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Yes, sir. We'll execute Brian Baker. Take two and hit the right. Over.

Who's he talking to?

Yankee Stadium?

No!

Five has run out of gas. We have to sit and wait for supplies to catch up. You

take it easy. I'm going back for company briefing.

Sir, when they send up the supplies, you suppose they could send up some

retreads?

Second squad will handle security.

Just relax while you can.

An evacuation order all along the line.

What is it, Lieutenant, that they refuse to leave?

If the Germans stop running and set up a counterattack, this could be the next

big battle for you, do you know that?

Cage. Yes, sir.

Explain it's for their own good.

Very well, sir.

All right, David, let's go.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant, they want to stay there. They think they're safe here.

It's only natural, man. I don't want to be pushed off his land.

Unnatural for a man to get blown off it.

Cage, tell them they have to leave. It's for their own safety.

Maybe they can come back in a couple of days.

Hey,

Sarge.

Her car was frightened off into the woods by the tank. She wants to stay

over and find it.

You help him find her car.

She can't.

Cage! Right now.

Maintenant, il faut partir. Allez.

Maintenant. Oh, no, no, no, monsieur. Oh, no, monsieur.

Oh, no!

Si ce n'est pas fini, comment vivre?

She wants to know who's going to finish the planning.

If the garden is not in, how are you going to live?

Who's going to run their farm?

Move now, Kedge.

Allez, mademoiselle, c'est vrai, allez.

Oh, no.

You can actually feel the life in it, Sarge.

Don't get involved, Farmer.

We're just passing through.

Starring Rick Jason.

And Vic Morrow.

Guest star, Dennis Weaver.

Back home, you need a half-section of land just to break even.

Here, that whole family of five live off of that postage stamp.

He sure cared for the soil.

You haven't been up here long.

So?

In that uniform.

If I don't do it, you sleep in it and eat it.

But you don't hold it in your hand that way.

Land is to be taken, passed over, and forgotten.

Why don't you get out of the sun and sack out? We may not be here long.

It's kind of bad making those old people leave, Sarge.

I'll be better off in town.

Will you?

Well, now, just who's to say that they don't have the right to die here on

their own land where their heart is?

Or maybe you don't believe that about where the embattled farmers stood and

fired the shot or drowned the world?

All right, farmer, you spade it, plant it, and watch it grow.

When the time comes, be ready to leave it.

That's the way it is.

Right, right, Sarge.

You said it yourself. We're just passing through.

Want a sip, Cubby? Yeah.

Hey, look at old Noah go out there.

The only farm we ever had was a window box about five stories up.

Trying to raise some ranches when you're in there.

So scroungy and little when they grew up, I didn't have the heart to eat any

of them.

What about you, Doc?

Hmm?

You ever have any farming aspirations?

Oh, back in high school lab, I raised some pretty good mold in a pickle jar.

Yeah, watching old Noah working out there in the hot sun sure makes my mouth

dry.

Hey, Sarge.

What do you got?

Oh, I found it in the cellar that was flushing the last time.

Well, I'm thrifty.

Hey, all I got out that last time was this.

Ain't that a beauty?

He's out of her balcony, throws that down to me, and I caught it in my teeth.

Hey, Sarge.

Maybe I ought to go flush out her balcony, huh?

Hey, flush this out, will you?

Well, you know, it doesn't make sense.

After two weeks chasing Krautzer, he's in the sun on his feet, digging and

digging.

So it ain't me.

They don't know anything about farming.

a week on foot, the guy can get all stiff. He doesn't limber up a little

bit.

I'm strictly a city boy.

I just like to sit in front of the pool room, watch all those pretty girls go

by.

Came back awful quick.

Yeah, I guess we ought to go join them.

I figure if I can get the crop in before we move on, all it has to do is rain.

And later on, that little Finch family comes home to harvest.

All I need is time to get it in.

That's Campo, Lieutenant?

Yeah, that's two. One's a prisoner.

Why, ain't that nice?

We use the farm as a patrol base.

Leave one of the men in dock here to hold down the fort. I'll check the other

squads and select defensive positions.

Right, Lieutenant.

Contact me as soon as you get back.

Yes, sir.

Let's go, Davis.

Come on, we just heard the war's not over after all.

Huh?

Well, we gotta go. We gotta solve the crowd prisoner.

You better trade in some of these shovels, hoes, and picks for some

rifles, belts, and ammo.

I don't get it. What's up?

Go on with your digging, Noah.

I'll go.

Your feet all right, Little John?

Never better.

Besides, I wouldn't know what to do with myself sitting around here without you

guys.

All right, Little John, your feet's no good. You can't go.

No, it was mostly gold-breaking.

Well, I'll go, Little John.

No, somebody has to plant the crops.

I'll be fine, Sarge.

Okay, let's settle up.

What's the matter with Kirby? I offered to go.

Well, it's no skin off my nose.

Big city boys puzzle me anyway.

I gather you're from the farm, Noah.

Yeah, you betcha.

Whereabouts is it?

It's in Iowa, near Sioux City.

Waxlick Farm is closer to Wilkins Corner, but...

Sounds a little bit better. People know what you mean. Say, Sioux City, what'd

you raise?

Hogs and corn.

We got 640 acres. That's a full section.

136th of a township. A place to just knock your eyes out.

You wouldn't be just a little bit homesick, would you?

Hell, not me.

Not as long as I can get my hands in the dirt. Not as long as I can look around

and see livestock, fields growing, things like that.

Oh, I guess I was... A little bit of homesick coming over.

I thought that France was just going to be a bunch of big cities like Paris,

Marseille. Fancy stuff, you know.

Do you know, Doc?

Earth's no different here than it is back home. A farm's a farm.

Anywhere in the world.

As long as you're farming, you're happy.

You doggone betcha.

Well, you've got to have one of them green thumbs.

Tell you something.

They're a government issue in Iowa.

Maybe they all went back to Munich for a beer bust.

Little John!

You knew you should have made the farmer come. His feet wasn't listed.

He wanted to plant geraniums. He ought to join a garden club.

You know better than that, Kirby. So does Little John. If you want to

volunteer, you volunteer. If you don't, you keep your mouth shut.

I'm going to be all right. I'll keep up.

It tears it.

Farmer was okay. He could have kept up.

Might as well have shot Lou down himself.

It's real.

Where's the plow boy? He could have kept up.

Where is he?

I don't know. He finished the planting.

How about it, Doc?

Well, he's lost a lot of blood.

More crowds.

Hey, I found her. The farmer's cow.

Now we got ourselves a milkmaid.

You nearly got yourself shot.

She had a calf. That's why she went into the woods. She thought she'd be safer

there. Cut the cow talk.

Little John's in here bleeding to death while you're out there chasing those

cows.

The cow behind got picked off. You could have kept up with us.

How's he doing, Doc?

Well, he'll make it, but we'd better get him back to battalion A pretty quick.

You can take him back with Lieutenant Hanley.

He's coming there to pick up the prison.

Anything I can do, Doc?

You already did it.

All right, you got hurt a little, John.

So am I.

You think it was my fault, like Kirby said?

I mean, your feet hurting so that you couldn't keep up?

I mean, you think...

Little John's fine.

I think that hole in his shoulder will heal before he's blistered. Hey, how

about the big eight? You sure Little John's going to be okay?

I'm sure.

Saunders, prepare to pull back immediately.

Yes, sir. What's up?

S2 learned from your prisoner the Germans are mounting a general attack.

That means they'll be sending out patrols of their own.

Right, to learn our position and strength.

We're going to leave the farm, Lieutenant?

This will be one of the first places to search, soldier.

All right, pull back to the hedgerow and dig in. And mark this.

No contact with the enemy until we're ready for them.

Yes, sir. All right, you heard the man.

All right, Davis, let's go.

Come on, soldier, snap it up.

Door open.

So that if she runs out of hay, she can eat grass. If she doesn't feed that cat,

it'll die.

Come on, let's go.

Right.

Here's some sulfur for you.

You got any halosone tablets?

Huh?

That's the stuff you put in your canteen.

Oh, yeah, I got plenty. You hear that calf bawling? I wonder what's wrong with

it.

Well, you know, calves bawl, cows moo, and birds chirp.

Hey, don't forget to put that in your kit.

Hey, got some sulfur.

Thank God. Thank you.

You

get anything?

Just hash.

Hey, be a pleasure.

Wait a minute.

Where's Noah?

Well, he was there a minute ago.

You know, he was worried about that calf.

You want that? You could blow this whole operation.

Well, he's asking to get himself killed.

What do we do, Sarge?

Get him back before he gives our position away. Let's go.

Thank you.

Yeah, but I don't know how bad he was hurt.

That was stupid.

Hey, Mac.

All right, it was stupid, okay.

But Cap would have died. You guys fight your war, I'll fight mine. You seem to

be pretty good at killing.

You fight our war.

If that crook gets back, our whole line could be ripped wide open.

Maybe he won't get back.

Maybe that German didn't get back. I think he was hit pretty bad.

Last time you started thinking, we had to go looking for you.

That calf would have died.

Men die, too.

Take a look down that line. Don't you think they want to get back alive?

Doc, Cage, Kirby, everyone has something they want to get back to.

Who's arguing that?

I am.

Because you're taking time off from this water to be a farmer.

What makes you so special?

I didn't say that there was.

Can it?

No.

Can you fight?

Yeah, I can fight.

Can you take orders?

Yeah, I can take orders.

Saturation's showing.

They're trying to dig us out. We revealed our area. Lost all element of

surprise.

As long as I'll never make it back to the farm.

Roger, out!

Lieutenant says the crowds are moving down.

We're going to need them to punch through and take the sector beyond the

farmhouse. Cage, Kirby!

Wait for me!

If I can keep an eye on you.

Cover when you should advance, when you shouldn't do as I say.

All right.

Everybody okay?

Yeah.

We'll never get past them this way, Sarge.

Checkmate, King 2. This is White Rock. Over.

Checkmate, King 2. This is White Rock. Over.

King 2. Over.

It's now called by machine gun nest.

Request bazooka team. We're at checkpoint tear. Over.

Bazooka team knocked out. Heavy resistance here. You'll have to break

through yourself.

Good luck. Out.

Yeah, good luck.

No help. Nothing like I done this myself.

Well, maybe I can circle him around this way.

Well, you'll need cover.

Yeah. Hey, Cage, come on.

Wait a minute. I can handle it.

Sarge, I can handle it.

All right, Noah.

What, I draw him, huh?

Don't get on my back, will you?

Knock it off, Kirby.

Come on, move out.

What a war.

Okay. So far, so good.

It's been a...

Another 40 feet, I could pop him with a grenade.

Can you cover me? I can cover you.

Okay.

Sarge was right.

Let's stay down.

It's going to get you to an aid station, Farmer.

No.

No, it won't.

People... People fight for different reasons, Sarge.

I guess it... My war's over.

Flight's yours.

How's the man say it?

By the road bridge that ushered the flood.

What's that, Doc?

It's a poem, Kirby.

Long time ago.

The flag in April's breeze unfurled. The embattled farmer stood.

I'm sorry the shot heard around the world.