"John!" " John Rambo!" " I don't believe this!" "  So where you're coming from?" "  Washington." "  Good to see you again!" "  Yeah, you too." " Do you want to tell me about it?" " About what?" " About yesterday, I've seen you stick fighting in a warehouse in Bangkok." "  You saw that?" "  Yeah." " And today I find you, working in a monastery." " They let me live here and I help out, fixing things." " And the stick fighting?" " I just do that for their lack of money." " Yeah..." "I saw you give it to the monks." " You see a lot." " Colonel, who are they?" " They're part of the reason I'm here." " This is Robert Griggs, he's a field officer of our local embassy." " John Rambo." " Pleasure." " Well, you're sure not easy to find!" " Why are you keepin' track?" " Well, like the Colonel says, good men are hard to find!" " John, I'd like you to take a look at some of these photos." " I don't know how much you know about Afghanistan." " Most people can't even find it on a map!" " But over two million civilians, mostly peasants farmers and their families, have been systematically slaughtered by invading Russian armies." " Every new weapon, including chemical warfare, has been used to eliminate these people." " And they've been very successful, at many levels." " I assume that you're out of touch with the current states of the war." " But after nine years of fighting, the Afghan Forces are now getting their Stinger missiles, and are now beginning to hold their own against the Air-Strikes." " Except for one region, 50 miles over the border." " Apparently, the Soviet Commander there is exceptionally brutal, as those photos indicate." " And he's managed to string allow all aid from the outside." " So we want to... investigate the problem firsthand." " And what that's got to do with me?" " They've asked me to go in." " You're not gonna do it?" " Yes." " And I want you to come with me, John." " I put in my time." " What does that mean?" " It means my war is over." " I thought you said he was this great soldier." " Well, Colonel... that's like we've got a long walk down those stairs." " Don't be tough on him, he's just following orders." " This mission's important, John." " Do you really think we can make a difference?" " If I didn't, I wouldn't be going." "  It didn't before." "  That was another time." " Come with me, John." " I don't know what you think about this place, but I like it." " I like bein' here, I like workin' here." " I like belong into something." " You DO belong into something." " Not this." " When you're gonna come full circle?" " What are you talkin' about?" " You said that your war is over." " I think the one out there is, but not the one inside you." " I know the reasons you're here, John." " But it doesn't work that way." " You may try, but you can't get away from what you really are." " And what is it I am?" " A full-blooded combat soldier." " Not any more." " I dont want it." " That's too bad, 'cause you're stuck with it." " Let me tell you a story, John." " There was a sculptor and he found a stone, a special stone." " He dragged it home and he worked on it for months, until he finally finished." " When he was ready, he showed it to his friends, and they said he had created a great statue." " The sculptor said he hadn't created anything." " The statue was always there." " He just cleared away to small pieces." " We didn't make you this fighting machine." " We just shifted away the rough edges." " Your own is gonna be tearing away with yourself, until you come to terms with what you are!" " Until you come full circle." " I guess I'm not ready yet." " Well, I got to move." " Promise me you'll look me when you're next in the States." " I promise." " Colonel!" " I'm sorry." " But it's gotta end for me sometime." " I understand." " Take cover!" " Drop your weapons and remain where you are!" " You cannot escape!" " Drop your weapons!" " You have no chance of escape!" " Drop your weapons!" " Now!" " Rambo!" " Something went wrong." " What happened?" " Soviets intercepted the team, just over the border." " Among we've gathered, Trautman and the rest of his party have been taken to the regional commandment post." " And what are you doing about it?" " I can't do anything about it." " I'm sorry." " I just thought you should know." " What about me?" " About you?" " Can you get me in?" " You're not serious." " Oh yeah, I'm serious." " It can't be done officially." " Make it unofficial." " If it can be done, I want you to know upfront of your capture, or any of this leaks, we'll deny any participation, or even knowledge of your existence." " I'm used to it." " We'll get back." " You want to buy?" " Many guns here!" " No." " I'm looking for Mousa Chanin." "  What's your name?" "  John Rambo." " Wait here." " They sell many in Afghanistan." " Many landmines." " Landmines everywhere." " I am Mousa Chanin." " What is it you want?" " I was sent by Griggs." " You do not look like men Griggs sent before." " You not look like you are with military." " I'm not." " What you are?" " A mercenary?" " No." " You're not a military, you're not a mercenary, what are you?" " Lost tourist?" " I'm not a tourist." " Sorry." " Do you know where the American is?" " Yes." " In a Soviet fort." " Near the village of Khost, 30 miles over the border." " Mr. Griggs sent you the supplies you asked for." " You wish to see them now?" " Yeah." " Is this what you asked for?" " Yeah." " Never seen these things before." " What are these?" "  Detonators." "  And this?" " What is this for?" " It's blue light." " What does it do?" " It turns blue." " I see." " Can you tell me how many more men come with us?" " There's no rescue team." " There's just me." " Just you?" " Come on, this is no good!" " I can not take only one man to the fort." " You need more men to help." " Griggs said you'd take me there." " Take me there!" " I am meant to take medical supplies, if I not take it, many people will die." " Do you understand?" " Well, I do not know who you really are, but by the way you look, I can see you have no experience in war." " Do you?" " Come on, do you?" " I've fired a few shots." " A few shots?" " Come on, maybe you should go back home, and think it all over again." " For a very long time." " I did think it over." " You did?" " Well, this is your choice." " But let me tell you, you can not get this American alone." " If you fail, do not blame me." " I will accept no responsibility." " Sounds familiar." " My name is Colonel Zaysen, Regional Commander of this sector." " You're here as the first American captured in Afghanistan." " Congratulations." " I believe you're planning to supply enemy rebels forces with Stinger missiles, intending to destroy Soviet aircraft." " If I'm gonna be interrogated," "I wanna be interrogated by your superiors." " Out here, I have no superiors." " I am in full command." " You're alone here." " Abandoned by your government." "  What do you want?" "  Cooperation." " This sector has been under total control for over five years." " There's little more I can do here." " It is, as you say, without challenges." " If you supply to me worth information about most stinger missiles you're planning to deliver, it could provide a way out of this further post." " After all, the end what everyone really wants is peace." " The Kremlin's got a hell of a sense of humor." " Please explain." " You talk peace and disarmament to the world, and here you are, wiping out a race of people." " We are wiping out no one." " I think you're too intelligent to believe such a propaganda!" " Now again: where are the missiles?" " I don't know anything about any missiles!" " Of course you do!" " But you do not seem to realize I'm providing a way out for us both." " You expect sympathy?" " You started this damn war, now you have to deal with it!" " And we will." " It is just a matter of time before we achieve a complete victory." " You know there won't be a victory." " Everyday, your war machines lose ground to a bunch of poorly armed, poorly equiped freedom-fighters!" " The fact is that you underestimated your competition." " If you studied your History, you'd know this people never gave up to anyone." " They'd rather die than be slaves to an invading army." " You can't defeat a people like that." " We tried." " We already had our Vietnam!" " Now you're gonna have yours!" " So, you wish to test me." " Good." " This is Afghanistan." " Alexander the Great tried to conquer this country, then Ghenghis Khan, then the British, now Russia." " But Afghan people fight hard, they never be defeated." " Ancient enemy make prayer about these people." " Do you wish to hear?" " Very good." " It says:" ""May God deliver us from the venom of the cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghans."" " Understand what this means?" " That you guys don't take any shit." " Yes, something like this." " We go now!" " In the north, there are many caves, we'll travel through them." " It'll be safer." " We go!" " This cave leads to the "Valley of the Five Lions"." " The Afghan King was asked to send 500 of his warriors into battle." " He sent only five." " His greatest five, and they won." " He said, it's better to send five lions than 500 sheep." "  What do you think of this?" "  I think the King was lucky." "  How much longer till the village?" "  About two hours." " Where in my sector are the missiles being delivered?" " I don't know." " You liar." " Where?" " Where?" " OK, I'll tell ya." " I knew you were lying." " Now, where are the missiles located?" " Close." " How close?" " In your ass!" " You've tried my patience long enough." " I tried to be civilian." " The name John Rambo do you know it?" " No?" " He says that there's a plan for a rescue attempt with the help of some of the rebels." " He also says he knows where this man is going." " We will welcome him." " It's the last village in the valley." " About 200 man here." " There's a lot of lot of kids in." " Yes, and they are good fighters, too." " I'll tell the leaders you want to talk." " They've never seen men look like you." " Here are Mujahedin horsemen." " There are 10.000 horsemen more waiting at the border." " They are waiting to get weapons, when they'll get it, they'll come back here to fight." " Let's go to the hospital." " He is the only doctor for 500 km." " The first medicine they get in two months." " More gifts from the Soviets." " They look like toys, but they're mines." " We teach the childrens not to touch, some of them too late." " Who's that?" " His name is Juri." " He's Russian." " A deserter?" " He calls himself a defector." " There are many like him." " He is the one who can help the most, he knows the inside of the fort." " I think we should go now." " Mines start here: one meter like this, then two meters like this, and like this." " There are four towers, four guards, here, here, here and here." " Where do they keep the prisoners?" " Here." " If we get in there, is there another way out?" " Underground, where there's all dirty water." " But I do not know word for this place." " He means sewer." " Where is it?" " Here." " Outside, you go there." " Guards patrolls there." " I do not think you go this way." " I wish we go to the minefields." " They'll never expect it." " This can not be done." " There are many Spetnaz commandos." " We have all of this, we've lost many men." " We'll lose more men if we go there." " I don't need many men." " What is it you want to do?" " I need two men to lead me to the minefield, and two to help to escape." " If this is done, Soviets will come here like before, and more people will die." " I can't wait." " You must wait for help the way we wait." "  Then I'll go alone." "  And you will die!" " Then I'll die." " Wait!" " Please don't go." " My name is Masoud." " You must not judge us, before you understand why we are not directed to help." " Most of the Afghan people are very strong, and we are determined not to be driven from our land." " Our children die of disease, mines, and poison gas." " And our women are raped and killed." " Last year, in the valley of Legman, the next valley, 6.000 Afghans were killed." " Pregnant women were cut with bayonets, and their babies thrown into the fire." " This is done, so they will not have to fight the next generation of Afghans." " Yet nobody sees anything, or reads anything in the papers." " What you see here, are the Mujahedin soldiers, holy warriors." " To us, this war is a holy war." " And there is no true death for a Mujahedin, because we have taken our last nights, and because we consider us already dead." " To us, death for our land and God is an honor." " So, my friend, what we must do is to stop this killing of our women and children." " If getting this man free, so he can tells to the free world, and tell what happens here, is necessary then of course we will help." " Leave us now, so we may speak among ourselves and find the best way to free this man." "  Thank you." "  We thank you." " Don't worry, they will decide soon." "  We got to leave tonight." "  What is your name?" " This boy is very hard inside." " His parents were killed last year." " His brother died in the fort where the American is." " He looks like a boy, but he fights like a man." "  What's your name?" "  Rambo." "  Where are you from?" "  Arizona." " Arizona?" " How much days walk?" " About two years." " Two years..." " Are you a soldier?" "  No more." " I am a soldier." " Are you here to fight?" "  No." "  Are you scared?" " What is this?" " It's a knife." "  Can I see this?" "  Sure." " Very good." " Can I have it?" " No." "  What is this?" "  You want everything!" "  This is for luck." "  What is luck?" " Luck is..." "Can I have it?" " I need luck." " So do I!" " What a child!" " Always like this." " Look there!" " It's our national sport." " An old, insane game, maybe 3.000 years old!" " Look, they never stop playing." " War or not war, they don't mind." "  You like it?" "  I'll take football." " What is football?" " You play it with the foot?" " Not really." " Come on, let's go!" "  What are they saying?" "  They want you to try." " It's a way to them for you to be with them." " If you want to try, go ahead but" "I'm not responsible for it!" "  I'll try it." "  Yes?" " What are the rules?" " Well, you have to take the sheep once around, and then thrown it in the circle." " Why?" " Because there is a circle there." "  That's it?" "  That's it!" " Very simple." " Like football." " God must love crazy people!" "  Why?" "  He makes so many of them!" " Now you see how it is here." " Somewhere in a war, there's supposed to be honor." " Where is the honor here?" " Where?" " We're taking the survivors to the border." " Are you coming?" " I'm going to the fort." " Have you not seen enough death?" " Go away while you can." " This is not your war." " It is now." " So be it." " You are a good friend." " I stay." " I will show you the way." " I will go too." " No, you go with them." " I will not." " They killed all my family." " I want to fight!" " Not with me." " You go!" " Go on." " Why must you do this?" " Cause he'd do it for me." " Are you decided to talk?" " No?" " Very well." " Soon you will be my guest down the hall..." " Go back!" "  No!" " Go back!" " Go on!" " Stay here!" " Stay back." " I know this place." " You need me!" " I don't need you dead!" " Now go back." " You understand?" " American?" " American?" " Colonel?" " Colonel?" " John?" " How the hell did you get in here?" "  Can you move?" "  I can." " Let's go!" " John, behind you!" " Go!" " John, get out of here!" " Get the hell outta here!" " Over here!" " Come on!" " Help me!" " Take him!" " Come on!" " Give me the boy!" " Come!" " Come on!" " Take the kid!" " Jump down!" " Give me the boy!" " Who is this terrorist?" " What makes you so valuable to him?" " This bastard tried to destroy me tonight." " But he failed!" " At sunrise, I will track him down, and have his skin hanging on the wall!" "  You don't have to hunt him." "  What?" " He'll find you." " Are you insane?" " One man against trained commandos?" " Who do you think this man is?" " God?" " No." " God would have mercy." " He won't!" " It's all right." " There's nobody there." " Good." " This will hold a while." " What's the fastest way outta here?" " Northwest, there's a trail between mountains, about three kilometers from here." " The trail is very difficult." "  You take the boy and go." "  I want to stay." " You can't." " You can not go back there." " We must all go to Pakistan." " No, I gotta go back." " I know he's your friend, but you can't do this!" " You both will die." " For what?" " Come with us!" " Just do what I say." " Give me your gun." " All right, let's go." " Come on!" " I will see you again?" " Sure." " Come on!" " Can you fly that thing?" " Let's find out." " Let's go!" " Hold on!" " Over there!" " There!" " Hold on!" " Get him up!" " Take my hand!" " We're going down!" " Hold on!" " Take what you can!" "  Come on, move it, move it!" "  Go on!" "  We gotta hit the border." "  We stay here." " We know where to go." "  Which direction, John?" "  Northeast!" " Hold it, John!" " I gotta rest a minute." " How's your wound?" " You taught us to ignore the pain, didn't ya?" " Has it worked?" " Not really!" " Don't take it personally!" " Thanks." " You go on ahead and see if you can find some cover." " That was close, John!" " How are you?" " Well done!" " We won't make it easy for them." " We'd better split out!" " I'm sorry I got you into this, John!" " No, you're not!" "  Are you listening?" "  Who are you?" " Your worst nightmare." " It's good timing!" " What are friends for?" " You go back to the hole." " I'll cover you, and see if there's any more left." " Across the valley is the border." " We did it, John!" " Wait!" " What the hell is that?" " The son of a bitch!" " Do not try to retreat!" " You can not escape." " We will not attack if you do not run!" " We do not want to hurt you." " Somehow I don't believe him!" " I order you to come forward, and you will be given a fair trial." " Drop your weapons, and remain where you are." " You got any ideas?" " Drop your weapons!" " Surrounding them, Sir." " Helluva time for humor, John!" " Drop your weapons!" " Now!" " You have no chance of escape." " Come forward!" " I want to pick you back alive." " This is your last warning!" " The choice is yours." " What do you say, John?" " Fuck 'em!" " If we're gonna go, I would crave to take that bastard with us!" " What is that?" " It's the rebels!" " Come on!" " John, get out of there!" " You're sure you don't want to stay?" " You fight good for a tourist!" " Maybe next time." " Do you want this back?" " No." " You keep it." " Can you not stay?" " I gotta go." " Goodbye." " Hard to believe, John!" " What's that, Sir?" " Well, I hate to admit it, but the truth is I think we're getting soft!" " Maybe just a little, Sir..." "Just a little!"