"You got some water, dickhead?" "I said you got some water?" "Ain't got some Muslim holy water on him." "Muslims don't have holy water." "How you know that?" "Catholics have holy water." "Don't mean Muslims don't." "Heyab!" "Heyab the Arab!" "Muslims got holy water?" "My name is Tareeq." "But you're Muslim though, ain't you?" "I'm a holy roller, you should see me dance." "Don't be looking at me sand nigga." "Keep your eyes to yourself." "You pulled his hood off." " That's not my..." " Zip it up back there!" "Let's see what they want." "You guys got the prisoner from Barat?" "Yes, Sir." "Follow me." "Bring out your prisoner." "Bring him out." "We'll be staying with this guy awhile." "I got orders to deliver my prisoner..." "I'm countermanding those orders." "I'm gonna need to see some paperwork." "There is no goddamn paperwork." "Then if you wanna change my orders, you're gonna have to take it up to my Lieutenant." "Mount up." "Your vehicle broke down." "You had to stop for repairs." "Your Lieutenant will understand." "Some personal effects?" "His cell phone, huh?" "It was 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?" "Geneva Convention." "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, Mahatme?" "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." "Yes, Sir." "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 who 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 traitor's stress position." "If he moves, shoot him." "Boot 42." "Hey, baby!" "Hey, baby!" "How is it going?" "Like in a damn fog." "The dreams have improved anyway." "I should hope so, Sir." "You're on the maximum dose of morphine a human being can handle." "I don't wanna be on morphine!" "I said I don't wanna be on morphine!" "Sweetheart!" "I don't wanna be on morphine!" "You understand that?" "You want off your medication, you'll have to take it up with your doctor." "That'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 then post it on the internet so your mother can see it." "That's very vivid." "They're living through the Middle Ages, man." "About 500 years ago, we thought they'd catch up with us." "You don't feel a substantial cultural affinity with your Arab brother?" "I feel a cultural affinity with my ass, man." "You know, I wanna 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." "They bring a re-supply?" "They are like 2 MREs left." "Yeah, in the back of the truck." "Oh yeah." "Shitbird." "Leave him alone." "Man, I wish I had my husband here." "He's got a toolkit makes this stuff in this government issue shit look like the 2nd rate shit it is." "Yeah, real nice tool can, huh?" "What do we do?" "Man said watch him." "I'm watching him." "Don't you think you'd better check on him?" "No." "You alright?" "You're alive at least?" "Shit!" "Come here!" "Let him go!" "Come here!" "Come here!" "I got him!" "Stay here!" "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're alright, soldier?" "Come with me." "That scared you, did it?" "No, Sir." "What about it scared you exactly?" "Why do you wanna 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 out of the table." "What's left?" "Whatever you can't live with." "What can't you live with?" " Me?" " Yeah." "What would you rather die than have happened?" "What kind of shame or dishonor or..." "What's the worse thing you can imagine?" "If you..." "If I'd believe you'd do something to my stepson, Eddie," "I'd give it up." "Get some sleep." "Mom?" "Mommy?" "Eddie!" "Goddamn it!" "Jesus Christ!" "We missed him!" "I told you!" "Never let me fall asleep!" "This ain't good, man." "Sergeant could get in trouble for this kind of things, don't you think Dim?" "Dim!" "I don't know." "All I'm sure of is..." "I don't know." "Guys at Abu Ghraib got court martialed." "Not for nothing nobody else did." "If he wanted to get his ass in the sling, that's his business." "Somebody would have to write them up anyways." "Yes, somebody would have to write them up." "Ain't nobody here but us chickens." "You ain't gonna write 'em up, huh?" "Me?" "Hell no." "Me neither." "As far as I'm concerned, if attaching battery leaves at the balls of some Iraqi could 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?" "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 mouths shut and let me sleep." "That town we were working roadblock duty, Barat." "Somebody in that town hijacked a truck with 20 stingers missiles in it." "Shit!" "They were going to the town door to door when we caught this one sneaking out." "Ryan thinks he knows where the missiles are at." "You think the guy is gonna tell him?" "All I know is until they find the stingers, there's no close air support for anybody in this sector." "Which means if you get pinned down, the Helos can't come in to help you." "So I'm thinking I'm gonna get 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, Ali?" "We have orders to turn all non-cooperative subjects over to the Pakistani military 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?" "Tareeq?" "Yes." "Translate." "In case you miss some subtlety that might save your worthless life." "Your mother must be ashamed." "Why don't you leave my mother out of this, man?" "Your mother is a whore." "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's replaced, dickhead?" "The kid that got his leg blown up by some sneaky little scumbag like yourself." "You wanna 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." "I can take a little pain." "You lost a limb, we're talking about a great deal of pain." "I can take a great deal of pain." "If you're really determined to stop, we can win you off it over the course of the next 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." "I'll have the MPs in here to hold you down, soldier." "Will you, doc?" "Will you have them here all the time?" "You wanna try me?" "And you me, doc?" "You'll take your medication and that's an order." "Just repeat the test." "Alright." "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 Tareeq got into 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?" "To make him believe I'll actually do what I tell him I'm doing." "Look... here's the thing..." "I know he knows." "How?" "When I first put him in the stress position, you remember that?" "Yeah." "He didn't object." "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." "There are 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." "He thought he'd wind up in Abu Ghraib." "You follow?" "Than 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 could 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 wanna think about it now?" "All due respect, fighting is a little clear." "Not a lot but a little." "Shit!" "Sound off, goddamn it!" "Dim!" "I'm fine, I'm over here." "How you doing over there, Angel?" "I'm good." "I'm at hard cover." "I've got my target all picked out." "Hold you fire 'til I tell you." "Tareeq?" "Right by you, Sergeant." "Smoke?" "I'm in deep shit, Sergeant!" "I'm taking fire!" "Are you hit?" "No!" "But I'm in deep shit!" "Alright, sit tight." "I'll get you out of there." "Doublewide?" "I'm fine." "I have broken glass in the back of my shirt but I'm good." "Mrs. B?" "Don't call me that!" "Top of the game." "Alright, what have we got?" "Sergeant!" "Don't you wanna know how I'm doing?" "No!" "The prisoner seems to be okay." "I've got him covered, Sergeant." "Alright, back to us." "How many?" "Where?" "I count 4." "On the rooftop, to the East." "I've got five, one 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?" "Just 4 now, Sir." "Don't call me "Sir", goddamn it." "Get ready, Smoke." "Ready?" "!" "Ready for what?" "!" "I'm gonna get shot here!" "Get ready to move, goddamn it!" "I ain't ready!" "Where the hell do you learn how to do that?" "Church camp." "Permission to shoot him, Sergeant?" "No, no, no!" "We can't do that!" "Get up!" "You're okay up there?" "Yep." "My 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-16?" "Yep." "A little close to the bad guys for fast movers, ain't we?" "Nope... you are !" "Call it in." "You have my blessing." "You have your radio?" "Right here." "What are you praying for?" "That my husband doesn't get a visit from the Defence Department tomorrow." "What do you think I'm praying for?" "I'm sorry." "Can I help you?" "I'm just in the wrong place is all." "You're 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 a first husband, haven't we ladies?" "Had to happen some time 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 6 months." "It's not right." "Sergio, anything you wanna add before we close the meeting for today?" "My problems aren't as bad as you guys." "I'm sorry, I just mean..." "They give me time at work... when I need it." "I mean, I'm lonely just like everyone else is and..." "I was shopping the other day and I'm filling up the cart, walking down the isle and I reach for these mozzarella sticks, you know." "I don't eat 'em, I hate 'em but it's my wife's favorite snack." "And then I stop and think "what the hell am I buying this for"?" ""She's not gonna be back 'til next year."" ""They're just gonna sit in the freezer." "Right?"" "So, I go to put 'em back." "Suddenly, I can't do it." "I can't." "It's like if I put 'em back..." "You know, it's like I'm saying she might not... she might never." "I mean, you know..." "She's a mechanic, she's not gonna..." "I just miss her." "Come back, okay?" "We, wives, gotta stick together." "It's okay." "I said don't touch me!" "I'm sorry." "I'm an asshole." "No, you're not." "I'm an asshole." "I'm a loser." "For Christ's sake, who gets around on a beer run?" "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'll still go to College." "I'm a cripple!" "And you should get out while you can!" "You should take the first bus." "Call your mother and have her come pick you up." "I'm not going anywhere." "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 cover fire." "When Ryan moves, we lay down even more, understand?" "Aircraft inbound." "Do what I do, got it?" "Tell Dim." "Dim!" "Yeah?" "Aircraft inbound." "Holy shit!" "Do what we do." "Get your ass back here, Sir." "I live for this shit!" "For God's sake!" "It was only 2 of them left!" "Colonel Ryan around?" "The son of a bitch is a Colonel." "Put her in here." "My, my..." "His name is not really Ali." "You're okay?" "I feel like" "I've been through the insinkerator but..." "I feel like" "I used to feel in the morning after a 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've got your sister in there anyway." "You torture her, I'll kill you." "Listen, I don't care how you feel or what you think." "You know that." "I just wanna 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." "But I'm giving you one last chance to do one good thing." "Tell me where the stingers are." "Save your 15-year-old sister." "You know what the Pakistanis will do to her." "They beat her within an inch of her life and then they'll rape her." "And they will rape her everyday for the rest of her life until her skin turns black, until she's too sick to touch." "And then they'll stick their riffles 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 got to get them." "They are in 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..." "Alright." "Done." "You swear!" "Do you swear on your God if you have one?" "I swear on everything I believe in." "I'll 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." "Target acquired." "5... 4... 3..."