02x06 - The Wounded Don't Cry

[bunniefuu]

[yelling in German]

Die Amerikaner kommen!

Die Amerikaner kommen!

Clear! All clear!

Yo!

Neumann!

Find out who's in charge here.

Ask them if there are any arms or armed troops around here?

He says this is a Battalion aid station.

That all the armed troops have withdrawn from the town.

- Kirby?
- Yeah?

Take Bauer and Cooper and see if there are any Krauts in the town.

and check the high ground east of here.

The rest of you shake down this place for arms.

Let's go.

Hey, Neumann.

What does this say?

What is that?

'Faithful Unto Death' It's the motto of the SS.

Hey, Sarge! We got us a couple of hotshots here, SS men.

Look at that.

- Where did you find it?
- In his boot.

It says, "Faithful Unto Death"

Yeah, our death.

SS, they'd just as soon slit your throat as look at you.

All right, who searched this man?

I did, Sarge.

Get with it, Nelson!

- All right, you!
- [protesting in German]

Shut up.

Come with me.

- [yelling in German]
- Ah, shut up!

You tell them where I got this.

He says he's not responsible for the SS.

Sure, nobody's ever responsible for anything.

Sergeant, there is a difference between the SS and the Wermacht.

Is there? Well, I'm holding him responsible!

Tell him!

Find anything yet?

A lot of records and a broken German radio.

Neumann, take a look at that stuff, will you?

Well, all I can make out of this is that we got ourselves an aid station of the 241st infantry regiment.



That's the outfit that surrendered to Le Mans yesterday.

I guess the people here don't know that yet.

According to this dispatch received yesterday, Maj. Schiller was to keep this aid station going until further orders.

Caje, see if you can fix up this Kraut radio and maybe we can pick up something.

and get rid of this stuff, will you?

Come across anything on those two SS troops over there?

Not so far.

When it comes to paperwork, I guess all armies are the same.

This outfit's had a lot of casualties in the last few days.

Over 350 men k*lled or wounded.



Doesn't bother you, does it Neumann?

I figure there are about two million more of those human beings between here and Berlin.

All ready to k*ll you and me the first chance we give them.

Hey, Sarge.

Caught this bird trying to escape in a truck a couple of blocks up the street.

That is not true.

Where did you learn English?

Gymnasium, high school.

Is that where you learned to escape?

- I didn't try to escape.
Is that where you learned to escape?

- I didn't try to escape.

- The heck you didn't!
- I didn't try to escape.

I was going to bring back blood plasma for our wounded.

He's a great big humanitarian, Sarge.

I am Sgt. Hugo Bauer. Serial number 65653421

- 241st?
- Ja.

Where were you wounded?

Le Mans?

- Ja.
- When?

- Yesterday.
- He's a liar.

The 241st surrendered yesterday!

Did you know that, Sergeant?

We had not surrendered when I left to go back to the aid station.

Yesterday morning.

If you ask me, he's still a phony!

Okay, just hold it!

Sit him down over there. Go on, sit down! Neumann!

Something's bothering the Major. Find out what it is.

He says this man was not trying to escape. He sent him for plasma. They need it for their wounded.

He sent him? Where was he supposed to get the plasma?

There was a small convoy hit by an air attack this morning about two kilometers east of here.

There was a medical supply truck attached to it...

I told you to sit down! Now sit!

What a yarn! A wrecked supply truck.

All right. Come on, will you, Kirby? Knock it off!

He says he must insist that this man be allowed to go for plasma.

No. Nein!

There is such a convoy, Sergeant.

And there are none of our troops in this area. There is no danger.

That's what your Major told me a little while ago.

Then I found an SS man hiding a g*n!

He says they only have two or three bottles of plasma left.

One man, possibly three, will die if they don't get more plasma soon.

Sergeant, the Major is appealing to you on humanitarian grounds!

Now don't you give me that, Neumann!

I've seen too many examples of Kraut humanitarianism during this w*r!

The answer is no and it's going to stay no!

Look, Sergeant.

Maybe you don't understand.

This Major is a doctor. It's his job to save lives.

For those guys in there, the w*r is over and maybe their lives will be over if they don't get more plasma soon!

Let's you and me not argue, Neumann.

I don't trust that Major and I don't trust that Kraut Sergeant either.

That's one of the reasons why I stayed alive all the way from Omaha beach to here

because I don't trust any of them.

Look, Neumann...

Did you ever ask yourself the question

What happened to the man you replaced?

Well, I'll tell you!

He's dead!

That's right, he's dead along with five other Americans.

All because a poor, wounded SS soldier was waving a white flag.

and at the right moment, this poor, wounded SS soldier dropped right to the ground.

and a machine g*n, hidden behind him, cut down six, trusting Americans.

Hey, Neumann?

Better wise up. Sarge knows what he's talking about.

Sorry I can't show hate for guys that are dying or see a plot in every act of mercy.

Hey, up-enzie, over here.

We're loaded down with wounded prisoners of the 241st,

about 25 and a medical staff, over.

Roger. Hold your position, over.

Roger, out.

Boy, this radio's a real mess.

[groans]

[yelling]

Hold it! Get back in there!

He's hit pretty bad, Sarge.

What happened?

This guy started to throw a grenade when Neumann jumped him. He saved our lives!

Dirty, lousy Krauts!

You dirty, lousy Kraut!

Kirby! All right, Kirby!

He's dead.

Little John, get him up there.

Caje, Nelson, get that operating table ready.

He says it's a bad abdominal wound.

Well, what's he waiting for? Tell him to fix him!

Now!

Sergeant.

The SS are fanatics. The regular soldier for our army.

I wouldn't do a thing like that.

You're different? Go on, give him a hand!

I want this place searched!

Tear it apart!

Well?

The Major says he'll need lots of blood, Type A or O.

- Caje, have the men check their dogtags.
- All right.

I have Type O, you can start with me.

Okay, Little John, you're next.

How's Neumann?

I don't know. He doesn't look too good.

You get through to Company?

That Kraut grenade you tossed got to the handie-talkie.

What about the Kraut radio?

Forget it.

Sergeant, I...

I want to express my regret for what,

for what happened.

All right, you expressed it.

Take off.

The Major says three of your men,

being able to donate blood to the wounded men is not enough. He will need plasma.

Well, give it to him.

We don't have enough.

What do you mean you don't have enough? I saw a couple of bottles in that cabinet over there!

We need that and much more for our own wounded.

Besides, two bottles is not enough for your man. He'll need much more.

He'll die unless you let me go for more.

Do you wish him to die?

Don't press me!

You hear me? Just don't press me!

I don't press you.

A few hours, you're condemning my wounded comrades to death!

Such a thing no soldier has a right to do, even in w*r!

There should be time for compassion and humanity!

The same kind of compassion Neumann got from you buddies a little while ago, is that what you mean?

Well, don't you talk to me about compassion!

I think you, your Major and the rest of the men here will tell any lie, any time, just to get out of here!

Hey, Sarge. How about Kirby and I go for that German plasma?

No.

- But, Sarge!
- I said no.

That's Kraut real estate out there.

What if Bauer gets word to his buddies that we're holding this town with one lousy squad of riflemen, then what?

Well, you gotta admit there's a chance.

There could be a wrecked convoy out there with a medical supply truck.

All right, suppose there is.

How do we know the plasma wasn't destroyed along with the rest of the convoy?

There's a chance.

That's a chance we're not going to take.

It could mean Neumann's life if we're right, you know that?

It could be all our lives if we're wrong.

All we have to go with is the word of the enemy.

You two have been around long enough to know better than that!

Who told you the convoy was hit by an air attack?

I received the message the message this morning just before the radio stopped working.

Where do you claim this convoy is?

Somewhere on this road.

About one and a half kilometers.

the other side of the stream here.

I found a truck that works.

I would have been there and back if your man hadn't stopped me.

Look, Sergeant.

You think I want to go for that plasma because I wish to escape.

It is not so.

I want to get that plasma because my wounded comrades will die without it.

So please let me go.

Okay, Bauer, you can go. But I'm going with you.

Now if you try anything, any little thing at all,

First step out of line and I'll k*ll you.

Verstache?

Verstanden.

Check the back of the truck.

All right.

All right.

I started out alone before.

When your soldiers stopped me.

Naturally, I brought along protection.

I forgot it was there.

You sure you don't want me to with you, Sarge?

No, you take over the squad. There's little enough of them back there as it is.

All right.

It's a nice day, isn't it?

Were you a soldier before the w*r?

I was a schoolteacher.

I've got two children.

Two sons. The oldest one is going to be ten next week.

He wants to become a...

a Stuka pilot in the Luftwaffe

Children.

They think w*r is nothing but glory.

All right. Skip the talk and keep driving.

What are you stopping for?

Sometimes these bridges are mined.

Let's take a look.

Go on, check them out.

They're your mines.

Fortunately, there are no mines!

But that mud, we get stuck in here.

I suggest we cross the fields to the next road, about two kilometers according to the map.

We'll go the way we're going!

Sergeant, that mud.

We've got all-wheel drive on this, you hit it fast and we'll make it.

Let's go.

I told you to hit it fast, didn't I?

I'm sorry!

All right, take your foot off the gas. Come on, take it off.

Keep racing that engine, you'll get us in so deep, we'll never get out.

Ease it slowly, back and forth.

Hold it!

Sorry, Sergeant.

It's my wounded leg.

I couldn't get it off the gas.

Next time I won't sh**t over your head, Bauer.

Let's go.

That cemetery up ahead, pull up there. I want to check where we are.

That junction you mentioned, we should have been there by now.

It's less than a kilometer up ahead.

[distant g*nshots]

Shut off the engine! Get out!

Get in there, quick!

They are SS!

I thought you said there was nobody out here.

Sometimes they ride the roads looking for deserters.

If they have no papers, they...

Feel the radiator to see if it's hot.

One more sound out of you and I'll k*ll you.

[bird tweeting]

This is why I made the noise.

Must have fallen out of his nest.

Where is it?

It's up there.

Let's go, come on.

The man is wounded.

Let me take him off the road.

They're dead, all three of them.

Those men were from my regiment.



They escaped from Le Mans.

The SS shot them, we saw back at the cemetery.

Why would the SS want to sh**t their own men?

The w*r is going badly for us.

Quite a few run away.

Those men back there, they had no movement papers.

They were shot as deserters.

Butchers.

Pilots did their jobs well.

Come on, get the truck. Back it up.

That's good.

All right, start loading it up.

It looks like the whole regiment.

It sure does.

Okay, come on. Get with it.

The hurry, what is it for?

To get back the plasma for the wounded or to carry back information to destroy a German regiment?

They're on their way to destroy Americans, aren't they?

Come on, load it up.

Come on, let's go.

Okay, Bauer, we got it all. Lock it up.

Get your hands up.

Drop your g*n.

Come on.

And your belt.

Move. Over there.

Put your hands behind your head.

I'm taking you prisoner. Get in the truck.

What happened to all that talk about humanity and compassion?

and wounded comrades?

Didn't you say they would die if they didn't get this plasma?

There are 1,000 men in that regiment up there.

If I allow you to go back with the information you have now,

the a*tillery would destroy them.

And how do you know our observation plane hasn't reported it's position already?

If it had, your g*ns would be firing by now.

Now get into the truck or I k*ll you!

Then do it now!

If I ever get the chance, I'll k*ll you.

Move!

Stop.

Get in the truck, behind the wheel.

Drive.

[distant explosions]

Well, there's no need for me to be your prisoner anymore, is there?

Put your hands up.

Put your hands up! Higher!

Higher!

So many k*lled, so suddenly.

What's the use of it?

What's the use of it all?

Well, Sergeant, I don't have any information my side needs anymore, do I?

Now how about the plasma?

I have no more reason to break my promise.

The wounded will get their plasma.

Get in.

The g*n.

You won't need a g*n.

I'm not coming with you. I'm going back there.

There is no reason to smile, Sergeant.

We are in w*r. It is my duty to try to escape.

By any means, as it would be yours to do the same.

We are soldiers and enemies.

Maybe, one day we shall meet again.

and I shall have to try to k*ll you.

But now I shall let you go back in safety.

For the sake of the wounded.

It's the honorable thing to do.

I hope we do meet again, Bauer.

I'll be looking for you.

SS staff car coming up the road!

All right, Bauer, now tell me. What's the honorable thing to do?

Hide.

You must hide!

What about you? You have no papers.

We have no time for talking now unless you want to be taken prisoner.

I'll tell them I'm taking the plasma to the German wounded.

I'll take your seat in the truck. They'll think I was driving.

Come on, get out.

Under the seat!

Butchers.

They're all butchers!

Give me the g*n.

You would now be a prisoner if it hadn't been for me.

I think we're even. You're living.

Come on, give me the g*n.

Like you said, Bauer, this is wartime.

and my duty is to bring back the plasma and the prisoner I started out with.

I'm not going back without either one.

Bauer! Bauer!

You're coming back with me.

What will you do if I refuse?

Exactly what you would do if the situation were reversed.

[overlapping chatter]

Hey, Sarge! Did you get the plasma

It's in the back of the truck. How's Neumann?

He's all right now that we got the plasma.

I gave Caje 8 to 5 that Kraut would escape!

Well, you lost. Give him a hand back there.