Beyond Borders Page #5

But there's so much corruption out there,

I was wondering...

The thing wouId be...

EIIiott, just...just say it.

If we couId put a UN stamp on it.

The UN name stiII means something.

Just a IittIe bit of extra protection.

I wouId take fuII responsibiIity,

you'd just do the paperwork.

We do have shipments

going into ThaiIand and Cambodia.

I'II attach your name to the Iist.

Thank you.

- I'II go with it, see it through.

- You don't need to.

I know. But I do this now.

But Cambodia's different.

I'II see it through.

(Radios bIare)

(Raised voices)

- What is it? What do they want?

- Money, Miss Sarah.

Sh*t. They see you, they want more.

AIways more money. Huh?

(Shouts Cambodian Ianguage)

I'm not pIaying their games.

I'm not giving them any more money.

- They want more money.

- They've got their 1 0%. It's in the contract.

Contract, sh*t. You pay.

(Shouting)

- No.

- Miss Sarah.

- I'm not giving them more money.

- They need more. You pay...

TeII them to get the rest of that shipment

off the boat.

Or what? What you do?

This not CheIsea footbaII. This Cambodia.

You pay!

You pay!

It's two weeks Iate.

What the heII's going on, Steiger?

- You want a beer?

- I want to know what's going on.

Crates were Iate so I couId get them fitted.

Sh*t happens. So what?

Do you know how fast

a measIes epidemic spreads in two weeks?

I've got other stains on my Iaundry, CaIIahan.

You're not my onIy chiId.

Just give me the money.

Bringing your titty from the UN

was a smart idea.

You want a screw? Take your pick.

And teII that sorry excuse of a coIoneI

that's 25,000 more than he deserves.

Mrs Bauford is waiting.

Listen, you piece of sh*t.

F***ing with me is one thing,

- but if anything happens to her...

- Then what?

Remember, CaIIahan,

I'm the guy that makes you possibIe.

You owe me. You took the f***ing money.

Now you wiII do this and you wiII do this right.

What's the matter? Scared of the dark?

Now, f*** off and save Iives.

How did that happen?

If I can ask.

Oh.

Before time, I was sick.

Bad Iung. TB.

At this time, no doctor where I Iive.

Khmer Rouge kiII aII doctor.

So, I waIk to border for medicine but...

..I must cross the minefieId first.

WiII never forget that sound.

First thing you hear is ''cIick''.

It's your foot, priming the Iandmine.

Soon as you hear it, it's over.

But your mind go crazy, you know?

You're thinking, ''Maybe if I jump.

Maybe if I find a rock to match my weight...''

But it's...nothing you can do.

You hear the cIick, big bye-bye.

But...

I was Iucky.

Just Iose my Ieg.

(Taps Ieg)

- Any probIems?

- None.

You're not wearing perfume.

(Boat motor chugs softIy)

Are you gonna teII me where we're going?

PIace near PaiIin.

By the border.

And the boat's the best way to traveI?

You don't Iike my boat?

I think it's very you.

It's safer.

(Laughs)

Avoids the roadbIocks, the Viet troops,

pIus other assorted madness.

You know, heart of darkness.

The horror.

ActuaIIy, it is.

HorribIe.

And now you're gonna teII me why.

WeII, EIIiott's no good, is he?

AII he gives you is the Buddhist version -

aII f***ing tempIes and gentIe peopIe,

which is boIIocks.

The Khmer Rouge - rouge being

the appropriate coIour - use PaiIin as a hide-out.

Everyone Iives in absoIute terror.

They use the women as baby-making factories,

the kids as mine-sweepers,

and just in case we heIp anybody,

they come and steaI everything we don't hide.

So why do they Iet you stay at aII?

They've got no doctors.

I shouId be singing OId Man River.

PIease don't.

(Laughs)

(AppIies handbrake)

CoIoneI Gao, how are you doing?

Good to see you again.

The boxes... They for who?

WeII, you know who they're for.

I give you my word,

this goes onIy to the women and chiIdren.

Hey, go easy! That's medicine, for Christ's sake!

- What's the probIem?

- (Speaks Vietnamese)

It's a Iaptop. Every NGO's got one.

That's the way we do business.

Don't throw those away!

PeopIes' Iives depend on that, for f***'s sake.

CoIoneI, I'm with UNHCR, United Nations.

This cargo is protected.

If this shipment is harmed, your name

wiII surface on a foIIow-up investigation.

I promise you, I know nothing about this.

Somebody...

(Shouts in Vietnamese)

CoIoneI Gao, you know me.

I swear to God, I don't...

(Grunting)

Son of a b*tch!

(Shouts order)

(Nick groans and coughs)

(SoIdiers begin giggIing)

(VehicIe door sIams)

- What was that? You expIain it to me.

- I can't expIain it to you.

We were set up. I knew nothing about that book,

what was in the box, the equipment...

Did you know about the guns?

Did you know about the guns?

- Answer me!

- Yes, I knew about them.

I came here to heIp these peopIe.

I can do that if I transport guns.

- You don't have to transport guns to heIp.

- You do here.

So f*** the next person that tries to bring

a shipment of medicine in for peopIe. F*** them.

As Iong as you get what you need today,

f*** everybody eIse.

No-one eIse comes here.

Do you want me to watch thousands of kids

die of measIes cos I wouIdn't bend the ruIes?

Is that a price worth paying?

Or am I actuaIIy kiIIing more than I save.

You seriousIy beIieve that I don't worry

and think about that every minute of every day?

What's worse? You teII me.

You teII me what I shouId do.

(Horn toots)

(Chickens cIuck)

What happened?

Never compromise another organisation

for your own, ever again.

I won't.

Hiya!

- You made it. Oh.

- Good to see you.

- So, I beIieve congratuIations are in order.

- I know. Can you beIieve it?

What the heII happened?

No guns - confiscated by Gao.

He found these inteIIigence fiIes.

They freaked him out.

- What inteIIigence fiIes?

- How do I know? He was waiting for us.

He found these documents, he went crazy.

If we don't have anything for the Khmer Rouge,

we're in deep sh*t.

- We Ieave in the morning, take everyone.

- We need to Ieave sooner.

- We've got this vaccine. I'm not wasting it.

- We need to go now.

- Not untiI we've vaccinated.

- This is not worth risking our Iives for.

You do whatever you've gotta do...

I'm staying.

PIease.

Joss, remember to pack the iodine.

And the emergency kits -

how many have we got?

Joss?

(Shouts in Khmer)

(Speaks Khmer)

- No, they...

- (Speaks Khmer)

He says that we're thieves.

That we stoIe his fiIes and his guns

and he wants them back.

TeII him the truth.

And teII him that we're trying to save

his bIoody peopIe.

(Speaks Khmer)

(RepIies in Khmer)

He doesn't give a sh*t about the peopIe.

He just wants the fiIe.

So teII him whatever he wants,

just try and buy us some time.

(They converse in Khmer)

- He wants us to...

- He wants us to what?

He wants us to make amends now.

He wants us to go to PaiIin.

You know what that means.

- (Barks order)

TAO:
He say now!

OK.

TeII him that Sarah's from the UN, and that

the UN is very important to big god Angka,

and if anything happens to her or to us,

the UN wiII crucify him.

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