Castle Keep Page #6

Wait.

Wait.

Now.

Drop two-zero.

- You leave to tell me this?

- There's no wooden horse...

...but he knows that passage

under the German lines.

We'll blow the passageway.

Let the water from the moat

into the cellar.

That's where I hid the Corots,

two Fragonards, Delacroix.

Fine. We'll let the Germans

take everything.

But we'll save your paintings.

Great, Captain Beckman, great.

There will be no more private wars,

Captain Beckman.

Private wars are over. You lost yours.

That's how that one ended.

Attach the detonating wires to the

blast charges in the passageway.

You'll find the detonator box inside,

under the main entrance.

You wanted to save the castle.

Yes.

Where is Major Falconer?

Probably throwing rocks

at the Germans.

Kicking their teeth in as they

come over the hedgerows.

Staring them down. Preparing vats

of boiling oil to pour down on the Huns.

The duke is being helpful.

He's delaying the fight.

He's going to give us a bunch of

Germans in the passageway.

- He won't be with them?

- They don't trust him.

- Therese, I want you to...

- No.

I won't leave.

Everything is here.

- You are here.

- Private Benjamin.

Stay. But you'll have to watch

with these.

The Germans will enter

by that motte of woods.

I want you to count to about 50

and then signal Captain Beckman.

Captain Beckman

will blow the passageway, Therese.

I know.

Let me see you.

Private Benjamin.

- Right here, sir.

- Come with me.

Diesels.

Nineteen.

Elk!

You goddamn Indian!

I knew all along

the war would never end.

Rossi, you got any bread?

The best.

They let the drawbridge up.

I can't see. There's too much smoke.

You don't shave, do you, Alistair?

No, sir. I don't have to yet.

Alistair, you're gonna come out

all right.

- Do you still have your little book?

- Yes, sir.

You can finish it.

- That's what you are, isn't it? A writer?

- Yes, sir.

Then you must have

imagination, insight.

But you don't have a weapon.

Where's your gun?

Here, sir.

When it's all over,

I want you to get her out.

Take her through the passageway.

The one that comes out at the swamp.

There are boats.

They're getting ready to attack again.

They're regrouping behind that statue

of the naked woman.

You see it, Alistair?

Yes, sir. It's beautiful, isn't she?

They'll try to come through

the rose garden.

Clearboy, Amberjack

and Rossi are holding.

- Hold my ass!

- Or we can swim the moat.

The moat? What the hell war is this?

- I can't swim.

- What the hell war is this?

Beckman, get De Vaca.

- We're screwed.

- I got a plan.

- Jesus.

- My plan is take my Volkswagen...

...drive it to the Red Queen's

and buy a drink.

- We could go back to the bakery.

- The bar.

I got a family there.

- Jesus, it's hot.

- Where's Elk?

Listen, battles are lost

because people get excited.

There's one way to calm the situation

down:
Go to bed with a woman.

- Afterwards, I can concentrate.

- Ever occur to you there's a war on?

Easy, lieutenant.

I'll take care of everything.

I've told Alistair how to write a book...

...and Beckman where to hide a statue.

- Where's Elk?

Now I've gotta tell Falconer

how to win a war.

You're hit again, Clearboy.

You better get back to the castle.

Go down that column of roses

and across the moat.

- Yes, sir.

- Can you make her?

No. I can't swim, sir.

Can you, Rossi?

If I have to.

Look, I'll swim the moat,

drop the drawbridge, you dash in.

We'll cover you.

Keep your helmet on so the Americans

in the castle can see you're one of us.

Get going.

- Take the bread.

- All right, get going.

One thing, lieutenant:

If I were to get badly hurt or even

killed, what would the report say?

- " Killed crossing a moat"?

- You won't get killed.

- The report will say you took a castle.

- To get wine for the bread.

Clearboy, in minutes now,

Rossi will swim the moat.

He'll scale the chain, lower the

drawbridge and we'll cross it to safety.

The castle's rescued us. Right?

- Lf it'll make you feel any better.

- I don't need your crap, Clearboy.

Very well, lieutenant.

- Does it hurt real bad?

- Yes, sir.

It should just be a minute now.

Lieutenant, they tell me

you're a goddamn preacher.

Don't talk.

They tell me you're a preacher.

Tell me a story about a castle.

Keep your eyes open.

Jesus.

I'm pretty bad, aren't I?

Yes, you are.

Did I talk bad?

Yeah, you did.

We're doing lousy, aren't we?

Where's all my buddies?

Where's Rossi? Elk?

De Vaca? Where's Benjamin?

As long as the band plays,

I wanna play.

Easy. You'll be more comfortable

lying down.

- On the bench.

- I don't think you can stay on it.

There'll be plenty to eat in the castle.

And drink.

And the duke's young wife

will be there too.

She's his sister, actually.

The French.

Egyptians used to do it too.

- Cleopatra slept with her brother.

- Did she?

You ain't using obscene language

anymore, Clearboy.

What's wrong?

I'm tired.

Well, we'll have you asleep

in a nice, warm bed in the castle.

It'll be very nice.

Thanks, lieutenant.

I think I hear Rossi swimming.

Do you hear him swimming, Clearboy?

He swims beautifully, doesn't he?

He must have got up the wall

when we weren't looking.

Soon he'll drop the bridge.

- Will you be strong enough to make it?

- Sure.

I've always followed you...

...haven't I, lieutenant?

There goes the bridge.

We're home.

Follow me, Clearboy.

They both got up in the forest

of dead roses...

... and moved toward

the strick en castle.

They walk ed and staggered

fine formation to the moat.

The water was cool and clear, blue.

They swam beautifully

across the cold moat.

They entered the castle and

marched up the wide marble stairs...

... clear to the high alone turret on top...

... where they could see

all the way home.

Amberjack, Rossi and Clearboy

are all dead in the rose garden, sir.

Now we can raise the drawbridge.

Hang out banners on the outside walls!

And the cry is still, "They come!"

Our castle's strength

will laugh a siege to scorn.

Get Beckman.

- You've come to reinforce the castle?

- Yes.

Now, you behave yourself, sir.

- Private Benjamin.

- Yes, sir?

Get the rest of that gasoline

in the moat right away.

Bring me more ammunition.

Probably better if you keep busy.

Benjamin!

Can they do this, sir?

They're doing it, Beckman.

- Benjamin!

- Sir!

Look for her.

In the chapel.

- Isn't that where you said, Beckman?

- When I took De Vaca down, she was.

- I want you to get out too, Beckman.

- I can't.

- How do you feel?

- I feel all right, sir.

There's only something wrong

with my legs. They won't move.

- Where's Alistair?

- Here, sir.

We can hold till you make it down.

Sir, we could all make it down

through the passageway.

No, we can't. Beckman and I are hit.

- Sure you can't make it out, Beckman?

- I'm certain, sir.

Alistair Pearsall Benjamin.

Major Falconer?

- Get going.

- Captain Beckman?

Get going.

No! No!

How you doing, Beckman?

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