Lone Survivor Page #10

Danny desperate to get the radio to work.

Luttrell fixes his Mark 12 into firing position looks through

scope down hill.

LUTTRELL’S POV.

Lined along the top are at least a dozen heavily armed

Taliban warriors, each one of them with an AK pointing

downward. Some carrying rocket propelled grenades.

LUTTRELL looks left.

More Taliban coming down hill to flank them.

Luttrell looks right.

More Taliban.

The SEALs are F***ED.

MURPHY (CONT'D)

How the f*** fast are these little

bastards?

All four SEALs guns up.

Marcus in the middle, Axe and Danny up to his left. Murphy

twenty feet off to his right. Marcus slowly belly crawls

towards Murphy.

MURPHY (CONT'D)

What are you thinking?

LUTTRELL:

I’m thinking that we’re about

fixing to get into a pretty good

gunfight.

MURPHY:

Yea.

61.

LUTTRELL:

Looks like I voted wrong.

MURPHY:

Negative. We’ve been given the

opportunity to reach out and make

some hell f***ing strong contact

with our friends from the other

side. Job well done.

LUTTRELL:

Hoo-yah to that sir.

ON DANNY AND AXE

Looking up the hill which is now swarming with Taliban.

Dozens of soldiers flowing down hill flanking them.

DANNY:

Do they see us?

AXE:

Dunno.

BACK TO MARCUS.

His back pressed up against a tree, inventorying his ammo.

Grenades. Knife.

Danny, Axe, Murphy all doing the same. Readying for war.

Axe and Danny sneak quick looks at the pictures of their

wives taped inside their helmets.

The trap tightening around all of them. All four focused up

hill.

A TREE TWENTY FEET IN FRONT OF MARCUS.

A flash of a turban. Glint of an AK Barrel pointed in his

general direction.

Luttrell tightens the grip of his rifle slowly starts

pointing it in the direction of the man behind the tree.

Luttrell eyes on glass, still as marble. Aimed at the tree.

Marcus looks over his shoulder at Murphy whose gun is also

trained on the tree.

Marcus eyes back on the scope.

SCOPE POV:

62.

A fierce-eyed Taliban warrior peering straight into thescope. Black eyes and thick black beard. The barrel of his AKpointed dead on Luttrell.

Hold.

THEN.

Luttrell fires once. Blowing the man’s head off.

An odd brief moment of silence as the head shot Afghan

stumbles, still standing, still clutching his AK-47. He takes

three more steps towards Luttrell.

Stops.

Luttrell shoots again removes what’s left of the fighter’shead.

The Afghan starts to fall and as he hits the ground, all HELL

BREAKS LOOSE.

From above and half way down both flanks the Taliban open

fire.

Screaming at each other, communicating through violent, loudbursts of Pashto, the Taliban moving fast down the hill.

Agile and fearless, not weighted down with US-style gear,

they are able to leap boulders, fallen trees.

Taraq in the middle of the pack on the top of the SEALs. UP

TOP - Shah calmly giving orders into his radio comms.

ON MURPHY.

Taliban moving down the hill on both sides. Shooting as they

move.

A solid line of at least fifty Taliban in firing positions on

top of the hill above them.

The SEALs are close to being surrounded.

MURPHY checks his rear.

MURPHY POV:

A cliff. More of a series of cliffs. Multiple death falls.

First one is at least 300 feet.

Murphy calls it.

MURPHY:

Push right flank.

63.

Axe the farthest right starts shooting and moving right INTO

the wall of the Taliban flanking his right.

Luttrell follows staying low, shooting, Danny firing with one

arm. Desperate to get the radio up.

DANNY:

Spartan 01 reporting major enemy

contact. We need help. Spartan 01

reporting major enemy contact.

Request immediate QRF! Spartan 01

requesting immediate QRF.

Murphy’s doing the same with his SAT phone. He’s moving right

trying to dial up the TOC. Not getting through.

Danny’s left two fingers HIT. Dangling bloody and mangled.

He tries to put them back into his hand. Jams his ring finger

back into its socket. His pinkie is beyond repair.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Marcus!

Luttrell turns, Danny holds up his f***ed up hand.

LUTTRELL:

Wrap it up bro.

DANNY:

Roger that.

Taliban gunfire is picking up. Axe the deepest right kills

two Taliban. Two more immediately fill their positions.

MURPHY:

Danny did you get the call through?

DANNY:

I made the call. Don’t know if it

went through. You?

MURPHY:

I couldn’t get a line.

DANNY:

F***.

Marcus is pushing right behind Axe trying to break the right

Taliban flank.

Charging the Ambush.

64.

MURPHY:

Keep pushing right. Kill ‘em all.

The four SEALs fighting well as a team. Crawling, shooting

and covering as they start making progress killing their way

into the right side of the Taliban ambush.

The Taliban close enough to see clearly.

Axe shot through the left shoulder. Ignoring it he keeps

firing. His long scope making him very accurate. As he shoots

deep into the left flank.

TALIBAN POV:

From behind at least 12 Tabliban fighters pushing deeper into

the right side.

Two more Taliban hit. The remaining start taking solidcovering positions, firing down at the four SEALs.

Axe being the closest takes the majority of the firepower.

Decent cover from a granite boulder which is getting hackedto pieces by the incoming AK fire.

Razor sharp stone shrapnel chunks slicing into Axe’s face andneck. Blood runs down his face drips off his chin.

Luttrell getting equally shot up. Returning fire. His coverrock getting shot up bad. Chunks of granite tearing into hisface and neck.

FURTHER to the left, Danny and Murphy shooting, trying to getcloser to Luttrell and Axe.

Danny takes another round, blowing clear through his rightthigh shattering his right femur. Blood, muscle chunks andbone tear through his pants.

DANNY:

Goddammitt.

Pissed he keeps moving. Firing. Ignoring his two gunshots.

Hand and Leg.

Danny moves up with Murphy behind some decent cover.

MURPHY:

Can you fight?

DANNY:

Roger that.

65.

MURPHY:

Want me to take the radio?

DANNY:

Negative.

Murphy looks up towards Axe who is far right.

MURPHY:

(yelling)

AXE?!

AXE:

Sir!

MURPHY:

Can we break that flank? Hold

this, we’re gonna push left!

Axe gets shot through the top of his shoulder the bullettearing down through his shoulder and burning deep inside hischest.

Axe keeps firing, hitting a Taliban in the knee. The Talibanfires back at Axe missing but sending sharp rock chipsshearing up off the granite into Axe’s face. Shredding hisright ear, cutting into his eyeballs.

Half blind. Watery out of focus images as sweat mixed withblood. Axe struggles to see. When his vision clears up enoughto focus:

AXE POV.

Two Tali fighters. Moving fast out of cover, right at AXE.

Directly at the Americans. SEAL style. Attacking the counterattack.

The Taliban are close to the half blind Axe. Axe fires blind.

Misses. The Taliban almost on him. Then:

One of the Tali hit with a round from Luttrell, killed. The

other, wounded, falls on Axe. Vicious hand-to-hand fight.

Luttrell runs up to help Axe. Takes the remaining Talibansoldier out with a point-blank headshot.

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