"You got some water, dickhead?" "I said, "you got some water"?" "Probably got some muslim holy water on him." "Muslims don't have holy water." "How do you know that?" "Catholics have holy water." "Don't mean muslims don't." "Ahab." "Ahab the arab, muslims got holy water?" "Name's tariq." "But you're muslim, ain't you?" "Oh, i'm a holy roller." "You should see me dance." "Don't be looking at me, sand nigger." "Keep your eyes to yourself." "You pulled his hood off." "Man, suck my black... zip it up back there!" "Let's see what they want." "You guys got the prisoner from barak?" "Yes, sir." "Follow me." "Bring out your prisoner." "Bring him out." "He'll be staying with this guy awhile." "I got orders to deliver my prisoner to... i'm countermanding those orders." "I'm gonna need to see some paperwork." "There is no goddamn paperwork." "If you want to change my orders, you're gonna have to take it up with my lieutenant." "Mount up." "Your vehicle broke down." "You had to stop for repairs." "Your lieutenant will understand." "Do you have his personal effects?" "Cellphone, huh?" "That's a mistake getting caught with that." "Didn't the people who trained you tell you that?" "Your war is over, son." "No point in acting tough now." "Geneva convention." "You speak english?" "Geneva convention." "You do, don't you?" "Name, rank, and serial number." "Geneva convention." "If you don't have a name, rank, and serial number, you're not a soldier." "Geneva convention doesn't apply." "Got me, mahatmi?" "In fact, if you're not a soldier and we find you armed, you're either a terrorist or a spy." "Either way we can shoot your ass." "He wasn't armed... sir." "Shut up, soldier." "Don't talk till i tell you to talk." "Yes, sir." "Sorry, sir." "You see this town?" "You see this empty little piece of shit of a ghost town?" "This is my town." "You understand?" "Nothing happens in my town unless i say it happens." "Do you understand?" "If anything does happen, it still didn't happen unless i say it happened." "Do you understand?" "!" "Yes, sir." "We're ghosts... playing by ghost rules." "I'm the only ghost who knows what they are." "Cut off his flex ties." "Arms out." "Arms out!" "I knew it." "Set up a perimeter." "Take shifts on guard duty." "Prisoner is now in what we call in "the trade a stress position."" "If he moves, shoot him." "Blue 42!" "Hut!" "Hey, baby." "Hey, baby." "How's it going?" "I'm in a damn fog." "My dreams have improved, anyways." "I should hope so, soldier." "You're on the maximum dose of morphine a human can handle." "I don't want to be on morphine." "I said, "i don't want to be on morphine."" "Sweetheart." "I don't want to be on morphine." "You understand that?" "If you want off your medication, you have to take it up with your doctor." "It's not my department, okay?" "Man... that dude has some guts." "You think?" "I couldn't have stood like that all day." "Sure you could have, man." "If i ever get taken prisoner, i hope they treat me better than we're treating him." "If you ever get taken prisoner, they're gonna crush your balls in a garlic press and post it on the internet so your mom can see it." "That's very vivid." "They're living through the middle ages, man." "They have about 500 years to go before they catch up with us." "I take it you don't feel a substantial cultural affinity with your arab brethren." "I feel a substantial cultural affinity with my ass, man, and i want to keep it." "This scumbag would cut my throat in a detroit minute." "Is that like a new york minute?" "It's faster." "What did he do?" "Got caught." "What happened to your vehicle?" "Got shot." "By who?" "I don't know." "And i saw him do it." "He's in with sergeant scream." "Y'all bring a resupply?" "I've got, like, two mres left." "In the back of the truck." "Yeah." "Shitbird." "Leave him alone." "man, i wish i had my husband here." "He's got a toolkit makes this government-issue shit look like the second-rate shit it is." "Got a real nice toolkit, huh?" "[Chuckles]" "Man:" "What do we do?" "Man said watch him." "I'm watching him." "Don't you think you better check on him?" "Nope." "Hey." "Hey." "You all right?" "You alive at least?" "Allah, i come!" "I come to you!" "Not till you tell me where my stingers are, you little shit." "I will be welcome in paradise as a martyr." "Where's my missiles?" "!" "Kill me, you savages!" "You heathens!" "You devils!" "Kill me now!" "Kill me, please." "I beg of you." "You're not getting off that easy, kid." "Get him on his feet." "Tie his hands behind him." "You all right, soldier?" "Come with me" "That sacred you, did it?" "No, sir." "What about it scared you exactly?" "Why do you want to know?" "'Cause i'm in the business." "I need to know what scares a man." "An enemy who's not afraid to die." "Jesus." "How do you fight that?" "Well... first of all, if he's not afraid to die, you take the threat of death off the table." "What's left?" "Whatever he can't live with." "What can't you live with?" "Me?" "Yeah." "What would you rather die than have happen?" "What kind of shame or dishonor?" "What's the worst thing you can imagine?" "If you... if i believed you'd do something to my stepson, eddy... i'd give it up." "Get some sleep." "Mom?" "Mommy?" "Eddy!" "Eddy!" "God damn it!" "Jesus christ!" "We missed him!" "I told you!" "Never let me fall asleep!" "Oh, damn it!" "This ain't good, man." "A soldier could get in trouble for this kind of thing, don't you think, dim?" "Dim?" "I don't know." "That's all i'm sure of is..." "i don't know." "Guys at abu ghraib got court-martialed." "Not for nothing nobody else did." "He want to get his ass in a sling, that's his business." "Somebody would have to write him up, anyways." "Yeah, somebody would have to write him up." "There ain't nobody here but us chickens." "You ain't gonna write him up, huh?" "Me?" "Hell, no." "Me neither." "Far as i'm concerned, if attaching battery leads to the balls of some iraqi gonna save even one american ass... all i got to say is red is positive, and black is negative." "The question is "is it gonna save one american ass?"" "He didn't say nothing to you, dim?" "About what he's trying to find out?" "Sergeant." "You know what this is all about?" "I'm not supposed to say." "But i will if you promise to keep your mouth shut and let me sleep." "The town where we're working roadblock duty, barak... somebody in that town hijacked a truck with 20 stinger missiles in it." "Shit." "We were going through the down door-to-door when we caught this one sneaking out." "Ryan thinks he knows where the missiles are at." "You think the guy's gonna tell him?" "All i know is until they find the stingers, there's no close air support for anybody in the sector, which means if you get pinned down, the helos can't come in to help you." "So i'm thinking i'm gonna give this guy some latitude." "Right, dim?" "Right." "You think we're gonna hold on to you forever, ali?" "!" "You think we're gonna feed and house you the rest of your miserable life?" "!" "[Speaking arabic]" "We have orders to turn all noncooperative subjects over to the pakistani antiterror task force!" "You know what they do to terrorists, don't you?" "'Cause they don't operate by the rules we operate by, do they?" "They operate by the rules you operate by." "And that's why they're terrifying." "Why you have him here?" "Tariq?" "Yes." "To translate, in case you miss some subtlety." "It might save your worthless life." "Your mother must be ashamed." "How about we leave my mother out of this?" "Your mother is a whore." "[Speaking arabic]" "You let him attack me." "That was a conversation, brother." "You just don't know how to talk." "It was an unprovoked attack." "How about i bring back the kid this guy replaced, dickhead... the kid that got his leg blown off by some sneaky little scumbag like yourself?" "You want to have a conversation with him instead?" "Morphine is the keystone of your pain-management program, son." "In fact, right now it is your pain-management program." "Well, i can take a little pain." "You've lost a limb." "We're talking about a great deal of pain." "Well, i can take a great deal of pain." "If you're really determined to stop, we can wean you off it over the next several weeks." "I want off it now, today." "You're already addicted to it, son." "That's why i want off it." "That's why it's dangerous." "The withdrawal is too severe." "In your weakened state, you could go into shock." "We'll talk about it again tomorrow." "Aah!" "I'll have the m.p. S in here to hold you down, soldier." "Will you, doc?" "Will you have them here all the time?" "You want to try me?" "And you me, doc?" "You'll take your medication, and that's an order." "Just repeat the test." "Doc?" "He'll come around, mrs." "Ryder." "Could the withdrawal kill him?" "Could he actually die?" "No." "He'll just wish he had." "Then why not let him do it?" "He's a fighter." "So i've noticed." "Give him something to fight... that's not you or, god forbid, me." "Please." "Okay." "It's against my better judgment... but okay." "What is it, soldier?" "Sir, i... i heard tariq got into it with the prisoner." "Never happened." "I'm sorry." "I... i just mean... what are you trying to get out of this guy?" "What are you trying to do to him?" "Why do you ask?" "'Cause, frankly, sir, whatever the game is, it looks like he's winning." "I'm trying to make it look like he's winning." "I'm trying to make him think i'm at wit's end." "Why?" "So he'll believe i'll actually do what i'm gonna tell him i'm doing." "Look... here's the thing." "I know he knows." "How?" "When i first put him in the stress position... do you remember that?" "Yeah." "He didn't object." "Now, strictly speaking, that's the worst thing i can physically do to a prisoner i'm interrogating, and all he has to do to stop me from doing it is refuse, and he didn't." "He wouldn't." "He's too proud." "You know something else?" "He's too proud to lie to me." "I don't follow." "He's a soldier, a trained fighter." "You saw the way he went after you." "So he knows to lie to me, to have two sets of lies." "First, he's supposed to tell me he's a thief." "That's why he paid the old people to sneak him out of town." "Thought he'd wind up in abu ghraib." "You follow?" "Then when he sees i'm getting tired of this story, he's supposed to pretend to break down and tell me the truth." "He's a drug dealer." "That's why he couldn't afford to get caught." "But this one won't even lie to me." "He's too proud to lie to the infidel." "You see where i'm going with this?" "You're gonna use his pride against him." "What?" "You go to college, soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You ever thought about intel?" "You want to think about it now?" "All due respect, fighting is a little clearer... not a lot but a little." "Shit." "Shit." "Sound off, god damn it!" "Dim!" "I'm good!" "I'm over here!" "How you doing over there, angel?" "!" "I'm good!" "I'm behind cover!" "Got my targets all picked out!" "Hold your fire till i tell you." "Tariq!" "I'm right in front of you, sergeant!" "Smoke!" "I'm in the shit, sergeant!" "I'm taking fire!" "Are you hit?" "!" "No, but i'm in the shit!" "All right, sit tight!" "We'll get you out of there!" "Doublewide!" "I'm good!" "I got broken glass down the back of my shirt, but i'm good!" "Mrs. B!" "Don't call me that!" "Top of her game!" "All right, what do we got?" "!" "Sergeant!" "Don't you want to know how i'm doing?" "!" "No!" "Your prisoner seems to be okay!" "I got him covered, sergeant." "All right, back to work!" "How many and where?" "!" "I count four on the rooftops to the east!" "I got five!" "One moved about 50 yards to the left!" "I'd hate for the new guy to be right, angel!" "I said, "i'd hate for the new guy to be right!"" "Understand?" "!" "There's four now, sir." "Get ready, smoke!" "Ready?" "!" "Get ready for what?" "!" "I'm about to get shot here!" "Get ready to move, god damn it!" "I am ready!" "Whoo!" "Where the hell did you learn how to do that?" "Church camp." "Want me to shoot him, sergeant?" "No, no, no!" "We can't do that!" "You okay up there?" "Yep!" "The prisoner seems to have bumped his head!" "He unconscious?" "!" "Yep!" "Good!" "I'm calling in the air strike." "There's no helos!" "You mean f-16s?" "!" "Yep." "We're a little close to the bad guys for fast movers, aren't we?" "!" "Well... you are!" "Call it in!" "You have my blessing!" "Thanks!" "You got my uhf radio?" "Right here." "What are you praying for?" "That my husband don't get a visit from the defense department tomorrow." "What do you think i'm praying for?" "Thank you." "Um, i'm sorry." "Can i help you?" "I'm just in the wrong place is all." "You looking for the family support group?" "You're in the right place." "You're just our first husband, that's all." "We've been waiting for our first husband, haven't we, ladies?" "Had to happen sometime, given today's army." "Yes, it did." "What's your name, may i ask?" "Sergio." "Welcome, sergio." "They said he'd be home this month." "Now they say it could be another six months." "It's not right." "Sergio, anything you want to add before we close the meeting for today?" "Mnh-mnh." "I mean, my... my problems aren't as bad you guys'." "L-i'm sorry." "I just mean they give me time at work, you know, when i need it." "I mean, i'm... i'm lonely just like everyone else is." "I went shopping the other day, and i'm filling up the cart." "I'm walking down the aisle, and i reach for these mozzarella sticks, you know?" "I don't eat them." "I hate them." "But it's my wife's favorite snack." "And then i stop and think, "what the hell am i buying these for?" "She's not gonna be back till next year."" "Now they're just gonna sit in the freezer, right?" "So i go to put them back... suddenly i can't do it." "I can't." "It's like if i put them back, you know, it's like i'm saying... she might not or she might never... i mean, you know, she's a mechanic." "I mean, she's out there." "I just miss her." "Hey." "Come back, okay?" "We wives got to stick together." "Aah!" "Aaah!" "It's okay." "I said, "don't touch me"!" "I'm sorry." "No, i'm sorry." "Ohh." "I'm an asshole." "No, you're not." "I'm an asshole." "I'm a loser, for christ's sake." "Who gets hurt on a beer run?" "Aaah!" "I'm not the man you married." "You have every right to leave me." "I'm not leaving." ""You have every right to leave me," i said." "I was gonna play ball." "I was gonna go to college." "You can still go to college." "I'm a cripple!" "I'm a cripple, and you should get out while you can!" "You should t..." "you should take the first bus." "Call your mother and have her come pick you up." "I'm not going anywhere." "Aaah!" "I'm not going anywhere!" "Regress north, reset dodge." "Aircraft inbound." "Before it gets loud enough for them to hear it, we start laying down covering fire." "When ryan moves, we lay down even more." "Aircraft inbound." "Do what i do, got it?" "Tell dim." "Dim." "Dim:" "Yeah?" "Aircraft inbound." "Holy shit." "Do what we do." "Get your ass back here, sir!" "I live for this shit." "For god sakes!" "There was only two of them left." "Colonel ryan around?" "Son of a bitch is a colonel." "Sawa!" "Hassan!" "Hassan!" "Sawa!" "Put her in here." "[Shouting in arabic]" "My, my." "His name's not really all." "You okay?" "I feel like i been through the in-sink-erator, but... i feel like i used to feel the morning after game." "Do you feel like you won?" "Gee, i don't know." "I played hard." "I got you." "Watch this one." "And listen, too." "He gets excited, you break him down." "I brought your sister here." "You're a pig." "You're a heathen." "I am." "That's a fact." "But i got your sister in there, anyway." "You touch her, i'll kill you." "I don't care how you feel or what you think." "You know that." "I just want to straighten you out on one point, okay, for your own good?" "You're not killing anybody..." "not anymore." "Your friends are dead." "You're going to prison." "Your life is over." "All right, you got one last chance to do one good thing." "Tell me where the stingers are and save your 15-year-old sister." "You know what the pakistanis will do to her." "They will beat her within an inch of her life, and then they'll rape her." "Ohh!" "And they will rape her every day for the rest of her life... aah!" "...until her skin turns black, until she's too sick to touch, and then they'll stick their rifles in her... jesus christ, colonel." "The pakistanis are on their way." "They're coming like your sister came." "Tell me what i need to know, and i'll send her home." "Come on, kid." "Don't make me do this." "Even i have a conscience." "I need one more thing." "You are not in a position to negotiate." "One more thing." "What?" "If i tell you where they are, you must swear to me that no one will be killed when you go to get them." "They're on a farm, but the farmer doesn't know what they are." "He just did us a favor." "He has a family." "You send my sister home... and you make sure no one dies." "All right." "Done." "You swear?" "Do you swear on your god, if you have one?" "I swear on everything i believe in." "I tell you where they are." "Thank you, sergeant!" "The men and women of your squad did us all a great service here." "Yes, sir." "Thank you, sir." "Good luck, soldier!" "He's lucky he drew you, sir." "* the day is comin' * the drums are drummin' * if you know one, say a prayer *" "* there's mothers cryin' * and fathers sighing', uh-huh * war is in the air" "* the trains are filling up with boys *" "* who've left behind their favorite toys * * they're going over there * over there" "* where someone has to die" "* over there * where ours is not to reason why *" "* over there * where someone has to die" "[Man talking indistinctly over radio]"