All language subtitles for Tour of Duty - 2x02 - Saigon (2).en

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[PEOPLE CONVERSING
IN VIETNAMESE]

[SIGHS]

That kid left
his shine box.

Yeah. VC will create havoc
any way they can.

They'd put a grenade
in a baby's blanket

with a baby still in it

if they thought it'd do.

Come on. I want
to file this story.

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKER]

You're gonna have Charlie
boogying in the rice paddies

before you're done, McKay.

That's what I like
about these milk runs.

Gives you plenty of time
to entertain the natives.

MAN [ON RADIO]:
Blue Velvet,
this is Golden Eagle 3. Over.

Make it good, 3. You're
interrupting the Temps. Over.

Say again, Blue Velvet. Over.

You wouldn't understand,
Golden Eagle.

What can I do for you?
Over.

You can pick up
a squad of rifles

we've got under fire. Over.

Give me the coordinates, 3.
Over.

That's Echo Lima,
1-5-niner-7-0-4. Over.

Blue Velvet
on the way, 3. Out.

Lay down some fire, boys.

SOLDIER:
Everybody stay low.
Move, move, move.

Let's go. Let's go.

All right, all right.
I'm coming.

Go. Go.

I'll buy you a beer
after that one.

Not a chance, buddy.
I got a date with an angel.

WOMAN [ON PA]:
Flight 806 from Tokyo

will be arriving
at gate six.

[ANNOUNCEMENT
CONTINUES IN VIETNAMESE]

There you go.

Zeke, I-- I just want you
to know

how much you mean to me.

Hey, hey, listen.

It's just you and me
here, you know?

We-- We never kidded
each other before,

not even when things
got real bad.

And really, it's--

I'm the one
who should be grateful.

I mean, look at it
like this:

Uh, what other wife
would come all this way

just to keep her husband
from getting

a Dear John letter?

God, if there's
one thing

I'm going to miss
about you,

it's your
sense of humor.

Yeah. I might miss that
my own self.

Oh, I promise, I swear...

I will not forget
Katie's birthday again.

I'm gonna have it
tattooed on my forehead.

Don't-- Don't worry
about Katie, about us.

You've got
enough to do

worrying about
your men, Zeke.

Just...
keep yourself alive.

Okay.

Carol, I've seen
some things over here.

I'll tell you, it's, uh...

It's just like
everything you hear.

It's-- It's death
and destruction.

It's hell on earth.

It's a twisted limb--

I just want it
to be over.

You can't win this war
all by yourself.

I realize that.

I'm just living
one day at a time.

I've been having
these nightmares.

It's like a bad
double-feature or something.

And I don't see any light
at the end of the tunnel.

I just see
more of my people

going home to their mamas
in body bags.

Zeke, if I could do
anything--

There is. There is.

There is something
you can do for me.

And it's real important
to me.

Well, baby, I just
want you to be happy.

God. I just wa--
I don't wa--

I just want you to
live your life and be happy.

Get on a plane today
with a smile on your face

and just don't look back.

Oh, Zeke.

I love you, girl.

I love you
and I know you love me,

and that's all I need
to carry me through.

Oh, Zeke.

[SOBS]

WOMAN [ON PA]:
Final boarding call
for flight 1023 to Honolulu.

Hey, hey.

Where's my smile?

I'll give Katie a kiss.

Newsweek bureau chief
was tossed out of Saigon

for writing articles
critical of the ARVN forces

and South Vietnamese
government,

and yet the press

still has a responsibility
to report the truth,

even when they won't tell us
what that truth is.

Ah, but the problem
being

that some
of your people

wouldn't know
the truth

if it jumped up
and bit them.

Look, I'm starving.
Is anybody else here starving?

Yeah, what we get

is canned releases
and staged briefings

about structures destroyed
and acceptable casualties.

All right, ARVN's
a poor excuse for an army,

and sometimes
we got to second-guess

the strategy
that our guys run by us.

But the press
is not helping win this war.

I mean, I'm not
about to get excited

whether they get it
right or wrong.

I heard you got a little excited
about Rivera's death

and didn't
want it reported.

I say that's none of
your damn business, McKay.

Hmm. Well, you know
what I get excited about?

It's when Alex gets excited.

Passionate about
just any old thing.

It's only because of
my undying respect for you

that I would ever ruin
a dinner date like this.

We're having dinner.

Hmm.

With a different agenda
and some excess baggage.

The thing is,
McKay,

I remember seeing
your name

on the duty roster.

I wouldn't want you
to blow that

for a night
on the town.

Oh, no. That's my chopper
that has the duty, not me.

One of the generals uses it
to ferry orders of pizza

out to his commanders
in the field.

Pizza?
Mm-hm.

Pizza. Last time it happened,
I'd just evac'd some wounded

from a bad situation,
and I got my butt chewed

because I had blood and vomit
all over the chopper

right before the pizza run.

Ain't war grand?

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Devlin.

Yeah.

ALEX:
Okay.

Yeah. I appreciate it.
Thanks.

[SIGHS]

My source at MACV.

Something's happening
up north.

There's now reports
of increased VC activity

in the highlands,
Da Nang and Qui Nhon.

I think the VC are gonna violate
the cease-fire

and Saigon's
gonna be hit.

You are looking
for Jake Bridger?

Uh, are you
Miss Kwan?

My name's Johnson,
Marvin Johnson,

Sergeant Bridger's
new partner in the hotel.

Yeah, where is
Bridger, our idol,

purveyor of
the American dream?

Where is
my main man?

There.

Excuse me. Where?

The urn.
Bridger is in the urn.

He was killed
last week.

Killed?

Oh, God.

No. It's not true.

He was killed
by the VC.

Who are you?

Stacy Bridger.

Bridger?

Jake Bridger
was your father?

[CHATTERING IN VIETNAMESE]

Enjoy yourselves.

Alex, it is so good of you
to come.

Well, thank you.

Lunar New Year's Eve,
why would I stay home?

Ah, yes.
The Year of the Monkey.

Down in Dogpatch,
they will be

shooting up
enough fireworks

to drive away the evil spirits
for another year.

This is Jimmy.
Lieutenant Mc--

Lieutenant Goldman
and Lieutenant McKay.

Gentlemen, welcome
to my humble establishment.

I have the greatest
respect for you

and what you are trying
to do for my country.

Jimmy's a genuine
philosopher.

Well, I'm glad
somebody appreciates us.

I got to stop
by the men's room.

Yes, but I am afraid
that the masses

are not attuned
to the Americans as I am,

but you can't
blame them.

They have seen
the Chinese, Japanese, French,

come and go
in their time.

And I suppose they think
we'll be leaving too.

One difference:

The Americans
come and crusade

to improve our standard
of living, our lives,

but we cannot afford
what you want to give to us.

Motorcars, television,

better homes,
air conditioning...

You know,
the prices of food

have doubled and redoubled
since you arrived.

So, what do
the people do?

Oh, but war is good
for business, Jimmy, right?

[CHUCKLES]

Depends upon
the, uh, clientele.

Listen, what did you
hear from Jake Bridger

before he went to
that great PX in the sky?

I heard he was killed
a week or so ago.

He was merely
a passing acquaintance.

Please, sit down
and enjoy yourselves.

Excuse me, please.
Thank you.

[PHONE RINGS NEARBY]

Ahem. Jimmy's heavy
in the black market.

This Bridger owed his soul
to the company store,

and in Saigon,
Jimmy owns the store.

Well, Bridger
put in his 20,

and he was
on his way out

when I was
on my way in,

but some of the guys
in my outfit

had an investment
going with him.

Whatever it was,
they can kiss it goodbye.

So how did
Bridger die?

Well, the word on the street
is the VC killed him.

I talked to him about five
or six days before it happened,

and he knew
he was in deep.

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

Excuse me,
Lieutenant Goldman.

Telephone call
for you.

Don't rush.

Alex, you work
too hard.

You got to learn
how to relax.

Yeah. Right.

Lieutenant Goldman.

Yes, sir.
Captain Johnson--

Yes, sir. I'm aware of the story
and of the pr--

Yes--

Yes, sir. If you
could just wait until--

Yes, sir. Tell the colonel
I'll be there right away.

I thought I told you not to
write the story about Rivera.

What are you
talking about?

You agreed not to
use Rivera's name.

I didn't use his name.

Well, then, something you put in
that story tipped off the brass.

Look, Myron, I know how
to do my job, all right?

I changed enough details
to totally obscure his identity.

Why does Colonel Phillips want
to speak to me right away, then?

I don't know. Look,
something's wrong here, Myron.

Yeah, something is wrong.

Your holier-than-thou attitude
and pontifications

about the war,
about the Army,

and about people's
right to know.

You can kill somebody
in print

just as easily as you can
with an M-16.

Myron.

I knew the guy
had a short fuse,

but I think he was
tough on you,

no matter what happened.

I'm telling you,
Johnny,

there was no way
they could have gotten Rivera

from what I wrote.

Look, I'm sure
you're right,

but let's not let it ruin
our evening, okay?

You mean, Bridger
didn't mention anything

about
our partnership?

He wouldn't do this to me.
He was my buddy.

He was anybody's buddy
when he smell a scam.

I was his wife.
I ran the hotel for him.

Then what about
my money I invested?

There is no more money.
Bridger gambled it all away.

Sorry.

Yo, Johnson,
my man,

I've been scoping
the establishment here,

and this place is full
of hot and cold running hookers.

Man, what are you
talking about?

I'm talking about
I think you bought yourself

into a piece
of a cathouse,

or at least thought
you bought yourself a piece.

That damn Bridger.

Purveyor of
the American dream, huh?

Well, your "main man"
has stole all my money.

Yeah, well, that serves us right
for trusting a honky.

Wait, look.
Maybe Bridger had a will.

Yeah, a will. And he mentioned
the partnership in it.

Yeah, and maybe
I'm Ann-Margret

over here
to entertain the troops.

Look, the money's gone.
Forget about it.

Come here. I've got
to show you something.

Check this out.

Now, check this out.

MAN: Open...

TAYLOR: Poker game.

I'll stake
from the base dice game.

We're going to get
your money back, Johnson,

and then some.

Where are you
going?

You want
to party?

Please let me by.

Your number one
guys.

We're the party guys.

Hey, what do you have
in your bag?

Please, just leave me
alone, okay?

Hold it. Hold it right there.
Whoa, whoa.

Please, leave me
alone.

ANDERSON:
Darling, honey.

Sweetheart,
where did you go?

I'm standing there in the lobby
of the hotel,

look around
and you're gone.

This is
my little darling.

See, we were having
an argument,

and she took off and,
you know, fellows like you,

you could understand
something like that.

Honey, this is not
the neighborhood

to go wandering off in,

so you stay
right here, now,

and I'll just get
your bag,

and we'll be
on our way.

I take it y'all ain't from the
Chamber of Commerce, are you?

[FIRES GUN]

Aah!

All right.
All right.

Zeke, please.
I don't care about the bag.

All right,
tell you what.

Let's be reasonable.

You make an offer,

name your price,
and you got it.

We'll take the bags,
be on our way.

[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]

Ah! No, we would like
the bags first.

But we'll make
an adjustment.

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

Welcome to Saigon.

Then you didn't
make out much better

with your meeting
than I did.

No. I did one tour
too many.

A job
in the military

is not like a job at
the local plant, 9 to 5.

I mean...

I mean, you see your buddies
get killed, one by one,

and each time
a little bit of you

gets killed
along with them.

This is my third tour now,

and I'm probably
tempting fate myself.

You loved your wife
a lot.

Mm-hm, yeah.

I remember the day
our daughter Katie was due.

I was coming in
off maneuvers,

and I got word
that Carol was in labor.

I drove
like a wild man

to get to the hospital.
I did.

I got there, and I was
running down the hallway

and knocking
people aside and--

And there Carol was,
holding our baby girl.

I've never seen her
more beautiful

in my entire life.

The trouble is,

I can remember everything
about that day,

I can remember
every single detail,

but I can't,
for the life of me,

remember the date.

Was it the 6th
or the 8th?

I don't have the head
for some things.

Maybe some things
aren't meant to be.

Mmm.

Stacy?

I'm sorry
about your dad.

I mean, aside
from trying to con me

and every other GI
in the hemisphere

out of our life savings,

your old man
wasn't a bad guy.

I had to go through a lot
to get over here,

but I came
to thank him

for a letter that he sent.

[CHUCKLES]

Now it's almost as if he knew
what was going to happen...

and wanted to
make contact with me

after all of those years.

The safest thing
for you to do now

is to just
get on a plane

and go back
to Minneapolis.

I want to go back
to the hotel.

At least find out
who he was.

That's why I came here
to begin with.

And I want to take his ashes
back home with me.

WOMAN [ON RADIO]:
It's been a gorgeous day

here in Saigon, boys.

So how has it been
where you are?

Vanessa wants to know.

There she is again, Ru.

I'm telling you, that's
the sexiest voice I ever heard.

VANESSA:
Then we'll didi back
to the Club Savoy,

where we're locationing
every night this week.

The Club Savoy.

You know, maybe
old Taylor's right.

When we get
into Saigon,

I ought to be
looking this woman up.

Come on, man.

There's more to life

than something
soft and warm, you know.

Oh, yeah, right.
Like what, voodoo?

You know,
you shouldn't knock

what you don't
understand, man.

You know, I've got
an uncle

who they call
the chicken man.

That's because
once a year

he bites the head
off a chicken,

he drinks the blood,
then eats the raw liver.

Gives him great strength.

You're right, buddy.
I don't understand.

MAN:
Let's go. Let's go.

What's the matter
with you, Johnson?

It's Taylor.

He's into a heavy-duty
poker game downstairs,

and those players are
some bad customers.

All right, then,
let's just go down,

get him
out of the game,

get him
back to base.

Uh-uh. He ain't
buying that.

And I tell you,

there's something weird
about this place.

If I didn't know
any better,

I'd say we're in the middle
of VC country.

[GUNSHOTS FIRING]

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

I'm getting the MPs.

There's a Marine
with a gun and a baby.

[BABY CRYING]

Hold it, now.
Hold it, now.

It would be
a national crime

for you to waste all your ammo
on me instead of on Charlie.

Don't come in here.

There's a Marine in there
with a gun.

He has a baby.

That would be Krusak.

Bridger tried to help him,
but he's a crazy kid.

Tried to help him
like he helped me, right?

Don't judge Bridger
until you know all the facts.

Looks like a pretty little girl
there. Am I right?

Now, listen to me.
I got a little girl too.

When's the last time
she had something to eat?

Eat? I don't know.

Where's Kim?

You take her away?
No, no.

Now, you've got to
believe me.

I didn't do
nothing like that.

Somebody, uh,

find out
if anybody knows a Kim.

She's one of the girls
who works here.

Is that the baby's mama?
Her name's Kim?

I-- I love her...

so much it hurts.

Yeah, well, love's
a mighty powerful notion.

It's not her fault.

Ought to be gone from here,

but Bridger never showed
with what we needed.

I don't want
to hurt anybody.

I know you don't. I know
you don't want to hurt anybody.

So you gotta listen to me.

I'm going to walk across
the room now, real slow,

and I want you
to hand me the pistol.

Just real slow.

No problem.

Real slow.

[BABY CRIES]

Kim?

Does she always leave
her door open like this?

Are you
in there?

Kim?

Oh, my God!

I was stationed
at the embassy,

but I'm AWOL.

I was gonna
take Kim with me

if Bridger got
the forged passports.

Why would anybody
do something like that?

Kill her like that?

Why did you go AWOL?

I wanted to marry her,
adopt the baby.

But they jerked me around
on the forms I had to fill out.

So the commander
got upset,

was transferring me
to a rifle platoon

up north with the DMZ.

Hey, Sarge, there's MPs
outside in the lobby.

MP? No way.
I can't deal with that, man.

No-- No way.

All right.
Just calm down now.

I'll go downstairs.
I'll talk to them.

I'll help you
any way I can.

They're here
to take me, right?

Yeah,
they might take you,

but as long as you didn't have
anything to do with Kim's death,

you're gonna be
all right.

No, man, they're
going to say I'm AWOL

and that I killed her.

I can't take that!

MP 1: I'll go around back.
MP 2: All right.

I'll take the baby
to the other room.

I killed her.

I killed her.

I loved her,
and I killed her...

because she was using
what I told her.

Her brother's VC.

She wanted to know
about the embassy:

the layout,
where the guards were,

the defenses.

And she just kept
pumping me and pumping me.

I just-- I just couldn't
take it anymore.

So you did
tell her things?

I told her everything.

I told her everything.

All right,
all right.

Look, listen to me.
Listen to me.

I hate what you did...

but I just figure
you're another victim

of this whole mess

that we're all involved in
over here.

So now, you try
to hold it together

while we sort things out here,
all right?

Hold it together, man?

This whole place
is crawling with VC.

MPs don't get me,
VC will.

[SLAPS THIGH]

All right, Johnson, you stay
here and keep him company.

I'm gonna go downstairs
and talk with the MPs.

Maybe I can get them
to keep it under wraps.

No!

[GUNSHOT]

Sorry. That's all
I can tell you.

MP:
Yeah. I wrote it down.

Oh, man,
that was a damn shame.

You tell them about the girl
asking about the embassy?

No. I want to get back to base
and tell Command.

Johnson, you go yank Taylor
out of that card game

and let's get going.

Come on.

May I speak with you
for a moment?

It's important.

[R & B MUSIC PLAYING]

VANESSA:
And you're listening
to the uptown sounds

of yours truly,
Vanessa Brown,

live from the Club Savoy
in beautiful downtown Saigon.

I wonder if she's a blond,
brunette, maybe a redhead.

I'm telling you, buddy,
a voice like that,

this girl has got to be
from the Midwest,

strictly class,
probably from Chicago.

Look, I'm
telling you, Danny,

this isn't where
we ought to be, man.

Let's just
get out of here.

Come on, Ru,
I'm getting fed up

with this hoodoo voodoo
crap of yours.

Danny,
I'm a marked man.

You're fine.

Oh, buddy,
there she is.

[PEOPLE CHATTING, CHEERING]

She ain't
from Chicago.

She is gorgeous.

Hey, I'm in love.

Hello.

Hi there.

Are you a soldier?

Hey, what tipped you off?

That's right, yeah,
and proud of it.

Well, you should be.

We're proud of
all you boys here.

So where are you
stationed?

Well, I just got transferred
into Tan Son Nhut.

Really? I have some friends
who work there.

You do? Well,
maybe I know them.

Well, what do you do?

Um, well, me and my buddy--

Well, actually, right now

we're working
on some stuff that's--

Well, it's top-secret.
It's classified and all that.

Lieutenant McKay,
Miss Devlin.

Great place, huh?

Yeah, it's a great place.

Uh, sir,
is there any chance

I can get a ride with you
back to base when you leave?

Not a chance, Ruiz,
but no offense.

Yes, sir.

Listen, you see
that lieutenant of yours,

tell him I'm looking for him,
all right?

Yeah, sure.
Thanks.

Hey, Ru.
Ru, it's all set, man.

Let's get a beer.
What's all set?

I got a date with Vanessa as
soon as she gets off her shift.

She's got a girl
for you.

Forget it, Percell.

I told you I got
a bad feeling about Saigon.

I just want
to get out of here.

Look, man,
I got it all greased.

You know what
I told her?

I told her the stuff you and I
are doing at the base

is totally strategic
and completely classified.

There you go, man.
You're lying again.

I'm also here
killing people, Ru,

but that doesn't make me
a bad person, does it?

You okay?

You know, Myron didn't want me
to file that story.

Maybe I should have
listened to him.

Well, believe me,
he'll be all right.

He's not in any trouble
with anyone,

just on a little snipe hunt
down the Phu Loc highway.

Snipe hunt?
What are you talking about?

Myron didn't say anything
about the Phu Loc highway.

Yeah, well, we were told
it was dead out there anyway.

You don't listen
to a thing I say, do you?

What you're told sometimes

has nothing to do
with the way it is.

Now, what's going on?

What can I say?

The call Goldman got
was staged.

Staged?

Mm-hm.

So hate me.

Look, I wanted
to be with you, okay? Alone.

When I left you
at the restaurant

and went
to the men's room,

I set it up.

That call was phony?

Yeah, a buddy
who owed me

impersonated
Captain Judson.

Why the Phu Loc highway?

I figured the further the
wild-goose chase, the better.

My buddy told Goldman

that Colonel Phillips
was out there

with a Swedish news team.

Wait. Where
are you going?

Where the hell
do you think?

There's VC activity
all over there.

Look, hold on,
hold on, hold on.

Okay, I'll take you.

I never would have sent Goldman
out there if I knew

there was any real danger.

That was
a stupid thing to do!

Hey, he's probably
back at base by now

short-sheeting my rack.

Or tying a grenade to it.

Look, there he is.

Aah!

Ugh!

Aah!

Five hundred dollars.

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

[MAN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

Taylor, come on.
I got to talk to you.

Not now, breeze,
I'm on a roll.

Four nasty nines,
meet four lovely ladies.

MP: Go downstairs.
I'll go around back.

Hey, what's going on?
I've been trying to tell you.

There's been a shooting.

There's White Mice
and MPs all over.

MPs?

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

[PEOPLE SPEAKING
RAPID VIETNAMESE]

Hold up.

Hold up? Hell,
she got our money.

Damn it, Marcus,
would you listen to me?

You told me.
There's been a shooting.

But it ain't more important
than getting this money back.

WOMAN: You give me more.
Listen.

WOMAN:
I get it. You give me more.

Bridger!

Uh, go ahead.

Hey, you're
supposed to be--

BRIDGER:
Yeah, dead, right?

I know, but that
ain't exactly the truth.

You will be
when I get my hands

around your neck!

Hey, man, Johnson,
lighten up.

I invested every penny
I had in this world.

I was gonna
make good...

until the VC moved in.

They got our hotel.
They won't get me.

He's telling the truth
for the first time in his life.

[LAUGHS]

Zeke-a-deke!

You got the papers
from Lisa?

Yeah, I got
the papers from Lisa.

I ought to let
Johnson have you

for what you
put him through.

Listen, man.
I don't blame you if you do.

But first, take a look
at the papers.

Coffin full of AK-47s.

Obviously, he doesn't
read Vietnamese.

They're VC
operational orders.

Tells you where the weapons
caches are, satchel charges.

Yeah, more AK-47s.
So what?

No, no, no. That's what
I'm talking about.

I mean, they're storing them
in graves,

and not just
cemeteries in Saigon.

All over, man.

Zeke, this is
a major move.

Keep talking,
Bridger.

No.

Next time I talk
will be

in front of that big
air conditioner in MACV.

You son of a bitch.

The only reason
you know what Charlie's doing

is because you've
been working with him.

No. I just sold
the rooms.

It's not my fault
some dumb GI's

gonna tell those hookers
their whole life story.

The least
you could have done

was told the dumb GI
the hookers were VC.

I did my 20 years,
and I'm done educating GIs.

Besides, you think
MACV cares

where I got my information?

I don't like
the smell of this,

and I definitely
don't like you.

The best thing to do
is just get him back to MACV.

You're right,

and I got the jeep
downstairs.

I'm telling you,
he's incredible.

Johnson,
get the jeep.

Wait a minute.
Whoa, whoa.

It's already
past curfew.

We need something.

Here, take this.

Dad?

STACY:
They told me
you were dead.

I know they did.

Uh, honey,
I'm sorry about that.

What do you mean?

You mean, you knew
I was here,

and you let me believe?

Look, I was gonna tell you.
Believe me.

When? When were you
going to tell me?

Stacy, you got to
understand something.

Your old man,
he makes big mistakes,

and I had to make people
think I was dead,

and if you knew that,
you would have been in danger.

Bridger,
let's go.

Zeke, this is important.

Let me bring her
to the hotel--

No! I'm going
with you.

Look, you came a long way
to find your father.

You didn't find much.

I'm still glad
I found you.

Let's do it.

Myron.

Myron, look, the whole thing
was stupid,

and Johnny's
admitted it.

I damn near got killed
out there!

Hey, Goldman. I'm sorry.
What can I say?

Right here,
if you feel like it.

I guess I deserved that.

I don't like
playing games.

Neither do I.
Are you gonna deck me too?

All right, fine.
You wanted a story on Tet?

This is a map

outlining the defenses
of Tan Son Nhut.

These are
blank civilian ID cards

so you can get
on the base.

I took them off the VC
that I killed.

Damn.

Charlie's gonna be
paying us a visit.

[SIGHS]

VANESSA:
You know, Danny,

you're a real
disappointment.

Oh, hang on.

I thought you were
going to tell me more

about that exciting job
of yours.

Why is it all you seem to want
to know about

is my exciting job
at Tan Son Nhut?

You know, you never one time
asked me where I was from.

Ru, old buddy, did anyone ever
ask you where you were from?

I don't care
where I'm from,

just where
I'm headed, huh.

Hey, hold up.

Jeez, we're
in no man's land.

Where are we?

I told you.
I live here.

Don't you want to come
to my house?

Percell.

But it is
after curfew, and--

[GUNS FIRING]

Old buddy, tell me that
that was firecrackers.

Firecrackers, hell.
That was gunfire.

We've got to get
back to base.

Percell! Oh!

VANESSA:
Uh!

Damn it!

Ru!

Ru, buddy,
tell me you're okay.

Yeah.
Come on, sit up.

I'm telling you, another bullet
with my name on it.

I told you. I told you
I'm a marked man.

Look, Ru,
they were VC.

Buddy, we got to go.

Come on. Come on.

[MORTARS WHIRRING]

[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]

[AIR RAID SIREN WAILING]

[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]

That ain't fireworks
for the Tet New Year,

I can tell you that.

Take cover!

Aah!

Aah!

All right, there's an MP
with a radio.

Taylor!

Yo!

Can you cover us?
TAYLOR: Yo!

All right,
let's go!

Okay, Taylor,
let's go!

All right,
we're moving up.

Watch the rooftops.

Let's do it!

What the hell
is going down here?

Fighting's going on
all over the city,

including
the American Embassy

and government
radio station.

We got two
American civilians here.

Where do we take them?

There's
an Army headquarters

about two blocks
that way.

We'll cover you.

All right,
we're going across.

Zeke!

Ugh!
No!

Aah! Ohh!

[SOBS]

I tried, huh?

[COUGHS]

Well, I messed up,
huh, Stacy?

No.

Hey, you saved my butt.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah.

[COUGHING]

[SOBBING]

ANDERSON:
Let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go!

Look alive,
stay alive.

All right,
the 199th has everything

from Thong Nhut Boulevard
south.

We got everything
from here to the embassy.

The Marines got
that situation under control?

Well, they took the VC
off the grounds this morning,

but they took some casualties.
I don't know how many.

All right, well, LT,
do me a favor.

Next time
that lady correspondent

tries to tell you
something, you listen.

Sergeant, I told her
I would listen.

She told me
she would buy me dinner.

If you live
till dinner.

I'll just take
the high ground.

LT, in Saigon,
there is no high ground.

I know that.

All right, let's go.

Let's do it.
Let's do it.

Watch the roofs.

Watch for booby traps.

Keep your intervals.

Stay alive.

DEVLIN:
"Dateline Saigon.

"The bold, massive attacks
on Saigon

"and nearly every province
and district capital

"across South Vietnam

"were shocking.

"For years the North Vietnamese
and Vietcong

"have fought
in the rice fields and jungles.

"Now, for the first time,
they're fighting in the cities

"in their biggest offensive
of the war,

"demonstrating an ability

"to plan and coordinate
a nationwide attack.

"This raises new questions
about enemy strength

"and the prospects
for American victory.

"To say we are now closer

"to the light
at the end of the tunnel

is to fly in the face
of all evidence."

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