1 00:04:22,304 --> 00:04:24,055 Saigon. 2 00:04:25,474 --> 00:04:26,807 Shit. 3 00:04:28,602 --> 00:04:30,561 I'm still only in Saigon. 4 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:42,615 Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. 5 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:52,333 When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. 6 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:03,260 I'd wake up, and there'd be nothing. 7 00:05:11,269 --> 00:05:15,356 I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. 8 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:21,070 When I was here, I wanted to be there. 9 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:26,867 When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. 10 00:05:30,247 --> 00:05:32,123 I'm here a week now. 11 00:05:35,711 --> 00:05:37,670 Waiting for a mission. 12 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:40,297 Getting softer. 13 00:05:45,721 --> 00:05:48,806 Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. 14 00:05:49,266 --> 00:05:51,308 And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, 15 00:05:51,393 --> 00:05:53,060 he gets stronger. 16 00:05:58,108 --> 00:06:02,028 Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter. 17 00:07:41,837 --> 00:07:44,380 Everyone gets everything he wants. 18 00:07:45,423 --> 00:07:47,174 I wanted a mission. 19 00:07:48,135 --> 00:07:50,511 And for my sins, they gave me one. 20 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:54,431 Brought it up to me like room service. 21 00:07:55,350 --> 00:07:57,768 Captain Willard, are you in there? 22 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:00,104 Yeah, I'm coming. 23 00:08:00,564 --> 00:08:02,857 It was a real choice mission. 24 00:08:03,692 --> 00:08:07,444 And when it was over, I'd never want another. 25 00:08:16,163 --> 00:08:18,706 - What do you want? - Are you all right, Captain? 26 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:20,708 What does it look like? 27 00:08:29,885 --> 00:08:32,636 - Are you Captain Willard, 505th Battalion? - Affirmative. 28 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:34,263 - 173rd Airborne? - Yeah. 29 00:08:34,389 --> 00:08:37,224 - Assigned to SOG? - Hey, buddy, you gonna shut the door? 30 00:08:39,895 --> 00:08:42,479 We have orders to escort you to the airfield. 31 00:08:45,609 --> 00:08:47,484 - What are the charges? - Sir? 32 00:08:47,569 --> 00:08:48,569 What'd I do? 33 00:08:49,321 --> 00:08:50,863 There's no charges, Captain. 34 00:08:50,947 --> 00:08:54,867 You have orders to report to COMSEC Intelligence at Nha Trang. 35 00:08:56,244 --> 00:08:57,953 - I see. - All right? 36 00:08:58,038 --> 00:09:00,539 - Nha Trang for me? - That's right. 37 00:09:01,583 --> 00:09:04,168 Come on, Captain. You still have a few hours to get cleaned up. 38 00:09:04,377 --> 00:09:07,087 - I'm not feeling too good. - Captain? 39 00:09:09,132 --> 00:09:11,842 Dave, come here and give me a hand. We got a dead one. 40 00:09:11,927 --> 00:09:14,220 Come on, Captain. Let's take a shower. 41 00:09:14,346 --> 00:09:16,096 - Don't be an ass. - Get hold of him good. 42 00:09:16,181 --> 00:09:18,349 We're gonna take a shower, Captain. 43 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:20,517 - In we go. - Now stand underneath this, Captain. 44 00:09:33,281 --> 00:09:37,618 I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. 45 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:41,622 Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river 46 00:09:41,706 --> 00:09:44,708 that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable, 47 00:09:44,793 --> 00:09:46,835 plugged straight into Kurtz. 48 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,630 Insult me again and I'll kick your ass... 49 00:09:50,257 --> 00:09:52,716 It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker 50 00:09:52,801 --> 00:09:55,261 of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory 51 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,973 any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. 52 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,144 There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. 53 00:10:04,896 --> 00:10:06,897 And if his story is really a confession... 54 00:10:06,982 --> 00:10:08,148 Captain Willard reporting, sir. 55 00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:09,233 ...then so is mine. 56 00:10:09,317 --> 00:10:12,528 - Captain. Good. Come on in. - Thank you, sir. 57 00:10:12,821 --> 00:10:16,240 - Stand at ease. - General. 58 00:10:18,243 --> 00:10:20,619 Do you want a cigarette? 59 00:10:20,704 --> 00:10:22,454 No, thank you, sir. 60 00:10:23,873 --> 00:10:26,500 Captain, have you ever seen this gentleman before? 61 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:27,710 No, sir. 62 00:10:28,003 --> 00:10:30,671 - Met the General or myself? - No, sir. 63 00:10:30,922 --> 00:10:32,172 Not personally. 64 00:10:33,550 --> 00:10:35,759 You've worked a lot on your own, haven't you, Captain? 65 00:10:35,844 --> 00:10:36,969 Yes, sir, I have. 66 00:10:37,053 --> 00:10:38,512 Your report specifies Intelligence, 67 00:10:38,596 --> 00:10:40,639 Counterintelligence with COMSEC, I Corps. 68 00:10:41,099 --> 00:10:43,517 I'm not presently disposed to discuss those operations, sir. 69 00:10:53,236 --> 00:10:55,237 Did you not work for the CIA in I Corps? 70 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:58,782 No, sir. 71 00:10:58,867 --> 00:11:01,535 Did you not assassinate a government tax collector, 72 00:11:01,619 --> 00:11:04,330 Quang Tri Province, June 18, 1968? 73 00:11:07,125 --> 00:11:08,375 Captain? 74 00:11:09,961 --> 00:11:14,590 Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation, 75 00:11:16,468 --> 00:11:20,929 nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation 76 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:23,474 if it did, in fact, exist, sir. 77 00:11:35,362 --> 00:11:37,613 I thought we'd have a bite of lunch while we talk. 78 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:40,824 I hope you brought a good appetite, Captain. 79 00:11:41,451 --> 00:11:43,494 I noticed that you have 80 00:11:45,205 --> 00:11:46,914 a bad hand, there. Are you wounded? 81 00:11:47,123 --> 00:11:49,625 I had a little fishing accident on R&R, sir. 82 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:52,252 - Fishing on R&R? - Yes, sir. 83 00:11:52,670 --> 00:11:55,089 But you're feeling fit? You're ready for duty? 84 00:11:55,173 --> 00:11:57,466 Yes, General. Very much so, sir. 85 00:11:57,842 --> 00:11:59,510 Well, let's see what we have here. 86 00:11:59,594 --> 00:12:03,013 Roast beef, and usually it's not bad. 87 00:12:04,808 --> 00:12:07,309 Try some, Jerry, and pass it around. 88 00:12:07,977 --> 00:12:11,063 To save a little time, we might pass both ways. 89 00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:17,528 Captain, I don't know how you feel about this shrimp, 90 00:12:17,612 --> 00:12:19,863 but if you'll eat it, 91 00:12:19,948 --> 00:12:23,158 you'll never have to prove your courage in any other way. 92 00:12:24,202 --> 00:12:27,204 Right, well, why don't I just take a piece here? 93 00:12:28,123 --> 00:12:31,625 Captain, you've heard of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz? 94 00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:36,255 Yes, sir, I've heard the name. 95 00:12:37,048 --> 00:12:38,215 Jesus. 96 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:40,801 Operations officer, Fifth Special Forces. 97 00:12:41,302 --> 00:12:43,971 Luke, would you play that tape for the Captain, please? 98 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:47,516 - Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir. - Listen to this carefully, Captain. 99 00:12:49,644 --> 00:12:52,729 October 9, 0430 hours, sector Peter Victor King. 100 00:12:52,856 --> 00:12:54,898 These were monitored out of Cambodia. 101 00:12:56,359 --> 00:12:58,652 This has been verified as Colonel Kurtz's voice. 102 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:01,488 I watched a snail 103 00:13:02,991 --> 00:13:04,783 crawl along the edge 104 00:13:05,827 --> 00:13:07,578 of a straight razor. 105 00:13:09,164 --> 00:13:10,789 That's my dream. 106 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,751 It's my nightmare. 107 00:13:17,338 --> 00:13:19,256 Crawling, slithering 108 00:13:20,508 --> 00:13:22,176 along the edge 109 00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:27,014 of a straight razor, 110 00:13:29,267 --> 00:13:30,767 and surviving. 111 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:38,108 Transmission 11, received '68, December 30, 0500 hours. 112 00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:40,194 Sector King Zulu King. 113 00:13:41,988 --> 00:13:44,072 But we must kill them. 114 00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:46,366 We must incinerate them, 115 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,202 pig after pig, 116 00:13:49,537 --> 00:13:51,413 cow after cow, 117 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:55,209 village after village, 118 00:13:55,418 --> 00:13:57,044 army after army. 119 00:13:58,046 --> 00:14:00,339 And they call me an assassin. 120 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:05,636 What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? 121 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:07,429 They lie. 122 00:14:08,223 --> 00:14:10,516 They lie, and we have to be merciful 123 00:14:10,767 --> 00:14:12,726 for those who lie. 124 00:14:13,603 --> 00:14:16,563 Those nabobs, 125 00:14:18,650 --> 00:14:20,275 I hate them. 126 00:14:21,402 --> 00:14:23,153 I do hate them. 127 00:14:28,701 --> 00:14:31,703 Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers 128 00:14:31,788 --> 00:14:33,914 this country's ever produced. 129 00:14:34,249 --> 00:14:37,417 He was brilliant. He was outstanding in every way. 130 00:14:38,253 --> 00:14:40,796 And he was a good man, too. 131 00:14:40,922 --> 00:14:42,798 A humanitarian man. 132 00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:45,926 A man of wit and humor. 133 00:14:47,345 --> 00:14:49,471 He joined the Special Forces. 134 00:14:51,558 --> 00:14:53,350 And after that, 135 00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:58,188 his ideas, methods, 136 00:15:00,692 --> 00:15:01,942 became 137 00:15:04,404 --> 00:15:05,779 unsound. 138 00:15:11,202 --> 00:15:12,828 Unsound. 139 00:15:18,167 --> 00:15:22,754 Now he's crossed into Cambodia with this Montagnard army of his 140 00:15:22,839 --> 00:15:26,592 that worship the man like a god. 141 00:15:27,302 --> 00:15:30,804 And follow every order, however ridiculous. 142 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:36,310 Well, I have some other shocking news to tell you. 143 00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:39,354 Colonel Kurtz is about to be 144 00:15:40,273 --> 00:15:42,024 arrested for murder. 145 00:15:42,984 --> 00:15:45,902 I don't follow, sir. Murdered who? 146 00:15:46,112 --> 00:15:50,032 Kurtz had ordered the execution of some Vietnamese intelligence agents. 147 00:15:50,325 --> 00:15:52,784 Men he believed were double agents. 148 00:15:54,287 --> 00:15:56,872 So he took matters into his own hands. 149 00:15:59,125 --> 00:16:01,126 Well, you see, Willard, 150 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,296 in this war, things get 151 00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:07,674 confused out there. 152 00:16:08,551 --> 00:16:12,095 Power, ideals, the old morality, 153 00:16:12,180 --> 00:16:14,848 and practical military necessity. 154 00:16:16,851 --> 00:16:19,311 But out there with these natives, 155 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,398 it must be a temptation 156 00:16:25,234 --> 00:16:26,443 to be God. 157 00:16:30,198 --> 00:16:33,408 Because there's a conflict in every human heart 158 00:16:34,577 --> 00:16:37,371 between the rational and the irrational, 159 00:16:38,206 --> 00:16:40,082 between good and evil. 160 00:16:41,626 --> 00:16:43,960 And good does not always triumph. 161 00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:47,881 Sometimes 162 00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:51,218 the dark side 163 00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:56,264 overcomes what Lincoln called, "The better angels of our nature." 164 00:16:58,184 --> 00:17:00,602 Every man has got a breaking point. 165 00:17:01,479 --> 00:17:03,230 You and I have them. 166 00:17:04,899 --> 00:17:07,067 Walt Kurtz has reached his, 167 00:17:09,153 --> 00:17:11,780 and very obviously he has gone insane. 168 00:17:25,086 --> 00:17:28,922 Yes, sir. Very much so, sir. Obviously insane. 169 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:37,139 Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat, 170 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,935 pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, 171 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:45,272 follow it, learn what you can along the way. 172 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,191 When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team 173 00:17:48,276 --> 00:17:50,861 by whatever means available 174 00:17:51,738 --> 00:17:53,780 and terminate the Colonel's command. 175 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,497 Terminate the Colonel? 176 00:18:03,791 --> 00:18:08,003 He's out there operating without any decent restraint, 177 00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:13,800 totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. 178 00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:17,137 And he is still in the field, commanding troops. 179 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:21,975 Terminate with extreme prejudice. 180 00:18:23,686 --> 00:18:27,147 You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, 181 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:30,817 nor will it ever exist. 182 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,834 How many people had I already killed? 183 00:19:29,669 --> 00:19:32,838 There were those six that I knew about for sure. 184 00:19:33,714 --> 00:19:36,883 Close enough to blow their last breath in my face. 185 00:19:39,220 --> 00:19:44,182 But this time it was an American and an officer. 186 00:19:55,736 --> 00:20:00,073 That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. 187 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:06,162 Shit, charging a man with murder in this place 188 00:20:06,247 --> 00:20:09,833 was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. 189 00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:16,089 I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do? 190 00:20:17,967 --> 00:20:21,595 But I really didn't know what I'd do when I found him. 191 00:20:28,603 --> 00:20:30,937 Did you check the tank? 192 00:20:31,272 --> 00:20:32,731 Yeah. 193 00:20:34,442 --> 00:20:37,944 I was being ferried down the coast in a Navy PBR. 194 00:20:38,112 --> 00:20:42,407 A type of plastic patrol boat, a pretty common sight on the rivers. 195 00:20:42,742 --> 00:20:45,118 They said it was a good way to pick up information and move 196 00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:47,454 without drawing a lot of attention. 197 00:20:47,788 --> 00:20:49,456 And that was okay. 198 00:20:49,665 --> 00:20:51,875 I needed the air and the time. 199 00:20:53,127 --> 00:20:55,128 Only problem was, I wouldn't be alone. 200 00:20:55,212 --> 00:20:57,047 Morning, Captain. 201 00:20:59,425 --> 00:21:02,344 The crew were mostly just kids. 202 00:21:02,762 --> 00:21:05,805 Rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves. 203 00:21:06,849 --> 00:21:09,225 - How old are you? - Seventeen. 204 00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:14,022 The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. 205 00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:16,650 He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam. 206 00:21:17,026 --> 00:21:19,486 Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans. 207 00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:22,280 Lance, on the forward .50s, was a famous surfer 208 00:21:22,365 --> 00:21:24,699 from the beaches south of LA. 209 00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:28,411 To look at him, you wouldn't believe he'd ever fired a weapon in his life. 210 00:21:30,498 --> 00:21:34,876 Clean, Mr. Clean, was from some South Bronx shithole, 211 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,045 and I think the light and space of Vietnam 212 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:39,339 really put the zap on his head. 213 00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,636 Then there was Phillips, the Chief. 214 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:48,598 It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the Chief's boat. 215 00:21:48,683 --> 00:21:50,934 There's about two points where we can draw enough water 216 00:21:51,018 --> 00:21:53,061 to get into the Nung River. 217 00:21:53,437 --> 00:21:55,939 They're both hot, belong to Charlie. 218 00:21:57,566 --> 00:21:59,067 Don't worry about it. 219 00:21:59,902 --> 00:22:01,444 Don't smoke. 220 00:22:03,406 --> 00:22:06,533 You know, I've pulled a few special ops in here. 221 00:22:06,701 --> 00:22:08,576 About six months ago, 222 00:22:09,203 --> 00:22:12,539 I took a man who was going up past the bridge at Do Luong. 223 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:15,709 He was regular Army, too. 224 00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:20,880 I heard he shot himself in the head. 225 00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:33,059 At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier. 226 00:22:33,602 --> 00:22:36,354 I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead. 227 00:22:38,065 --> 00:22:40,859 Third-generation West Point, top of his class, 228 00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:46,573 Korea, Airborne, about 1,000 decorations, et cetera, et cetera. 229 00:22:49,994 --> 00:22:54,247 I had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the hook in me, 230 00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:58,626 but I couldn't connect up that voice with this man. 231 00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:08,595 Like they said, he had an impressive career. 232 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:11,347 Maybe too impressive. 233 00:23:12,433 --> 00:23:13,933 I mean, perfect. 234 00:23:14,977 --> 00:23:18,855 He was being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation, 235 00:23:18,939 --> 00:23:21,775 General, Chief of Staff, anything. 236 00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:28,156 In 1964, he returned from a tour with advisory command in Vietnam 237 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,283 and things started to slip. 238 00:23:30,618 --> 00:23:34,913 His report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Lyndon Johnson was restricted. 239 00:23:37,166 --> 00:23:39,000 Seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them. 240 00:23:40,795 --> 00:23:43,797 During the next few months, he made three requests for transfer 241 00:23:43,881 --> 00:23:49,135 to Airborne training, Fort Benning, Georgia, and was finally accepted. 242 00:23:51,847 --> 00:23:53,306 Airborne? 243 00:23:56,060 --> 00:23:57,811 He was 38 years old. 244 00:23:59,814 --> 00:24:01,981 Why the fuck would he do that? 245 00:24:04,318 --> 00:24:07,612 1966, joins Special Forces, 246 00:24:08,656 --> 00:24:10,114 returns Vietnam. 247 00:24:11,826 --> 00:24:13,868 - Hey, what's that? - Arc light. 248 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,871 - What's that? - B-52 strike. 249 00:24:16,956 --> 00:24:18,748 Man. 250 00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:20,208 - What's that? - Arc light. 251 00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:23,336 I hate that. Every time I hear that, something terrible happens. 252 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,421 Charlie don't never see them or hear them, man. 253 00:24:25,506 --> 00:24:27,757 - There they are. - Concussion will suck the air 254 00:24:27,842 --> 00:24:29,175 out of your damn lungs. 255 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,887 - Something terrible is gonna happen. - Smoke! 256 00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:34,722 Secondary burning. 257 00:24:34,807 --> 00:24:36,683 Hueys over there. Lots of Hueys. 258 00:24:36,767 --> 00:24:37,809 Let's have a look, Chief. 259 00:24:41,522 --> 00:24:44,065 It was the air cav, First of the Ninth. 260 00:24:44,608 --> 00:24:45,608 That's them. 261 00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:48,027 Our escorts to the mouth of the Nung River. 262 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,906 But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 km ahead. 263 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:56,744 Well, Airmobile, those boys just couldn't stay put. 264 00:25:09,216 --> 00:25:12,385 Kid, come on. Get down. Come on. 265 00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:26,149 First of the Ninth was an old cavalry division 266 00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:29,777 that had cashed in its horses for choppers and gone tear-assing around Nam 267 00:25:29,862 --> 00:25:31,654 looking for the shit. 268 00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:36,034 They'd given Charlie a few surprises in their time here. 269 00:25:36,911 --> 00:25:40,580 What they were mopping up now hadn't even happened yet an hour ago. 270 00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:44,167 Just keep running by. Run for television. 271 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:46,669 Don't look at the camera. Just keep... Go on! Keep going. 272 00:25:46,754 --> 00:25:48,338 This is for television. Don't look at the camera. 273 00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:49,505 Don't look at the camera. 274 00:25:49,590 --> 00:25:51,799 Just go by like you're fighting. Like you're fighting. 275 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,552 Don't look at the camera. It's for television. Just go through! 276 00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:57,180 Go through! Just go by! Keep on going! 277 00:25:57,264 --> 00:26:01,100 Keep going. Don't look at the camera. Go on. Keep going. 278 00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:24,707 Where can I find the CO? 279 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:27,085 That's the Colonel coming down! 280 00:26:37,554 --> 00:26:39,597 The CO's on that chopper. 281 00:27:02,663 --> 00:27:06,040 Lieutenant, bomb that tree line back about 100 yards! 282 00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:09,669 - Give me some room to breathe! - Yes, sir! 283 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,467 - Body cards! - Sir? 284 00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,678 - Bring my body cards! - Yes, sir! 285 00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:25,309 I'm the fourth tank commander. I got five tanks broken down. 286 00:27:25,394 --> 00:27:28,354 We're all right with the tanks. It's all right, Captain. 287 00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:29,897 Captain Willard! 288 00:27:29,982 --> 00:27:33,776 I carry priority papers from COMSEC Intelligence, II Corps. 289 00:27:33,861 --> 00:27:37,530 I understand Nha Trang has briefed you on the requirements of my mission. 290 00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:40,283 What mission? I haven't heard from Nha Trang. 291 00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:43,119 Sir, your unit is supposed to escort us into the Nung! 292 00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:45,121 - We'll see what we can do, but... - Colonel. 293 00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:47,040 ...just stay out of my way until this is done, Captain. 294 00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:55,798 All right, let's see what we have. Let's see what we have. 295 00:27:55,883 --> 00:27:59,927 A two of spades, three of spades, four of diamonds, 296 00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:03,723 six of clubs, eight of spades. 297 00:28:04,892 --> 00:28:07,060 There isn't one worth a jack in the whole bunch. 298 00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:08,895 Four of diamonds. 299 00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:13,816 - Hey, Captain, what's that? - Death cards! 300 00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:16,986 - What? - Death cards! 301 00:28:17,071 --> 00:28:19,739 - Death? - It lets Charlie know who did this. 302 00:28:23,577 --> 00:28:25,995 - Cheer up, son. - We will not hurt or harm you. 303 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,706 - Fire in the hole! - Fire in the hole! 304 00:28:31,085 --> 00:28:36,923 This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. 305 00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:44,055 We are here to help you. 306 00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:50,645 - We are here to extend a welcome hand... - Come on. 307 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,772 ...to those of you who would like... - Everybody in? 308 00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:56,442 ...to return to the arms of the South Vietnamese government. 309 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,570 Hurry up! 310 00:29:01,824 --> 00:29:03,157 Move it out! 311 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:08,955 This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. 312 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,290 Hey! What's this? 313 00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:13,793 What is this? 314 00:29:14,628 --> 00:29:16,879 This man's hurt pretty bad, sir. 315 00:29:16,964 --> 00:29:19,215 About the only thing that's holding his guts in, sir, 316 00:29:19,299 --> 00:29:20,800 - is that pot lid. - Yeah? 317 00:29:21,009 --> 00:29:22,510 What does he have to say? 318 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:25,263 This soldier is dirty VC. 319 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,724 He wants water. He can drink paddy water. 320 00:29:29,935 --> 00:29:32,520 Get out of here! Give me that canteen. 321 00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:35,481 - He's VC! - Any man that's brave enough to... 322 00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:38,401 Get out of here! I'll kick your fucking ass! 323 00:29:38,652 --> 00:29:39,902 He killed a lot of our people! 324 00:29:39,987 --> 00:29:42,822 Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped on him 325 00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:44,740 can drink from my canteen any day! 326 00:29:44,825 --> 00:29:48,619 Hey, Colonel, I think one of those sailors is Lance Johnson, the surfer. 327 00:29:48,704 --> 00:29:51,497 - Where? Here? You sure? - Down there. 328 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,417 Yeah? Here. 329 00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:57,753 Repeat, we have a body count. We have... 330 00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,760 - What's your name, sailor? - Gunner's Mate Third Class L. Johnson, sir! 331 00:30:04,845 --> 00:30:07,972 - Gunner's Mate Third Class... - Wait. Lance Johnson, the surfer? 332 00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:11,601 - Yes, sir. - Well, it's an honor to meet you, Lance. 333 00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:14,020 I've admired your nose riding for years. 334 00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:17,064 I like your cutback, too. I think you have the best cutback there is. 335 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:19,859 - Thank you, sir. - You can cut out the "sir" crap, Lance. 336 00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:21,944 I'm Bill Kilgore. I'm a goofy foot. 337 00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:24,030 - This guy with you? - Yeah. 338 00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:27,366 I want you to meet some guys. This is Mike from San Diego. 339 00:30:27,451 --> 00:30:29,076 - Far out. - Johnny from Malibu. 340 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:31,287 - John, hi. Far out. - Pretty solid surfers. 341 00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:33,164 None of us are anywhere near your class, though. 342 00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:34,665 No way. 343 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:38,502 We do a lot of surfing around here, Lance. I like to finish operations early, 344 00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:41,714 fly down to Vung Tau for the evening glass. 345 00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:44,175 - Been riding since you got here? - No way. 346 00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,385 I haven't surfed since I been here. 347 00:30:47,596 --> 00:30:50,681 Through Christ our Lord, from whom all good things come. 348 00:30:50,766 --> 00:30:53,601 Through him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, 349 00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:57,355 all glory and honor is yours, Almighty Father. Amen. 350 00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:01,400 Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the words our savior gave us. 351 00:31:01,944 --> 00:31:05,947 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 352 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,658 Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done 353 00:31:08,909 --> 00:31:10,868 on Earth as it is in heaven. 354 00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:13,079 Give us this day our daily bread... 355 00:31:15,249 --> 00:31:18,000 ...as we forgive those who trespass against us. 356 00:31:18,085 --> 00:31:21,545 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 357 00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:34,600 Kilgore had had a pretty good day for himself. 358 00:31:34,768 --> 00:31:37,019 They choppered in the T-bones and the beer 359 00:31:37,104 --> 00:31:39,522 and turned the LZ into a beach party. 360 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:43,442 The more they tried to make it just like home, 361 00:31:43,527 --> 00:31:46,070 the more they made everybody miss it. 362 00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:49,532 Make my meat rare, rare but not cold! 363 00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:58,165 Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. 364 00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:02,503 He loved his boys and you felt safe with him. 365 00:32:02,796 --> 00:32:06,173 He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. 366 00:32:06,258 --> 00:32:09,593 You just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here. 367 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:13,514 What happened to your mission, Captain? Nha Trang forget all about you? 368 00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:23,232 Airborne. 369 00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:28,279 Sir, two places we can get into the river... 370 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:31,073 - Yeah. ...here and here. 371 00:32:31,158 --> 00:32:33,617 It's a pretty wide delta, but these are the only two spots 372 00:32:33,702 --> 00:32:34,952 I'm really sure of. 373 00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:39,206 Well, that village you're pointing at is kind of hairy, Willard. 374 00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:41,959 - What do you mean "hairy," sir? - It's hairy, 375 00:32:42,044 --> 00:32:43,794 got some pretty heavy ordnance. 376 00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:46,672 I lost a few recon ships in there now and again. 377 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,216 What's the name of that goddamn village? Vin Drin... 378 00:32:49,593 --> 00:32:51,469 - Dop. - Dop or Lop? 379 00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:54,680 Damn gook names all sound the same. 380 00:32:56,350 --> 00:32:59,393 Mike, you know anything about this point at Vin Drin Dop? 381 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:01,270 That's a fantastic peak. 382 00:33:02,064 --> 00:33:03,981 - Peak? - About six foot. 383 00:33:04,066 --> 00:33:07,276 Yeah, it's an outstanding peak. It's got both the long right and left slide 384 00:33:07,361 --> 00:33:09,487 with a bowl section. It's unbelievable. 385 00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:11,655 It's just tube city. 386 00:33:15,327 --> 00:33:17,453 Well, why didn't you tell me that before? A good peak. 387 00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:20,081 There aren't any good peaks in this whole shitty country. 388 00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:22,124 It's all goddamn beach break. 389 00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:24,210 It's really hairy in there, sir. That's where we lost McDonald. 390 00:33:24,294 --> 00:33:25,544 They shot the hell out of us there. 391 00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:28,381 That's Charlie's point. 392 00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:32,301 Sir, we can go in there tomorrow at dawn. 393 00:33:32,386 --> 00:33:34,345 There's always a good offshore breeze in the morning. 394 00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:36,555 We may not be able to get the boat in. 395 00:33:36,765 --> 00:33:39,100 The draft at the mouth of that river may be too shallow. 396 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,479 We'll pick your boat up and put it down like a baby, right where you want it. 397 00:33:43,563 --> 00:33:46,732 This is the First of the Ninth air cav, son. Airmobile. 398 00:33:48,151 --> 00:33:50,152 I can take that point and hold it just as long as I like. 399 00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:53,406 And you can get any place up that river that suits you, young Captain. 400 00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:55,616 Hell, a six-foot peak. 401 00:33:57,702 --> 00:33:59,537 All right, take a gunship back to the division. 402 00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:01,705 Lance, go with Mike and let him pick out a board for you, 403 00:34:01,790 --> 00:34:03,541 and bring me my Yater Spoon, the 8'6". 404 00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:06,127 - I don't know, sir, it's... - What is it, soldier? 405 00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:09,046 Well, I mean, it's pretty hairy in there. It's Charlie's point. 406 00:34:09,131 --> 00:34:11,132 Charlie don't surf! 407 00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:38,117 Hey, Jesus, Clean, you ain't gonna believe this. Look. 408 00:34:39,578 --> 00:34:42,621 Hey, man! They're picking up the boat! 409 00:34:45,459 --> 00:34:49,295 - How are you feeling, Jimmy? - Like a mean motherfucker, sir! 410 00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:53,424 All right, son, let her rip. 411 00:34:53,842 --> 00:34:55,217 Let's go! 412 00:36:18,343 --> 00:36:22,137 I never have gotten used to a light board, and I can't get used to one. 413 00:36:22,222 --> 00:36:24,848 - I'm used to a heavy board. - I know, it's a real drag. 414 00:36:25,642 --> 00:36:28,394 - You prefer a heavy or a light board? - Heavier. 415 00:36:28,478 --> 00:36:29,687 - Really? - Yeah! 416 00:36:29,771 --> 00:36:31,814 I thought all the young guys like lighter boards. 417 00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:34,108 You can't ride the nose on those things. 418 00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:37,528 Big Duke Six, this is Eagle Thrust Seven. We've got it spotted. 419 00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:40,990 Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on heading 2-7-0. 420 00:36:41,074 --> 00:36:42,700 Assume attack formation. 421 00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:45,494 That's a roger, Big Duke. Okay, we're going in. 422 00:36:45,579 --> 00:36:49,498 Lance, we'll come in low out of the rising sun, 423 00:36:49,583 --> 00:36:51,625 and about a mile out, we'll put on the music. 424 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:54,420 - Music? - Yeah, I use Wagner. 425 00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:58,007 Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it. 426 00:36:58,758 --> 00:37:00,718 Hey, they're gonna play music! 427 00:37:07,684 --> 00:37:10,269 How come all you guys sit on your helmet? 428 00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:14,023 So we don't get our balls blown off. 429 00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:30,122 Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on psy war op, make it loud. 430 00:37:30,624 --> 00:37:34,001 This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we dance? 431 00:37:38,423 --> 00:37:40,090 - Jimmy! - Yes, sir! 432 00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:20,918 Run, Charlie! 433 00:40:40,522 --> 00:40:42,731 We got some... There's more and more down there. 434 00:40:42,816 --> 00:40:45,484 Look out, automatic .50-cal! .50-cal in the open! 435 00:40:45,985 --> 00:40:49,738 I've spotted a large weapon down below. We're gonna go down and check it out. 436 00:40:49,823 --> 00:40:51,990 All right, this is Fox Five. We're going in. 437 00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:06,129 - All right. What a shot. - Outstanding, Red Team. Outstanding. 438 00:41:06,214 --> 00:41:07,673 Get you a case of beer for that. 439 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,822 6-4-1-0, we're over the village right now. 440 00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:33,782 I think I see a vehicle down in the courtyard. 441 00:41:33,867 --> 00:41:37,035 - I'm gonna check it out. - Well done, hawks. Well done. 442 00:41:37,245 --> 00:41:40,372 I want some 20 Mike-Mike Vulcan right along those tree lines. 443 00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:42,291 Ripple the shit out of them. 444 00:41:42,584 --> 00:41:44,793 Got a vehicle on the bridge, .50 caliber onboard. 445 00:41:44,878 --> 00:41:47,546 He's moving across to resupply the weapon. 446 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:51,425 Big Duke Six, clear the area. I'm coming down myself. 447 00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:52,968 Don't these people ever give up? 448 00:41:57,056 --> 00:41:58,473 Nice shot, Bill. 449 00:42:00,226 --> 00:42:01,935 - Shit! - All right, all right! 450 00:42:02,061 --> 00:42:07,316 - It's just a flare! - It's a flare! Gotta get out of here! 451 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,359 Un-ass that shit. Get it out of here! 452 00:42:09,444 --> 00:42:13,238 Get it out. It's just a flare. It's all right. It's just a flare. 453 00:42:13,907 --> 00:42:16,575 - Everybody all right? Lance, you all right? - I'm fine! 454 00:42:31,591 --> 00:42:32,883 Get down! 455 00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:57,658 I'm not going! I'm not going! I'm not going! 456 00:43:12,465 --> 00:43:14,257 We just got a secondary down there in the plaza. 457 00:43:14,342 --> 00:43:17,219 Blue Three, Blue Four, hold out over position... 458 00:43:17,303 --> 00:43:20,138 Duke Six, Duke Six, we've got wounded down there. 459 00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:28,146 My God! Oh, my God! 460 00:43:29,649 --> 00:43:32,150 - Get a stretcher over here! - You're all right. 461 00:43:32,568 --> 00:43:34,444 Please! Help me! 462 00:43:37,156 --> 00:43:39,866 - Please, God! Help me! - Stay with me, son, you're gonna be okay. 463 00:43:40,576 --> 00:43:43,036 - Let's give him some morphine. - My God! My God! 464 00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:47,416 - 0-3-7-7-4-2. - Where's that duster? 465 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:50,252 I want my wounded out of there and in the hospital in 15 minutes. 466 00:43:50,336 --> 00:43:51,878 I want my men out. 467 00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:53,964 Somebody stay in there tight with Big Duke. 468 00:43:54,048 --> 00:43:58,010 This is 10-10. We're gonna be in, throw them on and get out... 469 00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:22,576 She's got a grenade! She's got a grenade! 470 00:44:25,246 --> 00:44:27,456 Jesus! The whole goddamn thing just... 471 00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:29,583 - She blew the shit out of... - Fucking savages. 472 00:44:31,753 --> 00:44:34,629 - Can I get a medevac? - What's going on... Christ, she's a sapper. 473 00:44:34,714 --> 00:44:36,798 I'm gonna get that dink bitch. Get over there, Johnny. 474 00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:38,884 Go in there. Put that right skid right up her ass. 475 00:44:42,138 --> 00:44:44,973 We gotta get some air in these trees. It's goddamn eat up with enemy down there. 476 00:44:45,058 --> 00:44:47,350 I'm taking fire. I'm taking hits all over... 477 00:44:47,435 --> 00:44:50,771 Three o'clock! Three o'clock, my position! Drawing fire, drawing heavy fire! 478 00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:54,524 I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! I'm going in. My tail rotor's out. I got control. 479 00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:06,161 - What do you think? - Wow, this is really exciting, man. 480 00:45:06,245 --> 00:45:09,664 - No, no! The waves! The waves! - Right. 481 00:45:09,749 --> 00:45:12,501 Look at that, breaks both ways. Watch. Watch. 482 00:45:13,753 --> 00:45:15,962 Look! Good six-foot swells! 483 00:45:40,279 --> 00:45:41,446 Come here, Lance. 484 00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:45,867 Incoming! 485 00:45:50,331 --> 00:45:53,500 This LZ is still pretty hot, sir. Maybe you ought to surf somewhere else. 486 00:45:53,584 --> 00:45:57,587 What do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamn New Jersey. 487 00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:01,633 Come here! Come here! 488 00:46:04,345 --> 00:46:06,888 - Change! - You mean right now, sir? 489 00:46:06,973 --> 00:46:09,766 I wanna see how rideable that stuff is. Go change. 490 00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:11,476 It's still pretty hairy out there, sir. 491 00:46:11,644 --> 00:46:13,895 - Do you wanna surf, soldier? - Yes, sir. 492 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:16,398 That's good, son, 'cause you either surf or fight. 493 00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:18,483 That clear? Now get going. 494 00:46:19,026 --> 00:46:22,154 I'll cover for them. And bring a board for Lance! 495 00:46:23,614 --> 00:46:25,532 We can't do shit until the boat gets here. 496 00:46:25,950 --> 00:46:29,452 Lance, I'll bet you can't wait to get out there. 497 00:46:29,537 --> 00:46:31,580 - What? - See how they break both ways? 498 00:46:31,664 --> 00:46:35,542 One guy can break right, one left, simultaneous. What do you think of that? 499 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:37,752 We ought to wait for the tide to come up. 500 00:46:37,837 --> 00:46:40,630 - Lance, come here. Look. Look! - Incoming! 501 00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:45,927 The tide doesn't come in for six hours! 502 00:46:47,805 --> 00:46:50,265 You wanna wait here for six hours? 503 00:46:53,769 --> 00:46:55,729 Yo! Hey! Chief! 504 00:47:03,863 --> 00:47:06,823 Okay, fellas, quit hiding. Come on! 505 00:47:07,325 --> 00:47:09,784 - Let's go, dickheads, take off! - God damn it! 506 00:47:10,036 --> 00:47:12,579 Don't you think it's a little risky for R&R? 507 00:47:12,705 --> 00:47:17,292 If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, it's safe to surf this beach! 508 00:47:17,376 --> 00:47:21,713 I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place! I'll surf this fucking place. 509 00:47:24,217 --> 00:47:26,218 Give me that RT, soldier. 510 00:47:27,929 --> 00:47:29,930 Dove Four, this is Big Duke Six. 511 00:47:30,223 --> 00:47:33,058 God damn it! I want that tree line bombed! 512 00:47:33,226 --> 00:47:35,894 Big Duke Six, roger. Dove One-Three, stand by. 513 00:47:36,103 --> 00:47:37,896 Blow them into the Stone Age, son! 514 00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:40,649 No, back, no! 515 00:47:41,442 --> 00:47:44,736 All right, now. Let me take care of this. You all right? Get that out of here! 516 00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:48,156 - I'm sorry. - Come here now. All right. 517 00:47:48,241 --> 00:47:50,659 - No, ma'am. Sorry! - Jimmy! 518 00:47:50,743 --> 00:47:52,452 Hawk One-Two, Dove One-Three, roger. 519 00:47:52,536 --> 00:47:54,496 They need some napalm down there in the tree line. 520 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,331 Can you guys push ground and put it down there? 521 00:47:56,415 --> 00:47:58,291 Right, One-Three. We're fixing to fuck with them. 522 00:47:58,376 --> 00:48:01,002 - What's the target? - We're trying to suppress some mortar fire 523 00:48:01,087 --> 00:48:02,545 off the tree line down there. 524 00:48:02,630 --> 00:48:05,340 - Roger. Here we come. - Good, give it all you got. 525 00:48:05,424 --> 00:48:07,842 Bring in all your ships. 526 00:48:07,927 --> 00:48:10,470 Medevac him in my chopper. Get him back to the hospital. 527 00:48:11,472 --> 00:48:15,558 No, no, no, you got to go with him. Come on! Go! Go! 528 00:48:15,768 --> 00:48:18,603 Get it out of here! And tell my guys I want my board! 529 00:48:18,688 --> 00:48:20,230 Big Duke Six, this is Dove One-Three. 530 00:48:20,314 --> 00:48:23,066 The jets are inbound now. You got about 30 seconds to on-station. 531 00:48:23,150 --> 00:48:25,902 Get your people back and heads down. This is gonna be a big one. 532 00:48:29,365 --> 00:48:30,782 Don't worry. 533 00:48:31,075 --> 00:48:33,368 We'll have this place cleaned up and ready in a jiffy, son. 534 00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:34,953 Don't you worry. 535 00:48:35,162 --> 00:48:36,788 Give me those shorts. 536 00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:42,460 These are from the air cav, a present from me and the boys. 537 00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:46,089 I want to see you do your stuff in them out there. Okay? 538 00:49:09,488 --> 00:49:11,031 You smell that? 539 00:49:11,532 --> 00:49:13,658 - Do you smell that? - What? 540 00:49:14,452 --> 00:49:16,202 Napalm, son. 541 00:49:16,662 --> 00:49:19,039 Nothing else in the world smells like that. 542 00:49:19,582 --> 00:49:21,458 Come on. Move it! Move it! Move it! 543 00:49:23,377 --> 00:49:25,962 I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 544 00:49:26,547 --> 00:49:29,132 You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. 545 00:49:29,216 --> 00:49:31,593 And when it was all over, I walked up. 546 00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:35,805 We didn't find one of them, not one stinking dink body. 547 00:49:38,267 --> 00:49:41,102 But the smell, you know, that gasoline smell... 548 00:49:41,187 --> 00:49:42,854 The whole hill, 549 00:49:44,023 --> 00:49:45,690 it smelled like 550 00:49:48,402 --> 00:49:49,652 victory. 551 00:49:55,034 --> 00:49:57,160 Someday this war's gonna end. 552 00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:13,635 Lance, the wind! 553 00:50:14,387 --> 00:50:15,720 - The wind! - What? 554 00:50:15,805 --> 00:50:19,307 It's blowing on shore! It's coming on shore. It's gonna blow this place out! 555 00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:22,852 - It's gonna ruin it! - Not cool! It's gonna blow out! 556 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:25,271 It's the goddamn napalm! That's what's doing it! 557 00:50:25,356 --> 00:50:28,775 I know. I'm really sorry, Colonel, but I'm afraid that does it. 558 00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:32,529 The kid's got a reputation. You can't expect him to surf those sloppy waves. 559 00:50:32,613 --> 00:50:35,115 - I understand what you're saying. - Yeah, I'm an artist, Bill. 560 00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:38,201 - I couldn't surf that stuff. - Lance, look. 561 00:50:38,452 --> 00:50:40,328 I apologize. It's not my fault. 562 00:50:40,413 --> 00:50:42,080 The waves are getting blown out by the napalm. 563 00:50:42,164 --> 00:50:43,164 Hey, Bill, don't get me wrong... 564 00:50:43,249 --> 00:50:45,208 It was the bombs causing a vortex with the wind. 565 00:50:45,334 --> 00:50:46,709 I accept your apology. 566 00:50:46,794 --> 00:50:49,337 All right, then. But if you could hang around just 20 minutes... 567 00:50:49,422 --> 00:50:51,297 - Maybe some other time, Bill. - Just 20 minutes. 568 00:50:52,299 --> 00:50:54,926 - I'm an artist! - Keep walking. 569 00:50:56,220 --> 00:50:59,681 Okay, give it a try, guys! One goes left and one goes right. 570 00:51:00,266 --> 00:51:01,433 Look, Lance. 571 00:51:01,517 --> 00:51:03,351 - You through surfing? - Yeah! 572 00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:05,311 - Want to say goodbye to the Colonel? - No. 573 00:51:05,396 --> 00:51:06,688 - You sure? - Yeah! 574 00:51:06,772 --> 00:51:09,983 - Let's get the fuck out of here! - It's the fucking napalm! 575 00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:12,277 Just wait 20 minutes! 576 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,487 Damn! Fuck! 577 00:51:14,822 --> 00:51:16,322 They're looking for you! 578 00:51:20,453 --> 00:51:22,829 - Don't leave without me! - Where the fuck you going? 579 00:51:26,417 --> 00:51:27,667 Incoming! 580 00:51:29,962 --> 00:51:33,173 - The colonel's surfboard! - Get the fuck off me! It's mine! 581 00:51:34,717 --> 00:51:38,470 - Guys, help! - Get the board and let's get out of here! 582 00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:44,184 Fucking Airborne! 583 00:52:16,008 --> 00:52:18,426 - Lance. - Chef, light up, man. 584 00:52:18,511 --> 00:52:19,886 Come on. Let's get high. 585 00:52:19,970 --> 00:52:21,930 - Want to smoke? - Let's do it, man. Light up. 586 00:52:22,014 --> 00:52:24,265 Someday this war's gonna end. 587 00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:28,102 That would be just fine with the boys on the boat. 588 00:52:28,562 --> 00:52:30,480 They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. 589 00:52:30,773 --> 00:52:32,023 Captain? 590 00:52:32,525 --> 00:52:38,154 Trouble is, I'd been back there and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. 591 00:52:42,535 --> 00:52:44,285 Buddha time, here. 592 00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:48,540 All right, that's great, you motherfuckers. Yeah. 593 00:52:53,546 --> 00:52:55,880 If that's how Kilgore fought the war, 594 00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,551 I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. 595 00:53:00,261 --> 00:53:02,720 It wasn't just insanity and murder. 596 00:53:03,222 --> 00:53:06,516 There was enough of that to go around for everyone. 597 00:53:16,902 --> 00:53:18,736 I mean, he never was hurting for pussy. 598 00:53:18,821 --> 00:53:20,280 I'm not here. 599 00:53:21,407 --> 00:53:24,534 I'm walking through the jungle gathering mangos. 600 00:53:25,452 --> 00:53:27,245 I meet Raquel Welch. 601 00:53:29,748 --> 00:53:32,250 I make a nice mango cream pudding, 602 00:53:36,005 --> 00:53:38,339 kind of spread it around on us. 603 00:53:38,591 --> 00:53:44,637 She's into mangos, too. She's, like, one limb above me. 604 00:53:45,347 --> 00:53:47,265 We're both in the jungle here, nude. 605 00:53:47,558 --> 00:53:49,183 - Hey, Chief. - Yeah? 606 00:53:49,268 --> 00:53:51,227 Here comes that Colonel guy again. 607 00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:56,065 You know how hard it is to find a board you like? 608 00:53:57,234 --> 00:54:02,530 I will not hurt or harm you. I will not hurt or harm you. 609 00:54:02,781 --> 00:54:07,869 Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board, and I like it. 610 00:54:08,871 --> 00:54:11,247 You know how hard it is to find a board you like. 611 00:54:11,832 --> 00:54:13,041 He's a determined motherfucker! 612 00:54:13,125 --> 00:54:14,667 I will not hurt or harm you. 613 00:54:14,752 --> 00:54:18,212 - Cocksucker! - I will not hurt or harm you. 614 00:54:18,589 --> 00:54:21,132 Just give me back the board, Lance. 615 00:54:21,425 --> 00:54:23,593 It was a good board, and I like it. 616 00:54:24,511 --> 00:54:27,263 You know how hard it is to find a board you like. 617 00:54:28,641 --> 00:54:31,976 - I will not hurt or harm you. - Jesus Christ. 618 00:54:32,353 --> 00:54:34,062 That guy's too fucking much, man. 619 00:54:34,146 --> 00:54:36,564 Do you think he would have shot us? 620 00:54:37,358 --> 00:54:38,483 He wouldn't have shot us on the beach, 621 00:54:38,567 --> 00:54:40,568 but I think he would have shot us if he saw me taking his board. 622 00:54:44,490 --> 00:54:45,948 Let's get this board out of my turret. 623 00:54:46,992 --> 00:54:48,201 Sucker. 624 00:54:48,702 --> 00:54:50,411 How am I going to shoot him the next time he comes around? 625 00:54:50,496 --> 00:54:52,538 Hey, Chef, make some room back there for the board. 626 00:54:56,919 --> 00:54:58,336 Sock it to me, Lance. 627 00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:05,843 I wonder if that's the same chopper. 628 00:55:05,928 --> 00:55:08,680 Hell, he's probably got them all over the river with that recording. 629 00:55:09,473 --> 00:55:11,099 We'll have to hole up here till dark, Chief. 630 00:55:11,517 --> 00:55:13,518 Don't worry, Lance. He won't follow us too far. 631 00:55:13,894 --> 00:55:15,353 What makes you say that? 632 00:55:15,688 --> 00:55:17,480 You think that big cav colonel wants everyone upriver 633 00:55:17,564 --> 00:55:19,065 to know we stole his board? 634 00:55:19,149 --> 00:55:20,525 I didn't steal it! 635 00:55:23,362 --> 00:55:27,198 Captain? Just how far up this river we going? 636 00:55:28,492 --> 00:55:30,410 It's classified, Chief. I can't tell you. 637 00:55:33,497 --> 00:55:34,914 We're going up pretty far. 638 00:55:37,543 --> 00:55:39,043 Is it gonna be hairy? 639 00:55:40,587 --> 00:55:41,713 I don't know, kid. 640 00:55:42,881 --> 00:55:44,382 Yeah, probably. 641 00:55:44,758 --> 00:55:47,885 You like it like that, Captain, when it's hot, hairy? 642 00:55:48,762 --> 00:55:49,887 Fuck. 643 00:56:00,399 --> 00:56:03,234 Never get a chance to know what the fuck you are in some factory in Ohio. 644 00:56:07,531 --> 00:56:09,907 Hey, Chief, I'm gonna go get those mangoes now, okay? 645 00:56:10,242 --> 00:56:12,326 - Take somebody with you. - Yeah, I'll take... 646 00:56:12,411 --> 00:56:14,078 I'll go with him. 647 00:56:19,793 --> 00:56:21,252 Chef? 648 00:56:21,795 --> 00:56:23,755 - Yes, sir? - How come they call you that? 649 00:56:24,715 --> 00:56:26,924 - Call me what, sir? - Chef. 650 00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:30,595 - Because you like mangos and stuff? - No, sir, I'm a real chef. 651 00:56:31,764 --> 00:56:35,057 - I'm a saucier. - Saucier? 652 00:56:35,809 --> 00:56:41,647 Yes, sir. See, I come from New Orleans. I was raised to be a saucier, 653 00:56:42,024 --> 00:56:43,608 a great saucier. 654 00:56:44,234 --> 00:56:47,612 - What's a saucier? - You specialize in sauces. 655 00:56:51,617 --> 00:56:54,202 Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere. 656 00:57:00,751 --> 00:57:05,213 Then I was supposed to go to Paris, study at the Escoffier School. 657 00:57:06,423 --> 00:57:09,550 But then I got orders for my physical. 658 00:57:22,814 --> 00:57:25,900 Hell, I joined the Navy. Heard they had better food. 659 00:57:27,277 --> 00:57:29,278 A cook school, that did it. 660 00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:33,324 - Yeah, how's that? - You don't want to hear about that. 661 00:57:36,537 --> 00:57:39,705 They lined us up in front of 100 yards of prime rib. 662 00:57:40,541 --> 00:57:43,084 All of us lined up, looking at it. 663 00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:45,836 Magnificent meat, really. 664 00:57:46,547 --> 00:57:48,339 Beautifully marbled. 665 00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:56,681 Next thing, they're throwing the meat into these big cauldrons. All of it, boiling it. 666 00:57:57,975 --> 00:58:00,351 I looked inside, man. It was turning gray. 667 00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:03,896 I couldn't fucking believe that one. 668 00:58:04,773 --> 00:58:07,984 That's when I applied for radioman school, but then they gave me the... 669 00:58:50,193 --> 00:58:51,569 What is it? 670 00:58:53,697 --> 00:58:54,905 Charlie? 671 00:59:06,084 --> 00:59:07,501 It's a tiger! 672 00:59:10,922 --> 00:59:12,882 Tiger, man! It's a tiger! 673 00:59:14,259 --> 00:59:16,594 Battle stations. Lance, up front! On the .60, Clean! 674 00:59:16,678 --> 00:59:17,928 - Got it, man. - Holy shit. 675 00:59:18,305 --> 00:59:21,849 - Chef, come on! - Fucking tiger! 676 00:59:21,933 --> 00:59:24,060 - Captain, come on! - What's happening? 677 00:59:25,228 --> 00:59:26,604 - Let's go! - Tiger! 678 00:59:27,356 --> 00:59:29,857 Chief, you were right. Never get out of the fucking boat. 679 00:59:29,941 --> 00:59:32,693 - Bring that .60 forward! - Never get out of the boat! 680 00:59:33,153 --> 00:59:38,115 Never get out of the boat! I gotta remember. Never get out of the boat. 681 00:59:40,744 --> 00:59:43,704 - What happened? How many is it? - A fucking tiger! 682 00:59:43,955 --> 00:59:45,581 - What? - A fucking tiger! 683 00:59:45,666 --> 00:59:48,125 - Tiger? - Yes! I've had it! 684 00:59:48,460 --> 00:59:51,837 I've had the whole goddamn fucking shit, man! 685 00:59:52,047 --> 00:59:56,425 You can kiss my ass on the county square, because I'm fucking bugging out. 686 00:59:56,802 --> 00:59:58,302 I didn't come here for this. 687 00:59:58,553 --> 01:00:01,055 I don't fucking need it! I don't want it. 688 01:00:01,556 --> 01:00:04,975 I didn't get out of the goddamn eighth grade for this kind of shit! 689 01:00:06,061 --> 01:00:10,856 All I wanted to do was fucking cook! I just wanted to learn to fucking cook, man! 690 01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:14,652 - It's all right. It's all right. - What happened, bro? 691 01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:18,698 You're all right. You're gonna be all right. 692 01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:21,158 - All right. It's gonna be all right. - You're all right. 693 01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:24,662 It's gonna be all right. Never get out of the fucking boat. 694 01:00:24,913 --> 01:00:26,497 Never get out of the fucking boat. 695 01:00:26,581 --> 01:00:29,834 Hi, tiger! Bye, tiger! Goodbye! 696 01:00:31,712 --> 01:00:33,796 Never get out of the boat. 697 01:00:34,256 --> 01:00:36,340 Absolutely goddamn right. 698 01:00:38,135 --> 01:00:40,511 Unless you were going all the way. 699 01:00:45,726 --> 01:00:47,643 Kurtz got off the boat. 700 01:00:49,354 --> 01:00:51,564 He split from the whole fucking program. 701 01:00:55,026 --> 01:00:59,655 How did that happen? What did he see here that first tour? 702 01:01:06,997 --> 01:01:08,789 Thirty-eight fucking years old. 703 01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:14,587 If you joined the Green Berets, there was no way you'd ever get above colonel. 704 01:01:15,839 --> 01:01:17,882 Kurtz knew what he was giving up. 705 01:01:19,801 --> 01:01:23,846 And the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him. 706 01:01:25,474 --> 01:01:27,850 His family and friends couldn't understand it, 707 01:01:27,934 --> 01:01:30,019 and they couldn't talk him out of it. 708 01:01:32,063 --> 01:01:35,441 He had to apply three times and he put up with a ton of shit. 709 01:01:35,525 --> 01:01:38,569 But when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him. 710 01:01:42,783 --> 01:01:46,035 The next youngest guy in his class was half his age. 711 01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:49,663 They must have thought he was some far-out old man, 712 01:01:49,748 --> 01:01:51,248 humping it over that course. 713 01:01:52,709 --> 01:01:55,920 I did it when I was 19 and it damn near wasted me. 714 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:03,427 A tough motherfucker. He finished it. 715 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:11,894 He could have gone for General, but he went for himself instead. 716 01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:16,899 "Dear Eva, 717 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,780 "today was really a new one. Almost got eaten alive by a fucking tiger. 718 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,201 "Really un-fucking-believable, you know? 719 01:02:27,577 --> 01:02:30,329 "We're taking this guy, Captain Willard, up the river, 720 01:02:30,455 --> 01:02:33,207 "but he hasn't told us yet where we're taking him." 721 01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:38,462 "Thought you might have heard by now from Elwood. 722 01:02:38,547 --> 01:02:41,173 - "I'll be coming home..." - October 1967, 723 01:02:41,550 --> 01:02:44,718 on special assignment, Kon Tum Province, II Corps. 724 01:02:44,845 --> 01:02:48,264 Kurtz staged Operation Archangel with combined local forces, 725 01:02:48,890 --> 01:02:50,766 rated a major success. 726 01:02:54,479 --> 01:02:58,482 He received no official clearance. He just thought it up and did it. 727 01:03:01,027 --> 01:03:02,403 What balls. 728 01:03:04,489 --> 01:03:07,449 They were gonna nail his ass to the floorboards for that one. 729 01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:11,662 But after the press got a hold of it, they promoted him to full colonel instead. 730 01:03:14,165 --> 01:03:18,878 Man, the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, 731 01:03:19,004 --> 01:03:20,838 you needed wings to stay above it. 732 01:03:49,784 --> 01:03:53,037 This sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle of this shit. 733 01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:56,206 Expecting us this time? 734 01:03:58,543 --> 01:03:59,793 Damned if I know. 735 01:04:05,592 --> 01:04:07,593 Hello. Hello... 736 01:04:07,844 --> 01:04:09,011 Jesus. 737 01:04:15,644 --> 01:04:18,479 - Everything goes back up into the truck. - What? 738 01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:20,439 We gotta get all that stuff up. 739 01:04:27,572 --> 01:04:29,365 Hau Phat. You ever been up here before, Chef? 740 01:04:29,449 --> 01:04:31,325 - Let's go! - I bet you we can score up here. 741 01:04:31,701 --> 01:04:34,203 Man, check out the bikes, Lance. 742 01:04:35,288 --> 01:04:37,998 Yamaha, Suzuki. Yeah! 743 01:04:38,083 --> 01:04:40,459 - That's a good one. - Yeah, sukiyaki. 744 01:04:41,086 --> 01:04:42,461 Yeah, man. This is something. 745 01:04:46,758 --> 01:04:48,342 - Please! - This must be the guy. 746 01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:50,052 Right over there. 747 01:04:50,804 --> 01:04:53,263 Sergeant. Sergeant? 748 01:04:59,771 --> 01:05:02,022 Three drums of diesel fuel, PBR 5. 749 01:05:02,107 --> 01:05:04,942 Come on, man! Move! We don't have time. One hour. That's all. 750 01:05:05,026 --> 01:05:07,111 - What do you want? - Can I get some Panama Red with it? 751 01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:10,072 Panama Red. Yeah, I'll get you Panama Red. 752 01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:12,866 - Sergeant? - Destination? 753 01:05:12,951 --> 01:05:14,576 - I don't have no destination. - I can't do a goddamn thing 754 01:05:14,661 --> 01:05:16,453 without a destination. You got a destination? 755 01:05:16,538 --> 01:05:17,621 - Sergeant. - I need diesel fuel. 756 01:05:17,706 --> 01:05:19,748 All right. You got a destination? I need a destination. 757 01:05:19,833 --> 01:05:21,875 I can't do a goddamn thing without a destination. 758 01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,878 Sarge, these guys are with me. Destination's classified. 759 01:05:24,963 --> 01:05:27,464 I carry priority papers from COMSEC Intelligence, II Corps. 760 01:05:27,549 --> 01:05:30,551 Okay, right, sir. Hey, listen, it's a real big night. 761 01:05:30,635 --> 01:05:31,969 Eight bucks for that... 762 01:05:34,097 --> 01:05:35,889 All right. Damn. 763 01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:39,643 - Just give him some fuel. - You got it. 764 01:05:40,478 --> 01:05:42,896 - Dog starts barking. - Hey, listen, Captain. 765 01:05:43,148 --> 01:05:46,525 I'm really sorry about tonight. It's really bad around here. 766 01:05:47,736 --> 01:05:50,612 Just take this over to the man at the supply desk and you got it. 767 01:05:50,739 --> 01:05:54,074 Hey, listen, would you guys like some seats, some press box seats for the show? 768 01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:57,036 You want those? The show, man. The show out here. 769 01:05:57,579 --> 01:05:59,872 - Bunnies. - Playboy bunnies? 770 01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,749 You got it. You gonna be here? 771 01:06:01,833 --> 01:06:06,879 Listen, Captain, on the house. No hard feelings, huh? 772 01:06:44,125 --> 01:06:48,462 How you doing out there? I said, "How you doing out there?" 773 01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:53,175 Want to say hello to you from all of us up here to all of you out there 774 01:06:53,551 --> 01:06:56,595 who worked so goddamn hard in Operation Brute Force! 775 01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,389 Hello, all you paratroopers out there! 776 01:07:00,058 --> 01:07:03,018 And the Marines! And the sailors! 777 01:07:04,229 --> 01:07:05,979 We want to let you know that we're proud of you! 778 01:07:06,064 --> 01:07:07,856 'Cause we know how tough and how hard it's been. 779 01:07:08,358 --> 01:07:09,399 Yeah! 780 01:07:09,818 --> 01:07:12,945 And to prove it, we're gonna give you some entertainment we know you're gonna like. 781 01:07:13,530 --> 01:07:16,615 Miss August, Miss Sandra Beatty. 782 01:07:18,785 --> 01:07:23,080 Miss May, Miss Terry Teray! Yeah! 783 01:07:23,623 --> 01:07:28,585 And the Playmate of the Year, Miss Carrie Foster! Yeah! 784 01:08:20,805 --> 01:08:22,139 What's the matter? 785 01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:25,184 They've got them here tonight. 786 01:08:31,191 --> 01:08:32,649 Grease my gun! 787 01:08:40,992 --> 01:08:42,951 I'm ready to... baby! 788 01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:02,054 You're cute. I like you. 789 01:09:02,639 --> 01:09:05,224 I'm here, baby! I'm here! 790 01:09:07,352 --> 01:09:08,435 Oh, my God... 791 01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:11,230 Yeah! 792 01:09:11,898 --> 01:09:13,941 You fucking bitch! 793 01:09:14,192 --> 01:09:15,234 Take it off! 794 01:09:18,363 --> 01:09:20,739 Hey, lover! You want us to come over? 795 01:09:21,282 --> 01:09:24,201 - I sure do! - Sign my centerfold! 796 01:09:26,829 --> 01:09:28,497 Sign my centerfold! 797 01:09:29,666 --> 01:09:31,959 Come on, baby! Come up here now. 798 01:09:32,043 --> 01:09:34,211 Get your goddamn hands off of my girl! 799 01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:46,723 Start her up. 800 01:09:52,063 --> 01:09:53,313 Come on! 801 01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:57,234 Will you sign these? 802 01:09:58,069 --> 01:09:59,987 Girls! Let's go! 803 01:10:18,589 --> 01:10:19,840 So long! 804 01:11:02,759 --> 01:11:04,426 Charlie didn't get much USO. 805 01:11:06,804 --> 01:11:09,556 He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. 806 01:11:14,187 --> 01:11:17,981 His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. 807 01:11:20,568 --> 01:11:26,406 He had only two ways home, death or victory. 808 01:11:38,044 --> 01:11:40,962 No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. 809 01:11:42,548 --> 01:11:45,342 The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns 810 01:11:45,426 --> 01:11:47,677 who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away. 811 01:11:50,681 --> 01:11:53,266 Man, that was far fucking out. 812 01:11:53,476 --> 01:11:56,186 I collected every picture of her since she was Miss December, Chief. 813 01:11:57,021 --> 01:11:59,272 Hey, Clean, look at that. She was here, man. 814 01:12:00,066 --> 01:12:02,859 I even wrote to the cunt. She didn't write me back. 815 01:12:03,027 --> 01:12:05,278 You can really get hung up on these broads, man, 816 01:12:05,363 --> 01:12:06,988 just like that cat in the delta. 817 01:12:07,073 --> 01:12:08,698 - Yeah, you better believe it. - What cat? 818 01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:12,202 The one that went up for murder. He was an Army sergeant. 819 01:12:12,370 --> 01:12:15,997 Remember? This cat, man, he really dug his Playboy, man. 820 01:12:16,082 --> 01:12:21,753 I mean, this cat, when the thing arrived, he was there to meet it, man. 821 01:12:21,838 --> 01:12:24,548 Look at these beautiful fucking jugs, man! 822 01:12:25,383 --> 01:12:28,051 Yeah. So anyway, he was working ARVN patrols, you know, 823 01:12:28,136 --> 01:12:31,471 had one of them cocky gook asshole lieutenants and shit. 824 01:12:31,764 --> 01:12:34,850 And one day, the gook took his magazine from him and wouldn't give it back to him. 825 01:12:34,934 --> 01:12:36,768 He said, "Give me my magazine back." 826 01:12:36,936 --> 01:12:40,939 Gook said, "You shut up. I have you court-martial." 827 01:12:41,649 --> 01:12:43,733 - Typical fucking ARVN. - Yeah. 828 01:12:43,818 --> 01:12:47,821 - So then the gook starts to go too far. - Chef, take the wheel. 829 01:12:47,905 --> 01:12:51,366 This dude started to stick pinholes in the lady's titties. 830 01:12:51,993 --> 01:12:53,034 Take the wheel. 831 01:12:53,744 --> 01:12:57,914 He started sticking pinholes and mutilating the centerfold and all kinds of shit like that. 832 01:12:58,082 --> 01:13:00,876 And the sergeant said, "You better not do that to her. 833 01:13:01,169 --> 01:13:03,462 "You leave your shitty little gook hands off of that girl. 834 01:13:03,588 --> 01:13:04,963 "Don't do her like that," right? 835 01:13:05,256 --> 01:13:09,259 - Gook say, "Fuck you," in Vietnamese. - Damn. 836 01:13:10,761 --> 01:13:13,346 The sergeant, man, he just couldn't handle it no more. 837 01:13:13,431 --> 01:13:18,602 He just picked up his iron, flipped it to rock 'n' roll and... 838 01:13:19,937 --> 01:13:23,231 Gave that little zero a long burst straight through the Playboy mag 839 01:13:23,316 --> 01:13:25,942 and blew his ass clean off of the dock. 840 01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:30,155 There wasn't no more lieutenant that day. That was it for his ass. 841 01:13:31,991 --> 01:13:35,535 - They burn him for it? - The sergeant? Yeah, man. 842 01:13:35,912 --> 01:13:37,746 They stuck his ass in the LBJ. 843 01:13:37,955 --> 01:13:41,041 It's too bad he didn't get no medals or nothing. 844 01:13:44,462 --> 01:13:47,422 Fucking ARVN, man. They should have killed the fuck. 845 01:13:49,175 --> 01:13:51,468 Should have given the fucker a Silver Star. 846 01:13:53,471 --> 01:13:55,222 Bummer for the gook, though, ain't it? 847 01:14:01,687 --> 01:14:05,357 Good morning, Vietnam. I'm Army Specialist Zack Johnson on AFVN. 848 01:14:05,483 --> 01:14:09,110 It's about 82 degrees in downtown Saigon right now, also very humid. 849 01:14:09,195 --> 01:14:11,488 And we have an important message for all Gls 850 01:14:11,572 --> 01:14:13,907 who are living off base from the Mayor of Saigon. 851 01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:14,991 Yeah! 852 01:14:15,076 --> 01:14:17,827 He'd like you to hang your laundry up indoors instead of on the windowsills. 853 01:14:18,079 --> 01:14:20,163 The Mayor wants you to keep Saigon beautiful. 854 01:14:21,332 --> 01:14:22,916 And now, here's another blast from the past 855 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,752 going out to big Sam who's all alone out there 856 01:14:25,836 --> 01:14:27,963 with the First Battalion, 35th Infantry, 857 01:14:28,047 --> 01:14:32,384 and dedicated by the fire team at An Khe to their groovy CO... 858 01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:35,053 - The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction. - All right! 859 01:14:37,056 --> 01:14:38,848 Work out, Clean! 860 01:14:39,433 --> 01:14:41,017 Get down, Bubba! 861 01:14:50,945 --> 01:14:52,362 Hang on, Lance! 862 01:14:59,412 --> 01:15:00,870 Get down, Bubba! 863 01:15:10,131 --> 01:15:11,214 Yeah! 864 01:15:20,891 --> 01:15:23,059 I see you is right on target. 865 01:15:26,314 --> 01:15:28,815 Work out! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! 866 01:15:28,899 --> 01:15:30,275 All right! 867 01:15:31,027 --> 01:15:32,402 Look out, Lance! 868 01:15:40,745 --> 01:15:44,164 "Commitment and Counter-Insurgency, by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. 869 01:15:46,167 --> 01:15:50,128 "As long as our officers and troops perform tours of duty limited to one year, 870 01:15:50,338 --> 01:15:53,423 "they will remain dilettantes in war and tourists in Vietnam. 871 01:15:56,344 --> 01:15:59,179 "As long as cold beer, hot food, rock 'n' roll 872 01:15:59,263 --> 01:16:02,015 "and all the other amenities remain the expected norm, 873 01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:04,643 "our conduct of the war will gain only impotence. 874 01:16:05,478 --> 01:16:07,103 "We need fewer men and better. 875 01:16:07,355 --> 01:16:11,608 "If they were committed, this war could be won with a fourth of our present force." 876 01:16:12,401 --> 01:16:13,777 - Shit. - Holy shit. 877 01:16:13,861 --> 01:16:16,780 Chicken time. You ain't shitting, bro. They're motherfucking... 878 01:16:19,533 --> 01:16:21,242 - Who is that? - What's going on? 879 01:16:24,121 --> 01:16:25,538 Is that you, Lazzaro? 880 01:16:41,972 --> 01:16:45,308 - Fire on the canopy! - I got it! I got it! Get out of there! 881 01:16:46,143 --> 01:16:49,437 Get out! I got it! Yeah! I got it! 882 01:16:51,315 --> 01:16:52,941 Lance, get down! 883 01:16:53,025 --> 01:16:54,734 Put that fucker out, man! 884 01:17:02,034 --> 01:17:03,785 What the fuck they think they're doing? 885 01:17:28,227 --> 01:17:31,354 Late summer, autumn 1968. 886 01:17:32,481 --> 01:17:35,734 Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming under frequent ambush. 887 01:17:36,694 --> 01:17:38,653 The camp started falling apart. 888 01:17:45,453 --> 01:17:46,703 November. 889 01:17:47,288 --> 01:17:51,040 Kurtz orders assassination of three Vietnamese men and one woman. 890 01:17:52,376 --> 01:17:55,712 Two of the men were colonels in the South Vietnamese army. 891 01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:01,760 Enemy activity in his old sector dropped off to nothing. 892 01:18:05,181 --> 01:18:07,307 Guess he must have hit the right four people. 893 01:18:10,227 --> 01:18:14,314 He joined the Special Forces. And after that, his... 894 01:18:15,900 --> 01:18:19,152 The Army tried one last time to bring him back into the fold. 895 01:18:19,236 --> 01:18:20,278 ...methods... 896 01:18:20,362 --> 01:18:23,156 And if he'd pulled over, it all would have been forgotten. 897 01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:24,282 ...unsound. 898 01:18:25,242 --> 01:18:27,911 - But he kept going... - Now he's crossed into Cambodia... 899 01:18:28,454 --> 01:18:29,829 ...and he kept winning it his way... 900 01:18:29,914 --> 01:18:31,831 ...with this Montagnard army of his... 901 01:18:31,957 --> 01:18:32,999 ...and they called me in. 902 01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:38,379 ...man like a god. And follow every order, however ridiculous. 903 01:18:41,425 --> 01:18:45,386 They lost him. He was gone. 904 01:18:47,264 --> 01:18:49,724 Nothing but rumors and random intelligence, 905 01:18:50,059 --> 01:18:51,851 mostly from captured VC. 906 01:18:53,938 --> 01:18:57,273 The VC knew his name by now, and they were scared of him. 907 01:18:58,442 --> 01:19:01,569 He and his men were playing hit and run, all the way into Cambodia. 908 01:19:07,827 --> 01:19:10,537 I know where I'm going. I'm going to the White House 909 01:19:10,621 --> 01:19:14,958 to have dinner with the President of the United States, baby. 910 01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:16,292 That's where I'm going. 911 01:19:17,419 --> 01:19:19,295 Hey, Chef, put the cover on that. 912 01:19:21,131 --> 01:19:22,298 Clean. 913 01:19:26,595 --> 01:19:30,348 - How long has that kid been on this boat? - Seven months. 914 01:19:31,433 --> 01:19:33,977 He's really specializing in busting my balls. 915 01:19:34,812 --> 01:19:36,980 Very possible, Captain, he thinks the same of you. 916 01:19:37,857 --> 01:19:40,567 Yeah? What do you think, Chief? 917 01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:42,402 I don't think. 918 01:19:43,654 --> 01:19:46,573 My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't! 919 01:19:47,741 --> 01:19:50,660 But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is. 920 01:20:01,839 --> 01:20:05,383 We're going upriver about 75 klicks above the Do Luong bridge. 921 01:20:10,014 --> 01:20:13,016 - That's Cambodia, Captain. - That's classified. 922 01:20:14,059 --> 01:20:16,978 We're not supposed to be in Cambodia, but that's where I'm going. 923 01:20:19,523 --> 01:20:22,692 You just get me close to my destination, and I'll cut you and the crew loose. 924 01:20:26,363 --> 01:20:27,864 All right, Captain. 925 01:20:49,553 --> 01:20:51,012 "Dear Son, 926 01:20:51,931 --> 01:20:53,640 "I'm afraid that both you and your mother 927 01:20:53,724 --> 01:20:56,517 "will have been worried at not hearing from me during the past weeks. 928 01:20:57,603 --> 01:21:00,063 "But my situation here has become a difficult one. 929 01:21:01,607 --> 01:21:04,359 "I have been officially accused of murder by the Army. 930 01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:14,661 "The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents. 931 01:21:15,245 --> 01:21:18,247 "We spent months uncovering them and accumulating evidence. 932 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:24,921 "When absolute proof was completed, we acted, we acted like soldiers. 933 01:21:26,465 --> 01:21:28,257 "The charges are unjustified. 934 01:21:29,051 --> 01:21:34,430 "They are, in fact, and in the circumstances of this conflict, quite completely insane. 935 01:21:45,526 --> 01:21:48,778 "In a war, there are many moments for compassion and tender action. 936 01:21:50,447 --> 01:21:54,951 "There are many moments for ruthless action, what is often called ruthless, 937 01:21:55,911 --> 01:21:58,663 "what may, in many circumstances, be only clarity. 938 01:21:59,498 --> 01:22:01,791 "Seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it." 939 01:22:01,875 --> 01:22:02,917 Medevac, come in. 940 01:22:03,002 --> 01:22:05,712 "...directly, quickly, awake..." 941 01:22:05,796 --> 01:22:07,422 Alpha Tango Tango. Echo Tango Alpha... 942 01:22:07,506 --> 01:22:09,132 - "...looking at it." ...request dust-off. 943 01:22:09,216 --> 01:22:11,050 Three, maybe four KIAs. Over. 944 01:22:11,135 --> 01:22:13,886 "I will trust you to tell your mother what you choose about this letter. 945 01:22:14,596 --> 01:22:18,182 "As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned." 946 01:22:18,267 --> 01:22:19,267 Medevac, come in. 947 01:22:20,019 --> 01:22:23,980 "I am beyond their timid, lying morality. And so I am beyond caring." 948 01:22:24,064 --> 01:22:25,648 Medevac, do you read? Over. 949 01:22:25,733 --> 01:22:29,110 "You have all my faith. Your loving father." 950 01:22:49,465 --> 01:22:50,631 Jesus. 951 01:22:50,758 --> 01:22:52,967 No wonder I couldn't get them on the radio. 952 01:22:53,677 --> 01:22:54,969 What a dump. 953 01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:01,184 - Hi, there! - How you doing? 954 01:23:01,477 --> 01:23:05,188 Wow. That's a nice little boat you got there. Never seen one up here before. 955 01:23:05,272 --> 01:23:08,649 You know, we called in a request for a medevac. You guys receive it? 956 01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:10,777 Medevac? No. 957 01:23:10,986 --> 01:23:14,405 Yeah, we passed a downed Huey with some KIAs. 958 01:23:14,531 --> 01:23:16,365 - On your way here? - Yeah. 959 01:23:16,742 --> 01:23:19,494 - You going up this river? - Way up. 960 01:23:19,953 --> 01:23:24,290 - Way upriver? Forget it. - Why? Why? 961 01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:27,210 Well, we want to send some people downriver. 962 01:23:27,294 --> 01:23:29,796 - Just forget it. - What the fuck was that? 963 01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,341 - We'll be back in a couple of days. - Yeah, right, you'll be back. 964 01:23:40,557 --> 01:23:42,308 - Chief? - Yeah, Captain? 965 01:23:42,392 --> 01:23:43,810 Why don't you see what you can do with that engine? 966 01:23:43,894 --> 01:23:45,561 - I'm gonna have a look around. - All right. 967 01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:47,688 Hey, don't leave without me. 968 01:24:10,671 --> 01:24:14,382 - Hey, soldier, where's your CO? - Don't ask me, man. 969 01:24:35,529 --> 01:24:37,780 Give me my clothes back, asshole! 970 01:24:41,368 --> 01:24:42,368 Asshole! 971 01:24:48,125 --> 01:24:50,209 Hey, guys, where's the CO? 972 01:24:51,336 --> 01:24:54,046 He stepped on a land mine about two months ago. 973 01:24:54,506 --> 01:24:57,466 - Got all blown to hell. - Who's in charge here? 974 01:24:57,551 --> 01:25:01,053 Charge? I don't know, man. I'm just the night man. 975 01:25:01,221 --> 01:25:04,765 Just doing what I'm told. Shit, I'm just a working girl. 976 01:25:04,850 --> 01:25:06,726 What about you, fella? 977 01:25:07,769 --> 01:25:10,813 Lance, man, I'm telling you it's gonna jam. You mark my words. 978 01:25:11,023 --> 01:25:13,482 - Keep it in that condition. - Hey, get off my back. Get off my back. 979 01:25:13,567 --> 01:25:15,026 - No, man, I'm telling you. - Lay off! 980 01:25:17,738 --> 01:25:20,656 Hey, hey, come here! 981 01:25:21,158 --> 01:25:23,534 Is that your boat? Come on inside. 982 01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:26,746 What do you want? 983 01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:29,498 Come on inside. I want to talk to you. Come on! 984 01:25:32,878 --> 01:25:34,295 Get out of the rain. 985 01:25:34,713 --> 01:25:35,755 Get off me! 986 01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:39,467 Come on. Cut this shit. Hey, Chef. Come on. 987 01:25:40,469 --> 01:25:43,512 Hey, how you doing, Captain? I want you to meet some people. 988 01:25:45,849 --> 01:25:50,102 - I got your ass. - Your ass is shit, Chef. Your ass is shit. 989 01:25:50,187 --> 01:25:52,021 You're a motherfucker, man. 990 01:25:56,443 --> 01:25:58,319 What a motherfucker, man! 991 01:26:00,113 --> 01:26:02,531 God damn, my ear, you motherfucker! 992 01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,787 Get him off me, Chef! You smartass. 993 01:26:09,957 --> 01:26:11,207 Hey, guys. 994 01:26:12,292 --> 01:26:14,210 I got you! I got your ass! 995 01:26:14,294 --> 01:26:17,380 - You ain't shit, Chef. - Hey, fellas. 996 01:26:19,341 --> 01:26:20,883 - You pulled my fucking... - Guys. 997 01:26:22,219 --> 01:26:24,470 I just made a deal with the people from Hau Phat. 998 01:26:25,389 --> 01:26:28,808 I negotiated two barrels of fuel for a couple of hours with the bunnies. 999 01:26:36,858 --> 01:26:38,150 Captain! 1000 01:26:38,777 --> 01:26:41,320 Hey, hey, you shitting me? 1001 01:26:41,405 --> 01:26:44,699 No, I'm not. Grab a couple of barrels and get up to that big tent. 1002 01:26:45,033 --> 01:26:46,242 Come on! 1003 01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:49,412 Captain. 1004 01:26:50,914 --> 01:26:53,624 You're giving away our fuel for a Playmate of the Month? 1005 01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:56,460 Nope. Playmate of the Year, Chief. 1006 01:26:56,878 --> 01:26:58,879 Warm them up, baby! Warm them up! 1007 01:26:59,589 --> 01:27:01,340 Warm them up. 1008 01:27:01,425 --> 01:27:04,135 Captain, we get in a firefight and run out of fuel, 1009 01:27:04,594 --> 01:27:06,262 I want you to tell me how she was. 1010 01:27:07,264 --> 01:27:10,433 I made a deal for all of us, Chief. How about you? 1011 01:27:14,938 --> 01:27:17,606 - You got some mamas in there? - Some what? 1012 01:27:20,444 --> 01:27:23,070 Forget it, Captain. I'll stay with the boat. 1013 01:27:24,489 --> 01:27:26,490 Hey, Captain, give me a hand. 1014 01:27:48,805 --> 01:27:54,185 I got every one of your pictures. I got the centerfold, the Playmates Review, 1015 01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:58,647 the Playmate of the Year runoff. I even got the calendar. 1016 01:27:58,982 --> 01:28:00,941 Hey, oiseau. 1017 01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:03,986 Wait, how come you got a bird? 1018 01:28:04,446 --> 01:28:06,614 I used to be the bird girl at Busch Gardens. 1019 01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,909 - Busch Gardens? - Yeah, I used to train birds there. 1020 01:28:14,164 --> 01:28:16,749 - You are Miss December, aren't you? - Miss May. 1021 01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:18,459 Is it coming? 1022 01:28:25,550 --> 01:28:28,386 - Miss December has black hair. - It's over there. 1023 01:28:29,179 --> 01:28:31,389 He's not one of my regular birds. 1024 01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:36,811 Come on. Come on, baby. Snack? Snatch a crack. Come here. 1025 01:28:37,354 --> 01:28:43,609 Being Playmate of the Year is the loneliest experience I can imagine. 1026 01:28:45,112 --> 01:28:50,533 It's like you try to express your feelings to someone 1027 01:28:51,910 --> 01:28:53,202 and show them your heart... 1028 01:28:53,829 --> 01:28:57,039 Yeah, I want to hear about your bird act. I'd love to hear about your bird act. 1029 01:29:02,254 --> 01:29:05,965 But would you just mind putting this black wig on for me, please? 1030 01:29:06,883 --> 01:29:11,512 And there's this glass wall between you, this invisible glass, 1031 01:29:12,139 --> 01:29:14,890 and they can see your mouth moving. 1032 01:29:15,183 --> 01:29:17,476 I used to train birds for at least two years... 1033 01:29:17,561 --> 01:29:18,811 - That's beautiful, yeah. ...at Busch Gardens. 1034 01:29:18,895 --> 01:29:21,147 This was cascading over your right shoulder, 1035 01:29:21,231 --> 01:29:22,940 and this, this was open here. 1036 01:29:23,150 --> 01:29:25,776 But they can't hear what you're saying. 1037 01:29:26,778 --> 01:29:30,990 I used to train them to stand on their head and fly upside down and ride little bicycles. 1038 01:29:31,074 --> 01:29:32,491 Your right hand was kind of over there. 1039 01:29:33,452 --> 01:29:36,370 - Hey, Chef! - Hey, come on, get out of here, man! 1040 01:29:37,247 --> 01:29:39,832 - Later! Later! - Does he want to talk to you? 1041 01:29:39,916 --> 01:29:40,958 Give me 15 minutes. 1042 01:29:41,042 --> 01:29:44,920 You can never really make them hear what you're trying to say. 1043 01:29:45,130 --> 01:29:46,922 You okay with kind of bending? 1044 01:29:47,007 --> 01:29:48,924 That's it. Yeah, your ass was sticking out just a little... 1045 01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:50,676 Hey, man, fuck off! 1046 01:29:50,886 --> 01:29:51,927 Fifteen minutes! 1047 01:29:53,221 --> 01:29:55,723 That's why I tried so desperately 1048 01:29:56,600 --> 01:30:00,436 to show somebody that I had some talent. 1049 01:30:00,604 --> 01:30:03,856 Little baby macaws. Have you ever seen a baby macaw? 1050 01:30:04,316 --> 01:30:05,733 - That's kind of... - They're all blue. 1051 01:30:05,817 --> 01:30:07,860 - Come on, man! Take off, would you? - Open up! 1052 01:30:08,570 --> 01:30:10,362 I got my rights, man! 1053 01:30:11,072 --> 01:30:13,699 They make you do things that you don't want to do. 1054 01:30:13,783 --> 01:30:17,953 Like... Like this picture here. 1055 01:30:20,499 --> 01:30:23,501 I started feeling repulsed with myself. 1056 01:30:24,586 --> 01:30:26,003 You were just kind of bending forward. 1057 01:30:26,087 --> 01:30:28,130 ...really, really cute. - Your ass, kind of out a bit. 1058 01:30:28,256 --> 01:30:30,549 - I love training birds. - That's it. 1059 01:30:30,926 --> 01:30:34,094 That's it. That's it. Voilà! 1060 01:30:35,347 --> 01:30:37,765 You're beautiful. I just want to... 1061 01:30:39,976 --> 01:30:46,023 You know, I can't believe it. Me, Jay Hicks. I can't believe I'm really here, you know? 1062 01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:50,736 Maybe I'm unfit to have a relationship 1063 01:30:50,820 --> 01:30:55,157 with a beautiful, innocent boy. 1064 01:30:55,825 --> 01:30:59,203 Just think, if it hadn't been for the Vietnam War, 1065 01:30:59,329 --> 01:31:02,873 - I never would've met you, Miss December. - Miss May. 1066 01:31:04,251 --> 01:31:09,672 I wish... I wish I could find just one person 1067 01:31:13,093 --> 01:31:15,177 that could share my point of view. 1068 01:31:22,477 --> 01:31:23,978 You kiss like a bird! 1069 01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:26,772 God! Kiss me, kiss me. 1070 01:31:27,732 --> 01:31:28,816 Who is that? 1071 01:31:29,192 --> 01:31:31,360 You're driving me crazy! Kiss me! 1072 01:31:32,862 --> 01:31:34,863 - Oh, my God. - I love birds! 1073 01:31:39,995 --> 01:31:41,036 You finished yet? 1074 01:31:42,581 --> 01:31:44,123 Holy fuck! 1075 01:31:45,625 --> 01:31:51,046 Make like a bird! Make like a bird! Fly, baby! Cockatoo me! 1076 01:31:51,381 --> 01:31:54,091 - Fly! - I can fly like an eagle! 1077 01:31:54,259 --> 01:31:56,802 - Fly like an eagle! - It drives me crazy! 1078 01:31:56,886 --> 01:31:58,637 It drives me crazy! 1079 01:32:08,440 --> 01:32:11,400 Lance, that was somebody's son. 1080 01:32:14,738 --> 01:32:19,533 Lance, there were things that they made me do 1081 01:32:19,618 --> 01:32:21,118 that I didn't want to do. 1082 01:32:21,202 --> 01:32:24,955 They said, "Pull the ribbons between your legs," 1083 01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:27,333 and I didn't want to do it, 1084 01:32:27,667 --> 01:32:31,295 but they said that was what was expected of me, 1085 01:32:31,463 --> 01:32:33,756 that that's what people wanted to see. 1086 01:32:55,945 --> 01:32:59,031 - Who are you? - I'm next, ma'am. 1087 01:33:00,950 --> 01:33:02,493 Hell, I didn't know he was a cherry. 1088 01:33:02,619 --> 01:33:05,412 - Didn't know you never got no pussy. - Shove it, fuck-up! 1089 01:33:05,497 --> 01:33:08,624 Sure sorry about that. If I had known, I'd have taken you to New Orleans... 1090 01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:11,335 - Man, fuck you. ...introduce you to cooze, Bubba! 1091 01:33:11,419 --> 01:33:14,338 - Lay off, Chef. - Cherry boy. Cherry boy. 1092 01:33:15,548 --> 01:33:17,091 You're a fucking dog! 1093 01:33:17,175 --> 01:33:20,260 Come on down to New Orleans, Bubba, and I'll get you fixed up, you prick. 1094 01:33:20,512 --> 01:33:21,553 Lay off, Chef. 1095 01:33:21,930 --> 01:33:24,348 You're the only fucking prick I see around here. 1096 01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:26,892 If I want to play with a prick, I'll play with my own! 1097 01:33:27,268 --> 01:33:29,186 - Lay off, Chef! - What are you gonna do with it, cherry boy? 1098 01:33:29,270 --> 01:33:31,271 - Fucking cherry boy! - Chef, I said lay off! 1099 01:33:31,815 --> 01:33:34,358 Chef, knock it off! Give him a break! 1100 01:33:34,609 --> 01:33:38,153 What do you think I said? And give your jaws a rest! 1101 01:33:38,905 --> 01:33:41,573 And this ain't the Army. You are a sailor! 1102 01:33:42,617 --> 01:33:46,328 So get out of that frizzly Army-looking shirt and stop smoking that dope! 1103 01:33:46,663 --> 01:33:47,663 You hear me? 1104 01:33:52,419 --> 01:33:55,003 Lance, what's with all the green paint? 1105 01:33:55,213 --> 01:33:57,047 - Camouflage. - How's that? 1106 01:33:57,715 --> 01:33:59,299 So they can't see you. They're everywhere, Chief. 1107 01:34:00,051 --> 01:34:03,053 I want you to stay awake up there, man. You got a job to do. 1108 01:34:21,990 --> 01:34:24,032 Sampan off the port bow. Sampan off the port bow. 1109 01:34:24,284 --> 01:34:26,994 Let's take a look. Lance. 1110 01:34:27,203 --> 01:34:30,247 Bring them in. Clean, on the .60. Chef, get a .16. 1111 01:34:31,332 --> 01:34:33,041 Clean, get on that .60! 1112 01:34:36,337 --> 01:34:37,379 What's up, Chief? 1113 01:34:39,716 --> 01:34:41,884 A junk boat, Captain. We're gonna take a routine check. 1114 01:34:43,052 --> 01:34:45,012 Well, let's forget routine now and let them go. 1115 01:34:45,305 --> 01:34:47,514 These boats are running supplies in this delta, Captain. 1116 01:34:47,932 --> 01:34:49,057 I'm gonna take a look. 1117 01:34:50,727 --> 01:34:52,311 Chief, my mission's got priority here. 1118 01:34:52,395 --> 01:34:54,855 Hell, you wouldn't even be in this part of the river if it wasn't for me. 1119 01:34:55,899 --> 01:34:58,567 Until we reach your destination, Captain, you're just on for the ride. 1120 01:35:00,153 --> 01:35:02,905 - Stand by, Lance. - Come on, throw the rope, asshole. 1121 01:35:03,031 --> 01:35:05,240 All right. Come on. Let's bring it over. 1122 01:35:19,297 --> 01:35:21,423 Look in that forward hooch. Bring the people out of there. 1123 01:35:28,806 --> 01:35:31,099 Come on! Hurry up, motherfucker! Move it! 1124 01:35:33,770 --> 01:35:35,938 - You two, come on. - Keep your eyes open, Clean. 1125 01:35:36,272 --> 01:35:37,481 I got you, Chief. 1126 01:35:41,861 --> 01:35:43,070 It's clear, Chief. 1127 01:35:49,494 --> 01:35:52,287 Okay, that's them. That's them. 1128 01:35:52,372 --> 01:35:53,956 - They're okay. - Board and search it. 1129 01:35:55,416 --> 01:35:57,167 It's just a fucking boat. There ain't nothing on it, Chief. 1130 01:35:57,252 --> 01:35:58,544 Board it and search it. 1131 01:35:58,628 --> 01:36:00,963 Just some baskets and some ducks, fucking bananas. 1132 01:36:01,506 --> 01:36:03,090 - Ain't nothing on it. - Don't be ashamed, Chef. 1133 01:36:03,216 --> 01:36:04,258 What's wrong with you? Go on and search it. 1134 01:36:04,342 --> 01:36:06,468 There's a goat and some fish. 1135 01:36:07,262 --> 01:36:08,679 - Chef! - Bunch of fucking vegetables. 1136 01:36:08,763 --> 01:36:11,014 - Get on that boat! - There's nothing on it, man! 1137 01:36:11,099 --> 01:36:12,641 - Get on it! - All right! 1138 01:36:13,309 --> 01:36:15,269 Move it, asshole! God damn it! 1139 01:36:15,603 --> 01:36:18,313 Just some pigs. Look, mangos. 1140 01:36:18,398 --> 01:36:20,399 - What's in the rice bag? - Fucking rice. 1141 01:36:20,483 --> 01:36:23,110 - Look in there, Chef. Look in it. - Some fucking fish. 1142 01:36:24,195 --> 01:36:26,989 More coconuts. Rice. Here's rice. 1143 01:36:28,491 --> 01:36:29,866 What's in that vegetable basket? 1144 01:36:30,493 --> 01:36:31,952 Get out of here! Come on! 1145 01:36:32,245 --> 01:36:35,205 - Get over there, God damn it. - Chef, check that vegetable basket. 1146 01:36:35,331 --> 01:36:36,748 - All right! - Shut up, slope. 1147 01:36:36,833 --> 01:36:38,750 - There ain't nothing in here. - What's in the boxes? 1148 01:36:38,835 --> 01:36:39,876 Not a fucking thing. 1149 01:36:39,961 --> 01:36:41,295 - Look in that tin can. - Nothing. 1150 01:36:41,379 --> 01:36:43,755 - That rusty can. - Just fucking rice, that's all! 1151 01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:45,048 - There ain't nothing on it! - Check the yellow can. 1152 01:36:45,133 --> 01:36:47,426 Check the yellow can. She was sitting on it. What's in it? 1153 01:36:51,889 --> 01:36:53,015 Chef! 1154 01:36:57,687 --> 01:36:58,895 Motherfuckers! 1155 01:37:08,031 --> 01:37:09,948 - Hold it! - Come on, let's kill them all. 1156 01:37:10,617 --> 01:37:13,201 - Fucking cocksucking mothers! - Hold it! Hold it! 1157 01:37:13,328 --> 01:37:15,954 Let's kill all the assholes! Shoot the shit out of all of them. 1158 01:37:16,039 --> 01:37:19,207 - Chef, hold it! - Why not? Jesus Christ. 1159 01:37:20,168 --> 01:37:22,294 Why the fuck not? 1160 01:37:23,755 --> 01:37:25,339 - Clean? - I'm good. 1161 01:37:33,890 --> 01:37:36,141 - You okay, Lance? - Shit! Fuck! Shit! 1162 01:37:36,225 --> 01:37:38,268 - Chef! - Look what she was hiding, huh? 1163 01:37:38,728 --> 01:37:41,313 - You all right? - See what she was running for? 1164 01:37:45,318 --> 01:37:49,529 It's a fucking puppy. 1165 01:37:51,199 --> 01:37:52,991 Give me that dog! 1166 01:37:53,076 --> 01:37:54,910 - No, you're not gonna get it! - Fucking give it to me! 1167 01:37:54,994 --> 01:37:56,828 Give me the fucking dog, asshole! 1168 01:37:57,246 --> 01:38:00,916 - Fuck you! Fucking mango, too! - Chef. 1169 01:38:01,542 --> 01:38:02,542 You want that? 1170 01:38:02,627 --> 01:38:04,753 Chef, she's moving behind you. She's alive. Check her out. 1171 01:38:05,755 --> 01:38:06,880 - Chef! - Yes! 1172 01:38:06,964 --> 01:38:08,674 She's moving behind you. Check her out! 1173 01:38:08,758 --> 01:38:10,425 All right. All right. 1174 01:38:10,968 --> 01:38:12,844 Come on, Clean, God damn it. Give me a hand. 1175 01:38:12,929 --> 01:38:14,805 She's not dead, she's wounded. Clean, give him a hand. 1176 01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:19,267 Just take it easy. Take it easy. Slow down and take it easy. 1177 01:38:19,936 --> 01:38:21,812 All right, Chef, just wait a minute. Wait a minute, Chef. 1178 01:38:21,896 --> 01:38:23,271 - Bring her up. - Is she breathing, Chef? 1179 01:38:23,564 --> 01:38:26,817 - She's hurt. She's bleeding. - Man. 1180 01:38:27,110 --> 01:38:29,444 Bring her on board. We're taking her to an ARVN. 1181 01:38:30,154 --> 01:38:31,238 What are you talking about? 1182 01:38:31,656 --> 01:38:33,031 We're taking her to some friendlies, Captain. 1183 01:38:33,116 --> 01:38:34,616 She's wounded, she's not dead. 1184 01:38:35,118 --> 01:38:36,910 - Get out of there, Chef. - The book says, Captain... 1185 01:38:48,464 --> 01:38:50,757 Fuck you. Fuck him. 1186 01:38:51,467 --> 01:38:53,176 I told you not to stop. Now let's go. 1187 01:39:54,363 --> 01:39:57,157 It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. 1188 01:39:58,534 --> 01:40:01,453 We'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. 1189 01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:10,879 It was a lie, and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies. 1190 01:40:13,382 --> 01:40:17,385 Those boys were never gonna look at me the same way again. 1191 01:40:18,095 --> 01:40:20,680 But I felt like I knew one or two things about Kurtz 1192 01:40:20,765 --> 01:40:22,974 that weren't in the dossier. 1193 01:40:28,022 --> 01:40:32,108 Do Luong bridge was the last Army outpost on the Nung River. 1194 01:40:36,447 --> 01:40:38,782 Beyond that, there was only Kurtz. 1195 01:40:40,910 --> 01:40:44,538 Lance! Hey, Lance, what do you think? 1196 01:40:45,122 --> 01:40:46,164 It's beautiful. 1197 01:40:48,125 --> 01:40:50,961 I mean, what's the matter with you? You're acting kind of weird. 1198 01:40:52,004 --> 01:40:54,589 Hey, you know that last tab of acid I was saving? 1199 01:40:55,007 --> 01:40:57,509 - Yeah. - I dropped it. 1200 01:40:57,677 --> 01:40:59,719 You dropped acid? Far out. 1201 01:41:12,275 --> 01:41:15,527 - Take me home. - God damn you! 1202 01:41:25,079 --> 01:41:27,122 God damn! 1203 01:41:27,456 --> 01:41:29,583 You'll get what you deserve! 1204 01:41:37,800 --> 01:41:40,552 Is there a Captain Willard onboard? 1205 01:41:40,636 --> 01:41:42,012 - Yeah! - Captain Willard? 1206 01:41:42,096 --> 01:41:44,931 - Yeah, who's that? - Lieutenant Carlsen, sir. 1207 01:41:45,016 --> 01:41:46,600 Get that light off me. 1208 01:41:48,227 --> 01:41:51,062 I was sent here from Nha Trang with these three days ago, sir. 1209 01:41:51,147 --> 01:41:54,316 Expected you here a little sooner. This is mail for the boat. 1210 01:41:54,775 --> 01:41:56,568 You don't know how happy this makes me, sir. 1211 01:41:56,652 --> 01:41:58,320 - Why? - Now I can get out of here, 1212 01:41:58,404 --> 01:41:59,988 if I can find a way. 1213 01:42:03,993 --> 01:42:06,703 You're in the asshole of the world, Captain! 1214 01:42:11,459 --> 01:42:13,251 Captain, where you going? 1215 01:42:13,336 --> 01:42:16,004 See if I can find some fuel, get some information. 1216 01:42:17,506 --> 01:42:21,426 - Pick me up on the other side of the bridge. - Somebody go with him. Chef! 1217 01:42:21,510 --> 01:42:24,346 I'll go. I wanna go. 1218 01:42:39,153 --> 01:42:40,695 You get your ass in gear. 1219 01:43:16,565 --> 01:43:19,818 Come on, man. Listen to the music, man. 1220 01:43:20,277 --> 01:43:24,155 - Where can I find the CO? - You came right to it, son of a bitch! 1221 01:43:24,240 --> 01:43:27,575 Lance! Get down here! 1222 01:43:30,538 --> 01:43:34,582 - You still got a Commanding Officer here? - Beverly Hills. 1223 01:43:34,917 --> 01:43:36,001 What? 1224 01:43:36,168 --> 01:43:40,964 Straight up the road, there's a concrete fucking bunker called Beverly Hills. 1225 01:43:41,048 --> 01:43:43,633 Where the fuck else do you think it would be? 1226 01:44:18,794 --> 01:44:21,713 - God damn it, you stepped in my face! - We thought you were dead. 1227 01:44:21,797 --> 01:44:23,631 Well, you thought wrong, damn it. 1228 01:44:27,470 --> 01:44:29,554 I told you to stop fucking with me, didn't I? 1229 01:44:29,638 --> 01:44:31,431 You think you're so bad, nigga? 1230 01:44:31,974 --> 01:44:33,349 What are you shooting at, soldier? 1231 01:44:33,434 --> 01:44:35,977 Gooks. What the fuck you think I'm shooting at? 1232 01:44:36,604 --> 01:44:38,813 I'm sorry, sir. There are gooks out there by the wire, 1233 01:44:38,898 --> 01:44:40,565 but I think I killed them all. 1234 01:44:40,649 --> 01:44:42,650 You ain't shot shit, man. Listen! 1235 01:44:44,570 --> 01:44:47,489 Shit, he's trying to call his friends, man. Send up a flare. 1236 01:44:56,123 --> 01:44:58,291 You think you're so bad, nigga? You think you bad, huh? 1237 01:44:58,375 --> 01:44:59,626 They're all dead, stupid. 1238 01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:02,170 There's one still alive underneath them bodies. 1239 01:45:02,671 --> 01:45:05,173 Who's the Commanding Officer here? 1240 01:45:05,341 --> 01:45:06,674 Ain't you? 1241 01:45:08,844 --> 01:45:12,680 You think you're so bad, huh? I got something for your ass now, nigga! 1242 01:45:12,807 --> 01:45:14,557 I got something for you now! 1243 01:45:16,811 --> 01:45:18,520 He's underneath the bodies, man. 1244 01:45:20,272 --> 01:45:22,774 - Go get the roach, man. - Go get the roach, man. 1245 01:45:22,858 --> 01:45:26,319 - Go get the roach, nigga! - I'm gonna go get the roach. 1246 01:45:30,658 --> 01:45:34,244 Roach. Roach. Roach. 1247 01:45:35,037 --> 01:45:37,664 Got slopes on the wire, man. Do you hear them? 1248 01:45:37,832 --> 01:45:40,500 - Lance! - Do you hear them? 1249 01:45:45,047 --> 01:45:46,506 Go bust them! 1250 01:45:49,426 --> 01:45:52,387 Hey, GI, fuck you! 1251 01:46:01,814 --> 01:46:04,065 You hear him out there on the wire, man? 1252 01:46:04,900 --> 01:46:08,194 - Yeah. - I'll kill you, GI! 1253 01:46:08,279 --> 01:46:09,362 You need a flare? 1254 01:46:11,365 --> 01:46:12,615 No. 1255 01:46:13,993 --> 01:46:15,827 He's close, man. 1256 01:46:16,537 --> 01:46:18,413 He's real close. 1257 01:46:40,269 --> 01:46:47,525 GI, fuck you! 1258 01:46:52,865 --> 01:46:54,324 Motherfucker. 1259 01:46:55,451 --> 01:46:57,368 Hey, soldier, 1260 01:47:01,332 --> 01:47:03,291 do you know who's in command here? 1261 01:47:06,086 --> 01:47:07,170 Yeah. 1262 01:47:22,311 --> 01:47:23,811 Shit! 1263 01:47:28,317 --> 01:47:31,611 Yo, Chief, man, two guys just got blown off that bridge. 1264 01:47:31,695 --> 01:47:34,239 You hang on, man. You're gonna be okay. 1265 01:47:38,494 --> 01:47:40,328 - What's that? - Mail, man. 1266 01:47:40,412 --> 01:47:43,081 Later on the mail! Watch them trees. 1267 01:47:45,417 --> 01:47:47,961 There's no diesel fuel, but I picked up some ammo. 1268 01:47:48,087 --> 01:47:49,671 Let's move out. 1269 01:47:49,755 --> 01:47:54,300 - Did you find the CO, Captain? - There's no fucking CO here. 1270 01:47:55,803 --> 01:47:59,472 - Let's just get going. - Which way, Captain? 1271 01:48:05,562 --> 01:48:07,563 You know which way, Chief. 1272 01:48:08,357 --> 01:48:10,149 You're on your own, Captain. 1273 01:48:11,568 --> 01:48:12,860 Do you wanna go on? 1274 01:48:13,362 --> 01:48:17,573 Like this bridge, we build it every night, Charlie blows it right back up again 1275 01:48:17,658 --> 01:48:20,326 just so the generals can say the road's open. 1276 01:48:20,869 --> 01:48:22,370 Think about it. 1277 01:48:25,457 --> 01:48:27,875 - Who cares? - Just get us upriver! 1278 01:48:32,381 --> 01:48:34,757 Chef, on the bow. 1279 01:48:35,926 --> 01:48:37,802 - Stand by, Clean. - Let's go. 1280 01:49:34,568 --> 01:49:36,027 Whose package is that? 1281 01:49:36,278 --> 01:49:40,448 - Shit, you got another one, Clean. - No shit. Wait a minute, is that it? 1282 01:49:40,783 --> 01:49:42,492 - That's it for you. - Lance! 1283 01:49:43,327 --> 01:49:45,620 Mr. L.B. Johnson, there you go. 1284 01:49:47,164 --> 01:49:50,124 Far out, man. All right. I've been waiting for this one. 1285 01:49:50,209 --> 01:49:52,877 I got another one, got a box from Eva. 1286 01:49:53,754 --> 01:49:56,297 "Lance, I'm fine. I'm fine, Lance. 1287 01:49:56,673 --> 01:50:00,468 "Sue and I went tripping to Disneyland. Sue skinned her knee." 1288 01:50:00,636 --> 01:50:03,638 - Man, I want to get back to Antoine's. - "Of course I remember the time we went..." 1289 01:50:03,722 --> 01:50:06,307 How could I fucking forget, man? Beautiful. 1290 01:50:07,393 --> 01:50:09,936 "There could never be a place like Disneyland, or could there? 1291 01:50:10,020 --> 01:50:11,270 "Let me know." 1292 01:50:11,355 --> 01:50:14,816 Jim, it's here. It really is here. 1293 01:50:19,321 --> 01:50:21,656 "There has been a new development regarding your mission 1294 01:50:21,740 --> 01:50:24,117 "which we must now communicate to you. 1295 01:50:24,201 --> 01:50:26,202 "Months ago, a man was ordered on a mission 1296 01:50:26,328 --> 01:50:27,870 "which was identical to yours. 1297 01:50:28,539 --> 01:50:32,166 "We have reason to believe that he is now operating with Colonel Kurtz. 1298 01:50:34,002 --> 01:50:37,630 "Saigon was carrying him MIA for his family's sake. 1299 01:50:37,840 --> 01:50:39,841 "They assumed he was dead. 1300 01:50:40,259 --> 01:50:43,344 "Then they intercepted a letter he tried to send to his wife." 1301 01:50:47,641 --> 01:50:49,684 Captain Richard Colby, 1302 01:50:51,603 --> 01:50:53,271 he was with Kurtz. 1303 01:50:54,690 --> 01:50:55,857 Disneyland. 1304 01:50:56,733 --> 01:50:59,360 Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland. 1305 01:50:59,695 --> 01:51:02,655 "Charles Miller Manson ordered the slaughter 1306 01:51:02,739 --> 01:51:06,033 "of all in the home anyway as a symbol of protest." 1307 01:51:06,118 --> 01:51:07,201 That's really weird, ain't it? 1308 01:51:08,787 --> 01:51:11,497 - Purple haze, look. - Hey, Lance, put away that smoke. 1309 01:51:11,874 --> 01:51:15,334 - I got a tape from my mom. - Chief, rainbow reality, man. 1310 01:51:15,586 --> 01:51:17,712 Hey, Chief, get a good whiff. 1311 01:51:18,046 --> 01:51:20,882 Eva can't picture me in Vietnam. 1312 01:51:21,717 --> 01:51:24,510 She pictures me at home having a beer and watching TV. 1313 01:51:26,472 --> 01:51:27,805 Hey, Lance, man. 1314 01:51:28,474 --> 01:51:30,183 Hot potato! Hot potato! 1315 01:51:30,976 --> 01:51:32,768 I'm so glad you decided to join... 1316 01:51:32,853 --> 01:51:35,813 Eva's not sure if she can have a relationship with me, you know? 1317 01:51:36,773 --> 01:51:42,403 Here I am, 13,000 fucking miles away, trying to keep a relationship open, my ass. 1318 01:51:43,030 --> 01:51:46,115 That's much more than I can say for some of your friends. 1319 01:51:46,533 --> 01:51:50,036 If this tape is any good, I will have Dad and the family 1320 01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:53,080 - send you a tape of their own... - Hey, Lance. 1321 01:52:11,850 --> 01:52:12,975 There! Over there! 1322 01:52:15,562 --> 01:52:18,022 Motherfuckers! 1323 01:52:28,575 --> 01:52:30,034 There! Over there! 1324 01:52:33,664 --> 01:52:35,581 Lance! Chef! 1325 01:52:39,211 --> 01:52:44,090 - Chef, Chef, check out Clean! - Captain, he's hit, he's hit! Clean's hit! 1326 01:52:44,633 --> 01:52:46,384 - Lance! - Where'd the dog go? 1327 01:52:46,468 --> 01:52:49,303 Lance. Lance, check out Clean! 1328 01:52:49,763 --> 01:52:52,765 Where's the dog? We got to go back to get the dog! 1329 01:52:52,849 --> 01:52:56,435 - Hey, Clean. - It's always been nice to have... 1330 01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:58,688 Hey, Bubba! 1331 01:52:58,981 --> 01:53:03,150 Bubba, you can't die, you fucker! 1332 01:53:03,151 --> 01:53:05,820 - And so, I'm hoping... - Bubba! 1333 01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:10,783 ...that pretty soon, not too soon, but pretty soon, 1334 01:53:10,867 --> 01:53:14,579 I'll have a lot of grandchildren to love and spoil, 1335 01:53:15,163 --> 01:53:18,124 and then when your wife get them back, she'll be mad with me. 1336 01:53:20,544 --> 01:53:25,840 Even Aunt Jessie and Mama will come to celebrate your coming home. 1337 01:53:26,341 --> 01:53:28,509 Granny and Dad are trying to get enough money 1338 01:53:28,594 --> 01:53:29,885 to get you a car. 1339 01:53:29,970 --> 01:53:33,514 But don't tell her, because that's our secret. 1340 01:53:34,891 --> 01:53:39,687 Anyhow, do the right thing, stay out of the way of the bullets, 1341 01:53:40,230 --> 01:53:44,191 and bring your heinie home all in one piece 1342 01:53:44,276 --> 01:53:48,487 because we love you very much. Love, Mama. 1343 01:53:56,872 --> 01:54:00,207 Oh, man. You're so young. 1344 01:54:07,883 --> 01:54:09,550 Clean. 1345 01:55:22,416 --> 01:55:23,624 Hold on. 1346 01:55:26,461 --> 01:55:28,254 Throw me the glasses. 1347 01:55:40,559 --> 01:55:43,519 Lance, take the .16 on the bow. 1348 01:55:45,939 --> 01:55:49,191 Chef, Chef, on the .60. 1349 01:56:11,882 --> 01:56:13,132 Fuck me. 1350 01:56:50,879 --> 01:56:52,046 Lance. 1351 01:57:21,910 --> 01:57:25,746 Cover the Captain. Lance, cover the Captain. 1352 01:57:43,723 --> 01:57:45,432 They're French. They're French. 1353 01:57:46,977 --> 01:57:50,062 Chef, pick up that weapon! Pick it up! Pick it up! 1354 01:57:50,272 --> 01:57:52,106 Stand fast! Captain... 1355 01:58:27,517 --> 01:58:29,643 All right, you men, put down your weapons. 1356 01:59:18,693 --> 01:59:20,069 New Orleans. 1357 01:59:24,783 --> 01:59:26,617 We lost one of our men. 1358 01:59:30,330 --> 01:59:35,334 We French always pay respects to the dead of our allies. 1359 01:59:37,045 --> 01:59:38,837 You are all welcome. 1360 01:59:41,591 --> 01:59:43,717 My name is Hubert de Marais. 1361 01:59:45,220 --> 01:59:47,471 This is my family's plantation. 1362 01:59:48,390 --> 01:59:50,557 It has been such for 70 years. 1363 01:59:52,560 --> 01:59:55,312 And it will be such until we are all dead. 1364 02:02:07,445 --> 02:02:12,908 Captain, accept the flag of Tyrone Miller on behalf of a grateful nation. 1365 02:02:33,263 --> 02:02:37,808 This food is really wonderful, isn't it? The wine, the sauces. I can't believe it. 1366 02:02:37,892 --> 02:02:39,852 Can I speak with the chef? 1367 02:02:40,061 --> 02:02:42,020 The chef speaks only Vietnamese. 1368 02:02:42,355 --> 02:02:46,316 No kidding. He cooks like this and he can't even speak French? 1369 02:02:46,401 --> 02:02:49,069 Hey, Lance, the chef's a slope. 1370 02:02:51,406 --> 02:02:52,906 Hey, Lance. 1371 02:03:21,686 --> 02:03:23,312 This is Baudelaire. 1372 02:03:23,396 --> 02:03:26,481 It's a very cruel poem for children, but they need it, 1373 02:03:26,566 --> 02:03:29,234 because life sometimes is very cruel. 1374 02:03:31,070 --> 02:03:32,696 As you can see... 1375 02:03:36,034 --> 02:03:39,870 - Attacks repelled by the family. - Just for this war. 1376 02:03:40,371 --> 02:03:42,915 Viet Cong, 58. 1377 02:03:43,124 --> 02:03:44,958 North Vietnamese, 12. 1378 02:03:45,668 --> 02:03:47,544 South Vietnamese, 11. 1379 02:03:48,463 --> 02:03:50,255 Americans, six. 1380 02:03:51,799 --> 02:03:54,635 Yes, well, they were perhaps mistakes. 1381 02:04:15,823 --> 02:04:18,742 May I present Captain Willard? He's of a paratroop regiment. 1382 02:04:19,327 --> 02:04:21,495 - Madame Sarrault. - Captain. 1383 02:04:49,190 --> 02:04:52,109 I'm sorry, Captain. Was just a little story about Paris 1384 02:04:52,193 --> 02:04:53,443 and people starving during the war. 1385 02:04:53,528 --> 02:04:55,612 They are around the table and there was a silence. 1386 02:04:55,697 --> 02:04:58,240 Somebody says, "An angel is passing by." 1387 02:04:58,574 --> 02:05:01,243 So somebody said, "Let's eat it." 1388 02:05:09,377 --> 02:05:12,713 How long can you possibly stay here? 1389 02:05:13,131 --> 02:05:14,673 We stay forever. 1390 02:05:15,425 --> 02:05:17,175 No, no, I mean, 1391 02:05:18,845 --> 02:05:20,887 when will you go back home to France? 1392 02:05:24,100 --> 02:05:25,851 I mean, this is our home, Captain. 1393 02:05:26,394 --> 02:05:28,061 - Sooner or later you're gonna... - No! 1394 02:05:30,231 --> 02:05:33,900 You don't understand our mentality, the French Officer mentality. 1395 02:05:34,861 --> 02:05:37,154 At first, we lose in Second World War. 1396 02:05:37,238 --> 02:05:40,032 I don't say that you Americans win, but we lose. 1397 02:05:42,535 --> 02:05:45,412 In Dien Bien Phu, we lose. In Nigeria, we lose. 1398 02:05:45,496 --> 02:05:47,289 In Indochina, we lose. 1399 02:05:47,957 --> 02:05:50,417 But here, we don't lose. 1400 02:05:51,085 --> 02:05:56,173 This piece of earth, we keep it! We will never lose that, never! 1401 02:06:01,679 --> 02:06:03,430 The Americans, 1402 02:06:06,309 --> 02:06:09,269 in 1945, yes, 1403 02:06:09,687 --> 02:06:11,772 after the Japanese War, 1404 02:06:12,607 --> 02:06:15,025 your President Roosevelt didn't want the French people 1405 02:06:15,109 --> 02:06:17,194 to stay in Indochina. 1406 02:06:19,113 --> 02:06:21,907 So, you Americans 1407 02:06:21,991 --> 02:06:23,950 invent the Viet Minh. 1408 02:06:25,953 --> 02:06:27,788 - What's he mean? - Yeah, that's true. 1409 02:06:27,997 --> 02:06:30,457 The Viet Cong were invented by the Americans, sir. 1410 02:06:31,793 --> 02:06:33,001 The Americans? 1411 02:06:33,628 --> 02:06:37,964 Now you take the French place, and the Viet Minh fight you, 1412 02:06:38,549 --> 02:06:40,425 and what can you do? 1413 02:06:40,510 --> 02:06:42,969 Nothing. Absolutely nothing. 1414 02:06:43,137 --> 02:06:46,223 The Vietnamese are very intelligent. You never know what they think. 1415 02:06:46,641 --> 02:06:48,642 The Russians want to help them. 1416 02:06:49,018 --> 02:06:51,645 "Come and give us some money. We are all communists. 1417 02:06:51,979 --> 02:06:54,272 "Chinese, give us guns. We are all brothers." 1418 02:06:54,357 --> 02:06:55,816 They hate the Chinese. 1419 02:06:56,692 --> 02:07:00,862 Maybe they hate Americans less than the Russians and the Chinese. 1420 02:07:01,239 --> 02:07:02,948 I mean, if tomorrow the Vietnamese are communists, 1421 02:07:03,032 --> 02:07:05,283 they will be Vietnamese communists. 1422 02:07:05,910 --> 02:07:08,620 And this is something that you never understood, you Americans. 1423 02:07:09,330 --> 02:07:11,623 I don't know. Maybe in the future 1424 02:07:11,707 --> 02:07:14,167 we can make something with the Viet Minh. 1425 02:07:14,419 --> 02:07:16,002 Don't you understand? 1426 02:07:16,337 --> 02:07:19,047 The VC say, "Go away! Go away!" 1427 02:07:19,173 --> 02:07:21,883 That's finished for all the white people in Indochina. 1428 02:07:21,968 --> 02:07:25,137 If you're French, American, that's all the same. 1429 02:07:25,346 --> 02:07:29,015 Go! They want to forget you. Look at them. 1430 02:07:31,144 --> 02:07:33,895 Look, this is the truth. An egg. 1431 02:07:37,066 --> 02:07:38,608 The white left. 1432 02:07:40,111 --> 02:07:41,987 The yellow stay. 1433 02:07:50,037 --> 02:07:51,204 When I was in Saigon, 1434 02:07:51,289 --> 02:07:55,041 I spoke to an American politician and he explained it very well. 1435 02:07:55,126 --> 02:07:58,753 He said, "Look, yesterday it was Korea, 1436 02:07:58,838 --> 02:08:04,718 "today, Vietnam, tomorrow, Thailand, the Philippines, and then maybe Europe." 1437 02:08:07,388 --> 02:08:08,513 Why not Europe? 1438 02:08:08,598 --> 02:08:10,974 Look what happened in Czechoslovakia recently! 1439 02:08:11,142 --> 02:08:12,767 And even before the Second World War, 1440 02:08:12,852 --> 02:08:14,936 the Americans knew exactly what was going on. 1441 02:08:15,021 --> 02:08:17,439 They don't want that shit to take over! 1442 02:08:20,359 --> 02:08:24,863 - All you white people are shit. - They are fighting. Fighting for freedom. 1443 02:08:24,947 --> 02:08:27,073 Freedom? Bullshit. 1444 02:08:27,450 --> 02:08:30,160 French bullshit. American bullshit. 1445 02:08:30,620 --> 02:08:32,329 Dien Bien Phu is a trap. 1446 02:08:33,164 --> 02:08:36,249 All soldiers know they are already dead. 1447 02:08:38,294 --> 02:08:40,212 You know anything about Dien Bien Phu? 1448 02:08:43,341 --> 02:08:47,302 - Yeah, I know. - No, you don't, not really. 1449 02:08:47,386 --> 02:08:50,388 Dien Bien Phu was an error, you know? A military mistake. 1450 02:08:50,515 --> 02:08:54,184 A mistake? A voluntary mistake! Voluntary! 1451 02:08:56,896 --> 02:09:00,857 All the soldiers knew. We knew we would be dead. 1452 02:09:01,609 --> 02:09:03,360 Generals and colonels believe it's impossible 1453 02:09:03,444 --> 02:09:07,739 for the Viets to get a cannon up there in the mountains, but they do. 1454 02:09:08,491 --> 02:09:11,284 Then they wait for the rain to come. 1455 02:09:12,453 --> 02:09:16,498 When it comes, no airplane can fly there. 1456 02:09:16,707 --> 02:09:22,337 And our paratroopers jump at 90 meters. I mean, you know, 90 meters, 70 meters... 1457 02:09:22,421 --> 02:09:25,590 I mean, that's crazy. No army in the world can do that. 1458 02:09:26,175 --> 02:09:29,636 And they only do that to be dead with their friends. 1459 02:09:31,639 --> 02:09:32,973 No, no! 1460 02:09:36,143 --> 02:09:38,311 The French army was sacrificed, 1461 02:09:38,521 --> 02:09:41,231 sacrificed by the politicians safe at home. 1462 02:09:41,315 --> 02:09:44,025 They put the army in an impossible situation where they couldn't win. 1463 02:09:45,236 --> 02:09:48,738 The students are marching in Paris, protesting, demonstrating. 1464 02:09:48,823 --> 02:09:50,949 They stab the soldiers in the back. 1465 02:09:51,075 --> 02:09:54,953 The soldier would open the grenade, it wouldn't work. 1466 02:09:55,246 --> 02:09:57,038 A piece of paper would fall. 1467 02:09:59,417 --> 02:10:02,669 Union of French Women. "We are for the Viets." 1468 02:10:02,962 --> 02:10:04,212 Traitors. 1469 02:10:04,672 --> 02:10:06,798 Communist traitors at home. 1470 02:10:08,217 --> 02:10:09,759 Dien Bien Phu... 1471 02:10:10,136 --> 02:10:12,679 Okay, the French is shit. 1472 02:10:14,807 --> 02:10:17,100 No one cares. No one wants to. 1473 02:10:19,729 --> 02:10:23,690 Why don't you Americans learn from us? From our mistakes? 1474 02:10:24,025 --> 02:10:26,026 Mon dieu, with your army, your strength, your power, 1475 02:10:26,110 --> 02:10:27,319 you can win if you want to. 1476 02:10:30,364 --> 02:10:31,781 You can win. 1477 02:10:34,994 --> 02:10:38,204 You know, I'm sure we can make something there. 1478 02:10:38,956 --> 02:10:40,540 I'm sure about it, you know? 1479 02:10:41,083 --> 02:10:43,627 I never do something wrong to the people here. 1480 02:10:44,211 --> 02:10:47,631 I'm sorry, you know, but the communists at home have never been traitors. 1481 02:11:21,582 --> 02:11:24,918 Excuse me. I have to go. Captain, good night. 1482 02:11:25,252 --> 02:11:27,837 - I was a socialist, you know? - I know we can stay. 1483 02:11:27,922 --> 02:11:31,925 I know that we can stay. We can stay. 1484 02:11:34,845 --> 02:11:38,223 You know, we always help the people. 1485 02:11:38,307 --> 02:11:40,016 We work with the people. 1486 02:11:56,575 --> 02:12:00,704 See, Captain, when my grandfather 1487 02:12:02,164 --> 02:12:04,416 and my uncles and father came here, 1488 02:12:07,002 --> 02:12:09,587 there was nothing. Nothing. 1489 02:12:10,965 --> 02:12:13,133 The Vietnamese were nothing. 1490 02:12:15,052 --> 02:12:18,805 So, we worked hard, very hard. 1491 02:12:18,973 --> 02:12:23,768 We brought the rubber from Brazil and then planted it here. 1492 02:12:24,687 --> 02:12:27,981 We took the Vietnamese, work with them, 1493 02:12:28,399 --> 02:12:29,733 make something. 1494 02:12:30,484 --> 02:12:32,485 Something out of nothing. 1495 02:12:34,071 --> 02:12:37,741 So when you ask me why we want to stay here, Captain, 1496 02:12:39,326 --> 02:12:41,745 we want to stay here because it's ours. 1497 02:12:41,829 --> 02:12:43,288 It belongs to us. 1498 02:12:43,998 --> 02:12:45,665 It keeps our family together. 1499 02:12:47,418 --> 02:12:49,419 I mean, we fight for that. 1500 02:12:51,338 --> 02:12:53,131 While you Americans, 1501 02:12:54,049 --> 02:12:58,928 you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history. 1502 02:13:06,896 --> 02:13:08,646 I'm sorry, Captain. 1503 02:13:09,148 --> 02:13:13,860 I will see if your men need any help to repair your boat 1504 02:13:14,153 --> 02:13:17,530 so that you can go on with your war. 1505 02:13:52,691 --> 02:13:55,360 I apologize for my family, Captain. 1506 02:13:57,404 --> 02:13:59,531 We have all lost much here. 1507 02:14:01,075 --> 02:14:04,160 Hubert, his wife and two sons. 1508 02:14:08,582 --> 02:14:10,750 And I have lost a husband. 1509 02:14:16,674 --> 02:14:20,468 - I understand. - You are tired of the war. 1510 02:14:22,555 --> 02:14:24,681 I can see on your face. 1511 02:14:27,309 --> 02:14:31,437 It was the same in the eyes of the soldiers of our war. 1512 02:14:32,648 --> 02:14:33,690 We call them... 1513 02:14:36,819 --> 02:14:38,611 "The lost soldiers." 1514 02:14:43,492 --> 02:14:46,035 If you like, we can have some cognac. 1515 02:14:50,791 --> 02:14:52,041 No. 1516 02:14:52,835 --> 02:14:55,795 I'll see about my men and... 1517 02:15:03,596 --> 02:15:06,180 The war will be still here tomorrow. 1518 02:15:16,942 --> 02:15:18,985 Yeah, I guess you're right. 1519 02:15:26,994 --> 02:15:29,662 I noticed you had no wine at dinner. 1520 02:15:30,915 --> 02:15:33,583 No, I don't drink wine. 1521 02:15:37,004 --> 02:15:41,507 I do like cognac, but I don't want any now, thank you. 1522 02:15:45,137 --> 02:15:47,889 Well, then I must drink alone. 1523 02:15:58,192 --> 02:16:01,569 Will you go back, after the war, to America? 1524 02:16:05,532 --> 02:16:08,534 - No. - Then you're like us. 1525 02:16:08,786 --> 02:16:10,453 Your home is here. 1526 02:16:28,055 --> 02:16:31,975 Do you know why you can never step into the same river twice? 1527 02:16:34,228 --> 02:16:37,397 Yeah, 'cause it's always moving. 1528 02:16:38,816 --> 02:16:41,943 I used to prepare a pipe for my husband. 1529 02:16:49,243 --> 02:16:53,538 It was the morphine he took for the wounds he suffered in his heart. 1530 02:16:57,209 --> 02:17:00,837 He would rage and he would cry, my lost soldier. 1531 02:17:04,591 --> 02:17:06,259 And I said to him, 1532 02:17:07,011 --> 02:17:10,388 "There are two of you, don't you see? 1533 02:17:11,473 --> 02:17:15,101 "One that kills and one that loves." 1534 02:17:17,229 --> 02:17:18,896 And he said to me, 1535 02:17:19,773 --> 02:17:23,401 "I don't know whether I am an animal or a god." 1536 02:17:26,864 --> 02:17:28,489 But you are both. 1537 02:18:10,365 --> 02:18:12,116 You want more? 1538 02:18:17,831 --> 02:18:21,667 All that matters is that you are alive. 1539 02:18:23,337 --> 02:18:25,254 You are alive, Captain. 1540 02:18:29,551 --> 02:18:31,177 That's the truth. 1541 02:19:45,085 --> 02:19:48,588 There are two of you, don't you see? 1542 02:19:49,923 --> 02:19:54,093 One that kills and one that loves. 1543 02:20:23,457 --> 02:20:26,000 Can't see nothing. We're stopping. 1544 02:20:26,501 --> 02:20:28,878 You're not authorized to stop this boat, Chief. 1545 02:20:28,962 --> 02:20:31,797 I said I can't see a thing, Captain. I'm stopping this boat. 1546 02:20:32,549 --> 02:20:34,133 I ain't risking no more lives. 1547 02:20:34,218 --> 02:20:37,136 I'm in command here, God damn it. You'll do what I say. 1548 02:20:39,306 --> 02:20:41,474 You see anything, Chef? 1549 02:20:43,477 --> 02:20:45,811 Why don't they fucking attack, man? 1550 02:21:05,040 --> 02:21:07,166 Watch it over here, Chief. 1551 02:21:08,293 --> 02:21:09,961 Got a stump. 1552 02:21:11,380 --> 02:21:12,755 Lance, on the .50s. 1553 02:21:14,549 --> 02:21:16,342 He was close. 1554 02:21:18,387 --> 02:21:20,054 He was real close. 1555 02:21:22,349 --> 02:21:27,228 I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him, as if the boat were being sucked upriver 1556 02:21:27,312 --> 02:21:30,189 and the water was flowing back into the jungle. 1557 02:21:32,734 --> 02:21:35,152 Whatever was going to happen, 1558 02:21:35,237 --> 02:21:39,198 it wasn't gonna be the way they called it back in Nha Trang. 1559 02:21:43,870 --> 02:21:45,121 Arrows! 1560 02:21:45,205 --> 02:21:46,330 Fire! 1561 02:21:48,542 --> 02:21:49,792 Chef, open up! Fire! 1562 02:21:54,923 --> 02:21:56,882 Lance, fire! 1563 02:22:04,725 --> 02:22:08,019 Chef! Chef, it's okay. Quit firing. 1564 02:22:08,520 --> 02:22:10,104 They're just little toy arrows. 1565 02:22:10,397 --> 02:22:12,315 Cut it out! Quiet! 1566 02:22:12,566 --> 02:22:14,817 Chief, tell them to hold their fire! 1567 02:22:15,235 --> 02:22:17,570 They're just little sticks. They're just trying to scare us. 1568 02:22:17,988 --> 02:22:19,322 Quiet! 1569 02:22:20,365 --> 02:22:23,159 You got us in this mess, and now you can't get us out 1570 02:22:23,243 --> 02:22:25,161 because you don't know where the hell you're going, do you? 1571 02:22:25,746 --> 02:22:26,912 Do you? 1572 02:22:27,914 --> 02:22:30,791 You son of a bitch! You bastard! 1573 02:22:32,419 --> 02:22:34,754 - Lance, get the wheel! - Fire! 1574 02:22:35,422 --> 02:22:38,966 You savages! Come and get it, you son of a bitches! 1575 02:22:59,446 --> 02:23:01,113 A spear. 1576 02:24:20,569 --> 02:24:23,404 My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. 1577 02:24:24,030 --> 02:24:26,490 There's a Green Beret colonel up there who's gone insane 1578 02:24:26,575 --> 02:24:28,451 and I'm supposed to kill him. 1579 02:24:29,870 --> 02:24:32,538 That's fucking typical! Shit! 1580 02:24:32,914 --> 02:24:34,874 Fucking Vietnam mission! 1581 02:24:35,208 --> 02:24:38,961 I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? 1582 02:24:39,045 --> 02:24:42,882 That's fucking great! That's just fucking great, man. 1583 02:24:43,633 --> 02:24:46,510 Shit! That's fucking crazy. 1584 02:24:47,095 --> 02:24:50,055 I mean, I thought you were going in to blow up a bridge 1585 02:24:50,182 --> 02:24:53,058 or some fucking railroad tracks or something. 1586 02:24:54,060 --> 02:24:56,103 - Sorry. - No, no, wait, wait. 1587 02:24:56,188 --> 02:24:59,482 We'll go together on the boat. We'll go with you. 1588 02:24:59,566 --> 02:25:03,235 We'll go up there, but on the boat. Okay? 1589 02:26:10,303 --> 02:26:14,265 Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there. 1590 02:26:17,310 --> 02:26:21,772 I knew the risks, or imagined I knew. 1591 02:26:24,317 --> 02:26:28,487 But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, 1592 02:26:30,115 --> 02:26:32,032 was the desire to confront him. 1593 02:27:44,731 --> 02:27:46,023 Just keep moving. 1594 02:27:46,733 --> 02:27:50,402 Lance, keep your hands away from the guns. 1595 02:29:17,323 --> 02:29:20,492 It's all right! It's all right! It's all been approved! 1596 02:29:21,661 --> 02:29:24,913 I ain't coming in there! Them bastards attacked us! 1597 02:29:26,332 --> 02:29:29,585 Zap them with your siren, man. Zap them with your siren. 1598 02:29:40,013 --> 02:29:41,847 There's mines over there and mines over there, too. 1599 02:29:42,015 --> 02:29:44,475 And watch out. Those goddamn monkeys bite you, I'll tell you. 1600 02:29:45,351 --> 02:29:47,853 That's a pretty one. Move it right in toward me. 1601 02:29:49,272 --> 02:29:51,190 I'm an American. Yeah. 1602 02:29:51,483 --> 02:29:53,150 An American civilian. Hi, Yanks. 1603 02:29:53,860 --> 02:29:55,360 Hi, American. 1604 02:29:55,862 --> 02:29:57,279 American civilian. It's all right. 1605 02:29:58,031 --> 02:30:00,949 And you got the cigarettes. And that's what I've been dreaming about. 1606 02:30:02,118 --> 02:30:03,202 Chef. 1607 02:30:03,953 --> 02:30:06,622 - Who are you? - Who are you? 1608 02:30:10,919 --> 02:30:12,544 I'm a photojournalist. 1609 02:30:13,213 --> 02:30:15,214 I've covered the war since '64. 1610 02:30:15,590 --> 02:30:18,133 I've been in Laos, Cambodia and Nam. 1611 02:30:22,806 --> 02:30:25,557 I'll tell you one thing, this boat is a mess, man. 1612 02:30:26,559 --> 02:30:27,893 Who are all these people? 1613 02:30:27,977 --> 02:30:33,065 Yeah, they think you've come to take him away, 1614 02:30:33,399 --> 02:30:36,276 - and I hope that isn't true. - Take who away? 1615 02:30:38,571 --> 02:30:41,323 Him! Colonel Kurtz. 1616 02:30:42,367 --> 02:30:45,077 These are all his children, man, as far as you can see. 1617 02:30:46,371 --> 02:30:48,872 Hell, man, out here, we're all his children. 1618 02:30:49,791 --> 02:30:53,168 Could we talk to Colonel Kurtz? 1619 02:30:53,753 --> 02:30:59,424 Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. Well, you listen to him. 1620 02:31:00,927 --> 02:31:02,928 The man's enlarged my mind. 1621 02:31:03,805 --> 02:31:07,182 He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. 1622 02:31:07,267 --> 02:31:10,477 Sometimes you'll say hello to him, right, 1623 02:31:10,562 --> 02:31:12,938 and he'll just walk right by you and he won't even notice you. 1624 02:31:13,022 --> 02:31:16,525 And then suddenly he'll grab you, he'll throw you in a corner and he'll say, 1625 02:31:16,609 --> 02:31:19,695 "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in 'life'? If you can keep your head 1626 02:31:19,779 --> 02:31:21,572 "when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 1627 02:31:21,656 --> 02:31:23,115 "if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you..." 1628 02:31:24,409 --> 02:31:27,619 I'm a little man. I'm a little man. He's a great man. 1629 02:31:28,413 --> 02:31:34,167 "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." 1630 02:31:34,252 --> 02:31:35,794 Stay with the boat. 1631 02:31:36,713 --> 02:31:39,590 Don't go without me, okay? I wanna get a picture. 1632 02:31:42,135 --> 02:31:46,805 He can be terrible, he can be mean, and he can be right. 1633 02:31:47,807 --> 02:31:50,642 He's fighting the war. He's a great man. 1634 02:31:58,735 --> 02:32:01,945 I wish I had words, you know? I wish I had words. 1635 02:32:02,363 --> 02:32:04,907 I can tell you something, like, the other day he wanted to kill me. 1636 02:32:05,533 --> 02:32:07,743 - Something like that. - Why'd he want to kill you? 1637 02:32:08,244 --> 02:32:09,828 Because I took his picture. 1638 02:32:10,830 --> 02:32:13,123 He said, "If you take my picture again, 1639 02:32:14,500 --> 02:32:18,128 "I'm gonna kill you," and he meant it. 1640 02:32:20,882 --> 02:32:24,843 So you just lay cool. Play it cool, laid back. Dig it. 1641 02:32:25,470 --> 02:32:27,179 He gets friendly again. He really does. 1642 02:32:28,806 --> 02:32:31,183 But you don't judge the Colonel. 1643 02:32:32,101 --> 02:32:34,227 You don't judge the Colonel like an ordinary man. 1644 02:32:41,194 --> 02:32:43,195 Okay, watch it now. These are Americans. 1645 02:32:43,321 --> 02:32:44,321 Americans! 1646 02:32:44,656 --> 02:32:46,156 You can feel the vibe of this place. 1647 02:32:47,158 --> 02:32:50,577 Let me take your picture. Could you hold... Hello? Hello? 1648 02:32:50,703 --> 02:32:52,204 Could you hold up a minute? 1649 02:33:14,560 --> 02:33:15,727 Colby. 1650 02:33:32,203 --> 02:33:33,286 The heads. 1651 02:33:34,330 --> 02:33:39,543 You're looking at the heads. Sometimes he goes too far. 1652 02:33:40,420 --> 02:33:42,254 He's the first one to admit it. 1653 02:33:43,381 --> 02:33:45,632 - He's gone crazy. - Wrong, wrong! 1654 02:33:47,593 --> 02:33:50,554 If you could have heard the man just two days ago. 1655 02:33:50,638 --> 02:33:55,100 If you could have heard him then, God... You're gonna call him crazy? 1656 02:33:55,768 --> 02:33:57,144 Fucking A. 1657 02:33:58,604 --> 02:34:03,984 - I just wanna talk to him. - Well, man, he's gone away. 1658 02:34:05,862 --> 02:34:08,280 He's gone away. He disappeared out in the jungle with his people. 1659 02:34:08,364 --> 02:34:09,364 I'll wait for him. 1660 02:34:09,449 --> 02:34:13,618 He feels comfortable with his people. He forgets himself with his people. 1661 02:34:16,039 --> 02:34:18,331 - He forgets himself. - Captain? 1662 02:34:18,958 --> 02:34:23,170 - Maybe we should wait back at the boat. - Okay, Chef. 1663 02:34:23,796 --> 02:34:28,216 - We'll go back to the boat for a while. - Yeah, stay with Lance. 1664 02:34:51,866 --> 02:34:56,203 This Colonel guy, he's wacko, man. He's worse than crazy. He's evil! 1665 02:34:57,663 --> 02:34:59,289 That's what the man's got set up here! 1666 02:34:59,373 --> 02:35:02,459 Man, it's fucking Pagan idolatry. Look around you! 1667 02:35:03,211 --> 02:35:04,544 Shit, he's loco. 1668 02:35:05,088 --> 02:35:08,090 - Then you'll help me? - Help you? Fucking A, I'll help you. 1669 02:35:08,174 --> 02:35:09,591 I'll do anything to get out of this joint. 1670 02:35:09,675 --> 02:35:10,717 Good boy. 1671 02:35:11,552 --> 02:35:13,011 We could blow all them assholes away. 1672 02:35:13,096 --> 02:35:15,722 They're so fucking spaced out, they wouldn't even know it. 1673 02:35:16,641 --> 02:35:21,144 I ain't afraid of all them fucking skulls and altars and shit. 1674 02:35:23,272 --> 02:35:26,900 I used to think if I died in an evil place, 1675 02:35:27,443 --> 02:35:29,528 then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to heaven. 1676 02:35:30,488 --> 02:35:33,448 But now, fuck. 1677 02:35:35,660 --> 02:35:37,953 I don't care where it goes, as long as it ain't here. 1678 02:35:38,538 --> 02:35:41,373 So what do you wanna do? I'll kill the fuck. 1679 02:35:41,457 --> 02:35:43,083 - No, no. - Get out of here. 1680 02:35:43,334 --> 02:35:44,960 I'm gonna need you to wait here, Chef. 1681 02:35:45,711 --> 02:35:49,256 I'll go up with Lance and scrounge around, check the place out, 1682 02:35:49,882 --> 02:35:52,050 see if I can find the Colonel, okay? 1683 02:35:54,095 --> 02:35:56,471 - What do you want me to do? - Damn it. 1684 02:35:57,014 --> 02:36:03,019 Here, you take the radio, and if I don't get back by 2200 hours, 1685 02:36:05,898 --> 02:36:07,232 you call in the air strike. 1686 02:36:10,027 --> 02:36:11,403 Air strike? 1687 02:36:13,156 --> 02:36:17,826 The code is "Almighty," coordinates 0-9-2-6-4-7-1-2. 1688 02:36:18,744 --> 02:36:20,078 It's all in there. 1689 02:36:21,747 --> 02:36:24,374 0-9-2-6-4-7-1-2. 1690 02:36:33,259 --> 02:36:36,595 Everything I saw told me that Kurtz had gone insane. 1691 02:36:40,975 --> 02:36:46,646 The place was full of bodies. North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Cambodians. 1692 02:36:54,322 --> 02:36:57,324 If I was still alive, it was because he wanted me that way. 1693 02:37:31,776 --> 02:37:34,194 It smelled like slow death in there. 1694 02:37:35,780 --> 02:37:39,032 Malaria, nightmares. 1695 02:37:41,827 --> 02:37:43,870 This was the end of the river, all right. 1696 02:37:58,177 --> 02:37:59,594 Where are you from, Willard? 1697 02:38:05,184 --> 02:38:06,768 I'm from Ohio, sir. 1698 02:38:12,733 --> 02:38:15,360 - Were you born there? - Yes, sir. 1699 02:38:17,530 --> 02:38:20,198 - Whereabouts? - Toledo, sir. 1700 02:38:27,540 --> 02:38:29,332 How far are you from the river? 1701 02:38:36,299 --> 02:38:38,008 The Ohio River, sir? 1702 02:38:40,553 --> 02:38:42,220 About 200 miles. 1703 02:38:50,229 --> 02:38:53,189 I went down that river once when I was a kid. 1704 02:38:58,070 --> 02:39:00,780 There's a place in the river, I can't remember. 1705 02:39:01,157 --> 02:39:06,077 It must've been a gardenia plantation or a flower plantation at one time. 1706 02:39:06,412 --> 02:39:09,164 It's all wild and overgrown now, 1707 02:39:09,248 --> 02:39:15,754 but for about five miles, you'd think that heaven just fell on the Earth, 1708 02:39:17,173 --> 02:39:19,132 in the form of gardenias. 1709 02:39:35,441 --> 02:39:40,487 Have you ever considered any real freedoms? 1710 02:39:46,285 --> 02:39:49,204 Freedoms from the opinion of others? 1711 02:39:52,750 --> 02:39:54,709 Even the opinions of yourself? 1712 02:40:10,893 --> 02:40:14,479 Did they say why, Willard? 1713 02:40:16,732 --> 02:40:21,444 Why they wanted to terminate my command? 1714 02:40:37,086 --> 02:40:39,295 I was sent on a classified mission, sir. 1715 02:40:43,509 --> 02:40:47,011 No longer classified, is it? 1716 02:40:54,353 --> 02:40:55,770 What did they tell you? 1717 02:40:58,774 --> 02:41:05,071 They told me that you had gone totally insane, 1718 02:41:08,033 --> 02:41:14,372 and that your methods were unsound. 1719 02:41:18,210 --> 02:41:20,128 Are my methods unsound? 1720 02:41:26,218 --> 02:41:32,390 I don't see any method at all, sir. 1721 02:41:39,482 --> 02:41:43,109 I expected someone like you. 1722 02:41:46,489 --> 02:41:47,739 What did you expect? 1723 02:41:55,998 --> 02:41:57,582 Are you an assassin? 1724 02:42:02,463 --> 02:42:03,630 I'm a soldier. 1725 02:42:07,510 --> 02:42:09,093 You're neither. 1726 02:42:11,263 --> 02:42:15,850 You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks 1727 02:42:20,606 --> 02:42:22,273 to collect a bill. 1728 02:43:06,235 --> 02:43:11,864 Why? Why would a nice guy like you wanna kill a genius? 1729 02:43:18,831 --> 02:43:20,582 Going down pretty good, huh? 1730 02:43:21,208 --> 02:43:22,292 Why? 1731 02:43:24,003 --> 02:43:25,670 You know? 1732 02:43:26,463 --> 02:43:28,506 Do you know that the man, 1733 02:43:32,011 --> 02:43:34,012 the man really likes you? 1734 02:43:37,308 --> 02:43:43,187 He likes you. He really likes you, but he's got something in mind for you. 1735 02:43:44,857 --> 02:43:46,441 Aren't you curious about that? 1736 02:43:47,026 --> 02:43:52,488 I'm curious. I'm very curious. Are you curious? 1737 02:43:55,993 --> 02:43:58,786 There's something happening out here, man. 1738 02:44:02,207 --> 02:44:04,709 You know something, man? I know something that you don't know. 1739 02:44:05,210 --> 02:44:06,628 That's right, jack. 1740 02:44:06,920 --> 02:44:12,300 The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad. 1741 02:44:14,261 --> 02:44:15,553 Yeah. 1742 02:44:16,680 --> 02:44:20,683 He's dying, I think. He hates all this. He hates it. 1743 02:44:21,769 --> 02:44:25,647 But the man's... 1744 02:44:29,151 --> 02:44:31,653 He reads poetry out loud, all right? 1745 02:44:33,572 --> 02:44:37,241 And a voice, a voice... 1746 02:44:40,579 --> 02:44:44,916 He likes you 'cause you're still alive. He's got plans for you. 1747 02:44:45,334 --> 02:44:49,962 No, no, I'm not gonna help you. You're gonna help him, man. 1748 02:44:50,923 --> 02:44:52,382 You're gonna help him. 1749 02:44:52,758 --> 02:44:55,176 What are they gonna say, man, when he's gone? 1750 02:44:55,302 --> 02:44:59,931 'Cause he dies when it dies, man. When it dies, he dies. 1751 02:45:00,057 --> 02:45:01,099 What are they gonna say about him? 1752 02:45:01,183 --> 02:45:05,645 What are they gonna say? "He was a kind man. He was a wise man. 1753 02:45:05,896 --> 02:45:09,357 "He had plans. He had wisdom." Bullshit, man! 1754 02:45:09,775 --> 02:45:13,820 Am I gonna be the one that's gonna set them straight? Look at me. Wrong! 1755 02:45:17,616 --> 02:45:18,700 You. 1756 02:45:24,039 --> 02:45:25,957 Almost eight hours. 1757 02:45:28,502 --> 02:45:31,963 God. I'm asleep. 1758 02:45:33,882 --> 02:45:36,634 I'm asleep and dreaming I'm on this shitty boat. 1759 02:45:48,731 --> 02:45:49,814 Fuck. 1760 02:45:54,153 --> 02:45:55,737 Has it been eight hours? 1761 02:45:58,824 --> 02:46:03,494 Hello, Almighty, Almighty, this is PBR Street Gang. 1762 02:46:03,996 --> 02:46:05,163 Radio check. Over. 1763 02:46:06,165 --> 02:46:08,833 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty standing by. Over. 1764 02:47:32,417 --> 02:47:34,877 What the hell! Jesus! 1765 02:47:41,885 --> 02:47:43,636 Christ! 1766 02:49:47,636 --> 02:49:52,181 Time magazine, the weekly news magazine, 1767 02:49:53,600 --> 02:49:59,814 September 22nd, 1967, volume 90, number 12. 1768 02:50:00,941 --> 02:50:02,900 "The war on the horizon. 1769 02:50:03,193 --> 02:50:05,277 "The American people may find it hard to believe 1770 02:50:05,362 --> 02:50:08,197 "that the US is winning the war in Vietnam. 1771 02:50:08,990 --> 02:50:13,035 "Nevertheless, one of the most exhaustive inquiries 1772 02:50:13,328 --> 02:50:15,913 "into the status of the conflict yet compiled 1773 02:50:16,289 --> 02:50:19,458 "offers considerable evidence that the weight of US power, 1774 02:50:19,584 --> 02:50:24,380 "two and a half years after the big buildup began, is beginning to make itself felt. 1775 02:50:25,382 --> 02:50:29,260 "White House officials maintain the impact of that strength 1776 02:50:30,679 --> 02:50:32,763 "may bring the enemy to the point 1777 02:50:32,889 --> 02:50:36,600 "where he could simply be unable to continue fighting." 1778 02:50:39,271 --> 02:50:40,896 Is this familiar? 1779 02:50:42,149 --> 02:50:45,192 "Because Lyndon Johnson fears that the US public 1780 02:50:45,444 --> 02:50:48,779 "is in no mood to accept its optimistic conclusions, 1781 02:50:49,322 --> 02:50:51,991 "he may never permit the report to be released in full. 1782 02:50:52,075 --> 02:50:55,286 "Even so, he is sufficiently impressed with the findings 1783 02:50:55,787 --> 02:50:58,622 "and sufficiently anxious to make their conclusions known 1784 02:50:59,040 --> 02:51:01,667 "to permit experts who have been working on it 1785 02:51:02,127 --> 02:51:04,211 "to talk about it in general terms." 1786 02:51:06,256 --> 02:51:08,215 No date, Time magazine. 1787 02:51:22,022 --> 02:51:28,277 "Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over communist guerrillas in Malaya, 1788 02:51:28,445 --> 02:51:32,907 "is now a Rand Corporation consultant, recently returned to Vietnam 1789 02:51:32,991 --> 02:51:35,659 "to sound out the situation for President Nixon. 1790 02:51:36,995 --> 02:51:38,871 "He told the President last week 1791 02:51:38,955 --> 02:51:44,543 "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there." 1792 02:51:46,463 --> 02:51:48,172 How do they smell to you, soldier? 1793 02:52:00,852 --> 02:52:05,773 You'll be free. You'll be under guard. Read these at your leisure. 1794 02:52:07,025 --> 02:52:08,317 Don't lose them. 1795 02:52:08,652 --> 02:52:10,444 Don't try to escape. You'll be shot. 1796 02:52:12,739 --> 02:52:14,698 We can talk of these things later. 1797 02:55:34,065 --> 02:55:38,235 "We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men 1798 02:55:38,945 --> 02:55:44,366 "Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! 1799 02:55:45,910 --> 02:55:48,454 "Our dried voices, when We whisper together 1800 02:55:48,538 --> 02:55:51,874 "Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass 1801 02:55:53,168 --> 02:55:55,461 - "Or rats' feet over broken glass..." - He's out there. 1802 02:55:55,545 --> 02:55:57,046 "In our dry cellar..." 1803 02:55:57,672 --> 02:56:03,594 - He's really out there. - "Shape without form, shade without color, 1804 02:56:04,929 --> 02:56:09,349 "Paralyzed force, gesture without motion..." 1805 02:56:09,726 --> 02:56:11,268 Do you know what the man's saying? 1806 02:56:12,604 --> 02:56:14,313 - Do you? - "Those who have crossed..." 1807 02:56:14,939 --> 02:56:18,942 This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics. One through nine, 1808 02:56:19,277 --> 02:56:22,654 no "maybes," no "supposes," no fractions. You can't travel in space. 1809 02:56:22,739 --> 02:56:27,117 You can't go out into space, you know, without like... With fractions. 1810 02:56:27,202 --> 02:56:29,036 What are you gonna land on? One-quarter? Three-eighths? 1811 02:56:29,120 --> 02:56:31,747 What are you gonna do when you go from here to Venus or something? 1812 02:56:31,956 --> 02:56:33,874 That's dialectic physics, okay? 1813 02:56:33,958 --> 02:56:36,043 Dialectic logic is, "There's only love and hate." 1814 02:56:36,127 --> 02:56:38,170 You either love somebody or you hate them. 1815 02:56:38,630 --> 02:56:39,713 Mutt! 1816 02:56:42,050 --> 02:56:43,092 You mutt. 1817 02:56:44,135 --> 02:56:49,139 This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in, man! 1818 02:56:49,891 --> 02:56:51,892 "Not with a bang, a whimper." 1819 02:56:51,976 --> 02:56:54,311 And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, jack. 1820 02:57:24,134 --> 02:57:26,844 On the river, I thought that the minute I looked at him, 1821 02:57:26,970 --> 02:57:28,720 I'd know what to do. 1822 02:57:29,681 --> 02:57:36,353 But it didn't happen. I was in there with him for days, not under guard. 1823 02:57:37,355 --> 02:57:41,525 I was free. But he knew I wasn't going anywhere. 1824 02:57:42,986 --> 02:57:46,280 He knew more about what I was going to do than I did. 1825 02:57:53,371 --> 02:57:56,874 If the generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw, 1826 02:57:57,834 --> 02:58:00,419 would they still want me to kill him? 1827 02:58:01,671 --> 02:58:03,547 More than ever, probably. 1828 02:58:05,008 --> 02:58:06,925 And what would his people back home want, 1829 02:58:07,010 --> 02:58:10,053 if they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone? 1830 02:58:12,640 --> 02:58:16,059 He broke from them, and then he broke from himself. 1831 02:58:17,729 --> 02:58:21,899 I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart. 1832 02:58:22,901 --> 02:58:27,029 I've seen the horrors, horrors that you've seen. 1833 02:58:29,699 --> 02:58:33,619 But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. 1834 02:58:34,954 --> 02:58:40,918 You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. 1835 02:58:48,259 --> 02:58:53,263 It's impossible for words to describe 1836 02:58:55,600 --> 02:59:01,563 what is necessary to those 1837 02:59:03,274 --> 02:59:08,946 who do not know what horror means. 1838 02:59:11,407 --> 02:59:12,616 Horror. 1839 02:59:15,620 --> 02:59:18,247 Horror has a face. 1840 02:59:20,541 --> 02:59:22,668 And you must make a friend of horror. 1841 02:59:24,379 --> 02:59:29,216 Horror and moral terror are your friends. 1842 02:59:29,801 --> 02:59:34,596 If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. 1843 02:59:36,099 --> 02:59:37,975 They are truly enemies. 1844 02:59:42,981 --> 02:59:45,816 I remember when I was with Special Forces. 1845 02:59:50,321 --> 02:59:54,241 It seems a thousand centuries ago. 1846 02:59:57,829 --> 03:00:03,667 We went into a camp to inoculate some children. 1847 03:00:08,256 --> 03:00:13,802 We'd left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio. 1848 03:00:16,264 --> 03:00:19,641 And this old man came running after us, and he was crying, he couldn't see. 1849 03:00:23,229 --> 03:00:25,772 We went back there 1850 03:00:25,857 --> 03:00:31,320 and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. 1851 03:00:33,698 --> 03:00:40,495 There they were, in a pile. A pile of little arms. 1852 03:00:42,623 --> 03:00:44,875 And I remember, 1853 03:00:48,755 --> 03:00:51,548 I cried. I wept like 1854 03:00:53,718 --> 03:00:56,386 some grandmother. 1855 03:00:58,556 --> 03:01:01,808 I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. 1856 03:01:03,561 --> 03:01:05,812 And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. 1857 03:01:06,689 --> 03:01:08,523 I never want to forget. 1858 03:01:10,193 --> 03:01:14,905 And then I realized, like I was shot, 1859 03:01:15,406 --> 03:01:17,574 like I was shot with a diamond, 1860 03:01:18,785 --> 03:01:21,912 a diamond bullet right through my forehead. 1861 03:01:23,998 --> 03:01:29,169 And I thought, "My God, the genius of that. The genius." 1862 03:01:30,588 --> 03:01:32,964 The will to do that, 1863 03:01:34,634 --> 03:01:39,096 perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. 1864 03:01:41,682 --> 03:01:43,600 And then I realized 1865 03:01:43,684 --> 03:01:47,270 they were stronger than me because they could stand it. 1866 03:01:47,355 --> 03:01:51,316 These were not monsters. These were men, trained cadres. 1867 03:01:52,777 --> 03:01:57,447 These men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, 1868 03:01:57,532 --> 03:02:01,368 who are filled with love, but they have the strength, 1869 03:02:03,121 --> 03:02:09,584 the strength to do that. 1870 03:02:10,670 --> 03:02:14,965 If I had 10 divisions of those men, 1871 03:02:16,050 --> 03:02:19,010 then our troubles here would be over very quickly. 1872 03:02:20,805 --> 03:02:25,225 You have to have men who are moral, 1873 03:02:27,562 --> 03:02:31,606 and at the same time, who are able 1874 03:02:33,234 --> 03:02:39,489 to utilize their primordial instincts to kill 1875 03:02:41,409 --> 03:02:47,998 without feeling, without passion, without judgment. Without judgment. 1876 03:02:53,504 --> 03:02:56,131 Because it's judgment that defeats us. 1877 03:03:15,610 --> 03:03:22,407 I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. 1878 03:03:25,119 --> 03:03:29,748 And if I were to be killed, Willard, 1879 03:03:31,292 --> 03:03:36,755 I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. 1880 03:03:40,051 --> 03:03:43,053 Everything I did. Everything you saw. 1881 03:03:44,805 --> 03:03:50,310 Because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. 1882 03:03:53,397 --> 03:04:00,403 And if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me. 1883 03:05:06,929 --> 03:05:09,097 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Over. 1884 03:05:10,891 --> 03:05:14,019 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. Over. 1885 03:05:16,272 --> 03:05:20,150 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. How do you copy? 1886 03:05:25,489 --> 03:05:28,283 They were gonna make me a Major for this, 1887 03:05:29,035 --> 03:05:32,162 and I wasn't even in their fucking Army anymore. 1888 03:05:34,332 --> 03:05:39,044 Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. 1889 03:05:41,005 --> 03:05:45,383 I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. 1890 03:05:48,721 --> 03:05:52,807 He just wanted to go out like a soldier. Standing up. 1891 03:05:54,143 --> 03:05:57,729 Not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. 1892 03:06:01,609 --> 03:06:03,902 Even the jungle wanted him dead, 1893 03:06:04,862 --> 03:06:07,530 and that's who he really took his orders from anyway. 1894 03:07:24,859 --> 03:07:30,071 "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders 1895 03:07:31,282 --> 03:07:36,202 "won't allow them to write 'Fuck' on their airplanes 1896 03:07:36,287 --> 03:07:39,289 "because it's obscene!" 1897 03:09:02,498 --> 03:09:09,462 The horror. 1898 03:14:32,494 --> 03:14:37,582 Calling PBR Street Gang. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. 1899 03:14:37,666 --> 03:14:39,500 Do you read me? Over. 1900 03:14:40,377 --> 03:14:41,961 PBR Street Gang. 1901 03:14:42,588 --> 03:14:44,672 PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty... 1902 03:15:22,920 --> 03:15:30,134 The horror.