"Previously on Over There." "Look on the bright side, you're coming home." "I know I'm glad of it." "I just don't like the wheelchair." "You're making beef ribs?" "For your first night home?" "Damn straight." "Gosh!" "I'm a lucky man." "He's the reason they're after me." "Who's after you?" "Whole goddamn country is after him." "Why don't you guys shut up?" "!" "Nobody's after anybody anymore than anybody else." "It's goddamn war for Christ's sake!" "Hey, Smoke!" "How come you didn't go home visit with your mom?" " Ding Dongs." " Snowballs." " Twinkies." " Raisin scones." " Gentlemen." " Sir." "Didn't mention Ring Dings." "We'll mention Ring Dings right now, Sir." "Good." "Was that Mad Cow?" "Being like a nice guy?" "How can you sleep out here?" "I can't even sleep in the goddamn camp where it's supposed to be safe." "If you think about death, you're thinking about the wrong shit, man." "You should be thinking about living." "No, I know." "I do." "All I ever think about is living through the day." "Enough said !" "It's the guys we're fighting, they're willing to die." "Well, they're stupid." "They may be but they're also willing to die." "Good." "It scares me." "They want to die for what they believe in and we're just trying to live through the day." "How do you win a war like that?" "Ain't nothing to win out here, man." "Not for us monkeys." "They ain't handing no oil leases to no privates." "If you go home in a box with a cheap flag dripped around your ass, then you lose, alright?" "And that's the truth truth." "What about you, Tariq?" "You ever think about death?" "It's hard not to out here." "So what do you think?" "Well..." "I don't know anything about it." "There's nothing I wanna know." "What about you, Angel?" "What do I think about death?" "Yeah." "I know where I'm going when I die so..." "I'm not too concerned." "What?" "You're going to Heaven?" "That's what you mean, ain't it?" "You're going to Heaven and the rest of us ain't, right?" "Like me for instance." "I ain't." "Am I?" "Sound like my mother, man." "Only the chosens go to Heaven, Smoke." "The rest of us go back to Detroit." "Bravo, move!" "Bravo, move!" "Alpha, move!" "Bravo, move!" "Alpha, move!" "Bravo, move!" "Alpha, move!" "He was willing to die." "Yeah, look where it got him." "It got him right where he wanted to go." "You're alright?" "It touched me." "What?" "It touched me, goddamn it!" "This is where we're pulling guard duty?" "Yeah." "It smells like a goddamn barnyard." "Worse like hog farm." "Like a slaughterhouse." "How do you know what a slaughterhouse smells like?" "How do you know what a barnyard smells like?" "There are barns in Long Island." "Stay here." "I'm going to find the CO." "Is this supposed to be a prison?" "Temporarily." "Real one is overcrowded." "Red Cross keeps coming through and demanding they relocate some of these guys." "Why?" "Prison population in Iraq has tripled since we got here." "We bring democracy with us wherever we go." "It's a joke, man." "Ain't no cells." "Ain't no beds." "Where do guards sleep?" "We are the guards, brother." "You're kidding?" "They don't trust these guys to do the job." "Why not?" "There's too many prisoners who get dead when they're on the job." "I don't like being a jailer." "Me neither." "You don't like being in Iraq." "You'd have to be an idiot to like being in Iraq." "I don't like being a jailer for the urban poor." "Seriously." "I feel an affinity for the urban poor." "from the skinheads in London to the bloods in Compton." "Don't you?" "Wait, wait!" "I'll tell you a joke." "Iraqi lady comes out of the dress room in the tailor's, right?" "She goes:" ""You think this bomb makes me look fat?"" "What?" "Look at the beach, Tank!" "Going!" "What do you see?" "I got him!" "I got him!" "That was exciting, huh Tank?" "I'll park the car and bring the stuff." "You find a spot you like, okay?" "Absolutely." "Here we go." "Come on, buddy." "I got it." "I got it." "What's going on?" "Somebody grabbed Mrs B's weapon." "Are you okay, Mrs B?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Get your weapon." "What?" "Get your weapon before somebody else does, okay?" "Tastes like goddamn dishwater." "This some kind of freeze-out, is it?" "You all think you got grab by some kind of maniac, you'd have done better than me, is that it?" "We'll see what happens when you all get knocked out." "You ain't get knocked out." "What do you know about it?" "It was just one limp, that's all." "The hell I did!" "And two prisoners got killed." "The hell with them!" "We're here so prisoners don't get killed." "Well, we're all prisoners too in case you haven't noticed." "And I'm here so this prisoner don't get killed." "Shit!" "Private Mitchell." "Brenda Mitchell." "Goddamn, that was fast!" "Come again!" "Sorry, Sir." "I'm Private Brenda Mitchell, Sir." "You can call me Mrs B." "I'm your new Lieutenant." "You can call me Lieutenant." "Is there somewhere we can talk?" "In private." "You're tired?" "I'm tired." "What's this?" "What?" "We're in a handicapped spot." "We have a sticker." "We'll talk about it in the car." "We'll talk about what in the car?" "In the car!" "Okay?" "Good news is you can go home." "Home?" "To West Virginia." "One savage shoots another and you're sending me home?" "I don't know what you're referring to but I dare say I'll find out." "Bad news is your son's got an illness." "Tommy?" "News came through the battalion yesterday." "Thomas Jefferson Mitchell." "He's autistic." "That makes it a clean sweep, don't it?" "One thing in my life that wasn't worn out, convicted of something or deceased..." "Now it is." "I'm sorry." "The army will fly you home to see him for 5 days." "You want to go?" "Absolutely." "Absolutely, Sir." "Absolutely, Sir." "You could be one of those guy, Smoke." "Can't believe you refuse to see that." "You're crazy." "Guys only here for cursing at the cops, for saying they hate the government." "Shit!" "That would add up to an entertaining evening in Compton." "How do you know why they're here for?" "I was on duty with Tariq." "He heard them telling their stories." "Yeah, well, funny thing about jail stories:" "nobody's guilty." "Yeah, I heard that." "Where?" "Television." "I knew it." "Where else..." "Let me tell you something, man." "True story." "What?" "There are crazy people in penitentiaries no matter where it's at." "See that dude?" "Dig his eyes, man." "He'd just as soon kill me as spit." "Used to visit my pops up at Chino, every stone killer in the joint had them same eyes." "This is from the gentleman in 4D." "He says it's his patriotic duty." "Tell him I ain't that patriotic." "How's Thomas?" "Didn't they tell you?" "Yes, Wilma." "That's why I'm here, remember?" "Oh yes." "You did say." "So how is he?" "Well... not so good, truth to tell." "He starts in banging his head against the wall and" "for the life of me, I can't stop him." "I brought him to the hospital yesterday." "For some more tests." "They wanted to keep him a few days." "For observation." "No pain in that." "The Gods choose this reason" "I let them keep him 'cause I can't have him." "I need some time off." "I'm sorry I said that, Brenda." "I just..." "I get tired is all." "I'm happy to take care of him, you know that." "My Lord!" "A little over 3000." "Where id you get it?" "It's my army pay." "Just not much to spend it on." "Smoke looked around here and only saw the killers." "Why that not surprise me?" "What do you see?" "What do I see?" "Yeah, when you look at these people, what do you see?" "Faith." "Faith?" "You can't beat that." "How do you mean?" "Well, do you know anything about the Civil Rights Movement?" "I've seen Mississippi Burning." "I guess that's not what you're asking." "What the white folks never understood about the black folks who've made up the Civil Rights Movement," "I don't mean the publicity hounds who've told the press they were running, but the regular folks who walked 10 miles a day," "15 miles a day to jobs, cleaning white folks home during the bus boycott in Montgomery," "was that these people prayed together." "That they sang together and prayed together every Saturday night." "That gave them the strength to get through the week." "Even though they didn't seem to be getting anywhere." "They did in the end though." "Well... these people pray together 5 times a day." "Even in here." "Even the killers." "You can't beat that." "Hey!" "Shut up and keep your eyes open you two." "It's only quiet like this before somebody gets his ass blown in half." "Mrs Brenda Mitchell to see prisoner BH89941214?" "I'm gonna have to search you, soldier, same as everybody else." "I know." "Well..." "If I..." "If something happens to me and I don't see you..." "Going somewhere?" "Just back to Iraq." "Shit!" "You'll be home before May." "People die in Iraq in case you haven't heard." "More die in prison every year than in that dumbass war." "How you know that?" "I've got time on my hands, that's how." "Well... anyways." "If anything happens to me, you stay away from Thomas." "You're telling me to stay away from my own son?" "I'm telling you, you violate your court order one time." "One time..." "I'll call your PO and have you back in here so fast you'll wish you never met me." "You're gonna see Wade?" "Why?" "'Cause he's the only friend I got left, that's why." "Hello." "Hello, Yankee nigger." "What did you say to me?" "Yankee nigger!" "Get off of me!" "Get off of me!" "What the hell is this?" "Did you hear the alleged racial slur, private?" "If Smoke says he was threatened then he was threatened." "Private Williams!" "I won't have these idiotic nicknames used in my platoon." "Did you hear the threat?" "Yes, Sir." "Did you even witness this encounter, private?" "Part of it, Sir." "What could you possibly have been doing that you missed the rest?" "I was looking in the other direction, Sir." "At what?" "I don't know, Sir." " You don't know?" " No, Sir." "I don't remember." "Well, what kind of a witness would you say that makes you, private?" "If this were a court of law, what do you think opposing counsel would do to your story?" "When you wish to address me, Sergeant, you will do so in complete sentences, not in animal sounds." "Yes, Sir." "You think it's your job to defend your men..." "Yes, Sir." "when they lie." "No, Sir." "And had private Del Rio lied, I'd have thrown her in the stockade." "If we had one." "And I understand your problem with nicknames, Sir." "What are you trying to say, Sergeant?" "I said what I was trying to say, Sir." "Is there anything else, Sir?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, there is." "You're dismissed." "You'll find that I'm fearless in battle." "But I know what happened to my predecessor, Lieutenant Taylor and I'm damn well not gonna let it happen to me." "He was killed in the line of duty, Sir." "He was killed because of private Williams' vicious incompetence." "That's not precisely true, Sir." "I want him out of my platoon." "You want what, Sir?" "I want private Williams out of my platoon and I'll do anything I can to be rid of him." "If filing this report doesn't do it then I'll file another... and another.... and another...." " Are you a lawyer, Sir?" " Yes, why?" "Can I give you a piece of advice, Sir?" "No." " Sir." " Watch out for this guy." "What's he gonna do?" "He's gonna file a report which means an investigation and a permanent record." " Goddamn..." " Hey!" "Think what you want but watch what you say, understand?" "The guy is dangerous." "The guy is a fruit cup, man." "He's out to get you." "And the way you're going, he will." "Wise up, Smoke." "Where is this private Brenda Mitchell?" "She's on emergency leave now." "She's at the center of an incident that cost the lives of 2 prisoners and suddenly she's on emergency leave?" "Her son is autistic." "She can't do anything more about that there than here, can she?" "She can spend time with him though." "Thank you, Sergeant." "Yes, Ma'am." "I'd think you'd be glad." "Why is that, Sir?" "Because this idiot won't talk to them." "Because your private Williams will get away with this one too." "I'm more concerned that the inspector seemed determined to force us to change the visiting rules, Sir." "They are that." "Well that would be an unfortunate result of all this, wouldn't you say, Sir?" "Allowing visits to all the prisoners even the inmated insurgents, it's... well, dangerous." "Sir." "We'll just have to be doubly vigilant, won't we Sergeant?" "Gate!" "Hold on!" "Sit down." "I've got my uniform on." "Suit yourself." "Jimmy wants you to come and visit." "Seen Jimmy, huh?" "I need the documents, Wade." "I've got everything you asked for." "Driver's license." "Social security." "Hell..." "Even threw in the library card." "You're going somewhere?" "I told you I can sell fake ID in the army for 5 times as much as we used to around here." "Yeah." "Fake ID for 100-pound blond female goes for that much?" "What do you want, Wade?" "What I always wanted but you never gave me." "I'll give you your papers, you'll run off wherever you want." "I won't tell no one either." "And either ways, you got..." "Shut up, Wade!" "You always talked too goddamn much for your own good." "I finally got important enough..." "Goddamn it, Wade!" "I said shut up!" "What's up?" "Nothing, nothing." "She just wants to go home and these guys are acting like cowboys." "Tell them "don't get excited"." "Let's just get her out of here, okay?" "Looks like we got through this shit detail life." "Bye, Mamma." "You're even gone see your boy?" "I'm going right now." "I'm on my way." "You speak English, asshole?" "He wants to go to the bathroom?" "What do you think?" "I shot his pal." "He tries anything with me, he knows what's what." "Shift change at the shit work, gentleman." "Let's go!" "Ang'!" "Hang back a second." "Check out what that dude does when I walk by, alright?" "The gate!" "The gate!" "Get back here now!" "Get that gate!" "Get behind it!" "Smoke, get behind the gate now!" "Shit!" "Alright!" "Alright!" "He got a bomb!" "Get back!" "He got a bomb!" "He got a bomb!" "Does this bomb make me look fat?" "Does this bomb make me look fat?" "Does this bomb make me look fat?" "What did you just tell him?" "Back off or die." "I want them for them!" "I want them for them!" "Give me them for them!" "I want them for them!" "What's he saying?" "He says if they move, he's gonna blow them all to Paradise." "Would he do it?" "Absolutely, he'd be proud to." "I say we pop him, Sergeant." "No, Smoke!" "No!" "Just tell our rocky counterparts to get this guy's wife." "She's trying to get him to agree to let her come in there with him." "Did you tell her she could do that?" "No, Sir." "Then why is she saying that to him?" "Is she not following orders, Sir?" "She's telling him that she loves him and God loves him and that he doesn't have to do this." "He's saying he does have to do it." "He does!" "And his only regret is that he can't take us with him." "Us?" "I guess Smoke and you, Sir." "Me?" "Why me?" "I guess he's right conscious, Sir." "What's he saying now?" "The prayer for the death!" "Go!" "Go!" "Get down!" "Get down!"