02x17 - The Pillbox

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Tell the Lieutenant that Kraut tanks and infantry are coming through.

Yes, sir. That's right sir.

Runner says Krauts and tanks all over the place.

Roger, wilco. Out.

Company says we're pulling back to our LD.

Saunders, pass the word back to the third squad. Kirby, the second.

- You coming, Lieutenant?
- Later. Go!

Pull back, pull back!

Pull back!

Pull back! Fall back!

Move outta here!

I said, move!

Get outta here!

Come on, soldier, get out of here!

Pull back!

Reggie.

Get out of here, boy!

Move out of the road and cover!

Medic.

Medic!

Medic!

Help!

Medic.

I don't know what hit me.

Can you walk, soldier?

No, sir.

All right.

Keep your hand on this, press on it. It will stop the bleeding.

I'll get somebody up here to take care of you.

Who, a burial detail?

Don't waste your time, Lieutenant.

I think I've just about had it.

The barrage must be lifting.

Krauts will be coming through soon. Come on, help me.

- Forget it, sir.
- Help me!

[tanks approaching]

Tank!

Tank!

[screaming]

- How close are our lines, sir?
- Not close enough.

We'd never make it back that way.

Krauts are between us and home.

The pillbox. Hang onto me.

Where are we?

I told you, a German pillbox.

What's left of it.

I hope they don't come back.

Not this one.

- How's it look?
- Hard to tell.

[explosions in distance]

a*tillery.

It's moving in.

No, it's thunder.

Stark.

James B.





Blood type: O

What's left of it.

What outfit you from?

L Company, sir.

I'm a runner.

Don't waste good sulfa powder, Lieutenant.

Pretty sure I'm wasting it?

Nothing you can do for me.

I've seen guys wounded much worse than this.

Three weeks later, they were chasing every nurse in the hospital.

Yes, sir. But they were in a hospital.

You will be too.

Soon as it gets dark, I'm going to get us back.

There you are, see?

I'll see if I can find some light for us.

Thunder's getting closer all the time.

It's raining.

Did you hear what I said, Stark?

It's beginning to rain.

You know what that means?

Pretty soon every Kraut in the neighborhood is going to be diving for shelter.

Then I'll be able to get you back to our line without being spotted.

You think so, sir?

I know so.

You know, soldier, you're pretty lucky to have a million-dollar wound like that.

Million-dollar wound, sir?

Not with my luck.

I'm no expert but if I was in your shoes, I'd figure

three weeks in a nice, clean hospital.

Then a trip home.

Figure that, Stark?

Yes, sir. I hurt.

It's funny how things change ain't it, sir?

Yeah, it is.

I was laying out there in that foxhole, I was thinking,

Stark, you've had it.

Until you come along, you pull me out of there.

There my boy.

He's nine months old.

I ain't never seen him.

Sure some boy, ain't he, sir?

Now that's a real baby!

Yes, sir.

What's her name, your wife?

Val.

Valentine.

She was born on February 14th, so

Y'know, it's Valentine's Day.

We all call her Val.

She always resented her birthday because

she kind of figured it cheats her out of a present.

Well, it's good to remember nice things at a time like this, ain't it, sir?

Yeah.

Time to go, soldier.

You put your arm around my neck, hang on real tight.

Yes, sir.

[German voices]

[speaking German]

Hände hoch!

Nicht schiessen, nicht schiessen.

Move!

I said, move!

All right, you, come here.

Turn around!

All right, back.

You, next.

Come on.

Put your hands behind your neck.

Come on.

Take your coat off.

Turn around.

I said turn!

- You understand English?
- Yes.

I studied it years ago. Used to be an important language.

It'll be around for awhile.

Tell him he's next.

Take the coat off.

Come on.

Hey.

All right, move over there.

Sit, sit!

You tell them if they don't do exactly as I say

I'll sh**t them.

Shut up.

My comrade has said your man has a very bad wound.

I'll bet he did.

Just because we're enemies,

No reason we cannot feel pity for a man that is close to death!

What are we going to do, Lieutenant?

We're going to do exactly as we planned.

I'm going to carry you back to our lines.

- What about them, sir?
- They'll be all right.

Soon as I find something to tie them up with.

Lieutenant.

Don't you know our army is all around here?

You'll never get him back to your lines.

You're lying.

Don't let him get to you, Stark.

Their buddies don't like being out in this rain any better than they do.

[vehicle approaching]

There's a German truck bogged down in the mud out there.

We'll have to wait awhile before we can get out of here.

Wait awhile?

Lieutenant, your man cannot wait.

I can wait.

I can wait!

No, soldier.

Your blood is soaking through.

Much longer and you'll die soon.

Easy, soldier.

[engine revving]

[distant yelling]

[thunder]

Lieutenant.

May I make a suggestion?

You surrender to us, that's the best way.

As a prisoner, you'll be given safe conduct to the rear.

And this poor man can get immediate medical attention.

I've heard about some of your lucky prisoners.

That's propaganda, Lieutenant, that's propaganda.

They told you we eat babies too?

Lieutenant.

This bleeding is getting bad.

All right, now settle down.

As soon as this truck pulls out of here, I'll get you to an aid station.

Why wait, Lieutenant?

We've got a very good aid station about a half a kilometer down the road!

Settle back, boy. Try not to move.

It'll work out.

I'm sorry for you, soldier.

It's too bad, soldier.

It's the same in our army. Officers are always the same.

A rank and file soldier,

can bleed his life into the ground.

as long as a proud officer does not surrender.

I'm speaking like a human being, Lieutenant.

Human being?

Oh, yes. Of course, I am the enemy.

I have no feelings.

I am not to be trusted, I know.

I tell you I am a human being. I really am, Lieutenant.

I'm a man who resents anyone trying to be a hero,

at the expense of somebody else's life!

Those men out there or others like them

will come in here sooner or later and you know it!

It's all a matter of time before you discover it.

Meanwhile, he bleeds and you wait.

Sit down.

Lieutenant.

There's an aid station down the road?

I doubt it.

I tell the truth, sir, I have no reason to lie.

I tell you truth, Lieutenant.

Your man is badly hurt, sir.

He's going to die without help.

Stark, he'll do anything, he'll say anything.

All he wants is out.

They just moved into the area.

They haven't had a chance to set up an aid station yet.

He's looking out for his own neck.

Not yours.

Just hang on, Stark.

That truck's going to move out of here soon then I'll get you out of here.

I don't think it's ever going to move on.

Don't you hear it?

It's stuck in the mud!

I don't think even your soldier believes you, Lieutenant.

I don't care what you think.

If the situation were reversed,

If I were laying there, bleeding to death,

and if those were Americans out there.

And if my Lieutenant were as inhuman as you,

I'd do something about it!

You shut up!

Just shut up!

Lieutenant.

Help me.

I'm dying.

Lieutenant.

- I'm dying.
- All right, I'll help you, Stark.

I told you I would and I will. Now hold on!

Just hold on, kid.

I'm dying. I don't want to die.

Somebody.

Help me!

[screaming] Help me!

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder continues]

Next time you do that, I'll brain you.

You didn't help yourself any with that.

Tell him to put a fresh dressing on this man.

- I can do it.
- I want him to do it!

Put something under his head.

Halt, Amerikana!

Lieutenant.

Are you going to tie them up now?

I couldn't tie my own shoelace now.

Well, you could make them tie each other up.

Couldn't you do that?

Who's going to tie the last one.

I wonder what's going to happen to me.

We're going to have to wait, Stark.

I can't wait.

You said you was going to get me back to our lines.

I can't wait.

Soldier.

Soldier.

What I said before.

About being a human being, even though I am your enemy.

I meant it.

I don't like to see you die, soldier.

We can save you if you surrender.

All right, we've been all through that.

If your Lieutenant is afraid to surrender,

Let him give you his g*n.

You can keep us here.

Until he gets back to his own lines.

Think it over, soldier.

Does it sound like a trick?

The answer is no.

Why?

You get back.

I get help at their hospital.

They're playing you for a sucker, Stark.

Look at him.

You can see the wheels turning in his head.

There's three of them.

They'd jump you in a second.

I give you my word. We wouldn't do that.

Your word?

What else do you want from me?

I want you to shut your mouth and keep it shut.

Or so help me, I'll sh**t you here and now.

Yes.

Yes.

You're out of your mind.

Am I?

What other way is there except for me to

lay here and bleed to death.

I don't sh**t prisoners of w*r.

No.

You let your own men die.

I can't commit m*rder.

What are you trying to do to me?

Here.

Give me the g*n.

Please give me the g*n.

I'll do it.

Do I die or do they? Who's it going to be?

I've given you my decision.

All right, Lieutenant.

In that case,

I'd like for you to do a little job for me.

I want you to go by my home,

and see my wife and my baby!

I want you to tell them what happened here in this stinking pillbox!

I want you to tell them that you condemned me to death

to save three German soldiers!

You tell them that.

Will you?

Yeah, you tell them that good.

Nein.

Nein!

Nein! Nicht schiesen!

Give me the granate, Klimmer.

Klimmer, Klimmer!

[explosions]

Don't do it, Stark.

Soldier, don't do it.

Don't do it, soldier. Don't! This is m*rder!

Don't do it! Soldier!

Don't!

Give me the g*n, Stark.

No, get away from me, Lieutenant.

No, no!

No, no!

You don't know what you're doing, Stark!

You'd never be able to live with yourself!

Shut up, shut up.

[explosions continue]

Stark, listen to me.

Your wife and baby.

You wanted me to see them, to tell them what I'd done.

- What are you going to tell them?
- I'm home!

I'm alive!

In one piece!

That's what I'll tell them!

I'm alive.

God, help me. I can't do it.

That's our a*tillery, Stark.

Soon as it stops,

I'm taking you back.

I don't think it's ever going to stop.

It's time to go, soldier.

I'm getting cold, sir.

We're going home.

Lieutenant.

I'm going home.

Lieutenant.

Lieutenant, help me.

Lieutenant.

Help me.

Don't leave me here like this.

Somebody wil find you soon enough.

Take you down to that aid station you told us about.

It's only half a kilometer down the road, isn't it?

Well?

Isn't it?

Won't they take you down to that aid station?

Where there are doctors to take care of you?

Lieutenant.

No one will find me here.

Help.

I need help.

Why should I?

Soldier Stark is dead out there because I let you live.

I'm not so sure anymore I did the right thing.

For all I care you can lie here and rot!

Lieutenant, help me.