In the Grey Page #2

Synopsis: A naive Confederate soldier begins to doubt the justification for killing in war, but when he doesn't pull the trigger, will lives still be lost?
Year:
2012
8 min
868 Views


Nice and warm.

Let it move over you.

It's all right.

What?

Let your thoughts go.

All the good things.

All the good

things. Yeah?

Who do you love?

Who do you love, Luke?

My girl Rosie.

Is she your daughter?

She's six.

Let her take you, then.

Let her take you.

It's okay. It's okay.

Wait for me.

Did he just f***ing die?

He just f***ing died,

didn't he?

Come on.

- Did you...

- Yeah.

- Did you feel him go?

- Yeah.

I felt him go.

Is this everyone?

Is this everyone

who's still alive?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

One, two, three...

Seven. Seven of us

that we know of. Yeah?

Okay. Okay.

You happy, fuckhead?

You had to open up your fat f***ing mouth.

You had to keep talking.

You had to put

the whammy on us.

I didn't do sh*t. Did I

f***ing crash us? Huh?

We need a fire.

Did I...

I didn't do sh*t.

We should gather up

anything that'll burn,

seats, luggage,

any wood we can find.

What are you doing?

I said we need a fire.

It's about 10 below

and dropping.

So we don't die.

We build up a fire,

then we find food.

And at daybreak, we figure

out what way is south,

and we start walking.

Nobody's gonna find us.

Not here.

Somebody will find us. I mean,

somebody'll be f***ing searching.

They gotta know that plane

went off the radar.

Right. If they send 50 planes,

maybe they'll find us.

But they won't send 50 planes

because it won't matter.

Because we won't

have time to wait

for the one or two

that they will send.

Corporate doesn't give a f***.

Corporate doesn't give a f***.

Nobody gives a sh*t about us.

You know how much payroll they

just pocketed in this crash?

If we don't move and work

now, we're all f***ed.

Unless you want

to freeze to death,

'cause that's the one thing

that will come for you.

Hey, a**hole! That's jet

fuel, get away from there.

Water, wood, something to wear.

Hey, you can't burn that.

That sh*t'll kill us.

F***.

Ohh.

We gotta do

something with the bodies.

F*** the bodies.

F*** the bodies.

The bodies...

Grab what burns.

Or you're gonna be a body.

Relax, Rambo. Relax.

You f***ing relax.

Tell me to relax.

They're everywhere.

I got a book.

It's called We're All F***ed!

It's a bestseller.

Here you go.

F***.

Hey, man. Take it easy with that.

Why?

'Cause I don't wanna

f***ing catch fire.

Hello?

I see you! I'm coming.

Jesus Christ.

Get off her, you motherf***er.

Where are they?

- You okay?

- You see them?

You Okay?

I swear, these motherfuckers...

ls there any more?

Hey, man. We gotta get

the f*** out of here.

Don't stand around.

Let's get the f*** out.

F*** this! Do not stand

the f*** in one place.

You f***ing kidding me?

Ottway, what the hell was that?

What the hell was that?

I didn't see it.

I heard it.

I didn't see sh*t!

They're f***ing big.

They're big.

Maybe I'll turn into

a wolf man now, huh?

Wait, that sh*t's

not real, right?

You mean, he can't...

Asswipe, what do

you think? Really?

I don't know, man. I meant,

like, rabies or whatever.

I didn't think

the motherf***er was

gonna grow claws

and teeth and sh*t.

F***.

So, you think

there's more of them?

Wolves? Maybe.

Yeah. Most likely.

But we shouldn't be worrying

about them right now.

We should be worrying

about finding food.

They're probably

only passing through.

Wait a minute. Passing

through as opposed to what?

Living here. Hunting here.

Wolves have a territorial

range of about 300 miles,

and a kill range of 30.

If we're close to their den, and

if we're within that radius,

then they'll come after us.

Well, how can we

tell if we're close?

We can't.

They might've

just been feeding.

There's bodies everywhere. I

threatened them, they attacked.

What about the radius?

I mean, if we're in that, what?

They're gonna fight us?

I thought wolves

were scared of people.

Not if we're near their den.

They're not scared

of anything then.

What kind of wolves are they?

I mean, what do they call the ones

that just eat plants and sh*t?

They don't call them wolves.

Herbivores,

that's what you mean.

That's wishful thinking.

When did you become king sh*t f***ing

animal expert all of a sudden?

They paid me to kill those things,

to keep them from killing you.

So it makes sense for me

to know they're man-eaters

and they don't give a sh*t

about berries and shrubs.

There's blood in the air.

And there's death.

They know we're wounded.

They can smell it.

Hopefully they

won't f*** with us.

We need to move

these bodies out of here.

And then we've gotta find food.

Check this f***ing thing out.

Jesus, Diaz, don't do that.

No, man.

I saw one of these once.

It's got a beacon, you know?

Like a GPS.

Yeah.

Holy sh*t!

Holy sh*t, man.

It works. It's beeping!

This thing will reach up,

like, 40,000 feet!

Yes, I think that's

great that that gives you hope.

It's f***ing heartwarming.

Very funny, bro.

That's nice, my friend. That's calfskin.

It's very nice. Not cheap.

Since you cocksuckers didn't

give us a holiday bonus,

I'm gonna accept this

on behalf of my homies.

Put that back.

Put it back!

We're not looting

dead bodies for swag.

You got lucky today, Ottway.

You should be lying there with them.

Don't push it.

I'm not gonna say it again.

Motherf***er,

take a big step back!

I'm gonna start beating the sh*t out

of you in the next five seconds,

and you're gonna swallow a lot

of blood for a f***ing billfold.

I can't f***ing

stand guys like that.

Hey, you're gonna just

turn that into charcoal, bro.

No, I got it.

By my account, I'd say we

have about enough booze

for you guys to get

drunk two more times.

Don't get weird.

After that,

then we'll all be sober.

Jack makes me fight.

Oh, yeah.

Ladies, ladies!

You like the white

or the brown?

How about some brown stuff?

No tequila.

Sorry about that.

It's all good.

Thanks, papa.

Where the f***

did you get that?

In that thing, that

serving thing with wheels on it.

Bunch of dead

bodies all over, man.

You wanna make sure you know

where that meat came from.

It's like that movie

where they start

taking chunks of frozen

ass out of that guy.

The plane crash.

That dude

from Training Day? Right.

That'd be f***ing

funny as f***.

That was like

dead ass on a stick.

Or you thought like a severed

dick was a hotdog, right?

That's too f***ing funny.

I wish some of the other

dudes would have lived.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

HERNANDEZ; You hear that?

Get up! Get up!

What is that?

Go, go, go!

What the f*** is that?

What is it?

What the f***...

Everybody be cool.

Don't move.

Jesus Christ!

Stare right back at them.

Wait, wait, wait.

Why are they coming closer?

F*** this sh*t. I'm

getting back in the plane.

Flannery, God damn

it, don't move.

Look at the size of

that f***ing thing.

We'll take...

We'll take two-hour shifts.

I'll start.

You guys get some sleep.

Yeah, like that

sh*t's gonna happen.

Don't be afraid.

Hey.

Don't drift off on us, Burke.

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