All language subtitles for 18JAG S05E18 The Bridge at Kang So Ri-eng

Lieutenant, we've got gooks
coming over the bridge.

You know the orders, corporal.
Nobody crosses our line.

They look like civilians, sir.

They always look like civilians,
corporal.

Sir, there's women and children.

Handle it.

- What are we supposed to do?
- Go back.

- Go on!
- Go back!

- Get out of here!
- Go back!

Go back!

He's got a gun.

It happened early in the Korean War

on a bridge near the village
of Kang So Ri.

- Twenty-three Koreans were killed.
- I read about it, sir.

Press is reporting American soldiers
massacred civilian refugees there.

We've been dealing
with these alleged massacre reports

for 50 years now.

General Wolfe
headed an Army enquiry

into similar allegations six years ago,

found no criminal liability.

South Korean government
signed off on it.

The North Koreans called it
a whitewash, of course.

And now we have these new articles
in the American press.

Some former American soldiers
have given interviews,

admitting they killed
civilian refugees.

Those civilian refugees were infiltrated
by North Korean regulars.

Which you will take into account

when you conduct
your new investigation.

- General Wolfe will assist you.
- Or you can just read my report.

My government came to power
with a promise to defend human rights.

But, of course, we still value highly
our close relationship

with the United States.

After the sacrifices
our boys made in that hellhole,

it would be a damn shame
if all anyone remembers

is some politically correct
investigations.

Colonel, commander,
I'll see you on the plane.

I've arranged for a liaison
to meet you in Seoul

since I, unfortunately,
will not be able to greet you personally

in my hellhole of a country.

- It's a pleasure, sir.
- Admiral.

Civilians or combatants,

sounds like Vietnam.

A full generation earlier.

Find what witnesses you can,
examine documents.

It sounds like everyone
would be happier

if we find nothing, sir.

Everyone but me.
Get the truth no matter what it is.

- That will be all.
- Yes, sir.

- Hello, colonel, commander.
- Who's your buddy?

Burpee Bear.

I've been trying for six months
to get one of these for baby A.J.

What?

He said it's a Burpee Bear
for little A.J.

Apparently, very hard to find.

I got the last one in Virginia.

He got the last one in Virginia.

Got the last one in Virginia.

I'm gonna leave
before he does that again.

On the Internet,
they cost over $5,000.

On the Internet,
they cost over $5,000.

He speaks better than you do, Bud.

Well, an 18-hour flight,

could be going to Australia.

- I wish we were.
- Harm.

Renee.
Hey, you didn't have to see me off.

I'm not, I'm going.

- Going where?
- Korea.

Hello, Miss Peterson.

Oh, major, please. Call me Renee.

It's colonel,
but you can call me Mac.

Oh, Harm, this is Mickey Gallo,
my cameraman.

Mickey, say hello to my commander.

Commander Harmon Rabb.

And this is Charlie Hoskins.

Former Corporal Charlie Hoskins.

You gave interviews
for some of the articles.

And he's gonna give the best one yet
for me at the Kang So Ri Bridge.

I'm doing a segment
for a ZNN Korean War documentary.

On the alleged massacre?

Isn't it great?

The chance to move out
of commercials.

Plus, we'll get a chance
to be together.

Hello?

Mic.

Oh, I miss you too.

Enough to move my ring
to your left hand?

Oh, well...

Still on your right, is it?

For now. Look, Mic,
I can't really talk right now.

I'm about to get on a plane.

Oh, beautiful.
You're coming over to see me.

No, not this week. It's business.

Your attention, please.

Announcing the arrival of Flight 27--

I'll get it.

--arriving now at Gate 20-B.

An officer and a gentleman.

Announcing the arrival of Flight 27
from Hong Kong,

arriving at Gate 20-B.

- Hi.
- Hey.

Oceanic Air Flight 105
with nonstop service

to Seoul, South Korea,
is now boarding.

Sir, can you open your bag
for me, please?

Sure.

If you find anything that doesn't need
cleaning or pressing, you can have it.

Romeo y Julieta Churchill.

Strictly legal, not even Cuban.

Corporal Hoskins.

I guess we have you to thank
for this trip.

I'm not a corporal, general.

I haven't been for 50 years.

Why did you make
those statements now?

Maybe he wanted
to clear his conscience.

Is that right, Hoskins?

Do you consider yourself
a war criminal?

No, sir, I do not.

Good.

Earphones are available
for in-flight entertainment.

I'm gonna need to take
a formal statement

at an appropriate time, Mr. Hoskins.

Not a problem, commander.

I'm 70 years old, I got a prostate
that's probably killing me.

I just-- You know,
I wanna get out what happened

so that people smarter than me
can figure out

the rights and the wrongs of it.

What did happen, Hoskins?

What happened, general?

I was an 18-year-old draftee
directing traffic in Yokohama,

handing out Hershey bars
to hungry kids.

When suddenly,
we hear there's fighting in Korea.

I didn't even know where Korea was.

Our CO tells us
to pack our summer dress uniforms,

because we're gonna kick
the commies' butts

in a couple of weeks
and have a big parade in Seoul.

One year later,
half the men in my platoon are dead.

I never did get a chance
to wear that dress uniform.

I know what you did there,
Mr. Hoskins.

Most people have no idea.

They call it the forgotten war,
you know.

I just thought it was time
for somebody to remember.

Insert the metal fitting into the buckle
and pull to tighten belt.

Thanks.

You ever see action, colonel?

Some.

You know, I shot B-roll
of the Marines in Haiti.

Did you?

But I never saw a leatherneck
that looked like you.

You're taking advantage of him.

He's old, he's sick.

He's stewing about something
that happened 50 years ago.

Something?

He shot two dozen civilian refugees.

He feels bad about it. Wouldn't you?

I see you're going into
this documentary with an open mind.

Anything you have to say, general,
I'll be happy to hear.

How about this?

Two days before the incident
at Kang So Ri,

American soldiers let some refugees
pass on a road near Yeoncheon.

They thought there were pregnant
women in the group.

But they weren't pregnant,
and they weren't women.

They were NKPA troops
with hand grenades in belly packs.

Eleven Americans
were blown to pieces.

Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain, Bill Armstead.

Well, if you can document that,
it'll be in my piece.

If I can document it?

How about you, commander?

Are you prepared to accept the word
of the United States Army?

I have 10,000 pages of Army reports
on my desk back at JAG.

Oh, great, there go our weekends
when we get back home.

Do you two know each other?

Yes, sir, we do.

Well, I see you're making friends
and influencing generals.

Mac, I would love to put you
in my documentary.

You would be so attractive
on-screen

if we could just get you out
of that awful uniform.

Thanks.

Who could look good
in those drab colours?

Not me, I guess.

Look, I just want you both to know how
excited I am to be working with you.

You're not working with us, Renee.

Well, we can help each other.

You have the official report, right?

I have access to people
who wouldn't trust you.

I've already talked
to the North Koreans,

protestors from South Korea...

Anything we discover is confidential
until the report is published,

if it's published.

Harm, the last confidential document
in Washington

was Abraham Lincoln's diary.

It's quid pro quo.
That's the way the system works.

Not my system.

Well, I guess I don't know your system
as well as I thought.

Excuse me, general.

Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain.

We've just crossed
the International Date Line.

We'll be arriving
in Seoul, South Korea,

in six hours, 15 minutes.

I already see the opening.

Charlie Hoskins
walks across the bridge,

the same path the refugees took.

Then we hear gunshots
and dissolve to black and white.

Miss Peterson,
do any of you journalists

advance your careers
by reporting on honourable people

doing honourable things?

Fireman saves cat in tree,
tape at 11 ?

I'd like my dinner now, please.

We'll be serving in minutes.
If you'd return to your seat.

- The vegetarian meals.
- What?

Where are the vegetarian meals?

So, what are you doing
after we get to Seoul?

Do you want anything from the galley?
Like ice water?

Better not be lasagne again,
Young-Hee.

No, it's a chef's surprise.

Lady, you sure
you wanna be doing this?

- Quite.
- All right, what do you want?

A small change in your flight plan.

We barely have fuel to reach Seoul.

It will be sufficient.

Set a new course for North Korea.

Everybody stay in your seats.

Stand and you will be shot.

My comrades and I
have taken command over this aircraft

in the name of the Korean people.

We have no grievance
against most of you.

We have taken this action
to serve justice.

General Wolfe, Corporal Hoskins,

you are indicted by the people
for crimes against humanity.

Hoskins, for slaughtering refugees

at Kang So Ri, Korea,
September 4th, 1950.

Wolfe, for covering up that crime.

If this was really about justice,
you wouldn't need the guns.

Harm.

Don't you keep the world free
and just with your guns, commander?

The United States government

is already investigating
these alleged crimes,

which is more than North Korea
would ever do.

If you have information,
give it to me.

I'll present it to Washington
and to Seoul.

That's very generous, commander,

but unfortunately for you
and your South Korean lap dogs,

this time,
there won't be a whitewash.

No, this time,
there will be a lynching.

I love you, A.J.

I love you, A.J.

Lieutenant?

Harm and Mac's plane
has been hijacked.

- By whom?
- What?

"By whom?" Oh, hell, I don't know.

Some group intent
on refighting the Korean War.

Look, SECNAV is on his way
over here.

We're gonna monitor the situation
in the conference room.

I want you to go to the CIA.
You find Webb.

He may know more than we do.

- Aye, aye, sir.
- Oh, lieutenant?

Unless you know Morse code,
you might wanna take this...

- PalmPilot?
- Whatever.

This is my fault.

I should have let the past
stay buried.

How the hell did they know
we were on this plane?

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I talked to the North Koreans
and the South Korean protestors.

I am so sorry.

You're probably just worried
about how you're going to rearrange

your knickknacks
to make room for an Emmy.

General, with all due respect, sir,

we should deal
with the situation at hand

and save the recriminations for later.

Fine.

- What are you gonna do?
- They're well organised, sir.

They keep their eyes open.

One of them
is always in the cockpit.

There's five of them and 300 of us.

We could probably take
these two up here, sir,

but they would shoot people
before we did it.

Maybe.

I'm the senior officer here,

and I'll be damned if I'm going
to North Korea without a fight.

If I see fit to give you an order,
I expect you to follow it.

How many people
do you wanna see killed?

Coffee? Tea?

- Strategy.
- Mac.

I convinced the woman--
They call her Solla.

--That people need beverages.

See what you can find
that we can use for a weapon.

Keep moving.

Thank you.

- That's their position, sir?
- It is, on radar track.

NSA is tapping
into their communications.

We're getting a feed in here

so that we can see and hear
what they're doing.

Well, what about us?
What are we doing?

We are talking
to the North Koreans.

We don't think they're behind this.

They've been cooperating
with us lately.

You know, up to a point.

Yeah, they promise
not to build nuclear weapons,

and we pay them off
by building nuclear power plants.

Hell, sir, that's diplomatic extortion.

Yes. And they probably
won't wanna give it up.

Any new demands
from the hijackers?

No.

They say they wanna try Mr. Hoskins
and General Wolfe for war crimes.

- What about my people?
- I don't know, A.J.

What are you doing?

I'm getting blankets.
Some of the passengers are cold.

Who gave you permission?

No one, I'm just doing my job.

Do it when I tell you.

Sit down.

Where's Colonel MacKenzie?

Don't play stupid with me.

Lieutenant Colonel S. MacKenzie
is on the passenger manifest.

He didn't make it on the plane.

I don't believe you.

He got bronchitis last night.

If you don't believe me,
call Bethesda Naval Hospital.

I cannot risk getting jumped
by some colonel

who wants to be a general.

Tell me where the colonel is.

Or I kill your friend.

Harm.

You would shoot
an innocent civilian?

Only one.

Corporal Hoskins here
shot a couple dozen.

Not like this.

- You don't know what it was like.
- I don't?

Two of my grandparents
were killed at Kang So Ri.

Probably by you.

Your grandfather
wouldn't by any chance

have been
in the North Korean Army?

You're gonna be dealt with.

You're gonna be dealt with.

Now, where is Colonel MacKenzie?

I'm Colonel MacKenzie.

A woman soldier?

Yeah, just like you.

These are the ones we've identified.

They came out
of a radical student group

in Seoul University.

- Why am I in an interrogation room?
- What?

Oh, this isn't an interrogation room.
It's a reception room.

It's a mirror.

This is Solla Jong.

This is Kwan Kun-An
and this is--

It's a mirror.

Anything else from the CIA?

The last reported activity
of this group

was burning down
an American sneaker factory.

Sneakers?

They said it exploited
the Korean workers.

I've got Roberts over there
trying to pry things open.

Good luck.

Chegwidden.

Oh, yes. Sir, it's for you.

Thank you.

Yes?

They what?

Thank you.

The North Koreans have spoken.

The hijackers are counterrevolutionary
anarchist adventurers.

The plane will not be allowed
to enter North Korean airspace.

They say if we enter
North Korean airspace,

they will shoot us down.

I'll tell them again
who we have onboard.

They know who we have onboard.
It doesn't matter to them.

Then you're all going to die.

- What were you gonna do?
- Do about what?

When Solla had the gun on Renee,

who were you gonna protect,
her or me?

Well, you stepped forward, Mac.
I guess we'll never know.

All passengers except these
will move to the lower cabin.

- What are you doing with them?
- Getting them out of our way.

Miss Peterson,
you have your camera?

- Why?
- To record history.

We are not sure
where we are going to land,

so we have our trial here.

- And you will document it.
- The hell she will.

- Actually, general,
- Here it comes.

It's my duty. It's news.

- Who's the judge?
- Me.

- Who's the jury?
- We don't play by your rules.

- Do you play by any rules?
- This is a farce.

The defendants
can plead their cases.

If you and Colonel MacKenzie
want to represent them,

we'll listen to you up to a point.

I'm not going to waste my breath.

Mr. Hoskins?

- You'll listen to me?
- Of course.

Don't be a fool, Hoskins.

I'll tell my story.

Mickey, the camera.

This court is now in session.

Oceanic Flight 105,

you are not authorised to land
at any airfield

in the People's Democratic
Republic of Korea.

Sir, we have a carrier
in the Sea of Japan.

We have Air Force bases
in South Korea.

May I suggest
that we put up fighters?

If we put up fighters,
the North Koreans are gonna react.

If we don't send up fighters,
they may shoot down a civilian aircraft.

The hijackers know that.

And they may not care, damn it,
and I do.

Sir, with all due respect,
what do we know about these people?

I mean, what the hell do they want
other than some show trial?

They already have something.

I just hope they don't know it.

Sir?

General Wolfe. He's our liaison

with South Korea's
intelligence agency.

He knows who we have
in North Korea.

He knows which North Korean agents
have turned.

If Pyongyang
get their hands on him...

Charles Hoskins,
you are charged with the wilful murder

of 23 Korean civilians
near the village of Kang So Ri.

General Zachary Wolfe,

you are charged
for covering up such crimes

in the interest of making
such massacres possible in the future.

You getting this, Miss Peterson?

You still going to be filming
when they carry us out in body bags?

You're not helping yourself, general.

Give me a weapon,
I'll do myself some good.

Solla.

And keep him out of my briefcase.

We're looking for evidence.

Don't you use evidence
in your trials?

Your enquiry report
from the classified summary,

"Whatever the provocations, it is clear
that at least some Korean civilians

were deliberately targeted
by American troops."

Excuse me.

Could you move away
from the window?

We're getting some glare.

I think that makes the case.

Are you gonna enter
the entire report into evidence?

You may proceed, commander.

Mr. Hoskins, you wanna tell us
what happened at Kang So Ri?

Yes, sir. It had been raining.

The refugees,
they came out of a mist.

All dressed in white like ghosts.

I told them to stop.

I warned them.

I thought I saw one of them
reaching for a gun.

And then?

We opened fire.
Benny and McFall and me.

The women and the children
and the old people,

did you shoot them too?

I'm sorry.

I've been sorry for 50 years.

I don't know if the hijackers
have any connections in North Korea.

I've told you everything we know.

Yeah, I know Harm and Mac
are on the plane.

Okay, now, we don't think
this means very much,

but this Solla woman was seen
with a North Korean diplomat in Hanoi.

This North Korean
is someone of interest to us.

This North Korean
is someone of interest to us.

Would you open that, please?

Would you open that, please?

- Give me the bear.
- No.

Lieutenant,
you can stay or you can leave,

but that bear is not leaving this building
with classified information.

Let's put that day at the bridge
in perspective, Mr. Hoskins.

Yes, sir. I'd like nothing better.

- How long had you been in country?
- Two weeks.

Had you experienced combat?

Well, we were mostly retreating,
but, yes, sir, they attacked us.

We didn't have any armour,

our bazookas were firing duds,

half the time our radios didn't work,
and we were outnumbered.

I was green as grass
when I first got there.

I never used a pig sticker for anything
except to open K rations.

Pig sticker?

It's a bayonet.

Yeah, first time I used one for real,
we were being infiltrated from the rear.

I stabbed one.

My blade stuck in his gut.

I killed another
with an entrenching tool.

A kid, really.

Just like me.

I beat him to death with a shovel.

We didn't know what we were doing.
You know, guys in our outfit

were doing all kinds
of brave, crazy things.

Like shooting old women?

My friends were getting killed
all around me.

What were your orders
at Kang So Ri?

Don't let anyone cross our lines.

Did you question the orders?

I told the lieutenant that there were
women and children in the group,

and he told me to handle it.

Did you consider
that an unlawful order

you had a right to disobey?

No, sir.
We were told about Yeoncheon

and how those so-called refugees
were killing our guys.

I'm not a criminal.

But I did shoot civilians.

He confesses.

Wait a minute.

Mr. Hoskins, you told me earlier
about your family.

- Let's just leave them out of this.
- No, we can't.

Do you have any pictures
of your children?

They're all grown up.

I got an old picture
in my wallet here.

- Show it to us.
- There you go.

Thanks.

What are their names?

Well, you see in the middle here?
That's my daughter Sun-Tu.

And these are my boys,
Ho-Jun and Young-Sam.

You adopted Korean War orphans?

Yeah.

In the war, I called the people gooks.

Everybody did. I mean, you know,
we didn't know any better.

But I learned.

Koreans, Chinese, Americans,
we all died the same.

This is supposed
to help your defence?

It tells you who Charlie Hoskins is.

Yes, an imperialist soldier
who brings home souvenirs

from conquered lands.

Now, you hold on there, lady.
These are my children.

Why did you adopt them?

- Because l--
- Because you felt guilty.

Because you are guilty.

Thank you.

See? Good as new.

Little A.J. Will love it.

I love you. Let's go to the park.

What have you done to him?

Charlie Hoskins was a 19-year-old kid
from a working-class family in Indiana.

His father worked
at the Studebaker factory.

Charlie would've worked there too

if he hadn't been drafted
and sent to Japan in peacetime.

Later, in Korea, Charlie watched
as his fellow troops died around him.

He'd heard about North Korean troops
sneaking south disguised as refugees,

and he received an order
to stop this from happening.

If Charlie had not followed orders

and fired upon the refugees that day
at Kang So Ri,

one of them might have shot
and killed him.

- You don't know that's true.
- You don't know that it isn't true.

I'm sorry about your grandparents.

And Charlie is sorry too.

But condemning this man isn't fair.

It isn't just. It isn't right.

Anything else, commander?

If you do this, you will be hunted
to the ends of the earth.

I'm afraid that won't be necessary.

We're landing in Seoul
since no other place will take us.

In a few minutes,
I'll be captured and killed.

So we carry out the sentence now.
Kwan.

- You forgot the verdict.
- Did I?

Guilty.

General, I'm sorry.

Keep filming, Miss Peterson.

You definitely want to get this.

People will see this tape.
You don't want it to end like this.

This is the way it has to end.

You'll be viewed as a barbarian.

I'm done arguing with you,
commander.

Do you want to join them?

Solla, the general is working
with the South Korean Intelligence.

He was carrying this agenda
for a meeting tomorrow.

"Current State of Counterintelligence
Versus the DPRK.

Attending,
Major General Zachary Wolfe,

U.S. Army intelligence liaison."

Are you a spymaster,
General Wolfe?

If you're going to shoot me,
shoot me.

"Penetration of the North Korean
General Intelligence Bureau."

This is why you covered up
the massacre,

because you are still fighting
the war.

Gun down, Kwan.

North Korea may let us in after all.

They're turning north.

And the North Koreans
are scrambling MiGs to intercept.

They're gonna shoot it down, sir.

Not if they turn away.

You're relying on the good sense
of hijackers?

- Permission denied.
- Turn that up.

Permission denied.

You may not cross
our military boundary.

If you enter our airspace,
your presence will be--

They claim 50 miles out
into the Sea of Japan.

We've gotta send up a fighter, sir.

Even if the plane doesn't turn back,

our people think
that the North Koreans will let it land.

We're sending them tons of food
every month, plus the power plants.

They need our goodwill.

Goodwill?
What people are telling you this, sir?

The CIA.

- Hello?
- The plane is flying to North Korea

and the CIA
is peddling some bushwa

about what's gonna happen.

Now, you tell Webb
he's gotta level with us.

What am I saying?
Put him on, let me tell him.

Webb.

Yeah.

Sorry, I can't help you with that.

Lieutenant Roberts is just leaving.

You don't understand.

We have General Wolfe
and proof that he's a spymaster.

He knows the South Korean spies
among you.

He knows which of your spies
have betrayed you.

- I repeat--
- Tell your superiors.

- Clearance denied.
- Tell them.

Those people don't mess around.

Set the course for Pyongyang.
They'll change their minds.

"You didn't hear it from me,

but HUMINT tells of power struggle
in DPRK military.

Prognosis: Plane will be shot down."

And the CIA
is keeping that a secret.

Yes, because they'd rather have
a plane shot down

and protect the intelligence secrets
in General Wolfe's head.

The decision's been made
not to show force.

So unmake it, sir.

Only the president can do that.

- Sir?
- Chegwidden.

Put me through to the White House.

North Korean MiGs.

You better let me go to the cockpit.

- Why?
- Because I'm a combat pilot

and it looks
like you're gonna need one.

You will stay where you are.

We've gotta turn back.

- Keep going.
- They'll kill us.

Turn it back. Turn back.

Altitude. Altitude.

Altitude. Altitude.

Can you fly to Pyongyang?

I'll tie her up.

What took you so long?

Watch out.

They're getting in position
to shoot us down.

That won't stop them for long.

Oceanic 105,
this is U.S. Air Force Eagle One.

Flight lead inbound with radar lock.

Eagle One, Oceanic 105.

U.S. Navy at the controls.

Navy?

I've got two MiGs on my 6.

We are buster, 30 seconds away.

Missiles inbound.
Brake hard left now.

Your fire's out, Navy.
Sorry about that.

Apology accepted
if you splash those MiGs.

Roger. Engaged.

MiGs are bugging out.
Do you want escort to South Korea?

Roger that. Take me home.

Can you land that bus, Navy?

Sure I can land this thing.

Can you?

Let's hope so.

Oceanic 105,
maintain flight heading 070.

You're below glide slope
and descending.

Roger that. Correcting.

- Correction looks good.
- This baby's got the moves of a whale.

It's called inertia, Navy.

You're sitting on top
of 200 tons of aircraft.

Clear to land, call gear down.

Gear down.

Decrease your sink rate.

Remember,
you're sitting five storeys up.

Don't fly it into the ground.

Looking good, Navy.

Ease off.

Ease off.

Flaps, and you're down.

Throttle back,
you've got lots of runway.

Welcome to Korea, Navy.
You've just cost me 50 bucks.

Next time, I take the boat.

- Take your paws off me.
- Easy.

- Let's go.
- Watch it.

If you were still on active duty,
Hoskins,

I'd put you in for a decoration.

Never got a scratch, general,
the whole first time I was here.

How is your movie looking,
Miss Peterson?

Happy ending. It'll sell.

And if they had shot us, what were
you going to do with the tape?

We still have an investigation
to conduct, sir.

Indeed we do.

We'll start tomorrow morning
and take it where it leads.

Aye, aye, sir.

Well, it took a hijacking
to open the general's mind.

It took Charlie Hoskins.