1 00:04:22,494 --> 00:04:24,245 Saigon. 2 00:04:25,664 --> 00:04:26,997 Shit. 3 00:04:28,792 --> 00:04:30,751 I'm still only in Saigon. 4 00:04:39,302 --> 00:04:42,805 Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. 5 00:04:48,812 --> 00:04:52,523 When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. 6 00:05:00,949 --> 00:05:03,450 I'd wake up, and there'd be nothing. 7 00:05:11,459 --> 00:05:15,546 I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. 8 00:05:18,675 --> 00:05:21,260 When I was here, I wanted to be there. 9 00:05:22,220 --> 00:05:27,057 When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. 10 00:05:30,437 --> 00:05:32,313 I'm here a eeek noe. 11 00:05:35,901 --> 00:05:37,860 Waiting for a mission. 12 00:05:38,945 --> 00:05:40,487 Getting softer. 13 00:05:45,911 --> 00:05:48,996 Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. 14 00:05:49,456 --> 00:05:51,498 And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, 15 00:05:51,583 --> 00:05:53,250 he gets stronger. 16 00:05:58,298 --> 00:06:02,218 Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter. 17 00:07:42,027 --> 00:07:44,570 Everyone gets everything he wants. 18 00:07:45,613 --> 00:07:47,364 I wanted a mission. 19 00:07:48,325 --> 00:07:50,701 And for my sins, they gave me one. 20 00:07:52,203 --> 00:07:54,621 Brought it up to me like room service. 21 00:07:55,540 --> 00:07:57,958 Captain Willard, are you in there? 22 00:07:58,585 --> 00:08:00,294 Yeah, I'm coming. 23 00:08:00,754 --> 00:08:03,047 It was a real choice mission. 24 00:08:03,882 --> 00:08:07,634 And when it was over, I'd never want another. 25 00:08:16,353 --> 00:08:18,896 - What do you want? - Are you all right, Captain? 26 00:08:18,980 --> 00:08:20,898 What does it look like? 27 00:08:30,075 --> 00:08:32,826 - Are you Captain Willard, 505th Battalion? - Affirmative. 28 00:08:32,911 --> 00:08:34,453 - 173rd Airborne? - Yeah. 29 00:08:34,579 --> 00:08:37,414 - Assigned to SOG? - Hey, buddy, you gonna shut the door? 30 00:08:40,085 --> 00:08:42,669 We have orders to escort you to the airfield. 31 00:08:45,799 --> 00:08:47,674 - What are the charges? - Sir? 32 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:48,759 What'd I do? 33 00:08:49,511 --> 00:08:51,053 There's no charges, Captain. 34 00:08:51,137 --> 00:08:55,057 You have orders to report to COMSEC lntelligence at Nha Trang. 35 00:08:56,434 --> 00:08:58,143 - I see. - All right? 36 00:08:58,228 --> 00:09:00,729 - Nha Trang for me? - That's right. 37 00:09:01,773 --> 00:09:04,358 Come on, Captain. You still have a few hours to get cleaned up. 38 00:09:04,567 --> 00:09:07,277 - I'm not feeling too good. - Captain? 39 00:09:09,322 --> 00:09:12,032 Dave, come here and give me a hand. We got a dead one. 40 00:09:12,117 --> 00:09:14,410 Come on, Captain. Let's take a shower. 41 00:09:14,536 --> 00:09:16,286 - Don't be an ass. - Get hold of him good. 42 00:09:16,371 --> 00:09:18,539 We're gonna take a shower, Captain. 43 00:09:18,623 --> 00:09:20,707 - In we go. - Now stand underneath this, Captain. 44 00:09:33,471 --> 00:09:37,808 I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. 45 00:09:39,018 --> 00:09:41,812 Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river 46 00:09:41,896 --> 00:09:44,898 that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable, 47 00:09:44,983 --> 00:09:47,025 plugged straight into Kurtz. 48 00:09:47,110 --> 00:09:49,820 lnsult me again and I'll kick your ass... 49 00:09:50,447 --> 00:09:52,906 It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker 50 00:09:52,991 --> 00:09:55,451 of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory 51 00:09:55,910 --> 00:09:59,163 any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. 52 00:10:00,790 --> 00:10:04,334 There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. 53 00:10:05,086 --> 00:10:07,087 And if his story is really a confession... 54 00:10:07,172 --> 00:10:08,338 Captain Willard reporting, sir. 55 00:10:08,423 --> 00:10:09,423 then so is mine. 56 00:10:09,507 --> 00:10:12,718 - Captain. Good. Come on in. - Thank you, sir. 57 00:10:13,011 --> 00:10:16,430 - Stand at ease. - General. 58 00:10:18,433 --> 00:10:20,809 Do you want a cigarette? 59 00:10:20,894 --> 00:10:22,644 No, thank you, sir. 60 00:10:24,063 --> 00:10:26,690 Captain, have you ever seen this gentleman before? 61 00:10:26,774 --> 00:10:27,900 No, sir. 62 00:10:28,193 --> 00:10:30,861 - Met the General or myself? - No, sir. 63 00:10:31,112 --> 00:10:32,362 Not personally. 64 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:35,949 You've worked a lot on your own, haven't you, Captain? 65 00:10:36,034 --> 00:10:37,159 Yes, sir, I have. 66 00:10:37,243 --> 00:10:38,702 Your report specifies lntelligence, 67 00:10:38,786 --> 00:10:40,829 Counterintelligence with COMSEC, I Corps. 68 00:10:41,289 --> 00:10:43,707 I'm not presently disposed to discuss those operations, sir. 69 00:10:53,426 --> 00:10:55,427 Did you not work for the ClA in I Corps? 70 00:10:57,847 --> 00:10:58,972 No, sir. 71 00:10:59,057 --> 00:11:01,725 Did you not assassinate a government tax collector, 72 00:11:01,809 --> 00:11:04,520 Quang Tri Province, June 1 8, 1 968? 73 00:11:07,315 --> 00:11:08,565 Captain? 74 00:11:10,151 --> 00:11:14,780 Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation, 75 00:11:16,658 --> 00:11:21,119 nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation 76 00:11:21,204 --> 00:11:23,664 if it did, in fact, exist, sir. 77 00:11:35,552 --> 00:11:37,803 I thought we'd have a bite of lunch while we talk. 78 00:11:37,887 --> 00:11:41,014 I hope you brought a good appetite, Captain. 79 00:11:41,641 --> 00:11:43,684 I noticed that you have 80 00:11:45,395 --> 00:11:47,104 a bad hand, there. Are you wounded? 81 00:11:47,313 --> 00:11:49,815 I had a little fishing accident on R&R, sir. 82 00:11:49,899 --> 00:11:52,442 - Fishing on R&R? - Yes, sir. 83 00:11:52,860 --> 00:11:55,279 But you're feeling fit? You're ready for duty? 84 00:11:55,363 --> 00:11:57,656 Yes, General. Very much so, sir. 85 00:11:58,032 --> 00:11:59,700 Well, let's see what we have here. 86 00:11:59,784 --> 00:12:03,203 Roast beef, and usually it's not bad. 87 00:12:04,998 --> 00:12:07,499 Try some, Jerry, and pass it around. 88 00:12:08,167 --> 00:12:11,253 To save a little time, we might pass both ways. 89 00:12:14,632 --> 00:12:17,718 Captain, I don't know how you feel about this shrimp, 90 00:12:17,802 --> 00:12:20,053 but if you'll eat it, 91 00:12:20,138 --> 00:12:23,348 you'll never have to prove your courage in any other way. 92 00:12:24,392 --> 00:12:27,394 Right, well, why don't I just take a piece here? 93 00:12:28,313 --> 00:12:31,815 Captain, you've heard of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz? 94 00:12:34,694 --> 00:12:36,445 Yes, sir, I've heard the name. 95 00:12:37,238 --> 00:12:38,405 Jesus. 96 00:12:38,489 --> 00:12:40,991 Operations officer, Fifth Special Forces. 97 00:12:41,492 --> 00:12:44,161 Luke, would you play that tape for the Captain, please? 98 00:12:44,245 --> 00:12:47,706 - Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir. - Listen to this carefully, Captain. 99 00:12:49,834 --> 00:12:52,919 October 9, 0430 hours, sector Peter Victor King. 100 00:12:53,046 --> 00:12:55,088 These were monitored out of Cambodia. 101 00:12:56,549 --> 00:12:58,842 This has been verified as Colonel Kurtz's voice. 102 00:12:59,010 --> 00:13:01,678 I watched a snail 103 00:13:03,181 --> 00:13:04,973 crawl along the edge 104 00:13:06,017 --> 00:13:07,768 of a straight razor. 105 00:13:09,354 --> 00:13:10,979 That's my dream. 106 00:13:13,191 --> 00:13:14,941 It's my nightmare. 107 00:13:17,528 --> 00:13:19,446 Crawling, slithering 108 00:13:20,698 --> 00:13:22,366 along the edge 109 00:13:24,035 --> 00:13:27,204 of a straight razor, 110 00:13:29,457 --> 00:13:30,957 and surviving. 111 00:13:33,711 --> 00:13:38,298 Transmission 11, received '68, December 30, 0500 hours. 112 00:13:38,549 --> 00:13:40,384 Sector King Zulu King. 113 00:13:42,178 --> 00:13:44,262 But we must kill them. 114 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:46,556 We must incinerate them, 115 00:13:46,891 --> 00:13:48,392 pig after pig, 116 00:13:49,727 --> 00:13:51,603 cow after cow, 117 00:13:53,523 --> 00:13:55,399 village after village, 118 00:13:55,608 --> 00:13:57,234 army after army. 119 00:13:58,236 --> 00:14:00,529 And they call me an assassin. 120 00:14:00,988 --> 00:14:05,826 What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? 121 00:14:06,369 --> 00:14:07,619 They lie. 122 00:14:08,413 --> 00:14:10,706 They lie, and we have to be merciful 123 00:14:10,957 --> 00:14:12,916 for those who lie. 124 00:14:13,793 --> 00:14:16,753 Those nabobs, 125 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,465 I hate them. 126 00:14:21,592 --> 00:14:23,343 I do hate them. 127 00:14:28,891 --> 00:14:31,893 Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers 128 00:14:31,978 --> 00:14:34,104 this country's ever produced. 129 00:14:34,439 --> 00:14:37,607 He was brilliant. He was outstanding in every way. 130 00:14:38,443 --> 00:14:40,986 And he was a good man, too. 131 00:14:41,112 --> 00:14:42,988 A humanitarian man. 132 00:14:44,282 --> 00:14:46,116 A man of wit and humor. 133 00:14:47,535 --> 00:14:49,661 He joined the Special Forces. 134 00:14:51,748 --> 00:14:53,540 And after that, 135 00:14:55,543 --> 00:14:58,378 his ideas, methods, 136 00:15:00,882 --> 00:15:02,132 became 137 00:15:04,594 --> 00:15:05,969 unsound. 138 00:15:11,392 --> 00:15:13,018 Unsound. 139 00:15:18,357 --> 00:15:22,944 Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this Montagnard army of his 140 00:15:23,029 --> 00:15:26,782 that worship the man like a god. 141 00:15:27,492 --> 00:15:30,994 And follow every order, however ridiculous. 142 00:15:32,580 --> 00:15:36,500 Well, I have some other shocking news to tell you. 143 00:15:37,251 --> 00:15:39,544 Colonel Kurtz is about to be 144 00:15:40,463 --> 00:15:42,214 arrested for murder. 145 00:15:43,174 --> 00:15:46,092 I don't follow, sir. Murdered who? 146 00:15:46,302 --> 00:15:50,222 Kurtz had ordered the execution of some Vietnamese intelligence agents. 147 00:15:50,515 --> 00:15:52,974 Men he believed were double agents. 148 00:15:54,477 --> 00:15:57,062 So he took matters into his own hands. 149 00:15:59,315 --> 00:16:01,316 Well, you see, Willard, 150 00:16:02,485 --> 00:16:04,486 in this war, things get 151 00:16:05,822 --> 00:16:07,864 confused out there. 152 00:16:08,741 --> 00:16:12,285 Power, ideals, the old morality, 153 00:16:12,370 --> 00:16:15,038 and practical military necessity. 154 00:16:17,041 --> 00:16:19,501 But out there with these natives, 155 00:16:20,670 --> 00:16:23,588 it must be a temptation 156 00:16:25,424 --> 00:16:26,633 to be God. 157 00:16:30,388 --> 00:16:33,598 Because there's a conflict in every human heart 158 00:16:34,767 --> 00:16:37,561 between the rational and the irrational, 159 00:16:38,396 --> 00:16:40,272 between good and evil. 160 00:16:41,816 --> 00:16:44,150 And good does not always triumph. 161 00:16:46,696 --> 00:16:48,071 Sometimes 162 00:16:49,824 --> 00:16:51,408 the dark side 163 00:16:52,076 --> 00:16:56,454 overcomes what Lincoln called, "The better angels of our nature." 164 00:16:58,374 --> 00:17:00,792 Every man has got a breaking point. 165 00:17:01,669 --> 00:17:03,420 You and I have them. 166 00:17:05,089 --> 00:17:07,257 Walt Kurtz has reached his, 167 00:17:09,343 --> 00:17:11,970 and very obviously he has gone insane. 168 00:17:25,276 --> 00:17:29,112 Yes, sir. Very much so, sir. Obviously insane. 169 00:17:33,701 --> 00:17:37,329 Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat, 170 00:17:39,290 --> 00:17:42,125 pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, 171 00:17:42,585 --> 00:17:45,462 follow it, learn what you can along the way. 172 00:17:45,630 --> 00:17:48,381 When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team 173 00:17:48,466 --> 00:17:51,051 by whatever means available 174 00:17:51,928 --> 00:17:53,970 and terminate the Colonel's command. 175 00:18:00,269 --> 00:18:02,687 Terminate the Colonel? 176 00:18:03,981 --> 00:18:08,193 He's out there operating without any decent restraint, 177 00:18:08,277 --> 00:18:13,990 totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. 178 00:18:14,241 --> 00:18:17,327 And he is still in the field, commanding troops. 179 00:18:18,829 --> 00:18:22,165 Terminate with extreme prejudice. 180 00:18:23,876 --> 00:18:27,337 You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, 181 00:18:29,131 --> 00:18:31,007 nor will it ever exist. 182 00:19:26,230 --> 00:19:29,024 How many people had I already killed? 183 00:19:29,859 --> 00:19:33,028 There were those six that I knew about for sure. 184 00:19:33,904 --> 00:19:37,073 Close enough to blow their last breath in my face. 185 00:19:39,410 --> 00:19:44,372 But this time it was an American and an officer. 186 00:19:55,926 --> 00:20:00,263 That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. 187 00:20:02,892 --> 00:20:06,352 Shit, charging a man with murder in this place 188 00:20:06,437 --> 00:20:10,023 was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. 189 00:20:12,109 --> 00:20:16,279 I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do? 190 00:20:18,157 --> 00:20:21,785 But I really didn't know what I'd do when I found him. 191 00:20:28,793 --> 00:20:31,127 Did you check the tank? 192 00:20:31,462 --> 00:20:32,921 Yeah. 193 00:20:34,632 --> 00:20:38,134 I was being ferried down the coast in a Navy PBR. 194 00:20:38,302 --> 00:20:42,597 A type of plastic patrol boat, a pretty common sight on the rivers. 195 00:20:42,932 --> 00:20:45,308 They said it was a good way to pick up information and move 196 00:20:45,392 --> 00:20:47,644 without drawing a lot of attention. 197 00:20:47,978 --> 00:20:49,646 And that was okay. 198 00:20:49,855 --> 00:20:52,065 I needed the air and the time. 199 00:20:53,317 --> 00:20:55,318 Only problem was, I wouldn't be alone. 200 00:20:55,402 --> 00:20:57,237 Morning, Captain. 201 00:20:59,615 --> 00:21:02,534 The crew were mostlyjust kids. 202 00:21:02,952 --> 00:21:05,995 Rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves. 203 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:09,415 - How old are you? - Seventeen. 204 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,212 The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. 205 00:21:14,296 --> 00:21:16,840 He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam. 206 00:21:17,216 --> 00:21:19,676 Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans. 207 00:21:20,219 --> 00:21:22,470 Lance, on the forward.50s, was a famous surfer 208 00:21:22,555 --> 00:21:24,889 from the beaches south of LA. 209 00:21:24,974 --> 00:21:28,601 To look at him, you wouldn't believe he'd ever fired a weapon in his life. 210 00:21:30,688 --> 00:21:35,066 Clean, Mr. Clean, was from some South Bronx shithole, 211 00:21:35,150 --> 00:21:37,235 and I think the light and space of Vietnam 212 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:39,529 really put the zap on his head. 213 00:21:42,491 --> 00:21:44,826 Then there was Phillips, the Chief. 214 00:21:44,952 --> 00:21:48,788 It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the Chief's boat. 215 00:21:48,873 --> 00:21:51,124 There's about two points where we can draw enough water 216 00:21:51,208 --> 00:21:53,251 to get into the Nung River. 217 00:21:53,627 --> 00:21:56,129 They're both hot, belong to Charlie. 218 00:21:57,756 --> 00:21:59,257 Don't worry about it. 219 00:22:00,092 --> 00:22:01,634 Don't smoke. 220 00:22:03,596 --> 00:22:06,723 You know, I've pulled a few special ops in here. 221 00:22:06,891 --> 00:22:08,766 About six months ago, 222 00:22:09,393 --> 00:22:12,729 I took a man who was going up past the bridge at Do Luong. 223 00:22:13,939 --> 00:22:15,899 He was regular Army, too. 224 00:22:18,569 --> 00:22:21,070 I heard he shot himself in the head. 225 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:33,249 At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier. 226 00:22:33,792 --> 00:22:36,544 I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead. 227 00:22:38,255 --> 00:22:41,049 Third-generation West Point, top of his class, 228 00:22:41,216 --> 00:22:46,763 Korea, Airborne, about 1,000 decorations, et cetera, et cetera. 229 00:22:50,184 --> 00:22:54,437 I had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the hook in me, 230 00:22:55,147 --> 00:22:58,816 but I couldn't connect up that voice with this man. 231 00:23:05,908 --> 00:23:08,785 Like they said, he had an impressive career. 232 00:23:09,745 --> 00:23:11,537 Maybe too impressive. 233 00:23:12,623 --> 00:23:14,123 I mean, perfect. 234 00:23:15,167 --> 00:23:19,045 He was being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation, 235 00:23:19,129 --> 00:23:21,965 General, Chief of Staff, anything. 236 00:23:24,259 --> 00:23:28,346 In 1964, he returned from a tour with advisory command in Vietnam 237 00:23:28,430 --> 00:23:30,473 and things started to slip. 238 00:23:30,808 --> 00:23:35,103 His report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Lyndon Johnson was restricted. 239 00:23:37,356 --> 00:23:39,190 Seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them. 240 00:23:40,985 --> 00:23:43,987 During the next few months, he made three requests for transfer 241 00:23:44,071 --> 00:23:49,325 to Airborne training, Fort Benning, Georgia, and was finally accepted. 242 00:23:52,037 --> 00:23:53,496 Airborne? 243 00:23:56,250 --> 00:23:58,001 He was 38 years old. 244 00:24:00,004 --> 00:24:02,171 Why the fuck would he do that? 245 00:24:04,508 --> 00:24:07,802 1966, joins Special Forces, 246 00:24:08,846 --> 00:24:10,304 returns Vietnam. 247 00:24:12,016 --> 00:24:14,058 - Hey, what's that? - Arc light. 248 00:24:14,143 --> 00:24:17,061 - What's that? - B-52 strike. 249 00:24:17,146 --> 00:24:18,938 Man. 250 00:24:19,023 --> 00:24:20,398 - What's that? - Arc light. 251 00:24:20,482 --> 00:24:23,526 I hate that. Every time I hear that, something terrible happens. 252 00:24:23,652 --> 00:24:25,611 Charlie don't never see them or hear them, man. 253 00:24:25,696 --> 00:24:27,947 - There they are. - Concussion will suck the air 254 00:24:28,032 --> 00:24:29,365 out of your damn lungs. 255 00:24:29,950 --> 00:24:33,077 - Something terrible is gonna happen. - Smoke! 256 00:24:33,162 --> 00:24:34,912 Secondary burning. 257 00:24:34,997 --> 00:24:36,873 Hueys over there. Lots of Hueys. 258 00:24:36,957 --> 00:24:37,999 Let's have a look, Chief. 259 00:24:41,712 --> 00:24:44,255 It was the air cav, First of the Ninth. 260 00:24:44,798 --> 00:24:45,798 That's them. 261 00:24:45,883 --> 00:24:48,217 Our escorts to the mouth of the Nung River. 262 00:24:48,510 --> 00:24:52,096 But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 km ahead. 263 00:24:52,514 --> 00:24:56,934 Well, Airmobile, those boys just couldn't stay put. 264 00:25:09,406 --> 00:25:12,575 Kid, come on. Get down. Come on. 265 00:25:23,754 --> 00:25:26,339 First of the Ninth was an old cavalry division 266 00:25:26,423 --> 00:25:29,967 that had cashed in its horses for choppers and gone tear-assing around Nam 267 00:25:30,052 --> 00:25:31,844 looking for the shit. 268 00:25:32,387 --> 00:25:36,224 They'd given Charlie a few surprises in their time here. 269 00:25:37,101 --> 00:25:40,770 What they were mopping up now hadn't even happened yet an hour ago. 270 00:25:42,231 --> 00:25:44,357 Just keep running by. Run for television. 271 00:25:44,441 --> 00:25:46,859 Don't look at the camera. Just keep... Go on! Keep going. 272 00:25:46,944 --> 00:25:48,528 This is for television. Don't look at the camera. 273 00:25:48,612 --> 00:25:49,695 Don't look at the camera. 274 00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:51,989 Just go by like you're fighting. Like you're fighting. 275 00:25:52,074 --> 00:25:54,742 Don't look at the camera. It's for television. Just go through! 276 00:25:54,827 --> 00:25:57,370 Go through! Just go by! Keep on going! 277 00:25:57,454 --> 00:26:01,290 Keep going. Don't look at the camera. Go on. Keep going. 278 00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:24,897 Where can I find the CO? 279 00:26:25,023 --> 00:26:27,275 That's the Colonel coming down! 280 00:26:37,744 --> 00:26:39,787 The CO's on that chopper. 281 00:27:02,853 --> 00:27:06,230 Lieutenant, bomb that tree line back about 100 yards! 282 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,859 - Give me some room to breathe! - Yes, sir! 283 00:27:14,823 --> 00:27:16,657 - Body cards! - Sir? 284 00:27:16,742 --> 00:27:18,868 - Bring my body cards! - Yes, sir! 285 00:27:22,998 --> 00:27:25,499 I'm the fourth tank commander. I got five tanks broken down. 286 00:27:25,584 --> 00:27:28,544 We're all right with the tanks. It's all right, Captain. 287 00:27:29,046 --> 00:27:30,087 Captain Willard! 288 00:27:30,172 --> 00:27:33,966 I carry priority papers from COMSEC lntelligence, ll Corps. 289 00:27:34,051 --> 00:27:37,720 I understand Nha Trang has briefed you on the requirements of my mission. 290 00:27:37,804 --> 00:27:40,473 What mission? I haven't heard from Nha Trang. 291 00:27:40,557 --> 00:27:43,309 Sir, your unit is supposed to escort us into the Nung! 292 00:27:43,393 --> 00:27:45,311 - We'll see what we can do, but... - Colonel. 293 00:27:45,395 --> 00:27:47,230 just stay out of my way until this is done, Captain. 294 00:27:53,403 --> 00:27:55,988 All right, let's see what we have. Let's see what we have. 295 00:27:56,073 --> 00:28:00,117 A two of spades, three of spades, four of diamonds, 296 00:28:01,203 --> 00:28:03,913 six of clubs, eight of spades. 297 00:28:05,082 --> 00:28:07,250 There isn't one worth a jack in the whole bunch. 298 00:28:07,584 --> 00:28:09,085 Four of diamonds. 299 00:28:10,212 --> 00:28:14,006 - Hey, Captain, what's that? - Death cards! 300 00:28:14,424 --> 00:28:17,176 - What? - Death cards! 301 00:28:17,261 --> 00:28:19,929 - Death? - It lets Charlie know who did this. 302 00:28:23,767 --> 00:28:26,185 - Cheer up, son. - We will not hurt or harm you. 303 00:28:26,270 --> 00:28:28,896 - Fire in the hole! - Fire in the hole! 304 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:37,113 This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. 305 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,245 We are here to help you. 306 00:28:47,499 --> 00:28:50,835 - We are here to extend a welcome hand... - Come on. 307 00:28:50,919 --> 00:28:52,962 - ... to those of you who would like... - Everybody in? 308 00:28:53,046 --> 00:28:56,632 to return to the arms of the South Vietnamese government. 309 00:28:58,510 --> 00:28:59,760 Hurry up! 310 00:29:02,014 --> 00:29:03,347 Move it out! 311 00:29:03,432 --> 00:29:09,145 This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. 312 00:29:09,938 --> 00:29:11,480 Hey! What's this? 313 00:29:12,649 --> 00:29:13,983 What is this? 314 00:29:14,818 --> 00:29:17,069 This man's hurt pretty bad, sir. 315 00:29:17,154 --> 00:29:19,405 About the only thing that's holding his guts in, sir, 316 00:29:19,489 --> 00:29:20,990 - is that pot lid. - Yeah? 317 00:29:21,199 --> 00:29:22,700 What does he have to say? 318 00:29:23,410 --> 00:29:25,453 This soldier is dirty VC. 319 00:29:25,620 --> 00:29:28,914 He wants water. He can drink paddy water. 320 00:29:30,125 --> 00:29:32,710 Get out of here! Give me that canteen. 321 00:29:32,711 --> 00:29:35,671 - He's VC! - Any man that's brave enough to... 322 00:29:35,756 --> 00:29:38,591 Get out of here! I'll kick your fucking ass! 323 00:29:38,842 --> 00:29:40,092 He killed a lot of our people! 324 00:29:40,177 --> 00:29:43,012 Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped on him 325 00:29:43,096 --> 00:29:44,930 can drink from my canteen any day! 326 00:29:45,015 --> 00:29:48,809 Hey, Colonel, I think one of those sailors is Lance Johnson, the surfer. 327 00:29:48,894 --> 00:29:51,687 - Where? Here? You sure? - Down there. 328 00:29:53,190 --> 00:29:54,607 Yeah? Here. 329 00:29:55,192 --> 00:29:57,943 Repeat, we have a body count. We have... 330 00:30:01,114 --> 00:30:04,950 - What's your name, sailor? - Gunner's Mate Third Class L. Johnson, sir! 331 00:30:05,035 --> 00:30:08,162 - Gunner's Mate Third Class... - Wait. Lance Johnson, the surfer? 332 00:30:08,455 --> 00:30:11,791 - Yes, sir. - Well, it's an honor to meet you, Lance. 333 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:14,210 I've admired your nose riding for years. 334 00:30:14,294 --> 00:30:17,254 I like your cutback, too. I think you have the best cutback there is. 335 00:30:17,339 --> 00:30:20,049 - Thank you, sir. - You can cut out the "sir" crap, Lance. 336 00:30:20,133 --> 00:30:22,134 I'm Bill Kilgore. I'm a goofy foot. 337 00:30:22,219 --> 00:30:24,220 - This guy with you? - Yeah. 338 00:30:24,471 --> 00:30:27,556 I want you to meet some guys. This is Mike from San Diego. 339 00:30:27,641 --> 00:30:29,266 - Far out. - Johnny from Malibu. 340 00:30:29,351 --> 00:30:31,477 - John, hi. Far out. - Pretty solid surfers. 341 00:30:31,561 --> 00:30:33,354 None of us are anywhere near your class, though. 342 00:30:33,438 --> 00:30:34,855 No way. 343 00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:38,692 We do a lot of surfing around here, Lance. I like to finish operations early, 344 00:30:38,860 --> 00:30:41,904 fly down to Vung Tau for the evening glass. 345 00:30:42,906 --> 00:30:44,365 - Been riding since you got here? - No way. 346 00:30:44,449 --> 00:30:46,575 I haven't surfed since I been here. 347 00:30:47,786 --> 00:30:50,871 Through Christ our Lord, from whom all good things come. 348 00:30:50,956 --> 00:30:53,791 Through him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, 349 00:30:53,875 --> 00:30:57,545 all glory and honor is yours, Almighty Father. Amen. 350 00:30:57,629 --> 00:31:01,590 Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the words our savior gave us. 351 00:31:02,134 --> 00:31:06,137 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 352 00:31:06,430 --> 00:31:08,848 Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done 353 00:31:09,099 --> 00:31:11,058 on Earth as it is in heaven. 354 00:31:11,268 --> 00:31:13,269 Give us this day our daily bread... 355 00:31:15,439 --> 00:31:18,190 as we forgive those who trespass against us. 356 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:21,735 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 357 00:31:31,746 --> 00:31:34,790 Kilgore had had a pretty good day for himself. 358 00:31:34,958 --> 00:31:37,209 They choppered in the T-bones and the beer 359 00:31:37,294 --> 00:31:39,712 and turned the LZ into a beach party. 360 00:31:40,922 --> 00:31:43,632 The more they tried to make it just like home, 361 00:31:43,717 --> 00:31:46,260 the more they made everybody miss it. 362 00:31:46,511 --> 00:31:49,722 Make my meat rare, rare but not cold! 363 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,355 Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. 364 00:31:59,316 --> 00:32:02,693 He loved his boys and you felt safe with him. 365 00:32:02,986 --> 00:32:06,363 He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. 366 00:32:06,448 --> 00:32:09,783 You just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here. 367 00:32:09,868 --> 00:32:13,704 What happened to your mission, Captain? Nha Trang forget all about you? 368 00:32:22,172 --> 00:32:23,422 Airborne. 369 00:32:25,175 --> 00:32:28,469 Sir, two places we can get into the river... 370 00:32:28,637 --> 00:32:31,263 - Yeah. - ... here and here. 371 00:32:31,348 --> 00:32:33,807 It's a pretty wide delta, but these are the only two spots 372 00:32:33,892 --> 00:32:35,142 I'm really sure of. 373 00:32:36,478 --> 00:32:39,396 Well, that village you're pointing at is kind of hairy, Willard. 374 00:32:39,898 --> 00:32:42,149 - What do you mean "hairy," sir? - It's hairy, 375 00:32:42,234 --> 00:32:43,984 got some pretty heavy ordnance. 376 00:32:44,069 --> 00:32:46,862 I lost a few recon ships in there now and again. 377 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,406 What's the name of that goddamn village? Vin Drin... 378 00:32:49,783 --> 00:32:51,659 - Dop. - Dop or Lop? 379 00:32:52,410 --> 00:32:54,870 Damn gook names all sound the same. 380 00:32:56,540 --> 00:32:59,583 Mike, you know anything about this point at Vin Drin Dop? 381 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:01,460 That's a fantastic peak. 382 00:33:02,254 --> 00:33:04,171 - Peak? - About six foot. 383 00:33:04,256 --> 00:33:07,466 Yeah, it's an outstanding peak. It's got both the long right and left slide 384 00:33:07,551 --> 00:33:09,677 with a bowl section. It's unbelievable. 385 00:33:09,761 --> 00:33:11,845 It's just tube city. 386 00:33:15,517 --> 00:33:17,643 Well, why didn't you tell me that before? A good peak. 387 00:33:17,727 --> 00:33:20,271 There aren't any good peaks in this whole shitty country. 388 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:22,314 It's all goddamn beach break. 389 00:33:22,399 --> 00:33:24,400 It's really hairy in there, sir. That's where we lost McDonald. 390 00:33:24,484 --> 00:33:25,734 They shot the hell out of us there. 391 00:33:26,695 --> 00:33:28,571 That's Charlie's point. 392 00:33:29,948 --> 00:33:32,491 Sir, we can go in there tomorrow at dawn. 393 00:33:32,576 --> 00:33:34,535 There's always a good offshore breeze in the morning. 394 00:33:34,911 --> 00:33:36,745 We may not be able to get the boat in. 395 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:39,290 The draft at the mouth of that river may be too shallow. 396 00:33:40,750 --> 00:33:43,669 We'll pick your boat up and put it down like a baby, right where you want it. 397 00:33:43,753 --> 00:33:46,922 This is the First of the Ninth air cav, son. Airmobile. 398 00:33:48,341 --> 00:33:50,342 I can take that point and hold it just as long as I like. 399 00:33:50,427 --> 00:33:53,596 And you can get any place up that river that suits you, young Captain. 400 00:33:54,055 --> 00:33:55,806 Hell, a six-foot peak. 401 00:33:57,892 --> 00:33:59,727 All right, take a gunship back to the division. 402 00:33:59,811 --> 00:34:01,895 Lance, go with Mike and let him pick out a board for you, 403 00:34:01,980 --> 00:34:03,731 and bring me my Yater Spoon, the 8'6". 404 00:34:03,815 --> 00:34:06,317 - I don't know, sir, it's... - What is it, soldier? 405 00:34:06,568 --> 00:34:09,236 Well, I mean, it's pretty hairy in there. It's Charlie's point. 406 00:34:09,321 --> 00:34:11,322 Charlie don't surf! 407 00:34:35,138 --> 00:34:38,307 Hey, Jesus, Clean, you ain't gonna believe this. Look. 408 00:34:39,768 --> 00:34:42,811 Hey, man! They're picking up the boat! 409 00:34:45,649 --> 00:34:49,485 - How are you feeling, Jimmy? - Like a mean motherfucker, sir! 410 00:34:51,738 --> 00:34:53,614 All right, son, let her rip. 411 00:34:54,032 --> 00:34:55,407 Let's go! 412 00:36:18,533 --> 00:36:22,327 I never have gotten used to a light board, and I can't get used to one. 413 00:36:22,412 --> 00:36:25,038 - I'm used to a heavy board. - I know, it's a real drag. 414 00:36:25,832 --> 00:36:28,584 - You prefer a heavy or a light board? - Heavier. 415 00:36:28,668 --> 00:36:29,877 - Really? - Yeah! 416 00:36:29,961 --> 00:36:32,004 I thought all the young guys like lighter boards. 417 00:36:32,088 --> 00:36:34,298 You can't ride the nose on those things. 418 00:36:34,382 --> 00:36:37,718 Big Duke Six, this is Eagle Thrust Seven. We've got it spotted. 419 00:36:37,802 --> 00:36:41,180 Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on heading 2-7-0. 420 00:36:41,264 --> 00:36:42,890 Assume attack formation. 421 00:36:43,099 --> 00:36:45,684 That's a roger, Big Duke. Okay, we're going in. 422 00:36:45,769 --> 00:36:49,688 Lance, we'll come in low out of the rising sun, 423 00:36:49,773 --> 00:36:51,815 and about a mile out, we'll put on the music. 424 00:36:52,275 --> 00:36:54,610 - Music? - Yeah, I use Wagner. 425 00:36:54,819 --> 00:36:58,197 Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it. 426 00:36:58,948 --> 00:37:00,908 Hey, they're gonna play music! 427 00:37:07,874 --> 00:37:10,459 How come all you guys sit on your helmet? 428 00:37:11,669 --> 00:37:14,213 So we don't get our balls blown off. 429 00:37:25,475 --> 00:37:30,312 Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on psy war op, make it loud. 430 00:37:30,814 --> 00:37:34,191 This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we dance? 431 00:37:38,613 --> 00:37:40,280 - Jimmy! - Yes, sir! 432 00:40:19,941 --> 00:40:21,108 Run, Charlie! 433 00:40:40,712 --> 00:40:42,921 We got some... There's more and more down there. 434 00:40:43,006 --> 00:40:45,674 Look out, automatic.50-cal! .50-cal in the open! 435 00:40:46,175 --> 00:40:49,928 I've spotted a large weapon down below. We're gonna go down and check it out. 436 00:40:50,013 --> 00:40:52,180 All right, this is Fox Five. We're going in. 437 00:41:02,984 --> 00:41:06,319 - All right. What a shot. - Outstanding, Red Team. Outstanding. 438 00:41:06,404 --> 00:41:07,863 Get you a case of beer for that. 439 00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:32,012 6-4-1 -0, we're over the village right now. 440 00:41:32,096 --> 00:41:33,972 I think I see a vehicle down in the courtyard. 441 00:41:34,057 --> 00:41:37,225 - I'm gonna check it out. - Well done, hawks. Well done. 442 00:41:37,435 --> 00:41:40,562 I want some 20 Mike-Mike Vulcan right along those tree lines. 443 00:41:40,813 --> 00:41:42,481 Ripple the shit out of them. 444 00:41:42,774 --> 00:41:44,983 Got a vehicle on the bridge, .50 caliber on board. 445 00:41:45,068 --> 00:41:47,736 He's moving across to resupply the weapon. 446 00:41:48,196 --> 00:41:51,615 Big Duke Six, clear the area. I'm coming down myself. 447 00:41:51,866 --> 00:41:53,158 Don't these people ever give up? 448 00:41:57,246 --> 00:41:58,663 Nice shot, Bill. 449 00:42:00,416 --> 00:42:02,125 - Shit! - All right, all right! 450 00:42:02,251 --> 00:42:07,506 - It's just a flare! - It's a flare! Gotta get out of here! 451 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:09,549 Un-ass that shit. Get it out of here! 452 00:42:09,634 --> 00:42:13,428 Get it out. It's just a flare. It's all right. It's just a flare. 453 00:42:14,097 --> 00:42:16,765 - Everybody all right? Lance, you all right? - I'm fine! 454 00:42:31,781 --> 00:42:33,073 Get down! 455 00:42:53,553 --> 00:42:57,848 I'm not going! I'm not going! I'm not going! 456 00:43:12,655 --> 00:43:14,447 We just got a secondary down there in the plaza. 457 00:43:14,532 --> 00:43:17,409 Blue Three, Blue Four, hold out over position... 458 00:43:17,493 --> 00:43:20,328 Duke Six, Duke Six, we've got wounded down there. 459 00:43:25,459 --> 00:43:28,336 My God! Oh, my God! 460 00:43:29,839 --> 00:43:32,340 - Get a stretcher over here! - You're all right. 461 00:43:32,758 --> 00:43:34,634 Please! Help me! 462 00:43:37,346 --> 00:43:40,056 - Please, God! Help me! - Stay with me, son, you're gonna be okay. 463 00:43:40,766 --> 00:43:43,226 - Let's give him some morphine. - My God! My God! 464 00:43:43,311 --> 00:43:47,606 - 0-3-7-7-4-2. - Where's that duster? 465 00:43:47,690 --> 00:43:50,442 I want my wounded out of there and in the hospital in 15 minutes. 466 00:43:50,526 --> 00:43:52,068 I want my men out. 467 00:43:52,153 --> 00:43:54,154 Somebody stay in there tight with Big Duke. 468 00:43:54,238 --> 00:43:58,200 This is 10-10. We're gonna be in, throw them on and get out... 469 00:44:20,097 --> 00:44:22,766 She's got a grenade! She's got a grenade! 470 00:44:25,436 --> 00:44:27,646 Jesus! The whole goddamn thing just... 471 00:44:27,730 --> 00:44:29,773 - She blew the shit out of... - Fucking savages. 472 00:44:31,943 --> 00:44:34,819 - Can I get a medevac? - What's going on... Christ, she's a sapper. 473 00:44:34,904 --> 00:44:36,988 I'm gonna get that dink bitch. Get over there, Johnny. 474 00:44:37,073 --> 00:44:39,074 Go in there. Put that right skid right up her ass. 475 00:44:42,328 --> 00:44:45,163 We gotta get some air in these trees. It's goddamn eat up with enemy down there. 476 00:44:45,248 --> 00:44:47,540 I'm taking fire. I'm taking hits all over... 477 00:44:47,625 --> 00:44:50,961 Three o'clock! Three o'clock, my position! Drawing fire, drawing heavy fire! 478 00:44:51,295 --> 00:44:54,714 I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! I'm going in. My tail rotor's out. I got control. 479 00:45:03,766 --> 00:45:06,351 - What do you think? - Wow, this is really exciting, man. 480 00:45:06,435 --> 00:45:09,854 - No, no! The waves! The waves! - Right. 481 00:45:09,939 --> 00:45:12,691 Look at that, breaks both ways. Watch. Watch. 482 00:45:13,943 --> 00:45:16,152 Look! Good six-foot swells! 483 00:45:40,469 --> 00:45:41,636 Come here, Lance. 484 00:45:44,932 --> 00:45:46,057 lncoming! 485 00:45:50,521 --> 00:45:53,690 This LZ is still pretty hot, sir. Maybe you ought to surf somewhere else. 486 00:45:53,774 --> 00:45:57,777 What do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamn New Jersey. 487 00:46:00,197 --> 00:46:01,823 Come here! Come here! 488 00:46:04,535 --> 00:46:07,078 - Change! - You mean right now, sir? 489 00:46:07,163 --> 00:46:09,956 I wanna see how rideable that stuff is. Go change. 490 00:46:10,124 --> 00:46:11,666 It's still pretty hairy out there, sir. 491 00:46:11,834 --> 00:46:14,085 - Do you wanna surf, soldier? - Yes, sir. 492 00:46:14,170 --> 00:46:16,588 That's good, son, 'cause you either surf or fight. 493 00:46:16,672 --> 00:46:18,673 That clear? Now get going. 494 00:46:19,216 --> 00:46:22,344 I'll cover for them. And bring a board for Lance! 495 00:46:23,804 --> 00:46:25,722 We can't do shit until the boat gets here. 496 00:46:26,140 --> 00:46:29,642 Lance, I'll bet you can't wait to get out there. 497 00:46:29,727 --> 00:46:31,770 - What? - See how they break both ways? 498 00:46:31,854 --> 00:46:35,732 One guy can break right, one left, simultaneous. What do you think of that? 499 00:46:35,816 --> 00:46:37,942 We ought to wait for the tide to come up. 500 00:46:38,027 --> 00:46:40,820 - Lance, come here. Look. Look! - lncoming! 501 00:46:43,491 --> 00:46:46,117 The tide doesn't come in for six hours! 502 00:46:47,995 --> 00:46:50,455 You wanna wait here for six hours? 503 00:46:53,959 --> 00:46:55,919 Yo! Hey! Chief! 504 00:47:04,053 --> 00:47:07,013 Okay, fellas, quit hiding. Come on! 505 00:47:07,515 --> 00:47:09,974 - Let's go, dickheads, take off! - God damn it! 506 00:47:10,226 --> 00:47:12,769 Don't you think it's a little risky for R&R? 507 00:47:12,895 --> 00:47:17,482 if I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, it's safe to surf this beach! 508 00:47:17,566 --> 00:47:21,903 I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place! I'll surf this fucking place. 509 00:47:24,407 --> 00:47:26,408 Give me that RT, soldier. 510 00:47:28,119 --> 00:47:30,120 Dove Four, this is Big Duke Six. 511 00:47:30,413 --> 00:47:33,248 God damn it! I want that tree line bombed! 512 00:47:33,416 --> 00:47:36,084 Big Duke Six, roger. Dove One-Three, stand by. 513 00:47:36,293 --> 00:47:38,086 Blow them into the Stone Age, son! 514 00:47:39,380 --> 00:47:40,839 No, back, no! 515 00:47:41,632 --> 00:47:44,926 All right, now. Let me take care of this. You all right? Get that out of here! 516 00:47:45,177 --> 00:47:48,346 - I'm sorry. - Come here now. All right. 517 00:47:48,431 --> 00:47:50,849 - No, ma'am. Sorry! - Jimmy! 518 00:47:50,933 --> 00:47:52,642 Hawk One-Two, Dove One-Three, roger. 519 00:47:52,726 --> 00:47:54,686 They need some napalm down there in the tree line. 520 00:47:54,770 --> 00:47:56,521 Can you guys push ground and put it down there? 521 00:47:56,605 --> 00:47:58,481 Right, One-Three. We're fixing to fuck with them. 522 00:47:58,566 --> 00:48:01,192 - What's the target? - We're trying to suppress some mortar fire 523 00:48:01,277 --> 00:48:02,735 off the tree line down there. 524 00:48:02,820 --> 00:48:05,530 - Roger. Here we come. - Good, give it all you got. 525 00:48:05,614 --> 00:48:08,032 Bring in all your ships. 526 00:48:08,117 --> 00:48:10,660 Medevac him in my chopper. Get him back to the hospital. 527 00:48:11,662 --> 00:48:15,748 No, no, no, you got to go with him. Come on! Go! Go! 528 00:48:15,958 --> 00:48:18,793 Get it out of here! And tell my guys I want my board! 529 00:48:18,878 --> 00:48:20,420 Big Duke Six, this is Dove One-Three. 530 00:48:20,504 --> 00:48:23,256 The jets are inbound now. You got about 30 seconds to on-station. 531 00:48:23,340 --> 00:48:26,092 Get your people back and heads down. This is gonna be a big one. 532 00:48:29,555 --> 00:48:30,972 Don't worry. 533 00:48:31,265 --> 00:48:33,558 We'll have this place cleaned up and ready in a jiffy, son. 534 00:48:33,642 --> 00:48:35,143 Don't you worry. 535 00:48:35,352 --> 00:48:36,978 Give me those shorts. 536 00:48:39,106 --> 00:48:42,650 These are from the air cav, a present from me and the boys. 537 00:48:42,818 --> 00:48:46,279 I want to see you do your stuff in them out there. Okay? 538 00:49:09,678 --> 00:49:11,221 You smell that? 539 00:49:11,722 --> 00:49:13,848 - Do you smell that? - What? 540 00:49:14,642 --> 00:49:16,392 Napalm, son. 541 00:49:16,852 --> 00:49:19,229 Nothing else in the world smells like that. 542 00:49:19,772 --> 00:49:21,648 Come on. Move it! Move it! Move it! 543 00:49:23,567 --> 00:49:26,152 I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 544 00:49:26,737 --> 00:49:29,322 You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. 545 00:49:29,406 --> 00:49:31,783 And when it was all over, I walked up. 546 00:49:32,993 --> 00:49:35,995 We didn't find one of them, not one stinking dink body. 547 00:49:38,457 --> 00:49:41,292 But the smell, you know, that gasoline smell... 548 00:49:41,377 --> 00:49:43,044 The whole hill, 549 00:49:44,213 --> 00:49:45,880 it smelled like 550 00:49:48,592 --> 00:49:49,842 victory. 551 00:49:55,224 --> 00:49:57,350 Someday this war's gonna end. 552 00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:13,825 Lance, the wind! 553 00:50:14,577 --> 00:50:15,910 - The wind! - What? 554 00:50:15,995 --> 00:50:19,497 It's blowing on shore! It's coming on shore. It's gonna blow this place out! 555 00:50:19,915 --> 00:50:23,042 - It's gonna ruin it! - Not cool! It's gonna blow out! 556 00:50:23,127 --> 00:50:25,461 It's the goddamn napalm! That's what's doing it! 557 00:50:25,546 --> 00:50:28,965 I know. I'm really sorry, Colonel, but I'm afraid that does it. 558 00:50:29,049 --> 00:50:32,719 The kid's got a reputation. You can't expect him to surf those sloppy waves. 559 00:50:32,803 --> 00:50:35,305 - I understand what you're saying. - Yeah, I'm an artist, Bill. 560 00:50:35,472 --> 00:50:38,391 - I couldn't surf that stuff. - Lance, look. 561 00:50:38,642 --> 00:50:40,518 I apologize. It's not my fault. 562 00:50:40,603 --> 00:50:42,270 The waves are getting blown out by the napalm. 563 00:50:42,354 --> 00:50:43,354 Hey, Bill, don't get me wrong... 564 00:50:43,439 --> 00:50:45,398 It was the bombs causing a vortex with the wind. 565 00:50:45,524 --> 00:50:46,899 I accept your apology. 566 00:50:46,984 --> 00:50:49,527 All right, then. But if you could hang around just 20 minutes... 567 00:50:49,612 --> 00:50:51,487 - Maybe some other time, Bill. - Just 20 minutes. 568 00:50:52,489 --> 00:50:55,116 - I'm an artist! - Keep walking. 569 00:50:56,410 --> 00:50:59,871 Okay, give it a try, guys! One goes left and one goes right. 570 00:51:00,456 --> 00:51:01,623 Look, Lance. 571 00:51:01,707 --> 00:51:03,541 - You through surfing? - Yeah! 572 00:51:03,626 --> 00:51:05,501 - Want to say goodbye to the Colonel? - No. 573 00:51:05,586 --> 00:51:06,878 - You sure? - Yeah! 574 00:51:06,962 --> 00:51:10,173 - Let's get the fuck out of here! - It's the fucking napalm! 575 00:51:10,674 --> 00:51:12,467 Just wait 20 minutes! 576 00:51:13,510 --> 00:51:14,677 Damn! Fuck! 577 00:51:15,012 --> 00:51:16,512 They're looking for you! 578 00:51:20,643 --> 00:51:23,019 - Don't leave without me! - Where the fuck you going? 579 00:51:26,607 --> 00:51:27,857 lncoming! 580 00:51:30,152 --> 00:51:33,363 - The colonel's surfboard! - Get the fuck off me! It's mine! 581 00:51:34,907 --> 00:51:38,660 - Guys, help! - Get the board and let's get out of here! 582 00:51:42,956 --> 00:51:44,374 Fucking Airborne! 583 00:52:16,198 --> 00:52:18,616 - Lance. - Chef, light up, man. 584 00:52:18,701 --> 00:52:20,076 Come on. Let's get high. 585 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,120 - Want to smoke? - Let's do it, man. Light up. 586 00:52:22,204 --> 00:52:24,455 Someday this war's gonna end. 587 00:52:25,749 --> 00:52:28,292 That would be just fine with the boys on the boat. 588 00:52:28,752 --> 00:52:30,670 They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. 589 00:52:30,963 --> 00:52:32,213 Captain? 590 00:52:32,715 --> 00:52:38,344 Trouble is, I'd been back there and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. 591 00:52:42,725 --> 00:52:44,475 Buddha time, here. 592 00:52:45,352 --> 00:52:48,730 All right, that's great, you motherfuckers. Yeah. 593 00:52:53,736 --> 00:52:56,070 If that's how Kilgore fought the war, 594 00:52:56,363 --> 00:52:59,741 I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. 595 00:53:00,451 --> 00:53:02,910 It wasn't just insanity and murder. 596 00:53:03,412 --> 00:53:06,706 There was enough of that to go around for everyone. 597 00:53:17,092 --> 00:53:18,926 I mean, he never was hurting for pussy. 598 00:53:19,011 --> 00:53:20,470 I'm not here. 599 00:53:21,597 --> 00:53:24,724 I'm walking through the jungle gathering mangos. 600 00:53:25,642 --> 00:53:27,435 I meet Raquel Welch. 601 00:53:29,938 --> 00:53:32,440 I make a nice mango cream pudding, 602 00:53:36,195 --> 00:53:38,529 kind of spread it around on us. 603 00:53:38,781 --> 00:53:44,827 She's into mangos, too. She's, like, one limb above me. 604 00:53:45,537 --> 00:53:47,455 We're both in the jungle here, nude. 605 00:53:47,748 --> 00:53:49,373 - Hey, Chief. - Yeah? 606 00:53:49,458 --> 00:53:51,417 Here comes that Colonel guy again. 607 00:53:53,962 --> 00:53:56,255 You know how hard it is to find a board you like? 608 00:53:57,424 --> 00:54:02,720 I will not hurt or harm you. I will not hurt or harm you. 609 00:54:02,971 --> 00:54:08,059 Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board, and I like it. 610 00:54:09,061 --> 00:54:11,437 You know how hard it is to find a board you like. 611 00:54:12,022 --> 00:54:13,231 He's a determined motherfucker! 612 00:54:13,315 --> 00:54:14,857 I will not hurt or harm you. 613 00:54:14,942 --> 00:54:18,402 - Cocksucker! - I will not hurt or harm you. 614 00:54:18,779 --> 00:54:21,322 Just give me back the board, Lance. 615 00:54:21,615 --> 00:54:23,783 It was a good board, and I like it. 616 00:54:24,701 --> 00:54:27,453 You know how hard it is to find a board you like. 617 00:54:28,831 --> 00:54:32,166 - I will not hurt or harm you. - Jesus Christ. 618 00:54:32,543 --> 00:54:34,252 That guy's too fucking much, man. 619 00:54:34,336 --> 00:54:36,754 Do you think he would have shot us? 620 00:54:37,548 --> 00:54:38,673 He wouldn't have shot us on the beach, 621 00:54:38,757 --> 00:54:40,758 but I think he would have shot us if he saw me taking his board. 622 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,138 Let's get this board out of my turret. 623 00:54:47,182 --> 00:54:48,391 Sucker. 624 00:54:48,892 --> 00:54:50,601 How am I going to shoot him the next time he comes around? 625 00:54:50,686 --> 00:54:52,728 Hey, Chef, make some room back there for the board. 626 00:54:57,109 --> 00:54:58,526 Sock it to me, Lance. 627 00:55:04,491 --> 00:55:06,033 I wonder if that's the same chopper. 628 00:55:06,118 --> 00:55:08,870 Hell, he's probably got them all over the river with that recording. 629 00:55:09,663 --> 00:55:11,289 We'll have to hole up here till dark, Chief. 630 00:55:11,707 --> 00:55:13,708 Don't worry, Lance. He won't follow us too far. 631 00:55:14,084 --> 00:55:15,543 What makes you say that? 632 00:55:15,878 --> 00:55:17,670 You think that big cav colonel wants everyone upriver 633 00:55:17,754 --> 00:55:19,255 to know we stole his board? 634 00:55:19,339 --> 00:55:20,715 I didn't steal it! 635 00:55:23,552 --> 00:55:27,388 Captain? Just how far up this river we going? 636 00:55:28,682 --> 00:55:30,600 It's classified, Chief. I can't tell you. 637 00:55:33,687 --> 00:55:35,104 We're going up pretty far. 638 00:55:37,733 --> 00:55:39,233 Is it gonna be hairy? 639 00:55:40,777 --> 00:55:41,903 I don't know, kid. 640 00:55:43,071 --> 00:55:44,572 Yeah, probably. 641 00:55:44,948 --> 00:55:48,075 You like it like that, Captain, when it's hot, hairy? 642 00:55:48,952 --> 00:55:50,077 Fuck. 643 00:56:00,589 --> 00:56:03,424 Never get a chance to know what the fuck you are in some factory in Ohio. 644 00:56:07,721 --> 00:56:10,097 Hey, Chief, I'm gonna go get those mangoes now, okay? 645 00:56:10,432 --> 00:56:12,516 - Take somebody with you. - Yeah, I'll take... 646 00:56:12,601 --> 00:56:14,268 I'll go with him. 647 00:56:19,983 --> 00:56:21,442 Chef? 648 00:56:21,985 --> 00:56:23,945 - Yes, sir? - How come they call you that? 649 00:56:24,905 --> 00:56:27,114 - Call me what, sir? - Chef. 650 00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:30,785 - Because you like mangos and stuff? - No, sir, I'm a real chef. 651 00:56:31,954 --> 00:56:35,247 - I'm a saucier. - Saucier? 652 00:56:35,999 --> 00:56:41,837 Yes, sir. See, I come from New Orleans. I was raised to be a saucier, 653 00:56:42,214 --> 00:56:43,798 a great saucier. 654 00:56:44,424 --> 00:56:47,802 - What's a saucier? - You specialize in sauces. 655 00:56:51,807 --> 00:56:54,392 Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere. 656 00:57:00,941 --> 00:57:05,403 Then I was supposed to go to Paris, study at the Escoffier School. 657 00:57:06,613 --> 00:57:09,740 But then I got orders for my physical. 658 00:57:23,004 --> 00:57:26,090 Hell, I joined the Navy. Heard they had better food. 659 00:57:27,467 --> 00:57:29,468 A cook school, that did it. 660 00:57:30,011 --> 00:57:33,514 - Yeah, how's that? - You don't want to hear about that. 661 00:57:36,727 --> 00:57:39,895 They lined us up in front of 100 yards of prime rib. 662 00:57:40,731 --> 00:57:43,274 All of us lined up, looking at it. 663 00:57:44,025 --> 00:57:46,026 Magnificent meat, really. 664 00:57:46,737 --> 00:57:48,529 Beautifully marbled. 665 00:57:51,074 --> 00:57:56,871 Next thing, they're throwing the meat into these big cauldrons. All of it, boiling it. 666 00:57:58,165 --> 00:58:00,541 I looked inside, man. It was turning gray. 667 00:58:02,210 --> 00:58:04,086 I couldn't fucking believe that one. 668 00:58:04,963 --> 00:58:08,174 That's when I applied for radioman school, but then they gave me the... 669 00:58:50,383 --> 00:58:51,759 What is it? 670 00:58:53,887 --> 00:58:55,095 Charlie? 671 00:59:06,274 --> 00:59:07,691 It's a tiger! 672 00:59:11,112 --> 00:59:13,072 Tiger, man! It's a tiger! 673 00:59:14,449 --> 00:59:16,784 Battle stations. Lance, up front! On the.60, Clean! 674 00:59:16,868 --> 00:59:18,118 - Got it, man. - Holy shit. 675 00:59:18,495 --> 00:59:22,039 - Chef, come on! - Fucking tiger! 676 00:59:22,123 --> 00:59:24,250 - Captain, come on! - What's happening? 677 00:59:25,418 --> 00:59:26,794 - Let's go! - Tiger! 678 00:59:27,546 --> 00:59:30,047 Chief, you were right. Never get out of the fucking boat. 679 00:59:30,131 --> 00:59:32,883 - Bring that.60 forward! - Never get out of the boat! 680 00:59:33,343 --> 00:59:38,305 Never get out of the boat! I gotta remember. Never get out of the boat. 681 00:59:40,934 --> 00:59:43,894 - What happened? How many is it? - A fucking tiger! 682 00:59:44,145 --> 00:59:45,771 - What? - A fucking tiger! 683 00:59:45,856 --> 00:59:48,315 - Tiger? - Yes! I've had it! 684 00:59:48,650 --> 00:59:52,027 I've had the whole goddamn fucking shit, man! 685 00:59:52,237 --> 00:59:56,615 You can kiss my ass on the county square, because I'm fucking bugging out. 686 00:59:56,992 --> 00:59:58,492 I didn't come here for this. 687 00:59:58,743 --> 01:00:01,245 I don't fucking need it! I don't want it. 688 01:00:01,746 --> 01:00:05,165 I didn't get out of the goddamn eighth grade for this kind of shit! 689 01:00:06,251 --> 01:00:11,046 All I wanted to do was fucking cook! I just wanted to learn to fucking cook, man! 690 01:00:11,131 --> 01:00:14,842 - It's all right. It's all right. - What happened, bro? 691 01:00:16,970 --> 01:00:18,888 You're all right. You're gonna be all right. 692 01:00:18,972 --> 01:00:21,348 - All right. It's gonna be all right. - You're all right. 693 01:00:21,474 --> 01:00:24,852 It's gonna be all right. Never get out of the fucking boat. 694 01:00:25,103 --> 01:00:26,687 Never get out of the fucking boat. 695 01:00:26,771 --> 01:00:30,024 Hi, tiger! Bye, tiger! Goodbye! 696 01:00:31,902 --> 01:00:33,986 Never get out of the boat. 697 01:00:34,446 --> 01:00:36,530 Absolutely goddamn right. 698 01:00:38,325 --> 01:00:40,701 Unless you were going all the way. 699 01:00:45,916 --> 01:00:47,833 Kurtz got off the boat. 700 01:00:49,544 --> 01:00:51,754 He split from the whole fucking program. 701 01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:59,845 How did that happen? What did he see here that first tour? 702 01:01:07,187 --> 01:01:08,979 Thirty-eight fucking years old. 703 01:01:10,815 --> 01:01:14,777 If you joined the Green Berets, there was no way you'd ever get above colonel. 704 01:01:16,029 --> 01:01:18,072 Kurtz knew what he was giving up. 705 01:01:19,991 --> 01:01:24,036 And the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him. 706 01:01:25,664 --> 01:01:28,040 His family and friends couldn't understand it, 707 01:01:28,124 --> 01:01:30,209 and they couldn't talk him out of it. 708 01:01:32,253 --> 01:01:35,631 He had to apply three times and he put up with a ton of shit. 709 01:01:35,715 --> 01:01:38,759 But when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him. 710 01:01:42,973 --> 01:01:46,225 The next youngest guy in his class was half his age. 711 01:01:47,686 --> 01:01:49,853 They must have thought he was some far-out old man, 712 01:01:49,938 --> 01:01:51,438 humping it over that course. 713 01:01:52,899 --> 01:01:56,110 I did it when I was 19 and it damn near wasted me. 714 01:01:59,030 --> 01:02:03,617 A tough motherfucker. He finished it. 715 01:02:06,830 --> 01:02:12,084 He could have gone for General, but he went for himself instead. 716 01:02:15,547 --> 01:02:17,089 "Dear Eva, 717 01:02:17,590 --> 01:02:22,970 "today was really a new one. Almost got eaten alive by a fucking tiger. 718 01:02:25,390 --> 01:02:27,391 "Really un-fucking-believable, you know? 719 01:02:27,767 --> 01:02:30,519 "We're taking this guy, Captain Willard, up the river, 720 01:02:30,645 --> 01:02:33,397 "but he hasn't told us yet where we're taking him." 721 01:02:36,693 --> 01:02:38,652 "Thought you might have heard by now from Elwood. 722 01:02:38,737 --> 01:02:41,363 - "I'll be coming home..." - October 1967, 723 01:02:41,740 --> 01:02:44,908 on special assignment, Kon Tum Province, II Corps. 724 01:02:45,035 --> 01:02:48,454 Kurtz staged Operation Archangel with combined local forces, 725 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:50,956 rated a major success. 726 01:02:54,669 --> 01:02:58,672 He received no official clearance. He just thought it up and did it. 727 01:03:01,217 --> 01:03:02,593 What balls. 728 01:03:04,679 --> 01:03:07,639 They were gonna nail his ass to the floorboards for that one. 729 01:03:07,766 --> 01:03:11,852 But after the press got a hold of it, they promoted him to full colonel instead. 730 01:03:14,355 --> 01:03:19,068 Man, the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, 731 01:03:19,194 --> 01:03:21,028 you needed wings to stay above it. 732 01:03:49,974 --> 01:03:53,227 This sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle of this shit. 733 01:03:54,854 --> 01:03:56,396 Expecting us this time? 734 01:03:58,733 --> 01:03:59,983 Damned if I know. 735 01:04:05,782 --> 01:04:07,783 Hello. Hello... 736 01:04:08,034 --> 01:04:09,201 Jesus. 737 01:04:15,834 --> 01:04:18,669 - Everything goes back up into the truck. - What? 738 01:04:19,003 --> 01:04:20,629 We gotta get all that stuff up. 739 01:04:27,762 --> 01:04:29,555 Hau Phat. You ever been up here before, Chef? 740 01:04:29,639 --> 01:04:31,515 - Let's go! - I bet you we can score up here. 741 01:04:31,891 --> 01:04:34,393 Man, check out the bikes, Lance. 742 01:04:35,478 --> 01:04:38,188 Yamaha, Suzuki. Yeah! 743 01:04:38,273 --> 01:04:40,649 - That's a good one. - Yeah, sukiyaki. 744 01:04:41,276 --> 01:04:42,651 Yeah, man. This is something. 745 01:04:46,948 --> 01:04:48,532 - Please! - This must be the guy. 746 01:04:48,616 --> 01:04:50,242 Right over there. 747 01:04:50,994 --> 01:04:53,453 Sergeant. Sergeant? 748 01:04:59,961 --> 01:05:02,212 Three drums of diesel fuel, PBR 5. 749 01:05:02,297 --> 01:05:05,132 Come on, man! Move! We don't have time. One hour. That's all. 750 01:05:05,216 --> 01:05:07,301 - What do you want? - Can I get some Panama Red with it? 751 01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,262 Panama Red. Yeah, I'll get you Panama Red. 752 01:05:10,346 --> 01:05:13,056 - Sergeant? - Destination? 753 01:05:13,141 --> 01:05:14,766 - I don't have no destination. - I can't do a goddamn thing 754 01:05:14,851 --> 01:05:16,643 without a destination. You got a destination? 755 01:05:16,728 --> 01:05:17,811 - Sergeant. - I need diesel fuel. 756 01:05:17,896 --> 01:05:19,938 All right. You got a destination? I need a destination. 757 01:05:20,023 --> 01:05:22,065 I can't do a goddamn thing without a destination. 758 01:05:22,150 --> 01:05:25,068 Sarge, these guys are with me. Destination's classified. 759 01:05:25,153 --> 01:05:27,654 I carry priority papers from COMSEC lntelligence, ll Corps. 760 01:05:27,739 --> 01:05:30,741 Okay, right, sir. Hey, listen, it's a real big night. 761 01:05:30,825 --> 01:05:32,159 Eight bucks for that... 762 01:05:34,287 --> 01:05:36,079 All right. Damn. 763 01:05:37,081 --> 01:05:39,833 - Just give him some fuel. - You got it. 764 01:05:40,668 --> 01:05:43,086 - Dog starts barking. - Hey, listen, Captain. 765 01:05:43,338 --> 01:05:46,715 I'm really sorry about tonight. It's really bad around here. 766 01:05:47,926 --> 01:05:50,802 Just take this over to the man at the supply desk and you got it. 767 01:05:50,929 --> 01:05:54,264 Hey, listen, would you guys like some seats, some press box seats for the show? 768 01:05:54,349 --> 01:05:57,226 You want those? The show, man. The show out here. 769 01:05:57,769 --> 01:06:00,062 - Bunnies. - Playboy bunnies? 770 01:06:00,146 --> 01:06:01,939 You got it. You gonna be here? 771 01:06:02,023 --> 01:06:07,069 Listen, Captain, on the house. No hard feelings, huh? 772 01:06:44,315 --> 01:06:48,652 How you doing out there? I said, "How you doing out there?" 773 01:06:49,570 --> 01:06:53,365 Want to say hello to you from all of us up here to all of you out there 774 01:06:53,741 --> 01:06:56,785 who worked so goddamn hard in Operation Brute Force! 775 01:06:57,412 --> 01:06:59,579 Hello, all you paratroopers out there! 776 01:07:00,248 --> 01:07:03,208 And the Marines! And the sailors! 777 01:07:04,419 --> 01:07:06,169 We want to let you know that we're proud of you! 778 01:07:06,254 --> 01:07:08,046 'Cause we know how tough and how hard it's been. 779 01:07:08,548 --> 01:07:09,589 Yeah! 780 01:07:10,008 --> 01:07:13,135 And to prove it, we're gonna give you some entertainment we know you're gonna like. 781 01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,805 Miss August, Miss Sandra Beatty. 782 01:07:18,975 --> 01:07:23,270 Miss May, Miss Terry Teray! Yeah! 783 01:07:23,813 --> 01:07:28,775 And the Playmate of the Year, Miss Carrie Foster! Yeah! 784 01:08:20,995 --> 01:08:22,329 What's the matter? 785 01:08:22,413 --> 01:08:25,374 They've got them here tonight. 786 01:08:31,381 --> 01:08:32,839 Grease my gun! 787 01:08:41,182 --> 01:08:43,141 I'm ready to... baby! 788 01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:02,244 You're cute. I like you. 789 01:09:02,829 --> 01:09:05,414 I'm here, baby! I'm here! 790 01:09:07,542 --> 01:09:08,625 Oh, my God... 791 01:09:10,336 --> 01:09:11,420 Yeah! 792 01:09:12,088 --> 01:09:14,131 You fucking bitch! 793 01:09:14,382 --> 01:09:15,424 Take it off! 794 01:09:18,553 --> 01:09:20,929 Hey, lover! You want us to come over? 795 01:09:21,472 --> 01:09:24,391 - I sure do! - Sign my centerfold! 796 01:09:27,019 --> 01:09:28,687 Sign my centerfold! 797 01:09:29,856 --> 01:09:32,149 Come on, baby! Come up here now. 798 01:09:32,233 --> 01:09:34,401 Get your goddamn hands off of my girl! 799 01:09:45,621 --> 01:09:46,913 Start her up. 800 01:09:52,253 --> 01:09:53,503 Come on! 801 01:09:56,090 --> 01:09:57,424 Will you sign these? 802 01:09:58,259 --> 01:10:00,177 Girls! Let's go! 803 01:10:18,779 --> 01:10:20,030 So long! 804 01:11:02,949 --> 01:11:04,616 Charlie didn't get much USO. 805 01:11:06,994 --> 01:11:09,746 He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. 806 01:11:14,377 --> 01:11:18,171 His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. 807 01:11:20,758 --> 01:11:26,596 He had only two ways home, death or victory. 808 01:11:38,234 --> 01:11:41,152 No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. 809 01:11:42,738 --> 01:11:45,532 The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns 810 01:11:45,616 --> 01:11:47,867 who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away. 811 01:11:50,871 --> 01:11:53,456 Man, that was far fucking out. 812 01:11:53,666 --> 01:11:56,376 I collected every picture of her since she was Miss December, Chief. 813 01:11:57,211 --> 01:11:59,462 Hey, Clean, look at that. She was here, man. 814 01:12:00,256 --> 01:12:03,049 I even wrote to the cunt. She didn't write me back. 815 01:12:03,217 --> 01:12:05,468 You can really get hung up on these broads, man, 816 01:12:05,553 --> 01:12:07,178 just like that cat in the delta. 817 01:12:07,263 --> 01:12:08,888 - Yeah, you better believe it. - What cat? 818 01:12:09,348 --> 01:12:12,392 The one that went up for murder. He was an Army sergeant. 819 01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:16,187 Remember? This cat, man, he really dug his Playboy, man. 820 01:12:16,272 --> 01:12:21,943 I mean, this cat, when the thing arrived, he was there to meet it, man. 821 01:12:22,028 --> 01:12:24,738 Look at these beautiful fucking jugs, man! 822 01:12:25,573 --> 01:12:28,241 Yeah. So anyway, he was working ARVN patrols, you know, 823 01:12:28,326 --> 01:12:31,661 had one of them cocky gook asshole lieutenants and shit. 824 01:12:31,954 --> 01:12:35,040 And one day, the gook took his magazine from him and wouldn't give it back to him. 825 01:12:35,124 --> 01:12:36,958 He said, "Give me my magazine back." 826 01:12:37,126 --> 01:12:41,129 Gook said, "You shut up. I have you court-martial." 827 01:12:41,839 --> 01:12:43,923 - Typical fucking ARVN. - Yeah. 828 01:12:44,008 --> 01:12:48,011 - So then the gook starts to go too far. - Chef, take the wheel. 829 01:12:48,095 --> 01:12:51,556 This dude started to stick pinholes in the lady's titties. 830 01:12:52,183 --> 01:12:53,224 Take the wheel. 831 01:12:53,934 --> 01:12:58,104 He started sticking pinholes and mutilating the centerfold and all kinds of shit like that. 832 01:12:58,272 --> 01:13:01,066 And the sergeant said, "You better not do that to her. 833 01:13:01,359 --> 01:13:03,652 "You leave your shitty little gook hands off of that girl. 834 01:13:03,778 --> 01:13:05,153 "Don't do her like that," right? 835 01:13:05,446 --> 01:13:09,449 - Gook say, "Fuck you," in Vietnamese. - Damn. 836 01:13:10,951 --> 01:13:13,536 The sergeant, man, he just couldn't handle it no more. 837 01:13:13,621 --> 01:13:18,792 He just picked up his iron, flipped it to rock 'n' roll and... 838 01:13:20,127 --> 01:13:23,421 Gave that little zero a long burst straight through the Playboy mag 839 01:13:23,506 --> 01:13:26,132 and blew his ass clean off of the dock. 840 01:13:26,258 --> 01:13:30,345 There wasn't no more lieutenant that day. That was it for his ass. 841 01:13:32,181 --> 01:13:35,725 - They burn him for it? - The sergeant? Yeah, man. 842 01:13:36,102 --> 01:13:37,936 They stuck his ass in the LBJ. 843 01:13:38,145 --> 01:13:41,231 It's too bad he didn't get no medals or nothing. 844 01:13:44,652 --> 01:13:47,612 Fucking ARVN, man. They should have killed the fuck. 845 01:13:49,365 --> 01:13:51,658 Should have given the fucker a Silver Star. 846 01:13:53,661 --> 01:13:55,412 Bummer for the gook, though, ain't it? 847 01:14:01,877 --> 01:14:05,547 Good morning, Vietnam. I'm Army Specialist Zack Johnson on AFVN. 848 01:14:05,673 --> 01:14:09,300 It's about 82 degrees in downtown Saigon right now, also very humid. 849 01:14:09,385 --> 01:14:11,678 And we have an important message for all GIs 850 01:14:11,762 --> 01:14:14,097 who are living off base from the Mayor of Saigon. 851 01:14:14,181 --> 01:14:15,181 Yeah! 852 01:14:15,266 --> 01:14:18,017 He'd like you to hang your laundry up indoors instead of on the windowsills. 853 01:14:18,269 --> 01:14:20,353 The Mayor wants you to keep Saigon beautiful. 854 01:14:21,522 --> 01:14:23,106 And now, here's another blast from the past 855 01:14:23,190 --> 01:14:25,942 going out to big Sam who's all alone out there 856 01:14:26,026 --> 01:14:28,153 with the First Battalion, 35th Infantry, 857 01:14:28,237 --> 01:14:32,574 and dedicated by the fire team at An Khe to their groovy CO... 858 01:14:32,658 --> 01:14:35,243 - The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction. - All right! 859 01:14:37,246 --> 01:14:39,038 Work out, Clean! 860 01:14:39,623 --> 01:14:41,207 Get down, Bubba! 861 01:14:51,135 --> 01:14:52,552 Hang on, Lance! 862 01:14:59,602 --> 01:15:01,060 Get down, Bubba! 863 01:15:10,321 --> 01:15:11,404 Yeah! 864 01:15:21,081 --> 01:15:23,249 I see you is right on target. 865 01:15:26,504 --> 01:15:29,005 Work out! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! 866 01:15:29,089 --> 01:15:30,465 All right! 867 01:15:31,217 --> 01:15:32,592 Look out, Lance! 868 01:15:40,935 --> 01:15:44,354 "Commitment and Counter-Insurgency, by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. 869 01:15:46,357 --> 01:15:50,318 "As long as our officers and troops perform tours of duty limited to one year, 870 01:15:50,528 --> 01:15:53,613 "they will remain dilettantes in war and tourists in Vietnam. 871 01:15:56,534 --> 01:15:59,369 "As long as cold beer, hot food, rock 'n' roll 872 01:15:59,453 --> 01:16:02,205 "and all the other amenities remain the expected norm, 873 01:16:02,289 --> 01:16:04,833 "our conduct of the war will gain only impotence. 874 01:16:05,668 --> 01:16:07,293 "We need fewer men and better. 875 01:16:07,545 --> 01:16:11,798 "If they were committed, this war could be won with a fourth of our present force." 876 01:16:12,591 --> 01:16:13,967 - Shit. - Holy shit. 877 01:16:14,051 --> 01:16:16,970 Chicken time. You ain't shitting, bro. They're motherfucking... 878 01:16:19,723 --> 01:16:21,432 - Who is that? - What's going on? 879 01:16:24,311 --> 01:16:25,728 Is that you, Lazzaro? 880 01:16:42,162 --> 01:16:45,498 - Fire on the canopy! - I got it! I got it! Get out of there! 881 01:16:46,333 --> 01:16:49,627 Get out! I got it! Yeah! I got it! 882 01:16:51,505 --> 01:16:53,131 Lance, get down! 883 01:16:53,215 --> 01:16:54,924 Put that fucker out, man! 884 01:17:02,224 --> 01:17:03,975 What the fuck they think they're doing? 885 01:17:28,417 --> 01:17:31,544 Late summer, autumn 1968. 886 01:17:32,671 --> 01:17:35,924 Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming under frequent ambush. 887 01:17:36,884 --> 01:17:38,843 The camp started falling apart. 888 01:17:45,643 --> 01:17:46,893 November. 889 01:17:47,478 --> 01:17:51,230 Kurtz orders assassination of three Vietnamese men and one woman. 890 01:17:52,566 --> 01:17:55,902 Two of the men were colonels in the South Vietnamese army. 891 01:17:58,822 --> 01:18:01,950 Enemy activity in his old sector dropped off to nothing. 892 01:18:05,371 --> 01:18:07,497 Guess he must have hit the right four people. 893 01:18:10,417 --> 01:18:14,504 He joined the Special Forces. And after that, his... 894 01:18:16,090 --> 01:18:19,342 The Army tried one last time to bring him back into the fold. 895 01:18:19,426 --> 01:18:20,468 methods... 896 01:18:20,552 --> 01:18:23,346 And if he'd pulled over, it all would have been forgotten. 897 01:18:23,430 --> 01:18:24,472 unsound. 898 01:18:25,432 --> 01:18:28,101 - But he kept going... - Now he's crossed into Cambodia... 899 01:18:28,644 --> 01:18:30,019 and he kept winning it his way... 900 01:18:30,104 --> 01:18:32,021 with this Montagnard army of his... 901 01:18:32,147 --> 01:18:33,189 and they called me in. 902 01:18:33,607 --> 01:18:38,569 man like a god. And follow every order, however ridiculous. 903 01:18:41,615 --> 01:18:45,576 They lost him. He was gone. 904 01:18:47,454 --> 01:18:49,914 Nothing but rumors and random intelligence, 905 01:18:50,249 --> 01:18:52,041 mostly from captured VC. 906 01:18:54,128 --> 01:18:57,463 The VC knew his name by now, and they were scared of him. 907 01:18:58,632 --> 01:19:01,759 He and his men were playing hit and run, all the way into Cambodia. 908 01:19:08,017 --> 01:19:10,727 I know where I'm going. I'm going to the White House 909 01:19:10,811 --> 01:19:15,148 to have dinner with the President of the United States, baby. 910 01:19:15,232 --> 01:19:16,482 That's where I'm going. 911 01:19:17,609 --> 01:19:19,485 Hey, Chef, put the cover on that. 912 01:19:21,321 --> 01:19:22,488 Clean. 913 01:19:26,785 --> 01:19:30,538 - How long has that kid been on this boat? - Seven months. 914 01:19:31,623 --> 01:19:34,167 He's really specializing in busting my balls. 915 01:19:35,002 --> 01:19:37,170 Very possible, Captain, he thinks the same of you. 916 01:19:38,047 --> 01:19:40,757 Yeah? What do you think, Chief? 917 01:19:41,550 --> 01:19:42,592 I don't think. 918 01:19:43,844 --> 01:19:46,763 My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't! 919 01:19:47,931 --> 01:19:50,850 But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is. 920 01:20:02,029 --> 01:20:05,573 We're going upriver about 75 klicks above the Do Luong bridge. 921 01:20:10,204 --> 01:20:13,206 - That's Cambodia, Captain. - That's classified. 922 01:20:14,249 --> 01:20:17,168 We're not supposed to be in Cambodia, but that's where I'm going. 923 01:20:19,713 --> 01:20:22,882 You just get me close to my destination, and I'll cut you and the crew loose. 924 01:20:26,553 --> 01:20:28,054 All right, Captain. 925 01:20:49,743 --> 01:20:51,202 "Dear Son, 926 01:20:52,121 --> 01:20:53,830 "I'm afraid that both you and your mother 927 01:20:53,914 --> 01:20:56,707 "will have been worried at not hearing from me during the past weeks. 928 01:20:57,793 --> 01:21:00,253 "But my situation here has become a difficult one. 929 01:21:01,797 --> 01:21:04,549 "I have been officially accused of murder by the Army. 930 01:21:12,015 --> 01:21:14,851 "The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents. 931 01:21:15,435 --> 01:21:18,437 "We spent months uncovering them and accumulating evidence. 932 01:21:21,191 --> 01:21:25,111 "When absolute proof was completed, we acted, we acted like soldiers. 933 01:21:26,655 --> 01:21:28,447 "The charges are unjustified. 934 01:21:29,241 --> 01:21:34,620 "They are, in fact, and in the circumstances of this conflict, quite completely insane. 935 01:21:45,716 --> 01:21:48,968 "In a war, there are many moments for compassion and tender action. 936 01:21:50,637 --> 01:21:55,141 "There are many moments for ruthless action, what is often called ruthless, 937 01:21:56,101 --> 01:21:58,853 "what may, in many circumstances, be only clarity. 938 01:21:59,688 --> 01:22:01,981 "Seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it." 939 01:22:02,065 --> 01:22:03,107 Medevac, come in. 940 01:22:03,192 --> 01:22:05,902 "... directly, quickly, awake..." 941 01:22:05,986 --> 01:22:07,612 Alpha Tango Tango. Echo Tango Alpha... 942 01:22:07,696 --> 01:22:09,322 - "... looking at it." - ... request dust-off. 943 01:22:09,406 --> 01:22:11,240 Three, maybe four KlAs. Over. 944 01:22:11,325 --> 01:22:14,076 "I will trust you to tell your mother what you choose about this letter. 945 01:22:14,786 --> 01:22:18,372 "As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned." 946 01:22:18,457 --> 01:22:19,457 Medevac, come in. 947 01:22:20,209 --> 01:22:24,170 "I am beyond their timid, lying morality. And so I am beyond caring." 948 01:22:24,254 --> 01:22:25,838 Medevac, do you read? Over. 949 01:22:25,923 --> 01:22:29,300 "You have all my faith. Your loving father." 950 01:22:49,655 --> 01:22:50,821 Jesus. 951 01:22:50,948 --> 01:22:53,157 No wonder I couldn't get them on the radio. 952 01:22:53,867 --> 01:22:55,159 What a dump. 953 01:22:59,915 --> 01:23:01,374 - Hi, there! - How you doing? 954 01:23:01,667 --> 01:23:05,378 Wow. That's a nice little boat you got there. Never seen one up here before. 955 01:23:05,462 --> 01:23:08,839 You know, we called in a request for a medevac. You guys receive it? 956 01:23:09,216 --> 01:23:10,967 Medevac? No. 957 01:23:11,176 --> 01:23:14,595 Yeah, we passed a downed Huey with some KlAs. 958 01:23:14,721 --> 01:23:16,555 - On your way here? - Yeah. 959 01:23:16,932 --> 01:23:19,684 - You going up this river? - Way up. 960 01:23:20,143 --> 01:23:24,480 - Way upriver? Forget it. - Why? Why? 961 01:23:25,148 --> 01:23:27,400 Well, we want to send some people downriver. 962 01:23:27,484 --> 01:23:29,986 - Just forget it. - What the fuck was that? 963 01:23:30,070 --> 01:23:33,531 - We'll be back in a couple of days. - Yeah, right, you'll be back. 964 01:23:40,747 --> 01:23:42,498 - Chief? - Yeah, Captain? 965 01:23:42,582 --> 01:23:44,000 Why don't you see what you can do with that engine? 966 01:23:44,084 --> 01:23:45,751 - I'm gonna have a look around. - All right. 967 01:23:46,211 --> 01:23:47,878 Hey, don't leave without me. 968 01:24:10,861 --> 01:24:14,572 - Hey, soldier, where's your CO? - Don't ask me, man. 969 01:24:35,719 --> 01:24:37,970 Give me my clothes back, asshole! 970 01:24:41,558 --> 01:24:42,558 Asshole! 971 01:24:48,315 --> 01:24:50,399 Hey, guys, where's the CO? 972 01:24:51,526 --> 01:24:54,236 He stepped on a land mine about two months ago. 973 01:24:54,696 --> 01:24:57,656 - Got all blown to hell. - Who's in charge here? 974 01:24:57,741 --> 01:25:01,243 Charge? I don't know, man. I'm just the night man. 975 01:25:01,411 --> 01:25:04,955 Just doing what I'm told. Shit, I'm just a working girl. 976 01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:06,916 What about you, fella? 977 01:25:07,959 --> 01:25:11,003 Lance, man, I'm telling you it's gonna jam. You mark my words. 978 01:25:11,213 --> 01:25:13,672 - Keep it in that condition. - Hey, get off my back. Get off my back. 979 01:25:13,757 --> 01:25:15,216 - No, man, I'm telling you. - Lay off! 980 01:25:17,928 --> 01:25:20,846 Hey, hey, come here! 981 01:25:21,348 --> 01:25:23,724 Is that your boat? Come on inside. 982 01:25:25,727 --> 01:25:26,936 What do you want? 983 01:25:27,020 --> 01:25:29,688 Come on inside. I want to talk to you. Come on! 984 01:25:33,068 --> 01:25:34,485 Get out of the rain. 985 01:25:34,903 --> 01:25:35,945 Get off me! 986 01:25:37,197 --> 01:25:39,657 Come on. Cut this shit. Hey, Chef. Come on. 987 01:25:40,659 --> 01:25:43,702 Hey, how you doing, Captain? I want you to meet some people. 988 01:25:46,039 --> 01:25:50,292 - I got your ass. - Your ass is shit, Chef. Your ass is shit. 989 01:25:50,377 --> 01:25:52,211 You're a motherfucker, man. 990 01:25:56,633 --> 01:25:58,509 What a motherfucker, man! 991 01:26:00,303 --> 01:26:02,721 God damn, my ear, you motherfucker! 992 01:26:05,350 --> 01:26:07,977 Get him off me, Chef! You smartass. 993 01:26:10,147 --> 01:26:11,397 Hey, guys. 994 01:26:12,482 --> 01:26:14,400 I got you! I got your ass! 995 01:26:14,484 --> 01:26:17,570 - You ain't shit, Chef. - Hey, fellas. 996 01:26:19,531 --> 01:26:21,073 - You pulled my fucking... - Guys. 997 01:26:22,409 --> 01:26:24,660 I just made a deal with the people from Hau Phat. 998 01:26:25,579 --> 01:26:28,998 I negotiated two barrels of fuel for a couple of hours with the bunnies. 999 01:26:37,048 --> 01:26:38,340 Captain! 1000 01:26:38,967 --> 01:26:41,510 Hey, hey, you shitting me? 1001 01:26:41,595 --> 01:26:44,889 No, I'm not. Grab a couple of barrels and get up to that big tent. 1002 01:26:45,223 --> 01:26:46,432 Come on! 1003 01:26:48,393 --> 01:26:49,602 Captain. 1004 01:26:51,104 --> 01:26:53,814 You're giving away our fuel for a Playmate of the Month? 1005 01:26:53,982 --> 01:26:56,650 Nope. Playmate of the Year, Chief. 1006 01:26:57,068 --> 01:26:59,069 Warm them up, baby! Warm them up! 1007 01:26:59,779 --> 01:27:01,530 Warm them up. 1008 01:27:01,615 --> 01:27:04,325 Captain, we get in a firefight and run out of fuel, 1009 01:27:04,784 --> 01:27:06,452 I want you to tell me how she was. 1010 01:27:07,454 --> 01:27:10,623 I made a deal for all of us, Chief. How about you? 1011 01:27:15,128 --> 01:27:17,796 - You got some mamas in there? - Some what? 1012 01:27:20,634 --> 01:27:23,260 Forget it, Captain. I'll stay with the boat. 1013 01:27:24,679 --> 01:27:26,680 Hey, Captain, give me a hand. 1014 01:27:48,995 --> 01:27:54,375 I got every one of your pictures. I got the centerfold, the Playmates Review, 1015 01:27:54,459 --> 01:27:58,837 the Playmate of the Year runoff. I even got the calendar. 1016 01:27:59,172 --> 01:28:01,131 Hey, oiseau. 1017 01:28:02,717 --> 01:28:04,176 Wait, how come you got a bird? 1018 01:28:04,636 --> 01:28:06,804 I used to be the bird girl at Busch Gardens. 1019 01:28:07,514 --> 01:28:10,099 - Busch Gardens? - Yeah, I used to train birds there. 1020 01:28:14,354 --> 01:28:16,939 - You are Miss December, aren't you? - Miss May. 1021 01:28:17,190 --> 01:28:18,649 Is it coming? 1022 01:28:25,740 --> 01:28:28,576 - Miss December has black hair. - It's over there. 1023 01:28:29,369 --> 01:28:31,579 He's not one of my regular birds. 1024 01:28:33,373 --> 01:28:37,001 Come on. Come on, baby. Snack? Snatch a crack. Come here. 1025 01:28:37,544 --> 01:28:43,799 Being Playmate of the Year is the loneliest experience I can imagine. 1026 01:28:45,302 --> 01:28:50,723 It's like you try to express your feelings to someone 1027 01:28:52,100 --> 01:28:53,392 and show them your heart... 1028 01:28:54,019 --> 01:28:57,229 Yeah, I want to hear about your bird act. I'd love to hear about your bird act. 1029 01:29:02,444 --> 01:29:06,155 But would you just mind putting this black wig on for me, please? 1030 01:29:07,073 --> 01:29:11,702 And there's this glass wall between you, this invisible glass, 1031 01:29:12,329 --> 01:29:15,080 and they can see your mouth moving. 1032 01:29:15,373 --> 01:29:17,666 I used to train birds for at least two years... 1033 01:29:17,751 --> 01:29:19,001 - That's beautiful, yeah. - ... at Busch Gardens. 1034 01:29:19,085 --> 01:29:21,337 This was cascading over your right shoulder, 1035 01:29:21,421 --> 01:29:23,130 and this, this was open here. 1036 01:29:23,340 --> 01:29:25,966 But they can't hear what you're saying. 1037 01:29:26,968 --> 01:29:31,180 I used to train them to stand on their head and fly upside down and ride little bicycles. 1038 01:29:31,264 --> 01:29:32,681 Your right hand was kind of over there. 1039 01:29:33,642 --> 01:29:36,560 - Hey, Chef! - Hey, come on, get out of here, man! 1040 01:29:37,437 --> 01:29:40,022 - Later! Later! - Does he want to talk to you? 1041 01:29:40,106 --> 01:29:41,148 Give me 15 minutes. 1042 01:29:41,232 --> 01:29:45,110 You can never really make them hear what you're trying to say. 1043 01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:47,112 You okay with kind of bending? 1044 01:29:47,197 --> 01:29:49,114 That's it. Yeah, your ass was sticking out just a little... 1045 01:29:49,574 --> 01:29:50,866 Hey, man, fuck off! 1046 01:29:51,076 --> 01:29:52,117 Fifteen minutes! 1047 01:29:53,411 --> 01:29:55,913 That's why I tried so desperately 1048 01:29:56,790 --> 01:30:00,626 to show somebody that I had some talent. 1049 01:30:00,794 --> 01:30:04,046 Little baby macaws. Have you ever seen a baby macaw? 1050 01:30:04,506 --> 01:30:05,923 - That's kind of... - They're all blue. 1051 01:30:06,007 --> 01:30:08,050 - Come on, man! Take off, would you? - Open up! 1052 01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:10,552 I got my rights, man! 1053 01:30:11,262 --> 01:30:13,889 They make you do things that you don't want to do. 1054 01:30:13,973 --> 01:30:18,143 Like... Like this picture here. 1055 01:30:20,689 --> 01:30:23,691 I started feeling repulsed with myself. 1056 01:30:24,776 --> 01:30:26,193 You were just kind of bending forward. 1057 01:30:26,277 --> 01:30:28,320 - ... really, really cute. - Your ass, kind of out a bit. 1058 01:30:28,446 --> 01:30:30,739 - I love training birds. - That's it. 1059 01:30:31,116 --> 01:30:34,284 That's it. That's it. Voilà! 1060 01:30:35,537 --> 01:30:37,955 You're beautiful. I just want to... 1061 01:30:40,166 --> 01:30:46,213 You know, I can't believe it. Me, Jay Hicks. I can't believe I'm really here, you know? 1062 01:30:46,798 --> 01:30:50,926 Maybe I'm unfit to have a relationship 1063 01:30:51,010 --> 01:30:55,347 with a beautiful, innocent boy. 1064 01:30:56,015 --> 01:30:59,393 Just think, if it hadn't been for the Vietnam War, 1065 01:30:59,519 --> 01:31:03,063 - I never would've met you, Miss December. - Miss May. 1066 01:31:04,441 --> 01:31:09,862 I wish... I wish I could find just one person 1067 01:31:13,283 --> 01:31:15,367 that could share my point of view. 1068 01:31:22,667 --> 01:31:24,168 You kiss like a bird! 1069 01:31:24,669 --> 01:31:26,962 God! Kiss me, kiss me. 1070 01:31:27,922 --> 01:31:29,006 Who is that? 1071 01:31:29,382 --> 01:31:31,550 You're driving me crazy! Kiss me! 1072 01:31:33,052 --> 01:31:35,053 - Oh, my God. - I love birds! 1073 01:31:40,185 --> 01:31:41,226 You finished yet? 1074 01:31:42,771 --> 01:31:44,313 Holy fuck! 1075 01:31:45,815 --> 01:31:51,236 Make like a bird! Make like a bird! Fly, baby! Cockatoo me! 1076 01:31:51,571 --> 01:31:54,281 - Fly! - I can fly like an eagle! 1077 01:31:54,449 --> 01:31:56,992 - Fly like an eagle! - It drives me crazy! 1078 01:31:57,076 --> 01:31:58,827 It drives me crazy! 1079 01:32:08,630 --> 01:32:11,590 Lance, that was somebody's son. 1080 01:32:14,928 --> 01:32:19,723 Lance, there were things that they made me do 1081 01:32:19,808 --> 01:32:21,308 that I didn't want to do. 1082 01:32:21,392 --> 01:32:25,145 They said, "Pull the ribbons between your legs," 1083 01:32:25,230 --> 01:32:27,523 and I didn't want to do it, 1084 01:32:27,857 --> 01:32:31,485 but they said that was what was expected of me, 1085 01:32:31,653 --> 01:32:33,946 that that's what people wanted to see. 1086 01:32:56,135 --> 01:32:59,221 - Who are you? - I'm next, ma'am. 1087 01:33:01,140 --> 01:33:02,683 Hell, I didn't know he was a cherry. 1088 01:33:02,809 --> 01:33:05,602 - Didn't know you never got no pussy. - Shove it, fuck-up! 1089 01:33:05,687 --> 01:33:08,814 Sure sorry about that. If I had known, I'd have taken you to New Orleans... 1090 01:33:09,190 --> 01:33:11,525 - Man, fuck you. - ... introduce you to cooze, Bubba! 1091 01:33:11,609 --> 01:33:14,528 - Lay off, Chef. - Cherry boy. Cherry boy. 1092 01:33:15,738 --> 01:33:17,281 You're a fucking dog! 1093 01:33:17,365 --> 01:33:20,450 Come on down to New Orleans, Bubba, and I'll get you fixed up, you prick. 1094 01:33:20,702 --> 01:33:21,743 Lay off, Chef. 1095 01:33:22,120 --> 01:33:24,538 You're the only fucking prick I see around here. 1096 01:33:24,622 --> 01:33:27,082 if I want to play with a prick, I'll play with my own! 1097 01:33:27,458 --> 01:33:29,376 - Lay off, Chef! - What are you gonna do with it, cherry boy? 1098 01:33:29,460 --> 01:33:31,461 - Fucking cherry boy! - Chef, I said lay off! 1099 01:33:32,005 --> 01:33:34,548 Chef, knock it off! Give him a break! 1100 01:33:34,799 --> 01:33:38,343 What do you think I said? And give yourjaws a rest! 1101 01:33:39,095 --> 01:33:41,763 And this ain't the Army. You are a sailor! 1102 01:33:42,807 --> 01:33:46,518 So get out of that frizzly Army-looking shirt and stop smoking that dope! 1103 01:33:46,853 --> 01:33:47,853 You hear me? 1104 01:33:52,609 --> 01:33:55,193 Lance, what's with all the green paint? 1105 01:33:55,403 --> 01:33:57,237 - Camouflage. - How's that? 1106 01:33:57,905 --> 01:33:59,489 So they can't see you. They're everywhere, Chief. 1107 01:34:00,241 --> 01:34:03,243 I want you to stay awake up there, man. You got a job to do. 1108 01:34:22,180 --> 01:34:24,222 Sampan off the port bow. Sampan off the port bow. 1109 01:34:24,474 --> 01:34:27,184 Let's take a look. Lance. 1110 01:34:27,393 --> 01:34:30,437 Bring them in. Clean, on the.60. Chef, get a.16. 1111 01:34:31,522 --> 01:34:33,231 Clean, get on that.60! 1112 01:34:36,527 --> 01:34:37,569 What's up, Chief? 1113 01:34:39,906 --> 01:34:42,074 A junk boat, Captain. We're gonna take a routine check. 1114 01:34:43,242 --> 01:34:45,202 Well, let's forget routine now and let them go. 1115 01:34:45,495 --> 01:34:47,704 These boats are running supplies in this delta, Captain. 1116 01:34:48,122 --> 01:34:49,247 I'm gonna take a look. 1117 01:34:50,917 --> 01:34:52,501 Chief, my mission's got priority here. 1118 01:34:52,585 --> 01:34:55,045 Hell, you wouldn't even be in this part of the river if it wasn't for me. 1119 01:34:56,089 --> 01:34:58,757 Until we reach your destination, Captain, you're just on for the ride. 1120 01:35:00,343 --> 01:35:03,095 - Stand by, Lance. - Come on, throw the rope, asshole. 1121 01:35:03,221 --> 01:35:05,430 All right. Come on. Let's bring it over. 1122 01:35:19,487 --> 01:35:21,613 Look in that forward hooch. Bring the people out of there. 1123 01:35:28,996 --> 01:35:31,289 Come on! Hurry up, motherfucker! Move it! 1124 01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:36,128 - You two, come on. - Keep your eyes open, Clean. 1125 01:35:36,462 --> 01:35:37,671 I got you, Chief. 1126 01:35:42,051 --> 01:35:43,260 It's clear, Chief. 1127 01:35:49,684 --> 01:35:52,477 Okay, that's them. That's them. 1128 01:35:52,562 --> 01:35:54,146 - They're okay. - Board and search it. 1129 01:35:55,606 --> 01:35:57,357 It's just a fucking boat. There ain't nothing on it, Chief. 1130 01:35:57,442 --> 01:35:58,734 Board it and search it. 1131 01:35:58,818 --> 01:36:01,153 Just some baskets and some ducks, fucking bananas. 1132 01:36:01,696 --> 01:36:03,280 - Ain't nothing on it. - Don't be ashamed, Chef. 1133 01:36:03,406 --> 01:36:04,448 What's wrong with you? Go on and search it. 1134 01:36:04,532 --> 01:36:06,658 There's a goat and some fish. 1135 01:36:07,452 --> 01:36:08,869 - Chef! - Bunch of fucking vegetables. 1136 01:36:08,953 --> 01:36:11,204 - Get on that boat! - There's nothing on it, man! 1137 01:36:11,289 --> 01:36:12,831 - Get on it! - All right! 1138 01:36:13,499 --> 01:36:15,459 Move it, asshole! God damn it! 1139 01:36:15,793 --> 01:36:18,503 Just some pigs. Look, mangos. 1140 01:36:18,588 --> 01:36:20,589 - What's in the rice bag? - Fucking rice. 1141 01:36:20,673 --> 01:36:23,300 - Look in there, Chef. Look in it. - Some fucking fish. 1142 01:36:24,385 --> 01:36:27,179 More coconuts. Rice. Here's rice. 1143 01:36:28,681 --> 01:36:30,056 What's in that vegetable basket? 1144 01:36:30,683 --> 01:36:32,142 Get out of here! Come on! 1145 01:36:32,435 --> 01:36:35,395 - Get over there, God damn it. - Chef, check that vegetable basket. 1146 01:36:35,521 --> 01:36:36,938 - All right! - Shut up, slope. 1147 01:36:37,023 --> 01:36:38,940 - There ain't nothing in here. - What's in the boxes? 1148 01:36:39,025 --> 01:36:40,066 Not a fucking thing. 1149 01:36:40,151 --> 01:36:41,485 - Look in that tin can. - Nothing. 1150 01:36:41,569 --> 01:36:43,945 - That rusty can. - Just fucking rice, that's all! 1151 01:36:44,030 --> 01:36:45,238 - There ain't nothing on it! - Check the yellow can. 1152 01:36:45,323 --> 01:36:47,616 Check the yellow can. She was sitting on it. What's in it? 1153 01:36:52,079 --> 01:36:53,205 Chef! 1154 01:36:57,877 --> 01:36:59,085 Motherfuckers! 1155 01:37:08,221 --> 01:37:10,138 - Hold it! - Come on, let's kill them all. 1156 01:37:10,807 --> 01:37:13,391 - Fucking cocksucking mothers! - Hold it! Hold it! 1157 01:37:13,518 --> 01:37:16,144 Let's kill all the assholes! Shoot the shit out of all of them. 1158 01:37:16,229 --> 01:37:19,397 - Chef, hold it! - Why not? Jesus Christ. 1159 01:37:20,358 --> 01:37:22,484 Why the fuck not? 1160 01:37:23,945 --> 01:37:25,529 - Clean? - I'm good. 1161 01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:36,331 - You okay, Lance? - Shit! Fuck! Shit! 1162 01:37:36,415 --> 01:37:38,458 - Chef! - Look what she was hiding, huh? 1163 01:37:38,918 --> 01:37:41,503 - You all right? - See what she was running for? 1164 01:37:45,508 --> 01:37:49,719 It's a fucking puppy. 1165 01:37:51,389 --> 01:37:53,181 Give me that dog! 1166 01:37:53,266 --> 01:37:55,100 - No, you're not gonna get it! - Fucking give it to me! 1167 01:37:55,184 --> 01:37:57,018 Give me the fucking dog, asshole! 1168 01:37:57,436 --> 01:38:01,106 - Fuck you! Fucking mango, too! - Chef. 1169 01:38:01,732 --> 01:38:02,732 You want that? 1170 01:38:02,817 --> 01:38:04,943 Chef, she's moving behind you. She's alive. Check her out. 1171 01:38:05,945 --> 01:38:07,070 - Chef! - Yes! 1172 01:38:07,154 --> 01:38:08,864 She's moving behind you. Check her out! 1173 01:38:08,948 --> 01:38:10,615 All right. All right. 1174 01:38:11,158 --> 01:38:13,034 Come on, Clean, God damn it. Give me a hand. 1175 01:38:13,119 --> 01:38:14,995 She's not dead, she's wounded. Clean, give him a hand. 1176 01:38:15,830 --> 01:38:19,457 Just take it easy. Take it easy. Slow down and take it easy. 1177 01:38:20,126 --> 01:38:22,002 All right, Chef, just wait a minute. Wait a minute, Chef. 1178 01:38:22,086 --> 01:38:23,461 - Bring her up. - Is she breathing, Chef? 1179 01:38:23,754 --> 01:38:27,007 - She's hurt. She's bleeding. - Man. 1180 01:38:27,300 --> 01:38:29,634 Bring her on board. We're taking her to an ARVN. 1181 01:38:30,344 --> 01:38:31,428 What are you talking about? 1182 01:38:31,846 --> 01:38:33,221 We're taking her to some friendlies, Captain. 1183 01:38:33,306 --> 01:38:34,806 She's wounded, she's not dead. 1184 01:38:35,308 --> 01:38:37,100 - Get out of there, Chef. - The book says, Captain... 1185 01:38:48,654 --> 01:38:50,947 Fuck you. Fuck him. 1186 01:38:51,657 --> 01:38:53,366 I told you not to stop. Now let's go. 1187 01:39:54,553 --> 01:39:57,347 It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. 1188 01:39:58,724 --> 01:40:01,643 We'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. 1189 01:40:04,230 --> 01:40:11,069 It was a lie, and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies. 1190 01:40:13,572 --> 01:40:17,575 Those boys were never gonna look at me the same way again. 1191 01:40:18,285 --> 01:40:20,870 But I felt like I knew one or two things about Kurtz 1192 01:40:20,955 --> 01:40:23,164 that weren't in the dossier. 1193 01:40:28,212 --> 01:40:32,298 Do Luong bridge was the last Army outpost on the Nung River. 1194 01:40:36,637 --> 01:40:38,972 Beyond that, there was only Kurtz. 1195 01:40:41,100 --> 01:40:44,728 Lance! Hey, Lance, what do you think? 1196 01:40:45,312 --> 01:40:46,354 It's beautiful. 1197 01:40:48,315 --> 01:40:51,151 I mean, what's the matter with you? You're acting kind of weird. 1198 01:40:52,194 --> 01:40:54,779 Hey, you know that last tab of acid I was saving? 1199 01:40:55,197 --> 01:40:57,699 - Yeah. - I dropped it. 1200 01:40:57,867 --> 01:40:59,909 You dropped acid? Far out. 1201 01:41:12,465 --> 01:41:15,717 - Take me home. - God damn you! 1202 01:41:25,269 --> 01:41:27,312 God damn! 1203 01:41:27,646 --> 01:41:29,773 You'll get what you deserve! 1204 01:41:37,990 --> 01:41:40,742 ls there a Captain Willard on board? 1205 01:41:40,826 --> 01:41:42,202 - Yeah! - Captain Willard? 1206 01:41:42,286 --> 01:41:45,121 - Yeah, who's that? - Lieutenant Carlsen, sir. 1207 01:41:45,206 --> 01:41:46,790 Get that light off me. 1208 01:41:48,417 --> 01:41:51,252 I was sent here from Nha Trang with these three days ago, sir. 1209 01:41:51,337 --> 01:41:54,506 Expected you here a little sooner. This is mail for the boat. 1210 01:41:54,965 --> 01:41:56,758 You don't know how happy this makes me, sir. 1211 01:41:56,842 --> 01:41:58,510 - Why? - Now I can get out of here, 1212 01:41:58,594 --> 01:42:00,178 if I can find a way. 1213 01:42:04,183 --> 01:42:06,893 You're in the asshole of the world, Captain! 1214 01:42:11,649 --> 01:42:13,441 Captain, where you going? 1215 01:42:13,526 --> 01:42:16,194 See if I can find some fuel, get some information. 1216 01:42:17,696 --> 01:42:21,616 - Pick me up on the other side of the bridge. - Somebody go with him. Chef! 1217 01:42:21,700 --> 01:42:24,536 I'll go. I wanna go. 1218 01:42:39,343 --> 01:42:40,885 You get your ass in gear. 1219 01:43:16,755 --> 01:43:20,008 Come on, man. Listen to the music, man. 1220 01:43:20,467 --> 01:43:24,345 - Where can I find the CO? - You came right to it, son of a bitch! 1221 01:43:24,430 --> 01:43:27,765 Lance! Get down here! 1222 01:43:30,728 --> 01:43:34,772 - You still got a Commanding Officer here? - Beverly Hills. 1223 01:43:35,107 --> 01:43:36,191 What? 1224 01:43:36,358 --> 01:43:41,154 Straight up the road, there's a concrete fucking bunker called Beverly Hills. 1225 01:43:41,238 --> 01:43:43,823 Where the fuck else do you think it would be? 1226 01:44:18,984 --> 01:44:21,903 - God damn it, you stepped in my face! - We thought you were dead. 1227 01:44:21,987 --> 01:44:23,821 Well, you thought wrong, damn it. 1228 01:44:27,660 --> 01:44:29,744 I told you to stop fucking with me, didn't l? 1229 01:44:29,828 --> 01:44:31,621 You think you're so bad, nigga? 1230 01:44:32,164 --> 01:44:33,539 What are you shooting at, soldier? 1231 01:44:33,624 --> 01:44:36,167 Gooks. What the fuck you think I'm shooting at? 1232 01:44:36,794 --> 01:44:39,003 I'm sorry, sir. There are gooks out there by the wire, 1233 01:44:39,088 --> 01:44:40,755 but I think I killed them all. 1234 01:44:40,839 --> 01:44:42,840 You ain't shot shit, man. Listen! 1235 01:44:44,760 --> 01:44:47,679 Shit, he's trying to call his friends, man. Send up a flare. 1236 01:44:56,313 --> 01:44:58,481 You think you're so bad, nigga? You think you bad, huh? 1237 01:44:58,565 --> 01:44:59,816 They're all dead, stupid. 1238 01:44:59,900 --> 01:45:02,360 There's one still alive underneath them bodies. 1239 01:45:02,861 --> 01:45:05,363 Who's the Commanding Officer here? 1240 01:45:05,531 --> 01:45:06,864 Ain't you? 1241 01:45:09,034 --> 01:45:12,870 You think you're so bad, huh? I got something for your ass now, nigga! 1242 01:45:12,997 --> 01:45:14,747 I got something for you now! 1243 01:45:17,001 --> 01:45:18,710 He's underneath the bodies, man. 1244 01:45:20,462 --> 01:45:22,964 - Go get the roach, man. - Go get the roach, man. 1245 01:45:23,048 --> 01:45:26,509 - Go get the roach, nigga! - I'm gonna go get the roach. 1246 01:45:30,848 --> 01:45:34,434 Roach. Roach. Roach. 1247 01:45:35,227 --> 01:45:37,854 Got slopes on the wire, man. Do you hear them? 1248 01:45:38,022 --> 01:45:40,690 - Lance! - Do you hear them? 1249 01:45:45,237 --> 01:45:46,696 Go bust them! 1250 01:45:49,616 --> 01:45:52,577 Hey, Gl, fuck you! 1251 01:46:02,004 --> 01:46:04,255 You hear him out there on the wire, man? 1252 01:46:05,090 --> 01:46:08,384 - Yeah. - I'll kill you, Gl! 1253 01:46:08,469 --> 01:46:09,552 You need a flare? 1254 01:46:11,555 --> 01:46:12,805 No. 1255 01:46:14,183 --> 01:46:16,017 He's close, man. 1256 01:46:16,727 --> 01:46:18,603 He's real close. 1257 01:46:40,459 --> 01:46:47,715 Gl, fuck you! 1258 01:46:53,055 --> 01:46:54,514 Motherfucker. 1259 01:46:55,641 --> 01:46:57,558 Hey, soldier, 1260 01:47:01,522 --> 01:47:03,481 do you know who's in command here? 1261 01:47:06,276 --> 01:47:07,360 Yeah. 1262 01:47:22,501 --> 01:47:24,001 Shit! 1263 01:47:28,507 --> 01:47:31,801 Yo, Chief, man, two guys just got blown off that bridge. 1264 01:47:31,885 --> 01:47:34,429 You hang on, man. You're gonna be okay. 1265 01:47:38,684 --> 01:47:40,518 - What's that? - Mail, man. 1266 01:47:40,602 --> 01:47:43,271 Later on the mail! Watch them trees. 1267 01:47:45,607 --> 01:47:48,151 There's no diesel fuel, but I picked up some ammo. 1268 01:47:48,277 --> 01:47:49,861 Let's move out. 1269 01:47:49,945 --> 01:47:54,490 - Did you find the CO, Captain? - There's no fucking CO here. 1270 01:47:55,993 --> 01:47:59,662 - Let's just get going. - Which way, Captain? 1271 01:48:05,752 --> 01:48:07,753 You know which way, Chief. 1272 01:48:08,547 --> 01:48:10,339 You're on your own, Captain. 1273 01:48:11,758 --> 01:48:13,050 Do you wanna go on? 1274 01:48:13,552 --> 01:48:17,763 Like this bridge, we build it every night, Charlie blows it right back up again 1275 01:48:17,848 --> 01:48:20,516 just so the generals can say the road's open. 1276 01:48:21,059 --> 01:48:22,560 Think about it. 1277 01:48:25,647 --> 01:48:28,065 - Who cares? - Just get us upriver! 1278 01:48:32,571 --> 01:48:34,947 Chef, on the bow. 1279 01:48:36,116 --> 01:48:37,992 - Stand by, Clean. - Let's go. 1280 01:49:34,758 --> 01:49:36,217 Whose package is that? 1281 01:49:36,468 --> 01:49:40,638 - Shit, you got another one, Clean. - No shit. Wait a minute, is that it? 1282 01:49:40,973 --> 01:49:42,682 - That's it for you. - Lance! 1283 01:49:43,517 --> 01:49:45,810 Mr. L.B. Johnson, there you go. 1284 01:49:47,354 --> 01:49:50,314 Far out, man. All right. I've been waiting for this one. 1285 01:49:50,399 --> 01:49:53,067 I got another one, got a box from Eva. 1286 01:49:53,944 --> 01:49:56,487 "Lance, I'm fine. I'm fine, Lance. 1287 01:49:56,863 --> 01:50:00,658 "Sue and I went tripping to Disneyland. Sue skinned her knee." 1288 01:50:00,826 --> 01:50:03,828 - Man, I want to get back to Antoine's. - "Of course I remember the time we went..." 1289 01:50:03,912 --> 01:50:06,497 How could I fucking forget, man? Beautiful. 1290 01:50:07,583 --> 01:50:10,126 "There could never be a place like Disneyland, or could there? 1291 01:50:10,210 --> 01:50:11,460 "Let me know." 1292 01:50:11,545 --> 01:50:15,006 Jim, it's here. It really is here. 1293 01:50:19,511 --> 01:50:21,846 "There has been a new development regarding your mission 1294 01:50:21,930 --> 01:50:24,307 "which we must now communicate to you. 1295 01:50:24,391 --> 01:50:26,392 "Months ago, a man was ordered on a mission 1296 01:50:26,518 --> 01:50:28,060 "which was identical to yours. 1297 01:50:28,729 --> 01:50:32,356 "We have reason to believe that he is now operating with Colonel Kurtz. 1298 01:50:34,192 --> 01:50:37,820 "Saigon was carrying him MIA for his family's sake. 1299 01:50:38,030 --> 01:50:40,031 "They assumed he was dead. 1300 01:50:40,449 --> 01:50:43,534 "Then they intercepted a letter he tried to send to his wife." 1301 01:50:47,831 --> 01:50:49,874 Captain Richard Colby, 1302 01:50:51,793 --> 01:50:53,461 he was with Kurtz. 1303 01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:56,047 Disneyland. 1304 01:50:56,923 --> 01:50:59,550 Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland. 1305 01:50:59,885 --> 01:51:02,845 "Charles Miller Manson ordered the slaughter 1306 01:51:02,929 --> 01:51:06,223 "of all in the home anyway as a symbol of protest." 1307 01:51:06,308 --> 01:51:07,391 That's really weird, ain't it? 1308 01:51:08,977 --> 01:51:11,687 - Purple haze, look. - Hey, Lance, put away that smoke. 1309 01:51:12,064 --> 01:51:15,524 - I got a tape from my mom. - Chief, rainbow reality, man. 1310 01:51:15,776 --> 01:51:17,902 Hey, Chief, get a good whiff. 1311 01:51:18,236 --> 01:51:21,072 Eva can't picture me in Vietnam. 1312 01:51:21,907 --> 01:51:24,700 She pictures me at home having a beer and watching TV. 1313 01:51:26,662 --> 01:51:27,995 Hey, Lance, man. 1314 01:51:28,664 --> 01:51:30,373 Hot potato! Hot potato! 1315 01:51:31,166 --> 01:51:32,958 I'm so glad you decided to join... 1316 01:51:33,043 --> 01:51:36,003 Eva's not sure if she can have a relationship with me, you know? 1317 01:51:36,963 --> 01:51:42,593 Here I am, 13,000 fucking miles away, trying to keep a relationship open, my ass. 1318 01:51:43,220 --> 01:51:46,305 That's much more than I can say for some of your friends. 1319 01:51:46,723 --> 01:51:50,226 If this tape is any good, I will have Dad and the family 1320 01:51:50,310 --> 01:51:53,270 - send you a tape of their own... - Hey, Lance. 1321 01:52:12,040 --> 01:52:13,165 There! Over there! 1322 01:52:15,752 --> 01:52:18,212 Motherfuckers! 1323 01:52:28,765 --> 01:52:30,224 There! Over there! 1324 01:52:33,854 --> 01:52:35,771 Lance! Chef! 1325 01:52:39,401 --> 01:52:44,280 - Chef, Chef, check out Clean! - Captain, he's hit, he's hit! Clean's hit! 1326 01:52:44,823 --> 01:52:46,574 - Lance! - Where'd the dog go? 1327 01:52:46,658 --> 01:52:49,493 Lance. Lance, check out Clean! 1328 01:52:49,953 --> 01:52:52,955 Where's the dog? We got to go back to get the dog! 1329 01:52:53,039 --> 01:52:56,625 - Hey, Clean. - It's always been nice to have... 1330 01:52:56,710 --> 01:52:58,878 Hey, Bubba! 1331 01:52:59,171 --> 01:53:03,340 Bubba, you can't die, you fucker! 1332 01:53:03,341 --> 01:53:06,010 - And so, I'm hoping... - Bubba! 1333 01:53:06,094 --> 01:53:10,973 that pretty soon, not too soon, but pretty soon, 1334 01:53:11,057 --> 01:53:14,769 I'll have a lot of grandchildren to love and spoil, 1335 01:53:15,353 --> 01:53:18,314 and then when your wife get them back, she'll be mad with me. 1336 01:53:20,734 --> 01:53:26,030 Even Aunt Jessie and Mama will come to celebrate your coming home. 1337 01:53:26,531 --> 01:53:28,699 Granny and Dad are trying to get enough money 1338 01:53:28,784 --> 01:53:30,075 to get you a car. 1339 01:53:30,160 --> 01:53:33,704 But don't tell her, because that's our secret. 1340 01:53:35,081 --> 01:53:39,877 Anyhow, do the right thing, stay out of the way of the bullets, 1341 01:53:40,420 --> 01:53:44,381 and bring your heinie home all in one piece 1342 01:53:44,466 --> 01:53:48,677 because we love you very much. Love, Mama. 1343 01:53:57,062 --> 01:54:00,397 Oh, man. You're so young. 1344 01:54:08,073 --> 01:54:09,740 Clean. 1345 01:55:22,606 --> 01:55:23,814 Hold on. 1346 01:55:26,651 --> 01:55:28,444 Throw me the glasses. 1347 01:55:40,749 --> 01:55:43,709 Lance, take the.16 on the bow. 1348 01:55:46,129 --> 01:55:49,381 Chef, Chef, on the.60. 1349 01:56:12,072 --> 01:56:13,322 Fuck me. 1350 01:56:51,069 --> 01:56:52,236 Lance. 1351 01:57:22,100 --> 01:57:25,936 Cover the Captain. Lance, cover the Captain. 1352 01:57:43,913 --> 01:57:45,622 They're French. They're French. 1353 01:57:47,167 --> 01:57:50,252 Chef, pick up that weapon! Pick it up! Pick it up! 1354 01:57:50,462 --> 01:57:52,296 Stand fast! Captain... 1355 01:58:27,707 --> 01:58:29,833 All right, you men, put down your weapons. 1356 01:59:18,883 --> 01:59:20,259 New Orleans. 1357 01:59:24,973 --> 01:59:26,807 We lost one of our men. 1358 01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:35,524 We French always pay respects to the dead of our allies. 1359 01:59:37,235 --> 01:59:39,027 You are all welcome. 1360 01:59:41,781 --> 01:59:43,907 My name is Hubert de Marais. 1361 01:59:45,410 --> 01:59:47,661 This is my family's plantation. 1362 01:59:48,580 --> 01:59:50,747 It has been such for 70 years. 1363 01:59:52,750 --> 01:59:55,502 And it will be such until we are all dead. 1364 02:02:07,635 --> 02:02:13,098 Captain, accept the flag of Tyrone Miller on behalf of a grateful nation. 1365 02:02:33,453 --> 02:02:37,998 This food is really wonderful, isn't it? The wine, the sauces. I can't believe it. 1366 02:02:38,082 --> 02:02:40,042 Can I speak with the chef? 1367 02:02:40,251 --> 02:02:42,210 The chef speaks only Vietnamese. 1368 02:02:42,545 --> 02:02:46,506 No kidding. He cooks like this and he can't even speak French? 1369 02:02:46,591 --> 02:02:49,259 Hey, Lance, the chef's a slope. 1370 02:02:51,596 --> 02:02:53,096 Hey, Lance. 1371 02:03:21,876 --> 02:03:23,502 This is Baudelaire. 1372 02:03:23,586 --> 02:03:26,671 It's a very cruel poem for children, but they need it, 1373 02:03:26,756 --> 02:03:29,424 because life sometimes is very cruel. 1374 02:03:31,260 --> 02:03:32,886 As you can see... 1375 02:03:36,224 --> 02:03:40,060 - Attacks repelled by the family. - Just for this war. 1376 02:03:40,561 --> 02:03:43,105 Viet Cong, 58. 1377 02:03:43,314 --> 02:03:45,148 North Vietnamese, 12. 1378 02:03:45,858 --> 02:03:47,734 South Vietnamese, 11. 1379 02:03:48,653 --> 02:03:50,445 Americans, six. 1380 02:03:51,989 --> 02:03:54,825 Yes, well, they were perhaps mistakes. 1381 02:04:16,013 --> 02:04:18,932 May I present Captain Willard? He's of a paratroop regiment. 1382 02:04:19,517 --> 02:04:21,685 - Madame Sarrault. - Captain. 1383 02:04:49,380 --> 02:04:52,299 I'm sorry, Captain. Was just a little story about Paris 1384 02:04:52,383 --> 02:04:53,633 and people starving during the war. 1385 02:04:53,718 --> 02:04:55,802 They are around the table and there was a silence. 1386 02:04:55,887 --> 02:04:58,430 Somebody says, "An angel is passing by." 1387 02:04:58,764 --> 02:05:01,433 So somebody said, "Let's eat it." 1388 02:05:09,567 --> 02:05:12,903 How long can you possibly stay here? 1389 02:05:13,321 --> 02:05:14,863 We stay forever. 1390 02:05:15,615 --> 02:05:17,365 No, no, I mean, 1391 02:05:19,035 --> 02:05:21,077 when will you go back home to France? 1392 02:05:24,290 --> 02:05:26,041 I mean, this is our home, Captain. 1393 02:05:26,584 --> 02:05:28,251 - Sooner or later you're gonna... - No! 1394 02:05:30,421 --> 02:05:34,090 You don't understand our mentality, the French Officer mentality. 1395 02:05:35,051 --> 02:05:37,344 At first, we lose in Second World War. 1396 02:05:37,428 --> 02:05:40,222 I don't say that you Americans win, but we lose. 1397 02:05:42,725 --> 02:05:45,602 In Dien Bien Phu, we lose. In Nigeria, we lose. 1398 02:05:45,686 --> 02:05:47,479 In lndochina, we lose. 1399 02:05:48,147 --> 02:05:50,607 But here, we don't lose. 1400 02:05:51,275 --> 02:05:56,363 This piece of earth, we keep it! We will never lose that, never! 1401 02:06:01,869 --> 02:06:03,620 The Americans, 1402 02:06:06,499 --> 02:06:09,459 in 1945, yes, 1403 02:06:09,877 --> 02:06:11,962 after the Japanese War, 1404 02:06:12,797 --> 02:06:15,215 your President Roosevelt didn't want the French people 1405 02:06:15,299 --> 02:06:17,384 to stay in lndochina. 1406 02:06:19,303 --> 02:06:22,097 So, you Americans 1407 02:06:22,181 --> 02:06:24,140 invent the Viet Minh. 1408 02:06:26,143 --> 02:06:27,978 - What's he mean? - Yeah, that's true. 1409 02:06:28,187 --> 02:06:30,647 The Viet Cong were invented by the Americans, sir. 1410 02:06:31,983 --> 02:06:33,191 The Americans? 1411 02:06:33,818 --> 02:06:38,154 Now you take the French place, and the Viet Minh fight you, 1412 02:06:38,739 --> 02:06:40,615 and what can you do? 1413 02:06:40,700 --> 02:06:43,159 Nothing. Absolutely nothing. 1414 02:06:43,327 --> 02:06:46,413 The Vietnamese are very intelligent. You never know what they think. 1415 02:06:46,831 --> 02:06:48,832 The Russians want to help them. 1416 02:06:49,208 --> 02:06:51,835 "Come and give us some money. We are all communists. 1417 02:06:52,169 --> 02:06:54,462 "Chinese, give us guns. We are all brothers." 1418 02:06:54,547 --> 02:06:56,006 They hate the Chinese. 1419 02:06:56,882 --> 02:07:01,052 Maybe they hate Americans less than the Russians and the Chinese. 1420 02:07:01,429 --> 02:07:03,138 I mean, if tomorrow the Vietnamese are communists, 1421 02:07:03,222 --> 02:07:05,473 they will be Vietnamese communists. 1422 02:07:06,100 --> 02:07:08,810 And this is something that you never understood, you Americans. 1423 02:07:09,520 --> 02:07:11,813 I don't know. Maybe in the future 1424 02:07:11,897 --> 02:07:14,357 we can make something with the Viet Minh. 1425 02:07:14,609 --> 02:07:16,192 Don't you understand? 1426 02:07:16,527 --> 02:07:19,237 The VC say, "Go away! Go away!" 1427 02:07:19,363 --> 02:07:22,073 That's finished for all the white people in lndochina. 1428 02:07:22,158 --> 02:07:25,327 if you're French, American, that's all the same. 1429 02:07:25,536 --> 02:07:29,205 Go! They want to forget you. Look at them. 1430 02:07:31,334 --> 02:07:34,085 Look, this is the truth. An egg. 1431 02:07:37,256 --> 02:07:38,798 The white left. 1432 02:07:40,301 --> 02:07:42,177 The yellow stay. 1433 02:07:50,227 --> 02:07:51,394 When I was in Saigon, 1434 02:07:51,479 --> 02:07:55,231 I spoke to an American politician and he explained it very well. 1435 02:07:55,316 --> 02:07:58,943 He said, "Look, yesterday it was Korea, 1436 02:07:59,028 --> 02:08:04,908 "today, Vietnam, tomorrow, Thailand, the Philippines, and then maybe Europe." 1437 02:08:07,578 --> 02:08:08,703 Why not Europe? 1438 02:08:08,788 --> 02:08:11,164 Look what happened in Czechoslovakia recently! 1439 02:08:11,332 --> 02:08:12,957 And even before the Second World War, 1440 02:08:13,042 --> 02:08:15,126 the Americans knew exactly what was going on. 1441 02:08:15,211 --> 02:08:17,629 They don't want that shit to take over! 1442 02:08:20,549 --> 02:08:25,053 - All you white people are shit. - They are fighting. Fighting for freedom. 1443 02:08:25,137 --> 02:08:27,263 Freedom? Bullshit. 1444 02:08:27,640 --> 02:08:30,350 French bullshit. American bullshit. 1445 02:08:30,810 --> 02:08:32,519 Dien Bien Phu is a trap. 1446 02:08:33,354 --> 02:08:36,439 All soldiers know they are already dead. 1447 02:08:38,484 --> 02:08:40,402 You know anything about Dien Bien Phu? 1448 02:08:43,531 --> 02:08:47,492 - Yeah, I know. - No, you don't, not really. 1449 02:08:47,576 --> 02:08:50,578 Dien Bien Phu was an error, you know? A military mistake. 1450 02:08:50,705 --> 02:08:54,374 A mistake? A voluntary mistake! Voluntary! 1451 02:08:57,086 --> 02:09:01,047 All the soldiers knew. We knew we would be dead. 1452 02:09:01,799 --> 02:09:03,550 Generals and colonels believe it's impossible 1453 02:09:03,634 --> 02:09:07,929 for the Viets to get a cannon up there in the mountains, but they do. 1454 02:09:08,681 --> 02:09:11,474 Then they wait for the rain to come. 1455 02:09:12,643 --> 02:09:16,688 When it comes, no airplane can fly there. 1456 02:09:16,897 --> 02:09:22,527 And our paratroopers jump at 90 meters. I mean, you know, 90 meters, 70 meters... 1457 02:09:22,611 --> 02:09:25,780 I mean, that's crazy. No army in the world can do that. 1458 02:09:26,365 --> 02:09:29,826 And they only do that to be dead with their friends. 1459 02:09:31,829 --> 02:09:33,163 No, no! 1460 02:09:36,333 --> 02:09:38,501 The French army was sacrificed, 1461 02:09:38,711 --> 02:09:41,421 sacrificed by the politicians safe at home. 1462 02:09:41,505 --> 02:09:44,215 They put the army in an impossible situation where they couldn't win. 1463 02:09:45,426 --> 02:09:48,928 The students are marching in Paris, protesting, demonstrating. 1464 02:09:49,013 --> 02:09:51,139 They stab the soldiers in the back. 1465 02:09:51,265 --> 02:09:55,143 The soldier would open the grenade, it wouldn't work. 1466 02:09:55,436 --> 02:09:57,228 A piece of paper would fall. 1467 02:09:59,607 --> 02:10:02,859 Union of French Women. "We are for the Viets." 1468 02:10:03,152 --> 02:10:04,402 Traitors. 1469 02:10:04,862 --> 02:10:06,988 Communist traitors at home. 1470 02:10:08,407 --> 02:10:09,949 Dien Bien Phu... 1471 02:10:10,326 --> 02:10:12,869 Okay, the French is shit. 1472 02:10:14,997 --> 02:10:17,290 No one cares. No one wants to. 1473 02:10:19,919 --> 02:10:23,880 Why don't you Americans learn from us? From our mistakes? 1474 02:10:24,215 --> 02:10:26,216 Mon dieu, with your army, your strength, your power, 1475 02:10:26,300 --> 02:10:27,509 you can win if you want to. 1476 02:10:30,554 --> 02:10:31,971 You can win. 1477 02:10:35,184 --> 02:10:38,394 You know, I'm sure we can make something there. 1478 02:10:39,146 --> 02:10:40,730 I'm sure about it, you know? 1479 02:10:41,273 --> 02:10:43,817 I never do something wrong to the people here. 1480 02:10:44,401 --> 02:10:47,821 I'm sorry, you know, but the communists at home have never been traitors. 1481 02:11:21,772 --> 02:11:25,108 Excuse me. I have to go. Captain, good night. 1482 02:11:25,442 --> 02:11:28,027 - I was a socialist, you know? - I know we can stay. 1483 02:11:28,112 --> 02:11:32,115 I know that we can stay. We can stay. 1484 02:11:35,035 --> 02:11:38,413 You know, we always help the people. 1485 02:11:38,497 --> 02:11:40,206 We work with the people. 1486 02:11:56,765 --> 02:12:00,894 See, Captain, when my grandfather 1487 02:12:02,354 --> 02:12:04,606 and my uncles and father came here, 1488 02:12:07,192 --> 02:12:09,777 there was nothing. Nothing. 1489 02:12:11,155 --> 02:12:13,323 The Vietnamese were nothing. 1490 02:12:15,242 --> 02:12:18,995 So, we worked hard, very hard. 1491 02:12:19,163 --> 02:12:23,958 We brought the rubber from Brazil and then planted it here. 1492 02:12:24,877 --> 02:12:28,171 We took the Vietnamese, work with them, 1493 02:12:28,589 --> 02:12:29,923 make something. 1494 02:12:30,674 --> 02:12:32,675 Something out of nothing. 1495 02:12:34,261 --> 02:12:37,931 So when you ask me why we want to stay here, Captain, 1496 02:12:39,516 --> 02:12:41,935 we want to stay here because it's ours. 1497 02:12:42,019 --> 02:12:43,478 It belongs to us. 1498 02:12:44,188 --> 02:12:45,855 It keeps our family together. 1499 02:12:47,608 --> 02:12:49,609 I mean, we fight for that. 1500 02:12:51,528 --> 02:12:53,321 While you Americans, 1501 02:12:54,239 --> 02:12:59,118 you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history. 1502 02:13:07,086 --> 02:13:08,836 I'm sorry, Captain. 1503 02:13:09,338 --> 02:13:14,050 I will see if your men need any help to repair your boat 1504 02:13:14,343 --> 02:13:17,720 so that you can go on with your war. 1505 02:13:52,881 --> 02:13:55,550 I apologize for my family, Captain. 1506 02:13:57,594 --> 02:13:59,721 We have all lost much here. 1507 02:14:01,265 --> 02:14:04,350 Hubert, his wife and two sons. 1508 02:14:08,772 --> 02:14:10,940 And I have lost a husband. 1509 02:14:16,864 --> 02:14:20,658 - I understand. - You are tired of the war. 1510 02:14:22,745 --> 02:14:24,871 I can see on your face. 1511 02:14:27,499 --> 02:14:31,627 It was the same in the eyes of the soldiers of our war. 1512 02:14:32,838 --> 02:14:33,880 We call them... 1513 02:14:37,009 --> 02:14:38,801 "The lost soldiers." 1514 02:14:43,682 --> 02:14:46,225 if you like, we can have some cognac. 1515 02:14:50,981 --> 02:14:52,231 No. 1516 02:14:53,025 --> 02:14:55,985 I'll see about my men and... 1517 02:15:03,786 --> 02:15:06,370 The war will be still here tomorrow. 1518 02:15:17,132 --> 02:15:19,175 Yeah, I guess you're right. 1519 02:15:27,184 --> 02:15:29,852 I noticed you had no wine at dinner. 1520 02:15:31,105 --> 02:15:33,773 No, I don't drink wine. 1521 02:15:37,194 --> 02:15:41,697 I do like cognac, but I don't want any now, thank you. 1522 02:15:45,327 --> 02:15:48,079 Well, then I must drink alone. 1523 02:15:58,382 --> 02:16:01,759 Will you go back, after the war, to America? 1524 02:16:05,722 --> 02:16:08,724 - No. - Then you're like us. 1525 02:16:08,976 --> 02:16:10,643 Your home is here. 1526 02:16:28,245 --> 02:16:32,165 Do you know why you can never step into the same river twice? 1527 02:16:34,418 --> 02:16:37,587 Yeah, 'cause it's always moving. 1528 02:16:39,006 --> 02:16:42,133 I used to prepare a pipe for my husband. 1529 02:16:49,433 --> 02:16:53,728 It was the morphine he took for the wounds he suffered in his heart. 1530 02:16:57,399 --> 02:17:01,027 He would rage and he would cry, my lost soldier. 1531 02:17:04,781 --> 02:17:06,449 And I said to him, 1532 02:17:07,201 --> 02:17:10,578 "There are two of you, don't you see? 1533 02:17:11,663 --> 02:17:15,291 "One that kills and one that loves." 1534 02:17:17,419 --> 02:17:19,086 And he said to me, 1535 02:17:19,963 --> 02:17:23,591 "l don't know whether I am an animal or a god." 1536 02:17:27,054 --> 02:17:28,679 But you are both. 1537 02:18:10,555 --> 02:18:12,306 You want more? 1538 02:18:18,021 --> 02:18:21,857 All that matters is that you are alive. 1539 02:18:23,527 --> 02:18:25,444 You are alive, Captain. 1540 02:18:29,741 --> 02:18:31,367 That's the truth. 1541 02:19:45,275 --> 02:19:48,778 There are two of you, don't you see? 1542 02:19:50,113 --> 02:19:54,283 One that kills and one that loves. 1543 02:20:23,647 --> 02:20:26,190 Can't see nothing. We're stopping. 1544 02:20:26,691 --> 02:20:29,068 You're not authorized to stop this boat, Chief. 1545 02:20:29,152 --> 02:20:31,987 I said I can't see a thing, Captain. I'm stopping this boat. 1546 02:20:32,739 --> 02:20:34,323 I ain't risking no more lives. 1547 02:20:34,408 --> 02:20:37,326 I'm in command here, God damn it. You'll do what I say. 1548 02:20:39,496 --> 02:20:41,664 You see anything, Chef? 1549 02:20:43,667 --> 02:20:46,001 Why don't they fucking attack, man? 1550 02:21:05,230 --> 02:21:07,356 Watch it over here, Chief. 1551 02:21:08,483 --> 02:21:10,151 Got a stump. 1552 02:21:11,570 --> 02:21:12,945 Lance, on the.50s. 1553 02:21:14,739 --> 02:21:16,532 He was close. 1554 02:21:18,577 --> 02:21:20,244 He was real close. 1555 02:21:22,539 --> 02:21:27,418 I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him, as if the boat were being sucked upriver 1556 02:21:27,502 --> 02:21:30,379 and the water was flowing back into the jungle. 1557 02:21:32,924 --> 02:21:35,342 Whatever was going to happen, 1558 02:21:35,427 --> 02:21:39,388 it wasn't gonna be the way they called it back in Nha Trang. 1559 02:21:44,060 --> 02:21:45,311 Arrows! 1560 02:21:45,395 --> 02:21:46,520 Fire! 1561 02:21:48,732 --> 02:21:49,982 Chef, open up! Fire! 1562 02:21:55,113 --> 02:21:57,072 Lance, fire! 1563 02:22:04,915 --> 02:22:08,209 Chef! Chef, it's okay. Quit firing. 1564 02:22:08,710 --> 02:22:10,294 They're just little toy arrows. 1565 02:22:10,587 --> 02:22:12,505 Cut it out! Quiet! 1566 02:22:12,756 --> 02:22:15,007 Chief, tell them to hold their fire! 1567 02:22:15,425 --> 02:22:17,760 They're just little sticks. They're just trying to scare us. 1568 02:22:18,178 --> 02:22:19,512 Quiet! 1569 02:22:20,555 --> 02:22:23,349 You got us in this mess, and now you can't get us out 1570 02:22:23,433 --> 02:22:25,351 because you don't know where the hell you're going, do you? 1571 02:22:25,936 --> 02:22:27,102 Do you? 1572 02:22:28,104 --> 02:22:30,981 You son of a bitch! You bastard! 1573 02:22:32,609 --> 02:22:34,944 - Lance, get the wheel! - Fire! 1574 02:22:35,612 --> 02:22:39,156 You savages! Come and get it, you son of a bitches! 1575 02:22:59,636 --> 02:23:01,303 A spear. 1576 02:24:20,759 --> 02:24:23,594 My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. 1577 02:24:24,220 --> 02:24:26,680 There's a Green Beret colonel up there who's gone insane 1578 02:24:26,765 --> 02:24:28,641 and I'm supposed to kill him. 1579 02:24:30,060 --> 02:24:32,728 That's fucking typical! Shit! 1580 02:24:33,104 --> 02:24:35,064 Fucking Vietnam mission! 1581 02:24:35,398 --> 02:24:39,151 I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? 1582 02:24:39,235 --> 02:24:43,072 That's fucking great! That's just fucking great, man. 1583 02:24:43,823 --> 02:24:46,700 Shit! That's fucking crazy. 1584 02:24:47,285 --> 02:24:50,245 I mean, I thought you were going in to blow up a bridge 1585 02:24:50,372 --> 02:24:53,248 or some fucking railroad tracks or something. 1586 02:24:54,250 --> 02:24:56,293 - Sorry. - No, no, wait, wait. 1587 02:24:56,378 --> 02:24:59,672 We'll go together on the boat. We'll go with you. 1588 02:24:59,756 --> 02:25:03,425 We'll go up there, but on the boat. Okay? 1589 02:26:10,493 --> 02:26:14,455 Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there. 1590 02:26:17,500 --> 02:26:21,962 I knew the risks, or imagined I knew. 1591 02:26:24,507 --> 02:26:28,677 But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, 1592 02:26:30,305 --> 02:26:32,222 was the desire to confront him. 1593 02:27:44,921 --> 02:27:46,213 Just keep moving. 1594 02:27:46,923 --> 02:27:50,592 Lance, keep your hands away from the guns. 1595 02:29:17,513 --> 02:29:20,682 It's all right! It's all right! It's all been approved! 1596 02:29:21,851 --> 02:29:25,103 I ain't coming in there! Them bastards attacked us! 1597 02:29:26,522 --> 02:29:29,775 Zap them with your siren, man. Zap them with your siren. 1598 02:29:40,203 --> 02:29:42,037 There's mines over there and mines over there, too. 1599 02:29:42,205 --> 02:29:44,665 And watch out. Those goddamn monkeys bite you, I'll tell you. 1600 02:29:45,541 --> 02:29:48,043 That's a pretty one. Move it right in toward me. 1601 02:29:49,462 --> 02:29:51,380 I'm an American. Yeah. 1602 02:29:51,673 --> 02:29:53,340 An American civilian. Hi, Yanks. 1603 02:29:54,050 --> 02:29:55,550 Hi, American. 1604 02:29:56,052 --> 02:29:57,469 American civilian. It's all right. 1605 02:29:58,221 --> 02:30:01,139 And you got the cigarettes. And that's what I've been dreaming about. 1606 02:30:02,308 --> 02:30:03,392 Chef. 1607 02:30:04,143 --> 02:30:06,812 - Who are you? - Who are you? 1608 02:30:11,109 --> 02:30:12,734 I'm a photojournalist. 1609 02:30:13,403 --> 02:30:15,404 I've covered the war since '64. 1610 02:30:15,780 --> 02:30:18,323 I've been in Laos, Cambodia and Nam. 1611 02:30:22,996 --> 02:30:25,747 I'll tell you one thing, this boat is a mess, man. 1612 02:30:26,749 --> 02:30:28,083 Who are all these people? 1613 02:30:28,167 --> 02:30:33,255 Yeah, they think you've come to take him away, 1614 02:30:33,589 --> 02:30:36,466 - and I hope that isn't true. - Take who away? 1615 02:30:38,761 --> 02:30:41,513 Him! Colonel Kurtz. 1616 02:30:42,557 --> 02:30:45,267 These are all his children, man, as far as you can see. 1617 02:30:46,561 --> 02:30:49,062 Hell, man, out here, we're all his children. 1618 02:30:49,981 --> 02:30:53,358 Could we talk to Colonel Kurtz? 1619 02:30:53,943 --> 02:30:59,614 Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. Well, you listen to him. 1620 02:31:01,117 --> 02:31:03,118 The man's enlarged my mind. 1621 02:31:03,995 --> 02:31:07,372 He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. 1622 02:31:07,457 --> 02:31:10,667 Sometimes you'll say hello to him, right, 1623 02:31:10,752 --> 02:31:13,128 and he'll just walk right by you and he won't even notice you. 1624 02:31:13,212 --> 02:31:16,715 And then suddenly he'll grab you, he'll throw you in a corner and he'll say, 1625 02:31:16,799 --> 02:31:19,885 "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in 'life'? if you can keep your head 1626 02:31:19,969 --> 02:31:21,762 "when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 1627 02:31:21,846 --> 02:31:23,305 "if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you..." 1628 02:31:24,599 --> 02:31:27,809 I'm a little man. I'm a little man. He's a great man. 1629 02:31:28,603 --> 02:31:34,357 "l should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." 1630 02:31:34,442 --> 02:31:35,984 Stay with the boat. 1631 02:31:36,903 --> 02:31:39,780 Don't go without me, okay? I wanna get a picture. 1632 02:31:42,325 --> 02:31:46,995 He can be terrible, he can be mean, and he can be right. 1633 02:31:47,997 --> 02:31:50,832 He's fighting the war. He's a great man. 1634 02:31:58,925 --> 02:32:02,135 I wish I had words, you know? I wish I had words. 1635 02:32:02,553 --> 02:32:05,097 I can tell you something, like, the other day he wanted to kill me. 1636 02:32:05,723 --> 02:32:07,933 - Something like that. - Why'd he want to kill you? 1637 02:32:08,434 --> 02:32:10,018 Because I took his picture. 1638 02:32:11,020 --> 02:32:13,313 He said, "if you take my picture again, 1639 02:32:14,690 --> 02:32:18,318 "I'm gonna kill you," and he meant it. 1640 02:32:21,072 --> 02:32:25,033 So you just lay cool. Play it cool, laid back. Dig it. 1641 02:32:25,660 --> 02:32:27,369 He gets friendly again. He really does. 1642 02:32:28,996 --> 02:32:31,373 But you don't judge the Colonel. 1643 02:32:32,291 --> 02:32:34,417 You don't judge the Colonel like an ordinary man. 1644 02:32:41,384 --> 02:32:43,385 Okay, watch it now. These are Americans. 1645 02:32:43,511 --> 02:32:44,511 Americans! 1646 02:32:44,846 --> 02:32:46,346 You can feel the vibe of this place. 1647 02:32:47,348 --> 02:32:50,767 Let me take your picture. Could you hold... Hello? Hello? 1648 02:32:50,893 --> 02:32:52,394 Could you hold up a minute? 1649 02:33:14,750 --> 02:33:15,917 Colby. 1650 02:33:32,393 --> 02:33:33,476 The heads. 1651 02:33:34,520 --> 02:33:39,733 You're looking at the heads. Sometimes he goes too far. 1652 02:33:40,610 --> 02:33:42,444 He's the first one to admit it. 1653 02:33:43,571 --> 02:33:45,822 - He's gone crazy. - Wrong, wrong! 1654 02:33:47,783 --> 02:33:50,744 if you could have heard the man just two days ago. 1655 02:33:50,828 --> 02:33:55,290 if you could have heard him then, God... You're gonna call him crazy? 1656 02:33:55,958 --> 02:33:57,334 Fucking A. 1657 02:33:58,794 --> 02:34:04,174 - I just wanna talk to him. - Well, man, he's gone away. 1658 02:34:06,052 --> 02:34:08,470 He's gone away. He disappeared out in the jungle with his people. 1659 02:34:08,554 --> 02:34:09,554 I'll wait for him. 1660 02:34:09,639 --> 02:34:13,808 He feels comfortable with his people. He forgets himself with his people. 1661 02:34:16,229 --> 02:34:18,521 - He forgets himself. - Captain? 1662 02:34:19,148 --> 02:34:23,360 - Maybe we should wait back at the boat. - Okay, Chef. 1663 02:34:23,986 --> 02:34:28,406 - We'll go back to the boat for a while. - Yeah, stay with Lance. 1664 02:34:52,056 --> 02:34:56,393 This Colonel guy, he's wacko, man. He's worse than crazy. He's evil! 1665 02:34:57,853 --> 02:34:59,479 That's what the man's got set up here! 1666 02:34:59,563 --> 02:35:02,649 Man, it's fucking Pagan idolatry. Look around you! 1667 02:35:03,401 --> 02:35:04,734 Shit, he's loco. 1668 02:35:05,278 --> 02:35:08,280 - Then you'll help me? - Help you? Fucking A, I'll help you. 1669 02:35:08,364 --> 02:35:09,781 I'll do anything to get out of this joint. 1670 02:35:09,865 --> 02:35:10,907 Good boy. 1671 02:35:11,742 --> 02:35:13,201 We could blow all them assholes away. 1672 02:35:13,286 --> 02:35:15,912 They're so fucking spaced out, they wouldn't even know it. 1673 02:35:16,831 --> 02:35:21,334 I ain't afraid of all them fucking skulls and altars and shit. 1674 02:35:23,462 --> 02:35:27,090 I used to think if I died in an evil place, 1675 02:35:27,633 --> 02:35:29,718 then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to heaven. 1676 02:35:30,678 --> 02:35:33,638 But now, fuck. 1677 02:35:35,850 --> 02:35:38,143 I don't care where it goes, as long as it ain't here. 1678 02:35:38,728 --> 02:35:41,563 So what do you wanna do? I'll kill the fuck. 1679 02:35:41,647 --> 02:35:43,273 - No, no. - Get out of here. 1680 02:35:43,524 --> 02:35:45,150 I'm gonna need you to wait here, Chef. 1681 02:35:45,901 --> 02:35:49,446 I'll go up with Lance and scrounge around, check the place out, 1682 02:35:50,072 --> 02:35:52,240 see if I can find the Colonel, okay? 1683 02:35:54,285 --> 02:35:56,661 - What do you want me to do? - Damn it. 1684 02:35:57,204 --> 02:36:03,209 Here, you take the radio, and if I don't get back by 2200 hours, 1685 02:36:06,088 --> 02:36:07,422 you call in the air strike. 1686 02:36:10,217 --> 02:36:11,593 Air strike? 1687 02:36:13,346 --> 02:36:18,016 The code is "Almighty," coordinates 0-9-2-6-4-7-1 -2. 1688 02:36:18,934 --> 02:36:20,268 It's all in there. 1689 02:36:21,937 --> 02:36:24,564 0-9-2-6-4-7-1 -2. 1690 02:36:33,449 --> 02:36:36,785 Everything I saw told me that Kurtz had gone insane. 1691 02:36:41,165 --> 02:36:46,836 The place was full of bodies. North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Cambodians. 1692 02:36:54,512 --> 02:36:57,514 If I was still alive, it was because he wanted me that way. 1693 02:37:31,966 --> 02:37:34,384 It smelled like slow death in there. 1694 02:37:35,970 --> 02:37:39,222 Malaria, nightmares. 1695 02:37:42,017 --> 02:37:44,060 This was the end of the river, all right. 1696 02:37:58,367 --> 02:37:59,784 Where are you from, Willard? 1697 02:38:05,374 --> 02:38:06,958 I'm from Ohio, sir. 1698 02:38:12,923 --> 02:38:15,550 - Were you born there? - Yes, sir. 1699 02:38:17,720 --> 02:38:20,388 - Whereabouts? - Toledo, sir. 1700 02:38:27,730 --> 02:38:29,522 How far are you from the river? 1701 02:38:36,489 --> 02:38:38,198 The Ohio River, sir? 1702 02:38:40,743 --> 02:38:42,410 About 200 miles. 1703 02:38:50,419 --> 02:38:53,379 I went down that river once when I was a kid. 1704 02:38:58,260 --> 02:39:00,970 There's a place in the river, I can't remember. 1705 02:39:01,347 --> 02:39:06,267 It must've been a gardenia plantation or a flower plantation at one time. 1706 02:39:06,602 --> 02:39:09,354 It's all wild and overgrown now, 1707 02:39:09,438 --> 02:39:15,944 but for about five miles, you'd think that heaven just fell on the Earth, 1708 02:39:17,363 --> 02:39:19,322 in the form of gardenias. 1709 02:39:35,631 --> 02:39:40,677 Have you ever considered any real freedoms? 1710 02:39:46,475 --> 02:39:49,394 Freedoms from the opinion of others? 1711 02:39:52,940 --> 02:39:54,899 Even the opinions of yourself? 1712 02:40:11,083 --> 02:40:14,669 Did they say why, Willard? 1713 02:40:16,922 --> 02:40:21,634 Why they wanted to terminate my command? 1714 02:40:37,276 --> 02:40:39,485 I was sent on a classified mission, sir. 1715 02:40:43,699 --> 02:40:47,201 No longer classified, is it? 1716 02:40:54,543 --> 02:40:55,960 What did they tell you? 1717 02:40:58,964 --> 02:41:05,261 They told me that you had gone totally insane, 1718 02:41:08,223 --> 02:41:14,562 and that your methods were unsound. 1719 02:41:18,400 --> 02:41:20,318 Are my methods unsound? 1720 02:41:26,408 --> 02:41:32,580 I don't see any method at all, sir. 1721 02:41:39,672 --> 02:41:43,299 I expected someone like you. 1722 02:41:46,679 --> 02:41:47,929 What did you expect? 1723 02:41:56,188 --> 02:41:57,772 Are you an assassin? 1724 02:42:02,653 --> 02:42:03,820 I'm a soldier. 1725 02:42:07,700 --> 02:42:09,283 You're neither. 1726 02:42:11,453 --> 02:42:16,040 You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks 1727 02:42:20,796 --> 02:42:22,463 to collect a bill. 1728 02:43:06,425 --> 02:43:12,054 Why? Why would a nice guy like you wanna kill a genius? 1729 02:43:19,021 --> 02:43:20,772 Going down pretty good, huh? 1730 02:43:21,398 --> 02:43:22,482 Why? 1731 02:43:24,193 --> 02:43:25,860 You know? 1732 02:43:26,653 --> 02:43:28,696 Do you know that the man, 1733 02:43:32,201 --> 02:43:34,202 the man really likes you? 1734 02:43:37,498 --> 02:43:43,377 He likes you. He really likes you, but he's got something in mind for you. 1735 02:43:45,047 --> 02:43:46,631 Aren't you curious about that? 1736 02:43:47,216 --> 02:43:52,678 I'm curious. I'm very curious. Are you curious? 1737 02:43:56,183 --> 02:43:58,976 There's something happening out here, man. 1738 02:44:02,397 --> 02:44:04,899 You know something, man? I know something that you don't know. 1739 02:44:05,400 --> 02:44:06,818 That's right, jack. 1740 02:44:07,110 --> 02:44:12,490 The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad. 1741 02:44:14,451 --> 02:44:15,743 Yeah. 1742 02:44:16,870 --> 02:44:20,873 He's dying, I think. He hates all this. He hates it. 1743 02:44:21,959 --> 02:44:25,837 But the man's... 1744 02:44:29,341 --> 02:44:31,843 He reads poetry out loud, all right? 1745 02:44:33,762 --> 02:44:37,431 And a voice, a voice... 1746 02:44:40,769 --> 02:44:45,106 He likes you 'cause you're still alive. He's got plans for you. 1747 02:44:45,524 --> 02:44:50,152 No, no, I'm not gonna help you. You're gonna help him, man. 1748 02:44:51,113 --> 02:44:52,572 You're gonna help him. 1749 02:44:52,948 --> 02:44:55,366 What are they gonna say, man, when he's gone? 1750 02:44:55,492 --> 02:45:00,121 'Cause he dies when it dies, man. When it dies, he dies. 1751 02:45:00,247 --> 02:45:01,289 What are they gonna say about him? 1752 02:45:01,373 --> 02:45:05,835 What are they gonna say? "He was a kind man. He was a wise man. 1753 02:45:06,086 --> 02:45:09,547 "He had plans. He had wisdom." Bullshit, man! 1754 02:45:09,965 --> 02:45:14,010 Am I gonna be the one that's gonna set them straight? Look at me. Wrong! 1755 02:45:17,806 --> 02:45:18,890 You. 1756 02:45:24,229 --> 02:45:26,147 Almost eight hours. 1757 02:45:28,692 --> 02:45:32,153 God. I'm asleep. 1758 02:45:34,072 --> 02:45:36,824 I'm asleep and dreaming I'm on this shitty boat. 1759 02:45:48,921 --> 02:45:50,004 Fuck. 1760 02:45:54,343 --> 02:45:55,927 Has it been eight hours? 1761 02:45:59,014 --> 02:46:03,684 Hello, Almighty, Almighty, this is PBR Street Gang. 1762 02:46:04,186 --> 02:46:05,353 Radio check. Over. 1763 02:46:06,355 --> 02:46:09,023 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty standing by. Over. 1764 02:47:32,607 --> 02:47:35,067 What the hell! Jesus! 1765 02:47:42,075 --> 02:47:43,826 Christ! 1766 02:49:47,826 --> 02:49:52,371 Time magazine, the weekly news magazine, 1767 02:49:53,790 --> 02:50:00,004 September 22nd, 1967, volume 90, number 12. 1768 02:50:01,131 --> 02:50:03,090 "The war on the horizon. 1769 02:50:03,383 --> 02:50:05,467 "The American people may find it hard to believe 1770 02:50:05,552 --> 02:50:08,387 "that the US is winning the war in Vietnam. 1771 02:50:09,180 --> 02:50:13,225 "Nevertheless, one of the most exhaustive inquiries 1772 02:50:13,518 --> 02:50:16,103 "into the status of the conflict yet compiled 1773 02:50:16,479 --> 02:50:19,648 "offers considerable evidence that the weight of US power, 1774 02:50:19,774 --> 02:50:24,570 "two and a half years after the big buildup began, is beginning to make itself felt. 1775 02:50:25,572 --> 02:50:29,450 "White House officials maintain the impact of that strength 1776 02:50:30,869 --> 02:50:32,953 "may bring the enemy to the point 1777 02:50:33,079 --> 02:50:36,790 "where he could simply be unable to continue fighting." 1778 02:50:39,461 --> 02:50:41,086 Is this familiar? 1779 02:50:42,339 --> 02:50:45,382 "Because Lyndon Johnson fears that the US public 1780 02:50:45,634 --> 02:50:48,969 "is in no mood to accept its optimistic conclusions, 1781 02:50:49,512 --> 02:50:52,181 "he may never permit the report to be released in full. 1782 02:50:52,265 --> 02:50:55,476 "Even so, he is sufficiently impressed with the findings 1783 02:50:55,977 --> 02:50:58,812 "and sufficiently anxious to make their conclusions known 1784 02:50:59,230 --> 02:51:01,857 "to permit experts who have been working on it 1785 02:51:02,317 --> 02:51:04,401 "to talk about it in general terms." 1786 02:51:06,446 --> 02:51:08,405 No date, Time magazine. 1787 02:51:22,212 --> 02:51:28,467 "Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over communist guerrillas in Malaya, 1788 02:51:28,635 --> 02:51:33,097 "is now a Rand Corporation consultant, recently returned to Vietnam 1789 02:51:33,181 --> 02:51:35,849 "to sound out the situation for President Nixon. 1790 02:51:37,185 --> 02:51:39,061 "He told the President last week 1791 02:51:39,145 --> 02:51:44,733 "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there." 1792 02:51:46,653 --> 02:51:48,362 How do they smell to you, soldier? 1793 02:52:01,042 --> 02:52:05,963 You'll be free. You'll be under guard. Read these at your leisure. 1794 02:52:07,215 --> 02:52:08,507 Don't lose them. 1795 02:52:08,842 --> 02:52:10,634 Don't try to escape. You'll be shot. 1796 02:52:12,929 --> 02:52:14,888 We can talk of these things later. 1797 02:55:34,255 --> 02:55:38,425 "We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men 1798 02:55:39,135 --> 02:55:44,556 "Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! 1799 02:55:46,100 --> 02:55:48,644 "Our dried voices, when We whisper together 1800 02:55:48,728 --> 02:55:52,064 "Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass 1801 02:55:53,358 --> 02:55:55,651 - "Or rats' feet over broken glass..." - He's out there. 1802 02:55:55,735 --> 02:55:57,236 "In our dry cellar..." 1803 02:55:57,862 --> 02:56:03,784 - He's really out there. - "Shape without form, shade without color, 1804 02:56:05,119 --> 02:56:09,539 "Paralyzed force, gesture without motion..." 1805 02:56:09,916 --> 02:56:11,458 Do you know what the man's saying? 1806 02:56:12,794 --> 02:56:14,503 - Do you? - "Those who have crossed..." 1807 02:56:15,129 --> 02:56:19,132 This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics. One through nine, 1808 02:56:19,467 --> 02:56:22,844 no "maybes," no "supposes," no fractions. You can't travel in space. 1809 02:56:22,929 --> 02:56:27,307 You can't go out into space, you know, without like... With fractions. 1810 02:56:27,392 --> 02:56:29,226 What are you gonna land on? One-quarter? Three-eighths? 1811 02:56:29,310 --> 02:56:31,937 What are you gonna do when you go from here to Venus or something? 1812 02:56:32,146 --> 02:56:34,064 That's dialectic physics, okay? 1813 02:56:34,148 --> 02:56:36,233 Dialectic logic is, "There's only love and hate." 1814 02:56:36,317 --> 02:56:38,360 You either love somebody or you hate them. 1815 02:56:38,820 --> 02:56:39,903 Mutt! 1816 02:56:42,240 --> 02:56:43,282 You mutt. 1817 02:56:44,325 --> 02:56:49,329 This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in, man! 1818 02:56:50,081 --> 02:56:52,082 "Not with a bang, a whimper." 1819 02:56:52,166 --> 02:56:54,501 And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, jack. 1820 02:57:24,324 --> 02:57:27,034 On the river, I thought that the minute I looked at him, 1821 02:57:27,160 --> 02:57:28,910 I'd know what to do. 1822 02:57:29,871 --> 02:57:36,543 But it didn't happen. I was in there with him for days, not under guard. 1823 02:57:37,545 --> 02:57:41,715 I was free. But he knew I wasn't going anywhere. 1824 02:57:43,176 --> 02:57:46,470 He knew more about what I was going to do than I did. 1825 02:57:53,561 --> 02:57:57,064 If the generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw, 1826 02:57:58,024 --> 02:58:00,609 would they still want me to kill him? 1827 02:58:01,861 --> 02:58:03,737 More than ever, probably. 1828 02:58:05,198 --> 02:58:07,115 And what would his people back home want, 1829 02:58:07,200 --> 02:58:10,243 if they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone? 1830 02:58:12,830 --> 02:58:16,249 He broke from them, and then he broke from himself. 1831 02:58:17,919 --> 02:58:22,089 I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart. 1832 02:58:23,091 --> 02:58:27,219 I've seen the horrors, horrors that you've seen. 1833 02:58:29,889 --> 02:58:33,809 But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. 1834 02:58:35,144 --> 02:58:41,108 You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. 1835 02:58:48,449 --> 02:58:53,453 It's impossible for words to describe 1836 02:58:55,790 --> 02:59:01,753 what is necessary to those 1837 02:59:03,464 --> 02:59:09,136 who do not know what horror means. 1838 02:59:11,597 --> 02:59:12,806 Horror. 1839 02:59:15,810 --> 02:59:18,437 Horror has a face. 1840 02:59:20,731 --> 02:59:22,858 And you must make a friend of horror. 1841 02:59:24,569 --> 02:59:29,406 Horror and moral terror are your friends. 1842 02:59:29,991 --> 02:59:34,786 if they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. 1843 02:59:36,289 --> 02:59:38,165 They are truly enemies. 1844 02:59:43,171 --> 02:59:46,006 I remember when I was with Special Forces. 1845 02:59:50,511 --> 02:59:54,431 It seems a thousand centuries ago. 1846 02:59:58,019 --> 03:00:03,857 We went into a camp to inoculate some children. 1847 03:00:08,446 --> 03:00:13,992 We'd left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio. 1848 03:00:16,454 --> 03:00:19,831 And this old man came running after us, and he was crying, he couldn't see. 1849 03:00:23,419 --> 03:00:25,962 We went back there 1850 03:00:26,047 --> 03:00:31,510 and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. 1851 03:00:33,888 --> 03:00:40,685 There they were, in a pile. A pile of little arms. 1852 03:00:42,813 --> 03:00:45,065 And I remember, 1853 03:00:48,945 --> 03:00:51,738 I cried. I wept like 1854 03:00:53,908 --> 03:00:56,576 some grandmother. 1855 03:00:58,746 --> 03:01:01,998 I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. 1856 03:01:03,751 --> 03:01:06,002 And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. 1857 03:01:06,879 --> 03:01:08,713 I never want to forget. 1858 03:01:10,383 --> 03:01:15,095 And then I realized, like I was shot, 1859 03:01:15,596 --> 03:01:17,764 like I was shot with a diamond, 1860 03:01:18,975 --> 03:01:22,102 a diamond bullet right through my forehead. 1861 03:01:24,188 --> 03:01:29,359 And I thought, "My God, the genius of that. The genius." 1862 03:01:30,778 --> 03:01:33,154 The will to do that, 1863 03:01:34,824 --> 03:01:39,286 perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. 1864 03:01:41,872 --> 03:01:43,790 And then I realized 1865 03:01:43,874 --> 03:01:47,460 they were stronger than me because they could stand it. 1866 03:01:47,545 --> 03:01:51,506 These were not monsters. These were men, trained cadres. 1867 03:01:52,967 --> 03:01:57,637 These men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, 1868 03:01:57,722 --> 03:02:01,558 who are filled with love, but they have the strength, 1869 03:02:03,311 --> 03:02:09,774 the strength to do that. 1870 03:02:10,860 --> 03:02:15,155 if I had 10 divisions of those men, 1871 03:02:16,240 --> 03:02:19,200 then our troubles here would be over very quickly. 1872 03:02:20,995 --> 03:02:25,415 You have to have men who are moral, 1873 03:02:27,752 --> 03:02:31,796 and at the same time, who are able 1874 03:02:33,424 --> 03:02:39,679 to utilize their primordial instincts to kill 1875 03:02:41,599 --> 03:02:48,188 without feeling, without passion, without judgment. Without judgment. 1876 03:02:53,694 --> 03:02:56,321 Because it's judgment that defeats us. 1877 03:03:15,800 --> 03:03:22,597 I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. 1878 03:03:25,309 --> 03:03:29,938 And if I were to be killed, Willard, 1879 03:03:31,482 --> 03:03:36,945 I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. 1880 03:03:40,241 --> 03:03:43,243 Everything I did. Everything you saw. 1881 03:03:44,995 --> 03:03:50,500 Because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. 1882 03:03:53,587 --> 03:04:00,593 And if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me. 1883 03:05:07,119 --> 03:05:09,287 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Over. 1884 03:05:11,081 --> 03:05:14,209 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. Over. 1885 03:05:16,462 --> 03:05:20,340 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. How do you copy? 1886 03:05:25,679 --> 03:05:28,473 They were gonna make me a Major for this, 1887 03:05:29,225 --> 03:05:32,352 and I wasn't even in their fucking Army anymore. 1888 03:05:34,522 --> 03:05:39,234 Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. 1889 03:05:41,195 --> 03:05:45,573 I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. 1890 03:05:48,911 --> 03:05:52,997 He just wanted to go out like a soldier. Standing up. 1891 03:05:54,333 --> 03:05:57,919 Not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. 1892 03:06:01,799 --> 03:06:04,092 Even the jungle wanted him dead, 1893 03:06:05,052 --> 03:06:07,720 and that's who he really took his orders from anyway. 1894 03:07:25,049 --> 03:07:30,261 "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders 1895 03:07:31,472 --> 03:07:36,392 "won't allow them to write 'Fuck' on their airplanes 1896 03:07:36,477 --> 03:07:39,479 "because it's obscene!" 1897 03:09:02,688 --> 03:09:09,652 The horror. 1898 03:14:32,684 --> 03:14:37,772 Calling PBR Street Gang. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. 1899 03:14:37,856 --> 03:14:39,690 Do you read me? Over. 1900 03:14:40,567 --> 03:14:42,151 PBR Street Gang. 1901 03:14:42,778 --> 03:14:44,862 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty... 1902 03:15:23,110 --> 03:15:30,324 The horror.