Red Dawn Page #4

They won't last very long.

The Russians need to take us in one piece.

That's why they're here now.

That's why they won't use nukes anymore

and we won't either.

Not on our own soil.

The whole damn thing's

pretty conventional now.

Who knows?

Maybe next week will be swords.

What started it?

I don't know.

Two toughest kids on the block, I guess.

Sooner or later they're gonna fight.

That simple?

Maybe somebody forgot what it was like.

Who is on our side?

Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.

Last I heard,

there were a billion screaming Chinamen.

There were.

You got a family?

I don't know.

They got caught behind the lines

down in Texas.

I like to think they're alive,

but I hear stories

about what they're doing to civilians.

Colonel.

- Get up.

- What?

We're taking off, we're gonna go

shoot up an armored column.

Let's go. Early bird gets the worm.

Early bird gets the worm.

Watch those claymores in the trees.

Matt, RPG!

Now, what do you think?

Not bad for a bunch of kids, huh?

Your mom would be real proud.

AND Y:
You think you're tough

for eating beans every day?

There's half a million scarecrows in Denver

would give anything

for one mouthful of what you got.

They've been under siege

for about three months.

They live on rats and sawdust bread

and sometimes

on each other.

At night

the pyres for the dead light up the sky.

It's medieval.

All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid.

Keeps me warm.

Colonel,

are we doing right?

You've made a new friend.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah.

She doesn't say much, does she?

No.

Something happened to her.

All right, plane, plane, plane, plane.

Cuban bunker, Russian bunker,

munitions dump, troop tents.

Machine gun bunkers here,

here, here, and here.

Back here by the drive-in screen

are your political prisoners.

All right. We'll cause a diversion over here,

cut holes in the wire here,

fire on these machine gun positions.

The B-group comes across this area

in a flanking maneuver.

When you reach this bunker

you lay down grazing fire on this duffle-A.

I think that's pretty simple.

Anybody got any questions so far?

What's a flank?

ERICA:
A duffle-A?

Yeah. What's grazing fire?

- I need a drink.

- Why don't we shoot at them?

MAN ON PA:
Step into the line

(IN SPANISH) Help! Listen to me,

The Wolverines are attacking!

Follow me quickly.

Hurry, hurry!

ROBERT:
Wolverines!

Move! Take it! Go!

- Come on!

- Quick! Get out of here!

Come on! Here's your chance! Move!

We're all gonna die! Die standing up!

Grenade!

(BIDS FAREWELL IN RUSSIAN)

GENERAL:
(IN RUSSIAN) Children did this.

It's rebels.

What rebels? They're bandits.

Every time they shoot,

the revolution grows.

I know. I was a partisan.

And now what are you?

Now I'm like you,

a policeman.

All right, Colonel!

All right. And he's down.

Great play by Matt Eckert.

All right.

- Huddle up, folks.

- Right.

JED:
That's a pretty good catch.

ROBERT:
You cover Matt in this play.

Are you okay?

It's hard down on the ground, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- Come on, old man. Come on.

Come down here.

How old's your wife?

How old's your wife?

Eighty.

What's she like?

Old like me.

What's she really like?

Feisty.

Like you.

Where did you meet her?

You really wanna know this stuff?

Yeah.

I met her in a closet at a party.

Couldn't stand her at first.

But once it took,

(CLICKS TONGUE)

I loved her so bad, it hurt.

Still love her like that?

Are you quitters playing or what?

No!

Fine.

- Come on!

- Good catch, Robert.

They brought their kids.

They didn't have food

to feed them through the winter.

They want to give them to you, Jed.

This is enough, Mr. Mason.

I don't want any more.

You're a leader now.

They've heard of you on the other side.

Maybe all the way to California.

And there are some that say

they're gonna drop in some special forces

in the spring, to help you out.

Green Berets.

Spring's a long time away.

It's a lot of talk until then.

(SONIC BOOM)

(JET ENGINES ROARING)

It's ours! It's ours!

How can you tell?

It's ours.

Yeah.

Fry 'em.

Jesus.

You gotta cross that.

Just part of it.

Hope our guys are still there.

So this is a battlefield.

It's a real war, kid.

It's here every day.

Come with me, Jed.

You can quit now.

Could you?

Don't give me that crap.

Wake up in the morning.

Grow old.

Move it! Come on! Move it!

Let's go! Let's go!

Get down!

Down! Down! Down!

Stay down! He can't see us!

DANNY:
He's looking for us!

Sure is.

(DANNY EX CLAIMING IN FEAR)

I can't stand it!

Get down!

- Get down, get down!

- Shut up!

Get down!

(DANNY SCREAMING)

All right, run! Everybody get out of here!

What are you doing?

God damn it!

Christ.

(SCREAMING)

MATT:
Coming up there!

(MACHINE GUNS FIRING)

I got him!

Get out of here, Jed!

There's a world of hurt coming down!

- Get out!

- I'm staying with you, Colonel!

JED:
Take him out with the RPG, man!

ROBERT:
Give me another rocket!

Aardvark!

Eat me!

(GROANING)

No! No!

Come on, buddies, come and get them!

Shoot straight for once,

you army pukes.

No!

It's useless. He's dead!

Let's go!

Go! Go!

(TANK TURRET WHIRRING)

I'll never love anybody.

I'll never love anybody again.

If you didn't love anybody,

you'd never even be here.

Where are we gonna bury him?

What's left to bury?

Oh, God. Oh, God.

These were good friends.

Take them away from here.

Someplace safe

where this war's never happened.

And as we remember,

please let them forget, O Lord,

so they can be little again.

Amen.

MATT:
(WHISPERING) Jed.

(HISSING) Jed.

What are you whispering for?

Feels quiet.

You should get some sleep.

It's getting late.

I'm okay.

It's kind of strange, isn't it?

How the mountains

pay us no attention at all.

You laugh or you cry,

the wind just keeps on blowing.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

You're getting pretty lean on feelings,

aren't you?

Can't afford them.

Even if that had been me?

I was talking to the group, Jed.

Doesn't look good.

They're all talking about quitting.

Seems like they lost the stomach for it.

Except for Robert.

And you?

I'm your brother.

Just make it count.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN RUSSIAN) Attention!

(IN RUSSIAN) Be seated, comrades.

What I despise most about warfare

is the hypocrisy it often breeds.

I've heard euphemisms

that we are containing the enemy

that our sector of pacification is growing.

These are the tactics of the lie.

Lies have the stench of death and defeat.

You can only win a war

by exterminating the enemy.

Do you know who we are fighting?

We are fighting wolverines,

small ferocious animals.

For them you need a hunter.

And you know, I am a hunter.

From this moment on,

there will be no further reprisals

against civilians.

That was stupid.

Impotence.

Comrades,

if a fox stole your chickens,

would you slaughter your pig

because he saw the fox? No.

You would hunt the fox,

find where it lives and destroy it.

And how do we do this?

Become a fox.

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