The General's Daughter Page #4

Why were you so stupid as to

leave your fingerprints everywhere?

- You panicked.

- I teach panic, remember?

Obviously I didn't plan for things

to work out this way. Paul ...

I so enjoy it when you take

the liberty of calling me Bobby.

We're still trying

to outsmart each other.

Obviously, I cannot tell a lie and

say I know nothing about all this.

I also, sadly,

cannot tell the truth.

Silence won't save your ass.

My ass is already in a sling,

is it not?

You mean the sex tapes?

You're good.

You're good ...

Great question.

Almost any answer incriminates me.

So let's cut the bullshit. We both

know I'm pretty much destroyed.

Can you think of any reason why

Liz should be destroyed with me?

Can you? I can't, Paul.

I watched the two of you

on one of her tapes.

I don't think so. Bluffing is the

last desperate act of the weak.

I'll not help you ruin that girl.

She's suffered enough. Leave it.

I'm all you've got.

- Wrong again. Hello, Captain.

- Hello.

Capt. Goodson is my lawyer.

- What you want to say to him ...

- ... I'll say to him.

- You can't bully my client.

- You're under arrest, Bobby.

Conduct unbecoming an officer,

accessory after the fact, -

- conspiracy,

making false statements.

And you're close to non-compliance

with procedural rules.

- Can I help you, ma'am?

- Just taking another look.

Was the bag

with the victim's clothes -

- going to be picked up

by her killer or by a third party?

- Five Charlie, do you copy?

- This is Five Charlie.

Maybe she was here

for a secret rendezvous.

A tryst.

Maybe the rape fantasy

was part of the thrill.

We all know she had a predilection

for the gamier side of sex.

Did she pick a public place because

it presented an element of..?

Hold that b*tch down!

Let me get in there.

This is the army, so tell Brenner

you don't sh*t on your brothers.

Rape investigator, huh?

Want to know what it feels like?

Maybe it'll make you better

at yourjob.

Number five.

- Got yourself a colonel this time?

- Shut up, Elkins.

You were acting as her shrink,

were you not?

The Elisabeth I met

was not the woman on the tape.

There's a direct connection,

isn't there?

Are you going to pull

my fingernails out now?

What happened sophomore year

at the Point?

Murder or accessory to murder!

Either way, you get burned.

Nobody's going to bail you out.

It was awful.

It was awful. Go ahead.

- She cheated, she lied, what?

- Worse.

- Drugs.

- Worse.

Rape.

- Worse.

- What's worse than rape?

When you find that out,

you'll know everything.

Tell me

what the hell happened, Bill.

The MP says he was ordered to leave

his post. No record of the call.

- I'm going to take it further.

- I'm pulling up, talk to me later.

- She's fine.

- Who did it?

Stupid, Elby. Take off identifying

jewellery before an attack.

What are you talking about?

I was in the ''O'' club all night.

She's crazy, and you're crazy.

Sorry about that. You just can't

get good Styrofoam these days.

Let's change the subject. What can

you tell me about Capt. Campbell?

She was raped and killed.

You know what rape usually is?

It's a woman

who changes her mind afterward.

Would you classify your relationship

with her as an intimate one?

- You mean, was I f***ing her?

- Yeah, that is what I mean.

Yeah, I was.

I only took it for sport f***ing.

I didn't think she'd tell him.

The b*tch told the general. She's

a freak, and that's what freaks do.

- Were the general and her close?

- No. You like your dad?

He was a drunk and a gambler.

I worshipped him.

I think I've said enough.

Co-operate, and maybe

we'll keep it out of the report.

With Elisabeth gone, the general has

a clear field to settle some scores.

And I'll be given

the opportunity to resign.

Maybe I can save my marriage.

Great, a Mrs Elby. What does she do,

aside from waking up and screaming?

- What do you mean, settle scores?

- I am done talking to you!

We just got started. I'll charge you

for the assault on Agent Sunhill.

See how you like 40 years

of sport f***ing in prison.

Okay, dare me.

Go ahead, motherf***er, dare me.

I'm going to ask you one more time.

- What do you mean, settle scores?

- Okay, okay ...

When she was alive -

- he couldn't touch her

without embarrassing himself.

He couldn't touch any of us -

- because he knew

she would spill all.

How would it look? The general's

daughter, banging his whole staff.

- Everybody. At least, most of them.

- What about the sheriff's son?

No, that was just for show.

She pulled a military train that

went through the general's staff, -

- the Judge Advocate,

and people like me in key positions.

What about Col. Fowler?

He once told me

he knew all about this.

And that I was part of the problem.

I think he meant that he wasn't.

- What do you think about this?

- I think it's insane.

Elisabeth once told me -

- she was conducting a field

experiment in psychological warfare.

And that the enemy was Daddy.

- You okay?

- I've been better.

I know. Most of them are married,

it's grounds for court martial ...

Their lives are over. But it's

a hell of a motive for murder.

- Our suspect list is multiplying.

- Now we know who's on the tapes.

Yeah, a bunch of creeps

risking it all for a piece of patch.

Sorry, I get back on the base and it

dredges up my alpha male behaviour.

- What's next, lighting your farts?

- Maybe, after we see more.

Where is he?

- Bill, where's Moore?

- He was released.

- Restricted to quarters.

- On whose orders?

Mine. It looked like he was having

a coronary. His lawyer complained.

He's a murder suspect!

His prints were all over the tags.

You never informed us. He was held

for conduct unbecoming, not murder.

I had no choice.

Moore?

I'm going in.

Oh, my God.

The organics on Elisabeth Campbell

came back. There's no sign of rape.

- What are your thoughts on this?

- Apparent suicide.

Close contact wound ...

and I don't buy it.

I'll check his hands

for gunpowder residue.

I'll let you know

if I find any inconsistencies.

Col. Kent!

Were you aware of Capt. Campbell's

extracurricular activities?

- How do you mean?

- You know what I mean.

There were rumours, innuendo.

I always took it as false bravado.

Soldiers bragging,

and that sort of thing.

There was more to it than that.

Mr Brenner.

We'll meet with the general about

releasing the official findings.

- What are you talking about?

- Moore was overwhelmed with guilt.

We need to close up shop. We'll give

a statement about Moore's suicide.

You don't understand. This is my

investigation, and it's still open.

Who the hell do you think you are?

It's over. Over!

- You'd better think of your career.

- You'd better think of yours.

You're running a lunatic base here.

You want to mess with me, Colonel?

Let's start gauging away.

You've been warned.

Move out.

What are you doing here, Yardley?

Shouldn't you be out

night-sticking the coloured folk?

Wait in the car,

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