The Wild Geese Page #7

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you've got to think about tomorrow

- That's Kalima

- Picturesque

- Sandy? - Sir? - Post guards,

send a patrol into the village

- Tosh, come on.

- Sir

This will do for now

If your white friends in South Africa

could see you now...

Oh, kaffir,

if you think you can ride me through the

bush like a mule and laugh at me,

you can bloody well crawl

We've carried you people on our backs

ever since we came to this country

It's the other way round I believe

Is it? You need me to save your

miserable black life right now

I do. And you need me to save yours

We need each other, white man

and that's the way it should be.

We've got the whole world using us,

setting group against group,

destroying Africa

For me, "freedom" is just a another

label for the upgrade of slavery

and the final bloodbath is coming,

between blacks and whites,

and then between black and black

when you whites have left

Africa without support

Man, we have built your countries

and now you are kicking us out

of almost all of them

You're living on foreign aid,

robbing your own people blind

You're crying about outside oppression

while killing each other

in great big batches

Now once you have

something better to offer

You come and see us

in the white South Africa

We both have something better to offer

Listen to me. Because the white

south will be next unless they learn

You're joking. The whites were born

here, we're just as African as you are

And don't make any mistake.

We're going to stay

I'm glad to hear that

You need to join us for a better future

Join you?

We've got to learn to care

for each other

or they'll be nothing left of our Africa

except battlefields

You have a point there.

But do you have an answer?

I have the will to look for one

We must forgive you for the past and you

must forgive us for the present

If we have no future together,

then we have no future

That's what I believe in,

and that's what I'm going to die for

You're beginning to sound good to me

Maybe we need you,

maybe you are just the man

Alright

Let's get moving

Maybe I'm a bloody fool,

but I'm going to take you there

Let's see if you are lying

Just hang on tight, bloke

Heavenly Father, what's going on?

What's going on?

Get out of my village

You heathens!

You Godless heathens!

Why did you come to my church?

I've got women and children,

waiting to be slaughtered

Tosh, why those shots?

It was nothing, sir. It was just a pig

Father Geoghagen... good God...

I thought you were dead... long ago

Looking at you and your guns... I am

We need your help

To kill your brothers?

I hope not

Always the same,

but I'm glad to see you

I hate the sight of you.

I want you out of my village

Let's talk about it over there

Come on, let's go

- Witty, over here.

- Get your lovely arses out of here

Witty's holding the fort!

Stay down!

Come on, my pretties. Show yourselves

Witty!

Pieter... come here

Come on my dears! Where are you?

Well look at you, you big bastards

What a shame we can't be friends

- Leave him to me.

- You're welcome

Don't worry. We'll make it

Come on, Colonel Faulkner

Leave me you will go faster

Oh no, kaffir

I have to bring you back

Don't die

Please don't die

Let's go

Spread out

Mr Limbani

Please

You can leave him now Mr President.

He's dead

- How do you feel?

- As you would say, Mr Faulkner,

I'm just hanging on

Tell me if I'm wrong

You want my people to rise up and fight

I'd like your country to be yours, sir

- Yes, so would I. But I think spears

against machine guns was not a plan

If you started it, there'd be

something to back us up

It's happened before

Copper can be powerfully persuasive

I've been through all of it with him,

and God knows we've got enough

commitment but we have no chance

I've heard all that before

I'll tell you now, the Simbas have got

a whole battalion out there

About an hour ago,

there's more following

What the devil are we doing here then?

Possibly saving a good man

for a better day

With 30 men? What are we meant

to do, walk out of Africa?

We could probably try running

Allen, believe me, these people have got

nothing to fight for

There's nowhere to run

God in heaven, it's true. I didn't truly

believe the rumour

We're a little pressed for time, Father

- You're Faulkner.

- That's right

Don't call me "Father",

you murdering pig

I have no time to discuss my

finer qualities with you now

Get those elders to have a look at him

I'd like to talk to my people

alone

I believe you want to start

a civil war here, Faulkner

You'd be responsible for slaughter

and starvation the likes of which

you've never seen

You'll be up to your eyes in blood...

and you'll die, Faulkner. And all of us

I'm against you. And God's against you

And if you'll excuse the blasphemy,

we're both tough sons of b*tches

That sort of talk could get

back to the Vatican, Father

You shut your mouth!

I will turn these people against you,

in spite of Limbani,

I curse you from every hill

Alright, that's enough!

The decision's being made in there

Alright

I offer you a bargain, Faulkner

About 3 miles from here,

through the bush

There's a mine airstrip,

with an old Dakota

just sitting on the side

You said what?

A Dakota. It's alright,

I've flown in it

And there's nothing between it and us,

but a deserted village

I'll lead you there myself

You've still got time to take Limbani

and leave us in peace

Well, Mr President

They say if they fight now, they'll die,

and they know it

They were willing,

but I can't do that, Mr Faulkner

I can't, do you understand?

I told them to bear their

spears and wait

and be ready for Limbani's return

They agreed

- Without understanding why.

- Alright

You rest here.

We're going to get you out

- We've got Limbani.

- Praise God

Praise Limbani. Now show us

where that aeroplane is

Shawn, take 4 men, check it out

and let me know

- We'll be following.

- Alright Allen

Sandy, get the men out and ready to move

We can't take the dead

Sir! Right, come on, at the double

You made the right decision, Allen

Limbani made it, I didn't

If he can't save his country from here,

the question is, what'll we do

with him once we get him out?

We knows? We may be back

again to do another contract

You never quit, do you?

If I did, I wouldn't have

a future would I? Also...

don't laugh, but, er...

- that man in there...

- I know, he got to you, right?

Yes

There you are, boys

There she is, over there

Good afternoon

- Are you gonna fly this thing, or am I?

- What?

Keep going

We were lucky, Colonel

Yes, they could be anywhere.

We'll have to go ahead

Rafer, you're the rear-guard.

Take 3 men, stick close to us

Jesse, take point and go like hell

- Sandy, look after Mr Limbani.

- Yes sir

- When there's no-one else about you

can call me Allen. - Yes sir

I think we've been spotted,

don't call back and

don't start up until we get there.

I want it quiet. Out

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