1
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Look here, boy, I want you out.

2
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Yeah! Play it, Luther!

3
00:01:54,804 --> 00:01:57,888
Oh, honey, play it.
Play it soft now, Luther.

4
00:02:09,986 --> 00:02:13,604
See, that's what I was trying to tell you...
Sarge?

5
00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:18,440
He's so drunk.

6
00:02:31,298 --> 00:02:32,627
He's drunk.

7
00:02:43,769 --> 00:02:47,683
What in the hell does he think he's doing?
That drunken...

8
00:03:20,264 --> 00:03:22,386
TYNIN, LOUISIANA - 1944

9
00:03:56,549 --> 00:03:58,209
They still...

10
00:03:59,094 --> 00:04:00,504
...hate you.

11
00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,300
They still...

12
00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,427
...hate you.

13
00:04:43,679 --> 00:04:47,428
You can put your arms down
when the search team finishes with you.

14
00:04:47,850 --> 00:04:52,595
We don't want anybody from this fort
going into Tynin looking for rednecks.

15
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- May I speak, sir?
- Cobb?

16
00:04:55,149 --> 00:04:58,020
Colonel Nivens must know
nobody colored killed the Sarge.

17
00:04:58,110 --> 00:05:00,233
Well, this is precautionary, Cobb.

18
00:05:00,321 --> 00:05:03,820
We can't have the Army
engaged in revenge on civilians.

19
00:05:03,908 --> 00:05:07,442
- Sir, are there any suspects?
- None.

20
00:05:07,536 --> 00:05:10,822
Come on, now.
Everybody knows it was the Klan.

21
00:05:12,541 --> 00:05:14,498
Were you an eyewitness, soldier?

22
00:05:14,585 --> 00:05:18,998
They lynched Jefferson the week
I got here. Two weeks after that it was...

23
00:05:19,340 --> 00:05:22,294
Unless you saw it,
you keep your opinions to yourself.

24
00:05:22,384 --> 00:05:23,499
Yes, sir.

25
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- And that applies to everybody else.
- Yes, sir!

26
00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,766
Tynin has been placed
off-limits to all enlisted personnel.

27
00:05:32,853 --> 00:05:33,932
Come on, Captain.

28
00:05:34,021 --> 00:05:38,979
Any man found in the town will be
immediately subject to court-martial.

29
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Sergeant Waters' replacement
will be assigned in a couple of weeks.

30
00:05:43,947 --> 00:05:45,774
Until then, Cobb...

31
00:05:46,617 --> 00:05:50,151
...you're barrack's NCO. Any questions?

32
00:05:52,706 --> 00:05:54,034
Carry on.

33
00:05:57,961 --> 00:05:59,539
Now, what do you think?

34
00:06:01,590 --> 00:06:05,290
Taylor and that goddamn colonel,
they know who killed Waters.

35
00:06:05,385 --> 00:06:07,841
Anybody feel like playing with me
some Pitty Pat?

36
00:06:07,929 --> 00:06:10,551
Wilkie, I thought all you could play
was flunky.

37
00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,345
Yeah. Wilkie, whose ass
are you gonna kiss...

38
00:06:13,435 --> 00:06:15,511
...now that your Number One ass is dead?

39
00:06:15,604 --> 00:06:18,854
You know what you can do for me, Henson.
You too, Peterson.

40
00:06:18,940 --> 00:06:21,941
- Take it easy.
- Look, I'm the one that lost three stripes.

41
00:06:22,027 --> 00:06:25,645
I'm the only man here with kids.
So when the man said "jump," I jumped.

42
00:06:25,739 --> 00:06:29,238
Come on, don't put your wife and kids
between you and Waters' ass.

43
00:06:29,325 --> 00:06:32,741
I don't kiss nobody's ass, Henson.
I just wanted my stripes back.

44
00:06:32,829 --> 00:06:35,746
You ain't never been no place.
You ain't never had nothin'.

45
00:06:35,832 --> 00:06:40,245
You can't understand a man like me.
I was once top sergeant of this platoon.

46
00:06:40,336 --> 00:06:43,670
Yeah? Well, now you ain't nothin'.
Nothin', Wilkie.

47
00:07:06,696 --> 00:07:10,563
Recruits, over here.
Let me see your passes. Let's go!

48
00:07:19,458 --> 00:07:21,534
Wake up, boy!

49
00:07:22,461 --> 00:07:24,253
You said Tynin, didn't you?

50
00:07:25,506 --> 00:07:27,463
Yeah.

51
00:07:27,967 --> 00:07:29,342
Come on, boy.

52
00:07:30,886 --> 00:07:32,345
Let's go!

53
00:07:57,037 --> 00:07:58,780
Captain Davenport?

54
00:08:02,918 --> 00:08:07,829
Corporal Ellis, at your disposal, sir.
I'm to take you to Colonel Nivens, sir.

55
00:08:08,465 --> 00:08:11,751
- Well, let's get rolling, soldier.
- Yes, sir.

56
00:08:19,017 --> 00:08:22,351
Yes, sir, Captain Davenport.

57
00:08:23,814 --> 00:08:25,522
We're rolling, Captain.

58
00:09:09,233 --> 00:09:12,567
This is where they killed
Sergeant Waters last month, sir.

59
00:09:14,113 --> 00:09:16,783
Why did you say,
"They" killed him, Corporal?

60
00:09:18,910 --> 00:09:20,108
Who's "they"?

61
00:09:20,328 --> 00:09:24,242
The Klan, sir. They ain't too crazy
about us tan Yanks down here.

62
00:09:54,945 --> 00:09:57,483
I suppose whoever drove you in
from the station...

63
00:09:57,573 --> 00:10:00,609
...showed you the spot
where the killing took place.

64
00:10:00,910 --> 00:10:04,859
Told you I had all the troops'
personal effects searched for weapons.

65
00:10:07,625 --> 00:10:09,167
He tell you all that?

66
00:10:09,752 --> 00:10:12,753
Is there a point
the colonel is trying to make, sir?

67
00:10:13,255 --> 00:10:14,630
There's a point.

68
00:10:16,884 --> 00:10:20,217
This thing has been blown
all the hell out of shape.

69
00:10:20,763 --> 00:10:22,589
This is the Army's business.

70
00:10:22,973 --> 00:10:24,882
Not the NAACP.

71
00:10:25,350 --> 00:10:26,975
Not the Negro press.

72
00:10:27,227 --> 00:10:30,394
Not those paper-shufflin'
desk jockeys in Washington.

73
00:10:31,523 --> 00:10:34,061
I was brought up in the South, Davenport.

74
00:10:34,610 --> 00:10:37,065
You ever hear of Threadgill County,
Alabama?

75
00:10:37,154 --> 00:10:38,862
No, sir.

76
00:10:41,742 --> 00:10:43,117
No matter.

77
00:10:45,245 --> 00:10:48,696
I've been commanding colored troops
all my life, Davenport.

78
00:10:49,624 --> 00:10:52,910
The worst thing you can do
in this part of the country...

79
00:10:53,086 --> 00:10:57,629
...is pay too much attention to the death of
a Negro under mysterious circumstances.

80
00:10:57,716 --> 00:10:59,293
Especially a soldier.

81
00:10:59,384 --> 00:11:01,957
People get itchy. Uneasy.

82
00:11:02,512 --> 00:11:05,430
White folk in the town,
colored at the fort...

83
00:11:06,683 --> 00:11:08,676
...keep turning this thing over.

84
00:11:09,269 --> 00:11:12,435
Sooner or later,
you're bound to have an explosion.

85
00:11:13,523 --> 00:11:18,149
Now, I've lived here in Hunter Parish
for three years.

86
00:11:19,654 --> 00:11:23,070
I'm fond of the place. I like the duty.

87
00:11:24,075 --> 00:11:25,486
You get my meaning?

88
00:11:25,577 --> 00:11:27,486
What is it you want, Colonel?

89
00:11:27,579 --> 00:11:30,663
I want whatever you came here to do
completed in three days.

90
00:11:30,748 --> 00:11:33,535
Sir, I request immediate permission
to notify Washington.

91
00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:35,868
- Permission denied.
- I'm under direct orders...

92
00:11:35,962 --> 00:11:38,667
I don't care if Roosevelt himself sent you!

93
00:11:38,756 --> 00:11:43,169
I'm trying to keep my colored troops from
going into that town and killing somebody.

94
00:11:43,261 --> 00:11:45,384
I don't care what you think.

95
00:11:45,930 --> 00:11:48,219
You can always return to Washington
if you like.

96
00:11:48,307 --> 00:11:52,850
No, sir. I was assigned this case
and I intend to file a report, sir.

97
00:11:58,109 --> 00:12:00,351
Here are your instructions and our reports.

98
00:12:00,444 --> 00:12:04,489
Captain Taylor's men will help you
get settled. Taylor was Waters' CO.

99
00:12:05,157 --> 00:12:07,150
That'll be all, Davenport.

100
00:12:14,083 --> 00:12:15,281
And...

101
00:12:15,501 --> 00:12:16,995
...Captain...

102
00:12:17,795 --> 00:12:22,753
Remember, you're the first colored officer
most of these men have ever seen.

103
00:12:23,551 --> 00:12:27,169
The Army expects you to set an example
for the colored troops...

104
00:12:27,388 --> 00:12:29,546
...and be a credit to your race.

105
00:12:30,391 --> 00:12:32,763
Is that clear, Captain?

106
00:12:35,145 --> 00:12:36,889
Yes, Colonel.

107
00:12:43,070 --> 00:12:44,315
Sir?

108
00:12:45,697 --> 00:12:47,192
Sir, are you all right?

109
00:12:47,407 --> 00:12:51,156
- Would you like to go to your quarters?
- No, I'll see Captain Taylor first.

110
00:12:51,245 --> 00:12:54,530
You don't want to unpack, sir?
Freshen up? It didn't go too good...

111
00:12:54,623 --> 00:12:55,951
You got a hearing problem?

112
00:12:56,041 --> 00:12:58,449
No, sir! My ears are big.
I was born with them.

113
00:12:58,543 --> 00:13:01,461
It runs in my family.
My grandmother had big ears...

114
00:13:21,566 --> 00:13:23,891
I used to drive a fire truck, Captain.

115
00:13:24,319 --> 00:13:27,190
Then the Army took
and let me drive an ambulance.

116
00:13:27,864 --> 00:13:32,491
I've been driving this jeep for six months.
Only turned over twice.

117
00:13:34,204 --> 00:13:36,492
- Twice?
- Yes, sir.

118
00:13:37,499 --> 00:13:38,661
Good.

119
00:14:08,362 --> 00:14:10,320
Good afternoon, sir.

120
00:14:18,623 --> 00:14:20,165
Sergeant Washington, sir.

121
00:14:20,249 --> 00:14:21,625
Can I help you, Captain?

122
00:14:21,709 --> 00:14:23,998
Captain Davenport to see Captain Taylor.

123
00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,255
Just a moment, sir.

124
00:14:29,425 --> 00:14:30,540
Yes?

125
00:14:31,969 --> 00:14:34,128
Captain Davenport to see you, sir.

126
00:14:34,305 --> 00:14:35,680
Send him in.

127
00:14:35,765 --> 00:14:37,093
Yes, sir.

128
00:14:38,684 --> 00:14:41,602
Every member of the lodge
is rooting for you, sir.

129
00:14:51,614 --> 00:14:53,322
- Have a seat.
- Thank you.

130
00:14:53,908 --> 00:14:56,481
I like your flowers, Captain.

131
00:15:00,205 --> 00:15:01,368
Where's he from?

132
00:15:01,457 --> 00:15:05,406
He's from Washington, DC.
He's here on special assignment.

133
00:15:05,878 --> 00:15:07,040
Washington?

134
00:15:07,296 --> 00:15:08,624
Yes, sir.

135
00:15:09,047 --> 00:15:11,123
You gotta be shittin' me.

136
00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,590
So, they assigned a lawyer
to the Military Police?

137
00:15:17,723 --> 00:15:20,048
Where'd you graduate at law school?

138
00:15:20,434 --> 00:15:22,177
Howard University.

139
00:15:22,686 --> 00:15:24,679
Your parents rich or something?

140
00:15:24,771 --> 00:15:26,894
No, my father's a mailman.

141
00:15:29,359 --> 00:15:34,151
I graduated at the Point.
I didn't see any Negroes at the Point.

142
00:15:34,531 --> 00:15:36,903
In fact, I never saw a Negro until I was...

143
00:15:36,992 --> 00:15:39,530
...I think, 12 or 13.

144
00:15:39,744 --> 00:15:42,235
Have you seen my orders, Captain?

145
00:15:42,497 --> 00:15:45,119
Yes, as soon as Colonel Nivens
received them.

146
00:15:45,750 --> 00:15:49,582
Look, I think it only fair to tell you...

147
00:15:50,255 --> 00:15:52,164
...that had I known you'd be a Negro...

148
00:15:52,257 --> 00:15:56,124
...I would have requested the immediate
suspension of the investigation.

149
00:15:56,219 --> 00:15:59,505
- Now, look, may I speak freely?
- You haven't stopped yet.

150
00:16:00,473 --> 00:16:04,803
Look, these local people aren't going
to charge a white man in this parish...

151
00:16:04,894 --> 00:16:06,009
...on your say-so.

152
00:16:06,104 --> 00:16:07,515
Nivens knows that.

153
00:16:07,605 --> 00:16:11,354
He doesn't give a damn about this killing.
Your being here proves it.

154
00:16:11,442 --> 00:16:13,234
They're making a fool out of you.

155
00:16:13,319 --> 00:16:15,989
Can't you see?
Will you take off those damn sunglasses?

156
00:16:16,072 --> 00:16:18,943
I like these. They're like MacArthur's.

157
00:16:19,492 --> 00:16:22,778
All right now, look.
Let me explain something to you.

158
00:16:23,079 --> 00:16:27,955
You go near Tynin in your uniform,
sounding white and charging local people...

159
00:16:28,084 --> 00:16:30,456
...and you'll wind up
just as dead as Waters.

160
00:16:30,545 --> 00:16:32,454
This isn't Washington, Davenport.

161
00:16:32,547 --> 00:16:34,171
I know where I am.

162
00:16:34,257 --> 00:16:37,875
Do you know how many times
I've asked Nivens to look into this killing?

163
00:16:37,969 --> 00:16:40,175
Every day since it happened.

164
00:16:40,263 --> 00:16:43,797
- Do you suspect someone?
- Don't play lawyer with me, soldier!

165
00:16:43,891 --> 00:16:46,845
With you on this case,
we are not going to get anywhere.

166
00:16:46,936 --> 00:16:49,688
Like it or not, Captain, I am all you've got.

167
00:16:49,772 --> 00:16:52,263
Your orders instruct you to cooperate.

168
00:16:54,485 --> 00:16:55,683
Now...

169
00:16:56,445 --> 00:16:58,568
...is there anything else?

170
00:16:59,865 --> 00:17:02,321
- Ellis!
- Yes, sir?

171
00:17:02,493 --> 00:17:05,494
Captain Davenport will need
some assistance with the men.

172
00:17:05,579 --> 00:17:08,948
- You'll excuse me, won't you, Captain?
- I'm glad I met you.

173
00:17:10,709 --> 00:17:11,990
Captain.

174
00:17:24,139 --> 00:17:26,298
I hope we get to fight soon, sir.

175
00:17:26,642 --> 00:17:29,596
Next, they'll have us picking
this year's cotton crop.

176
00:17:29,687 --> 00:17:32,937
Don't worry, Corporal.
They don't grow much cotton in Germany.

177
00:17:33,023 --> 00:17:34,352
Yes, sir.

178
00:17:38,028 --> 00:17:40,863
How long was
Captain Taylor's investigation?

179
00:17:40,948 --> 00:17:42,490
Two days, sir.

180
00:17:42,783 --> 00:17:45,025
Two days? Who did he question?

181
00:17:45,118 --> 00:17:49,780
Well, mostly guys who had contact
with Sarge that day: guys in his platoon...

182
00:17:49,873 --> 00:17:53,622
...then anybody who could've seen him
on the road. Wasn't but a handful.

183
00:17:53,710 --> 00:17:55,786
- Did you see him that day?
- Nope.

184
00:17:56,797 --> 00:17:57,995
No, sir.

185
00:18:23,948 --> 00:18:25,740
Did your sergeant drink a lot?

186
00:18:25,825 --> 00:18:28,281
I didn't know him well enough to say, sir.

187
00:18:28,370 --> 00:18:31,406
All right, soldiers,
let's get back to those exercises.

188
00:18:31,498 --> 00:18:34,036
Haven't you ever seen
a colored officer before?

189
00:18:34,125 --> 00:18:36,581
No, sir. Have you, sir?

190
00:18:38,338 --> 00:18:39,666
Ten-hut!

191
00:18:46,763 --> 00:18:47,925
This is it, sir.

192
00:18:48,014 --> 00:18:52,012
The captain instructed everyone
in the sergeant's platoon to be here.

193
00:18:53,811 --> 00:18:55,270
As you were.

194
00:19:06,365 --> 00:19:09,153
Sergeant Waters' room is right there, sir.

195
00:19:09,660 --> 00:19:10,692
Sir...

196
00:19:11,495 --> 00:19:13,784
I think I ought to tell you, sir:

197
00:19:13,873 --> 00:19:18,036
Captain Taylor questioned
two white officers from this fort that night.

198
00:19:18,711 --> 00:19:20,086
How do you know?

199
00:19:20,212 --> 00:19:22,620
I delivered his report to Colonel Nivens, sir.

200
00:19:22,715 --> 00:19:25,632
And on the way over, the jeep hit a hole.

201
00:19:26,635 --> 00:19:30,716
The papers flew all over the road, and...
I just happened to notice it, sir.

202
00:19:30,806 --> 00:19:31,921
Who are they?

203
00:19:32,016 --> 00:19:35,136
No names, sir. Just the mentioning
of the questioning.

204
00:19:35,311 --> 00:19:37,884
It seems they were on the road that night.

205
00:19:44,903 --> 00:19:45,935
Well...

206
00:19:46,614 --> 00:19:50,196
...don't let any more reports
fly away from you, Corporal.

207
00:19:50,701 --> 00:19:51,981
No, sir.

208
00:19:54,371 --> 00:19:56,743
Sir, may I say something, though?

209
00:19:56,832 --> 00:20:00,782
It sure is good seeing one of us
wearing captain's bars, sir.

210
00:20:02,379 --> 00:20:04,170
Call in the first man, Corporal.

211
00:20:04,756 --> 00:20:06,037
Yes, sir.

212
00:20:06,925 --> 00:20:09,463
Private Wilkie, Captain wants to see you!

213
00:20:09,553 --> 00:20:11,842
Yes, indeedy. On my way.

214
00:20:15,934 --> 00:20:18,472
Private Wilkie reports as ordered, sir.

215
00:20:19,563 --> 00:20:21,140
Close the door.

216
00:20:29,156 --> 00:20:31,444
- Have a seat.
- Yes, sir.

217
00:20:36,204 --> 00:20:39,407
- I'm Captain Davenport. I'm conducting...
- We all know that, sir.

218
00:20:39,499 --> 00:20:43,876
Word went out on the grapevine
you were here the minute you hit the fort.

219
00:20:48,466 --> 00:20:53,045
I'm conducting an inquiry into the events
surrounding the death of Sergeant Waters.

220
00:20:53,138 --> 00:20:55,807
The report I file will be confidential.

221
00:20:57,100 --> 00:20:59,425
How long did you know the sergeant?

222
00:20:59,561 --> 00:21:01,269
About a year, sir.

223
00:21:01,521 --> 00:21:04,890
You see, this company, sir,
was basically a baseball team.

224
00:21:05,149 --> 00:21:08,067
Most of the guys had played
in the Negro League, so...

225
00:21:08,152 --> 00:21:10,394
...naturally, the Army put us all together.

226
00:21:10,488 --> 00:21:14,355
The Army sent Sergeant Waters here
to manage the team in the summer of '42...

227
00:21:14,450 --> 00:21:16,906
...right after the invasion of North Africa.

228
00:21:16,995 --> 00:21:20,280
He'd been in Field Artillery,
a gunnery sergeant.

229
00:21:20,415 --> 00:21:25,373
<i>He had a FEF and an ETO,
a Croix de Guerre from World War I.</i>

230
00:21:27,839 --> 00:21:29,878
What kind of man was he?

231
00:21:34,887 --> 00:21:37,295
He was all spit and polish, sir.

232
00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,719
<i>He took my stripes, sir,
but I was in the wrong.</i>

233
00:21:42,103 --> 00:21:43,645
Sergeant Wilkie.

234
00:21:43,729 --> 00:21:47,264
You're a noncommissioned officer
in the Army of a country at war.

235
00:21:47,358 --> 00:21:50,193
The penalty for being
drunk on duty is severe.

236
00:21:50,277 --> 00:21:51,558
So don't bring me no:

237
00:21:51,654 --> 00:21:55,486
"Us colored folks can't do nothin'
unless they're drunk" shit as an excuse.

238
00:21:55,574 --> 00:21:57,816
You're supposed to be
an example to your men.

239
00:21:57,910 --> 00:22:01,528
I'm going to put you in the stockade
for 10 days and take those stripes.

240
00:22:01,622 --> 00:22:04,113
- Wait a minute, Sergeant...
- Teach you a lesson.

241
00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:05,999
You're in the Army.

242
00:22:07,503 --> 00:22:10,172
Colored folks always talkin'
about what they'll do...

243
00:22:10,256 --> 00:22:14,087
...if the white man give 'em a chance.
You get it, and what do you do with it?

244
00:22:14,176 --> 00:22:16,382
You wind up drunk on guard duty.

245
00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:18,048
I don't blame the white man.

246
00:22:18,138 --> 00:22:20,808
Why the hell should he put
colored and white together?

247
00:22:20,891 --> 00:22:22,967
You can't even guard your own quarters.

248
00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:25,551
- Wait a minute, Sergeant...
- Where's your pride?

249
00:22:25,646 --> 00:22:28,397
Where's your respect for this uniform?

250
00:22:28,565 --> 00:22:31,352
Get out of my sight, Private.

251
00:22:52,214 --> 00:22:54,455
How was he with the other men?

252
00:22:54,549 --> 00:22:56,957
Sometimes the Southern guys caught hell.

253
00:22:57,052 --> 00:22:59,969
Sergeant wasn't too big
on guys from the South.

254
00:23:01,264 --> 00:23:03,934
Me, I'm from Detroit.

255
00:23:04,184 --> 00:23:07,517
Did you know that Joe Louis
got his start in Detroit?

256
00:23:07,604 --> 00:23:09,478
What about the Southern men?

257
00:23:09,606 --> 00:23:12,144
Sarge didn't like 'em. Except for CJ.

258
00:23:12,275 --> 00:23:15,858
It could've been because
CJ was the best ballplayer on the team.

259
00:23:15,945 --> 00:23:19,279
He could sing, too. Boy, could he sing.

260
00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:29,162
"Well, it's a low-down
low-down dirty shame

261
00:23:31,544 --> 00:23:36,455
"Yes, it's a low-down
low-down dirty shame

262
00:23:39,844 --> 00:23:45,004
"They say we fightin' Hitler
But they won't let us in the game, Lord

263
00:23:46,392 --> 00:23:50,853
"Yes, it's a low-down dirty shame

264
00:23:53,733 --> 00:23:58,810
"Yes, it's a low-down dirty stinkin' shame"

265
00:23:59,071 --> 00:24:01,989
Sing it for Big Mary, you little sweet thing.

266
00:24:02,366 --> 00:24:06,660
"Left home to join this Army
Won't somebody tell me who's to blame?"

267
00:24:06,746 --> 00:24:09,284
I'll tell you something, CJ, right now.

268
00:24:09,415 --> 00:24:11,324
"I'm gonna kill my man

269
00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:14,918
"Then I'm gonna turn around
and kill myself

270
00:24:15,546 --> 00:24:18,962
"I'm gonna kill him with a razor
Yes, I am

271
00:24:19,091 --> 00:24:21,878
"And then I'm going to use it on myself

272
00:24:22,136 --> 00:24:25,421
"I'd rather see us both dead and buried

273
00:24:26,223 --> 00:24:28,631
"Than see him with someone else

274
00:24:30,352 --> 00:24:35,560
"Well, it's a low-down dirty shame

275
00:24:38,193 --> 00:24:41,360
"Yes, it's a low-down

276
00:24:41,447 --> 00:24:43,605
"dirty shame

277
00:24:45,659 --> 00:24:50,487
"You ain't nothin' in this man's army
Till Big Mary knows your name"

278
00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:59,044
All right. Drink up, boys.

279
00:24:59,882 --> 00:25:02,918
A man can't make no money
when the US Army stops sippin'...

280
00:25:03,010 --> 00:25:05,927
...so drink up now, 'cause I need a new car.

281
00:25:09,516 --> 00:25:12,089
I'm gonna ask that boy something.
Come on, Wilkie.

282
00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:19,932
Boy...

283
00:25:21,611 --> 00:25:25,276
You ever heard of Blind Willie Reynolds?
Son House?

284
00:25:26,199 --> 00:25:29,449
I knew it.
I bet you're from Mississippi, too, ain't ya?

285
00:25:29,953 --> 00:25:31,233
Yes, sir.

286
00:25:31,454 --> 00:25:32,949
I used to hear him at the...

287
00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:35,709
...Bandana Club outside Camp JJ Reilly.

288
00:25:36,543 --> 00:25:38,619
Folks came from everywhere, Wilkie.

289
00:25:38,712 --> 00:25:40,870
Folks would be dancing, sweating...

290
00:25:40,964 --> 00:25:43,715
Reminded me of a place
I used to go in France.

291
00:25:44,676 --> 00:25:46,918
The whiskey, the women.

292
00:25:48,096 --> 00:25:50,172
Place called the Cafe Napoleon.

293
00:25:51,432 --> 00:25:53,176
Where'd you learn to play, son?

294
00:25:53,268 --> 00:25:55,391
My daddy taught me, Sarge.

295
00:25:55,645 --> 00:25:57,768
You play pretty good, boy.

296
00:25:58,815 --> 00:26:00,642
Wilkie, wasn't that good?

297
00:26:00,733 --> 00:26:02,607
That was good, Sarge.

298
00:26:02,944 --> 00:26:04,687
Take it easy, son.

299
00:26:09,867 --> 00:26:12,868
<i>I mostly agreed with the sergeant, sir.
He was a good man.</i>

300
00:26:13,704 --> 00:26:17,868
Good to his men.
Talked about his wife and kid all the time.

301
00:26:18,126 --> 00:26:21,411
As a matter of fact,
he wrote home to his wife everyday.

302
00:26:22,004 --> 00:26:25,171
I just don't see why anybody
would want to kill the Sarge.

303
00:26:35,518 --> 00:26:36,597
See this?

304
00:26:37,228 --> 00:26:40,644
My wife let a neighbor take this
just a couple of weeks ago.

305
00:26:40,856 --> 00:26:42,849
Army's not for my son.

306
00:26:43,109 --> 00:26:45,813
See, when this war is over,
things are gonna change.

307
00:26:45,903 --> 00:26:48,228
I want him to be ready for it.

308
00:26:48,489 --> 00:26:50,612
I'll send him to some big white college.

309
00:26:50,699 --> 00:26:52,822
Let him rub elbows with the whites.

310
00:26:52,910 --> 00:26:55,365
Learn the white man's language,
how he does things.

311
00:26:55,454 --> 00:26:57,281
White don't rub off.

312
00:26:57,581 --> 00:27:00,701
Well, what are we gonna do?
Stay behind in everything?

313
00:27:01,210 --> 00:27:05,373
Hell, you can see it in the Army.
The white man's running rings around us.

314
00:27:05,464 --> 00:27:08,465
Lot of us ain't had the chance
them white boys had, Sarge.

315
00:27:08,550 --> 00:27:09,926
That ain't no excuse.

316
00:27:10,010 --> 00:27:12,964
My daddy shoveled coal
from a wagon all his life.

317
00:27:13,055 --> 00:27:15,842
Couldn't read or write,
but he saw to it that we did.

318
00:27:15,933 --> 00:27:18,887
Now, not having
is no excuse for not getting.

319
00:27:18,977 --> 00:27:21,468
You can't get pee from a tree, Sarge.

320
00:27:28,612 --> 00:27:32,562
You're just like the rest of them, Wilkie:
ignorant, scared.

321
00:27:33,950 --> 00:27:36,406
- Stop thinking like a nigger!
- Take it easy.

322
00:27:36,495 --> 00:27:39,199
- All I said...
- Is the equipment ready for the game?

323
00:27:39,289 --> 00:27:41,365
- No.
- Then see that it gets ready.

324
00:27:50,717 --> 00:27:52,674
Here's to the war, gents.

325
00:27:53,011 --> 00:27:55,419
To the war.

326
00:27:58,725 --> 00:28:00,516
Two people, sir.

327
00:28:00,977 --> 00:28:02,934
Mr. Warm and Mr. Cold.

328
00:28:03,938 --> 00:28:05,397
But, deep down, a real nice guy.

329
00:28:05,482 --> 00:28:08,233
You could always borrow $10 from him
if you needed it.

330
00:28:08,735 --> 00:28:10,977
Did you see him the night he was killed?

331
00:28:11,071 --> 00:28:13,028
I saw him in town, at the club, earlier.

332
00:28:13,114 --> 00:28:16,946
But I left around 10:00.
He was juicin' pretty heavy.

333
00:28:17,785 --> 00:28:20,074
Is it true, sir, that when they found him...

334
00:28:20,163 --> 00:28:23,283
...his stripes and insignia
were still on the uniform?

335
00:28:25,001 --> 00:28:26,116
Yes.

336
00:28:26,210 --> 00:28:28,084
Something's wrong, ain't it, sir?

337
00:28:28,588 --> 00:28:33,048
I mean, those Klan boys, they can't stand
to see us in these uniforms.

338
00:28:33,259 --> 00:28:37,173
They usually take the stripes
and stuff off before they lynch us.

339
00:28:42,769 --> 00:28:44,227
That'll be all, Private.

340
00:28:44,312 --> 00:28:45,640
Yes, sir.

341
00:28:48,566 --> 00:28:51,021
Sir, can you do anything
about allotment cheques?

342
00:28:51,110 --> 00:28:53,316
My wife didn't get hers last month.

343
00:28:54,530 --> 00:28:56,439
Did you see the finance officer?

344
00:28:56,532 --> 00:28:58,323
Yes, I did, sir.

345
00:28:59,618 --> 00:29:00,994
Well, I'll...

346
00:29:01,746 --> 00:29:03,454
I'll speak to Captain Taylor.

347
00:29:03,539 --> 00:29:05,615
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Yes indeedy.

348
00:29:05,708 --> 00:29:08,163
Would you like me to send
the next man in?

349
00:29:08,252 --> 00:29:09,367
Yes.

350
00:29:14,216 --> 00:29:17,799
Private First Class Melvin Peterson,
reporting as ordered, sir.

351
00:29:19,513 --> 00:29:21,257
Sit down, Private.

352
00:29:34,570 --> 00:29:36,194
Where are you from, Peterson?

353
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,319
Hollywood, California...

354
00:29:39,575 --> 00:29:41,401
...by way of Alabama, sir.

355
00:29:41,869 --> 00:29:43,660
You see, I enlisted in '42.

356
00:29:43,829 --> 00:29:46,118
I thought we'd get a chance to fight, sir.

357
00:29:51,169 --> 00:29:53,079
Did you know the sergeant well?

358
00:29:53,171 --> 00:29:56,540
No, sir. He was already with the company
when I got assigned and...

359
00:29:56,633 --> 00:29:59,504
...PFCs and sergeants,
we don't mix too well, sir.

360
00:29:59,594 --> 00:30:00,970
You played ball for him.

361
00:30:01,054 --> 00:30:03,379
Yes, sir. I played shortstop.

362
00:30:03,724 --> 00:30:05,182
Did you like the sergeant?

363
00:30:05,267 --> 00:30:06,547
No, sir.

364
00:30:06,852 --> 00:30:08,678
It goes back to the team.

365
00:30:08,770 --> 00:30:11,012
- Stone-ass felt that...
- "Stone-ass"?

366
00:30:11,314 --> 00:30:14,933
I'm the only one who called him that, sir.
Sergeant Waters, sir.

367
00:30:15,694 --> 00:30:17,935
Didn't mean no offence, sir.

368
00:30:21,449 --> 00:30:23,691
When I got here,
the team had already won...

369
00:30:23,785 --> 00:30:25,612
...9 or maybe 10 games in a row.

370
00:30:25,912 --> 00:30:30,040
It was even rumored we'd get the chance
to play the Yankees in exhibition.

371
00:30:30,125 --> 00:30:34,585
Anyway, we were playing
the 35th Ordinance this particular day.

372
00:30:34,963 --> 00:30:37,039
It was a real big game, too.

373
00:30:38,216 --> 00:30:41,170
The YWCA sent
a whole busload of women to see us.

374
00:30:43,137 --> 00:30:44,929
A real big day, sir.

375
00:31:16,295 --> 00:31:18,833
Let it fly there. Let's go, Pete.

376
00:31:41,529 --> 00:31:43,854
Come on, batter, hit the ball.

377
00:31:45,741 --> 00:31:47,947
That's a hell of a ballplayer.

378
00:31:55,417 --> 00:31:56,746
Come on, hit it!

379
00:31:56,835 --> 00:31:58,164
Throw another one up here.

380
00:32:00,422 --> 00:32:01,667
Come on, CJ, next county.

381
00:32:25,364 --> 00:32:27,985
Hell of a ballplayer! Did you see...

382
00:32:36,625 --> 00:32:38,202
All right, CJ.

383
00:32:42,297 --> 00:32:43,791
Come on, boy.

384
00:32:46,843 --> 00:32:50,294
Did you see that ball?
I mean, did you see it go?

385
00:32:51,973 --> 00:32:57,098
We played fairly well. I had two hits.
Smalls had a couple and CJ...

386
00:32:58,104 --> 00:32:59,682
CJ was incredible.

387
00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,817
We beat 'em something like 9, 10-0.

388
00:33:04,986 --> 00:33:09,612
Like we always did after a game,
we went to the mess hall to celebrate.

389
00:33:12,202 --> 00:33:13,281
CJ.

390
00:33:13,411 --> 00:33:17,824
Who was that fine river-hip thing
you was talkin' to before the game?

391
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:21,288
The woman had tits like two helmets.

392
00:33:21,961 --> 00:33:24,962
- Did you see the size of them knockers?
- No, he didn't.

393
00:33:25,048 --> 00:33:27,752
Smalls couldn't even see
a ball go right in his glove.

394
00:33:27,842 --> 00:33:30,250
How the hell he gonna see CJ by the truck?

395
00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:31,922
I saw CJ, man.

396
00:33:32,013 --> 00:33:34,682
Will you all let CJ tell me
about this woman?

397
00:33:35,349 --> 00:33:37,223
She looked mighty good to me, CJ.

398
00:33:37,310 --> 00:33:40,061
All she asked me for was my autograph.

399
00:33:41,439 --> 00:33:43,930
She looked like she was askin'
for more than that.

400
00:33:44,025 --> 00:33:45,602
Moved in close.

401
00:33:46,110 --> 00:33:47,521
Breathin' heavy.

402
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:51,486
Wavin' them tits all in your face.

403
00:33:53,993 --> 00:33:55,701
He's right on that, CJ.

404
00:33:55,828 --> 00:33:58,319
If I'd given that gal
what she asked me for...

405
00:33:58,414 --> 00:34:01,201
...she'd give me somethin' I didn't want.

406
00:34:01,459 --> 00:34:06,370
Around home, there's a fella
folks used to call Little Jimmy One-Leg...

407
00:34:06,755 --> 00:34:09,460
...on account of his thing was so big.

408
00:34:10,134 --> 00:34:11,628
A couple of years ago...

409
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,179
...a young pretty thing
laid clap on Jimmy so bad...

410
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,887
...he lost the one good leg he had.
Now folks just call him Little.

411
00:34:24,064 --> 00:34:27,682
That pretty young thing talking
to me ain't look too clean.

412
00:34:28,485 --> 00:34:32,103
Them dirty ones'll give you
the clap every time. Right, Henson?

413
00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:40,700
I hear tell they're on the verge
of gettin' all of us together.

414
00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:44,081
The colored, the white.
Say they want one army.

415
00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:46,327
You can forget that, CJ.

416
00:34:46,503 --> 00:34:49,338
White folks ain't never gonna integrate
no army.

417
00:34:49,673 --> 00:34:53,172
I don't know.
If they do, I'm gonna be ready for 'em.

418
00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:57,092
"Get me a bright red zoot suit"

419
00:34:57,264 --> 00:34:58,426
Yeah.

420
00:34:58,932 --> 00:35:02,266
"And a pair of patent leather shoes

421
00:35:03,854 --> 00:35:05,930
"And the woman sittin' at home waitin'

422
00:35:06,064 --> 00:35:09,314
"for the day we get the news
Lord, Lord"

423
00:35:09,401 --> 00:35:10,480
Go!

424
00:35:11,236 --> 00:35:14,272
"Lord, Lord

425
00:35:19,285 --> 00:35:23,912
"Look out, Adolf Hitler
You and Tojo gonna be singing the blues"

426
00:35:27,335 --> 00:35:28,414
All right.

427
00:35:28,670 --> 00:35:32,750
"Gotta little problem
It's about 5-foot-2

428
00:35:33,716 --> 00:35:37,381
"And they call him Sarge
And he's after you

429
00:35:38,846 --> 00:35:42,595
"Got to watch what you're sayin'
Got to watch what you do

430
00:35:43,267 --> 00:35:47,514
"'Cause that low-down dirty Waters
is gonna roll all over you

431
00:35:47,647 --> 00:35:50,185
"Lord, Lord"

432
00:35:58,866 --> 00:36:00,360
Knock it off.

433
00:36:01,452 --> 00:36:06,197
We don't need no more guitar-picking,
sittin'- around-the-shack music today.

434
00:36:08,376 --> 00:36:12,373
I want all you men out of those baseball
uniforms and into work clothes.

435
00:36:12,546 --> 00:36:15,334
You'll report to me at 16:00.

436
00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:18,965
We've got a work detail:
painting the lobby of the Officers' Club.

437
00:36:19,053 --> 00:36:21,425
Why can't those officers
paint their own club?

438
00:36:21,514 --> 00:36:22,842
Hell no, Smalls.

439
00:36:23,099 --> 00:36:25,768
Let the Great Colored
Cleanup Company do it.

440
00:36:25,976 --> 00:36:27,056
Our motto is:

441
00:36:27,144 --> 00:36:31,224
"Anything you don't want to do,
the colored troops will do for you."

442
00:36:31,524 --> 00:36:35,224
"Anything you don't want to do
The colored troops will do for you"

443
00:36:43,202 --> 00:36:44,447
That's enough.

444
00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:49,617
Let me tell all you fancy-assed
ballplayin' Negroes something.

445
00:36:51,293 --> 00:36:54,958
The reasons for any orders
given by a superior officer...

446
00:36:55,130 --> 00:36:58,084
...is none of you-all's business.
You obey them.

447
00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:00,424
This country is at war.

448
00:37:00,802 --> 00:37:03,424
You niggers are soldiers, nothin' else.

449
00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:09,849
And something else: from now on,
when I tell you to do something...

450
00:37:10,145 --> 00:37:12,683
...I want it done. Is that clear?

451
00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:14,184
Yes, sir.

452
00:37:16,109 --> 00:37:19,063
Now, get out of those baseball uniforms.

453
00:37:19,154 --> 00:37:22,155
I could smell you suckers
before I hit the door.

454
00:37:22,908 --> 00:37:25,399
What kind of colored man are you?

455
00:37:27,871 --> 00:37:29,910
I'm a soldier, Peterson.

456
00:37:30,332 --> 00:37:34,460
The kind of colored man
that don't like lazy, shiftless Negroes.

457
00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:38,253
Well, sir, you ain't got to come in here
calling us names.

458
00:37:38,423 --> 00:37:40,712
<i>The Nazis call you Schwarze.</i>

459
00:37:41,176 --> 00:37:43,927
You gonna complain to Hitler
that he hurt your feelings?

460
00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:47,048
It don't look like we could do
too much to them Nazis...

461
00:37:47,140 --> 00:37:49,097
...with paintbrushes, Sarge.

462
00:37:53,563 --> 00:37:55,639
You trying to mock me, CJ?

463
00:37:55,732 --> 00:37:57,012
No, sir, Sarge.

464
00:37:57,108 --> 00:37:58,187
Good.

465
00:37:58,318 --> 00:38:01,769
Because whatever an ignorant,
low-class Geechee like you has to say...

466
00:38:01,863 --> 00:38:03,737
...ain't worth paying attention to.

467
00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:05,234
Is it?

468
00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:07,607
Is it?

469
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:11,489
I reckon not, Sarge.

470
00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:18,538
You're a creep, Waters!

471
00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:21,755
Sarge's just jokin', Pete.
He don't mean no harm.

472
00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:23,466
No, he does.

473
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:26,252
I mean,
we take enough from them white boys.

474
00:38:26,345 --> 00:38:30,046
Yes, you do.
And if it wasn't for you Southern niggers...

475
00:38:30,182 --> 00:38:32,555
...white folks wouldn't think
we was all fools.

476
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:35,015
Well, where are you from? England?

477
00:38:41,986 --> 00:38:43,017
Wilkie.

478
00:38:44,238 --> 00:38:47,689
Looks like we got us
a wiseass Alabama boy here.

479
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:51,488
Yes, sir.

480
00:38:51,954 --> 00:38:54,279
Now, don't you get smart, nigger.

481
00:38:54,373 --> 00:38:56,698
Get your fuckin' hands off me!

482
00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:03,711
You wanna hit old Sergeant Waters, boy?

483
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,999
Come on.

484
00:39:09,805 --> 00:39:11,050
Please.

485
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:14,760
Come on, nigger!

486
00:39:15,936 --> 00:39:17,763
Ten-hut!

487
00:39:19,022 --> 00:39:22,023
At ease.
Now, what's going on here, Sergeant?

488
00:39:22,109 --> 00:39:23,271
Nothing, sir.

489
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,646
I was going over
some batting techniques, sir.

490
00:39:26,989 --> 00:39:29,859
Is there something you wanted?
Something I can do, sir?

491
00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:35,027
No, nothing. I just wanted to congratulate
you men on the game you won today.

492
00:39:36,164 --> 00:39:39,699
The way I figure it, only seven more...

493
00:39:40,210 --> 00:39:44,955
...and we'll be the first colored team
in Army history to play the Yankees.

494
00:39:47,134 --> 00:39:49,921
The entire regiment is counting on you.
Sergeant?

495
00:39:50,011 --> 00:39:51,126
Sir.

496
00:39:51,388 --> 00:39:55,717
As far as I'm concerned,
these men can have the rest of the day off.

497
00:39:56,893 --> 00:39:58,471
Beg your pardon, sir.

498
00:39:58,728 --> 00:39:59,760
Excuse me, sir.

499
00:39:59,854 --> 00:40:03,105
They don't need time off.
They need all the work they can get.

500
00:40:03,191 --> 00:40:05,480
Our fellas in North Africa
don't get time off.

501
00:40:05,568 --> 00:40:08,984
Besides, they have orders
to report for a paint detail at 16:00.

502
00:40:09,072 --> 00:40:11,361
- Who issued that order?
- Major Harris, sir.

503
00:40:11,449 --> 00:40:13,489
- I'll speak to the major.
- Sir?

504
00:40:15,203 --> 00:40:18,204
I don't think it's a good idea
to have a colored NCO...

505
00:40:18,289 --> 00:40:20,199
...mixed up with your officers, sir.

506
00:40:20,291 --> 00:40:22,450
I said I'd speak to him, Sergeant.

507
00:40:23,753 --> 00:40:25,081
Yes, sir.

508
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,256
Memphis...

509
00:40:27,882 --> 00:40:30,551
About that catch you made
in center field today:

510
00:40:30,635 --> 00:40:33,552
How in the hell did you get up that high?

511
00:40:35,139 --> 00:40:37,511
They say I got bird in my blood, sir.

512
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,758
I hope it's an American Eagle.

513
00:40:40,186 --> 00:40:41,265
No, sir.

514
00:40:41,396 --> 00:40:42,641
Crow.

515
00:40:43,147 --> 00:40:46,433
See, a man told my daddy
the day I was born:

516
00:40:46,567 --> 00:40:49,734
He said, "The boy got the shadow
of crow wings in his chest..."

517
00:40:49,821 --> 00:40:51,860
That's fine, Memphis.

518
00:40:51,948 --> 00:40:55,114
Men, you played a great game today.

519
00:40:56,035 --> 00:40:58,360
- Sergeant?
- Ten-hut!

520
00:40:59,330 --> 00:41:00,658
Carry on.

521
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,423
How long a story were you gonna tell
the man there, CJ?

522
00:41:16,555 --> 00:41:17,884
Peterson!

523
00:41:18,349 --> 00:41:20,341
I ain't forgot you, boy.

524
00:41:21,101 --> 00:41:23,509
It's time to teach you a lesson.

525
00:41:23,729 --> 00:41:25,437
- Wilkie.
- Sir.

526
00:41:25,522 --> 00:41:28,013
Go outside and make sure
everything is set up.

527
00:41:28,943 --> 00:41:30,935
You want all the NCOs?

528
00:41:33,864 --> 00:41:38,277
I'm going outside to wait for you, Geechee.
And when you come out...

529
00:41:39,036 --> 00:41:41,871
...I'm gonna whup your black Southern ass.

530
00:41:42,039 --> 00:41:44,031
Let the whole company watch, too.

531
00:41:44,124 --> 00:41:46,794
You need to learn respect for these stripes.

532
00:41:51,131 --> 00:41:53,040
The rest of you...

533
00:41:53,175 --> 00:41:56,211
...get those goddamn uniforms off
like I said.

534
00:41:59,473 --> 00:42:01,264
You ain't gonna fight him, are you?

535
00:42:01,350 --> 00:42:03,058
Don't do it. He'll fight dirty.

536
00:42:03,143 --> 00:42:04,768
You can't whup the Sarge.

537
00:42:04,853 --> 00:42:07,724
You wanna fight in my place, Cobb?

538
00:42:10,150 --> 00:42:13,353
Pete, I got some Farmer's Dust.

539
00:42:13,612 --> 00:42:16,019
A pinch of this
will make you strong as a bull.

540
00:42:16,114 --> 00:42:18,605
Would you get out of here
with that backwater crap?

541
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:22,151
You can't speak up for yourself.
You let him treat you like a dog.

542
00:42:22,245 --> 00:42:25,495
Calling names ain't nothin'.
I know who I is.

543
00:42:25,624 --> 00:42:27,700
Sarge ain't so bad. He's been good to me.

544
00:42:27,792 --> 00:42:29,702
The man despises you.

545
00:42:29,794 --> 00:42:33,210
You're wrong, Pete.
Plus, I feel sorry for him myself.

546
00:42:33,631 --> 00:42:37,961
Any man ain't sure where he belong
gotta be in a whole lot of pain.

547
00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:42,051
Look, don't you all even care
about nothing?

548
00:42:42,140 --> 00:42:43,967
Don't none of us like it, Pete...

549
00:42:44,058 --> 00:42:47,510
...but this is the Army
and Sarge got all the stripes.

550
00:42:48,479 --> 00:42:49,642
I'll go get the captain.

551
00:42:49,731 --> 00:42:52,685
You ain't got to go out there
and get your head beaten in.

552
00:42:53,192 --> 00:42:55,434
Somebody's got to fight him.

553
00:42:57,238 --> 00:42:58,898
Waters, what's going on?

554
00:42:58,990 --> 00:43:00,899
I had a problem with one of the guys.

555
00:43:00,992 --> 00:43:02,154
Yeah?

556
00:43:02,243 --> 00:43:04,117
Don't worry about it.

557
00:43:06,748 --> 00:43:08,455
Come on now, boy.

558
00:43:08,541 --> 00:43:10,783
Let's take your whuppin' like a man.

559
00:43:12,837 --> 00:43:14,035
Kick his ass, Pete.

560
00:43:14,130 --> 00:43:15,790
Watch him, Pete.

561
00:43:15,882 --> 00:43:18,455
Come on out here and kick old Sarge's ass.

562
00:43:18,926 --> 00:43:20,005
Come on, Geechee.

563
00:43:20,094 --> 00:43:23,380
You don't want the Sarge to grow old
waitin' for you, now.

564
00:43:39,405 --> 00:43:40,899
Fight him!

565
00:43:53,002 --> 00:43:54,579
Watch him, Pete!

566
00:43:58,841 --> 00:44:00,251
He got him!

567
00:44:00,384 --> 00:44:01,878
That got him!

568
00:44:02,386 --> 00:44:04,924
Get up, Sarge!

569
00:44:06,056 --> 00:44:08,630
You throw a pretty mean punch, boy.

570
00:44:09,143 --> 00:44:11,634
But old Sarge is here to kick your ass.

571
00:44:30,288 --> 00:44:33,076
- There you go.
- Get up, Peterson.

572
00:44:33,166 --> 00:44:35,492
- Get up, Pete.
- Get him, Sarge.

573
00:44:35,794 --> 00:44:37,454
Vernon!

574
00:44:41,299 --> 00:44:42,758
That's enough.

575
00:44:51,434 --> 00:44:55,514
<i>Yeah, he beat me pretty bad that day, sir.</i>

576
00:44:57,816 --> 00:45:00,770
Did anybody report the fight to an officer?

577
00:45:01,027 --> 00:45:04,064
No, sir, I never reported it.
I know I should have, but...

578
00:45:04,155 --> 00:45:07,358
...he left me alone after that
so I just played ball.

579
00:45:10,245 --> 00:45:12,486
I appreciate your honesty, Peterson.

580
00:45:13,414 --> 00:45:14,992
Thank you, sir.

581
00:45:19,045 --> 00:45:22,248
Did you see Sergeant Waters
the night he was killed?

582
00:45:22,340 --> 00:45:25,092
No, sir. Smalls and I had guard duty.

583
00:45:27,845 --> 00:45:31,380
- Thank you. That'll be all for now.
- Yes, sir.

584
00:45:33,017 --> 00:45:35,722
Did the team ever get to play the Yankees?

585
00:45:36,521 --> 00:45:40,103
No, sir. We lost the last game
to a sanitation company.

586
00:47:35,638 --> 00:47:39,470
What brings you out to my neighborhood?
Slumming?

587
00:47:40,393 --> 00:47:42,184
I wanted you to see the request...

588
00:47:42,270 --> 00:47:46,268
...I've sent to Colonel Nivens
to have your investigation terminated.

589
00:47:46,357 --> 00:47:49,643
Now, my reasons have nothing
to do with you personally.

590
00:47:49,736 --> 00:47:52,309
My request won't hurt
your Army career in any way.

591
00:47:52,405 --> 00:47:55,406
It's just that there are
other considerations in this case.

592
00:47:55,491 --> 00:47:57,484
Only the color of my skin.

593
00:47:57,744 --> 00:47:59,783
Now, hold it, Davenport!

594
00:48:00,163 --> 00:48:02,736
I want the people
that killed Waters prosecuted.

595
00:48:02,832 --> 00:48:03,614
So do I.

596
00:48:03,708 --> 00:48:05,202
Then give this up.

597
00:48:05,334 --> 00:48:08,834
White people down here,
they won't see their duty or justice.

598
00:48:08,963 --> 00:48:12,462
They'll see you.
And you can't possibly get at the truth.

599
00:48:12,550 --> 00:48:16,133
Why? Because two white officers
are involved in this?

600
00:48:17,054 --> 00:48:20,589
You can't get them charged,
court-marshaled or anything else.

601
00:48:20,683 --> 00:48:23,600
Why wasn't there any mention of them
in my report?

602
00:48:24,353 --> 00:48:27,105
You think I'm gonna let you
get away with this?

603
00:48:30,860 --> 00:48:33,267
I was ordered not to include it.

604
00:48:34,697 --> 00:48:37,235
- By who?
- Colonel Nivens.

605
00:48:40,911 --> 00:48:42,026
Now, look.

606
00:48:42,830 --> 00:48:47,408
They took two.45 caliber slugs
out of Waters, Army issue.

607
00:48:47,918 --> 00:48:51,334
Now, if my men thought
a white officer had killed him...

608
00:48:51,505 --> 00:48:53,830
...there would have been a slaughter.

609
00:48:54,675 --> 00:48:56,584
Who are the officers?

610
00:48:56,969 --> 00:49:01,963
Lieutenant Byrd in Ordinance
and Captain Wilcox, 12th Hospital Group.

611
00:49:02,933 --> 00:49:05,139
Private Seymour saw them on the road.

612
00:49:05,227 --> 00:49:08,477
When I checked the officers' billet,
I found them both asleep.

613
00:49:08,564 --> 00:49:11,814
They admitted they'd had an argument
with the sergeant...

614
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,356
...but said they'd left him on the road.

615
00:49:14,528 --> 00:49:17,315
So, you never believed
the Klan was involved.

616
00:49:17,447 --> 00:49:18,527
No.

617
00:49:18,824 --> 00:49:22,773
No. Now can you see
why this thing needs somebody else?

618
00:49:26,581 --> 00:49:28,740
Tell me what they told you.

619
00:49:30,794 --> 00:49:32,169
Look, hotshot.

620
00:49:33,338 --> 00:49:36,422
They're not going to let you charge
those two men.

621
00:49:37,759 --> 00:49:39,917
Tell me what they told you.

622
00:49:45,058 --> 00:49:47,893
Left, two, three, four...

623
00:49:57,153 --> 00:50:00,487
Left, two, three, four.

624
00:50:07,413 --> 00:50:11,078
You wanna move your ass
off the goddamn road, Sergeant?

625
00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:14,831
Well, I'll be damned.

626
00:50:15,213 --> 00:50:17,834
If it ain't the white boys!

627
00:50:19,717 --> 00:50:22,504
- Did you hear what he said? Shit!
- Let it go!

628
00:50:22,595 --> 00:50:24,173
"Let it go," my ass!

629
00:50:24,263 --> 00:50:25,971
Come here, Sergeant.

630
00:50:26,224 --> 00:50:30,471
White boys, all starched and stiff.

631
00:50:31,687 --> 00:50:35,436
Want everybody to learn
that symphony shit.

632
00:50:36,776 --> 00:50:39,314
That's what you said in France...

633
00:50:39,403 --> 00:50:42,274
...and you know, I listened to it.

634
00:50:43,324 --> 00:50:45,400
Am I all right now? Am I?

635
00:50:45,576 --> 00:50:48,067
You'd better straighten up
and salute an officer...

636
00:50:48,162 --> 00:50:50,700
...or I'll take your fuckin' stripes, boy!

637
00:50:51,832 --> 00:50:53,374
That's better.

638
00:51:02,551 --> 00:51:04,959
Well, look at the nigger.

639
00:51:06,388 --> 00:51:09,971
You come to attention right now,
and that is an order.

640
00:51:10,684 --> 00:51:14,634
I ain't doin' nothin' white folks say do.
No more.

641
00:51:14,938 --> 00:51:17,429
- I'll teach you...
- Leave him alone. He's drunk.

642
00:51:17,524 --> 00:51:19,850
I want the nigger to do like I tell him.
Do it!

643
00:51:19,943 --> 00:51:20,560
No!

644
00:51:21,070 --> 00:51:23,109
- I'll teach him to do it.
- Easy.

645
00:51:25,741 --> 00:51:27,864
Look what it's done to me.

646
00:51:29,578 --> 00:51:31,156
I hate myself.

647
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,330
Don't blame me. God's the one
who made you black, not me, boy.

648
00:51:35,417 --> 00:51:39,960
My daddy said, "Don't talk like dis...

649
00:51:41,548 --> 00:51:43,126
"...talk like that!

650
00:51:44,301 --> 00:51:46,673
"Don't say heah...

651
00:51:47,888 --> 00:51:49,133
"...say...

652
00:51:51,266 --> 00:51:52,926
"...here."

653
00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:56,053
I even killed for you.

654
00:52:03,361 --> 00:52:05,437
You wanna kill him? The man is sick!

655
00:52:05,530 --> 00:52:07,736
- Let me go!
- You're gonna kill him.

656
00:52:07,824 --> 00:52:09,318
Come on.

657
00:52:10,827 --> 00:52:12,107
Come on.

658
00:52:24,924 --> 00:52:27,676
White men are killing for you, nigger.

659
00:52:29,762 --> 00:52:32,051
Good men dyin' for you.

660
00:52:38,062 --> 00:52:41,348
So, anyway,
they said they left Waters about 23:10.

661
00:52:44,819 --> 00:52:48,437
Everyone in the barracks confirms
that they were in by 23:30...

662
00:52:48,531 --> 00:52:51,817
...and that neither man left
till the following morning.

663
00:52:52,618 --> 00:52:55,904
That's nothing but white officers lying
to protect their own...

664
00:52:55,997 --> 00:52:57,621
...and you know that.

665
00:52:58,124 --> 00:53:00,081
I'm arresting both of them, Captain.

666
00:53:00,167 --> 00:53:03,418
Consider yourself under arrest
pending my charges against you.

667
00:53:03,504 --> 00:53:04,370
What charges?

668
00:53:04,672 --> 00:53:08,290
It was your duty to go over Nivens' head
if you had to.

669
00:53:09,010 --> 00:53:13,303
You're going to arrest the colonel, too?
He's part of their alibi.

670
00:53:13,389 --> 00:53:16,758
He was there in the officers' billet
when they came in.

671
00:53:16,892 --> 00:53:19,051
Played poker till 3:30 in the morning.

672
00:53:19,145 --> 00:53:23,094
Yeah, the colonel, Major Hines
and four other white officers.

673
00:53:24,483 --> 00:53:26,227
They're all lying.

674
00:53:26,443 --> 00:53:28,851
You just go out and prove it.

675
00:53:44,503 --> 00:53:48,287
Sir, I intend to arrest
Lieutenant Byrd and Captain Wilcox.

676
00:53:48,382 --> 00:53:50,374
You will do nothing of the kind.

677
00:53:50,467 --> 00:53:51,582
Colonel.

678
00:53:51,677 --> 00:53:56,006
Sir, I believe these two men had something
to do with Sergeant Waters' death.

679
00:53:56,765 --> 00:53:58,805
No, I can't allow that.

680
00:53:59,184 --> 00:54:02,220
You have no authority
to arrest white officers.

681
00:54:02,396 --> 00:54:04,803
Then give me the authority, sir.

682
00:54:05,399 --> 00:54:06,430
Colonel.

683
00:54:06,858 --> 00:54:08,898
Your breakfast is ready.

684
00:54:11,321 --> 00:54:13,029
Thank you, honey.

685
00:54:14,699 --> 00:54:17,273
Can I have someone fetch you coffee,
Captain?

686
00:54:17,577 --> 00:54:19,451
No, thank you, ma'am.

687
00:54:23,333 --> 00:54:27,544
I hope they're making your stay here
at Fort Neal real comfortable, Captain.

688
00:54:27,629 --> 00:54:31,792
They're taking good care of me, ma'am.
It's very thoughtful of you to ask.

689
00:54:34,094 --> 00:54:34,876
Good morning.

690
00:54:34,970 --> 00:54:37,211
No, I can't give you that authority.

691
00:54:37,722 --> 00:54:41,590
I told you. They were in by 11:30.
I was there.

692
00:54:42,060 --> 00:54:44,847
Now, you've read our affidavits
on this thing.

693
00:54:45,438 --> 00:54:49,021
Colonel, what will the Army say
when they find out two white officers...

694
00:54:49,108 --> 00:54:52,608
...beat up the murder victim
not long before he was shot to death?

695
00:54:52,695 --> 00:54:56,064
Their CO refuses to report
that they had anything to do with it...

696
00:54:56,157 --> 00:54:59,028
...and he signs an affidavit
supporting their alibi.

697
00:55:00,495 --> 00:55:04,409
These two are our best suspects.
How can you not have them arrested...

698
00:55:04,499 --> 00:55:08,117
...or at least questioned
by the investigating officer?

699
00:55:11,464 --> 00:55:14,334
Something like this is bound to get out.

700
00:55:17,303 --> 00:55:20,174
I didn't say you couldn't question them.

701
00:55:20,306 --> 00:55:22,631
But I want a white officer present.

702
00:55:22,892 --> 00:55:25,513
And I want everything that's said
reported to me.

703
00:55:25,603 --> 00:55:28,058
- Is that clear?
- Of course, sir.

704
00:55:37,490 --> 00:55:39,150
You're dismissed, Captain.

705
00:55:39,241 --> 00:55:40,570
Yes, sir.

706
00:57:02,365 --> 00:57:04,192
Go with God.

707
00:57:28,308 --> 00:57:30,300
Virge, same old sermon.

708
00:57:37,984 --> 00:57:40,985
I didn't know you were
a religious man, Henson.

709
00:57:41,070 --> 00:57:43,822
I'm not. I just play this organ.

710
00:57:45,908 --> 00:57:49,526
If I play on Sundays, I get out of
a few work details during the week.

711
00:57:49,620 --> 00:57:50,865
That's all.

712
00:57:50,955 --> 00:57:53,660
- I want to talk about Sergeant Waters.
- Yeah?

713
00:57:53,791 --> 00:57:57,919
There ain't much to talk about,
except for I didn't like the man myself...

714
00:57:58,713 --> 00:58:01,120
...on account of what he did to CJ.

715
00:58:01,674 --> 00:58:03,216
What did he do?

716
00:58:03,509 --> 00:58:07,092
I don't mean you no offence,
but I ain't exactly crazy about...

717
00:58:07,179 --> 00:58:09,302
...talking to no officer.

718
00:58:10,307 --> 00:58:12,217
Colored or white.

719
00:58:12,643 --> 00:58:17,269
You're gonna talk, Henson,
or I'll put your ass in the stockade...

720
00:58:17,356 --> 00:58:19,847
...so long, you'll forget how to.

721
00:58:27,616 --> 00:58:31,448
He was always on CJ's back
about somethin'.

722
00:58:32,871 --> 00:58:34,152
Every little thing.

723
00:58:34,248 --> 00:58:36,620
Least ways, that's how it seemed to me.

724
00:58:36,834 --> 00:58:38,542
Then the shootin' went down.

725
00:58:38,627 --> 00:58:39,742
What shooting?

726
00:58:39,837 --> 00:58:42,791
The shootin' over at
Williams' Golden Palace.

727
00:58:42,923 --> 00:58:46,422
Happened just last year
right at the end of the baseball season.

728
00:58:46,510 --> 00:58:50,258
A whole lot of shots had gone off
right near the barracks.

729
00:58:50,347 --> 00:58:55,223
I, myself, had gone over and gotten
a little juiced at the Enlisted Men's Club.

730
00:58:58,647 --> 00:59:00,355
Somebody's shootin'.

731
00:59:00,941 --> 00:59:02,814
They're shootin' over there.

732
00:59:03,318 --> 00:59:06,023
- Everyone up. Wake 'em up, Wilkie!
- Come on, move it.

733
00:59:06,113 --> 00:59:08,189
Unass them bunks.
Come on, you Geechees.

734
00:59:09,116 --> 00:59:11,653
Off your asses, on your feet.
Everybody up.

735
00:59:11,743 --> 00:59:12,941
Let's go.

736
00:59:14,454 --> 00:59:16,862
Company, ten-hut!

737
00:59:18,541 --> 00:59:20,333
There's been a shooting.

738
00:59:20,543 --> 00:59:24,956
One of ours bucked the line at Williams'
pay phone and three soldiers are dead.

739
00:59:25,298 --> 00:59:27,457
Two colored, one white MP.

740
00:59:28,510 --> 00:59:31,427
Now, the man who bucked the line,
he killed the MP...

741
00:59:31,805 --> 00:59:34,722
...and the white boys
started shooting everybody.

742
00:59:34,974 --> 00:59:37,216
That's how our two got shot.

743
00:59:37,352 --> 00:59:41,052
And this low-down nigger we're looking for
got chased down here.

744
00:59:41,147 --> 00:59:44,018
And was almost caught,
until someone in these barracks...

745
00:59:44,108 --> 00:59:46,599
...started shooting at the men chasing him.

746
00:59:47,445 --> 00:59:48,476
So...

747
00:59:49,822 --> 00:59:53,737
...we got us a vicious, low-down
murdering piece of black trash...

748
00:59:53,826 --> 00:59:55,700
...in here somewhere.

749
00:59:56,621 --> 00:59:58,863
And a few people who helped him.

750
01:00:02,210 --> 01:00:04,249
If any of you are in this...

751
01:00:06,297 --> 01:00:09,298
...I want you to step forward.

752
01:00:13,387 --> 01:00:16,139
All you baseball niggers are innocent?

753
01:00:17,475 --> 01:00:18,471
- Wilkie!
- Sir.

754
01:00:18,559 --> 01:00:19,638
Make the search.

755
01:00:19,727 --> 01:00:21,969
Open those footlockers. Come on, Smalls.

756
01:00:22,271 --> 01:00:25,307
All right, Peterson,
what are you waiting for, an invitation?

757
01:00:26,275 --> 01:00:27,900
Open 'em up. Spread 'em out.

758
01:00:27,985 --> 01:00:30,310
I want to see what's happening inside.

759
01:00:30,404 --> 01:00:32,064
Memphis, you in this?

760
01:00:32,239 --> 01:00:33,817
No, sir, Sarge.

761
01:00:35,367 --> 01:00:37,740
Okay, guys,
you heard what the sergeant said.

762
01:00:37,828 --> 01:00:39,702
How many of you were out tonight?

763
01:00:40,331 --> 01:00:42,703
Sir, I was over at Williams'
'round about 7:00.

764
01:00:42,791 --> 01:00:44,416
I got me a pack of Lucky Strikes.

765
01:00:44,501 --> 01:00:46,411
But I didn't try to call home.

766
01:00:46,503 --> 01:00:48,046
Got something.

767
01:00:58,265 --> 01:00:59,973
Still warm.

768
01:01:00,350 --> 01:01:04,395
- CJ, is this yours?
- You know it ain't mine, Sarge.

769
01:01:05,230 --> 01:01:06,724
Probably not.

770
01:01:07,191 --> 01:01:09,764
Probably just crawled in
through a window...

771
01:01:09,860 --> 01:01:12,481
...passed everybody's bunk,
Peterson, Cobb...

772
01:01:13,071 --> 01:01:17,021
...and just snuggled up under yours.
Must be voodoo, right, boy?

773
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:18,611
Or that Farmer's Dust.

774
01:01:18,702 --> 01:01:21,110
That pistol ain't mine, Sarge. I hate guns.

775
01:01:21,204 --> 01:01:23,197
Makes me feel bad just to see a gun.

776
01:01:23,290 --> 01:01:25,532
Liar! Place this man under arrest.

777
01:01:25,625 --> 01:01:28,911
Look, sir, CJ couldn't hurt a fly, Sarge.
You know that.

778
01:01:29,004 --> 01:01:30,379
I found a gun, soldier.

779
01:01:30,464 --> 01:01:33,168
- Waters, you know it ain't him.
- Who is it then? You?

780
01:01:33,258 --> 01:01:35,416
Sarge, I saw somebody sneak in here.

781
01:01:35,510 --> 01:01:37,882
You were drunk when you left the club.
I saw you.

782
01:01:37,971 --> 01:01:39,299
Throw his ass in the shower.

783
01:01:39,389 --> 01:01:42,094
Well, I was here all night.
CJ ain't go nowhere.

784
01:01:42,183 --> 01:01:43,975
He was asleep before I got to bed.

785
01:01:44,060 --> 01:01:46,100
You think he's innocent?

786
01:01:47,606 --> 01:01:49,100
CJ Memphis...

787
01:01:49,774 --> 01:01:52,526
...playin' cotton picker, singin' the blues...

788
01:01:53,361 --> 01:01:56,777
...bowin' and scrapin',
smilin' in white folks' faces.

789
01:01:56,906 --> 01:02:00,406
This man undermined us:
you, me, everybody.

790
01:02:01,119 --> 01:02:03,574
That "yassuh-boss" is hiding something.

791
01:02:03,788 --> 01:02:06,991
Are we like that today, in 1944?

792
01:02:07,458 --> 01:02:09,166
He shot that white boy!

793
01:02:15,842 --> 01:02:18,249
What did you go and do now, boy?

794
01:02:22,015 --> 01:02:24,137
Hit a noncommissioned officer.

795
01:02:24,350 --> 01:02:25,679
CJ just lost his head...

796
01:02:25,768 --> 01:02:26,883
Shut up!

797
01:02:28,146 --> 01:02:29,770
Get him out of here.

798
01:02:45,204 --> 01:02:47,493
Sarge, I know I saw somebody.

799
01:02:49,083 --> 01:02:51,953
Smalls, I saw somebody, really.

800
01:02:52,712 --> 01:02:55,381
CJ was sleeping when I came in.

801
01:02:56,132 --> 01:02:58,836
It's Waters. Can't y'all see that?

802
01:03:08,477 --> 01:03:10,304
You know, I seen 'em before.

803
01:03:10,813 --> 01:03:12,971
We had 'em in Alabama.

804
01:03:13,357 --> 01:03:17,818
White man give him a small-ass job as a
servant and when the boss ain't looking...

805
01:03:17,903 --> 01:03:21,070
...that old copy-cat nigger
act like he the new boss.

806
01:03:21,156 --> 01:03:23,647
Shouting, ordering people around.

807
01:03:25,828 --> 01:03:29,113
You see, arresting CJ,
that'll get Waters another stripe.

808
01:03:29,706 --> 01:03:31,366
Next, it'll be you or you.

809
01:03:31,458 --> 01:03:34,957
You see, he can't look good
unless he's standing on you.

810
01:03:35,087 --> 01:03:39,334
Cobb told him CJ was in here all evening.
Waters didn't even listen, did he?

811
01:03:39,883 --> 01:03:44,592
Turning somebody in.
"Well, look what I done, Captain-boss."

812
01:03:45,347 --> 01:03:49,392
Only reason he's in the Army is 'cause
they know he'll do what they tell him to.

813
01:03:49,476 --> 01:03:51,884
I've seen this kind of fool before.

814
01:03:51,978 --> 01:03:54,683
Somebody's gonna kill him
one of these days.

815
01:03:54,773 --> 01:03:58,640
You know, I heard they killed a sergeant
at Fort Robinson. A recruit did it.

816
01:03:58,735 --> 01:04:00,360
Forget it, Pete.

817
01:04:00,445 --> 01:04:04,313
With our luck, Sarge'll come through
the whole war, won't even get a scratch.

818
01:04:04,407 --> 01:04:08,654
Yeah, maybe.
But I'm going over to them stockades.

819
01:04:08,995 --> 01:04:10,869
Tell them MPs what I know:

820
01:04:10,956 --> 01:04:13,114
CJ was in here all evening.

821
01:04:13,208 --> 01:04:14,951
I'm going with you!

822
01:04:15,502 --> 01:04:17,909
You all wait up. I'm coming, too.

823
01:04:20,548 --> 01:04:23,383
Was Wilkie the only person
out of his bunk that night?

824
01:04:23,468 --> 01:04:26,006
I guess. Wilkie came in with the Sarge.

825
01:04:27,013 --> 01:04:28,555
But it's hard to say.

826
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:32,887
It's been a while and, like I said,
I was a little juiced that night.

827
01:04:36,022 --> 01:04:38,727
- Ellis!
- Yes? Yes, sir?

828
01:04:39,484 --> 01:04:43,066
Find out what's holding up
my investigation of Wilcox and Byrd.

829
01:04:43,571 --> 01:04:44,900
Yes, sir.

830
01:04:48,826 --> 01:04:51,780
The night Sergeant Waters was killed,
where were you?

831
01:04:51,871 --> 01:04:53,614
I was in the barracks.

832
01:04:53,706 --> 01:04:57,656
I played checkers with Cobb till 9:30
and then I went to bed.

833
01:05:02,089 --> 01:05:04,663
Is there gonna be anything else, sir?

834
01:05:06,218 --> 01:05:08,010
Dismissed, Private.

835
01:05:26,071 --> 01:05:27,352
Let her go.

836
01:05:27,448 --> 01:05:30,733
Let me know when it's full board.
Here we go. Let's go, baby.

837
01:05:30,826 --> 01:05:32,285
Pick 'em up.

838
01:05:32,369 --> 01:05:35,489
Pick your rifles up. That's it.

839
01:05:40,127 --> 01:05:42,333
That's it. Move out!

840
01:05:42,421 --> 01:05:43,749
Move your ass!

841
01:05:43,839 --> 01:05:45,832
That's it, move out!

842
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:55,131
Goddamn it, keep going!
That's it, move it up!

843
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,976
Shake it up! Hit that wall!
Get your feet up!

844
01:06:01,064 --> 01:06:05,014
Hurry it up! Move up!

845
01:06:08,030 --> 01:06:09,488
Watch it!

846
01:06:18,957 --> 01:06:20,155
Ellis!

847
01:06:29,301 --> 01:06:30,581
Hold it!

848
01:06:31,303 --> 01:06:34,387
Stop shooting!

849
01:06:49,571 --> 01:06:51,978
Which one of you idiots is Cobb?

850
01:06:57,745 --> 01:07:01,079
That's me, sir. You all right, Captain?

851
01:07:03,126 --> 01:07:04,999
I want to talk to you.

852
01:07:05,086 --> 01:07:07,209
What'd he want old Cobb for?

853
01:07:08,715 --> 01:07:10,209
I don't know.

854
01:07:10,425 --> 01:07:12,382
What did he ask you, Pete?

855
01:07:12,468 --> 01:07:15,837
He just asked a couple of questions
about the baseball game...

856
01:07:15,930 --> 01:07:19,180
...some about the Sarge.
Didn't amount to too much.

857
01:07:19,392 --> 01:07:22,558
Yeah, we was homeys, me and CJ,
both from Mississippi.

858
01:07:22,687 --> 01:07:27,645
CJ, from Carmella. Me, I'm from up 'round
Jutlerville, what they call Snake County.

859
01:07:27,859 --> 01:07:30,432
How did you feel
when your best friend was arrested?

860
01:07:30,528 --> 01:07:32,188
I hated Waters for it, sir.

861
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:33,228
"Hated"?

862
01:07:33,322 --> 01:07:35,611
CJ ain't killed nobody.

863
01:07:35,700 --> 01:07:37,194
He hit Waters, didn't he?

864
01:07:37,284 --> 01:07:39,194
Yeah, but the sergeant made him, sir.

865
01:07:39,286 --> 01:07:42,738
He called that boy things
he ain't never heard before.

866
01:07:42,832 --> 01:07:45,749
CJ was from the farm, a country boy.

867
01:07:46,252 --> 01:07:50,000
That jail cell started doing
crazy things to CJ, sir.

868
01:07:50,256 --> 01:07:52,544
It started closing in on him.

869
01:08:08,565 --> 01:08:10,309
You all right?

870
01:08:13,904 --> 01:08:17,238
It's hard to breathe
in these little spaces, Cobb.

871
01:08:19,701 --> 01:08:22,275
What they doin' to you in here, CJ?

872
01:08:24,957 --> 01:08:27,282
Man wasn't made for this here.

873
01:08:29,628 --> 01:08:31,003
Nothin' was.

874
01:08:33,882 --> 01:08:38,924
Don't think I'll ever see an animal
in a cage again and not feel sorry for it.

875
01:08:40,013 --> 01:08:41,887
Rather be on a chain gang.

876
01:08:42,224 --> 01:08:43,801
Come on, homey!

877
01:08:44,851 --> 01:08:47,425
Don't think I'm getting out of here, Cobb.

878
01:08:48,188 --> 01:08:50,346
Feel like I'm going crazy.

879
01:08:51,024 --> 01:08:52,815
Can't walk in here.

880
01:08:53,109 --> 01:08:54,901
Can't see the sun.

881
01:08:55,487 --> 01:08:57,396
I try to sing...

882
01:08:57,781 --> 01:08:59,690
...but nothin' won't come out.

883
01:09:00,533 --> 01:09:03,451
Yesterday, I broke a guitar string.

884
01:09:06,748 --> 01:09:08,372
And I lost my Dust!

885
01:09:10,001 --> 01:09:12,124
Got no protection, Cobb.

886
01:09:12,378 --> 01:09:15,545
Nothin' to keep the dogs
from tearin' at my bones.

887
01:09:15,673 --> 01:09:18,378
CJ, stop talkin' crazy.

888
01:09:22,472 --> 01:09:25,177
You know who come up here last night?

889
01:09:29,354 --> 01:09:30,931
Sergeant Waters.

890
01:09:38,112 --> 01:09:41,030
They talking about giving you five years.

891
01:09:44,035 --> 01:09:46,608
They call what you did "mutiny," boy.

892
01:09:48,164 --> 01:09:49,991
That gun ain't mine.

893
01:09:50,458 --> 01:09:52,201
We know that, CJ.

894
01:09:53,169 --> 01:09:56,123
We changed the charge on you
this morning.

895
01:09:56,422 --> 01:10:00,254
You're in here
for striking a superior officer.

896
01:10:01,761 --> 01:10:03,884
And everybody seen it, too.

897
01:10:04,889 --> 01:10:07,510
Why are you doin' this to me, Sarge?

898
01:10:07,975 --> 01:10:09,968
Don't feel too bad, CJ.

899
01:10:11,145 --> 01:10:12,936
It has to be this way.

900
01:10:14,940 --> 01:10:16,269
You see...

901
01:10:17,985 --> 01:10:21,188
...the First War didn't change nothing
for the Negro.

902
01:10:21,530 --> 01:10:24,816
But this one's gonna change everything.

903
01:10:26,619 --> 01:10:28,658
Them Nazis ain't all crazy.

904
01:10:29,622 --> 01:10:34,082
Whole lot of people just can't seem to fit in
to where things seem to be going.

905
01:10:34,877 --> 01:10:36,157
Like you, CJ.

906
01:10:37,546 --> 01:10:41,129
See, the Black race
can't afford you no more.

907
01:10:43,051 --> 01:10:47,548
There used to be a time, we'd see someone
like you singin', clownin', yassuh-bossin'...

908
01:10:49,516 --> 01:10:51,556
...and we wouldn't do anything.

909
01:10:51,727 --> 01:10:53,269
Folks liked that.

910
01:10:53,979 --> 01:10:55,438
You were good.

911
01:10:55,689 --> 01:10:57,480
Homey kind of nigger.

912
01:10:58,483 --> 01:11:03,062
When they needed somebody to mistreat,
call a name or two, they paraded you.

913
01:11:04,448 --> 01:11:07,021
Reminded them of the good old days.

914
01:11:11,538 --> 01:11:13,447
Not no more.

915
01:11:14,624 --> 01:11:16,831
The day of the Geechee is gone, boy.

916
01:11:18,420 --> 01:11:20,662
And you're going with it.

917
01:11:20,755 --> 01:11:24,539
We can't let nobody go on believing
we're all fools like you.

918
01:11:33,059 --> 01:11:35,467
I waited a long time for you, boy.

919
01:11:36,980 --> 01:11:38,260
But I got you.

920
01:11:38,982 --> 01:11:42,018
I put two Geechees in jail
in Camp Campbell, Kentucky.

921
01:11:42,318 --> 01:11:44,311
Three in Fort Huachuca.

922
01:11:45,697 --> 01:11:47,773
Now I've got you.

923
01:11:48,950 --> 01:11:51,951
One less fool
for the race to be ashamed of.

924
01:12:29,699 --> 01:12:31,572
What happened to him?

925
01:12:32,952 --> 01:12:34,944
CJ killed himself, sir.

926
01:12:37,206 --> 01:12:41,073
The day after I saw him,
the MPs found him hanging from the bars.

927
01:12:43,420 --> 01:12:45,294
We lost our last game.

928
01:12:45,422 --> 01:12:47,082
We just threw it.

929
01:12:47,424 --> 01:12:49,132
We did it for CJ.

930
01:12:50,135 --> 01:12:53,718
Captain Taylor was mad
'cause we ain't get to play the Yankees.

931
01:12:54,515 --> 01:12:58,014
Peterson was right on that one.
We needed to protest that man.

932
01:13:04,525 --> 01:13:06,850
And the sergeant, what did he do?

933
01:13:06,944 --> 01:13:11,522
They broke up the team and assigned us
to this smoke-generating company.

934
01:13:13,158 --> 01:13:16,029
And the Sarge,
he just started acting funny.

935
01:13:16,578 --> 01:13:18,903
He stayed drunk all the time.

936
01:13:19,164 --> 01:13:21,620
What time did you get in
the night he was killed?

937
01:13:21,708 --> 01:13:23,997
Between 9:20 and 9:30.

938
01:13:24,419 --> 01:13:28,547
<i>Me and Henson listened
to The Jack Benny Show, played checkers.</i>

939
01:13:29,966 --> 01:13:31,924
Who was the last man in that night?

940
01:13:32,010 --> 01:13:34,964
Peterson and Smalls. They had guard duty.

941
01:13:36,348 --> 01:13:38,886
- Is that it, Captain?
- Thank you, Corporal.

942
01:13:38,975 --> 01:13:40,304
Yes, sir.

943
01:13:49,152 --> 01:13:51,228
Eight ball, corner pocket.

944
01:13:56,201 --> 01:13:58,443
- Whose idea was this, Charlie?
- Nivens'.

945
01:13:58,536 --> 01:14:02,404
You're going to have to clear the area, Jim.
We're here to question these two.

946
01:14:02,499 --> 01:14:04,123
He's got no business in here.

947
01:14:04,209 --> 01:14:06,450
Take it up with the colonel.

948
01:14:12,175 --> 01:14:14,547
Now, this is Captain Davenport.

949
01:14:14,928 --> 01:14:19,340
You both understand you're to give
the captain your full cooperation.

950
01:14:20,391 --> 01:14:22,051
You're a lawyer?

951
01:14:22,518 --> 01:14:26,730
I'm not here to answer your questions,
Lieutenant. Sit down.

952
01:14:29,734 --> 01:14:31,109
Sit down.

953
01:14:32,612 --> 01:14:33,940
Yes, sir.

954
01:14:38,159 --> 01:14:40,317
When did you last see Sergeant Waters?

955
01:14:40,411 --> 01:14:42,368
The same night somebody killed him.

956
01:14:42,455 --> 01:14:46,867
Of course, I should have done it myself,
by the way he spoke to Wilcox and me.

957
01:14:46,959 --> 01:14:48,868
How did he speak to you, Captain?

958
01:14:48,961 --> 01:14:50,669
Well, he was drunk.

959
01:14:50,838 --> 01:14:52,712
He said things he shouldn't have.

960
01:14:52,798 --> 01:14:56,167
I told the lieutenant not to make
the situation worse than it was.

961
01:14:56,260 --> 01:15:01,005
So, we left him there,
on the side of the road, on his knees.

962
01:15:01,223 --> 01:15:02,421
Alive.

963
01:15:05,436 --> 01:15:07,475
Exactly what did he say?

964
01:15:07,938 --> 01:15:11,272
He said he wasn't gonna obey
the white man's orders anymore.

965
01:15:11,358 --> 01:15:14,644
Then he starts blaming Wilcox and me
for him being black.

966
01:15:14,778 --> 01:15:17,863
I mean, imagine that.
Hell, I didn't even know the man.

967
01:15:18,157 --> 01:15:20,730
He said he killed somebody, too.

968
01:15:20,868 --> 01:15:25,031
And some pretty insulting things about us.
I mean, white officers.

969
01:15:25,914 --> 01:15:27,788
Did he say who? Mention a name?

970
01:15:27,875 --> 01:15:30,282
Look, the goddamn nigger
was disrespectful.

971
01:15:30,377 --> 01:15:33,793
No way does a colored soldier
speak to a white officer like that.

972
01:15:33,881 --> 01:15:36,288
What are we doing, wasting time on this?

973
01:15:36,383 --> 01:15:41,425
You answer him like he wants you to,
Byrd, or I'll stick it to your ass...

974
01:15:41,597 --> 01:15:44,218
...every chance I get. You got that?

975
01:15:44,308 --> 01:15:45,339
Yes, sir.

976
01:15:45,434 --> 01:15:47,260
Captain, let me handle this.

977
01:15:47,352 --> 01:15:49,428
Then handle it! Jesus.

978
01:15:53,150 --> 01:15:56,186
You said he was disrespectful.
Is that why you killed him?

979
01:15:56,278 --> 01:15:57,392
I killed no one.

980
01:15:57,487 --> 01:15:58,401
Sit down!

981
01:15:59,823 --> 01:16:01,650
- You hit him, huh?
- I knocked him down.

982
01:16:01,741 --> 01:16:03,319
- Then you shot him.
- He was alive.

983
01:16:03,410 --> 01:16:04,821
You beat him up then shot him...

984
01:16:04,911 --> 01:16:06,951
No! Get outta my face before I kill you!

985
01:16:07,247 --> 01:16:08,326
- Like Waters?
- No.

986
01:16:08,415 --> 01:16:09,245
Soldier!

987
01:16:09,332 --> 01:16:11,539
- He's trying to put it on me.
- Sit down.

988
01:16:12,043 --> 01:16:14,534
Answer his questions, Lieutenant.

989
01:16:18,383 --> 01:16:20,921
You were both coming off bivouac, right?
Speak up.

990
01:16:21,011 --> 01:16:23,169
- You both had weapons.
- We didn't fire them.

991
01:16:23,263 --> 01:16:25,386
- When'd you turn them in?
- Right away.

992
01:16:25,473 --> 01:16:27,549
Colonel Nivens took our.45s to the MPs.

993
01:16:27,642 --> 01:16:31,177
He kept it quiet so the colored boys
wouldn't know anyone white...

994
01:16:31,271 --> 01:16:33,975
...was involved,
but those weapons cleared ballistics.

995
01:16:34,065 --> 01:16:37,683
Besides, we've been short on
.45 caliber ammo for what, six months?

996
01:16:37,777 --> 01:16:40,778
It's for MPs and special duty people only.

997
01:16:41,030 --> 01:16:44,115
Look, nobody on that exercise
was issued any.

998
01:16:46,119 --> 01:16:46,865
What?

999
01:16:48,705 --> 01:16:53,532
I said, sir, nobody on the bivouac
was issued any .45 ammo.

1000
01:16:54,419 --> 01:16:57,669
I don't believe you. Why wasn't I told?

1001
01:16:57,922 --> 01:17:01,208
The weapons had cleared
and the colonel felt if he involved you...

1002
01:17:01,300 --> 01:17:04,135
...you'd tell Washington,
which he thinks you did anyway.

1003
01:17:04,220 --> 01:17:08,052
Sir, we were not involved
in any way with the sergeant's death.

1004
01:17:08,140 --> 01:17:09,718
I'm a doctor.

1005
01:17:09,809 --> 01:17:12,347
We left that man on the side of the road.
Alive.

1006
01:17:12,436 --> 01:17:14,762
You're both under arrest.
The charge is murder.

1007
01:17:14,855 --> 01:17:17,975
- Captain...
- Do you think I believe that crap?

1008
01:17:20,486 --> 01:17:21,897
Let them go.

1009
01:17:22,488 --> 01:17:23,651
What?

1010
01:17:24,281 --> 01:17:26,440
- Are we being charged?
- Not by me.

1011
01:17:28,994 --> 01:17:32,529
What are you doing?
You've got a motive and a witness.

1012
01:17:34,458 --> 01:17:36,367
What more do you want?

1013
01:17:36,460 --> 01:17:38,702
This is still my investigation, Charlie.

1014
01:17:40,714 --> 01:17:43,964
We've both been had, Captain.
The colonel knew this all along.

1015
01:17:44,051 --> 01:17:47,799
- I've been going in circles.
- They are guilty as hell and you know it.

1016
01:17:47,888 --> 01:17:49,715
I'll back you up. Charge them!

1017
01:17:49,807 --> 01:17:52,214
I do what the facts tell me, Captain,
not you.

1018
01:17:52,309 --> 01:17:54,800
You don't know what a fact is, Davenport.

1019
01:17:54,895 --> 01:17:57,682
I'm the lawyer.
They teach you law at West Point?

1020
01:17:57,773 --> 01:18:01,605
You don't have to be a goddamn lawyer
to deal with those two assholes.

1021
01:18:01,693 --> 01:18:04,564
And if they didn't kill Waters, who did?

1022
01:18:05,531 --> 01:18:07,238
I don't know yet.

1023
01:18:22,506 --> 01:18:25,044
What do you know about CJ Memphis?

1024
01:18:28,094 --> 01:18:30,420
A great ballplayer.

1025
01:18:30,931 --> 01:18:33,469
Committed suicide.

1026
01:18:34,809 --> 01:18:36,517
It was a tragedy.

1027
01:18:37,437 --> 01:18:40,142
I think Waters tricked the kid
into attacking him.

1028
01:18:41,566 --> 01:18:43,855
No, I can't believe that, Davenport.

1029
01:18:43,943 --> 01:18:48,570
I mean, this man managed the finest
baseball team in the entire US Army.

1030
01:18:49,491 --> 01:18:54,449
Colored people aren't that devious.
Hell, we hadn't lost a game for two years.

1031
01:18:54,829 --> 01:18:59,705
And the finest player that Waters ever had
was CJ Memphis.

1032
01:19:01,377 --> 01:19:03,868
Now, if you'd have seen him,
you'd know what I mean.

1033
01:19:05,506 --> 01:19:07,713
Captain Davenport!

1034
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:11,383
We found Wilkie, but we haven't located
Peterson and Smalls yet.

1035
01:19:11,471 --> 01:19:13,843
- Where's Wilkie?
- In the barracks, sir.

1036
01:19:14,349 --> 01:19:17,848
Wait a minute. Didn't you question
Wilkie and Peterson already?

1037
01:19:17,935 --> 01:19:19,595
I asked you a question.

1038
01:19:19,687 --> 01:19:21,976
This is still my investigation. Let's go.

1039
01:19:22,064 --> 01:19:26,358
That's been the problem all along,
you arrogant son of a bitch!

1040
01:19:30,990 --> 01:19:32,864
You nervous, Wilkie?

1041
01:19:33,034 --> 01:19:36,403
No, I just couldn't figure out
why you called me back, sir.

1042
01:19:36,495 --> 01:19:38,571
You said the Sarge busted you, right?

1043
01:19:38,664 --> 01:19:42,496
Yeah, he got me busted, sir.
He reported me to the captain.

1044
01:19:42,585 --> 01:19:44,459
- How'd you feel?
- Well, I...

1045
01:19:44,545 --> 01:19:46,787
You and the Sarge were good friends.

1046
01:19:46,881 --> 01:19:48,754
- He was a nice guy.
- Yes, he...

1047
01:19:48,841 --> 01:19:50,501
- Didn't you tell me that?
- Yeah...

1048
01:19:50,801 --> 01:19:53,802
- Would a nice guy get a friend busted?
- Well...

1049
01:19:53,888 --> 01:19:55,050
No, speak up.

1050
01:19:55,139 --> 01:19:57,297
- You lied when you said he was nice.
- No.

1051
01:19:57,391 --> 01:20:00,262
- What I said was he...
- Was Waters a nice guy or not?

1052
01:20:00,352 --> 01:20:01,763
No! He wasn't a nice guy.

1053
01:20:01,854 --> 01:20:04,724
You don't turn somebody in for that.
You give extra duty.

1054
01:20:04,815 --> 01:20:08,729
You chew 'em out. But three stripes...
It took me 10 years to get them stripes.

1055
01:20:08,819 --> 01:20:11,654
That's right. That made you mad, didn't it?

1056
01:20:11,739 --> 01:20:14,111
Yes. All the things I did for him.

1057
01:20:14,199 --> 01:20:16,821
That's right.
You were his boy, weren't you?

1058
01:20:17,202 --> 01:20:18,697
You took care of the team.

1059
01:20:19,580 --> 01:20:21,122
You ran his errands.

1060
01:20:21,206 --> 01:20:22,700
You policed his quarters.

1061
01:20:22,791 --> 01:20:25,626
You listened to his stories.
Put the gun under CJ's bunk.

1062
01:20:25,711 --> 01:20:27,122
Yes. No, I...

1063
01:20:27,337 --> 01:20:28,666
Sit down!

1064
01:20:29,339 --> 01:20:33,088
It was you Henson saw that night.
You lied about Waters, you're lying now.

1065
01:20:33,176 --> 01:20:35,169
You were the only one out that night.

1066
01:20:35,262 --> 01:20:38,465
Who else could've found
CJ's bunk in the dark? It was you.

1067
01:20:38,974 --> 01:20:42,094
No, it was Sarge. He ordered me.
Said I'd get my stripes back.

1068
01:20:42,185 --> 01:20:45,637
He wanted to teach CJ a lesson.
Put him in jail for a few days.

1069
01:20:45,731 --> 01:20:48,601
Scare him. But CJ hit him
and he had CJ where he wanted.

1070
01:20:48,900 --> 01:20:51,189
And then CJ, he hung himself.

1071
01:20:51,278 --> 01:20:55,062
He died like he was spiting the Sarge.
And then the Sarge...

1072
01:20:55,157 --> 01:20:56,319
...he didn't figure that.

1073
01:20:56,408 --> 01:20:57,688
What did he have against CJ?

1074
01:20:57,784 --> 01:21:00,702
He despised him,
but he hid it 'cause everyone liked CJ.

1075
01:21:00,996 --> 01:21:03,154
Underneath, it was a crazy kind of hate.

1076
01:21:03,456 --> 01:21:08,877
A crazy kind of hate. You won't believe it.
I mean, sometimes you could just feel it...

1077
01:21:22,892 --> 01:21:25,810
He's the kind of boy that seems innocent.

1078
01:21:27,188 --> 01:21:31,138
Got everybody on the post
thinking he's a strong, black buck.

1079
01:21:31,943 --> 01:21:35,893
White boys envy his strength. His speed.

1080
01:21:37,907 --> 01:21:39,864
Power in his swing.

1081
01:21:41,786 --> 01:21:45,071
Then this colored champion lets
those same white boys call him...

1082
01:21:45,164 --> 01:21:49,542
..."Shine" or "Sambo" and he just smiles.

1083
01:21:58,803 --> 01:22:03,346
Can't talk. Can barely read
or write his own name...

1084
01:22:04,558 --> 01:22:06,385
...and don't care.

1085
01:22:07,311 --> 01:22:09,683
He'll tell you they like him...

1086
01:22:10,106 --> 01:22:14,353
...or that colored folks ain't supposed
to have but so much sense.

1087
01:22:22,701 --> 01:22:25,987
Do you know the damage
one ignorant Negro can do?

1088
01:22:29,208 --> 01:22:31,781
We were in France in the First War.

1089
01:22:33,045 --> 01:22:38,086
We'd won decorations, but the white boys
had told all them French gals...

1090
01:22:38,258 --> 01:22:40,132
...that we had tails.

1091
01:22:41,678 --> 01:22:45,130
And they found this ignorant
colored soldier.

1092
01:22:45,641 --> 01:22:50,303
Paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run
around half-naked making monkey sounds.

1093
01:22:52,814 --> 01:22:56,598
They put him on a big round table
in the Cafe Napoleon.

1094
01:22:57,402 --> 01:23:00,902
Put a reed in his hand,
a crown on his head...

1095
01:23:02,407 --> 01:23:05,325
...a blanket on his shoulders
and made him eat bananas...

1096
01:23:05,410 --> 01:23:07,569
...in front of all them Frenchies.

1097
01:23:09,247 --> 01:23:14,787
The white boys danced and passed out
leaflets with his picture on it.

1098
01:23:16,755 --> 01:23:21,713
Called him "Moonshine,
King of the Monkeys."

1099
01:23:25,096 --> 01:23:27,884
When we slit his throat,
you know that fool asked us...

1100
01:23:27,974 --> 01:23:30,097
...what he had done wrong.

1101
01:23:49,579 --> 01:23:53,659
My daddy told me,
we got to turn our backs on his kind.

1102
01:23:54,292 --> 01:23:58,705
Close our ranks to the chitlins,
collard greens, cornbread style.

1103
01:24:01,341 --> 01:24:03,914
We are men, soldiers.

1104
01:24:05,928 --> 01:24:07,588
I don't intend for our race...

1105
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:11,512
...to be cheated out of its place
of honor and respect in this war...

1106
01:24:12,059 --> 01:24:14,301
...because of fools like CJ.

1107
01:24:16,022 --> 01:24:19,272
You watch everything he does. Everything.

1108
01:24:27,408 --> 01:24:31,073
And I watched him.
But Waters couldn't wait.

1109
01:24:31,495 --> 01:24:36,453
He wouldn't talk about nothing else.
CJ this, CJ all the time.

1110
01:24:41,422 --> 01:24:44,209
Why didn't he pick on Peterson?
They had the fight.

1111
01:24:44,300 --> 01:24:45,580
He liked Peterson.

1112
01:24:45,843 --> 01:24:50,339
Pete fought back. Sarge admired that.
He was planning to promote Pete.

1113
01:24:50,764 --> 01:24:54,928
You imagine that? He thought
Peterson would make a fine soldier.

1114
01:24:59,356 --> 01:25:01,894
What did Peterson do when CJ died?

1115
01:25:02,943 --> 01:25:05,101
Everybody blamed the Sarge.

1116
01:25:06,071 --> 01:25:09,689
Pete put together that protest
that lost our last game.

1117
01:25:09,867 --> 01:25:12,986
Afterwards, he kept to himself
or with Smalls.

1118
01:25:21,128 --> 01:25:23,204
- I didn't mean to do what I did.
- Ellis!

1119
01:25:23,630 --> 01:25:25,172
- It wasn't my fault.
- Ellis!

1120
01:25:25,257 --> 01:25:26,288
Yes, sir!

1121
01:25:26,425 --> 01:25:29,260
- What's going on?
- We're shipping out.

1122
01:25:29,344 --> 01:25:31,716
They finally letting us Negroes fight!

1123
01:25:32,055 --> 01:25:33,514
Hitler ain't got a chance.

1124
01:25:33,598 --> 01:25:36,350
And after what Joe Louis did
to Max Schmeling...

1125
01:25:39,062 --> 01:25:43,854
24-hour standby alert.
It's the invasion of Europe, boys.

1126
01:25:44,359 --> 01:25:48,487
Look out, Hitler, the niggers is comin'
to get your ass through the fog!

1127
01:25:49,322 --> 01:25:51,813
We gonna "goose" the goose step, daddy!

1128
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:53,363
<i>Heil Hitler!</i>

1129
01:25:53,451 --> 01:25:55,777
We gonna turn them Nazis around, sir.

1130
01:25:56,079 --> 01:25:59,911
<i>We're gonna teach them a thing
or two about them Schwarze.</i>

1131
01:26:17,141 --> 01:26:18,968
- Ellis.
- Yes, sir.

1132
01:26:19,060 --> 01:26:21,931
Private Wilkie is under arrest.
Take him to the stockade.

1133
01:26:22,021 --> 01:26:23,136
Sir?

1134
01:26:24,065 --> 01:26:25,559
You heard me.

1135
01:28:38,448 --> 01:28:41,199
Private Smalls, as you requested, sir.

1136
01:28:42,285 --> 01:28:43,779
Leave us alone, Sergeant.

1137
01:28:43,870 --> 01:28:45,198
Yes, sir.

1138
01:28:51,252 --> 01:28:53,375
Why'd you go AWOL, soldier?

1139
01:28:53,755 --> 01:28:55,996
Private Anthony Smalls, sir.

1140
01:28:57,717 --> 01:28:59,341
Answer my question!

1141
01:28:59,427 --> 01:29:01,336
I didn't go A-W-O-L, sir.

1142
01:29:01,763 --> 01:29:04,716
See, I got drunk in Tynin and I was just...

1143
01:29:05,349 --> 01:29:08,635
Weren't you and Peterson
supposed to be on detail?

1144
01:29:08,728 --> 01:29:11,515
Where was Peterson? Speak up.

1145
01:29:12,648 --> 01:29:14,273
I don't know, sir.

1146
01:29:14,358 --> 01:29:17,727
You just walked off your detail
and Peterson did nothing?

1147
01:29:17,820 --> 01:29:21,106
No, sir. See, he warned me, sir.
"Listen, Smalls," he said.

1148
01:29:21,198 --> 01:29:23,072
"Now, if you..."

1149
01:29:23,326 --> 01:29:26,161
Are you trying
to make a fool out of me, Smalls?

1150
01:29:28,581 --> 01:29:29,861
No, sir.

1151
01:29:31,041 --> 01:29:34,292
You two went over the hill together,
didn't you?

1152
01:29:35,546 --> 01:29:36,921
Answer me!

1153
01:29:41,260 --> 01:29:42,375
Yes.

1154
01:29:42,469 --> 01:29:45,506
Yes. You went over the hill
together because Peterson knew...

1155
01:29:45,598 --> 01:29:49,381
...I'd find out the two of you
killed Waters. Didn't you?

1156
01:29:51,937 --> 01:29:53,977
What? I can't hear you!

1157
01:29:54,898 --> 01:29:56,891
You killed Waters, didn't you?

1158
01:29:58,110 --> 01:30:01,027
I want an answer!

1159
01:30:01,780 --> 01:30:03,607
Did you kill Waters?

1160
01:30:04,700 --> 01:30:07,191
It was Peterson, sir.

1161
01:30:09,371 --> 01:30:11,079
It wasn't me.

1162
01:30:16,878 --> 01:30:18,871
People are blind.

1163
01:30:19,464 --> 01:30:22,086
Smalls, look who's drunk on his ass.

1164
01:30:23,218 --> 01:30:25,626
Leave him be, Pete. He ain't worth it.

1165
01:30:25,929 --> 01:30:27,092
No.

1166
01:30:28,682 --> 01:30:30,721
I'm gonna enjoy this.

1167
01:30:31,893 --> 01:30:34,847
Big, bad Sergeant Waters
down on his knees.

1168
01:30:36,523 --> 01:30:38,515
No, sir, Smalls.

1169
01:30:39,651 --> 01:30:41,644
No, I'm gonna love this.

1170
01:30:47,742 --> 01:30:50,447
Sarge, need some help?

1171
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:54,156
Hi, Pete.

1172
01:30:55,542 --> 01:30:58,163
Here, come on now, here we go. Yes.

1173
01:31:01,965 --> 01:31:03,922
- That's the help I'll give you.
- Peterson!

1174
01:31:04,008 --> 01:31:04,957
Shut up!

1175
01:31:08,388 --> 01:31:10,380
Smalls, some people...

1176
01:31:12,350 --> 01:31:15,137
If this was a German, would you kill it?

1177
01:31:18,940 --> 01:31:22,724
If it was Hitler or that fucking Tojo,
would you kill him?

1178
01:31:23,528 --> 01:31:25,935
There's a trick to it, Peterson.

1179
01:31:26,531 --> 01:31:29,104
It's the only way you can win.

1180
01:31:29,826 --> 01:31:33,076
See, CJ could never make it.

1181
01:31:33,996 --> 01:31:37,496
He was a clown. A clown in blackface.

1182
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:39,744
A nigger.

1183
01:31:40,086 --> 01:31:42,374
See, you got to be like them.

1184
01:31:43,798 --> 01:31:46,123
But the rules are fixed and...

1185
01:31:48,552 --> 01:31:49,750
Listen.

1186
01:31:51,597 --> 01:31:52,628
Hear it?

1187
01:31:55,226 --> 01:31:56,768
It's CJ.

1188
01:31:57,228 --> 01:32:00,679
"Low-down, low-down dirty shame"

1189
01:32:02,608 --> 01:32:04,731
I made him do it.

1190
01:32:09,323 --> 01:32:11,992
But it doesn't make any difference.

1191
01:32:17,331 --> 01:32:20,036
They still hate you.

1192
01:32:30,010 --> 01:32:32,715
- Peterson.
- It's justice, Smalls.

1193
01:32:32,804 --> 01:32:34,180
It's for CJ.

1194
01:32:35,891 --> 01:32:36,887
Everybody.

1195
01:32:36,975 --> 01:32:39,810
They still hate you.

1196
01:32:59,414 --> 01:33:01,537
And you call that justice?

1197
01:33:05,212 --> 01:33:06,492
No, sir.

1198
01:33:07,339 --> 01:33:10,256
Then why the fuck
didn't you do something?

1199
01:33:10,759 --> 01:33:12,301
I was just...

1200
01:33:13,428 --> 01:33:15,919
...scared of him, sir.

1201
01:33:16,681 --> 01:33:18,888
He said everybody would think...

1202
01:33:19,684 --> 01:33:22,222
...white people did it.

1203
01:33:23,772 --> 01:33:25,515
God, I'm sorry.

1204
01:33:28,151 --> 01:33:32,018
I'm sorry. I was just so scared that I...

1205
01:33:34,073 --> 01:33:37,074
Caught this one on Old Bridge Road, sir.

1206
01:33:39,037 --> 01:33:41,160
That'll be all, thank you.

1207
01:33:58,431 --> 01:34:00,470
You told it, didn't you?

1208
01:34:21,495 --> 01:34:23,369
I didn't kill much.

1209
01:34:25,457 --> 01:34:28,411
Some things need getting rid of.

1210
01:34:29,336 --> 01:34:33,168
A man like Waters never did
nobody no good anyway, Captain.

1211
01:34:39,555 --> 01:34:41,631
Who gave you...

1212
01:34:42,933 --> 01:34:44,760
...the right to judge?

1213
01:34:45,769 --> 01:34:48,225
To decide who is fit...

1214
01:34:48,564 --> 01:34:50,355
...to be a Negro...

1215
01:34:50,858 --> 01:34:52,601
...and who is not?

1216
01:34:54,278 --> 01:34:55,108
Who?

1217
01:35:04,121 --> 01:35:05,449
Sergeant!

1218
01:35:12,546 --> 01:35:13,660
Sir?

1219
01:35:13,922 --> 01:35:16,413
Get these goddamn men out of here.

1220
01:35:16,967 --> 01:35:18,295
Yes, sir.

1221
01:36:45,888 --> 01:36:48,130
I hear they caught Peterson.

1222
01:36:50,935 --> 01:36:53,426
I guess that's it. Got your man.

1223
01:36:55,105 --> 01:36:56,765
Yeah, I got him.

1224
01:37:00,736 --> 01:37:02,195
I was wrong.

1225
01:37:05,991 --> 01:37:10,238
So was I.
Charlie, look, I could do with a lift.

1226
01:37:11,246 --> 01:37:12,741
Well, hop in.

1227
01:37:25,260 --> 01:37:30,337
I guess I'll have to get used to Negroes
with bars on their shoulders, Davenport.

1228
01:37:30,432 --> 01:37:32,721
You know, being in charge.

1229
01:37:32,809 --> 01:37:36,759
You'll get used to it, Captain.
You can bet your ass on that.

1230
01:37:37,356 --> 01:37:39,265
You'll get used to it.

1231
01:37:40,984 --> 01:37:42,229
Eyes...

1232
01:37:42,569 --> 01:37:43,897
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