Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden Page #3

Team leader at 31.

Wonder kid flying up

the command chain.

Why don't you just relax?

STUNNER:
I'm relaxed.

I'm always relaxed.

I'm just getting tired of you

runnin' your mouth all the time.

CHERRY:
I get tired

of explaining

how we let a little old lady

blow up D-Punch.

MULE:
Hey, Skipper.

What's up?

LT. COMMANDER:

Square things up here.

Meet me outside.

CHERRY:
Y'all leave a good tip.

LT. COMMANDER:
We're still

the alert squadron.

And I just got word

that we're being placed

under operational controls

of the Agency's Special

Activities Division for this op,

at Admiral McRaven's

personal direction.

I don't know the target yet.

Whatever it is,

it's important to someone.

So say goodbye

to your wives and kids,

your girlfriends, your Harleys,

your pets, whatever.

Load off you guys at 04.

Looks like we may

have the opportunity

to get payback for D-Punch

sooner than we expected.

Hopefully you guys

have had enough time

to get your heads straight.

Okay?

ALL:
Okay.

WASEEM:
Wait.

Hold on a second.

MALIK:
What?

WASEEM:
Never mind.

It was nothing.

VIVIAN:
Morning, sir.

Vivian Hollins,

Senior Counterintelligence

Threat Analyst.

I was at CTC

during Operation Anaconda.

Your recon on that mission

saved hundreds of lives.

If you hadn't taken out

that SAM position,

it would have been a blood bath.

LT. COMMANDER:

That was a credit to the men.

GUIDRY:
We had a ghost detainee,

a known Al-Qaeda courier

lead us to the suspected

location of a high-value target.

And the DCI wants us to put an

immediate action plan in place.

We've opened the file and

started the planning cycle.

The HVT is in a walled compound.

The main building is surrounded

by 12-foot walls,

two gated

and guarded entry points.

No telephone lines, no Internet.

Trash is incinerated.

Kids are home-schooled.

STUNNER:
How many kids?

GUIDRY:
13, maybe 14.

LT. COMMANDER:

It's a goddamn Madrassa.

There are at least seven

armed military age males

in the compound.

GUIDRY:
This structure here

on top of the main building

looks like it could have

been designed as a station

for some sort of

antiaircraft equipment.

And intelligence indicates

that the target has access

to Stinger missiles.

LT. COMMANDER:

And there are reports

that there are 2,000 pounds

of C4 in this main structure,

rigged to a light switch.

GUIDRY:
NRO has a dedicated

satellite watching the compound.

Since this began, analysts have,

on several occasions,

recognized the man who appears

taller than the rest.

Proportional shadow measurements

put his height at 6'5".

He doesn't seem to participate

in daily chores.

He just kind of walks around.

We've nicknamed him "The Pacer."

We've got boots on the ground

trying to verify his identity.

LT. COMMANDER:

Is this a permissive

or non-permissive environment?

GUIDRY:
Non permissive.

STUNNER:
Capture or kill?

LT. COMMANDER:
Well, it's a CIA

Special Activities mission.

GUIDRY:
We are comfortable

with either outcome.

We've narrowed it down

to three options.

Our job is to present

all three to the President

so he can make the most informed

decision possible.

The first option is a joint raid

with the host nation.

However,

there is no way of knowing

if the target is in league

with the host government.

So this operation runs the real

risk of his being tipped off.

LT. COMMANDER:
Option two:

helicopter assault.

That's where we come in.

STUNNER:
And how are we in, sir?

LT. COMMANDER:
DF160.

Night Stalkers

will handle transport.

GUIDRY:

We all remember Eagle Claw,

1980 failed mission

to rescue hostages in Iran.

Poor planning

led to two downed aircraft

and eight dead.

TRENCH:

What about tunneling under?

It would be a lot quieter

than bringing in two birds

into a rural environment.

GUIDRY:
The compound

was built in a flood basin.

Water table's

too high to tunnel.

Third and final option

is to simply level the compound

with a JDAM.

With this option

comes the added complication

of collateral damage

and the inability to verify

that he was ever there.

LT. COMMANDER:

But you're still not sure

if the target's in there.

You're still not

one hundred percent.

GUIDRY:
A hundred percent's

hard to come by these days.

Stacy.

J.J.

May I have a word in my office?

LT. COMMANDER:
About what?

GUIDRY:
In my office.

Have a seat, please.

LT. COMMANDER:
No, thank you.

GUIDRY:
I'm sure

I don't have to tell you

how delicate this mission is...

how professional errors

can be compounded

by secrecy and concealment.

However, in my opinion,

you are the exception.

LT. COMMANDER:
I'm not sure

I understand what you're saying.

GUIDRY:
I'm saying that

you are the type of man

whose judgment I shouldn't have

to question or second guess.

And this file

doesn't say any differently.

However, there is one page

that is cause for concern.

LT. COMMANDER:
Which is?

GUIDRY:
Your wife.

But I would expect

that you won't let the past

cloud your decision making

or lead you to put your team

into any unnecessary danger.

LT. COMMANDER:
It's a job.

I'm not interested

in punishment or revenge.

I care about mission success.

Getting my men home safely.

GUIDRY:
So do I.

Good luck.

[indistinct

cheering and yelling]

LT. COMMANDER:

All right, lovers!

Break it up! Break it up!

Sauce, you've got a visitor.

SAUCE:
Hey! Come here.

LT. COMMANDER:

She's on our team now.

Take her through

the drills, okay?

Just know there's

2,340 other dogs

that would love

to take her place.

You got that, people?

You got that?

TEAM:
Yes, sir!

LT. COMMANDER:
You think

you're so important?

You put your finger in a bucket

of water, you pull it out,

you see how fast

that hole fills up.

Every one of us is replaceable,

including me.

CHERRY:
If you ain't

been out on a mission with us,

you ain't trained with us...

you can't know how we are.

You can't know

how we communicate.

All right?

You just don't.

You take Stunner, right?

He's a team leader,

hell of a soldier.

And that just, uh...

[chuckles]

That don't mean I'm not gonna

set his ass straight

if, you know,

I feel like he needs it.

So, no, when lives are at stake,

you got no business

hidin' behind protocol.

You know.

STUNNER:
You got

something to say to me?

CHERRY:
What?

STUNNER:
You got something

to say to me?

CHERRY:
I don't think so.

Not with a gun in your hand.

STUNNER:
You know, if you think

you should be team leader,

you should run off to the CO

and make your case.

CHERRY:
I think

you're a good leader.

I just don't think

you have what it takes

to fight this enemy and win.

This ain't the Boy Scouts.

If D Punch were here,

he'd say the same thing.

All right.

LT. COMMANDER:

What are you doin'?

Really?

If you boys can't reconcile this

right here, right now,

I need to know right now!

CHERRY:
We're good.

STUNNER:
We're good.

LT. COMMANDER:
Good.

You better be.

Get out of here.

You, stay.

What's the deal, huh?

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