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Lieutenant, we got a bunch of goops coming over the bridge.

You know the orders, Corporal. Nobody crosses our line.

They look like civilians, sir.

They always look like civilians, Corporal.

Sir, there's women and children.

Handle it.

What are you supposed to do? Go back!

Go on! Go back!

Happened early in the Korean War on a bridge near the village of Kangso -ri,

Koreans were killed.

I read about it, sir. The press is reporting American soldiers massacred

civilian refugees there. We've been dealing with these alleged massacre

for 50 years now.

General Wolf headed an army inquiry into similar allegations six years ago.

Found no criminal liability.

South Korean government signed off on it.

The North Koreans called it a whitewash, of course. And now we have these new

articles in the American press.

Some former American soldiers have given interviews admitting they killed

civilian refugees.

Those civilian refugees were infiltrated by North Korean regulars, which you

will take into account when you conduct your new investigation.

Colonel Wolf will assist you. Or you can just read my report.

My government came to power with a promise to defend human rights.

But, of course, we still value highly our close relationship with the United

States. After the sacrifices our boys made in that hellhole, It'd be a damn

shame if all anyone remembers is some politically correct investigations.

Colonel, Commander, I'll see you on the plane.

I've arranged for a liaison to meet you in Seoul, since I unfortunately will not

be able to greet you personally in my hellhole of a country.

Pleasure, sir.

Admiral.

Civilians are combatants.

Sounds like Vietnam.

Old generation earlier.

Find what witnesses you can. Examine documents.

Sounds like everyone will be happier if we find nothing, sir.

Everyone but me. Get the truth, no matter what it is. That'll be all.

Yes, sir.

Look, huh?

Who's your buddy?

What?

He said it's a burpee bear for little AJ. Apparently very hard to find.

Got the last one in Virginia.

Got the last one in Virginia.

Wow.

I'm going to leave before he does that again.

He speaks better than you do, bud.

Wow,

an 18 -hour flight. Could be going to Australia.

Wish we were.

Harm!

Renee!

Hey, you didn't have to see me, huh?

I'm not.

I'm going.

Going where?

Korea.

Hello, Ms. Peterson.

Major, please, call me Renee.

It's Colonel, but you can call me Mac.

Oh, Harm. Harm, this is Mickey Gallo, my cameraman. Mickey, say hello to my

commander. Commander Harmon Rabb.

And this is Charlie Hoskins, former Corporal Charlie Hoskins. You gave

interviews for some of the articles.

And he's going to give the best one yet for me at the Kangso Rebridge.

I'm doing a segment for a ZNN Korean War documentary.

On the alleged massacre.

Isn't it great?

A chance to move at a commercial?

Plus, we'll get a chance to be together.

Hello?

Nick?

I miss you too.

Enough to move my ring to your left hand?

Uh, well... Still on your right, is it?

For now.

Look, Nick, I can't really talk right now. I'm about to get on a plane.

Oh, beautiful. You coming over to see me?

No, not this week. It's business.

I'll get it.

An officer and a gentleman.

Sir, can you help me in your bag for me, please?

Sure.

And if you find anything that doesn't need cleaning or pressing, you can have

it.

Romeo and Juliet, Churchill.

Strictly illegal, not even Cuban.

Corporal Hoskin.

I guess we have you to thank for this, Phil.

I'm not a corporal, General.

I haven't been for 50 years.

Why did you make those statements now?

Maybe he wanted to clear his conscience.

Is that right, Hoskins? Do you consider yourself a war criminal?

No, sir.

I do not.

Good.

I'm going to need to take a formal statement at an appropriate time, Mr.

Hoskins. Not a problem, Commander.

I'm 70 years old. I got a prostate that's probably killing me. I just, you

I want to get out what happened so that people smarter than me could figure out

the rights and the wrongs of it.

What did happen, Hoskins?

What happened, General?

I was an 18 -year -old draftee directing traffic in Yokohama, handing out

Hershey bars to hungry kids.

When suddenly we hear there's fighting in Korea.

I didn't even know what Korea was.

Our CEO tells us to pack our summer dress uniforms. He says we're going to

the commies' butts in a couple of weeks and have a big parade in Seoul.

One year later, half the men in my platoon are dead.

I never did get a chance to wear that dress uniform.

I know what you did there, Mr. Hoskins.

Most people have no idea.

They call it the forgotten war, you know. I just...

Thought it was time for somebody to remember.

You ever see action,

Colonel?

Some.

You know, I shot B -roll of the Marines in Haiti.

Did you?

But I never saw a leatherneck that looked like you.

He's old. He's sick.

He's stewing about something that happened 50 years ago.

Something? He shot two dozen civilian refugees.

He feels bad about it, wouldn't you?

I see you're going into this documentary with an open mind.

Anything you have to say, General, I'll be happy to hear.

How about this?

Two days before the incident at Kung So Ri, American soldiers let some refugees

pass on a road near Yon Chon.

They thought there were pregnant women in the group, but they weren't pregnant.

And they weren't women.

They were NKPA troops with hand grenades and belly packs.

Eleven Americans were blown to pieces.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain, Bill Armstead.

Well, if you can document that, it'll be in my piece.

If I can document it?

How about you, Commander?

Are you prepared to accept the word of the United States Army? I have 10 ,000

pages of Army reports on my desk back at JAG.

Oh, great. There go our weekends when we get back home.

Do you two, uh...

Know each other?

Yes, sir, we do.

Well, I see you're making friends and influencing generals.

Mac, I would love to put you in my documentary. You would be so attractive

screen if we could just get you out of that awful uniform.

Thanks. Well, I mean, who could look good in those drab colors?

Not me, I guess.

Look, I just want you both to know how excited I am to be working with you.

You're not working with us, Renee.

We can help each other.

You have the official report, right? I have access to people who wouldn't trust

you. I've already talked to the North Koreans, protesters from South Korea.

Anything we discover is confidential until the report is published, if it's

published. Harm, the last confidential document in Washington was Abraham

Lincoln's diary.

It's quid pro quo. That's the way the system works.

Not my system.

Well...

I guess I don't know your system as well as I thought.

Excuse me, General.

Ladies and gentlemen, your captain.

We have just crossed the international date line.

We'll be arriving in Seoul, South Korea in six hours, 15 minutes.

We already see the opening.

Charlie Hoskins walks across the bridge, the same path the refugees took. Then

we hear gunshots and dissolve to black and white.

Miss Peterson, do any of you journalists advance your careers by reporting on

honorable people doing honorable things?

Fireman Saves Cat and Tree, tape at 11.

I'd like my dinner now, please.

We'll be serving in a few minutes. Did you just return to your seat?

It's a vegetarian meal.

What?

Where are the vegetarian meals?

What are you doing after we get to fill?

Do you want anything from the galley?

Like ice water?

Better not be lasagna again, young he.

No, it's a chef's surprise.

Lady, you sure you want to be doing this?

Quite. All right. What do you want?

A small change in your flight plan.

We barely have enough fuel to reach Seoul.

It will be sufficient.

Set a new court for North Korea.

Everybody stay in your seats.

Stand and you will be shot.

My comrades and I have taken command over this aircraft in the name of the

Korean people.

We have no grievance against most of you.

We have taken this action to serve justice.

General Worth, Corporal Hoskins, you are indicted by the People for Crimes

Against Humanity, Hoskins, for slaughtering refugees at Gangseori

September 4th, 1950.

Worth, for covering up that crime.

If this was really about justice, you wouldn't need the guns.

Harm.

All right, you know...

you, AJ?

I love you, AJ.

Lieutenant, Harman Mack's plane has been hijacked.

What?

Hell, I don't know. Some group intent on refighting the Korean War. Look, Syknet

is on his way over here. We're going to monitor the situation in the conference

room. I want you to go to the CIA.

You find Webb. He may know more than we do.

All right, sir.

Lieutenant, unless you know Morse code, you might want to take this... Whatever.

We should have let the past stay buried.

How the hell did they know we were on this plane anyway?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, I... I talked to the North Koreans and the South Korean protesters.

I am so sorry.

You're probably just worried about how you're going to rearrange your

knickknacks to make room for an Emmy.

General, with all due respect, sir, we should deal with the situation at hand

and save the recriminations for later.

Fine.

What are you going to do?

They're well organized, sir.

They keep their eyes open.

One of them is always in a cockpit.

There's five of them and 300 of us. We could probably take these two up here,

sir, but they would shoot some people before we did it.

Maybe.

I'm the senior officer here, and I'll be damned if I'm going to North Korea

without a fight.

If I see fit to give you an order, I expect you to follow it.

How many people do you want to see killed?

Coffee? Tea?

Strategy?

Mac? I convinced the woman they call her Nola that people need beverages.

See what you can find that we can use for a weapon.

Keep moving!

Thank you.

That their position, sir?

It is. On radar track.

NSA is tapping into their communications.

We're getting a feed in here so that we can see and hear what they're doing.

Well, what about us? What are we doing?

We are talking to the North Koreans.

We don't think they're behind this. They've been cooperating with us lately,

know, up to a point.

Yeah, they promised not to build nuclear weapons, and we paid them off by

building nuclear power plants. That's diplomatic extortion.

Yes, and they probably won't want to give it up.

Any new demands from the hijackers?

No. They say they just want to try Mr. Hoskins and General Wolf for war crimes.

What about my people?

I don't know, AJ.

What are you doing?

I'm getting blankets. Some of the passengers are cold.

I'll give you permission.

No one. I'm just doing my job.

Do it when I tell you.

With Colonel McKenzie.

Don't play stupid with me.

Lieutenant Colonel S. McKenzie is on the passenger manifest.

He didn't make it on the plane.

I don't believe you.

He got bronchitis last night.

If you don't believe me, call Bethesda Naval Hospital.

I cannot risk getting jumped by some colonel who wants to be a general.

Tell me where the colonel is.

Or I kill your friend.

Harm. You would shoot an innocent civilian.

Only one.

Corporal Hoskins here shot a couple dozen.

I'd like this.

You don't know what it was like. I don't?

Two of my grandparents were killed at Gangsori, probably by you. Your

grandfather wouldn't by any chance have been in the North Korean army.

You're going to be dealt with.

You're going to be dealt with.

Now where is Colonel McKenzie?

I'm Colonel McKenzie.

A woman soldier?

Just like you.

These are the ones we've identified.

They come out of a radical student group in Seoul University.

What?

Oh,

this isn't an interrogation room. It's a reception room.

It's a mirror.

This is Seola Jung.

This is Kwon Kun -un.

And this is...

It's a mirror.

Anything else from the CIA?

The last reported activity of this group was burning down an American sneaker

factory.

Sneakers? They said it exploited the Korean workers.

We've got Roberts over there trying to pry things open.

Good luck.

Check wooden.

Yes. Search for you.

Thank you.

Yes.

They what?

Thank you.

The North Koreans have spoken.

The hijackers are counter -revolutionary anarchist adventurers.

The plane will not be allowed to enter North Korean airspace.

They say if we enter North Korean airspace, they will shoot us down.

I'll tell them again who we have on board.

They know who we have on board. It doesn't matter to them.

Then you're all going to die.

What were you going to do?

Do about what?

Once Ola had the gun on Renee, who were you going to protect, her or me?

Well, you've stepped forward, Mac. I guess we'll never know.

All passengers except these will move to the lower cabin.

What are you doing with them?

Getting them out of our way.

Miss Peterson, do you have your camera?

Why? To record history.

We are not sure where we are going to land, so we have our trial here.

And you will document it.

The hell she will.

Actually, General... Here it comes.

It's my duty.

It's news.

Who's the judge?

Me. Who's the jury?

We don't play by your rules. Do you play by any rules?

This is a farce. The defendants can plead their cases.

If you and Colonel McKenzie want to represent them, we listen to you up to a

point. I'm not going to waste my breath.

Mr. Hoskins?

You'll listen to me?

Of course.

Don't be a fool, Hoskins.

I'll tell my story.

Mickey, the camera.

Discord is now in session.

Sir,

we have a carrier in the Sea of Japan. We have Air Force bases in South Korea.

May I suggest that we put up fighters?

If we put up fighters, the North Koreans are going to react.

If we don't send up fighters, they may shoot down a civilian aircraft.

The hijackers know that. And they may not care, damn it, and I do, sir.

Sir, with all due respect, what do we know about these people? I mean, what

hell do they want other than some show trial?

They already have something.

I just hope they don't know it.

Sir?

General Wolf.

He's our liaison with South Korea's intelligence agency.

He knows who we have in North Korea.

He knows which North Korean agents have turned.

If Pyongyang get their hands on him.

Charles Hoskins, you are charged with the willful murder of 23 Korean

near the village of Kangso -ri.

General Zachary Wolf, you are charged for covering up such crimes in the

interest of making such massacres possible in the future.

You getting this, Ms. Peterson?

You still going to be filming when they carry us out in body bags?

You're not helping yourself, General.

Give me a weapon, I'll do myself some good.

Sola, don't give up.

And keep him out of my briefcase.

We're looking for evidence.

Don't you use evidence in your trial?

Your inquiry report.

From the classified summary, whatever the provocation, it is clear that at

some Korean civilians... were deliberately targeted by American

Excuse me. Could you move away from the window? We're getting some glare.

I think that makes the case.

Are you going to answer the entire report into evidence?

You may proceed, Commander.

Mr. Hopkins, do you want to tell us what happened at Kong So Ri?

Yes, sir.

It's been raining.

The refugees come out of a mist, all dressed in white like ghosts.

I told them to stop.

I warned them.

I thought I saw one of them reaching for a gun.

And then?

We opened fire, Benny and McFall and me.

The women and the children and the old people.

Did you shoot them too?

I've been sorry for 15 years.

I don't know if the hijackers have any connections in North Korea.

I've told you everything we know.

Yeah, I know Harman Mack are on the plane.

And we don't think this means very much, but this solo woman was seen with a

North Korean diplomat in Hanoi.

This North Korean is someone of interest to us.

This North Korean is someone of interest to us.

Would you open that, please?

Give me the bear.

No. Lieutenant, you can stay or you can leave, but that bear is not leaving this

building with classified information.

Let's put that day at the bridge in perspective, Mr. Hopkins.

Yes, sir.

I'd like nothing better.

How long had you been in country?

Two weeks.

Had you experienced combat?

We were mostly retreating, but yes, sir, they attacked us.

We didn't have any armor. Our bazookas were firing duds half the time our

didn't work, and we were outnumbered.

I was green as grass when I first got there.

I never used a pig sticker for anything except to open K -rations.

Pig sticker?

It's a bayonet.

First time I used one for real, we were being infiltrated from the rear.

I stabbed one.

My blade, uh, stuck in his gut.

I killed another with an entrenching tool.

Kid.

Really?

Just like me.

I beat him to death with a shovel.

Oh, we didn't know what we were doing, you know. Guys in our outfit were doing

all kind of brave, crazy things.

Like shooting old women?

My friends were getting killed all around me.

What were your orders at Kung So Re?

Don't let anyone cross our lines.

Did you question the order?

I told the lieutenant that there were women and children in the group, and he

told me to handle it. Did you consider that an unlawful order? You had a right

to disobey?

No, sir.

We were told about John Sean and how those so -called refugees were killing

guys.

I'm not a criminal.

But I... I did shoot civilians.

He confesses.

Wait a minute.

Mr. Hoskins, you told me earlier about your family. Let's just leave them out.

No, we can't.

Do you have any pictures of your children?

They're all grown up.

I got an old picture in my wallet here.

Show it to us.

What are

their

names?

See in the middle here, that's my daughter, son, too, and these are my

-Jen and Young -Sum.

You adopted Korean War orphans.

Yeah.

In the war, I called the people gooks.

Everybody did. I mean, you know, we didn't know any better.

But I learned Koreans, Chinese, Americans,

we all died the same.

This is supposed to help your defense.

It tells you who Charlie Hoskins is.

Yes, an imperialist soldier who brings home souvenirs from conquered lands.

Now, you hold on there, lady.

These are my children. Why did you adopt them? Because I... Because you felt

guilty.

Because you are guilty.

See? Good as new.

Little AJ will love it.

I love you! Let's go to the park! What have you done to him?

Charlie Hoskins was a 19 -year -old kid from a working -class family in Indiana.

His father worked at the Studebaker factory.

Charlie would have worked there, too, if he hadn't been drafted and sent to

Japan in peacetime.

Later in Korea,

Charlie watched as his fellow troops died around him.

He'd heard about North Korean troops sneaking south disguised as refugees,

he received an order to stop this from happening.

If Charlie had not followed orders and fired upon the refugees that day at

Kangso -ri, one of them might have shot and killed him.

You don't know that's true, Commander.

You don't know that it isn't true.

I'm sorry about your grandparents.

And Charlie is sorry, too.

But condemning this man isn't fair.

It isn't just.

It isn't right.

Anything else, Commander?

If you do this, you will be hunted to the ends of the earth. I'm afraid that

won't be necessary.

We're landing in Seoul, since no other place will take us. In a few minutes,

I'll be captured.

And killed.

So we carry out the sentence now. Quan!

You forgot the verdict.

Did I?

Guilty.

General, I'm sorry.

Keep filming, Miss Peterson.

You definitely want to get this.

People will see the tape. You don't want it to end like this.

This is the way it has to end.

You'll be viewed as a barbarian. I'm done arguing with you, Commander. Do you

want to join them?

Sola, the General is working with the South Korean intelligence.

He's carrying this agenda for a meeting tomorrow.

Current state of counterintelligence versus the DPRK.

Attending.

Major General Zachary Wolf.

U .S. Army Intelligence Liaison. Are you a spy, Master General Worf? If you're

going to shoot me, shoot me.

Penetration of the North Korean General Intelligence Bureau.

This is why you covered up the massacre.

Because you are still fighting the war.

Gun down, Kwan.

North Korea may let us announce your loss.

They're turning north.

And the North Koreans are scrambling MiGs to intercept.

They're going to shoot it down, sir.

Not if they turn away.

You're relying on the good sense of hijackers?

Turn that up.

They claim

50 miles out into the Sea of Japan.

We've got to send up fighters, sir.

Even if the plane doesn't turn back, our people think that the North Koreans

will let it land. We're sending them tons of food every month, plus the power

plants. They need our goodwill.

Goodwill? What people are telling you this, sir? The CIA.

Hello? Robert?

The plane is flying to North Korea, and the CIA is peddling some bushwha about

what's going to happen. Now, you tell Webb. He's got a level with us.

What the hell am I saying? Put him on. Let me tell him.

Webb.

Yeah.

Sorry, I can't help you with that, Admiral. Lieutenant Robertson is just

leaving.

You don't understand.

We have general words and proof that he's a spy master.

He knows the South Korean spies among you. He knows which of your spies have

betrayed you. I repeat.

Tell your superiors.

Clearance denied.

Tell them. Those people don't mess around.

You will be shut down. Set the course for Pyongyang.

They'll change their minds.

You didn't hear it from me, but Heumann tells of power struggle in DPRK

military.

Prognosis plane will be shot down.

And the CIA is keeping that a secret.

Yeah, it's because they'd rather have a plane shot down than protect the

intelligence secrets in General Wolfe's head.

The decision's been made not to show force.

So I make it, sir.

Only the president can do that.

Chegwitten, put me through to the White House.

I think you better let me go to the cockpit.

What? Because I'm a combat pilot and it looks like you're going to need one.

You stay where you are.

We've got to turn back.

Keep going.

They'll kill us.

Couldn't you plow to Pyongyang?

Tie her up!

I'll tie her up.

What took you so long?

Watch out!

They're getting in position to shoot us down.

That won't stop them for long.

Oceanic 105, this is US Air Force Eagle 1. Flight lead inbound with radar

locked. Eagle 1, Oceanic 105, US Navy at the controls.

Navy? I've got two MiGs on my six.

We are, Buster. 30 seconds away.

Apology accepted if you splash those MiGs. Roger.

In case.

MiGs are bugging out. You want to escort to South Korea?

Roger that.

Take me home.

Can you land that bus, Navy?

Sure, I can land this thing.

Daniel?

Let's hope so.

Local lights open descending.

Roger that.

Correcting.

This baby's got all the moves of a whale.

It's called inertia, Navy. You're sitting at the top of 200 tons of

Clear to land. Call gear down.

Gear down.

Decrease your sink rate. Remember, you're sitting five stories up. Don't

into the ground.

Next time I take the boat.

Did you pass off easy?

Watch out.

If you were still on active duty, Hoskins, I'd put you in for a

Never gone to scratch, General.

Whole first time I was here.

How's your movie looking, Miss Peterson?

Happy ending. It'll sell.

And if they'd shot us, what were you going to do with the tape?

We still have an investigation to conduct, sir. Indeed we do.

We'll start tomorrow morning and take it where it leads.

Aye, aye.

Well?

Took a hijacking to open the general's mind.

Took Charlie Hoskins.