All language subtitles for Tour of Duty S03E06 A Necessary End

GI! GI!

Oh! Oh!

This is so much fun!

Oh!

Is it definite
you're leaving tomorrow?

I'm afraid so.

That's the life
of a Donut Dolly.

Sure appreciate you helping me get
these souvenirs for everybody.

Glad to do it.

Besides, it finally gives us
a chance to get acquainted.

Say, I need to stop by my place
here in town for a minute.

You don't mind, do you?

Okay!

It'll give me
a chance to freshen up.

I didn't even see her.
Where did she come from?

Okay, she's alive.

So what do we do?

I don't know.
We gotta get her to a doctor.

Is there a doctor around here?

Oh, what has happened?

I don't know,
she ran out in front of me.

I tried to stop,
but I just knocked her down.

Sorry.

I believe she is more
frightened than hurt.

Well, do you know a doctor?
Is there a doctor around here?

I do not think it is necessary.

Well, I think it is!

There is a hospital.

Okay. Okay, let's go.

This way.

Where does she live?

She is an orphan.

One of many we care for.

Uh, here.

Find a taxi,
take it back to the base,

and I'll get you your souvenirs
before your plane leaves.

But I'm leaving tomorrow.

I'll get them to you.

I don't care about that stuff.

Go on now, before you break
an old man's heart.

Chico!

Well, now.

If it ain't Hoc Dockenbury!

Percell.

Hey, Doc.

Tell me some lies, Doc.

Tell me some big old lies.

No lie, Percell. No lie, man.

You're headed for trouble.

Say, where'd you get that ape?

Chico's not an ape,
he's a monkey.

You mind, Doc?

I was talking to the monkey.

Why don't you step back
and check it out?

I have not seen you straight
in weeks.

Oh, ease off, Doc.

Take a hit.

Hell, I ain't one
to bogart a good time.

No. Thanks a lot.

I'm real grateful
for the offer.

Say, what happened to you, Doc?

When you first came here,

you had "hippy dopehead"
written all over your face.

I admit it.

Percell, I used to have
more ways to get high

than a junkyard dog's
got fleas.

Then how come you've turned so
against an innocent little toke?

Lost its innocence.

I liked it too much.

Could have had me.

Just about like it has you.

I'm feeling too good for you
to bring me down, Doc.

Percell, if you don't
get straight,

that dope's gonna
bring you down, man.

It's like a hole that
doesn't have no bottom.

It's not funny.

Oh, go on, Doc!

You and your old lady,
get out of here!

Percell.

You can smell that herb all
the way outside the hooch, man.

That what brought you in?

If you gotta smoke, man,
do it someplace else

or you'll get all our butts
in a sling.

What's the point, Percell?

You're just gonna get busted.

Oh, there ain't no point, Ru.

I'm just lying here,
trying to relax.

Trying to mind
my own business.

But I'm not having much luck,

because everyone seems
to be minding it for me.

I don't wanna mind
your business, man.

You're messing yourself up.
I'd like to understand why.

Let it go.

I don't wanna let it go.

We're friends, remember?

We're out in the bush, we're
supposed to count on each other.

How am I gonna count on you

when you're diddy-bopping
six feet off the ground?

We're not in the bush.

I'm gonna go to the PX
and get some candy bars.

What's your point,
Lieutenant Goldman?

My point is
Lieutenant Beller's platoon

wiped out an entire village
of civilians at Phu An.

The Army's doing nothing.

That's your evaluation?
"The Army's doing nothing"?

Yes, sir.

I went over your report in
detail with General Elliot.

Give him a little time
to look into it.

Sir, my team was there
right after it happened

and not one of my men has been
questioned about what we saw.

And you think they're hoping
it'll go away

if they ignore it, huh?

I do.

Now, I can't force the issue,
but I was thinking if you...

I told you, lieutenant,
it's out of my hands.

But rest assured,

if the Army does not
deal with this incident

within proper channels,

they'll have to deal with me
outside of them.

Is there something else
I can do for you, lieutenant?

No, sir.

I appreciate your time.

Hey, that was fun, huh?

You like riding in the jeep?

They are so fortunate.

Fortunate?
To live like this?

There are many others in the
cities living in the streets.

We three look after these few.

It could easily be hundreds.

Casualties that
don't get counted, huh?

We fled our school
and orphanage in the north

to escape the Communists.

Many of the sisters
were...

assassin�es.

Murdered.

Some returned to France,

and we took refuge
in this abandoned building.

Wait a minute.

She's a Buddhist, right?
What is she doing here?

Three of them live here.

Their sanctuary was destroyed
by South Vietnamese soldiers.

A saboteur took refuge there

and their entire pagoda
was destroyed by rockets,

just to kill one man.

Her name is Yu Lan.

She has been fasting
for four weeks.

Fasting and praying
for four weeks?

She meditates.

She seeks a pure soul.

To understand...
l'essence de la vie.

Life's purpose.

You think one lifetime's enough
to work all that out?

You sound like
a Buddhist yourself.

Perhaps you should
talk to Yu Lan.

No, but I would like
to talk with you more.

I'm serious.

A pure soul may be
a little out of my reach,

but I have wondered about
my own life's purpose.

Gotta be more to it
than what I've found so far.

Percell!

You shouldn't drink
alone, man.

People will talk.

They already do.

Leander, Percell.
Percell, Leander.

Hey.
Hey.

Leander what?

Leander Leander.

Well, all right,
Leander Leander.

How you doing?

How am I doing, man?

Just back from Tan Town.

Can hoi. Five days
of sighs and smiles.

Well, how'd you get five days?

Just took 'em, man.

Lieutenant Peckerwood needs
somebody to hump ammo for the pig.

He ain't gonna
say nothing.

Besides, he thinks I got "primal
instincts," whatever that is.

That Can hoi is so fine.

Where's Can hoi?

Cholon, man.
Around the docks.

I don't suppose next time
you go down there,

you could take a friend along?

It's way over
the Mason Line, Percell.

Almost all originals.

And a bunch of the brothers
gone native.

You'd feel the draft,
you know?

Yo, Leander.

You know this man?

Says he wants
to score some herb.

You know what he's
talking about?

Remember, man?
I was with Nicky De G.

Nicky.

Yeah. Right. Nicky.

Greasy little guy with
funny lips. I remember.

All right.

Let's do it outside.

Think I'll go too.

I got some
thinking to do.

That's bad for the brain,
baby.

Wait up.

Gotta know more about
this Can hoi, Leander.

I need some time away.

Ah, that's tricky,
Percell.

They're squeamish
about sylvester.

See, if they figure you
for the man, you'll be dead.

Well,
give it some thought.

I may already be dead.

- Freeze, pal!
- You're busted, soldier!

What the hell is this?
I didn't do anything!

Son, you shut up
before I shut you up.

His name is Tu Sang.

He's a major in
the North Vietnamese Army.

And he claims that he can
put the finger

on at least a dozen
Communist agents

in the South Vietnamese Army
high command.

Well, why doesn't he
take a walk, sir?

We've had defectors before.
Why kidnap this one?

His request.

So the comrades will think he's
been taken against his will.

Otherwise he's afraid
they'll take reprisals

against his family
here in the south.

He's probably right.

Sang is on assignment
to improve their supply routes.

He's quartered at
a station about here.

That's 15 klicks over the fence.

And they've got a regiment
located nearby

and a lot of activity
in the area,

so it's gotta be
quiet and quick.

How would you do it,
lieutenant?

I'd go in here, end of the
evening, nautical twilight.

Take two choppers,
leapfrog across.

That way, the locals will think

we're just doing
a standard flyover.

Then I wait till morning,
go in, grab him and get out.

You'll have a team
of four rangers with you.

Do they know the mission?

They know we're
grabbing someone.

They don't know who.

Okay. Have your team
on flight line at 1700 hours.

Here, let me show you.

She cannot hear it.

She is deaf.

Here,
this is for you.

I wondered why
she didn't talk.

When the Communists
came to our school,

they injured many
of the children

to frighten
others away.

They deafened Suan with...

sharpened pencils.

Poor baby.

Um, I gotta go.

You will be remembered
in our prayers

for your kindness to Suan.

Kindness? Hell,
I damn near killed...

I... I'm sorry.

It is an unfortunate habit,
lieutenant,

but not one
requiring confession.

Has something happened?

I am not sure.

Yu Lan seeks more than
personal enlightenment.

Since the time
of the three kingdoms,

this country has known
only suffering and bloodshed.

She seeks some way
to make it...

different.

Why are the others here?

They think she's
dying of hunger.

She sure doesn't have much
regard for herself, does she?

It is not
important to her.

She has
started a journey

that she expects to continue
in future lives.

Yeah, it'd be nice if we could
count on that, wouldn't it?

I doubt if
Yu Lan thinks that.

I don't know,
I'd like a shot at it.

A second time around.

Chance to straighten out some
of the kinks from this life.

Why create the kinks
to begin with?

Well, most of them
are unintentional.

I can't control
the way things happen.

I could fork my chopper tomorrow
or I could live to be 100.

If I knew the way
it was gonna go, well...

What if you were
to die tomorrow?

I don't know. Some good
times, some bad times.

Nothing I could say I've done.

You help these people
fight for their country.

No, I'm here for
the thrill of it,

'cause I love to fly.

I don't think
that's enough any longer.

Goldman.

Beller.

Wait up, it's not like
I'm a stranger.

I'm in a hurry.

You headed out, huh?

Wish I was too, but the
dry spell will be over soon.

Is that right?
I can hope, right?

Look, man,
what do you want?

Look, what happened
out in that village

and then you going
to the colonel about it,

I just wanted you to know

there's no hard feelings
on my part, okay?

You were doing what
you thought right.

I don't think you should
feel guilty about that.

High point of assumption,
Beller. I don't.

That's good.

I didn't want there to be any
misunderstandings between us.

I mean, we're talking about
my career here.

You still think
you've got a career?

Things turn
in odd ways sometimes.

Hey, well,
good luck, Goldman.

We'll see you
down the road, okay?

You watch yourself,
okay?

You all ready?

Yes, sir.

Sergeant, what's gonna happen

to those boonie rats
that shot up that ville?

LT's taking care
of that, Taylor.

Just keep your mind on
what you're doing out there.

Don't be caught up
worrying about that stuff.

Yeah, well, I still don't
understand "that stuff."

Ruiz, you're never
gonna understand

something that's crazy.

Hope you satisfied.
MPs locked up Percell.

That's none of my doing.

Besides, I heard he's
getting out this afternoon.

Yeah, getting out and
going on latrine duty.

I'd just as soon
stay in the pokey.

Hockenbury!

Here! Now!

Uh-oh!

Did you see this?

Yeah.

Did you do this?

No, sir. That'd be...

That'd be defacing
government property.

That'd be against
regulations.

Yes, it would.

So what about that?

Hockenbury, that's a SOG emblem.
It's supposed to be there.

Well, actually, sir,
it's an unofficial SOG emblem,

so that's probably
against regulations too.

Let's saddle up!

All right, we set up a false
bivouac here and we settle in.

We wait until after dark,
we go about 200 meters back.

Then I want an arm's-length
perimeter all the way around.

Absolute noise discipline.

Communication by touch only.

Good God almighty!

I do believe
it's Spec-4 Percell.

What did you do that for?

I'm Sergeant Hannegan,
son.

I wanted to make sure
you're awake and ready

for your
day's assignment.

What assignment?

Why, something
that'll let the Army

avail itself of your
refined sensibilities.

You're burning
the outhouse!

Oh, no way!

That detail's for cherries!

Cherries and screwups, son?

Let me just try to figure out
where you fit in.

Look, you gotta
give me a break, sarge.

Um...

I can't work all day
on an empty stomach.

I gotta have breakfast.

Climb into your clothes, son!

The scatters of this man's army
waits for no one!

Besides, you go on latrine duty
with a full gorge,

you'll just blow it the first
barrel you whiff, anyway.

Open those traps and pull
the barrels out far enough

so as you don't ignite the privy
when you light them up.

Get on with it,
you scatophobic goof-off!

Enough gasoline, Percell.

Now an equal measure
of diesel fuel.

High octane for
a quick, hot start

and diesel for
the long, steady burn.

Ah, you're a natural, Percell!

You got the touch.

Ugh!

Can you move?

Taylor,
blow the radio.

Ah, what the hell
did you do that for?

Couldn't you see there wasn't
a barrel in there?

He's gonna do
all right, LT.

It's a
pretty clean wound.

This blood expander's gonna hold
him till we get back to Barnett.

I suggest we get out of here now
before someone comes round here

to see what that noise
was all about.

Sarge, that's a righteous
thing to do, but...

These guys see we're willing
to do it for them,

when our time comes,

maybe they'll be willing
to do it for us.

I'd like to know
why MACV

gave a press correspondent

clearance to be on
a SOG base, Mr. Boyle.

I pulled some strings
and I lied

about the reason why
I wanted to talk to you.

Which is?

I talked to LRRPs,
I talked to grunts.

I hear a lot of offbeat stories
about the war

for the price of a few beers.

Last week,
I heard a tale

about a massacre
from a drunken GI.

Are you gonna
tell me this story,

or am I supposed
to guess?

I was hoping you'd tell me
about it, colonel.

The total eradication
of the village of Phu An.

I'm not a press officer,
Mr. Boyle.

I'm not authorized
to give you information.

I don't know
what you're talking about.

An atrocity story
would be big news.

A commanding officer

trying to cover it up
would be even bigger.

Are you threatening me?

Your career
is the American dream.

It would be a shame
to sacrifice it

for the actions of a handful
of bloodthirsty killers.

It would be a shame
to subvert our effort

to help the South Vietnamese

and brand the men
who fight here

with a stigma
they'll carry for life.

I can't help you, Mr. Boyle.

Ugh!

You reek.
Wow!

Percell?

Hey, man, you look
like a native.

You had to burn
a privy

because of
that bust, huh?

Man, they expect so much
of their own.

Leander,

tell me more
about Can hoi.

Look, the brothers
buy it,

you're there, man.

Beautiful.
No coming back.

But you're sylvester,
Percell.

They'll never stop
watching you.

I like you, man.

And I'm telling you,
don't go down there.

Look, say...
Say, I'm a day tripper.

Who do I look for?

Who do I say it to?

I'm a friend of Leander's.

Look for Smiling Jack.

He'll set you up
and see you through.

But he looks at you
and sees the man,

you can kiss having
a family goodbye.

Thanks.

I think I'll take
a long, hot shower, huh?

Yeah,

I'm thinking
that's a real good idea.

Twenty piasters.

No extras,
I promise.

I bid 25.

Ruiz, you're gonna
ruin the market.

I just want
you girls to know

that was a damn
cheap shot

that your man Goldman
took on Lieutenant Beller.

LT just told what
he saw in the ville

after you sickos
went and took target practice

on those civilians.

Whatever it is,

Beller's got it coming,
no matter what it is.

You weren't there.
You got no idea what went down.

LT is a good man
and a good officer,

and we had
a good platoon.

Yep, and you're all
good shots too.

Nailed some of those kids
with one bullet.

Pretty hard to do,
what with them running.

It ain't right
to break up a platoon.

We were a team, man.

Break up a platoon?
What do you mean?

I mean transfers,
I mean early outs.

They're replacing
all of us.

Yeah, one,
two men to a post.

No way you can
stay with your buddies.

That ought to raise
the intelligence level

around this place, I'd say.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Don't you guys see
what's going on here?

You see... See, the Army is gonna
get rid of these maniacs

before word gets out to the
outside about what happened,

'cause the Army doesn't want
to get a black eye, right?

So they're gonna let
these psychotics off the hook.

You better shut up,
man.

You can't hurt me,
man.

I'm not
a 3-year-old kid, man.

I'm not
an old man, man.

Hey, hey, hey!

What's wrong
with you guys?

I thought you didn't like
this smart-mouth jerk!

We don't.

But he happens to be
our smart-mouth jerk!

- All right, you guys.
- Break it up!

Come on, GI,
come on!

That's enough.
That's enough.

Look, I am not talking
about a lot of people.

I'm talking about six kids,
six little kids.

Six little civilian kids.

And three nuns.

We started with a couple,
then to six, now we're at nine.

Look, I'm talking about
innocent people

that can't do a damn thing

to take care
of themselves, Doc.

Lieutenant,
you're talking about civilians!

Why don't you try to take
this up with the S-5

and try to work them
into one of those, um,

civic action programs?

Because S-5
won't give a hoot

about the hearts and minds

of these particular citizens.

They don't have an effect
on the political picture.

Look, didn't you take
an oath or something?

No, I'm a medic,
I'm not a doctor.

Plus, what you're
asking me to do

could get me into
big trouble with the colonel,

and as it is,
I live on thin ice around here.

I don't know. Maybe I was wrong
about you, Doc.

I mean, if you can vaccinate
whores in the street...

You know?

Giving a few shots
is one thing.

This is like
stocking a clinic.

Kids fall down
and get hurt.

Sisters need this stuff
to take care of that.

Okay,
we got two more boxes.

The sooner
we get this loaded,

the sooner
we're out of here.

Francis Hockenbury, you are
the world's biggest mud.

If somebody wanted to sell you
a sack full of dead buzzards,

you'd be asking, "How much?"

Supply sergeant
called my office.

Said you'd requisitioned
a lot of meds,

figured we were going
back out to the whorehouses.

Volunteered
to go along.

Hockenbury,
this better be good.

Well, sir,

I thought I'd had it.

But the colonel,

actually was all for it.

Di.

Sure he was.
I kept telling you.

Doc's all finished for now,
so we're leaving.

We're all
so grateful to you.

It's no big deal.

Where's Yu Lan?

Gone.
They have all left.

Yu Lan was very weak
from hunger.

Well, I hope
she finds peace.

I hope we all do.

A life is not wasted

because it is spent
doing something you enjoy.

It would be
a greater waste

if you did something
you despise.

A friend of mine
once gave me a poem by Yeats

about an Irish airman
who flies for no other reason

than the love of it,

and that dooms him
to insignificance.

I balanced all,
brought all to mind,

The years to come
seemed waste of breath,

A waste of breath
the years behind

In balance with this life,
this death.

A lot in common,
that flyboy and me.

You feel your life
has no meaning.

But if you
can feel that,

then it is not so.

I don't know
if I agree with that.

I'm not even sure
I know what it means.

Do not
denigrate yourself.

You know.

Yeah.

You know,

I really like
talking with you.

There just never seems
to be enough time.

Look, would you
have dinner with me?

No,
of course you can't.

I'm sorry, I don't know
what the hell...

I'm sorry.

Could I ask you a favor?

Well, sure, anything.

A carton of books has been
sent to us from Paris.

I need to see
the agent in Saigon

to find out if it has arrived.

We can talk on the way.

Outstanding.

Look, I'm not doing
a favor for you,

you're doing one for me.

Transfers!

Where? Whose orders?

Every single man
in Beller's platoon

has been replaced
in the last three days.

Sir, I don't know
who ordered it.

Highers didn't know what to do
with that bunch of crazies,

so they stalled them here

instead of sending them
back to the unit.

Now they maneuvered them
out of here on the sly.

Come on!

You know where
Beller's quartered?

Yes, sir. Point the way.
You and you, with me.

I enjoy reading
some poetry,

but most of it
I just don't get.

Nor do I.

But I keep trying.

Something's happening.

I can't stop seeing it.

I don't understand it.

It is not unlike
some of our own martyrs,

who allowed themselves to die
at the hands of others.

Good night, John McKay.

God bless you.

Percell.

What did you do?

What's happening, Ru?

Don't do this, man.

Please, don't do this.

Everything's upside-down,

inside out.

I just can't
take it no more.

I'll stick with you,
Danny.

Whatever it takes
to get you straight, man.

But don't desert.
Not that.

You were in
the field yesterday.

I was behind the latrine,

doing the lowest job
this army's got.

I was so ashamed
I hid out

in the supply dump
all night long.

And all day today.

Getting high, crashing.

Getting high and crashing.

No.

I can't stay here anymore.

Ru, I'll die.

What are you gonna do,
Percell?

Pull my accrual out
from the finance office.

Maybe I'll buy into one of them
massage parlors in Cholon.

You owning
one of them joints?

Like the fox
watching the chickens.

So long, Ru.

Take care, huh?

Be careful, Percell.