"Previously on Over There." "Kitchen's done." "Negatory on Junior's room." "We're making memories all right." "I think you're just as crazy as you were the day I married you." "Bye, Franck." "Mind your mom, Eddie." "Vanessa," "I don't know if I can explain to you in words what's happening to me." "I don't mean shooting at men and being shot at." "I mean inside." "You risk the life of one of my men again," "I'll shoot you myself." "Hey, Bo!" "What's up?" "You wanna go in with us?" " On what?" " On a beer run." "I'll go with you." "Okay." "Alright." "Why have you come here, infidel?" "Why have you come here to play us with your bombs and your lies?" "I haven't bombed anybody." "I haven't lied to anybody." "Why have you come here to steal our oil?" "I don't steal any goddamn..." "Your masters are liars and thieves and yet you obey them." "Why?" "Because I'm a soldier... dickhead!" "Wake up, infidel." "Shit!" "He's been flying out all night again." "I know, thanks, Reggie." "How are you doing, soldier?" "Yeah, it's a hell of a thing to have happened to you, isn't it?" "It's okay..." "Mohave 1, this is 6." "Bring your vehicle up to me." "Over." " Rodger that." " What's this now?" "I guess we're about to find out." "Roadblock duty." "Taskforce 505 is going to the town of Barat looking for insurgents door to door." "They expect some to run." "If they run this way, stop them." "Stop them how?" "Stop them anyway you can." "Between me and you," "Captain thinks they're looking for one guy in particular but they're not saying." " Who's that?" " They're not saying." "This is the worst road out." "Bridge up ahead was heavily damaged by artillery." "They don't expect us to see any action in this sector." "Most of our manpower has been deployed from farther east into the west." "Good luck." "Stop, stop." "Hey!" "What about a replacement, sir?" "A replacement?" "Yeah, we're short a guy, remember?" "Oh yeah." "You should have somebody out here by nightfall." "We're actually turning around?" "Yeah, 180 degrees, the other direction." "Sir, I'm trying." "Hold on, Mrs B. Watch out!" "What's going on back there?" "It's gotta be 125 goddamn degrees out." "You think that scraggly shit really means halt?" "That's what it looked like in the sergeant's phrase book." "If you got one of the dots wrong, it may say "Suni suck" or something." "As long as it don't mean "ram this", I'm cool." " Bo Ryder?" " Yes, ma'am." "They flew in a visitor for you." "All the way from California." "It's your daddy, he's out in the hall." "What?" "I ain't spoken to my father in 6 years." "Really?" "He left when I was 14." "Said he was going out for cigarettes." "Welcome back, pop." "Why do you think they flew him in then?" "Army." "Well, you want me to bring him in or not?" "Sure." "He's gone." "Is there an NCO club on this base?" "Sure across from the commissary." "Is it open this early?" "For visitors it is." "Well, it's where you'll find him." "I didn't mean "go find him right now", ma'am." "I..." "I just meant that's where you'll find him when you need to." "From what I understand, for what you're saying, soldier, is that you just assume I take my time." "Am I getting that right?" "Did he have a long flight?" "Had to be 15 hours." "Military transport?" "No stewardesses, no little bottles of Jack." "Yeah, he'll need some time to get right." "I'm sorry." "It's not your fault." "It's not yours either, soldier." "You know that, don't you?" "Jesus..." "You memorize me or something, heh?" "You've been eyeballing me all day!" "Didn't volunteer for extra wives ?" "Shit." "Come on, let's hear it, dimwit." "Don't you have something you wanna say about sending us out on that goddamn errand?" "What?" "Don't you maybe wanna apologize?" "Apologize?" "For what?" "Man loses his leg 'cause you wanted to get drunk." "I think that's worth an apology." "You're blaming me?" "No, I'm asking for an apology." "Is that too civilized an idea for a street punk like you?" "You know what?" "I do got something I wanna say to you." "What is that ?" "Take your civilization and shove it up your honky ass." "Okay, white boy?" "I may not be able to help you overcome a lifetime of ignorance but if you put down that sack, I can try to teach you some manners, although I admit it's like teaching a dog to drive." "You're dead." "You're dead." "Hey!" "Put it away or I'll shoot!" "You're siding with the white boy?" "Put it away or I'll blow your head off, goddamn it." "There's a goddamn car coming." "If you two assholes weren't trying to kill each other, you'd know that." "Mind your posts, goddamn it!" "I thought you said "no warning shots"." "Fire!" "Jesus!" "Damn!" "What did they do?" "They kept coming." "They fired on us?" "Smoke, check him out." "Stop!" "Let me see your IDs." "Hey!" "What are you thinking, huh?" "You're smarter than that, man." "You." "What do you want me to do?" "Get the hell out of here!" "Thank you." "Just go." "Go!" "America good." "Get the hell out of here!" "You checked the trunk?" "Yeah, sure." "Bunch of old ladies." "What do we do about them?" "Nothing." "What if they're still alive?" "They're not." "Don't touch it, don't even go near it, you understand?" "I'll call it in in the morning." "What can I do for you, boys?" " Mr. Ryder?" " That's me." "We're here to take you over to visit with your son." "I'm in the middle of a wager here." "I can see that, sir." "Just assume wait 'til I'm done winning if you don't mind." "My orders are to escort you to the base hospital, Sir." "Now." "Why did you come?" "Oh, It's a fine attitude." "Why did you come?" "They offered me a free trip to Germany to see my wounded son, you ask me why I take it?" "I'm asking you why you didn't tell them we don't speak." "We don't speak?" "No, we don't." "I didn't notice." "Bad luck, huh?" "They're gonna muster you out?" "No?" "What do they wanna do?" "I don't know what they wanna do." "I wanna get back to my unit." "What?" "I wanna get back to my unit." "The army know that?" "Set aside what they're gonna think about the idea, why would you wanna do that?" "'Cause I don't wanna let them down." " Who?" " My unit." "My guys." "Look, I'll get me a brace or something to go back." "I don't quit on anybody." "Are you trying to say something about me?" "Pardon?" "Are you trying to say something about me?" "About how I let you down or something; how I quit." "I wasn't talking about you." "I didn't quit, alright?" "You don't know a goddamn thing about why I left." "You were a kid and you're still a kid." "There's talk about starting a co-op pre-school in the base again but... that's the kind of things the wiser around here talk about, but never actually get around to." "I'll be right there." "I can't cope with the timing, you know?" "I mean, I have the time, God knows, but..." "I guess I can't speak for everybody." "Can you hang on a second?" "Hello?" "This is Mrs. Ryder." "Who's this?" "When?" "How badly?" "He was wounded on a Tuesday and you're telling me on a Saturday night, Captain?" "What's up with that?" "I live a goddamn base house and you're telling me I slipped the army's mind?" "We'll take this up again down the road, Captain." "How soon can you get me over there?" "I'm gonna need someone to take care of my son." "Then you will goddamn well get into the childcare business as a gesture to make up for your... your failure to notify me on my husband's injury in a timely fashion." "Unless you wanna hear your name on goddamn 60 Minutes next Sunday night!" "I look forward to hearing from you." "Rowhad 6." "This is Rowhad 1." "Stand by for pause rep." "Over." "Juliette." "Lima. 040878." "Over." "Relieved." "Get some shut-eye." "Watch yourself." "Could be booby-trapped." "Two young guys going fast with no lights in the middle of the night." "No telling what they had in mind." "Called it in already, we'll see what command wants to do." "Any chance they're just civilians trying to get away from the fighting?" "Didn't have their lights on because they didn't wanna attract any hostile action." "When they heard gunfire in the middle of the night on empty stretch of road, they just speed up to try to get away." "Any chance of that?" "Yep." "Oh, man!" "That was intense." "Yeah." "I guess that wasn't so intense for you?" "Yeah, listen, I got a 7 year old coming back from day-care in, like, 5 minutes, okay?" "Literally 5 minutes." "You mean..." "What do you mean?" "You want me out of here?" "Yeah, please." "Vanessa!" "Vaness', come on!" "Get the hell out of here, would you?" "Give a goddamn minute, will you?" "I don't have a minute, okay?" "You had a minute this afternoon at the bar!" "It didn't take a minute this afternoon at the bar!" "Well, hey!" "That is a two-way street, lady." "Get out!" "Mommy?" "Mommy?" "Are you alright?" "Yes, as far as it goes." "Why?" "I drew a picture for Franck today." "Could I send it to him?" "Sure." "Give me." "It's a picture of school." "Not a farm, huh?" "Could I send it?" "Yes, I said yes already, okay?" "I'm gonna do my book report." "Book reports in second grade?" "For Christ's sake!" "I like books." "What did they do?" "Refused to stop." "You checked them out?" "Car might be booby-trapped." "I called this in from EOD, but I guess they got better things to do." "I got your replacement for you." "Thank you, Sir." "PFC Tariq Nassiri reporting for duty, Sergeant." "Say what?" "A goddamn Arab?" "Yo, man!" "Are you Arab?" "I'm an American." "You know what I mean, man." "Where're your people from?" "Detroit." "Where you want me, Sergeant?" "Right about where you're at is fine." " Shit!" " Shut up, Smoke!" "It's your time to get some shut-eye." " This a goddamn..." " Now!" "Tariq, huh?" "You got a nickname?" " No." " How come?" "Nobody have gave me one I guess." "Why not?" "Guy you replace used to ask everybody about their nicknames." "What happened to him?" "ID, lost his leg." "It's too bad." "I was in the truck with him." "Never understood why one guy gets hurt, the other guy doesn't." "If you think about that too much, it can mess your head up." "Yeah." "Why did you sign up, man?" " 9/11." " Me too." "How come you waited?" " School." " Me too." "Any questions you wanna ask me?" "They're leaving those dead guys there for a reason?" "Sergeant thinks car might be booby-trapped." "It's no so dumb." "You think he's right?" "Yep." "How come?" "They're Syrians." "Rich kids." "At least by the standards of this shithole anyways." "See whole Iraq is like Appalachians compared to Damascus." "These kids went to school." "They were looking at a life." "Why come here?" "Jihad, man." "For the war against America." "For some of these kids, it's like the most exciting thing that's ever happened in their world." "Look, it's like being hippy in 1969 and then hearing about Woodstock." "How could you not go, you know?" "Yeah, but you die here." "Yeah, well, they have quite a different idea of what that means than you do." "How you know all this?" "What?" "That they're Syrians?" "Yeah, for starters." "They're wearing white shoes and chinos, man." "One of them a pair of Raybans." "It's not exactly tribal-wear." "So you think the car might be rigged to blow up?" "Look, I don't wanna have to open that trunk." "You think I'm chicken?" "No, the thing about these improvised explosive devices like the one that hit your truck..." "Yeah?" "They're improvised by people that don't really know what they're doing." "I mean half of them old ladies, kids, it just... blows up in their faces all the time or just goes off whenever." "We put a lot of rounds in that car." "Yeah, wouldn't make a difference if it's C4." "I mean you could hit C4 with a hammer and it won't go off." "Or you could use a cell phone from about a mile away and it will." "You wanna tell the Sergeant this?" "Me?" "Yeah..." "No, man." "I'm the new guy, remember?" "So you'd rather run the risk of being blown up than running the risk of being wrong in front of the Sergeant?" "Yeah, that's about the size of it, yeah." "How are you feeling, young man?" "Not too good, Major." "But..." "I'm not a believer." "Cutting right to the chase, huh?" "That's right, Sir." "God looks after the atheists as the believers, you know." "Nobody's looking after me, Sir." "I've been on my own for some time, now." "None of us are on our own, son." "We're all in his hands." "Sir, am I under orders to talk to you?" "No, of course not, son." "Then give me a break, will you?" "Look, I gotta get through the night." "Don't make it any harder, okay?" "It's me, it's Michelle." "I've got something good for you." "But you got to keep it down 'cause Reggie and that cowboy are asleep, okay?" "Okay." "Sweetheart." "Honey." "It's okay." "It's okay, baby." "Can you..." "Sure." "Absolutely." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Do it." "You wanna do the honour, Sergeant?" "Just pull the dinger, will you?" "Alright?" "It's open, I think." "I knew you was wrong, son of..." "Son of a bitch!" "They used a shitload of C4." "I'm telling you, Terry, things are gonna be okay." "It's all gonna be okay." "I'm alive, we have each other." "I wanna get you home, baby." "I'm going back to my unit." "What?" "I can't stand to think of them out there in the shit without me." "Did your father put you up to this?" "What?" "Before he left on his famous "Beers of Germany" tour." " Did you goddamn father..." " Hey!" "Your war is over, sweetheart." "Don't you know that?" "The chances are 1 in 10 they'll even let you stay in the army and do paperwork." "I already checked." "I don't care what the chances are." "You can't go back to combat." " Sure I can." " Not without a leg." "I can." "Sure, I can." "It's never happened." "Well, one marine did it, I heard about it." "You want me to ask around about this?" "I'll ask anybody on this ward or anybody else you say, they're all gonna say the same thing." "I don't care." "As well, stare at you, soldier." "How are you doing, tonight?" "I'm fine." "Glad to hear that, soldier." "You have any problems, you let us know, okay?" "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "Yes, Mrs. Ryder." "I was trying to give you a signal in there." "Really?" "You saw me too, didn't you?" "So what can I do for you?" "I need some advice." "He thinks he's gonna rejoin his unit..." "in combat." "I don't think that's realistic." "Nor do I." "What do I do?" "I've heard this kind of things a thousand times." "A lot of men in your husband situation have expectations that are unrealistic." "At first." "At first?" "In the first few weeks after they're wounded, they don't wanna feel helpless." "They don't wanna believe that their lives are gonna change." "And then what happens?" "And then they accept their new lives circumstances." "He'll come around." "They all do eventually." "Keyword: "eventually"." "As I said, I've seen this a number of times." "Doctor, everything my husband's done, he's done against the odds, from playing ball to being a good father, now he thinks it's his goddamn destiny." "Some men are a little more stubborn than others." "And then there's my husband who makes mules look cooperative." "Damn!" "How come the Sergeant always take the goddamn water, man?" "You're gonna tell him you didn't check the trunk of the second car?" "Bro." "You're lucky I didn't open that goddamn trunk." "We'd all be confettis like them sand niggers." "I ain't saying we ain't lucky." "I'm saying we should tell the Sergeant." "Hell with that shit, man." "What are we out here anyway?" "Did anybody ever say?" "They're going door to door on the town up ahead." "Lieutenant said they might be looking for one guy." "How much traffic has been coming through?" "You've seen it." "Almost none." "How come, you think?" "The bridge's out." "I guess you really wanna get out of town to come this way." "No lights, man." "That's bad." "Dawn of the night." "Still bad." "Maybe their headlights don't work." "Not exactly a Pep Boys around here, you know." "You wanna get the Sergeant?" "In a minute, they all will." "Why you say that?" "It's gonna get loud, brother." "You still got that thing, huh?" "Yeah." "We're not supposed fire one and shot ?" "But I think it's the right thing to do." "What do you think, Tariq?" "Do it." "Son of a bitch." "Angel, you and me, we take it out, the rest of you hold your fire." "Fire!" "It's not a fight, it's a goddamn execution!" "It's assisted suicide." "Be careful there, Dim." "God!" "Oh Jesus!" "What is it?" "There's a little girl in the back." " She's alive!" " No way!" "I'm looking right at her, man." "I'm looking at her eyes." "She's trying to say something." "Shit!" "What do I do?" "Who else is in the car?" "Who else is in the goddamn car?" "!" "A guy." "One guy and an older guy at the wheel." "He looks like he could be a grandfather." "Is he alive too?" "No way, man." "Back of his head is blown up." "Don't touch the car!" ""Don't touch the car" ?" "She's alive!" "I don't give a shit!" "I said don't touch the car, goddamn it!" "Goddamn it, Dim!" "I gave you a goddamn direct order!" "There's another goddamn car coming!" "Isn't this what happened last time?" "Yeah." "Dim, Smoke, cover the car." "The girl is goddamn dead!" "Shut up!" "Cover it anyway from behind these goddamn sandbags!" "Angel, you and me will cover the car from here on the left, understand?" "Check." "Tariq, you talk to the driver, but from this side too." "Understand?" "Rodger that." "Anything looks funny to you..." "anything... you blast away, understand?" "Yes, Sergeant." "What's he saying?" "He's saying that he already lost a son, tonight." "And that if we're gonna kill his wife, he wants us to kill him too." "IDs check out?" "Yeah, as far as I could tell." "Should I let them go?" "What do you think?" "I'am let them go, okay?" "Okay." "He made me check the goddamn trunk!" "What are you doing, Tariq?" "Talk to me!" "Talk to me!" "Tariq, what are you doing, goddamn it?" "What are you doing?" "It's a set-up!" "What?" "There's somebody in the trunk." "It's a set-up!" "Smoke!" "You didn't check the trunk on the other car, did you?" "Tell me the goddamn truth!" " Yes, I did." " He didn't!" "Goddamn it, I knew it!" "I am your prisoner." "You are bound by the Geneva Convention." "Shut the hell off!" "We're bound by the Geneva Convention?" "You sent two Syrians to get killed to see if we'd let the next car through after we shot one up." "Then you sent the little girl to get killed..." "Dim!" "all so you could sneak through the goddamn checkpoint!" "Dim!" "Who the hell do you think you are?" "!" "What are you doing, Dim?" "Come on, Dim!" "Back away, Dim!" " Back off!" " Let me go!" "Angel, Smoke, get this shit out of the car and search him." "He makes any funny moves, shoot him." "He reaches for anything, shoot him." "He says one goddamn word, shoot him." "Then get me my goddamn radio." "Good job, soldier." "Good job, everybody." "They gave up four of their own to protect this asshole." "If he's that important to them, he's that important to us."