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What the hell could that be?

What's your business?

Well, I bring cabbages.

Cabbages?

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-What's going on? -We're under attack.

The commander tries to sound like the whole country bases on fire.

Be very alert.

-We're moving. -Yes, sir.

We'll keep our eyes open.

Got a match?

Guess not.

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Let's go

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All right, we're in.

-Hold it! -Hold it! -Stop it!

Jesus Christ, these two are dead.

They broke an anvil.

Somebody did it. Come on, let's check it out.

Mr. Anderson, how long do you intend to stay in Israel?

I don't know, about a week.

Are you here for business or pleasure?

Business.

I'm covering the attack on the U.S.

naval base.

Your first time in Israel?

Enjoy our stay.

Let's see how we do.

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Do you know where the press conference is?

-Yes, sir. -Upstairs and to the right.

Here's your pass.

-Thanks. -You better hurry up, sir.

They're already in session.

We can report that a total of eight Marines

were killed and six wounded in last night's raid.

An extremist religious group operating out of Baghdad,

which calls itself Black October, has claimed responsibility.

Due to the alert reactions of our Marines

guarding the main gate, the attack vehicle was

stopped at that point and no further damage is reported.

Ladies and gentlemen, you may pick up mimeographed lists of

the American personnel who were killed and wounded in the raid.

The next of kin have already been notified.

Are there any questions?

Yes, Ted.

Ted Fentz of the Reuters, can you now actually

confirm that Black October was responsible for this raid?

Confirmation at this time is based solely on contact made

with our embassy by a group claiming to be Black October.

-Ms. -Clifford? -Yes.

Catherine Eller's Associated Press, what did

they say their motive was for attacking the base?

I am not going to comment on the internal affairs of the foreign government.

Michael Aniston, Los Angeles Post.

Were all the casualties the result of the

bombing or was there an exchange of gunfire?

No.

Can you confirm the report?

Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, that'll be all for right now.

We will have a complete update for you at 3 p.m.

-today. -Thank you very much.

I have lists.

Hey. Hey, Coop.

So, what the hell are you doing in Tel Aviv, man?

Just got in.

I'm covering for Bob Mizorowski.

Fucking guy broke his leg on some goddamn celebrity ski thing.

That sounds like Mizorowski.

You don't look so great yourself there, pal.

What do you mean?

I'm wearing a tie.

I heard you were working out of Los Angeles.

I was in New York on my way to Paris to push my book.

-Oh, yeah. -Hey, listen, I read it.

Congratulations, man. You did a great job.

Proud of you.

Thanks.

Yeah, they got me up middle of the night, told me to get my butt down here.

How's Susan doing?

She's, uh...

She's fine. You know, it's pretty crazy here right now.

Things are bad, and it looks like they're getting worse, but, uh...

I'll go out with her.

She's still pissed off at me.

Colonel?

Can I see you for a minute, please?

Uh, yes, sir.

Just a moment.

Now, Colonel, bring me some copies of the press brief.

Yes, sir.

Hey, Anderson.

How come I'm not in the book?

I gotta move out, bud.

Hey, John, you got time for lunch?

Yeah, we got a lot of catching up to do, pal.

Yeah, we do.

I'm at the King David.

Can you meet me at the cafe at 1300?

You buying?

Yeah.

I'll be there.

I'm going to see the old man.

Tell me, what do you got?

Quick. I have all available personnel working on it.

The package won't leave the country.

If it does, you're gonna be slinging hats in some military school somewhere.

I gave you one thing to do.

Just one thing.

Just to watch that package for 12 hours.

12 hours. Now, six hours later, the base is on fire, there's a

morgue full of marines, and we can't find that goddamn package anywhere.

Hey, pal, at the naval base, how many Marines would guard the gate over there?

Okay.

You may go in now, Mr. Anderson.

Uh, thanks, all.

-This isn't... -It's fine.

Oh, see, I saw your book, Mike.

Good job.

You spelled all the words right.

Hi, Susan.

You look great.

Thanks.

I'm doing the best I can, sir.

You just find that goddamn package.

ASAP.

Yes, sir.

What's the real story here?

Pick up the press release.

It's all there.

It was never all there.

What are you tied up for tonight?

What am I tied up for tonight?

You have some nerve, you know?

You broke the story on the capture of the terrorists that blew up

the airport in Rome, and then you just disappeared, vanished for a year.

My paper called me home.

Oh, come on. That is the lamest goddamn excuse I've ever heard.

Why couldn't you just tell me it was over to my face?

Look, you got it all wrong.

And what about John?

That bomb killed everyone he loved.

You should have been there for him.

-Where were you? -Where was I?

-Yeah. -I called you from LA.

I called you from New York.

Twice from El Salvador, remember?

Oh, so a phone call, huh?

That's how you say goodbye?

I thought I could trust you.

Trust?

You want to talk to me about trust?

Yeah, let's talk about it.

Excuse me, Miss Clifford.

Mr. Jackson wants to see you.

Tell him I said in a minute.

He said right away.

Susan, wait.

Wait.

Come on, Susan.

Can we get into this somewhere else?

How about dinner?

Call you at 5?

I'll be here.

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Now, let me get this straight from square one.

You had the package, and now it's gone.

Yes, sir.

You were holding it at the Naval base.

Why didn't you just ship the damn thing out?

It was being sent to the headquarters at Langley.

They decided it'd be safer to ship it by sea than by air.

Langley?

Why wasn't I told about it?

Well, it was determined that it would be better to secure the package first.

Just who determined that, the NSC or the president?

The headquarters at Langley.

See, technically, sir, neither the NSC nor the president knows about this.

Jackson, I cannot allow the shifting of the

responsibility for this to my jurisdiction.

And if you think that I'm going to stand up.

Sir, sir, look.

We are facing a potentially dangerous situation

here, with thousands of lives being threatened.

I've got to inform you, not to mention this to any of your personnel.

I will get to the bottom of this with my people.

Am I to understand that, technically speaking,

I haven't been informed of this matter either?

Any way you want to put it, sir.

Well, I guess a week from now I won't be seeing this table no more.

What are you gonna do about Ilana?

I already told her I'm going home.

It was real rough.

She'll get over it.

Yeah, but I'm gonna miss her, you know?

Hey, a lot of my buddies, you know, when their tour was

up, they went back and hooked up with their girlfriends again.

No big deal.

That'll be 20 bucks, guy.

Yeah.

So, you know, damn, I just can't seem to get warmed up.

You guys, uh, want another game?

This guy doesn't know when he's beat.

Yeah, sure.

You're on.

That was pretty nasty.

Well, what happened?

Main gate.

Right in the middle of that shit.

Took two and a half hours to put out that fire.

Burned half my fuckin' arm.

Well, at least it was only the main gate that got hit.

Main gate my ass.

Tell it to Kylan Miller.

Kylan Miller, why didn't you kill the fire?

No.

They were killed in the armory.

The armory?

Hey, Brizzo, at ease.

Come on.

Let's go.

Nice meeting you.

Yeah. We should practice some more. Yeah.

Yeah.

Good work guys!

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Look, I gotta tell you, whatever happened at the base is not in this report.

What do you think happened, Mike?

I went there.

So, what do you want from me?

Very simple, the truth.

The truth is that Black October tried to blow up a U.S.

military base.

That's bullshit, Koop.

Come on, this isn't Lebanon.

It's not even close.

Nobody heard any gunshots.

Nobody heard any squealing tires.

That truck was completely stopped at the guardhouse.

Mike, Mike, get with the program, will you?

I've been up all night on this.

Jackson is busting my ass.

Give me a break, man.

What happened to the armory?

Let me think about it.

All right.

Think about it.

Listen, Susan really lit into me about what happened in Rome.

You know, if I could have stayed, I would have.

I loved Ellen and the kids.

Yeah, you did what you had to do.

Rome.

Christ.

That was a mess.

I'm just glad Susan was here.

Listen, can you get me off the hook with her?

Well, I guess now is as good a time as any to tell you.

Susan and I are gonna be married, Mike.

Oh

Oh

Yeah.

Oh

What the fuck is that?

What the...

Oh, shit.

Yeah, I thought you were gonna call me at 5.

Oh, yeah, Susan.

-Hi. -Yeah, sure Talking

about breakfast

Oh, I slept straight through.

I'll be over in...

Okay.

I'll be right up.

Susan?

Is this what you ordered, sir?

I don't know.

Banana pancakes.

I remember they're your favorite, right?

Yeah, let's try it.

Oh, um, let me put some clothes on.

I understand congratulations are in order.

Yeah, thanks.

Listen, um, about yesterday, I really...

It was really dumb of me to...

to barge in on you like that.

I really should have called first.

Spoke with John a little bit last night about

what happened in Rome, and I understand more.

You know, it's okay.

Well, I guess I blew it, huh?

Pancakes are getting cold.

Oh, yeah.

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They didn't have any maple syrup, so I got you honey instead.

Oh, thanks a lot.

Sure.

So, um, those as good as mine?

-Yeah? -Mike, it's John.

It's Coop.

Hey, you want to come up?

Susan's here.

No, it's time we talk about not in your room.

Meet me at the Maccabi Basketball Stadium in ten minutes.

It's important.

I know where it is.

I'll be right over.

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Did you think about it?

I don't know what was taken from the armory, Mike.

Jackson's stonewalling the whole story.

Some sort of cover-up.

Two days ago, he told me he had a package going out, trans-oceanic delivery.

He didn't say it was anything special, but he was real hush-hush about it.

Now whatever the package was is gone, and he's trying to hang it on me.

You sure he's not being a little paranoid?

Paranoid?

Mike, I read his report.

He's looking for a scapegoat, and I'm his first choice.

He's naming names, and it's all fiction.

If he had just told me what was in the

package, I could have handled it personally.

Listen, I'm going out on a limb on this, but I've got to take a chance.

I think I'm being watched.

I left a file for you in Susan's office.

It just came in from Washington.

It's everything we know on Black October.

From Langley to Barzell.

Say, Kupo, you know, I really appreciate you leveling with me on this.

-Hey, pal. -No problem.

You're one of the few people I think I can still trust, huh?

Talk to you soon.

We'll have a couple beers, all right?

Yeah.

Oh, Mike.

Jesus, I almost forgot.

Susan wants you to come over for dinner tonight.

Just like we did in the old days.

About 8 o'clock or so?

Meatloaf.

Sounds great.

I'll be there.

-All right, buddy. -Sure.

Where to, boss?

Take me back to the kingdom.

All right, one more time.

From the top.

I ran into John at the embassy.

We had lunch. We talked about old times.

We had some things to clear up.

Personal.

Personal, my ass.

The military attaché for the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv...

was just blown to smithereens, and you were the last one to speak to him.

Now I want to know what the fuck you were talking about.

Huh?

You finished?

Let's see.

Political science, major?

Yeah.

The United States Marine.

You wrote a column for the Marine Corps, is that it?

The Honorable Discharge, Associated Press, and

now the Los Angeles Post.

Two books out, last one a bestseller.

Well, after you led us to those

terrorists, we even tried to recruit you ourselves.

Yeah, by shipping me out of Italy.

Oh, damn, man.

We saved your life by shipping you out of there.

Those terrorists knew who tipped us off.

You and this lady here.

Wolf would have been killed.

Look, Anderson, why don't you just save both of us a whole

lot of trouble and tell me what you and Cooper had going on?

Can I go now?

Sure.

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It's not fair, Mike, you know?

I finally convinced him to take time off for the wedding.

We were going to go home so he could meet my parents.

He's a bit strained.

He and Jackson have been going at each other for months now.

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You alright?

Yeah.

Did you read this?

Seems like Black October is the biggest terrorist group we've ever seen.

It's based in Iraq, it has links with the Shiite Muslims,

Muslim Jihad, PLO, funded by Libya,

Iran, as well as Syria.

Susan, do you know where Barzell is?

No. Why? Coop said everything was in this file, from Langley to Barzell.

There's no mention on here.

I wonder what the hell it could be.

I'm not sure, but I can check on it if you want me to.

Did you see this?

-What is it? -Tremor Marines killed.

Yeah, I wrote the release on that.

A lot of Marines dying around here lately.

Thanks for being here

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Hi.

I'm working for an American newspaper.

Is there any way I can see where those Marines were killed yesterday?

Look, I knew one of the guys.

Come on, buddy. Don't be such an asshole.

Why don't you just make it easier for the

both of us and just tell me what you want?

I'll take that.

This way.

What happened to him?

He died 20 minutes ago.

We are waiting for the ambulance to come and pick him up.

You don't look like a reporter.

Well, you don't look like room service.

It depends on your point of view.

Oh

I guess these two really got fucked.

Miss Clifford.

I'm sorry about Joe.

He's a good man.

I think he was killed by Black October.

And I also think that Anderson knows something.

Susan, I need for you to do something for me.

What do you want me to do?

I need for you to open up Mike Anderson.

201, please.

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Miss Clifford's office.

It's Mike Anderson.

Would you put her on now, please?

Mike?

Yeah, hi.

Listen, I got to see you right now.

Don't come here.

Go to my apartment.

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-What's going on? -Quiet.

Come on.

Somebody tried to run me over today.

My room's been searched.

My phone's tapped.

I think yours is, too.

See that car down there?

Yeah.

I think they're a CIA.

Well, I just ran into Jackson at the embassy, and he asked me to watch you.

What'd you tell him?

I don't know.

Unit 10, report.

No calls yet.

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Son of a bitch.

Jeannie, it's Mike.

Where the hell are you?

Never mind, just take this down.

Okay, go.

Tel Aviv, Wednesday the 28th.

The chain of events which began with the bombing of the U.S.

Naval Base has taken a grim turn for the

worse with the death of Colonel John Cooper.

Okay.

Hey, hey, hey.

Let's go, let's go!

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Dang it!

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Yeah, well, you're right. That's my position.

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It shouldn't be long

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Finally, we have a file on Black October.

I know.

I just read it.

You realize the mess we've gotten ourselves into?

These maniacs can kill tens of thousands of people if they choose to.

Look, I've got all my men working on it.

We just have to take it one step at a time.

Well, I insist we tell the Israelis.

Oh, no, no.

We've got to give that another day.

Well, what about Anderson?

Got him completely covered.

Besides, Susan Clifford is with him.

Jackson, do you think we're doing the right thing here?

Look, Ambassador, Warren, we just

have to relax.

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You don't know when to let things alone, do you, huh?

What the fuck are you hiding here?

What's going on here, Jackson?

I am asking the questions around here, and

tomorrow you're out of here for playing smoking.

No way, man.

You're not pulling me out of here like you did in Rome a year ago.

You can do any goddamn thing I want to.

I saw that fucking truck up front.

That's a chemical decontamination vehicle.

Ah, bullshit.

Bullshit. Whatever's going on here, I'm

gonna find it, and I don't care what you do.

You love this shit, don't you, Jackson?

Sneaking around, putting bugs up my ass.

Wait. Trying to run me over in the street, taking shots at me.

-Hold it. -Hold it. -Sit down.

Hey, sit down.

-Come on. -Come on. -Shut the fuck down.

Get your fucking hands off me, you mother...

Now, look.

Nobody here is trying to take a shot at you.

Now, we got wires on you, we got tails on

you, but nobody here is trying to kill you.

Then who the hell's shooting at me?

Your guess is as good as mine, man.

Wish the hell I knew.

They killed my best friend.

I want to know what's going on.

All right.

Gentlemen, let us have this room, please.

Now Anderson, I can bust you, I can throw you

out of the country, I can make you just disappear.

But I'm not going to do any of that, I'm going to try and

make a deal with you, because I'm closing in on Black

October and you've got just enough information to fuck everything up.

So you've got to promise me one thing, you've got to hold

off for 48 hours before you break what I'm about to tell you.

You're wrong.

Six months ago, four chemists were working here on a new

formula for a special fertilizer to be used on high-yield crops.

It cost them their lives.

How?

They stumbled on a new compound.

What do you mean, a new compound?

A nerve gas.

It's heavier than air, odourless, tasteless.

It'll kill you in 30 seconds, and then 60 seconds later, it's gone.

Jesus Christ.

Our government, of course, has placed a high-priority status

on this compound, and I was directed to execute a special

operations transfer of a sample to a CIA headquarters in Langley.

The package was kept here at the base when it was stolen by Black October.

How much did he get away with?

Enough to clear approximately one square

mile of every living, breathing organism.

About 50,000 people.

Uh-oh.

Those Those Marines at the hotel What about?

The newspapers reported they were killed by automatic weapons fire.

I went there There's not a single bullet hole in the wall or the furniture.

No stray shots They were dead before they

went down Shot on the floor to cover it up

Guess.

If you break our little deal, I won't be responsible for what happens.

Got it.

I can't believe I'm here cooperating with a goddamn CIA.

I should've just princess-fucked the thing anyway.

I know you're frustrated, but from what you've told me, I...

I think you should wait a couple more days.

Let Jackson handle it.

for Jackson Hammond.

Two of them, please.

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

I've got to call the embassy.

Use the phone in my room.

OK.

I'm just gonna check on something.

Mr. Anderson, there is someone who would like to speak with you.

-Oh, yes. -Who's who? -My grandmother.

Mr. Anderson, be so kind as to come with us, please.

Good evening, Mr. Anderson.

Sorry we had to bring you this way.

It's a violent world we live in.

Sure.

Adnan Zahidi, you're not an easy man to reach.

That's the way I like it.

Unfortunately, many have succeeded in reaching me lately.

Your CIA, for instance, has made my life, my business very difficult.

And arms dealing is a difficult business to begin with, Mr. Anderson.

Would this be part of the reason?

So you'll sell the farm?

Yeah.

Amazing what a little airbrushing can do.

You know, I recognized that photo from somewhere.

You made pasta that night.

Yeah, overcooked.

-So the C.A. -is using a fake photo?

No.

Fake file.

Mr. Anderson, it could cost me a lot of money

and favors in Washington to get me out of it.

That the reason you are here.

That doesn't make sense.

Who the hell is behind this whole thing?

Maybe someone who want the world to believe there is a Black October.

Maybe someone very clever who is trying to provoke an international incident.

Maybe even a war.

Quite a story, wouldn't you say, Mr. Anderson?

One might even call it an ecstasy.

Mr. Anderson, drive carefully.

Hey, where have you been?

What?

What are you doing?

I just got a big piece of the puzzle.

Yeah, what's that?

There is no Black October.

What?

It's a hoax.

Wait till you read this, okay?

It's all in here.

I'm gonna take a shower

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-What? -Do you have any conditioner?

Yeah, it's on the shelf by the, uh, by the towels.

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Good morning.

Can't believe you're eating that now.

Come here.

I don't believe how much I missed you.

Yeah, me too.

I've been on the phone all morning to L.A.

trying to get the story out, but they won't take it without verification.

You know what?

There's just something else missing there.

So what are you gonna do?

Maybe we should just get the hell out of here.

Rome or Paris.

What do you think?

Start again.

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I, um, have to go to work now, okay?

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The crowds are enormous here for this event

unfolding before us all over this ancient city.

There are probably 50,000 or 60,000 people already

assembled here, and by the day's end, that number could triple.

In spite of the increased tension throughout the region, and indeed

throughout Israel, the spirits of the pilgrims have not been dampened.

They wait anxiously for the start of the

march to retrace the last steps of Jesus Christ.

Most of these Holy Week pilgrims care little about recent history.

Their attention firmly riveted, their souls infused by the

sense of the past that Jerusalem conjures up without even trying.

That's the magic of this town.

I don't have time for you.

And non-believer alike.

The peace procession is now waiting at the first

station It was here where Jesus was publicly

scourged and condemned to death by a conscious pirate

Help me!

Get

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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Boom.

I don't know.

Oh

Oh, shit.

Oh

Oh, God.

And the traditional belief that he committed

suicide at Vienne in Gaulle may well be correct.

Jackson, it's Anderson.

I've got to see you right away.

What is it?

Not on the phone.

Then get over here.

24 Jerusalem Road.

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What the fuck is going on here?

Hello, Mike.

Ouch.

Put these on.

Behind your back.

Do it.

Sit down.

Barzell, I slipped up, didn't I, Mike?

Yeah.

You slipped me that phony black October file.

That's part of it.

Mike here loves a good story, Lou.

Why don't you fill him in on what's been going on?

Go!

Take a shot!

The military attache pays off two of his

own men to steal the Barzell compound.

And then he kills them with it.

They probably didn't even know what they stole.

That's very good.

Clothes, as usual, but no cigar.

The two were a special operations unit, expendable in the big picture.

And this is big, Mike.

Bigger than even you can imagine.

They just had to test it, didn't you?

You little shit.

Hey, stop it!

What the hell are you doing?

What, am I next?

Not yet.

After the show

I have a good Friday special.

I would like you to watch me

Cooper, what are you gonna do with the gas?

Gentlemen, it's showtime.

The events of almost 2,000 years ago are suddenly as real as yesterday.

And for many here, the sorrowful procession along the

Via Dolorosa remains a draining emotional experience.

An experience of a lifetime.

All those bells.

Three o'clock.

The bells in the church of the Holy Sepulchral Church.

Black October release.

Infamous.

Barzelka.

Quite a bit more than this, of course.

This is just a small sample.

I think we're looking at a body count of 50,000 to 100,000 people.

And here's the key part.

At least half of those people have got to be Americans.

Now, to me, they'll be American heroes.

But it's not gonna play that way in Peoria.

You son of a bitch!

Ooh!

Shit.

What about their families?

You got something you want to say to them?

Do you seriously plan to kill thousands of innocent people?

Plus two.

We blame it on Iraq and the rest of the Arabs

and wait for Uncle Sam to send in the Marines.

Gentlemen, we are going to start a fucking war.

There's only one problem, John.

I already followed the story.

It's going to press as we speak.

No one's gonna blame it on Black October

because they'll know there is no Black October.

You lying snake.

Mike, my family died a terrible death in Rome.

And what did my country do about it?

Nothing.

That's just not right.

Now listen to me, Colonel.

Shut up.

No, listen to me.

Shut up, Colonel!

You made a pledge to defend this country, not to

start your own little revolutions when you see fit.

Sit down.

You didn't mourn Ellen and the kids very long, did you?

before you jumped on Susan, you fucking piece of shit.

You bastard.

He's here!

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Oh

Oh.

-Oh. -Oh.

Coop, where's the gas?

Coop, where's the gas?

Ding dong.

Ding...

On the double!

Marine, it's too late!

Forget the key, get out of here!

Okay.

Oh, shit.

Sit down, sit down.

Don't worry about me.

Go for it.

Go!

Oh

Oh

The peace procession is now leaving the ninth station of the cross.

A Roman column marks the ninth station, a reminder that

Jesus collapsed within sight of the place of his crucifixion.

To commemorate that fateful event, at three o'clock

the entire procession will pause at the eleventh

station, the site where Christ was nailed to the cross.

The word crucifixion describes a terrible act of torture.

Stretched upon his bed of death, Jesus was fastened to

the cross with nails which pierced his hands and feet,

causing gaping wounds from which his blood flowed freely.

The base of the cross was firmly fixed in the rock,

and to prevent the body from tearing under its own

weight, it was propped up between the legs and under the feet.

Where's the church for the Holy Sepulchre?

The 11th station.

-It's not! -It's not!

Give it to me or I'll...

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You gonna sacrifice me too?

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I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

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