Transcript: (3x5) A Bodyguard of Lies

From Bravo 3/44th

Directed by: Jim Johnston

Written by: Brian Herskowitz

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[01.43] Booby trap

???: Keep your eyes open.

???:  ???

BELLER: Hold it! Hold it Rudy!

RUDY: Yoowww

BELLER: Hold it - damn! Hold it!

BELLIER: Cease fire! Cease fire.

???: Punji stakes.

???: Lieutenant Beller! Rudy’s dead Sir.

[02.42] Zeke's back

[03.15] Myron meets old friend

BELLER: With all the security around here you’d think this place was Fort Knox.

DUNCAN: Our missions require state security.

BELLER: Yeah, look out it might be a VC agent.

GOLDMAN: Beller!

BELLIER: Goldman! I don’t believe it.

DUNCAN: Gentlemen, we’ve got a briefing to get to.

GOLDMAN: I’m sorry Major, we went to OCS together.

DUNCAN: I’m thrilled for you.

GOLDMAN: How you doin’ Skip?

BELLER: Is that a joke?

GOLDMAN: Well you look good.

BELLER: I look like hell an’ you know it.

[03.45] Briefing

BREWSTER: Lieutenant Goldman, Lieutenant Beller’s platoon will be op-conned(?) to us from the First Brigade for this mission. I’ll arrange to have you temporarily housed here. Duncan’ll get you squared away. Okay, we’ve got elements of the Fifth Division of the NVA built up around the city of T’ai Nihn(???) MacV wants more information. They believe that the NVA are setting up for an attack on the city at any moment. Team Viking is going into the field with a guide. Thang comes out of our Chu Hoi program. Until a few weeks ago, he was an officer with the NVA.

BELLER: Oh that’s smart.

BREWSTER: You got a problem with that Lieutenant?

BELLER: I’ve got a problem with the whole mission Sir. My platoon is wasted. They just come off a twenty day operation.

BREWSTER: I appreciate that Lieutenant, I’ll talk with General Elliott. But for now you’re the only platoon available.

BELLER: Colonel, we’ve been nickelled and dimed to death, these guys need a break. They need to blow off some steam, get drunk, find some women ……

BREWSTER: I get the point Lieutenant. Goldman, your team’s mission is to follow Thang and recover several known weapons caches. Lieutenant Beller’s platoon will be blocking for the mission, securing the perimeter and assisting in airlifting of the weapons found. Any questions? Thang.

THANG: Many of People Army of North Vietnam in this area. I know weapons store in three locations – in the villages Phu An, Yo Ha(???) and Jo An(???)…..

[05.12] Reminiscing

BELLER: Brewster set you up with a guy I wouldn’t trust to shine my shoes.

GOLDMAN: Nah, he knows what he’s doing. It’s the best command I’ve been in since I got here.

BELLER: Yeah right, so while we’re covering your butts the NVA uses us for target practice.

BELLER: I guess I’d better go brief the men.

GOLDMAN: What’d you say we grab some chow, catch up. Remember that pizza run we made at ???.

BELLER: Yeah, I hear the candidates still tell that story.

GOLDMAN: It was a dozen pizzas, two cases of beer and two (go-go girls??) -- we got ‘em past three ???. So what d’you say? I’ll meet you at eighteen hundred hours at—uh Leon(?)

BELLER: Alright, I’ll be there.

[06.22] Grooming

TAYLOR: Mm, mm, mm

JOHNSON: Look at that!

TAYLOR: Hello, I was lookin’ at the picture of  ??? if you don’t mind.

JOHNSON: Lieutenant Arthur Ashe, the first black man to win a professional men’s professional tennis championship.

TAYLOR: Let me see that.

HOCKENBURY: That’s great man. That’s a real milestone.

TAYLOR: Who asked you? I didn’t hear….. Did you ask him Johnson?

JOHNSON: No.

TAYLOR: What about you Roo?

RUIZ: Uhu, not me.

HOCKENBURY: Give me a break y’all.

ANDERSON: (?Well you got yourselves pickin’ on the Doc.?)

TAYLOR: Sarge!

RUIZ:  ???

JOHNSON: Are we glad to see you man.

ANDERSON: I’m gone for thirty days, I come back here this ??? gone right down the toilet. Now look here, Johnson’s even still got his stripes.

JOHNSON: Yeah, so far. Hey you back Sarge? I mean you stayin’?

ANDERSON: Gentlemen, I’m here for the duration.

RUIZ: So you joining us in town for a drink Sarge?

ANDERSON: Hell no, I’ve been on a plane for two days, I’ve gotta get me some sleep.

TAYLOR: Sarge, Doctor Seymour wear you out?

ANDERSON: Look here, Doctor Seymour, as you all know, is an officer an’ I don’t break the rules. Besides, gentlemen don’t talk about that kinda stuff.

TAYLOR: Oh yeah right.

ANDERSON: How you doin’ there Doc?

HOCKENBURY: I’m alright.

ANDERSON: Percell, how you doin’ buddy?

PERCELL: Fine Sarge. Never better.

ANDERSON: Why you just hidin’ your joy at seein’ me here or what?

PERCELL: I get no joy at seein’ anyone come back to this place.

ANDERSON: Doc, what’s with him?

HOCKENBURY: I don’t know Sarge, just might have somethin’ to do with the war.

[07.48] Goldman & Beller

BELLER: You know Debbie met me in Tokyo for R ‘n’ R. Man I needed to see her so bad. When I get there, she says she’s leaving me. I guess she couldn’t take it my being here. Fell in love with some doctor – ah hell I can’t say I blame her at all.

GOLDMAN: Couple of beers. Well it’s rough man.

BELLER: She said she didn’t know who I was any more, she didn’t recognize me. I mean I got nothing to go back there for now.

GOLDMAN: When you get back to the world, pick up the pieces, put your lives back together.

BELLER: Not without her. An’ I might leave too many of the pieces right here. I lost a seventeen year old kid the other day, Rudy. He had—he had to ask his mom and dad permission to enlist. Man, ??? I feel like I am unraveling here, you know.

GOLDMAN: We all go through it.

BELLER: Not the brass man. The brass, all they do is scream for results, they don’t care the men – they care about the body count.

GOLDMAN: Well, we’ll worry about the men.

BELLER: That’s right – you’re right. That’s why I gotta get ‘em out of the field. Ever since Tet they’ve been pushed so hard, it’s like MacV has gotta prove to the world we’re winning this thing. D’you wanna know something? I don’t care any more – I don’t.

[19.41] Stone killers

JOHNSON:  ???

LORIN:  ??? man.

PERCELL: I’m sorry.

WORTHEN: I heard you SOG guys were stone killers.

TAYLOR/JOHNSON(?): Hey—hey—hey

WORTHEN: Why don’t you show me some of that Special Forces junk, huh?

RUIZ: You guys aren’t too good at math are you ???

TAYLOR: You know man, we’d be glad to lay some on you.

PERCELL: Just let it go.

WORTHEN: That’s right, why don’t you just go an’ find some rock to hide under….Percell.

TAYLOR: You know somethin’? It wouldn’t take nothin’ for me to plant my fist through your skull but I don’t wanna get any of your blood on my uniform.

WORTHEN: Only blood you’re gonna see is your own. You guys make me sick man

TAYLOR:  ???

WORTHEN:  ??? babies so much, maybe we’d be winnin’ this war.

JOHNSON: You know, if I were you I’d keep on movin’ while I still could.

LORIN: Come on man, it ain’t worth it. Come on.

RUIZ:??? We’d wiped up the sidewalk with them. One of them guys’ve been in the bush too long.

JOHNSON: We all have.

[10.42] Times are a changing

TAYLOR: Ah, just in time Danny. You know time was you’d been first one to take a crack at them fools.

PERCELL: Times they are achanging.

JOHNSON: No brother, I think you’re the one that’s changing. Look why don’t you just tell us what the hell is eatin’ you.

PERCELL: Just ain’t sleepin’ much lately is all.

RUIZ: Too hot to sleep.

PERCELL: There it is.

BARTENDER: Careful man.

RUIZ: There’s ??? who’s feeling no pain.

PERCELL: I gotta see a man about a water buffalo.

TAYLOR: Danny’s goin’ over the edge man.

JOHNSON: Well maybe Sarge comin’ back’ll fix him right up, huh?

RUIZ: And maybe not.

[12.19] Just worry about the prostitutes

BREWSTER:  ??? got hit hard again last night.

ANDERSON: Third time since Tet.

BREWSTER: First Brigade’s got it under control though.

HOCKENBURY: You know it doesn’t make any sense to me. We take ground an’ then turn around and give it back again. Is that right Sir?

BREWSTER: Why don’t you just worry about keeping the prostitutes clean Hockenbury.

HOCKENBURY: Actually, it’s nothing much different is it? I mean, they get re-infected and we keep re-inoculating again an’ again – y’all keep takin’ the same piece of dirt an’ keep givin’ it back again an’ again.

ANDERSON: Private Hockenbury, why don’t you just leave the tactics to the colonel here.

[13.20] Death wish?

HOCKENBURY: Tell me somethin’. Would it be just way to radical if we just stopped fightin’ – just stopped, declared victory an’ went on home?

BREWSTER: Aren’t you a little curious about what you’re doing out here Sergeant?

ANDERSON: No Sir. I figured you had your reasons.

BREWSTER: This is your fourth tour isn’t it?

ANDERSON: Yes Sir.

BREWSTER: Well you got some kind of death wish or something?

ANDERSON: No Sir, not that I know of.

BREWSTER: Oh. Why ???

ANDERSON: I figure it’s unfinished business – I’ll stick it out to the end.

BREWSTER: Yeah. Guess you wanna be some kind of hero? Or maybe you don’t fit into that ???.

ANDERSON: I’m here because of my men not because of my duty Sir.

BREWSTER: What about winning this war Sergeant? Doesn’t that mean anything to you?

ANDERSON: I’m willing to do anything for my country, except ---

BREWSTER: Except what Sergeant? Right over here.

ANDERSON: Except compromise the lives of my men, Sir.

BREWSTER: Good! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Park right here. I expect to get a lot out of you Sergeant – maybe we can start right now, you can help me with these PX supplies, huh?

[14.17] Someone threw a rock

BREWSTER: Hi Li An. What’s wrong?

LI AN: He was playing – they called him names – someone threw a rock.

BREWSTER: How you doing? Who did this? You can’t tell dada who threw the rocks? No? Do you know—uh—you know that your mother and I don’t look alike but that we can see a lot of beauty in each other? You know that that means that we love each other we can see that beauty. Do you understand? Yeah. Some people can’t see the beauty in others, they just can’t feel good about themselves unless they can hurt somebody else. But we, we can see your beauty. Oh, we love you very much -- come on, we love you very much.

[15.52] And Doc got a monkey

TAYLOR: I always win.

JOHNSON: You always cheat.

TAYLOR: Doc – Doc – Doc – I didn’t know you had relatives in Nam.

JOHNSON: Where did you get that from?

HOCKENBURY: From the girls at the bar. They wanted to show me their gratitude.

RUIZ: So they gave him a monkey.

TAYLOR: I could’ve think of a lot of things I’d’ve rather got Doc.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah, an’ I got a monkey.

TAYLOR: Hey Sarge, check this out. Doc ??? he get a gift from the girls down at the boom-boom bar. He don’t get a freebie, he don’t get a kiss, he don’t even get a hug. He gets a monkey.

ANDERSON: Anybody know where Percell is?

RUIZ: Last time I saw him, he was driving to (??? in bus?).

JOHNSON: He really tied one on last night Sarge. I think he’ll be alright though.

ANDERSON: I’m glad you’re all in such good spirits. We have a briefing at fifteen hundred hours, we’re leaving at first light.

RUIZ: Great!

ANDERSON: By the way, that soldier’s out of uniform.

HOCKENBURY: I guess he didn’t see your hat did he? Did he?

[16.48] The boony rats

JOHNSON: Man, I don’t believe this.

RUIZ: It’s the boony rats.

TAYLOR: What are you clowns doin’ here?

WORTHEN/LORIN(?): Coverin’ your butts, that’s what.

WORTHEN: Came to warn you about that dink. You can’t trust him.

TAYLOR: Yeah, well we trust him a lot more than we trust you.

WORTHEN: Yeah, I ain’t the one who’s been killing Americans. He is. An’ you know what they say about old habits.

JOHNSON: Okay, you warned us – now get outta here.

???: Okay, ??? girls

PERCELL: Those guys are right. We can’t trust him.

GOLDMAN: Alright you guys - time to do our imperialist duty.

???: Let’s load her up.

[17.35] Danny sees a snake

TAYLOR: What is it Danny? What is it?

PERCELL: Nothing. I thought that was a snake.

TAYLOR: You thought this was a snake! Come on brother, get it together man.

ANDERSON: Hey, what’s the problem here?

TAYLOR: Uh, nothing Sarge. We thought we caught some movement, that’s all. It’s cool.

ANDERSON: Alright then let’s get goin’. Percell, you’ve still got the point now.

[18.19] Graveyard

GOLDMAN: Alright, let’s move up.

[19.12] You open it

GOLDMAN: You open it.

GOLDMAN: Alright, let’s get the others and pack ‘em up. Sergeant, let’s hustle.

JOHNSON: Hey guys, we’ve got two more crates over here C’mon let’s load ‘em up. C’mon.

RUIZ: What are they doing?

TAYLOR: They’re diggin’ up graves. I think that’s where they’ve got the weapons stashed.

GOLDMAN: Good work Thang.

THANG: Next time much more.

[19.46] Ambush

???: …been hit…

PERCELL: Thang get down!

GOLDMAN: Cobra Two-Six, this is Viking Six. Over.

BELLER: Cobra Two-Six, Go.

GOLDMAN: Two-Six, we’re taking small arms fire from our November Echo, do you copy? Over.

BELLER: Hang tight. We’re one click your November – estimated arrival fifteen mikes.

GOLDMAN: Cease fire! Cease fire!

???: Hold your fire!

GOLDMAN: Cobra Two-Six, they’re pullin’ back an’ heading in your direction. Over.

[21.07] Ambush of Beller's squad

GOLDMAN: Cobra Two-Six, this is Viking-Six. Over. Cobra Two-Six, this is Viking-Six. Acknowledge.

BELLER: Cobra Six. Over.

GOLDMAN: Two-Six, we’ve lost visual contact, do you need any assistance. Go.

BELLER: Negative, they hit and ran. Will assess and get back to you. Out. Cease fire! Hold your fire! Viking-Six, this is Cobra Two-Six. We’re moving in your direction. Over.

GOLDMAN: Roger, out.

BELLER: Let’s go.

[22.06] Both squads meet

GOLDMAN: They must’ve tunneled out.

ANDERSON: Hey, Hey

ANDERSON: Alright, everybody just stay calm now.

WORTHEN: I ought to blow his damn head off.

GOLDMAN: Beller, control your men.

???: Do it Worthen.

WORTHEN: This dink is a traitor.

BELLER: Back off! Back off!

WORTHEN:  ???

ANDERSON: That’s crazy, he was in as much danger as we were.

WORTHEN: Lorin’s dead ‘cos of him.

GOLDMAN: The NVA killed your man, but they almost killed him too.

WORTHEN: Yeah, well almost ain’t good enough. Think about it, maybe he’s still on their side.

BELLER: Move out. Move out Worthen! Let’s go!

???: (Back it up?) Let’s get back to the LZ

[23.03] Owe you my life

THANG: Specialist Percell. I wish to thank you.

PERCELL: Yeah, well maybe I shouldn’t’ve done it. Maybe they were right about you.

THANG: They were wrong.

PERCELL: You ever kill any Americans? Was is a mistake? Was it? Saving your life, was it a mistake?

THANG: Yes, I’ve killed Americans and you’ve killed Vietnamese. The imperialists were my enemy and I was just a soldier.

PERCELL: And today you’re my friend. Yesterday you were probably puttin’ my buddies in body bags but today you’re my friend.

THANG: We are people of honor.

PERCELL: Yeah well I don’t see it.

THANG: I’m a man of honor and I owe you my life.

PERCELL: You don’t owe me squat.

[23.58] Keep Beller away

BREWSTER: I’m just asking you to keep Beller the hell away from my men.

ELLIOTT: Carl, the mission was a resounding success. We reclaimed two hundred AK-47’s, a dozen RPG’s and a fifty-one caliber machine gun.

BREWSTER: Beller’s platoon is on the edge General. I mean, they’re stretched to the limit.

ELLIOTT: You know the only disappointment was the lack of enemy body count.

BREWSTER: He had a man killed, I had one seriously wounded. That didn’t disappoint you.

ELLIOTT: You know what I mean.

BREWSTER: Yeah, I know what you mean.

ELLIOTT: I’m sorry Carl but the mission’s going to continue. The men move out at first light. Command wants it that way.

BREWSTER: And is Command gonna take responsibility for what happens out there?

ELLIOTT: No Colonel, you are.

[24.49] Having a nice trip?

HOCKENBURY: You havin’ a nice trip?

PERCELL: I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about.

HOCKENBURY: You really think that I don’t see what’s goin’ on here?

PERCELL: There’s nothin’ goin’ on.

HOCKENBURY: Talkin’ like that is very dangerous.

PERCELL: Oh give me a break Doc. You pass out these things like they were candy.

HOCKENBURY: No actually I give medication when it is called for. You on the other hand are turning your brain into a brussel sprout.

PERCELL: You’re a hypocrite, don’t tell me you never smoked dope.

HOCKENBURY: Percell, wake up. You’re goin’ into the field – the field an’ your head’s on backwards. Man, just go on sick call.

PERCELL: Oh forget that. I’m not deserting the guys.

HOCKENBURY: Fine. I just want you to know I’m tryin’ to help okay? I’m tryin’ to help.

PERCELL: You can start my getting’ off my back.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah, your back’s crowded enough isn’t it?

[25.53] Back on patrol

ANDERSON: Those are M-16’s LT.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, Beller’s the only one in our AO.

ANDERSON: Scotty.

GOLDMAN: Cobra Two-Six, this is Viking-Six. Over. Cobra Two-Six, this is Viking-Six. Do you read me? Over.

GOLDMAN: Let’s go.

[26.56] Way out of position

TAYLOR: LT.

BELLER: Hold your fire – take it easy.

GOLDMAN: Beller?

ANDERSON: What he hell’s he doin’ out here? They’re way out of position.

BELLER: Hold your fire.

GOLDMAN: We tried to contact you guys. What the hell you doing here?

BELLER: Yeah, our radio’s on the fritz.

GOLDMAN: Well we heard shots.

BELLER: Yeah well we thought we saw some unfriendlies in the area but it’s clear. It’s clear now man. Okay, we’ll move back into position.

GOLDMAN: Wel—wait—what the hell you talkin’ about? Those weren’t sniper shots.

BELLER: It was nothing. Okay, my guys just lit up the area – that’s it. That’s all. Right? Hey what happens in the bush stays in the bush. Right?

ANDERSON: Now what was that all about?

GOLDMAN: I don’t know. Let’s get the guys moving Sergeant.

[28.10] Entering village

ANDERSON: Are you okay there little brother?

PERCELL: Yeah.

TAYLOR: It’s spooky Sarge.

ANDERSON: Yeah, I don’t like it much either.

VILLAGER: (Vietnamese)

THANG: Percell look out!

PERCELL: Doc! Doc! Get over here.

GOLDMAN: Get security out! Johnson check that (gook’s body?)

PERCELL: Doc, come on.

HOCKENBURY: He’s gone Percell.

ANDERSON: Percell, get up out of the mud now, there’s nothing you can do here. C’mon give me your hand. Give me your hand. C’mon.

JOHNSON: This doesn’t make sense. This guy don’t look like VC to me.

TAYLOR: Do they ever? He’s been through something, he’s got dried blood on him.

GOLDMAN: Anderson, let’s sweep the area. He’s dead, let’s go.

[30.35] Grizzly discovery

TAYLOR: Oh my God!

GOLDMAN: Taylor, what are ……

[31.33] Back at base

MCKAY: Goldman! What happened out there?

GOLDMAN: Not now McKay.

MCKAY: Look it may not be any of my bus….

GOLDMAN: It isn’t any of your business!

ANDERSON: LT, now I didn’t sign up for this.

GOLDMAN: None of us did.

ANDERSON: Where you goin’?

GOLDMAN: I gotta talk to him.

ANDERSON: To Beller? LT, the hell with Beller – you’ve gotta go to Colonel Brewster about ….

GOLDMAN: I gotta hear it from Beller.

ANDERSON: LT! With all respect Sir, I strongly advise you to go through procedures on this one.

[32.19] Tell me why

GOLDMAN: You tell me why.

BELLER: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

GOLDMAN: You know what I’m talking about. Now you tell me why.

BELLER: I don’t – I don’t know what you’re talking about.

GOLDMAN: You’re a liar. You murdered innocent ---- innocent people.

BELLER: Where Goldman? Where in this godforsaken country are there innocent people man?

GOLDMAN: There were babies in that village you bastard.

BELLER: I had two men killed by a seven year old girl; I lost three more when we came into a supposedly friendly ville. There are no innocent people man.

GOLDMAN: That does not give you the right to……

BELLER: So don’t give me your high and mighty bull. You can’t tell me you haven’t been there.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, I’ve been there Beller. I’ve been right up to the edge an’ I looked on the other side but I never crossed the line. I never went over the edge.

BELLER: Man, you know what it’s like. You’re walking through a ville, everything’s fine. You’re so bottled up man you’re about to explode an’ one of ‘em’s running and you just do it. You just do it. You do it for your friends who have been blown to pieces and you do it for yourself. And you wanna know something? It feels good man, you know it feels good Myron. So what, so we greased a ville. Tomorrow one of those villagers might have ambushed an American platoon an’ that’s you Jack.

GOLDMAN: Bull! You cannot win the war by just greasing every man, woman and child in the entire country.

BELLER: Can’t win it any other way. They’ll probably---they’ll probably pin a medal on me man. I did what I did to save American lives, okay? I did it because I was called upon to do it.

GOLDMAN: That’s not good enough.

BELLER: Yeah, what are you gonna do? Well when you’re stabbing me in the back, remember it could’ve been you, ‘cos you’re wrong. There ain’t no lines, no black an’ white. Not here.

[34.56] Not hungry

HOCKENBURY: Missed you at chow.

PERCELL: Yeah, I wasn’t hungry.

HOCKENBURY: Yeah. Guess none of us have much of an appetite after…..

HOCKENBURY: Look Danny, this probably ain’t the best time to bring this up but –um- you’ve gotta to something about those pills man.

PERCELL: You know Doc, a lecture is the last thing I need right now.

HOCKENBURY: You don’t have to talk to me. But you’ve gotta talk to somebody. Look Danny, I’ll go to the dispensary with you – I’ll stick around if you want – whatever.

PERCELL: Come on! You really think that’s what this is about.

HOCKENBURY: I don’t have any idea what this is about. But I do know that you’re strung out man, an’ you’re so strung out that you’re endangering the lives of your buddies, your friends. They’re covering for you Danny an’ you’re gonna get them killed. I’ll tell you something else man, if you think you’re the only person here hurtin’, you’re wrong. What we saw today – you have no idea how sick that made me. I just know one thing – downin’ a handful of those pills is not gonna take it away.

PERCELL: You’re talkin’ to me as if I’ve got some kind of a problem. Well I don’t. You see Doc, I’ve got this whole damn thing figured all out. A while back I just stopped caring. Then I was fightin’ like hell just to feel … something. Hey, but I was wrong. Doc, I don’t wanna feel nothin’.

[37.08] Won’t do nothing

JOHNSON: Man I’ve never seen nothing like that before, never.

RUIZ: Yeah, well somebody’s head’s gonna roll. Alright Percell?

PERCELL: They won’t do nothin’.

JOHNSON: What you talkin’ about Percell? This ain’t a couple of VC, Beller wiped out a whole damn ville man.

TAYLOR: Hold on – look—look, we don’t know what went down.

RUIZ: Oh yeah, maybe it just was an accident, huh?

TAYLOR: Look, I’m not sayin’ that. I’m just sayin’ that – maybe they did somethin’.

RUIZ: Did what? What the hell did they do?

TAYLOR: That’s the point Roo, we don’t know.

HOCKENBURY: My God! Listen to you. Beller’s platoon slaughtered an entire ville and you’re defending them.

TAYLOR: I’m not defending them Doc. It’s innocent until proven guilty – is that not the way it goes? Or unless you don’t believe in all that political stuff you’ve been tellin’ us.

HOCKENBURY: I think what we saw today was is what we used to call “irrefutable evidence”. Not that anybody’s gonna do anything about it.

JOHNSON: So you think they might cover this up too?

HOCKENBURY: Under a ton of bodies.

RUIZ: That’s bull Doc. Our government isn’t gonna lie about something this big.

PERCELL: Shut up! All of you – shut up! You don’t understand anything. We killed those people. We killed Thang. And this is all one big lie. The whole thing’s a lie – the war, our country – it’s a lie.

JOHNSON: We’re all upset Danny.

PERCELL: No, I keep thinkin’. What if this was happenin’ to us – your know, back in the world. What if it was your sister Roo, or your brother, or your parents? I think about that an’ I wanna puke my insides out. But I can’t. I’ve been here too long.

[39.18] Boat's already going down

BREWSTER: Forty three civilians.

GOLDMAN: Yes Sir, including the one we killed.

BREWSTER: Just a few seconds and those people were wiped off the face of the earth.

GOLDMAN: And there wasn’t a damn thing they could do.

BREWSTER: It’s done Lieutenant.

GOLDMAN: What about Beller?

BREWSTER: What about him?

GOLDMAN: I tell myself I wouldn’t’ve done what he did. But I don’t know – I’ve seen how close I’ve come in the past, how just that much further, I might’ve.

BREWSTER: Might’ve? You wanna stand here an’ you wanna debate what we might’ve done. I’m up to here with debating Lieutenant. It’s done. Forty three people were slaughtered out there an’ that’s goin’ too damn far – an’ it stops here an’ it stops now.

GOLDMAN: He was my friend and he was a good officer once. But I’m gonna see those bodies every time I close my eyes for a long time. I’m willing to do whatever it takes Sir.

BREWSTER: Even if it means giving up your career?

GOLDMAN: Never been afraid to rock the boat.

BREWSTER: You’re a little late for that Lieutenant. The boat’s already going down.

[40.57] Doc

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[41.20] Don't feel like talking

STONEY: You—uh—you mind? So how come you’re not at the team house? Slummin’?

PERCELL: I’m here ‘cos I didn’t feel like talkin’.

STONEY: Yeah, I can dig that. ---- Look’s like you had a bad day, huh? ---- It don’t mean nothin’. ---- You—uh—you wanna go take the edge off?

PERCELL: What d’you want Stoney?

STONEY: Nothin’ man. I’m just tryin’ to help. ---- You come with me man.

[42.33] Trying to get clean

JOHNSON: Doc. Doc, you alright?

HOCKENBURY: Mmm

JOHNSON: What you doin’ out here? What’d you do to your moustache?

HOCKENBURY: Just tryin’ to get clean. Wanted to get clean. Didn’t work.

JOHNSON: Alright Doc, look – let’s go inside man. C’mon on.

[43.40] Answer to your prayers

PERCELL: Is that (grass?)

STONEY: Better. This brother, this is for you.

PERCELL: That’s heroin ain’t it?

STONEY: I told ya man, it’s the answer to your prayers. It’ll help to ease the pain.

PERCELL: Oh man!

STONEY: Stopped tryin’ to make sense of this place a long time ago. Now, I just rise above it.

PERCELL: Don’t mean nothin’.

STONEY: Yeah, that’s it bro. Just let the world float away man.

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