02x07 - Doughboy

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[expl*si*n & whooshing sound]

Boy, nothing else sounds like Freida

Take five.

Kirby.

Laughing in our faces.

Well, she's got a right to. One lousy g*n and the whole United States can't find her.

Sarge, don't you think we ought to go back and take one more look?

We've been out too long now.

Seems like those bombers could find her.

Can't hit what you can't see.

All right, let's get back to our lines.

Some five minutes.

Stay put.

Watch our flanks, there may be more of them.

You dirty Heinie!

Take this back to your Kaiser!

Halt!

Hände hoch, hands up!

Verstache, understand me?

What's going on here?

You talk English?

Sure I do, why shouldn't I?

Because you're a Heinie, that's why!

A Heinie?

- I'm an American.
- You're a c*ck-eyed liar!

Wait, what's going on here?

I'll ask the questions.

Where'd you get that uniform?

Where'd I get my uniform?

Aw, shut up. Come on, let's go! Straight ahead.

Well, wait a minute, will you?

Look, I'm an American soldier.

Go on, take a look at my dogtags!

Yeah, you probably stole them off of some Yank.

Come on, get out of here. Move! That way!

Raus!

[whooshing sound overhead]

[explosions]

Sit down, take a little rest.

Tell me something, will you?

Who are you?

What are you doing going around in that old uniform?

Look, my name is Saunders and I'm a Sergeant.

Sergeant in the United States Army. Now you saw all my men, do you think we're all spies?

Maybe this is your jumping-off place.

Going to infiltrate all along the line. You did it before up at Marne.

Hey, there's a magpie.

Oh, we got droves of them back home.

What a racket they make.

Where's home?

Indiana.

You ever hear of it?

Sure! I've been there.

Yeah?

There's a song...

On the banks of the...

What?

On the banks of the Wabash.

Hey, you're pretty well trained there, Fritzie.

Won't do you no good though.

We're too smart for you.

We're going to take care of Von Hindenburg and wrap him up

and ship him back to President Wilson for Christmas.

Look, whoever you are, it's not Von Hindenburg. It's not President Wilson.

It's Hitler and President Roosevelt and this is World w*r II!

Bad mistake.

Teddy Roosevelt ain't been in office for years!

[whoosing sound overhead]

Watch it, Fritzie!

I don't want to have to k*ll you.

Better get you over to headquarters.

They some some prisoners, now come on get your hat. Get out of here!

I think we ought to take a look-see.

Where? Sarge said to wait.

Yeah, but he's been out a long time. He's in trouble.

Pull out, I'll cover you!

Come on! You heard me, get going!

What about Saunders?

We can't get to him! Now move out!

That's my place.

You live there?

Move!

Come on, come on.

Marie!

Marie? I'm home, honey!

Come on, move!

Marie!

Marie? I caught one of them, honey!

Come on down!

Who's Marie? That your wife?

She will be.

As soon as Blackjack Pershing kicks you Krauts off France.

Is that her picture?

Very beautiful.

How long you been here?

What?

Uh...

A couple of months, I guess. When...

When you Germans pulled out of the village, we came in.

Then you started shelling us again.

Marie?

She must be out in the barn, come on outside. Mach schnell!

[chickens clucking]

Marie?

Marie?

I want her to know I'm taking you over to headquarters.

Marie?

Marie?

How come you're not with your outfit?

Because I...

Because, uh...

Most of them is k*lled off.

Wiped out. That's how come.

Couple of miles back up in the woods.

We was just beginning to dig in.

Just infantry, taking all that heavy stuff you were throwing at us.

Day after day and we were holding out.

Then our supplies run out...

We couldn't get any a*mo.

No food.

We was taking everything you was giving us.

Trapped up in them woods.

Finally there was just me and Terry.

Terry's as good a man as you'll ever see.

Terry!

Terry, Terry, move out!

Terry! Terry, move out! Out!

[screaming]

[screaming]

No!

Philip!

Marie!

Marie, wait. Marie, what's a matter?

Marie, Marie, it's me!

Marie, honey.

You get over, quick, quick!

Marie, Marie!

It's Phil.

Madame?

Madame, Américain

I'm an American.

I know.

You speak English?

I learn from Philip. He never could learn French.

You're a fool!

You should have grabbed the g*n, k*lled me!

She needed help. Now listen to me, I'm trying to tell you that I am an American!

Qu'est, Philip, what is it?

He's a German. I got to take him to headquarters.

Will you be all right, now?

Will you wait a minute?

Before you take me to headquarters or sh**t me or whatever you're going to do.

Why don't you think of her? She could use a drink.

Oh, give you a second chance to k*ll me?

What is all this talking about sh**ting?

- He's a German spy!
- Spy?

- Philip think you are...

- Yeah!
- Philip think you are...

Of course.

Of course, you are a spy.

Your uniform.

Come on!

Please, Philip. Please, I don't feel well.

Please do get me some cognac. I will not let him escape.

Give me your r*fle, please.

If he moves, pull the trigger.

I'll be right back.

What's going on here? What is he doing running around in that uniform?

Monsieur, oh, Monsieur.

Philip thinks it is 1918, the other w*r.

He even thinks I'm still his fiancee as it was then.

In the first w*r, Monsieur, Philip was a very good soldier. Very brave.

When he saw most of his men die out there in the woods,

He fought by himself.

Trying to destroy the Bosch.

Until the Americans found him.

He got a medal.

But he was wounded here.

The shock of the g*ns.

You mean he's shell-shocked?

Yes, he went to the hospital.

He stayed there until the w*r was over.

After, he came back here.

We got married. We stayed married 25 years.

We love each other very much, Monsieur.

Well, how was he after? I mean, was he better?

The farm work was good for him.

He's happy. I'm happy.

Then the Bosch come and take over the village.

Philip begins to brood.

He stays on the farm.

Never leaves, talks to nobody.

Then this morning, the g*nf*re starts to hit all around the house.

I find Philip standing in the woods, shouting.

Shouting at nothing.

He thinks he's back in the first w*r.

Fighting the old battle.

I call to him, he doesn't hear me.

He runs back to the house. Oh, it's terrible.

I find him on his knees, searching in the trunk for his old uniform, his r*fle.

He runs out screaming that he is going to fight the Bosch.

I tried to follow him but he rushed away.

I looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him.

I am so frightened, Monsieur, at Philip.

Please, do help him.

Of course, I will.

Of course, I will. As soon as I get back to my outfit, we'll send a medic out here.

Marie, I couldn't find the...

All right.

Sit down.

No one's going to hurt you. Now come on, sit down.

[speaking German]

Why didn't you just sh**t him?

Because he is not a German, he is an American.

Look at his uniform!

His uniform is like all the other Americans.

Keep this in the barn, just to be on the safe side.

I'll send help for him just as soon as I can.

Amerikaners im Haus!

Get down!

Phil!

Phil!

Get rid of this!

Take care, Philip.

I'm going out back!

I know where I'm going! I know the grounds!

Marie!

Marie!

Philip!

Marie.

Are you all right?

Oh,

Oh, my.

Oh.

You did pretty good, soldier.

You too.

Sir, this is French cognac.

It may fall but it never breaks. Open it, chéri

For now we will not think of w*r. I will go get chicken.

You will eat with us, monsieur?

Chicken, huh?

I'd like to but I have to get back to my outfit.

You will have a drink with us first?

Oh, that g*n! I hate it!

Yeah, that's Freida.

No, that g*n is Big Bertha.

You know when you were sh**ting at this morning,

I was coming back from a patrol out hunting for her.

You found nothing?

No, they got her hidden away pretty good somewhere.

Yeah, you got to hand it to them heinies.

Getting that big g*n way up there on Rouge Colline.

Rouge...Rouge Colline?

Yes, that's a small hill near here.

Colline means hill

Are you sure that's where the location of this g*n is?

Sure, I'm sure. I was up there this morning.

Up around Rouge Colline, I was sneaking around up there.

I peeked through them bushes up there and there she was squatting right on the tracks.

Oh, she's a terror.

Got a barrel as long as a barn.

I couldn't do anything with a r*fle or grenade, you know.

I was coming back here to get some dynamite when I ran into you.

Phil, do you think you saw the g*n or are you sure?

I saw it! She comes out, she shoots and goes back into the hill.

Is she on railroad tracks?

Yeah, the biggest flatcar you ever saw.

Well, what direction is it from here, do you know?

You know, the whole Battalion has been hunting for that g*n.

Phil, could you pinpoint this on a map?

Well,

It wouldn't say Rouge Colline. Rouge Colline is a local name, you know.

I can point out the place to you on a map.

Well, are you sure? I mean, are you positive?

I can swear on a stack of Bibles.

Look, we're wasting time. I can take you there on foot, we'll blow the g*n ourselves!

Now, wait a minute. Phil, I want you to come to headquarters with me

I want you to show them on the map exactly where that g*n is.
Now, wait a minute. Phil, I want you to come to headquarters with me

I want you to show them on the map exactly where that g*n is.

No, look what's stopping us? I've got fifty sticks of dynamite out in the barn. Come on, bub!

Stop him, please.

Phil, wait! Phil!

Stop him, Sergeant! He will k*ll himself!

Phil.

Phil, let's do this the right way.

This is the right way!

No, it's a heavily armed installation!

You can't expect us to walk up there with an armful of dynamite and knock it out.

We'd get picked off by a dozen sentries.

No, they won't! We'll sneak up on them. We'll wait until it's dark.

Philip, you are a child. A small boy sometimes.

Philip, dear Philip, you must not do this.

You must not think of this g*n, you must not think of this w*r.

Marie, we're at w*r with the Germans, we...

There is no w*r, remember? There is only our farm.

This farm.

This house, far from the noise of the world.

There is nothing outside for you, Philip. Everything is here.

Marie, I got my duty.

Phil, a soldier's duty is to accomplish his mission.

Now the quickest and best way of knocking out that g*n,

is to get back to Intelligence and report it's position.

Yeah. Yeah, all right.

Let me put this back.

No. No, you go.

No, Marie. I need his help.

He can't help anybody, not even himself.

He's confused.

I know he's confused but...

I have to take that chance. Sometimes he makes sense, a lot of sense.

We need him badly, Marie.

Again?

Yes, again.

He has not been out of my sight in 25 years.

If he goes, I go with him.

All right.

We'll all go.

[indistinct]

Yeah, very pretty.

I was just thinking the same thing about you and me.

and how I'm going to rebuild that farm after the w*r.

Oh, and another thing, Saunders, did you ever see one of them Model-T tractors?

No, I haven't.

Henry Ford was making them when I got shipped across.

I'm going to get one for the farm.

That'll do us well. That beats following the old gray mare.

We better hustle.

Yeah.

We'll be crossing the main road in a minute.

There she is.

Once we're across that road, we'll be home free.

How do we get across?

Not until they go by us.

How long can this convoy be?

Long enough.

The g*n is still going down and we're stuck here.

We gotta get across the road.

Yeah.

Or under it.

There's a culvert.

There's a culvert about a quarter mile this side of the bridge.

Are you sure, Philip? I know of no culvert.

Sure, I'm sure!

When was it, last week, Terry and I crawled through it. We were stringing wire.

Phil, Phil.

Is there a culvert?

Sure there's a culvert!

If there's no culvert, there's no Rouge Colline.

Yeah, it's right in here.

I know it is, right about here.

Where is it?

Perhaps another place nearby.

No, no. It's right here, I know. Terry and Me was hiding from the heinies.

What you're talking about happened 25 years ago!

The ground doesn't change in 25 years, Sergeant.

No. But the memory does. He could be talking about five different bridges,

five different roads, five different places for all I know.

We're just going to have to try and get across the road.

I told you it was here.

[speaking French]

Marie, come on.

Will he live, Sergeant?

I don't know.

I'm going to have to get him back to our lines.

No! You can't move him. He's going to die if you move him!

No. He's gotta.

Be gentle.

Get down!

Hold your fire!

I'm a G.I!

I'm with an other American and a French woman!

Come on out! Just you!

Hands up over your head!

Out there is a man and a woman, he's hurt pretty bad.

He can pinpoint the big g*n.

Come on, go get him. He's over there.

How you doin', soldier?

Did they get Big Bertha?

Yeah, we got her.

I'll bet by the time I'm well,

the Jerries will be kaput.

Finished.

Sure they will.

Oh, I feel kind of good.

I was talking to Doc before and he says you're going to be okay in about a week.

No, no. I didn't mean that. I mean,

I feel kind of good about helping to get Big Bertha.

Why the long face?

After we win this w*r, it'll be peace forever, won't it?

Well, won't it?

That's right, soldier.

Peace forever.

After we win this one.

I'll be seeing you, Phil.