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Fire!

Pull back! Pull back!

Fall back! Withdraw!

Now we're gonna have to do it again.

They sound mad!

Hey you!

Yes, you! What's your name?

Pvt. Pratt, sir.

What outfit you separated from?

A Company. Fourth platoon.

King-Six, this is Checkmate King-Two, over.

King-Six, this is Checkmate King-Two, over.

Hey, A company did you say?

I had a friend in A company. You been with them long?

No. I've only been with A company a couple of weeks.

I was in the band!

and I asked out.

Ah. My best friend.

D-Day? He got it.

Hey, there somebody coming!

He's one of ours!

Hey, soldier! Over here!

Come on, hop over.

I can't. I'm hit!

All right, hang on there!

Let me see that arm.

You from A company, soldier?

No, sir. C company.

A company. C company.

The Germans must be busting a big hole this time.

Ah, a big hole is easy to plug up.

All you need is a few thousand bodies.

Oh, very funny.

All right, men, listen.

We'll stay here until it's dark and then pull out.

Battalion is assembling about a mile back.

We'll be picking up a replacement back there. Names' Lawson.

Remember the name in case he comes looking for us: Lawson.

You'll rejoin your company back there, Pratt.

You'll be hospitalized, soldier.

I wonder if you guys are getting Rob Lawson.

Well, who's that?

You've heard of the Third army and the Fifth army?

This guy is like another army.

An army all by himself.

He's right. I've heard of him too.

All right, we better dig in.

What are you guys talking about?

We're talking about a guy who fights like a whole army.

Look, did you say you played in a band?

Or did you just use your head for a drum?

If you guys are getting Rob Lawson, you'll find out soon enough what I'm talking about.

A man who fights like a whole army?

Dig, Billy.

Hey, buddy.

I'm looking for second platoon, K company.

Not here, bud.

Lawson?

Yeah.

I thought so.

We were in basic together.

Oh, yeah? That was a long time ago.

I'm sorry, I don't remember.

I don't mind.

As long as we don't have to fight together, I don't mind.

Good luck to second platoon.

Hey!

You Jensen?

No, Lawson.

I'm looking for second platoon, K company.

We're first platoon.

Rob Lawson.

Hey, Doc!

Is you patient back home yet?

Nah. A couple weeks in the hospital and he'll be all right.

Hey, here they come.

Looks like graduation day at officer's school.

Our replacement show up yet?

Not yet.

Pratt! What are you doing here?

I haven't found anybody from A company yet, sir.

Well, you're not going to find them standing around here.

Get the lead out and go look for them.

[overlapping goodbyes]

Where are we headed, Lieutenant?

Back where we came from.

It figures.

As soon as it clears, the Air Corps. is gonna cover our advance.

They think it's gonna clear soon.

Is this second platoon, K company?

Yeah.

I'm Lawson. CT told me to report to second platoon.

I'm Lt. Hanley. This is Sgt. Saunders, squad leader.

There's Doc, Kirby, Little John, Nelson and Caje.

Hi. Howdy.

Hey.

This guy doesn't look any different than the rest of us.

Why should he?

Well, you heard Pratt. This guy is supposed to fight like a whole army.

In the first place, Pratt said Rob Lawson was supposed to fight like a whole army.

You don't know which Lawson this is.

And in the second place, even if he is,

There's nothing in the army manual that says you have to believe a musician.

It's not only that!

The wounded guy said he heard of him too!

All right, Sergeant, saddle up! Let's move out!

Get your stuff together!

We're moving back.

Move out in pairs.

30 second intervals.

Right.

Kirby. Caje. You'll lead off.

Little John. Billy.

Doc and Lawson. You follow.

On your bellies, all the way.

1504.

Move out in one minute.

Right.

What do we need the stream for?

Maybe the Colonel likes to fish.

[indistinct radio chatter]

Hold it.

Maybe the Colonel doesn't like to fish.

Checkmate King-Two, over.

Third platoon tried to take the farm behind the woods.

They didn't make it. It's your objective now. Take it and hold it. Over.

Are the woods mined? Over.

We don't know. Play it safe. Over.

Checkmate King-Two, out.

Orders have been changed.

There's a barn behind the woods. Third platoon tried to take it, they struck out.

It's ours now.

The woods may be mined. Take it easy once you get in there.

We'll move low, zig-zag on the way in.

No sense in making a target for a sniper. Hit the dirt as soon as you get in the woods.

Let's move out.

Everybody make it?

Yeah.

All right. Get with those mines.

There's some more of third platoon.

Be careful he's not booby-trapped.

He's dead.

Let's go.

Lawson! Lawson!

Cover me!

Lawson just got right up and...

I never saw anything like that before. Did you, Little John?

No. I take it all back. Lawson's different.

What was that all about?

Well, I could see the sun was shining off his rifle.

But I couldn't get a clean shot at him so I had to run in where I could.

Yeah, you ran.

You know we were moving slowly because of the possibility of mines.

Oh, I forgot about that.

I'm going to make sure you remember for the rest of the way.

Let's go, soldier.

- Yeah?

- Caje! - Yeah?

- Yeah?

Back with the other men, Lawson will take your place.

With pleasure!

Okay, Lawson.

Nearest Grandstand I know is at Wimbledon, England.

That's where grandstand plays are allowed.

They got a good position over the whole area.

Looks like more of third platoon.

It's awful quiet out there.

Maybe they've gone.

I'd sure would like to know what kind of weapons they have and how many of them.

Maybe if we a little closer we can draw their fire.

Try for those trees.

Cover me.

We didn't even draw a BB shot.

I don't like it. Not a bit.

Neither do I.

Let's go, Saunders. Cover us!

We'll have to start circling around.

- Kirby! - Yo!

Go straight ahead. You come in from the other end!

Caje!

Yeah!

You all right, Lawson?

Yes.

He's got luck instead of brains.

They've got two machine guns.

There's one on top and one on the bottom.

What do you make of him, Little John?

I guess he wants to win the war all by himself.

Our best chance is to come in from all sides.

Yeah, agreed.

All right, this is how we'll do it.

He'll probably go home all stooped over, weighed down with medals.

Go home?

How can a guy like this make it home?

Try to keep us honest.

We gotta get around to the back.

Keep those windows busy if you can.

I'm going to try to make it around the side.

Right.

Cover!

Saunders!

They're moving the gun out of the top window!

Is it on your side?

No!

Kirby!

Cover!

Saunders!

They must have moved the other gun around to the back!

I'm going to try rushing it from this side!

Not alone! I'll get around to you!

Caje!

Here!

Cover!

Hold your fire!

There was three more of them up there, Lieutenant.

Caje, Little John, Nelson.

Check around outside, we don't want any surprises.

Kirby, cover upstairs.

Lawson.

Come on over here.

King-Six, this is Checkmate King-Two. Over.

King-Six, this is Checkmate King-Two. Over.

I don't know where you got briefed on the fundamentals of squad tactics but it was deficient.

It's not enough to be a brave man. This whole squad is filled with brave men.

The whole of France is lousy with brave men on both sides.

The only thing we have to count on when we're fighting is each other.

We don't have anything else.

And if we can't count on each other, we're in trouble. Bad trouble.

Are you listening to me?

Yeah.

Look, Lawson, I don't know what you have working for you.

Maybe it's something personal but that's your business.

Keeping this squad alive is everyone's business!

That whole squad could have got it because of you.

Our own men could have killed you.

They were covering Caje and the Lieutenant when you made a run for it. Now why did you do it?

Well, I saw the machine gun swing way over to the left.

and then I thought I had enough time to get in here before it swung back over to the right.

I thought?

What about the rest of us?

You have to think as a team. That's the only way we can fight.

All right, so you got that machine gun nest.

But that's not the point. It's how you did it.

On your own. Just like in the woods, on your own!

Now there's no room out here for show offs, Lawson! You understand?

Yeah.

You just let that sink right into your head.

Is that all, Sergeant?

Why?

I'm tired. I want to sit down for awhile.

Go on. Go on, sit down.

He had it coming.

Oh, I'm not finding fault with you. You just saved me the trouble.

Lawson's a loner.

He can get us all killed.

Now you know better than to talk like that.

Besides, we just got commended for taking this barn.

What are you going to do? Recommend him for a medal?

Or the psycho ward?

He's got something on his mind but

he's no psycho.

I'll tell you what he is.

He's a headache.

A real headache.

Amen.

[whispering] I'm telling you guys. We gotta do something about this.

What happened today was just a sample!

I've seen these heroes before.

They go out with you and then they get everybody else killed.

Will you knock it off, Kirby?

Look, you got any idea what's gonna happen to us

with this guy Lawson fighting the way he does?

- Crazy like? - What?

- What?

This squad will get a reputation.

Every tough job in the whole army is gonna be our personal property.

We had a good reputation before Lawson came.

I know that but it's different.

You get a superman in the outfit and everything changes.

How?

Where did he come from? Did you ever think of that?

What happened to his old outfit?

- How would I know? - I know!

- I know!

They're all dead!

The same thing will happen to us if we don't get rid of him.

You gotta be kidding.

You think so?

I'm gonna ask the Lieutenant to get this guy, Lawson, out.

Now, wait a minute.

How can you request a man out of the outfit just because he fights too good?

I ain't complaining about a guy's fighting.

Saunders fights good. You don't hear me complaining about him, do you?

I'm talking about somebody that's nuts!

I got a right to complain about that.

Wait a minute!

Let him go, Billy. Maybe he's right.

And if he is, maybe he's saving our lives.

Lieutenant?

Come in, Kirby.

What's on your mind?

It's, uh...

It's Lawson, sir.

Go on.

Well, uh...

Some of the other men up there and me...

been talking and...

You've got something on your mind, spit it out. Don't beat around the bush.

Yes, sir.

We'd like very much...

for Lawson to get out of the outfit before we all get killed, sir.

Go on.

That's all.

Just thought maybe he could be transferred somewheres else.

This is a war, Kirby. A war!

Not a pacifists convention.

Nobody gets kicked out of a squad for killing the enemy best.

Lieutenant, I'm not talking about killing the enemy.

I'm talking about that section eight, the way he goes about it.

Now he's gonna get us a reputation!

This conversation is over!

Kirby.

Don't worry. Lawson will shape up.

Lieutenant,

I'd be a liar if I told you that I could stop worrying about him.

Not a chance?

I told you so.

Never mind what you told me.

We're in trouble. Real trouble, I mean it.

What are we gonna do about it?

Yeah, we can't go over the Lieutenant's head.

No, we can't.

Look at him.

It's like watching a cancer that's gonna kill you walk around.

What can we do?

Well, for openers, we can let our friend know what we think about him.

Come on.

Well, what is it?

You're getting on our nerves, Lawson.

And we don't like it.

Look, don't you know that when a bullet enters your vital organs, you die?

Now, don't you know that?

Yeah.

All right, why you run around like you think you can't get killed?

That's what's bothering you?

Yeah! That's it exactly!

Why?

You act like that and we're all gonna get killed!

Isn't that a good enough reason?

I think you could think of a better one...

Look, wait a minute, Lawson. We didn't come here to ask you questions.

You're gonna listen to us for a change, you understand?

Kirby's giving you some good advice, Lawson.

Nobody's gonna get killed because of me.

You wanna put that in writing?

You'll be all right.

Lawson, do I have to tell you again?

Do I have to draw a picture for you?

When you joined the Army, who came to say goodbye to you?

Goodbye?

Will you stop playing dumb?

No, who came to say goodbye?

- Yeah.

- Your father and your mother? - Yeah.

- Yeah.

My mother, my father. So what?

What about the rest of you guys? Same thing?

I remember. My mother cried.

But did she tell you to come back home?

Well, she didn't have to tell him that. She didn't want him to get killed out there.

They know.

Who knows? Look, what are you talking about?

Mothers.

They know whether or not you'll be coming back home.

Lawson, will you stop this dumb talk?

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

How?

How do they know?

They just know.

Does your mother know if you're coming back?

Sure.

This whole thing is crazy.

Shut up, Kirby.

Are you going home, Lawson?

No.

She told you that?

- And you believed her?

- Yeah. - And you believed her?

- And you believed her?

Well, why would she lie to me?

My father didn't say goodbye either.

But he couldn't.

He was killed in the first World War.

Lawson, a lot of people's fathers got it in that war.

This kind of runs in my family.

My grandfather was killed in the Spanish-American war.

And now it's this war so it's my turn.

My mother knows that and I know it.

Lawson, I don't have a mother so where does that leave me?

I don't know.

Brother.

I used to think this was a squad.

It's more like a ward in an asylum.

Maybe your mother don't want you to come home.

You leave my mother out of this. What's she got to do with it?

The Germans don't want me to get back, right?

I figure I might make it though if you don't get me killed.

Don't worry about it. You'll be all right.

Just don't tell me not to worry.

Guys. You start talking about home and your mothers.

What's the use?

You, you hear any of that, Sarge?

Is Lawson Section 8 or am I?

Kirby, how can you listen to so much without hearing anything?

You buy what he says?

It's not hard to buy.

He's convinced he's gonna be killed.

His old man got it.

His grandfather got it.

Now he's sure that he's next.

And his mother?

She got hit pretty hard by those two other wars.

She's sure he's gonna get killed too.

She told him.

And he bought it.

As far as he's concerned he's living on borrowed time.

That's the way he fights.

It makes no difference if he gets it today.

Yesterday or tomorrow.

If he got it yesterday, I wouldn't even know him.

If he gets it today or tomorrow then I'm going to be involved.

We're all involved.

We ought to do something about it.

Like what?

I already told the Lieutenant.

He should be kicked out.

Kirby, why don't you get some sleep.

Because you're going to have to dream up something better than that.

Saunders?

- Yes, sir. - Come on down here.

- Come on down here.

Headquarters reports there's a couple of German recon vehicles down the road.

They're about 1500 yards from our position.

I want them knocked out. Now.

Get yourself three men. The rest will stay here.

Lawson, Kirby and Little John.

You sure you want Lawson?

I want him.

Okay.

Good luck.

[clears throat]

Kirby.

Little John.

Lawson.

On your feet.

We got a date with a couple of recon vehicles.

No packs.

Just grenades.

You see? It's starting already. Every rotten job.

And this is just the beginning.

It won't be over until we end up like Lawson's old squad.

Come on, let's go.

After you, superman.

There's a bridge up ahead.

Kirby, check it out. We'll give you cover.

Yeah, sure.

There are two of them up there, all right. But they're not recon vehicles.

- They're half-tracks.

- Well, that's just great. - They're half-tracks.

- Well, that's just great.

What do we do, Sarge? Can we make it back across the bridge before they spot us?

We're supposed to knock them out.

But, Sarge! Not half-tracks!

We still have a chance, they're pretty well separated.

We'll let the first one get through and then we'll hit the second one.

Lawson, make it back down the road near the bridge.

If the first car gets toward you, we'll hit the second one.

When you hear our grenades, try to pick off the driver.

We'll get to you as soon as we knock our car off.

All right.

And nothing else, Lawson.

Don't try to take it yourself. Don't fire until you hear our grenades.

The only chance we have is if our timing is right.

We work as a team, Lawson.

Now you remember that.

We need each other. Keep each other alive.

Move out.

We'll spread out. After I throw, everybody throws.

Let's go.

Dud.

A lousy dud!

Don't move, Lawson! We'll get you out!

Draw their fire so we can run off into the woods.

Ah, they're not turning the gun!

They're not worried about us.

They know we won't throw any grenades as long as Lawson is underneath them.

What do we do? We can't just leave him pinned down under there!

Whatever we do, we better do it fast. He might get the idea to take that car by himself!

That'd be the end of him.

Lawson! You don't have to die, Lawson!

Nobody has to die!

We'll get you out of this alive! Just stay still!

The rest is up to you!

I'm going to try to work my way up the road.

You two try to get behind it.

If they see me, maybe they'll start worrying about me getting close enough to fire through their slits.

When they turn their gun, I'm going to holler to Lawson to make a run for it.

Try to get your grenades in, you got it?

- Yeah, okay - Let's go.

- Let's go.

Lawson?

I'm going to try to draw their fire!

When the gun swings, break for the woods!

Hold your fire!

Let's go.

Gonna be a nice day.

Yeah, it is.

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