Farewell to the King Page #4

And let me know how things go

in the kingdom.

Good luck.

I can't believe it.

- He's incredible!

- He's just a man like any other.

It will never be done.

He'll never have to think of it again.

History will wash his hands, not yours.

- Welcome back, sir.

- Thank you.

You've landed in an uproar, sir. You'll see.

- How's Miss Vivienne and the old man, sir?

- She's fine, Tenga. She's just fine.

- A present from Morotai.

- Thank you, sir!

- Did you miss me?

- Of course, sir!

Things weren't the same.

Sergeant Conklin got in a terrible row

with his wives, sir.

Wives?

- Life, English!

- Life!

- Life, English!

- What is this?

- Refugees, sir. More come every day.

- Life, English!

There's been an uprising on the coast.

Japanese have been quite brutal, sir.

Captain, how was your trip?

There's no controlling him, sir.

I've been away for three days,

and you're acting like schoolchildren!

I guess I owe you more than I can say.

But don't be fooled. It's only a bit of paper.

They've broken a treaty or two before,

you know.

No, no, no, it's you. You did this for me.

Not MacArthur

and not your Special Forces...

or the Allies,

or your whole goddamn empire!

You did this for me!

The King and the country.

Now go to sleep.

Life, English.

Life, Rajah.

So this is the Pass of the Clouds?

I said I'd show you someday.

- Gold? Jewels?

- No, something beyond all that crap.

The Pass of the Clouds.

There! There, there! There are the Punans.

They're called the honey gatherers.

We call it Valley of the Children.

- They're Stone Age!

- Yes.

They don't know of possessions.

They have no word for jealousy or greed.

It's absolutely amazing. Incredible, isn't it?

Why do you bring us here?

If you follow the gorge of the Padas River

and the coastal mountains, you end up here.

Go through their caves

and our whole valley is at your feet.

And you're afraid the Japs might...

The Japs? I'm not afraid of the Japs.

I'm not afraid of anybody!

I want you to rig their caves with dynamite.

And if something happens, we blow it.

They could still come through the jungle,

like you did.

No one would want it that bad.

We control the jungle. It's here. Dynamite!

- So no one will get in ever.

- So it'll be here for all of us.

Spoken like a free man.

So ended our days of peace.

Perhaps some of the happiest of my life.

And with a northwesterly monsoon

gathering before us...

came our days of war.

The death agony of the Japanese army

in Borneo...

was as sad as the sinking of a great ship.

Bullets, explosives, poisoned arrows.

Men stumbling through the night,

mumbling incoherently.

Hunger.

Men eating weeds, leeches, insects...

and each other.

Despair, madness.

For me, for us...

the same period was as thrilling

as a cavalry charge.

May God forgive us.

Advance the colors!

Company, double time!

What's he got there?

What do you think?

- It's a regression. Barbaric!

- Come on, sir. It's good for the longhouse.

Besides, it's also an accurate way

to keep count.

The war is getting closer.

They've slipped

through the whole Ninth Division.

From the beginning,

the Nip has moved with a purpose.

Here from Tarakan,

up this gorge in the Crocker Range.

But that's not our concern.

Our concern is more immediate.

The phantom column.

- The phantom Colonel.

- That's right.

These have chosen not to die.

They fight like Genghis Khan.

Destroy everything in their path,

no prisoners.

Still wear full uniforms, weapons.

They even seem well-fed.

And they move as fast as we do.

- How?

- I don't know, sir.

But we'll know soon enough.

They're coming our way.

They say the Colonel,

a phantom Colonel, rides a horse.

A horse?

- A white horse?

- I don't know, sir.

They seem to be going from here to...

What's this pass called?

Pass of the Clouds.

Pass of the Clouds.

It is the time of fear.

The southwesterly wind brings death.

It is the wind of the flies.

- Who says that?

- Gwai.

He says that it will end

when the northwesterly wind returns.

- Everything ends.

- Yes.

Everything ends. Even me.

Don't let this wind come here to us...

to our people.

Forget this war.

This war is for evil men.

Send these others on.

Let them have the wind of the flies.

The wind is too strong.

The trees cannot stand in the wind.

I must hold them up.

It is the only good thing men can do.

Men dream.

Yes.

You'll be here to try.

But he is a stranger. He's not one of you.

- What'd she say?

- She says she wants to be just like you.

No, no, no, no, no.

You must not be like me.

You must be much, much more.

Not like me.

They're an hour ahead.

They killed everyone here, didn't they?

God!

What is it, Tenga?

We know where they are, sir.

What do you mean?

They're dead, sir. They're all dead, sir!

They've been massacred, sir!

I found bones.

Just bones, sir.

- What are you saying, Tenga?

- They're eating the dead!

- They ain't starving.

- Cannibals! That's what he's saying.

That's how they're living.

That's what they're after.

Then we must destroy them,

every one of them, my God!

Every one.

No quarter asked or given.

All right, get down!

Get up, for me!

Get him off it.

Sh*t, he's caught on a bayonet, mate.

They've gone.

- We've got to get to the longhouse!

- They've gone.

They've gone to the Pass,

the Pass of the Clouds. I feel it. I know it.

We've got to blow the Pass.

They're going to...

They've killed everyone!

Everyone's dead. My whole crew.

- They can march much faster than we can.

- We've got to be there by noon.

Let's put what's left of the army

between them and the longhouse.

- You should back off!

- Listen to me!

They've broken through!

We've got to get to the longhouse!

Blow it!

Get them out! Go! Go! Come on!

Blow it!

Get out of here! Damn it!

- Blow the son of a b*tch!

- Get the hell out of here!

You don't understand! You have to go!

You want me to throw rocks?

Is that what you want? All right!

Get out of here! Scram!

Go on, move! Scram!

Vamoose!

The longhouse!,We've got to

get to the longhouse!

There's nothing you can do!

we got to wait untill dark.no I am going

Come on! We've lost time!

Gwai!

Conklin's got them spotted in a gorge

in the Srai by Falcon's Peak.

We can hold them there till morning,

and then call in for the Air Force.

Vengeance is futile. It never ends.

You told me that.

It's not man that counts, it's life, Learoyd.

It's life!

Blood must be answered by blood.

Come on.

Learoyd am I!

Bastards!

Rajah.

Why are they doing that?

Showing me their bravery, suffering.

But I've seen enough.

It's all gone...

all I had in this world.

None of it will bring them back.

They're gone for tomorrow,

the day after, forever.

What day is it?

What day is it?

It's August the 6th.

What year?

August the 6th, 1945.

It's around 8:
00.

From this day, from this time on...

I'll never raise my hand

against another man.

I went on to pursue the Japanese Colonel...

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