"347)}BLAM." "Fire!" "Fall back." "Fall back." "347)}BLAM. 347)}BLAM." "Fall back." "213)}BLAM." "Fall back." "265)}BLAM." "237)}BLAM." "Now we're gonna have to do it again." "They sound mad." "Hey you." "Yes you." "What's your name?" "Private Pratt Sir." "What outfit you separated from?" "A Company. 4th platoon." "King 6." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "King 6." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "you'd say?" "I had a friend in A Company." "You been with them long?" "Naw." "I've only been with A company a couple of weeks." "I was in the band." "And I asked out." "Ah." "My best friend." "D-Day." "He got it." "Hey." "There's somebody coming." "360)}BLAM." "447)}BLAM." "He's one of ours." "Hey soldier." "Over here." "Hop over." "I can't." "I'm hit." "Alright." "Hang on there." "100)}BLAM." "Let me see that arm." "You from A Company soldier." "No Sir." "C Company." "52)}BLAM." "A Company." "C Company." "The Germans must be busting a big hole this time." "Ah." "A big hole's easy to plug up." "All you need is a few thousand bodies." "Oh." "Very funny." "Alright men." "Listen." "and then pull out." "Battalion has assembly about a mile back." "We'll be picking up a replacement back there." "Name's Lawson." "Remember the name in case he comes looking for us." "Lawson." "We enjoyed your company back there Pratt." "soldier." "Look." "You guys are getting Rob Lawson." "Oh." "Who's that?" "A third of the third army and the fifth army." "all by himself." "He's right." "I've heard of him too." "And we'd better dig in." "What are you guys talking about?" "We're talking about a guy who fights like a whole army." "or you just used you head for a drum." "You guys are getting Rob Lawson." "You'll find out soon enough what I'm talking about." "A man who fights like a whole army." "Billy." "K company." "bud." "Lawson?" "Yeah." "I thought so." "We were in Basic together." "Oh yeah?" "That was a long time ago." "Sorry." "I don't remember." "I don't mind." "I don't mind." "Good luck to 2nd platoon." "Hey." "You Jensen." "No." "Lawson." "K Company." "We're 1st platoon." "Rob Lawson." "Hey Doc." "Did your patient buy his ticket back home yet." "he'll be alright." "Hey." "Here they come." "Looks like graduation day at officer's school." "Ha ha ha." "Our replacement show up yet?" "Not yet." "Brad." "What are you doing here." "Haven't found anybody from A company yet Sir." "you're not gonna find them standing around here." "Get the lead out and go look for them." "See you buddy." "man." "Where you heading Lieut." "Back where we came from." "It figures." "As long as it clears the air corps will cover our advance." "I think it's gonna clear soon." "K Company?" "Yeah." "told me to report to 2nd Platoon." "your squad leader." "and Caje." "How'dy pard." "Hey." "This guy doesn't look any different than the rest of us." "Why should he?" "this guy's supposed to fight like a whole army." "Pratt said Rob Lawson is supposed to fight like a whole army." "You don't know which Lawson this is." "there's nothing in the army manual that says you have to believe a musician." "it's not only Pratt." "The wounded guy said he heard of him too." "(Airplanes rumble overhead)" "Alright Sgt. Saddle up." "Let's move out." "Get your stuff together." "We're moving back." "(A continuous roar of planes)" "Move out in pairs. 30 second intervals." "Caje." "You lead off." "You follow." "On your bellies all the way." "1504." "Move out in one minute." "Right." "What do we need a stream for?" "Maybe the colonel likes to fish." "Checkmate King 2." "This is King 6." "Over." "Hold it." "Maybe the colonel doesn't like to fish." "Checkmate King 2." "Over." "3rd platoon tried to take the farm behind the woods." "They didn't make it." "It's your objective now." "Take it and hold it." "Over." "Are the woods mined?" "Over." "We don't know." "Play it safe." "Over." "Checkmate King 2 out." "Our orders have been changed." "There's a barn behind the woods." "3rd platoon tried to take it." "They struck out." "It's ours now." "The woods may be mined." "Take it easy once you get in there." "zigzag on the way in." "No sense in making a target for a sniper." "Hit the dirt as soon as you get in the woods." "Let's move out." "234)}Bang." "234)}Bang." "Bang." "Bang." "253)}Bang." "Bang." "Bang." "34)}Bang." "34)}Bang.Bang." "Everybody make it?" "Yeah." "Alright." "Get with those mines." "There's some more of 3rd platoon." "Be careful he's not booby trapped." "He's dead." "Let's go." "Lawson!" "Lawson!" "208)}Bang.Bang." "208)}Bang.Bang." "143)}Bang.Bang." "208)}Pow pow pow pow pow." "Cover me." "Lawson just got right up and" "Littlejohn?" "Uh uh." "I take it all back." "Lawson's different." "What was that all about?" "I could see the sun was shining off his rifle." "I couldn't get a clean shot at him." "So I had to run in where I could." "you ran." "You know we were moving slowly because of the possibility of mines." "I forgot about that." "I'm gonna make sure you remember for the rest of the way." "Let's go soldier." "Caje." "What?" "Back with the other men." "Lawson will take your place." "With pleasure." "Lawson." "England." "That's where grandstand plays are allowed." "They got a good position over the whole area." "Looks like more of the 3rd platoon." "Awful quiet out there." "Maybe they`ve gone." "I sure would like to know what kind of weapons they got." "And how many of them." "Maybe if we got a little closer we can see their fire." "Try for those trees." "Cover me." "We didn`t even draw a BB shot." "I don`t like it." "Not a bit." "Neither do I." "Let`s go Saunders." "Cover us." "We have to start circling around." "Kirby!" "Yo." "Go straight ahead." "You come in from the other end." "Caje!" "Yeah!" "Lawson." "Yes." "He's got luck instead of brains." "They got 2 machine guns." "There's one on top." "And one on the bottom." "Littlejohn?" "I guess he wants to win the war all by himself." "Our best chance is to come in from all sides." "Yeah." "Agreed." "Alright." "This is the way we'll do it." "He'll probably go home all stooped over." "Weighed down with metal." "Go home." "How can a guy like this make it home." "Try to keep us honest." "We got to get around to the back." "Keep them windows busy if you can." "I'm gonna try and make it around the side." "Right." "Fire." "Saunders." "They're moving the gun out of the top window." "Is it on your side?" "No." "Kirby." "Cover." "Saunders." "They must have moved the other gun around to the back." "I'm gonna try rushing in from this side." "Not alone." "I'll get around to ya." "Caje!" "Here." "Cover!" "Hold your fire." "There was 3 more of them up there Lieutenant." "Nelson." "Check around outside." "We don't want any surprises." "Kirby." "Cover upstairs." "Lawson." "Come on over here." "King 6." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "King 6." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "but it was deficient." "It's not enough to be a brave man." "This whole squad is filled with brave men." "The whole of France is lined with brave men on both sides." "The only thing we have to count on when we're fighting is each other." "We don't have anything else." "we're in trouble." "Bad trouble." "You listening to me?" "Yeah." "Look Lawson." "I don't know what you have working for you" "Maybe it's something personal but that's your business." "Keeping this squad alive is everyone's business." "The whole squad could have got it because of you." "Our own men could have killed you." "They were covering Caje and Lieutenant when you made a run for it now why did you do it." "Well I saw the machine gun swing way over to the left." "And then I thought I had enough time to get in here before it swung back over to the right." "I thought." "And what about the rest of us." "We have to think as a team." "That's the only way we can fight." "I see you got that machine gun nest." "But that's not the point." "It's how you did it." "Lawson." "You understand." "Yeah." "You just let that sink right into your head." "Sgt.?" "Why?" "I'm tired." "I want to sit down for awhile." "Go on." "Go on." "Sit down." "He had it coming." "I'm not finding fault with you." "You just saved me the trouble." "Lawson's a loner." "He can get us all killed." "Now you know better than to talk like that." "we just got commended for taking this barn." "or the psycho ward." "but he's no psycho." "I'll tell you what he is." "He's a headache." "A real headache." "Amen." "I'm telling you guys we got to do something about this." "What happened today was just a sample." "I've seen these heroes before." "They go out with gin then they get everybody else killed." "Kirby." "Have you got any idea what's gonna happen with us with this guy Lawson fighting the way he does." "Crazy like." "What?" "This squad will get a reputation." "Every tough job in the whole army is gonna be our personal property." "We had a good reputation before Lawson came." "I know that but it's different." "You get a superman in the outfit and everything changes." "How?" "Where did he come from." "Did you ever think about that." "What happened to his old outfit?" "How would I know?" "I know." "They're all dead." "The same thing will happen to us if we don't get rid of him." "yeesh." "You gotta be kidding." "You think so?" "I'm gonna ask the Lieut. to get this guy Lawson out." "How can you request a man out of the outfit just because he fights too good." "I ain't complaining about a guy's fighting." "do you?" "I"m talking about somebody that's nuts." "I got a right to complain about that." "Wait a minute." "Billy." "Maybe he's right." "But I.." "But if he is." "He may be saving our lives." "knock) Lieutenant?" "Kirby." "What's on your mind?" "Sir." "Go on." "been talking." "You got something on your mind." "Spit it out." "Don't beat around the bush." "Yes Sir." "We'd like very much" "Sir." "Go on." "That's all." "Just thought maybe he could be transferred somewhere's else." "Kirby." "A war." "Not a pacifist convention." "Nobody gets kicked out of a squad for killing the enemy best." "Lieut." "I'm ain"t talking about killing the enemy." "I'm talking about that Section 8 where he goes about it." "Now he's gonna get us a reputation." "This conversation is over." "Kirby." "Don't worry." "Lawson will shape up." "I" "I'd be a liar if I told you I could stop worrying about him." "huh." "I told you so." "Never mind what you told me." "We're in trouble." "Real trouble." "I mean it." "What are we gonna do about it?" "Yeah." "We can't go over the Lieut.'s head." "No." "We can't." "Look at him." "watching a cancer that's gonna kill you walking around." "What can we do?" "we can let our friend know what we think about him." "Come on." "Let's go." "Well." "What is it?" "Lawson." "And we don't like it." "you die." "Don't you know that?" "Yeah." "Alright." "Why are you running around like you think you can't get killed." "That's what's bothering you." "Yeah." "That's it exactly." "Why." "You act like that and we're all gonna get killed." "Isn't that a good enough reason?" "I think you can think of a better one." "Look." "Wait a minute Lawson." "We didn't come here to answer your questions." "You're gonna listen to us for a change." "Understand." "Lawson." "Nobody's gonna get killed because of me." "You want to put that in writing." "I hear." "You'll be alright." "Lawson." "Do I have to tell you again." "or do I have to draw a picture for you." "who came to say goodbye to you." "Goodbye?" "Will you stop playing dumb." "Who came to say goodbye?" "Your father and your mother?" "Yeah." "My mother." "My father." "So what?" "What about the rest of you guys." "Same thing? my mother crying." "did she tell you to come back home." "Oh." "She didn't have to tell him that." "She doesn't want him to get killed out there." "They know." "Who knows." "Look." "What are you talking about?" "Mothers." "They know whether or not you'll be coming back home." "Lawson." "Will you stop this." "Now." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "How?" "How do they know?" "They just know." "What?" "Does your mother know if you're coming back." "Sure." "But." "This whole thing is crazy." "Shut up Kirby." "Lawson?" "No." "She told you That?" "Yeah." "And you believed her?" "why would she lie to me?" "My father didn't say goodbye either." "But he couldn't." "He was killed in the first world war." "Look Lawson." "A lot of people's fathers got it in that war." "Yeah." "But this kinda runs in my family." "My grandfather was killed in the Spanish-American war." "And now it's this war so it's my turn." "My mother knows that and I know it." "Lawson." "I don't have a mother." "So where does that leave me." "I don't know?" "brother." "I used to think this is a squad." "It's more like a ward in an asylum." "Maybe your mother didn't want for you to come home." "You leave my mother out of this." "What's she got to do with it?" "The Germans don't want me to get back." "Right." "I figured I might make it though if you don't get me killed." "Don't worry about it." "It'll be alright." "You just don't tell me not to worry." "You guys." "You start talking about home and your mothers." "What's the use." "Sarge." "Is Lawson Section 8 or am I?" "Kirby." "How can you listen to so much without hearing anything." "You buy what he says." "What's so hard to buy?" "He's convinced he's gonna be killed." "His old man got it." "His grandfather got it." "Now he's sure that he's next." "And his mother." "She got hit pretty hard by those 2 other wars." "She sure he's gonna get killed too?" "She told him." "And he bought it?" "he's living on borrowed time." "That's the way he fights." "or tomorrow." "I wouldn't even know him." "then I'm gonna be involved." "We're all involved." "We oughta do something about it." "Like what?" "I already told the Lieut." "He should be kicked out." "Kirby." "Why don't you get some sleep huh." "Cause you're gonna have to dream up something better than that." "Saunders." "Yes Sir." "Come on down here." "Headquarters reports there's a couple of German recon vehicles down the road." "They're about 1500 yards from our position." "They want 'em knocked out." "Now." "Get yourself 3 men." "The rest will stay here with me." "and Littlejohn." "Sure you want Lawson?" "I want him." "Okay." "Good luck." "Kirby." "Littlejohn." "Lawson." "On your feet." "We got a date with a couple of recon vehicles." "No packs." "Just your needs." "Do you see." "It's starting already." "Every rotten job." "This is just the beginning." "Won't be over till we end up like Lawson's old squad." "Well." "Come on." "Let's go." "Superman." "There's a bridge up ahead." "Kirby." "Check it out." "We'll give you cover." "Yeah." "Sure." "but they're not recon vehicles." "They're armed half tracks." "That's just great." "What do we do Sarge." "Can we make it back across the bridge before they spot us?" "We're supposed to knock 'em out." "But Sarge." "Not armored half tracks." "We still have a chance." "They're pretty well separated." "Let the first one get through." "Then we'll hit the second one." "Lawson." "Make it back down the road near the bridge." "we'll hit the second one." "try and pick off the driver." "We'll get to you as soon as we knock our car off." "Alright." "And nothing else Lawson." "Don't try to take it yourself." "Don't fire until you hear our grenades." "is if our timing is right." "Lawson." "Now you remember that." "We need each other." "To keep each other alive." "Move out." "everybody throws." "Let's go." "A dud." "A lousy dud." "Don't move Lawson." "We'll get you out." "We'll draw their fire so he can run off into the woods." "Not enough turn in the gun." "They're not worried about us." "They know we won't throw any grenades as long as Lawson's underneath them." "What do we do." "We can't just leave him pinned down under there." "we better do it fast." "He might get an idea to take that car by himself." "That'd be the end of it." "Lawson." "You don't have to die Lawson." "Nobody has to die." "We'll get you out of this alive." "Just stay still." "The rest is up to you." "I"ll try to work my way up the road." "You could try to get behind it." "If they see me maybe they'll stop worrying and allow me to get close enough to fire through their slits." "When they turn their gun I'm gonna holler for Lawson to make a run for it." "Try to get your grenades in." "You got it?" "okay." "Let's go." "Lawson." "break for the woods." "Now Lawson." "Make a break for it." "Blam." "Hold your fire." "Let's go." "Gonna be a nice day." "Yeah." "It is." "Subs by Jack T Comment:" "Marked=0,0:45:22.90,0:45:25.90,Default,0,0,0,Sub Delay .40 seconds"