Red Dawn Page #3

'"Here was a great peasant uprising

in 1908 of wild Indians.

'"They were crushed by

President Theodore Roosevelt

'"leading imperialist armies and cowboys.

'"The battle lasted all winter.

'"More than 35,000 were killed.

'"It was the greatest battle

of the American West.'"

Bravo!

Yuri, stay here. I'll take a photo of you.

African baboon.

Now you.

Come here, my friend.

Hurry up, you fool.

Look at me, Yuri.

Look.

Look what I've found.

An arrow.

An Indian arrow.

What a philosopher you are.

I did not know the Indians used steel.

Sure, you fool, they used the melted

sabers of Federalist Cossacks.

Did these Indians work in plastic, too?

You idiot, this is bone, polished

to a high sheen. There must be more.

Look.

Near the brush.

(IN RUSSIAN) Stop! Keep your distance.

She has a weapon.

(IN RUSSIAN) Stop, dammit!

(MACHINE GUN FIRING)

Quickly. Catch him!

Take cover!

(IN RUSSIAN) Stop!

(EX CLAIMS)

(IN RUSSIAN) Help me, comrades.

Grab him!

I got him.

(IN RUSSIAN) I'm dying.

(IN RUSSIAN) God help me!

God help me!

(GUN FIRES)

(ECHOING)

(BIRDS CAWING)

But they were people.

Yeah, well, so was my dad.

What was it like?

It was good.

One thing is for sure now,

no one can ever go home again.

Never.

Why don't you make yourself useful?

You wash it!

We're never doing your washing again!

Me and her is as good as any of you!

So what's up your ass?

Shut up!

Don't you ever say that again!

Hear me? Say that again, I'll kill you.

Hear me? I'll kill you.

So what did I do?

What you said was wrong.

(IN SPANISH) From now on,

all troops are forbidden

to travel outside secured areas

in any group smaller than squad size.

(ACKNOWLEDGES IN SPANISH)

Then call Bratchenko.

Tell him sector eight is now active.

Right away, Mr. Bella.

And I want some interrogations made

starting with the Mayor.

I'm sick of his pleasantries.

Consider it done.

Daryl. He wouldn't hurt a fly.

I know my son, Colonel.

He's not the guerilla type.

According to the records, Mayor,

your son is a prominent student leader.

Yes. Well, he is a leader,

but not in a violent or physical way.

No, you see, Daryl is more

of a politician, like his father.

A member of an elite paramilitary

organization, Eagle Scout.

Yes, but that's not military.

Now look, Colonel, if he's alive,

he's scared, he's hungry,

and he's just as anxious to avoid conflicts

as you and me.

He's not a troublemaker.

Then who is?

Well, let's just say

it runs in some of the families.

This community is indeed fortunate

to have a shepherd like him.

(BOTH CHUCKLING SARCASTICALLY)

Well I, I just want to see

this thing through, Colonel.

If you have any more problems, call me,

night or day.

Thank you.

We're finished...

for now.

(SOVIET NATIONAL ANTHEM

PLAYING ON PA)

(ORDERING IN SPANISH)

(ORDERING IN SPANISH)

(MAN SINGING AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL)

(PEOPLE JOINING IN)

(SINGING CONTINUES)

(PEOPLE CRYING)

(SOVIET NATIONAL ANTHEM

CONTINUES PLAYING ON PA)

Don't cry! Hold it back!

Let it turn to something else.

Just let it turn to something else, okay?

Listen to me! Listen!

Don't cry. Don't you ever cry again

as long as you live.

As long as you live, never do it.

You hear me?

DANNY:
They're gonna kill us! All of us!

So why should we be different?

Let it turn to something else, Mattie.

Let it turn, let it turn.

(IN RUSSIAN) Take gasoline.

Hey, girl, what are you doing here?

Hey, beautiful, where are you going?

(PROTESTING)

(IN RUSSIAN) Forget the broad,

just get her stuff.

SOLDIER:
(IN RUSSIAN)

Where are you going?

You're so beautiful.

Wait, what's wrong with you?

Let's get her.

(WHIMPERING)

Run. This way.

(OFFICER ORDERING IN RUSSIAN)

Wolverines!

(IN RUSSIAN) It's cut... It's cut.

I've seen them before.

Nicaragua, El Salvador,

Cambodia, Angola and Mexico.

But these are my men!

(RUSSIAN ACCENT) Miss, maybe you speak

at me for a minute.

I'll be right back, okay?

- You bring girlfriend?

- Yeah.

Okay, I be right here. Bye.

(IN SPANISH) What is a '"Wolverine'"?

(RESPONDING IN SPANISH) A small animal

like a badger, but terribly ferocious.

It is also the name

of the local school sports collective.

They're beasts, Ernesto.

You must kill

every one of them eventually.

It's the same as Afghanistan.

They'll never stop.

Look, I was always

on the side of the insurgents.

I have no experience in these matters

but it would seem necessary

to win the support of the people.

As our opponents used to say

in Vietnam,

'"Win their hearts and minds.'"

And they lost, Ernesto...

That is true, General.

Things are paralyzed at the front, Ernesto.

Morale is crucial right now.

Keep the men in the secured areas.

You'll see how they forget

about these '"Wolverines.'"

(IN SPANISH) Are you alright?

Yes, go and check.

You were saying, comrade?

Shut up.

Doctor!

(IN RUSSIAN) Get a doctor...

What's going on here?

(JET ENGINES ROARING)

You American?

Red-blooded.

Yeah, what's the capital of Texas?

Austin.

Wrong, commie! It's Houston.

Please, darling. I'm cold.

You've seen too many movies.

Well, you hungry?

I could eat, yeah.

What kind of plane you fly?

Well, I did fly an F-15.

Here.

I'm an Eagle driver.

Here, take this.

I got this off a dead Russian Major.

- Major, huh?

- Yeah.

I guess it ought to fit on a Colonel.

You the honcho, sport?

Who are you?

Andrew Tanner, Lieutenant Colonel,

U.S. Air Force.

How did you

get yourself shot down, Colonel?

It was five to one. I got four.

I'm Jed.

How are you doing, Jed?

Good as can be.

West coast.

East coast.

Down here is Mexico.

First wave of the attack came in

disguised as a commercial charter flight,

same way they did in Afghanistan in '80.

Only they were crack airborne outfits.

They took these passes in the Rockies.

So that's what hit Calumet.

I guess so.

They coordinated

with selective nuke strikes,

and their missiles were hell of a lot

more accurate than we thought.

They took out silos here in the Dakotas

- and key points of communication.

- Like what?

Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.

Gone?

- Yeah, that's right.

- Jesus Christ.

Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico.

Cubans, mostly.

They managed to infiltrate

SAC bases in the Midwest,

several down in Texas.

Wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc.

They opened up the door down here

and the whole

Cuban and Nicaraguan armies

come walking right through,

rolled right up here

through the Great Plains.

How far did they get?

Cheyenne across to Kansas.

We held them at the Rockies

and at the Mississippi.

Anyway, the Russians reinforced

with 60 divisions.

Sent three whole army groups

across the Bering Strait, into Alaska.

Cut the pipeline, came across Canada

to link up here in the middle.

But we stopped their butt cold.

Lines have pretty much stabilized now.

What about Europe?

I guess they figured

twice in one century was enough.

They're sitting this one out.

All except England.

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