"What you consider to be courage..." "Lt. Wolfe... is ignorance." "You fight without cause... and you will die without honor." "Third Battalion, 49th Infantry... when do they start their offensive?" "It is only a matter of time... and pain." "You held up, Lieutenant." "Soulless bastards." "We're gonna get through this one way or another..." "I promise you." "You hear that, Lieutenant?" "Our team!" "I told you we'd make it." "Radio back to base!" "Move it!" "Looks like we got here just in time for the party." " What's your name, soldier?" " Willie Kane." "My lieutenant here is gonna need some help." "It's under control." "Let's get out of here." "You take care of yourself, Lieutenant." "Hey, what are you doing?" " What's going on?" " You're being reassigned." "You're being reassigned." "We have more time." "Still in good form." "You won't need that." "I need to talk to you." "Both of you." "So what are you doing here?" "I have a favor to ask." "This man's name is Willie Kane." "He was my platoon NCO when I served in Vietnam." "In late 1972, my platoon was on routine maneuvers near Chin Duc... when we were ambushed." "All except three of us were massacred on the spot." "We were subject to the hospitality of this man..." "Tran Van Lin." "He's a man who taught me more than a few lessons... in determination and courage." "For fifteen days we were tortured and beaten." "And Willie is the reason I was able to survive." "He didn't have the good sense to let me die and get it over with." "He saved my life." "Over the past 25 years I've kept tabs on Willie." "He held on long enough to get us through our ordeal." "But once he got out, I'm afraid... he unraveled pretty quickly." " Drugs?" " And drinking." "But, given my situation, I've done what I can to help him." "Some money here and there... moved some things around in a favorable position for him." "I've used no Section resources." "What I've done, I've done on my own." "What is it you want from us?" "I'm securing leave for both of you." "I want you to get close to him." "And do what?" "Someone is trying to kill Willie." "I want you to find out who it is... and prevent it from happening." "If you do, I'm offering you 15 days, the same Willie gave me." "Time to be alone together." "No questions asked." "Why?" "Call it payback." "Agreed?" " Two P17s." " Got it." "To think we used to trust our lives to this stuff... and then come back and talk about it." "It's a shame to see them go." "Oh, my." "Six Camway transceivers." "We used to talk to each other with these." "One hundred percent analog." "With microwave scramblers." "Oh, man." "Okay, one case nickel-hydride batteries." "Hey, you still with us?" "What's it like?" "What's what like?" "Having memories." "What do you mean?" "You got memories." "I guess." "I've made up stories." "I've told different things to different people." "None of it's true." "It's always Section." "It's as if I didn't exist or have a life before." "Yeah, well, you know... maybe it's better that way." "Not every memory is something you want to remember." "Come on, let's get back to work." " Yeah." " Batteries, nickel hydride, one case." "Where do you want this?" "I don't know." "How about there?" "Hey, guys." "Where's your dog?" "Dog?" "Well, I was sitting over there and I thought I "heard..."" "Well, I figure, young couple like you, you know, no kids... ought to have a dog." "No." "No dog." "I'm Nikita." " This is Michael." " Willie Kane." "Boy next door." "I wish I could offer you something, but "we're..."" "No, no, no." "Don't let me interrupt you." "You know, "I'm..."" "I had a dog once." "Nice." "Had a tail." "Had a girlfriend once, too." "No tail." "Ask me, dog's a better deal." "Well, you know, if you're... if you're, finished working up a sweat, more where this came from." "Okay." "Hey, Willie!" "Come on out!" "Come on, Willie!" "Come on out!" "We want to talk to you!" "What's going on, guys?" "What's going on?" "What do you want?" "Well, if you want me to help you figure it out, you let me know." "You got something for us, Willie?" "I'm sorry, guys." "I'm all out of Pampers." "You've been shorting us, Willie." "We sent you a message but I guess you didn't have a chance to read it." "Was it illustrated?" " We want the money, Willie!" " Tough on you!" "No, baby, tough on you!" "Well... you must have been one hell of a Boy Scout." "Yeah." "Luigi Manetti, Joey D'Angeles, and the man they work "for..."" "Carlo Bonaventure." "What is it, drugs, money?" "According to Willie, he knows nothing about it." "If it's money, I can take care of it." "Whatever it is, they'll want him to pay for Manetti." "It's the price of doing business." "They'll take the cash." "Find out what it is and fix it." "I'll see that you get the money." " Walter, I gotta know." " What?" "Do I have a twin brother?" "If they find out you accessed those records, "kemosabe..."" "there's gonna be one less good guy for me to talk to around here." "They won't find out." "I back-dated the access." "It'll look like routine." "Yeah, well, just don't go there." "I am there." "Tell me." "All right." "Yes." "Your mother's name was Lisa." "Until Nikita came, she was one of the brightest lights around here." "She was an operative." "Level Two." "What they didn't know was... that she was pregnant when she was recruited." "Your father was dead." "They brought her in." "And she had twins." "What happened to her?" "She was killed during a mission in Sofia." "She was a great lady." "What happened to my brother?" "They let him out." "That's impossible." "No "one..."" "It was an experiment." "Your mother was willing." "I mean, just to see one of her kids get... a shot at a real life." "They wanted to do a psychological experiment." "Compare your brother's life on the outside... with yours on the inside." "You mean, all these years that I've been in here... he's "been..."" "Your brother's been free." "Heroes." "Keepers of the faith." "Defenders of the realm." "That's what they call you when they send you off to die." "The problem is... part they forget to mention... the other side's telling their grunts exactly the same thing." "You know what I mean?" "It's always root, root, root for the home team." "Can't tell the price without a body bag." "You were drafted." "I was a brave young man." "Truth is... most of us were there 'cause we didn't have... the smarts or the dough to stay out." "A bunch of dumb, stupid kids." "And not a clue what we're doing there." "What's even worse was the stupid ones." "The ones who would think they know." "Hey..." "So were you in it?" "No." "It's not so much the dying." "It's not that it's not too much having to watch the mortars hit... and your buddy, the guy you just bummed a smoke from... turns into meat and gravy." "It's not knowing why." "What am I doing here?" "How'd I get here?" "Six months ago... all I'm thinking about is trying to get into Suzie Oliver's pants." "Or that the guy down the block is really such a prick." "Or am I just jealous of him because... you know, he gets to drive the Trans Am and I don't." "And how am I gonna tell my old man..." "I'm never gonna be what he expected me to be." "Hell, what I expected me to be." "Now... here I am, in the jungle?" "All dressed up in my G.I. Joe accessories, ready to die?" "For what?" "Man, I miss my dog." "What?" "What's this?" "What's this for?" "For you to get even." "Get even?" "What?" "Who said I was down?" "The two guys who were here." "You owe them money." "Well, it's not likely they're gonna be back." "Others will." "What "the..."" "Man, that's a lot of money." "I can afford it." "Well, if you can afford it... why don't you buy yourself a better place to live in?" "Why you living here?" "Why don't you buy a nice slinky dress for that girlfriend of yours?" "Why?" "Why me?" "What are you doing this for?" "You're used to no whys." "Well, yeah, I said I went through 'em." "I didn't say I was used to 'em." "Why?" "What for?" "What are you doing this for?" "For defending the realm, then." "Pay them." "Hey, guys." "Okay." "Go." "You brought your tribute?" "He could be paying for the opium." "$800." "It's more than that." "It is only a matter of time." "No!" "Tran Van Lin." "Hey, you guys." "What's shaking, sugar?" "Busy." "Re-running the Angola sim." "Evaluating what went wrong." "So you've been able to fit that in... when you're doing personal work for Operations?" "We have to go." "Now, Michael, you can go, but not until I've said what I've got to say." "All right." "I've put it on the line for you more times than you can count, Michael." "But there's something I want you to do for me now." "I know about Willie Kane." "Operations doesn't know I know, but I do." "Walter, what do you want?" "I want you to let it go." "Make it disappear." "You shake Willie's tree hard enough... and he'll take off like a jackrabbit." "And we'll all be the better for it." "How is that?" "I wouldn't ask if I didn't have a good reason." "Hell... did you ever wonder how I've survived in this place... as long as I have?" "Just do it." "Well, nice to see you kids again." "Remember, stay vertical." "Which way do we play it... his way or Walter's?" "Ours." "I'm sorry, "I..."" "It's just that "I..."" "It's all right." "How do you do it, Michael?" "Do what?" "Keep your feelings sorted out... head straight." "You were married to Elena." "Sometimes our thoughts and our feelings take us where we can no longer go." "Feelings are not captive." "Maybe it'd be better if they were." "I don't know." "You know, a year ago... having time like this "together..."" "Michael, I'm lost." "I don't know what I am anymore." "That is enough!" "You have business here?" "What is your relationship with Willie Kane?" "My relationship." "Would you any more ask me what my relationship is with my dog?" "He pays you, why?" "Because I tell him to." "He's quite clever, really." "He would... deliver my morning paper to me, in his teeth, if I so request." "I asked you a question." "And I gave you my answer." "Oh, no, no, no, no." "You can't bring him in here!" "No!" "I don't want him in here!" "No!" "It's all right." "It's all right, Willie." "No, no, no it isn't!" "You don't understand!" "If anything happens to him, I'm the one that's gonna pay!" "Woof." "He's just a man, Willie." "Who are you people?" "We're here to help you, but you've gotta tell us the truth." "Yes, Willie." "Time to tell the truth." "Tell them." "Tell them how easily a man will surrender his manhood." "How, for a sack of rice... and a promise to live another day... a man would willingly hand over his comrades to the enemy." " The ambush?" " Who the "hell..."" "What do you know about any of this?" "Is that how they knew, Willie?" "Is that how the VC knew the exact time and place... that your platoon would be walking along that road?" " Is that how they knew?" " Were you there?" "No!" "You weren't there." "You have no idea what happened over there." "You have no idea!" "Tell us the truth, Willie." "Willie... you were not tortured?" "No... but content to make it appear as if he had been." "Always so obedient." "Always ready to please your masters." "Tell them." "Tell them how you tried to please us." "I hope this pleases you!" "No!" "You have no idea." "You have no idea what they did to men over there." "You have no idea what they would have done to me." "Yeah." "It was terrible." "They were terrible." " Vicious, vicious people." " Let go." "You know, it's not like they give you a choice, you know?" "You've no choice." "So you were skimming from Bonaventure to pay Lin." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Chicken money." "He threaten to tell the truth on you?" "Yeah." "Like anybody would give a damn at this point, huh?" "Wait across the hall, in our place." "Here, this was yours." "Housekeeping." "So Walter is protecting Operations." "I guess he thinks it's better for a man to have his illusions." "There's still some good left in the world." "Those illusions will die with the truth." "Are you sure it was Bonaventure's people who took him?" "Yes." "Did Willie ever explain why he'd taken the risk?" "Stealing from Bonaventure to pay Lin?" "No." "I know Willie." "He won't go down easily." "I want you to arrange a meeting." "I want to meet with Bonaventure." "You let me know when you have it set up." "Where's Bonaventure?" "He's here." "...the syndicate." "A whole lot of money was made from drugs." "You Paulie?" " Paul." " Balls?" "If not, it ought to be." "'Cause either you're very stupid... or you got a set of big brass shiny ones." "So, Balls... my people tell me you want to say something to me." "What can I do for you?" "First, you can let Willie Kane go." "Second?" "You forget about him." "Once you let him go... as far as you're concerned, he's dead and gone." "Second part's no problem." "I'm not asking, Carlo." "Listen, you pasty-faced son of a bitch." "Nobody comes in here, sits at my table, and tells me what to do!" "Not even the dumbest hole on the planet." "This is my house, and right now you're stinking it up." "You touch me... you fail to do what I've told you to do... your organization will be eliminated... surgically... and systematically." "And once you've had time to read about it... you'll be next." "Never threaten my family." "You have capos in New York..." "Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles." "Failure to comply... will result in their elimination." ""Failure to comply"?" "Up yours!" "Make sure nobody finds this mook." "Your nephew Francis is living in Sicily, avoiding the police?" "When was the last time you spoke with him?" "Nobody!" "Nobody can get to Frankie." "I got 20 guys watching him." "They move him around every other day." "Hell, even I don't know where he is most of the time." "All I got is a cell phone number." "Before you dispose of me..." " maybe you should give him a call." " Why?" "So I can be the second dumbest hole on the planet?" "This guy." "Yeah, yeah it's me." "Put Frankie on the phone." "They popped Frankie four hours ago." "Twenty guys guarding the damn place didn't see a thing." "That was my baby brother's kid." "Who the hell are you?" "You have two hours." "This dump might be your house, Carlo... everything else... everything outside this door... that's mine." "What are you telling me?" "What are you telling me?" "You're telling me Paul's alive?" " Well, you know what I heard..." " What you heard was wrong." "Our team!" "I told you we'd make it." "My lieutenant here is gonna need some help." "You take care of yourself, Lieutenant." "Yeah." "Man, it's good to see you, Willie." "Good to see you." "You know, "you..."" "You're looking awful good for a dead man." "Oh, man, you know, your "friends..."" "You know, they've been telling me... all you've been doing for me, and..." "You did it for me, Willie." "I wish I could've done more." "Well, you know, that's just it." "You know..." "I'm not..." "I'm not really worth it." "You know what I mean? "It's..."" "Times haven't been so good." "Time..." "Times are what they are, you know?" "It's "just..."" "Paul... you got the wrong guy." "I got the guy who saved my life." "Yeah." "No, Paul, look... you got it wrong." "You know... when you and I... were in that camp..." "We heard what happened." "It's no matter." "You did what I asked you to do." "I owe you 15 days." "They're yours." "Something wrong?" "We'd prefer to wait." "If that's what you want." "It would be better to wait." "I told you." "There are some things that you're better off not knowing." "Well, it's too late for that now." "Yeah, but then you wish you never found out, right?" "Your name was on four signature files... before the decision was made, before my brother was released." "Why?" "I made the decision." "I decided who would walk... and who would stay inside." "Based on what?" "On what criteria?" "I didn't see any psych forms, evaluations." "It wasn't necessary." "Then how did you decide?" "Tails." "You lost, "amigo.""