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Someone else can do the deed, it doesn't have to be you. Maybe Nunez too, he's got a tendency to follow Mueller, but the rest of us can come out ahead the guys who took out their Sergeant's killers! We'll move the bodies out to the creek and say we came over the hill right as they fragged West, all we gotta do is tell...
Pike, please
Although that won't matter much when coupled with the murder charge
Hostile and uncooperative.
Fantastic. You want to tell me what's going on?
Ah, Christ
You knew Sergeant West?
He was our Drill here. Man's older than sand.
I didn't mean that as a compliment.
Sergeant West's served for twenty three years. He's the public face of the modern Army.
And you notice I'm not in the Army anymore.
Gotta be honest, I love what you've done with the place
You and the Colonel go back.
He got me through Basic and a lot of other stuff. I owe him.
You're the Tom Hardy I've been reading about in the papers, right? New Orleans PD fired you for taking bribes from Guissepe Torres.
It was for suspicion of bribery, it's really all in the wording
Wording and your friendship with the Colonel aside, I'm not comfortable having you involved in this.
Subtlety really isn't one of you finer points, is it, Osborne?
Three things. First You don't have a choice. Second I've never taken a bribe in my life. And Third I'm still a little drunk from last night, so if I skip over the witty banter and move forward to straight hitting on you, try not to take offense. Tell me about the two guys.
Hurricane knocked out our Mainframe, so all we have are their dogtags. Cadets Raymond Dunbar and Levi Kendall
Levi? Who names their kid Levi
Senator Jonathan Kendall, of Ohio.
Christ... Remind me to thank Bill for mentioning that on the phone
Kendall Junior is still in surgery, so he won't be available to answer for his name or anything else for another hour the cadet we're talking to first is Dunbar.
He's in interrogation?
Yes.
Move him.
Why?
Because interrogation rooms look suspiciously like interrogation rooms, which doesn't exactly put people at ease. Is he cute?
Excuse me?
Is Dunbar cute?
That is the most unprofessional
Is he handsome, self assured, carry himself well, does he look you in the eyes or down at the floor, does he have good bones, suggesting good breeding, does he slouch or sit up straight these are important questions, as they reveal a great deal about this man's character so please get over yourself for two and a half ...
Thank you. At some point in there I'm gonna rub my nose. When I do, go at him with everything you got.
Good cop/bad cop?
Something like that.
I questioned him for three hours and he didn't make a sound. You don't have a badge, he won't talk to you.
Ten bucks says I have him talking in under three minutes.
The Colonel saw you shoot Nunez, you're a murderer
See, Ray, this is what we call "good cop, bad cop". She shouts, I stand up for you, you're grateful, a bond of trust is established.
Baseball?
I believe somebody owes me ten dollars
You made me look like an idiot
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know the object of the interrogation is to make you look good Everyone knows good cop, bad cop by admitting it I appeared trustworthy.
You really want to make banal chit chat like that now?
You're right. We should sit in silence.
We're in the middle of a murder case
Best time for banal chitchat.
What is that?
Microrecorder for Kendall didn't have time to wire his room. Now tell me why you joined the army or I'll jab this pen through your neck.
Typical army brat story. Dad was noncom, Mom was a Nurse. There was never any real doubt of joining up.
You had a mobile of bayonets above your crib.
Something like that. You?
I lost a bet.
You're kidding.
Yeah. That's just the story I tell the girls to get them into bed. Truth is... I don't know. The whole honor and duty thing. Make a difference in the world, crap like that. Didn't really work out.
This is the straight hitting on me you were talking about, isn't it?
The very same.
You do understand that there's absolutely no way I could ever be attracted to you, right?
I plan to grow on you.
You're off to a late start.
So noted.
You guys really got the shit kicked out of you here.
Imagine what it must have been like for them out there. What do you think of Dunbar?
He's telling the truth, up to a point.
What point?
Something wrong?
Being back here. Gives me the willies.
Not the happiest of memories?
Remember, he's the son of a Senator, so go easy. Kid gloves.
Got it.
That was kid gloves?
Have no fear, Osborne, we have not yet begun to fight.
But we have to question him Thought you didn't have cigarettes
I lied. Wait for it...
"Too neat." How long have you been an investigator?
I don't think that has anything to do with
That means under a year. Let me explain what ten years of police work has taught me murder is basic. There are no conspiracies, no grand mysteries, and no evil puppet masters behind it all, pulling the strings; murder is shitty people doing a shitty thing to other shitty people it doesn't always make sense but it's a...
I just... He came back for Kendall. I don't think he's capable of murder.
Everyone's capable of murder, Osborne.
Look, all we've got is what Kendall says, and he didn't actually witness any deaths except Nunez. He found West, he saw Mueller and Pike, but just their bodies he didn't see any crime committed.
Well, I'm sure if he'd known this was all going to happen he'd have tried harder to witness it for you
Why the fuck wasn't he in restraints?
I don't know.
Styles couldn't reassign him, he's a legend
You knew what he was capable of and you just stood by. It was just a matter of time till somebody fragged his ass, and you know what? He deserved it. There's your confession.
Goddammit, Hardy, you can't just leave
Watch me.
You said you owed Styles and now you're gonna turn your back on him?
West was a monster! Fifteen years ago, I was here, I was Section Eight, I was Pike. Fuck being the knife dummy that thing he did, stripping Pike down, making him stand outside all night? He did that every year, he did that to me. Fifteen years ago, I wanted him dead, and now I'm supposed to care that somebody offed hi...
You did more than try. You cracked Dunbar in less than three minutes, as an investigator you're phenomenal
Phenomenal at taking bribes, right?
I was starting to believe you, you know? That you weren't who everyone said. I guess I was wrong
Oh, spare me the reverse psychology bullshit! This isn't my "great second chance", Osborne. Everyone thinks I'm a piece of shit cop who took money and nothing is going to change that. Nobody will ever know what happens here
But you will.
Why do you care?
Because it's my job. Because people are dead. Because of the whole honor and duty thing, make a difference in the world, crap like that. We can do this, Hardy.
I didn't shoot West...
What?
Dunbar... He said he didn't shoot West. West wasn't shot, Kendall said he was blown apart by a phosphorous grenade and Dunbar never saw the body.