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♫ He taught me about freedom ♫

♫ Peace and
all the great things that we ♫

♫ Take advantage of... ♫

( sighs )

Not bad, huh?

For an old man.

I don´t know why
you keep saying that, John.

You´re not old.

Well, the Army thinks I´m old.

They´re the ones who count.

Well, the Army´s crazy.

Mmm...

( chuckles )

Oh...

MAN:
Vietnam...

Desert Storm...

Afghanistan.

34 years of service
to his country.

I was 22 years old
and fresh out of West Point

when they dropped me in Vietnam.

And if not for you, Bull,

many of the men who are here
to help you celebrate tonight

would not have made it out
of those battlefields alive,

myself among them.

That is a tribute
to your courage,
your leadership

that transcends
military honors.

You have our love

and our undying loyalty.

Welcome home, soldier.

( applause )

Kind words,
Congressman.

Every one of them´s true.

( tapping )
Hold on.

Hey, I´ve been looking
for you, Bull.

Everything all right?

Yeah, it´s fine.

I´m just finishing up here.

Just give me
a minute, okay?

Aybar?

Order me another drink.

JACK:
...Colonel Bull Carver.

Drove down here
to attend

a retirement dinner
in his honor.

At some point
in the evening,

excused himself
to make a phone call...

disappeared.

Any idea who he was calling?

No, I´m still working on it.

Who called it in?

His daughter.
Name was "Tess Balkin."

Married, lives in Yonkers.
He was supposed

to go up there yesterday,
spend some time

with the family.

He never showed.

What do we have
from the Army?

They´ve turned it over
to CID, but they´re passing

the buck.
What´s up
with them

not taking care of their own?

Yeah, I know.
34 years in the service,

already they´ve
forgotten about him.

Jack?

There´s something
you need to see.

It´s over here.

Distinguished Service Medal...
Bronze Star...

Purple Heart... Silver Star...

Vietnam Service Medal...

Liberation of Kuwait.

Are they in order of importance?

Uh, no.

If they were, it would be

Silver Star first,
then Bronze Star.

It appears that they´re

in chronological order.

Maybe the timeline
of his career.

Well, then I think I know
how his career ends.

His service pistol´s missing.

Figured he´d join us
after he got off the phone.

That´s the last
I saw of him.

Do you have any idea
who he was talking to?

1:30 in the morning?

Lady friend, maybe.

Like I said,

I hadn´t seen the man
in 30 years.

I don´t know a lot
about his personal life.

I understand that
you were the one

that organized
the weekend.

I called some of the fellas,
and things sort of snowballed.

How was Bull Saturday night?

Like old times.

Happy to see everybody.

Any idea why
he was retiring?

Some incident
in the Philippines.

I don´t know
the whole story.

But I know
he was disappointed

about the way the Army
treated him in the end.

Excuse me for a second.

I did a quick rundown of
the attendees at the banquet.

Most are accounted for,
except Congressman Whitehurst

who left around
10:30 that night

and a former platoon mate
named Wallace Sykes,

who checked out
unexpectedly

around 6:00 a.m.
yesterday morning.

He drove back to
South Carolina.

Well, let´s find out
why he left so fast.
Okay.

I just had a conversation
with the bartender.

He said that Bull Carver
and one of his buddies got into

a shoving match
on Saturday night.

JACK:
I understand
that you

and Lieutenant Colonel Carver
got into

some kind of altercation
that night.

That was nothing.

We had a couple
of drinks, we
lost our cool.

It was nothing.

So, how does
it feel, Bull,

to finally be
a free man?

It´s a great unknown, Aybar.

It´s a great unknown.

Well, what do you got
to worry about?

Coast on your big
fat officer´s pension.

Be down in Florida

hitting golf balls... gee!

How about another
round, fellas?

On me.

Seven and Seven,
double shot.

Whoo!

Sykesie always
doubles up!

Especially when
somebody else

is picking
up the check.

Honest to God, Sykesie!

Have you ever picked up
a bar tab

in your whole
miserable life?

Lay off, Plesac.

Oh, lighten up, Bull.
He knows I´m kidding.

I said lay off.

Who the hell are you
to complain, anyway?

You´re the one who was always
riding his mangy little ass.

You know, Plesac,
what I´m trying to figure out?

How somebody like you
made it back from the war

when we lost
all those other good men.

Good men?

Like who, Bull?

Like... Tommy Lewis?

You son of a bitch.

Get your hands off me!
Hey, hey!

I´m not afraid of you, Bull...

That´s enough!

Damn it, Plesac!

What you doing?

All right,
I´m all right!

AYBAR:
Move down. Move!

VIVIAN:
Who´s Tommy Lewis?

Staff Sergeant
Tommy Lewis.

He was killed at Kam Li.

He was the best of them.

And that was the end
of the fight

between you and Bull?

There was nothing more?

Look, I got drunk and stupid,

and he put me back in my place.

Which he should have.

20 minutes later, it was over.

We´re laughing,
swapping stories.

He was showing me pictures
of his grandkids.

It was like it
never happened.

I love that man.

We all do.

JACK:
Thanks for coming in.

Course.

God.

The whole drive over here,
all I could think about

was the last time
I saw my father.

When was that?

I hadn´t seen him
in almost a year.

And then, all of a sudden,
he shows up at my office

while I´m having lunch.

Tess?

Dad.

What are you
doing here?

That any way to
greet your father?

I stopped by
your law firm.

Your secretary said I
could find you down here.

I-I didn´t even know
you were back in the country.

I sent you the
postcard from Manila.

I got that.

Thank you.

So, what´s going on?

Uh, everything´s fine.

It´s okay.

Uh, have a seat?

Thanks.

( sighs )

Not used to seeing you
out of uniform.

I´m retired, Tess.

They forced me out.

I´m sorry.

They were some good years.

I mean, they were
some great years for me.

So...

what are you going to do now?

Oh, I got some irons
in the fire.

Uh, the reason
I wanted to talk to you

is I think I want
to rework my will.

Okay.

You and the girls,
I want you to have everything.

You can draw up the papers
for that, right?

Uh, not if I´m
going to be the beneficiary, no,

but I can have
an associate do it for you.

Great.

I´d like to do that
as soon as possible.

You´re not sick, are you?

No, no. No, you kidding me?

You ever known be to be
sick for a day in my life?

( quiet chuckle )

How are the girls?

They´re good.

Growing up.

( pen writing )

So, um,
give him a call tomorrow,

and he can help you
with whatever you need.

Thanks.

I´d never seen him so...

vulnerable.

And, uh...

I didn´t reach out to him
at all.

And when he called
from Atlantic City

and said he´d like to come
to church with the girls, I...

I doubt I sounded
very enthusiastic.

My father was in the Army.

I know how hard
that life can be.

He...

didn´t want you to follow
in his footsteps?

He did.

But I guess
it just didn´t stick.

Well, it´s not like
you became a sculptor.

No, not exactly.

Um, did your father
ever talk to you about

his experiences in Vietnam?

No.

Did he ever talk about a grudge

between he
and some of his buddies?

Honestly, I´d be
the last to know.

( beeping )

( typing )

MARTIN:
What do you got?

Security video from the
hotel casino next door.

This is about ten hours
before he went bye-bye.

He´s doing well.

Yeah, about 25 grand.

Sure doesn´t look like a guy
who´s on the verge

of killing himself.

Unless it´s one
last blowout?

Live for today,
because tomorrow
never comes.

Yeah.
We got to find that girl.

WOMAN:
I was supposed to be

a present from the guys.

They said he had
a thing for Asian girls.

Who made the arrangements?

Talk to the agency.
I don´t know.

All he told me was,

I was supposed to meet him
at the hotel bar

and then be available
as long as he wanted me.

How were his spirits
that night?

I gave him
the whole subservient,

sex kitten thing,
and he was in heaven.

So you´ve been in the
Army your whole life?

Yeah, since I was 19.

You got drafted
for the war?

No, no, it was, uh...

I was at West Point.

I didn´t know much
about Vietnam,

but I couldn´t wait to go
and fight for my country.

Mm-hmm!

A real cowboy.

( chuckles )

Yeah.

Something like that.

So, Cowboy, where´s your wife?

Well, she couldn´t
much take the life.

You know, all the moving.

Well, it must
be good to see
your friends.

Yeah.

It´s been a long time.

Hey.

You okay?

Yeah.

( sighs )

Just a lot of memories.

I better get ready
to go.

Okay.

DANNY:
The casino
that he was playing at

said he made a bundle
that afternoon.

Didn´t notice.

That was a wad of cash
in his pocket-- 25 grand.

What´s your point?

Maybe you arranged

to have his wallet
lightened for him.

Get real! I´m working
on a graduate degree

in Women´s Studies
from Rutgers.

You really want to
find out what happened

to this guy, why don´t you ask
one of his Army buddies?

What are you
talking about?

Bull contacted me
again that night, around 1:30.

It´s a tough transition,
you know.

It´s my first night
of civilian life.

( tapping )
Hold on.

Hey, I´ve been looking
for you, Bull.

Everything
all right?

Yeah, I´m fine, I´m fine.

Just finishing up here.
Give me a minute, okay?

I said I could be free, if he
could wait a couple of hours.

And that´s when you agreed

to meet him in his
hotel room, right?
That´s right.

Except I got there
a little early,

and there was
somebody else there.

Who?

I met him
earlier

at the card tables.

A little man with a beard.

Sykes, I think his name is.

( birds twittering )

Remote spot.

Oh, Wally likes
it that way.

Given what a place
like this does for
property value,

most of the townspeople
prefer it that way, too.

That´s his car.
He should be home.

Mr. Sykes?

You home?

Mr. Sykes, open up.
State Police.

Mr. Sykes?

Special Agent Spade, FBI.

We come in
a sec, Wally?

After you.

Whoo-ooh!

Cleaning lady´s day off, huh?

Excuse the mess.

I wasn´t expecting company.

Mr. Sykes, I need to
ask you some questions

about Lieutenant
Colonel John Carver.

What about him?

He disappeared sometime
after 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.

No one´s seen or
heard from him since.

I was wondering if
you could give us your account

of the weekend--
anything you may remember.

Won´t take long.
We´ll take you
to the station.

Take a statement.
We´ll drive you back.

Sure, okay, uh...

Just let me, uh,
put my boots on.

Place could use
a woman´s touch, huh?

( gunshot )

Oh, my God.

Your friend Wally
went on a hell of a bender.

I found drug paraphernalia
in his bedside table.

So, what do you think?

He and that guy
from Atlantic City

had some kind
of suicide pact?

I think that whatever
went down in Atlantic City,

he would have rather killed
himself than faced the music.

God!

Way it looks,
Sykes has been

killing himself
for a long time.

Yeah.

AYBAR:
This whole thing about Sykes...

I-I just can´t believe it.

Well, Sykes was seen
leaving Bull´s hotel room

about 4:15 in the morning
on Sunday.

We think Sykes staged it
to make it look like

Bull took his own life.

I guess it´s possible.

Bull used to ride Sykesie
pretty hard.

According to
witnesses

at the bar,
Bull spent the whole night

defending Sykes
against Plesac.

I don´t know
what to tell you.
Tensions were

running pretty high,
don´t you think?

None of us had seen each other
for 30 years.

For Sykes to kill Bull
over something so long ago,

he must have been crazy.

SAMANTHA ( on phone ):
He stole one of Carver´s
service medals.

I just found it
on his dresser.

So Sykes kills Bull,
takes his room key,

slips into
Bull´s hotel room,

and tries to make it look
like a suicide.

Yeah, but remember
what the hooker said.

When she knocked on the door,
Sykes answered.

Which he would only have done

if he thought
it was his accomplice.

Are we sure
that it´s Bull´s medal?

Oh, yeah.
It says it right here.

"Lieutenant John Carver,
for valorous conduct at Kam Li."

What´s the significance
of Kam Li?

That´s where Sergeant
Thomas Lewis was killed.

I think I got
a bit more on it here...

Bull, Plesac,
Sykes, Aybar

and Congressman Whitehurst,
they were all there.

Okay, I want you to contact
the Department of Defense.

Get everything you
can on Kam Li.

Martin, grab your coat.

We´re going
to Washington.

Ma´am, we´ve been waiting

for the congressman
for over an hour.

You got a bathroom?

Yes, sir.
Down the hall.

Mind if I use it?

FITZGERALD:
Hey, there, Jack.

JACK:
What brings you
to this branch

of the government?
Hey, Sue.

Thought I might ask
you the same thing.

Why do I have the feeling
you already know?

I´m just here to make sure
everything goes smoothly.

Martin!

Hey, Dad.

So, how´s my boy doing?

They giving him a
hard time because
of his old man?

Well, I don´t know.
Are we?

Constantly.
Yeah.

( Fitzgerald chuckles )

Congressman Whitehurst.

Mr. Deputy Director.

Now, do you
know my colleague?

This is Special Agent
Malone from New York.

Congressman.
How are you?

And of course,

this young man is my
son, Martin Fitzgerald.

Ah, I see the apple doesn´t fall
far from the tree.

( chuckles )

( sighs )

WHITEHURST:
You know, it´s so hard
to process.

The fact that I saw these men
as recently as Saturday night.

How was Wallace Sykes?

Now that I
think about it,

a little on edge.

I knew that he had problems
with substance abuse--

alcohol.

What about Bull?

What were his problems?

I don´t know; he and I
lost touch over the years.

Any idea why he was retiring?

No.

I assumed it was because
of his age.

We found this medal

in Sykes´ bedroom.

We believe
he took it

from Bull´s hotel room
Sunday morning.

"Kam Li."

I haven´t thought about Kam Li
for a long time.

You want to talk about it now?

I don´t know everything,

but I can tell you
my part in it.

We´d received reports
that a VC commander

was using the village
as a staging area.

Bull Carver led the recon team,
while the rest of us waited

at a rally point
across the river.

We heard gunfire
from the village.

I had no idea
what had gone down

until Bull and the team
came back.

MAN:
Ten more coming in!

What the hell
happened up
there, Aybar?

Beaucoup bad, Cap.

Bull, what´d
you find?

They got Tommy.

What?

Snipers, Cap.

Everything
was quiet.

( panting )

Walked right into an ambush!

How many were there?

Hard to know,
exactly.

Sykesie and I saw
a weapons cache

big enough to take out
half a division.

Sykes?

It´s true, sir.

Don´t freeze on us,
Cappie!

You got to make
the hard choices.

We cleared
the people out.

We got to blow up
that weapons cache.

Davis?

Yes, Captain Whitehurst.

Get Command
on the horn.

All right, let´s do this.

The village was evacuated,
and, uh...

I called in the air strike.

FITZGERALD:
Based on information

that Bull Carver had provided.

Correct.

Did you go back to the village
after the air strike?

Of course. We couldn´t just
leave Tommy´s body there.

Did you see any of the weapons
that Bull had talked about?

No, they had exploded

during the bombing.
Tommy Lewis was dead.

Bull and Sykes said they saw
a cache of weapons.

I had no reason
not to take them at their word.

Do you now?

Nothing´s changed
between now and then.

No, nothing,
except the fact that one man

is missing and another is dead.

FITZGERALD:
You know what,
Congressman?

I think we´ve taken

enough of your
time for today.

Thank you.

What the hell
was that?
An interview.

No, that was
an interrogation,

and a hostile
one, at that.

He´s hiding something,
and we both know it.

And that´s based on what?

´Cause I found him
very forthcoming.

It´s based on my instinct.
You better have

something more than instinct.
You better have hard evidence.

And if you plan on
interviewing him again,

you let me know.

Didn´t even wait
for me to say, "Yes, sir."

He never does.

Thanks. You, too.

You got something?

Turns out,
we´re not the only ones

looking into Kam Li.

About a month ago,

the Department of Defense
received a request

under the Freedom
of Information Act.

Guess who filed it?

New York Times?

Thomas Lewis.

What?!

Thomas Lewis, as in
the Thomas Lewis

who was killed by
snipers at Kam Li?

Thomas Lewis Jr., his son.

I got a letter two months ago.

It was unsigned,
but it was obviously

someone who had served
with my father.

He said
that my father didn´t die

the way the Army reported it--
that there was

a cover-up, to protect
one of their own.

Anything else?

That he loved my father,
wanted to honor his memory,

and wanted me to know
what a hero he was.

Were Bull and your father
very close?

After my
father died,

Bull was like a surrogate father
to me.

He was always sending us
money, souvenirs

from all around
the world.

Do you think Bull´s
the one who sent the letter?

I´ve certainly suspected
as much.

Do you have
the letter

with you?

Uh, yes.

It´s a copy.

I have the
original at home.

We´re going to have to have

that, as well.

Has anyone else seen this?

Just my wife
and the Congressman.

Congressman Whitehurst?

I contacted
his office.

He said he´d look into it
for me.

Sure you don´t want
to wait for my father?

I left word at his office.

It´s a shame we missed him.

Morning, Susan.

Gentlemen.

You camped out here all night?

I have a few more questions
I need to ask you.

You´ve got ten minutes.

I may have seen a copy of this.

I´m not certain.

A letter about an incident
you were directly involved in

and you don´t remember?

Charges are vague
and unsubstantiated.

I don´t trust unsigned letters.

I serve on
the Intelligence Subcommittee.

I see way too many of them.

Assuming the letter is true,

what do you think
it´s alluding to?

I couldn´t even speculate,
nor would I.

Then allow me to.

I believe this was a case
of friendly fire.

There was no evidence of weapons
in that village,

and you called in
the air strike.

I already told you:
I called in the air strike

based on what my men
reported to me.

As I told you,
one of those men

is dead and the other one
is missing.

I believe the missing man wrote
this letter.

What are you accusing me of?

Nothing.

I´m asking you questions,
and I´m not getting any answers.

I think your ten minutes are up.

( computer beeping )

Agent.

What?

We found
his service pistol.

Where?
Near the pier,

just off the beach
from Bally´s.

Surfcasters called it in.

Thanks.

What are you doing?

Well, it´s all about Verizon,
Sprint and AT & T.

Okay, have a look.

Orange for Plesac,
blue for Aybar,
yellow for Sykes.

No Whitehurst?

No, his records seem
to be a little bit
harder to come by.

There were a lot
of phone calls

between them
before the reunion.

I´m just trying
to figure out

if there´s some kind
of a pattern to it.

I like all the colors.

How was Washington?

"D.C.," as in
"didn´t cooperate."

I did get a free pen
out of Whitehurst´s
office, though.

Jack, want to take
a look at this?

Sure.

These are the
location photos

of where the local cops found
Bull´s service pistol.

It´s a Russian Tokarov.

Yeah. Jack knows his guns.

Yeah, my father had one.

Spoils of war.

They used to
confiscate them

from the Vietcong.

You got a minute?

He definitely does,
because I have to run.

Thanks, Jack.

Fitzgerald looks like he´s
twisting in the wind.

His old man´s a giant
pain in the ass.

What´d you get from the
Department of Defense?

Nothing yet on why Bull
was booted out,

but I do have something
on Sykes.

The day that anonymous letter
was sent to Thomas Lewis Jr.,

Sykes was in the VA Hospital
in the Bronx.

Same postmark
with the same zip code.

And his prints were all over
the original letter.

Let´s bring in Aybar and Plesac.

Okay.

Are you saying Sykes
sent this to Tommy´s son?

You´ve never seen
this letter?

Hell, no.

Any possibility
that it´s true?

Only two people
in the world can
tell you for sure

and that´s Sykes and Bull.

You want to tell me
about Kam Li?

I was part of the advance unit.
Bull sent us.

Had us move
all the villagers
out onto the road,

so we could conduct
a thorough search.

What did you uncover?

Nothing...

at first.

Liar!

Liar!

Come on, Bull,
let´s pull out.

( speaking Vietnamese )

Nothing here.
Let´s pull out.

Lewis, get back
and finish your job!

Get out of here, Tommy.
I mean it.

WOMAN:
We know nothing! Nothing!

( gunshot )

He sent him back in
to keep looking.

What did he expect to find?

Weapons... evidence they were

stockpiling...

See, that was the trouble
with that damn country.

Everyone you met
was a potential enemy.

We know nothing!
We know nothing!

We know you´ve got guns!

We know that!

You die! You die!
You die! You die!

Leave them here!

( speaking Vietnamese )

Got it!

Stay down!

Bull was convinced
the girl was a VC sympathizer

and that she could show us
where the weapons were.

Sykes confirmed seeing
the weapons stockpile.

But from what you just told me,

Sykes was standing watch
on the road.

He was, until Tommy came back.

Sykes, where´s Bull?

Not here.

What do you mean
he´s not here, man?

Where´d he go?

Bull wanted us to stay put.

These people ain´t VC,

just a bunch
of damn peasants.

Take me to him.

Can´t do that.

I´m your superior officer,

and I´m ordering you, Private.

Show me where he went.

Show me where he went!

And that was it.

That was the last time
I saw Tommy alive.

And how long were they gone?

Couple of minutes, maybe.

Then we heard gunshots.

The girl had walked him
into an ambush,

and they got Tommy.

Did you or anybody else see
these weapons

that Bull and Sykes
said they found?

Sykes saw them.

He backed it up.

And Sykes´ word...
that´s good enough for me.

We reported back
to Whitehurst.

Told him what happened.

He called the air strike.

That was over in
five minutes.

The whole jungle shook
from that bombing.

They wanted us to wait
till the next morning

to reenter the village,
but we went back in.

To get Sergeant Lewis´ body
from under the rubble?

You got to understand
how we felt about Tommy Lewis.

He was the finest individual
I´ve ever known.

( voice breaking ):
It was only right

and fitting that we should...

at least get his body
and send it home

so he could have
a decent burial.

I just don´t buy it.
I think they´re covering
up for Whitehurst.

I think that, somehow,

Lewis was left behind
in the village

and he was killed
by friendly fire.

When they went back there,

they didn´t find the weapons,
they just found rubble,

so Whitehurst makes up this
story about some kind of ambush.

Lewis becomes a martyr,

and they all walk out
of there with medals.

And now he´s in Congress.
That makes sense.

Hey, I just checked
with the Army

to see if they had a copy

of Tommy Lewis´
autopsy report.

They never did one,

but his widow did,
way back in ´71.

According to the report,

Lewis died from a single gunshot
wound to the head.

What was the weapon?

Russian Tokarov.

You´re accusing Bull Carver
of killing my father?

Forensics on his gun
match the bullet

found at your father´s autopsy.

You´re sure?

You never suspected that?

How do you explain the way
Bull was to me all those years?

I don´t know. Guilt.

Yeah, he´s so guilty

he sends me that letter?

That was Wallace Sykes.

Sykes?

Where were you the night
of the retirement dinner?

Hey, if I knew what you´re
telling me now,

maybe I would have killed him.

But I didn´t know.

And I was nowhere near
Atlantic City.

Will you take a polygraph?

Let´s go.

SAMANTHA:
Okay, let´s start here.

First phone call
on the third of last month.

Manny Aybar in Michigan calls
Wallace Sykes in South Carolina.

Wondering why Sykes
hasn´t RSVP´d

for the retirement dinner.

Okay, but according
to Ma Bell,

they talk on the phone
for over three and a half hours.

Two men who,
by Aybar´s own account,

are not particularly close

and haven´t spoken
since the war.

A lot of
catching up to do.

No, see, I think
this is when

Sykes first confesses

that he lied
about seeing weapons

at Kam Li, because look:

Aybar, on that Friday,

gets on a plane
and flies to South Carolina.

He just drops
everything

and flies halfway across
the country? For what?

To hang out at Sykes´
hellhole of a cabin?

I don´t think so.

He´s got to be talking
about Lewis´ murder,

because the minute Aybar gets
back to Michigan that Sunday,

he places a call
to Plesac.

Five phone calls in 24 hours.

Trust me, they´re talking about
more than the buffet menu.

And they conveniently manage

to leave Lewis Jr.
out of the loop.

Then you got Plesac
calling Sykes.

To confirm what
Aybar was telling him,

and to try and figure out

what Sykes is going
to do with it.

Can you tie Whitehurst
to any of this?

Not directly.

But the following Wednesday,
Aybar makes another call...

to the Congressional switchboard
in Washington, DC.

MARTIN:
Whitehurst is the one
with the most to lose

and they´ll do everything
they can to protect him.

That´s why he leaves
the dinner

before any
of this went down

His alibi´s safe.

They were all in on it:
Sykes, Aybar, Plesac...

And Whitehurst.
Yep.

I got this from
the Department of Defense.

Bull Carver was accused
of sexual assault

in the Philippines last year.

Charges were never filed.

The parents hushed it up,
because the girl was underage.

Bull agreed to pay full
restitution to the family,

but the Army had had enough

and they forced him out

because, apparently,
this was not the first time.

We know he had a thing
for Asian girls.

The key to this
is the girl at Kam Li.

Bull took her to the village
to rape her.

Lewis went after him,
they argued, Bull shot him--

and that´s what Sykes
has been hiding all these years.

What happened in Atlantic City?

And how are we going

to prove it?

MARTIN:
Oh, great.

What?

Hold on to your hat.

You want to explain this?

It explains itself.

I need you to authorize
a polygraph.

For Congressman Whitehurst?
Are you out of your mind?

You came all the way from
Washington to tell me that?

I came all the way
from Washington

because you´ve got a bug
up your ass with this guy.

This is a conspiracy.

These guys are stonewalling,

and Whitehurst is at
the center of it.

Based on what,
a series of phone calls?

The man left the hotel
at 10:30.

Just because he didn´t
participate in the murder

doesn´t mean
he´s not involved.
The answer´s no.

I´m not covering this up.

I´m not asking you to.

No polygraph.

You want Whitehurst,
find another way.

Hey, Lee.
Good to see you.

I heard they
moved you

to New York.

Bet you miss
Colorado though, huh?

You take care.

MARTIN:
You heading right back?

No, I´ve got some
business upstairs.

Well, look...
before you go,

I´d like a chance
to weigh in here.

Look, Martin,

first you come down
to interrogate

a United States Congressman

and you don´t even have
the courtesy

to check in with
the DC office,

and then...

then you go back
a second time,

against my direct order.

You can´t expect me
to be okay with that.

You know, I think
a lot of this

has to do with
personalities right now.

Meaning what?

Meaning Jack didn´t take
some wild flier here.

We´re following up
on a legitimate lead.

Why do you think
he brought you to Washington

in the first place?

It was to run
interference with me.

No, I don´t buy
that for a second.

Jack Malone is a very
talented agent,

and I understand
why you respect him,

but he´s a free swinger.

Now, sometimes free swingers

hit it out of the park.

But a lot of the time
they miss the ball completely.

So what are you telling me?

Let´s just say Jack
has made some mistakes lately,

and it hasn´t
gone unnoticed.

I just want you to have
my perspective on it.

And I want you to be
careful, Martin.

I´ll tell your mother
that you´re looking well.

JACK:
You know, we´ve pieced together

this whole thing.

The phone calls...

the weekend you spent

with Sykes.

I believe that you

the catalyst
for all of this.

Now, this is

going to come out
sooner or later.

It can happen in here,

or it can happen
in front of a grand jury.

Believe me,

I understand this.

I understand military justice.

What the hell do you understand?

I was in the 82nd Airborne,
First Battalion

in the 504 in ´79.

Red Devils, huh?

Yeah.

Baggy pants.

Where´d you do basic?

Benning.

Hot as hell down there.

So what happened?

How´d you end up here?

Busted up my leg in
a PLF training mission.

Desk job just wasn´t an option.

There was a lot
of things that
I didn´t like

about the Army,

but the one thing
that I respected...

was that you knew
that the guy next you

would kill or die for you.

I believe Bull

broke that trust.

I understand why you had
to do what you did,

and I understand why
you had to do it together.

Now, you got
to help me.

I don´t want this to go public,
but I cannot let it slide.

Okay.

Okay.

It was me and Sykes.

The others weren´t involved.

Tell me exactly how
it went down.

Tommy...

Tommy was like
a brother to me.

And when he didn´t
come back from Kam Li,

I got this... this feeling
in the pit of my stomach

that something wasn´t right.

But Sykes swore

by Bull.

He idolized Bull.

Did Sykes actually see Bull
kill Tommy?

No, it wasn´t until Bull
lied about the weapons cache

that Sykes realized
what had happened.

Syksie and I saw a weapons cache
big enough

to take out half a division.

Sykes?

It´s true, sir.

But he got caught up
in the moment.

And he lied.

And so Sykes tells you about it

32 years later
and you believe him?

Not at first.

That´s why I had to fly
down to his place.

I needed to talk
to him man-to-man.

But when I got there,

and I saw
the way he was living,

how he had tortured himself
his entire life...

What the secret
had done to him...

what Bull had done to him...

I knew what we had to do.

I want you to tell me
exactly what happened

in Atlantic City.

We lured Bull back to his room.

Told him we had
a bottle of scotch.

We´d... keep the party rolling.

Where´s that scotch
you were talking about?

No more alcohol, Bull.

You´re going to want

to be sober for this.

What´s going on?

You guys act like

this is some kind
of funeral, or something.

Don´t turn your back
on me,

you son of a bitch!

I want to hear you say it.

Say it? Say it? Say what?

You killed Tommy,
and I covered for you.

I´m not covering
for you anymore.

Oh...

All of a sudden, Sykes,
you grew a pair.

All of a sudden,
you´re the hero now.

You knew all those years...

You accepted that medal
they hung on your chest.

Go ahead and do
what you got to do.

You´ll get no argument
from me.

And that was it.

And he went willingly.

Yeah.

I guess he figured
his time was up.

What´d you do with the body?

We put it in the back
of Sykes´ car.

He was on his own after that.

I think you´re lying.

I think you´ve
taken the bullet

for Plesac and Whitehurst.

That´s what happened.

Bull´s story came in.

She got a package
from him,

sent from Atlantic City
before the retirement dinner.

It´s a suicide note.

Is it his handwriting?

She says it is.

What did he
tell you?

Name, rank and serial number.

It´s a suicide.

TV REPORTER:
Police had been searching the
area

since Mr. Sykes´ suicide

The body of Lt. Carver was
found in a gravel quarry

near the town
of Nashville, South Carolina

Where it had apparently been
transported in the trunk

of Mr. Sykes´ car, sometime
during the early morning hours.

MALE TV REPORTER:
There are still more qustions
and answers here.

But, authorities maintain that
it was a suicide pact

between the two old soldiers.

Lt. Col. Carver, a two time
winner of the Army´s silver
star

will be buried by his daughter
in a private ceremony.

Jack.

Yeah.

You got a second?

I, uh... I heard that
you´re catching a little hell

for the way this
Whitehurst thing
was handled.

Yeah, it´s a little
messy right now,

but, uh, it´ll blow over.

Right.

Well, for what it´s worth,
if anything does go down,

I thought it was
handled just fine.

Thank you.