All language subtitles for Combat! S01E22 - Night Patrol

Boom.

Crack.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

What's so funny?

You oughta see your face.

Well you ain't no raving beauty yourself.

Billy?

Got dog tags taped?

Yeah.

Everybody. I want you to hear this.

This mission has one purpose, and one purpose
only. It's to find prisoners and bring 'em back.

Now, above all, we avoid a fight.

You got it.

That's sure fine with me, Sarge.

Now for the last time,
does everybody know what this is all about.

You mean the war, Sarge?

He doesn't mean the war.

I like a squad with a sense of humor.

Hope yours lasts through the night.

You all set, Sgt.

Ready.

We're gonna split up into groups.

If each group brings in one prisoner,
we've done a good night's work.

S2 and the outpost have already been
notified, so there'll be no re-entry problems.

Now the storm's blowing over. So the
quieter you move, the longer you're gonna live.

We'll rendezvous at 0400 hours, at the
cemetery just outside the village.
And re-enter the lines together.

Questions?

I'll take Davis, Baker, and Brockmeyer with me.
Good luck, Sgt.

Alright.

Let's move out fellas.

What's all this creep and crawl, Sarge.
Now why don't we go out there and
just grab ourselves a kraut.

Just like that huh.

Yeah.

Kirby.

Jump up and down.

What?

You heard me. I said jump up and down.

He wants to see if anything
rattles besides your head.

Heh.

You can do better than that.

It's gonna be cold out
there Sarge. I thought uh...

Trouble with you is, Kirby,
you don't think at all.

Gonna be a long night.

Alright. Let's go.

(German)

(German)

(thump)

I hate those things.

Yeah. So do I.

Ich hasse diese Fackeln.

Ja. Ich auch.

Kirby.

Yup.

I thought I saw something.
Go on up ahead and take a look.

They can have this night patrol.
I sure don't want it.

Reminds me of coon hunting back home.

I wish I were there now.

Yeah. So do I.

(Thump)

He's taking too much time. I'll take a look.

Wait.

I won that teddy, Sarge.
Easy as falling off a log.

Where'd you find him.

Under a rock. Him and 2 others
was laying wire. They got killed.

How do you know that.

He told me.

He told you.

Yeah.

Does he speak English.

He speaks better English than Caje.

Looks like our lucky night Sgt.

Yeah,Well. Let's go home.

Kathump

Bang.

Hold it.

Relax. We're on the same side.

Drop your rifle.

You heard me.

What are you doing out here.

Well, my squad was on recon. I got separated.

Who are you.

Crants Joseph B., 04

You an officer?

Lieutenant.

I'm Saunders.

What are your orders, Sgt.

Yeah. We were sent out to bring in a prisoner.

Looks like I owe you one.

Mind if I come along.

I'm not a guy to stand on ceremony.

I'll just be part of the patrol.

You got your orders.
It's your assignment.
I'll do whatever you say.

Well, look Lieutenant

Maybe you didn't hear me Sergeant.

I said I don't stand on ceremony.

Most fighting soldiers don't.

Now you want to call me something
you call me Crans or Joe or just hey.

If you call me Lieut. and a kraut
hears, then I'm the first one popped.

Call me Sir the same thing happens.

Out here rank doesn't mean a thing.

No Sir.

Wanna come along it's alright.

I want to go alone Sgt.

Let's go.

I told you these woods were full of krauts.

Hold it.

Too many of them.

Out almost 2 hours.

It's gonna take us that long to get back.

Back. What do you mean back.
You're not giving up.

We're moving pretty close to their lines.

Do you want to go to Berlin just for a prisoner.

Close to their lines our chances
of finding them are better.

And riskier.

I'll tell you something, everything in life is
a risk, and that starts with getting boring.

Don't want you to take this personally but a
patrol like this gives guys who don't want
to fight a pretty good chance to goof off.

Then they go to sleep somewhere
for 6 or 7 hours, somewhere nice
and safe and then they go in.

You got a good gang here. They move good,
not afraid of being in kraut neighborhood

They'll do what they came
here for, if you let em.

We'll stay out another half hour
and, then we're moving back.

Without a prisoner?

With or without.

Alright. I said you were in command and
I take orders like the others. But I've got to
understand those orders first and what
you just said, I don't understand.

We've been told to avoid a
fight, and I do as I'm told.

You go by the book, don't you Sgt.

I'm alive.

Let's go.

Where's Crants?

Well, I thought he was with you.

Maybe things got too rough for him.

Maybe he talks a better war than he fights.

Hell. Maybe he just got lost.

He knows this sector.
His Company held it till a couple of days ago.

I think he's out there
cause he wants to be.

You gotta wait for him. You can't just..

Yeah. We'll wait. We'll wait just 10 minutes.

Then we head back.

Every minute we stay here makes it
easier for the Germans to find us.

Good ole Sarge sure don't cut
that Lieutenant, does he.

Can you blame him?

We're sitting around here like pigeons.

That Crants's Okay.

Just that when some guys lose their place in
the chain of command, they drift off and prowl.

Are you talking about the Sergeant?

Well, Sarge's been giving orders to an officer.
Maybe it's getting him down.

Maybe the Lieutenant's making
him lose confidence in himself.

Like a team having a coach.
The coach never saying nothing.

Just all the time watching.
Watching from the stakes.

Enough to make anybody jumpy.

No, Kirby. There isn't a better squad
leader than the Sergeant and you know it.

And he just never should have taken
that Lieut. along. That's all I gotta say.

We have to be heading back.
It's getting light.

That Lieut. wants to come along,
he'll just have to find us.

Well, that won't be very hard.

I heard you guys 50 yards away. You better
keep your voices down if you want to stay alive.

You could have got yourself killed
just now. I told you to stay with this patrol.

There you go with those regulations again.

You said you'd follow my orders.

Now if you want to pull rank on me,
you'll just have to wait till we get back.

We're not getting back. Not now.

We're cut off just over that rise.
A patrol twice our size.

Course they don't know we're here yet.

We could come up on their blind side.

Start firing now we're gonna have
more company than we can handle.

What's the matter Sergeant.
Are you afraid of a fight.

We'll find a place to hide.

We'll make our way back tonight.

I know a place Sergeant.

Follow me.

Home.

Kirby, come with me.

Cover us.

Kirby.

Get the others.

Well. What do you think of my part pool Sarge.

May have to go a long way to beat it.

Make yourself at home.

We've got all the conveniences.

Steam heat. Running water.

Crants.

Your men.

What about 'em.

What happened to them.

It's like I said. I got separated.

I left them. I went out to scout.
When I got back they were gone.

Maybe they're still up there.
I'm going up to take a look.

Sergeant.

Wouldn't do any good.

We were more than a mile from
here when we lost each other.

I'll make you guys some coffee.

Littlejohn.
Yeah.

You and Billy get back up there.
Take the 1st guard.

Kirby.
Yeah.

You and Caje go on up above.
Take a look through those tunnels.

You have some good boys there, Sarge.
They do just what you tell 'em.

That was the trouble with my outfit.
They didn't do like I said.

So now they're cut off 5 miles from their
own lines in country crawling with krauts.

How come you went ahead to scout, Lieut.

Why didn't you send one of your men.

I'm good in the dark, Sergeant.

And you lost your command.

They didn't do like I said.

They...didn't do like I said.

Can't stay out in this light Sir.

I know.

I'll bet I know what's holding up the sergeant.

That little drip Nelson probably got lost.

He's gonna cost us the war.

Alright.

We go back to 1st platoon outpost.

Sarge will have to make
it there instead of here.

Let's go.

Littlejohn.

Yeah.

You know that fella Crants.

Boy, there's a strange ball for you.

That's no way to talk about an officer, Billy.

Didn't they teach you any military courtesy.

Yeah, but there's something funny about him.

If you want to know the truth
I don't think he is an officer at all.

You don't.
Nope.

How come?

Well. Take you for instance.

Me?

Yeah. Now. If I didn't know you,
and you came up me and said

"I'm a buck private", I'd believe you.

You would.
Yeah.

How come?

You look like a private.

I do.

Yeah. You know the way you stand kinda all
slumped over and with your uniform hanging.

You calling me a slob.

No. All I'm saying is that

If you come up to me and said you
were an officer, I'd know you weren't.

The same as you would me.

Now watch. I'll prove it.

My name's Nelson. Lieutenant Nelson.

I don't believe you.

Hey, you see what I mean.

And that goes for that
fellow Crants in there too.

You mark my words Littlejohn.
If he is an officer, I am a chicken colonel.

Aah.

Hey. I thought that?
I know.

Thought the Sergeant wiped
me out back there, didn't ya.

I kept a kicker in my hip.

Got to get up pretty early in the
morning to get the jump on old Kirby.

Yeah, but if the sergeant catches ya.

It'll never hold up in a court martial.

Look. If the army expects me to crawl around in
these dirty damp caves, the least they can do
is turn their back if I want to use a little
alcohol for medicinal purposes.

That'll catch ya.

That, that's cold, a place like this.

(cork pops)

Have a snort.
Uh uh.

Wait a minute. Whoa whoa.

I just.
Hold on.
Look..

Caje. Do you think I could drink it
on duty. You see that light up there.

Yeah. So what.

We were on night patrol, right.

Have a snort.
Uh uh, thanks.

Suit yourself.

You know, Kirby. You know that
fellow Crants down there.

What about him.

He reminds me a lot of you, Kirby.

And what's that supposed to mean.

Look. Here we are in this hole, krauts all around,
and there you sit with a bottle in your hands.

You saying I ain't a good soldier.

Drink that, and you won't be.

You been busy, have you Lieut.

You figure there's gonna be a
run on souvenirs after the war's over.

This war isn't going to be
over for a long time, Sgt.

Is that what you want.

Why do you say a fool thing like that.

Well, this pile of guns, those helmets.

And that scarecrow in there,
with a German uniform on it.

A man gets kinda lonely being cut off out here.
You gotta have something to do to pass the time.

Like killing.

That's what it comes down to.
Isn't it Sergeant.

And it can happen to a man if he
doesn't understand why he's here.

You got to have a point of view about fighting.

Once you got a point of view, you got a
state of mind. You live, and the other guy dies.

You take this war kind of personal, don't you.

You'd be surprised how many
guys get killed and don't.

Uh, you said you were cut off from your patrol.

That's right.

When?
When?

I mean, tonight, a week ago,
2 weeks ago, a month ago. When?

Strange how you lose track of time.

What outfit were you in?

What?

I said , what outfit were you in?

Uh, the 422nd.

Lieut. They pulled out of this sector 2 weeks ago.

What is this Sgt. The third degree?

You're fighting this war with
a broken beer bottle, Lieut.

You keep it up, and you're gonna
end up wrapped in chicken wire
staring out a window being spoon fed.

Not a chance.

What happened sarge.

Hey sarge.

What do you make of those?

Smith, Oliver

R

Turner

Forbee

Howitz, R Roberts, D. McCain, Tom G.

Give me those.

Think I'll, uh, check around and see if
there's a back door to this place just in case.

Kirby.
Yo.

Keep an eye on him.

(A crunching noise)

The sergeant tell you to follow me?

Oh, uh, no. I though you
might need some help.

What's up that way.

It's a dead end.

Ohh boy. That feels good.

Yeah. And now it does but. Don't be surprised
if a couple of days from now your toes fall off. Ha ha.

Won't catch me putting a foot in there.

You don't know, what kind of underground
minerals might be floating around in that stuff.

Trouble with you Kirby, is you worry too much.

Who knows. I may have
found a fountain of youth.

So you'll have young feet.

What do you make of him Sarge.

I don't know.

I say we ought to get out of this place. Hmph.

I'd rather run through the German lines
in daylight than be caught down here.

If krauts come through that door,
then they got us cold. You know that.

Sitting around in your own grave.
Waiting for somebody to come throw dirt on your face.

Yup.

Whew. Hey, what time is it?

oh seven hundred.

What time is that?

Seven o'clock.

I wonder if the Lieut. is still waiting for us.

First light we pull on back.

Whew!

Hope he had better luck than we did.

Sergeant.

Shame I had to knock off
that kraut prisoner of yours.

You guys could all be home in bed by now.

But, uh, don't feel too bad.

Cause a prisoner taken on the way in can be
just as good as one taken on the way out.

Come dark, I'll get you another one.

Kirby, you come with me.

Where you going?

Just gonna take a little walk.

Well see you don't get lost.

Yeah.

You see anything?

Fog.

Well, it looks like the Sgt. is
gonna keep us up here all day.

Looks like.

Well, this place gives me the creeps.

Creeps?

Yeah. Just look at it.

What's wrong with it?

Well, it's so weird.

We had a cave back home.
It was full of bats.

Bats.

Those things that hang upside down.

Gee. You don't suppose there's,
there's any around here, do you.

There's a way to find out.

What's that?
Take off your hat.

My hat?

Yeah. Bats, like, swoop
down and get in your hair.

They do?

Fellow back home got a bat in his beard.

Took 2 barbers and a game warden to get it out.

(laugh)

You're kidding.

You think so.

Take off your hat.

Crants.

Lieutenant Joseph Crants.

Start talking Crants, or whatever your name is.

Now look Sgt. I don't want
to have to pull rank on you.

There are 9 dead men laying
in that tunnel back there.

You know you can get about 5 years
in a stockade for going against an officer.

And one of them is the officer you claim to be.

That's a lie.

I just cut that dog tag off him.

Now you look at it.

I said look at it.

We never should have come in here.

Tried to tell the Lieut.
but he wouldn't listen to me.

Nobody ever listens to me either.

We were out after some
prisoners, just like tonight.

Germans jumped us. About 20 of them.
We came in here to hide.

They caught us back in that tunnel
and we didn't have a chance.

I was the only one that got away.

When it was over I came back
and I been here ever since.

You get back to the lines you tell them
that Joe Crants is still here fighting.

Getting even for those boys. You tell 'em that.

Why don't you go back and tell 'em.

I can't.

Why?

You trying to trap me Sgt.

Don't you think I know when
somebody's trying to trap me?

How come you were the
only one that got away, huh.

Cause I'm smart.

Cause I know how to take care of
myself. Nobody wants you, you
learn how to take care of yourself.

That Lieut. He should have listened to me.

They'd all be alive if he'd listened to me.
But, oh no. He had to make a stand.
Get himself killed. Everybody else.

Everybody but you.

Why?

I'll go up and take over the guard.

You didn't answer my question.

Don't push me, Sgt.

Why? What are you gonna do?
You gonna kill me? Huh.

You gonna take my dog tags.

You think that's what happened.

Didn't it?

No.

Then why aren't you lying back
there in that tunnel with the others?

Because I ran.

I turned my back on those boys and I ran.

If youre not Joe Crants, who are you?

I don't know Sgt.

Dear god. I don't know.

Sergeant. Krauts.

Get down here. Kirby, put out that fire.

What?

How many of them.

About 10. They spotted me first.

(German)

(German)

Bang.

Take cover.

Take cover.

Now.

There's too many of 'em.

Keep firing.

You said you ran. You said you
were cut off in here, and you ran.

How'd you get out of here?

How'd you get out of here?

Back entrance. There's a back entrance.

Where?

Down this tunnel. Around that bend.

Hey Sarge.

We better get out of here or there's big trouble.

Come this way.

Keep going. Go on.

Blam.

I didn't run this time, did I Sgt.

Sergeant.

When you..

get back, you tell 'em that I'm still fighting.

You tell 'em.

You, tell 'em.

Yeah.

I'll tell 'em.

You say they were all dead.

Sergeant, those men out there. You
say they were dead when you found them.

Yeah Sir.

They were, they were all dead.

Not much to show for ten men, is it.

No Sir.

Saunders. Don't feel too bad about it.

I mean, about not bringing
in a prisoner last night.

Come dark, they're gonna let
us go out and try again.

We keep the same plan.

Pick up the two groups. I'll take
Davis, Baker and Brockmeyer with me.

Rendezvous 0400 hours. Questions?

No Sir.

I'll see you in the cemetery.

Yes Sir.

This is Lieut Hanley,
2nd platoon, K company.

You wanted the names of
those men from the 422nd.

Cain Thomas C

Flowers Robert D

Crants Joseph B

Pope John J

Smith Orville R

Fellows Steve S

Turner Wally B

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