Over There s01e09 Episode Script

Previously on Over There.
Good news is you can go home.
Bad news is your son's got an illness.
Mrs.
Brenda Mitchell to see prisoner BH 8994.
If anything happens to me, you stay away from Thomas.
You ain't even gonna see your boy? I'm going right now.
How do you get to Hollywood? Hollywood! The city of dreams.
Doesn't exist.
I'll buy you dinner.
You must think I just fell off the turnip truck.
I like turnips.
You think you could fit one up your ass? I think I killed a cousin of yours in Iraq.
Staff Sergeant, I need you help.
- Shit! - Yeah, I'm AWOL.
There's a guy who runs here.
He has a false limp.
What time of day does he run? Man! That was intense! Your mom is a whore! She gives good head! Her legs are spread! Shut up! I'm suspending Eddy.
You're an asshole, Mr Howard.
I've been drinking all day and I can still list every things gone wrong.
Oh sweaty Are there any other alcoholics in the room? I know I call a lot, sweetheart.
You just feel so far away is all, I just wanna know you're there.
Eddy's good? Can I talk to him? It's almost midnight so he's still like a sack of rocks.
- I can wake him.
- No, don't wake him.
He wouldn't wanna miss you.
He needs his sleep.
So you're okay? I'm going to AA meetings everyday.
That's good.
Yeah, it's It's not easy but Part of the program is that you have to tell people the things you did while you were drinking.
And make amends if you hurt them.
What did you do? I did bad things, Frank.
I was drinking Not proud.
What did you do? Bad things, okay? The worst things I could do.
Another guy? I love you so much.
That's not an answer.
Please it's in the past.
Guess that's an answer after all.
Clear! Smell's about to make me puke man! Dim, what's wrong with you, man? Feeding the goddamn chickens, man? They're starving.
Why the hell you care about that for? 'Cause I'm starving.
We clear every house, we spend the night back at the base.
What about the people who live here? Pull's been made.
When a town is clear of insurgents, the civilians come home.
To this shithole? Why? 'Cause it's home.
Even if this shit was home to me, I ain't going back there Let 'em know we're here.
Wait! There's a wire in the wall.
Booby-trapped? Well nobody in this dump has electricity.
Can we get some engineers out here? Negative, we'd live to wait out.
They found 6 IADs since sun up today.
So the engineers are busy which means we find a way to either clear the house ourselves or we spend the night.
I do not wanna stay here, man! You wanna clear the house? Me? Why me? Courtyard walls are higher than the others.
Yard's bigger.
Someone could be hiding something in there, you know.
Smoke volunteered to check it out, didn't you hear? No, no, no.
I ain't volunteering for nothing.
I just don't wanna What the hell was that about? I don't know, Sergeant, I just I thought it needed doing.
You thought it needed doing? Yeah.
Are you trying to get yourself killed? No.
On the other hand, it might be an interesting experience.
It's not a booby trap.
It's a generator.
Clear.
This is gangsta! This is tacky.
This is Beverly Hills.
This is where we'll be setting up.
All right.
Check out that last room.
Then we'll see if this guy has any class at all.
Meaning what? Meaning did he leave a cigar for me or not? That's an electric heater right there.
Big enough for a hot bath.
It ain't this cold in case you haven't noticed.
Sergeant wants us to clear the end of the street.
I'll check out the gold bathtub, man.
Private Mitchell! Private Brenda Mitchell! Private Mitchell, Sir.
At ease.
I understand you had some trouble at home.
Yes, Sir.
You say it was with your child.
But if anyone presses you, you admit that it was really your ex.
He's a shit, always was.
Am I right, private? That's not what happened, Sir.
No? I went AWOL.
When I came, they told me I'd be reinstated.
They told all I'd lose is some pay.
Did they mention that they wanted you to keep your mouth shut? Yes, Sir.
Did they make it clear that we don't particularly want it known that a soldier can take a few days off without permission and get away with it? They did, Sir.
So would it be any help to you to have a ready answer to questions your fellow soldiers might ask when you get back to your unit? It would, Sir.
Then you'd better thank me, soldier.
Thank you, Sir.
Any time.
Dismissed.
That guy think he could dance.
That's a cigar box, isn't it? Yes, it is.
Dare we open a cigar box in some bizarre party house in Iraq? Cuban.
You stay here with me.
I wouldn't ask you what's going on in your personal life but that might mislead you 'cause I don't give a shit, understand? Except when it impacts the squad, understand? You take one more super chance around me and my men, I'll kick your ass.
So however much you think you're suffering now, it'll only get worse, understand? I'm not kidding, Dim.
Missed the marathon of prosthetic leg begin today.
But bench to an 8 at the gym.
Big muscles! I'll be benching my body weight again inside a month.
Physical therapist said they never had a patient like me.
I told them I'm just used to hard training.
I'm used to hard training too.
Oh baby I worked out late.
Physical therapy, jogging, lifting weights.
I'm done.
I need to get my sleep.
Well you get your sleep then.
Everything okay back home? What? When you were gone, MPs came asking if you said anything about where you were going, boyfriends or whatever? A week later, they come back and tell us there was a paperwork snafu.
Guess so.
So everything okay? Medical complications with my kid, all right? Sorry.
Damn it! I'm sleeping in intensive care 'cause I don't wanna leave my son, waking up in the middle of the night just to see if he's still breathing.
When am I gonna find time to call the army, huh? I'm sorry.
I just thought, you know.
My ex is the real problem anyways.
What's up? Humvee's down, need a couple mechanics.
We're transporting these guys.
Found us after.
We've got a place with a bathtub.
Man Your humvee's broke down real bad! I doubt you'll even get it running today.
Yeah, man.
Town's clear.
Company's moving down.
They need a detachment to stay the night and keep a presence until the civilians come back tomorrow.
I volunteered us.
Mastery's mine.
Sergeant! We're having some trouble with the humvee.
Doublewide and Mrs.
B should probably stay too.
Make sure it's working right.
Just make sure there's enough hot water waiting for me in the morning.
Thank you, Sir.
And don't call me Sir.
And put the hood up on the humvee.
If you're gonna lie, lie right.
Think they're having fun? Take it from me, the party's never as much fun as it sounds from the outside.
I never got to tell you, I'm I'm sorry about your kid.
Yeah? At least, you got home to see him.
Yeah.
What's that? That's drain? Don't let it drain.
It's dirty, Smoke.
Shit, you only used it to wash you.
It's gonna take all night to heat up the Sergeant's bath.
Let's just use your water in the meantime.
Go ahead! Stop it up! Okay, it's all yours, bro.
There's room in there for two, mamma.
Oh yeah! Oh my God! Stay down! Damn! Hold on, Dim! We'll get you out of there! What the hell are they yelling? They're yelling "get out of my house"! Get down! We gotta get the hell out of here! They want that damn house back, let's give them back that damn house! Won't be anything left by the time they're done.
I need some cover here! We gotta get him out of there.
Angel, can you get a shot? There's 3 of them behind the wall, I can't get into the line of them.
They got him covered, Sergeant.
Every time he moves, they pin him down tightly, Serg'! Angel, you got a shot? The wall's too high.
It's built so no one can see them.
They're gonna kill that boy ! Mrs.
B! Where the hell is she going? Hold your fire! Mrs.
B! Mrs.
B! Oh shit! On your knees! On your knees! Check it out.
It's the guy who think he could dance.
Maybe he did just want his house back.
We'll bury him in the yard, or he could stay here forever.
Get the prisoner inside.
I like American.
What the hell was that all about? Our humvee was right out back.
You're a goddamn mechanic.
- Somebody had to do.
.
- I'm a goddamn Staff Sergeant! I don't see what that has I will tell you when to risk your sorry ass.
You will not go off and be a hero on your own goddamn schedule.
I will pick the time and place.
Put you in for the block anyway, you dumb-ass! Angel, you come with me, we're scouting the perimeter.
The rest of you, keep your eyes peeled.
What's his problem? He says he's not an insurgent, none of this is personal.
It's personal, he was trying to stick a grenade up my ass.
He's saying he's friends with the guy whose house it is.
Very important man, very rich.
Runs the stable for Saddam, lots of cash.
He keeps saying he runs the stable for Saddam.
He was in charge of the horses? Not the horses.
The whores.
He wasn't a stableman.
He was a pimp.
He was a pimp but he still couldn't dance.
Just like every other pimp I know: lived in a dump and still had a 60 amp Sony.
He's saying that's why they came back, why they attacked us.
He's saying there's cash in the house.
What? Millions of dollars.
Where? It's behind there.
It could be booby-trapped! Yeah, let him do it.
million dollars.
million American dollars.
That's 5 million dollars.
Holy shit! All for you.
He says it's ours now.
If we let him go, he's not gonna say a word.
So after he's discharged, he still has access to physical therapy, right? That's important to him.
He'll have to go through the VA at that point.
It will be their call.
But the New York VA's hospital is like an hour from base housing.
I recommend people with your husband's kind of injuries they try to move near to the hospitals they'll be working with.
You do? You're not gonna be living on the base after he's discharged anyway.
We are for 6 months.
Don't we get 180 days before we get kicked out? I thought families got 180 days.
Families get 180 days if the designated provider's killed.
This is only an injury.
When you fill out that separation pay worksheet I gave you we can get you a final paycheck and you can use that to help defray the moving cost.
There is the matter of this 2500 dollars for missing items.
That's the non-required equipment inventory, is it? Yes, it is.
What didn't he return again? Looks like a PVS 14 night vision goggle checked out July, 12.
Never checked back in.
After all this time, that's gonna be tricky.
How about I make you a deal? What kind of deal? You get him back his right leg and I'll get you back your goggles.
Until then you can stick it up your ass.
It's no reason to be rude, Ma'am.
Oh there is.
There is.
You call me by this time tomorrow and you give me a discharge program that makes sense.
Or so help me God, the next call I make will be to a lawyer.
We could load it all up in the humvee.
In the fuel cans.
Yeah, if you wanna go to the brig for the next 30 years! Ain't nobody going to the brig unless somebody squeals! Look at it, man! Feel it! Mrs.
B's got a sick kid.
I've got a sick kid! I've got a whole neighborhood full of sick kids! We got a problem? He's saying he wants a taste when we let him go for his troubles.
Getting greedy, Mohammed? Might not be a bad idea though.
Help him keep his mouth shut.
Think we can just let him go? Tell Scream he what? Ran off? I say we turn his ass in.
Yeah? Then the army is gonna hear the story and they're gonna want the cash.
So we leave enough that they'll believe it's all it was.
I mean we we take maybe what? 10 grand each? I'm not taking any.
More for the sick kids, am I right? What do you think, Dim? Shit! You're asking Mr Clean? What difference does it make? What the hell is that supposed to mean? It means everyone I've ever known is a liar and a cheat.
Why should we be any different? At least, we'd be liars and cheats with a couple of bucks in our pocket.
Only problem is it doesn't work unless we trust each other.
Then there's a hole in your theory.
If we're all liars and cheats, how can we trust each other enough to steal together? Look we all get burnt if anybody says anything.
So nobody says nothing.
That's all the trust we need.
We're coming in.
Give me that! I don't think we should do anything 'till we think about it a little more.
Okay? - Think?! - Yeah! No, no, no.
Don't think! Grab! I've got a guy in the mail team that can get stuff back home.
No questions.
No searches.
No trouble.
I don't wanna know.
All right.
All right, all right.
Yo! You're not thinking of leaving all that behind, right? I mean, look, man.
Look! You almost got capped right there.
You earned that money tonight the way I see it.
I don't care what you do, Smoke.
Good.
But here's the thing.
I don't wanna see the way you see it.
Okay? 10, 20 grand It would go a long way for your kid.
Doctors, schools, tutors, 50 grand I'd put a down payment on a house on a lake.
The Babylon brook.
100K It's not stealing either.
The man's dead.
But a half million bucks Shit! I'd buy a convertible.
Just take offwith no particular place to go, you know.
If I had me 5 million dollars, man, I'd get me a record label.
I won't hide in no goddamn war.
How about you? I don't wanna think about it.
- The money? - The future.
I don't wanna think about the future.
Why not? 'Cause I'd have to think about the present.
I don't wanna think about that either.
Okay? There's 5 million dollars in that wall, huh? When were you gonna tell me about it? I just told you, bro.
Why? We're switching up again.
Now? Yeah, now.
You don't trust me? Wasn't me, Angel, we all agreed.
Who all? Smoke? He got his head so far up his ass you can see his helmet when he smiles.
I gotta hear the shit from him? - I'm sorry.
- You're sorry? I've got a lot on my mind.
What you got on your mind, Dim? You've got stealing on your mind.
Not in the mood.
Your mood is what it's all about, ain't it? Good mood, you do the right thing.
Bad mood, hell with it if you do wrong, is that it? You know how much money's vanished in this world already? Generator's up.
Back inside.
I ain't taking no money.
Not today or any other day.
I ain't lying about it neither.
But I will say nothing unless someone asks.
I'm with him.
Bo! You home? What you're sitting in the dark for? Mrs.
Ryder, this is Sergeant first class Nielsen calling about the enquiry of your husband's discharge.
I found a few other options.
Give me a call back at the base when you can.
Discharge? I thought we should know the options so we can make the right decision.
Decision to quit? Baby, it's not like that.
What other kind of discharge is there, Teri? I'm working my ass off everyday to get back to my unit.
This is your unit.
I'm a soldier.
I took an oath.
You took another oath here.
This has nothing to do with you.
It has everything to do with me.
I am not a cripple, Teri.
You don't touch me anymore.
There was a time when you'd see me and you'd just light up, you'd light up.
And you don't light up for me anymore.
You know when you light up? When you talk about going back.
When you talk about leaving me and going back to war and maybe getting yourself killed.
So don't tell me it has nothing to do with me.
Hey.
Thanks for bailing me out today.
Didn't know you felt that way about me.
I don't.
Listen, we had another little meeting.
Oh yeah? We agreed anyone who wants it can take 10 grands before we call it in.
No one will know.
You're taking it? No.
But I don't have a sick kid.
So it's just me.
And Smoke.
Everyone pities me.
Everyone understands.
They think I'm pathetic.
They're right.
They think you have guts.
That's a lie.
I think you have guts then.
It's morning soon.
Not soon enough.
What's 6 inches long 2 inches wide and drives women crazy? Money.
I don't want nobody risking to get court-martialled for me.
Ain't got no court-martial gonna do nothing.
I'm out! You got it? So don't go kidding yourselves, you ain't doing this for me.
Then we're not doing it.
What? I said we're not doing it.
Everybody? Yeah.
I'm gonna tell the Sergeant.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, man.
We had a deal, man! If anybody wants, he can take it.
Just 'cause she I'm telling him.
You're gonna stop me? This is bullshit, man.
He just told you about this now? While I was in the back? Yes, Sergeant.
Want me to get another translator in the morning to verify that? No.
All right, I call it in.
Safe out here? If they come now, we'll se them first.
Could have taken money, you know.
10 grand for your child.
Everybody would have understood.
It's gotta be hard.
- When my stepson got sick - I went AWOL.
That's what happened.
I deserted on the army.
I deserted on my own son.
That's why I'm back late.
You came back though.
It's all of it? Then unless unreported.
Where are they going? Back to the base.
Village is clear, cash is with you.
We're done.
Hold that truck.
Tell them to fall out.
Shakedown! Lieutenant, they've been at it all night.
You just turned in over 5 million dollar in a money contraband.
You get searched.
There's no regulation that says we have to do a spot search here and now.
It's a spot search, Sergeant.
I choose the spot.
This is bullshit, man.
Sir.
What's this? Cohiba Esplendito, Sir.
You're confiscating my cigar, Lieutenant? It's not yours, Sergeant.
It's the US army's.
Isn't it? It is now.
They're clean, Sir.
Moving out! Should have taken the goddamn money after all.
Hello? Franck? Is that you? Yeah.
I was afraid you wouldn't call at all.
Yeah, well, I still don't know what to say.
First time for everything, huh? You think this is funny? No.
I'm here getting shot at and you tell me you've been been with another man.
What am I supposed to do? I'm so sorry, Franck.
How many? Can you tell me that? My God! Jesus! Did you even wait for the plane to take off? Franck whatever you think of me I'm worse.
- And I know I don't deserve it.
- Nessa.
If you could give me another chance.
Will you? I don't know if I can.
I'm getting help.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
You see, that's the difference.
I'm so sorry.
Me too.
What? First time, I've seen you in shorts.
You want to see how it works.
They made a cast so it fits like a glove.
Just snap it on here.
Pull the Velcro.
Two straps.
See? Does it hurt when you walk? Yeah.
I wake up in the morning, still thinks my leg's there.
Bo Takes a while to go away.
Or so they tell me.
Are you crying? No.
Maybe.
It's okay.
I just When I see that it scares me.
You and me both.
It'll be your taste.
The rest goes to this address.
You help Mrs.
B? Is she carrying your seed, man? - I don't want you to think - Shut up, Dim.
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