Transcript: (3x6) A Necessary End

From Bravo 3/44th

Directed by: Stephen L. Posey

Written by: Jerry Patrick Brown

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[01.43] Souvenir shopping

KIDS: GI—GI

DOLLIE: This is so much fun

MCKAY: Is it definite you’re leaving tomorrow?

DOLLIE: I’m afraid so, but that’s life as a Donut Dollie. Sure appreciate you helpin’ me get these souvenirs for everybody.

MCKAY: I’m glad to do it. Besides it  ??? gives us a chance to get acquainted.

MCKAY: Say I—er need to stop off at my place here in town for a minute. You don’t mind do ya?

DOLLIE: Okay. It’ll give me a chance to freshen up.

[02.58] Where’d she come from

DOLLIE: Aaaaah

MCKAY:  ???

MCKAY: I didn’t even see her. Where did she come from?

MCKAY: Okay, she’s alive.

DOLLIE: So what do we do?

MCKAY: I don’t know. We’ve got to get her to a doctor or something. Doctor, is there a doctor around here?

SISTER BERNADETTE:  ???? Oh what has happened?

MCKAY: I don’t know. She ran out in front of me. I tried to stop—I just knocked her down. I’m sorry.

SISTER BERNADETTE:  ???? I believe she is more frightened than hurt.

MCKAY: Well do you know a doctor? Is there a doctor around here?

SISTER BERNADETTE: I do not think it is necessary.

MCKAY: Well I think it is.

SISTER BERNADETTE: There is a hospital.

MCKAY: Okay—okay. Let’s go.

MCKAY: This way. Where she live?

SISTER BERNADETTE: She is an orphan, one of many we care for.

MCKAY: Oh. Here, find a taxi, take it back to the base an’ I’ll get you your souvenirs before your plane leaves.

DOLLIE: But I’m leavin’ tomorrow.

MCKAY: I’ll get ‘em to ya.

DOLLIE: I don’t care about that stuff.

MCKAY: Oh go on now ??? break an ol’ man’s heart.

[04.17] Tell me some lies

HOCKENBURY: Chico

PERCELL: Well now if it ain’t Hoc Dockenbury.

HOCKENBURY: Percell

PERCELL: Hey Doc. Tell me some lies Doc. Tell me some big ol’ lies.

HOCKENBURY: No lie Percell, no lie man. You’re headed for trouble.

PERCELL: Say, where’d you get that ape?

HOCKENBURY: Chico’s not an ape. He’s a monkey

PERCELL: D’you mind Doc? I was talkin’ to the monkey.

HOCKENBURY: Why don’t you step back an’ check it out. I’ve not seen you straight in weeks.

PERCELL: Oh ease off Doc – take a hit. Hell I ain’t one to bogart(?) a good time.

HOCKENBURY: No. Thanks a lot, I’m real grateful for the offer.

PERCELL: Say what happened to you Doc? When you first came here, you had hippie dope head written all over your face.

HOCKENBURY: I admit it. Percell I used to have more ways to get high than a junkyard dog’s got fleas.

PERCELL: Then how come you’ve turned so against an innocent little toke?

HOCKENBURY: Lost it’s innocence. I liked it too much. Coulda had me just ‘bout like it has you.

PERCELL: I’m feelin’ too good for you to bring me down Doc.

HOCKENBURY: Percell, if you don’t get straight, that dopes gonna bring you down man. It’s like a hole that doesn’t have no bottom. It’s not funny.

PERCELL: Ah go on Doc. You an’ your old lady, get outta here.

[06.01] Smell it outside the hootch

TAYLOR: Percell. You can smell that herb all the way outside hootch man..

PERCELL: That what brought you in?

TAYLOR: If you’ve gotta smoke man, do it some place else before you get all our butts in a sling.

[06.23] Gonna get busted Percell

RUIZ: What’s the point Percell? You’re just gonna get busted.

PERCELL: Oh there ain’t no point Roo. I was just lyin’ here, trying to relax. Tryin’ to mind my own business, but I’m not havin’ much luck because everyone seems to be mindin’ it for me.

RUIZ: I don’t wanna mind your business man. You’re messing yourself up, I’d like to understand why.

PERCELL: Let it go.

RUIZ: I don’t wanna let it go. We’re friends, remember? When we’re out in the bush, we’re supposed to count on each other. How am I gonna count on you when you’re diddy bopping six feet off the ground.

PERCELL: We’re not in the bush. I’m gonna go to the PX an’ get some candy bars.

[07.14] Army's doing nothing

BREWSTER: What’s your point Lieutenant Goldman?

GOLDMAN: Well my point is Lieutenant Beller’s platoon wiped out an entire village of civilians at Phu An. The army’s doing nothing.

BREWSTER: That’s your evaluation, that army’s doing nothing?

GOLDMAN: Yes sir.

BEWSTER: I went over your report in detail with General Elliot. Give him a little time to look into it.

GOLDMAN: Sir, my team was there right after it happened and not one of my men has been questioned about what we saw.

BREWSTER: And you think they’re hoping it’ll go away if they ignore it, huh?

GOLDMAN: I do. Now I can’t force the issue but I was thinking if you…..

BREWSTER: I told you Lieutenant, it’d out of my hands. But rest assured if the army does not deal with this incident within proper channels, they’ll have to deal with me outside of them.

BREWSTER: Is there something else I can do for you Lieutenant?

GOLDMAN: No Sir. I appreciate your time.

[08.15] The orphanage

KIDS PLAYING:  ???

MCKAY: That was fun huh? Did you like riding in the jeep?

SISTER BERNADETTE: They are so fortunate.

MCKAY: Fortunate to live like this?

SISTER BERNADETTE: There are many others in the cities living on the streets. We three look after these few. It could easily be hundreds.

MCKAY: Casualties that don’t get counted huh?

SISTER BERNADETTE: We fled our school and orphanage in the north to escape the communists. Many of the sisters were assassinate. Murdered. Some returned to France and we took refuge in this abandoned building.

MCKAY: Wait a minute. She’s a Buddhist right? What’s she doin’ here?

SISTER BERNADETTE: Three of them live here. Their sanctuary was destroyed by South Vietnamese soldiers. A saboteur took refuge there and their entire pagoda was destroyed by rockets – to kill one nun. Her name is ???. She has been fasting for four weeks.

MCKAY: Fasting and praying for four weeks?

SISTER BERNADETTE: She meditates. She seeks a pure soul. Do you understand “les sans de la vie” (?) . Life’s purpose.

MCKAY: Do you think one lifetime’s enough to work all that out?

SISTER BERNADETTE: You sound like a Buddhist yourself. Perhaps you should talk to ???

MCKAY: No, but I would like to talk with you some more. I’m serious, a pure soul may be a little out of my reach but I have wondered about my own life’s purpose. There’s gotta be more to it than I’ve found so far.

[10.03] Leander Leander

STONEY(?): Percell. You shouldn’t drink alone man, people’ll talk.

PERCELL: They already do.

STONEY: Leander – Percell. Percell – Leander.

PERCELL: Hey

LEANDER: Hey—hey

PERCELL: Leander what?

LEANDER: Leander Leander.

PERCELL: Well alright Leander Leander. How you doin’?

LEANDER: How am I doin’ man. Just back from ???, Kan Hoi. Five days of sighs an’ smiles.

PERCELL: Well how’d you get five days?

LEANDER: Just took ‘em man. Lieutenant Peckerwood needs somebody to hump ammo for the pig, he ain’t gonna say nothin’. Besides he thinks I got primal instincts –whatever that it. An’ Kan Hoi is so fine.

PERCELL: Where’s Kan Hoi?

LEANDER: Cholon man, round the docks.

PERCELL: You don’t suppose—er next time you go down there you could take a friend along?

LEANDER: It’s way over the mason line Percell. Almost all originals an’ a bunch of the brothers gone native. You’d feel the draft you know?

STONEY: Yo, Leander. You know this man? He says he wants to score some herb. You know what he’s talkin’ about.

GI: Remember man? I was with Nicky the G. Nicky.

LEANDER: Yeah, right Nicky. Greasy little guy with funny lips. I remember.

STONEY: Alright. Let’s do it outside.

PERCELL: Think I’ll go too. I got some thinkin’ to do.

LEANDER: That’s bad for the brain baby. ( Later on /wait on(?)

[11.34] Busted

PERCELL: I gotta know more about this Kan Hoi Leander. I need some time away.

LEANDER: Ah that’s tricky Percell. They’re squeamish about Sylvester. See they figure you for the man you’ll be dead.

PERCELL: Well give it some thought, I may already be dead.

MP: You’re busted soldier. Get your hands ???

PERCELL: I didn’t do anything.

MP: (Son you shot up ??? you bought ?)

[12.19] Defector

DUNCAN: His name is ???, he’s a Major in the North Vietnamese army an’ he claims he can put the finger on a dozen communist agents in the South Vietnamese Army High Command.

GOLDMAN: Well why doesn’t he take a walk Sir? We’ve had defectors before. Why kidnap this one?

BREWSTER: His request. So the comrades will think he’s been taken against his will otherwise he’s afraid they’ll take reprisals against his family here in the South.

GOLDMAN: He’s probably right.

BREWSTER:  ??? is on assignment to improve their supply routes. He’s quartered at a station about here.

GOLDMAN: That’s fifteen clicks over the fence.

BREWSTER: And they’ve got a regiment located nearby and a lot of activity in the area, so it’s gotta be quiet and quick. How would you do it Lieutenant?

GOLDMAN: I’d go in here end of the evening, ??? twilight. Take two choppers, leapfrog across – that way the locals’ll think we’re just doin’ a standard flyover. Then wait till morning, go in grab him and get out.

DUNCAN: You’ll have a team of four ARVN rangers with you.

GOLDMAN: Do they know the mission?

DUNCAN: They know we’re grabbing someone. They don’t know who.

BREWSTER: Okay, have your team on flight-line at seventeen hundred hours.

[13.22] Deafened with pencils

MCKAY: Here let me show ya

SISTER BERNADETTE: She cannot hear it. She is deaf.

MCKAY: Well here, this is for you.

MCKAY: I wondered why she didn’t talk.

SISTER BERNADETTE: When the communists came to our school they injured many of the children to frighten others away. They deafened ??? with sharpened pencils.

MCKAY: Poor baby.

MCKAY: I gotta go.

SISTER BERNADETTE:  ????. You will be remembered in our prayers for your kindness to ???

MCKAY: Kindness? Hell, I damn near killed her. I’m sorry.

SISTER BERNADETTE: It’s an unfortunate habit Lieutenant, but not one requiring confession.

MCKAY: Has something happened?

SISTER BERNADETTE: I am not sure.  ??? seeks more than personal enlightenment. Since the time of the three kingdoms this country has known only suffering and bloodshed. She seeks some way to make it different.

MCKAY: Why are the others here?

SISTER BERNADETTE: They think she’s dying of hunger.

MCKAY: She sure doesn’t have much regard for herself does she?

SISTER BERNADETTE: It is not important to her. She has started a journey that she expects to continue in future lives.

MCKAY: Yeah well it’d be nice if we could count on that wouldn’t it.

SISTER BERNADETTE: I doubt if ??? thinks that.

MCKAY: I don’t know, I’d like a shot at it. Second time around. A chance to straighten out some of the kinks from this life.

SISTER BERNADETTE: Why create the kinks to begin with?

MCKAY: Well most of them were unintentional. I can’t control the way things happen. I could (fall off?) my chopper tomorrow or I could live to be a hundred. If I knew the way it was gonna go, well

SISTER BERNADETTE: What if you were to die tomorrow?

MCKAY: I don’t know. Some good times, some bad times. Nothing I could say I’ve done.

SISTER BERNADETTE: You help these people fight for their country.

MCKAY: No. I’m here for the thrill of it. ‘Cos I love to fly. I don’t think that’s enough any longer.

[16.13] Not a stranger

BELLER: Goldman

GOLDMAN: Beller

BELLER: Hey guy wait up. It’s not like I’m a stranger.

GOLDMAN: I’m in a hurry.

BELLER: Headed out huh? Wish I was too but the dry spell’ll be over soon.

GOLDMAN: Is that right?

BELLER: I can hope, right?

GOLDMAN: Look Beller, what do you want?

BELLER: Hey look, what happened out in that village an’ then you goin’ to the Colonel about it. I just wanted to let you know there’s no hard feelings on my part, okay? You were doing what you thought was right and I don’t think you should feel guilty about that.

GOLDMAN: High point of assumption Keller. I don’t.

BELLER: That’s good. I didn’t want there to be any misunderstandings between us. I mean we’re talking about my career here.

GOLDMAN: You still think you’ve got a career?

BELLER: Things turn out in an odd way sometimes. Hey well, good luck Goldman. We’ll see you down the road, okay? You watch yourself okay?

[17.12] Never understand something that crazy

ANDERSON: You all ready?

TAYLOR: Sarge what’s gonna happen to those boony rats that shot up that ville?

ANDERSON: LT’s takin’ care of that Taylor. Just keep you mind on what you’re doin’ out there an’ don’t get caught up worryin’ about that stuff.

RUIZ: Yeah well I still don’t understand that stuff.

ANDERSON: Ruiz, you’re never gonna understand somethin’ that’s crazy.

TAYLOR: I hope you’re satisfied MP’s locked up Percell.

HOCKENBURY: That’s none of my doin’. Besides I heard he’s getting’ out this afternoon.

RUIZ: Yeah, getting’ out an’ goin’ on latrine duty. I’d just as soon stay in the pokie.

[17.54] Your work Doc?

ANDERSON: Hockenbury. Here. Now.

RUIZ: Oh o

ANDERSON: Did you see this?

HOCKENBURY: Yeah.

ANDERSON: Did you do this?

HOCKENBURY: No sir. That’d be defacing government property. That’d be against regulations.

ANDERSON: Yes it would.

HOCKENBURY: So what about that?

ANDERSON: Hockenbury, that’s a SOG emblem. It’s supposed to be there.

HOCKENBURY: Well, actually sir, it's, er, unofficial SOG emblem. So that’s—that’s probably against regulation too.

GOLDMAN: Saddle up.

[19.15] Danny's out of jail

[19.29] Set up bivouac here

GOLDMAN: Alright, we set up a false bivouac here and we settle in. We wait until after dark, we go about two hundred meters back then I want an arm’s length perimeter all the way around. Absolute noise discipline, communication by touch only.

[20.00] Danny in hootch

no dialogue

[20.56] Sun up

no dialogue

[21.36] Danny waking up

no dialogue

[21.48] Back to the mission

no dialogue

[22.12] Day's assignment

PERCELL: Good God almighty(?)

HANNEGAN: I do believe it’s Spec-4 Percell

PERCELL: What d’you to that for?

HANNEGAN: I’m Sergeant Hannegan son. I wanna make sure you’re awake an’ ready for your days assignment.

PERCELL: What assignment?

HANNEGAN: Somethin’ that’ll let the army avail itself of your fine sensibilities. You’re burnin’ the outhouse.

PERCELL: Ah no way! That detail’s for cherries.

HANNEGAN: Cherries and screw-ups son. Let me just try to figure out where you fit in there.

PERCELL: Look you’ve gotta give me a break Sarge—er—I can’t work all day on an empty stomach. I—I—I mean gotta have breakfast.

HANNEGAN: Climb into your clothes son. The scatters of this mans army waits for no-one. Besides, you go on latrine duty with a full gorge, you’ll just blow it the first barrel you whiff anyway.

[23.25] The mission

NVA:  ???

[24.57] Latrine duty

HANNEGAN: Open those traps an’ pull the barrels out far enough so’s you don’t ignite the privy when you light ‘em up .

PERCELL:  ???

HANNEGAN: Get on with it you scatterphobic goof-off.

HANNEGAN: Enough gasoline Percell. Now an’ equal measure diesel fuel. High octane for a quick hot start an’ diesel for the long steady burn.

HANNEGAN: Aaaah. You’re a natural Percell. You got the touch.

[26.11] Entering enemy camp

NVA:  ???

[29.09] Blow the radio

GOLDMAN: Can you move? Taylor blow the radio.

[29.41] Meanwhile back at the latrines

PERCELL: Oh what the hell d’you do that for? Couldn’t you see there wasn’t a barrel in there?

[30.12] Righteous thing to do

HOCKENBURY: He’s gonna do alright LT. Pretty clean would an’ this blood expander’s gonna hold him till we get back to Barnet.

ANDERSON: LT. I suggest we get out of here now before someone comes round here to see what that noise was all about.

TAYLOR: Sarge. That’s a righteous thing to do but ….

ANDERSON: These guys see we’re willin’ to do it for them, when our time comes maybe they’ll be willin’ to do it for us.

[30.55] Press on base

BREWSTER: I’d like to know why MacV gave a press correspondence clearance to be on a SOG base Mr Boyle.

BOYLE: I pulled some strings and I lied about the reason why I wanted to talk to you.

BEWSTER: Which is?

BOYLE: I talk to ???, I talk to grunts. I hear a lot of offbeat stories about the war for the price of a few beers. Last week I heard a tale about a massacre from a drunken GI.

BREWSTER: So, you gonna tell me this story or am I supposed to guess?

BOYLE: Well I was hoping you’d tell me about it Colonel. The total eradication of the village of Phu An.

BREWSTER: I’m not a press officer Mr Boyle. I’m not authorized to give you information. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

BOYLE: An atrocity story would be big news. A commanding officer trying to cover it up would be even bigger.

BREWSTER: Are you threatening me?

BOYLE: Your career is the American dream. It would be a shame to sacrifice it for the actions of a handful of bloodthirsty killers.

BREWSTER: It would be a shame to subvert our effort to help the South Vietnamese and brand the men who fight here with a stigma they’ll carry for life. I can’t help you Mr Boyle.

[32.07] Danny gone native

GIs:  ???

LEANDER: Percell? Man you look like a native. You had to burn the privy ‘cos of that bust huh? Man they expect so much of their own.

PERCELL: Leander, tell me more about Kan Hoi.

LEANDER: Look, the brothers buy it – you’re there man. No comin’ back. But you’re sylvester Percell, they’ll never stop watchin’ you. I like you man an’ I’m tellin’ ya, don’t go down there.

PERCELL: Say—say I’m a day tripper. Who do I look for? Who do I say it to? I’m a friend of Leander’s.

LEANDER: Look for Smilin’ Jack. He’ll set you up an’ see you through. But he looks at you an’ sees the man, you can kiss havin’ a family goodbye.

PERCELL: Thanks. Think I’ll take a long hot shower, huh?

LEANDER: Yeah, I’m thinkin’ that’s a real good idea.

[33.13] Ruining the market Ruiz

???: Twenty piasters. No extras, I promise.

RUIZ: I bid twenty five.

???: Ruiz, you’re gonna ruin the market.

WORTHEN(?): Just want you girls to know that that was a damn cheap shot your man Goldman took on Lieutenant Beller.

TAYLOR: LT just told what he saw in the ville after you sickos went and took target practice on ??? civilians.

RUIZ: There is it. Beller’s got it comin’, no matter what it is.

WORTHEN: You weren’t there, you got no idea what went down.

???: LT’s a good man an’ a good officer an’ we had a good platoon.

HOCKENBURY: An’ you’re all good shots too. Nailed some of those kids with one bullet, pretty hard to do what with them runnin’ WORTHEN: It ain’t right to break up a platoon. We were a team man.

RUIZ: Break up a platoon? What do you mean?

WORTHEN: I mean transfers, I mean early outs. They’re replacing all of us.

???: Yeah, ??? two men to a post. No way you can stay with your buddies.

TAYLOR: Yeah well that ought to raise the intelligence level around this place I’d say.

HOCKENBURY: Wait a minute—wait a minute. Don’t you guys know what’s goin’ on here? You see the army is gonna get rid of these maniacs before word gets out to outside about what happened ‘cos the army doesn’t wanna get a black eye, right. So they’re gonna let these psychotics of the hook.

???: You’d better shut up man.

HOCKENBURY: You can’t hurt me man. I’m not a three year old kid man. I’m not an’ old man man.

???: Hey—hey—hey

WORTHEN: What’s wrong with you guys. I thought you didn’t like this smart mouthed jerk.

TAYLOR: We don’t. But he happens to be our smart-mouthed jerk.

MPs: Break it up. Come on GI, come on. That’s enough. Come on.

[35.23] Danny has a haircut

[36.43] 6 kids and 3 nuns

MCKAY: Look I am not talkin’ about a lot of people. I’m talking about six kids. Six little kids.

HOCKENBURY: Six little civilian kids.

MCKAY: And three nuns

HOCKENBURY: We started with a couple, then to six. Now we’re at nine.

MCKAY: Look I’m talkin’ about innocent people who can’t do a damn thing to take care of themselves Doc.

HOCKENBURY: Lieutenant you’re talkin’ about civilians. Why don’t you try to take this up with S-5 and try to work them into one of those –um- Pacific Action programmes.

MCKAY: Because S-5 won’t give a hoot about the hearts and minds of these particular citizens. They don’t have an effect on the political picture. Look didn’t—didn’t you take an oath or somethin’?

HOCKENBURY: No, I’m a medic I’m not a doctor. And plus what you’re askin’ me to do could get me into big trouble with the Colonel, an’ as it is I live on thin ice around here.

MCKAY: I don’t know, maybe I was wrong about you Doc. I mean if you can vaccinate whores in the street, you know….

HOCKENBURY: Givin’ a few shots is one thing. This is like stocking a clinic.

MCKAY: Yeah well kids fall down and get hurt. The sisters need this stuff to take care of that. Okay, we got two more boxes. The sooner we get this loaded the sooner we’re out of here.

HOCKENBURY: Francis Thurman Hockenbury you are the world’s biggest mug. If somebody wanted to sell you a sack full of dead buzzards you’d be askin’ how much.

BREWSTER: Supply Sergeant called my office. Said you’d requisitioned a lot of meds  ??? going back out to the whorehouses. Volunteered to go along. Hockenbury, this better be good.

[38.32] At the orphanage

HOCKENBURY: Well sir I thought I’d had it. But the Colonel actually was all for it.  ???

MCKAY: Sure he was. I kept tellin’ ya.

MCKAY: Doc’s all finished for now, so we’re leaving.

SISTER BERNADETTE: We are all so grateful to you.

MCKAY: It’s not big deal. Where’s ???

SISTER BERNADETTE: Gone. They have all left.  ??? was very weak from hunger.

MCKAY: Well I hope she finds peace. I hope we all do.

SISTER BERNADETTE: A life is not wasted because it is spent doing something you enjoy. It would be a greater waste if you did something you despised.

MCKAY: A friend of mine once gave me a poem by Yates about an Irish airman who flies for no other reason that the love of it and that dooms him ??? insignificance. “I balanced off brought all to mind. The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind. In balance with this life, this death.” A lot in common that flyboy an’ me.

SISTER BERNADETTE: You fear your life has no meaning. But if you can fear that, then it is not so.

MCKAY: I don’t know if I agree with that. I’m not even sure I know what it means.

SISTER BERNADETTE: Do not denigrate yourself. You know.

MCKAY: Yeah. You know I really like talking with you. There just never seems to be enough time. Look, would you have dinner with me.

MCKAY: No, of course you can’t. I’m sorry I don’t know what the hell I ….. I’m sorry

SISTER BERNADETTE: Could I ask you a favor?

MCKAY: Well sure, anything.

SISTER BERNADETTE: A carton of books is being sent to us from Paris. I need to see the agent in Saigon to find out if it has arrived. We can talk on the way.

MCKAY: Outstanding. I’m not doin’ a favor for you. You’re doin’ one for me.

[40.28] Who ordered the transfers

BREWSTER: Transfers! Where? Whose orders?

GOLDMAN: Every single man in Beller’s platoon’s been replaced in the last three days. I don’t know who ordered it.

BREWSTER: Highers didn’t know what to do with that bunch of crazies so they stalled them here instead of sending them back to their unit Now they’re maneuvering them out of here on the sly. Come on.

BREWSTER: You know where Beller’s quartered?

GOLDMAN: Yes sir.

BREWSTER: You point the way. You an’ you, with me.

[41.00] Beller's gone

[41.14] Somethings happened

MCKAY: I enjoy reading some poetry but most of it, I just don’t get.

SISTER BERNADETTE: Nor do I, but I keep trying.

MCKAY: Somethin’s happened.

[41.53] Can't stop seeing it

MCKAY: I can’t stop seein’ it. I don’t understand it.

SISTER BERNADETTE: It is not unlike some of our own martyrs who allowed themselves to die at the hands of others. Goodnight John McKay. God bless you.

[42.49] Don't do this Danny

RUIZ: Percell. What did you do?

PERCELL: What’s happenin’ Roo?

RUIZ: Don’t do this man. Please don’t do this.

PERCELL: Everything’s upside down, inside out. I just can’t take it no more.

RUIZ: I’ll stick with you Danny, whatever it takes to get you straight man. But don’t desert, not that.

PERCELL: You were in the field yesterday. I was behind the latrine doin’ the lowest job this army’s got. An’ I was so ashamed I hid out in the Supply Depot all night long an’ all day today, getting’ high—crashing, gettin’ high an’ crashing. No, I can’t stay here any more. Roo I’ll die.

RUIZ: What are you gonna do Percell?

PERCELL: Pulled my accrual out from the Finance Office. Maybe I’ll buy into one of them massage parlors in Chulon .

RUIZ: You own one of them joints? Like a fox watching chickens.

PERCELL: So long Roo. Take care huh?

RUIZ: Be careful Percell.

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