1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,950 I was given orders to break bread with the Resistance 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,030 and the people known as the Cosa Nostra. Incoming! 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:08,950 This breakfast was not my idea. 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,710 But it has taught me a lesson - 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,520 be selective about the orders that you obey. 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,430 The next stage of this war is invasion. 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,710 Taking territory inch by inch. 8 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 It is the SRS who are spearheading the operation. 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,270 I'm going to move closer to the front line. 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,190 Your plan is to join my brother in Sicily? I want you to write to him, 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,630 and I want you to tell him to accept me, and help me. 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,710 After the attack on Cannizzaro, you will embark for the mainland. 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,870 This is just the snout. 14 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,670 It is our job to take the whole hog, 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,750 right the way up to the tail. 16 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,030 A whole new detachment is being deployed to Augusta. 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,270 It is called 2SAS. 18 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:47,870 So, the name SAS 19 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,750 is stolen for your own use. 20 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,390 Can I invite you to welcome back my good friend, my conscience 21 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,870 and my voice of reason, Staff Sergeant Jimmy Almonds! 22 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,750 I'm looking for a man of the cloth, 23 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,960 and I am also looking for a stolen donkey. 24 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,960 Jawohl. 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,800 Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. 26 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,240 Nein! Nein! 27 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,240 Runnin' Wild by Airbourne 28 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,030 So, we're getting pretty good at this. 29 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,190 Paddy doesn't want to be fucking good at this, lad. 30 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,990 What does he want to be fucking good at? 31 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,040 He wants to be good at what they used to do before. 32 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,560 Before you begin... 33 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,870 ...where do you stand, as regards to the invasion of your country, 34 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,720 and my role in it? 35 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,310 Mussolini. 36 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:11,600 Il Duce. 37 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:14,230 What do you think of him? 38 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,760 Mussolini? 39 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,440 Mussolini... 40 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:33,320 Next question. 41 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,870 As a barber, how would you feel 42 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:43,560 if somebody ordered you to stop cutting hair and start baking bread? 43 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,350 My English not so good. 44 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,950 Flour and water and salt 45 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,030 and fucking ovens 46 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,120 and early fucking starts. 47 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,990 You would say, 48 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,670 "I am trained to cut a man's hair, not baking fucking buns." 49 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,150 You would say, 50 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:12,230 "I am trained to shave a man's face, not feed it fucking cakes." 51 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,270 You would say, 52 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:15,710 "You could get anybody to get fucking mush all over their hands. 53 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,310 "What I want is an open razor, 54 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,040 "so that I can do the work that I am uniquely qualified for." 55 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:29,510 Do you want oil? 56 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,160 No, I don't want oil. 57 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,510 I want rum 58 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,430 and omelettes 59 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,360 and an open desert. 60 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,600 And I want my friend back. 61 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,120 That's what I want. 62 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,270 Always tell your troubles to someone 63 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,600 who has no idea what you are talking about. 64 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,390 Is that your blue jacket? Yeah. 65 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,430 I would like to purchase it from you. 66 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,510 Last night, when we arrived in your wee little town, 67 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,590 there was a welcoming party. Germans. 68 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,750 We had a disagreement as to the ownership of your country. 69 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,840 My own jacket is now so soaked in blood as to be unwearable. 70 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,360 I shall be my fucking self. 71 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,950 Rouge, Rouge by Christie Laume 72 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,310 Did they take any prisoners? No. The SAS boys dispatched every one. 73 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,110 There were no prisoners taken. 74 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,000 As you've seen, they used... cutlery. 75 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,440 When the fighting is arm's length, what do you expect? 76 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,390 Stories go round among the regular soldiers 77 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,310 about the SAS boys who go in first. 78 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,320 They're actually SRS. What stories? 79 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,270 That they're... wild men. No rules, you know? 80 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,470 Let's try and avoid relaying any idle gossip about 81 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,670 mad men and savages to anyone. 82 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:37,270 Especially not her. 83 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,630 She's a journalist and a spy. No, sir. Of course not, sir. 84 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,270 And anyway, the stories are told with a sense of... admiration. 85 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:46,830 Well, yes. 86 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,310 There is much to be admired. 87 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,880 Get those bodies covered up. Yes, sir. 88 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,830 Lieutenant Colonel Bill Stirling. 89 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,430 We missed each other in Sicily. 90 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,310 You mean you avoided me and ignored my request for an interview. 91 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,990 I don't really do interviews. Rather busy fighting a war. 92 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,870 I knew your brother in Cairo. 93 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,550 Yes, and because he is my brother, 94 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,230 he told me absolutely nothing about you. 95 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,510 He finds impractical things impossible to talk about. 96 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,310 But when he thought you were dead, he came to my apartment 97 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,310 and he was as unlike himself as I have ever seen him. 98 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,750 "Unlike himself". 99 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,760 I mean he was... He was quite upset. 100 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,590 "Quite upset". 101 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,990 You sound like him. 102 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,070 It's all rather awful in there. 103 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,040 I don't think you want to see things you can't then unsee. Right. 104 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,390 It all looks quite gruesome, 105 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,350 but these encounters almost always end with hand-to-hand. 106 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,990 Where is Paddy Mayne, and how do I get to him? 107 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,710 How do you GET to him? 108 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,350 I have accreditation to report from combat zones. 109 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,950 Look, we both know who you are. You're a spy... I really don't need 110 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,510 anybody's help to reach him. You're here to relay news on the invasion 111 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,390 to the Free French government in exile. 112 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,280 And the news will be wherever Paddy Mayne is, not where you are. 113 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,070 Miss Mansour, I'll have one of my men take you back to the harbour. 114 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,830 I have dead German soldiers to identify, bodies to bury, 115 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,310 photographs of loved ones to collate and send to the Red Cross. 116 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,360 It can be work that is quite troublesome to the soul. 117 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:30,430 And I'm afraid Paddy Mayne 118 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,270 and his men are strictly 119 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,710 out of bounds to journalists 120 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,560 and reporters of any sort. 121 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,080 Your brother really didn't tell you anything about me, did he? 122 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:58,960 Colonel. 123 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:03,000 Sir. 124 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,510 Colonel Stirling. 125 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,830 You've applied to take part in tomorrow's escape attempt 126 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,070 and, yet, you've only been here for three months. 127 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,430 Three months. Yes, quite right. 128 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,830 Not only have I counted every single brick in my cell, 129 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,510 I've also given them names. As I'm sure you understand... 130 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,470 There is a long queue of prisoners who want to escape from this place, 131 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,750 and a long list of men who need to escape, 132 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,230 and a handful who simply cannot countenance 133 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,230 spending another single day locked up in here. 134 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,830 And then there is me. 135 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:57,830 And as you can see, I am a wildly, madly special case. 136 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,150 There are occasionally exceptional circumstances in which... 137 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,430 Certain prisoners are invited to take part in escape attempts 138 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:09,990 ahead of the queue - IF they can prove that their escape would, 139 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,270 I think in your manifesto, it says, 140 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,270 "If the prisoner's freedom and return to active service 141 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,510 "would significantly help the execution of the War." 142 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,430 Well, gentlemen, my unit 143 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,070 is currently spearheading the invasion of Italy 144 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,870 and is in the very... capable hands of my brother, Bill. 145 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:36,870 But, you see, when we were young, I always stole the bike 146 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:42,150 and won the race and got the girl and scrumped the most apples. 147 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:46,430 And I really do believe that I can make substantial 148 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,710 and significant improvements to the execution of the campaign 149 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,230 to liberate Italy. And, my God, if you do not add me 150 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,790 to the top of your list, I will walk out of my cell, 151 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,470 stroll across the courtyard, walk right up to the gates, 152 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,190 tell the guards to fuck off, 153 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,800 in Italian. 154 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,840 I will then be shot... 155 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,950 ...and it'll be your fault. 156 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,990 Theme From Sparta FC by The Fall 157 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,840 Tonkin. Letter. 158 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,520 Postman. Beware of the dog. 159 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,470 That sign there says 160 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,150 "SAS members only", 161 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,230 but you can sign in as a guest. 162 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,670 I AM a fucking member. 163 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,950 You know, I blame my mother, but I cannot get used to 164 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,190 not being able to wash my hands in these nasty little places. 165 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,670 Fucking salute me, damn you, Sergeant! 166 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,120 Actually, I made him a lieutenant. 167 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,030 Where... are his bloody pips? 168 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,870 Where are your bloody pips, Johnny? 169 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,350 On my tunic. 170 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,470 And where is your bloody tunic? 171 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,240 It's covered in blood, Colonel. 172 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,040 That will be all. 173 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,710 You came to say "well done". 174 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,350 GHQ are cock-a-hoop. Cock-a-hoop? 175 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,270 Well, I am cock-a-doodle-fucking-doo that they are cock-a-hoop. 176 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,030 "Tolerate Paddy Mayne's eccentricities, 177 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,910 "in return for exceptional results in the battlefield." 178 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,790 That's my instruction from GHQ. But you're getting close to saying 179 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,920 "fuck it" and taking a swing. 180 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,560 Who am I to you, Paddy? 181 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,350 Your headmaster? The headmaster at my school was my friend. 182 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,230 He gave me cigarettes. Well, some figure of authority. 183 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,590 You remind me of the gamekeeper who broke my home-made fishing rod 184 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,160 and I broke his home-made arm. 185 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,880 Why are you wearing a blue jacket? 186 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,990 I paid handsomely for it. 187 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,910 None of your men are wearing uniform. Aye. 188 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,830 You see, sir, what happens when you storm a bunker full of Germans 189 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,350 with your bayonet fixed, 190 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,190 in that brief, but energetic wee dance that follows, 191 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,990 you tend to get quite a bit of blood on your clothes. 192 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,950 Some of it, your own, but mostly German blood. Either one 193 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,270 tends to stain your regulation-issue clothing quite badly. 194 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,480 So you have to go shopping. 195 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,270 Have you boys of SAS Number 2 had the call to go shopping yet 196 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,000 or are your uniforms still just dandy? 197 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,910 There is a woman. A journalist. 198 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,520 Aye, your brother just wrote to me about her. 199 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,150 What did my brother say? 200 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,920 His personal communication with me remains private. 201 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,310 It's the French woman he was fucking in Cairo. 202 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,200 His description was a touch more poetic. 203 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,270 This woman must not be allowed anywhere near the front line 204 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,910 and must not be privy to any details of the strategy 205 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,510 of our advance. I'd say the strategy 206 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,350 is plain for anyone to see, anyway. 207 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:19,990 You throw the SAS at the enemy defences like a handful of gravel. 208 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,270 You use the SAS the way you would use any conventional Commando unit, 209 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,190 with no regard to our particular skills. 210 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,030 Italy is not the Great Sand Sea, Paddy. There are civilians here - 211 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,470 men, women and children - 212 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,470 and I do not trust you and your "members only" 213 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,680 to display your particular skills among innocent people. 214 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,150 You don't trust ME with innocent people? 215 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,270 I don't trust you to draw the line. Knowing which lives to spare, 216 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,870 knowing which houses to blow to pieces 217 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,150 and which houses to drive around, 218 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:58,350 knowing the difference between enemy and friend and all those in-between. 219 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:03,030 Nothing I have seen or heard about you and your men 220 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,520 gives me any reason to trust you. 221 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:17,120 So, the gravel will continue to be thrown. Yes. 222 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:20,320 The gravel will continue to be thrown. 223 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,920 You will continue to be a spearhead force. 224 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,510 And your next operation starts tonight. 225 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,030 Your job is to liberate Termoli from the Germans, 226 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,230 taking out the rear guard at various points along the way. 227 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,630 The Italian Resistance and Riley will be sent ahead to reconnoitre 228 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,440 the town, take out a spy and clear the station. 229 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:02,960 Shit! 230 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,150 Your papers were forged by British SOE. You'll be OK. 231 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,720 Just act like a normal husband and let your wife do the talking. 232 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,670 They talk strange. Not like Termoli people. 233 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,470 Where are they from? 234 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,830 She sounds Sicilian. 235 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,190 Their papers say they are from Campomarino, 236 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,560 but they sound Sicilian. 237 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,160 Am I wrong? 238 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,790 I say we let the others go 239 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,720 and hold her for more questions. 240 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,600 Let them pass. 241 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:13,680 No! No! 242 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,080 So, have you decided to try charm? 243 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,710 We got off on the wrong foot. 244 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,470 Please. 245 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,910 That is the expression, yes? Yes. 246 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,160 The smell of blood and the proximity of corpses probably didn't help. 247 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,760 You appear to have opened your own restaurant. 248 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,790 The people in the local cafe are very grateful to the British 249 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,390 that their business wasn't destroyed. 250 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,670 Though most of their wine was stolen by Paddy's men. 251 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,550 Well, luckily, it seems they left behind the good stuff, 252 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,160 because Paddy knows nothing but poitin and Guinness. 253 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,840 Was my brother in love with you, do you think? 254 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,440 Or should the question be - IS my brother in love with you? 255 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,270 Love doesn't really suit him. 256 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,080 Well, he was always very jealous of his possessions. 257 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,470 He had an air rifle I used to use on purpose to annoy him. 258 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,640 Am I a possession? 259 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,310 I'm quite blunt sometimes. And tired. 260 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,310 You look very tired. Yes. 261 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,310 Doing nothing and achieving nothing can be very tiring. 262 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,240 What exactly do you want from me? 263 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,320 I hear Paddy Mayne is heading for Termoli, yes? 264 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,670 It is my job. 265 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,430 It's what I do. 266 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,360 By the way, do I call you William or Bill? 267 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,110 Bill. 268 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,870 I prefer William. 269 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,190 Before Termoli, Paddy will have to overcome the German rear guard. 270 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,480 Yes. When the sun sets... 271 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:54,760 ...God help the rear guard. 272 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,720 Looks like some of them are moving out. 273 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,310 Are you coming with us on this little jolly, Paddy, 274 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,750 or are you going to stay and wash your feet? 275 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,600 I have decided to be more human. 276 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,030 I have decided to communicate with my human body, 277 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,950 my flesh, 278 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,800 since I am not a machine. 279 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,390 I am not a killing machine. They cannot put that against my name. 280 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,430 To send men to die like cattle is not my human purpose. 281 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,750 I am human fighting human, 282 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,430 and I draw the line in the sand with my human feet. 283 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,480 And I draw that line pretty fucking well, if I may say! 284 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,520 Pretty fucking well. 285 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,040 You OK, Paddy? 286 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,560 What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 287 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,080 Only the monstrous anger of the guns. 288 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,670 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle 289 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,190 Can patter out their hasty orisons. 290 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:44,440 No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells... 291 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,480 Fuck. 292 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,440 Fuck, I forgot the words. 293 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,760 I never forget the words. 294 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,990 Can you believe it? 295 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,190 They're blowing poetry out of my head 296 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,600 and replacing it with men screaming. 297 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:23,640 Paddy? 298 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:26,520 Have they cut the wire? 299 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,750 Seekings hooted like an owl, so they're in position. 300 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,360 So let's clean the fuckers out. 301 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:42,920 Clear! 302 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,680 Ya beauty! 303 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,080 Silenzio! 304 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,040 Watch out for the rats. 305 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,240 What? Off you go. 306 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,000 Right. 307 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,910 Right. 308 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,710 Jesus! 309 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,840 Bloody size of that one! Christ! 310 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,880 Hey! 311 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,320 Bang! He was out cold... 312 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,350 ...and my father cut his hand free 313 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,550 and, left him in the snow. 314 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,950 Yeah. You left him? 315 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,790 Do you think he has another bottle of the same wine? 316 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,150 Scusi... 317 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,550 Who found him? 318 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,950 Who found him? Who found David in the snow? 319 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,030 You said he was unconscious. God, I don't remember. 320 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,270 My sister, I think. 321 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,830 You see, the ethos of the family 322 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,200 was... you are responsible for your own actions. 323 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,240 You're also responsible for your own inaction. 324 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,240 When will your new unit be ready? 325 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,600 You're very good, aren't you? 326 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,600 At what? 327 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,270 2SAS will be ready for its first engagement 328 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,670 with enemy forces in five days' time. 329 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,240 Location classified. 330 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,830 Subsequent comparisons between 1SAS, formed by my brother, 331 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,590 and 2SAS, formed by me, will be strictly forbidden. 332 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,790 I think I understand your relationship with your brother. 333 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,470 I have a younger sister... Please, please, please, 334 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,510 spare me the strategies. 335 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,390 Particularly those that imitate empathy and understanding. 336 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,030 I deserve no empathy, sitting here drinking wine, when the real work's 337 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,280 being done away from here by a man who drinks poitin. 338 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,790 He's firing at shadows, Paddy. 339 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:04,960 He's buggered. 340 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,190 Offer him surrender. I just remembered the words. 341 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,990 ...Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs 342 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,150 The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells... 343 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,190 No, no, no grenades, Paddy! ...And bugles calling for them 344 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,750 from sad shires. Hold your fire! 345 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,950 Hold your fire. I surrender! 346 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,280 I surrender, please! 347 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,510 He's coming out. 348 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,950 I surrender! What candles... Easy, Paddy. Easy. 349 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,550 ...may be held to speed them all? Easy, Paddy. 350 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,910 Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes 351 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,430 Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. 352 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,480 I am a captain of the Panzergrenadier division... 353 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,720 ...and I surrender. 354 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,910 I have a comrade in there, badly wounded. 355 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,120 He... He's my brother. 356 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,040 My younger brother. 357 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,120 My dear brother. 358 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:15,800 He will not live. 359 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,080 He... He's in great pain... 360 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,960 I... I tried, but I cannot do it by myself. 361 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,040 Please. An act of mercy. 362 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,200 He's lying in the straw. 363 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,440 Condemn his mortal soul to God. 364 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:58,120 The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; 365 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:13,280 Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds 366 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,520 And each slow dusk... 367 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,120 ...a drawing-down of blinds. 368 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,760 We've got rum. 369 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,480 Come on. 370 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,870 It's been an odd evening. 371 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,670 As if they stopped the war for us. 372 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,030 Not for us, of course, I don't mean it like that. 373 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,520 Sometimes, you can stop the war in your mind for a few hours. 374 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,670 I've had more wine tonight than I've had in a long time. 375 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,550 Though my brother would have had twice as much 376 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,080 and been perfectly sober. 377 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,870 You said you would have someone brief me on the progress of the war. 378 00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,200 That would be helpful. 379 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,720 Helpful. 380 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,640 But still, you'll want more. 381 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,150 Of course. 382 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,960 Always, I will want more. 383 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:14,760 Goodnight, William. 384 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,400 Un mese di isolamento. 385 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,790 Reggie, Jimmy, put the radio together. Get a signal. 386 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,470 McDiarmid, break open the rum. 387 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,150 Fraser, light a fire, brew up. 388 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,990 All the rum we brought from Cairo, we finished off with that 389 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,590 fucking German officer who wouldn't stop sobbing. 390 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,800 But we do have Italian grappa. Fuck's sake! 391 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,230 The rest of you, prepare your weapons and write letters home. 392 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,880 We go tonight. 393 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,270 According to my Baedeker Guide of 1930, 394 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,590 there are two good restaurants in Termoli. 395 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,080 I reckon they'll close pretty sharpish when we get there, then. 396 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,510 Where did you get a Baedeker Guide from, anyway? 397 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,830 I found it in Augusta, 398 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,150 when we were hanging around, 399 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,470 waiting for the order to move out. 400 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,070 Waiting for orders. 401 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,070 Before the War, 402 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,520 I'd never been further than Margate. 403 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,310 I'm looking forward to France. I think France will be nice. 404 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,750 How do you know we're going to France? 405 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,430 That's the word from GHQ. 406 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,840 They're going to send us... Will you shut your fucking hole?! 407 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,830 Talking like fucking soldiers! 408 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,430 We ARE soldiers, Paddy. Soldiers waiting to be told, 409 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,230 like a handful of soldiers waiting to be thrown, 410 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,310 wondering where they'll send us next. 411 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,190 We were talking about restaurants, actually, Paddy. 412 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,910 Aye, yous were talking like ordinary fucking soldiers! 413 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,470 Come on, calm down, Paddy. Have a wee drink. 414 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,990 GHQ did say communication 415 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,670 would be at four o'clock 416 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,160 and it's four o'clock. 417 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,800 Paddy? 418 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,870 If GHQ said you should do it, 419 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,480 then just fucking do it. 420 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:01,920 Kersh. 421 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,470 Right. 422 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:23,070 OK, password. Blunt approach zero class Rominex. 423 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,710 It's Riley. Yeah, he's OK. 424 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,960 GHQ password, salt, pepper, gra... 425 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:36,630 OK, Paddy, you have one minute until our signal's tracked and located. 426 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,630 Riley, just tell me about tonight's entertainment. 427 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,310 We walked down main street. 428 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,230 They are not expecting us. 429 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,630 It's defended, but not fortified. 430 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,710 No field artillery, except a couple of howitzers 431 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,030 covering the main route. 432 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,750 Most defensive positions are near the bell tower. 433 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,430 In the centre, there's a 20mm AA gun position 434 00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,430 and a couple of MGs on AA mounts. 435 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:03,270 Road block at the southern entrance. Machine guns nearby. 436 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,470 We saw at least one Panzer there, 437 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,190 but evidence of multiple tracked vehicles heading out of town. 438 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,920 Most likely, other tanks. 439 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,630 But, Paddy, the bad news is 440 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,630 half the soldiers in town had flashes on their uniforms. 441 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,440 But the good news is I've cleared the station. 442 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,350 Triangulation of our position will be complete in ten seconds. 443 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,750 Tell the Resistenza we move up from the south. 444 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,870 Nineteen-0-five-hundred. 445 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,680 Five, four... And, Riley, find some fucking rum. ..three, two, one. 446 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,360 All right. 447 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,760 Yeah. 448 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,200 Gather round, lads! 449 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,920 Riley has reconnoitred the town. 450 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,430 This mission will not be about hardware. 451 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,070 We will be a surprise, 452 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:05,110 so there will be no heavy artillery or tanks to meet us. 453 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,120 This will be about soldiers. 454 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,320 The locals have been told to hunker down and make themselves safe. 455 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,960 The Resistance are moving in with Riley as we speak. 456 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,670 Half the soldiers in Termoli 457 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,230 wear a flash on their arms, 458 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:32,670 which says they are veterans of the Cretan campaign, 459 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,070 which means they'll be 460 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,640 very good at what they do... 461 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,720 ...so we will have to be better. 462 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,910 Highway 16, Termoli, Campomarino road. 463 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,550 Head north until you reach the Campomarino bridge. 464 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,910 Blow it up. 465 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,070 OK, so, Alessia, 466 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,070 there is an SAS tradition. 467 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,150 You keep a head count of all the hardware you destroy. Yeah? 468 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,550 Yeah, but since you're not SAS, 469 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,150 I guess you can give this one to me. 470 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,520 I don't think so. 471 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,720 Engage! Move! Ready! 472 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,630 What's the craic? Well, I told our Italian friends here 473 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,030 you'd be here at five minutes past, 474 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,350 so we got started without you. 475 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,040 I don't have Italian friends. 476 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,760 Riley, I swear you're fucking following this woman around. 477 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,790 Jock, try and resist your natural Scottish instinct to run at them 478 00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,950 with your tongue out, all right? Fuck you! 479 00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,240 For reasons that baffle me, Paddy still needs you alive. 480 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,560 Covering fire! 481 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,830 Reckon he's got a death wish, or what? Or whisky. 482 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,230 Or some kind of bravery. 483 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:15,480 And that. And being Scottish. 484 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,550 Hey! Hey! Hello. 485 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,350 My name is McDiarmid. You? 486 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,510 No English! Good, I fucking hate the English. 487 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,840 Paddy? Flank the fuckers, now. 488 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,720 Fuck! McDiarmid! Fucking wait! 489 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,160 Wait. 490 00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,950 You two, take point. 491 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:01,040 On the alley. 492 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,870 Now! Go, go, go. 493 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,760 Keep your head against the wall! 494 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,560 Move! 495 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,560 Position secure! 496 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:27,590 Jock, fucking move! Fucking move! 497 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,400 Keep pushed on the wall, on the wall! 498 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,750 Move up, move up! Covering! 499 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:34,920 Move in! 500 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:42,760 Move on, move on! 501 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,190 I hope this piano isn't a Stradivarius, Paddy! 502 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,640 Stradivarius made violins, Reg. 503 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,400 Don't fuck about. Don't... 504 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,070 Fucking hell! Move on! Move on! 505 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,870 Get in there! Get in there! 506 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,990 Move in! Arsehole! You arsehole! 507 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,200 Covering fire! Covering fire! 508 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:15,800 Move forward! 509 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,710 Hold your fire! Hold your fire! 510 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,160 Hold your fucking fire! 511 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,790 Please, don't shoot! Keep your eyes peeled, lads. 512 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,550 Fucking move it! Hands up! 513 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,120 Are they done? Aye, they're done! Surrendering! 514 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,840 Right, men, round them up. 515 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,190 Let's go. Let's fucking go. Come on, come on. 516 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,310 Normal rules apply. Move! Move! 517 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,990 If they cry, be nice, 518 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,720 but do not tolerate any arrogance. 519 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,030 And then, remembering traditional procedure with regard to 520 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,670 company morale, the commanding officer 521 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,520 praised his men for their competence. 522 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,840 Aye, yous did all right. 523 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:11,720 Well done, lads! 524 00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:15,080 Well done. 525 00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:57,960 Keep moving, come on! Keep moving. 526 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,520 Quick, come on. 527 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,430 None of these soldiers who surrendered are wearing 528 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,910 the insignia of the Cretan campaign on their arms. 529 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,070 Yep. The Resistenza said 530 00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,760 they saw some soldiers heading north in organised units. 531 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:12,070 So, the real fellas made a tactical withdrawal, 532 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:16,800 which means they'll regroup and counterattack. 533 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,960 Most probably, tonight. 534 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:27,040 I fear this liberation party may be a wee bit premature. 535 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,470 Take cover! 536 00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,880 Get down! Move! 537 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:02,720 Move, move! 538 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,440 Move, Byron! 539 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,870 Do we know how they got away? 540 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,760 Yeah, they were seen crossing the Campomarino bridge. 541 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:22,680 Fuck! 542 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,350 I know you're relatively new to the SAS, 543 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,110 but traditionally, in situations where the odds are overwhelming 544 00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,480 and victory is impossible, we have one simple order. 545 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,870 May I? Do it. 546 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,720 Every man for himself! 547 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,480 Fuck it! 548 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:55,680 Halt! Hande hoch! 549 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:11,400 Forwards. 550 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:39,990 Lieutenant John Eliot Tonkin. 200156 1st SAS. 551 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,560 Attached to Eighth Army. 552 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,320 I am offering my surrender. 553 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,880 The famous SAS? 554 00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,360 Commando, yes? 555 00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,110 I hear SAS like to drink rum. 556 00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,550 Come, my friend. 557 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:50,840 We have rum. 558 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,400 Didn't understand a word you were saying. 559 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,680 If your appearance here... 560 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,560 ...is because I am concussed... 561 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,070 ...and sick in the head, 562 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,760 then please... 563 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,400 ...please, God, do not make me well. 564 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,070 Walls are thick, cellars are deep 565 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,870 and we have radio communications, so we can call for help. 566 00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,120 Johnny. 567 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:04,560 No Tonkin? No. 568 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,400 No sign of him. 569 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,390 Walls and masonry fit for fortification. 570 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,920 I knew you'd like it. 571 00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,430 The reason the shelling has stopped is because they are moving 572 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,880 their Panzer tank divisions to the edge of the town. 573 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,240 They will make their move tonight or tomorrow. 574 00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,880 But our orders are to take Termoli... 575 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,920 ...and hold it to the last man, come what may. 576 00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,440 And that is exactly what we are going to do. 577 00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,600 And there is no point calling for help, because there isn't any. 578 00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:12,720 All we are... 579 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,950 ...is a handful of gravel.