"Target acquired." "Roger that." "Target confirmed." "Fire at will." "Corporal." "gentlemen." "Lock your TRS and get this over with." "TRS verifying target." "Just eyeball the fucker and pull the trigger." "Beckett." "We got incoming bogeys." "650 yards." "coming from your Lima." "Attempting to confirm target." "respiration and GSR are maxing out." "What about Beckett?" "steady as a rock." "It's like he's taking a nap." "gentlemen." "Evers." "Master Gunny Take the fucking shot." "Stand down." "gentlemen." "Master Gunny?" "Perfect." "Abso fucking lutely perfect." "Target status.' Target destroyed." "He made that damn shot." "I can't believe it." "He made that goddamn shot!" "Game over." "Your position was about to be compromised." "Captain." "We don't abort unless we stop breathing." "You weren't supposed to make that shot." "No one's supposed to." "I completed my mission." "Back in my days" "Fuck your days!" "That was the luckiest fucking shot in the history of lucky fucking shots!" "Captain." "he'd end up dead." "It's not a video game out there." "It's all about one shot and one kill." "you know that?" "You're a goddamn liability am not going to risk." "are we?" "am I?" "sir." "Master Gunnery Sergeant." "And I don't care about that fucking deal you made with the Corps!" "I'll bury your ass back in the real world." "And that's a promise." "sir." "Who is it?" "It's me." "Open the fucking door." "About fucking time" "You got it?" "Tell me you got it" "Who the hell are you?" "Hey" "He's a big buyer." "Lots of money." "trust me." "You look like a cop to me." "Fuck you." "He's no cop." "He'll fuck me." "You'll fuck me too baby" "How much?" "Twenty." "She said 15." "She's full of shit." "for fuck's sake." "He's got good stuff." "Only the Cobra's" "Shut up!" "How much." "Let's see it." "Just relax!" "Put the gun down!" "They said they'd put me in jail!" "I can't go to jail!" "You fuckin' bitch!" "Just put the gun down!" "He's got cops everywhere!" "I got him." "Get your sniper." "buddy." "Congratulations." "buddy." "Good job." "it's time." "he said he'd be here." "It's okay." "I talked to him yesterday the TV people want a shot of us cutting the cake." "We can't wait any longer." "Okay." "Mom." "This looks more like a campaign photo opportunity than a wedding." "We decided to forgo the speeches today because of an unavoidable absence." "he probably got lost on the way to the bar." "he's right." "No way I could do this without a couple of tall ones." "Sydney." "You knew I'd make it." "Do me the honors?" "Okay." "these kind of affairs scare the hell out of me." "your old man made me promise him something." "were he not able to attend your wedding day I would read this letter to you." "then I didn't make it." ""l'm hoping this part of the letter is being read at your wedding." ""l just wanted to let you know that I love you" ""and that I wish you and your bride nothing but happiness." ""Love her and cherish her always." ""And may you both live as long as you want" ""and never want as long as you live."" "I've been holding onto this for a long time." "Now I think it's yours." "Tom." "Jocelyn and Neil Finnegan." "I see the man Paul never got to be." "I'm sure his father would be very proud of him." "this is a circus." "and won't stop till she gets him there." "He's the son of a war hero" "Harvard School of Government." "Climbing up the political ladder with honest living and hard work." "too." "You're hand's shaking." "When did that start?" "A few months ago. lt's nothing." "might not." "You should stop by the office and let me look at it." "come on." "Okay." "We're Marine Scout Snipers." "sir." "It's a very big mistake." "his conduct record since returning from Europe has been questionable." "Psychs are a bit disturbing." "And he's just old." "He's the same age I am." "We may get one shot and one shot only." "I want Beckett taking it." "You suffered nerve damage when you lost the finger." "The condition has been steadily deteriorating ever since." "The digitorum tendon flexes and extends the finger." "But here on the damaged hand you could have an involuntary reflex at any time." "And it's more likely to occur in a high stress situation." "also looks like the early stages of palsy." "you know." "I know." "I was just hoping to make it to 65." "you should think about getting on with your life." "And do what?" "settle down." "Why didn't you?" "I did." "But I guess the few years I had with Paul were enough." "you never asked me." "remember?" "Syd Don't." "He didn't come back." "A lot of young men didn't come back." "Why don't you get out of that horrible motel and come and stay with me?" "I've been living out of a sea bag all my life." "I've only got a few more weeks of the training sessions then the Corps will just ship me out to some duty station." "Then you should ask me to dinner sometime. I haven't had a date in 30 years." "I'd really appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about this." "Okay." "Thanks." "See you." "Jarheads." "kill him!" "kill him!" "Madness." "let's go!" "Let's get out of here!" "they're getting close!" "Love it!" "Beckett." "Shit!" "Finnegan!" "Lay him down." "Tommy." "You're going to be okay." "Tommy." "Can't see a goddamn thing." "take this." "What is it?" "Good luck." "Took it off a gook a couple of days ago." "NVA motherfuckers!" "Master Guns." "Your door was unlocked." "I would've joined the circus." "you should've been a comedian." "What the hell do you want?" "Master Gunnery Sergeant." "I don't want to see the brass." "Let's get him in the shower." "you could have your pick of a dozen of the Corps' best snipers." "Corporal Evers is particularly good." "I'm not interested in him." "I'm interested in Thomas Beckett." "This is NSA Deputy Director William Avery." "Captain." "We served together." "sir." "Best goddamn sniper I had the privilege of working with." "sir." "What can I do for you?" "I want you on a plane tomorrow." "sir?" "Vietnam." "I want you to take out a target there." "A mountain warlord from Phum Bat." "He and his rogue army anything they can get their hands on." "sir." "Why are we getting involved?" "He's graduated to bigger and better things." "We have intelligence that leads us to believe he's been talking business with the Jamaah Islamiyah." "What kind of business?" "Terrorism." "He's ventured into the big leagues." "there's not very much here." "Do we even know what he looks like?" "would you mind excusing us?" "sir." "Addis." "Finnegan." "Tom." "His body was shipped home." "What was left of the body." "A body." "Tom." "Let me try to explain some of it." "Paul Finnegan was recruited." "Recruited by who?" "The ClA." "His first op was to help the Khmer Rouge run heroin out of the highlands." "His cut financed the covert operations." "our interests changed." "Finnegan was offered a new op but the jungle had changed him." "That patriotic fervor had changed into something else something that makes him dangerous." "and his country." "Tommy." "What the hell's he doing here?" "is there any other way to handle this?" "A deal or an arrangement?" "There's no other way." "We've learned the Ho Chi Minh Police have set up a sting to capture him." "That cannot happen." "you can imagine the problems that we might face." "The explanations." "Not to mention the effect on his family his son." "You're asking me to kill the man who saved my life." "Tom this is not the man that you once knew." "he has become a cold blooded killer." "we bear some responsibility for that and an obligation to rectify the mistake." "you have the option to refuse the mission." "Tom." "By 0800." "I'll understand if you can't do this." "I'll find somebody else." "No." "I'll do it." "Alone." "I want no observer with me." "I don't want anybody else's hand in it." "How can you be so sure he'll do it when the time comes?" "he will get the job done." "It's all he's got left." "or taking someone else's." "First time in Ho Chi Minh?" "it was called Saigon." "Thomas." "Mr. Beckett." "First time in Vietnam?" "No." "you know?" "and thanks but no thanks." "Sure?" "Because Ky Mam can get you anything." "Anything that you want." "Any good massage?" "Happy ending." "sir." "sir." "You must have the wrong room." "I already have my bags." "Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett." "Ho Chi Minh City Police." "Also your operations contact." "Like I give a shit about some badge." "What's the operation code name?" "Cobra." "Come on in." "Interesting choice of shirt." "You look like a Canadian tourist." "You'll find what you need here." "They say you can make million to one shot." "You are the go to guy." "Yes?" "They say a lot of things." "then we have some dinner." "We talk." "I show you the spot." "Be ready 11:30." "Mr. Beckett?" "They told me a little about you." "Two full tours." "You were here for the worst of it." "None of it was good." "You must have been very young." "Okay." "Who else knows I'm here besides you?" "no one." "I'd be a dead man." "then how do we work this?" "How do I find my target?" "I arrested his biggest dealer in Ho Chi Minh City to finger the Cobra for us." "Why do you call him that?" "They treat him like he's a king." "King Cobra." "really." "Some barely in their teens." "believe me." "The dealer told us about a meeting between Cobra and a new client." "We will be there to arrest him." "You take him out before that happens." "Here in Saigon?" "huh?" "At one of the establishments the Cobra owns." "Club Cong." "Check this out." "This is very new. I'm going to make the dealer put it on the Cobra." "It'll send a signal to your TRS computer." "That way it'll be easy to find him in the crowd." "how are your weapons?" "The AW Magnum's just fine." "Where did you get that?" "huh?" "How close do I get to my target?" "inside." "eat up." "I think it's best I show you." "How long have you been a policeman?" "Six years." "When did the NSA recruit you?" "Couple of years ago." "You see how it is?" "No better than before." "Things need to change." "Maybe you guys don't fuck up like last time." "Was your old man in the war?" "Yes." "NVA?" "25th Infantry." "Nobody here knows this." "He die here?" "Went home to his real family somewhere in Ohio." "There." "You see that roof?" "That's Club Cong." "Your target will be there tonight around 10:00." "He usually sits at table on the upper deck." "Will it be crowded?" "It usually is." "What about the street?" "He's got to come and go." "The entrance is on the other side." "There's no sniper angle." "you abandon your weapon here and buy a ticket on Tan Son train." "It'll take you to the airport." "What about the cleanup?" "A new identification has been arranged." "The body will not be claimed." "Police will be satisfied the Cobra is dead and no one will know who he really was." "I will not see you after this." "That's my cell phone number." "Call only if you need something or if something is wrong." "one shot is probably all you get." "One shot is all I need." "Everything is in place." "The op is on Iine." "How's Beckett doing?" "Our contact says he's fine." "No hesitations?" "Doesn't seem so." "Target?" "so good." "it'll be over in less than 10 hours." "From your lips to God's ear." "we're all in deep shit." "It's me." "Thomas?" "Yeah." "It's 4.'00 in the morning." "Is something wrong?" "I." "You sound so distant." "Where are you?" "About 30 years away." "Thomas?" "Syd. I'm sorry for waking you." "Are you okay?" "I'm okay. I just." "I've been thinking about how you and Neil are." "You're the closest thing I've ever had to a family." "And I know sometimes I." "Sometimes I forget how much that's meant to me." "And I just wanted to make sure you knew." "Thomas." "Are you sure you're okay?" "Yeah. I'm okay." "I gotta go." "I'll tell you what." "after I get back." "You promise?" "I promise." "Yeah." "You know I love you." "I Iove you." "too." "I can't go through with this!" "He'll know!" "He knows everything!" "I'll make sure he knows we busted you." "He'll never trust you again." "Nobody is to know about this." "Except you and me." "What the fuck is it?" "Doesn't matter." "Just put this on the Cobra." "This is crazy!" "I'm a dead man if I do this." "You're a dead man if you don't." "Any sign of Tran yet?" "No." "Not yet" "Let me know as soon as you do." "They're here." "Got him." "What the fuck are you looking at?" "Where the hell is he?" "Where the fuck you been?" "He's like a fuckin' turtle" "Fuck you." "You're late." "We were about to leave." "They're inside." "Make your way to the roof." "He's here." "Bring 'em in." "in the booths." "If you don't need me anymore I'm going to split." "you know" "You're asking me to kill the man who saved my Iife." "What the hell's he doing here?" "A lot of young men didn't come back." "What's the matter?" "You don't look so good I'm fine girls" "Goddamn piece of shit." "What's going on?" "Do it." "Shit." "How are we going to make the deal work for both" "What did you do?" "Nothing" "WHAT did YOU DO?" "Nothin'l swear" "Now!" "Forgive me." "Damn." "fucker." "but you might get lucky." "What the hell happened?" "Beckett missed the target." "But he took out our goddamn backup?" "truly fucked." "Where is he now?" "The Vietnamese police have him." "right?" "Our contact is not trained for that." "Then get someone who is." "I should be the one to talk to him!" "Let Khan Choi handle it." "He's a bit more persuasive when it comes to things like this" "Talk to me." "my name is Beckett." "Thomas J. Beckett." "Thomas J. Beckett?" "Soaking up Asian culture." "he was Cambodian national." "Maybe you two got something to do with what happened at Club Cong tonight." "Club Cong?" "I want to speak to the American Consul." "Sure." "You bet." "The National Police have taken over the case." "You should have thought of that when you changed the plan and forgot to tell me about the secondary hit." "I'll see what I can do." "Tommy?" "Finnegan?" "Fucking weird." "they send my old hump buddy Beckett to do the job." "wasn't it?" "What happened?" "You could always make the million to one shot." "or change of heart?" "Fucking Avery lied to you." "That's something the two of us have in common." "Which lie?" "The one about you dealing drugs?" "Or running weapons?" "Or the Jamaah Islamiyah?" "They know about that?" "Finn?" "What other choice does a dead man have?" "I gave my life to serve God and country." "You're a dealer in death." "Whose God and country do you serve?" "The last thing I need is a sermon about death from an assassin." "I did the job they asked and they sold me out." "Then why didn't you come home when it ended?" "This is my home. lt was always my home." "I knew it the second we hit that LZ in Tay Ninh." "Tommy." "I was alive here!" "I was alive!" "Nothing ever made me feel like that back there." "Nothing and no one." "Some people are born for war." "Finn." "This is madness." "What about Syd and Neil?" "your son just got married." "I delivered your note as promised." "They don't exist." "They haven't existed for over 30 years." "It was better that way." "For everyone." "Someone tried to kill me after I took the shot." "You're in it now." "You should have quit when you were ahead." "In what?" "that's what they're afraid of." "You're not the first one to come gunning." "They've been trying for years." "That's why I stay in the ditch." "Sorry you got yourself into this." "you always were an idealist." "That's what they counted on." "Neil's the one I feel sorry for." "He thinks he's the son of a war hero." "I watch this world descend into hell." "I'm just trying to find myself a nice comfortable seat with a good view." "Somebody blew up the police station at Ho Chi Minh." "What?" "and don't you say a word." "Meet me at the People's Unification Building in two hours." "You come alone or I'll tell the Ho Chi Minh Police who you really work for." "I didn't know what they were gonna do." "They never." "I didn't know." "They never told me the hit on you was part of the operation." "I swear." "What happened to Finnegan?" "They don't know yet." "They're still identifying bodies." "I've spent years trying to forget this shit." "You really think it was going to be that easy?" "You're going to get me out of here." "And go where?" "You're gonna get me another rifle and a sidearm." "And go where?" "he's in the ditch." "Senator." "We had some people in Phnom Penh." "They should be in Ho Chi Minh in less than an hour." "The bad news is that our boy's gone AWOL." "AWOL?" "He hasn't checked in." "What about Finnegan and Beckett?" "but neither of them are on the list so far." "I don't fucking believe this." "it's under control." "and he's gotten to our boy." "I know." "real good friends?" "Yeah." "He saved my ass once." "This must be hard then." "He's a bad guy." "I know." "How do you know he's up in Tay Ninh?" "Not in." "Under." "he was a tunnel rat." "and what they did." "they did what they had to do." "Some say they like it." "You're not supposed to like it." "What the fuck do you know about war?" "How can you be sure he's there?" "he slipped." "He mentioned something about "being in the ditch."" "And that's what the rats called the tunnels." "Should we contact someone?" "Someone you can trust?" "I don't trust anybody." "What the hell is that?" "Police or NSA?" "NSA." "They're in pursuit of the signal." "Our boy's headed towards Tay Ninh." "Beckett's with him." "He's going after Finnegan." "What the hell's he doing here?" "Say hello to Stevie York." "We're the 6:00 news." "Some men came through here midday." "They headed into the jungle." "One was white." "He's headed home." "You really expect to go in there by yourself and come out alive?" "No." "You're going with me." "Why would I want to do that?" "You wanted to know why they tried to kill me." "The answer's in there with Finnegan." "there's something he didn't tell me." "The real reason they sent me." "And it was supposed to end with him and me." "Where the hell did you dig this up?" "It's my father's." "It's all he left behind." "I learned to shoot with it. ls it okay?" "if you ask me." "You didn't tell me your old man was a sniper." "You didn't ask." "They're around here somewhere." "It says they're right here!" "Our Cambodian units found the cell phone on the side of the road to Tay Ninh." "They must have figured out it was traceable." "Not they." "Beckett." "What do we do now?" "Tell them to keep looking." "And pray that they find Beckett before he finds Finnegan." "It's getting Hold it down." "We're never going to find this place." "You okay?" "There's more of them." "He's dry." "Get him!" "He's the last one." "He'll probably be heading for the tunnels." "There." "Don't do it." "He's just a kid." "He was going to warn them." "Right. I know." "Finnegan knows we're here already." "It's just a game to him." "We won the first round." "collect $200." "Now it's our chance to spend it." "What?" "It's a game." "like mahjong?" "Stay close to me and do as I say." "How do you know which way to go?" "I don't." "Great." "Why not just yell out and tell them we're here?" "How're we going to see?" "No lights." "Which way?" "What?" "I hear it." "Sounds like music." "Sounds like NWA." "What?" "NWA." "Niggas With Attitude." "Dr. Dre?" "The rappers." "Sounds like Fuck Tha police." "What kind of idiots would write a song like that?" "You ought to try listening to a little Bob Seger." "What?" "Couldn't leave it alone?" "Send some guys to take care of him." "boy policeman." "Fight an' die." "Let him go." "He's not part of this." "He is now." "You brought him along for a reason." "I'm thinking Agency." "And maybe NSA." "Tommy." "We're both killers." "Different kinds." "it's because he needs killing." "I take him out." "Finn." "You got to liking it." "I never did." "Finn?" "How does it all end here?" "It's about Stevie York." "don't you?" "Say hello to Stevie York." "What the hell's he doing here?" "The AP photographer?" "It's about Stevie and me and Avery." "And Gaylor." "some say." "What about Stevie York?" "He filmed it all." "We were higher than kites." "Smoking and hunting for three days without sleep." "There was nine of them." "Six men and three women." "we started getting paranoid." "We'd make York destroy the film." "But as the days passed" "Gaylor and Avery kept getting more and more psycho on me." "the three of us." "And then we killed Stevie and made it look like the NVA did it." "Tommy?" "What's our next move?" "Tell you what." "You could just walk out of here and go home." "Beckett!" "You know I can't let that happen." "You're going to have to kill me." "The only way I see it from here is to kill him." "What's your old saying?" "one kill."" "two kills?" "A million to one." "Isn't that what they used to say?" "Do it." "They're gonna kill me anyway." "Tommy." "Take your best shot." "The digitorum tendon flexes and extends the finger." "Time's running out for one of us." "make your move!" "What's happening here?" "They say you're the Mongoose." "Come again?" "The Mongoose." "It's an old Vietnamese folk tale." "he made him king." "the Cobra became so powerful he thought he was God." "So God created the Mongoose to take his power away." "What do they want?" "Whatever you want." "You have the power now." "You're kidding me." "I told you." "They're just kids." "Kids do anything." "Listen to me." "There's a Colonel McKenna." "Colonel Dan McKenna." "Military Intelligence." "He's stationed at the Pentagon in Washington DC." "I want you to contact him and only him." "Tell him what happened here." "Tell him I'll need a dust off in two days where the Kampong and Mebon rivers meet in Cambodia." "Why not come back with me?" "They'll be looking for me in the Nam." "I think it's safer for me if I DD across the border into Cambodia." "Can you ask them that?" "You trust me to do this?" "and there's not a chopper to evac me out then I'll guess I was wrong about you." "too." "You're one hell of a shot." "Was." "it was learned that Senator John GayIor from Texas has resigned his seat in the Senate." "the Senator said he has decided to end his political aspirations and enter the private sector." "His resignation came as a complete surprise to the White House." "Senator GayIor was thought to be his party's leading candidate for the upcoming presidential race." "The news of the Senator's departure considering it was just two days ago" "william Avery an apparent suicide."