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Dunbar you are to stand here and guard this nigger for the next twenty four hours! He is not to be given food, water, or clothes! If he so much as moves, you are to blow his nigger brains out, is that clear?
Sir, yes, sir!
The rest of you, fallout for physicals!
What the fuck is going on?
Your weapons, Sergeant.
Are you saying Sergeant West tried to kill you?
No, ma'am, he just wanted us to quit. Making it through was kind of an honor. Some of the other guys on the base told us that if you could hack Section Eight, Command would consider you at the top of the class.
That first night with Pike. I made the mistake of letting him sit down at around 0300.
Tell us about the other guys, the ones West weeded out.
There were six of us...
He was sickly. Had that shaking thing, whatd'yacall it, epoxy?
Epilepsy.
Yeah. Spent half his time in the infirmary. Only reason he enlisted was his father. West didn't section him till last week.
He said he worked there
No, did he tell you about it? About the business Childs ran?
What business?
Pills, shots, you name it, Basic's a lot easier when you don't feel pain
Where?
The creek bed
What about the phosphorous grenade?
One went off, yeah, but it didn't touch him I thought you knew this
Back up.
Mueller was alone in the cabin?
Yeah.
Why didn't you tell us all this in the first place?
Would you have believed me?
Where's the cabin?
Don't know on a map. West told us it was there, we just found it. Maybe the hurricane took it away.
You kept Kendall alive to corroborate your story and he did it all they way up to the end. You even gave him his own motive in case we decided to burn him, too.
Can't do that now, though, can you?
Is that what I did, now? And of course, you can prove all of it.
We can prove that you're not Ray Dunbar. Impersonating a fellow Cadet is a courtmartial in and of itself
Did I ever claim I was Raymond Dunbar? Was I ever told to state my name rank and serial number for the record? No. You assumed who I was, because I was wearing this uniform. Don't believe me?
Ohhhh, I don't think so...
How do you know that?
Just a guess. Maybe they're not where they're supposed to be. Maybe somebody moved them. Habeas Corpus no bodies, no crime, and Nunez still plays as self defense. Face it detectives... you have nothing.
Why not?
I asked for a policeman.
You're under military arrest, it's not gonna happen. What's wrong with baseball?
It's... too slow.
Well, it's a game of anticipation, that's the beauty.
I just don't like it.
What do you like then?
I don't know... I like the Army.
C'mon, Ray, everyone hates the Army during Basic. I'll tell you straight, I hated it here.
You did Basic here?
Fifteen years ago under Sergeant West. Piece of work, that guy. I remember, he used to have these two silver .45's with ivory handles and if you weren't quick enough, he'd knock you on the head with one of them. He still carry those guns?
There's no need...
They're dead, aren't they?
Right. Now, I'm gonna go get you another donut and you think about whether you want to talk more, okay?
Okay.
Why'd you ask for a cop, Ray?
I'm not telling you what happened.
Okay... but I would like to know about the other cadets. What they were like nice guys?
Some.
Tell me about them.
And those were the guys who went on the exercise with you?
Yeah. And that's all I'm saying.
You smoke, Ray?
This is one of those interrogation tricks, isn't it? You don't give me a cigarette till I tell you more.
No, actually, I just left mine in the car and was hoping you had some.
Hey, Ray! Just had a nice talk with your buddy Kendall seems you killed three people!
That son of a bitch.
That'd be my reaction too
He's lying.
Well, why didn't you say so? We'll just drop all your charges, then
I'm serious
Fuck "you're serious", Raymond, you got exactly zero truck with us; right now we'd take the word of a crackhead over yours, so if you've got something to say, say it.
Did Kendall tell you about the PX?
So Childs made some side money, so what? People are dead, Ray, and the only one we have to blame is you
I didn't shoot West
Yeah, we know, Pike did.
I apologize
You saw West's body.
Of course
And he'd been shot.
Yeah
You shot Childs and Nunez.
They would have killed us both. You want me to write a confession, I'll write a confession.
You saved Kendall's life
But not Pike's.
Raymond, for you to have any chance of coming out of this, we need to locate the other bodies and examine them to corroborate your testimony. Otherwise this is just another story
Mr. Hardy, I joined the army for college money. I didn't ask for any of this I tried to do the right thing out there and people got killed. You say finding those bodies'll help me, then go find them. I don't want to die.
We're not finished yet
You wanna bet?
We don't need the tapes
Oh, you don't? What else do you have on me? You haven't found any bodies yet, have you?
We've found all of them.
Not true, Cadet, I've got a gun
Jesus!
He He made me do it
Do what?
Hunting we had to hunt him
I guess Nunez wasn't dead after all. He came after us with a vengeance. You know the rest.
And the bodies?
You won't find them. Won't find West, either. He's too good.
I promised them I'd ask you where West and the others are...
Washout rejects, guys he said were "dumbfucks too stupid to know they dead"...
He's telling the truth up to a point...
We finished the course and came here, then heard an explosion Where's Pike?