01x07 - Endings Are Hard, Aren't They?

[bunniefuu]

- Need a taxi, mister?
- (CHUCKLES) Wow!

- Welcome home, son.
- Oh, your sneak attack strategy.

- Oh.
- Still in top form.

Look at ya! Welcome back, gents.

I know, I know. It ain't Nam.

But you boys have landed on the cusp,

the mouth, the lips of your motherland.

But nothin' but a newly
red Laos to block your path.

But hot damn, you're already
on the right time zone.

- (CHEERING)
- Let's get down, let's get down.

Let's get funky. Come on!

♪ Dynomite ♪

CAPTAIN: The next morning,

they trucked us up to
the northern border.

But for me,

the fighting began that
night in The Hellhole.


BY ROSE ROYCE PLAYING)



Right from the start,

I could feel where this was going.

♪

It was like a farewell
party on death row.

♪ Got no place to stay ♪

- Holy sh*t.
- (g*nsh*t)

CLAUDE: Have fun tonight, boys.

Uncle Sam, pickin' up the tab.



♪



CAPTAIN: Claude knew I could
smell the blood in the air.

He wanted me to. He was counting on it.

♪ Means nothin' to you ♪

American dollar.

♪ And you know what ya have to do ♪

- ♪ Ya gotta keep on keepin' on ♪
- (LAUGHS)



- (BON SHOUTS)
- ♪ The game is survival ♪

♪ And there ain't no wrong or right ♪

♪ Gotta keep on keepin' on ♪

♪ Until your day is done ♪

♪ Sometimes you look in the mirror ♪

♪ And say, "I wish I was never born" ♪

So, this mission, it's not...

Its, uh, chance of a success...

it's not, like, zero, is it?

Nothin' in the world has a 0% chance.

- Of course. Right.
- Yeah.

♪





♪ As you make your way from day to day ♪

CLAUDE: You're smarter than the rest.

Hey, you keep your head down

and leave the fighting
to these schmucks.

You hear me?









CLAUDE: You wonder if this
operation will succeed.

In my experience, success of any
classified operation really comes down

to how classified
it's managed to remain.

♪ Got no place to stay ♪

Don'tcha agree?

♪

Like how the success of any
joke rests on if it's funny.

Ah, who says the only purpose
of a joke is to make you laugh?

Give me that rucksack, will you?

♪ That's the chance you have to take ♪

♪ 'Cause that's the life
you choose to lead ♪

♪ The cold, still night
means nothin' to you ♪

♪ 'Cause your money is enough ♪

♪ And you know what ya have to do ♪

♪ Ya gotta keep on keepin' on ♪



♪ Ya gotta keep on keepin' on ♪

- (RECORDING PLAYS)
- CAPTAIN (ON RECORDING): I am a communist.

I've been an agent for years.

For the revolution.

I infiltrated the Secret Police

and sent intelligence back to Hanoi.

Even now, I report on
reactionary activities

and do everything I
can to undermine them.

In fact, me handing
you these documents now

is part and parcel of my
anti-anti-revolutionary strategy.

SONNY (ON RECORDING): You want
me to say I'm a communist too?

CAPTAIN: I'm being honest for once.

Come on, pal.

What did you expect? This is what we do.



Target was Sonny, not you.

- Listen, Claude, uh...
- Drink up.

- What is it?
- Bacterium is very common in these parts.

For 48 hours, it'll make you evacuate

quite dramatically from both ends.

We'll blame it on that pork
and noodles that you alone ate.

Drink up.

- Why would I?
- Because I'm giving you a f*cking out.

You take yourself outta commission.

It'll give us a chance
to talk at leisure.

And once you've confessed
all your misadventures,

you'll find I'm very forgiving
about minor transgressions.

God damn it, it's your one chance.

♪

Drink.

- (PATRONS ARGUING)
- (ITEMS BREAKING)





It's your funeral, pal.

Uh, wait, wait, wait. Uh,
fellas, please, please, please.

We got a big day tomorrow.
We don't want any trouble.

I just ordered this pint, please.

On me, if you would.
Haven't even had a sip.

What the heck are you doin'?
Give this guy some respect.

Thank you.

♪



PATRON: That's how you drink! See that?





- (expl*si*n)
- (g*nf*re)

- (BABY DUC CRYING)
- (SHUSHING)





- (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GRUNTING)

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ISLEY BROTHERS PLAYING)





- (PAUSES)
- Ah-ha!







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Eh...

- (CHUCKLES)
- (MICROPHONE FEEDBACK)





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ISLEY BROTHERS PLAYING)









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- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (DOOR SLAMS OPEN)



















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Welcome. It's so nice of you to join us.

He hasn't yet.

SONNY: Oh, but I bet
he'll want to before long.



CAPTAIN: I already want to.









- (TURNS UP ELECTRICITY)
- (ELECTRICITY ZAPPING)



- (ELECTRICITY ZAPPING)
- (CAPTAIN GROANING)

♪

- (ELECTRICITY ZAPPING)
- (CAPTAIN GROANING)

The electric eel.













BON (SINGING): ♪
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la ♪









- (ELECTRICITY ZAPPING)
- (CAPTAIN GROANING)



♪

- (GROANING)
- (MUSIC STOPS)







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I can bring you as many as you'd like.

You can have as many as
you'd like every month.

- Every month.
- Every month.

- If you don't tell anyone.
- If you don't tell anyone.

- Can you do that?
- NED GODWIN: Can you do that?

- Can you be a big boy?
- Can you be a big boy?

- And keep a secret?
- CLAUDE: Keep a secret?



PRIEST: Don't forget me, son.









SONNY: Uh, your problem
is you have bones.

CRAPULENT MAJOR: Because we don't.

So, let's get rid of those bones.



♪

- (BONES CRUNCHING)
- (GRUNTING)

- (GRUNTING)
- (CRUNCHING)

- (PANTING)
- Go on. She's waiting.

♪

"She"?

♪



- (FILM PROJECTOR ROLLING)
- (MUSIC FADES OUT)



- On your knees! (YELLS IN VIETNAMESE)
- (STRUGGLING)











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It's not necessary, but
it does have to happen.





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Please, don't pretend you're above it.





That's right.



























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Nothing is more precious
than independence and freedom.

Nothing is more precious
than independence and freedom.

Nothing is.

Nothing is.

Nothing is.

♪

It's nothing.

The answer is nothing.

Nothing.



The thing is more precious
than independence and freedom,

is nothing.

Yes... of course. What else?

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- (STAIRS CREAKING)
- (WIND BLOWING)

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CAPTAIN: Destination:

Who knows where?

Away from home, that's all I know.

Will we make it there?

According to the boatman,

our chances are 50/50.

"Pretty good odds," says Bon.

Despite everything, in
the face of nothing,

I am still a revolutionary.

My re-education is over,

but I still write every day.

This time for myself, for us.

Rewrite.

Relive.

Restart.

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