Transcript: (1x2) Notes from the Underground

From Bravo 3/44th

Written by: Bill L. Norton

Directed by: Bill L. Norton

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[0:00 / 0:00] Teaser. The Bush

RADIO [WALLACE]: Bravo Three Six, this is Bravo Six. Request situation in your AO. Over.

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: Bravo Three Two, we're about 3-0-0 mike to Sierra of Lima Zulu. Over.

NVA SOLDIER: Không sao, không sao (transl: it's okay, it's okay).

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: Let's get some fire, one o'clock!

RADIO [GOLDMAN]: Bravo Three Two, Bravo Three Two, over.

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: I'm taking heavy fire on my left flank! I got people down!

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: They're pulling out. We got 'em on the run, over!

RADIO [GOLDMAN]: All right, which way are they headed, over?

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: West, towards you.

ANDERSON: All right, hasty ambush. Ruiz, get up here with the '60, come on now.

GOLDMAN: All right, they're comin' through right over here, right over here.

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: Move out, move out!

POINT MAN: Come on! Go, run! ...Let's go!

SOLDIERS: Let's go! ...Ambush! Let's get some! Let's get some!

GOLDMAN: Right over here. Let's move it.

GOLDMAN: And here, and here.

GOLDMAN: Sergeant, get your helmet on.

GOLDMAN: Come on, do it!

ANDERSON: All right. Hold your fire now. Hold your fire.

SOLDIER: (?) (sounds like 'stay low, stay low,')

ANDERSON: All right, hold your fire. Wait 'til you see 'em, wait 'til you see 'em now...

GOLDMAN: Fire!

ANDERSON: No, no, no, no, no! Hold your fire! Hold your fire! Cease firing! Stop shooting!

RUIZ: It's a VC!

ANDERSON: Hold your fire—!

POINT MAN: You idiots!

GOLDMAN: Cease fire—!

POINT MAN: You idiots! You idiots! You dumb—You almost killed us, man!

POINT MAN: Who's got the '60?!

GOLDMAN: Oh God.

POINT MAN: Who has the damn machine gun?!

RUIZ: Madre...

POINT MAN: Who has the '60? Who has the '60?

SOLDIER: Hey, man!

ANDERSON: Nobody got hurt, nobody got—

RUIZ: I didn't know! It was an accident!

RUIZ: You were supposed to be gooks!

POINT MAN: Listen, my man, they were right in front of us, and they just disappeared!

[3:58 / 4:02] Opening Credits

[5:37 / 5:33] The Bush. Dustoff

SOLDIER: Down! Down! Down!

SOLDIER: Careful there, watch his head.

WALLACE: Hold on, son. It's good enough to get home!

GOLDMAN: So they came around...(?)—

ANDERSON: They had to.

WALLACE: Hey, Lieutenant!

GOLDMAN: Yeah, well, if they—

WALLACE: Zeke!

GOLDMAN: Sir?

WALLACE: I hear the bad guys pulled a disappearing act.

ANDERSON: Yeah. We almost wasted Second Squad.

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: I saw them running west. They had to go by you.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, but they didn't. Nobody came by us and nobody radioed that your squad was comin' through.

MATSUDA: Hey. You'll be in Japan in 48 hours, buddy. Lots of rec time and pretty nurses. Let's go home!

SGT. 1ST SQUAD: Man. Find them for me, will ya'? Find 'em, and fix 'em!

WALLACE: I don't get how they seem to know exactly where we're going to be. They hit us and then bam, they're gone. They disappear like smoke.

ANDERSON: Don't ask me. I don't have the answers.

POINT MAN: There's a village a klick south of here. I betcha' that's where they went.

ANDERSON: Might be worth a look-see.

POINT MAN: Yeah, well, let's do a little reconnaissance with fives is what we oughta' do. And lob about a dozen 105s down their throats.

WALLACE: Hey. That's not the way we do things in my outfit, Sergeant.

POINT MAN: Yeeeah.

[7:25 / 7:30] Village. Taylor's got a big mouth, and Lieutenant's seen a movie

GOLDMAN: Jones, get in that first hootch and check those baskets out. Baker, get down by that pigpen. Taylor, you check that second hootch out.

ANDERSON: Keep your eyes peeled for snipers. Don't bunch up.

HORN: It looks like nobody's home.

PERCELL: Yeah, well, I won't bet my life on it.

JOHNSON: They're around. The fire's still smoldering... They're probably watchin' us right now.

(cut to)

RUIZ: It's sexually attracted to you, Baker.

BAKER: Get out of here, man. Shoo.

BAKER: Get outta' here! Shoo. Go on!

(cut to)

GOLDMAN: Dammit.

TAYLOR: Didi mau! Chieu hoi! Didi mau!

GOLDMAN: What the hell are you doin'?!

SOLDIER [o.s.]: Hold your fire.

TAYLOR: That's the way it's done, man. I'm not riskin' my tail for nobody.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, well, you scared the crap outta' the rest of the squad! Now, you yell "friendly fire" when you shoot.

TAYLOR: Yeah? You didn't yell "friendly fire" before you shot at that Second Squad, Lieutenant.

GOLDMAN: You've got a big mouth, Taylor, you know that? You got a real big mouth.

TAYLOR: Yeah, well at least this soldier knows what he's doin'—

ANDERSON: Taylor—!

TAYLOR: —sir.

GOLDMAN: Anderson!

ANDERSON: Taylor, walk away.

GOLDMAN: Anderson...

ANDERSON: Let it slide, Lieutenant, it ain't about nothin'.

GOLDMAN: No, I will not have these men talk to me that way!

ANDERSON: You know, rank is sumptin' you wear. Respect is somethin' you're gonna' have to earn.

GOLDMAN: Oh yeah, I saw that movie too.

[9:09 / 9:14] Nobody's Home

SOLDIER [o.s.]: Keep your eyes open! . . . All right, let's move it out. . . . Keep moving!

(cut to)

GOLDMAN: Completely empty, sir. Not a soul. Over.

RADIO [WALLACE]: Well stay there. Don't leave the village. I'll get back to you. Out.

GOLDMAN: Well you heard the man.

[9:52 / 9:57] A Vegetarian

RUIZ: Hey, man, don't waste that on the pig.

BAKER: Why? I don't eat meat. [cooing to pig] Come here, come here... Well I guess he doesn't, either.

RUIZ: Yeah of course he don't. That's ham. Ham is pig, and he ain't no cannibal.

RUIZ: Give that to me. So how come you don't eat meat?

BAKER: I'm a vegetarian.

RUIZ: A what?

BAKER: A vegetarian. I only—I just eat vegetables.

RUIZ: That's all you eat? Vegetables?

BAKER: Just vegetables...

BAKER: Except for a little supplement sometimes. Super Power Growth Formula. Check it out: this stuff has lecithin, beta carotene, yeast, egg yolk—

RUIZ: Yeah? What it taste like?

RUIZ: Ugh!

BAKER: It's good for you, though. It builds muscle fiber, aerobic energy, and endurance. I've got ten pounds of this stuff back at the base.

RUIZ: Yeah, sorta' like fertilizer, only for humans, right?

BAKER: Yeah, kinda' like that. I figure just 'cause we're in Vietnam, why let our bodies go to waste, right?

BAKER: I'm gonna' eat right, and I'm gonna get the right kind of exercise.

JOHNSON: Yeah, well you'll get all the exercise you'll need dodging bullets.

BAKER: Anyway, what I'm really worried about, is my upper body. But I've set up this whole program. I got it all figured out. Chin-ups, sit-ups, push-ups, simple things like that just to keep in shape—

RUIZ: Hey, look!

[10:53 / 10:59] Wipe Out

BAKER: Hey, hey, hey!

BAKER: Hey, hey! Pig, get back here with that!

TAYLOR: Come on, Baker. Get him!

BAKER: Get your—Hey, give that, come here!

RUIZ: Run, piggy! Run, piggy, run, run!

RUIZ: Go, piggy!

BAKER: Hey, give that back!

SOLDIER: Woo!

TAYLOR: Come on, Baker! Get it!

BAKER: God dang!

BAKER: Wipe out!

SOLDIER [o.s.]: Get him!

RUIZ: [something in Spanish]

TAYLOR: Move your bacon, white boy!

BAKER: Ha! I got him! Haha!

BAKER: Hey, man, this stuff's expensive.

[11:49 / 11:56] Sniper Attack

MATSUDA: Hey, look at the pig.

BAKER: He's been shot!

SOLDIER: Sniper!

SOLDIER: Get back, get back!

(cut to)

ANDERSON: Sounds like there's a couple of 'em, you see gunsmoke?

GOLDMAN: Yeah, I'm looking through the trees, right over there.

(cut to)

TAYLOR: Medic! Medic!

MATSUDA: Hold on! I'm coming!

MATSUDA: Hold on, buddy!

(cut to)

GOLDMAN: Can you see them?

ANDERSON: No, I don't see' em. Maybe they pulled out.

(cut to)

GOLDMAN: Cease fire, cease fire!

ANDERSON: We either got 'em, or they're long gone. At any rate, we're wastin' ammo.

(cut to)

NVA SOLDIER: ...được một thân rồi (transl: I managed to get one already).

[13:31 / 13:38] Taylor is Missing

HORN: Lieutenant, Sergeant, we need you over here quick!

GOLDMAN: Come on.

(cut to)

ANDERSON: What have you got, Doc?

MATSUDA: Taylor was hit. He was calling for me. When I got over here, he was gone.

ANDERSON: Well did you check in the hootch?

MATSUDA: Yes, sir. Checked the hootch, nothing. Nowhere—

GOLDMAN: All right, all right. Horn, check that hootch. Come on, Baker, we're taking the bush.

MATSUDA: It's crazy. It's like he just vanished into thin air.

ANDERSON: Yeah, just like the bunch that hit Second Squad, just like the people who live in this village.

(cut to)

JOHNSON: Taylor!

(cut to)

RUIZ: Taylor? Taylor, man.

(cut to)

POINT MAN: Taylor! Hey Taylor! Taylor!

SOLDIER [o.s.]: Come on, let's go!

BAKER: Kinda' weird, man. How could he just disappear like that?

POINT MAN: I don't know, man. Beats the hell outta' me.

(cut to)

SOLDIER [o.s.]: All right, guys, knock off. Let's take ten. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

JOHNSON: All my good friends gone, man. Searle, Mickey... now my main man.

ANDERSON: Nuh-uh. We'll find him. Don't you worry about that, Johnson. We will find him.

[14:49 / 14:57] The Biggest Madre

RUIZ: You know what I'm gonna' do?

HORN: What?

RUIZ: I'm gonna' barbeque Baker's pig. I'm gonna' cook it up real good. And I ain't gonna give 'im none of it. Heh. Vegetable-narian. I never heard such a bunch o' bull, man. Makes me wanna' puke.

RUIZ: You know,I think it was me that got that sniper.

RUIZ: Put another notch on my '60. Yeah. [starts to strut] I walk in the Valley of Death, I fear no evil. I am the baddest madre [comes over to sit on the other side of Horn] that ever—Aaagh! Aaagh!

HORN: What happened, what happened, what's wrong?

RUIZ: My butt, my butt—!

HORN: What's wrong with you? What's wrong?

RUIZ: Get it out! Get it out, Horn! Get it out!

RUIZ: Oh God! Oh God!

HORN: Are you okay? Are you okay?

RUIZ: Why me, man? It hurts! Why me?

RUIZ: Medic! Medic! Medic!

[15:34 / 15:42] The Discovery

HORN: Hey, Clyde, look man.

RUIZ [o.s.]: Medic!

HORN: A hole here.

POINT MAN: You better go get the lieutenant.

[15:45 / 15:52] Tunnel Entrance

ANDERSON: Well, well, well, well. Looky here. I was wondering if it was gonna' come to this. [yelling into the hole] Chiều hồi lại đây! Chiều hồi lại đây! (transl: Defectors, come here!)

GOLDMAN: What the hell does that mean?

ANDERSON: I'm tellin' him to get up out of that hole or I'm gonna' kill him. [resumes] Chiều hồi lại đây! Chiều hồi lại đây! [to the men] Stand back. I'll show you a little trick.

GOLDMAN: Clear.

ANDERSON: Fire in the hole!

RUIZ: Yeah, well, that settles that.

ANDERSON: No, all that does is tell 'em we're on our way. We're gonna' need a couple o' flashlights and a lot o' patience.

ANDERSON: Anybody wanna' volunteer to go down in there after 'em?

JOHNSON: Wait. You've gotta' be kidding. You're not gonna' send somebody down in there.

ANDERSON: Johnson, as soon as possible. That's the only way to rout 'em outta' there.

POINT MAN: I'll go. It was my buddies they wasted. And I want some payback.

ANDERSON: Have you ever done tunnels before?

POINT MAN: Yeah, down in Hobo Woods.

GOLDMAN: Here, take this.

ANDERSON: All right now, they're gonna' be waitin' for ya', at every junction. They know you're coming, that's their advantage.

POINT MAN: I hear ya.

ANDERSON: Ruiz, you go with him. You stay at least five yards behind him. That way a grenade won't take both o' ya out.

RUIZ: Yeah, right.

POINT MAN: Your mama.

ANDERSON: Give him a hand.

[16:55 / 17:02] Ferguson and Ruiz in the Tunnel

RUIZ: Smells like a Bronx sewer down here.

POINT MAN: Shh. Be quiet.

POINT MAN: This way, man. This way.

POINT MAN: Shh. I hear somethin'.

POINT MAN: Psst, psst, psst. All right, baby. Here we come.

RUIZ: Be careful, man.

POINT MAN: Ungh!

RUIZ: Clyde! What's wrong?

POINT MAN: Aagh! Aagh!

RUIZ: Clyde! Clyde! Oh God!

RUIZ: Clyde! Clyde! Clyde! God! Oh God. Clyde! Oh God.

[18:06 / 18:12] Ruiz Escapes

RUIZ: Oh God. It's awful. It's awful, man. It's awful.

RUIZ: It's awful. I can't get him out.

RUIZ: I can't get him out. He's got a spear running all the way through him, Zeke. I can't get him out. I can't, man, I can't get him out. He's got a spear running all the way through him. God, it's awful.

BAKER: Oh man.

SOLDIER: He's a sergeant...

SOLDIER: Ruiz, what happened, man? What happened?

[18:33 / 18:39] Village. Volunteers? Gas? Don't Hold Your Breath

MATSUDA: Take him up easy, Baker, come on.

POINT MAN: Be careful—agh!

SOLDIER: Shit...

SOLDIER: Major damage...

SOLDIER: Man, you've gotta' be kiddin' me...

SOLDIER: Oh.

SOLDIER: What kinda' stuff is this?

RUIZ: I ain't goin' down there again, man. I'm a machine-gunner. I ain't no kinda' damn hole-crawlin' weasel or nothin'.

ANDERSON: I'll go.

GOLDMAN: Not by yourself, you won't.

ANDERSON: I was in tunnels in III Corps, I know what to expect.

GOLDMAN: It's a two-man job.

ANDERSON: I'll holler if I need help.

GOLDMAN: No. I said you're not goin' down there by yourself.

RUIZ: Yeah, well don't look at me.

GOLDMAN: All right. Volunteers?

GOLDMAN: Come on, you guys, Taylor's probably down there.

WALLACE: Lieutenant. I might have a solution for your problem.

WALLACE: Gas. CS. We'll gas them out.

GOLDMAN: Well this oughta' save us some wear and tear.

ANDERSON: Don't hold your breath.

[19:57 / 20:04] Tunnel, the Vietnamese and Taylor

[20:15 / 20:21] Interrogation

NVA OFFICER: Cứ tiếp tục (transl: Continue on).

NVA OFFICER: How many GI? Huh?

TAYLOR: I don't know. I'm just—I'm just a private! I'm just—

NVA OFFICER: How many?

TAYLOR: I'm just a private!

NVA OFFICER: Huh?

TAYLOR: I don't—

NVA OFFICER: How many?

TAYLOR: I'm—I'm just a private!

NVA OFFICER: Hah!

NVA OFFICER: ...kêu bác sĩ (transl: get the doctor).

NVA SOLDIER: (?)

[21:27 / 21:34] The Doctor

NVA SOLDIER: Bác sĩ, (?) calls for you.

(cut to)

NVA DOCTOR: Bác sĩ.

NVA DOCTOR: I'm a doctor. I take care of you.

[21:53 / 22:05] Village. You Work for Me

GOLDMAN: Long, if the weapon was clean, then the weapon wouldn't have jammed...

ANDERSON: Lieutenant...

GOLDMAN: ...but it did jam, didn't it?

ANDERSON: Lieutenant.

GOLDMAN [to Long]: Go clean it.

ANDERSON: Listen, Lieutenant, wouldn't you be better off waiting up here with the men?

GOLDMAN: Look, I think the captain can take care of the men, and the squad leaders know their job, so—

ANDERSON: The tunnels are dangerous, you know?

GOLDMAN: Well no kiddin'. Look, Sergeant, I'm not gonna' order these men to do something I wouldn't do myself, understand?

ANDERSON: All right. But you've gotta' let me take the lead; I've been in the tunnels before, I know what to expect.

GOLDMAN: All right, fine. You take the lead, but I give the orders.

ANDERSON: What is it with you, anyway?

GOLDMAN: What are you tryin' to say, Sergeant?

ANDERSON: No, no, no, is your problem with me, or what? Because if it is, I wanna' know right now, 'cause otherwise we've got us a long war in front of us.

GOLDMAN: All right, fine. Let's just say you've got a real lax attitude about the chain of command here.

ANDERSON: I'm sorry it seems that way, but as a matter of fact I have had a lot more experience than you have and—

GOLDMAN: —Yeah, yeah, yeah. I appreciate your experience, and I appreciate your advice, but that's all it is. It is just advice. You work for me. I don't work for you.

GOLDMAN: Ruiz! Gimme that. [to Wallace] Sir, I'm...

WALLACE: Happy hunting.

[23:02 / 23:15] Tunnels, Goldman and Anderson

GOLDMAN: Agh!

ANDERSON: Easy, easy now.

GOLDMAN: I can still feel the gas.

ANDERSON: Yeah, well, just keep your eyes peeled for tripwires. They've got these things booby-trapped like you wouldn't believe.

ANDERSON: You all right?

GOLDMAN: I'm fine.

ANDERSON: That's reassuring.

ANDERSON: Go slow. go slow.

GOLDMAN: Shh. Your voice carries down here.

[23:53 / 24:06] Snake

ANDERSON: All right, try to keep your light trained right at the ground level so you can pick up anything there... Yeah. Just like that.

GOLDMAN: Listen.

ANDERSON: What?

GOLDMAN: Shh.

ANDERSON: What is it?

GOLDMAN: Shh.

GOLDMAN: I thought I heard something... I thought I heard something.

ANDERSON: Don't move!

GOLDMAN: What?

ANDERSON: Freeze! Don't move!

GOLDMAN: What?

ANDERSON: Do not move.

GOLDMAN: What?

ANDERSON: Up to your left.

GOLDMAN: Oh God! Aw, man!

ANDERSON: Did it bite you?

GOLDMAN: No, no, no—

ANDERSON: Did it bite you?!

GOLDMAN: No, no, no, no! It struck at me, though. It struck right at me—

ANDERSON: You're lucky. It was a two-step.

GOLDMAN: A what?

ANDERSON: A two-step, that's the name of the snake. If it bites you, you go two steps and then you die.

GOLDMAN: It's still out there somewhere.

ANDERSON: Yeah, I see it.

GOLDMAN: Where?

GOLDMAN: Oh man.

ANDERSON: You wanna' go back?

GOLDMAN: No. Just, give me a second.

ANDERSON: Well I can get it.

GOLDMAN: No, just, just give me a second. I'll kill it.

ANDERSON: I'll get it.

GOLDMAN: No. Now give me that. Now point the light at it—

ANDERSON: I got it—

GOLDMAN: That's it, that's it, right there, there it is.

ANDERSON: Did you get him?

GOLDMAN: I'm so afraid of snakes. Ever since I was a kid.

ANDERSON: You'd be nuts if you weren't. But the important thing is you got control of it. And that's about as close to bein' brave as I ever got.

ANDERSON: Let's get outta' here.

GOLDMAN: (?)

[25:42 / 25:54] Doctors' Chambers

VIETNAMESE VOICE: ...GI...

TAYLOR: What are you doin'?!

VIETNAMESE WOMAN: Không sao, không sao (transl: It's okay, it's okay).

The doctor enters, dismisses the woman.

NVA DOCTOR: Please excuse them. They have never seen a black man before, not this close.

NVA DOCTOR: I've read about your people. Let me show you.

NVA DOCTOR: Do you know this man?

TAYLOR: We ain't personal friends, but I seen that book.

NVA DOCTOR: He's a very interesting man.

NVA DOCTOR: Lately, I've been trying to learn about your people. You're oppressed in your country. But I'm curious. Why do you fight for the system that holds you down?

TAYLOR: Because they drafted my sorry behind.

NVA DOCTOR: Drafted?

TAYLOR: Sort of like legal slavery.

NVA DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. And that is an irony of this war that I will never understand. How a lumpen proletariat, descendent of the slaves can be induced to give up their lives to protect the capital of the ruling class.

TAYLOR: Are you some kind of Communist or something?

NVA DOCTOR: Yes. Since 1952.

TAYLOR: Damn. I don't think I ever talked to a real communist before.

NVA DOCTOR: Nor have I ever spoken to a black American.

TAYLOR: Really?

NVA DOCTOR: We have much to learn from each other.

NVA OFFICER [o.s.]: (something along the lines of "I am going to hit the American...")

TAYLOR: He wants me again, huh?

NVA OFFICER [o.s.]: ...he has to let me know... Do you hear me?

TAYLOR: Look, I'm just a private. I don't know nothin' to tell him.

NVA DOCTOR: Be sick.

TAYLOR: What?

NVA DOCTOR: Close your eyes.

NVA DOCTOR: Be sick.

NVA OFFICER: (?)

NVA DOCTOR: (?)

NVA OFFICER: (?)

NVA DOCTOR: I told him you're near death and cannot be questioned now.

TAYLOR: Thanks, Doc.

NVA DOCTOR: War makes men like him. He has suffered so much pain himself, that now he enjoys giving it to others. But now, you must tell me about your people.

[28:07 / 28:18] Goldman and Anderson Chase the Enemy

GOLDMAN: It's like a maze in here.

ANDERSON: Yeah, all these corners and curves act as buffers for the explosions. That's why you can't blast the suckers out of here.

GOLDMAN: All right—

ANDERSON: No, no. This way down here.

GOLDMAN: All right, go.

ANDERSON: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Now, this is where things get a little bit hairy. That's a trap door, and probably to a horizontal tunnel. The catch is, once we stuck our heads up in that opening, there's a million different ways they can nail us.

GOLDMAN: Well what do we do?

ANDERSON: Well I was kinda' thinkin' about stickin' the guns up there and shootin' like hell and hopin' to hit sumptin'. Unless you got a better idea.

GOLDMAN: Nope. Let's go.

ANDERSON: Ready?

ANDERSON: One... two...

ANDERSON: Grenade!

ANDERSON: I'm the nightmare your mama warned you about!

ANDERSON: (?)

GOLDMAN: What's that?

ANDERSON: Just somethin' about their mamas.

GOLDMAN: Wait, wait, wait!

GOLDMAN: Tripwire, tripwire.

ANDERSON: Where? Where?

GOLDMAN: Right there.

ANDERSON: Thanks.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, yeah. Go.

GOLDMAN: All right.

ANDERSON: Reload!

[30:23 / 30:35] Storage Room

1st NVA SOLDIER: [phonetic: Dung nó kia!] (transl: There they are!)

2nd NVA SOLDIER: Bắn nó! (transl: Shoot them!)

GOLDMAN: Go, go, go!

GOLDMAN: Go.

ANDERSON: Now.

GOLDMAN: It's like a damn city in here. All right—

ANDERSON: Trip wire! Step over it. We'll get it on the way out.

GOLDMAN: All right.

ANDERSON: All right.

GOLDMAN: You ready?

ANDERSON: Yeah.

GOLDMAN: Go!

ANDERSON: Look at this stuff. This is American stuff. They've got more stuff than we do.

GOLDMAN: Ready.

ANDERSON: All right. Go.

ANDERSON: Go!

ANDERSON: That's ammo! Get outta' here!

[31:20 / 31:30] Caved-In

GOLDMAN: You all right?

GOLDMAN: Anderson?

GOLDMAN: Anderson!

GOLDMAN: Anderson!

GOLDMAN: You all right?!

GOLDMAN: Oh God, please.

GOLDMAN: You all right? Spit it out, man.

GOLDMAN: Are you all right?

[32:28 / 32:40] Village. The Tunnel Rats

BAKER: Hey, look. Elves. Three elves.

TOP RAT: Excuse me, son, but did you say something?

BAKER: Uh, no, I don't think so.

TOP RAT: I could've sworn I heard the word "elves."

BAKER: Well uh—

TOP RAT: Perhaps it was a disparaging comment on the physical stature of myself or my men.

BAKER: No, no. It's just, when you guys were walkin' in a straight line like that, you kinda', well...

TOP RAT: Well what?

BAKER: I got it. You kind of reminded me of those, those seven guys that, the ones that follow Snow White. Those guys who follow Snow White?

TOP RAT: The dwarves?

BAKER: The dwarves.

TOP RAT: The seven dwarves?

TOP RAT: Let me assure you, son, we're not dwarves. We're not elves. What we are is tunnel combat specialists.

TOP RAT: Tunnel rats, to you. You see, we've been specifically selected because our size, well, it enables us to squeeze into tiny, little places where your ordinary, big, dumb jackass don't fit.

TOP RAT: For instance, come a little closer, son.

TOP RAT: Closer still. See, there's a small, narrow opening that never sees the light of the moon.

BAKER: The moon?

TOP RAT: Mm-hmm. My best man Bob's gonna show you what I mean.

TOP RAT: How would you like a mouth where your nose used to be?

BAKER: I don't think so, sir.

TOP RAT: Now listen up, Blondie, I'm only goin' to say this once. Don't you ever, ever make fun of short people again.

BAKER: Yes, sir.

TOP RAT: Now, boys, where would this tunnel be?

SOLDIERS: Right this way, sir... Right over here... This is it, sir...

TOP RAT: Bless your heart.

[34:44 / 34:57] Tunnel. Anderson reveals why he keeps signing back up

GOLDMAN: Hey, you all right?

ANDERSON: Yeah, I'll be all right in a minute.

GOLDMAN: You sure?

GOLDMAN: So, this is uh, your third tour, huh?

ANDERSON: Yeah.

GOLDMAN: What the hell did you sign up for again?

ANDERSON: I don't know. I didn't have anything to go home to after the first tour, because my wife had left. She took the little girl, and uh, she had a new daddy, and I didn't wanna'... you know?

GOLDMAN: Yeah.

ANDERSON: And the second tour, I had a couple of my buddies, uh, got wasted.

ANDERSON: And... I just figured the only way to keep the others from gettin' it, was to stick around.

GOLDMAN: So you stuck around.

ANDERSON: Yeah. And guess what? They got it anyway.

GOLDMAN: Come on. Let's dig.

[35:25 / 35:39] The Best Bad Air

GOLDMAN: Hey, hey.

ANDERSON: What have you got?

GOLDMAN: We're gettin' close! We're gettin' real close!

GOLDMAN: Hey, I got air! All right! Air! Air!

ANDERSON: Don't hog it, boy. Don't hog it.

ANDERSON: Why, that's the best bad air I ever smelled in my life.

TOP RAT: Lieutenant! Lieutenant!

GOLDMAN: Hey!

TOP RAT: Anybody there?

GOLDMAN: Hey, over here!

ANDERSON: Hah!

GOLDMAN: Over here!

ANDERSON: Ya!

TOP RAT: Anderson! Lieutenant Goldman!

GOLDMAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah! Over here!

ANDERSON: Be careful, they got, they got wires strung everywhere over there!

TOP RAT: Yeah, we see it. Just relax for thirty seconds while we disarm this detonator—

GOLDMAN: Oh God. Oh God!

[36:16 / 36:29] Tunnel. Taylor and the Doctor, Politics and Friendship

VIETNAMESE VOICE: GI.

TAYLOR: Doc.

NVA DOCTOR: Your comrades were defeated. They were buried in a cave-in.

TAYLOR: I don't believe that, Doc.

NVA DOCTOR: As you wish. We have seldom lost a battle in the tunnels.

TAYLOR: Maybe you people are a little mixed up. What, do you think you're gophers or somethin'?

NVA DOCTOR: Yes, that is us. The tunnels are one of the means by which we will win this war. Your generals have not yet even begun to understand their importance.

TAYLOR: Tell me sumptin'. Why do you wanna' fight America, anyway?

NVA DOCTOR: For the same reason we fought the Japanese when they occupied during the Second World War, and the French when they occupied later. Vietnam, is our country, our land. Our business is our business, and you are a foreign power who have no business in our affairs.

NVA DOCTOR: But enough of that. You were telling me about—

TAYLOR: I was telling you about the black death. Put your hand up here. It's real simple. It only gets complicated when white folks try to do it. Hey, Doc!

NVA DOCTOR: Taylor.

[37:38 / 37:51] Village. The Captain's Orders

WALLACE: Come on, come on. Who's going to get 'im?

GOLDMAN: He's open, he's open.

WALLACE: Get him out of here... Get him out of here.

GOLDMAN [to the other men pulling Top Rat away]: Right away.

SOLDIER: Yes, sir.

WALLACE [to Anderson]: Aw, to hell with it. I'd say we got 'em all.

ANDERSON: I know a couple guys who'd disagree with you, like Taylor.

WALLACE: Zeke, we were lucky to get you and Goldman out. We're through here.

WALLACE: If the colonel doesn't believe me, he can crawl down there and check for himself.

WALLACE: Come on, let's get the hell out of here.

SOLDIER: What about Taylor, man?

WALLACE: Let's go!

SOLDIER [o.s.]: Come on, let's move it out. Cut the chatter, cut the chatter.

[38:19 / 38:33] Tunnel. The NVA's Orders

TAYLOR: What's he saying, Doc?

NVA DOCTOR: The Americans are leaving. This is great victory.

TAYLOR: Man, they leavin' me? What else he sayin'?

NVA DOCTOR: We will not let the aggressor go unpunished. We will destroy them in the same way we destroyed the last group. We will use the tunnel to get ahead of them, and ambush them as they leave.

NVA DOCTOR: I told you. We will prevail.

NVA OFFICER: ...bắn ông này. (transl: shoot this man).

NVA DOCTOR: Tại sao phải giết nó? (transl: Why must we kill him?)

NVA OFFICER: Em phải nghe tôi. (transl: You must obey me).

TAYLOR: What'd he say?

NVA DOCTOR: You must come with me.

TAYLOR: Where?

NVA DOCTOR: We go see the sun.

TAYLOR: What's happenin', Doc?

NVA DOCTOR: Come.