"Maurice Williams, private US Army aka Smoke." "I'm hit!" "They call me Smoke because if you mess with me, you get smoked." "I can't see!" "Sergeant!" "Got me a license to kill!" "No!" "I'm a nigger with a trigger!" "It's a hell of a squad to be embedded with." "You're embedded with us?" "Why?" "What did you think I was doing here?" "Making us all look bad." "Disturbing images from Iraq are igniting a furor across the Arab world this morning." "I didn't cap nobody, Sir." "Not that day." "Can you tell me what you think of private Williams and his wild firing style?" "Had you known you were pregnant?" "Yes." "And yet you were still drinking heavily." "How about you just deal with the miscarriage and I will deal with the drinking?" "They're not unrelated." "You got your camera?" "No, I'm strictly here to talk." "Man, they screwed me as much as they screwed you." "They re-cut my footage!" "You quit?" "I did." "Tell Smoke I'll make it up to him." "Thanks for seeing me, Hamzah." "I can't help you." "I know what really happened in that town." "Your soldiers killed a mother and a child." "Someone told that child to run out throw the bottle." "You're insane." "They were sacrificed for the camera." "You talk too much." "I hope we find him." "How do we know where to look at?" "We don't." "I think he's in the village where it all started." "I can't get the brass to listen to me." "If we have to, we'll kick in every door in that town." " Private Williams." " Yes, Sir." "Just come with me." "What's up, man?" "Mother had a stroke." "He gets to go home if he wants to." "Over there, check!" "Clear!" "Clear!" "Clear!" "All clear!" "What's going on?" "What's he saying?" "He says he doesn't know where they're holding the reporter." "That's bullshit!" "He knows something!" "He's proud of it, too!" "He does know something." "Well, get it out of him!" "It's not about Moffet." "Well, what about?" "You." "There's a price on you." "$500 for the black American who killed the woman and child." "Hey!" "That's bullshit, son." "Tell him I said that's bullshit." "He'd kill anyone of us for nothing for the right to enter Heaven, wouldn't he?" "Wouldn't he?" "!" "I knew it." "Bring it on, dickhead." "We'll be waiting for you." "Tell him we're easy to find." "Just follow the signs to Death Street." "The bounty on the head of an unnamed American service man is making headlines around the world." "Ragtag terrorist who thinks he can intimidate the combined armed forces..." "Guy's a member of our squad." "The guy who shot the mother and child." "He's a member of our squad." "Ours?" "You mean your husband's?" "That's funny." "If you want your helmet buffed again, don't give me any shit." "Get away from me." "Get away from me!" "You had your chance, should've kept your mouth shut." "Wow!" "Bartender, drinks on the house!" "Look on the bright side, Bo, you're going home." "I know, I'm glad of it." "I just don't like the wheelchair." "Regulations." "State that I gotta leave the hospital in a wheelchair 'cause of the insurance." "You're telling me the army is worried about insurance?" "Everybody hates the wheelchair." "I don't hate it." "I just don't like it, that's all." "Well, van is not here yet." "You've got time to make a couple of more complaints." "Have I mentioned it pisses me off some guy thinks he can scare Smoke?" "I believe you did." "Hey there, buddy." "You're all set?" "I don't need that soldier." "Hey, buddy." "You want me to move to the back?" "No, thanks." "I'm all right." "Hey, Smoke!" "How come you didn't go home, visit with your mom?" "Instead of staying here looking for the same dude who messed you up?" "Army offers me 5 days off," "I'd visit with Pat Robertson if I had to." "Who's he?" "How come you ain't home, man?" "Stay out of my business, alright?" "He says he hasn't heard a thing about the American reporter being ceased." "He says he likes America and he'd tell us if he knew." "This guy listens to the news." "Ask him if he likes America so much, why is he on a list of suspected insurgent sympathizers?" "Tell him we hear the reporter is in this town, and we damn well think he knows what's going on in this town." "Why is she yelling?" "What's she yelling?" "She says it's not permitted." "What's not permitted?" "Smoke's going through the girl's underwear." "She says it's shame in the family." "What?" "What?" "She says it's shame in the family." "Smoke, do you actually have to touch this stuff?" "Nope." "Everybody calm down!" "Calm down alright?" "Calm down!" "Sit down!" "What?" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Alright?" "Nobody's making any funny moves around my man Smoke." "Not today." "Anybody's here to collect that $500, it's gonna be me." "Oh shit!" "What is it, Smoke?" "What do I do?" "Don't move." "Goddamn, Sergeant!" "Don't move." "You're gonna be okay, okay Smoke?" "I can see the plastic cabs." "I know, don't move, you're gonna be okay." "Don't move." "Is it gonna go off?" "Tell me now or I'm gonna blow your goddamn head off." "Is it gonna go off?" "He says it's fake." "He says it's from his daughter's computer." "Is it gonna go off?" "He says it's builder body." "He's a builder." "I'll stick it up his ass!" "Is it gonna go off?" "He says no!" "Should I believe him?" "I don't know!" "Do you believe him?" "I don't know !" "No, no, no!" "Go!" "Goddamn it!" "Go!" "Move!" "Smoke, move goddamn it!" "Move!" "Go!" "Get battalion on the radio," "I want somebody from Intel and I want somebody from explosive ordinate disposal in here under 5 minutes, understand?" "Check, Sergeant." "And you... you could have got us all killed." "Don't get me wrong I dug it but Jesus Christ!" "Dim, why are you risking your ass for that damn reporter?" "I don't recall him doing you no favours." "He got snatched trying to help you." "Help me?" "He rimmed me." "He's the reason they're after me." "Well..." "He makes a living rimming people." "He quit his job." "How you know that?" "He told me." "Now he might get killed." "Who was after you, Smoke?" "What?" "You said "that's why they're after me."" "Who's after you?" "All goddamn country is after him." "He's the most famous enlisted man in Iraq." "Why don't you guys shut up?" "Nobody is after anybody any more than anybody else." "It's a goddamn war for Christ's sake!" "Goddamn PR bullshit got us buying into this shit." "I'm personally tickled to be on the same fire team with him." "Me too." "Nobody's after him, I said!" "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "More devious bullshit!" "Mrs. Frank Dumphy?" "No..." "That's not why we're here, Ma'am." "They send two uniforms for that." "Then what the hell are you doing here?" "You're trying to scare me to death?" "You have to come with us, Ma'am." "Don't call me Ma'am, soldier." "I am not your mother." "Yes, Ma'am." "Hell with it!" "I'm sorry, Ma'am." "But like I said, you have to come with us." "Why?" "You had an automobile accident, Ma'am." " I know I had an automobile accident." " You fled the scene, Ma'am." "I didn't flee." " Cops called us." " Tell them..." "We found Eddy here, alone." "Eddy..." "He's fine." "Where is he?" "If you come with us, Ma'am, you'll see him, okay?" "Just get in the vehicle, Ma'am, okay?" "Look Tank, that's him!" "Hey, baby!" "Hey!" "I've got something cooking." "Thanks!" "Spitting image, bro'!" "Daddy's home!" "Almost there." "Come on, Tank." "We gotta find daddy's toolkit." "Take apart some access ramps." " Come on, Dim, we're eating here!" " Jesus!" "Come on!" "Farting is such sweet sorrow!" "What's so funny?" "How come I'm the only one who don't get it?" "Failure of American Public Education?" "Go to hell, dimwit!" "Hey!" "That's what you got for being a smart-ass, Dim." "Are you protecting me, Sergeant?" "We all are." "Now shut up!" "When I think about all the Doritos..." "I could have brought with me." "All the fried pork rinds." "All 'em Cheetos." "I hate Cheetos!" "I did too." "I just miss 'em anyways." "I miss Wheat Thins." "I miss cereals." "Fig Newtons." "Chips Ahoy." "Nutter Butters, man." "Pepperidge Farm Milanos." "Yeah." "HoHos." " Ding Dongs!" " Snowballs!" " Twinkies." " Raisin scones." "Peanut MMs." "Gentlemen!" "Sir." "I'm trying to eat lunch in the truck right besides you." "Yes, Sir." "Sorry, Sir." "It's cruel to talk about better food than we've eaten in weeks." "Sir, yes, Sir." "Sorry, Sir." "You didn't mention Ring Dings." "Do they not make Ring Dings anymore?" "An oversight, Sir." "Am I getting that old?" "We'll mention Ring Dings right now, Sir." "Good." "Thank you." "Thank you, Sir." "As you were." "Was that Mad Cow?" "Being like a nice guy?" "Looked like him." "But it could have been some kind of android replacement." "He been touched." "We're surrounded by angels, you know." "All the time." "I think he got ahold of some herb, that's what it is." "Smoking that gooey stuff." "I can't even begin to tell you how unlikely that is, Smoke." "That's the only time I get off friendly and such." "I'm thinking about entering this unit in the whole army stupid competition." "You're kidding, right?" "No." "We've got 3 minutes to get back to kicking in doors." "What happened?" "RPG from the corner." "I whacked a Mujahidin." "Hey!" "Who are you?" "I'm Mike." "I'm the base drug counselor." "They send you out undercover in town or something?" "No, no." "I'm a civilian." "I used to be army though. 12 years." "Now I am a professional drug counselor." "Normally I work over to VA but" "I'm doing the CO here a favor." "What kind of favor?" "Do you care if I tell you a story?" "Suit yourself." "Okay." "I was at the 1st war in Iraq." "Army ranger." "Saw a lot of terrible things." "Did a lot of terrible things." "First three years I was home, I got nine DUIs." "Spent a number of times in the stock aid." "Last time, they gave me a choice." "They said "Mike, you got 7 years"" ""or you can have a dishonorable discharge."" "I took the dishonorable." "After that, I pretty much did every drug I could get my hands on." "My last run was..." "Well, I was just living in a... a trailer about 2 miles from here." "So, my army buddies heard that I was in a bad way so they... they came out to get me." "They had to drag me out of the toilet." "Naked." "Well, I had a shotgun." "And uh... my crack pipe was, after a six day run," "fused to my hand." "Had to cut it off me at the hospital." "I've been sober ever wince." "That was 7 years ago." "You're a crackhead?" "Yes, among other things." "Are you trying to say that I'm a crack head?" "No." "No, no, no." "I'm not trying to say anything about you." "I'm trying to tell you something about me." "Yeah, but are you trying to say that I'm like you?" "Go to hell, crack boy!" "I said go to hell!" "I've been." "Thanks." "Then go back!" "Go back to your toilets and your crack pipe and you leave us regular people alone!" "You know, I wasn't too wild about the whole new going to bed routine." "No?" "No." "I didn't like the way he acted either." "The Tank?" "Yeah." "What about it?" "Well, he screamed at me." "Well, he's 2, darling." "He didn't scream before I went away." "He didn't speak before you went away." "I know, Terry, but he didn't raise his voice neither." "It's your first night home, Bo." "You're sure you wanna let me know what's gone wrong since you left?" "It's developmental anyways." "Say what?" "It's a developmental stage he's going through." "He can't find the words for the things he wants to say yet, but he wants to say them so he gets frustrated." "How do you know about that?" "It's in all the books." "You read books?" "I mean, you know, about raising kids." "Of course, I read books about raising kids." "You read books about being a soldier?" "Yeah." "Well..." "I wanna be outstanding too." "Read a couple recipes in my time too, you know." "Didn't grow up knowing six different ways to make beef ribs." "You're making beef ribs?" "For your first night home?" "Damn straight!" "Gosh..." "I'm a lucky man." "Get over here." "It's all right." "It's all right." "We will give you back your lying reporter when you give us the murderer of the holy mother and her child." "You have 48 hours to make this trade or the infidel dies." "You do anything these morons say, you're moron too." "What's up, man?" "It's time to talk." "Says who?" "Says all of us." "I know what's this about." "I've been expecting it." "But I'll tell you all what..." "I ain't going nowhere." "I didn't kill Mad Cow, goddamn!" "Of course not!" "I know you blame me so don't even say it!" "I don't." "I know you do." "You blame me for Bo getting his ass blowing up too." "You blame me for that woman and her child getting killed when they ran out in a middle of a firefight." "You blame me for my Moms." "She had a stroke 15,000 miles away and it's still my fault." "Look, man, I just..." "I had it." "Just put back off of me, man." "Mind if we say what we came to say?" "Yeah!" "I don't wanna hear no advice !" "You won't." "I swear." "No advice." "Right?" " Right." " Right." "Tariq." "There's been American soldiers specifically targeted in Iraq before." "None of them have ever run." "None of them have ever been reassigned." "None of them have ever been killed." "Out of maybe the half dozen times I've been able to find out about, a different guy than the guy targeted was killed once before." "How you know that?" "Captain Barrel looked into it for me." "Talked to the Captain who used to run the police force in Falujah." "He was targeted too." "I mean..." "It was in the press and everything." "And he never did anything different and he survived." "Now, he's moved on to another job." "But one of his drivers at the time was killed." "And he's sure it was because they were after him." "Says he's been in touch with guy's family and he told them he believed the guy died in his place." "And that he owes the guy his life." "And nobody in the family had a problem with that." "Look, I know you ain't a believer." "And I don't aim to change that." "I'm only saying this:" "if your mother is anything like mine, sounds like she probably is, she don't need you to do nothing." "She don't need you to solve nothing." "she don't need you to make anything alright." "She's already got somebody to rely on." "Now, I've been trying to see what's up with your sister." "I think she's all alone." "You got anybody who could take her in for a while?" "Yeah." "Guy that got me in the army instead of going in jail, he said if anything happened to me, he'd help her." "Alright." "You give me the guy's name," "I'll make sure he steps up to the plate." "Yeah." "Your mother had a massive stroke." "The left side of her body including the left side of her face is paralysed." "Her chances of survival are good, in the range of 90%." "Her chances of a full recovery are lower but that depends in part on how hard she's willing to work." "I understand she was working two jobs before." "Yeah." "That's good." "'Cause working hard in rehab is the key." "How the hell you know that?" "How you know that she..." "Both my mother and my stepfather are doctors." "They made some professional inquiries." "My mother had a stroke 4 years ago." "She never even slowed down." "Is she?" "She still has a bit of a lob sided grin but..." "Take my word for it, she never smiled much anyway." "Good night." "She in pain?" "My mother?" "Mines." "Not physically." "Is she a fighter?" "Yeah." "Sure as shit." "She's gonna have to fight to have her life back the way she wants it." "What I gotta do, man?" "I can't send a couple e-mails getting you through that one." "What I gotta do?" "I gotta go see her?" "Shit, Smoke!" "All I know is... you can't do the things you can't live with having done." "It's the problem we face every goddamn day here." "You'll work it out." "Fire team Death Street up and out now." "Captain Barrel wants to see us on the double." "We know where John Moffet is." "He's being held in the village where all this started which some of us could have guessed days ago." "I admit it, I'm one of them." "But that's in the past and now we're here." "And this is the trickiest kind of extraction we do." "The chances that they'll kill him rather than give him up are as close as a 100% as it gets." "And the chances that they'll rather kill us are even better." "But if we don't get him out, they'll certainly kill him no matter what they say in the press." "If we leave him with them, he's a dead man." "Our only choice is to risk more men trying to get him." "So I thought I would offer you guys the right to be first in." "He filmed you in a firefight in which a woman and child were killed." "That man embarrassed you with it all other the world." "I should think you'd wanna show him what kind of men you really are by saving his bony ass from certain death." "Am I right?" "Yes, Sir." "Yes, Sir." " Yes, Sir." " Yes, Sir." "Smoke..." "I don't think there's a man in this army who'd say you have to risk your life for this reporter." "So if you wanna sit this one out, it's okay with me." "They're going, I'm going with them, Sir." "Good." "I'm gonna have the video e-mail facility open at 0300 hours." "Specifically for you and your people, Sergeant." "It'd be better if we got some sleep but..." "I never could." "Not before battle." "Dismissed." "Honey." "I don't know how to tell you this." "It's the worse thing that I... that has ever happened to me." "I totalled the car." "I was coming back from a family support meeting and somebody cut me off and I ran into a parked car." "I can't believe it." "I haven't had an accident for so long." "I'm fine by the way." "But..." "I lost the baby." "They're ready for transmission, soldier." "5, 4, 3, 2." "Hey Smoke!" "How you doing?" "Hi!" "Hey!" "How y'all doing?" " Good." " Fine." "Hi, Moms!" "How you doing?" "She wanted me to tell you she loves you, Smoke." "She told me." "See." "Bye, Maurice." "Take care of yourself." "We love you." "Be safe, buddy." "See you soon..." "Tariq!" "What's that sound?" "I can't tell." "We gotta go closer." "Does it come from the building around the corner?" "Maybe." "Alright." "Let's go." "They're singing, Sergeant." "I see." "Are you sure?" "Yeah." "They're singing alright." "That's bad, huh?" "They're getting ready to kill, right?" "Yeah." "Follow me." "I wanna go through the door." "I'd like it, Smoke, I swear to God but that's a goddamn bad door to be first through." "That's a good way to get dead." "I wanna go through the door." "Alright, I'll be right on your tail." "Dim!" "Dim!" "Look at me!" "Alright, that's it!" "That's all!" "We didn't have a chance."