disarm it.
ANDERSON: Okay.
[36:11 / 37:04] Baker and Ruiz
BAKER: God.
RUIZ: It reminds me of your mama, Baker.
BAKER: My mother?
RUIZ: Yeah, your mother.
[36:35 / 37:28] Anderson
ANDERSON: Here she is. Isn't she pretty?
ANDERSON: All right. Let's saddle up. Let's go. Keep your eyes open now. Everybody move real slow.
[36:53 / 37:47] Baker and Ruiz
ANDERSON: Okay, Percell, you're going to take point for a while. Johnson, stay right with him. Let's go, let's go. Watch your step, now.
RUIZ: What's the matter? You don't like lizards, Baker?
RUIZ: Baker, look, look—
BAKER: Stop it, man!
RUIZ: Hey, come on, that was a boss lizard!
ANDERSON: Ruiz, get back here.
RUIZ: Wait a sec, just a sec...
ANDERSON: Ruiz!
[37:22 / 38:17] Ruiz Discovers Enemy Camp
ANDERSON: Ruiz—
RUIZ: Shh-shh!
ANDERSON: —get the hell back over here...
RUIZ: I saw two gooks, Sarge!
ANDERSON: Where?
RUIZ: Right there. They went into the bushes. Right there...
ANDERSON: All right. Go back, get the lieutenant. And hurry now. Stay low and be quiet.
RUIZ: Okay.
[37:53 / 38:51] Goldman Calls It In
ANDERSON: Today's your lucky day, Lieutenant. Right over the hill there. That's got to be the headquarters for that bunch we're lookin' for.
GOLDMAN: All right. Uh... I'm going to radio the CO. I think we're in way over our head.
ANDERSON: Bless your heart.
ANDERSON: Come on. Move out. Get under cover. Stay low. Keep quiet. Come on. Move out.
GOLDMAN: Bravo Six, this is Bravo Two. Over.
RADIO [Wallace]: Location, Bravo Two?
GOLDMAN: Klick 406-379r. Uh, we've got an enemy camp here. NVA regulars—
RADIO [Wallace]: Bingo! What do you need? Over.
GOLDMAN: We want artillery.
RADIO [Wallace]: I copy. Give me the coordinates. I need the numbers—
ANDERSON: Come on, move out!
LAWRENCE: Oh God. Look, Sergeant.
LAWRENCE: A wire, Sergeant. There's a wire.
JOHNSON: Freeze, Lawrence. Don't move.
TAYLOR: Stay right where you are, man.
LAWRENCE: Don't worry. I'm all right. I ain't goin' nowhere. I think I pressed it already, Sergeant. Help me. I think I already pushed it... a little!
LAWRENCE: Oh God. I'll just stay right here.
ANDERSON: Just stay still, Lawrence. Just stay still. We'll get ya' outta—
LAWRENCE: Oh no—!
[39:31 / 40:33] Firefight
GOLDMAN: Come on! Let it go! Let it go! Keep up our fire!
GOLDMAN: Come on, Horn!
GOLDMAN: Bravo Six, this is Bravo Two. We've got about five minutes to live here— We've got about five minutes to live here! Now where the hell's the artillery?
RADIO: Say again, we cannot fire at this time. We have ARVN choppers in the vicinity. Over.
GOLDMAN: ARVN chopp—? Well tell them to get the hell outta' there!
ANDERSON: Air support! Ask about air support!
GOLDMAN: Forward air control! Got any birds in our AO? Go!
RADIO: Hold on, I'm checkin' it out.
GOLDMAN: Oh, to hell with it, come on. We can outrun 'em in the bush.
ANDERSON: I got a better idea. I'll get over on their flank. Ruiz! Johnson!
GOLDMAN: What are you gonna' do?
ANDERSON: I'm gonna' take 'em out. I hope. Here we go.
BAKER: Aah! Medic! Medic, I'm hit! I'm hit!
BAKER: Percell, they're behind us! They're behind us. Behind us, behind us.
MATSUDA: Excuse me, guy.
BAKER: It hurts. It hurts. It hurts, man. It hurts bad, man.
MATSUDA: You'll be all right. Just a little flesh wound. Come on.
GOLDMAN: Fire! Lay it down! Lay it down!
[41:04 / 42:12] Anderson and Johnson
ANDERSON: Ruiz... Lay down fire. We're going to get the flank. Do it!
ANDERSON: Ready? Pins.
ANDERSON: Go.
ANDERSON: Go, Johnson!
ANDERSON: Okay, Johnson. Can you get them from here?
JOHNSON: Never miss.
ANDERSON: You're beautiful. All right, you see those long, narrow boxes? That's just gotta' be ammo.
ANDERSON: Come on, baby. We only got one o' those.
JOHNSON: This one's for Mickey.
[43:11 / 44:21] NVA Supply Bunker
ANDERSON: Yeah, we found them hiding in that bunker down there. We got maps, radio equipment, everything.
WALLACE: Real good work, men. This is just what Division wanted. Congratulations.
ANDERSON: Thank you, sir. But you know, I think the lieutenant here oughta' get a commendation for what we did. I mean, don't you think?
WALLACE: Good job.
GOLDMAN: Well thank you, sir, but here's the man that deserves the credit.
ANDERSON: Aw no, uh-uh—You're a fast learner. Finally got myself a lieutenant I like.
GOLDMAN: And I got myself a good sergeant.
HORN: Look out!
[43:52 / 45:04] Horn's Decision
SOLDIERS [o.s.]: Stay down! Stay down! . . . He's over here! . . . Don't shoot, you'll hit Horn!
TAYLOR: Don't shoot!
SOLDIER [o.s.]: Hold your fire.
[44:30 / 45:43] Next time...
ANDERSON: Hey. You all right?
HORN: I killed him. I killed him.
ANDERSON: No. No, what you did was you saved our lives. Now that's what you're supposed to do.
ANDERSON: Do yourself a favor. Next time, use one of these.
HORN: This war is wrong.
ANDERSON: Maybe. But that's not the point.
[45:12 / 46:26] End
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