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Like I've covered some [ __ ] in my

career, but this is beyond anything.

This is beyond Black Ops. Off the books.

This is the worst.

>> Yeah, this is the [ __ ] worst. 3 weeks

ago, drives started arriving. No name,

no note, just files.

The first batch looked like nothing.

Surgical logs, procurement, casualty

paperwork, dry stuff. Then one name on

two documents, killed in action in March

on an operating table in August. Same

man. I thought clerical error. Then the

recordings.

60 hours of a senior scientist talking

to a camera.

And that's when the documents stopped

being paperwork and started being what

they are.

We are ready now.

>> Why does the army want this?

>> Simple. What ends American wars? Not the

enemy. Dead soldiers on the news.

Coffins come home. The public turns. The

war ends.

When you have finished recording, you

may hang up or press one for more

options.

>> Hey, it's me. You're probably out with

Sam by now, and I just wanted to leave

you something before I go up.

>> Stupid. Just wish I was home. 3:00 a.m.

here, but I miss you.

>> Kiss that little gorgeous nugget for me.

Last night, one of our convoys got

ambushed at the river crossing. Two

soldiers hit. Ramos isn't going to make

it.

>> [ __ ] He was on Johnson's team. He's

like 23.

>> You're going up insurgent hunting. Last

night they came out to do this. Now

they're in the open running east along

the river with nowhere to hide. First

clear shot we've had and it's gone by

sunrise. Questions?

>> No, sir.

You look like hell, chief.

>> Yeah, maybe. But you actually smell like

[ __ ] When did you last shower?

>> This is a combat zone, not a spa.

>> You get the full picture in there.

>> Our guys got hit last night by the

river.

>> Two wounded.

>> Hollis, you still owe me 40 bucks from

the fight.

>> Put it on my tab, Craig.

>> Your tab's longer than my deployment.

>> Number one coming up. Temps look good.

>> You cried about that engine for a week.

>> I raised a concern.

>> You cried like a little [ __ ] Conco

base Arrow 24, flight of two. Request

departure south.

>> Arrow 24, Conco base, winds 270 at 8. No

traffic cleared to depart.

Arrow 24, Darkstar, cleared into the

box. Weapons free. Hunting report tally.

>> Darkst Star, I'm just scanning the

terrain here. I have some technicals

ahead. Over.

>> Arrow 24, you are cleared. Hot.

They go back.

I got vehicles moving east. Tagger 36

confirmed. That's them. Cleared hot.

Guns up. Coming left.

Splash. One second. Breaking left.

Hellfire.

Good impact. Two down. Area clear. RTB.

RI Bravo.

I've got heat.

>> Missile inbound. Deploying flares.

>> Jesus Christ.

I'm 10. Mayday arrow 20 down.

AJ Arrow 24 destroyed. Jolly

>> 51 flight Darkst Star current tasking

fallen angel. Fallen angel.

>> Darkst Star. Jolly 51. We got it coming

about now. Y'all tell them to hang on.

We're 8 minutes out.

Okay, set us down. We can get to him.

>> We have a down. Pilot and co-pilot

wounded. Possibly CIA.

>> Runner, runner. Moving to the wreck.

>> Watch the rounds. Ammo's cooking.

>> Oh man, this co-pilot is dead.

>> Copy. Get her out. Move fast. We're

bleeding fuel and we have hostiles

coming.

>> Be advised, multiple tacticals moving

your direction from the northeast.

Estimated three to four vehicles mounted

heavy weapons. I think your neck is

broken. LET'S SECURE. LET'S GO. LET'S

GO.

>> ENGAGE.

We're clear.

>> Let's get the [ __ ] out of here. I'm

getting too old for this [ __ ]

>> Hey, what's wrong?

>> She's my buddy's wife.

>> Oh [ __ ] Well, I think she's going to

make it, so that's good. How long the

base?

>> 15 mics.

This is Chief Warnet Officer Raiden

Hollis, 34, helicopter pilot, shot down

2 hours ago. Fractured cervical spine,

collapsed lung. Find her neck. The

brain's still getting blood. That's the

only window we get.

>> She's still profusing. GCS3.

Shears, get the suit off. All of it.

>> Her file says killed in action.

Certificates already filed.

>> It's correct. It was a postc crash fire.

Her remains were unreoverable. That's

the record. Understand?

>> Yes, ma'am.

>> CTS up. Just came off the table.

>> Show me the brain stem and the C-spine.

Any bleed at the base, midline?

>> Small frontal bleed. Base is clean.

>> Make sure her family gets this. Okay.

This is the control implant. It seats at

the brain stem, right where the brain

meets the spine. Easy, easy, gentle.

Got it.

That's the product.

A soldier that costs nothing to lose.

I want to know what actually happened to

my wife.

A friend came to see me. He was on the

rescue that night. He told me she was

alive when they pulled her out of that

cockpit.

>> Well, I can tell you with certainty that

your friend is mistaken.

Nate, what's really going on?

>> This is about the fact that my wife

didn't die the way you all say she did.

That's what this is about.

>> The army wanted no residual self, no

sense of who or what they were before. A

total wipe.

>> Do you remember your name?

>> Your name is Rean Hollis.

Do you remember that?

>> Raise your left arm.

>> Good. Now the other one.

>> It took me 3 weeks to say the sentence

out loud.

They are building zombies

and the raw material is their own

soldiers.

And I've seen the surgical orders. Some

of them were modified further.

This isn't a soldier anymore. was a

killing machine.

It used to be someone's son.

>> I don't like transporting these [ __ ]

things, man. Sooner they're off my butt,

the happier I am.

>> Before they tuned, whatever they tuned,

compliance, they called it. Every one of

those things got two escorts. Special

ops guys, one on each arm.

So now, yeah, they walk on single file,

one handler per 20. Easy day. Get these

birds loaded. Wheels up in 10. I don't

care if they're twitching or not. Keep

them moving.

The testing that's the desert restricted

airspace, the kind of proving ground

where nothing is ever seen.

>> So to test them against one another.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That's where the

selection happens. The part of the tapes

I still can't watch.

Look, man. I don't know what information

you want. We've been instructed to test

these things to the breaking point, and

that means make them fight one another.

>> Delta team, do you copy? We are hot. We

are hot.

We select for excellence.

The most disciplined, most trained, most

dedicated soldiers made the finest

products.

Turns out you can push them [ __ ] far.

Mom,

I missed you.

Heat. Heat.