The Wild Geese Page #8

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Father, I think you should get on

your ass and vacate the premises

You're likely to get your

sainthood shot off

I'll do that

Good luck, you Godless murderers

That's one of the most moving

benedictions I ever heard

Merry Christmas to you, Father

What's left of it

Sandy, there's your killing ground

Take Tosh and 4 other men and

set up a field of fire

Rafer & I will go deep around

& take them in the flank

We're losing light. I wouldn't want

to take this wreck up in the dark

We could try and find them, sir,

and lead them in

We don't know where they're coming from

Derek, you stay with me. Jock, take the

Vickers and set it up this end

Quincy, help me move this out of here

Come on, move

Set it up here

We're dead

Esposito, you're not dead until

I TELL you you're dead, understand?

Wait

Wait

Wait

Fire fire fire fire!

Forward!

Keep going!

Let's go!

Hold it! They're ours, too

Put Mr Limbani on the 'plane first.

The other 4 will cover

We have to wait for Sandy and the group

Rafer, Jock, set up cover on the

edge of the airstrip, move

- Mr Limbani alright, Daniel?

- Yes, he is

Move!

Come on, Allen!

Move your bloody arses!

Hurry up and get on

- It's moving!

- Stay down! They're getting closer

Hit them with the bazooka!

Ready!

Let's go!

Get on board, fast. Come on

Sandy, go!

Cover us halfway. When you hear

the guns, start running, we'll cover you

We won't wait for you,

we're running out of ammo

ALLEN!

Sandy!...

Sandy!

- Leave him, he's dead.

- Yes sir

Come on

Rafer! Come on! Come on!

Come on, Rafer!

Shawn, stop the plane

I can't, if we don't get off on the

first run, we've had it

Go!

Rafer, come on!

Hang on, Rafer

- Hold on.

- Allen!

Allen, shoot me!

For God's sakes, shoot me!

No, I can't! No!

Stop the plane

Emile!

Where are we heading?

South Rhodesia

That's 800 miles,

we don't have the fuel

We better have it,

there's no other place to go

Shawn... I killed Rafer

The Simbas would've

chopped him into small pieces

Allen, go and see how the men are

There's 13 of us left

Tell them to jettison everything

that's not nailed down

Everything! Do it

Mr Limbani's getting worse, sir

It was a very good try, Mr Faulkner

It's not over, just hang on.

Don't give up now

About Mr Janders...

There was nothing else you could do

- How's Jock?

- He's dead, sir

Why? What was it for, sir?

I don't know

Alright

We have to get rid of

everything on board

That includes old Jock.

I'll leave it with you, Sergeant

Yes, sir

Gennaro, get his legs

How much fuel do we have left?

Bad... we're on the auxiliary tanks

Salisbury control,

9 Quebec November X-Ray Alpha

on 6603

Do you read? Over?

9 Quebec November X-Ray Alpha

This is Salisbury.

State your destination, over

Mercenary unit, departing Kalima.

7 wounded on board

Urgently request permission

to land, Kariba

If they refuse, keep on talking

X-Ray Alpha, stand-by

We're going to need positive proof

that you're on board

Write this down

Got a pen?

X-ray Alpha,

this is Salisbury Control, come in

Allen!

Reading you at strength 4, over

Permission to land denied.

Do not cross our borders

For Christ's sakes man, we have wounded

on board, we can sort it out later, over

I repeat, do not cross our borders

Our air force has been alerted

Give that to me

We would be forced to shoot you down

Salisbury... X-ray Alpha

Now you listen to me. Julius Limbani

is on board and he's alive

Note this down and pass

it to the highest authority

you can find

Allen, look at the starboard fuel gauge

Mr Limbani said there was a

secret meeting in July of 1960

on the now Zambian-Zaire border

concerning federal intervention

in the Congo crisis

Present at the meeting

were the following:

Julius Limbani...

Brace yourselves,

we've only got one engine

The man is dead, Mr Faulkner

Now only the spirit remains

November X-ray Alpha, this is Salisbury.

Authorisation to land at Kariba

We will turn the lights on

You'll see it just before the lake.

Good luck

Thank you. Allen...

I heard

Limbani's dead

OK, thanks

Goodbye, bon voyage

Will there be anything else

this evening, sir?

No, thanks

Good night, sir

Yes, what is it, Andrew?

There will be something more tonight,

Sir Edward

Go ahead and make your move

That would be mate in two.

I'd like to see you get out of that

That's for another time

There are 6 servants in this house

I saw at least ten. How did you count?

What do you want, Faulkner?

You're a very bad conversationalist!

You'll have to excuse me,

I've had a very tiring evening

I heard, I was in the drawing room

I know you're dying to tell me.

How did you get in?

I did a crash course

in how to trip alarms

You're not very well protected

And I guess you're dying to know

how I got back to England?

Yes, indeed

Well, if I went into details,

we'd be here all night

Let's just say it wasn't easy

I'm sure it wasn't

You're a remarkable man, Faulkner

I have contracts to kill you world-wide

When I have time I'll grow a moustache

and buy a pair of dark glasses

In the meantime,

I have my own contract to carry out

- On me?

- That's why I'm here

Perhaps we can make an arrangement

Yes, we can

You owe me a great deal of money

Also there are 11 men still alive

And I haven't even counted

the women and orphans yet

Let's have a look at your safe

After you. Very slowly

I've turned off the alarm already.

Open it

All the money in the case

- I see you came prepared.

- Yes

Dollars, very good

Very good, thousand dollar bills

I wager the US treasury

wonders where they went

Now tell me about the arrangement

Now

500,000 dollars

Half of what I owe you

I lift all the contracts on your head

and pay the other half in cash,

wherever you choose

- And I trust you?

- Yes

And naturally, I don't kill you?

Correct

Do you know, I had a speech prepared

I'd been rehearsing it for 3 months.

It was pretty good

All about betrayal and lost friends.

A sort of passionate requiem

And naturally, what a filthy

cold-blooded monster you are

That part was very eloquent

It even went into the philosophical

implications

of the relationship between

a mercenary and his employer

You'd have been impressed

But right now, face to face with you

I don't want to go through all that

See, I don't mind taking money from you

But having you offer

me money for the lives

of all those bodies littering Africa

is actually degrading

So I turn down your arrangement

I see...

Well, then I suppose

you'd better kill me

You're a remarkable man too, Sir Edward

So I suppose I better had

Now just wait a minute!

Wait...

Can I ask how it went?

No

I thought so

Send the ball back, Emile

Let's talk about your Father

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