Castle Keep Page #4

right below the water line, it'll sink.

Put one below the water line.

- Jesus Christ, reverend, it's still alive.

- Give me that.

It won't do any good. We're dealing

with something supernatural.

Hey. My Volkswagen.

They're drowning her.

Through there. It's faster.

Damn!

I didn't know there's a stair here.

Probably a goldfish spawning.

What are you gentlemen

doing down there?

Simplistic, lieutenant.

Play it simplistic.

- What's that?

- Tell him we're not here.

Who's that with you, Amberjack?

Private first class

Alistair P. Benjamin, sir.

- What does the P stand for?

- Pearsall, sir.

Have you been drinking?

We stopped at the Red Queen

to look for infiltrators.

I want you to go home,

sleep it off.

Will you see that Benjamin...

...gets to bed, Amberjack?

- Yes, sir.

Will you see the lieutenant home...

...Private Alistair P. Benjamin?

- Yes, sir.

- Sir, I have a report to make.

- Keep it simplistic.

Yes?

There are three Puerto Ricans

at the Queen's.

- New girls?

- No, sir. All soldiers.

That's a very succinct report,

Lieutenant Amberjack.

- Good night.

- I haven't finished my report yet, sir.

Very well, lieutenant,

finish your report.

The Germans have broken through

in the Ardennes.

Good night, gentlemen.

- Good night, sir.

- Good night, sir.

The castle is strong.

It has never failed.

No.

No, and you've never failed the castle,

not in 1000 years.

- But the end of a castle must come.

- Civilization?

Falconer will try to stop the army

of the Nazis right here...

...if it costs a castle.

What's one castle?

Major Falconer is mad.

He looks like a buffalo, doesn't he?

Well, they've been close

to extinct for a long time.

He could be extinct.

He fights that way,

out of a kind of desperate doom.

And I wonder who is mad.

Major Falconer has the war

on his side.

And we have history.

We have the truth, captain.

The beauty.

How many guns does truth have?

How many troops, mortars, grenades,

antitank weapons?

When does beauty fight?

And who the hell wants history

on his side?

We could sit here sipping wine through

the whole war and win it with words.

If the situation called for bravery,

I would be brave.

I am the bravest man I ever knew.

And yet...

...l've never committed

what you would call a brave act.

And what wars have you won?

Therese is pregnant.

We are going to have a child.

My home is a ranch on the slopes

of the Jemez Mountains.

Where you can see everything.

Almost 100 miles.

It's a country of red and white mesas,

sharp arroyos...

...and mountain meadows

that roll all the way home.

It's a country of mud houses

and hogans and tents of the Apaches.

And a sky that goes straight up blue

for a million miles.

It's a country where you see

and feel so far...

...you think you've seen

and felt everything.

Then they start a war and you

come to another planet to end it.

And you see all these castles.

- What's that?

- What?

A plane?

Listen.

Don't do it.

Don't do it?

Don't defend the castle.

You mean you want to save it too.

I want to save you.

You wanna save me

and you wanna save the castle.

I want to save you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Beckman.

- Yes, sir?

Go up on the roof. Man the.50 calibre

machine gun, shoot that bastard down.

- Anything more, sir?

- Yes, I'll be up when I'm dressed.

- Beckman.

- Yes, sir.

Do I have to take you by the hand?

- No, but I was thinking...

- Don't think.

Yes, sir.

Get your ass up on the roof.

You're low, Beckman. Bring her up.

You're not leading, Beckman.

Lead 10 yards.

Ignore it, Beckman. Get the engine.

Perfect, Beckman. Perfect.

You did a beautiful job, Beckman.

Beautiful.

Thank you, major. I still don't think we

should defend... Destroy the castle.

I warned you about thinking, Beckman.

Yes, major. Yes, you did.

What do you see out there,

Beckman?

- No Krauts yet, sir.

- You never will.

You're a dreamer, Beckman.

They'll get you first.

Take care of your arm. I'll see you

in the chapel. Every man.

Very good, sir.

I want you to set up in town. Hold.

Damage the Germans' lead elements...

...before you're cut off, fall back.

- Fall back where, sir?

Right here, gentlemen.

We'll pull up the drawbridge.

Yeah. That'll drive the Germans crazy.

Give my compliments to the

baker's wife. Tell Rossi to re-enlist.

Sir, what happened to that division

on the ridge?

They're in town, Clearboy.

But they're not holding.

If I can pick up stragglers

from the retreat...

... they can help

defend the castle.

- They say we have no vehicle.

- Correct, sir.

- Catch me a horse.

- My castle for a horse.

- What's that, Beckman?

- Nothing.

Catch me a horse.

We're gonna try to hold it.

Hold this.

It seems to me that with the

front collapsing you could...

...think of something else to do.

- There's plenty to do.

I want to give you an order.

Yes, sir.

I'd like a piece of bread.

I've got no place to go.

No place to retreat to.

Give me 10 men,

I can hold this whorehouse.

You want the day's communiqu

to read, "The whorehouse is ours"?

Commands the town.

I haven't got 10 men. We got us four.

We're trying to stop the German army

with a cowboy, an Indian...

...a book.

- The book bother you, sergeant?

- Yes, sir. It does, sir.

What the hell happened to you,

reverend?

- German tanks will be here any minute.

- We better have a drink.

- Or is it the "most reverend"?

- The very most.

We should state the things

of this world with precision.

- What's wrong?

- I'm okay.

- Did you hear a bird cry?

- No.

Jesus! I see a buffalo riding a horse!

Looking at us from on top

of that white horse.

Looking at me, Billy Byron Bix,

who knows the word.

Billy Byron Bix, who is not a fornicator.

Who is not up on a white horse.

That man on the white horse

wants to protect his castle.

Wants to protect his fornication.

I have the word! The word...

I was born again, born with the word.

They think that I'm a chaplain!

They think I'm still Billy Byron Bix,

the lieutenant from...

- Where to, soldier?

- Following my captain.

- Your captain's dead.

- Yes, sir. He's up ahead.

They don't know that I have been

reborn again!

The prophet and the...

- Where's your outfit, lieutenant?

- Where is everybody else, sir?

Go to that drugstore.

The one right behind you.

Wait for me. The one

with the red bottle in the window.

- The red bottle.

- Yes. We've got a castle here to defend.

- Red bottle and wait. Thank you, sir.

- That's right.

They want their Sodom and Gomorrah!

- This your horse?

- Yes, lieutenant. Now do as I say.

You got a castle and a white horse

and you want me to do as you said.

Yes, general.

The man on the white horse,

my enemy, he has lost the war!

Yet he is unafraid!

And he has something too!

It is not the word!

But he has something.

Bonjour, Monsieur Honey.

Bring the girls over here.

Clearboy, see if you can drum up

a can of gasoline.

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