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Ca Lu,
half a click that way, two-nine-zero.
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-I say we go right up the middle.
-Negative.
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One round flank up the hill,
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the other one right through the swamp.
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Heads, you get the hill.
Tails, you get the swamp.
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Flip the mother fucker.
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-See you in Ca Lu.
-All right.
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Delta Two, what's your SITREP? Over.
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What do you got, Gibson?
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Nothing, sir.
Delta One, Delta Two, SITREP. Over.
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Two-one, contact! Contact way out!
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Cease fire! Cease fire!
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Go, go, go. Let's get 'em!
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Come outta there!
Come outta there!
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Put your hands on your head!
Get on your knees now!
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Come on! Down, down.
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Come on out of there! Now!
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How many you slopes are out here?
Huh?
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What's your unit? What's in it?
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Tuan, get over here!
Talk to these mother fuckers!
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Find out how many of them are here!
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Where are they?
What's in it? Talk to me, goddamn it!
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Aah!
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Two, this is One Actual. Where are you?
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Uuh!
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Other side of the tree line.
I'm in the water unable to withdraw.
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Unable to withdraw! I'm calling in
a fire mission on this position!
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-Hurry up and drop that arty!
-They're all over!
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Go left! Get out there!
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Tell this man to get on that
radio and pull his men off Hodges.
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Tell him to break contact and
move his men north of Ca Lu!
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Tell him I ain't playin'!
Pull his men off Hodges now!
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I ain't bullshittin' with you.
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Either you call your men off Hodges,
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or this mother fucker's
dead and you're next.
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Last warnin'!
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Uuh!
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Call your men off Hodges now!
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If he does, he can go.
He's got my word on that.
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If you don't,
I'll kill you where you stand.
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Two, this is One Actual.
You still with me?
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Crank off a pop-up if
you're still alive.
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You got a reprieve, you hear me?
You don't get to die today.
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'You got your 'Hail Mary'.
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Hey!
It's the colonel with his cover on!
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All right! Make way, make way!
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-I guess the drinks are on me.
-All right!
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At ease! Listen up.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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the reason we're all here,
Colonel Hayes Hodges.
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He's calling it a career after 32
years of distinguished service.
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All right, all right.
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Colonel,
we got you a gift and a surprise,
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so don't act like you're
not coming up here.
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Speech! Speech! Speech!
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Speech! Speech! Speech!
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Hey, my man!
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Good to see you.
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You damn well better be. I came
halfway 'round the world for this.
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Hey, get up here.
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Speech!
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The sword, Colonel.
You know the story, Hayes.
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Marine Lieutenant Presley O'Banion
defeated the Barbary pirates...
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on the shores of Tripoli in 1805.
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Out of gratitude,
the pasha gave him the Mameluke sword.
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Marine officers have
carried one ever since.
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It's the symbol of a warrior,
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and you are a warrior.
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The best I ever served with.
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This man's been riding a
desk for the past 28 years,
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but not because he wanted to.
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He knows how to fight.
It's in his blood. Ah-ooh!
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What are you Donna do now, Colonel?
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Well, uh... Well.
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Heh! No more wars to fight,
no more trials to lose.
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So I expect I'll do
some teaching at V.M.I.
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I will recon the local restaurants
in a concerted effort...
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to find out what civilians eat.
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Of course, I intend to
continue serving my country...
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by honourably depleting
the trout streams...
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of the Southern United
States with my fly rod!
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That's about it.
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Let's get outta here.
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-I missed you.
-Yeah, I missed you too.
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How's the kid, the smart Hodges?
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You know, he studies more than
any two people. I never see him.
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-You gotta fix that.
-Yeah.
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-Got my orders.
-Oh, yeah? What?
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Got command of the 24th
Marine Expeditionary Unit.
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-Special Operations capable.
-Congrats. Huh! Congrats.
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-Yeah.
-Outstanding.
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All I gotta do is lash 'em together,
take 'em to sea.
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That's, uh... outstanding.
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You ain't missin' nothin', Hodge.
It's a whole new ball game.
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No friends,
no enemies, no front, no rear.
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No victories,
no defeats, no Mama, no Papa.
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-Yeah.
-We're orphans out there.
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It's funny, you know?
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One guy walks out through a swamp,
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he gets to come home to a desk.
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Another guy drives up a hill and
he gets to still be doin' it,
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all over the flip of a goddamn coin.
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You know, that's...
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It's funny.
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You gave good service to the corps,
Hodge.
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To think otherwise would
be just plain crazy.
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-You'd have gotten your command.
-Oh, yeah, sure.
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00:14:55,975 --> 00:14:56,984
What's up, John?
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Terry, we've been ordered to
the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden.
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This comes straight down Second
Division through General Perry.
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The American Embassy in
Yemen is surrounded...
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by a crowd of demonstrators.
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The crowd isn't hostile,
but it's large enough...
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to spook their government into
pulling their security forces.
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Twenty-fourth Marine Expeditionary
Unit's
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Donna provide extra security.
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We're Donna baby-sit, Colonel.
Just show our presence.
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Remember, though, if it turns hot,
we're looking at an evac.
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We got an ambassador and his family
there.
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Let me run you through this.
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Here's your potential L.Z.S.
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Marines at the embassy advise we can
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gain entrance through the back way.
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Here's some stairs where you
can deploy your men to the roof.
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These are your over-watch positions.
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I'll take them in myself quietly.
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One platoon, TRAP team,
put everyone else on Ready Five.
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My thoughts exactly, Colonel.
129
00:17:07,808 --> 00:17:09,839
What's wrong, Tommy?
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The people are upset about some things,
darling.
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-Are they mad at Daddy?
-No, they're not mad at your daddy.
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Why are they yelling?
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They're trying to get attention so
that people will listen to them.
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00:17:51,751 --> 00:17:54,601
Sir, state security analysts
are asking for an assessment.
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00:17:54,643 --> 00:17:56,346
Assessment? We're getting the hell
out of here.
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00:17:56,388 --> 00:17:57,488
That's the assessment.
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00:17:57,683 --> 00:17:59,429
The Sixth Fleet marines are in the air,
sir.
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If they think I'm Donna tough
this one out, they're crazy.
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They're trying to get through.
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Tell Mrs. Mourain to start packing.
We're going home.
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00:18:06,008 --> 00:18:07,528
Shall I indicate we're
ready to evacuate?
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Ask them where the hell
are those helicopters!
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The ambassador wants to
know where the choppers are.
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You heard me.
Where the hell are the choppers?
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Lock and load! Lock and load!
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00:19:17,850 --> 00:19:19,513
Lock and load! Lock and load!
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We're Donna take a better
look before we go in.
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Wagon Wheel, this is Red Man.
I'm over the embassy.
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This ain't no baby-sit.
It's ugly down there.
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Red Man, Wagon Wheel.
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Roger that. Let's go for the evac.
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Put it on deck.
We're going in the north side.
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There! Go!
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-Captain Lee!
-Yes, sir!
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Nobody comes over those walls
or through those gates. Nobody!
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One Alpha, secure all entries.
Tango and Bravo, on the walls!
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-Move, move, move!
-Last man! Last man!
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Pull back! Pull back!
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Take cover!
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-You speak English?
-Yes!
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Where's the ambassador?
He's topside! Go topside!
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Take that corner! Take that side! Move!
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Aah!
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Move, move, move! Go, go!
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Bravo Two, left! Move, move, move!
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Incoming sniper fire!
Stay down! Stay down!
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Two blue, clear!
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00:23:18,229 --> 00:23:21,055
-Who's Mrs. Mourain?
-I'm Mrs. Mourain.
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-Where's the ambassador?
-He's in there. Are we leaving?
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00:23:24,975 --> 00:23:28,025
The helos are outside,
ma'am, but that's up to the ambassador.
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Stay away from the windows, please.
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Duck! Ow!
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Aah! Colonel! Please!
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00:23:39,450 --> 00:23:42,308
My God! Are the helicopters here?
What kept you people so long?
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We're ready to evacuate,
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unless you
want to stay and run the embassy.
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I want to go right...
now! We called hours ago!
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All right, sir, come to me.
Stay calm and come to me.
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-Stay calm. Come to me. Stay low.
-We're like targets!
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-We're sitting targets!
-Follow Sergeant Mac. Go!
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Come on!
Down there! Down there! Right there!
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Right there! Down there! Down there!
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Go ahead, ma'am!
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Go ahead! Go ahead, ma'am, go ahead!
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00:24:43,564 --> 00:24:46,442
Come on, son. Come on!
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00:24:47,668 --> 00:24:49,874
-What's your name, son? Justin?
-Justin.
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Come on, Justin! Come on!
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-Justin, what's that you got there?
-A flash-light.
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We're Donna ride in a helicopter.
Wanna bring that with you?
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-Huh? Come on. Come on!
-Tommy!
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Let's go, ma'am, go! Go, go, go!
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All TRAP Unit six, stay low, stay low!
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We got crap coming over the walls
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and sniper fire at 100 meters. Over.
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00:25:15,456 --> 00:25:17,802
Stay low!
Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight!
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00:25:30,308 --> 00:25:33,267
Colonel, we got three marines hit!
One is K.I.A.
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One Alpha says they're Donna
try to breach the front gate!
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-Tell them to wait out!
-Roger that!
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Put the missus on board first.
Get in there, Mr. Ambassador.
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I'll personally recommend you...
Where's the belt?
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-I'll personally recommend...
-Hold it!
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00:25:59,421 --> 00:26:04,058
Where are you going? What?
Colonel! Colonel, we can't wait here!
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Come on! Let's get out! Come on!
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00:26:13,517 --> 00:26:15,463
Let's go! Christ!
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00:26:15,702 --> 00:26:17,502
We're leaving in just a few seconds.
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00:26:17,544 --> 00:26:21,100
Let's go! Why are we sitting here?
Why are we sitting here?
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00:26:21,142 --> 00:26:24,517
-Sir, please! Look at me. Stay calm.
-Let's go!
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She's free, sir! Go!
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00:27:06,633 --> 00:27:08,437
Hope you know how to fold this, sir.
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Thank you, Colonel.
I'll never forget this.
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Sir.
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Go!
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Krasevitch is hit!
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Corpsman! Corpsman! Shit!
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00:28:18,517 --> 00:28:20,499
Goddamn it!
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00:28:21,303 --> 00:28:22,198
Fuck!
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00:28:29,245 --> 00:28:31,058
Six, Red Man.
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00:28:31,311 --> 00:28:33,734
Engage hostile targets as they appear.
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00:28:33,787 --> 00:28:36,512
Deadly force is authorized.
How copy? Over.
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Red Man, Trans Six Actual.
Negative, negative!
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00:28:39,282 --> 00:28:42,082
Be advised, I have women and
children in my line of fire.
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00:28:42,125 --> 00:28:45,125
I got snipers in the buildings
at 400 meters. How copy? Over.
223
00:28:45,167 --> 00:28:49,033
What is it about this order you
don't understand, Captain Lee?
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00:28:49,351 --> 00:28:52,001
Sir, are you ordering me to
fire into the crowd? Over.
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00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:54,808
Yes, goddamn it!
Waste the mother fuckers!
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00:28:54,892 --> 00:28:57,808
Six out. Engage! Engage!
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00:28:57,892 --> 00:28:59,778
Open fire!
228
00:29:21,339 --> 00:29:24,536
Cease fire!
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00:29:24,579 --> 00:29:26,704
Cease fire!
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00:29:26,892 --> 00:29:28,760
Cease fire!
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00:29:28,931 --> 00:29:31,768
Stay down!
There may still be snipers out there.
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Cease fire!
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00:29:33,895 --> 00:29:37,781
-Cease fire, goddamn it!
-Everybody stay down!
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00:29:37,824 --> 00:29:38,727
Cease fire.
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00:29:38,993 --> 00:29:41,977
There may still be snipers out there.
Stay down!
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00:29:42,910 --> 00:29:43,779
Get down!
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00:30:40,931 --> 00:30:42,630
-Sergeant Mac.
-Sir?
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00:30:42,818 --> 00:30:45,785
Contact all stations. Mission complete.
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Launch medevacs.
Dead and wounded out first.
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Aye, Colonel.
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All stations, this is RedMan.
Mission complete.
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00:30:57,517 --> 00:31:00,375
Move all medevacs to L.Z.
How copy? Over.
243
00:31:18,138 --> 00:31:19,973
The FBI. investigation shows...
244
00:31:20,016 --> 00:31:21,900
that all the bullet holes
in the embassy wall...
245
00:31:21,942 --> 00:31:24,892
came from directly across the way,
from the snipers.
246
00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:28,100
Any weapons or ammo found
among the dead or wounded?
247
00:31:28,183 --> 00:31:32,340
No, sir. Nothing.
However, intelligence suggests...
248
00:31:32,383 --> 00:31:34,483
this could have been
a terrorist operation.
249
00:31:35,012 --> 00:31:35,845
Any proof?
250
00:31:36,350 --> 00:31:38,944
This is a tape from the
embassy security system.
251
00:31:39,631 --> 00:31:42,581
-Want me to thread it up?
-No. I don't want to watch videos.
252
00:31:42,624 --> 00:31:45,424
I don't want to hear about
ammo casings in some building,
253
00:31:45,466 --> 00:31:47,358
'cause here I got 83 dead people...
254
00:31:48,023 --> 00:31:50,950
unarmed... women, children, old men.
255
00:31:51,015 --> 00:31:53,140
Another hundred or so
critically wounded.
256
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:57,725
Here I got an international crisis
of mega fucking proportions!
257
00:31:57,938 --> 00:32:00,338
Bill, you know there have
been regular reports...
258
00:32:00,380 --> 00:32:02,017
of a terrorist plot
against this embassy.
259
00:32:02,058 --> 00:32:05,032
This was a regularly scheduled protest.
It was every week.
260
00:32:05,433 --> 00:32:08,850
It was the usual bullshit about
American presence in the gulf.
261
00:32:09,099 --> 00:32:12,717
Have you looked at these?
I mean, I'm just assuming you have,
262
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:15,949
since they're on the front page
of every newspaper in the world.
263
00:32:16,808 --> 00:32:20,008
It's not that the rest of the
world wants to hold us responsible,
264
00:32:20,050 --> 00:32:21,289
we are responsible!
265
00:32:23,477 --> 00:32:25,827
We can't even have the
appearance of a cover-up.
266
00:32:26,392 --> 00:32:29,308
That does not excuse us from our duty,
Mr. Sokal.
267
00:32:29,901 --> 00:32:33,361
We sent Colonel Childers in there,
and the mission went to shit.
268
00:32:34,558 --> 00:32:37,258
We can't go after the man
who carried out his orders...
269
00:32:37,402 --> 00:32:39,475
and ignore the people
who issued those orders.
270
00:32:39,517 --> 00:32:41,210
Childers ordered the slaughter...
271
00:32:41,253 --> 00:32:43,891
of innocent women and children.
Get that straight right now.
272
00:32:43,933 --> 00:32:45,308
I'll tell you what we
ought to get straight.
273
00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:47,183
We lost three United States Marines.
274
00:32:47,225 --> 00:32:48,535
They lost 83!
275
00:32:49,976 --> 00:32:52,276
Now, are we Donna go to
war with Yemen over it?
276
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,340
We're covering our ass all over
the Middle East right now, General.
277
00:32:56,933 --> 00:32:59,517
Because of your man's hot
headed miscalculation,
278
00:32:59,558 --> 00:33:03,808
we are in danger of losing embassies
in Saudi, Jordan and Egypt.
279
00:33:04,831 --> 00:33:06,831
We're in danger of
losing our presence...
280
00:33:06,873 --> 00:33:08,639
with every moderate in the region.
281
00:33:09,967 --> 00:33:11,767
Now they're Donna scream 'cover up'.
282
00:33:11,809 --> 00:33:13,474
The screaming will get so loud
283
00:33:13,517 --> 00:33:15,517
we'll be sending
Marines back over there,
284
00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:19,109
and the body count of American
dead is Donna be higher than three.
285
00:33:20,386 --> 00:33:22,636
I see where you're going with this,
Mr. Sokal.
286
00:33:24,078 --> 00:33:25,928
Will you be needing me anymore today?
287
00:33:27,731 --> 00:33:28,564
No.
288
00:33:29,814 --> 00:33:31,828
No, that's fine, General. Thank you.
289
00:33:33,247 --> 00:33:34,327
Good day to you, sir.
290
00:33:47,455 --> 00:33:49,505
Where do you think
you're going with that?
291
00:33:50,926 --> 00:33:54,009
-You don't want to look at it.
-Nobody's lookin' at it.
292
00:33:56,010 --> 00:33:58,510
Why should the United States
be held responsible...
293
00:33:58,552 --> 00:33:59,902
for the actions of one man?
294
00:34:02,526 --> 00:34:04,353
What if the crowd had weapons?
295
00:34:04,911 --> 00:34:07,037
What if this shows they did fire first?
296
00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:09,992
He could have fired over their heads,
this moron!
297
00:34:10,729 --> 00:34:12,929
Didn't he know where he was?
The Middle East!
298
00:34:13,379 --> 00:34:15,279
He could have isolated on the snipers.
299
00:34:15,321 --> 00:34:16,771
He could have avoided confrontation.
300
00:34:16,813 --> 00:34:18,663
He could have done 50 fuckin' things!
301
00:34:18,789 --> 00:34:22,089
Instead, he destroyed a fragile trust,
put his own men in danger...
302
00:34:22,131 --> 00:34:24,435
Fuck this guy! Forget this tape.
303
00:34:25,816 --> 00:34:28,717
I don't want to watch it.
I don't want to testify about it.
304
00:34:32,430 --> 00:34:33,701
I don't want it to exist.
305
00:34:45,495 --> 00:34:46,874
Good morning, sir.
306
00:34:49,726 --> 00:34:51,250
Good morning, sir.
307
00:34:53,975 --> 00:34:54,935
Aye, aye, sir.
308
00:34:57,321 --> 00:34:58,741
As soon as it's time.
309
00:35:02,565 --> 00:35:05,179
General, Colonel Childers
reporting as ordered, sir.
310
00:35:07,146 --> 00:35:08,846
-Give us a minute, Skip.
-Yes, sir.
311
00:35:12,858 --> 00:35:17,491
Colonel, it's my duty to inform you
that you've been charged with...
312
00:35:22,551 --> 00:35:23,699
You know the drill.
313
00:35:27,126 --> 00:35:29,043
This is the Article 32 investigation.
314
00:35:29,339 --> 00:35:31,289
You're facing a general
court-martial...
315
00:35:31,517 --> 00:35:34,217
and charged with violation
of at least three articles...
316
00:35:34,259 --> 00:35:37,110
everything from 'breach of
peace' to 'conduct unbecoming'.
317
00:35:37,152 --> 00:35:41,501
But the bottom line... 83 counts,
violation of Article 118, murder.
318
00:35:43,114 --> 00:35:46,087
In that you issued an illegal
order to have your marines...
319
00:35:46,130 --> 00:35:48,225
fire into a group of
innocent civilians.
320
00:35:48,934 --> 00:35:50,002
Murder, sir?
321
00:35:54,509 --> 00:35:58,059
I'm the convening authority, so I've
gotta get this B.S. out of the way.
322
00:36:00,799 --> 00:36:03,411
Sign here, initial here.
323
00:36:07,209 --> 00:36:11,582
You're not a flight risk, so there
won't be any pretrial confinement.
324
00:36:16,267 --> 00:36:18,725
This court-martial
convenes in eight days...
325
00:36:18,767 --> 00:36:21,217
by direct order of the
national command authority.
326
00:36:23,727 --> 00:36:27,102
Do you want me to call Bob
Bennett or one of those guys,
327
00:36:28,179 --> 00:36:30,029
or do you want to go with base legal?
328
00:36:32,595 --> 00:36:36,384
Terry, goddamn it,
we've been friends for20 years.
329
00:36:40,357 --> 00:36:43,357
You want to tell me exactly what
the hell happened out there?
330
00:36:45,551 --> 00:36:49,772
I lost marines.
The crowd was hostile. They fired on us.
331
00:36:50,464 --> 00:36:51,727
They fired first, sir.
332
00:36:54,277 --> 00:36:56,627
I want you to know I did
everything in the world
333
00:36:56,669 --> 00:36:58,069
to keep this from happening.
334
00:36:58,759 --> 00:37:00,259
It's just out of my hands now.
335
00:37:14,236 --> 00:37:15,134
Thanks a lot.
336
00:37:15,642 --> 00:37:18,392
When's the last time you
actually caught something here?
337
00:37:19,368 --> 00:37:20,233
Two years.
338
00:37:27,002 --> 00:37:29,828
-I really need your help.
-I'll help. Anything you need.
339
00:37:30,347 --> 00:37:31,969
You want me to take the stand?
I'll be a character witness.
340
00:37:32,011 --> 00:37:32,775
Anything you want.
341
00:37:32,818 --> 00:37:34,819
No,
you don't understand what I'm asking.
342
00:37:36,098 --> 00:37:37,711
I want you to be my lawyer.
343
00:37:43,593 --> 00:37:46,843
I'm a good enough lawyer to know
you need a better lawyer than me.
344
00:37:48,054 --> 00:37:49,204
'Sides that, I'm short.
345
00:37:49,454 --> 00:37:51,063
Two-nine plus one wake-up,
and I'm gone.
346
00:37:51,105 --> 00:37:53,006
You need one of those Washington cats.
347
00:37:53,048 --> 00:37:55,998
I don't want some Starbucks
drinker who's never seen combat.
348
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,569
-I need somebody who's been shot at.
-Yeah, I've been shot at.
349
00:37:59,933 --> 00:38:02,297
That's what I am... a shot-up marine.
350
00:38:04,042 --> 00:38:06,292
As a matter of fact,
that's all the hell I am.
351
00:38:06,691 --> 00:38:08,742
No, wait a minute.
I'm also a weak lawyer.
352
00:38:10,446 --> 00:38:13,038
I'm a very weak lawyer...
353
00:38:13,767 --> 00:38:15,717
and the government is Donna come at you
354
00:38:15,759 --> 00:38:18,110
with every goddamn thing they've got.
355
00:38:27,525 --> 00:38:30,425
Major, Bill Sokal.
It's a pleasure to meet you. Come on in.
356
00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:34,172
Let me introduce you.
Gentlemen, this is Major Mark Biggs.
357
00:38:34,215 --> 00:38:36,565
He'll be prosecuting the
Childers court-martial.
358
00:38:36,916 --> 00:38:38,843
The marines put the major
through Stanford Law,
359
00:38:38,885 --> 00:38:42,135
and he owes them a couple of years
before he takes over the world.
360
00:38:42,191 --> 00:38:43,840
You know General Lowry.
361
00:38:44,085 --> 00:38:46,217
I'd like you to meet the general
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
362
00:38:46,259 --> 00:38:49,769
General West,
and the secretary of Defence, Mr. Wyatt.
363
00:38:49,812 --> 00:38:51,762
Have a seat. Make yourself comfortable.
364
00:38:51,826 --> 00:38:54,334
What I gather from our esteemed NSC
advisor
365
00:38:54,376 --> 00:38:57,476
and secretary of state,
is that we've got a trial in two weeks.
366
00:38:57,688 --> 00:38:59,139
Seems awfully damned fast.
367
00:38:59,182 --> 00:39:01,487
Oh, I believe everyone in
this room will agree...
368
00:39:01,529 --> 00:39:04,929
it's in the national interest that
this trial be moved along quickly.
369
00:39:04,971 --> 00:39:08,112
The Article 32 investigation
was complete and comprehensive.
370
00:39:08,206 --> 00:39:09,964
It all seems to point in one direction.
371
00:39:10,006 --> 00:39:11,606
Has he got himself a lawyer yet?
372
00:39:11,648 --> 00:39:15,237
Actually, he's requested a military
attorney, Colonel Hayes Hodges.
373
00:39:15,371 --> 00:39:16,971
Second Marine Division, Lejeune.
374
00:39:17,014 --> 00:39:19,114
Any relation to General H.
Lawrence Hodges?
375
00:39:19,170 --> 00:39:19,789
His son.
376
00:39:19,929 --> 00:39:23,359
Larry Hodges was one of this
country's most distinguished officers.
377
00:39:23,492 --> 00:39:25,225
What do we know about
Colonel Hayes Hodges?
378
00:39:25,267 --> 00:39:27,317
He's a guy who got
blown apart in Vietnam,
379
00:39:27,359 --> 00:39:29,957
then went to Georgetown
Law and became a cynic.
380
00:39:30,377 --> 00:39:31,727
Is that about right, Major?
381
00:39:31,769 --> 00:39:34,282
He was 67th in his class at Georgetown,
sir.
382
00:39:34,524 --> 00:39:37,125
He doesn't take too many cases,
doesn't win too many.
383
00:39:37,495 --> 00:39:39,595
He apparently went through an ugly
divorce,
384
00:39:39,637 --> 00:39:42,015
had a drinking problem,
retiring in two weeks.
385
00:39:42,057 --> 00:39:44,723
Really?
Can we guarantee we get this guy?
386
00:39:45,339 --> 00:39:46,739
Sir, if I may say something?
387
00:39:48,767 --> 00:39:50,231
I am not a hired gun.
388
00:39:50,749 --> 00:39:52,199
I accepted this assignment...
389
00:39:52,241 --> 00:39:54,991
'cause I believe in the merits
of the government's case.
390
00:39:55,033 --> 00:39:57,333
I am not Donna stack the
deck against this guy.
391
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:00,233
I will try this case
on good evidence only.
392
00:40:00,946 --> 00:40:01,946
I'm glad to hear it.
393
00:40:36,364 --> 00:40:37,839
Hold your fire.
394
00:40:39,642 --> 00:40:41,192
Set that weapon down over here.
395
00:40:45,884 --> 00:40:48,277
We need a couple of canteens up here.
396
00:40:55,892 --> 00:40:58,153
-Party incoming!
-You can go.
397
00:40:58,848 --> 00:41:01,045
You can go, goddamn it! Go on! Dee dee!
398
00:41:01,088 --> 00:41:03,488
Get the fuck out of here
before I change my mind!
399
00:41:09,771 --> 00:41:12,122
Looks like you're going
back to the world, baby.
400
00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:15,778
-Doc!
-Twenty meters out. Left!
401
00:41:16,743 --> 00:41:18,555
-Right there.
-Anybody else?
402
00:41:41,003 --> 00:41:42,517
I got you now!
403
00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:45,693
-Hey, buddy!
-Hi, Mom.
404
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,220
He looks fabulous.
405
00:41:49,453 --> 00:41:52,849
-Happy anniversary, Mom.
-Oh, thank you. So good to see you.
406
00:41:52,892 --> 00:41:53,950
I wasn't sure you'd make it.
407
00:41:53,992 --> 00:41:55,542
-You look wonderful.
-Thank you.
408
00:41:55,584 --> 00:41:57,909
-How's it feel to be retired?
-Um, crazy.
409
00:41:58,385 --> 00:41:59,808
Good. Oh, you look great.
410
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,500
-Thank you.
-Well, come see Dad...
411
00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:03,292
-There he is...
-and all the family.
412
00:42:04,381 --> 00:42:05,420
Hello, sir.
413
00:42:06,942 --> 00:42:08,642
-Glad you could make it.
-Yes, sir.
414
00:42:14,174 --> 00:42:16,458
-Good to see you, Hayes.
-How are you doing?
415
00:42:17,495 --> 00:42:20,870
Hey, kid. Hey, you. Remember me?
416
00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:23,893
-The old guy who looks like you.
-Do I know you?
417
00:42:23,989 --> 00:42:25,597
-Yeah.
-Your voice sounds really familiar.
418
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:26,416
Let me give you a clue.
419
00:42:26,458 --> 00:42:28,858
I was married to
your mom for about five minutes.
420
00:42:29,043 --> 00:42:31,409
-Really? You sure? 'Cause I don't...
-Yeah.
421
00:42:36,767 --> 00:42:38,685
-Well, is he guilty?
-Sir?
422
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:41,270
Your friend Colonel Childers.
423
00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:45,387
-Guilty of what, sir?
-Come on, Hayes.
424
00:42:45,620 --> 00:42:46,621
You served with him.
425
00:42:46,945 --> 00:42:49,346
Is he the rabid dog we've
all been hearing about?
426
00:42:49,388 --> 00:42:51,188
I don't think I should comment, sir.
427
00:42:51,230 --> 00:42:54,080
Come on, Dad. This is family.
You can lighten up a little.
428
00:42:54,246 --> 00:42:56,346
You know what we said
at the naval academy.
429
00:42:56,999 --> 00:42:59,149
Even if you thought you
weren't responsible,
430
00:42:59,198 --> 00:43:01,400
it went wrong and you were there.
431
00:43:01,685 --> 00:43:03,585
Since when have you not had a comment?
432
00:43:03,627 --> 00:43:05,527
Since Childers asked me to defend him.
433
00:43:05,638 --> 00:43:07,212
No. Oh, Hayes.
434
00:43:07,439 --> 00:43:09,856
-What?
-Excuse me.
435
00:43:09,933 --> 00:43:11,388
-Are you kidding me?
-No.
436
00:43:12,267 --> 00:43:15,142
Why would you do that? Huh!
437
00:43:15,397 --> 00:43:18,188
-Because he asked me, and I owe him.
-That's great.
438
00:43:18,392 --> 00:43:21,242
That represents everything
that's wrong with the military.
439
00:43:21,892 --> 00:43:24,042
Wisdom from the one
person in this family...
440
00:43:24,084 --> 00:43:26,115
who has not elected
to serve his country.
441
00:43:27,284 --> 00:43:29,684
Childers must have snapped.
It happens in combat.
442
00:43:30,031 --> 00:43:32,001
I've seen it. I'm sure you have too.
443
00:43:32,308 --> 00:43:34,041
I'd like to thank you
all for reminding me...
444
00:43:34,083 --> 00:43:36,974
why we have the presumption
of innocence in the U.S.A.
445
00:43:37,522 --> 00:43:40,100
What are you, Abraham Lincoln?
Come on. You can't hide behind that.
446
00:43:40,142 --> 00:43:41,922
The guy murdered innocent
women and children.
447
00:43:41,964 --> 00:43:44,260
-You hear that on television?
-And newspapers.
448
00:43:44,303 --> 00:43:47,153
-It's all over the place.
-It's Mom and Dad's anniversary.
449
00:43:55,171 --> 00:43:56,572
Don't take this case, son.
450
00:43:57,433 --> 00:43:59,833
This man has trashed the
reputation of the Corps.
451
00:44:00,207 --> 00:44:01,548
He's put us back 20 years.
452
00:44:06,308 --> 00:44:08,208
Is this how you want to be remembered?
453
00:44:08,670 --> 00:44:11,320
I don't see how I can turn him down.
He saved my life.
454
00:44:11,533 --> 00:44:13,583
Well,
I understand that as well as anyone.
455
00:44:14,444 --> 00:44:17,964
But you don't repay him by
falling senselessly on a grenade.
456
00:44:19,498 --> 00:44:22,600
The way I see it,
this man should find himself...
457
00:44:22,643 --> 00:44:25,309
-the best lawyer in the country.
-Somebody better than me?
458
00:44:29,176 --> 00:44:30,790
The guy's a real marine, Dad.
459
00:44:31,176 --> 00:44:33,699
I mean, if they can do this to him...
460
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,001
just hang him out to dry...
they can do it to anybody.
461
00:44:37,603 --> 00:44:41,223
Forget that he's my friend.
They can do it to anybody.
462
00:44:41,733 --> 00:44:44,947
That means your medals
and your citations...
463
00:44:44,990 --> 00:44:47,023
won't mean jack shit
when they come after you.
464
00:44:54,109 --> 00:44:56,530
At least two of his own
guys are Donna testify...
465
00:44:56,573 --> 00:44:58,339
that he didn't have to open fire, sir.
466
00:44:58,943 --> 00:45:02,134
Nobody reports seeing any
weapons among the demonstrators.
467
00:45:02,929 --> 00:45:06,095
-His psych eval was a disaster.
-What about footage from the embassy?
468
00:45:06,207 --> 00:45:09,014
Cameras, film,
videotape, home movies, shit like that?
469
00:45:09,225 --> 00:45:12,702
No, I've subpoenaed everything.
The embassy got hit pretty good.
470
00:45:14,413 --> 00:45:15,662
Most of it was destroyed.
471
00:45:21,508 --> 00:45:23,998
Terry, you know Tom Chandler.
He's Donna help us prepare your case.
472
00:45:24,041 --> 00:45:27,652
Colonel Childers, good to see you again,
sir. Um, all right.
473
00:45:27,698 --> 00:45:31,573
First, we've subpoenaed all the
Article 32 investigator's notes,
474
00:45:31,670 --> 00:45:33,587
the State Department's notes on Yemen.
475
00:45:33,697 --> 00:45:36,981
Major Biggs has already had your
head checked by their doctor.
476
00:45:37,272 --> 00:45:39,172
I've got you an appointment with ours.
477
00:45:39,334 --> 00:45:41,647
-No.
-What?
478
00:45:41,690 --> 00:45:44,259
No more multiple choice
questions about self-esteem.
479
00:45:44,325 --> 00:45:47,074
We got the combat fitness reports.
He can forget the psych eval here.
480
00:45:47,183 --> 00:45:48,850
That's a mistake, Colonel.
481
00:45:48,933 --> 00:45:51,892
Listen, when I turned 18
I joined the Marine Corps.
482
00:45:52,658 --> 00:45:54,616
I asked to be in the infantry.
483
00:45:54,659 --> 00:45:57,075
-I asked to go to Vietnam.
-Terry.
484
00:45:57,158 --> 00:45:59,408
I live for the privilege
of commanding troops.
485
00:45:59,598 --> 00:46:01,578
I think it's the greatest
honour an American can have.
486
00:46:01,621 --> 00:46:01,985
Terry...
487
00:46:02,125 --> 00:46:04,767
You know how many birthdays
and Christmases I missed,
488
00:46:04,810 --> 00:46:06,860
spent rotting in jungles
or in the desert,
489
00:46:06,942 --> 00:46:08,582
just so you could play war at ROTC?
490
00:46:08,637 --> 00:46:12,738
Childers! You gotta keep
your shit together here, man.
491
00:46:13,195 --> 00:46:15,361
Your court-martial board is
Donna be made up of people...
492
00:46:15,404 --> 00:46:17,862
who might've spent one day in Grenada,
maybe two days in Kuwait.
493
00:46:18,177 --> 00:46:21,101
They're Donna be beach boys who've
never been anywhere near combat.
494
00:46:21,194 --> 00:46:22,525
They're Donna be people
like Tom Chandler...
495
00:46:22,568 --> 00:46:23,834
sitting right here in front of you.
496
00:46:23,877 --> 00:46:25,554
That's who you're making your case to.
497
00:46:27,313 --> 00:46:29,506
We don't have anybody
to back up your case.
498
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,030
That's because all my
witnesses are dead.
499
00:46:36,145 --> 00:46:39,478
-Okay. So what happened?
-He lost it. He snapped.
500
00:46:39,521 --> 00:46:41,474
That's good.
We can snap him on the stand.
501
00:46:41,624 --> 00:46:43,300
This doesn't happen in a vacuum.
502
00:46:43,591 --> 00:46:45,572
Let's get a complete
history of Colonel Childers.
503
00:46:45,615 --> 00:46:48,035
I mean, talk to every
marine he ever served with.
504
00:46:48,350 --> 00:46:50,184
My guess is this has happened before.
505
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:51,735
We have to be careful here.
506
00:46:52,466 --> 00:46:54,448
This guy is the warrior's warrior.
507
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,926
A Navy Cross, two Silver
Stars for composure in battle.
508
00:46:59,604 --> 00:47:02,604
He has no wife,
no kids, just the Corps.
509
00:47:03,502 --> 00:47:06,201
He was our best.
That's why he was sent.
510
00:47:07,530 --> 00:47:10,265
He's not on trial for the good
service he gave the country,
511
00:47:10,308 --> 00:47:12,659
but for what he did on
the wall in Yemen, period.
512
00:47:12,702 --> 00:47:14,482
Major, nobody wants to say it,
513
00:47:14,808 --> 00:47:17,159
but it occurs to me we're
trying to set an example here.
514
00:47:17,850 --> 00:47:20,725
So let's set it and show
the world we mean business.
515
00:47:20,937 --> 00:47:24,980
The first charge supports the death
penalty, and I say we go for it.
516
00:47:25,106 --> 00:47:25,999
No more death.
517
00:47:27,142 --> 00:47:29,850
I'll see that he never gets another
command and I'll put him in jail,
518
00:47:29,892 --> 00:47:32,847
but I will not seek death for a man
who served his country honourably.
519
00:47:33,287 --> 00:47:34,790
I don't want it brought up again.
520
00:47:36,374 --> 00:47:38,388
We gotta show Childers' state of mind.
521
00:47:39,009 --> 00:47:41,309
We gotta prove he went
out with intent to kill,
522
00:47:41,352 --> 00:47:43,089
and that is not going to be easy.
523
00:47:43,413 --> 00:47:46,313
Whether a man is charged with
murder or hailed as a hero...
524
00:47:46,356 --> 00:47:48,253
is sometimes a very thin line.
525
00:47:48,830 --> 00:47:52,996
Our case is this. Childers receives
orders that a regularly scheduled,
526
00:47:53,118 --> 00:47:56,422
Lawful protest outside our
embassy in Yemen is unruly.
527
00:47:56,808 --> 00:47:59,683
He is to secure or
evacuate the premises.
528
00:47:59,831 --> 00:48:02,245
There has been no violence
prior to his arrival.
529
00:48:02,725 --> 00:48:04,375
Once there, Ambassador Mourain...
530
00:48:04,417 --> 00:48:06,892
does not feel the situation
warrants evacuation.
531
00:48:06,975 --> 00:48:09,325
-Childers ignores him.
-There was sniper fire.
532
00:48:09,392 --> 00:48:12,179
They draw fire from
snipers across the street.
533
00:48:12,297 --> 00:48:15,797
Childers retaliates into an unarmed
crowd in front of the embassy.
534
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:20,058
A crowd of women and children.
He shot the wrong people.
535
00:48:22,102 --> 00:48:23,749
All right, here's what this means.
536
00:48:23,981 --> 00:48:26,232
Murder... Obviously,
he could get up to the death penalty.
537
00:48:26,437 --> 00:48:27,885
Conduct unbecoming an officer.
538
00:48:28,392 --> 00:48:31,183
Max is dismissal with a
dishonourable discharge,
539
00:48:31,225 --> 00:48:35,058
for feature of all pay and allowances
and confinement for one year.
540
00:48:35,142 --> 00:48:37,183
What about breach of peace?
What is that?
541
00:48:37,225 --> 00:48:38,615
Breaching the peace is minor.
542
00:48:38,664 --> 00:48:42,242
That means participating in an act
of violent or turbulent nature...
543
00:48:42,285 --> 00:48:45,685
that deprives the community of the
peace and tranquillity it deserves.
544
00:48:45,857 --> 00:48:49,046
It's sort of the military equivalent
of the civilian misdemeanor.
545
00:48:49,089 --> 00:48:49,764
No big deal.
546
00:48:52,853 --> 00:48:55,149
There he is! You goddamn baby killer!
547
00:48:55,509 --> 00:48:56,837
Baby killer!
548
00:49:00,736 --> 00:49:01,517
You're disgusting!
549
00:49:01,558 --> 00:49:02,971
I'm not answering any questions,
all right?
550
00:49:03,152 --> 00:49:05,024
Get out of here. Go away.
551
00:49:05,067 --> 00:49:07,149
You fucking baby killer!
552
00:49:08,207 --> 00:49:09,530
Fuck you!
553
00:49:11,835 --> 00:49:14,781
Who the fuck are you to
spit on this uniform? Huh?
554
00:49:31,791 --> 00:49:33,409
You ever play blackjack, Colonel?
555
00:49:34,641 --> 00:49:35,402
Not really.
556
00:49:38,403 --> 00:49:41,214
There are no intangibles.
It's all odds, sir.
557
00:49:42,595 --> 00:49:44,465
You know them,
you'll beat the guy next to you.
558
00:49:45,767 --> 00:49:47,926
You know what cards have been played,
you'll beat the house.
559
00:49:51,244 --> 00:49:53,292
Sometimes you just can't
win no matter what you do.
560
00:49:55,850 --> 00:49:59,566
I saw your man on television
knockin' some zit-faced kid around.
561
00:49:59,895 --> 00:50:02,062
You have to understand the kind of
pressure Childers has been under.
562
00:50:02,105 --> 00:50:04,443
A man with that kind of service...
No, no thanks.
563
00:50:05,548 --> 00:50:07,781
This was a rescue mission that went bad.
Nothing more.
564
00:50:08,743 --> 00:50:10,710
You're aware, Colonel,
we could ask for the death penalty.
565
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:11,946
You're not serious.
566
00:50:12,142 --> 00:50:14,555
Oh, I'm very serious.
In fact, it's been suggested.
567
00:50:15,536 --> 00:50:18,225
What do you think would happen
if a Yemeni killed 83 Americans?
568
00:50:19,229 --> 00:50:20,659
He'd have a trial that
would last for one day,
569
00:50:20,702 --> 00:50:21,592
and they'd take off his head.
570
00:50:22,047 --> 00:50:23,249
Have a seat, Colonel.
571
00:50:24,756 --> 00:50:25,734
Please.
572
00:50:32,484 --> 00:50:34,484
So here it is.
You plead him out. Guilty.
573
00:50:34,852 --> 00:50:36,225
He throws himself at the mercy.
574
00:50:36,267 --> 00:50:38,558
-We'll help him out at sentencing.
-How much help?
575
00:50:39,802 --> 00:50:41,783
I'm not about to promise you anything,
but I'd say...
576
00:50:41,825 --> 00:50:44,480
in the neighbourhood of ten to fifteen,
out in seven.
577
00:50:44,943 --> 00:50:45,862
Major,
578
00:50:46,497 --> 00:50:49,358
do you know what the life expectancy
was for a second lieutenant...
579
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,915
dropped into a combat
zone in Vietnam in 1968?
580
00:50:53,686 --> 00:50:55,247
I don't have time for 20 questions,
sir.
581
00:50:55,310 --> 00:50:57,581
Then what's all this shit about
the odds of winning at blackjack?
582
00:50:57,624 --> 00:51:01,524
You got time. Take a guess.
583
00:51:02,558 --> 00:51:05,486
My guess is your man's going down
'cause he deserves to go down.
584
00:51:08,002 --> 00:51:11,238
I got a question for you, Colonel.
What happened at Ca Lu?
585
00:51:13,923 --> 00:51:15,767
The battle of Ca Lu, Vietnam.
586
00:51:15,808 --> 00:51:18,290
You were there with Childers.
Something happened. What was it?
587
00:51:19,678 --> 00:51:22,559
Fuck you is what happened at Ca Lu,
Biggs.
588
00:51:24,313 --> 00:51:25,346
Two weeks.
589
00:51:26,058 --> 00:51:27,930
Life expectancy of a
second lieutenant...
590
00:51:27,973 --> 00:51:29,931
in combat in Vietnam was two weeks.
591
00:51:30,460 --> 00:51:32,234
Sir,
I need more time to prepare this case.
592
00:51:32,288 --> 00:51:33,808
I need your permission
to go to Yemen...
593
00:51:33,885 --> 00:51:37,468
It's all here, Hodge. We did an
exhaustive Article 32 investigation.
594
00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:40,211
This thing happened in Yemen sir,
3,000 miles away. I need more time.
595
00:51:40,259 --> 00:51:41,706
Colonel, it's all here.
596
00:51:42,245 --> 00:51:44,725
We had it brought from Yemen,
and it's not unusual to convene...
597
00:51:44,768 --> 00:51:46,100
a court-martial on short notice.
598
00:51:46,183 --> 00:51:49,331
There could be witnesses, something
the investigators overlooked, sir.
599
00:51:49,856 --> 00:51:51,694
Don't you think Colonel Childers
is entitled all consideration?
600
00:51:51,737 --> 00:51:53,637
-Colonel Hodges...
-All consideration, sir.
601
00:51:54,661 --> 00:51:56,020
I don't care if you go to China.
602
00:51:56,808 --> 00:51:58,808
We have our marching orders,
and this court-martial...
603
00:51:58,851 --> 00:52:00,726
will convene at 0900 a week Monday.
604
00:52:00,808 --> 00:52:03,125
-Now, is that clear?
-Yes, sir.
605
00:52:07,350 --> 00:52:09,150
One! Two!
606
00:52:20,005 --> 00:52:22,978
-...contact the sergeant?
-He's off-base, sir.
607
00:52:34,350 --> 00:52:35,056
Terry?
608
00:52:49,989 --> 00:52:50,726
Terry?
609
00:52:57,725 --> 00:52:58,672
Childers?
610
00:53:05,183 --> 00:53:06,200
Ohh.
611
00:53:07,557 --> 00:53:08,472
Oh, shit.
612
00:53:12,505 --> 00:53:13,332
It's okay.
613
00:53:15,419 --> 00:53:16,059
It's okay.
614
00:53:16,683 --> 00:53:18,975
-I wasn't...
-No, no. I know.
615
00:53:20,170 --> 00:53:24,457
It's okay. It's all right.
I know. Believe me, I know.
616
00:53:26,712 --> 00:53:28,586
Can I leave you alone with
that thing in the house?
617
00:53:29,683 --> 00:53:32,051
Yeah. I ain't goin' six on you, Hodge.
618
00:53:32,165 --> 00:53:32,999
I'm goin' to Yemen.
619
00:53:33,042 --> 00:53:35,168
If I have to stick your ass
in a hospital till I get back,
620
00:53:35,211 --> 00:53:38,441
-that is what I will do.
-You don't have to do that.
621
00:53:39,183 --> 00:53:40,243
Got your word on that?
622
00:53:42,392 --> 00:53:44,350
Oh, shit.
623
00:53:44,664 --> 00:53:47,058
They take my uniform away,
they may as well shoot me.
624
00:53:47,142 --> 00:53:50,591
You can live with it, bud. Believe me.
625
00:53:52,444 --> 00:53:54,254
I'm not Donna shit you.
They offered us a deal.
626
00:53:56,052 --> 00:53:58,590
You plead guilty, it's ten to fifteen.
You're out in seven.
627
00:53:59,993 --> 00:54:02,461
-What do you think?
-I think they're out to crucify you.
628
00:54:03,937 --> 00:54:08,285
For a whole lot of reasons,
I say we take it and call it a day.
629
00:54:20,475 --> 00:54:23,104
I did what they asked me to do, Hodge.
630
00:54:25,132 --> 00:54:26,937
I lost marines over there.
631
00:54:33,517 --> 00:54:35,241
If I'm guilty of this,
632
00:54:36,267 --> 00:54:40,171
I'm guilty of everything I've done
in combat for the last 30 years.
633
00:54:45,886 --> 00:54:47,039
I don't know.
634
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,470
Colonel Hodges? Captain Hustings.
635
00:55:33,684 --> 00:55:36,584
I'm not in uniform and I'm not
saluting because of the snipers.
636
00:55:36,667 --> 00:55:38,970
Please know that I'm
saluting on the inside.
637
00:55:39,250 --> 00:55:41,535
I've got some Kevlar back
there with your name on it.
638
00:55:41,578 --> 00:55:44,029
We're not the most popular
team in town right now, sir.
639
00:55:44,642 --> 00:55:46,029
Hustings, are you a wise-ass?
640
00:55:47,125 --> 00:55:49,453
My mother prefers to
think of me as glib, sir.
641
00:55:49,573 --> 00:55:54,043
Very well then. You will most glibly
belay all bullshit and drive on.
642
00:55:54,605 --> 00:55:55,504
Roger that, sir.
643
00:56:19,369 --> 00:56:21,293
I've lined up some people who were
at the scene,
644
00:56:21,335 --> 00:56:22,403
as you requested, sir.
645
00:56:22,446 --> 00:56:24,144
-We can start tomorrow.
-Good.
646
00:56:24,220 --> 00:56:27,262
-All right. Here we are.
-Oh. 07:00.
647
00:56:27,589 --> 00:56:28,446
Roger that, sir.
648
00:56:50,057 --> 00:56:52,613
The old embassy was a
fifth century palace.
649
00:56:52,971 --> 00:56:53,922
Got pretty shot up.
650
00:56:53,965 --> 00:56:56,039
We're moving the new one to
a bunker outside the city...
651
00:56:56,082 --> 00:56:58,311
behind about a mile of barbed wire,
sir.
652
00:57:06,392 --> 00:57:08,158
-You want me to come with you, sir?
-Negative.
653
00:57:08,341 --> 00:57:10,996
Stay with the vehicle.
Meet me at the hotel.
654
00:57:11,319 --> 00:57:12,052
Yes, sir.
655
01:01:53,115 --> 01:01:56,113
Armed American marines,
they were shooting at his people.
656
01:01:56,607 --> 01:01:58,627
They were just trying
to defend themselves.
657
01:01:59,778 --> 01:02:01,437
Is he saying the marines shot first?
658
01:02:07,225 --> 01:02:09,789
Why were your police officers
ordered to abandon the embassy...
659
01:02:09,832 --> 01:02:10,910
on the day of the riot?
660
01:02:20,423 --> 01:02:23,527
It was a peaceful demonstration.
There was no reason to stay.
661
01:02:23,988 --> 01:02:26,185
After the killing,
were any weapons found in the crowd?
662
01:02:35,502 --> 01:02:39,752
No. They picked up everything
that was left. No weapons.
663
01:03:04,459 --> 01:03:05,203
Hey!
664
01:03:11,409 --> 01:03:14,076
No, look. Now, wait. Wait a minute.
665
01:03:14,433 --> 01:03:15,736
Wait a minute, fellas.
666
01:03:23,679 --> 01:03:25,152
Hey. Hey!
667
01:05:13,945 --> 01:05:15,636
Hi. What's your name?
668
01:05:17,985 --> 01:05:19,152
Do you speak English?
669
01:05:20,021 --> 01:05:21,214
You're a very pretty girl.
670
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:22,814
Katchi!
671
01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:25,705
Is that your name? 'Katchi'?
672
01:05:25,748 --> 01:05:27,812
-May I help you?
-Yeah.
673
01:05:31,058 --> 01:05:32,527
I was wondering what happened to her?
674
01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:37,638
She lost her leg. Who are you?
675
01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,215
I'm a lawyer with the United
States Marine Corps. What happened?
676
01:05:41,451 --> 01:05:42,805
-A marine lawyer?
-Yeah.
677
01:05:43,994 --> 01:05:45,077
Follow me, please.
678
01:06:15,100 --> 01:06:17,894
There are hospitals like
this all over the city.
679
01:06:22,076 --> 01:06:23,762
Most of the people here will die.
680
01:07:54,767 --> 01:07:58,198
Sir? Do you want something to drink?
681
01:08:18,338 --> 01:08:19,142
Give me another one!
682
01:08:21,097 --> 01:08:23,071
Open the goddamn door!
683
01:08:37,308 --> 01:08:38,581
What's wrong with you?
684
01:08:38,624 --> 01:08:40,802
Get yourself a new lawyer,
you son of a bitch. You lied to me.
685
01:08:40,845 --> 01:08:43,095
I could not find one goddamn witness.
686
01:08:43,173 --> 01:08:45,965
I couldn't find one
goddamn shred of evidence!
687
01:08:46,267 --> 01:08:47,923
Not for our side anyway!
688
01:08:48,351 --> 01:08:50,755
You clearly opened up on those people.
What were they?
689
01:08:50,798 --> 01:08:54,450
Rag heads,
camel jockeys or fucking gooks?
690
01:08:54,908 --> 01:08:56,672
-You through?
-Yeah.
691
01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:01,154
Get up.
692
01:09:02,034 --> 01:09:03,559
Come on. Get up. Come on.
693
01:09:09,392 --> 01:09:11,532
Look at you.
You went all the way to Yemen.
694
01:09:11,575 --> 01:09:13,315
All you proved is you're still a drunk.
695
01:09:13,674 --> 01:09:14,911
You know what your problem is?
696
01:09:15,031 --> 01:09:16,834
You never measured up to your old man.
697
01:09:16,883 --> 01:09:18,696
But I can't help you with that.
698
01:10:23,848 --> 01:10:26,711
Stop this shit before
somebody gets hurt.
699
01:11:00,217 --> 01:11:02,171
I lost every one of my men at Ca Lu.
700
01:11:04,282 --> 01:11:06,177
And I'll tell you the
first thing I felt.
701
01:11:07,837 --> 01:11:08,650
Joy.
702
01:11:10,238 --> 01:11:13,950
Elation. Glad to be alive.
703
01:11:14,225 --> 01:11:18,123
I was glad it wasn't me,
and I fucking hate myself for that.
704
01:11:26,183 --> 01:11:27,581
That wasn't your fault.
705
01:11:31,100 --> 01:11:32,275
We're in deep shit, bud.
706
01:11:33,249 --> 01:11:33,933
Yeah.
707
01:11:40,308 --> 01:11:41,761
It's fourth and 40, Hodge.
708
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:45,960
I need a Hail Mary.
709
01:11:47,688 --> 01:11:49,095
How?
710
01:12:16,223 --> 01:12:17,172
Send him in.
711
01:12:32,299 --> 01:12:34,481
I just want to make sure
we're on the same page here.
712
01:12:35,004 --> 01:12:37,392
-Off the record.
-Of course, Bill.
713
01:12:37,935 --> 01:12:40,698
Now, you didn't see any
weapons in that crowd, did you?
714
01:12:42,267 --> 01:12:43,367
Well...
715
01:12:44,708 --> 01:12:46,378
There was some shooting, but I...
716
01:12:47,475 --> 01:12:49,730
couldn't be sure exactly
where it was coming from.
717
01:12:51,308 --> 01:12:53,997
Now, see, that's Donna be a problem,
718
01:12:54,850 --> 01:12:57,964
because we can't get on the stand
and waffle about the charges.
719
01:12:58,236 --> 01:12:59,231
Waffle, Bill?
720
01:12:59,790 --> 01:13:02,668
In your mind,
Childers was responsible, wasn't he?
721
01:13:03,975 --> 01:13:06,565
I wasn't exactly there.
I had already evacuated.
722
01:13:06,608 --> 01:13:08,978
You have to remember he
saved my life and my family.
723
01:13:09,021 --> 01:13:10,032
This all happened after...
724
01:13:10,095 --> 01:13:11,220
Does that mean the United States...
725
01:13:11,263 --> 01:13:13,212
is Donna have to take
the fall for what he did?
726
01:13:14,492 --> 01:13:15,654
I don't understand.
727
01:13:17,850 --> 01:13:20,828
The investigating team didn't
find any weapons in the crowd.
728
01:13:20,871 --> 01:13:23,033
That's because they weren't
there until the following day.
729
01:13:24,351 --> 01:13:25,907
The Yemeni government
cleaned up the scene,
730
01:13:25,950 --> 01:13:27,691
but unfortunately that's
not something we can prove.
731
01:13:28,321 --> 01:13:31,308
Nor can I testify about it.
It all happened afterward.
732
01:13:31,584 --> 01:13:34,142
Yeah, but you can testify
about Childers' frame of mind,
733
01:13:34,184 --> 01:13:35,996
his behaviour while you were there.
734
01:13:37,933 --> 01:13:39,033
He saved my life.
735
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,142
Surely this will all come
down to what the tape shows.
736
01:13:44,767 --> 01:13:46,008
The tape's inconclusive.
737
01:13:48,058 --> 01:13:51,612
Hodges subpoenaed it,
of course, but, uh...
738
01:13:52,303 --> 01:13:53,568
it was a faulty recording.
739
01:13:56,806 --> 01:13:58,432
-I see.
-Do you?
740
01:13:59,887 --> 01:14:03,062
If Childers isn't held
totally responsible,
741
01:14:03,808 --> 01:14:05,603
then the United States will be.
742
01:14:06,772 --> 01:14:08,402
And just guess...
743
01:14:09,431 --> 01:14:10,249
where the finger...
744
01:14:11,681 --> 01:14:13,114
is eventually Donna point.
745
01:14:15,242 --> 01:14:17,534
-Me?
-Where else?
746
01:14:19,725 --> 01:14:21,531
You should've known
this was Donna erupt.
747
01:14:22,375 --> 01:14:24,507
And if you didn't,
you were asleep at the wheel.
748
01:14:25,939 --> 01:14:27,932
Either way,
your conduct was inexcusable.
749
01:14:28,995 --> 01:14:31,542
Now, do you want to face a
congressional inquiry over this,
750
01:14:33,142 --> 01:14:34,312
put your career at risk?
751
01:14:36,892 --> 01:14:37,727
Think about it.
752
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:40,569
Thank you, Bill.
753
01:15:50,126 --> 01:15:51,128
All rise.
754
01:16:00,388 --> 01:16:01,224
Be seated.
755
01:16:05,118 --> 01:16:06,468
Look closely at this picture.
756
01:16:09,475 --> 01:16:11,558
Why did a well-trained fighting unit...
757
01:16:11,642 --> 01:16:14,975
have to slaughter unarmed men,
women and children...
758
01:16:15,017 --> 01:16:17,218
when their orders were
simply to protect...
759
01:16:17,261 --> 01:16:20,155
and if necessary, evacuate the embassy?
760
01:16:22,017 --> 01:16:23,688
The answer is, they didn't.
761
01:16:24,122 --> 01:16:28,168
They were ordered to open fire,
and that order came from one man...
762
01:16:28,828 --> 01:16:30,432
Colonel Terry Childers,
763
01:16:31,058 --> 01:16:33,142
who stands trial here today,
764
01:16:34,141 --> 01:16:35,674
a day of sadness,
765
01:16:36,100 --> 01:16:39,225
a day when America has to
accept responsibility...
766
01:16:39,267 --> 01:16:42,551
for its failures and its
mistakes as well as its glories.
767
01:16:46,350 --> 01:16:50,475
We will show you that the accused,
through his mind-set and actions,
768
01:16:50,517 --> 01:16:52,446
ignored the rules of engagement...
769
01:16:52,975 --> 01:16:55,683
and went far beyond the
scope of his authority...
770
01:16:55,725 --> 01:17:00,112
to intentionally order the
murder of 83 innocent people.
771
01:17:09,453 --> 01:17:11,992
I was the last one to enter the
courtroom this morning. I was late.
772
01:17:14,127 --> 01:17:15,823
I was late because I was in the head.
773
01:17:17,475 --> 01:17:20,806
And I was in the head because...
I was throwing up.
774
01:17:23,261 --> 01:17:25,471
And I was throwing up because
I don't know if I'm...
775
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:27,190
able to handle this job.
776
01:17:33,746 --> 01:17:37,452
I believe that Colonel Childers
is innocent of these charges.
777
01:17:39,350 --> 01:17:42,184
I just don't know if I have what
it takes to make his case for him.
778
01:17:42,227 --> 01:17:44,513
I'm simply not on the same
page as Major Briggs, uh...
779
01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:49,617
Major Biggs here, as a lawyer.
780
01:17:49,850 --> 01:17:50,941
We all know that.
781
01:17:53,392 --> 01:17:55,367
So why did I take this job?
782
01:18:01,216 --> 01:18:04,206
I took this case because
Terry Childers told me...
783
01:18:04,594 --> 01:18:08,969
I would have done the same thing
he did if I'd been in his shoes.
784
01:18:09,100 --> 01:18:10,811
I took the case because I know Terry
Childers.
785
01:18:10,853 --> 01:18:12,003
His word is his bond.
786
01:18:12,310 --> 01:18:14,818
He told me he did what he had to do.
787
01:18:16,714 --> 01:18:17,964
Now, I hope I don't let him down.
788
01:18:22,794 --> 01:18:24,716
We sent Terry Childers out
on a very tough mission.
789
01:18:27,018 --> 01:18:28,104
And when it went bad,
790
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,175
and he did everything he could
to save the lives of his marines,
791
01:18:33,363 --> 01:18:35,216
save the lives of the embassy people,
792
01:18:37,476 --> 01:18:39,585
you turn around now and want
to blame the whole mess on him,
793
01:18:42,542 --> 01:18:44,898
send him to prison possibly
for the rest of his life.
794
01:18:47,098 --> 01:18:48,209
That's not fair.
795
01:18:50,334 --> 01:18:51,170
It's not right.
796
01:18:54,648 --> 01:18:56,368
It is what made me sick this morning.
797
01:18:58,631 --> 01:19:00,144
It was a large crowd.
798
01:19:00,187 --> 01:19:03,809
There was a lot of commotion.
The noise was very unsettling.
799
01:19:04,528 --> 01:19:06,160
But it was a peaceful crowd.
800
01:19:06,561 --> 01:19:09,211
That is, until Colonel Childers
arrived and prevented me...
801
01:19:09,254 --> 01:19:11,395
from pursuing further
avenues of diplomacy.
802
01:19:11,961 --> 01:19:14,165
Did Colonel Childers force
you to leave the embassy?
803
01:19:14,208 --> 01:19:16,116
Yes. He charged in.
804
01:19:16,159 --> 01:19:19,974
He... started pushing us around.
805
01:19:20,225 --> 01:19:22,664
He physically restrained
me from doing my job.
806
01:19:22,716 --> 01:19:24,346
What was his state
of mind at this time?
807
01:19:24,563 --> 01:19:25,718
He was in a fury.
808
01:19:26,691 --> 01:19:29,041
He was disrespectful
to me and my family.
809
01:19:29,267 --> 01:19:30,191
Oh, that's bullshit.
810
01:19:30,234 --> 01:19:33,797
It was almost,
how should I say, a murderous rage.
811
01:19:34,271 --> 01:19:35,458
Do you remember what he said?
812
01:19:35,853 --> 01:19:37,688
I remember he said something like...
813
01:19:37,975 --> 01:19:40,039
'diplomacy is bullshit at this point...
814
01:19:40,082 --> 01:19:43,927
'and that 'nobody fucks
with the American flag'.'
815
01:19:43,970 --> 01:19:46,513
-Those were his words.
-Thank you, Ambassador.
816
01:19:47,032 --> 01:19:48,025
No further questions.
817
01:19:49,684 --> 01:19:50,785
Do you believe...
818
01:19:51,436 --> 01:19:53,148
that an American embassy
on foreign soil...
819
01:19:53,191 --> 01:19:54,705
is sovereign United States territory?
820
01:19:55,284 --> 01:19:56,802
As a general principle, yes.
821
01:19:57,107 --> 01:19:58,465
Do you believe Americans
have a right...
822
01:19:58,508 --> 01:20:00,150
to defend that territory
if it's attacked?
823
01:20:00,496 --> 01:20:01,988
If it is, in fact, attacked.
824
01:20:02,151 --> 01:20:05,357
Would you have expected
Colonel Childers to...
825
01:20:05,604 --> 01:20:07,401
surrender to the attacking
crowd or to fight them?
826
01:20:07,608 --> 01:20:08,941
I would have expected neither.
827
01:20:08,984 --> 01:20:10,755
The colonel should have
let me address the crowd,
828
01:20:10,798 --> 01:20:12,447
then he could have
withdrawn his marines.
829
01:20:12,750 --> 01:20:15,324
Would you have expected him to
hold his fire as he withdrew,
830
01:20:15,367 --> 01:20:18,577
-even if he were taking casualties?
-To the extent possible.
831
01:20:18,885 --> 01:20:19,975
So your order would have been,
832
01:20:20,017 --> 01:20:21,648
Hold your fire to the extent possible,
Marines.
833
01:20:21,691 --> 01:20:24,102
And to the extent not possible,
fire away.
834
01:20:26,236 --> 01:20:26,962
Ambassador.
835
01:20:31,433 --> 01:20:33,027
This photograph is exhibit 'C'.
836
01:20:37,058 --> 01:20:39,438
-What is that?
-It's a security camera.
837
01:20:39,775 --> 01:20:41,146
Is it mounted on the
roof of the embassy...
838
01:20:41,189 --> 01:20:43,419
and pointed down to where
the crowd had gathered?
839
01:20:43,699 --> 01:20:45,678
-I would suppose so.
-Yes or no, please.
840
01:20:45,917 --> 01:20:46,673
Yes.
841
01:20:47,526 --> 01:20:50,346
-Is it in operation 24 hours a day?
-I suppose so.
842
01:20:50,421 --> 01:20:52,337
-Yes or no?
-Yes.
843
01:20:52,785 --> 01:20:55,886
Do you suppose there is a taping
system attached to this camera?
844
01:20:55,947 --> 01:20:57,489
-Your Honour.
-Colonel.
845
01:20:57,572 --> 01:20:59,227
-Yes.
-Where's the tape?
846
01:20:59,357 --> 01:21:01,935
It is my understanding
that if there were tapes,
847
01:21:01,978 --> 01:21:04,829
undamaged tapes, they'd have been
sent to the State Department.
848
01:21:05,037 --> 01:21:05,978
Undamaged tapes?
849
01:21:06,308 --> 01:21:09,600
Well,
there was destruction and looting...
850
01:21:09,683 --> 01:21:10,670
after the killing.
851
01:21:12,182 --> 01:21:13,921
As you withdrew from the Embassy,
852
01:21:13,964 --> 01:21:15,705
did you remember
to take the American flag with you?
853
01:21:22,592 --> 01:21:25,168
Did you remember to take
the American flag, sir?
854
01:21:25,664 --> 01:21:28,146
-Of course.
-Where is that flag now?
855
01:21:28,475 --> 01:21:30,972
I brought it home and returned
it to the State Department.
856
01:21:31,176 --> 01:21:33,967
It was shot to shreds, wasn't it?
857
01:21:34,952 --> 01:21:36,267
By the snipers, yes.
858
01:21:36,763 --> 01:21:37,368
Yeah?
859
01:21:50,595 --> 01:21:51,800
Right! Go right!
860
01:21:54,017 --> 01:21:55,189
Goal!
861
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:04,826
At ease, son.
862
01:22:06,350 --> 01:22:08,276
Let me see.
Which one of you people is named Justin?
863
01:22:09,201 --> 01:22:11,559
-Let me take a guess. How about you?
-No.
864
01:22:11,986 --> 01:22:13,441
Alright.
Then I'll have to make another guess.
865
01:22:13,484 --> 01:22:15,920
Let me see. I'll take, uh... you.
866
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:18,350
How'd you know? Are you in the marines?
867
01:22:18,392 --> 01:22:19,383
Yes, sir, I am.
868
01:22:20,808 --> 01:22:23,608
Go on in the house, kids.
There are sandwiches in the kitchen.
869
01:22:23,651 --> 01:22:26,675
Mrs. Mourain,
I'm sorry to bother you at home.
870
01:22:26,718 --> 01:22:28,890
-I'm Colonel...
-I know who you are, Colonel Hodges.
871
01:22:29,258 --> 01:22:31,105
-Is that your boy?
-Yes.
872
01:22:33,950 --> 01:22:35,243
Can I talk to you a few minutes?
873
01:22:35,769 --> 01:22:37,096
I don't think that's appropriate.
874
01:22:37,862 --> 01:22:40,104
Mrs. Mourain, I don't believe your
husband is telling the truth...
875
01:22:40,147 --> 01:22:41,736
about what Colonel
Childers did in Yemen.
876
01:22:45,100 --> 01:22:47,795
Kids, go on in the house.
There are sandwiches on the table.
877
01:22:48,267 --> 01:22:49,927
Let's go! Come on!
878
01:22:55,933 --> 01:22:58,187
You should take that up with my husband,
shouldn't you?
879
01:22:59,613 --> 01:23:02,058
Colonel Childers risked his life
so you could be here, ma'am,
880
01:23:02,142 --> 01:23:04,428
watching these kids
play out these windows.
881
01:23:05,642 --> 01:23:06,420
Does that bother you?
882
01:23:12,016 --> 01:23:14,454
I feel terrible about what
happened to Colonel Childers.
883
01:23:14,655 --> 01:23:16,717
Can you tell me that he
manhandled your family?
884
01:23:16,845 --> 01:23:19,157
Or that he prevented your
husband from doing his job?
885
01:23:19,351 --> 01:23:22,041
Ma'am? Can you tell me that?
886
01:23:22,913 --> 01:23:23,708
No.
887
01:23:24,839 --> 01:23:27,839
As far as I'm concerned,
he behaved quite honourably.
888
01:23:28,142 --> 01:23:29,503
Will you testify to that?
889
01:23:37,009 --> 01:23:39,890
-My husband's a good man.
-So is Colonel Childers.
890
01:23:42,142 --> 01:23:43,472
I've been married for ten years.
891
01:23:43,515 --> 01:23:45,900
You're asking me to throw
that away in an afternoon.
892
01:23:46,260 --> 01:23:49,335
Your husband and you and your son...
893
01:23:49,558 --> 01:23:52,227
owe your lives to
Colonel Terry Childers.
894
01:23:55,739 --> 01:23:57,725
We all have our priorities, Colonel.
895
01:24:00,070 --> 01:24:01,558
I can subpoena you, ma'am.
896
01:24:03,214 --> 01:24:04,001
Please don't.
897
01:24:05,517 --> 01:24:08,954
Don't put me up there.
I'm a very credible witness.
898
01:24:10,943 --> 01:24:12,475
Now, if you'll excuse me.
899
01:24:13,211 --> 01:24:15,121
You won't tell the truth
if I put you on the stand?
900
01:24:17,261 --> 01:24:18,912
I don't know what the truth is.
901
01:24:19,251 --> 01:24:22,291
Colonel Childers is on trial for
what he did outside the embassy.
902
01:24:22,334 --> 01:24:24,397
I wasn't there. Were you?
903
01:24:30,004 --> 01:24:32,390
Captain Lee,
you were in command of the TRAP team...
904
01:24:32,433 --> 01:24:35,183
and the second ranking officer
under Colonel Childers in Yemen?
905
01:24:35,766 --> 01:24:37,085
-Yes, sir.
-And you were on the roof...
906
01:24:37,128 --> 01:24:39,349
-of the embassy, were you not?
-Yes, I was.
907
01:24:39,642 --> 01:24:41,792
Colonel Childers ordered
you to open fire...
908
01:24:41,834 --> 01:24:44,279
immediately after Sergeant
Richard Krasevitch was shot.
909
01:24:44,322 --> 01:24:46,850
-Is that correct?
-Yes.
910
01:24:46,892 --> 01:24:49,603
But Sergeant Krasevitch was not
shot by the demonstrators, was he?
911
01:24:49,750 --> 01:24:51,542
Objection. How could we know
the exact firing position...
912
01:24:51,585 --> 01:24:53,182
of the bullet that killed
Sergeant Krasevitch?
913
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:55,506
Sustained. Counsel refrain
from leading the witness.
914
01:24:55,739 --> 01:24:57,935
Did you at any time...
915
01:24:57,978 --> 01:25:00,723
receive gunfire from within
the demonstration itself?
916
01:25:03,609 --> 01:25:04,409
Captain?
917
01:25:06,654 --> 01:25:09,796
I can't remember any fire
from the demonstrators,
918
01:25:10,124 --> 01:25:11,725
to my knowledge that is, sir.
919
01:25:11,921 --> 01:25:13,920
You killed the wrong people,
didn't you?
920
01:25:14,714 --> 01:25:17,464
You should've been firing at
the snipers across the way.
921
01:25:17,507 --> 01:25:19,513
-Isn't that correct?
-I can't answer...
922
01:25:19,556 --> 01:25:21,445
-Objection. Calls for speculation.
-Sustained.
923
01:25:21,517 --> 01:25:24,117
You shot at people who were
demonstrating peacefully,
924
01:25:24,159 --> 01:25:25,850
who were not using deadly force.
925
01:25:25,892 --> 01:25:27,384
Your Honour,
that's not in evidence here.
926
01:25:27,494 --> 01:25:30,444
Sustained.
Major, I'm not going to warn you again.
927
01:25:33,281 --> 01:25:36,720
Captain, what were the words
Colonel Childers used...
928
01:25:36,763 --> 01:25:39,083
when he ordered you to
fire on the demonstrators?
929
01:25:39,125 --> 01:25:41,308
I don't remember the exact words, sir.
930
01:25:42,583 --> 01:25:44,043
He ordered me to open fire.
931
01:25:46,432 --> 01:25:48,518
When you obeyed Colonel
Childers' order to open fire,
932
01:25:48,561 --> 01:25:50,139
did you believe it
to be a lawful order?
933
01:25:50,899 --> 01:25:51,559
Yes, sir.
934
01:25:51,939 --> 01:25:54,385
Otherwise it would have been your
duty to disobey. Is that right?
935
01:25:54,428 --> 01:25:55,085
Yes, sir.
936
01:25:55,897 --> 01:25:58,245
When your men opened fire on
the attackers in the crowd,
937
01:25:58,288 --> 01:26:01,622
did the snipers in the buildings
across the way cease their firing?
938
01:26:01,911 --> 01:26:03,693
Absolutely, sir.
It went completely quiet.
939
01:26:03,736 --> 01:26:04,730
It would seem, then,
940
01:26:04,773 --> 01:26:06,754
that the two groups were
actually one working together.
941
01:26:07,001 --> 01:26:09,925
Objection. Counsel is drawing
a conclusion for the witness.
942
01:26:10,472 --> 01:26:11,392
Sustained.
943
01:26:11,518 --> 01:26:13,200
Were you in a position to
observe Colonel Childers...
944
01:26:13,243 --> 01:26:14,375
when everyone was evacuated?
945
01:26:14,417 --> 01:26:15,055
Yes, I was.
946
01:26:15,098 --> 01:26:16,320
What was the last thing you saw him do?
947
01:26:17,283 --> 01:26:19,316
-He went to the flagpole.
-Then what'd he do?
948
01:26:20,558 --> 01:26:22,045
He took down the American flag.
949
01:26:22,088 --> 01:26:25,473
Was he personally under
heavy fire at that time?
950
01:26:25,516 --> 01:26:27,121
-Yes, sir.
-No more questions.
951
01:26:29,593 --> 01:26:32,467
Captain, prior to receiving orders
from the accused to open fire,
952
01:26:32,508 --> 01:26:35,004
where was the point of greatest
concern for the safety of your men,
953
01:26:35,323 --> 01:26:38,235
the crowd below or the snipers
in the buildings across the way?
954
01:26:39,790 --> 01:26:41,470
-I'm not really sure.
-You're not sure?
955
01:26:44,008 --> 01:26:45,267
Well, I guess...
956
01:26:45,392 --> 01:26:47,057
Don't guess. I'll repeat the question.
957
01:26:47,725 --> 01:26:50,406
Was the point of greatest
concern the crowd below...
958
01:26:50,449 --> 01:26:52,094
or the snipers across the way?
959
01:26:55,058 --> 01:26:56,387
I would have to say the snipers.
960
01:26:56,764 --> 01:27:00,014
Did you feel an immediate mortal
danger from the crowd as a whole?
961
01:27:01,233 --> 01:27:02,787
-I don't understand.
-You don't understand?
962
01:27:02,830 --> 01:27:04,313
-No, sir.
-Let me help you.
963
01:27:09,314 --> 01:27:10,475
Were you more worried...
964
01:27:10,558 --> 01:27:12,723
you'd be killed by these
people or by these people?
965
01:27:12,952 --> 01:27:14,681
I don't know sir.
I wasn't thinking about that.
966
01:27:14,723 --> 01:27:15,607
Have you ever been under fire?
967
01:27:15,650 --> 01:27:19,605
You didn't see the crowd firing,
but you did take fire from the snipers.
968
01:27:19,648 --> 01:27:20,491
Is that correct?
969
01:27:27,710 --> 01:27:28,250
Yes.
970
01:27:29,466 --> 01:27:31,908
Our clinic is not too
far from the embassy.
971
01:27:32,580 --> 01:27:36,122
So I was one of the
first to arrive there.
972
01:27:37,492 --> 01:27:39,696
Did you see any weapons
on the bodies of the dead?
973
01:27:40,488 --> 01:27:41,235
No.
974
01:27:41,681 --> 01:27:44,100
Did you remove any weapons from
the people you were treating?
975
01:27:44,892 --> 01:27:45,474
No.
976
01:27:45,848 --> 01:27:47,797
Not a single weapon
anywhere among the victims?
977
01:27:49,245 --> 01:27:50,889
No, no weapons.
978
01:27:51,272 --> 01:27:54,710
In your opinion, is Yemen a
training ground for terrorists?
979
01:27:56,861 --> 01:27:58,038
Not at all.
980
01:28:00,388 --> 01:28:01,369
We met in Yemen.
981
01:28:02,542 --> 01:28:04,993
You encouraged me to tour your
clinic in order to witness...
982
01:28:05,036 --> 01:28:06,973
the suffering caused by
Colonel Childers' orders.
983
01:28:07,016 --> 01:28:09,012
-Do you remember that?
-Yes.
984
01:28:11,815 --> 01:28:15,049
I found an audio cassette on
the floor of your clinic.
985
01:28:15,092 --> 01:28:16,373
It's marked exhibit 'R'.
986
01:28:17,325 --> 01:28:18,385
Do you remember that?
987
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,627
-Yes.
-I found another one...
988
01:28:25,681 --> 01:28:27,523
inside the embassy.
989
01:28:27,779 --> 01:28:30,924
In fact, I found several others.
They're all marked exhibit 'R'.
990
01:28:33,225 --> 01:28:35,352
Will you translate the writing
on the outside of that cassette?
991
01:28:38,606 --> 01:28:42,223
Declaration of Islamic Jihad...
992
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:45,023
'Against United States'.
993
01:28:45,883 --> 01:28:48,612
These audio cassettes are used
for the purposes of religious...
994
01:28:48,655 --> 01:28:51,615
and political propaganda due to
the high illiteracy rate in Yemen.
995
01:28:51,658 --> 01:28:53,919
-Is that correct?
-Yes.
996
01:28:54,100 --> 01:28:55,584
Will you translate
the words you hear...
997
01:28:55,627 --> 01:28:57,801
on this audio cassette for the court,
please?
998
01:29:10,111 --> 01:29:10,941
Dr Ahmar?
999
01:29:12,466 --> 01:29:15,669
We call on every Muslim
who believes in God...
1000
01:29:16,569 --> 01:29:18,225
and hopes for reward...
1001
01:29:19,350 --> 01:29:20,698
'to obey God's command'.
1002
01:29:29,874 --> 01:29:32,669
Dr Ahmar,
does it say what God's command is?
1003
01:29:33,877 --> 01:29:35,436
To kill Americans...
1004
01:29:36,263 --> 01:29:37,473
and plunder...
1005
01:29:38,471 --> 01:29:41,971
'their possessions
wherever he finds them'.
1006
01:29:44,994 --> 01:29:45,962
Go on, please.
1007
01:29:50,049 --> 01:29:51,431
To kill Americans...
1008
01:29:52,392 --> 01:29:53,798
and their allies,
1009
01:29:54,628 --> 01:29:58,995
both civil and military,
1010
01:29:59,850 --> 01:30:03,445
is duty of every Muslim...
1011
01:30:04,267 --> 01:30:05,494
'who is able'.
1012
01:30:08,013 --> 01:30:10,498
To kill Americans is a duty.
1013
01:30:11,558 --> 01:30:14,135
-Is that what it says?
-Yes.
1014
01:30:19,771 --> 01:30:21,636
Do you recognize the speaker's voice?
1015
01:30:22,639 --> 01:30:23,604
No.
1016
01:30:25,726 --> 01:30:29,349
Dr Ahmar,
in your opinion, is this propaganda...
1017
01:30:29,392 --> 01:30:31,486
representative of that demonstration?
1018
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:36,847
No. I'm not a member of Islamic Jihad!
1019
01:30:39,278 --> 01:30:41,137
The crowd was singing songs.
1020
01:30:42,441 --> 01:30:44,642
I heard them from my clinic.
1021
01:30:45,710 --> 01:30:47,725
What was your reaction when you
learned that Colonel Childers...
1022
01:30:47,767 --> 01:30:49,475
had been selected to lead this mission?
1023
01:30:49,517 --> 01:30:52,696
I was very pleased.
The colonel had a distinguished record.
1024
01:30:52,803 --> 01:30:54,914
-He's a nationally renowned war...
-How did you define his mission?
1025
01:30:56,376 --> 01:30:58,797
Well, we wanted to increase security,
but frankly,
1026
01:30:58,864 --> 01:31:02,014
if things got threatening,
we wanted an evacuation.
1027
01:31:02,398 --> 01:31:04,457
So you weren't looking
for confrontation?
1028
01:31:04,525 --> 01:31:07,400
No, that's what we wished
to avoid at all costs.
1029
01:31:07,998 --> 01:31:09,285
What was your reaction
to what happened?
1030
01:31:10,081 --> 01:31:10,935
I was stunned,
1031
01:31:12,975 --> 01:31:13,742
appalled.
1032
01:31:15,002 --> 01:31:17,529
Wasn't the severity of the problem
at the embassy understated?
1033
01:31:18,045 --> 01:31:19,466
Absolutely not.
1034
01:31:19,725 --> 01:31:22,472
We operated on the information
we had at the time.
1035
01:31:23,515 --> 01:31:27,431
I have here a State
Department report from Yemen.
1036
01:31:28,094 --> 01:31:29,241
It's exhibit 'M'.
1037
01:31:30,402 --> 01:31:32,567
Will you read the underlined
sections for the court, please?
1038
01:31:32,610 --> 01:31:33,444
Certainly.
1039
01:31:36,064 --> 01:31:39,601
'January25.
Grenade thrown at police car.
1040
01:31:40,142 --> 01:31:44,772
January 27. Sixteen Western tourists
abducted by fundamentalist group'.
1041
01:31:45,933 --> 01:31:50,392
-Go on, please.
-'February 6.'
1042
01:31:50,435 --> 01:31:52,980
-A bomb explodes in a car...
-You got today's Post?
1043
01:31:53,023 --> 01:31:54,518
-Yeah.
-Yeah. Give it to me.
1044
01:31:54,644 --> 01:31:58,060
Stun grenade thrown at newspaper
kiosk near a police station.
1045
01:31:58,591 --> 01:32:00,908
March 13. A military officer...
1046
01:32:00,951 --> 01:32:05,112
is seriously wounded by Yemen's first...
donkey bomb.
1047
01:32:06,308 --> 01:32:08,664
Explosives were apparently
concealed under the saddle.
1048
01:32:08,740 --> 01:32:09,349
Thank you.
1049
01:32:11,267 --> 01:32:15,343
I have another State Department
document, dated 17 November.
1050
01:32:16,275 --> 01:32:18,608
It's from the ambassador to you.
1051
01:32:19,058 --> 01:32:20,440
Will you read this for the court,
please?
1052
01:32:26,165 --> 01:32:30,133
Dear Bill. Please, we must revisit
our previous conversation...
1053
01:32:30,176 --> 01:32:32,919
in that the security measures we
have taken are still inadequate...
1054
01:32:32,962 --> 01:32:34,609
'for the protection
of our mission to Yemen'.
1055
01:32:34,652 --> 01:32:35,943
You have to understand that
when I received this letter...
1056
01:32:35,986 --> 01:32:40,426
Thank you. Now, there are...
Well, are there... cameras...
1057
01:32:41,433 --> 01:32:44,948
-mounted on the roof of the embassy?
-Uh, yes.
1058
01:32:45,033 --> 01:32:47,083
Are they designed to
observe and record...
1059
01:32:47,132 --> 01:32:49,269
activities in the public
spaces outside the embassy?
1060
01:32:49,312 --> 01:32:50,597
-Yes.
-Where are the tapes?
1061
01:32:52,350 --> 01:32:54,767
Uh, it's my understanding
the embassy was looted.
1062
01:32:55,267 --> 01:32:56,774
Maybe the cameras were destroyed.
1063
01:33:00,621 --> 01:33:05,205
This is a photograph.
It is exhibit 'D' for the court.
1064
01:33:05,475 --> 01:33:08,566
It's a picture of a camera
on the embassy roof.
1065
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:10,710
Does it appear to be damaged?
1066
01:33:11,689 --> 01:33:12,472
No.
1067
01:33:12,741 --> 01:33:15,169
-Where are the tapes?
-I don't know.
1068
01:33:15,811 --> 01:33:18,100
Don't you think the
United States owes it...
1069
01:33:18,183 --> 01:33:20,665
to Colonel Childers for
30 years of service...
1070
01:33:20,708 --> 01:33:23,100
to find that tape and produce it here?
1071
01:33:23,142 --> 01:33:25,073
Objection.
We don't know anything about any tapes.
1072
01:33:25,116 --> 01:33:27,157
-This is pure speculation.
-Sustained.
1073
01:33:30,859 --> 01:33:33,563
This is a shipping manifest.
It's exhibit 'O'.
1074
01:33:34,225 --> 01:33:36,072
It is a list of items removed from
the embassy
1075
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:38,357
during the evacuation,
and shipped to the State Department.
1076
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:39,825
Will you read line six, please?
1077
01:33:41,683 --> 01:33:45,239
Videotape from security camera,
VHS, one.
1078
01:33:45,322 --> 01:33:47,068
You too busy to look at those
tapes or you just didn't care?
1079
01:33:47,183 --> 01:33:50,183
Objection. He's badgering the
national security advisor.
1080
01:33:50,519 --> 01:33:52,517
Sustained.
Counsel, please proceed carefully.
1081
01:33:52,558 --> 01:33:55,159
-Where are those tapes?
-Objection! Asked and answered.
1082
01:33:55,202 --> 01:33:58,854
Oh. Yes, right.
Right. Don't you think it's funny...
1083
01:33:59,067 --> 01:34:01,267
that a tape that could
exonerate my client is missing?
1084
01:34:01,350 --> 01:34:02,950
I don't think it's funny at all.
1085
01:34:03,017 --> 01:34:05,475
Withholding evidence is
a very serious crime.
1086
01:34:05,517 --> 01:34:08,440
-Objection.
-Sustained. Counsel, rephrase.
1087
01:34:09,308 --> 01:34:12,008
Withholding evidence to frame
a United States Marine...
1088
01:34:12,050 --> 01:34:14,515
is no less evil than charging
my client with murder.
1089
01:34:14,578 --> 01:34:15,365
Where are those tapes?
1090
01:34:15,408 --> 01:34:18,227
Colonel, I turned over all
materials in my possession...
1091
01:34:18,270 --> 01:34:19,603
to Major Biggs.
1092
01:34:20,388 --> 01:34:23,095
If those tapes showed a happy
crowd of peaceful demonstrators,
1093
01:34:23,138 --> 01:34:24,437
we'd be looking at 'em right now.
1094
01:34:24,480 --> 01:34:26,480
Objection, Your Honour.
This is contempt.
1095
01:34:26,523 --> 01:34:28,399
Colonel, this is your last warning.
1096
01:34:28,750 --> 01:34:30,453
It was a new security system.
1097
01:34:30,850 --> 01:34:32,975
The cameras were pointed
down at the crowd.
1098
01:34:33,017 --> 01:34:33,837
Tapes were recorded,
1099
01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:35,769
and those tapes
were sent to the State Department.
1100
01:34:35,990 --> 01:34:37,142
Why are those tapes not here?
1101
01:34:37,185 --> 01:34:40,202
Objection, Your Honour.
I've seen no such tapes.
1102
01:34:43,461 --> 01:34:44,526
No further questions.
1103
01:34:47,799 --> 01:34:49,839
There are no tapes showing
the crowd firing weapons?
1104
01:34:49,925 --> 01:34:50,880
None that I'm aware of.
1105
01:34:50,929 --> 01:34:52,640
And the government has turned
over all of its evidence?
1106
01:34:52,683 --> 01:34:53,520
Of course.
1107
01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:57,308
Colonel Hodges has
gone to some length...
1108
01:34:57,350 --> 01:35:01,558
to have you read security reports
illustrating violence in Yemen.
1109
01:35:01,642 --> 01:35:04,341
-Yes, he has.
-Here is today's Washington Post.
1110
01:35:04,558 --> 01:35:06,380
Will you read these headlines
that I've underlined...
1111
01:35:06,423 --> 01:35:07,674
from today's Metro section?
1112
01:35:08,798 --> 01:35:12,528
Agent, kidnapper killed in
rescue of businessman's son.
1113
01:35:13,683 --> 01:35:16,475
Bomb threat evacuates
Museum of Natural History.
1114
01:35:17,101 --> 01:35:20,082
Officer chases truck driver,
fires 38 times.
1115
01:35:20,125 --> 01:35:23,486
Husband shoots wife, himself in street.
1116
01:35:24,100 --> 01:35:27,200
Mr. Sokal, does this random,
unfortunate news mean we should...
1117
01:35:27,267 --> 01:35:30,527
allow Colonel Childers and his
troops loose in Washington, D.C.?
1118
01:35:31,223 --> 01:35:33,480
Don't answer that. Thank you, Mr. Sokal.
1119
01:35:33,695 --> 01:35:36,475
Present arms!
1120
01:35:38,374 --> 01:35:42,249
Order arms!
1121
01:36:15,382 --> 01:36:18,369
Take deep breaths, sir!
You're almost out of here. Stay calm.
1122
01:36:18,412 --> 01:36:20,619
I hope you know how to fold it, sir.
1123
01:36:22,142 --> 01:36:24,527
Thank you, Colonel.
I'll never forget this.
1124
01:36:42,088 --> 01:36:43,296
Krasevitch is hit!
1125
01:36:43,838 --> 01:36:45,434
Corpsman!
1126
01:36:46,535 --> 01:36:48,396
Corpsman! Shit!
1127
01:36:49,422 --> 01:36:50,704
Goddamn it!
1128
01:37:16,882 --> 01:37:19,308
Engage hostile targets as they appear!
1129
01:37:21,318 --> 01:37:23,338
Waste the mother fuckers!
1130
01:37:29,929 --> 01:37:33,585
Cease fire! Cease fire!
1131
01:37:34,141 --> 01:37:36,100
Cease fire!
1132
01:37:39,017 --> 01:37:42,099
Order arms!
1133
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:43,964
I was proud of my marines.
1134
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:45,919
They showed remarkable discipline.
1135
01:37:46,756 --> 01:37:48,901
Why didn't you fire at the
snipers in the buildings...
1136
01:37:48,955 --> 01:37:50,513
instead of at the crowd below?
1137
01:37:50,808 --> 01:37:53,137
Because I believed we were in
greater danger from the crowd.
1138
01:37:53,180 --> 01:37:55,022
-Was that crowd firing at you?
-Yes.
1139
01:37:56,560 --> 01:38:00,165
The demonstrators in front of the
building were firing at you...
1140
01:38:00,208 --> 01:38:02,043
-in addition to the snipers?
-Yes.
1141
01:38:02,767 --> 01:38:04,839
Why didn't anybody else
see that crowd firing?
1142
01:38:05,201 --> 01:38:07,051
My men were under cover on the roof,
1143
01:38:07,111 --> 01:38:09,711
except for Krasevitch who
was on an observation post.
1144
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:13,090
And why isn't he here
testifying on your behalf today?
1145
01:38:15,731 --> 01:38:18,575
Because he was killed in action.
He died in my arms.
1146
01:38:19,744 --> 01:38:22,463
So you were the only man left in
a position to observe that crowd?
1147
01:38:23,225 --> 01:38:23,948
Yes.
1148
01:38:26,470 --> 01:38:27,890
Where else have you been in combat,
Colonel?
1149
01:38:29,125 --> 01:38:33,131
Vietnam, Beirut,
Panama, Persian Gulf.
1150
01:38:33,558 --> 01:38:35,946
Can you identify that blue and
white ribbon on your uniform?
1151
01:38:36,487 --> 01:38:37,733
It's the Navy Cross.
1152
01:38:37,816 --> 01:38:40,896
Do you remember the citation
that accompanied that medal?
1153
01:38:41,767 --> 01:38:44,516
For conspicuous gallantry in the
face of great personal danger,
1154
01:38:44,558 --> 01:38:46,206
reflecting great credit upon himself,
1155
01:38:46,249 --> 01:38:48,456
'the United States Marine
Corps and the Naval Service'.
1156
01:38:49,953 --> 01:38:50,775
Your witness.
1157
01:38:55,767 --> 01:38:56,474
Colonel,
1158
01:38:58,100 --> 01:39:00,489
you gunned down more than 80 people.
1159
01:39:01,808 --> 01:39:04,550
You wounded another hundred or so.
1160
01:39:06,162 --> 01:39:09,321
Could this have been motivated
by a desire for retaliation?
1161
01:39:10,767 --> 01:39:12,317
I was protecting my men.
1162
01:39:13,017 --> 01:39:16,108
Sergeant Richard Krasevitch was
shot only a few feet away from you.
1163
01:39:16,150 --> 01:39:17,568
-Is that correct?
-Yes.
1164
01:39:19,249 --> 01:39:21,267
And right after Sergeant
Krasevitch died,
1165
01:39:21,955 --> 01:39:23,504
you ordered open fire on the crowd?
1166
01:39:23,547 --> 01:39:26,267
-Is that also correct?
-I was taking fire.
1167
01:39:26,308 --> 01:39:28,402
There were weapons in that crowd.
1168
01:39:28,850 --> 01:39:30,975
Well, you wouldn't shoot unarmed people,
would you?
1169
01:39:31,162 --> 01:39:32,058
No, I would not.
1170
01:39:32,100 --> 01:39:35,642
Even in the heat of battle,
you wouldn't shoot an unarmed person?
1171
01:39:38,277 --> 01:39:38,943
No.
1172
01:39:49,442 --> 01:39:50,753
This is exhibit 'F'.
1173
01:39:51,672 --> 01:39:54,147
Will you please read the
following to the panel?
1174
01:39:56,433 --> 01:39:59,840
Rules of engagement governing
ground conflict in urban areas.
1175
01:40:00,142 --> 01:40:03,392
One. If possible,
the enemy will be warned first,
1176
01:40:03,585 --> 01:40:05,392
then asked to surrender.
1177
01:40:05,697 --> 01:40:07,244
Colonel, did you warn the enemy?
1178
01:40:08,644 --> 01:40:11,281
We arrived in helicopters.
We were standing on that roof armed.
1179
01:40:11,324 --> 01:40:15,013
Did you warn them, either with shots
into the air or by a loudspeaker?
1180
01:40:15,056 --> 01:40:16,564
Did you ask them to surrender?
1181
01:40:19,078 --> 01:40:19,812
No.
1182
01:40:20,805 --> 01:40:23,183
I'm sorry,
no, you did not warn the crowd?
1183
01:40:23,308 --> 01:40:25,947
Yes. No, I did not warn the crowd.
1184
01:40:26,142 --> 01:40:29,176
Continue, Colonel.
You seem to know them by heart.
1185
01:40:29,392 --> 01:40:32,029
Deadly force is the last resort.
1186
01:40:34,100 --> 01:40:35,615
-Go on.
-Three.
1187
01:40:36,225 --> 01:40:39,375
When possible, try to arrange for
the evacuation of civilians...
1188
01:40:39,417 --> 01:40:40,767
prior to any U.S. attack.
1189
01:40:40,850 --> 01:40:43,681
Did you do that,
try to evacuate the innocent people...
1190
01:40:43,724 --> 01:40:44,975
before you slaughtered them?
1191
01:40:45,058 --> 01:40:47,933
-Objection. That is inflammatory.
-Rephrase, Major.
1192
01:40:48,017 --> 01:40:51,519
Did you try, following Section
C of the rules of engagement...
1193
01:40:51,562 --> 01:40:55,865
for ground conflict in urban areas,
to evacuate innocent civilians?
1194
01:40:56,767 --> 01:40:58,592
-No.
-No.
1195
01:41:06,225 --> 01:41:07,099
Yeah, yeah.
1196
01:41:10,243 --> 01:41:11,635
I just have one more thing, Colonel.
1197
01:41:13,406 --> 01:41:15,737
Did you have to repeat
your orders to Captain Lee?
1198
01:41:16,849 --> 01:41:19,239
-I'm sorry?
-You ordered Captain Lee...
1199
01:41:19,282 --> 01:41:21,225
to engage hostile targets,
and he advised you...
1200
01:41:21,267 --> 01:41:23,225
that there were women and
children in the line of fire.
1201
01:41:23,294 --> 01:41:24,896
-Is that correct?
-He couldn't see...
1202
01:41:24,939 --> 01:41:27,531
Yes or no, Colonel?
Did he follow your first set of orders?
1203
01:41:32,304 --> 01:41:33,350
I don't remember.
1204
01:41:33,677 --> 01:41:36,392
Captain Lee is on record
as saying he hesitated...
1205
01:41:36,517 --> 01:41:38,338
and mentioned the
snipers in the buildings.
1206
01:41:38,381 --> 01:41:42,464
-Is his testimony accurate?
-I don't remember.
1207
01:41:43,415 --> 01:41:44,334
Let me get this straight.
1208
01:41:45,359 --> 01:41:47,150
You evacuate the ambassador.
1209
01:41:47,658 --> 01:41:51,522
You go back to the roof.
Two of your marines are K.I.A.
1210
01:41:51,856 --> 01:41:54,147
A third, Sergeant Krasevitch, dies.
1211
01:41:54,278 --> 01:41:56,639
'You give your captain an
order which he doesn't follow;'
1212
01:41:56,682 --> 01:41:58,075
in fact, he questions.
1213
01:41:59,397 --> 01:42:01,232
And then you said what?
1214
01:42:04,445 --> 01:42:05,475
I don't remember.
1215
01:42:05,517 --> 01:42:06,908
You don't remember what you said next?
1216
01:42:06,959 --> 01:42:08,893
It was combat,
not some training exercise.
1217
01:42:08,936 --> 01:42:10,443
A moment later, your men were shooting.
1218
01:42:10,598 --> 01:42:11,537
What did you say to make that happen?
1219
01:42:11,580 --> 01:42:12,538
I don't know.
1220
01:42:12,581 --> 01:42:15,396
You must have said something.
Captain Lee reversed himself.
1221
01:42:16,558 --> 01:42:19,473
-What did you say?
-I don't know the exact words.
1222
01:42:19,516 --> 01:42:20,892
-Let me help you.
-Your Honour.
1223
01:42:20,933 --> 01:42:23,016
You said,
'Waste the mother fuckers, ' didn't you?
1224
01:42:23,058 --> 01:42:24,474
-No, no, no.
-You didn't say it?
1225
01:42:24,517 --> 01:42:27,475
-It all happened so fast...
-You're under oath, Colonel!
1226
01:42:29,285 --> 01:42:30,720
Let me refresh your memory.
1227
01:42:31,780 --> 01:42:34,449
This is exhibit 'Q', a tape
recording made aboard...
1228
01:42:34,492 --> 01:42:38,267
the U.S.S. Wake Island of all radio
communications received that day,
1229
01:42:38,350 --> 01:42:40,017
including your exact words.
1230
01:42:40,437 --> 01:42:42,581
Your Honour, with your permission
I would like to play this tape.
1231
01:42:42,624 --> 01:42:44,706
If you got it on tape,
then that's what I said!
1232
01:42:44,864 --> 01:42:47,621
They were killing my marines,
so, yeah, I said it!
1233
01:42:47,892 --> 01:42:49,206
Waste the mother fuckers!
1234
01:42:51,142 --> 01:42:52,773
-Are these 'the mother fuckers'?
-Objection.
1235
01:42:52,816 --> 01:42:54,066
-Overruled.
-Yes!
1236
01:42:55,189 --> 01:42:56,601
-These?
-Objection!
1237
01:42:56,644 --> 01:42:57,415
Yes!
1238
01:42:58,480 --> 01:42:59,634
-These?
-Objection!
1239
01:42:59,677 --> 01:43:00,876
-Overruled.
-Yes.
1240
01:43:01,668 --> 01:43:03,058
Are these 'the mother fuckers'...
1241
01:43:03,142 --> 01:43:04,877
-that you ordered to be wasted?
-Your Honour.
1242
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:06,085
-Major.
-Yes!
1243
01:43:06,128 --> 01:43:06,715
Your Honour.
1244
01:43:07,709 --> 01:43:10,529
The crowd in front of the embassy
had no weapons, did they, Colonel?
1245
01:43:10,572 --> 01:43:12,257
Objection.
We found no snipers' weapons either.
1246
01:43:12,300 --> 01:43:13,708
Yes, they had weapons!
1247
01:43:14,397 --> 01:43:16,247
You think there's a script
for fighting a war...
1248
01:43:16,290 --> 01:43:17,603
without pissing somebody off?
1249
01:43:17,646 --> 01:43:19,596
Follow the rules, and nobody gets hurt?
1250
01:43:19,923 --> 01:43:22,269
Yes, innocent people probably died.
1251
01:43:22,350 --> 01:43:24,226
Innocent people always die.
1252
01:43:24,269 --> 01:43:26,872
But I did not exceed my orders!
1253
01:43:26,915 --> 01:43:29,474
There are rules,
and marines are sworn to uphold them.
1254
01:43:29,517 --> 01:43:32,584
I was not going to stand by
and see another marine die...
1255
01:43:32,748 --> 01:43:34,998
just to live by those fucking rules!
1256
01:43:36,884 --> 01:43:37,617
Colonel!
1257
01:43:43,273 --> 01:43:45,058
Your Honour, I request a recess.
1258
01:43:45,183 --> 01:43:45,805
Major.
1259
01:43:48,642 --> 01:43:50,994
The government is finished with
Colonel Childers, Your Honour.
1260
01:43:51,836 --> 01:43:54,044
All right,
Colonel, you have your recess.
1261
01:44:02,898 --> 01:44:03,923
Why didn't you tell me what you said?
1262
01:44:03,966 --> 01:44:05,928
I didn't remember. If I'd remembered, I
would have told.
1263
01:44:05,970 --> 01:44:06,682
'Waste the mother fuckers'.
1264
01:44:06,725 --> 01:44:08,912
That's brilliant.
You didn't think that was important?
1265
01:44:08,955 --> 01:44:10,409
Why didn't you know about
the goddamn recording?
1266
01:44:10,452 --> 01:44:12,839
-You're supposed to know...
-I had a week to prepare this case.
1267
01:44:12,882 --> 01:44:14,230
I didn't realize what a
fuck up I'm defending.
1268
01:44:14,553 --> 01:44:16,314
-Well, now you know.
-Goddamn.
1269
01:44:30,091 --> 01:44:32,657
-This is going to take us both down.
-Yeah? How's that work?
1270
01:44:32,700 --> 01:44:34,846
You Donna spend the rest
of your life in prison too?
1271
01:44:48,063 --> 01:44:48,996
I'm sorry.
1272
01:44:53,292 --> 01:44:56,373
-I really screwed up in there, huh?
-Yeah, you really did.
1273
01:44:58,434 --> 01:44:59,324
Whew!
1274
01:44:59,367 --> 01:45:01,235
-So what happens now?
-Shit, I don't know.
1275
01:45:05,528 --> 01:45:06,162
I don't know.
1276
01:45:08,641 --> 01:45:10,599
Your Honour, the government
calls Colonel Bin Le Cao...
1277
01:45:10,642 --> 01:45:12,871
-as a rebuttal witness.
-Objection, Your Honour.
1278
01:45:12,914 --> 01:45:14,745
What are the grounds for this
rebuttal witness to be allowed?
1279
01:45:15,121 --> 01:45:17,096
Will counsel please approach the bench.
1280
01:45:23,475 --> 01:45:26,767
-Who is Colonel Bin Le Cao?
-A North Vietnamese Colonel...
1281
01:45:26,850 --> 01:45:28,765
who fought against Colonel
Childers at the battle of Ca Lu.
1282
01:45:28,808 --> 01:45:31,984
What he has to say directly refutes
statements made by Colonel Childers.
1283
01:45:32,073 --> 01:45:34,189
-When was the battle of Ca Lu?
-1968.
1284
01:45:34,232 --> 01:45:36,306
Your Honour,
this is uncharged misconduct.
1285
01:45:36,348 --> 01:45:38,252
It is not allowable under military law.
1286
01:45:38,410 --> 01:45:40,574
How do you know this witness
is going to charge misconduct?
1287
01:45:40,617 --> 01:45:41,269
I'm assuming...
1288
01:45:41,312 --> 01:45:43,134
He knows because he was
at the battle of Ca Lu.
1289
01:45:44,144 --> 01:45:45,719
-Is that true?
-Yes, sir.
1290
01:45:46,851 --> 01:45:48,719
On what grounds are you
calling your witness?
1291
01:45:48,982 --> 01:45:51,473
Colonel Hodges made Colonel
Childers' combat experience...
1292
01:45:51,516 --> 01:45:52,600
part of his defence.
1293
01:45:52,642 --> 01:45:54,692
Furthermore,
Colonel Childers testified...
1294
01:45:54,734 --> 01:45:56,099
that he never shoots unarmed people.
1295
01:45:56,642 --> 01:45:58,840
My witness has an important
perspective on that statement.
1296
01:46:03,322 --> 01:46:04,694
I'm Donna allow the witness.
1297
01:46:19,233 --> 01:46:20,448
Do you swear or affirm...
1298
01:46:20,491 --> 01:46:22,474
that the evidence you shall
give in this case now in hearing
1299
01:46:22,517 --> 01:46:23,576
shall be the truth, the whole truth...
1300
01:46:23,619 --> 01:46:25,516
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
1301
01:46:25,810 --> 01:46:26,572
Yes, I do.
1302
01:46:28,237 --> 01:46:29,626
Will you please state
your name for the court?
1303
01:46:30,210 --> 01:46:35,015
-My name is Bin Le Cao.
-In 1968, you were a colonel...
1304
01:46:35,058 --> 01:46:38,199
with the North Vietnamese army,
B3 regiment, involved in a fight...
1305
01:46:38,242 --> 01:46:40,689
with American marines at Ca
Lu in the Quang Tri province?
1306
01:46:41,518 --> 01:46:42,472
Yes, I was.
1307
01:46:42,606 --> 01:46:44,290
Will you tell the court
about that battle?
1308
01:46:45,444 --> 01:46:48,279
We were aware that small
units of Americans...
1309
01:46:48,405 --> 01:46:50,438
were near my company of men.
1310
01:46:51,685 --> 01:46:53,989
We found ourselves behind your forces.
1311
01:46:55,077 --> 01:46:58,365
This was lucky for us
because we were out numbered.
1312
01:47:03,232 --> 01:47:04,611
Do you recognize this man?
1313
01:47:06,892 --> 01:47:07,603
Yes.
1314
01:47:08,351 --> 01:47:10,443
Did he capture you and your radio
operator that day?
1315
01:47:11,372 --> 01:47:12,054
Yes.
1316
01:47:13,007 --> 01:47:15,455
Did he remove your weapons and
place you under armed guard?
1317
01:47:16,325 --> 01:47:16,961
Yes.
1318
01:47:17,004 --> 01:47:18,939
Did you consider yourself
a prisoner of war?
1319
01:47:20,622 --> 01:47:21,276
Yes.
1320
01:47:21,838 --> 01:47:23,593
Did he execute your radio operator?
1321
01:47:27,389 --> 01:47:28,096
Yes.
1322
01:47:28,139 --> 01:47:30,615
You personally saw him shoot
a fellow prisoner of war?
1323
01:47:32,534 --> 01:47:33,307
Yes.
1324
01:47:33,609 --> 01:47:34,573
Where did he shoot him?
1325
01:47:35,728 --> 01:47:36,603
In the head.
1326
01:47:37,774 --> 01:47:39,129
Thank you. No further questions.
1327
01:47:46,163 --> 01:47:48,396
Were your men annihilating
that platoon of marines?
1328
01:47:50,173 --> 01:47:50,967
Yes.
1329
01:47:51,345 --> 01:47:53,480
Did Colonel Childers force
you to call your men off?
1330
01:47:54,714 --> 01:47:55,387
Yes.
1331
01:47:55,787 --> 01:47:58,086
Do you believe his actions
were calculated to save...
1332
01:47:58,129 --> 01:48:01,571
-the lives of American marines?
-Yes.
1333
01:48:02,784 --> 01:48:04,877
Would you have done the same
thing Colonel Childers did...
1334
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:06,214
if the situation had been reversed?
1335
01:48:14,023 --> 01:48:16,586
Colonel Cao, would you have shot...
1336
01:48:16,692 --> 01:48:19,408
a captive American radio operator
in the head if you thought...
1337
01:48:19,450 --> 01:48:22,128
it would persuade Colonel Childers
to spare the lives of your own men?
1338
01:48:26,891 --> 01:48:27,715
Yes.
1339
01:48:32,517 --> 01:48:33,924
No more questions.
1340
01:48:34,750 --> 01:48:37,473
This court is in recess
until tomorrow at 09:00.
1341
01:48:37,658 --> 01:48:39,068
We'll hear closing arguments.
1342
01:48:49,751 --> 01:48:52,483
-General, good to see you.
-Perry, good to see you too.
1343
01:48:52,525 --> 01:48:54,344
I want you to meet my grandson.
1344
01:48:54,742 --> 01:48:57,033
Hi. Nice to meet you, sir.
1345
01:48:57,650 --> 01:48:58,531
Thanks.
1346
01:49:03,142 --> 01:49:05,852
Colonel Terry Childers
is a decorated war hero,
1347
01:49:05,905 --> 01:49:08,146
a trusted leader of American marines,
1348
01:49:08,656 --> 01:49:10,357
and I wish that was
all there was to it.
1349
01:49:11,961 --> 01:49:15,295
Unfortunately,
there are 83 dead Yemeni citizens,
1350
01:49:15,436 --> 01:49:17,114
many of them women and children.
1351
01:49:18,933 --> 01:49:21,487
Colonel Hodges would have you
believe that this crowd was armed.
1352
01:49:22,956 --> 01:49:25,391
He would also have you believe
that there is a videotape...
1353
01:49:25,434 --> 01:49:26,912
proving this to be true.
1354
01:49:30,546 --> 01:49:33,652
There is no tape exonerating
Colonel Childers.
1355
01:49:34,458 --> 01:49:37,819
There is no evidence
exonerating Colonel Childers!
1356
01:49:45,469 --> 01:49:47,077
Is Colonel Childers a man
1357
01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:49,920
capable of killing defenceless,
unarmed people?
1358
01:49:51,741 --> 01:49:54,137
Is he capable of
ordering the execution...
1359
01:49:54,450 --> 01:49:55,931
of innocent men and women?
1360
01:49:57,969 --> 01:50:02,203
Is he capable of executing
P.O.W.s with his own hand?
1361
01:50:03,226 --> 01:50:05,051
Unfortunately,
we have shown that he is.
1362
01:50:06,129 --> 01:50:08,420
You have heard the sad
testimony of Colonel Cao...
1363
01:50:08,463 --> 01:50:11,096
who witnessed Colonel
Childers' barbarism first-hand.
1364
01:50:13,946 --> 01:50:16,926
You've even heard Colonel
Childers' own admission...
1365
01:50:16,969 --> 01:50:20,800
that his desire was to 'waste' them,
regardless of who they were.
1366
01:50:24,823 --> 01:50:29,225
Now, we are faced with
the difficult prospect...
1367
01:50:29,267 --> 01:50:30,668
of convicting one of our own.
1368
01:50:31,602 --> 01:50:34,394
None of us wants to do this,
but you've heard the facts,
1369
01:50:34,437 --> 01:50:36,110
and it is unavoidable.
1370
01:50:37,951 --> 01:50:40,975
Colonel Terry Childers ordered
the senseless slaughter...
1371
01:50:41,058 --> 01:50:42,589
of a peaceful crowd!
1372
01:50:44,534 --> 01:50:46,966
Now, as marines,
1373
01:50:48,006 --> 01:50:50,676
we do not get the luxury of
covering up our mistakes.
1374
01:50:52,676 --> 01:50:53,963
We must air them,
1375
01:50:54,951 --> 01:50:57,209
there by ensuring that
they never happen again.
1376
01:50:58,552 --> 01:50:59,306
Thank you.
1377
01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:10,490
That's sovereign United
States territory...
1378
01:51:10,533 --> 01:51:12,751
as much as if it were
in Ohio or Maryland.
1379
01:51:13,326 --> 01:51:15,826
Colonel Childers didn't
volunteer to go over there.
1380
01:51:15,911 --> 01:51:19,211
He was ordered to go there because
he was the best man for the job.
1381
01:51:19,254 --> 01:51:20,954
We armed him. We trained him.
1382
01:51:20,997 --> 01:51:23,688
We sent him over there to risk
his life to save other Americans.
1383
01:51:23,731 --> 01:51:26,664
And then ask him not to return fire?
1384
01:51:27,343 --> 01:51:30,722
There are over 300 bullet
holes in this building.
1385
01:51:31,034 --> 01:51:34,748
Colonel Childers didn't open fire.
He returned fire.
1386
01:51:35,897 --> 01:51:39,456
And he waited until after three
of his marines were dead...
1387
01:51:39,764 --> 01:51:41,308
and another lay mortally wounded.
1388
01:51:41,985 --> 01:51:44,485
He waited until he was
personally under heavy fire.
1389
01:51:44,648 --> 01:51:48,319
He waited until he saw
that crowd holding weapons.
1390
01:51:48,837 --> 01:51:52,642
Only then did he order
his men to return fire.
1391
01:51:52,725 --> 01:51:54,871
Under the rules of engagement,
a civilian pointing a weapon...
1392
01:51:54,914 --> 01:51:56,311
is no longer a civilian,
1393
01:51:56,354 --> 01:51:58,979
and the use of deadly
force is authorized...
1394
01:51:59,041 --> 01:52:01,088
in order to save lives.
1395
01:52:02,918 --> 01:52:03,888
It's not murder.
1396
01:52:07,222 --> 01:52:07,916
It's combat.
1397
01:52:09,952 --> 01:52:11,529
Colonel Childers is
the only man alive...
1398
01:52:11,572 --> 01:52:13,461
who was in a position
to see that crowd.
1399
01:52:14,285 --> 01:52:16,476
But the camera on the embassy
roof had the same point of view.
1400
01:52:16,631 --> 01:52:18,437
The government would
have you believe...
1401
01:52:19,257 --> 01:52:20,772
there's no tape from that camera.
1402
01:52:21,199 --> 01:52:24,442
I have shown you that that tape was
delivered to the State Department.
1403
01:52:24,485 --> 01:52:26,902
Do you believe that tape
got up and walked out...
1404
01:52:26,945 --> 01:52:28,859
of the State Department on its own?
1405
01:52:30,857 --> 01:52:33,707
By not producing that tape,
the national security advisor,
1406
01:52:33,750 --> 01:52:36,586
Mr. Sokal,
has brought dishonour into this court.
1407
01:52:38,017 --> 01:52:41,228
Without that tape, I cannot show
you that the crowd fired first...
1408
01:52:41,683 --> 01:52:43,239
and that Colonel Childers is innocent.
1409
01:52:43,433 --> 01:52:46,350
But without that tape,
they cannot prove...
1410
01:52:46,678 --> 01:52:49,380
beyond a reasonable
doubt that he's guilty!
1411
01:52:52,858 --> 01:52:53,791
Here's my case.
1412
01:52:54,447 --> 01:52:56,685
He's all I've got.
Thirty-two years of service,
1413
01:52:57,268 --> 01:52:59,851
thirty-two years of heroism
as a United States Marine.
1414
01:52:59,894 --> 01:53:02,494
Regardless of what you decide here,
1415
01:53:03,037 --> 01:53:04,855
Colonel Childers' career
as a marine is over.
1416
01:53:04,898 --> 01:53:06,948
He will never again
command men in combat.
1417
01:53:07,473 --> 01:53:10,351
The ambassador and his family
are alive today because of him.
1418
01:53:10,394 --> 01:53:12,478
And I know how the ambassador feels,
1419
01:53:12,521 --> 01:53:14,813
because Colonel Childers
saved my life too.
1420
01:53:14,856 --> 01:53:16,548
I'm alive today because of him.
1421
01:53:16,591 --> 01:53:18,998
My son is sitting in this
courtroom because of him.
1422
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:21,869
I'm alive today, and I have a son,
1423
01:53:22,362 --> 01:53:24,146
because of the heroism
of Colonel Childers.
1424
01:53:25,383 --> 01:53:29,146
To ask this man to risk
his life for his country,
1425
01:53:31,900 --> 01:53:34,822
to ask this man to watch his
marines die in his arms...
1426
01:53:35,913 --> 01:53:37,954
and call it murder when
he's defending himself,
1427
01:53:38,483 --> 01:53:41,870
call it murder for firing
back when fired upon...
1428
01:53:41,913 --> 01:53:44,402
To call it murder for saving
the lives of his countrymen...
1429
01:53:44,445 --> 01:53:48,416
under the most extreme of circumstances,
that's, uh...
1430
01:53:48,535 --> 01:53:51,999
My fellow Marines,
that's hanging him out to dry.
1431
01:53:54,861 --> 01:53:56,623
It's worse than leaving him
wounded on a battlefield.
1432
01:53:58,517 --> 01:54:00,455
That is something you do not do...
1433
01:54:00,853 --> 01:54:02,754
if you are a United States Marine.
1434
01:54:06,178 --> 01:54:08,861
And it is something that I pray
to God you won't do here either.
1435
01:54:33,970 --> 01:54:36,412
-What'd you think?
-You're pretty good.
1436
01:54:36,455 --> 01:54:37,871
Yeah. Yeah.
1437
01:54:39,141 --> 01:54:40,481
Dad, you were awesome.
1438
01:54:41,350 --> 01:54:42,406
Thanks, son.
1439
01:54:42,976 --> 01:54:45,826
I'm very glad that I don't
have to sit on that panel, son.
1440
01:54:46,169 --> 01:54:47,541
You made it awful tough on them.
1441
01:54:51,301 --> 01:54:53,884
-15,000 to 25,000...
-Excuse me.
1442
01:54:58,555 --> 01:54:59,889
I said no interruptions.
1443
01:55:00,242 --> 01:55:02,544
I'm sorry, Mr. Sokal.
It's very important.
1444
01:55:09,547 --> 01:55:10,441
Send him in.
1445
01:55:11,785 --> 01:55:14,452
Can we... uh... Can we pick
this up after lunch, gentlemen?
1446
01:55:14,888 --> 01:55:15,877
Absolutely.
1447
01:55:33,998 --> 01:55:34,886
Close the door.
1448
01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:41,388
What is it, Colonel?
1449
01:55:43,171 --> 01:55:46,371
No matter what happens to
Terry Childers tomorrow,
1450
01:55:47,578 --> 01:55:49,015
I'm not going to leave
this job until I find out...
1451
01:55:49,058 --> 01:55:51,826
-what happened to that tape.
-Good.
1452
01:55:53,433 --> 01:55:54,578
Think it'll ever turn up?
1453
01:55:56,733 --> 01:55:57,307
No.
1454
01:55:58,282 --> 01:55:59,263
I don't either.
1455
01:56:01,353 --> 01:56:03,264
Well, then there's nothing more
for us to talk about, is there?
1456
01:56:05,255 --> 01:56:07,168
You ever had a pissed-off
marine on your ass?
1457
01:56:09,144 --> 01:56:10,051
Is that a threat?
1458
01:56:10,615 --> 01:56:11,553
Oh, yes, sir.
1459
01:56:54,236 --> 01:56:55,182
All rise.
1460
01:57:01,393 --> 01:57:02,648
Has the panel reached a verdict?
1461
01:57:02,819 --> 01:57:03,675
We have, sir.
1462
01:57:17,385 --> 01:57:20,987
Colonel Terry L. Childers,
this court-martial finds as follows.
1463
01:57:21,731 --> 01:57:23,349
On the charge of breach of peace,
1464
01:57:24,022 --> 01:57:25,906
the court finds the defendant guilty.
1465
01:57:26,896 --> 01:57:29,477
On the charge of conduct
unbecoming an officer,
1466
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:32,057
the court finds the
defendant not guilty.
1467
01:57:33,585 --> 01:57:34,849
On the charge of murder,
1468
01:57:35,805 --> 01:57:39,052
the court finds the
defendant not guilty.
1469
01:57:40,025 --> 01:57:41,660
This court-martial is adjourned.
1470
01:57:41,808 --> 01:57:44,717
Sentencing will be conducted
at a time to be determined.
1471
01:57:45,791 --> 01:57:46,631
Thank you.
1472
01:58:03,598 --> 01:58:05,448
-I need one more favour.
-Yeah.
1473
01:58:06,517 --> 01:58:07,572
Teach me how to fly-fish.
1474
01:58:07,705 --> 01:58:09,778
You are well aware that I
know shit about fly-fishing.
1475
01:58:13,250 --> 01:58:13,791
Oh.
1476
01:58:23,713 --> 01:58:24,637
Colonel.
1477
01:58:29,005 --> 01:58:31,355
You realize in light of
Colonel Cao's testimony,
1478
01:58:31,398 --> 01:58:33,159
we'll be pushing for charges
on the Ca Lu incident.
1479
01:58:34,471 --> 01:58:35,433
That was 30 years ago.
1480
01:58:35,517 --> 01:58:36,962
You're going to have a hard
time finding witnesses.
1481
01:58:37,772 --> 01:58:39,808
Well, I thought maybe you'd
be willing to testify.
1482
01:58:39,857 --> 01:58:41,165
I'll make you a deal.
1483
01:58:41,901 --> 01:58:45,754
If you can tell me right now
what the life expectancy was...
1484
01:58:46,027 --> 01:58:49,562
for a second lieutenant dropped
into a hot L.Z. in Vietnam in 1968,
1485
01:58:50,283 --> 01:58:52,464
I'll tell you everything
I remember about Ca Lu.
1486
01:58:54,933 --> 01:58:56,475
-One week.
-Negative.
1487
01:58:56,765 --> 01:58:58,597
Sixteen minutes, Major.
1488
01:58:59,818 --> 01:59:01,503
Sixteen fucking minutes.
1489
01:59:03,147 --> 01:59:04,218
And that's all I remember.
1490
01:59:53,432 --> 01:59:54,279
Sir.
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