"This is the end" "Beautiful friend" "This is the end" "My only friend" "The end" "Ofourelaborate plans" "The end" "Ofeverything thatstands" "The end" "No safety norsurprise" "The end" "I'll never look into youreyes" "Again" "Can you picture" "Whatwill be" "So limitless and free" "Desperately in need" "Ofsome" "Stranger's hand" "In a" "Desperate land" "Lost in a Roman" "Wilderness ofpain" "And all the children" "Are insane" "All the children" "Are insane" "Waiting forthe summer rain" "Yeah" "Saigon." "Shit." "I'm still only in Saigon." "Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle." "When I was home after my first tour, itwas worse." "I'd wake up, and there'd be nothing." "I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce." "When I was here, I wanted to be there." "When I was there, all I could think ofwas getting back into the jungle." "I'm here a week now." "Waiting fora mission... getting softer." "Every minute I stay in this room, I getweaker." "And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger." "Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter." "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck Yeah" "Come on, babe, come on now Livin'life, yeah" "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck Yeah" "Fuck, yeah, come on, baby" "Fuck, baby, fuck, fuck" "Oh, yeah, oh, fuck" "Yeah, do it, yeah, come on" "Yeah, all right" "Yeah" "Yeah, yeah" "Yeah" "Yeah, yeah" "Yeah" "Everyone gets everything he wants." "I wanted a mission... and for my sins, they gave me one." "Brought it up to me like room service." "Captain Willard?" "Are you in there?" "Yeah, I'm comin'." "Itwas a real choice mission." "And when itwas over, I'd neverwant another." " What do you want?" " Are you all right, Captain?" "What does it look like?" " Are you Willard, 505th Battalion?" " Affirmative." " 173rd Airborne?" " Yeah." " Assigned to SOG?" " Hey, buddy, gonna shutthe door?" "We have orders to escortyou to the airfield." " Whatare the charges?" " Sir?" " What'd I do?" " There's no charges, Captain." "You have orders to report to Com-Sec Intelligence at Nha Trang." " I see." " All right?" " Nha Trang, forme?" " That's right." "Come on, Captain." "You still have a few hours to getcleaned up." " I'm notfeeling too good." " Captain?" "Dave, come here and give me a hand." "We gota dead one." "Come on, Captain." "Let's take a shower." " Don't be an ass." " Geta hold of him good." "We're gonna take a shower, Captain." "In we go." "Stand underneath this, Captain." "I was going to the worst place in the world... and I didn't even know ityet." "Weeks away and hundreds ofmiles up a river... thatsnaked through the war like a main circuit cable... plugged straight into Kurtz." "Itwas no accident that I got to be the caretaker... ofColonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory... any more than being back in Saigon was an accident." "There is no way to tell his story without telling my own." "lfhis story is really a confession..." " Captain Willard reporting, sir." " then so is mine." " Captain." "Good." "Come on in." " Thank you, sir." " Stand atease." " General." "You wanta cigarette?" "No, thank you, sir." " Have you ever seen this man before?" " No, sir." " Metthe general ormyself?" " No, sir." "Not personally." " You've worked a loton your own?" " Yes, sir, I have." "Your report specifies intelligence... counterintelligence with Com-Sec, "l" Corps." "I'm not presently disposed to discuss those operations, sir." "Did you notwork for the CIA in "l" Corps?" "No, sir." "Did you notassassinate a governmenttax collector..." "Quang Tri Province, June 18, 1968?" "Captain?" "Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation... norwould I be disposed to discuss such an operation... if it did, in fact, exist, sir." "I thoughtwe'd have a bite of lunch while we talk." "I hope you brought a good appetite, Captain." "I notice thatyou have a bad hand there." "You wounded?" "I had a little fishing accident on Rand R, sir." " Fishing on Rand R?" " Yes, sir." "Butyou're feeling fit?" "You're ready for duty?" "Yes, General." "Very much so, sir." "Well, let's see whatwe have here, roast beef, and usually it's not bad." "Try some, Jerry, and pass itaround." "To save a little time, we might pass both ways." "Captain, I don't know how you feel aboutthis shrimp... but if you'll eat it... you'll never have to prove your courage in any otherway." "I swear, why don't I justtake a piece here?" "Captain, you've heard of ColonelWalter E. Kurtz?" "Yes, sir, I've heard the name." "Oh, Jesus!" "Operations officer, Fifth Special Forces." "Luke, would you play thattape forthe captain, please?" " Yes, sir." "I'm sorry, sir." " Listen to this carefully, Captain." "October 9, 0430 hours, sector Peter, Victor, King." "These were monitored outof Cambodia." "This has been verified as Col. Kurtz's voice." "I watched a snail... crawl along the edge ofa straight razor." "That's my dream." "That's my nightmare." "Crawling, slithering... along the edge... ofa straight razor... and surviving." "Transmission 11, received '68, December 30, 0500 hours." "Sector King, Zulu, King." "Butwe must kill them." "We must incinerate them." "Pig after pig." "Cow aftercow." "Village aftervillage." "Army afterarmy." "And they call me an assassin." "What do you call itwhen the assassins accuse the assassin?" "They lie." "They lie, and we have to be merciful... forthose who lie." "Those nabobs." "I hate them." "I do hate them." "Walt Kurtz was one of the mostoutstanding officers... this country's ever produced." "He was brilliant." "He was outstanding in everyway." "And he was a good man, too, a humanitarian man." "Aman ofwitand humor." "He joined the Special Forces." "And afterthat his... ideas, methods... became... unsound." "Unsound." "Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this..." "Montagnard army of his thatworship... the man like a god... and follow every order, however ridiculous." "Well, I have some other shocking news to tellyou." "Col. Kurtz was about to be arrested formurder." "I don'tfollow, sir." "Murdered who?" "Kurtz had ordered the execution of some Vietnamese intelligence agents... men he believed were double agents." "So he took matters into his own hands." "Well, you see, Willard... in this war, things getconfused outthere." "Power, ideals, the old morality... and practical military necessity." "Butoutthere with these natives... itmust be a temptation to... be God." "Because there's a conflict in every human heart... between the rational and the irrational... between good and evil... and good does not always triumph." "Sometimes... the dark side... overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature." "Every man has got a breaking point." "You and I have them." "Walt Kurtz has reached his." "And very obviously, he has gone insane." "Yes, sir." "Very much so, sir." "Obviously insane." "Yourmission is to proceed up the Nung River in a navy patrol boat... pick up Col. Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba... follow it, learn what you can along the way." "When you find the colonel, infiltrate his team by... whatevermeans available and terminate the colonel's command." "Terminate the colonel?" "He's outthere operating withoutany decent restraint... totally beyond the pale of any acceptable... human conduct... and he is still on the field, commanding troops." "Terminate with extreme prejudice." "You understand, Captain, thatthis mission... does notexist norwill itever exist." "How many people had I already killed?" "There were those six that I knew about forsure... close enough to blow their last breath in my face." "But this time itwas an American... and an officer." "Thatwasn'tsupposed to make any difference to me... but it did." "Shit." "Charging a man with murder in this place... was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500." "I took the mission." "What the hell else was I gonna do?" "But I really didn't know what I'd do when I found him." " Did you check the tank?" " Yeah." "I was being ferried down the coast in a navy PBR... a type ofplastic patrol boat..." "a pretty common sight on the rivers." "They said itwas a good way to pick up information and move... without drawing a lot ofattention, and thatwas okay." "I needed the airand the time." "Only problem was I wouldn't be alone." "Mornin', Captain." "The crewwere mostly just kids... rock and rollers with one foot in their graves." " How old are you?" " Seventeen." "The machinist... the one they called Chef... was from New Orleans." "He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam." "Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans." "Lance, on the forward fifties... was a famous surfer from the beaches south of L.A." "To look at him, you wouldn't believe he'd everfired a weapon in his life." "Clean..." "Mr. Clean... was from some South Bronx shit-hole... and I think the light and the space ofVietnam... really put the zap on his head." "Then there was Phillips, the chief." "It might have been my mission, but itsure as shitwas the chief's boat." "There's abouttwo points where we can draw enough water... to get into the Nung River." "They're both hot." "Belong to Charlie." "Don'tworry about it." "Don'tsmoke." "You know, I've pulled a few special ops in here." "Aboutsix months ago..." "I took a man who was going up pastthe bridge at Do Lung." "He was regular army too." "Heard he shot himself in the head." "At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossier." "I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead." "Third-generation West Point, top ofhis class." "Korea, Airborne, about a thousand decorations." "Et cetera, et cetera." "I'd heard his voice on the tape, and it really put the hook in me... but I couldn't connect up thatvoice with this man." "Like they said, he had an impressive career." "Maybe too impressive." "I mean, perfect." "He was being groomed forone of the top slots in the corporation... general, chiefofstaff, anything." "In 1964, he returned from a tour with Advisory Command in Vietnam... and things started to slip." "His report to theJoint Chiefs ofStaff... and LyndonJohnson was restricted." "Seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them." "During the next few months, he made three requests fortransfer... to Airborne training, Fort Benning, Georgia, and was finally accepted." "Airborne?" "He was 38 years old." "Why the fuck would he do that?" "1966,joins Special Forces... returns to Vietnam." "Hey, what's that?" " Arc light." " What's up?" " B-52 strike." " Yeah?" " What's that?" " Arc light." "I hate that." "Every time I hearthat, something terrible happens." "Charlie don't never see 'em or hear'em, man." "There they are." "Concussion will suck the air outof your damn lungs." "Something terrible is gonna happen." "Smoke!" "Secondary burning." "Hueys overthere." "Lots of Hueys." "Let's have a look, Chief." "Itwas the Air-Cav." "First ofthe Ninth..." "That's them." "ourescorts to the mouth ofthe Nung River." "But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 kilometers ahead." "Well, Air Mobile." "Those boys just couldn'tstay put." "Hey, kid, come on." "Get down." "Come on." "First ofthe Ninth was an old cavalry division... that had cashed in its horses forchoppers... and gone tear-assing around 'Nam looking forthe shit." "They'd given Charlie a few surprises in theirtime here." "What they were mopping up now hadn't even happened yet an hourago." "Just keeping running by." "We're fortelevision." "Don't look atthe camera." "Just keep..." "Go on." "Keep going." "This is fortelevision." "Don't look atthe camera." "Just go by like you're fighting, like you're fighting." "Don't look atthe camera." "It's fortelevision." "Just go through." "Just go by." "Keep on going." "Keep going." "Don't look atthe camera." "Go on." "Keep going." "All right, come on." "Go." "Right here." "Yes." "Over here." "Over here." "Where can I find the CO?" "That's the colonel comin' down!" "The CO's on thatchopper." "Lieutenant, bomb thattree line back about 100 yards!" " Give me some room to breathe!" " Yes, sir!" "Body cards!" " Sir?" " Bring my body cards!" "Yes, sir!" "I'm the Fourth Tank commander." "I gotfive tanks broken down." "We're all rightwith the tanks." "It's all right, Captain." "Captain Willard!" "I carry priority papers from Com-Sec Intelligence, II Corps." "I understand Nha Trang has briefed you... on the requirements of my mission." "Whatmission?" "I haven't heard from Nha Trang." "Sir, your unit is supposed to escort us into the Nung!" " We'll see whatwe can do." " Colonel!" "But juststay outof myway until this is done, Captain." "All right, let's see whatwe have." "Let's see whatwe have." "Atwo of spades, three of spades, four of diamonds... six of clubs, eightof spades." "There isn'tone worth a jack in the whole bunch." "Four of diamonds." " Hey, Captain, what's that?" " Death cards!" " What?" " Death cards!" " Death?" " Lets Charlie knowwho did this." " Cheer up, son." " We will not hurtor harm you." " Fire in the hole!" " Fire in the hole!" "This is an area that is controlled... by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese." "Jim." "We are here to help you." " We extend a welcome hand..." " Come on." " to those who would like to return..." " Everybody in?" "to the arms of the South Vietnamese government." "Get in." "Hurry up." "Move itout." "This is an area that is controlled... by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese." "Hey!" "What's this?" "What is this?" "This man's hurt pretty bad, sir." "Aboutthe only thing that's holding his guts in, sir, is that pot lid." "Yeah?" "What do you have to say?" "This soldier is dirty VC." "He wants water." "He can drink paddywater." "Getoutta here!" "Give me thatcanteen." " He's VC!" " Any man that's brave enough to..." "Getoutta here!" "I'll kick yourfuckin' ass!" "He killed a lotof our people!" "Any man brave enough to fightwith his guts... strapped on him can drink from my canteen." "Hey, Colonel, I think one ofthose sailors is LanceJohnson, the surfer." " Where?" "Here?" "You sure?" " Down there." "Yeah?" "Here." "Repeat." "We have a body count." "We have..." "What's your name, sailor?" " Gunner's Mate Third ClassJohnson." " Gunner's Mate Third Class..." " LanceJohnson, the surfer?" " Yes, sir." "It's an honorto meetyou." "I've admired your nose riding foryears." "I like your cutback too." "I think you have the bestcutback there is." " Thank you, sir." " You can cutoutthe "sir" crap." "I'm Bill Kilgore." "I'm a goofy foot." " This guywith ya?" " Yeah." "I wantyou to meetsome guys." " This is Mike from San Diego." " Far out." " Johnny from Malibu." "Solid surfers." " John, hi." "Far out." "None of us are anywhere nearyour class though." "No way." "We do a lotof surfing around here." "I like to finish operations early." "Fly down to Yung Tau forthe evening glass." "Been riding since you got here?" "No way." "I haven'tsurfed since I been here." "Through Christ, our Lord... from Whom all good things come... through Him in the unity ofthe Holy Spirit." "All glory and honor is Yours, Almighty Father." "Let us bring our iniquities to the Father... in the words our Savior gave us." "Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." "Thy kingdom come." "Thywill be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread... and forgive us ourtrespasses... as we forgive those who trespass against us." "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "Kilgore had had a pretty good day for himself." "They choppered in the T-bones and the beer... and turned the LZ into a beach party." "The more they tried to make it just like home... the more they made everybody miss it." "Make my meat rare..." "rare but notcold." "Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess." "He loved his boys, and you feltsafe with him." "He was one ofthose guys that had thatweird light around him." "You just knew he wasn't gonna getso much as a scratch here." "What happened to yourmission?" "Nha Trang forgetall aboutyou?" "Airborne." "Sir, two places we can get into the river." " Yeah." " Here and here." "It's a prettywide delta, butthese are the only two spots I'm sure of." "Thatvillage you're pointing at is kind of hairy." " What do you mean "hairy," sir?" " It's hairy." "Gotsome pretty heavy ordnance." "I losta few recon ships in there now and again." "What's the name of that goddamn village?" "Vin Drin..." " Dop." " Dop or Lop?" "Damn gook names all sound the same." "Mike, you know anything about this pointat Vin Drin Dop?" "That's a fantastic peak." " Peak?" " Aboutsix foot." "It's an outstanding peak." "It's got both the long rightand leftslide... with a bowl section that's unbelievable." "It's justtube city." "Why didn'tyou tell me that before?" "Agood peak." "There aren'tany good peaks in this whole shitty country." "It's all goddamn beach break." "It's really hairy in there." "That's where we lost McDonald." "They shotthe hell outof us there." "That's Charlie's point." "Sir, we can go in there tomorrow at dawn." "There's always a good offshore breeze in the morning." "We may not be able to getthe boat in." "The draftatthe mouth of that rivermay be too shallow." "We'll pick your boat up and put it down like a babywhere you want it." "This is the Firstofthe Ninth, Air-Cav, son." "Airmobile!" "I can take that point and hold itas long as I like." "You can getanyplace up that river thatsuits you, young Captain." "Hell, a six-foot peak." "Take a gunship back to the division." "Lance, go with Mike and let him pick outa board foryou." "Bring me my Yater Spoon, the eight-six." " I don't know, sir..." " What is it, soldier?" "It's hairy in there." "It's Charlie's point." "Charlie don'tsurf!" "Hey, Jesus, Clean, you ain't gonna believe this." "Look." "Hey, man!" "They're pickin' up the boat!" " How are you feeling, Jimmy?" " Like a mean motherfucker, sir!" "All right, son, let'er rip." "Let's go!" "I never have got used to a light board." "I can't get used to one." " I'm used to a heavy board." " I know, it's a real drag." " You prefer a heavy or light board?" " Heavier." " Really?" " Yeah!" "I thoughtall the young guys like lighter boards." " You can't ride the nose on those." " Big Duke Six." "This is Eagle ThrustSeven." "We've got itspotted." "Duke Six to Eagle Thrust." "Puton heading two-seven-zero." "Assume attack formation." "That's a roger, Big Duke." "We're going in." "Hey, Lance, we'll come in low outofthe rising sun." "Abouta mile out, we'll puton the music." " Music?" " Yeah, I use Wagner." "Scares the hell outofthe slopes." "My boys love it." "Hey, they're gonna play music!" "How come allyou guys siton your helmet?" "So we don't get our balls blown off." "Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust." "Puton psywar op." "Make it loud." "This is a Romeo Fox Trot." "Shall we dance?" "Yes, sir!" " Come on!" " All right." "Fire." "We got a couple..." "at that tree line." "We're taking fire from the holes." "Run, Charlie!" "This should make everything burn." "We got a couple ofpeople ahead here." " What's going down here?" " We got an automatic.!" "Shoot to kill.!" " Shoot to kill in the open.!" " I spotted a large weapon down below." "We're gonna go down and check itout." "All right, this is Fox Trot." "We're pullin'in." "Whata shot." "Outstanding, Red Team." "Outstanding." "Getyou a case of beerforthat." "Six-four-one-zero, we're overthe village right now." "I see a vehicle in the courtyard." "I'm gonna check itout." "Well done, Hawks." "Wantsome twenty-Mike-Mike-Vulcan along those tree lines." "Ripple the shitoutof'em." "Gota vehicle on the bridge, 50 caliber on board." "He's moving across to resupply the weapon." "Big Duke Six, clearthe area." "I'm coming down myself." "Don'tthese people ever give up?" "Nice shot, Bill." " Shit!" " All right, all right!" " It's justa flare!" " It's a flare!" "Gotta getoutta here!" "Un-ass thatshit." "Get itoutta here!" "Get itout." "It's justa flare." "It's all right." " Everybody all right?" "Lance?" " I'm fine!" "Get down!" "I'm not going!" "I'm not going!" "I'm not going." "We just got a secondary down there in the plaza." "Hold on to your position." "Duke Six, we've got wounded down there." " Geta stretcher over here!" " You're all right." " Please, God!" "Help me!" " Give him some morphine." "My God!" "Oh!" " Seven-four-two!" " Where's that duster?" "I wantmywounded outofthere and in the hospital in 15 minutes." "I wantmy men out." "Somebody stay in there tightwith Big Duke." "This is Ten-Ten." "We're gonna be in, throw'em on and get out." "She's gota grenade!" "She's gota grenade!" "The whole thing blew up." " She blewthe shit..." " Fucking savages." " Get a medevac." " Holy Christ, she's a SAP." "I'm gonna get that dink bitch." "Get overthere, Johnny." "Roll that rightskid right up herass." "We gotta getsome air in these trees." "It's goddamn eat-up with enemy down here." "I'm taking fire." "I'm taking hits all over." "Three o'clock!" "I'm drawing heavy fire!" "I'm hit.!" "Mayday.!" "Mayday.!" "I'm goin'in." "My tail rotor's out." "I got control." " What do you think?" " Wow!" "This is really exciting, man." " No!" "No!" "The waves!" "The waves!" " Oh, right." "Look atthat." "Breaks both ways." "Watch." "Watch." "Look.!" "Good six-footswells.!" "Come here, Lance." "Incoming!" "This LZ is still pretty hot, sir." "Maybe you oughtto surf somewhere else." "What do you know aboutsurfing, Major?" "You're from goddamn NewJersey." "Come here!" "Come here!" " Change!" " You mean right now, sir?" "I wanna see how rideable thatstuff is." "Go change." "It's still pretty hairy outthere." " Do you wanna surf, soldier?" " Yes, sir." "That's good, son, 'cause you either surforfight." "Thatclear?" "Get going." "I'll coverfor'em." "And bring a board for Lance." "We can't do shit until the boat gets here." "Lance, I'll betyou can't waitto getoutthere." " What?" " See howthey break both ways?" "One guy can break right, one left, simultaneous." "What do you think?" "We oughtto wait forthe tide to come up." " Come here." "Look." " Incoming!" "The tide doesn'tcome in for six hours!" "You wanna wait here for six hours?" "Yo!" "Chief!" "Chief!" "Okay, fellas, quit hiding." "Come on.!" "Let's go.!" " Dick-heads, take off!" " Goddamn it!" "Don'tyou think it's a little risky for Rand R?" "If I say it's safe to surfthis beach, it's safe to surfthis beach!" "I'm notafraid to surfthis place!" "I'll surfthis fuckin' place." "Give me that R-T, soldier." "Dove Four, this is Big Duke Six." "Goddamn it!" "I want that tree line bombed.!" "Big Duke Six, roger." "Dove One-Three, stand by." "Blowthem into the Stone Age, son.!" " Out!" " No, back, no!" "Letme take care ofthis." "Getthatoutof here!" " I'm sorry." " Come here now." "All right." " No, ma'am." "Sorry!" " Jimmy!" "Hawk One-Two, Dove One-Three." "They need some napalm in the tree line." "Can you put it down there?" "Right, One-Three." "We're fixin' to fuck with 'em." "What's the target?" "We're trying to suppress some mortar fire offthe tree line down there." " Roger." "Here we come." " Good." "Give it all you got." "Bring in all yourships." "Put him in my chopper." "Get him back to the hospital." "No, no, no, you gotto go with him." "Come on!" "Go!" "Go!" "Get itoutta here!" "Tell my guys I wantmy board!" "Big Duke Six, this is Dove One-Three." "The jets are inbound now." "You got about 30 seconds to bomb station." "Getyour people back and heads down." "This is gonna be a big one." "Don'tworry." "We'll have this place cleaned up in a jiffy, son." "Don'tyou worry." "Give me those shorts." "These are from the Air-Cav, a presentfrom me and the boys." "I wantto see you do your stuff in 'em outthere." "You smell that?" " Do you smell that?" " What?" "Napalm, son." "Nothing else in the world smells like that." "Come on." "Move it!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." "You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours." "When itwas all over, I walked up." "We didn'tfind one ofthem, notone stinking dink body." "Butthe smell..." "You know, that gasoline smell." "The whole hill smelled like... victory." "Someday this war's gonna end." " Lance!" "The wind!" " Huh?" " The wind!" " What?" "It's blowin' onshore!" "It's gonna blowthis place out." " It's gonna ruin it!" " Notcool!" "It's gonna blow out!" "It's the goddamn napalm!" "That's what's doin' it!" "I know." "I'm really sorry, Colonel." "I'm afraid that does it." "The kid's gota reputation." "You can'texpect him to surfthose sloppywaves." " I understand." " I'm an artist, Bill." " I couldn'tsurfthatstuff." " I apologize." "It's notmy fault." "The waves are gettin' blown out by the napalm." "Don't getme wrong..." "Itwas the bombs causing a vortex with the wind." "I acceptyour apology." "But if you could hang around 20 minutes..." " Some othertime, Bill." " Just 20 minutes!" " I'm an artist." " Keep walking." "Okay, give it a try, guys." "One goes left and one goes right." "Look, Lance." " You through surfing?" " Yeah!" " Wanna say good-bye to the colonel?" " No." " You sure?" " Yeah!" " Getthe fuck outta here." " It's the napalm." "Justwait 20 minutes.!" "Damn!" "Fuck!" "They've been lookin'forya." " Don't leave withoutme!" " Where the fuck you goin'?" "Here!" "Incoming!" "That's the colonel's surfboard!" "Hey, getthe fuck off me!" "It's mine!" "You fucking Airborne!" " Lance." " Chef, light up, man." "Come on." "Let's get high." " Wanna smoke?" " Let's do it, man." "Light up." "Someday this war's gonna end." "Thatwould be just fine with the boys on the boat." "They weren't looking for anything more than a way home." " Captain?" " Trouble is, I'd been back there... and I knewthat it just didn't exist anymore." "Buddha time." "Here." "All right, that's great, you motherfuckers." "Yeah." "Ifthat's how Kilgore fought the war..." "I began to wonderwhat they really had against Kurtz." "Itwasn't just insanity and murder." "There was enough ofthat to go around foreveryone." "I mean, he never was hurtin'for pussy." "I'm not here." "I'm walking through the jungle gathering mangos." "I meet RaquelWelch." "I make a nice mango cream pudding." "You know, kind of spread itaround on us." "She's into mangos too." "She's like one limb above me." " We're both in the jungle here nude." " Hey, Chief." " Yeah?" " Here comes thatcolonel guy again." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." "I will not hurtor harm you." "I will not hurt or harm you." "Just give me back the board, Lance." "Itwas a good board, and I like it." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." " He's a determined motherfucker!" " I will not hurtor harm you." "I will not hurtor harm you." "Just give me back the board, Lance." "Itwas a good board, and I like it." "You know how hard it is to find a board you like." " I will not hurtor harm you." " Jesus Christ." "That guy's too fuckin' much, man." "Do you think he would have shot us?" "He wouldn't have shot us on the beach... but he would have shot us if he sawme taking his board." "Let's go surfin'now Everybody's learnin'how" "Let's getthis board outof my turret." "Sucker." "How am I going to shoot him the nexttime he comes around?" "Hey, Chef, make some room back there forthe board." "Sock itto me, Lance." "I wonder ifthat's the same chopper." "He's probably gotthem all over the riverwith that recording." "We'll have to hold up here till dark, Chief." "Don'tworry, Lance." "He won'tfollow us too far." "Whatmakes you say that?" "You think that big Cav colonel wants everyone upriver... to knowwe stole his board?" "I didn'tsteal it!" " Captain?" " Hmm?" "Just howfar up this riverwe goin'?" "It's classified, Chief." "I can'ttellya." "We're goin' up pretty far." "Is it gonna be hairy?" "I don't know, kid." "Yeah, probably." "You like it like that, Captain, when it's hot, hairy?" "Fuck." "Maybe you'll get a chance to know... whatthe fuck you are in some factory in Ohio." "Hey, Chief, I'm gonna go getthose mangos now, okay?" " Take somebodywith ya." " Yeah, I'll take..." "I'll go with him." "Chef?" " Yes, sir?" " How come they callyou that?" " Call me what, sir?" " Chef." " Because you like mangos and stuff?" " No, sir, I'm a real chef." " I'm a saucier." " Saucier?" "Yes, sir." "See, I come from New Orleans." "I was raised to be a saucier, a greatsaucier." " What's a saucier?" " You specialize in sauces." "Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere." "Then, I was supposed to go to Paris... study atthe Escoffier school." "Butthen I gotorders formy physical." "Hell, ljoined the navy." "Heard they had betterfood." "Cook school... that did it." " Yeah, how's that?" " You don'twanna hear aboutthat." "They lined us up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib." "All of us, you know, lined up lookin' at it." "Magnificentmeat." "Really!" "Beautifully marbled." "Nextthing, they're throwing the meat into these big cauldrons... all of it... boiling it!" "I looked inside, man." "Itwas turning gray." "I couldn'tfucking believe thatone." "That's when I applied for radioman school, butthen they gave me..." "What is it?" "Charlie?" "It's a tiger!" "Son of a bitch!" "It's a tiger, man!" "It's a tiger!" "Battle stations." "Lance, up front." " Geton your 60!" " Got it." " Holy shit!" "Afuckin'tiger!" " Chef, come on!" " Captain, come on!" " Let's hop in and go!" "Let's go!" "You were right." "Never getoutofthe boat." " Bring that60 forward!" " Why never getoutofthe boat?" "I gotta remember!" "Never getoutofthe boat!" "Never getoutofthe boat!" " Howmany is it?" " Afuckin'tiger!" " What?" " Atiger?" "Yes!" "I've had it!" "I've had the whole goddamn fuckin' shit, man!" "You can kiss my ass on the county square... because I'm fuckin' buggin' out." "I didn'tcome here forthis." "I don'tfuckin' need it!" "I don'twant it." "I didn't getoutthe goddamn eighth grade forthis kind of shit!" "All I wanted to do was fuckin' cook!" "ljustwanted to learn to fuckin' cook, man!" " You're all right." " What happened, bro?" "You're all right." "You're gonna be all right." "All right?" "It's gonna be all right?" "Never getout ofthe fuckin' boat." "Hi, tiger!" "Bye, tiger!" "Good-bye!" "Never get out ofthe boat." "Absolutely, goddamn right... unless you were going all the way." "Kurtz got offthe boat." "He split from the whole fuckin'program." "How did that happen?" "What did he see here that first tour?" "Thirty-eight fucking years old." "Ifyou joined the Green Berets... there was no way you'd ever get above colonel." "Kurtz knewwhat he was giving up." "The more I read and began to understand... the more I admired him." "His family and friends couldn't understand it... and they couldn't talk him out ofit." "He had to apply three times, and he put up with a ton ofshit." "Butwhen he threatened to resign, they gave it to him." "The nextyoungest guy in his class was halfhis age." "They must have thought he was some far-out old man... humping it overthat course." "I did itwhen I was 19." "It damn nearwasted me." "A tough motherfucker." "He finished it." "He could have gone for general... but he went for himselfinstead." "Dear Eva..." "Todaywas really a new one." "Almost goteaten alive by a fuckin'tiger." "Really un-fucking believable, you know?" "We're taking this guy, Captain Willard, up the river... but he hasn'ttold us yet where we're taking him." "Come on, baby" "Thoughtyou might have heard by nowfrom Elwood." "October 1967." "On special assignment..." "Kontoom Province, II Corps." "Kurtz staged Operation Archangel with combined local forces." "Rated a majorsuccess." "He received no official clearance." "He just thought it up and did it." "What balls." "They were gonna nail his ass to the floorboards forthat one." "But afterthe press got ahold ofit... they promoted him to full colonel instead." "Oh, man, the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam." "You needed wings to stay above it." "This sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle ofthis shit." "Expecting us this time?" "Damned if I know." "Hello." "Hello." "Jesus..." "Wow." " It goes back up into the truck." " What?" "We gotta get all thatstuff up." "Hau Phat." "You ever been up here before, Chef?" "I betyou we can score up here." "Check outthe bikes, Lance." "Yamaha, Suzuki." "Yeah!" " That's a good one." " Yeah, Sukiyaki." "Yeah, man." "This is something." " Please!" " This must be the guy." "Rightoverthere." "Sergeant." "Sergeant." "Three drums of diesel fuel, PBRfive..." "Come on, man!" "Move!" "We don't have time." "One hour." "That's all." "What do you want?" " Can I getsome Panama Red?" " Yeah, I'll getyou Panama Red." " Sergeant?" " Destination?" "I don't have no destination." "I can't do a goddamn thing withouta destination." " Sarge?" "Sarge?" " I need a destination!" "I can't do a thing about it with a destination." "These guys are with me." "Destination's classified." "I carry priority papers from Com-Sec Intelligence." "Okay, right, sir." "Hey, listen, it's a real big night." "Eight bucks forthat..." "Hey!" "All right." "Damn." " Just give him some fuel." " You got it." " Dog starts barking." " Hey, listen, Captain." "I'm really sorry abouttonight." "It's really bad around here." "Justtake this overto the man atthe supply desk and you got it." "Would you guys like some seats..." "some press box seats forthe show?" "The show out here." " Bunnies, bunnies." " Playboy bunnies?" "You got it." "You gonna be here?" "Hey, listen, Captain, on the house." "No hard feelings, huh?" "Howya doin'out there?" "I said, howya doin'out there?" "Wanna say hello to you from all ofus up here... to all ofyou out there who work... so goddamn hard in Operation Brute Force.!" "Hello, all you paratroopers out there.!" "And the marines.!" "And the sailors.!" "We wanna letyou know thatwe're proud ofyou.!" "We know howtough and how hard it's been." "To prove itwe're gonna give you entertainmentyou're gonna like." "Miss August, Miss Sandra Beatty." "Miss May, Miss Terri Teray.!" "Yeah.!" "And the playmate ofthe year, Miss Carrie Foster.!" "Yeah.!" "Yo!" "Whoa!" "Oh, Susie-Q" "Oh, Susie-Q" " Oh, Susie-Q baby, I love you" " Hello!" "Susie-Q" "I like the way you walk" "I like the way you talk" "I like the way you walk" "I like the way you talk Susie-Q" "Oh, Susie-Q" "Oh, Susie-Q" "Oh, Susie-Q Baby, I love you" "Susie-Q" "I love you.!" " Come on!" " What's the matter?" "Come on, baby!" "Grease my gun!" "I'm ready to powwow, baby!" "Come on!" "All right!" "You're cute." "I like you." "I'm here, baby!" "I'm here!" "Yeah!" " You fucking bitch!" " Take itoff!" "Take itoff!" "Hey, lover!" "You want us to come over!" " I sure do!" " Sign my centerfold!" "Sign my centerfold!" "Come on, baby!" "Goddamn!" "Start her up." "Hey!" "Getoutof myway!" "Come on!" " Willyou sign these?" " Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Hurry!" "So long!" "Charlie didn't get much USO." "He was dug in too deep or moving too fast." "His idea of great Rand R was cold rice and a little rat meat." "He had only two ways home... death orvictory." "No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass." "The warwas being run by a bunch offour-starclowns... who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away." "Hey, you know, man, thatwas far-fucking-out." "I collected every picture of her since she was Miss December, Chief." "Hey, Clean, look atthat." "She was here, man." "I even wrote to the cunt." "She didn'twrite me back." "You can really get hung up on these broads, man... just like thatcat in the delta." " Yeah, you better believe it." " Whatcat?" "The one thatwent up formurder." "He was an army sergeant." "Remember?" "This cat, man..." "He really dug his Playboy, man." "Dig it." "When the thing arrived, he was there to meet it, man." "Look atthese beautiful fuckin'jugs, man!" "Yeah, so anyway, he was workin'ARVN patrols." "One ofthem cocky gook asshole lieutenants and shit..." "One day the gook took his magazine and wouldn't give it back." "He said, "Give me my magazine back."" "Gook say, "You shut up." "I have you court-martialed."" " Typical fuckin'ARVN." " Yeah!" " Then the gook starts to go too far." " Chef." "Take the wheel." "This dude started to stick pinholes in the lady's tits." "Take the wheel." "He started sticking pinholes and mutilating the centerfold." "The sergeantsaid, "You better not do thatto her." "You leave your shitty little gook hands off ofthat girl." "Don't do her like that."" " Gook say"Fuck you" in Vietnamese." " Damn." "The sergeantcouldn't handle it no more." "He just picked up his iron... flipped itto rock and roll and..." "Boom!" "Gave that little zero a long burst straightthrough the Playboy mag." "It blew his ass clean off ofthe dock." "There wasn't no more lieutenant that day." "Thatwas itfor his ass." " They burn him for it?" " The sergeant?" "Yeah, man." "They stuck his ass in the LBJ." "It's too bad he didn't get no medals or nothin'." "Fuckin'ARVN, man." "They should have killed the fuck." "Should have given the fucker a Silver Star." "Bummerforthe gook though, ain't it?" "Good morning, Vietnam." "I'm Army Specialist ZackJohnson on AMVN." "It's about 82 degrees in downtown Saigon right now, also very humid." "We have an important message forall GI's... who are living offbase from the mayorofSaigon." "He'd like you to hang your laundry up indoors... instead ofon the windowsills." "The mayorwants you to keep Saigon beautiful." "Now here's another blast from the past going out to Big Sam... who's all alone out there with the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry... and dedicated by the fire team to their groovy CO." " The Rolling Stones, "Satisfaction."" " All right!" "Watch out, Clean.!" "Get down, bubba.!" "I can't get no" "Satisfaction" "Hang on, Lance!" "I can't get no" "Satisfaction" "'Cause I try and I try" " Get down, bubba!" " And I try and I try" "I can't get no" "I can't get no" "Yeah!" "When I'm drivin'in my car" " And the man comes on the radio" " Tell 'em you did it, Lance." "He's tellin'me more and more" " I see you is right on target." " About useless information" " Work out!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" " All right!" "Look out, Lance!" "That's what I say" ""Commitment and Counterinsurgency... by Col. Walter E. Kurtz." "As long as ourofficers and troops perform... tours ofduty limited to one year... they will remain dilettantes in warand tourists in Vietnam." "As long as cold beer, hot food, rock and roll... and all the otheramenities remain the expected norm... ourconduct ofthe war will gain only impotence." "We need fewer men, and better." "lfthey were committed, this warcould be won... with a fourth ofour present force."" "Shit." "Chicken time." "You ain'tshittin', bro." "They're motherfucking'." "Who is that?" "Is thatyou, Lazzaro?" "Don'tchicken out." "Lazzaro!" "Come on!" " Fire on the canopy!" " I got it!" "Getoutta there!" "Yeah!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "Lance, get down!" "Putthatfucker out, man!" "Whatthe fuck they think they're doin'?" "Late summer, autumn 1968." "Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming underfrequent ambush." "The camp started falling apart." "November." "Kurtz orders assassination of three Vietnamese men and one woman." "Two ofthe men were colonels in the South Vietnamese army." "Enemy activity in his old sector dropped offto nothing." "Guess he must have hit the right four people." "He joined the Special Forces." "Afterthat his..." "The army tried one last time to bring him back into the fold." " methods..." " lfhe'd pulled over..." " it all would have been forgotten." " unsound." "But he kept going." " Now he's crossed into Cambodia..." " He keptwinning it his way." " with this Montagnard army of his..." " And they called me in." "Man like a god and follow every order, however ridiculous." "They lost him." "He was gone." "Nothing but rumors and random intelligence... mostly from captured VC." "The VC knew his name by now, and they were scared ofhim." "He and his men were playing hit-and-run... all the way into Cambodia." "I knowwhat I'm doin'." "I'm goin'to the White House to have dinner... with the president ofthe United States." "That's where I'm goin'." "Hey, Chef, putthe cover on that." "Clean." "How long has that kid been on this boat?" "Seven months." "He's really specializing in busting my balls." "Very possible, Captain, he thinks the same of you." " Oh, yeah?" "What do you think, Chief?" " I don'tthink." "My orders say I'm notsupposed to knowwhere I'm taking this boat... so I don't!" "Butone look atyou, and I know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is." "We're going upriver about 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge." " That's Cambodia, Captain." " That's classified." "We're notsupposed to be in Cambodia, butthat's where I'm going." "You just getme close to my destination... and I'll cutyou and the crew loose." "All right, Captain." ""DearSon..." "I'm afraid that both you and your motherwill have been worried... at not hearing from me during the pastweeks... but my situation here has become a difficult one." "I have been officially accused ofmurder by the army." "The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents." "We spent months uncovering them and accumulating evidence." "When absolute proofwas completed, we acted... we acted like soldiers." "The charges are unjustified." "They are, in fact, and in the circumstances ofthis conflict... quite completely insane." "In a war, there are many moments forcompassion and tenderaction." "There are many moments for ruthless action... what is often called ruthless... but may in many circumstances be only clarity... seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it..."" " Medevac, come in." " "directly..." " quickly, awake."" " Alpha, Tango, Tango, Echo, Tango, Alpha." " "Looking at it."" " Request dust-off." "Three, maybe four KIA's." "Over." ""I trustyou to tell your mother whatyou choose about this letter." "As forthe charges against me, I am unconcerned."" "Medevac, come in." ""I am beyond theirtimid, lying morality, and so I am beyond caring."" "Medevac, do you read?" "Over." ""You have all my faith." "Your loving father."" "Jesus." "No wonder I couldn't get'em on the radio." "Whata dump." " Hi there!" " Howya doin'?" "Wow." "That's a nice little boatyou gotthere." "Never seen one up here before." "We called in a request for Medevac." "You receive it?" "Medevac?" "No." "We passed a downed Huey with some KIA's." " On yourway here?" " Yeah." " You goin' up this river?" " Way up." " Way upriver?" "Forget it." " Why?" "We wantto send some people downriver." " Justforget it." " Whatthe fuck was that?" " We'll be back in a couple of days." " Yeah, right, you'll be back." " Chief?" " Yeah, Captain?" "Why don'tyou see what you can do with thatengine?" " I'm gonna look around." " All right." "Hey, don't leave withoutme." "Hey, soldier, where's your CO?" "Don'task me, man." "Give my clothes back, you asshole!" "Asshole!" "Hey, guys, where's the CO?" "He stepped on a land mine abouttwo months ago." "He got blown to hell." " Who's in charge here?" " Charge?" "I don't know, man." "I'm justthe nightman." "Just do what I'm told." "Shit." "I'm justa working girl." "Whataboutyou, fella?" "Hey, Lance, man, I'm telling you it's gonna jam." "You mark mywords." " Keep it in thatcondition..." " Getoff my back!" " No, man, I'm telling you..." " Lay off!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Come here!" "Is thatyour boat?" "Come on inside." "What do you want?" "Come on inside." "I wantto talk to you." "Come on!" "Getoutofthe rain." "Getoff me!" "Come on." "Cutthis shit." "Hey, Chef." "Hey, come on." "Hey, howya doin', Captain?" "I wantyou to meetsome people." " I gotyour ass." " Your ass is shit." "Chef, your ass is shit!" "You're a motherfucker, man." "Goddamn, my ear, you motherfucker!" " Get him off me, Chef." " You smart-ass." "Hey, guys." "I gotyou!" "I gotyour ass!" " You ain'tshit, Chef." " Hey, fellas." " You pulled my fuckin'..." " Hey, guys." "ljustmade a deal with the people from Hau Phat." "I negotiated two barrels offuel for a couple of hours with the bunnies." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Captain!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "You shitting' me?" "No, I'm not." "Grab a couple of barrels and get up to that big tent." "Come on!" "Captain." "You're giving away ourfuel for a playmate ofthe month?" "Nope, playmate ofthe year, Chief." "Warm 'em up, baby!" "Warm 'em up!" "Captain, we get in a fire fight and run outoffuel..." "I wantyou to tell me how she was." "I made a deal for all of us, Chief." "How aboutyou?" " You gotsome mamas in there?" " Some what?" "Forget it, Captain." "I'll staywith the boat." "Hey, Captain!" "Give me a hand." "You know, I gota..." "I gotevery one of your pictures." "I gotthe centerfold, the playmate's review... the playmate ofthe year runoff." "I even gotthe calendar." "Hey, oiseau." "How come you gota bird?" "I used to be the bird girl at Busch Gardens." " Busch Gardens?" " I used to train birds there." "You are..." " You are Miss December, aren'tyou?" " Miss May." "Is itcoming?" " Miss December has black hair." " It's overthere." "He's notone of my regular birds." "Come on." "Come on, baby." "Snack?" "Snatch a crack." "Come here." "Being playmate ofthe year... is the loneliestexperience I can imagine." "It's like..." "You try to express... yourfeelings to someone and showthem your heart..." "Yeah, I wantto hear aboutyour bird act." "I'd love to hear aboutyour bird act." "Butwould you mind just puttin'this..." "Would you justmind putting this black wig on forme, please?" "And there's this glass wall between you... this invisible glass." "They can see yourmouth moving." "I used to train birds for at leasttwo years..." " That's beautiful." " at Busch Gardens." "This was cascading overyour rightshoulder." "This was open here." "Butthey can't hear whatyou're saying." "I used to train them to stand on their head and ride a bicycle..." "Your right hand was..." "Hey, Chef!" " Getoutta here, man!" " Come on!" " Does he wantto talk to you?" " Later." "Give me 15 minutes." "You can never really make them hear whatyou're trying to say." "You okaywith kind of bending?" "That's it." "Your ass was sticking out justa little..." "Hey, man, fuck off!" "Fifteen minutes!" "That's why I tried so desperately... to show somebody that I had some talent." "Little baby macaws." " Have you ever seen a baby macaw?" " That's kind of open there." " They're all blue..." " Take off, would you?" "I gotmy rights, man!" "They make you do things you don'twanna do... like, this picture here." "I started feeling repulsed with myself." "You were just kind of bending forward." "Your ass kind of outa bit." " I love training birds." " That's it." "That's it." "That's very..." "That's it." "Voila." "You're beautiful." "ljustwantto..." "You know, I can't believe it." "Me,J. Hicks." "I can't believe I'm really here." "Maybe I'm unfit to have a relationship... with a beautiful, innocent boy." "Justthink, if it hadn't been forthe Vietnam War..." "I neverwould have metyou, Miss December." "Miss May." "I wish..." "I wish I could find... justone person... thatcould share my pointof view." "Oh, you kiss like a bird!" "Oh, God!" "Kiss me!" "Kiss me!" "Who is that?" " You're drivin' me crazy!" "Kiss me!" " I love birds!" "You finished yet?" "Oh!" "Fuck!" "Like a bird!" "Take me like a bird!" "Fly, baby!" "Cock itto me!" " Fly!" " I can fly like an eagle!" " Fly like an eagle!" " It drives me crazy!" "It drives me crazy!" "Lance, thatwas somebody's son." "Lance, there were things thatthey made me do... that I didn'twantto do." "They said, "Pull the ribbons between your legs."" "I didn'twantto do it." "Butthey said thatwas whatwas expected of me... thatthat's what people wanted to see." " Who are you?" " Well, I'm next, ma'am." "Ha, ha!" "Hell, I didn't know itwas a cherry." " Didn't knowyou never got no pussy." " Shove it, fuckup." "Sorry aboutthat." "If I'd have known, I'd take you to New Orleans." " Man, fuck you." " Introduce you to..." " Lay off, Chef." " Cherry boy, cherry boy." "You're a fuckin' dog!" "Come to New Orleans." "I'll getyou fixed up, ya prick." "Lay off, Chef." "You're the only fuckin' prick I see around here." "If I wanna playwith a prick, I'll playwith my own." "Lay off!" "Whatare you gonna do with it, cherry boy?" "Chef, I said lay off!" "Chef, knock itoff!" "Give him a break!" "What do you think I said?" "Then give your jaws a rest!" "This ain'tthe army." "You are a sailor!" "So getoutofthat frizzly army-looking shirt... and stop smoking that dope!" "You hearme?" "Lance, what's with all the green paint?" " Camouflage." " How's that?" "So they can'tsee ya." "They're everywhere, Chief." "I wantyou to stay awake up there, man." "You gota job to do." "Sampan offthe port bow." "Sampan offthe port bow." "Let's take a look." "Lance." "Bring them in." "Clean, on the 60." "Chef, geta 16." "Clean, geton that60!" "What's up, Chief?" "Ajunk boat, Captain." "We're gonna take a routine check." "Well, let's forget routine now and let'em go." "These boats are running supplies in this delta, Captain." "I'm gonna take a look." "My mission's got priority." "You wouldn'teven be in this part ofthe river if itwasn'tforme." "Until we reach your destination, Captain, you're juston forthe ride." " Stand by, Lance." " Come on." "Throwthe rope, asshole." "All right." "Come on." "Let's bring itover." "Look in thatforward hooch." "Bring the people outofthere." "Come on!" "Hurry up, motherfucker!" "Can couc, you too." " Keep your eyes open, Clean." " I gotyou, Chief." "It's clear, Chief." "Okay, that's them." "That's them." "They're okay." " Board and search it." " It's justa fuckin' boat." " There ain't nothin' on it." " Board itand search it." "Justsome baskets and some ducks, fuckin' bananas." " Ain't nothin' on it." " Chef?" " What's wrong?" "Search it." " There's the goatand some fish." " Chef!" " Fuckin'vegetables..." " Geton that boat!" " There's nothin' on it, man!" " Geton it!" " All right!" "Move it, asshole!" "Goddamn it!" "Justsome pigs!" "Look, mangoes!" " What's in the rice bag?" " Fuckin' rice!" " Look in there!" " Some fuckin'fish!" "More coconuts." "Rice." "Here's rice." " What's in thatvegetable basket?" " Getoutof here!" "Come on!" "Check thatvegetable basket!" " All right!" " Shut up, slope!" " There ain't nothin' in here!" " What's in the boxes?" " Look in that rusty can." " Nothing!" "Justfuckin' rice!" "There ain't nothin' on it!" "Check the yellow can!" "She was sittin' on it." "What's in it?" "Chef!" "Motherfuckers!" "Motherfuckers!" " Hold it!" " Come on!" "Let's kill them all." " Motherfucking cocksuckers mothers!" " Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Let's kill all the assholes!" "Shootthe shitoutta all of'em." " Hold it!" " Why not?" "Jesus Christ." "Why the fuck not?" " Clean?" " I'm good." " You okay, Lance?" " Shit!" "Fuck!" "Shit!" " Chef!" " Look whatshe was hiding!" " You all right?" " See whatshe was runnin'for?" "It's a fuckin' puppy." "It's a fuckin' puppy." "Give me that dog!" " Give me that dog!" " No!" "You're not gonna get it!" " Give itto me!" " Give me the fuckin' dog, asshole!" "Fuck you!" "Fuckin' mango too!" " Chef..." " You wantthat?" "She's moving behind you." "She's alive." "Check her out." "Chef!" "She's moving behind you." "Check her out!" "All right." "All right." "Come on, Clean!" "Goddamn it!" "She's not dead." "She's wounded." "Give him a hand." "Justtake iteasy." "Take iteasy!" " Slow down and take iteasy." " Chef, waita minute." " Bring her up." " Is she breathing?" "She's hurt." "She's bleedin'." "Bring her on board." "We're taking herto an ARVN." " Whatare you talking about?" " We're taking herto some friendlies." " She's wounded." "She's not dead." " Getoutofthere." "The book says..." "Fuck you." "Fuck'im." "I told you notto stop." "Now let's go." "Itwas a way we had over here ofliving with ourselves." "We'd cut 'em in halfwith a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid." "Itwas a lie." "And the more I saw ofthem... the more I hated lies." "Those boys were never gonna look at me the same way again... but I felt like I knew one ortwo things about Kurtz thatweren't in the dossier." "Do Lung Bridge was the last army outpost on the Nung River." "Beyond it, there was only Kurtz." " What do you think?" " It's beautiful." "Huh?" "What's the matterwith you?" "You're acting kind ofweird." "Hey, you knowthat lasttab of acid I was saving?" " I dropped it." " You dropped acid?" "Far out." "Friendly!" "Friendly!" "Friendly!" "Take me home!" "Goddamn it!" " Fucking shore police!" "Shit!" " Man, you wanna die?" "Don't keep goin'!" " You fuckin' police!" " Don't leave me!" "Fuck you!" "You'll getwhatyou deserve!" "Is there a Captain Willard on board?" " Yeah." " Captain Willard?" " Yeah." "Who's that?" " Lieutenant Carlsen, sir." "Getthat lightoff me!" "I was sent here from Nha Trang with these three days ago, sir." "Expected you here a little sooner." "This is mail forthe boat." " Don't know how happy this makes me." " Why?" "Now I can getoutof here, if I can find a way." "You're in the asshole ofthe world, Captain." "Captain, where you going?" "See if I can find some fuel and getsome information." "Pick me up atthe other side ofthe bridge." "Somebody go with him." "Chef." "I'll go." "I wanna go." "Man, listen to the music, man." "Where can I find the CO?" "You came rightto it, son of a bitch!" "Get down here!" "You still got a commanding officer here?" " Beverly Hills." " What?" "Straight up the road, there's a concrete fucking bunker called Beverly Hills!" "Where the fuck else do you think itwould be?" " Goddamn it!" "You stepped in my face." " I thoughtyou were dead." "Well, you thoughtwrong, damn it!" "I told you to stop fucking with me, didn't I?" "You think you're so bad, huh, nigger?" "Whatare you shooting at, soldier?" "Whatthe fuck ya think I'm shootin' at?" "I'm sorry, sir." "There are gooks outthere by the wire." "But I think I killed them all." "You ain'tshotshit." "Listen." "Oh, shit." "He's trying to call his friends." "Send up a flare." "Think you so bad, huh, nigger?" "You think you bad, huh?" "They're all dead, stupid." "There's one still alive underneath them bodies." "Who's the commanding officer here?" "Ain'tyou?" "You think you so bad?" "I gotsomething foryour ass now, nigger!" "I gotsomething foryou now!" "He's underneath the bodies, man." "Go getthe Roach forme." "Go getthe Roach, nigger!" "Go getthe Roach." "Roach." "Roach." "Gotslopes on the wire, man." "You hear'em?" "Do you hear'em?" "Fuck you, GI!" "We'll bust'em!" "Hey, GI, fuck you!" "Fuck you, GI!" "Fuck you, GI!" "Hear him outthere on the wire, man?" " I killyou, GI!" " You need a flare?" "He's close, man." "He's real close." "Fuck you, GI!" "I killyou!" "Fuck you, GI!" "GI, fuck you!" "GI!" "Gl..." "Motherfucker." "Hey, soldier." "Do you knowwho's in command here?" "Holy shit." "Hey, Chief, man." "Two guys just got blown offthat bridge." "You hang on, man." "You're gonna be okay." " What's that?" " Mail, man." "Mail." "Later on the mail." "Watch them trees." "There's no diesel fuel, but I picked up some ammo." "Let's move out." " Did you find the CO, Captain?" " There's no fucking CO here." "Let's just get goin'." "Which way, Captain?" "You knowwhich way, Chief." "You're on your own, Captain." "Still wanna go on?" "It's like this bridge." "We build itevery night, Charlie blows it right back up again... justso the generals can say the road's open." "Think about it." " Who cares?" " Just get us upriver!" "Chef, on the bow." " Stand by, Clean." " Let's go!" "You gotone, Miller." "Geez, I gotsome too." "Whose package is that?" " Shit, you gotanother one, Clean." " No shit?" "Waita minute." " Is that it?" " That's itforyou." "Lance." "Mr. L.B. Johnson, there you go." "Far out, man." "All right." "I've been waitin'forthis one." "I gotanother one." "I gota box from Eva." ""Lance." "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Sue and I wenttripping in Disneyland." "Sue skinned her knee."" "Man, I wanna get back to Antoine's." ""I rememberthe time we went up to..." How could I fucking forget?" "Beautiful." ""There could never be a place like Disneyland, or could there?" "Letme know."" "Jim, it's here." "It really is here." ""There has been a new development regarding your mission... which we must now communicate to you." "Months ago, a man was ordered on a mission which was identical to yours." "We have reason to believe that he is now operating with Col. Kurtz." "Saigon was carrying him MIA for his family's sake... but they assumed he was dead." "Then they intercepted a letter he tried to send to his wife."" "Captain Richard Colby." "He was with Kurtz." "Disneyland." "Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland." ""Charles Miller Manson ordered the slaughter of all in the home... anyway as a symbol of protest."" "That's reallyweird, ain't it?" " Purple haze." "Look, man." " Hey, Lance, putaway thatsmoke." " I gota tape from my mom." " Rainbow reality, man." "Hey, Chief, geta good whiff." "Eva can't picture me in Vietnam." "She pictures me at home having a beerwatching TV." "Hey, Lance, man." "Oh, hot potato, hot potato." "I'm so glad you decided to join the navy." "Eva's notsure she can have a relationship with me, you know." "Here I am, 13,000 fucking miles away... trying to keep a relationship with my ass." "That's much more than I can say forsome ofyourfriends." "Ifthis tape is any good..." "I will have Dad and the family send you a tape oftheirown." "Fuckers!" "There!" "Overthere!" "Motherfuckers!" "There." "Overthere!" "Chef, check out Clean!" "Captain, he's hit." "Clean's hit." "Where'd the dog go?" "Lance!" "Lance!" "They got Clean." "Where's the dog?" "We gotta go back and getthe dog." "Hey, Clean." "Hey." "Hey, bubba." "Bubba, you can't die, you fucker!" "Hey, bubba." "And so I'm hoping that..." "pretty soon... not too soon... but pretty soon I'll have a lot of grandchildren to love and spoil." "And then when yourwife get 'em back, she'll be mad with me." "Even AuntJessie and Mama... will come to celebrate yourcoming home." "Granny and Dad are trying to get enough money to getyou a car... but don't tell'em because that's oursecret." "Anyhow, do the right thing... stay out ofthe way ofthe bullets... and bring your heinie home all in one piece... because we love you very much." "Love, Mom." "Hold on." "Throwme the glasses." "Lance, take a 16 on the bow." "Chef." "Chef." "On the 60." "Fuck me." "Coverthe captain." "Lance." "Coverthe captain." "They're French." "They're French." "Pick up thatweapon!" "Pick it up!" "Pick it up!" "Stand fast." "Captain." "All right, you men." "Put down yourweapons." "We lostone of ourmen." "We French always pay respect to the dead of our allies." "You're all welcome." "My name is Hubert DeMarais." "This is my family's plantation." "It has been such for 70 years." "And itwill be such until we are all dead." "Captain, acceptthe flag ofTyrone Miller... on behalf of a grateful nation." "This food is reallywonderful, isn't it?" "The wine, the sauces." "I can't believe it." "Hey, can I speak with the chef?" "The chef speak only Vietnamese." "No kidding?" "He cooks like this and he can'teven speak French?" "Hey, Lance, the chef's a slope." "This is Baudelaire." "It's a very cruel poem for children." "Butthey need it, 'cause life sometimes is very cruel." "As you can see." "Attack repels by the family." "Justforthis war." "Vietcong, 58." "North Vietnamese, 12." "South Vietnamese, 11." "Americans, six?" "Yes." "Well, there were perhaps mistakes." "May I present Captain Willard." "He is of a paratroop regiment." "Madame Sarrault." "Captain." "Oh, I'm sorry, Captain." "Itwas justa little story... about Paris and people starving during the war." "They are all around the table, and there was a silence and somebody say..." ""An angel is passing by."" "So somebody said, "Let's eat it."" "Oh." "How long can you possibly stay here?" "We stay forever." "No, no." "I mean... why don'tyou go back home to France?" " Back home?" " I mean, this is our home, Captain." "Sooner or later, you're..." "You don't understand ourmentality... the French officermentality!" "Atfirst, we lose in Second World War." "I don'tsay thatyou Americans win, butwe lose." "Oh, Papa..." "In Dien Bien Phu, we lose." "In Algeria, we lose." "In Indochina, we lose!" "But here we don't lose!" "This piece of earth, we keep it." "We will never lose it." "Never!" "You Americans." "In 1945,yeah... aftertheJapanese war, your President Roosevelt... didn'twantthe French people to stay in Indochina." "So... you Americans implant the Vietminh." "What's he mean?" "Yeah, that's true." "The Vietcong were invented by the Americans." "The Americans?" "And nowyou take the French place... and the Vietminh fightyou." "And whatcan you do?" "Nothing." "Absolutely nothing." "The Vietnamese are very intelligent." "You never knowwhatthey think." "The Russian ones who help them, "Come and give us theirmoney." "We are all Communists." "Chinese, give us guns." "We are all brothers."" "They hate the Chinese!" "Maybe they hate the American less than the Russian and the Chinese." "I mean, iftomorrow the Vietnamese are Communists... theywill be Vietnamese Communists." "And this is something thatyou never understood, you American." "I don't know." "Maybe in the future we can make something with the Vietminh." "Don'tyou understand?" "The VC say, "Go away." "Go away."" "That's finish for all the white people in Indochina." "If you're French, American, that's all the same." ""Go."Theywantto forgetyou." "Look, Captain." "Look, this is the truth." "An egg." "The white left... butthe yellow stays!" "When I was in Saigon, I spoke to an American politician." "He explained itverywell." "He said, "Look." "Yesterday, itwas Korea." "Today, Vietnam." "Tomorrow, Thailand, the Philippines... then maybe Europe."" "Come on." "Why not Europe?" "Look what happened in Czechoslovakia recently." "Even before Second World War Americans knew exactlywhatwas going on." "They don'twant thatshitto take over!" "LeFevre!" "Allyou white people are shit." "They are fighting..." "fighting forfreedom." "Freedom?" "Bullshit." "French bullshit." "American bullshit." "Dien Bien Phu, thatserious." "All soldiers know they are already dead." "You know anything about Dien Bien Phu?" " Yeah, I know." " No, you don't." " Not really." " Dien Bien Phu was an error." "Amilitary mistake." "Amistake?" "Avoluntary mistake!" "Voluntary!" "All the soldiers knew." "We knewwe would be dead." "The generals and the colonels believe it's impossible forthe Viets... to getthe cannon up there in the mountains." "Butthey do." "Then theywait forthe rain to come." "When itcomes, no airplane can fly there." "And our paratroopers jump at 90 meters." "I mean, you know, 90 meters... 70 meters." "I mean, that's crazy." "No army in the world can do that." "And they only do that to be dead with theirfriends." "The French Armywas sacrificed." "Sacrificed by the politicians safe at home." "They putthe army in an impossible situation where they couldn'twin." "The students are marching in Paris... protesting, demonstrating." "They stab the soldiers in their back." "The soldierwould open the grenade, itwouldn'twork." "A piece of paperwould fall..." ""Union of French Women." "We are forthe Viets."" "Traitors!" "Communisttraitors at home." "Dien Bien Phu, okay." "The French is shit, huh?" "No one care." "No one want..." "Why don'tyou Americans learn from us, from ourmistakes?" "Mon Dieux, with your army, your strength... your power, you could win if you wantto!" "You can win." "You know, I'm sure we can make something here." "I'm sure about it, you know?" "I never do something wrong to the people here." "That's right, butthe Communist at home have never been traitors." " Communist!" " Socialist!" "Capitaine, good night." "He was a Socialist, you know." "We can stay." "I know thatwe can stay." "We can." "You know, we always helped the people." "We work with the people." "So we can be friends, we are agreed." "See, Captain, when my grandfather... and my uncle's father came here... there was nothing..." "nothing." "The Vietnamese were nothing." "So we worked hard... very hard, and brought... the rubberfrom Brazil, and then plant it here." "We took the Vietnamese, work with them... make something... something outof nothing." "So when you ask me why we wantto stay here, Captain... we wantto stay here because it's ours... it belongs to us." "It keeps ourfamily together." "I mean, we fightforthat." "While you Americans, you are fighting for... the biggest nothing in history." "I'm sorry, Captain." "I will see if yourmen need any help to... repairyour boat... so thatyou can go on with yourwar." "I apologize formy family, Captain." "We have all lostmuch here." "Hubert... his wife and two sons." "And I have losta husband." "I understand." "You are tired ofthe war." "I can see it in yourface." "'Twas the same in the eyes ofthe soldiers of ourwar." "We called them "Les Soldats Perdus..."" "The LostSoldiers." "If you like, we can have some cognac." "I have to..." "to see aboutmy men and..." "The warwill be still here tomorrow." "Yeah, I guess you're right." "I noticed you had no wine at dinner." "No, I don't drink wine." "I do like cognac, but I don'twant any now." "Thank you." "Well... then I..." "I must drink alone." "Willyou go back afterthe warto America?" "Then you're like us..." "your home is here." "Do you knowwhy you can never step into the same rivertwice?" "Yeah. 'Cause it's always moving." "I used to prepare a pipe formy husband." "'Twas the morphine he took for the wounds he suffered in his heart." "He would rage and he would cry, my lostsoldier." "And I said to him, "There are two of you." "Don'tyou see?" "One that kills and one that loves."" "And he said to me..." ""I don't knowwhether I'm an animal or a god."" "Butyou are both." "You wantmore?" "All thatmatters is thatyou're alive." "You are alive, Captain." "That's the truth." "There are two of you, don'tyou see?" "One that kills... and one that loves." "Can'tsee nothing." "We stopping'." "You're notauthorized to stop this boat, Chief." "I said I can'tsee a thing, Captain." "I'm stopping this boat." "I ain't riskin' no more lives." "I'm in command here, goddamn it." "You'll do what I say." "You see anything, Chef?" "Why don'tthey fucking attack, man?" "Watch itover here, Chief." "Gota stump." "On the fifties." "He was close." "He was real close." "I couldn'tsee him yet, but I could feel him... as ifthe boatwere being sucked upriver... and the waterwas flowing back into the jungle." "Whateverwas going to happen... itwasn't going to be the way they called it back in Nha Trang." " Arrows!" " Fire!" "Chef, open up!" "Fire!" "Lance, fire!" "Chef!" "Chef, it's okay." "Quitfiring." " They're just little toy arrows." " Cut itout!" "Quiet!" "Chief, tell them to hold theirfire!" "They're just little sticks." "They're justtrying to scare us." "Quiet!" "You got us into this mess, and nowyou can't get us out... because you don't knowwhere the hellyou're going, do ya?" "Do ya?" "You son of a bitch!" "You bastard!" "Lance, getthe wheel!" "You savages!" "Come and get it!" "You son of a bitches!" "Aspear?" "My mission is to make it up into Cambodia." "There's a Green Beretcolonel up there who's gone insane... and I'm supposed to kill him." "That's fucking typical!" "Shit!" "Fuckin'Vietnam mission!" "I'm shortand we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys?" "That's fucking great!" "That's justfucking great, man." "Shit!" "That's fuckin' crazy." "I mean, I thoughtyou were going in to blow up a bridge... or some fuckin' railroad tracks or somethin'." " That's all right." " No." "No, wait." "Wait." "We'll go together, on the boat." "We'll go with you." "We'll go up there, buton the boat." "Okay?" "Partofme was afraid ofwhat I would find... and what I would do when I got there." "I knewthe risks... or imagined I knew." "But the thing I felt the most... much strongerthan fear... was the desire to confront him." "Just keep movin'." "Lance, keep your hands away from the guns." "It's all right!" "It's all right!" "It's all been approved!" "I ain'tcomin' in there!" "Them bastards attacked us!" "Hey, zap 'em with your siren, man." "Zap 'em with your siren." "There's mines overthere and mines overthere too." "And watch out." "Those goddamn monkeys will bite you, I'll tellyou." "Ah, that's a pretty one." "Move it right in towards me." "I'm an American." "Yeah." "An American civilian." "Hi, Yanks." "Hi." "American." "American civilian." "It's all right." "And you gotthe cigarettes." "And that's what I've been dreaming about." " Who are you?" " Who are you?" "I'm a photojournalist." "I've covered the war since '64." "I've been in Laos, Cambodia and 'Nam." "Hoo-wee, baby." "I'll tellyou one thing." "This boat is a mess, man." "Who are all these people?" "Yeah, well, they think you've come to... to take him away." " And I hope that isn'ttrue." " Take who away?" "Him!" "Col. Kurtz." "These are all his children, man, as far as you can see." "Hell, man, out here we're all his children." "Could we talk to Col. Kurtz?" "Hey, mac." "You don'ttalk to the colonel." "Well, you listen to him." "The man's enlarged my mind." "He's a poetwarrior in the classic sense." "I mean, sometimes he'll..." "Well, you say hello to him, right?" "He'lljustwalk by you and he won'teven notice you." "Then suddenly he'll grab you and he'll throwyou in a corner and he'll say..." ""Do you knowthat'if' is the middle word in 'life'?" "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you." "If you can trustyourself when all men doubtyou."" "I'm a little man." "I'm a little man." "He's a greatman." ""I should have been a pair of ragged claws... scuttling across floors of silentseas."" " I mean..." " Staywith the boat." "Don't go any..." "Don't go withoutme, okay?" "I wanna geta picture." "He can be terrible and he can be mean... and he can be right." "He's fighting the war." "He's a greatman." "I mean..." "I wish I had words, you know." "I wish I had words." "I could tellyou something like, the other day he wanted to kill me." " Something like that." " Why'd he wantto killyou?" "Because I took his picture." "He said, "If you take my picture again..." "I'm gonna killyou."" "And he meant it." "See, just lay cool." "Lay cool." "Lay back." "Dig it." "He gets friendly again." "He really does." "Butyou don't... you don't..." "you don't judge the colonel." "You don't judge the colonel like an ordinary man." "Okay, watch it now." "These are Americans." "Americans!" "You can feel the vibe ofthis place." "Letme take your picture." "Hey, could you hold..." "Hey, hello." "Hello." "Could you hold up a minute?" "Colby." "The heads." "You're looking atthe heads." "I, uh..." "Sometimes he goes too far." "He's the firstone to admit it." " He's gone crazy." " Wrong, wrong!" "If you could have heard the man justtwo days ago... if you could have heard him then, God..." " You were gonna call him crazy?" " Fuckin'A!" "ljustwanna talk to him." "Well, man, he's gone away." "He's gone away." "He disappeared out in the jungle with his people." " I'll waitfor him." " He feels comfortable with his people." "He forgets himself with his people." " He forgets himself." " Captain?" "Maybe we should wait back atthe boat." " I think you should..." " Okay, Chef." "We'll go back to the boat for a while." "Yeah, staywith Lance." "This colonel guy, he's wacko, man." "He's worse than crazy." "He's evil!" "I mean, that's whatthe man's got set up here, man!" "It's fuckin' pagan idolatry." "Look around you!" " Shit, he's loco." " Then you'll help me?" "Fuckin'A, I'll help you." "I'll do anything to getoutofthis joint." " Good boy." " We could blow all them assholes away." "They're so fuckin' spaced out, theywouldn'teven know it." "I ain'tafraid of all them fuckin' skulls and altars and shit." "I used to think if I died in an evil place... then my soul wouldn't be able to make itto Heaven." "But now, fuck..." "I mean, I don'tcare where it goes, as long as itain't here." "So what do you wanna do?" "I'll kill the fuck." " Getoutof here." " I'm gonna need you to wait here, Chef." "I'll go up with Lance and scrounge around, check the place out." "See if I can find the colonel, okay?" "Well, what do you wantme to do?" "Here." "You take the radio... and if I don't get back by 2200 hours... you call in the air strike." ""Air strike?"" "The code is "Almighty"... coordinates zero-niner-two-six- four-seven-one-two." "It's all in there." "Zero-niner-two-six- four-seven-one-two." "Everything I sawtold me that Kurtz had gone insane." "The place was full ofbodies..." "North Vietnamese, Vietcong, Cambodians." "If I was still alive, itwas because he wanted me thatway." "Itsmelled like slow death in there... malaria... and nightmares." "This was the end ofthe river, all right." "Where are you from, Willard?" "I'm from Ohio, sir." "Were you born there?" "Yes, sir." "Whereabouts?" "Toledo, sir." "Howfar are you from the river?" "The Ohio River, sir?" "About 200 miles." "I went down that river once when I was a kid." "There's a place in the river..." "I can't remember..." "Must've been a gardenia plantation or a flower plantation atone time." "It's all wild and overgrown now." "Butfor about... for aboutfive miles you'd think that... heaven justfell on the earth... in the form of gardenias." "Have you ever considered... any real freedoms?" "Freedoms from the opinion of others?" "Even the opinions of yourself?" "Did they saywhy, Willard?" "Why theywanted to terminate my command?" "I was senton a classified mission, sir." "It's no longer classified, is it?" "What did they tellyou?" "They told me... thatyou had gone... totally insane... and thatyourmethods... were unsound." "Are my methods unsound?" "I don'tsee any method... atall, sir." "I expected... someone like you." "What did you expect?" "Are you an assassin?" "I'm a soldier." "You're neither." "You're an errand boy... sent by grocery clerks... to collectthe bill." "Why, huh?" "Whywould a nice guy like you wanna kill a genius?" "Feeling pretty good, huh?" "Why?" "Do you know..." "Do you knowthatthe man... the man really likes you?" "He likes you." "He really likes you." "But he's gotsomething in mind foryou." "Aren'tyou curious aboutthat?" "I'm curious." "I'm very curious." "Are you curious?" "There's something happening out here, man." "You know something, man." "I know something thatyou don't know." "That's right, Jack." "The man is clear in his mind... but his soul is mad." "Oh, yeah." "He's dying, I think." "He hates all this." "He hates it." "Butthe man's..." "He reads poetry out loud, all right?" "And a voice... a voice..." "He likes you 'cause you're still alive." "He's got plans foryou." "No, no, I'm not gonna help you." "You're gonna help him, man." "You're gonna help him." "I mean, whatare they gonna say, man, when he's gone, huh?" "'Cause he dies when it dies, man." "When it dies, he dies." "Whatare they gonna say about him?" "What are they gonna say?" "He was a kind man?" "He was a wise man?" "He had plans?" "He had wisdom?" "Bullshit, man!" "Am I gonna be the one that's gonna setthem straight?" "Look atme." "Wrong!" "You." "Almosteight hours." "I'm asleep." "I'm asleep and dreaming I'm on this shitty boat." "Fuck." "Has it been eight hours?" "Hello." "Almighty." "Almighty." "This is PBRStreet Gang." "Radio check." "Over." "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty standing by." "Over." "Oh, Jesus!" "Oh, Christ!" "Time magazine." "The weekly newsmagazine." "September 22, 1967." "Volume 90... number 12." ""The War on the Horizon." "The American people may find it hard to believe... thatthe US is winning the war in Vietnam." "Nevertheless... one ofthe most exhaustive inquiries... into the status ofthe conflictyetcompiled... offers considerable evidence thatthe weightof US power... two-and-a-half years afterthe big buildup began... is beginning to make itselffelt." "White House officials maintain the impactofthatstrength... may bring the enemy to the pointwhere he could... simply be unable to continue fighting."" "Is this familiar?" ""Because LyndonJohnson fears thatthe US public... is in no mood to accept its optimistic conclusions... he may never permitthe report to be released in full." "Even so, he is sufficiently impressed with the findings... and sufficiently anxious to make their conclusions known... to permitexperts who have been working on it... to talk about it in general terms."" "No date, Time magazine." ""Sir RobertThompson... who led the victory over Communist guerillas in Malaya... is now a RAND corporation consultant... recently returned to Vietnam to sound outthe situation for President Nixon." "He told the president lastweek... thatthings felt much better... and smelled much better overthere."" "How do they smell to you, soldier?" "You'll be free." "You'll be under guard." "Read these atyour leisure." "Don't lose them." "Don'ttry to escape." "You'll be shot." "We can talk ofthese things later." ""We are the hollowmen." "We are the stuffed men... leaning together at peace filled with straw." "Alas, our dried voices when we whispertogether... are quietand meaningless as wind in dry grass... or a rat's feetover broken glass in a dry cellar." "He's really outthere." "Shape withoutform... shade withoutcolor... paralyzed force... gesture withoutmotion."" "Do you knowwhat the man's saying?" "Do you?" "This is dialectics." "It's very simple dialectics." "It's one through nine." "No maybes, no supposes, no fractions." "You can'ttravel in space." "You can't go out into space, you know... without like, you know, with fractions." "Whatare you gonna land on?" "One-quarter?" "Three-eighths?" "Whatare you gonna do when you go from here to Venus?" "That's dialectic physics, okay." "Dialectic logic is, there's only love and hate." "You either love somebody oryou hate 'em." "Mutt!" "You mutt." "This is the way the fucking world is." "Look atthis fucking shit we're in, man!" "Notwith a bang." "Awhimper." "And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, Jack." "On the river, I thought that the minute I looked at him..." "I'd knowwhat to do." "But it didn't happen." "I was in there with him fordays." "Not under guard." "I was free." "But he knew I wasn't going anywhere." "He knew more aboutwhat I was going to do than I did." "Ifthe generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw... would they still want me to kill him?" "More than ever, probably." "And whatwould his people back home want ifthey ever learned... just how farfrom them he'd really gone?" "He broke from them... and then he broke from himself." "I'd neverseen a man so broken up and... ripped apart." "I've seen the horrors... horrors thatyou've seen." "Butyou have no right to call me a murderer." "You have a rightto kill me." "You have a right to do that." "Butyou have no right to judge me." "It's impossible forwords... to describe... what is necessary... to those... who do not know... what horrormeans." "Horror." "Horror has a face." "And you mustmake a friend of horror." "Horror and moral terror... are yourfriends." "lfthey are not... then they are enemies to be feared." "They are truly enemies." "I rememberwhen I was with Special Forces." "Seems a thousand centuries ago." "We went into a camp to inoculate... some children." "We'd leftthe camp... afterwe had inoculated the children for polio." "And this old man came running after us, and he was crying." "He couldn'tsay." "We went back there... and they had come and hacked off... every inoculated arm." "There theywere, in a pile... a pile of... little arms." "And I remember... l-l..." "I cried." "I wept like... some grandmother." "I wanted to tearmy teeth out." "I didn't knowwhat I wanted to do." "And I wantto remember it." "I neverwantto forget it." "I neverwantto forget." "And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet rightthrough my forehead." "And I thought, "My God, the genius ofthat." "The genius."" "The will to do that." "Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure." "And then I realized... theywere strongerthan me because they could stand it." "These were notmonsters." "These were men... trained cadres." "These men who fought with their hearts... who have families, who have children... who are filled with love... thatthey had the strength... the strength... to do that." "If I had ten divisions ofthose men... then ourtroubles here would be oververy quickly." "You have to have men... who are moral... and atthe same time... who are able to... utilize their... primordial instincts to kill... withoutfeeling, without passion... without judgment..." "without judgment." "Because it's judgment that defeats us." "I worry thatmy son... might not understand what I've tried to be." "And if I were to be killed, Willard..." "I would wantsomeone to go to my home... and tell my son everything." "Everything I did." "Everything you saw." "Because there's nothing that I detestmore than... the stench oflies." "And ifyou understand me, Willard, you... you will do this for me." "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty." "Over." "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty standing by." "Over." "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty standing by." "How do you copy?" "They were gonna make me a majorforthis... and I wasn't even in theirfuckin'army anymore." "Everybody wanted me to do it." "Him most ofall." "I felt like he was up there... waiting for me to take the pain away." "He justwanted to go out like a soldier... standing up." "Not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade." "Even the jungle wanted him dead." "And that's who he really took his orders from anyway." "Come on, baby take a chance with us" "Come on, baby take a chance with us" "Come on, baby take a chance with us" "And meet me at the back ofthe blue bus tonight" "Blue bus tonight" "Blue bus tonight Blue" "Come on, yeah" "We train young men to drop fire on people... buttheir commanders... won'tallowthem to write "fuck"... on their airplanes because... it's obscene." "The horror." "The horror." "Calling PBRStreet Gang." "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty." "Do you read me?" "Over." "PBRStreet Gang?" "PBRStreet Gang, this is Almighty..." "The horror." "The horror."