01x08 - Preparing for the Big Battle

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Why do you think he went out like that?

We could've gone out too.

What are you talking about?

You told him it's best he die.

-So he sacrificed himself.
-He made that decision on his own!

Besides, he's not dead.

You heard the g*nf*re.

There's no body, he's alive.

Hungry?

I can tell you're hungry.

Here, eat.
Eat, don't be scared.

Don't forget you're our prisoner!

You hear me, you dog?
This is your new home, get used to it!

You know what we do to pilots
in Damascus?

Ever heard of the skewer?

You are our prisoner. Ours!

Doctor!
Doctor, we have a wounded man!

Avinoam.

What?

Are you really from the Hermon outpost?

Yes, I told you, we're not traitors.
We were betrayed, abandoned.

What were we supposed to do?

Did you see Yoav Mazuz?

I told you.
I left him at a bus stop.

-We have to get to him.
-Which bus stop?

On the road to Majdal Shams.

What happened to him?

He stepped on a mine,
his leg was crushed

and I dragged him as far as I could,

but... I passed out.

What happened to him?
Is he alive?

If we don't leave now, he may not be.

You left him there?
When?

I don't know...
a few hours ago.

Why are you crying?
Send a rescue team, do something!

It's Syrian territory now.

You don't understand.

I don't believe you.

He's my boyfriend.

Yoav.

He's my boyfriend.

You're Dafna?

I have something for you.

This was his grandmother's.

He was going to propose to you.

-Really?
-Yes.

-Water.
-What?

-Water.
-Water.

Here, drink up.

I'm sorry about what happened to you,
you didn't deserve it.

I'm taking you back home,

you can bang those drums
as much as you want.

Guys, listen up.
Quiet!

-I'll just finish bandaging him up.
-Thank you.

We don't have much time,
I'll try to be brief.

This is the situation...

the Syrians breached
the anti-t*nk barrier.

They have massive armored units
outside Quneitra.

Southern Golan Heights, Khishniyah,
the Syrians are on the Waterfalls Route.

Soldiers on the field have been holding
the line for almost three days,

they're on the verge of collapse.

They were pulverized.

The a*mo is running out,
forces are 1:20 in their favor...

Approximately.
Maybe a bit more.

I don't have to tell you
that if our front breaks,

the enemy will head west and south.

In this battle Israel will lose
its armored reserves as of tomorrow.

There will be no one to stop the Syrians
on the roads to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Guys,

this isn't only about the Golan Heights.

This is about your brothers
and your sisters.

Your girlfriend,
your parents.

I know you've been through a lot,

some of you are all that's left
of your companies.

You carried the bodies of your buddies.

We have wounded men

who in normal circumstances
I wouldn't dream

of asking them to go back and fight.

But I don't have...

you don't have,
none of us has a choice.

You're all I have left.

You are our army.

Our last troops in the Golan Heights.

Our armament corps worked all night.

11 tanks are in the yard
prepared for battle.

I ask that all the t*nk crewmen.

Whoever is physically able
to get in the t*nk and fight,

do it now!

We need as many tanks
as possible in the sector.

We move out in 30 minutes.

We'll advance in an organized manner
towards Hermonit.

I can't overstate this,

this battle is going to be
one of the most important in this w*r.

It will be the decisive battle

on which this country
will rise or fall.

Dismissed.

-What?
-Melakhi!

-Are you going to the battle?
-We're getting a t*nk together.

I'm coming with you.

That's the morphine talking,
you're not going anywhere.

The whole platoon was wiped out.
You need people out there.

-Yoni!
-What can I do in the t*nk?

You're not doing basic training
in a t*nk! Are you insane?

You'll be the loader.
I'll teach you how to load shells.

Are you crazy?
He's not going anywhere!

Dad, stop it.

Melakhi!

We need men, Meni.

-I have his back.
-Look at him.

I'm going to the t*nk, come.

I want to help in this battle.

I'll find you a job
in the command room.

I'm a signal listener. If you have
a vehicle going out in the field,

find a way to get me on it,
give me radios.

I'll listen to the Syrians
to hear what they're planning.

It will help all the troops.

All the APCs have been mobilized.

I'll get you a radio
in the command room,

do what you have to do, from there.

No, I have to go out there.

Please.

I have to make it right...
for myself.

Is this to get to him?

Quick, to the triage tent.

Phone!

-Hello?
-Who is this? Hanania?

-It's Melakhi, where is Riki?
-Melakhi. How are you?

Hurry, put Riki on.

Where are you?
I heard you're at w*r.

Hanania, get Riki before I get mad!

Okay, I'll get her.

Riki, phone for you!

Riki!

-Hello, Melakhi?
-Riki, you hear me?

Are you all right?

Melakhi, what happened?

-Alush or Marco?
-We're fine.

For sure?

Get them on the phone,
I want to talk to them.

They're not here, Riki, they're busy.

I called to say I'm sorry
for what I said on Saturday.

I'm going to battle.

I just had to tell you to erase it.

To forget, Riki. Promise me.

What are you talking about?

Alush.

That I shouldn't be with him?

Riki...

promise me that when he returns

you'll be good to him.

Promise me.

Melakhi, is he all right?
Are you hiding something from me?

Just don't let him be alone.
Love him, no matter what.

Promise me he won't be lonely.

You're scaring me, what's going on?

Bye, Riki.

Wait, Melakhi. Listen.

Yes.

Last night
the cops came looking for you.

What?

We're at w*r,
don't they have anything better to do?

They submitted an indictment.

Do they even know
what's going on here?

Does anyone in Jerusalem know
what we're going through?

What w*r we're fighting, Riki?

By tonight...
Israel could lose.

Two more days
and Syrian tanks will be at your door

and all this country cares about

is screwing the Panthers
before we die?

They hate us that bad?

I could be dead in a second, Riki!

No, no, sweetie...
don't cry, don't cry.

Don't cry, Riki, I didn't mean it.

Why were they looking for me
at your house?

I don't know.

Luckily Marco wasn't there.

They assured Mom
that Marco's not a suspect.

Oh, yeah?

But they know
he organized the protest.

Promise me you'll come back
alive, Melakhi.

All three of you.

Melakhi?

Tell everyone we love them, Riki.

Are you all right?

I have this feeling, Dafna, in my gut.

This inner voice. God is telling me
that I won't come back.

No, there's no inner voice, Melakhi.
You're scared.

It's natural.

They send all the screwups
to fight the entire Syrian army?

It's okay.

I guess this is my destiny.

-To quit while I'm ahead.
-No.

I hear an inner voice, Melakhi,

this gut feeling

that out of everyone,
you'll be the one coming back.

You hear me?

And without a scratch.

You're a cat with nine lives.

Wanna bet?

Meni and I will give you a ride
back to Jerusalem a hero.

I have no one to trust, Dafna.

You can trust me.

Can I get a hug before we part?

Human beings
are stupid creatures, Dafna.

Stupid.

10 minutes away there's a tent
just like ours, Dafna.

But their flag has different colors.
And Alush is there.

Alive, dead...

And your Yoav is there.

Alive, dead,
and we deserve to suffer?

Not knowing

instead of walking on foot?

Get me a phone where I can make
an overseas call,

I'll speak Arabic.

I'll ask them...

to free my brother.

I'll ask them to tell him I'm sorry.

If human beings were sane,
we could have walked there by foot.

Melakhi.

Melakhi.

I promise you,

I'll get you on the radio
if we'll have news on captives, okay?

It'll be alright.

It'll be alright.

I need to put a bandage on this sh*t.

Is that from Yoav?

Show me.

If Yoav...

if he comes back,

I want you to know
you'll always be in my heart.

Since I was 13, I...

Yoav is...

I'm sure he...

He'll be good for you.

He'll be good for you.

I got an APC for Avinoam.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We have to divvy up
our jobs in the t*nk.

I'm a driver, so I'll drive...

Like we said,
he'll be the loader, I'm the gunner.

All we need is a t*nk commander.

We need someone good.

We'll find someone in the yard.
I'm sure we'll find an ace.

-What are you doing?
-I'm coming with you.

I have experience. I was a driver,
and took a t*nk commanders course.

Do you even remember anything?

Dad, don't be ridiculous.

Come on, Yoni,
father and son in the t*nk.

How many people can say
they did something that crazy?

We may be the first.

Dad, I'm serious,
you're not coming with us.

Are you trying to get me not to go?

Do what you want, you're a big boy.

Yoni, let him come with.
We need him.

You're the t*nk commander, Meni.

Melakhi, stay out of this.

I'm going with my friends
and as usual you decide

when to shut me out
and when to draw me in.

Friends? You met them
a few hours ago...

Meni...
Yoni is a brother.

This is no time for games, Dad.

Okay, you two work it out.

You know what? You're right.
I won't decide for you.

I'm asking you.

I'm asking that you agree I join you.

I have to be there with you.
I'm experienced, you need me there.

And I want to be close to you.

You want my forgiveness,
not my closeness.

I want your forgiveness
and your closeness.

I have to be with you out there.

Why?

Why do you have to be with me?

I got you.

In the book you're writing in your head
about what's happening to us

you're the hero.

And the hero can't go home

and abandon his son
at the hardest moment.

His son who was hurt by him.

There is no such end.

So you have to stay.

The whole country will read,
will be excited at Passover.

We're all just fragments
of stories to you.

So am I.

Then write that I forgave you.

You know what?

I forgive you, okay?

Now move aside
and let me get on with my life.

You know, Yoni,

when I thought I lost you,

I d*ed.

I didn't have an ounce of ego.

Just death.

Darkness.

So yes,
I may not know you well enough,

but I'm moved...

I'm moved by the person
you've become.

Mature, sensitive,
more handsome than me.

We could be such good friends.

Now, if you set aside all
the anger and the desire

to punish me or hurt me

and you swear to me

that you don't want me there with you,

that you don't want me close to you,

I'll go.

Do you have everything you need?

Okay then, good luck.

The Syrian commando frequency
is 50, 100 megahertz. Okay?

-Good enough?
-Yes.

No need to salute.
You got everything you need?

-Radios, listeners?
-Yes.

-Okay, who's writing?
-I will.

Are you with me?
Advance in a column...

Commander!

-I need you here a second.
-Hold on.

Kid, save some of my soldiers,
we'll help you with your predicament.

Commander!

We need you to brief them
on taking back the Hermon.

Tie up those laces.
Good luck.

We're ready to go.

I calibrated the wireless networks from
the division commander to the regiments.

You're going to the Hermon?

-You know the history?
-Sure, we know.

You need anything from us?

We need a*mo.

Dafna, we're ready to go,
you can rely on me.

If he's alive, I'll bring him back.

-Great. I'm coming with you.
-What?

-What are you doing?
-Go!

-"Go"?
-I'm coming with you.

-Please get off, you're holding us up.
-Go!

No way you got authorization
to do this.

The Head of Staff authorized it. Go!

Are you sure?

Get on.

Go!

Get in here.

Yoni, welcome to the t*nk,
put a helmet on.

-Are you with me?
-Always.

Here's the drill.

-See that shell with the tip?
-Yes.

That's the armor piercing,
the square head is hollow.

The last one is the squash-head.
Anvil.

Two hands tight on this handle,

press the button hard,
you pull it real, real hard.

Very good.

Take an armor piercer.
With the tip.

Nice. It's heavy.

That's it, put on a glove.

With your fist, not all at once.

You push it hard inside
and move your hand away.

Or you won't have a hand.
Got it?

One, two, three. Hard!
See that? Good.

Then you open the safety catch.

Good.
When you're done, you yell "loaded."

-Let's see.
-Loaded.

-No, you yell.
-Loaded!

-Very good. How's your leg?
-Okay.

Good luck.

Well, how's the kid?

He's gonna be one hell of a loader.

Grandma would be gushing, I swear.

Seeing her pacifist son
a t*nk commander.

Let's just say
you weren't our first choice.

Let's just say
I'm proud to be your commander.

We let you be commander

because it's the only role that
doesn't call for technical training.

You're only commander by name, Meni.

Then I'm proud to be
your honorary representative.

We'll make decisions together,
like in a kibbutz.

You'll talk nonsense,
we'll ignore you.

God dammit,
we anointed an Ashkenazi again...

"Ashkenazi,"
I understood that, Marco.

Are we off?

Do we have a choice?
It's su1c1de either way.

Melakhi, start the engine.

Good luck, kids.

Why isn't the t*nk moving?

What's going on?

-The term is "Move out..."
-"Move out," right.

Melakhi, move out.
Go! Go, son, go!

Melakhi, rock ahead.

Damn it, Melakhi!
The best driver in the IDF...

Sorry, guys.

Melakhi, you're my heart.
We'll get home and work it out.

You're the last person I want
next to me in battle.

What was that?

Every time you forced me
to choose between you and Alush,

or between me and you,
I always chose you.

I chose you too.

Uh..."fik-fik", what's going on?
Morocco, w*r.

I was your flunky.

I don't know why
I want you to love me.

It's idiotic.
You betrayed me!

Melakhi, what are you trying to say?

Sorry, guys.

I sat across from the police.

"Police," I understood that too.

-They have a whole folder on me.
-Left.

They knew every little thing about me.
How did they know it?

Why would anyone rat me out?

You're losing it, that's bullshit.

So these are your new friends, Yonatan?

Let them get it out.

You threw me to the dogs,

you threw Alush to the Syrians
and don't say you didn't!

Guys, cut the chatter.
We're on our way to battle. Get a grip!

Alush went out because of you!

And what will happen
in this battle, Marco,

is that you'll k*ll us all
and save yourself, that's what.

Shut the f*ck up, you jerk!

How do I go to battle
with an assh*le like you, huh?

That's enough!

f*ck off.

CO Air,
this is Butterfly 4 of Tokyo.

Third division will breach
from Jabhat al Hashab,

advance to the Hermonit axis,
then to Daughters of Jacob Bridge.

They coordinated a*tillery
that will make it hard to go near. Over.

Scan the networks.

We're looking for the 3rd division
operations officer.

Got it.

This will be the biggest armored battle
since WWII. Today, at noon.

Are we close?

Tell the driver to advance to Mas'ade.

Driver, advance towards Mas'ade.

It's too close to the a*tillery.

It's too close to the a*tillery.

The frequencies are fragmented here.
8 km, that's all.

8 km, driver, that's all.

That's insane!
Why enter Syrian territory?

-Are you crazy?
-Do as we say.

You're great.

A little to the left.

We're approaching the ramp.
Melakhi, stop.

Melakhi, start climbing. Slowly.

Slowly!

Stop, stop!

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.