Please support Greatest Films and This Banner Sponsor by Clicking Here. He thoughtlessly tosses in a grenade and closes the shelter's top. Shortly after, he senselessly murders an injured civilian mother who staggers around.
Helicopters appear out of nowhere with an American unit to provide relief support to the village.
Michael meets up with the squad of soldiers, including Steven and Nick, but he is so shell-shocked that he ignores their friendly reunion after a long absence. The trio are captured by an assault of North Vietnamese. In the film's most shocking, emotionally draining and terrifying sequence, they are captured as POWs of the Viet Cong, and held in a riverside pontoon hut. It is an unequal, suicidal form of Russian roulette. Guard-onlookers place wagers on who will survive or die.