"There is a guy who says the hardest thing about going off to war for him was leaving his beloved dogs behind." "Gotta be an officer." "Group attention !" "At ease." "I need volunteers and you're it." "It smells like goddamn Trenton, New Jersey around here in case you haven't noticed." "I'm building a camp designed to hold 30,000 soldiers and I have 11 slit trench latrines and that's it." "And you know why?" "Why is that, General?" "Because down the road, there's a bridge that my overpaid civilian contractors won't cross." "I've got 80 trucks lined up on the other side of bridge including the ones that have my" "1,200 brand new American standard toilets on them." "And I want my toilets!" "The bridge is taking accurate mortar fire from the village and we can't just level the dump which is what I would have done." "Because the goddamn head of the goddamn city parliament's goddamn mother-in-law lives there." "Give me one of those pills." "Yes, Sir." "Now, I need men willing to go in there and draw fire to see who's doing the spotting for the mortars and stop him." "I understand from Colonel Ryan that your people are capable of handling a delicate situation without making too much noise." "Is that so, General?" "Yes, it is, Sergeant." "And in the future if you don't want the shit missions, don't be so good at doing them." "As you were." "Shit missions are our speciality." "Rowhad 6, this is Rowhad 1." "Radio check." "Over." "Rodger, copy that." "Out." "I've got activity already over here, Sergeant." "What kind of activity?" "A little kid waving." "Yeah, he seems happy to see us." "Yeah." "Did you see his parents yet?" "Not yet." "Take cover!" "Little kid's laughing now." "I gotta go, sweaty." "I've got a flight going back to California and I gotta get back to the tank." "You call him the tank, huh?" "He's big, honey." "He's in the 9.9 percentile." "He's gonna be better than I ever was." "He'll have a better coach than you ever had." "That's for sure." "You mean me?" "I sure do." "I still wanna get back to my unit." "Don't even say that around me anymore." "Understand?" "You're having crazy thoughts." "You keep them to yourself, okay?" "Yeah." "I don't want you mustered out on section E." "No, Ma'am." "I don't mind you getting mustered out." "If you have to, we can deal with that but" "I don't want any hints of any other kinds of problems on your record." "I'm serious." "Understand?" "Yes, Captain." "As you were, soldier." "Mommy?" "I'll say again we'll need transportation when we're done, Lieutenant." "Over." "Negative." "Of course not, Rowhad 6." "We're not done yet." "Out." "The mom snatched him in." "Did you see her?" "Just her arm." "Could have been the dad." "If he wears a red dress around the house." "Some of these fundamentalist wear robes who look like dresses." "Alright, this is the deal." "I want 2 men watching the village at all times." "I wanna know who visits who and what they do when they get there." "I wanna know everything about this dump we can possibly know from right here." "And I want one man watching the road too which means we're gonna be short on shut-eye for a while." "Angel, you and Dim are up first on the village." "Talk about everything, understand?" "Verify what you think you're seeing with the other guy." "I'll take first watch on this side." "Tariq and Smoke, you alternate on the radio." "I couldn't imagine a stupider way to do this." "I could imagine a stupider way, Sergeant." "Dim, the idea that you might have a real gift for strategic thinking scares the shit out of me." "I see one quiet town." "It is today." "You think it's 'cause we're here?" "You think there'd be more activity if we weren't?" "I think that goat would have got fed." "I didn't see that there was a goat." "Been hanging around that backdoor the last 2 hours." "Somebody's been neglecting to feed it." "Someone's afraid to be seen ?" "In that house there, close to the road on the left, with the black and orange barrel on the roof, where the kid lives..." " It's the same height..." " Somebody's moving." "He isn't afraid to be seen." "He is now." "Lights came on." "I ain't blind." "I'm supposed to say it anyway." "Do you do everything you're supposed to do?" "You think it mean anything?" "I think it means two things :" "First, they sell electricity in this hole which has got to be because they're connection to the parliament." "Nobody else around here has power anymore." "So?" "So the insurgents know that too." "That this town is protected." "That's why they're here." "Second, we can see inside the houses when the lights are on." "They know that too." "How you know that?" "You see that house right there where the kid lives?" "Yeah." "There's no lights on but there's people inside." "We've been watching all day and nobody's left." "So there's at least the kid and her mother." "If it is her mother." "Waiting and sitting in the dark." "Like a brother on a Saturday night In Compton." "Sitting in the dark, looking at the window, waiting on guys coming to do you harm." "Must have done that a thousand times." "Yeah..." "Grew up in a gang." "Spent half your life sitting in the dark." "Yeah, I wouldn't know." "Yeah, you're lucky." "At least we know where our spotter's at, don't we?" "We have an idea but... we don't have any proof." "Proof?" "Man, suck my proof!" "It's goddamn war, man!" "I'll tell you everything you need to know about proof in a goddamn war." "You live, that's proof you're right." "You die... that's proof you're wrong." "Incoming!" "Shit!" "Bullshit!" "What?" "There's this woman cooking at the stove now acting like she's been there the whole time." "You think it's bullshit?" "Yeah, she wasn't there 45 seconds ago." "She wasn't, Sergeant." "I think someone left the house, Sergeant." "Using the mortar's fire as cover." "A lot of trouble to go sneak out the house." "Makes you wonder where he went, doesn't it?" "Sure does." "We're not about to get overrun, are we Sergeant?" "What happened to the guys who built this bunker anyway?" "What happened to them?" "Don't think too much Dim, okay?" "Intel says there's no armed insurgents in the village." "Just a spotter." "Nobody's gonna attack us, okay?" "We're gonna attack them, okay ?" "We'll take away their eyes and ears, okay?" "That's our job." "Now get back to your posts." "I wanna know this guy's routine, understand?" "I wanna know what he does and when he does it all the time." "Rowhad 6, what if you send a truck too right now?" "Over." "If they fire and miss by a lot, then it's likely this guy who we think has left his house is the spotter." "Over." "Negative." "It's not definite." "I'm just trying to figure a way to work this out given the constraints of the mission." "Over." "Tell them to drive fast, Sir." "Out." "They're gonna send a vehicle through right now." "Sounds like good duty, huh?" "Can't be helped." "Drive over here, soldier, we'll see if they'll blow you up." "It's a whole new kind of mission." "Search and be destroyed." "Alright, Dim, that's enough." "Is that your suggestion to the driver, Sergeant?" "What?" ""Tell him to drive fast."" "I could have said" ""tell him the army is shitty job in spite of the commercials"" "but I gotta think about the moral of my men." "Right, Dim?" "Yeah." "Right." "Keep your eyes peeled." "Good luck, brother." "Go on, move, gotta go." "That's Mrs. B, ain't it?" "Yeah." "Anything going on over there?" "Nothing, Sergeant." "Less than nothing." "The woman's cooking like she don't hear a damn thing." "Well done, ladies." "She a bitch." "Hence the name." "Say what?" "We call her Mrs. B because she's a bitch." "Random Mrs. Bitch Mitchell, you know?" "How you know that?" "Mechanic told me, Doublewide." "You've been chatting with the girls and I ain't noticed." "You've been dogging these bitches?" "They're not my type, man." "They're not your type?" "No." "They are my type." "They got through." "First round was close but they got progressively further away." "Over." "Yes, I think we've identified the spotter." "Over." "Negative." "We're not sure." "Out." "We're supposed to think of another test that will definitively identify the kid's father as the spotter." "I think we should have Angel put a cap in his ass." "Nigga could shoot." "That's your idea of a test?" "That's my idea of definitive." "Hello, ladies." "Hey." "You're the driver that just ran there, huh?" "That's right." "It's a fine piece of driving I hear." "Thank you." "So they pay you extra for that?" "I'm sorry." "I'm pulling your leg." "No, it's just that" "I know what you're making." "You're making 1,700 Dollars a month, am I right?" "I make 35 grands." "And I wouldn't have done what you just did to save my mamma's life." "You have got a pair on you, sister." "Where are you going?" "My mother says "don't cast your pearls before swine"." "Should I get my pearls from swine?" "35 grands?" "A month?" "You're ahead of schedule, soldier." "You won't be in here for another week." "I'm just trying to get the jump on what's next." "That's fine." "What are you reading?" "It's the story of a guy who lost a leg and went back to combat anyway." "It's called "One Tough Marine"." "I know it... too well." "You wouldn't believe how many copies of that book" "I've seen come through here." "Between you and me," "I hate that book." "Hi, Sergio!" "Hi!" "What are you doing here?" "Just, you know..." "I know what you're doing here, I just..." "I come here all the time, I've never seen you before, that's all." "I took Hector to the paediatrician." "Is everything okay?" "Yeah, just a check-up." "He got a shot so he's just chilling." "We keep bumping into each other." "It's weird." "Yeah." "Do you mind if I join you?" "Huh..." "No, I mean..." "I don't wanna make you uncomfortable, Sergio." "I don't mean anything by it, I just..." "No, no, no." "It's alright." "I mean sit down." "Thanks!" "Miss!" "Dust my broom!" "What does that mean anyway?" "It means he walked right out to the yard to play with his kid." "I can see that." "I mean..." "What does "dust my broom" mean?" "I heard that expression my whole life," "I never had a goddamn idea what it meant." "It means kiss my ass." "I know that." "I mean what do..." "What do the words mean?" "What do the words "kiss my ass" mean?" "Come here you two." "Come here." "See this guy?" "What do you make of this?" "This guy is showing himself to us." "What does he wanna be friends?" "That's funny." "He's better dressed than the kid." "He is showing himself to us for a reason." "Maybe he's suicidal." "Maybe his wife is driving him nuts and he's ready to pack it in." "Maybe he's taunting us." "He wears his traditional robe when he's killing the infidel." "Western clothes when he lets us see him." "He's making it harder for us to kill him." "He's wearing our clothes." "He's playing with his boy." "Later on, he's gonna kiss his wife right there in that window." "He wants us to see we're all the same." "I say he wants us to help him end it all." "He ain't suicidal." "He ain't afraid to die neither." "He's a believer." "How you know what he is?" "'Cause I'm a believer too." "Alright, watch the guy." "I still need something definitive, alright?" "I gotta see him with a radio, a GPS, something." "Okay?" "I've got activity over there, Sergeant." "What do you got, Angel?" "I've got a vehicle approaching, Sergeant." "Looks like..." "Looks like a taxi." "Rowhad 6, is there really a taxi coming my way?" "Over." "And someone authorized it to come through here?" "Over." "Rodger that." "Out." "Some local insisted he had to get through and the General heard about it, said he needed another guinea pig anyway." "What's daddy doing over there?" "Nothing so far." "He can hear the car, can he?" "Yep, he's heard alright." "He's acting like he didn't notice." "He's picking up his kid though." "Taxi's coming over." "It does, man, this guy is doing some driving." "Pedal to the metal." "Just like my uncle back in Detroit." "Missed him by 30 yards." "The guy's going inside." "Is he carrying his kid just like he's getting him out of harm's way?" "He's walking in, he's closing the door." "Was that any closer?" "No." "Close to the last." "Can't see daddy anymore." "He could be doing anything at all in there." "Taxi's gonna make it." "This is better than goddamn last time." "Lord, Lord, Lord!" "We don't go get him, Sergeant?" "He'll be dead by the time we get there." "This is starting to piss me off." "You gotta put a cap in his ass, Angel." "You gotta whack the spotter in there." "You gotta blow his goddamn head off." "Don't be wasting his own, man." "Just at least know that we could do it." "Gotta kill him." "He's right, Angel." "Is he?" "Yeah." "You're sure this is the guy?" "Yeah." "So sure you're ready to kill him?" "Yeah." "Then you kill him." "You're the only one who can..." "I ain't doing it." "Sergeant..." "I'm a soldier." "Not a judge." "He's right, Sergeant." "We can't be sure of anything." "Not from here." "I can." "So can I." "Alright, that's enough." "I'll check with the Lieutenant." "And he'll check with the General." "And they'll tell us what we're gonna do." "Tariq, Dim, get some shut-eye." "Smoke, I'll cover with you as soon as I talked to the Lieutenant." "Screaming has stopped." "Hey, stop!" "He didn't go to school at all?" "Why didn't I hear about this?" "All right, I didn't realize he had been absent that often." "No." "No, no, no." "I'll call them." "I'll call them." "Yes." "I guess it is, yeah." "Well my child is missing so, yes, it's an emergency." "My 7-year-old." "Eddy." "He didn't go to school." "I didn't find out about it until just now." "Yeah." "Yeah, I'll stay right here." "I..." "I..." "I have no one to help me look." "He's in Iraq." "And I'm pregnant and I don't know what to do." "He's in Iraq and I'm..." "I'm pregnant." "I think..." "I think there's something really wrong." "Only one way it's gonna end." "Angel gonna shoot the son of a bitch." "General gonna tell him to." "And he gonna do it." "And we all know it." "Waste of goddamn time." "Is he right, Sergeant?" "About what?" "General gonna order us to assassinate this guy?" "Never heard a General give an order like that." "Good." "Not with the word "assassinate" in it." "Nobody says anything too direct when they're talking about this kind of killing." ""Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"" "Who said that?" "Henry II." "It's a king, huh?" "Who did he want to kill?" "Beckett." "Archbishop of Canterbury." "Somebody killed him?" "Yeah." "He was the right guy?" "Well, yeah." "Good." "It's a good sign." "It's not that simple." "Why not?" "I mean.." "They were dishonored." "Dishonored?" "Yeah." "They lived?" "Yeah." "Enough said." "White people..." "Had you known you were pregnant?" "Yes. 12 weeks." "And yet you were still drinking heavily." "That's contraindicated." "Did no one tell you that?" "Yes, they told me that." "And yet you drank all the same?" "Yes." "If you can't stop drinking we can refer you to the base program." "And how about you just deal with the miscarriage and I will deal with the drinking ?" "Then I don't relate to..." "Shut up, goddamn you!" "Just shut the hell up!" "Hey, Mommy." "Did you get hurt?" "Not at all, sweetheart." "Not at all." "Why are you here?" "Because you scared me, sweetheart." "That's all." "They brought me here because I was so unhappy." "Because my little soldier ran away." "Where were you gonna go, honey?" "Iraq." "I wanted to see Frank." "That's all." "There weren't any flights." "Not for kids anyway." "So... you're gonna have the baby today?" "Not today." "Good." "You got your mind right yet?" "Ready to give up the angel you think you are?" "Be the angel of death instead?" "I bet when you hear whispering in your ear, you hear the Devil speaking." "Don't you?" "Don't you, bro'?" "I ain't your brother." "Well you're a believer like him, but I ain't your brother." "That's right." "What side you're on, man?" "You've got a goat back home too?" "So you're on the side of the goat people?" "I ain't got a goat nor a son nor a wife." "But I know I'm a sinner." "So if you're asking me, if I got more in common with my enemy than I do with you, the answer's yes." "Anything else?" "It fits great." "Thank you." "So Senior Bo is coming home soon, huh?" "I don't know when he's coming home, Viktor." "I don't think the army does yet but.." "I just wanna be ready is all." "I've got an extra piece of carpet here somewhere." "Let me get it for you." "Alright." "I could drive a humvee right now." "Even without the prosthetic." "Sure you could." "They're automatic." "That's right." "I could drive the hell out of one." "Until you had to stop and get out." "Column comes under rocket attack." "Everybody's gotta take cover." "You piling out of the vehicule and fall flat on your face?" "That I'd like to see." "I'm thinking about taking up the guitar myself." "Negative." "I say again:" "we'd rather not kill a man we don't know to be an enemy combatant." "Which mean don't wanna be wrong." "Over." "What if he's just a civilian?" "Over." "No, we don't have any other suspects." "Over." "Is it a discussion, Sir, or has it already been decided?" "Over." "I could hear the General in the background, Sir." "Over." "Is the General ordering me to put a number to it?" "Over." "Then we're 95% certain." "Out." "What did he say?" "He said "you know what to do"." "The hell does that mean?" "It doesn't mean a goddamn thing." "The fact is the General is sending the trucks through anyway." "He expects us to do whatever is necessary to protect them." "I tried." " When?" " When what?" "When is he sending the trucks, Sir?" " Now." " Now?" "Yeah, first vehicle will be here in a few minutes." "Do they know the spotter is still out there?" "They've been told the spotter's been taken care of." "Hell of a risk for a bunch of goddamn toilets." "No shit!" "This isn't right." "Right, wrong... it's too much to think about." "It's all we got." "We ain't got that." "We've got a job to do." "When the big dog comes, you roll over, show your neck, that's all." "You're ready to take him out, Angel?" "He ain't ready to do nothing 'til God tells him." "How about you stay out of it?" "How about you blow me?" "How about I kick your ass again?" "How about I...?" "Shut up!" "Shut up, all of you!" "There's no time for a talk." "What you think you believe in, what you think you live for, it's time to put that shit aside." "It's killing time." "Somebody's gonna die today and that is a fact." "The only question is who?" "So don't think about anything else." "Look at me, soldier." "Angel, look at me." "Either you shoot him or we all do and probably kill the wife and kid too." "Those are our only two choices." "Here they come." "Curtain just moved." "Somebody's at the window." "It's way wide." "Let's do it, Angel." "Let's do it, you and me." "You're sure, Smoke?" "He's standing right there, I can feel him." "Coming up to the hill." "Where was that?" "It was too close, lead truck almost ran off the road." "Goddamn, there's a lot of them!" "Got a beat on?" "Got a beat on window." "Left or right?" "If he's looking down the road, he's on the left side of the window." "First truck's coming over the hill." "You're ready?" "Yeah." "Fire." "It's damn close again." "He's wearing binoculars." "And a radio." "No mortar fire right now." "They're probably trying to reach him on the radio." "That wasn't nearly so close." "Good job, everybody."