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United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.

Four Corps, Sea Sector.

Action Survey Report, 10 September 1968.

Location, Hamlet 326, Landing Zone Victor.

Time, 0200.

Friendly strength.

Two squads led by Special Group Beta.

Beta is five -man recon combat team.

Elite grade, star rating.

Beta personnel as follows.

Captain R .J. Kennington.

Staff Sergeant Buddy Grant.

Sergeant Roosevelt Washington.

Corporal William Tyzak.

Corporal Kyle Moore.

Accompanying Arvin political liaison, Major Nugent II.

Group history, three years.

Unit mission, pacification.

Enemy strength...

Unknown. Type of contact?

Enemy ambush.

Tactical response?

Retreat.

Casualties? Dead 12, wounded 6.

Beta group sustained one loss.

Accompanying Arvin political officer is missing in action.

News, the minute you want it.

KFWB News 98.

The weather forecast for Los Angeles, night and morning low clouds, otherwise

hazy sunshine tomorrow with a high up around 80 degrees.

This is KFWB Los Angeles serving Southern California. It's 9 o 'clock.

Thomas.

Hey, Promise.

Yeah. Who are the Promises?

Yeah. Promise and Thomas.

Cooper. Super Cooper.

Super duper Cooper.

And on and on and on.

Oh, I'd walk ten miles for J. Henderson Skiles.

Lord knows I would.

Hey, Brad, look.

Brian Mitchell on your dial. It's 66 degrees in Niagara Falls.

Hey, to all you tourists, and especially all you honeymooners out there, I want

to say welcome to Niagara Falls. Hey, look at all the blood.

And I do hope you're all having a great time. Listen, we'll have full weather,

sports, and news in just a few minutes.

But first, I want to tell you about the fine food at...

Yeah.

Yeah, this is Carl. Where you got him? What do you want?

I'm his partner. Who is this?

What?

What are you talking about? I don't know.

Oh, God.

Are you sure?

Well, what happened to him?

Well, do you know who did it?

Yeah.

Okay. Route 9 east of Overlook.

Yeah. All right.

Give me a half an hour.

Kim? What is it?

RJ's just been killed.

Can I come with you?

No, what for?

Hey!

What?

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

I've been here before.

You Moore?

Yeah, I'm Moore.

Mr. Moore, I'm Anthony Fusquick.

This is Sergeant Malone. Is he still there in the car?

No, he's down here in the wagon.

When did you see him last?

Last night when we closed the line.

Carlotte? Yeah. Where was he going?

He was going home.

This is Ryan Jeremy Kennington?

Yeah, that's RJ.

All right, let's go.

Close this up.

You known him long?

Yeah, we were together.

What'd you do back there?

We fought. We fought the war.

That's a shame, making it through that and ending up like this.

Listen, do you know what happened to him?

I'm a cop. I don't know anything at all.

You guys have the lot together?

Well, we ran it for R .J.'s uncle, that's why.

Yeah? Who's that?

Ernie Capel.

Yeah, Uncle Ernie.

A real class act.

Do you do any other business for him, like moving hot iron, quick clips,

anything like that?

Nah, nothing like that.

They don't blow guys away for nothing, Moore.

Sergeant, they do it all the time.

You know your partner carried this?

Yeah, that and his permit.

All right, Moore.

Do you have any ideas, you have any notions at all who did this?

I find out, I'll let you know, okay?

For now, just two things. You stay in town and watch your back.

Your partner got both of his legs broken.

You may have been in the service, but this guy is a pro.

God knows what you've inherited.

Sarah, you're so old, I think I'm going to put you away.

Come on, Sarah.

Good!

Hey, man.

R .J.'s dead.

R .J.'s dead?

They found him shot. His car was in the river.

Ooh. Charlie Chopper's dead, man.

What about Uncle Ernie? What did he have to say about it?

Let's go find out, huh?

Let's do that. All right.

Can I help you guys?

Is there any in there?

You know you're coming?

No. I'll tell her. I'll tell her. Oh.

It's okay, boy. We'll tell her. I'll take a walk.

You know it all, Ernie. All over town. Why don't you know a little thing like

that? It's your own blood, Ernie.

I know who R .J. was.

I don't need you to break in here to remind me. I miss the alien sharks.

You knock them off for a couple of lousy grand?

Come on.

I wouldn't even pay.

Then why is he dead, Ernie? What did you get him into?

And you keep your mouth shut.

Just remember who freed you and shut up. Somebody wasted your sister's kid.

You're just going to forget about it? Are you going to do something about it,

Ernie, huh?

Come on.

Listen, old man.

He was your nephew.

He was our friend.

One of you killed him, you understand?

Huh?

Think you just lost your job? Yeah, it looks like it. Gee, that's too bad.

Yeah, it's too bad. I had a great future.

I've always had a great future. It's just my present that's screwed up.

You know what I think?

What? I think we need a drink.

Brian Jeremy King.

R .J., brother.

You know,

it was the Army, but it was good.

Yeah, it was great.

Come on, look at it.

Rosie Washington, R .J., you and me, huh? Oh, I loved it.

How could it stop me?

I'm working on a boat, you're selling junk cars.

Hey, it's over, man, you know.

Oh, yeah.

It's over.

You know, I miss the bugs more than anything, I think.

You miss the bugs.

Yeah, okay, go ahead and have a sucker.

The best group you ever had.

Hi, hi. Billy?

Beautiful lady.

I have to make a phone call.

So,

how are you doing?

Uh, we're rolling right along.

How'd you find us?

I had a feeling you might be here.

Or be out doing something crazy.

No, the man's dead.

We don't know what to do yet.

Okay. All right.

Brother, the boat's having trouble. I have to go to work.

Want to take a ride?

Take a boat ride?

Come on.

You know, I've been working on this boat for six months.

You're my first guest.

I'm going to pick up my tools.

I'll be right back.

Good day, and welcome to the Maid of the Mist.

Please follow the boardwalk left down towards the dock. Carefully watch your

step over the window.

Maid for a legendary Indian princess.

The first Maid of the Mist made his maiden voyage in 1846.

And now, four individual maids make thousands of sightseeing trips under the

fall of 1850.

Niagara Falls are well over 200 feet high, and because the rapids below the

falls are absolutely impassable, each maid has been lowered into position by

crane from the cliff above.

We'll be giving you more information on the maids at the spectacular Niagara

Falls once you're on board.

to the left.

It's probably some kind of hydraulic.

Okay, in the next turnaround, I'll check it out.

Scratch. He'll be okay.

The heck is going on?

Thank you.

Thank you for seeing me.

I thought I was finished.

Not finished.

One more.

I find more.

One, two, three, four.

Eat. First I find, then I kill.

Thank you.

This is my holiday and this guy gets shot right in front of me. Are

you

all

right?

I've just never seen it before.

Well, you don't have to worry. You get used to it.

How's your head?

It's okay.

More?

Miss,

you can go.

Oh, wait.

I'm a tourist.

Tourism?

What's going on?

You're losing a lot of soldiers, Corporal.

If you want to sit down, don't walk around behind me, all right? Just sit

He's out of surgery, but he hasn't woken up yet.

All right, who is this guy?

He's Vietnamese. I don't remember his name.

What's it to you?

We're best friends.

Can I get a cup of coffee?

Yeah, I hope so.

He was a political officer.

They sent him up from Saigon.

Our team's job was to get him in and out of the village, you know, escort.

And one night we got caught in a little firefight.

We lost him.

He didn't get him out.

Apparently he hasn't forgiven you.

No, this guy won't forgive.

And he'd never forget.

Does he have your training?

Yeah, maybe better.

But he was born to it. He loves the work.

All right, what can we do to protect you?

Nothing.

Moore figures to get him first.

It's summertime, Moore.

The tourists are here.

Honeymooners, old ladies, little children.

Folks that like to see their killing done on TV. This is a lousy time for a

Okay, what's your idea?

I want to draw him out. I want to dangle you as bait and nail him.

When he moves.

You're going to ambush him.

Right.

You think you're going to ambush him. You don't know him.

And of course you do, huh?

Yeah, I do.

What do you think this is?

Vietnam?

Search and destroy, huh?

You think we're going to let you out there to fight?

No way. Not a chance. All right, all right, all right. I can't. Just can't.

Go get me those pictures, will you? Come on, come on.

Some tourist took a couple of snapshots.

You might nail him on the streets.

You must have been pretty tight back there. You, Buddy, and your partner, R

I mean, you must have been to stick together after.

R .J.'s uncle gave us jobs.

Listen to me more.

I know you want to go out and kill this guy.

I don't blame you, and maybe I'd even like to let you.

But I can't have it. I can't have a war in my streets.

You already got a war, Captain. It's here. You got it. Now you and him and

you're all just going to make it worse.

From where I'm sitting, how much worse can it get?

How can you let him walk out of here?

How long do you think we could keep him?

He's the target. He's not the trigger.

A little joker out there can wait forever.

You know something, Frank?

They're the genuine article.

The real thing.

Small arms, hand -to -hand knives, demolition. That was a special unit they

belonged to.

A guy sitting there knew 82 ,000 ways to kill you, and his friend out there

probably knew another 80 ,000 more.

Do you want to get help?

For what?

Murder, rampage in Niagara?

Chamber of Commerce would go berserk.

There'd be a big case.

I'm a peace officer.

I don't want a big case.

And we ain't gonna find this guy.

You want to show these snapshots around?

There's two million Oriental tourists out there.

And we're just going to let them go for each other.

We're going to be there when they do.

Montaigne.

Montaigne.

Yes, sir.

That young guy just left here. I want you to get on his tail and stay there.

You got it.

He got Rosie Washington, too.

Rosie Washington.

He got killed two weeks ago in L .A.

Oh, my God.

That's three down.

I'm the last one.

This war just never ends.

What's gonna happen?

Somebody else is gonna die.

Just like that?

Yeah.

When I was six, I saw a lady fall off the high wire at the circus.

One minute she was up there, shining in the light.

Music was playing, and then suddenly she was down on the floor.

All the way back to school, the nuns kept talking about the kingdom of

All I can remember is the broken lady dead on the floor.

Can't you stop it?

No.

You're not even going to try?

They teach us how to stop.

Then tell me something.

Tell me why he wants you dead.

Gotta cross over to the landing.

Who's it?

Put in the call.

Delta Red.

Delta Red.

This is Delta Blue. Do you copy?

Delta Red.

Delta Blue.

We're at the LZ.

Okay.

We're out.

They're on the way.

Okay.

Get set.

Two, three, four.

Move it!

Get him, he's hit!

Go on, get him!

Kong will kill him slowly. We ain't got time.

The man just didn't care.

Not at all. We were just his escort. We didn't matter. The only thing that

mattered to him was getting himself out of there.

See, you got to understand, all through it, all we had, all five of us, was each

other. Tyzak was one of us. He counted for us.

See, I think now, maybe we shouldn't have left him like that. Maybe we only

it because he was Vietnamese. I don't know, but that's just the way it was

there. Nobody was... Thinking about right or wrong, everybody was crazy. It

all confused.

Take care of your team. That was the only rule. There weren't any other

They just put us down in the jungle and they set us free. We could do anything

we wanted to do. Anything we wanted, that's what we did. And nobody cared.

Nobody asked questions.

The worse, the better. Do you see what I'm telling you?

Do you know, it wasn't search and destroy. It was much more the other way

around.

And you know what?

You know what?

I loved it.

I loved the high of it.

I was sorry it was over.

And now I don't want anything to do with it anymore.

What did you do?

I studied music, and I marched for peace.

God, war, peace.

Somebody's always marching.

You're getting dizzy already.

Don't see nothing yet.

Tell Mac to wave.

Hey, Andy, why don't you jump?

You tell her.

Halfway to Cleveland.

Fontaine, are you still with us?

the house i'm good for another shift all right we'll hang in there for half

everybody just stand by keep going over there i'll call more and i'll let them

know you got it malone you stay cool

Smart money says we have him by noon.

You think so?

I know it.

Here comes the hero.

Listen, that cop will be with you all day.

Anywhere you go, I'll take you, okay?

Okay.

But do me a favor. Don't go outside. Stay in until we're finished, all right?

Don't worry.

Real tough.

Take care of yourself.

The cops will take care of me.

Hey.

Peace could talk to you yet?

Yeah. Well, then let's do it, huh?

You got a real problem, don't you?

We got a man up on the skyline. Ought to be able to see it all. We got two men,

two men in the car lot.

Fontaine's going to cover the house, and I'm going to be on you.

You see anything, you let me know.

And you think that'll about take care of it, don't you?

Yes.

You remember something.

We're calling the shots.

It's our show.

You ain't in the jungle anymore.

Be real careful with her, huh?

Like she was my own.

Okay, I got him moving. A couple of blocks down from the house, now moving

on Colvin.

Okay, he's blocked by the Elms.

Coming back now. When I lost Malone, we got the soldier.

Andy, you think you could spare us the play -by -play?

Just let us know if you see...

Got a car here through two turns I

Don't

think so

Sheila

How about them all?

What are you eating, Mac?

You're a fatty, Bob.

What is it?

Eat your heart out, sucker.

Check it out.

Yeah, hello.

I'm a friend of Buddy Grant's. Can you give me any information about his

condition?

Dr. Tannenhaus, Dr. Tannenhaus, Dr.

Ligley, Dr. Ligley, Dr. Worth, Dr. Marsha Worth.

Dr. Ganton, Dr.

Ganton.

Kip?

How you doing?

Ask my doctor.

I don't want to know.

Well, then screw you, buddy.

What's going on out there?

The cops don't know what they're doing. They haven't seen him yet.

The way he came out of nowhere, it was like a bad dream.

You're gonna have to kill him.

The cops won't.

You know that.

Yeah, I know it.

Just... Just give it time, you know? Wait till you know.

I never used to see that one of the guys get hit by a bam there off to Japan.

I never saw. Yeah.

You saw plenty of guys wasted, though, you know?

He could be dead.

Tell me this isn't as far as I'm going to go.

What am I supposed to do?

Spend 30 years in the VA?

Spend the rest of my life in this bed?

Nothing works anymore.

Kip.

Kip.

You know what you want.

You got it.

I thought it was over.

I thought it was over a long time ago.

Some tea?

Coffee, thank you.

Want to have it inside?

Sure, just let me radio in.

That's the same as last night. No confirm, no deny.

I'm not going to say any more until we get the guy.

You notice that rhyme?

Look, do me a favor. Will you just keep the lid on? We're looking for the guy,

we're going to get him, and we're doing swell.

Wally, take it slow, will you?

Okay, thanks a lot.

Nothing. Nobody.

Nothing.

That's just what Moore said we'd get.

Katie? Kate?

Quentin?

He left me a note.

He wants me to meet him.

He has your girl?

Yeah.

What's the plan?

Oh, you gotta be kidding.

We can surround the place.

Kidnapping's federal. We'll bring in the FBI.

He'll kill her if he sees one cop.

He took her because he saw you lousy cops.

You blew it, Jack. With all your talk and all your men, you blew it. See to

dead and leave me alone.

I'm telling you. Nothing.

Listen.

Bye.

hasn't changed.

You mean from up there you can't see the house at all?

No, sir. The trees are in the way.

You.

You come with me.

A homicide.

Another one attempted. A dead cop.

Kidnapping.

Battle scheduled to start in a few hours. So far, we've done a hell of a

It's not your fault.

Come on, will you? I'm talking the facts. We've got the rest of our life to

the blame.

Seems to be a real common mistake underestimating the Vietnamese.

So what are we going to do?

I've got to talk to Fontaine's widow.

You set things in motion.

And let's both of us hope that Moore's friend picks a nice, quiet place to

Thank you.

Take this.

Look, anything happens, just pretend it's a camera and shoot, right?

Okay? And take the truck and get out of here.

Where are you going?

I'm going to kill him.

He's just downtown.

Naturally.

All right, gentlemen, this is city pattern. Stay on the box. Move it out

now. We're off to Vietnam.

The stars of the silver screen seem silent.

Roger. We're right on top of him.

Get that damn trapper out of here. Get it out.

Get it out. He shoots you guys down, he'll kill everybody.

All right, get them down down

Tony, can you tell us what's going on down there? All in good time, ladies and

gentlemen. It's going to be a long evening. Get them all behind bars.

Can we see you later? Yeah, later.

Where's the girl?

I've sealed off the perimeter. We're using every available car.

Still no action down there?

Not a shot.

I've been waiting for the light.

How are you feeling, miss?

I'm all right.

What are you going to do?

Well, they're still in the trees. They're up on top of the gorge.

So?

We're going to wait just the same as they're waiting.

If I go in there now, I'm going to lose half of my men.

So we'll move in in the morning.

I can't afford to lose anymore.

You're not going to help him.

He doesn't want us.

And I'll tell you quite frankly, miss, I sure can understand why.

All right, ladies and gentlemen.

The fighting has been contained. They're surrounded, and everything's going to

be wrapped up as soon as it's daylight.

You going to let them shoot it out, Tony?

The fighting is contained.

Thank you.

Thank you.