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Saigon.

Shit.

I'm still only in Saigon.

Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.

When I was home alter my lirst tour, it was worse.

I'd wake up, and there 'd be nothing.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce.

When I was here, I wanted to be there.

When I was there, all I could think ol was getting back into the jungle.

I'm here a week now.

Waiting lor a mission.

Getting softer.

Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker.

And every minute Charlie squats in the bush,

he gets stronger.

Each time I Iooked around, the walls moved in a Iittle tighter.

Everyone gets everything he wants.

I wanted a mission.

And for my sins, they gave me one.

Brought it up to me Iike room service.

Captai n W i l lard , are you i n there?

Yeah , l ' m com i ng .

It was a real choice mission.

And when it was over, I'd never want another.

-W hat do you want? -Are you al l rig ht, Captai n?

W hat does it look l i ke?

-Are you Captai n W i l lard , 505th Battal ion? -Affi rmative.

- 1 73rd Ai rborne? -Yeah .

-Assig ned to SOG? -H ey, buddy, you gon na shut the door?

We have orders to escort you to the ai rfield .

-W hat are the charges? -Si r?

W hat'd l do?

There's no charges , Captai n .

You have orders to report to COMS EC l ntel l igence at N ha Trang .

- I see. -Al l right?

-N ha Trang for me? -That's right.

Come on , Captai n . You sti l l have a few hou rs to get cleaned u p .

- I ' m not feel i ng too good . -Captai n?

Dave, come here and give me a hand . We got a dead one.

Come on , Captai n . Let's take a shower.

-Don 't be an ass . -Get hold of hi m good .

We' re gon na take a shower, Captai n .

- I n we go. -Now stand underneath this , Captai n .

I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn 't even know it yet.

Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river

that snaked through the war Iike a main circuit cable,

plugged straight into Kurtz.

I nsu lt me agai n and l ' l l kick you r ass .

It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker

ol Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory

any more than being back in Saigon was an accident.

There is no way to tell his story without telling my own.

And il his story is really a conlession...

Captai n W i l lard reporti ng , si r.

...then so is mine.

-Captai n . Good . Come on i n . -Thank you , si r.

-Stand at ease . -General .

Do you want a cigarette?

No, thank you , si r.

Captai n , have you ever seen this gentleman before?

No, si r.

-Met the Ceneral or myself? -No, si r.

Not personal ly.

You've worked a lot on you r own , haven't you , Captai n?

Yes, si r, l have.

You r report specifies l ntel l igence,

Cou nteri ntel l igence with COMSEC , l Corps.

I ' m not presently d isposed to d iscuss those operations, si r.

Did you not work for the C lA i n l Corps?

No, si r.

Did you not assassi nate a govern ment tax col lector,

Quang Tri Provi nce , J une 1 8, 1 968?

Captai n?

Si r, l am u naware of any such activity or operation ,

nor wou ld l be d isposed to d iscuss such an operation

if it d id , i n fact, exist, si r.

I thought we'd have a bite of l unch whi le we tal k.

I hope you broug ht a good appetite, Captai n .

I noticed that you have

a bad hand , there. Are you wou nded?

I had a l ittle fish i ng accident on R&R, si r.

-Fishi ng on R&R? -Yes, si r.

But you' re feel i ng fit? You' re ready for d uty?

Yes, General . Very m uch so, si r.

Wel l , let's see what we have here.

Roast beef, and usual ly it's not bad .

Try some , Jerry, and pass it arou nd .

To save a l ittle ti me , we m ig ht pass both ways.

Captai n , l don 't know how you feel about th is shri m p,

but if you' l l eat it,

you' l l never have to prove you r courage i n any other way.

Rig ht, wel l , why don't l j ust take a piece here?

Captai n , you've heard of Colonel Walter E . Kurtz?

Yes, si r, l 've heard the name.

Jesus .

Operations officer, Fifth Special Forces.

Luke, would you play that tape for the Captai n , please?

-Yes, si r. l ' m sorry, si r. -Listen to th is careful ly, Captai n .

October 9, 04J0 hours, sector Peter Victor King.

These were mon itored out of Cam bod ia .

This has been verified as Colonel Ku rtz's voice .

I watched a snail

crawl along the edge

ol a straight razor.

That's my dream.

It's my nightmare.

Crawling, slithering

along the edge

ol a straight razor,

and surviving.

Transmission ! !, received '68, December 30, 0500 hours.

Sector King Zulu King.

But we must kill them.

We must incinerate them,

pig alter pig,

cow alter cow,

village after village,

army after army.

And they call me an assassin.

What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin ?

They Iie.

They Iie, and we have to be merciful

for those who Iie.

Those nabobs,

I hate them.

I do hate them.

Walt Ku rtz was one of the most outstand i ng officers

this country's ever prod uced .

He was bri l l iant. He was outstandi ng i n every way.

And he was a good man , too.

A h u man itarian man .

A man of wit and hu mor.

He joi ned the Special Forces .

And after that,

his ideas , methods ,

became

u nsound .

U nsound .

Now he's crossed i nto Cam bod ia with th is Montag nard army of h is

that worsh i p the man l i ke a god .

And fol low every order, however rid icu lous .

Wel l , l have some other shocki ng news to tel l you .

Colonel Ku rtz is about to be

arrested for m urder.

I don't fol low, si r. Mu rdered who?

Kurtz had ordered the execution of some Vietnamese i ntel l igence agents .

Men he bel ieved were dou ble agents .

So he took matters i nto his own hands.

Wel l , you see, W i l lard ,

i n this war, thi ngs get

confused out there .

Power, ideals, the old moral ity,

and practical m i l itary necessity.

But out there with these natives ,

it m ust be a tem ptation

to be God .

Because there's a confl ict i n every human heart

between the rational and the i rrational ,

between good and evi l .

And good does not always tri u m ph .

Someti mes

the dark side

overcomes what Li ncol n cal led , "The better angels of ou r natu re."

Every man has got a breaki ng poi nt.

You and l have them .

Walt Ku rtz has reached his ,

and very obviously he has gone i nsane.

Yes, si r. Very m uch so, si r. Obviously i nsane.

You r m ission is to proceed u p the N u ng River i n a Navy patrol boat,

pick u p Colonel Kurtz's path at N u M u ng Ba ,

fol low it, learn what you can along the way.

W hen you fi nd the Colonel , i nfi ltrate his team

by whatever means avai lable

and term i nate the Colonel 's com mand .

Term i nate the Colonel?

He's out there operati ng without any decent restrai nt,

total ly beyond the pale of any acceptable hu man cond uct.

And he is sti l l i n the field , com mand i ng troops.

Term i nate with extreme prej ud ice.

You understand , Captai n , that th is m ission does not exist,

nor wi l l it ever exist.

How many people had I already killed?

There were those six that I knew about lor sure.

CIose enough to blow their last breath in my face.

But this time it was an American and an oflicer.

That wasn 't supposed to make any diflerence to me, but it did.

Shit, charging a man with murder in this place

was Iike handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do ?

But I really didn 't know what I'd do when I found him.

Did you check the tank?

Yeah .

I was being lerried down the coast in a Navy PBR.

A type ol plastic patrol boat, a pretty common sight on the rivers.

They said it was a good way to pick up information and move

without drawing a Iot of attention.

And that was okay.

I needed the air and the time.

Only problem was, I wouldn 't be alone.

Morn i ng , Captai n .

The crew were mostlyjust kids.

Rock 'n ' rollers with one foot in their graves.

-How old are you? -Seventeen .

The machinist, the one they called Chel, was from New Orleans.

He was wrapped too tight lor Vietnam.

Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans.

Lance, on the forward . 50s, was a famous surfer

from the beaches south of LA.

To look at him, you wouldn 't believe he 'd ever fired a weapon in his Iife.

CIean, Mr. CIean, was from some South Bronx shithole,

and I think the light and space of Vietnam

really put the zap on his head.

Then there was Phillips, the Chief.

It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the Chiel's boat.

There's about two poi nts where we can d raw enoug h water

to get i nto the N ung River.

They' re both hot, belong to Charl ie .

Don't worry about it.

Don't smoke .

You know, l 've pu l led a few special ops i n here.

About six months ago,

l took a man who was goi ng up past the bridge at Do Luong .

He was reg u lar Army, too .

I heard he shot h i mself i n the head .

At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier.

I couldn 't believe they wanted this man dead.

Third-generation West Point, top ol his class,

Korea, Airborne, about !, 000 decorations, et cetera, et cetera.

I had heard his voice on the tape and it really put the hook in me,

but I couldn 't connect up that voice with this man.

Like they said, he had an impressive career.

Maybe too impressive.

I mean, pertect.

He was being groomed lor one ol the top slots in the corporation,

General, Chief of Stall, anything.

In ! 984, he returned lrom a tour with advisory command in Vietnam

and things started to slip.

His report to the Joint Chiels ol Stall and Lyndon Johnson was restricted.

Seems they didn 't dig what he had to tell them.

During the next few months, he made three requests for transler

to Airborne training, Fort Benning, Georgia, and was linally accepted.

Airborne ?

He was 38 years old.

Why the luck would he do that?

! 966, joins Special Forces,

returns Vietnam.

-H ey, what's that? -Arc l ight.

-W hat's that? -B-52 stri ke.

-W hat's that? -Arc l ight.

I hate that. Every ti me l hear that, someth i ng terri ble happens .

Charl ie don't never see them or hear them , man .

-There they are . -Concussion wi l l suck the ai r

out of you r dam n l u ngs .

-Someth i ng terri ble's gonna happen . -Smoke!

Secondary burn i ng .

H ueys over there. Lots of H ueys .

Let's have a look, Chief.

It was the air cav, First ol the Ninth.

That's them .

Our escorts to the mouth of the Nung River.

But they were supposed to be waiting lor us another J0 km ahead.

Well, Airmobile, those boys just couldn 't stay put.

Kid , come on . Get down . Come on .

First ol the Ninth was an old cavalry division

that had cashed in its horses for choppers and gone tear-assing around Nam

Iooking lor the shit.

They'd given Charlie a few surprises in their time here.

What they were mopping up now hadn 't even happened yet an hour ago.

J ust keep run n i ng by. Ru n for television .

Don't look at the camera . J ust keep. . . Go on ! Keep goi ng .

This is for television . Don't look at the camera .

Don't look at the camera .

J ust go by l i ke you' re fig hti ng . Li ke you' re fighti ng .

Don't look at the camera . lt's for television . J ust go through !

Go throug h ! J ust go by! Keep on goi ng !

Keep goi ng . Don't look at the camera . Go on . Keep goi ng .

W here can l fi nd the CO?

That's the Colonel com i ng down !

The CO's on that chopper.

Lieutenant, bom b that tree l i ne back about 1 00 yards!

-Give me some room to breathe! -Yes, si r!

-Body cards! -Si r?

-Bri ng my body cards! -Yes, si r!

I ' m the fou rth tank com mander. l got five tan ks broken down .

We' re al l rig ht with the tanks. lt's al l right, Captai n .

Captai n W i l lard !

I carry priority papers from COMS EC l ntel l igence, l l Corps .

I u nderstand N ha Trang has briefed you on the req ui rements of my m ission .

W hat m ission? l haven't heard from N ha Trang .

Si r, your u nit is su pposed to escort us i nto the N u ng !

-We' l l see what we can do, but. . . -Colonel .

...j ust stay out of my way u nti l this is done , Captai n .

Al l right, let's see what we have. Let's see what we have.

A two of spades , three of spades , fou r of d iamonds ,

six of cl u bs , eight of spades .

There isn't one worth a jack i n the whole bunch .

Fou r of d iamonds .

-H ey, Captai n , what's that? -Death cards !

-W hat? -Death cards !

-Death? - lt lets Charl ie know who d id this .

-Cheer up, son . -We wi l l not hurt or harm you .

-Fi re i n the hole! -Fi re i n the hole!

This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

We are here to help you.

- We are here to extend a welcome hand. . . -Come on .

-. . . To those ol you who would Iike. . . -Everybody i n?

...to return to the arms of the South Vietnamese government.

H urry u p!

Move it out!

This is an area that is controlled by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

Hey! W hat's this?

W hat is th is?

This man's hu rt pretty bad , si r.

About the only th i ng that's hold i ng h is g uts i n , si r,

- l s that pot l id . -Yeah?

W hat does he have to say?

This sold ier is d i rty VC .

He wants water. He can d ri n k paddy water.

Get out of here ! Give me that canteen .

-H e's VC! -Any man that's brave enough to...

Get out of here ! l ' l l kick you r fucki ng ass !

He ki l led a lot of ou r people!

Any man brave enoug h to fight with h is g uts strapped on h i m

can dri nk from my canteen any day!

Hey, Colonel , l thi n k one of those sai lors is Lance Joh nson , the surfer.

-W here? Here? You su re? -Down there .

Yeah? Here.

Repeat, we have a body cou nt. We have...

W hat's you r name, sai lor?

Gun ner's Mate Th i rd Class L. Johnson , si r!

-Gu n ner's Mate Th i rd Class . . . -Wait. Lance Joh nson , the surfer?

-Yes, si r. -Wel l , it's an honor to meet you , Lance.

I 've ad m i red you r nose rid i ng for years .

I l i ke you r cutback, too . l th i nk you have the best cutback there is .

-Thank you , si r. -You can cut out the "si r" crap , Lance .

I ' m Bi l l Ki lgore. l ' m a goofy foot.

-Th is guy with you? -Yeah .

I want you to meet some guys . This is M i ke from San D iego.

-Far out. -Johnny from Mal i bu .

-John , hi . Far out. -Pretty sol id su rfers .

None of us are anywhere near your class , though .

No way.

We do a lot of su rfi ng arou nd here, Lance . l l i ke to fi n ish operations early,

fly down to Vu ng Tau for the eveni ng glass .

-Been rid i ng si nce you got here? -No way.

I haven't surfed si nce l been here .

Throug h Ch rist ou r Lord , from whom al l good thi ngs come.

Throug h h i m i n the un ity of the Holy Spi rit,

al l glory and honor is you rs , Al m ighty Father. Amen .

Let us pray with confidence to the Father i n the words our savior gave us .

Our Father who art i n heaven , hal lowed be thy name.

Thy Ki ngdom come, thy wi l l be done

on Earth as it is i n heaven .

Give us th is day our dai ly bread ...

...as we forg ive those who trespass agai nst us.

Lead us not i nto tem ptation , but del iver us from evi l .

Kilgore had had a pretty good day lor himsell.

They choppered in the T-bones and the beer

and turned the LZ into a beach party.

The more they tried to make it just like home,

the more they made everybody miss it.

Make my meat rare, rare but not cold !

Well, he wasn 't a bad officer, I guess.

He loved his boys and you lelt sale with him.

He was one ol those guys that had that weird Iight around him.

You just knew he wasn 't gonna get so much as a scratch here.

W hat happened to you r m ission , Captai n? N ha Trang forget al l about you?

Ai rborne .

Si r, two places we can get i nto the river...

-Yeah . - . . . here and here.

It's a pretty wide delta, but these are the on ly two spots l ' m real ly su re of.

Wel l , that vi l lage you' re poi nti ng at is ki nd of hai ry, W i l lard .

-W hat do you mean "hai ry, " si r? - lt's hai ry,

got some pretty heavy ordnance.

I lost a few recon shi ps i n there now and agai n .

W hat's the name of that goddam n vi l lage? Vi n Dri n ...

-Dop . -Dop or Lop?

Dam n gook names al l sou nd the same .

M i ke, you know anyth i ng about this poi nt at Vi n Dri n Dop?

That's a fantastic peak.

-Peak? -About six foot.

Yeah , it's an outstandi ng peak. lt's got both the long right and left sl ide

with a bowl section . lt's u nbel ievable .

It's j ust tube city.

Wel l , why d id n 't you tel l me that before? A good peak.

There aren't any good peaks i n this whole sh itty cou ntry.

It's al l goddam n beach break.

It's real ly hai ry i n there, si r. That's where we lost McDonald .

They shot the hel l out of us there .

That's Charl ie's poi nt.

Si r, we can go i n there tomorrow at dawn .

There's always a good offshore breeze i n the morn i ng .

We may not be able to get the boat i n .

The draft at the mouth of that river may be too shal low.

We' l l pick you r boat up and put it down l i ke a baby, right where you want it.

This is the Fi rst of the N i nth ai r cav, son . Ai rmobi le .

I can take that poi nt and hold it j ust as long as l l i ke .

And you can get any place u p that river that su its you , young Captai n .

Hel l , a six-foot peak.

Al l right, take a gu nshi p back to the d ivision .

Lance , go with M i ke and let h i m pick out a board for you ,

and bri ng me my Yater Spoon , the 8'6" .

-I don't know, si r, it's . . . -W hat is it, sold ier?

Wel l , l mean , it's pretty hai ry i n there. lt's Charl ie's poi nt.

Charl ie don't su rf!

Hey, Jesus, Clean , you ai n't gon na bel ieve th is . Look.

Hey, man ! They' re picki ng u p the boat!

-How are you feel i ng , J i m my? -Li ke a mean motherfucker, si r!

Al l right, son , let her ri p.

Let's go!

I never have gotten used to a l ig ht board , and l can't get used to one.

- I ' m used to a heavy board . -l know, it's a real drag .

-You prefer a heavy or a l ight board? -H eavier.

-Real ly? -Yeah !

I thought al l the you ng guys l i ke l ig hter boards .

You can't ride the nose on those thi ngs .

Big Du ke Six, th is is Eagle Th rust Seven . We've got it spotted .

Big Du ke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on head i ng 2-7-0.

Assu me attack formation .

That's a roger, Big Duke. Okay, we 're going in.

Lance , we' l l come i n low out of the risi ng sun ,

and about a m i le out, we' l l put on the m usic.

-Music? -Yeah , l use Wag ner.

Scares the hel l out of the slopes. My boys love it.

Hey, they' re gon na play m usic!

How come al l you guys sit on your hel met?

So we don't get our bal ls blown off.

Big Du ke Six to Eagle Thrust, put on psy war op, make it loud .

This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shal l we dance?

-J i m my! -Yes, si r!

Run , Charl ie!

We got some . . . There's more and more down there.

Look out, automatic . 50-cal ! . 50-cal i n the open !

I 've spotted a large weapon down below. We' re gon na go down and check it out.

Al l right, th is is Fox Five. We' re goi ng i n .

-Al l right. W hat a shot. -Outstand i ng , Red Team . Outstandi ng .

Get you a case of beer for that.

6-4- 1 -0, we' re over the vi l lage right now.

I thi n k l see a veh icle down i n the courtyard .

- I ' m gonna check it out. -Wel l done, hawks. Wel l done .

I want some 20 M i ke-M i ke Vulcan rig ht along those tree l i nes .

Ri pple the sh it out of them .

Got a veh icle on the bridge, 50 cal i ber on board .

He's movi ng across to resu pply the weapon .

Big Du ke Six, clear the area . l ' m com i ng down myself.

Don't these people ever give u p?

N ice shot, Bi l l .

-Sh it! -Al l right, al l rig ht!

- It's j ust a flare! -lt's a flare! Gotta get out of here!

U n-ass that shit. Get it out of here!

Get it out. lt's j ust a flare. lt's al l right. lt's j ust a flare.

-Everybody al l right? Lance? - l ' m fi ne!

Get down !

I ' m not goi ng ! l ' m not goi ng ! l ' m not goi ng !

We just got a secondary down there in the plaza.

BIue Three, Blue Four, hold out over position...

Duke Six, Duke Six, we 've got wounded down there.

My God ! Oh , my God !

-Get a stretcher over here! -You ' re al l right.

Please! Hel p me !

-Please, Cod ! H el p me! -Stay with me, son , you' re gon na be okay.

-Let's give h i m some morph i ne. -My God ! My God !

-0-3-7-7-4-2 . -W here's that duster?

I want my wou nded out of there and i n the hospital i n 1 5 m i nutes.

I want my men out.

Somebody stay in there tight with Big Duke.

This is 1 0- ! 0. We 're gonna be in, throw them on and get out...

She's got a g renade! She's got a grenade!

Jesus ! The whole goddam n th i ng j ust...

-She blew the sh it out of. . . -Fucki ng savages .

Can I get a medevac ?

What's going on. . . Holy Christ, she 's a sapper.

I ' m gon na get that d i nk bitch . Get over there, Joh n ny.

Go i n there . Put that right skid rig ht u p her ass .

We gotta get some ai r i n these trees . lt's goddam n eat up with enemy down there .

I ' m taki ng fi re . l ' m taki ng hits al l over...

Three o'clock! Th ree o'clock, my position ! Drawi ng fi re, drawi ng heavy fi re!

I ' m hit! Mayday! Mayday! l ' m goi ng i n . My tai l rotor's out. l got control .

-W hat do you thi n k? -Wow, this is real ly exciti ng , man .

-No, no! The waves! The waves ! -Right.

Look at that, breaks both ways. Watch . Watch .

Look! Good six-foot swel ls !

Come here, Lance.

I ncom i ng !

This LZ is sti l l pretty hot, si r. Maybe you oug ht to su rf somewhere else .

W hat do you know about surfi ng , Major? You' re from goddam n New Jersey.

Come here! Come here!

-Change! -You mean rig ht now, si r?

I wanna see how rideable that stuff is . Go change.

It's sti l l pretty hai ry out there, si r.

-Do you wanna su rf, sold ier? -Yes, si r.

That's good , son , 'cause you either su rf or fig ht.

That clear? Now get goi ng .

I ' l l cover for them . And bri ng a board for Lance!

We can't do shit ti l l the boat gets here.

Lance , l ' l l bet you can't wait to get out there.

-W hat? -See how they break both ways?

One guy can break right, one left, si m u ltaneous . W hat do you thi n k of that?

We oug ht to wait for the tide to come u p.

-Lance, come here. Look. Look! - l ncom i ng !

The tide doesn 't come i n for six hou rs!

You wan na wait here for six hou rs?

Yo! H ey! Chief!

Okay, fel las , qu it h idi ng . Come on !

-Let's go, dickheads, take off! -God dam n it!

Don't you thi n k it's a l ittle risky for R&R?

If l say it's safe to su rf th is beach , Captai n , it's safe to su rf th is beach !

I mean , l ' m not afraid to surf th is place! l ' l l su rf this fucki ng place .

Give me that RT, sold ier.

Dove Four, th is is Big Duke Six.

God dam n it! l want that tree l i ne bom bed !

Big Duke Six, roger. Dove One- Three, stand by.

BIow them into the Stone Age, son!

No, back, no!

Al l right, now. Let me take care of this. You al l right? Get that out of here !

- I ' m sorry. -Come here now. Al l rig ht.

-No, ma'am . Sorry! -J i m my!

Hawk One- Two, Dove One- Three, roger.

They need some napalm down there in the tree line.

Can you guys push ground and put it down there ?

Right, One- Three. We 're fixing to fuck with them.

- What's the target? - We 're trying to suppress some mortar lire

oll the tree line down there.

-Roger. Here we come. - Good, give it all you got.

Bring in all your ships.

Medevac h i m i n my chopper. Get hi m back to the hospital .

No, no, no, you got to go with hi m . Come on ! Co! Go!

Get it out of here! And tel l my g uys l want my board !

Big Du ke Six, th is is Dove One-Th ree.

The jets are i nbound now. You got about 30 seconds to on-station .

Get you r people back and heads down . This is gonna be a big one.

Don't worry.

We' l l have th is place cleaned u p and ready i n a j iffy, son .

Don't you worry.

Give me those shorts.

These are from the ai r cav, a present from me and the boys.

I want to see you do you r stuff i n them out there. Okay?

You smel l that?

-Do you smel l that? -W hat?

Napal m , son .

Nothi ng else i n the world smel ls l i ke that.

Come on . Move it! Move it! Move it!

I love the smel l of napal m i n the morni ng .

You know, one ti me we had a h i l l bom bed for 1 2 hou rs .

And when it was al l over, l wal ked u p.

We d id n't fi nd one of them , not one sti nki ng d i n k body.

But the smel l , you know, that gasol i ne smel l ...

The whole hi l l ,

it smel led l i ke

victory.

Someday th is war's gonna end .

Lance , the wi nd !

-The wi nd ! -W hat?

It's blowi ng on shore! lt's com i ng on shore . lt's gonna blow this place out!

- It's gon na ru i n it! -Not cool ! lt's gon na blow out!

It's the goddam n napal m ! That's what's doi ng it!

I know. l ' m real ly sorry, Colonel , but l ' m afraid that does it.

The kid's got a reputation . You can't expect hi m to su rf those sloppy waves.

- I u nderstand what you' re sayi ng . -Yeah , l ' m an artist, Bi l l .

-I cou ld n't su rf that stuff. -Lance, look.

I apologize . lt's not my fault.

The waves are getti ng blown out by the napal m .

Hey, Bi l l , don 't get me wrong ...

lt was the bom bs causi ng a vortex with the wi nd .

I accept your apology.

Al l right, then . But if you cou ld hang around j ust 20 m i nutes...

-Maybe some other ti me, Bi l l . -J ust 20 m i nutes .

- I ' m an artist! -Keep wal ki ng .

Okay, give it a try, guys ! One goes left and one goes rig ht.

Look, Lance .

-You th rough surfi ng? -Yeah !

-Want to say good bye to the Colonel? -No.

-You su re? -Yeah !

-Let's get the fuck out of here! - lt's the fucki ng napal m !

J ust wait 20 m i n utes!

Dam n ! Fuck!

They' re looki ng for you !

-Don 't leave without me! -W here the fuck you goi ng?

I ncom i ng !

-The colonel 's su rfboard ! -Get the fuck off me! lt's m i ne!

-Guys , hel p! -Get the board and let's get out of here!

Fucki ng Ai rborne!

-Lance. -Chef, l ig ht u p, man .

Come on . Let's get h igh .

-Want to smoke? -Let's do it, man . Light u p.

Someday this war's gonna end.

That would be just fine with the boys on the boat.

They weren 't looking for anything more than a way home.

Captai n?

Trouble is, I'd been back there and I knew that it just didn 't exist anymore.

Budd ha ti me , here.

Al l right, that's great, you motherfuckers. Yeah .

Il that's how Kilgore lought the war,

I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz.

It wasn 'tjust insanity and murder.

There was enough ol that to go around for everyone.

I mean , he never was hu rti ng for pussy.

I ' m not here.

I ' m wal ki ng through the j u ngle gatheri ng mangos .

I meet Raq uel Welch .

I make a n ice mango cream pudd i ng ,

ki nd of spread it around on us.

She's i nto mangos, too. She's , l i ke , one l i m b above me.

We' re both i n the j u ngle here, nude .

-H ey, Chief. -Yeah?

Here comes that Colonel guy agai n .

You know how hard it is to find a board you Iike ?

I will not hurt or harm you. I will not hurt or harm you.

Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board, and I Iike it.

You know how hard it is to find a board you Iike.

He's a determ i ned motherfucker!

I will not hurt or harm you.

-Cocksucker! -I will not hurt or harm you.

Just give me back the board, Lance.

It was a good board, and I Iike it.

You know how hard it is to find a board you Iike.

-I will not hurt or harm you. -Jesus Christ.

That g uy's too fucki ng m uch , man .

Do you th i nk he would have shot us?

He wou ld n't have shot us on the beach ,

but l thi n k he would have shot us if he saw me taki ng his board .

Let's get this board out of my tu rret.

Sucker.

Sock it to me, Lance.

I wonder if that's the same chopper.

Hel l , he's probably got them al l over the river with that record i ng .

We' l l have to hole u p here ti l l dark, Chief.

Don't worry, Lance . He won't fol low us too far.

W hat makes you say that?

You th i nk that big cav colonel wants everyone u priver

to know we stole his board?

I d idn't steal it!

Captai n? J ust how far u p this river we goi ng?

It's classified , Ch ief. l can't tel l you .

We' re goi ng u p pretty far.

Is it gon na be hai ry?

I don't know, kid .

Yeah , probably.

You l i ke it l i ke that, Captai n , when it's hot, hai ry?

Fuck.

Never get a chance to know what the fuck you are i n some factory i n Oh io.

Hey, Ch ief, l ' m gon na go get those mangos now, okay?

-Take somebody with you . -Yeah , l ' l l take...

l ' l l go with hi m .

Chef?

-Yes, si r? -How come they cal l you that?

-Cal l me what, si r? -Chef.

-Because you l i ke mangos and stuff? -No, si r, l ' m a real chef.

- I ' m a saucier. -Saucier?

Yes, si r. See, l come from New Orleans . l was raised to be a saucier,

a g reat saucier.

-W hat's a saucier? -You special ize i n sauces .

Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere.

Then l was su pposed to go to Paris, study at the Escoffier School .

But then l got orders for my physical .

Hel l , l joi ned the Navy. Heard they had better food .

A cook school , that d id it.

-Yeah , how's that? -You don't want to hear about that.

They l i ned us up i n front of 1 00 yards of pri me ri b.

Al l of us l i ned u p , looki ng at it.

Mag n ificent meat, real ly.

Beautiful ly marbled .

Next th i ng , they' re throwi ng the meat i nto these big cauld rons .

Al l of it, boi l i ng it. l looked i nside , man . lt was tu rn i ng gray.

I could n't fucki ng bel ieve that one .

That's when l appl ied for rad ioman school , but then they gave me the ...

W hat is it?

Charl ie?

It's a tiger!

Tiger, man ! lt's a tiger!

Battle stations . Lance, up front! On the . 60, Clean !

-Got it, man . -Holy shit.

-Chef, come on ! -Fucki ng tiger!

-Captai n , come on ! -W hat's happen i ng?

-Let's go! -Tiger!

Chief, you were rig ht. Never get out of the fucki ng boat.

-Bri ng that .60 forward ! -N ever get out of the boat!

Never get out of the boat! l gotta remem ber. Never get out of the boat.

-W hat happened? How many is it? -A fucki ng tiger!

-W hat? -A fucki ng tiger!

-Tiger? -Yes! l 've had it!

I 've had the whole goddam n fucki ng sh it, man !

You can kiss my ass on the cou nty sq uare, because l ' m fucki ng buggi ng out.

I d idn't come here for this.

I don't fucki ng need it! l don't want it.

I d idn't get out of the goddam n eig hth grade for th is ki nd of shit!

Al l l wanted to do was fucki ng cook!

I j ust wanted to learn to fucki ng cook, man !

- It's al l rig ht. lt's al l rig ht. -W hat happened , bro?

You' re al l right. You' re gon na be al l rig ht.

-Al l right. lt's al l right. -You ' re al l right.

It's gonna be al l right. Never get out of the fucki ng boat.

Never get out of the fucki ng boat.

H i , tiger! Bye, tiger! Good bye!

Never get out ol the boat.

Absolutely goddamn right.

Unless you were going all the way.

Kurtz got oll the boat.

He split from the whole fucking program.

How did that happen ? What did he see here that first tour?

Thirty-eight fucking years old.

Il you joined the Green Berets, there was no way you'd ever get above colonel.

Kurtz knew what he was giving up.

And the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him.

His family and lriends couldn 't understand it,

and they couldn 't talk him out ol it.

He had to apply three times and he put up with a ton of shit.

But when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him.

The next youngest guy in his class was half his age.

They must have thought he was some lar-out old man,

humping it over that course.

I did it when I was ! 9 and it damn near wasted me.

A tough mothertucker. He linished it.

He could have gone for General, but he went lor himsell instead.

" Dear Eva ,

"today was real ly a new one. Al most got eaten al ive by a fucki ng tiger.

" Real ly u n-fucki ng-bel ievable, you know?

"We' re taki ng th is g uy, Captai n W i l lard , u p the river,

"but he hasn't told us yet where we' re taki ng hi m . "

"Thoug ht you m ig ht have heard by now from Elwood .

-" I ' l l be com i ng home. . . " - October 1 987,

on special assignment, Kon Tum Province, II Corps.

Kurtz staged Operation Archangel! with combined Iocal forces,

rated a major success.

He received no oflicial clearance. He just thought it up and did it.

What balls.

They were gonna nail his ass to the lloorboards for that one.

But alter the press got a hold ol it, they promoted him to lull colonel instead.

Man, the bullshit piled up so last in Vietnam,

you needed wings to stay above it.

This su re enough is a bizarre sig ht i n the m idd le of this sh it.

Expecti ng us this ti me?

Dam ned if l know.

Hel lo. Hel lo...

Jesus .

-Everythi ng goes back u p i nto the truck. -W hat?

We gotta get al l that stuff u p.

Hau Phat. You ever been up here before , Chef?

-Let's go! -l bet you we can score up here .

Man , check out the bi kes, Lance .

Yamaha , Suzuki . Yeah !

-That's a good one . -Yeah , su kiyaki .

Yeah , man . Th is is somethi ng .

-Please! -Th is m ust be the guy.

Rig ht over there.

Sergeant. Sergeant?

Three d ru ms of d iesel fuel , PB R 5.

Come on , man ! Move! We don't have ti me . One hou r. That's al l .

-W hat do you want? -Can l get some Panama Red with it?

Panama Red . Yeah , l ' l l get you Panama Red .

-Sergeant? -Desti nation?

-I don't have no desti nation . -l can't do a goddam n thi ng

without a desti nation . You got a desti nation?

-Sergeant. -l need d iesel fuel .

Al l right. You got a desti nation? l need a desti nation .

I can't do a goddam n thi ng without a desti nation .

Sarge , these guys are with me. Desti nation's classified .

I carry priority papers from COMS EC l ntel l igence, l l Corps .

Okay, rig ht, si r. Hey, l isten , it's a real big n ight.

Eig ht bucks for that...

Al l right. Dam n .

-J ust give hi m some fuel . -You got it.

-Dog starts barki ng . -H ey, l isten , Captai n .

I ' m real ly sorry about ton ight. lt's real ly bad arou nd here.

J ust take this over to the man at the su pply desk and you got it.

Hey, l isten , wou ld you guys l i ke some seats , some press box seats for the show?

You want those? The show, man . The show out here.

-Bu n nies . -Playboy bu nn ies?

You got it. You gon na be here?

Listen , Captai n , on the house. No hard feel i ngs , hu h?

How you doi ng out there? l said , "How you doi ng out there?"

Want to say hel lo to you from al l of us u p here to al l of you out there

who worked so goddam n hard i n Operation Brute Force!

Hel lo, al l you paratroopers out there!

And the Mari nes ! And the sai lors !

We want to let you know that we' re proud of you !

'Cause we know how toug h and how hard it's been .

Yeah !

And to prove it, we' re gon na g ive you some entertai n ment we know you' re gonna l i ke.

M iss August, M iss Sandra Beatty.

M iss May, M iss Terry Teray! Yeah !

And the Playmate of the Year, M iss Carrie Foster! Yeah !

W hat's the matter?

They've got them here tonight.

Grease my gun !

I ' m ready to. . . baby!

You' re cute . l l i ke you .

I ' m here , baby! l ' m here!

Oh , my God ...

Yeah !

You fucki ng bitch !

Take it off!

Hey, lover! You want us to come over?

- I sure do! -Sign my centerfold !

Sig n my centerfold !

Come on , baby! Come u p here now.

Get you r goddam n hands off of my gi rl !

Start her u p.

Come on !

W i l l you sign these?

Gi rls ! Let's go!

So long !

Charlie didn 't get much USO.

He was dug in too deep or moving too last.

His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat.

He had only two ways home, death or victory.

No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass.

The war was being run by a bunch ol four-star clowns

who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away.

Man , that was far fucki ng out.

I col lected every pictu re of her si nce she was Miss Decem ber, Chief.

Hey, Clean , look at that. She was here, man .

I even wrote to the cunt. She did n't write me back.

You can real ly get h u ng u p on these broads , man ,

j ust l i ke that cat i n the delta .

-Yeah , you better bel ieve it. -W hat cat?

The one that went u p for m u rder. He was an Army sergeant.

Remem ber? This cat, man , he real ly d ug his Playboy, man .

I mean , th is cat, when the th i ng arrived , he was there to meet it, man .

Look at these beautiful fucki ng j ugs , man !

Yeah . So anyway, he was worki ng ARVN patrols, you know,

had one of them cocky gook asshole l ieutenants and sh it.

And one day, the gook took his magazi ne from h i m and wou ld n't g ive it back to h i m .

He said , "Give me my magazi ne back. "

Gook said , "You shut up. l have you cou rt-martial . "

-Typical fucki ng ARVN . -Yeah .

-So then the gook starts to go too far. -Chef, take the wheel .

This d ude started to stick pi n holes i n the lady's titties.

Take the wheel .

He started sticki ng pi n holes

and m uti lati ng the centerfold and al l ki nds of sh it l i ke that.

And the sergeant said , "You better not do that to her.

"You leave you r shitty l ittle gook hands off of that gi rl .

" Don 't do her l i ke that, " rig ht?

-Gook say, "Fuck you , " i n Vietnamese. -Dam n .

The sergeant, man , he j ust cou ld n 't hand le it no more .

He j ust picked u p h is i ron , fl i pped it to rock ' n' rol l and ...

Gave that l ittle zero a long burst straight th rough the Playboy mag

and blew h is ass clean off of the dock.

There wasn't no more l ieutenant that day. That was it for h is ass.

-They burn hi m for it? -The sergeant? Yeah , man .

They stuck his ass i n the LBJ .

It's too bad he d id n't get no medals or nothi ng .

Fucki ng ARVN , man . They should have ki l led the fuck.

Shou ld have g iven the fucker a Si lver Star.

Bum mer for the gook, thoug h , ai n't it?

Good morning, Vietnam. I'm Army Specialist Zack Johnson on AFVN.

It's about 82 degrees in downtown Saigon right now, also very humid.

And we have an important message lor all Gis

who are Iiving ofl base from the Mayor of Saigon.

Yeah !

He 'd Iike you to hang your Iaundry up indoors instead ol on the windowsills.

The Mayor wants you to keep Saigon beautilul.

And now, here 's another blast lrom the past

going out to big Sam who 's all alone out there

with the First Battalion, 35th Infantry,

and dedicated by the lire team at An Khe to their groovy CO...

- The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction. -Al l right!

Work out, Clean !

Get down , Bubba !

Hang on , Lance!

Get down , Bubba !

Yeah !

I see you is rig ht on target.

Work out! Yeah ! Yeah ! Yeah !

Al l right!

Look out, Lance !

"Commitment and Counter-Insurgency, by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

"As Iong as our ollicers and troops perform tours ol duty Iimited to one year,

"they will remain dilettantes in war and tourists in Vietnam.

"As Iong as cold beer, hot lood, rock 'n ' roll

"and all the other amenities remain the expected norm,

"our conduct of the war will gain only impotence.

"We need fewer men and better.

"Il they were committed, this war could be won with a lourth of our present force. rr

-Sh it. -Holy shit.

Chicken ti me. You ai n't sh itti ng , bro. They' re motherfucki ng ...

-W ho is that? -W hat's goi ng on?

Is that you , Lazzaro?

-Fi re on the canopy! -l got it! l got it! Get out of there!

Get out! l got it! Yeah ! l got it!

Lance , get down !

Put that fucker out, man !

W hat the fuck they thi n k they' re doi ng?

Late summer, autumn ! 968.

Kurtz's patrols in the highlands coming under frequent ambush.

The camp started lalling apart.

November.

Kurtz orders assassination ol three Vietnamese men and one woman.

Two ol the men were colonels in the South Vietnamese army.

Enemy activity in his old sector dropped ofl to nothing.

Guess he must have hit the right four people.

He joi ned the Special Forces . And after that, h is ...

The Army tried one Iast time to bring him back into the lold.

... methods...

And il he 'd pulled over, it all would have been forgotten.

... u nsound .

-But he kept going. . . -Now he's crossed i nto Cam bod ia ...

...and he kept winning it his way...

...with th is Montag nard army of h is ...

...and they called me in.

... man l i ke a god . And fol low every order, however rid icu lous .

They Iost him. He was gone.

Nothing but rumors and random intelligence,

mostly lrom captured VC.

The VC knew his name by now, and they were scared ol him.

He and his men were playing hit and run, all the way into Cambodia.

I know where l ' m goi ng . l ' m goi ng to the W h ite House

to have d i nner with the President of the U n ited States, baby.

That's where l ' m goi ng .

Hey, Chef, put the cover on that.

Clean .

-How long has that kid been on th is boat? -Seven months.

He's real ly special izi ng i n busti ng my bal ls .

Very possi ble, Captai n , he thi n ks the same of you .

Yeah? W hat do you th i nk, Ch ief?

I don't th i nk.

My orders say l ' m not su pposed to know where l ' m taki ng th is boat, so l don't!

But one look at you , and l know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is.

We' re goi ng u priver about 75 kl icks above the Do Luong bridge.

-That's Cam bod ia , Captai n . -That's classified .

We' re not supposed to be i n Cam bod ia , but that's where l ' m goi ng .

You j ust get me close to my desti nation , and l ' l l cut you and the crew loose .

Al l right, Captai n .

"Dear Son,

"I'm afraid that both you and your mother

"will have been worried at not hearing lrom me during the past weeks.

"But my situation here has become a dilficult one.

"I have been oflicially accused of murder by the Army.

"The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents.

"We spent months uncovering them and accumulating evidence.

"When absolute proof was completed, we acted, we acted Iike soldiers.

"The charges are unjustified.

"They are, in fact,

"and in the circumstances ol this conllict, quite completely insane.

"In a war, there are many moments for compassion and tender action.

"There are many moments for ruthless action, what is olten called ruthless,

"what may, in many circumstances, be only clarity.

"Seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it."

Medevac, come i n .

". . . Directly, quickly, awake. . ."

Al pha Tango Tango. Echo Tango Al pha ...

- ". . . looking at it." - . . . request d ust-off.

Three , maybe fou r KIAs . Over.

"I will trust you to tell your mother what you choose about this Ietter.

"As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned."

Medevac, come i n .

"I am beyond their timid, lying morality. And so I am beyond caring."

Medevac, do you read? Over.

"You have all my laith. Your Ioving lather. rr

Shove it, fuck-u p!

Sure sorry about that. lf l had known , l 'd have taken you to New Orleans...

-Man , fuck you . - . . . l ntrod uce you to cooze, Bu bba!

You' re a fucki ng dog !

Come on down to New Orleans, Bu bba, and l ' l l get you fixed u p, you prick.

Lay off, Chef.

You' re the on ly fucki ng prick l see arou nd here.

If l want to play with a prick, l ' l l play with my own !

-Lay off, Chef! -W hat are gon na do with it, cherry boy?

-Fucki ng cherry boy! -Chef, l said lay off!

Chef, knock it off! Give h i m a break!

W hat do you thi n k l said? And give your jaws a rest!

And th is ai n't the Army. You are a sai lor!

So get out of that frizzly Army-looki ng shi rt and stop smoki ng that dope!

You hear me?

Lance , what's with al l the green pai nt?

-Camouflage . -How's that?

So they can't see you . They' re everywhere , Chief.

I want you to stay awake u p there, man . You got a job to do.

Sam pan off the port bow. Sam pan off the port bow.

Let's take a look. Lance .

Bri ng them i n . Clean , on the .60 . Chef, get a . 1 6 .

Clean , get on that .60 !

W hat's up, Ch ief?

A j u nk boat, Captai n . We' re gon na take a routi ne check.

Wel l , let's forget routi ne now and let them go.

These boats are run n i ng suppl ies i n this delta , Captai n .

I ' m gon na take a look.

Chief, my m ission's got priority here.

Hel l , you wou ldn't even be i n this part of the river if it wasn't for me.

U nti l we reach your desti nation , Captai n , you' re j ust on for the ride.

-Stand by, Lance. -Come on , throw the rope, asshole.

Al l right. Come on . Let's bri ng it over.

Look i n that forward hooch . Bri ng the people out of there.

Come on ! H u rry u p, motherfucker! Move it!

-You two, come on . -Keep your eyes open , Clean .

I got you , Ch ief.

It's clear, Chief.

Okay, that's them . That's them .

-They' re okay. -Board and search it.

It's j ust a fucki ng boat. There ai n't noth i ng on it, Ch ief.

Board it and search it.

J ust some baskets and some d ucks , fucki ng bananas .

-Ai n 't nothi ng on it. -Don 't be ashamed , Chef.

W hat's wrong with you? Go on and search it.

There's a goat and some fish .

-Chef! -Bu nch of fucki ng vegetables .

-Get on that boat! -There's noth i ng on it, man !

-Get on it! -Al l right!

Move it, asshole! God dam n it!

J ust some pigs . Look, mangos .

-W hat's i n the rice bag? -Fucki ng rice.

-Look i n there, Chef. Look i n it. -Some fucki ng fish .

More cocon uts. Rice. H ere's rice.

W hat's i n that vegetable basket?

Get out of here ! Come on !

-Get over there , God dam n it. -Check that vegetable basket.

-Al l right! -Sh ut u p , slope .

-There ai n't noth i ng i n here . -W hat's i n the boxes?

Not a fucki ng th i ng .

-Look i n that ti n can . -Nothi ng .

-That rusty can . -J ust fucki ng rice , that's al l !

-There ai n't noth i ng on it! -Check the yel low can .

Check the yel low can . She was sitti ng on it. W hat's i n it?

Chef!

Motherfuckers!

-Hold it! -Come on , let's ki l l them al l .

-Fucki ng cocksucki ng mothers! -Hold it! Hold it!

Let's ki l l al l the assholes! Shoot the shit out of al l of them .

-Chef, hold it! -W hy not? Jesus Christ.

W hy the fuck not?

-Clean? - l ' m good .

-You okay, Lance? -Sh it! Fuck! Shit!

-Chef! -Look what she was h idi ng , hu h?

-You al l right? -See what she was ru nni ng for?

It's a fucki ng pu ppy.

It's a fucki ng pu ppy.

Give me that dog !

-No, you' re not gon na get it! -Fucki ng g ive it to me!

Give me the fucki ng dog , asshole!

-Fuck you ! Fucki ng mango, too! -Chef.

You want that?

Chef, she's movi ng behi nd you . She's al ive . Check her out.

-Chef! -Yes!

She's movi ng beh i nd you . Check her out!

Al l right. Al l right.

Come on , Clean , God dam n it. Give me a hand .

She's not dead , she's wounded . Clean , give h i m a hand .

J ust take it easy. Take it easy. Slow down and take it easy.

Al l right, Chef, j ust wait a m i nute . Wait a m i n ute, Chef.

-Bri ng her up. - l s she breathi ng , Chef?

-She's hurt. She's bleed i ng . -Man .

Bri ng her on board . We' re taki ng her to an ARVN .

W hat are you tal ki ng about?

We' re taki ng her to some friend l ies , Captai n .

She's wou nded , she's not dead .

-Get out of there, Chef. -The book says, Captai n ...

Fuck you . Fuck h i m .

I told you not to stop. Now let's go.

It was the way we had over here of Iiving with ourselves.

We 'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid.

It was a Iie, and the more I saw of them, the more I hated Iies.

Those boys were never gonna Iook at me the same way again.

But I felt Iike I knew one or two things about Kurtz

that weren 't in the dossier.

Do Luong bridge was the Iast Army outpost on the Nung River.

Beyond that, there was only Kurtz.

Lance ! Hey, Lance, what do you th i nk?

It's beautifu l .

I mean , what's the matter with you? You' re acti ng ki nd of wei rd .

Hey, you know that last tab of acid l was savi ng?

-Yeah . -l d ropped it.

You dropped acid? Far out.

-Take me home. -God dam n you !

God dam n !

You' l l get what you deserve!

Is there a Captai n W i l lard on board?

-Yeah ! -Captai n W i l lard?

-Yeah , who's that? -Lieutenant Carlsen , si r.

Get that l ight off me .

I was sent here from N ha Trang with these th ree days ago, si r.

Expected you here a l ittle sooner. This is mai l for the boat.

You don't know how happy th is makes me , si r.

-W hy? -Now l can get out of here,

if l can fi nd a way.

You' re i n the asshole of the world , Captai n !

Captai n , where you goi ng?

See if l can fi nd some fuel , get some i nformation .

-Pick me u p the other side of the bridge. -Somebody go with h i m . Chef!

I ' l l go. l wan na go.

You get you r ass i n gear.

Come on , man . Listen to the m usic, man .

-W here can l fi nd the CO? -You came rig ht to it, son of a bitch !

Lance ! Get down here!

-You sti l l got a Com mand i ng Officer here? -Beverly H i l ls .

W hat?

Straig ht u p the road , there's a concrete fucki ng bu nker cal led Beverly H i l ls .

W here the fuck else do you th i nk it wou ld be?

-God dam n it, you stepped i n my face! -We thoug ht you were dead .

Wel l , you thought wrong , dam n it.

I told you to stop fucki ng with me, d id n 't 1 ?

You th i nk you' re so bad , n igga?

W hat are you shooti ng at, sold ier?

Gooks . W hat the fuck you th i nk l ' m shooti ng at?

I ' m sorry, si r. There are gooks out there by the wi re,

but l thi n k l ki l led them al l .

You ai n't shot sh it, man . Listen !

Shit, he's tryi ng to cal l h is friends, man . Send u p a flare.

You th i nk you' re so bad , n igga? You th i nk you bad , h u h?

They' re al l dead , stu pid .

There's one sti l l al ive u nderneath them bod ies .

W ho's the Com mand i ng Officer here?

Ai n't you?

You th i nk you' re so bad , h u h? l got somethi ng for you r ass now, nigga !

I got somethi ng for you now!

He's u nderneath the bod ies , man .

-Go get the roach , man . -Go get the roach , man .

-Go get the roach , n igga! - l ' m gonna go get the roach .

Roach . Roach . Roach .

Got slopes on the wi re, man . Do you hear them?

-Lance! -Do you hear them?

Go bust them !

Hey, G l , fuck you !

You hear h i m out there on the wi re, man?

-Yeah . -l ' l l ki l l you , G l !

You need a flare?

No.

He's close, man .

He's real close .

G l , fuck you !

G l , fuck you !

Motherfucker.

Hey, sold ier,

do you know who's i n com mand here?

Yeah .

Shit!

Yo, Ch ief, man , two guys j ust got blown off that bridge.

You hang on , man . You ' re gonna be okay.

-W hat's that? -Mai l , man .

Later on the mai l ! Watch them trees .

There's no diesel fuel , but l picked u p some am mo.

Let's move out.

-Did you fi nd the CO , Captai n? -There's no fucki ng CO here.

-Let's j ust get goi ng . -W h ich way, Captai n?

You know which way, Chief.

You' re on you r own , Captai n .

Do you wan na go on?

Li ke th is bridge, we bu i ld it every n ig ht, Charl ie blows it rig ht back u p agai n

j ust so the generals can say the road's open .

Thi n k about it.

-W ho cares? -J ust get us u priver!

Chef, on the bow.

-Stand by, Clean . -Let's go.

W hose package is that?

-Sh it, you got another one, Clean . -No sh it. Wait a m i n ute, is that it?

-That's it for you . -Lance!

M r. L. B . Johnson , there you go.

Far out, man . Al l right. l 've been waiti ng for this one.

I got another one, got a box from Eva.

" Lance, l ' m fi ne. l ' m fi ne, Lance.

"Sue and l went tri ppi ng to D isneyland . Sue ski nned her knee. "

-Man , l want to get back to Antoi ne's. -" l remem ber the ti me we went. . ."

How cou ld l fucki ng forget, man? Beautiful .

"There cou ld never be a place l i ke D isneyland , or cou ld there?

" Let me know."

J i m , it's here . lt real ly is here.

"There has been a new development regarding your mission

"which we must now communicate to you.

"Months ago, a man was ordered on a mission

"which was identical to yours.

"We have reason to believe that he is now operating with Colonel Kurtz.

"Saigon was carrying him MIA for his lamily's sake.

"They assumed he was dead.

"Then they intercepted a Ietter he tried to send to his wife. rr

Captain Richard Colby,

he was with Kurtz.

Disneyland .

Fuck, man , th is is better than Disneyland .

"Charles M i l ler Manson ordered the slaughter

"of al l i n the home anyway as a sym bol of protest. "

That's real ly wei rd , ai n 't it?

-Pu rple haze, look. -H ey, Lance , put away that smoke.

-I got a tape from my mom . --Chief, rai n bow real ity, man .

Hey, Ch ief, get a good whiff.

Eva can't picture me i n Vietnam .

She pictures me at home havi ng a beer and watch i ng TV.

Hey, Lance, man .

Hot potato! Hot potato!

I'm so glad you decided to join...

Eva's not sure if she can have a relationsh i p with me, you know?

Here l am , 1 3, 000 fucki ng m i les away,

tryi ng to keep a relationsh i p open , my ass .

That's much more than I can say for some of your lriends.

Il this tape is any good, I will have Dad and the family

-send you a tape ol their own. . . -H ey, Lance .

There ! Over there!

Motherfuckers!

There ! Over there!

Lance ! Chef!

-Chef, Chef, check out Clean ! -Captai n , he's h it, he's h it! Clean's h it!

-Lance! -W here'd the dog go?

Lance . Lance, check out Clean !

W here's the dog? We got to go back to get the dog !

-H ey, Clean . -It's always been nice to have...

Hey, Bu bba!

Bubba , you can 't d ie, you fucker!

-And so, I'm hoping. . . -Bu bba !

...that pretty soon, not too soon, but pretty soon,

l ' l l have a lot of g randch i ldren to love and spoi l ,

and then when your wile get them back, she 'II be mad with me.

Even Aunt Jessie and Mama will come to celebrate your coming home.

Granny and Dad are trying to get enough money

to get you a car.

But don 't tell her, because that's our secret.

Anyhow, do the right thing, stay out of the way ol the bullets,

and bring your heinie home all in one piece

because we Iove you very much. Love, Mama.

Oh , man . You' re so young .

Clean .

Hold on .

Throw me the glasses.

Lance , take the . 1 6 on the bow.

Chef, Chef, on the .60 .

Fuck me.

They' re French ! They' re French !

Chef, pick up that weapon ! Pick it u p! Pick it u p!

Stand fast! Captai n ...

Al l right, you men , put down your weapons .

We lost one of ou r men .

We French always pay respects to the dead of ou r al l ies .

You are al l welcome.

My name is H u bert de Marais.

This is my fam i ly's plantation .

It has been such for 70 years .

And it wi l l be such u nti l we are al l dead .

Captai n , accept the flag of Tyrone M i l ler on behalf of a g rateful nation .

This food is real ly wonderful , isn 't it? The wi ne , the sauces. l can't bel ieve it.

Can l speak with the chef?

The chef speaks only Vietnamese .

No kidd i ng . He cooks l i ke this and he can't even speak French?

Hey, Lance, the chef's a slope.

Hey, Lance.

This is Baudelai re .

It's a very cruel poem for ch i ldren , but they need it,

because l ife someti mes is very cruel .

As you can see ...

-Attacks repel led by the fam i ly. -J ust for this war.

Viet Cong , 58.

North Vietnamese, 1 2 .

South Vietnamese, 11 .

Americans , six.

Yes, wel l , they were perhaps m istakes.

May l present Captai n W i l lard? He's of a paratroop reg i ment.

-Madame Sarrau lt. -Captai n .

I ' m sorry, Captai n . Was j ust a l ittle story about Paris

and people starvi ng d uri ng the war.

They are arou nd the table and there was a si lence.

Somebody says, "An angel is passi ng by."

So somebody said , "Let's eat it."

How long can you possi bly stay here?

We stay forever.

No, no, l mean ,

when wi l l you go back home to France?

I mean , th is is our home, Captai n .

-Sooner or later you' re gon na . . . -No!

You don't u nderstand ou r mental ity, the French Officer mental ity.

At fi rst, we lose i n Second World War.

I don't say that you Americans wi n , but we lose .

I n Dien Bien Phu , we lose . l n N igeria, we lose.

I n l ndoch i na , we lose .

But here , we don't lose.

This piece of earth , we keep it! We wi l l never lose that, never!

The Vietnamese are very i ntel l igent. You never know what they th i n k.

The Russians want to hel p them .

"Come and give us some money. We are al l com m u n ists .

"Ch i nese , give us gu ns . We are al l brothers . "

They hate the Ch i nese .

Maybe they hate Americans less than the Russians and the Chi nese.

I mean , if tomorrow the Vietnamese are com m u nists ,

they wi l l be Vietnamese com m u n ists .

And th is is somethi ng that you never u nderstood , you Americans .

I don't know. Maybe i n the futu re

we can make somethi ng with the Viet M i n h .

Don't you u nderstand?

The VC say, "Go away! Go away' ! "

That's fi n ished for al l the white people i n l ndochi na.

If you' re French , American , that's al l the same.

Go! They want to forget you . Look at them .

Look, this is the truth . An egg .

The wh ite left.

The yel low stay.

-Al l you white people are shit. -They are fig hti ng . Fig hti ng for freedom .

Freedom? Bu l lshit.

Dien Bien Phu is a trap.

Al l sold iers know they are al ready dead .

You know anythi ng about Dien Bien Ph u?

-Yeah , l know. -No, you don't, not real ly.

Dien Bien Phu was an error, you know? A m i l itary m istake .

A m istake? A vol u ntary m istake! Vol u ntary!

Our paratroopers j u m p at 90 meters . l mean , you know, 90 meters, 70 meters .

I mean , that's crazy. No army i n the world can do that.

And they only do that to be dead with thei r friends .

The French army was sacrificed ,

sacrificed by the pol iticians safe at home.

They put the army i n an i m possi ble situation where they cou ld n't wi n .

The students are marchi ng i n Paris, protesti ng , demonstrati ng .

They stab the sold iers i n the back.

The sold ier would open the grenade, it wou ld n't work.

A piece of paper wou ld fal l .

U nion of French Women . "We are for the Viets ."

Traitors .

Com m un ist traitors at home.

Dien Bien Phu ...

Okay, the French is shit.

No one cares . No one wants to.

W hy don't you Americans learn from us? From ou r m istakes?

Mon dieu , with your army, your strength , you r power,

you can wi n if you want to.

You can wi n .

You know, l ' m su re we can make someth i ng there.

I ' m su re about it, you know?

I never do someth i ng wrong to the people here .

I ' m sorry, you know, but the com m u nists at home have never been traitors .

Excuse me. l have to go. Captai n , good night.

-I was a social ist, you know? -l know we can stay.

I know that we can stay. We can stay.

You know, we always hel p the people .

We work with the people.

So when you ask me why we want to stay here, Captai n ,

we want to stay here because it's ou rs .

It belongs to us .

It keeps ou r fam i ly together.

I mean , we fight for that.

W hi le you Americans ,

you are fighti ng for the biggest noth i ng i n history.

I apologize for my fam i ly, Captai n .

We have al l lost m uch here.

H ubert, h is wife and two sons .

And l have lost a husband .

-I u nderstand . -You are ti red of the war.

I can see on you r face.

It was the same i n the eyes of the sold iers of ou r war.

We cal l them ...

"The lost sold iers ."

If you l i ke , we can have some cog nac.

No.

I ' l l see about my men and ...

The war wi l l be sti l l here tomorrow.

Yeah , l guess you' re right.

I noticed you had no wi ne at d i nner.

No, l don't d ri n k wi ne.

I do l i ke cog nac, but l don't want any now, than k you .

Wel l , then l m ust dri nk alone.

W i l l you go back, after the war, to America?

-No. -Then you' re l i ke us.

You r home is here.

Do you know why you can never step i nto the same river twice?

I used to prepare a pi pe for my h usband .

It was the morph i ne he took for the wou nds he suffered i n his heart.

He wou ld rage and he wou ld cry, my lost soldier.

And l said to hi m ,

"There are two of you , don't you see?

"One that ki l ls and one that loves . "

And he said to me,

" l don't know whether l am an an i mal or a god . "

But you are both .

You want more?

Al l that matters is that you are al ive .

You are al ive, Captai n .

That's the truth .

There are two of you , don't you see?

One that ki l ls and one that loves.

Can't see nothi ng . We' re stoppi ng .

You' re not authorized to stop this boat, Chief.

I said l can't see a th i ng , Captai n . l ' m stoppi ng this boat.

I ai n't riski ng no more l ives .

I ' m i n com mand here, God dam n it. You' l l do what l say.

You see anyth i ng , Chef?

W hy don't they fucki ng attack, man?

Watch it over here , Chief.

Got a stu m p .

Lance , on the . 50s .

He was close.

He was real close.

I could n't see h i m yet, but l could feel hi m ,

as if the boat were being sucked upriver

and the water was flowing back into the jungle.

Whatever was going to happen,

it wasn 't gonna be the way they called it back in Nha Trang.

Arrows !

Fi re!

Chef, open up! Fi re!

Lance , fi re!

Chef! Chef, it's okay. Ouit fi ri ng .

They' re j ust l ittle toy arrows.

Cut it out! Ou iet!

Chief, tel l them to hold thei r fi re !

They' re j ust l ittle sticks . They' re j ust tryi ng to scare us .

Quiet!

You got us i n th is mess, and now you can't get us out

because you don't know where the hel l you' re goi ng , do you?

Do you?

You son of a bitch ! You bastard !

-Lance, get the wheel ! -Fi re !

You savages! Come and get it, you son of a bitches!

A spear.

My m ission is to make it u p i nto Cam bod ia .

There's a Green Beret colonel u p there who's gone i nsane

and l ' m su pposed to ki l l h i m .

That's fucki ng typical ! Sh it!

Fucki ng Vietnam m ission !

I ' m short and we gotta go u p there so you can ki l l one of our own guys?

That's fucki ng g reat! That's j ust fucki ng great, man .

Shit! That's fucki ng crazy.

I mean , l thought you were goi ng i n to blow up a bridge

or some fucki ng rai l road tracks or somethi ng .

-Sorry. -No, no, wait, wait.

We' l l go together on the boat. We' l l go with you .

We' l l go u p there, but on the boat. Okay?

Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there.

I knew the risks, or imagined I knew.

But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear,

was the desire to conlront him.

J ust keep movi ng .

Lance , keep your hands away from the gu ns .

It's al l right! lt's al l right! lt's al l been approved !

I ai n't com i ng i n there! Them bastards attacked us !

Zap them with you r si ren , man . Zap them with you r si ren .

There's m i nes over there and m i nes over there, too.

And watch out. Those goddam n mon keys bite you , l ' l l tel l you .

That's a pretty one. Move it right i n toward me.

I ' m an American . Yeah .

An American civi l ian . H i , Yan ks .

H i , American .

American civi l ian . lt's al l right.

And you got the cigarettes . And that's what l 've been d ream i ng about.

Chef.

-W ho are you? -W ho are you?

I ' m a photojou rnal ist.

I 've covered the war si nce '64.

I 've been i n Laos, Cam bodia and Nam .

I ' l l tel l you one th i ng , this boat is a mess , man .

W ho are al l these people?

Yeah , they th i n k you 've come to take hi m away,

-and l hope that isn't true. -Take who away?

H i m ! Colonel Kurtz.

These are al l his ch i ld ren , man , as far as you can see .

Hel l , man , out here, we' re al l his ch i ldren .

Cou ld we tal k to Colonel Ku rtz?

Hey, man , you don't tal k to the Colonel . Wel l , you l isten to hi m .

The man's enlarged my m i nd .

He's a poet warrior i n the classic sense.

Someti mes you' l l say hel lo to hi m , right,

and he' l l j ust wal k rig ht by you and he won 't even notice you .

And then suddenly he' l l grab you , he' l l throw you i n a corner and he' l l say,

" Do you know that ' if is the m idd le word i n ' l ife"? lf you can keep your head

"when al l about you are losi ng thei rs and blam i ng it on you ,

"if you can trust you rself when al l men dou bt you . . . "

I ' m a l ittle man . l ' m a l ittle man . He's a great man .

" I shou ld have been a pai r of ragged claws

Scuttl i ng across the floors of si lent seas ."

Stay with the boat.

Don't go without me, okay? l wanna get a picture .

He can be terri ble , he can be mean , and he can be right.

He's fighti ng the war. He's a great man .

I wish l had words , you know? l wish l had words .

I can tel l you somethi ng , l i ke, the other day he wanted to ki l l me .

-Someth i ng l i ke that. -W hy'd he want to ki l l you?

Because l took h is pictu re.

He said , " lf you take my pictu re agai n ,

" l ' m gonna ki l l you , " and he meant it.

So you j ust lay cool . Play it cool , laid back. D ig it.

He gets friend ly agai n . H e real ly does .

But you don't j udge the Colonel .

You don't j udge the Colonel l i ke an ord i nary man .

Okay, watch it now. These are Americans .

Americans !

You can feel the vi be of th is place .

Let me take your picture . Cou ld you hold . . . Hel lo? Hel lo?

Cou ld you hold u p a m i n ute?

Col by.

The heads .

You' re looki ng at the heads. Someti mes he goes too far.

He's the fi rst one to ad m it it.

-H e's gone crazy. -W rong , wrong !

If you cou ld have heard the man j ust two days ago.

If you cou ld have heard hi m then , God . . . You' re gon na cal l h i m crazy?

Fucki ng A.

- I j ust wanna tal k to h i m . -Wel l , man , he's gone away.

He's gone away. He d isappeared out i n the j u ngle with his people.

I ' l l wait for hi m .

He feels comfortable with h is people. He forgets hi mself with his people .

-H e forgets h i mself. -Captai n?

-Maybe we shou ld wait back at the boat. -Okay, Chef.

-We' l l go back to the boat for a whi le . -Yeah , stay with Lance.

This Colonel guy, he's wacko, man . He's worse than crazy. He's evi l !

That's what the man's got set u p here!

Man , it's fucki ng Pagan idolatry. Look arou nd you !

Shit, he's loco.

-Then you' l l hel p me? -H el p you? Fucki ng A, l ' l l hel p you .

I ' l l do anyth i ng to get out of th is joi nt.

Good boy.

We cou ld blow al l them assholes away.

They' re so fucki ng spaced out, they would n't even know it.

I ai n't afraid of al l them fucki ng sku l ls and altars and shit.

I used to thi n k if l d ied i n an evi l place ,

then my sou l wou ld n't be able to make it to heaven .

But now, fuck.

I don't care where it goes , as long as it ai n't here .

So what do you wanna do? l ' l l ki l l the fuck.

-No, no. -Get out of here.

I ' m gon na need you to wait here , Chef.

I ' l l go u p with Lance and scrou nge arou nd , check the place out,

see if l can fi nd the Colonel , okay?

-W hat do you want me to do? -Dam n it.

Here, you take the radio, and if l don't get back by 2200 hours,

you cal l i n the ai r stri ke.

Ai r stri ke?

The code is "Al m ighty, " coordi nates 0-9-2-6-4-7- 1 -2 .

It's al l i n there.

0-9-2-6-4-7- 1 -2 .

Everything I saw told me that Kurtz had gone insane.

The place was full of bodies. North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Cambodians.

Il I was still alive, it was because he wanted me that way.

It smelled Iike slow death in there.

Malaria, nightmares.

This was the end ol the river, all right.

W here are you from , W i l lard?

I ' m from Ohio, si r.

-Were you born there? -Yes, si r.

-W hereabouts? -Toledo, si r.

How far are you from the river?

The Oh io River, si r?

About 200 m i les .

I went down that river once when l was a kid .

There's a place i n the river, l can't remem ber.

It m ust've been a garden ia plantation or a flower plantation at one ti me .

It's al l wi ld and overg rown now,

but for about five m i les, you'd thi n k that heaven j ust fel l on the Earth ,

i n the form of gardenias .

Have you ever considered any real freedoms?

Freedoms from the opi nion of others?

Even the opi n ions of you rself?

Did they say why, W i l lard?

W hy they wanted to term i nate my com mand?

I was sent on a classified m ission , si r.

No longer classified , is it?

W hat d id they tel l you?

They told me that you had gone total ly i nsane,

and that your methods were unsound .

Are my methods u nsou nd?

I don't see any method at al l , si r.

I expected someone l i ke you .

W hat d id you expect?

Are you an assassi n?

I ' m a sold ier.

You' re neither.

You' re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks

to col lect a bi l l .

W hy? W hy would a nice g uy l i ke you wanna ki l l a geni us?

Goi ng down pretty good , hu h?

W hy?

You know?

Do you know that the man ,

the man real ly l i kes you?

He l i kes you . H e real ly l i kes you , but he's got someth i ng i n m i nd for you .

Aren 't you cu rious about that?

I ' m cu rious . l ' m very cu rious . Are you cu rious?

There's somethi ng happen i ng out here, man .

You know somethi ng , man? l know someth i ng that you don't know.

That's rig ht, jack.

The man is clear i n his m i nd , but his sou l is mad .

Yeah .

He's dyi ng , l th i nk. He hates al l this. He hates it.

But the man's...

He reads poetry out loud , al l rig ht?

And a voice , a voice...

He l i kes you 'cause you' re sti l l al ive . He's got plans for you .

No, no, l ' m not gon na hel p you . You' re gon na hel p h i m , man .

You' re gon na hel p h i m .

W hat are they gon na say, man , when he's gone?

'Cause he d ies when it d ies, man . W hen it d ies , he d ies .

W hat are they gon na say about hi m?

W hat are they gon na say? " H e was a ki nd man . He was a wise man .

" H e had plans. He had wisdom ." Bul lsh it, man !

Am l gonna be the one that's gonna set them straight? Look at me. W rong !

You .

Al most eig ht hou rs .

God . l ' m asleep.

I ' m asleep and d ream i ng l ' m on th is shitty boat.

Fuck.

Has it been eight hou rs?

Hel lo, Al m ighty, Al m ighty, this is PB R Street Cang .

Rad io check. Over.

PBR Street Gang, this is AImighty standing by. Over.

W hat the hel l ! Jesus!

Christ!

"We are the hol low men We are the stuffed men

" Leani ng together Head piece fi l led with straw. Alas!

"Ou r d ried voices, when We wh isper together

"Are q u iet and mean i ngless As wi nd i n d ry grass

-"Or rats' feet over broken glass. . ." -H e's out there .

" I n ou r dry cel lar. . . "

-H e's real ly out there. -"Shape without form , shade without color,

" Paralyzed force, gesture without motion . . . "

Do you know what the man 's sayi ng?

-Do you? -"Those who have crossed . . . "

This is d ialectics . lt's very si m ple d ialectics. One throug h ni ne ,

no "maybes, " no "su pposes ," no fractions. You can't travel i n space .

You can't go out i nto space, you know, without l i ke. . . W ith fractions.

W hat are you gon na land on? One-quarter? Three-eighths?

W hat are you gon na do when you go from here to Ven us or somethi ng?

That's d ialectic physics, okay?

Dialectic log ic is , "There's only love and hate. "

You either love somebody or you hate them .

M utt!

You m utt.

This is the way the fucki ng world ends . Look at th is fucki ng sh it we' re i n , man !

" Not with a bang , a whi m per. "

And with a wh i m per, l ' m fucki ng spl itti ng , jack.

On the river, I thought that the minute I Iooked at him,

I'd know what to do.

But it didn 't happen. I was in there with him for days, not under guard.

I was free. But he knew I wasn 't going anywhere.

He knew more about what I was going to do than I did.

Il the generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw,

would they still want me to kill him ?

More than ever, probably.

And what would his people back home want,

il they ever learned just how far from them he 'd really gone ?

He broke from them, and then he broke lrom himself.

I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart.

I 've seen the horrors , horrors that you've seen .

But you have no rig ht to cal l me a m u rderer. You have a rig ht to ki l l me.

You have a right to do that. But you have no rig ht to j udge me.

It's i m possi ble for words to descri be

what is necessary to those

who do not know what horror means.

Horror.

Horror has a face.

And you m ust make a friend of horror.

Horror and moral terror are you r friends.

If they are not, then they are enem ies to be feared .

They are truly enem ies .

I remem ber when l was with Special Forces .

It seems a thousand centuries ago.

We went i nto a cam p to i noculate some ch i ld ren .

We'd left the cam p after we had i noculated the ch i ld ren for pol io.

And th is old man came ru nn i ng after us , and he was cryi ng , he could n't see .

We went back there

and they had come and hacked off every i nocu lated arm .

There they were , i n a pi le. A pi le of l ittle arms .

And l remem ber,

l cried . l wept l i ke

some g rand mother.

I wanted to tear my teeth out. l d idn't know what l wanted to do.

And l want to remem ber it. l never want to forget it.

I never want to forget.

And then l real ized , l i ke l was shot,

l i ke l was shot with a d iamond ,

a d iamond bul let rig ht through my forehead .

And l thought, "My Cod , the gen i us of that. The gen i us. "

The wi l l to do that,

perfect, genu i ne, com plete, crystal l i ne, pure .

And then l real ized

they were stronger than me because they cou ld stand it.

These were not monsters. These were men , trai ned cad res.

These men who fought with thei r hearts , who have fam i l ies, who have ch i ld ren ,

who are fi l led with love, but they have the strength ,

the strength to do that.

If l had 1 0 d ivisions of those men ,

then ou r trou bles here wou ld be over very q u ickly.

You have to have men who are moral ,

and at the same ti me, who are able

to uti l ize thei r pri mord ial i nsti ncts to ki l l

without feel i ng , without passion , without j udgment. W ithout j udg ment.

Because it's j udgment that defeats us.

I worry that my son m ig ht not u nderstand what l 've tried to be.

And if l were to be ki l led , W i l lard ,

l would want someone to go to my home and tel l my son everythi ng .

Everyth i ng l d id . Everythi ng you saw.

Because there 's nothing that I detest more than the stench ol Iies.

And il you understand me, Willard, you will do this lor me.

PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Over.

PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. Over.

PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Standing by. How do you copy?

They were gonna make me a Major lor this,

and I wasn 't even in their fucking Army anymore.

Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all.

I lelt Iike he was up there, waiting lor me to take the pain away.

He just wanted to go out Iike a soldier. Standing up.

Not Iike some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade.

Even the jungle wanted him dead,

and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.

"We train young men to drop lire on people, but their commanders

"won 't allow them to write 'Fuck! on their airplanes

"because it's obscene!"

The horror.

The horror.

Calling PBR Street Gang. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty.

Do you read me ? Over.

PBR Street Gang.

PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty...

The horror.

The horror.