Operation Dumbo Drop/Transcript

* (TRUMPETS)
*
* (MEN SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (ELEPHANT WHIMPERS)
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* - (GIGGLING)
* - (FATHER SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
*
* (INDISTINCT)
*
* (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* (SHOUTING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (EXPLODING)
*
* (MEN SHOUTING)
*
*
*
* ♪ Oh, walk that walk ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, talk that talk ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, tell me, baby ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, tell me ♪
* ♪ that you love me ♪
*
* ♪ 'Cause I love that talk ♪
*
* DOYLE: On your feet!
*
* I'm Doyle. You're my ride.
*
* Let's go.
*
* ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪
*
* Captain Doyle, sir.
*
* Straight approach to the LZ is out.
*
* Beaucoup NVA.
*
* We're gonna have to take
* the scenic route.
*
* (RADIO TUNING)
*
*
*
* ♪ Hey ♪
*
* ♪ Well, my temperature's risin' ♪
*
* ♪ And my feet on the floor ♪
*
* ♪ 20 people knockin' ♪
*
* ♪ 'Cause they're wantin' ♪
* ♪ some more ♪
*
* ♪ Let me in, baby ♪
* ♪ I don't know what you've got ♪
*
* ♪ But you'd better take it easy ♪
* ♪ this place is hot ♪
*
* ♪ I'm so glad we made it ♪
*
* ♪ So glad we made it ♪
*
* ♪ You gotta gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
* ♪ every day ♪
*
* ♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
* ♪ everything is sounding hot ♪
*
* ♪ You better take it easy ♪
* ♪ 'cause the place is on fire ♪
*
* ♪ Been a hard day ♪
* ♪ and I don't know what to do ♪
*
* ♪ Wait a minute, baby ♪
* ♪ it could happen to you ♪
*
* ♪ And I'm ♪
* ♪ so glad we made it ♪
*
* ♪ So glad we made it ♪
*
* ♪ You gotta gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' every day ♪
*
* ♪ Yeah ♪
*
* 2:00.
*
* (GUNSHOTS)
*
* Old Grandpa Charlie's got a 51.
*
* GUNNER: He's down there every day,
* hopin' and waitin'.
*
* Couldn't hit the broad side of a…
*
* Whoo!
*
* Bye-bye, Charlie!
*
* Bye, Charlie. Whoo!
*
* ♪ You better take it easy ♪
* ♪ 'cause the place is on fire ♪
*
* ♪ Been a hard day ♪
* ♪ nothin' went too good ♪
*
* ♪ Now I'm gonna relax, honey ♪
*
* Hey!
*
* Got another?
*
* ♪ Hey, hey, so glad we made it ♪
*
* ♪ You gotta gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* ♪ Gimme some lovin' ♪
*
* Thanks for the ride.
*
* (VOMITING)
*
* JHON: Bad rat? Rat here no good.
*
* Make people sick. Stick to snake.
*
* No! No, thanks.
*
* - You Captain Doyle?
* - Yeah.
*
* I'm Jhon.
*
* Where's Captain Cahill?
*
* Up trail, but you rest.
*
* We eat, then go.
*
* I'll wait for you at the top.
*
* Try it with a 60-pound pack.
*
* (PANTING)
*
* (PANTING)
*
* (EXHALING HEAVILY)
*
* Not your fault, huh?
*
* You not used to air up high.
*
* Uh-huh.
*
* You know Captain Sam?
*
* Uh-uh. I know of him.
*
* Where I'm from,
* everybody knows of him.
*
* He's a legend. So where is he?
*
* (INDISTINCT)
*
* - Cahill.
* - Sam right there.
*
* - Where? Which hut? Where is he?
* - No, no. Sam right there.
*
* Cahill?
*
* DOYLE: Captain Samuel Cahill,
* Sog-op 39?
*
* Hello?
*
* Stop.
*
* (SLURPING)
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* You're the guest of honor.
*
* Um…
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Took you longer than expected.
*
* We're waiting for you.
*
* Have a little trouble on the hill?
*
* (SCOFFS)
*
* Um… They always have
* a wine ceremony
*
* to celebrate the arrival
* of an important visitor.
*
* CAHILL: Of course,
* they'd have a wine ceremony
*
* to celebrate the arrival of Tuesday.
*
* (CAHILL LAUGHING)
*
* It's numpai, rice wine.
*
* It tastes like a combination
* of sugar water and vomit.
*
* It's a little early in the day
* to be hammered, isn't it?
*
* You have to drink it. All of it.
*
* CAHILL: And whatever you do,
* don't spit it out.
*
* It's an incredible insult to the chief.
*
* (INDISTINCT)
*
* (CHOKING)
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* (GAGGING)
*
* (SLURPING)
*
* (LAUGHING)
*
* (COUGHS)
*
* If that's it, maybe we could go…
*
* Not quite. You have to meet Po.
*
* - Po.
* - ALL: Po, Po, Po.
*
* - Po?
* - Yeah.
*
* - He's a village elder or what?
* - Kind of.
*
* Here he comes.
*
* Don't turn around, and close your eyes.
*
* Po wanna touch your face.
*
* Excuse me?
*
* You don't want to insult Po.
*
* CAHILL: It's worse than
* spitting out the wine.
*
* Close your eyes.
*
* Close my eyes.
*
* - (TRUMPETING)
* - Whoa!
*
* (ALL LAUGHING)
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* This is serious NVA territory, Captain.
*
* They know the Montagnard
* are helping us,
*
* so they come around here all the time
*
* looking for any excuse to give 'em hell.
*
* Rule number one. Don't give them one.
*
* That's why you couldn't fly here directly.
*
* Why I only come here when it's safe.
*
* And rule number two?
*
* Never forget rule number one.
*
* I think I can remember that.
*
* I leave here Saturday.
* That gives me a week to get you ready.
*
* Oh, I'm prepared, Captain.
* I can do the job.
*
* And how you gonna do it? By the book?
*
* There's a better way?
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* Look. I got a few things to tie up.
*
* Jhon'll show you around
* and answer any questions.
*
* Captain, I didn't come here
* for a village tour.
*
* My orders are to go to the trail.
*
* You don't start movin' the big stuff
* until after midnight.
*
* Until then, Captain Doyle,
*
* I suggest you start
* getting to know this village.
*
* These people have been the difference
* between life and death for me.
*
* What's that?
*
* The forest gave us so much,
*
* we pay tribute for protection
* of the good spirits.
*
* DOYLE: So, she's not just a big pet?
*
* No, no. We use elephants.
*
* My father, his father,
* his father, forever.
*
* War drive elephant south.
*
* Dak Nhe lucky to have one.
* Dak Nhe are blessed.
*
* I'm happy for you.
*
* - (CHILDREN GIGGLING)
* - Look, let's…
*
* - Let's go see the trail.
* - Sam say we go later.
*
* Yeah, I know, but you're gonna
* be working for me now, right?
*
* Forget Sam. Where's the trail?
*
* I forget.
*
* Candy you got?
*
* No, no. Get… No. No candy. Get away.
*
* Please. Candy. I share.
*
* CHILDREN: Candy! Candy!
*
* Candy! Candy! Candy!
*
* All right, all right, all right.
*
* I only have one.
*
* Understand? One.
*
* One… Hey!
*
* (LAUGHING)
*
* Oh, this is great.
*
* DOYLE: That's it?
*
* CAHILL: Ho Chi Minh Trail.
*
* Disappointed? I was.
*
* I expected something
* a little bit more established.
*
* That's the beauty of it.
*
* You call in an air strike,
* blow the heck out of it,
*
* and they move it.
*
* They use it to supply an entire army.
*
* It never stops.
*
* Oh, look at that.
*
* DOYLE: Shoulder-fire
* surface-to-air missiles.
*
* Whoa.
*
* Second set of SA-7s
* we've seen come south this week.
*
* Really?
*
* (BABY FUSSING)
*
* (SHOUTING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SHOUTING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (WOMAN SOBBING)
*
* (WOMAN WHIMPERING)
*
* (GUNSHOTS)
*
* (VILLAGERS SOBBING)
*
* You bring bad spirit!
*
* It wasn't my fault!
*
* - (STUTTERING) Doyle!
* - It wasn't my fault!
*
* The kid took the candy.
*
* He stole the candy, and then he ran off.
*
* It wasn't…
*
* Okay, it was my fault. It was my fault.
*
* I'm sorry about the elephant.
*
* DOYLE: If I could bring him
* back to life, I would.
*
* We no want you. You go!
*
* - No, wait.
* - Fine!
*
* I never intended to work
* for them in the first place.
*
* - Maybe you can.
* - Maybe I can what?
*
* (SIGHS) The tradition here is
* that at high noon
*
* on the last day of Wapasat,
*
* the new moon festival,
*
* the king of fire enters on top
* of the village elephant.
*
* Now we have to do it by Friday.
* That's pushin' it.
*
* Wait. Do what by Friday?
*
* Duan, I give you my word
*
* that when the king of fire enters
* the village this Wapasat,
*
* he will not do so on his own feet.
*
* He is going to get you a new elephant.
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* I am not getting them an elephant.
* No, no.
*
* These people have
* risked their lives helping us.
*
* Well, then let's get them a tractor.
*
* A tractor would last
* eight minutes in that big…
*
* Well, then don't get them anything.
*
* Oh, come on!
* What are you talkin' about?
*
* You've been in the jungle too long!
*
* - What about you?
* - Will you both shut up?
*
* The village provides important support
* for operations in the region.
*
* If we don't get them an elephant
* by Friday afternoon,
*
* we lose the village.
*
* We don't need the village.
* It's as simple as that.
*
* (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
*
* Well, maybe we don't need the village,
*
* but then again, maybe we do.
*
* I think we err on the side
* of caution this time, Captain Doyle.
*
* You two go out
* and get them their elephant.
*
* We'll need some men, sir.
* Five should do it.
*
* You get two.
*
* PEDERSON: Two of the very best
* and brightest I can borrow.
*
* Now get out of here.
*
* Whatever you do, don't embarrass me.
*
* Don't worry, sir.
*
* Now, hold on a second.
*
* Aren't we forgetting something?
*
* Who's gonna lead
* this delightful little operation?
*
* - I am.
* - I am.
*
* Well, I'm sure you both
* have very good reasons.
*
* Thing is, I really don't care.
*
* So odds or evens?
*
* - One…
* - Evens.
*
* …two, three.
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* ♪ You'se a son of a gun ♪
*
* ♪ Oh, baby ♪
*
* ♪ You'se a son of a gun ♪
*
* Spec-4 Ashford?
*
* No, sir. He's in the hooch.
*
* Ashford!
*
* Haul your butt out here!
*
* Sir? He ain't comin' out.
*
* Why is that, Red?
*
* Well, he's short seven days.
*
* Goes back to the world next Monday.
*
* This man is taking no chances.
*
* He ain't even come out
* of his hooch for two days.
*
* Troop.
*
* ASHFORD:
* Grenade! Oh, that's really funny.
*
* Who's the hilarious son of a…
*
* (CHUCKLES) My mistake.
*
* Pack your gear and be ready
* to move out at 1300 hours.
*
* You've been reassigned.
*
* This is some kind of joke, right?
*
* It's a joke, all right.
*
* You can't reassign me.
*
* Sir, I'm catching
* the freedom bird in seven days.
*
* 168 hours.
*
* I'm so short.
*
* - I'm so short…
* - 1300 hours, Ashford.
*
* (MUSIC PLAYING)
* ♪ Dang me, dang me ♪
*
* ♪ They ought to take a rope and hang me ♪
*
* ♪ High from the highest tree ♪
*
* ♪ Woman, would you weep for me? ♪
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* Oh, man! Dang it.
*
* Spec-5 Farley?
*
* Yes, sir!
*
* So what's the mission, sir?
* Unless you can't tell me,
*
* like if we're operatin'
* on a need-to-know basis.
*
* - We are, and you don't.
* - Yes, sir.
*
* Where you from, Farley?
*
* Iowa, sir.
* Or as my Uncle Fergus likes to put it,
*
* I owe a hell of a lot of money
* on them farm loans.
*
* He doesn't say much about it since
* the thresher accident.
*
* My mom likes to say
* you can hardly tell anything happened
*
* unless you get up real close,
* but I beg to differ. (CHUCKLES)
*
* You been on a farm?
*
* Yes, sir. My daddy owns a dairy farm,
*
* seein' as I bein' from the Corn State.
*
* So you've had experience with animals.
*
* Yes, sir. (LAUGHS)
* Just none of 'em good.
*
* I don't know what it is,
* animals just don't seem to like me.
*
* Never have, probably never will.
*
* And that didn't make life easier
* growin' up on a farm. Tell you that.
*
* Shoot, one of the main reasons
* why I joined the army in the first place.
*
* Get away from all the dang animals.
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
*
* Gilman, hey, I need
* 25 submariners at 300 per. Okay?
*
* Gilman, may I remind you I have friends
*
* with absolutely no regard
* for the sanctity of human life, okay?
*
* I say the word, I have your head in a bag
* on my desk tomorrow morning.
*
* Hang on. General, it's done.
*
* 425 per.
*
* Pleasure doing business with you, sir.
*
* Yes, sir, and give my regards
* to your lovely wife and daughter.
*
* I didn't mean anything by that, sir.
* I just…
*
* Sir, I got, I gotta go.
* I got a call on the other line.
*
* - All right, thank you.
* - (CLICKS)
*
* Gilman, so where were we?
*
* I think I had your head in a bag.
*
* 350? Done.
*
* All right. Send them to General
* John Richardson in Da Nang, please.
*
* Thanks, pal.
* And, oh, by the way, Gilman?
*
* I'd still let somebody taste your food.
*
* (MACHINE WHIRRING)
*
* (WHIRRING STOPS)
*
* I thought you were dead.
*
* You mean you hoped I was dead.
*
* What can I do for you guys?
* (CLEARS THROAT)
*
* You're a requisitions officer.
* Well, we require something.
*
* (CLEARS THROAT)
*
* (SCOFFS)
*
* Not even funny.
*
* We need an elephant by tomorrow.
*
* Or you don't think you can do it?
*
* Oh, please.
*
* Spare me the "I-dare-you" crap, Cahill.
*
* Everybody knows I can get anything
* anywhere anytime.
*
* Just so happens I'm startin'
* five days of R and R.
*
* This time tomorrow, I'll be sittin'
* on a beach in Hawaii, my friend.
*
* You're getting us the elephant.
*
* Or what?
*
* You gonna still try to hold that business
* with the 64th over my head?
*
* Come on. So the pork was a little off.
*
* A little off?
*
* I know men who spent a week
* on the latrine because of that pork.
*
* (SIGHS) It's old news, Cahill.
*
* I got too many friends in high places
*
* to go down for something
* small-time like that, now.
*
* Oh, I know other things
* about you, Poole.
*
* Let me tell you something, Cahill.
*
* There isn't anything you know
*
* that's gonna keep me
* from gettin' on that plane to Honolulu.
*
* DOYLE: 180 miles
* in the middle of a war.
*
* CAHILL: We can get a truck,
* drive it up close to Dak Nhe.
*
* That'll take about three days.
*
* And another day to walk it in.
*
* We'll get there by Friday.
*
* Actually, I was thinking more along
* the lines of air travel.
*
* I lined up a cargo plane
*
* to meet us at an airstrip
* near Ban Don, okay?
*
* We fly the elephant down
* to this old CIA airstrip
*
* about a three-hour walk from Dak Nhe,
*
* then your Montagnard friends have their
* elephant by 2:00 this afternoon,
*
* I'm sitting on the beach in Waikiki
* in time to see the sunset.
*
* And you wanted a week!
* Good job, Poole!
*
* We're coming up on Ban Don now.
*
* PILOT: There's no place to land
* in the rice paddies.
*
* We'll have to go to an LZ
* behind the village.
*
* It was real hot here two weeks ago.
*
* Probably okay now.
*
* Probably? We're gonna
* land on a "probably"?
*
* - Lock and load!
* - (GUN COCKS)
*
* (BREATHING NERVOUSLY)
*
* Hey, this isn't that bad.
*
* It's kind of, kind of peaceful, really.
*
* All right, move out.
*
* (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* Well, Cahill, you want elephants,
* I give you elephants.
*
* Beautiful elephants,
* I might add, at no extra cost.
*
* Knowing you, Poole,
*
* they're probably
* big puppets with men inside.
*
* Let's go.
*
* Y B'ham?
*
* Let me handle the negotiation.
*
* Already talked to this guy on the radio.
*
* Thinks he's tough,
* but I'm gonna crack him like a walnut.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Oh, you're killing me.
*
* What's the problem?
* I thought you could negotiate anything.
*
* I can with leverage.
* Problem is we don't have any.
*
* He doesn't care if he sells
* the elephant or not.
*
* We don't make his price,
* he blows the deal.
*
* What's his price?
*
* Problem number two.
* He wants 60,000 piasters.
*
* The requisition form Captain Doyle
* gave me is only good for 50, so…
*
* That's it? Hell, 10,000 piasters.
*
* That's only about 150 bucks.
*
* We can raise that between us.
*
* No. You tell him 50,000
* is our final offer.
*
* We can do it.
*
* Private funds can't be used
* for an official purchase
*
* as per regulations. It's also an order.
*
* Understood? Tell him.
*
* (POOLE SIGHS)
*
* I get it. It's a perfect way out for you.
*
* You blow the deal,
* and the mission is over.
*
* It's what you wanted from the beginning.
*
* We're going back to the LZ
* and call for a ride.
*
* Let's go.
*
* DOYLE: Poole, let's move it.
*
* Okay, 50,000.
*
* You're quite a negotiator, Doyle.
*
* Gracious sir, perhaps now
* we could go to the river
*
* and pick our elephant.
*
* River? 50,000 no get elephant in river.
*
* 50,000 get you Bo-Tat.
*
* Bo-Tat!
*
* (BO-TAT ROARS)
*
* Uh-oh.
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* (BOTH GROANING)
*
* (GIVES COMMANDS IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (CHILDREN LAUGH)
*
* Bo-Tat is she, not he.
*
* Boy is Linh. Boy go with Bo-Tat.
*
* What? No, boy no go with Bo-Tat.
*
* Y B'HAM: Boy go with Bo-Tat.
*
* We're going to a village far away.
* I'm sure Linh's family…
*
* Y B'HAM: Boy has no family. All killed.
*
* In the war?
*
* No. Hit by falling star.
*
* Yes, in war.
*
* Which side?
*
* Y B'HAM: It matter?
*
* I think it's better if the boy stays here.
*
* Y B'HAM: He not belong here.
* From north, not our people.
*
* CAHILL: We might as well take him
* with us.
*
* No, no. We are not taking a kid with us.
*
* CAHILL: He'll be my responsibility.
*
* - DOYLE: No, Captain.
* - All right.
*
* Anyone else here know
* how to work an elephant?
*
* I was in love with a fat woman once,
* but she never listened to me.
*
* Oh. Mr. Y B'ham, you must know
* how to work an elephant, right, sir?
*
* I live with elephants all my life.
* I learn nothing?
*
* Is this guy sarcastic, or is it just me?
*
* (BO-TAT SNORTS)
*
* (GIVES COMMANDS IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* Great. Would you like
* to come with us, sir?
*
* 20,000 piasters.
*
* - Deal.
* - Good job, Doyle.
*
* I think Mr. Y B'ham
* would be a wonderful choice.
*
* - Just one problem.
* - What?
*
* He doesn't stare into space
* because he's a wise old soul.
*
* He does it because he's blind as a bat.
*
* Y B'ham not blind. Y B'ham can…
*
* Y B'ham is blind.
*
* 10,000 piasters?
*
* FARLEY: It's a nice view.
* ASHFORD: What nice view?
*
* All I can see is an elephant's butt.
*
* (CAHILL SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Parlez-vous francais?
*
* DOYLE: Any luck?
*
* I tried Vietnamese, Cambodian, French,
* and three dialects of Jeh.
*
* Keep an eye on him.
*
* He's on an elephant. He's hard to miss.
*
* You know what I mean.
*
* We don't know which side
* killed his family.
*
* It could've been us.
* He might hate Americans.
*
* We don't know, and until we do,
* he can't be trusted.
*
* - CAHILL: Doyle.
* - He right. Linh can't be trusted.
*
* Linh not trust Americans.
* Americans not trust Linh.
*
* Everything's number one, a-okay.
*
* Uh, that elephant just came along
* to say good-bye, right?
*
* You're not actually thinking
* of putting that on my plane?
*
* What's the problem?
*
* What's the problem? (LAUGHS)
*
* It's an elephant.
*
* Yeah, but, Major…
*
* No, no, no. You see, you cannot put
* an elephant on an airplane.
*
* Suppose it starts to panic
* and starts moving around?
*
* MAJOR: I lose trim,
* the plane goes down.
*
* We all buy the farm.
*
* That's important, what he just said.
*
* - I…
* - No, no, no.
*
* It's not getting aboard the plane
* unless it's dead.
*
* Now, I'd be happy to oblige…
*
* (COCKS GUN) If you've all grown
* too attached to it.
*
* No!
*
* Linh, it's okay.
*
* No one's gonna shoot Bo-Tat.
*
* Doyle.
*
* Poole.
*
* Do you have a package
* for a Dr. David Poole, DVM, on board?
*
* Yeah, I do.
*
* Here we go, gentlemen.
* Animal tranquilizer.
*
* She won't move an inch.
*
* Bo-Tat's gonna take a big nap-nap.
*
* Hey, nice try, but I don't care.
*
* See, my orders say nothing
* about lifting an elephant.
*
* Gentlemen, you have a good war.
*
* Ahem, Major,
* maybe you should read this.
*
* Okay?
*
* This operation's top-secret.
*
* That's why you never heard anything
* about our large mammal friend there.
*
* As a matter of fact, if anybody asks,
* you're moving a shipment of tuna.
*
* - Tuna?
* - Tuna.
*
* Moving an elephant.
*
* What elephant?
*
* You got 10 minutes.
*
* Gentlemen, I'm responsible for anything
* that goes onto that cargo hold.
*
* SOLDIER: Now, if that thing
* even twitches,
*
* you're gonna see an elephant fly.
*
* (LAUGHS) Hey, that's funny.
*
* (ALL LAUGHING)
*
* All right, yeah. What's with the letter?
*
* John Westmoreland. Top priority.
* Got eight left.
*
* POOLE: Now, (CLEARS THROAT)
* couldn't get elephant tranquilizer
*
* 'cause the only place
* that has it is the London Zoo.
*
* It would take too long to ship, so…
*
* - And what's that?
* - Water buffalo tranquilizer.
*
* It's not as strong, but my vet guy says
*
* you just give her a little bit more,
* it should work.
*
* My word.
*
* I guess we give her one now,
* and then we give her…
*
* One later if she needs it.
*
* Well, how are we supposed to get her
* to swallow one of these?
*
* Well, ahem, actually, according to this,
* she's not supposed to swallow it.
*
* (LAUGHS)
*
* Well, Dr. David Poole…
*
* Oh, no, no, no, no.
*
* I told… I said I would
* help you guys out,
*
* but putting my hand up an elephant's
* ass was never part of the deal, no.
*
* (INHALES DEEPLY)
*
* - On three?
* - Oh, no.
*
* Please, please, please, please.
* Okay, what do you have?
*
* - Evens.
* - Okay.
*
* One, two, three.
*
* Oh.
*
* (LAUGHS)
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* DOYLE: Don't you move,
* you big suitcase.
*
* - (LAUGHING)
* - (BO-TAT PASSES WIND)
*
* - (TRUMPETS)
* - POOLE: Oh, that's horrible.
*
* (LAUGHTER)
*
* You weird.
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* Good thinking, Poole.
*
* Well, come on, let's go.
*
* Let's get her on the plane
* before this stuff kicks in.
*
* Come on, come on.
*
* Linh thought you joking.
*
* Bo-Tat not get on plane.
*
* - Excuse me?
* - (TRUMPETS)
*
* Bo-Tat no like be in plane.
*
* How often does she fly?
*
* Bo-Tat no like plane.
*
* The kid's right. Let's get a truck.
*
* The plane is here.
* We're taking the plane.
*
* Bo-Tat no like plane.
*
* - Kid…
* - I'll handle it.
*
* Well, then handle it.
*
* Hurry up. She goes down out here,
* you'll never get her inside.
*
* - Linh…
* - You nice American?
*
* LINH: You think you number one?
*
* You number 10. You all number 10.
*
* Cahill!
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (MUFFLED) Bo-Tat…
*
* - Let's go, come on.
* - (BO-TAT GRUNTING)
*
* (MUFFLED PROTESTS)
*
* Heads up.
*
* LINH: You number 10.
* CAHILL: Tell her to lie down.
*
* What'd you do to Bo-Tat?
*
* Tell her to lie down
* so she doesn't hurt herself.
*
* (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
*
* TKO. (CHUCKLES)
*
* (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
* What'd you do?
*
* She's okay, Linh. She's not dead.
*
* You killed everything.
* You killed everything.
*
* - Hey, hey, hey!
* - LINH: You killed Bo-Tat.
*
* - She's not dead.
* - You killed Bo-Tat.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* You make it die. You killed Bo-Tat.
*
* You killed Bo-Tat.
*
* (BO-TAT GROANS)
*
* CAHILL: She's fine.
*
* She's just sleeping.
*
* ♪ Your love, lifting me higher ♪
*
* ♪ Than I've ever been lifted before ♪
*
* ♪ So keep it up ♪
*
* ♪ Quench my desire ♪
*
* ♪ And I'll be at your side, forever more ♪
*
* ♪ You know your love ♪
* ♪ your love keeps lifting me ♪
*
* ♪ Keep on lifting ♪
*
* H.A., what's the first thing
* you're gonna do when you get home?
*
* - (CHUCKLES)
* - First thing?
*
* Hug my mom and give her a big kiss.
*
* Second thing.
*
* Second thing? Get her some Kleenex.
*
* ASHFORD: She gonna be bawling
* her eyes out.
*
* So what about you, Captain? What's
* waiting for you back in the world?
*
* Uh…
*
* A hammer.
*
* My brother's got a roofing company
* in Fort Lauderdale.
*
* CAHILL: Wants me to be
* a part of that. I can't wait.
*
* Been dressed in green too long.
* Time to get a real life.
*
* (GROANS)
*
* Hey, hey, hey, hey,
* what are you kissing? What is that?
*
* Oh. (SCOFFS) It's nothing.
*
* Come on, what is it?
*
* It's stupid. It's, uh…
*
* When I first got to 'nam,
*
* I was in the main administration
* building in Da Nang,
*
* feeling scared and
* nervous like we all do
*
* and thinking about home.
*
* Was walking past this Coke machine,
*
* a bottle of Coke just dropped down,
*
* so…
*
* Drank that bottle of coke
* and kept the cap for luck.
*
* So has it worked?
*
* Well, I don't really
* believe in that stuff,
*
* but, you know, two years
* without a scratch. Who knows?
*
* I'll… I'll buy it.
*
* POOLE: Nah, man, I couldn't.
*
* (CHUCKLES) Come on, uh…
* $20. I'll buy it.
*
* Keep your money, man. I…
*
* Uh… $40.
*
* Well, hell, if it means
* that much to you, I mean…
*
* He just got it off the bottle
* he's been drinking.
*
* Captain, Major wants a word with you.
*
* Hey, Farley, look at this
* great big beautiful beast.
*
* How can you not like
* something like that?
*
* FARLEY: Well, sir, I tell you…
*
* (GROANS)
*
* Yeah?
*
* Yeah, we got a nasty headwind.
*
* Give baby the other dose, Captain.
*
* Poole,
*
* we have to give
* the elephant the second pill.
*
* Farley had a little run-in
* with the second pill, Captain.
*
* Well, how much longer will she stay out?
*
* One of these things is supposed to
* knock out a water buffalo for six hours.
*
* And Bo-Tat's about the size
* of three water buffaloes…
*
* How much longer do we have, Poole?
*
* We got another hour, easy.
*
* Okay.
*
* (THUMPING)
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* I, uh…
*
* I was using the metric system.
*
* (BO-TAT GROWLS)
*
* (BO-TAT GROWLS)
*
* Tell me you did that.
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* DOYLE: Whoa!
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* It's awake!
*
* What was your first clue?
*
* Dump it.
*
* (ALL YELLING)
*
* (LINH SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* - Whoa!
* - Grab him.
*
* (GRUNTS) Bo-Tat!
*
* Come on, come on, come on, come on!
*
* (ALL YELLING)
*
* (GROWLS)
*
* Ahhh! (GRUNTS)
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* (ASHFORD SCREAMING)
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* (LINH SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* DOYLE: Hey, hit the button!
* Hit the button!
*
* Get back there and shoot it!
*
* - Shut it!
* - We're gonna die!
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* (GUN COCKS)
*
* No!
*
* Hey!
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Back in the pit, pilot boy.
*
* All right.
*
* (PEASANTS SHOUTING
* IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* LINH: Bo-Tat! Bo-Tat!
*
* Bo-Tat! Bo-Tat! Bo-Tat!
*
* Hey! Hey!
*
* Hey! Hey!
*
* Wait! Wait a minute!
*
* You can't leave me here!
*
* Hey! Hey!
*
* I'm going to call LBJ!
*
* I knew it! Argh!
*
* Argh!
*
* Guys?
*
* Guys? Wait up!
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* Stop!
*
* - No, no, no.
* - Bo-Tat scared. Bo-Tat need me!
*
* Yeah, well, all I need is for you
* to run off and get lost.
*
* - Let me go!
* - CAHILL: Doyle, let him go.
*
* If I let him go, we might never see him
* or the elephant again.
*
* Well, if you don't let him go,
* you'll never see Bo-Tat again.
*
* That's for sure.
*
* I'll go with him.
*
* All right.
*
* FARLEY: Come on.
* Yep. There we go.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Bo-Tat understand American.
*
* Bo-Tat, we're going to take you
* to a beautiful land high in the mountains
*
* where you'll be loved and respected.
*
* Where the air is cold and fresh
*
* and the water is cool and sweet.
*
* It's the land where
* you came from, Bo-Tat.
*
* It's where you belong.
*
* Come with me.
*
* (BO-TAT GROWLING SOFTLY)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* DOYLE: We're about here,
*
* which means we're not that far
* from Tuy Hoa, maybe about 10 miles.
*
* We can get there tomorrow
* and get ourselves a truck.
*
* An elephant on a truck for 150 miles
* in the middle of a war.
*
* Piece of cake.
*
* POOLE: Gilman, you know
* those solid gold dog tags?
*
* They're yours. All you got to do
* is get me out of here.
*
* Argh! Man, I just can't
* spend the night in here.
*
* - Just send…
* - DOYLE: Poole!
*
* - Poole!
* - Hang on a second…
*
* Poole! Give me that!
* What are you doing?
*
* Rustling up some
* accommodations, Captain.
*
* I can have beer and steak
*
* and, and padded cots here
* in like, half an hour.
*
* Maybe even some ice cream.
*
* And then, I figured, since you guys
* don't really need me anymore,
*
* I could sort of head back with the pilot.
*
* If all the enemy within five miles doesn't
* already know we're here,
*
* they sure as hell will
* when a Huey lands.
*
* Come on, give me a break, will you?
* I got you the elephant.
*
* I'm supposed to be sitting
* on a beach right now
*
* worried about my tan line, not out here
* in Booneyville worrying about snakes.
*
* BOTH: Snakes?
*
* You're right, Poole.
* You shouldn't be here.
*
* Give me the radio.
*
* I'll call General Richardson.
*
* I'm sure he can get you reassigned.
*
* Break out rations, gentlemen.
* This is home tonight.
*
* I'll bet you wish you had
* your lucky bottle cap now,
*
* don't you, you smart ass?
*
* (INDISTINCT)
*
* LINH: What you doing?
*
* H.A. is going home soon, Linh.
*
* He wants good luck to make sure
* he gets there safe.
*
* You want good luck?
*
* Don't tell me, you have
* an ancient Vietnamese bottle cap
*
* you're willing to sell me.
*
* Linh not sell anything.
*
* Here, elephant is good luck.
*
* You want good luck, you touch Bo-Tat.
*
* (CHUCKLES) Yeah, right.
*
* So what's bad luck?
*
* Um, don't whistle in dark.
*
* Snake will come out and bite you.
*
* Snakes?
*
* It get worse.
*
* - Yeah?
* - If you see owl at night,
*
* someone in your family die.
*
* Wow. So that's the worst?
*
* - LINH: No.
* - No?
*
* Owl nothing compared to crow.
*
* You see crow any time,
* that very, very bad luck.
*
* So what happens when you see a crow?
*
* I tell you, if you see a big black bird,
*
* you run away.
*
* You know what?
*
* This country's really beautiful.
*
* I mean, I am shocked.
*
* Yeah, it is great, isn't it?
*
* - Kind of reminds me of home.
* - Oh, yeah?
*
* They got a lot of rice paddies
* in Cornpone, Iowa, do they, Farley?
*
* Oh, no, that's Arkansas.
*
* - I just meant…
* - You meant what?
*
* Tell me exactly what you meant.
*
* Tell me exactly
* what it is about this place
*
* that reminds you of home, huh?
*
* What is it?
* The spirit-crushing humidity?
*
* The disease-bearing insects?
* Or is it the special feeling
*
* that comes from the knowledge
* that at any given moment,
*
* a sniper's bullet could come spiraling
* towards your forehead?
*
* POOLE: Is that it?
*
* Poole, I'm getting this weird feeling
* you don't like it here.
*
* What's wrong with you?
*
* I love it. Everybody loves it.
*
* Bet you're the only American in Vietnam
*
* who would rather be someplace else.
* Enough.
*
* (BOTH CHUCKLE)
*
* (PEASANTS SHOUTING)
*
* Hey! Hey, come on! Give me…
*
* Oh!
*
* Let's keep moving.
*
* Where are you going? Hey!
*
* They're going to help.
*
* For the love of…
* Cahill, don't get me wrong.
*
* I would like nothing more than to skip
*
* through the countryside,
* doing good deeds,
*
* but we don't have the time.
*
* We have to get a truck, remember?
*
* It won't take long.
*
* Besides, we might even
* get something out of it.
*
* (ALL SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Maybe they'll give you the stump.
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* You go play good Samaritan, I'm going
* to go to the road and do our job, okay?
*
* Go. Go play. Go play.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (ALL SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Bye, now.
*
* DOYLE: Where is everyone?
*
* They'll be back in a minute.
*
* Big stump.
*
* CAHILL: America won something today,
*
* and we didn't even have
* to shoot anyone.
*
* Oh, yeah? Well, we lost two hours,
*
* and we still don't
* have ourselves a truck, so…
*
* Yeah. How about an old diesel
* with a 16-foot flatbed?
*
* You think that ought to do?
*
* (HORN HONKS)
*
* (CHEERING)
*
* One of our developing agencies
* gave them a truck.
*
* But they rarely can afford gas,
*
* so they gave it to us for pulling
* out the stump.
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* ♪ Hang on, sloopy ♪
* ♪ sloopy, hang on ♪
*
* ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
*
* ♪ Give it to me ♪
*
* So how long you had Bo-Tat?
*
* Forever. She belong father.
*
* Huh. What happened to your father?
*
* He die.
*
* Well, how'd that happen?
*
* Do you think it was our side?
*
* I don't know.
*
* I hope not.
*
* ♪ Hang on, sloopy ♪
*
* ♪ Sloopy, hang on ♪
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* ♪ Hang on, sloopy ♪
*
* ♪ Sloopy, hang on ♪
*
* ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
*
* ♪ Hang on, sloopy ♪
*
* ♪ Sloopy, hang on ♪
*
* ♪ Hang on, sloopy ♪
*
* ♪ Sloopy, hang on ♪
*
* We got a leaky radiator.
* I'll try to patch it.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Poole, I speak the language.
*
* It's a joke.
*
* Anymore joking, I'll call you know who.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* Hey, stop!
*
* Bo-Tat need move.
*
* - (GROANS)
* - LINH: Food. Water.
*
* She hungry.
*
* She thirsty.
*
* Now!
*
* All right. All right.
*
* All right, H.A., Farley,
*
* take her down to that fountain there
* and give her some water.
*
* We'll give her food when we get it.
*
* Ah! Oh… Bo-Tat!
*
* Jeez, what you been eating, baby?
*
* (PEOPLE SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* One… One minute?
*
* ASHFORD: Drink up, Bo-Tat,
*
* we don't want to stay over.
*
* One moment?
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (BICYCLE BELL RINGING)
*
* FARLEY: Okay, I'm sorry.
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* Hey, Farley, where's she goin'?
*
* Oh, no.
*
* Captain Doyle! Captain Cahill!
*
* Help.
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* - (PANICKED SHOUTING)
* - (TRUMPETING)
*
* LINH: Bo-Tat! Bo-Tat!
*
* (YELLING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* Linh, stop that elephant!
*
* - ASHFORD: Come back here!
* - (TRUMPETS)
*
* (SCREAMING)
*
* (EXCLAIMS IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* - (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
* - Stop! Just stop!
*
* - Excuse me.
* - Watch out for the elephant!
*
* Ah!
*
* Whoa!
*
* FARLEY: Oh, man!
*
* Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
*
* (ARGUING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* Hey, um, sorry about your chickens.
*
* Linh, we need to turn
* the elephant back this way.
*
* We need to bring it back…
*
* We need to bring
* the elephant back this way.
*
* FARLEY: Turn him around
* and bring him…
*
* Hey. Hey! Hey!
*
* - Whoa. Whoa… Whoa!
* - H.A.!
*
* Help!
*
* We gotta go this way!
*
* - (PEOPLE YELLING)
* - (CRASHING)
*
* (YELLS)
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* Let's go.
*
* Wait, we haven't even done the…
*
* (TRUMPETING)
*
* Oh, my God.
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* (GROANS)
*
* Let's go.
*
* - ♪ You better think ♪
* - ♪ Think ♪
*
* ♪ Think about what ♪
* ♪ you're trying to do to me ♪
*
* - ♪ Think ♪
* - ♪ Think, think ♪
*
* ♪ Let your mind go, let yourself be free ♪
*
* ♪ Let's go back, let's go back ♪
*
* ♪ Let's go way on to way back when ♪
*
* ♪ I didn't even know you ♪
*
* ♪ You couldn't have been ♪
* ♪ too much more than 10 ♪
*
* ♪ Just a child ♪
*
* ♪ I ain't no psychiatrist ♪
*
* ♪ I ain't no doctor with degrees ♪
*
* ♪ But it don't take too much IQ ♪
*
* ♪ To see what you're doin' to me ♪
*
* - ♪ You better think ♪
* - ♪ Think ♪
*
* ♪ Think about what you're ♪
* ♪ tryin' to do to me, yeah ♪
*
* ♪ Think, think ♪
*
* ♪ Let your mind go, let yourself be free ♪
*
* ♪ Oh, freedom ♪
*
* ♪ Give me your hand. ♪
*
* Come on!
*
* Wait up!
*
* Come on! Captain, slow down!
*
* - ♪ Freedom ♪
* - ♪ Freedom ♪
*
* - (TIRES SCREECHING)
* - ♪ Freedom ♪
*
* - Hurry! Hurry!
* - Come on, Farley!
*
* Ah!
*
* (CHUCKLING)
*
* Ew. Go. Go!
*
* Whoa… Ugh!
*
* (LAUGHTER)
*
* (ENGINE SPUTTERING)
*
* That doesn't sound very good.
*
* I know. We don't have time to stop.
*
* If they weren't after us before,
* they will be now.
*
* That guy at the feed depot
* wasn't the only NVA.
*
* They try to blend in but they all got
* that same damn haircut.
*
* (ENGINE DIES)
*
* (HISSING)
*
* CAHILL: Oh.
*
* Hey, where's he goin'?
*
* - DOYLE: Poole, where you going?
* - Saigon.
*
* Get back here.
*
* Poole, do you want me
* to call General Richardson?
*
* Yeah, Cahill. Yeah, I do.
*
* Okay? Call General Richardson.
*
* Let me get him
* on the line here for you, okay?
*
* Because I am sick and tired…
* (GRUNTS)
*
* I…
*
* That's it. I've had it, okay?
*
* Okay, I was on a plane
* that almost crashed,
*
* I came this close to being killed
* by an angry mob,
*
* and now… Look at my uniform.
*
* It's covered in elephant crap.
*
* So, if you think
* that I really give a damn
*
* whether or not you call
* General Richardson
*
* and tell him
* that I slept with his wife…
*
* DOYLE: Huh?
*
* Oh!
*
* Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
*
* Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
*
* You slept with the wife
* of General "Kill 'em all
*
* "and let God sort it out" Richardson?
*
* I thought it was his daughter.
*
* Oh, yeah. He would have
* been fine with that.
*
* (CAHILL LAUGHS)
*
* First off, Poole, Saigon's the other way.
*
* Second, the nearest town
* in any direction
*
* is Hau Bon, which is 30 miles upstream.
*
* And third, the only hope in hell you have
*
* of getting out of here alive
* is to stay with us.
*
* (BIRDS WARBLING)
*
* DOYLE: It's cooked.
*
* What are we gonna do, Captain?
*
* We wait.
*
* Things come along when you need 'em.
*
* My motto's "Have a little faith."
*
* Yeah, well, my motto is
* "Explosives and plenty of 'em."
*
* Load the truck with all the claymores
* and grenades we've got.
*
* String one of the claymores
* trigger wires to the door.
*
* NVA comes along,
* goes to open the door, kaboom.
*
* If we're lucky, it might even
* take out the bridge.
*
* Lucky for who?
*
* The people around here
* use this bridge every day.
*
* That's enough already.
* We're in a war here,
*
* in case you don't remember.
*
* If you're right about the NVA
* being after us,
*
* they're gonna be coming down that road
* for one reason and one reason only.
*
* To kill us.
*
* Their lives are my responsibility,
*
* so excuse me
* if I don't get all choked up
*
* at the thought of disrupting
* some local peasant's daily commute.
*
* How do you know the NVAs
* gonna be the first ones here?
*
* What if it's a bunch of school kids
* who are goin' home?
*
* You ever think about that? No!
*
* Why? Because guys like you
* don't think things through!
*
* Me? What about you?
*
* You've got five people and an elephant
* risking their lives
*
* so you can go home
* with a clear conscience.
*
* You're afraid when you're up on the roof
* with your brother in Fort Lauderdale
*
* and you're lookin' back over
* your sparkling military career,
*
* you're not gonna like what you see!
*
* You're afraid Vietnam's gonna wipe out
* everything you did before,
*
* so you want to do
* one good thing before you go.
*
* Which is great.
*
* But your one good thing isn't pulling
* a kid out of a burning building
*
* or diving on a grenade. It's this!
*
* And because it's this,
* it means it involves us!
*
* But you didn't think about that, did you?
*
* No!
*
* Why? Because guys like you
* don't think things through!
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* (GASPING FOR BREATH)
*
* - Hey, come on, sirs, break it up.
* - (BOTH GRUNTING)
*
* Break it up, sirs.
*
* Ahhh!
*
* - Oh, God!
* - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
*
* - Pull me up!
* - Give me your hand. Give me your hand.
*
* - Give me your hand.
* - Pull him in!
*
* (PANTING)
*
* You okay?
*
* Whew!
*
* Okay?
*
* Yep.
*
* I'm real happy about my decision
* to stick with you guys.
*
* Uh, at the risk of rekindling hostilities,
*
* what do we do now?
*
* Like I said, have a little faith.
*
* (OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)
*
* (WOMAN SINGING IN ITALIAN)
*
* (GODDARD SINGING
* ALONG IN ITALIAN)
*
* (SINGING IN ITALIAN)
*
* Ha ha ha ha
*
* (LAUGHING)
*
* Is that my ears, or has your singing
* actually gotten worse?
*
* GODDARD: Must be your ears.
* It was already as bad as it could be!
*
* DOYLE: Have a little faith, my eye.
*
* You knew this boat was coming.
*
* My first tour, I was stationed at Hau Bon.
*
* Every Wednesday afternoon,
*
* Monsieur Goddard and
* the Marie Antoinette would drop in.
*
* He gave us the best intelligence
* on the location of the VC we ever got.
*
* - (CHUCKLES)
* - What… What can I say? I love America.
*
* Yeah. Hey.
*
* (CAHILL CHUCKLES)
*
* You gave the VC their best intelligence
* on our location, too.
*
* (LAUGHING)
*
* I can't help it, you know.
* I love everybody.
*
* Would anyone like some wine here?
*
* - Yeah.
* - Yeah.
*
* Wine? No!
*
* What is this, the opening
* of an art gallery?
*
* No. This is a war.
*
* The Green Beret motto
* is "Free the oppressed,"
*
* not "Eat, drink, and be merry."
*
* Yeah, now it is.
*
* Oh.
*
* What did I do? What did I do?
*
* I should be on
* some high-priority mission
*
* with a group of crack commandos.
*
* Instead, I'm in an episode
* of McHale's Navy,
*
* starring Dumbo, Mr. French,
* and the Three Stooges!
*
* (DIFFERENT OPERA PLAYING)
*
* Ðứng lại.
*
* - That mean stop.
* - Ðứng lại?
*
* Ði. That mean go.
*
* Ði?
*
* You try.
*
* Ði!
*
* (BO-TAT GROANS)
*
* (STAMMERS)
*
* Ðứng lại!
*
* Good.
*
* You know two of three
* most important words for elephant.
*
* What's the third?
*
* - (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
* - Huh?
*
* It means get off me.
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* Poole.
*
* Can you get more of that
* water buffalo tranquilizer?
*
* You really enjoyed that,
* didn't you, Doyle?
*
* Linh was right.
*
* You are weird.
*
* - Poole.
* - POOLE: Yeah, yeah.
*
* - As much as you want.
* - Okay.
*
* We get off past Hau Bon tonight.
*
* Tomorrow we take one of these trails
*
* which, God willing,
* isn't in enemy hands,
*
* over one of these ridges,
* down into Pleiku.
*
* Friday morning we fly Bo-Tat
* to the airstrip near the village.
*
* By noon we walk her in.
*
* - Piece of cake.
* - (EXPLOSION)
*
* Get down!
*
* DOYLE: Stay down!
* Everyone stay down!
*
* (RAPID GUNFIRE)
*
* Farley. Hold your fire.
* They're out of range.
*
* They're gonna have us in five rounds.
*
* I know this. I'm artillery.
*
* Give them a moving target. Zigzag.
*
* Keep moving.
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* Linh, what's wrong with Bo-Tat?
*
* She hurt here.
*
* Oh, sh…
*
* Oh, no, she's seasick.
*
* (GROANS)
*
* Look out. She's gonna blow!
*
* Ew!
*
* (GURGLING GROAN)
*
* (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
*
* Years from now my kid's gonna ask me,
*
* "Daddy, what's the worst thing
* you saw in the war?"
*
* After this, there's no contest.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Can't you get this tub to go any faster?
*
* You are going to sink my boat.
*
* Maybe not.
*
* Gilman, who would I actually know
* that could get me your head in a bag?
*
* It was a joke, pal.
*
* Yeah, I was kidding.
*
* I love you, man. Like a brother.
*
* What are you, nuts? Where am I
* gonna find a Triumph Spitfire
*
* in the middle of Vietnam,
* you rotten little rat?
*
* I… Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I apologize.
*
* Okay. All right, you got it.
*
* Just patch me through
* to firebase Cheo Reo now, okay?
*
* And direct to artillery.
*
* I don't have time
* for channels or anything.
*
* Okay. He's puttin' me through.
*
* Son of a… Heh, heh.
* Right here. Hang on.
*
* Uh… Yeah.
*
* We're on the Song Ba River
* being pursued by NVA in a boat.
*
* What? Yeah, this is Hotel Alpha.
*
* Who's this? Barney?
*
* Hey, Barney, what's up, man?
* What you doin'…
*
* - H.A.! H.A.!
* - I'm sorry.
*
* Uh, Cheo Reo, we
* need your help pronto.
*
* Request fire mission and expedite.
*
* Call for battery fire at grid coordinates,
*
* Bravo Romeo 354, 1105 niner.
*
* Fire one marking round.
*
* (MISSILE WHISTLING)
*
* (LAUGHTER)
*
* Barney, that was perfect, man!
*
* No, it wasn't perfect. It almost hit us!
*
* Give him the coordinates.
*
* Captain, we're moving.
* Those coordinates are gonna be perfect.
*
* - Right about…
* - Better be right.
*
* Fire for effect!
*
* - Better be right.
* - Now.
*
* (SOLDIERS LAUGHING)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Ha!
*
* - Whoo!
* - Whoa!
*
* Yeah!
*
* Hey, hey. I'm gonna start callin' you
*
* The Brown Bomber! (LAUGHING)
*
* You wanna try it on?
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* I found a place where
* we can spend the night.
*
* (INSECTS AND BIRDS WARBLING)
*
* (LEAVES CRUMPLING
* UNDER FOOTSTEPS)
*
* FARLEY: Hey, sir, what is this place?
*
* An ancient temple.
*
* Buddhist?
*
* Actually, it's Tam Giáo
*
* A little Buddhism,
* a little Confucianism, and a little Tao.
*
* (ROLLING THUNDER)
*
* What's with all the elephants?
*
* The elephant is the God in Tam Giáo.
*
* Not a god.
*
* Father of God.
*
* In beginning, elephant were white,
*
* and they fly in the air
* with the clouds and the rain.
*
* One day, elephant fly down
* and go into side of Queen Maya.
*
* While she sleep and dream.
*
* She have baby.
*
* Prince Siddhartha,
* the Gautama Buddha.
*
* Elephant, father of God.
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* (THUNDER)
*
* ASHFORD: Linh, that story
* you told was great.
*
* I… I loved the bit
* about the flying elephants.
*
* Uh, just one thing, though.
*
* It might be better
* if you started, "In the beginning,
*
* "all elephants were black."
*
* All right, this is our only option.
*
* We have to take this trail
* over this pass into Pleiku.
*
* Is the pass secure?
*
* (CLICKS TONGUE) I don't know.
*
* We could find out at this village
*
* unless you think
* five Americans and an elephant
*
* waltzing into town
* might arouse suspicion.
*
* Hmm. Not at all.
*
* We could send in Linh.
* No one would suspect him.
*
* No, we can't do that.
*
* - Why not?
* - You know why.
*
* We can't take that chance.
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* - I got it.
* - Wait.
*
* (THUNDER RUMBLING)
*
* Doesn't matter to me
* who killed your family.
*
* I imagine it doesn't
* matter to you, either.
*
* VC killed mother and sister.
*
* But Linh not know who killed father.
*
* Linh and father going home.
*
* LINH: There was big light.
*
* Everything happened fast.
*
* People yell, shoot gun.
* Father hold Linh tight.
*
* Bo-Tat run.
*
* They shoot Bo-Tat.
*
* Father and Linh land apart.
*
* Father get up, run to Linh, and fall down.
*
* (GUNSHOT)
*
* He shot.
*
* Linh not move.
*
* Bo-Tat save Linh.
*
* Men shoot Bo-Tat more times.
*
* Bo-Tat no stop for many miles.
*
* (GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
*
* Bo-Tat save me.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Were you hurt?
*
* You said you couldn't move.
*
* (SOBBING) No, I said I not move
* because I too scared.
*
* Father die because
* I not help him. I scared.
*
* No, no, Linh, that's not why.
*
* Yes, I scared!
*
* Of course, you were scared.
*
* I'd be scared. Anyone would be scared.
*
* Linh.
*
* - It wasn't your fault.
* - Who fault?
*
* People.
*
* People far away, Linh.
*
* People who've never been here.
*
* Linh no understand.
*
* How did you get to Ban Don?
*
* American take Linh.
*
* Said take Linh back
* to mountains someday.
*
* Never did. Lie to Linh.
*
* I'm gonna take you
* back to the mountains, Linh.
*
* I promise you.
*
* Linh father was a good father.
*
* Number one father.
*
* I'm sure he was.
*
* (WHISPERING) I'm sure he was.
*
* (BIRDS WARBLING)
*
* (WHISPERING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Yeah.
*
* Oh, man, I just went to go take a whiz.
*
* I didn't want to desecrate the temple.
*
* Forget about it. It's done.
*
* He probably went
* to get some food or something.
*
* Whatever the reason,
* they're gonna find out
*
* we're here pretty damn soon.
*
* He's just a kid.
*
* I know. I have to go get him.
*
* I'll get the elephant to Pleiku
* and we'll meet you there.
*
* Excuse me, guys, uno momento.
*
* But how are we gonna
* move old Bo here, huh?
*
* Linh taught Farley the basic commands.
*
* No, he didn't.
*
* Okay, sir, he did, but…
*
* Take someone with you.
*
* I screwed up. I'll go.
*
* (CROW CAWING)
*
* Th… That's funny.
* My… My legs don't work.
*
* POOLE: Ah, hell. I'll go.
*
* Kid's got my watch.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SHOUTING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* Okay, do the foot. Get…
* Get her to do the foot and get up.
*
* - Let's go.
* - (TRUMPETS)
*
* - Come on.
* - I don't… I don't know that one.
*
* - All right.
* - Can you guys give me hand?
*
* Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here,
* take the gun. Take the gun.
*
* Put your foot on my leg.
*
* - Okay. One…
* - Do you wanna jump in?
*
* - On three, H.A.
* - One, two, three.
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* Okay, come on.
*
* - Okay, I'm up. I'm up.
* - Good job. Good job. Okay.
*
* I don't know about this, sir.
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* I guess that means she's ready.
*
* - I think she's mad.
* - DOYLE: Come on.
*
* This way. Take us around the village.
*
* Farley, this way.
*
* He didn't teach me how to turn.
*
* Then stop her.
*
* - Okay, okay. Uh… Ði!
* - (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* I mean… I mean, dee d'ng. D'ng.
*
* - Dai!
* - Farley!
*
* FARLEY: Ugh!
*
* - Tell my mom I love her!
* - (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* (WHISPERING) Stop!
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETING)
*
* Stop, darn it, you crazy animal!
*
* (MAN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* Oh!
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* Whoa! Ahhh!
*
* Bo-Tat?
*
* (LINH SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
*
* Farley, you are a driver.
*
* (CHUCKLES)
*
* (SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
*
* (GIGGLING)
*
* Sam.
*
* - You all right? Huh?
* - Yeah.
*
* They worked him over pretty good.
*
* He hit me this many.
*
* So, when I tell him
* you in Hau Bon, he believe.
*
* You told him we were in Hau Bon?
*
* Kid, why did you come here?
*
* You want to find out if trail okay.
*
* But Linh is the only one who can ask.
*
* Before Linh caught,
* Linh find out trail okay.
*
* You trust Linh now?
*
* Yeah.
*
* I trust Linh now.
*
* You guys do this hug a lot.
*
* (LAUGHS)
*
* - Whoa, whoa, whoa!
* - Bo-Tat!
*
* - No!
* - (TRUMPETS)
*
* ♪ Yee-hoo! ♪
*
* ♪ Aow! Walk that walk ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, talk that talk ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, tell me, baby ♪
*
* ♪ Come on, tell me that you love me ♪
*
* Canceled?
*
* What do you mean
* the mission is canceled?
*
* Turns out Doyle was right.
*
* We don't need the village.
*
* While you two were off on safari,
*
* the Ho Chi Minh Trail moved again,
*
* and intelligence estimates are
* it's gonna stay where it is.
*
* The village is of
* no further strategic interest.
*
* "No further strategic interest"?
*
* Major Pederson, sir, we're so close.
*
* Let us finish what we started.
*
* - We just have to fly the elephant to…
* - To where, Cahill?
*
* To that old CIA airstrip
* near the village?
*
* The NVA blew
* the heck out of it three days ago.
*
* You have no place to land your elephant.
*
* The airstrip's gone.
*
* End of mission!
*
* What about Linh and Bo-Tat?
*
* Who?
*
* The boy and the elephant, sir.
*
* Well, you ship them back to
* where you picked them up.
*
* Where are you going?
*
* I can't tell you.
*
* Why not?
*
* 'Cause if I tell you,
* you'll try to stop me.
*
* If you don't try to stop me,
* you'll be court-martialed.
*
* The mission's been canceled.
*
* I have a feeling the Captain's
* gonna ignore that.
*
* What are you gonna do,
* steal a truck from the motor pool?
*
* - If that's what it takes.
* - Oh, hell!
*
* If we're gonna steal a truck,
* we might as well steal a plane.
*
* What?
*
* You worried because there's no airstrip?
*
* We don't need one.
*
* Remember when
* we first went to Pederson
*
* and I said, "Let's get them a tractor"?
*
* What if we had?
*
* How would we have gotten a tractor in?
*
* Tractors don't need airstrips.
*
* - Poole.
* - Yeah?
*
* - Okay, we're gonna need parachutes…
* - We?
*
* POOLE: Yeah, Captain.
*
* We.
*
* H.A., Farley, are you in?
*
* Yeah.
*
* Okay.
*
* You take one step toward Dak Nhe
* with that elephant,
*
* you can kiss your sweet
* military career good-bye.
*
* Yeah, well, maybe we all need to do
* one good thing before we go.
*
* (PEOPLE TALKING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (FIRE CRACKLING)
*
* Easy. Easy now, easy.
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* - Hey!
* - Shh!
*
* (WHISPERING IN VIETNAMESE)
*
* (MECHANICAL WHIRRING)
*
* This is insane. Bo-Tat's not a tractor.
*
* Poole, did we just hear a heartfelt
* human emotion come out of you?
*
* Yeah, it was. I feel bad for her.
*
* Don't tell anybody I said that,
* okay, you guys?
*
* POOLE: It's top secret, okay?
*
* So top secret, we're not
* even getting clearance
*
* from the tower. Radio's silenced
* and nobody knows anything.
*
* As a matter of fact,
* this never happened.
*
* (SOLDIERS SHOUTING)
*
* - Sir, they've stolen a 123 out of Pleiku.
* - When?
*
* - About five minutes ago, sir.
* - Damn it!
*
* Get on the radio
* and tell 'em to get back.
*
* That whole area is jammed
* with NVA anti-aircraft.
*
* Yes, sir.
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* CAHILL: Don't be nervous, Poole.
*
* I just never have jumped before.
*
* Well, neither has she.
* Does she look nervous?
*
* (BO-TAT GRUNTS)
*
* All right, listen up.
*
* Bo-Tat and the crate are on a static line.
*
* Now, the drogue will trigger
* the parachute to open
*
* the second she's out of the plane.
*
* Now, you three are gonna
* jump before Bo-Tat.
*
* Free fall for a count
* of 10, and then pull.
*
* Okay? Got it?
*
* We want to make sure
* you don't get tangled
*
* in Bo-Tat's lines going down.
*
* And we want you to be clear
* of our large friend before she lands.
*
* Now, Captain Cahill and I
* are gonna stay on board
*
* until Bo-Tat gets off.
*
* Once she's off, we're gonna go, okay?
*
* CAHILL: Any questions?
*
* Linh get one?
*
* Well, no, Linh.
*
* You have to stay on the plane.
*
* Well, maybe he… Linh could take mine,
*
* and, uh, I could, um,
* stay on the plane. I mean…
*
* But Linh go with Bo-Tat.
*
* I'm sorry, Linh.
* It's too dangerous. You can't.
*
* You promised you take Linh
* and Bo-Tat home to mountain.
*
* You will go home.
*
* You'll see Bo-Tat in a day or two.
*
* But first you have to go back to the base
* with the pilot. There's no…
*
* You lie! You lie!
*
* Hey.
*
* Hey, you're right.
*
* I did say I'll get you home, and I will.
*
* I'll stay with you on the plane.
*
* I'll get you to the mountains.
*
* I'll get you back to Bo-Tat.
*
* You just can't go with her now.
*
* - (EXPLOSION)
* - Oh! Whoa! Whoa!
*
* Here comes another one!
*
* - Oh!
* - (TRUMPETS)
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* Take us down below the radar.
*
* This isn't a fighter.
* This is a cargo plane.
*
* Do it!
*
* Ahhh! Ahhh!
*
* You can't drop from this altitude.
*
* We'll go back up when
* we get closer to the village.
*
* DOYLE: No, now.
*
* Do it now! Now!
*
* (GUNFIRE)
*
* (GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
*
* (TRUMPETS LOUDLY)
*
* (ENGINE SPUTTERING)
*
* - Ah, jeez!
* - Looks like we're all gonna be jumping.
*
* Can you get us in over the village?
*
* One pass, then we bail.
*
* We're going now!
*
* Get ready.
*
* (WIND WHOOSHING)
*
* (BO-TAT GRUNTS)
*
* Change of plans, Linh.
*
* PILOT: We're coming in on the village!
*
* I'll be right down.
*
* Stand by!
*
* Ready?
*
* - Yeah.
* - Okay.
*
* Go! Go! Go!
*
* I… I can't go, guys.
* I… I left something back inside.
*
* I gotta… I can't do this.
*
* I'm an office guy, man.
* I work in an office behind a desk!
*
* (ALL SCREAMING AND LAUGHING)
*
* ASHFORD: Isn't this great, Chief?
*
* It's moving!
*
* FARLEY: Isn't this fun, Poole?
*
* (ALL SCREAMING AND SHOUTING)
*
* ASHFORD: That was great!
*
* - No!
* - Bo-Tat!
*
* (TRUMPETS)
*
* Hold on tight.
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* LINH: Ahhh!
*
* (BO-TAT WAILS)
*
* CAHILL: Hold on!
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* - Ah!
* - (GRUNTING)
*
* - Get it!
* - Go!
*
* (BO-TAT WAILS)
*
* Hold on, Bo-Tat. Hold on.
*
* I'll get you.
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* Oh!
*
* (TRUMPETING)
*
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
*
* Whoo!
*
* - Yeah!
* - Thank God!
*
* (LAUGHS)
*
* (GRUNTS)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* (SHOUTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* (SHOUTING AND CHATTERING)
*
* POOLE: Please, God,
* get me through this.
*
* I'll never lie again. Please. Uh. Oh!
*
* Hoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo.
*
* FARLEY: Whoo!
*
* Farley, you're dead. Swear to God.
*
* I'm gonna kill you.
*
* ASHFORD: Oh, my God.
*
* Oh, my God.
*
* Whoa! Whoa! Ahhh! Ahhh!
*
* - (LAUGHING)
* - Linh like hug. Hug good.
*
* (CHEERING)
*
* CAHILL: Be careful. Be careful.
*
* Keep everybody back.
* All right. Very good.
*
* (WHISTLING AND CHEERING)
*
* Is she okay?
*
* Everything number one a-okay!
*
* Hey, where's H.A.?
*
* Get me a ladder!
*
* DOYLE: Back her up, Linh!
*
* Come on, sweetheart. We gotta
* get you ready for the ceremony.
*
* Good girl.
*
* Uh-oh.
*
* (GUNFIRE)
*
* (GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
*
* Ugh!
*
* (WOMAN SCREAMING)
*
* Drop your weapons!
*
* (WEAPONS DROPPING)
*
* You bring elephant very far.
*
* Very admirable.
*
* I congratulate you.
*
* Too bad you go to all this trouble
*
* for nothing.
*
* (CAWING)
*
* Bird, if I were you,
* I'd get the hell out of here.
*
* (CLICKS)
*
* Elephant going to die.
*
* (VILLAGERS SCREAMING)
*
* Drop your guns! Drop your guns!
* Drop… Drop 'em!
*
* (BO-TAT WAILING)
*
* (GRUNTING)
*
* (VILLAGERS CHEERING)
*
* (SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
*
* Roger, Whiskey Tango. Over.
*
* Crossbow-6 out.
*
* What did he say?
*
* Well, the good news
* is that capturing Nguyen
*
* and his men has made you a hero.
*
* And the bad?
*
* Recon photos are indicating
*
* that the trail has moved
* back this way again.
*
* Pederson wants you to stay.
*
* (SIGHS)
*
* (SMACKS LIPS)
*
* That is bad news.
*
* (CHUCKLING)
*
* I have to go now, Linh.
*
* You not like it here.
*
* I love it here.
*
* I love this place more than
* any place I've ever been.
*
* You not like Linh.
*
* You know that's not true.
*
* Then why you go?
*
* Just like you had
* to go where you belong,
*
* I have to go where I belong.
*
* (CRYING)
*
* You forget Linh?
*
* When I forget how to breathe.
*
* Take her easy, Linh.
*
* Safe trip home.
*
* - Oh, thank you.
* - Good luck.
*
* Thank you.
*
* Hey, hope to be in special forces too,
* one day, sir.
*
* Thanks. Good job, soldier.
*
* Thanks.
*
* Captain.
*
* - Ever need anything…
* - Okay.
*
* (BO-TAT TRUMPETS)
*
* Yeah.
*
* Sam.
*
* When you're standing on a roof
* with your brother in Fort Lauderdale,
*
* I think you're gonna like the view.
*
* (CHILDREN WHISPERING
* IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)
*
* You watch Bo-Tat?
*
* Yeah. I'll watch Bo-Tat.
*
* Have fun.
*
* (CHILDREN CHATTERING
* AND GIGGLING)
*
* - (TRUMPETING)
* - (GASPS)
*
* CLIFF EDWARDS: The horsefly.
*
* I seen a dragonfly. I seen a housefly.
*
* (AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
*
* EDWARDS: See,
* I seen all that, too.
*
* EDWARDS: (SINGING) ♪ I seen a peanut ♪
* ♪ stand, and heard a rubber band ♪
*
* ♪ I seen a needle that winked its eye ♪
*
* ♪ But I be done seen about everything ♪
*
* ♪ When I see a elephant fly ♪
*
* JIM CARMICHAEL: ♪ With the wind. ♪
*
* CHORUS: ♪ When I see an elephant fly ♪
*
* (LAUGHING)
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