Transcript: (3x20) The Raid

From Bravo 3/44th

Directed by: Jim Johnston

Written by: Jim Johnston

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[01.42] Rain

[02.51] Arrivals

???: Let’s move it—move it.  ??? Let’s go—let’s go. Come on ladies – make it fast. Okay listen up, first you get your gear stowed then you check the duty roster.

[03.17] Just got back

ANDERSON: Yeah, come on in an’ show yourself.

ANDERSON: Hey.

SCARLETT: Just got back. Thought I’d—uh say hello before I face the kids.

ANDERSON: You okay?

SCARLETT: Yeah.

ANDERSON: Look here, it’s still a little early but why don’t you come on an’ have a little Black Jack here to take the chill off. Come on.

SCARLETT: Ah what the hell. One last nip can’t hurt me.

ANDERSON: What you contemplatin’ goin’ on the wagon or somethin’?

SCARLETT: I think it’s about time. It’s taken me twenty years to realize I can’t hold my liquor or my stripes. – Salud!

ANDERSON: So, how are things at home?

SCARLETT: Just great.

ANDERSON: That bad, huh?

SCARLETT: His mother didn’t take it too well. Laid it all on me. Guess she was right though. Maybe I shoulda just told a few less lies an’ been around a few more birthdays.

ANDERSON: Pop, should’ve an’ maybe didn’t kill your boy. The war did.

SCARLETT: Thanks for the drink.

ANDERSON: Pop. I’m sorry about your boy.

SCARLETT: Yeah.

[05.13] Dreaming of Beller

MCKAY: Hey Goldman, what’s up? …. Hello……anybody home?

GOLDMAN: Ah, I had a rough night.

MCKAY: Yeah?

GOLDMAN: Dreaming about Beller.

MCKAY: Beller?

GOLDMAN: Went out on a mission together, then the chopper banked and he started to fall out. Was tryin’ to grab a hold of somethin’—anything just to keep him in. An’ I just watched him.

MCKAY: Look Goldman, the guy was bound and determined to do himself in – there’s nothin’ you could’ve done.

GOLDMAN: You know what McKay? He tried to talk to me right before the end of the trial. I didn’t have anything to say to him.

MCKAY: Well what do you expect? I mean, he killed women an’ children.

GOLDMAN: You didn’t know him McKay. At OCS he was just like the rest of us.

MCKAY: Well then, why didn’t the rest of us massacre a whole village full of civilians, huh?

GOLDMAN: I don’t know. It’s just…….I know it sounds weird, it’s not the same thing as the people in the village, but …. he was a victim of this war too.

MCKAY: Yeah?

???: Lieutenant Goldman?

GOLDMAN: Yeah.

???: Colonel Brewster wants to see you at the ??? ASAP.

[06.38] Cabin fever

TAYLOR: Read ‘em an’ weep suckers. Aces an’ eights. Saw it comin’ didn’t ya?

PERCELL: I’m sick of this game. I’m sick of this whole damn place. An’ someone else shuffle.

RUIZ:  ??? C’mon I’ll do it.

TAYLOR: What’s the game Roo?

RUIZ: Seven card stud. (Griner?) any up.

GRINER: I’m in. Hey Pop, welcome back.

SCARLETT: Thanks.

TAYLOR: Hey Pop, uh sorry about your kid……

SCARLETT: Appreciate it. You boys look like you’ve got a good case of cabin fever. How long you been holed up?

GRINER: Eight days.

PERCELL: Eight rainy days Pop.

RUIZ: No passes, no privileges. No nothin’.

SCARLETT: No explanations?

PERCELL: Just rumors.

TAYLOR: Yeah, I’m startin’ to feel like a mushroom Pop. Left in the dark, fed nothin’ but manure.

SCARLETT: That sounds like army SOS to me. Must be somethin’ big comin’ down, huh? Surprised to see you an’ Percell still here.

RUIZ: Not for long Pop.

PERCELL: Gonna have to build an ark to get outta here though.

SCARLETT: Well you haven’t missed anything back in the world. The old US of A is one hell of a hand basket. Guys dressin’ up like girls, girls actin’ like the guys. You get a taste of that, won’t be two weeks before you’ll be lookin’ for that re-up  ???

[07.59] Second thoughts

GOLDMAN: Sir.

BREWSTER: Lieutenant. I understand you’re short.

GOLDMAN: Two to rotate out at the end of the month Sir.

BREWSTER: I imagine you’ve had second thoughts about making the army your career.

GOLDMAN: Pardon, Sir?

BREWSTER: It hasn’t exactly been an easy tour for you has it Lieutenant? You’ve seen a good friend of yours blow his brains out right in front of you. You watched your girlfriend die in your arms. Your father came over here and told you he was dying. Witnessed the aftermath of the Phu An massacre.

GOLDMAN: Sir, I’ve never known the Colonel to speak merely for the sake of hearing his own voice. Is there a point to this?

BREWSTER: There’s a mission – highly sensitive mission. I need to know if I can count on you to help lead it.

GOLDMAN: If you’re involved Sir, I don’t need to ask any details. I’d like to be in on it. Of course, if the Colonel would like to reveal some of the details……

BREWSTER: At this time, the Colonel would not.

GOLDMAN: Yes Sir.

BREWSTER: That’ll be all Lieutenant.

GOLDMAN: Sir.

[09.15] Chow time

PERCELL: Hard eggs come from hard chickens?

RUIZ: Man, it’s gonna be great not to have to eat this slop no more. Duffel bag drag, coffee shop stop and zchrrrrm freedom bird.

TAYLOR: Lighten up Ru, I’ve still got a few more years left on my sentence.

GRINER: Face it Taylor, you’re a lifer.

[09.52] How's it going Doc

HOCKENBURY: Well Doc, how’s it goin’? --- Well, it’s not bad thanks, thanks. Lot of new cases of foot fungus though.----Oh yeah?-----Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah listen, one guy had it so bad, foot nearly came off in his sock. Ugh it was nasty. I got a little excited for a while ‘cos I thought we had a case of leprosy -----But No? -----Nah, nah. ??? My word, men are tryin’ to eat here, why don’t you just try to be pleasant for a change, talk about somethin’ else.----- Like what? ----- What? I don’t know like what ----like what’s new? -----what’s new? ------ yeah----- Alright, what about this? “Paris peace talks stall again” ---- that’s not new----no?------no. How about this? “two hundred and fifty thousand protestors march down Pennsylvania Avenue….

??? All SOG team members report to Colonel Brewster at the ??? Centre, ASAP.

HOCKENBURY: It’s hell bein’ popular

[11.04] Strictly voluntary

BREWSTER: I personally selected you men as candidate for a special, highly sensitive mission. What you’ll be doing will require accuracy and precision, necessitating a brief but intensive training period. I anticipate casualties gentlemen, perhaps heavy casualties. Therefore, this mission will be on a strictly volunteer basis. I want any man here who has any doubts to leave now, no questions asked.

BREWSTER: Alright, we start training tomorrow morning for what may be the most important mission ever attempted in this war. Mister Fontaine here of the CIA will be our intelligence liaison.

FONTAINE: Colonel --- gentlemen.

BREWSTER: We also have with us gentlemen, an advisor from the United States Air Force. This is Major Rex Chapman. Major Chapman was shot down over Hanoi where he spent three years as a prisoner of war before he escaped two months ago.

CHAPMAN: Gentlemen. Colonel Brewster has briefed me on every one of you here. If anyone can pull off this plan I believe it’s you. You men are going to raid a prisoner of war camp, deep in North Vietnam. Your mission is to bring home thirty-eight American POW’s.

[13.02] Low level flying

MCKAY: …. Had two big horns, and a wooly jaw, Wooly Bully…….

BREWSTER: Team Viking will land inside the walls…..

MCKAY: ….. come on learn to dance, Wooly Bully…….

???: Hit the ???

BREWSTER: Have Lieutenant McKay report to me as soon as he’s on the ground.

[14.10] Trying out the speakers

MCKAY: With all due respect Sir, I was practicing low level flying as ordered.

BREWSTER: I didn’t order you to blast rock an’ roll while on test flights McKay.

MCKAY: No Sir, but you did order me to install those speakers Sir.

BREWSTER: So I could communicate with the men on the ground during their training.

MCKAY: Yes Sir. I just thought I’d try out the speakers Sir. I guess I got a little carried away.

BREWSTER: And were your test results satisfactory?

MCKAY: Oh yes Sir. Those ??? wolfers really kick out the sound Sir.

BREWSTER: Then there won’t be any need for further testing now, will there?

MCKAY: No Sir. Sir, I’m taking this training very seriously. If I was disruptive, well, it won’t happen again Sir.

BREWSTER: That’s right McKay. It won’t happen again.

[15.13] Chapman's briefing

CHAPMAN: Guard tower’s on the north wall. Thirty feet high, has machine guns and search lights. Communications room is here. There are three separate entrances into the cell block – here, here an’ here. Two to six prisoners per cell. All the prisoners suffer from primary malnutrition, many weigh—don’t even weight a hundred and twenty pounds. Suffer from malaria, scurvy, dysentery, tuberculosis an’ broken bones. This isolated building is the interrogation hut. We could it “the nut house” for reasons I don’t think I need to explain. The whole room is painted green – walls, ceiling, floor. Something they learned from hospitals – green hides the blood. They’d tie our arms so tight that the cord would cut right through the wrists, right to the bones. You didn’t bleed because your circulation was cut off, and they’d hang us there. They’d hang the prisoners there like that for hours, or sometimes days. They used to revive us with electricity -- we called it the “bell telephone hour”. They’d hook up a field telephone to various parts of our bodies and….

BREWSTER: You okay Major?

CHAPMAN: Excuse me.

[17.14] Scaling the wall

BREWSTER: Right, there’s only enough room to land one chopper inside the prison. Since we don’t know how thick the walls are, if we can’t blow them we’re gonna have to scale ‘em. Want you up an’ over in ten seconds. Percell you lead off.

???: Alright show ‘em how it’s done Percell.

???:  ??? Percell

BREWSTER: Alright, let’s go!

???: Come on Percell. Move it. Get up there. Up an’ over. Yeah.

???: Taylor. Come on Taylor. Come on Taylor. Yeah

???: Come on Pop. Come on Pop, Come on Pop. Pop, come on get up. C’mon Pop.

[18.02] Gotta do better Pop

BREWSTER: You’ve gotta do a lot better than that Scarlett.

SCARLETT: It might help if you’d picked a more realistic time Colonel.

BREWSTER: You count.

???: Go CO go. Come on Colonel. Come on Colonel. Up an’ over.

SCARLETT: Nine point five.

BREWSTER: Any questions? Alright, next up.

[18.39] Carry the prisoners

BREWSTER: Okay many of the prisoners are going to be too weak to make it to the choppers on their own We’re gonna have to carry them. The object of this course is to complete it in thirty seconds carrying a hundred and twenty pound dummy. I’ll take the lead. I want you men to follow.

??? Colonel----Sir-----Colonel-----you can do it----Go Taylor----Go Fontaine---come on Duke—Duke. C’mon—c’mon—c’mon. Roo—Roo

BREWSTER: Thirty four----thirty three five----thirty seven---come on Ruiz, come on pick up up, pick him up---thirty six-----thirty-two----come on Scarlett, let’s go----come on, come on, come on-----thirty seven-----come on Scarlett thirty nine. Come on pick him up, pick him up. One more time everybody. Let’s get back in line, we’ll do it again.

[19.48] Sit this one out

RUIZ: Rough out there today.

SCARLETT: Gonna get a lot rougher, at least no-one was shootin’ at us.

RUIZ: You gonna be alright?

SCARLETT: I’ll make it.

RUIZ: Why do you bother Pop? You could sit this one out.

SCARLETT: So could you short-timer. Why not?

RUIZ: Give me something to go home with I guess. You know, if we could really bring these flyboys out, we wouldn’t have to give ‘em back. Wouldn’t be like fighting for a piece of land we’ve gotta give back to Charlie the next day.

SCARLETT: Yep, accomplishing something in this war would be unique. But you could buy it on this mission Roo.

RUIZ: I know. My freedom bird could crash on the way home too. I’m willing to take that chance. What’s your excuse Pop?

SCARLETT: I’m a soldier boy. Stone(?) lifer. Besides, you strong young bucks could use my smarts when it hits the fan.

RUIZ: You are somethin’ else.

SCARLETT: No. Just never knew when it was time to leave the party.

[21.21] Local pariah

GOLDMAN: Come!

HOCKENBURY: You up to having a few words with the local pariah?

GOLDMAN: Sit down Doc. What can I do for you?

HOCKENBURY: They—uh—they brought in that medic that you are training with. Leg’s broken in three places. He’s not gonna be going on the mission.

GOLDMAN: And?

HOCKENBURY: And—um he was pretty sedated and he blabbed a few things.

HOCKENBURY: Okay, look – I—I know that y’all are training for a night helicopter assault on a POW camp in North Vietnam.

GOLDMAN: Well then you also know I couldn’t talk about it.

HOCKENBURY: I could help. You know some of those prisoners are gonna be in pretty bad shape.

GOLDMAN: Even if there were such a mission Doc, not only could I not talk about it, but I couldn’t do anything for you.

HOCKENBURY: You know that I don’t think you’re listening to me LT. I really wanna go on this mission.

GOLDMAN: That’s not the point Doc.

HOCKENBURY: What is the point?

GOLDMAN: The point is that on a helicopter assault you need maximum fire power. That means every man has to be a walking arsenal. That means everybody has to be willing to kill someone.

HOCKENBURY: Okay, yeah, yeah, the points coming very clear now. I guess basically what you’re sayin’ is that only killers get to save lives here. Is that it?

GOLDMAN: You call it like you see it.

HOCKENBURY: This place sucks!

GOLDMAN: That’s right, it sucks.

[22.58] Latest photos

FONTAINE: These are the latest photos from the blackbirds and the drones. Notice this camp two clicks south of the prison – might be a hundred NVA there. We’re gonna have to didi before the little suckers wake up.

BREWSTER: How long you had these photographs?

FONTAINE: A week. I’d like to get some more recent ones but we don’t want to tip our hand with flyovers, no sensors either. That would have been great.  ??? glue real Mexican bed bugs to phonograph needles that are hooked to a vibrating crystal that’s wired to a little transmitter. Bugs go loco if they sense a human being within two hundred yards. We just sit back, listen and count the bodies.

BREWSTER: Let’s get something straight. The CIA isn’t my favorite organization and I don’t like your harebrained ideas.

FONTAINE: But you need me.

BREWSTER: Up to a point. And I can take all the help I can get. But this mission is about rescuing human beings whose lives are in grave danger, it’s not a trip to an amusement park. Am I making myself clear?

FONTAINE: Loud and clear Colonel. Lima Charlie.

BREWSTER: That’ll be all Fontaine.

FONTAINE: Thank you Sir.

[24.18] Target practice

[24.42] Good shooting Fontaine

ANDERSON: That’s good shooting Fontaine. You got ‘em all.

FONTAINE: That’s my style. Kill ‘em all an’ let God sort ‘em out. Your boys’ll get there.  ??? gonna go down in the history books – enough glory to cover everybody.

ANDERSON: You know Fontaine, you worry me. You love this stuff too much.

FONTAINE: I don’t see you leaving.

ANDERSON: I got a job to do Fontaine. When this job is over, I’m goin’ on home. I’ve got better things to do with my life.

FONTAINE: Like what?

ANDERSON: I don’t know. Maybe going to a movie, sittin’ round the dinner table with the family. Crawling between the sheets with somebody I love. Wait a minute, I forgot, you love this much more than you do sex, doncha?

FONTAINE: Cleaner. If you do it right you don’t have to talk to anybody afterwards.

ANDERSON: You don’t give a damn about these prisoners do you? Or about the fact that some of these boys might die tryin’ to get ‘em free.

FONTAINE: War is a contact sport Anderson. No pain, no gain. I’ve done my part to make this mission solid. That’s all that matters.

ANDERSON: Well let me tell you somethin’ Fontaine, just between you an’ me. You do somethin’ stupid, get one of my people hurt, you’re gonna answer to me. That’s the God’s honest truth.

[25.50] Got a minute Sarge

BREWSTER: If you need me I’ll be in my quarters.

CHAPMAN: Yes Colonel.

PERCELL: Sarge

ANDERSON: What!

PERCELL: Hey, you got a minute?

ANDERSON: What can I do for you Percell?

PERCELL: C’mon now Sarge. Don’t get all worked up over that nardo.

ANDERSON: I don’t know Percell, it’s just that if somethin’ he does get one of y’all hurt I don’t know what I’m gonna do.

PERCELL: Sarge, it’ll never happen – not with you around. You’ve always been there for us.

ANDERSON: That’s my job.

PERCELL: Yeah, listen, I wanna make sure that I thanked you before I left. You know I’m never gonna forget this place. Don’t think that I’m runnin’ out on you because I’m goin’ home, okay?

ANDERSON: Oh hell no Percell, that’ll never happen. Look here, you’ve done your share. You’ve done more than your share. You just get on outta here, you go on home, ??? yourself a life. Make sure you’ve got a thick steak an’ a couple of cold beers in your refrigerator for me when I get back.

PERCELL: You think you may pay me a visit Sarge?

ANDERSON: Percell, you just never know where I might end up.

PERCELL: Well alright then. My home’s always open for you.

[27.22] Nightmare

CHAPMAN: Major---Chapman----

[27.42] Midnight stroll

CHAPMAN: Evening Colonel.

BREWSTER: Major Chapman. Midnight stroll?

CHAPMAN: Well, something like that. I guess I got too accustomed to sleeping on concrete, mattress makes me feel like I’m smothered. Well, they tell me I’m having a hard time reactivating.

BREWSTER: It takes a while Major. I still have dreams about my own little hellhole in Korea.

CHAPMAN:  ??? hurt my buddies and I can’t do anything about it. I guess some things you can never put completely behind you.

BREWSTER: No you can’t. That’s why we’re going on this mission.

CHAPMAN: Yeah.

BREWSTER: I can’t think of anything lonelier than being a POW Major.

CHAPMAN: I started talking to the animals, the rats, even the insects. Anything for company. It got so that I actually welcomed them biting and chewing on me. They were the only thing that reminded me I was alive. I guess I’d rather be in pain than feel nothing at all.

BREWSTER: I think that’s called a commitment to living Major.

CHAPMAN: Yeah. Bring ‘em home Colonel. Bring ‘em home.

[29.54] We're ready

BREWSTER: Good morning and good news. We’re ready—the weather’s ready—and I think we can assume that the prisoners are ready. Alright men, we know how to do our jobs. Let’s head north.

???: Yes Sir. Load up.

CHAPMAN: Good luck to you. My prayers go with you. Good luck man.

CHAPMAN: Colonel.

BREWSTER: Yes?

CHAPMAN: I’m praying for you.

BREWSTER: You do that.

CHAPMAN: Give ‘em hell.

[30.46] Welcome aboard

MCKAY: Hey ???, take the sticks. Welcome aboard gentlemen. You picked a beautiful day to fly to North Vietnam, a land of beauty and intrigue. Today we’ll be flying at fourteen feet and after a short stopover in Laos for refueling we do expect a little turbulence. So please, fasten those seatbelts and let’s boogie.

[31.35] Branch office

GRINER: Good Lord what are they?

FONTAINE: Branch office of the Company.

???: Alright, let’s give ‘em a hand with that fuel.

[31.48] Look good with a black face

TAYLOR: You look good with a black face Roo.

RUIZ: Maybe I’ll keep it on back in the world.

TAYLOR: It’ll help you out with the ladies.

TAYLOR: I’m gonna miss your ugly mug man.

RUIZ: Me too Taylor. That is if they don’t grease us tonight.

TAYLOR: Don’t say that Roo, bring your own bad luck. Besides, I’m too pretty to die.

RUIZ: Yeah, come to think of it so am I.

TAYLOR: What are you gonna do Roo, I mean really?

RUIZ: I don’t know Taylor, I really don’t man. It’s not like I ever had a real job, you know.

TAYLOR: You’re good with a machine gun.

RUIZ: Oh yeah, a lot of good that’s gonna do me back there.

TAYLOR: I got a long hitch ahead of me.

RUIZ: You’ll get another job discharge before no time.

TAYLOR: You’ve gotta call somebody let ‘em know it happened.

RUIZ: I’ll be there to pick you up.

[33.05] Back in the air

No dialogue

[33.49] Objective in sight

MCKAY: This is it, objective’s in sight.  ??? hang loose till we tell you to come on in.

MCKAY:  ??? we’re going in smokin’.

[34.13] Like the old days

BREWSTER: Alright Scarlett, like the old days – we touch down, we hit the ground running.

SCARLETT: Like a scalded dog.

ANDERSON: Let’s go! Let’s go!

[34.53] LT, Taylor & Ruiz

GOLDMAN: Get to the ???

[35.10] Brewster & Scarlett

BREWSTER: Pop ??? ??? secure the area, we’re gonna have visitors soon. Griner, Fontaine come with me.

[35.20] Telephone warning

GUARD:  ???

NVAs:  ???

[36.17] Brewster, Fontaine & Griner

BREWSTER: Come on Fontaine!

[36.21] This is a rescue

GOLDMAN: This is a rescue! We’re Americans – this is a rescue.

[36.33] Anderson & Percell

ANDERSON: Go.

[36.35] Brewster

BREWSTER: C’mon.

[36.48] Check other cell block

FONTAINE: I’ll check the other cell block.

BREWSTER: Stand back -- we’re Americans. We’re coming in.

[37.01] Cells are empty

PERCELL: It’s empty.

PERCELL: Empty.

RUIZ: LT it’s empty.

TAYLOR: No-one’s home LT.

BREWSTER: Where the hell are they?

FONTAINE: Damn!

PERCELL: Not a thing happening Sarge.

BREWSTER: There’s something going on here. Come on.

[37.30] Moved the prisoners

FONTAINE:  ???.

NVA:  ???

FONTAINE: This little gook bastard says they moved the prisoners two days ago. I think he’s lyin’.

BREWSTER: Well it’s a dry hole. Let’s get outta here.

FONTAINE: Where are the Americans? I know they’re here.

BREWSTER: Let’s get out of here now Fontaine. Now!

GOLDMAN: Nothing. Let’s get the hell outta here.

[38.03] Enemy support arriving

SCARLETT: Here they come.

[38.27] Going after Fontaine

ANDERSON: Fontaine!

PERCELL: Sarge ??? outside.

ANDERSON: Alright get out there. I’m goin’ after him.

[38.35] Pop's hit

???: Pop!

[39.00] OK Griner?

BREWSTER: Griner, you okay?

GRINER: Yeah

BREWSTER: Alright, head for the chopper. I’ll check on Goldman.

GRINER: Colonel. Colonel. I can’t see. Colonel.

[39.31] Here they come

???: Here they come.

GOLDMAN: Where’s Anderson?

PERCELL: He went after Fontaine.

[39.50] Nobody here Fontaine

FONTAINE: They’re here. I know they’re here.

ANDERSON: Fontaine! Fontaine, there’s nobody here. We’re getting’ out of here.

FONTAINE: No! It was my intelligence. I know they’re here.

ANDERSON: Fontaine! There’s nobody here. We are leaving.

[40.07] Griner's down

GOLDMAN: Just hold on, they’re coming.

GRINER: Colonel. Col…..

TAYLOR: Griner’s down LT.

GOLDMAN: Go—go!

GRINER:  ???

TAYLOR:  ??? Get up, get up, get up, let’s go, go.

MCKAY: We’ve gotta go. This bird may not fly. Let’s go.

TAYLOR: Get up Griner -- get up--get up.

GOLDMAN:  ???

ANDERSON: Let’s go! Let’s go—let’s go.

[40.57] 1st chopper

MCKAY: Aaah. I’m hit—I’m hit. Please take the controls.

GRINER: God! I can’t see. God! God! God! I can’t see. God!

[41.27] Brewster & Scarlett

BREWSTER: Scarlett.

SCARLETT: What d’ya say Colonel?

BREWSTER: I saw let’s get the hell out of here.

SCARLETT: Not me, I’m done.

BREWSTER: No, not yet you aren’t. C’mon

[41.43] 2nd chopper

BREWSTER: Get him in there.

BREWSTER: How’s Scarlett?

FONTAINE: Circling the drain. C’mon breathe. Do it Pop, do it.

BREWSTER:  ???

FONTAINE: C’mon, do it –do it. Colonel! Colonel!

[42.22] Helluva war

BREWSTER: The men?

GOLDMAN: Well we lost Zemkey(sp?) but everyone else made it back alright.

BREWSTER: Scarlett?

GOLDMAN: Scarlett got shot up pretty bad. We’re gonna medivac him out to Japan along with McKay. Private Griner was blinded.

BREWSTER: No POW’s.

GOLDMAN: No Sir.

BREWSTER: Helluva price.

GOLDMAN: Helluva war.

[43.00] 20 miles of bad road

SCARLETT: Sorry about your (good men?) Zeke. You deserve better than this.

ANDERSON: So do you Pop. Hell, you look like twenty miles of bad road.

SCARLETT: More like two hundred.

ANDERSON: I’m gonna try to get you some sergeant stripes.

SCARLETT: Hey, that ought to impress the hell out of the nurses at the soldiers’ home.

ANDERSON: Army’s gonna miss you Pop.

SCARLETT: I’m not sure I’ll miss her. She’s a hell of a mistress Zeke.

ANDERSON: Hey, you gonna be alright?

SCARLETT: I’ll make it, always have.

ANDERSON: So long Pop.

SCARLETT: See ya.

[43.58] Proud to have known you

HOCKENBURY: Can’t change what happened. I just want you to know that I’m—I’m proud to have known you an’ I’m gonna miss you. That’s all.

RUIZ: Doc. I’m gonna miss you too.

HOCKENBURY: Thanks

RUIZ: Take care of yourself.

HOCKENBURY: You too man.

PERCELL: You’re a good man Hockenbury. You don’t belong here.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah.

PERCELL: Go home.

[45.02] Accomplished mission

CHAPMAN: Despite what you may be thinking, you accomplished ??? your mission, which was to help American prisoners of war. The worse thing about being a prisoner is feeling utterly alone and forgotten. American POW’s will hear about this mission. It was too big an operation for them not to hear about it. And when they do, they’ll know they’re not forgotten. They’ll know that we tried very hard to bring them home. For all of them, I thank you – and I salute you. Gentlemen.

[46.01] Danny & Roo going home

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