"290)}Boom." "250)}Crack." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "What's so funny?" "You oughta see your face." "Well you ain't no raving beauty yourself." "Billy?" "Got dog tags taped?" "Yeah." "Everybody." "I want you to hear this." "and one purpose only." "It's to find prisoners and bring 'em back." "we avoid a fight." "You got it." "Sarge." "does everybody know what this is all about." "Sarge?" "He doesn't mean the war." "I like a squad with a sense of humor." "Hope yours lasts through the night." "Sgt." "Ready." "We're gonna split up into groups." "we've done a good night's work." "so there'll be no re-entry problems." "the longer you're gonna live." "at the cemetery just outside the village." "And re-enter the lines together." "Questions?" "Sgt." "Alright." "Let's move out fellas." "Sarge." "Now why don't we go out there and just grab ourselves a kraut." "Just like that huh." "Yeah." "Kirby." "Jump up and down." "What?" "You heard me." "I said jump up and down." "He wants to see if anything rattles besides your head." "Heh." "You can do better than that." "It's gonna be cold out there Sarge." "I thought uh... you don't think at all." "Gonna be a long night." "Alright." "Let's go." "(German)" "(German)" "(thump)" "I hate those things." "Yeah." "So do I." "Ich hasse diese Fackeln." "Ja." "Ich auch." "Kirby." "Yup." "I thought I saw something." "Go on up ahead and take a look." "They can have this night patrol." "I sure don't want it." "Reminds me of coon hunting back home." "I wish I were there now." "Yeah." "So do I." "(Thump)" "He's taking too much time." "I'll take a look." "Wait." "Sarge." "Easy as falling off a log." "Where'd you find him." "Under a rock." "Him and 2 others was laying wire." "They got killed." "How do you know that." "He told me." "He told you." "Yeah." "Does he speak English." "He speaks better English than Caje." "Looks like our lucky night Sgt." "Well." "Let's go home." "34)}Kathump" "34)}Bang." "Hold it." "Relax." "We're on the same side." "Drop your rifle." "You heard me." "What are you doing out here." "my squad was on recon." "I got separated." "Who are you." "04" "You an officer?" "Lieutenant." "I'm Saunders." "Sgt." "Yeah." "We were sent out to bring in a prisoner." "Looks like I owe you one." "Mind if I come along." "I'm not a guy to stand on ceremony." "I'll just be part of the patrol." "You got your orders." "It's your assignment." "I'll do whatever you say." "look Lieutenant" "Maybe you didn't hear me Sergeant." "I said I don't stand on ceremony." "Most fighting soldiers don't." "Now you want to call me something you call me Crans or Joe or just hey." "then I'm the first one popped." "Call me Sir the same thing happens." "Out here rank doesn't mean a thing." "No Sir." "Wanna come along it's alright." "I want to go alone Sgt." "Let's go." "I told you these woods were full of krauts." "Hold it." "Too many of them." "Out almost 2 hours." "It's gonna take us that long to get back." "Back." "What do you mean back." "You're not giving up." "We're moving pretty close to their lines." "Do you want to go to Berlin just for a prisoner." "Close to their lines our chances of finding them are better." "And riskier." "and that starts with getting boring." "Don't want you to take this personally but a patrol like this gives guys who don't want to fight a pretty good chance to goof off." "somewhere nice and safe and then they go in." "not afraid of being in kraut neighborhood if you let em." "then we're moving back." "Without a prisoner?" "With or without." "I don't understand." "and I do as I'm told." "don't you Sgt." "I'm alive." "Let's go." "Where's Crants?" "I thought he was with you." "Maybe things got too rough for him." "Maybe he talks a better war than he fights." "Hell." "Maybe he just got lost." "He knows this sector." "His Company held it till a couple of days ago." "I think he's out there cause he wants to be." "You gotta wait for him." "You can't just.." "Yeah." "We'll wait." "We'll wait just 10 minutes." "Then we head back." "Every minute we stay here makes it easier for the Germans to find us." "does he." "Can you blame him?" "We're sitting around here like pigeons." "That Crants's Okay." "they drift off and prowl." "Are you talking about the Sergeant?" "Sarge's been giving orders to an officer." "Maybe it's getting him down." "Maybe the Lieutenant's making him lose confidence in himself." "Like a team having a coach." "The coach never saying nothing." "Just all the time watching." "Watching from the stakes." "Enough to make anybody jumpy." "Kirby." "There isn't a better squad leader than the Sergeant and you know it." "And he just never should have taken that Lieut. along." "That's all I gotta say." "We have to be heading back." "It's getting light." "he'll just have to find us." "that won't be very hard." "I heard you guys 50 yards away." "You better keep your voices down if you want to stay alive." "You could have got yourself killed just now." "I told you to stay with this patrol." "There you go with those regulations again." "You said you'd follow my orders." "you'll just have to wait till we get back." "We're not getting back." "Not now." "We're cut off just over that rise." "A patrol twice our size." "Course they don't know we're here yet." "We could come up on their blind side." "Start firing now we're gonna have more company than we can handle." "What's the matter Sergeant." "Are you afraid of a fight." "We'll find a place to hide." "We'll make our way back tonight." "I know a place Sergeant." "Follow me." "Home." "come with me." "Cover us." "Kirby." "Get the others." "Well." "What do you think of my part pool Sarge." "May have to go a long way to beat it." "Make yourself at home." "We've got all the conveniences." "Steam heat." "Running water." "Crants." "Your men." "What about 'em." "What happened to them." "It's like I said." "I got separated." "I left them." "I went out to scout." "When I got back they were gone." "Maybe they're still up there." "I'm going up to take a look." "Sergeant." "Wouldn't do any good." "We were more than a mile from here when we lost each other." "I'll make you guys some coffee." "Littlejohn." "Yeah." "You and Billy get back up there." "Take the 1st guard." "Kirby." "Yeah." "You and Caje go on up above." "Take a look through those tunnels." "Sarge." "They do just what you tell 'em." "That was the trouble with my outfit." "They didn't do like I said." "So now they're cut off 5 miles from their own lines in country crawling with krauts." "Lieut." "Why didn't you send one of your men." "Sergeant." "And you lost your command." "They didn't do like I said." "They...didn't do like I said." "Can't stay out in this light Sir." "I know." "I'll bet I know what's holding up the sergeant." "That little drip Nelson probably got lost." "He's gonna cost us the war." "Alright." "We go back to 1st platoon outpost." "Sarge will have to make it there instead of here." "Let's go." "Littlejohn." "Yeah." "You know that fella Crants." "there's a strange ball for you." "Billy." "Didn't they teach you any military courtesy." "but there's something funny about him." "If you want to know the truth I don't think he is an officer at all." "You don't." "Nope." "How come?" "Well." "Take you for instance." "Me?" "and you came up me and said" "I'd believe you." "You would." "Yeah." "How come?" "You look like a private." "I do." "Yeah." "You know the way you stand kinda all slumped over and with your uniform hanging." "You calling me a slob." "No." "All I'm saying is that" "I'd know you weren't." "The same as you would me." "Now watch." "I'll prove it." "My name's Nelson." "Lieutenant Nelson." "I don't believe you." "you see what I mean." "And that goes for that fellow Crants in there too." "I am a chicken colonel." "Aah." "Hey." "I thought that?" "I know." "didn't ya." "I kept a kicker in my hip." "Got to get up pretty early in the morning to get the jump on old Kirby." "but if the sergeant catches ya." "It'll never hold up in a court martial." "the least they can do is turn their back if I want to use a little alcohol for medicinal purposes." "That'll catch ya." "a place like this." "(cork pops)" "Have a snort." "Uh uh." "Wait a minute." "Whoa whoa." "I just." "Hold on." "Look.." "Caje." "Do you think I could drink it on duty." "You see that light up there." "Yeah." "So what." "right." "thanks." "Suit yourself." "Kirby." "You know that fellow Crants down there." "What about him." "Kirby." "And what's that supposed to mean." "and there you sit with a bottle in your hands." "You saying I ain't a good soldier." "and you won't be." "have you Lieut." "You figure there's gonna be a run on souvenirs after the war's over." "Sgt." "Is that what you want." "Why do you say a fool thing like that." "those helmets." "with a German uniform on it." "A man gets kinda lonely being cut off out here." "You gotta have something to do to pass the time." "Like killing." "That's what it comes down to." "Isn't it Sergeant." "And it can happen to a man if he doesn't understand why he's here." "You got to have a point of view about fighting." "and the other guy dies." "don't you." "You'd be surprised how many guys get killed and don't." "you said you were cut off from your patrol." "That's right." "When?" "When?" "a month ago." "When?" "Strange how you lose track of time." "What outfit were you in?" "What?" "what outfit were you in?" "the 422nd." "Lieut." "They pulled out of this sector 2 weeks ago." "What is this Sgt. The third degree?" "Lieut." "and you're gonna end up wrapped in chicken wire staring out a window being spoon fed." "Not a chance." "What happened sarge." "Hey sarge." "What do you make of those?" "Oliver" "R" "Turner" "Forbee" "Tom G." "Give me those." "check around and see if there's a back door to this place just in case." "Kirby." "Yo." "Keep an eye on him." "(A crunching noise)" "The sergeant tell you to follow me?" "no." "I though you might need some help." "What's up that way." "It's a dead end." "Ohh boy." "That feels good." "Yeah." "And now it does but." "Don't be surprised if a couple of days from now your toes fall off." "Ha ha." "Won't catch me putting a foot in there." "what kind of underground minerals might be floating around in that stuff." "is you worry too much." "Who knows." "I may have found a fountain of youth." "So you'll have young feet." "What do you make of him Sarge." "I don't know." "I say we ought to get out of this place." "Hmph." "I'd rather run through the German lines in daylight than be caught down here." "then they got us cold." "You know that." "Sitting around in your own grave." "Waiting for somebody to come throw dirt on your face." "Yup." "what time is it?" "oh seven hundred." "What time is that?" "Seven o'clock." "I wonder if the Lieut. is still waiting for us." "First light we pull on back." "Whew!" "Hope he had better luck than we did." "Sergeant." "Shame I had to knock off that kraut prisoner of yours." "You guys could all be home in bed by now." "don't feel too bad." "Cause a prisoner taken on the way in can be just as good as one taken on the way out." "I'll get you another one." "you come with me." "Where you going?" "Just gonna take a little walk." "Well see you don't get lost." "Yeah." "You see anything?" "Fog." "it looks like the Sgt. is gonna keep us up here all day." "Looks like." "this place gives me the creeps." "Creeps?" "Yeah." "Just look at it." "What's wrong with it?" "it's so weird." "We had a cave back home." "It was full of bats." "Bats." "Those things that hang upside down." "do you." "There's a way to find out." "What's that?" "Take off your hat." "My hat?" "swoop down and get in your hair." "They do?" "Fellow back home got a bat in his beard." "Took 2 barbers and a game warden to get it out." "(laugh)" "You're kidding." "You think so." "Take off your hat." "Crants." "Lieutenant Joseph Crants." "or whatever your name is." "Now look Sgt. I don't want to have to pull rank on you." "There are 9 dead men laying in that tunnel back there." "You know you can get about 5 years in a stockade for going against an officer." "And one of them is the officer you claim to be." "That's a lie." "I just cut that dog tag off him." "Now you look at it." "I said look at it." "We never should have come in here." "Tried to tell the Lieut." "but he wouldn't listen to me." "Nobody ever listens to me either." "just like tonight." "Germans jumped us." "About 20 of them." "We came in here to hide." "They caught us back in that tunnel and we didn't have a chance." "I was the only one that got away." "When it was over I came back and I been here ever since." "You get back to the lines you tell them that Joe Crants is still here fighting." "Getting even for those boys." "You tell 'em that." "Why don't you go back and tell 'em." "I can't." "Why?" "You trying to trap me Sgt." "Don't you think I know when somebody's trying to trap me?" "huh." "Cause I'm smart." "you learn how to take care of yourself." "That Lieut." "He should have listened to me." "oh no." "He had to make a stand." "Get himself killed." "Everybody else." "Everybody but you." "Why?" "I'll go up and take over the guard." "You didn't answer my question." "Sgt." "Why?" "What are you gonna do?" "You gonna kill me?" "Huh." "You gonna take my dog tags." "You think that's what happened." "Didn't it?" "No." "Then why aren't you lying back there in that tunnel with the others?" "Because I ran." "I turned my back on those boys and I ran." "who are you?" "I don't know Sgt." "Dear god." "I don't know." "Sergeant." "Krauts." "put out that fire." "What?" "How many of them." "About 10." "They spotted me first." "(German)" "(German)" "188)}Bang." "Take cover." "Take cover." "Now." "There's too many of 'em." "Keep firing." "and you ran." "How'd you get out of here?" "How'd you get out of here?" "Back entrance." "There's a back entrance." "Where?" "Down this tunnel." "Around that bend." "Hey Sarge." "We better get out of here or there's big trouble." "Come this way." "Keep going." "Go on." "Blam." "did I Sgt." "Sergeant." "When you.." "you tell 'em that I'm still fighting." "You tell 'em." "tell 'em." "Yeah." "I'll tell 'em." "You say they were all dead." "those men out there." "You say they were dead when you found them." "Yeah Sir." "they were all dead." "is it." "No Sir." "Saunders." "Don't feel too bad about it." "about not bringing in a prisoner last night." "they're gonna let us go out and try again." "We keep the same plan." "Baker and Brockmeyer with me." "Rendezvous 0400 hours." "Questions?" "No Sir." "I'll see you in the cemetery." "Yes Sir." "K company." "You wanted the names of those men from the 422nd." "Cain Thomas C" "Flowers Robert D" "Crants Joseph B" "Pope John J" "Smith Orville R" "Fellows Steve S" "Turner Wally B" "Subtitles by JackT." "Sub delay 0.30 seconds for WDTV sync"