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Thank you.

I don't believe it. Talk! What it is!

I knew you were returning.

You felt it.

Strongly.

The other figure was not home.

It was time to go.

I understand.

Movement is good.

Now and again.

Especially for someone.

He'll stay.

Affirmative.

As you say, it's home to returning.

You recognize his face?

Yes, it's him.

Got him through the heart from four feet And now gentlemen

You're payment

Looking

for this At the door earlier when we shook hands see that's the

misdirection very important in magic

When we shook hands, I lifted it.

Maybe one day your tricks will get you into a great deal of trouble, Mr.

Tracton.

Or out of it.

You want to count it?

No.

You check it again.

I'll be back.

I'll take the roof. You go down. He may have headed for the street.

My compliment.

Wrapped in tentacles.

Dr. William Edwards.

A name as eloquent as, oh, etiquette as writing.

Signed by the man himself.

It is more than a book hawk.

It is a treasure.

Then it is right in your hands.

The Souls of Black Hawk.

Written in 1903.

It is wonderful.

Over 85 years ago.

And this man was already speaking of soul.

Eternal truths, old friend.

Eternal truths.

You're alike in many ways, you know. You and this man.

Nomads.

Fighters.

Causes mean much to you.

You like you.

Very few.

Indeed.

Weren't you about Mr. Rex?

Could have cost you.

Still looking for the odd?

When you should worry about the unexpected.

That's him.

You in a hurry?

Hey, I'm talking to you.

That's like one -sided conversation.

You're coming with us.

in a private club. Good, I'm a very private man.

But sir, you have to be a member to go in.

Send me an application.

You got

out to use the phone or what?

Where's the other one?

At the dentist.

David, I'd like you to meet Hawk.

Hawk, my deputy director, David Freeman.

Charmed. So we gonna talk or what?

Gentlemen, would you excuse us a moment?

I'd ask you to calm down, but I realize you'll do whatever you wish. Since your

memory is working so good, then you'd know I'm not gonna stand around a place

like this all day either.

Tracton is here in Washington.

Wherever the American citizen may be a stranger, he is at home here.

To a certain extent.

I need to find him, Hawk. He works for you. Yes, he does.

So bring him in. I've tried.

He's not responding to the usual channels or our emergency signals.

How do you know he's here in Washington?

I have the bodies of two hoods, maybe double agents.

One of them had this in him.

I do recognize the knife.

Help me find him, Hawk. Why?

When you worked for me years ago, you accepted the fact that often I couldn't

tell you everything I knew.

Coronel, I don't work for you or anyone anymore.

You want to find Tracton, you find him yourself.

Hawk, I could help you a great deal.

Now you're in Washington.

That cannon you're carrying, for example.

No one anymore.

Put two men back on him to watch this time.

They are to do nothing but watch.

He'll find Tracton for you?

Not for me.

But he'll find him.

Hi there.

Bailey Webster, what's going on?

I've known you since I was six years old, and it's always been Bailey

What's going on? So, what is?

Oh, it's so good to have you back.

I missed you. Missed me because you got little jobs to be doing.

And you're so good at doing them.

So, where's the cat?

He's not here yet, but he'll show up.

Creep. I told Lionel's coach about him, but he didn't want to get involved.

Been watching Lionel?

Yeah, he's good. Got that Doug Williams -like touch.

Old district, two years.

And this is a boy who almost dropped out in the ninth grade.

So they had to do a little one -on -one with Miss Webster, huh?

His father asked me to try.

It was tough at first, but the more I tutored him and he saw I wasn't going to

quit, he took off.

He's a solid, excellent student now.

I've been on him about majoring history next year at college.

He called me a liar to my face, but I think he's starting to like school

as much as football.

There is serious doubt in that.

Uh -oh.

Here we go.

This sucker comes here every day.

Sports agent my butt.

Hockey's offering Lionel money, all kinds of stuff to get him to sign early

him. He could screw up everything about school, trying to sink his teeth into

young kids like that.

I told him to get lost myself, but he just laughed at me.

I'd like to bust his head myself.

You'd be better as a school mom.

Is that him, Miss Webster?

Uh -huh.

That's really the hawk, huh?

Watch.

Bye -bye.

Hi,

honey.

I've got another package for you.

I'll leave it at the same place, okay?

Honey, I understand that, Lisa.

But it's way too dangerous right now, okay?

I'll see you as soon as I can.

Love you, too.

Bye.

Made snow earlier this year.

This hawk worries me, Colonel.

He's a loose cannon in this whole affair.

Any looser than Tracton himself? That's my point.

Tracton's gone rogue.

Now we have an outsider running around. An outsider you yourself admit we may

not be able to trust.

Certainly can't control.

Look, David, do we have a choice?

We clearly can't, or at least haven't been able to locate Tracton.

Hawk will, if anybody can.

What then?

We take him. Will Hawk let us?

They're close, you said.

Very close at one time.

Teacher and student.

Comrades.

Hawk trained Tracton in special forces.

They worked together as a two -man team.

Yes, David, they're close.

Combat close. And who's to say that Hawk won't join Tracton, help him slip away?

Could happen.

So I ask again, what then?

What then, Colonel?

What do you want, David? A death sentence for them both right now?

I know.

It may come to that.

None of us wants that, sir.

It just has to be considered.

We've met before.

Twelve years ago.

Yes, it's been that long since you brought Lisa to us.

Such a lovely child.

The joy she brought us while she was here.

When we brought her here, the man who was with me, have you seen him?

Oh, yes.

While Lisa was here.

He visited three, four times a year. So kind.

Always a donation for the school.

And he loved Lisa so very much.

Did you ever have to contact him? Was there an address, telephone number?

Oh, you've lost track of your friend, have you? We never had a permanent

address. I gather Lisa's father worked and lived overseas.

Yes.

Well, I'm sure Lisa can help you. I could have her call you if she stops by.

She still lives in D .C. Oh, yes.

Since she graduated, she's been immersed in her music.

She has a gift, such a great God -given gift.

I'm often difficult to reach.

Could I contact her?

I don't have an address.

But I'm sure the Capitol Symphony can help.

She's with them now, you know.

Chopin, the lyrical technician, as a friend once called him.

That's a perfect description.

Do you know me?

No. I'm Hawk, and I knew you once in another place, Lithos, Weimar.

Do you remember now?

I really don't want to. 1975,

when the war was over.

Father called me, go back to Vietnam.

Back to hell, is what he said.

Two of us went in, through louds, 300 clicks, through an enemy's heart,

to save a little girl.

At that time, there was only one man on earth with whom I would have made such a

journey.

You and father saved my life.

I know that.

They had killed my mother.

For loving him.

They would surely have killed me, too. Your father's love saved you.

It may be time to repay the debt.

What do you mean?

I need to find him.

I don't know where my father is. I've never known.

He visited?

Yes, but that's all. I mean, the money still comes.

But I haven't seen my father in over a year.

Why are you looking for him because others are you play exquisitely?

Death shall have no dominion.

Dead men naked, they shall be one with the wind and the west moon.

When their bones are picked clean and clean bones gone, they shall have

stars at elbow and foot.

Though they go mad, they shall be sane.

Though they sink through the sea, they shall rise again.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

And death shall have no dominion.

Seems like a lifetime, Trax.

Or a moment.

I got your message.

We knew of it come through Lisa.

She's grown quite a bit, eh? She has true talent.

Yeah. And beauty.

And heart.

She's all I got, Hawker.

So what did the colonel want?

I assume that's what this was about.

He said nothing.

It's the first time I remember that.

You want to hear why he's looking?

You want to tell it?

Do you?

We should leave.

Always the teacher.

I remember you'd always be asking me whether the two safest places for a

when hunted.

Absolutely alone or in a crowd, I hear music.

Army finally got something right when they assigned me to you.

You were a hell of a student, Trax. Good instincts.

Instincts don't cut it unless you got the training.

I gave you what I could.

Need every edge to win.

How many times you teach me that?

Our skills are a piece of the puzzle.

For a warrior, it is the

puzzle.

What's the Colonel want, Track?

Come walk with me, Hawk, before you have to part.

Kicked around Asia for a while.

Didn't really know what I was going to do.

So I get this call from the colonel saying that he's moving over to

full time and wants me to come along.

Him at the desk, you in the field.

Yeah.

Covert operative.

Doesn't matter what you call it, it's the same thing.

Angola, Nicaragua, Middle East, hell and gone.

training insurgents, you know, some anti -terrorist duty.

I did a lot for them, man.

My, my, my.

So now they want me in, right?

Fast, overnight.

Orders came in about a month or so ago.

It's got a bad ring to it, brother.

Trouble there somewhere.

Retirement.

Yep.

Think they got some old spies home picked out for me.

Come on. I mean, the things I've done, the stuff I know, man. You want to pack

it in?

No.

No, no, no.

I got a lot of work to do yet.

Now I don't think I got much of a choice.

You got any money?

Yeah.

Yeah, I made some.

Then hit it, Trax. You've earned your rest.

You've been fighting for this glorious country before you could vote. Take Lisa

and split.

And a man alive could find you if you don't want him to.

Except you.

Wasn't us, Hawkins.

David Cornell?

No, I won't.

Don Trachten and I worked together for nearly 20 years.

Do you honestly think I could issue a hit on him?

Men like you can order anything. You forgetting about all those missions that

you dreamed up while we were in the jungle?

That was war.

And just what do you call what you've been doing to that brother for the last

years? Peacekeeping?

Talk to me quick. Stop accusing for a second, damn it.

Stop looking for blood on my hands and help me find out who did it.

Take this.

It's a permit for your gun.

It was hell to come by, but I got it. I will carry my piece without your piece

of paper.

In this town, you'll carry it a lot easier with it than without it.

It'll be on fire.

You have full clearance from my office as long as you're in D .C.

I also took care of the incident on the bridge. You won't hear any more about

that either. The incident on the bridge, said he.

All right, tracked and shooting.

Look. Dave Freeman and I will get at this from the inside.

Help us on the streets.

Help us find out who shot him. I think I'm talking to the man right now.

Hawk, if I had killed him, wouldn't I want confirmation?

The police haven't found his body.

I must have worn that thing a thousand times.

I never needed it.

I'm still glad I had it on tonight.

You mean you're not shot?

No. No, I may have a broken rib.

It's the father that damn near killed me.

Look, honey.

I'm not going to be able to stay here.

There's still a chance they could find you.

Now, I got to get out of the city soon.

I'm going to need you to give me some of our money.

I'm coming with you. No.

Father, you told me one day this would end.

I didn't have you when I was growing up.

Let me be with you now.

Honey, I can't.

Look, Lisa.

Honey, you've got a life of your own here.

You didn't bring me along to buy anything. You just needed some old pack

So, can I help with that? Get a little carried away?

Anyway, a couple of those are yours. Yeah, these other 20 are yours.

Oh, shoot.

What's that?

I left my charge card in the store. Oh, I'll get it. No, no, baby, I'll go back.

No, I don't mind. Besides, you go out there and you start buying again.

Hey, get a time on the speed.

Just tell it slow.

His hip's broken.

Both legs in several places.

There's internal bleeding. And he's out of danger, man. Child's alive.

Yes, but it was so much. No, no more negative.

Hands been dealt. It's over. Life barely made.

Football was everything to him, Hawk.

My God, he may never walk again.

Behold, he's still alive.

He showed that boy's mind how to think.

Create did not hold his hand you drove him can't be holding his hand now

Especially when you got to come through with it. I know I know You

know I've only known Lionel a few years now, but I Couldn't feel worse if you

must were my own little brother That's funny how a teacher and students Strong

bond teachers do you use that now Bailey babe?

Stand with him. Help him every way you can.

My God, what is that?

A message.

Message?

Telling me to stop looking.

You're troubled in the extreme.

Is it yours?

Another man's.

But a friend. He was once, but a lot of years have gone by.

And now you doubt him. I don't, but I doubt those who control him.

Being controlled, that's an ugly thought.

It is the loss of freedom.

Yes, but it may have its price.

Frederick Douglass said it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man.

without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Hmm.

Hello, Colonel.

Frax.

It's been a long time.

Too long from your point of view, I gather.

I tried, Trax.

I tried to make contact.

Pretty hard, it seems.

Yes, because it's time to end it.

You must know that.

Hawk's all right?

You ever doubt he wasn't?

So what now?

Come with me.

Come in.

I can help you.

Private hospital somewhere?

That's doctor's medication.

If that's what's needed.

You tried to kill me.

No.

No, it wasn't me.

I served you.

And you became just like all the rest.

All of the enemies.

Yeah. I thought that you know that.

Yes.

There are many enemies.

But not me.

Believe me, Trax, I have been your friend in work that has very few.

I still am.

Come with me tonight, Trax.

The running's over.

Come with an old friend.

So many enemies.

You're not an easy man to find.

I allowed you this time.

Patrolman found him about an hour ago. What else?

The last message recorded on his phone was an unidentified man.

This address and a time.

You dig this, bureaucrat?

If it were you lying on this stretcher, I'd give you a quick amen and say

goodbye. But it happens that this man here I knew and worked for, it pains me

that he's dead. It pains me even more that Tracton might have done it. I said

nothing about Tracton. You'll say nothing about anything anyhow, won't

Just invited me down here to look at a dead body, huh?

Let me rock it to you one more time. Either you're going to tell me about

Tracton or this is the last time we speak.

Tracton was under the colonel's direct control for years.

You know as well as I do what type of work he did. I do not need a novel. Make

it a short story.

A few years ago, the colonel and I started receiving information that

had gone solo on a few missions. Branched out. How so?

At first, field movement without authorization.

Sort of side trips.

Then funds were drawn mysteriously. Come on, free man.

Later, we heard rumors of hits.

Assassinations. Who? All sorts.

Again, at first, the victims were people actively working against our

government. Terrorists, mostly.

Then rumors of private contracts started coming in. Murders for money.

A drug lord in South America. A political activist in West Germany.

Well, you kept him riding that choo -choo train.

Kept old tracks doing the legit work for you. We were planning action if the

rumors were to prove true. We were investigating all... Kept clicking right

along, didn't you?

Look, what did you expect us to do?

Take some kind of preemptive action against him? You did exactly what I knew

you'd do. You used him, jammed him. Used him till it was too late.

Then... When it was too late, you wrung your hands because you lost control. We

had no proof.

You do now.

You stay away from him.

We'll find him.

He's ours and we'll take him out.

I have nothing to say to you.

Take me to your father.

I told you before, I don't know where he is.

Three hours after we meet, he finds me.

You stop this little light fandango, darling. Your father's clamped to a

hold, and I might be the only one that can help him out. Just go away.

You don't want to hear this, do you?

You know what your daddy does?

No, I don't.

Yeah, yeah, you know it well enough. He's a soldier without a uniform, but

a soldier just the same. And like all men under fire, he lives in danger. He's

intimate with fear.

My father has never been afraid.

Ah, then he has never been at peace.

And it's destroying him.

I do know. I have seen it in him. Even during the war, everything gets twisted.

Defense becomes suspicion, alert, paranoia.

Good, bad, evil, all blurred for your father now.

Lisa, he is sick.

He's been killing so long, he does not know another way.

You're lying. Just leave me alone. Stop it. What we need to stop is him.

We need to stop the demons that are chasing him. The men who have used him

and now fear him.

How dare you say these things when you just don't know?

I do.

He's here.

No, Father, I was careful.

No, it's all right.

It's okay, honey.

I knew he'd come.

Colonel's lapdog.

Freeman? Mm -hmm. They gonna have half the country looking for you.

Then I'll have to avoid that half, won't I?

You won't make it.

Got to, Hawk.

Looking at my options.

Colonel want to put me in some room somewhere.

Let me rot away.

No.

And I ain't gonna stay put either.

Let them hunt me down, shoot me in the street.

So you got to move.

I know ways out of this city that they do not.

Come with you, Hawk?

Affirmative.

And you won't take me to him?

You know?

Do I?

So I'm the enemy now?

He's got a lot of faces, Hawk.

Father, maybe we should just... No.

No.

This is between us.

Hawk is the only man I can't outrun.

I won't be behind you.

Way too risky to take that chance.

It's time, Hawk.

Time to see if the students become the master.

You don't need to fight me, Track.

No?

Then let's make sure.

Go down your gun hole.

Sorry, Hawk.

For God's sake!

No!

He's not dead. He's just hurt. Call an ambulance.

Call it now!

Should we go? Yeah, let's get out of here. Never should have came in the

place. This here life is over for me anyway.

Another one's beginning.

Well, when's that?

After I crawl out this here wheelchair and start hobbling around on crutches?

Nothing's gonna happen. You don't make the effort. Point is, right on through

here, football's the only thing gone in your world. And life is still gorgeous.

Like college.

If a sports scholarship is out, you can still win an academic one. You hear

that?

Guess I just struggled through it, huh?

You have no choice.

You push yourself till you can't stand the pain.

And when that's done, you push yourself a little more.

What is it you want with me?

Tracton committed suicide.

Yeah, and you were right there helping him pull the trigger.

You and the colonel and all the rest that drove that brother to madness.

You made him a machine, didn't you? And then you let him burn out.

It happens, damn it. There's stress in the field.

You of all people must know that.

You put a weapon in his hand and then wouldn't let him lay it down.

20 years of fighting. Yeah, bureaucrat. That do become stressful.

Now you're going to get back at the whole system by killing me. I am

on it furiously. I still owe you for the bridge that night.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You did that, didn't you? A little lad lived and a colonel

didn't even know it.

There is a slower death, bureaucrat.

Ruination.

Mess up all that ambition and planning.

whispering in some ear you can't do anything to me