Transcript: (3x4) Lonely at the Top

From Bravo 3/44th

Directed by: Ed Sherin

Written by: David Kemper

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[01.40] Briefing

???:  ??? there’s still no word ???

BREWSTER: It’s been eight hours since we heard from Team Moray. If their radio’s busted ???

GOLDMAN(?): They’ll stay low if he thinks it’ll ??? chopper.

BREWSTER: We’ll go in and get them.

BREWSTER: General.

ELLIOTT: Jeez Carl, you look like you haven’t slept in what?

BREWSTER: Couple of days Sir. Excuse me General. Goldilocks this is Papa Bear Six. What’ve you got? Over.

MCKAY: I’ve not been able to locate Team Moray. Any further instructions? Over.

BREWSTER: Come home, have additional mission. Over.

MCKAY: Roger. Out.

BREWSTER: You heard Lieutenant Goldman. Prepare Team Viking for search mission to deploy in one hour. I’ll command briefing in thirteen minutes. I want the teams on green alert.

[02.40] Beetlenuts & bamboo shoots

ELLIOTT: If they miss rendezvous by this much, we start thinking “right off”.

BREWSTER: Team Moray can survive on beetlenut and bamboo shoots if they have to Sir.

ELLIOTT:  ???

BREWSTER: I’m not ready to yank the lifeline until I’m sure they’re not on the other end.

ELLIOTT: Oh come on Carl, they’re just (four ??? mercenaries?)

BREWSTER: And two Australians.

ELLIOTT: Who knew the risk when they joined us.

BREWSTER: I’m still not ready to give up yet.

ELLIOTT: So you risk six hundred for six.

BREWSTER: Six human beings.

ELLIOTT: What’s happening to you Colonel, you don’t have anything to prove. There’s so few of you make it Carl. Hell, you could be a general one day. But you have farther to fall and so many hoping it happens. Don’t be a disappointment to your people.

BREWSTER: A disappointment to whom General? The people of my race or the people of my command?

ELLIOTT: You don’t command people, you command soldiers.

BREWSTER: You know there’s a saying since I’ve been over here General. “To see with eyes from a higher plane the responsibility lies with he who has greater vision.”

ELLIOTT: Are you going Asiatic on me Carl?

BREWSTER: Who knows Jack. It maybe the only chance we have left in this war.

[03.58] Searching for Team Moray

GOLDMAN(Radio): Viking Two, this is Viking Six – come in.

JOHNSON: Viking Two here. Over.

GOLDMAN: Sitrep Two. Anything out there? Over

JOHNSON: Negative Viking Six. No sandal prints, no booby traps. Nothin’. Over

GOLDMAN: Roger Two. Proceed to rendezvous location Tango. Acknowledge. Over

JOHNSON: Roger Six. Two out. Percell.

[04.46] Bodies up ahead

JOHNSON: Six, I’ve got bodies up ahead, no movement. Over

GOLDMAN: Alright check it out Two, an’ be real careful. We’re on our way. Six out.

JOHNSON: O’Bannon, ???, Trang. Alright move in close, but don’t touch the bodies. Booby traps Ken.

O’BANNON: Thanks Sarge.

[06.00] Ambush

???: VC! VC!

???: … in the bushes ….

JOHNSON: They’re pullin’ back – they’re pullin’ back - hold your fire. Hold your fire!

JOHNSON: Let’s go. Alright let’s move in – guys be careful. Watch your step.

???: Watch the treeline.

GOLDMAN(?): It’s Moray.

GOLDMAN: Taylor, get security out. One of the Aussie’s is missing. Let’s check around.

[07.02] Zeke in Texas

No dialogue

[07.18] Dr Seymour

SEYMOUR: And how are we ever gonna make changes in this system if we keep knuckling down to it.

???: It’s part of the procedural maze Major.

SEYMOUR: These are medical recommendations we’re making. It’s ludicrous for a military board to rule on paranoid delusional counseling. A sick person is a sick person. And would somebody please fix the air conditioning in here.

???: It’s the whole building ma’am.

SEYMOUR: I know.

SEYMOUR: Excuse me.

[07.55] Zeke & Jennifer reunited

ANDERSON: So this is where the army’s been hidin’ you huh?

SEYMOUR: (It’s not so bad in the winter?)

ANDERSON: It is hot.

SEYMOUR: Zeke you’re—uh, you’re five days early. What happened with your daughter Katy?

ANDERSON: Nothin’. Well I mean, she’s got a new daddy now. I always thought I was gonna have to sit the man down, you know give him a little talking to about how to raise my daughter.

SEYMOUR: He wouldn’t listen?

ANDERSON: I didn’t even meet him Jennifer, I didn’t need to. He’s done a good job. They’ve got a home. To be honest with you I felt kinda out of place there.

SEYMOUR: So, what’s your plan?

SEYMOUR: Zeke, you’re not supposed to here till Friday and I’ve got work to do; I’ve made other plans.

ANDERSON: Other plans? What are you talkin’ about girl? I came halfway round the world to see you. You’re a major and I’m a sergeant an I could get Leavenworth for just what I’m thinkin’ about doin’. Now come on Major, do you wanna fraternize with me in an unlawful manner? Please.

[09.28] New Assignment?

SEYMOUR: Have you put in for a new assignment?

ANDERSON: Well I’m lookin’ into it.

SEYMOUR: What’s your options?

ANDERSON: Drill instructor, instructor at infantry school, instructor at OCS.

SEYMOUR: You don’t sound too happy about it.

ANDERSON: I don’t know nothin’ about happy. I mean I can remember being happy at some point in my past, and I’m, you know, pretty confident that I’ll be happy at some point in the future. But I’ve never been very good at being happy right now, in the present. Whenever I try to picture myself in some stateside gig, all I see is this ghost with spit-shine shoes.

SEYMOUR: Am I anywhere in that picture.

ANDERSON: I’m here. I mean I’m happy to be here.

[10.26] I get stuck with F troop

HOCKENBURY:  ??? on some power trip.

TAYLOR: MP popped me in my head once.

HOCKENBURY: I’m not talking about MPs man, I’m talking about the cops in Chicago -- at the democratic national convention.

RUIZ: Politics are no big deal.

HOCKENBURY: No bid deal Ruiz, come on man. These guys are deciding your future. You’ve gotta—you gotta know what’s comin’ at you man if you wanna grow.

TAYLOR: The man’s confused Roo. Doc you’re in Nam. An’ in Nam Doc, this is all you’ve gotta recognize comin’ at you.

HOCKENBURY: Half a million grunts in the Nam, I get stuck with F troop. See you at chow Johnson.

JOHNSON: Nah, you go ahead.

[11.18] Killed my guys

GOLDMAN: How’re you feeling Sergeant?

JOHNSON: Bad – like I missed somethin’.

GOLDMAN: You did. You should have known when you saw that many bodies laying out in the open.

JOHNSON: Yeah, they were put there as bait. I know that now. LT, I killed my guys.

GOLDMAN: No you didn’t, the NVA did. It’s the responsibility of every man to stay alert. You can’t hand hold the guys you take into battle.

JOHNSON: But I didn’t know it was gonna be like this.

GOLDMAN: You beat up on yourself then you’re gonna screw up again. I trust you, the men trust you. There’s only one direction to go from here – forward. Now we’ve got a briefing in five minutes.

[12.15] Round the clock standby

BREWSTER: Okay, until we get some hard evidence on Williams, I’m not sure where to set you boys down. It’s a round the clock standby, no alcohol.

GOLDMAN: Yes Sir.

BREWSTER: That’s all. What’s his problem?

GOLDMAN: He just lost his first men today Sir.

BREWSTER: Too bad we can’t tell him it gets any easier.

[12.57] Johnson and the body bag

O’BANNON: Hey Sarge, come to lay some more of that shared responsibility crap on me?

JOHNSON: You should have checked the other side of that ??? before you stood up.

O’BANNON: You were in charge.

JOHNSON: Everybody’s gotta look after their own butts here.

O’BANNON: Bull. You know that’s a cop out for guys who choke.

JOHNSON: I’m doin’ the best that I can.

O’BANNON: Well you ain’t got it. How many more of these body bags are they gonna have to line up before you figure that out.

[14.14] Quiet reading spot

HOCKENBURY: Ah, I’m sorry. You okay?

RUIZ: Yeah.

HOCKENBURY: What you doin’?

RUIZ: This is where I come to read. It’s quiet.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah, I’m lookin’ for a little bit of that myself. What you got?

RUIZ: Book my mom sent me.

HOCKENBURY: In Spanish.

RUIZ: I wrote her that I was scared ‘cos I was starting to dream in English. It’s just kinda nice thinking in Spanish for a change.

HOCKENBURY: Is it good?

RUIZ: Kind of romantic. What you got?

HOCKENBURY: Absentee voter ballot request. You apply already?

RUIZ: Puerto Rican’s don’t elect no president man.

HOCKENBURY: Is that right? Then who does?

RUIZ: Rich people Doc, corporations, old white men with cigars. Look, my family doesn’t think their vote matters.

HOCKENBURY: You’re wrong man, an’ you understand the system a helluva lot better than you think.

RUIZ: Oh yeah, an’ your vote can change that.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah. Well, you know, along with a couple of million other people who happen to feel the same way about it. Yeah.

RUIZ: How come you won’t fight for your country?

HOCKENBURY: Ruiz I know that if I ever killed anybody, I wouldn’t be any good to myself or anybody else, for as long as I live.

[16.12] Prisoner paraded through village

BREWSTER: Major Shadlow has received intelligence reports of a caucasian prisoner being paraded through villages northeast of the Boi Loi woods.

GOLDMAN: Williams?

BREWSTER: Having been a prisoner of the NVA, I thought you might feel strongly about spearheading a rescue effort.

GOLDMAN: Yes Sir, I would.

BREWSTER: Major Shadlow. Alright, we drop Viking between ??? and ???. You recon both villes an’ try an’ pick up the scent. Teams Thor and Zeus will be on green back up. Major Shadlow will give you code designations and the latest recon report. I have a hunch the man is alive and I want him back.

SHADLOW: I know the bloke well, he’s a mate. He’ll be trying to escape every minute. If they bind his feet, he’ll walk out on his lips. Now you do what you have to do and don’t worry about him – he’ll be ready.

GOLDMAN: I think I know what he’s going through Major.

SHADLOW: Lieutenant, Gerry has a wife an’ two kids.

GOLDMAN: Well I’ll do the best I can Sir.

[17.21] Hot in Houston

TV: And with international condemnation coming from all quarters, Soviet leader Bresnev has yet to make a public comment on his country’s swift and brutal invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia, crushing that country’s ………

SEYMOUR: Are you hungry?

ANDERSON: Well, I figured as long as this air-conditioning keeps on, ??? stay here and stay cool. What d’you think?

TV: ….. and other world leaders shall hear, have all joined President Johnson in denouncing the advance of one hundred seventy five thousand troops into the East European capital. More as this breaking story unfolds. Elsewhere, the rioting at the Democratic Convention in Chicago continues with civil and national leaders decrying the complete breakdown in police discipline in the savage ferocity used by thousands of police, national guardsmen and federal personnel in quelling a demonstration by protesters …..

SEYMOUR: We fight wars so other countries can’t come here and do this and then we do it to ourselves. What’s happening to us?

TV: …..and over five hundred arrested at last count. The confrontations are severely taxing Chicago ……

[18.21] You OK Zeke

SEYMOUR: You okay?

ANDERSON: I’m fine. But I sure as hell didn’t come here to listen to that.

SEYMOUR: It’s what’s happening Zeke, I mean you can’t escape it.

ANDERSON: I’m not trying to escape from it Jennifer, I’m trying to ignore it. I’m on vacation.

SEYMOUR: You could’ve fooled me. Is this how you relax?

SEYMOUR: Do you not wanna talk about it?

ANDERSON: I prefer not being analyzed right now.

SEYMOUR: This isn’t an office visit Zeke, this is our lives.

ANDERSON: I’m sorry, that’s fair enough. I’ve been thinkin’ about goin’ back.

SEYMOUR: Oh, I see. Can you give it some time and see how you feel?

ANDERSON: It won’t make any difference. I mean it’s something that --- I don’t know if I can explain this but when I’m over there with everything that’s goin’ on there --- I’m more alive than I am here. I mean it’s --- I’m doin’ something. I knew you wouldn’t understand.

SEYMOUR: Oh really? I—what is this some kind of male-only emotion?

ANDERSON: Come on Jennifer….

SEYMOUR: No! Don’t patronize me Zeke. I was there too, remember? I had to come back and live a “normal” life – just like you.

ANDERSON: I know that. Down deep I know that.

SEYMOUR: Zeke, I want you to feel alive with me. I mean, what’s gonna happen when you don’t have any more wars to fight?

[20.16] Vietnam, final frontier

GOLDMAN: Entering objective Bravo at this time. Over.

RADIO: Roger Viking Six. Go.

HOCKENBURY: Vietnam – the final frontier. These are the voyages of Team Viking’s five year mission to explore strange new countries and snuff out new life and ancient civilizations, to boldly go where no round-eye has gone before….

JOHNSON: Doc.

HOCKENBURY: What?

JOHNSON: Shut up.

RUIZ: What’s he talkin’ about?

TAYLOR: Don’t you ever watch TV?

RUIZ: Oh yeah man, every night in my hootch after I fight the war.

[20.59] Talking to the villagers

VILLAGER: (Vietnamese)

ARVN INTERPRETER: He say they come here three hours ago. The white soldier is beaten badly. They take his clothes and ….

GOLDMAN: Okay, okay. Ask him how many NVA and which direction they went.

ARVN INTERPRETER: (Vietnamese)

JOHNSON: Scotty check that wood out.

VILLAGER: (Vietnamese)

JOHNSON: LT look out!

???: Take cover!

GOLDMAN: Hold your fire! Hold your fire! Johnson, dammit, it’s a piece of fruit.

JOHNSON: LT, I—I’m sorry.

GOLDMAN: Doc! Get up here an’ look at this kid. Up, everybody get up.

HOCKENBURY: It’s okay – it’s okay. Wait—I wanna help him. I’m tryin’ to help him.

GOLDMAN: Listen, it was a mistake. Lam – get over here and tell them it was a mistake.

GOLDMAN: Sergeant, you know your instincts are right. Ah hell!

RUIZ: S’alright. It’s okay kids.

???: I… our food Johnson.

[22.53] Almost pulled the trigger

TAYLOR: I almost pulled the trigger man.

PERCELL: We could have wiped out that whole ville – in a heartbeat.

RUIZ: We didn’t. It’s over, just forget about it.

PERCELL: I can’t just forget about it Roo, I was there.

PERCELL: Hey Doc, you got somethin’ to kinda calm me down?

[23.33] Tough day?

MCKAY: Tough day Sergeant?

JOHNSON: Tough year.

MCKAY: I hear you through yourself on a piece of fruit to save your buddies.

JOHNSON: I guess being a sergeant’s not like I expected.

MCKAY: Yeah, well name me one thing over here that has been like you expected.

BREWSTER: Sergeant Johnson – everybody else …..

[24.08] "if only"

BREWSTER: First “if only” Sergeant? If only I’d done this, if only I’d done that, he might still be alive. As you were. We all have ‘em son. If I told you how many men whose lives have been wasted as a result of my orders, you’d sit right there in that chair and you’d puke for a week. When I was at West Point I was taught the doctrine of mission accomplishment versus welfare of the men. Most officers believe welfare of the men comes after mission accomplishment. I’m not so sure about that any more.

BREWSTER: You ever think about life Sergeant? Yeah, life. I find it so odd that we Americans respect it, Vietnamese revere it, yet somehow over here we -- we treat life with about as much regard as water balloons being tossed on a forest fire. Most leaders are not afraid to take extraordinary chances to accomplish the mission. That’s good, that’s the way it should be. But it’s a real leader who’s not afraid to take those same chances to save lives. Carry on.

[26.16] Drive-in

ANDERSON: You know how long it’s been since I’ve eaten at the drive-in?

SEYMOUR: Yeah, I know, it’s been forever.

TEENAGER: Gonna smoke me some Vietcon. See this badge, that’s an expert’s badge. Best you can get, M-16, machine gun, 45.

ANDERSON: Now there’s a man who thinks he loves his job.

SEYMOUR: A lot of us love our jobs.

ANDERSON: Well Jennifer, you’ve got a job that’s worthy of love. It’s an important job.

SEYMOUR: Your job’s important too.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

TEENAGER: Come on! There’s no way we’re gonna lose this war. No, we’ve got the best training, we’ve got the best equipment, we’ve got the best people. Those stupid gooks don’t scare me one bit.

ANDERSON: Jennifer, would you excuse me (a second?)

SEYMOUR: Zeke.

ANDERSON: Don’t worry, it’s alright.

[27.28] Hey soldier

ANDERSON: Hey, soldier! How you doin’?

TEENAGER: Fine.

ANDERSON: I thought I overheard you sayin’ you’re shipping out to Nam.

TEENAGER: Yeah, I just finished basic (in/and?) AIT. Ship out in ten days.

ANDERSON: Is that right? You’re a regular killing machine I bet cha. You gonna grease some gooks? Get some, are you?

TEENAGER: Yeah, I aim to get me my share.

ANDERSON: I gotta tell you boy, it ain’t no football game over there now. VC’s pretty good at killin’ back.

TEENAGER: So?

[28.07] Sound of death in Nam

ANDERSON: So? So? Do you know what death sounds like in Nam? I’ll tell ya, it sounds like this. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Lot’s of buzzing insects. Millions and millions of insects, every kind of insect alive on the planet’s just waitin’ over there for you. You might be out on night ambush with your squad an’ you’re sittin’ there in the dark and you can’t even see your hand in front of your face. You’ve gotta maintain noise discipline now because---because the VC might know where you are, they might not. And you can’t stay awake because you’re getting hypnotized by the bzzzzzzzzzzz.

[28.51] Young hotshot

ANDERSON: You remind me of this young hotshot that we had at Chu Lai. He was our point man for a little while. One day he was runnin’ his mouth off about how bad he was back in the neighborhood an’ he wasn’t payin’ attention to what he was doin’ an’ he was leading us down the trail and we heard a “click”. So, there stand this loud-mouthed hotshot on this landmine – he’s cryin’ for his mama an’ he’s wettin’ his pants an’ he’s makin’ all kinds of noise, so my two best men they go up to him and try to calm him down. They say “stay still, just stay still”. And they tried to take their knives and cut around the mine, disarm it. But before they could do that, this—this hotshot he jumps off the mine tries save his ass and “vwhoom” nothing but—nothing but smoke an’ my two men are dead, an’ the newby is dead, and then there’s nothin’ but the sound of bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Why is it that it’s always some young, loud-mouth hotshot like you that gets my men killed. You tell me why is that.

[30.37] Don't know how to act anymore

ANDERSON: If I rotate back to the States tomorrow, I’m not even sure I know how to act any more.

SEYMOUR: I think you’ll be fine.

ANDERSON: You saw me at the drive-in didn’t you?

SEYMOUR: You never touched him.

ANDERSON: No I didn’t. But the whole time I was talkin’ to him, all I could think about was how easy it would be to just to reach around and rip his throat out. And the only thing in this wide world to stop me from doing that was myself.

SEYMOUR: And you did.

ANDERSON: This time. I’m just not so sure how good I am at it any more.

SEYMOUR: Oh, so you go back to Vietnam where you can behave any way you choose.

ANDERSON: It’s not like that.

SEYMOUR: Zeke, it’s never like that.

ANDERSON: Jennifer when I left there, honest to God, I never in this world thought I’d be going back again.

SEYMOUR: Oh but it’s obvious that you are.

ANDERSON: Oh it is?

SEYMOUR: Yeah.

[31.28] What's this

ANDERSON: Why don’t you tell me, if it’s obvious --- what’s that?

SEYMOUR: I don’t know what to say.

ANDERSON: Neither do I. I swore to myself if I ever put a ring on a woman’s hand again I would stay with her, I would never leave her. Now look at me. I don’t even know what I’m doin’. All I know is whatever it is I’m gonna do, I want you to do it with me. Will you marry me?

SEYMOUR: Yes.

ANDERSON: Damn I do love you.

SEYMOUR: I love you too.

SEYMOUR: What are we gonna do now?

ANDERSON: Baby, we’re gonna sweat.

[32.36] Something for a jump start Doc

TAYLOR(?): Thought we had today off.

RUIZ: Cool it man, if we got stuck out there, you’d want someone coming after you.

PERCELL: Would you guys shut up, we don’t get many days to sleep in.

TAYLOR: Yo baby, you ain’t got this one either. Come on Danny.

RUIZ: Brewster called us out – we hump in two hours. They got a line on the Aussie.

PERCELL: I don’t care how much sleep I get, it ain’t ever enough. I feel like I’m swimming in mud. Doc, you got a little something for a jump start?

HOCKENBURY: What I do have’s ??? Percell, not chemical breakfast in bed. You get a grip on this man or it’s gonna eat you up.

JOHNSON: Hey knock it off you guys, ??? get a move on it, I want this team ready to go in five minutes.

TAYLOR: That my brothers is big trouble. Our new Sarge’s been doin’ a lot of chokin’ an’ splutterin’ recently. I think he’s about ready to seize up on us.

RUIZ: That’s your boy man, how can you say that?

PERCELL: Taylor’s right Roo, Johnson’s lost his edge. He’s thinkin’ too much.

RUIZ: You try giving orders to your friends, knowing it might get ‘em killed.

PERCELL: It goes with the territory

TAYLOR: I don’t care if he is my friend Roo. I don’t want no freaked out sarge givin’ me orders.

[33.54] Zeke's dreaming

SEYMOUR: More mashed potatoes honey?

ANDERSON: Mm, boy, them are good. A little more.

TAYLOR: Fine sunshine to boogey for your (woogy?) and my main man Marvin Johnson readin’ the map.

ANDERSON: Taylor, Taylor. Have you lost your mind completely. Turn that thing off! Percell, Ruiz, I’m talkin’ to you now.

SEYMOUR: Honey.

HOCKENBURY: Y’all sure we should be doin’ this? I mean, y’know Sergeant Anderson’s always talkin’ about maintaining noise discipline and all that kinda stuff like that.

PERCELL: Doc, Doc.

HOCKENBURY: What?

PERCELL: Does anyone here see Sergeant Anderson?

JOHNSON:  ??? down here.

ANDERSON: You guys don’t come this way. Get off the trail1 Hockenbury, Johnson, get off the trail! Get off!

RUIZ: Uh ho.

ANDERSON: Nooooo!

SEYMOUR: Hey

ANDERSON: Yeah, it’s alright. It’s alright. It’s okay baby, it’s alright. Just go to sleep.

[35.02] Another search mission

GOLDMAN: You okay? Alright, you set up right here. I’m gonna take my team about two clicks down river – we’re gonna set up at the trail head. Stay alert, I want Williams alive.

TAYLOR: We going to Cambodia?

GOLDMAN: Taylor, we’re a SOG team now. We’ll go to Paris if we have to. Let’s move.

[36.23] Waiting's worst part

PETERS(?): This waiting’s the worst part.

TAYLOR:  ??? maybe we’ll have Charlie double time for you.

JOHNSON: Knock it off.

RUIZ: Sarge.

JOHNSON: Viking Six this is Viking Two. Positive contact. Say again, positive contact. Over.

GOLDMAN: Sitrep. Over.

JOHNSON: Six Charlie, one kangaroo – heading for the river. Over.

GOLDMAN: This is your call Two. We’re moving toward you. Acknowledge.

JOHNSON: Roger Six. Two out.

GOLDMAN: Let’s go.

[37.00] Blow 'em away sarge

RUIZ: You want me to blow ‘em away Sarge?

JOHNSON: Your rounds know the difference between Australian and NVA?

RUIZ: Sarge.

PERCELL: Johnson. Johnson, what d’you want us to do? They’re comin’ right towards us.

TAYLOR: Gotta (move?) Sarge, they’re comin’ right at us.

RUIZ: Sarge, if they’re comin’ right at us we’ve got no angle.

JOHNSON: Alright, nobody fires, nobody moves. We let them pass.

PERCELL: Let them pass! Johnson, maybe you want us to go help them cross the river.

TAYLOR: I saw we take ‘em out point blank.

JOHNSON: I gave you an order soldier, you will let them pass unless fired upon.

[39.05] Section 8 or a choke

RUIZ: Damn!

TAYLOR: What was that Sarge? A section 8 or a choke?

JOHNSON: Noise discipline.

PERCELL: Noise discipline my butt! We had ‘em. We had ‘em.

JOHNSON: That wasn’t Williams.

RUIZ: Quiet. Quiet.

JOHNSON: Roo, swing around and cover the river, when first squad comes back ???. Take Peters with you.

???: Let’s go.

JOHNSON: Percell. Take the back four. Taylor, we’ve got the front baby.

JOHNSON: Fire!

[41.00] Williams

JOHNSON: Cover him.

WILLIAMS: I thought you’d never find me.

JOHNSON: It was easy Sir. We just looked for an Aussie in his underwear.

WILLIAMS: Bloody amazing. Thanks for coming mate.

JOHNSON: Hang in there. Don’t give up man. Don’t you dare die on me. They said you were tough.

WILLIAMS: I am.

[41.25] Imposter

BREWSTER: Sergeant, you took a big chance letting them cross that river.

JOHNSON: Sir, I didn’t want to risk the lives of my men trying to save an imposter.

BREWSTER: How could you be so sure?

JOHNSON: Sir, when they took a break, Williams squatted just like a Vietnamese, not like an American.

BREWSTER: He’s Australian.

JOHNSON: Yes Sir. But our information had him stripped of his uniform. This guy wasn’t. Sir, that hooded guy just wasn’t Williams.

BREWSTER: Turned out to be NVA. Your men performed admirably Lieutenant and the body count should placate the damn schoolteachers. Job well done Johnson.

[42.10] Brewster & Li An

LI AN: (Vietnamese).

BREWSTER: ???

Li AN:  ???. I cook your favorite.

BREWSTER: You are my favorite.

LI AN: You come back tonight?

BREWSTER: I’ll try. Seems the only time I sleep lately is when I feel you next to me.

LI AN: I am sad to see to much trouble in your eyes.

JAC-NHO: Dada.

BREWSTER: Hey, Jac-Nho. Come here. Your mother has cooked for us.  ???

[43.39] Going back to Nam

SEYMOUR: What’s wrong Zeke?

ANDERSON: Nothing.

SEYMOUR: Nothing?

ANDERSON: Everything.

SEYMOUR: Are you going back?

ANDERSON: Yeah. It’s unfinished business. I can’t just walk away from it.

SEYMOUR: I know. But I’m scared for you Zeke, you fly too close to the flame.

ANDERSON: I’m scared too. I’m scared of a lot of things. I knew I had to make a decision when I came here. Now I’m scared I’m gonna lose you.

SEYMOUR: Do what you have to do, then when you come back if we still feel the same way about each other, I want you to put that ring back on my finger.

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