Our Girl (2014) s03e05 Episode Script
Episode 5 - Nigeria Tour
1 HELICOPTER FLIES OVER PLANE FLIES OVER ECHOING: Help me! Come on! HELICOPTER FLIES OVER Left! Left! Left! I've got to say, I never in a million years thought Nigeria would look like this! You blowing out your arse, Khalil? He usually talks out of it! Tell me everything's going to be all right, Kingy.
I'm not your mum, mate.
I need a medic! When's she back, Kingy? She's in transit.
Richards, did you get the memo that this is not actually a nature trip? But look at that, though, Kingy.
Bit nice or what? Aww! Put it to your ear and see if you can hear me tell you to drop the bloody thing and run! Can we increase the pace, please? You tossers are starting to do my head in.
Seriously, text Lane, and tell her to bring my inhaler! Idiot, man.
I didn't think she was coming back, to be honest.
She's made of much tougher stuff than that, Richards.
Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? Can you hear the people coming louder than the drums? Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? Can you hear the people coming? Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? This is a battle cry Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? This is a battle cry.
Lane? Never normally get a royal welcome.
- You calling me royal? - If the cap fits.
I am posh, but I'm not that posh.
- How was the flight? - Good.
Ready for another tour? Six months of regimental duties and press duties enough to cure anyone from anything.
Did you need curing? Maybe I needed time to heal.
Oh, and we are allowed to say the Elvis word, by the way.
Yeah Seeing you at his funeral was odd.
Did I make a tit of myself? Mum said I was high.
Of course you didn't make a tit out of yourself.
I felt so hollow.
You know? Empty.
I don't even remember the funeral.
But anyway, I'm back, and I won't let you down.
Training and mentoring a section of Nigerians.
Working in a medical outreach project up country.
Towards the Boko Haram territories.
What could possibly go wrong? - It's good to have you back, Lane.
- It's good to be back, boss.
Eyes, ears, and intelligence! Check room, and shout "clear!" Clear! Good man.
Bogey! Nine o'clock! Switch on! Shoot him before he shoots you! HE SIGHS - Sorry.
- Don't say sorry to me, my friend.
Say sorry to her as they spoon her into a body bag.
Carry on.
You do not shoot until you are certain.
Waste of bullets otherwise.
It's a waste of an innocent person's life, and a waste of your own life to boot.
If you kill an innocent person, it will haunt you forever.
Ray, can you step out? Brains, you're up next.
Good to have you here, Captain James.
Well, I'm pleased to help.
There have been over 80,000 deaths since the emergence of Boko Haram.
It is a war we must not lose.
Their strongholds are in the northern part of the country, where they control swathes of land through fear.
And we try to reclaim that land? You make it sound very easy.
Nigeria's a complicated country.
Shh! Get down, get down.
- Oh, you ruined it! - You doughnut! - Hey! Hello! - Hi! - Group hug! - Nice to see you.
All right! Get off me, grease! - Always greased.
- Shut up.
- Good to have you back, babes.
- Medic, to you.
Thanks.
I'm glad I won't be the only Doris on the firm any more.
- Where's Brains? - Don't ask.
- What? - He's being a right sulky Sue.
- Welcome home, Lane.
- Thanks, Sam.
All right, unpack and head to the med facility.
Medic on duty.
Oh, joy.
Obstacle course, 15 minutes.
Yeah, I'm on the track.
All right, guys.
It's a full circuit, with a sprint to the finish line.
The first pair to finish are obviously the winners, and go through to the next round.
All those that get knocked out, it's an eight-mile tab, full kit.
So it's worth your while to not leave your compadre behind! You're on my shoulder, all the way.
- Yeah.
- We're not losing this, understood? - Yeah.
- It's about teamwork.
And remember, there is no "I" in "wanker".
- Me V you, then? - Oi, oi, clash of the clever clogs! You're joking, right, Brains? Are we? On my whistle.
Go, boys! Come on, boys! Showing commitment.
It's kind of like the Army V Navy rugby.
Come on.
Hey, get a move on! God's sake! Brains, what are you doing? What's gotten into Brains all of a sudden? Yeah, what's he doing? - Place your bets.
- I'm going for Rob.
Actually wait, no, no, Brains is doing it.
Oh! Brains is doing it! Ooh, it's close.
- Come on, boys! - Yes! Come on! Come on! Condolences and all that, lad, but the best team won.
Now that's eight miles, full kit, and don't forget to pack your bruised ego.
Ungentlemanly conduct, Khalil! You'll find yourself on that run too now.
How is that fair, boss?! And technically, I beat the jumped-up Yorkshire gobshite! All right, enough now, Brains! If only he had enough brains, son.
I've got more brains than you'll ever have! What's the capital of Albania? - Get out of my face.
- What's the square root of 1 million? What's the capital of Australia? Canberra.
You think you're so funny, don't you? My wit and natural good looks have got me this far.
Yeah, well, careful.
Someone might just wipe that smile off your face.
Oi! Oi! Calm yourself, you nutter! What's his problem? At the moment, you! All right, shut it! The pair of you! Enough.
I don't know what the hell your problem is, but you will sort your shit out, understood? Boss.
Boss.
Now shake hands.
Shake hands.
One more episode like this, and you can square your kit away and see our your days digging holes for the Council.
- It's an embarrassment! - You've really let us down.
- Make amends.
- Now get out of my sight.
You, that way.
Oh, nice to meet you.
You all right, Brains? - Why shouldn't I be? - I didn't mean I meant Yeah, I'm fine.
OK? Sit up.
Now, relax, guys.
You've all now had a chance to study the brief.
We'll be escorting the Nigerian Army to the north of the country towards Boko Haram territory to deliver and dispense medical supplies.
Lane, supervising inoculations.
This is primarily a training and mentoring exercise, but with the added benefit of reassuring local communities affected by Boko Haram that they've not been forgotten about.
Our final destination is approximately 800 km north of Lagos.
Now, it was this area where the schoolgirls were taken from.
As you know, there was global coverage of the kidnapped girls, but there were another dozen or so girls taken from this village here.
About six months ago, Lampese.
About 3km or 4km from the outreach project that we're headed to.
Boss, are the girls being taken, like, all the time? They promise brides to their fighters.
Once they're pregnant, it's always hard to get them back.
Sometimes, they sacrifice the life they had to raise their child.
The mothers do not want to leave their babies.
That's a proper "what the heck do you do?" situation.
We defeat Boko Haram, and that is what we do.
- It does make you think, doesn't it? - What? Why are the beautiful places so messed up? You know, Boko Haram and all that.
It's God, levelling it all out.
Do you reckon? You can have glorious sunsets, nice beaches, and a murderous gang of fanatics slaughtering everyone.
Do you reckon God speaks in your funny little accent? Oh, aye.
So God made you funny, but he gave you a big schnozz.
- I haven't got a big schnozz.
- Well, it's a nice schnozz, but let's face it, mate, it's a whopper.
What, so God made you beautiful but with a wonky eye? I haven't got a wonky eye.
Well, you have if I've got a big schnozz.
- My mum says it's perfectly chiselled.
- Really? You've made me all self-conscious now! No, I'm just joking! No, I make your mum right.
You've got a well-chiselled nose.
Chiselled by a blind chiseller, obviously.
How's your knuckles? I pulled the punch.
Didn't want to hurt him.
Well, it looked to me like they pulled him off you just before he killed you.
HE LAUGHS - He just went all like - Yeah, I know! He's suddenly got anger issues.
Well, at least you haven't got that to go with everything else you got.
Charmed, I'm sure.
20 km to Kebbi.
There was a suicide bombing in the market there in October.
You do take us to the nicest places, boss.
Well, we could always just leave you there, Richards? You couldn't function without me, boss.
Oh, really? Eyes on the road, driver.
I was just thinking, boss, we're bringing up daughters in the UK, right? That can be a caution.
Could you imagine around here? I guess we're lucky, to come from where we come from.
If I was from around here, and I had kids, I wouldn't let them out of my sight.
Yeah, you'd want to scoop them up and take them somewhere safe, - wouldn't you? - Mm.
You're not sprogged up, are you, boss? Do you mean, have I got children? Yes.
One, boy.
Is he just like Prince George? Does he wear posh shorts and have blonde flicky hair and that? Yes! Exactly like that.
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE Doesn't seem like too much of a hotbed of hatred to me.
MOCKNEY: That's because you's from London, innit, fam? That's the worst accent ever! Yeah.
I'd say Scouse is.
What do you reckon, eh, Brains? So you were the first medic at the scene of the blast? In the market? Yes, ma'am.
You don't have to call me "ma'am".
I work for a living.
It's Georgie.
I just had basic supplies.
I tried to keep them alive until help came, but The suicide bomber was a young girl.
They don't arouse suspicion.
She just walked up to a stall, to all the crowds, saying she was looking for her mother.
Don't make sense to us, does it? Don't make sense to anyone, Richards.
They are brainwashed into thinking they are doing something good.
17 died.
I did my best.
The captain said you excelled yourself.
Bodies everywhere.
No medical supplies.
There was a stall selling bags, so I was ripping off the handles and straps and using them as tourniquets.
The Nigerian army are lucky to have you in their ranks.
Are you OK? It's the first time I've been back here.
Yeah, I know.
The toughest bit is once you've seen something, you can't un-see it.
Your colleagues have told me the things you have seen.
Yeah, well That's the thing you've got to carry on.
- And do what we can.
- Exactly.
Since the bombing, we have prioritised this region, so the local population feel safe.
Are Boko Haram, like, around here, then? Mm-mm.
This is all government.
Boko Haram want an Islamic state to bomb themselves into power.
HORN BLARES No, no, no! Get out of here! Get out of here! Boy.
Catch you doing that again, I will snap you in half.
- Do you understand? - Oi! - What do you think you're playing at? - Why don't you run along, love? Because you're going to look mighty fucking silly doing your make-up with a broken arm.
If you were a man, I'd beat the shit out of you.
- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.
Corporal Lane, step away now.
You all right? ENGINE STARTS 10-15, guys.
Businessman in the motor, and that thug is his hired help.
- Ex forces.
- How did you work that one out? - Mercenary.
I make you right, Rab.
- Would've earned shedloads.
Yeah, if I don't get put up for SF selection, I might get myself a bit of that.
- Mercenary? - Why not? I just don't see you as that sort.
Saying I couldn't hack it? I just think you're too nice.
It's a compliment, Fingers! Take that dude he's a bully.
There you are, all better now.
All right, who wants to see a magic trick? Come around, come around.
OK.
This is an English pound coin, yeah? I'm going to put this bottle on top of it, like that, OK? Then I'm going to get this cloth, and put that over the bottle like that.
And with my magic powers I've got magic powers, haven't I, Richards? Yeah.
I can guarantee she's a bit of a witch, guys.
CHILDREN LAUGH OK.
Well, with my magic powers, I'm going to make that coin jump into the bottle.
On three.
One, two, three! Right, I need a volunteer to check.
You? OK, bend down.
Get your face quite close to the bottle, cos you need to see inside.
That's it.
After three.
One, two CHILDREN LAUGH All right, guys, listen in.
- What did we learn out there today? - Stay focused at all times, boss.
- Indeed.
- Who do you reckon that guy was, boss? Yeah, Fingers fancied a bit of mercenary work.
Yo, tax-free.
What's not to love, bro? Getting your head blown off.
Can we focus up and concentrate, please? - Kingy.
- We're heading to Lampese.
400km.
All right, Lane.
You're on me.
All right guys, let's load up.
- How are you doing? - I'm all right.
I'll tell you when I'm not, how about that? It was interesting to see your aggressive side back to the fore just then.
You wouldn't let me deck him one, though, would you? Well, I didn't want see a grown man cry.
He did seem a bit unstable.
Yeah, I make you right.
Wanker.
That was a nice magic trick, by the way.
I've got to learn me a magic trick.
There's nothing like a good magic trick, and that was nothing like a good magic trick.
Remember when we was in Kenya, and I said Africa smelled funny, and you all laughed? If this is neither funny nor informative, please may I suggest that you zip it? Hear me out, Kingy.
It's the same smell round here.
You do know it's 2,000 miles away from Kenya, don't you? About the same as from London to Moscow.
Whoa, weren't your grandad from Africa? I'm not saying it's a bad smell.
Where's your grandad from, Monk? Somalia.
Like Mo Farah.
Oh, my heritage is from around here, actually.
- Shut up! - Well, not literally here, but Nigeria.
Oh, mate.
I remember my great uncle come and stayed with us when I was small, right? And they told me that he was a prince.
This guy turns up in flip-flops that had seen better days, a pair of ragamuffin jeans and a T-shirt with his last three weeks' dinner down the front.
Turns out his name was Prince.
He worked in a bicycle repair shop.
Oi, oi! You should be laughing, it's funny.
WEAK LAUGHTER All right, guys.
Go out and stretch your legs.
OK, piss stop.
Right, don't touch anything, and wash your hands after, please.
Bicycle repair, right? Runs in my family too.
Go on.
After partition, right, our bit of the family went to Pakistan.
Before my time, but, you know.
These two uncles went to Tanzania.
I get the feeling they were a tad on the illiterate side.
One ends up a bicycle repair man, the other taking the tops off drinks bottles.
Guess what their names were? Harry and Rumpelstiltskin? Once my branch of the family settled into the UK, they came over and had to change names.
Their names were Bicycle Repair Weller and Soda Bottle Opener Weller.
I absolutely shit you not, hand on heart.
How's that for witty and informative? All rolled Don't forget to wash your hands.
Bicycle Repair Weller?! Go out with me, Maisie, and you can be married into the most interesting family in Leeds.
Steeped in history, exotic, and yet strangely patriotic.
Rab, if you were the last fellow on earth, I would become a card-carrying lesbian.
So would it be OK if I watched? Why do boys always say that? I can't answer for all boys, but me, I was hoping to make you laugh, and then maybe make you change your mind? - You know you love me.
- Yeah, I do love you, Rab.
But as a mate.
Deal with it.
GUNFIRE Hold your fire! Hold fire! What the hell's going on? - They think they heard something.
- Heard something?! That's ridiculous! HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE Fellas, do not engage! You do not engage unless the enemy makes contact! You can't just fire randomly into the thicket! There could be innocent civilians there! Is everyone OK?! - Boss! - Has anyone got eyes on Rab? - Here! - We're ready! Anybody want a soda? Rab will open it for you! Soda Bottle Opener Weller! - Think you might have over shared.
- There's no secrets in the army.
So, my nan was like I don't even know what you're saying.
- I don't know why I find it so funny.
- So I was like Why are you looking at me like that for? Don't know.
- Who you texting, Lane? - Oh, my wayward sister.
You should get her to join.
She won't even pass two-day selection.
What, you'd let your daughter enrol? It's not that shit a life, is it? Nah, well - except sometimes.
- Yeah.
That's a cartoon amount of food, Fingers.
You would know, with your little cartoon face.
You're going to have a cartoon belly after that lot.
- I'm trying to bulk up, bro.
- But that's all carbs, no protein.
Need my carbs, protein AFTER training.
I've got bulk up if I make selection.
Got it all sorted out, then, eh, Fingers? What about you, Brains? You going to try for special forces, or what? Knock, knock.
- Who's there? - Lane.
Lane who? It wasn't meant to be a joke.
I just meant it was me.
Oh.
For tonight, hydrate.
What do you want, Lane? Water run.
OK, well thank you.
OK, look.
My dad once jumped into the Manchester Ship Canal cos he saw all these kittens drowning.
Couldn't save them all, but he did manage to save a few.
Apparently, the QE2 once traversed that canal.
Shouldn't we be doing more, boss? Right, even if we save half a dozen schoolgirls, - at least then on this tour, we - No.
Goodnight, Lane.
I think we are failing in our duty if we don't at least try.
Don't be naive.
We're guests in someone else's country.
SHE EXHALES - Is everything OK? - Yes.
Why shouldn't it be? Well maybe you needed some more time.
Sitting in Preston is not going to change anything.
Yeah, I realise that.
But at least in Preston, you have some space.
You're not out here on tour getting het up about things.
So I'm het up about children being abducted and abused? Now, excuse me for being idealistic.
You finished? Yes, boss.
Look, you're doing great work out here.
Like today, in the village with the kids.
Thank you.
Just a shame about the dick in the Hummer, hm? Yeah, he's a bully.
Are you sure everything's all right? Everything's all right.
What's going on over there, boss man? Oil pipes.
People siphon them off, causing fires.
I didn't even know Nigeria had oil.
Oil and gas, diamonds and gold.
So they're, like, rich, then? Well, clearly, only some people are.
Why don't they just share it all out, than everyone can be rich? What, a just and fair world, Richards? Then what would we do for a living? GUNFIRE Pull over! Contact Kingy, defensive positions.
Medical, on me.
Brains, give covering fire.
Defence now.
Guys, peel there, give cover.
Fingers, down there.
- Colonel, what's happening? - Child soldiers.
And you just start randomly firing? You open fire or not? MAN SPEAKS ON RADIO Yeah, copy that.
Kingy, hold the ground.
You two, on me.
HE SHOUTS Oi! I need to treat that boy.
We have to question him first.
Fucking do what the medic says.
- Brains! - What? Get back on the truck now.
Brains, move.
Colonel, he needs treatment.
Has he been shot? No, he just cut himself on his way, he's fine.
HE ASKS AND REPEATS A QUESTION Let me treat him before you question him.
Get down, sit down.
HE SHOUTS IN PAIN Easy! What's your name, hm? My name's Georgie.
Can he understand? OK.
Let's get the cut cleaned up.
Let's put a few stitches in.
COLONEL SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE - We don't behave like that.
- They do.
- We don't.
- Colonel! We need to get back to the fort before nightfall.
We take the kid back for medical treatment and then we question him.
Is that understood? - You all right, Lane? - Yeah.
What's your name? This lady will take care of you.
- Cala.
- He looks about eight.
The bullets he's firing still would have killed you, though, mate.
Well, who knows what kind of shit life he's had up till now? Just saying, he still would have killed you given half a chance, - that's all I'm saying.
- Best nobody say anything.
How many stitches we looking at, Georgie? - Oh, try some on your gob, Monk.
- I was only asking.
About 18.
I need more gauze.
Thank you.
She'll look after you.
You're in the best possible hands.
I will look after you, Cala.
He'll be wanting compensation, next.
We'll treat him in the same way if you have a laceration to your leg, Fingers.
Stitch him up and lock him up.
No, stitch him up, course of antibiotics, and change the dressing every day, if that's all right with you.
You got told.
Monk, Fingers, get him in the med centre.
You see, the only way we can get them to talk is to frighten them a bit.
Well, he looked frightened enough.
He needs to be treated before you question him.
Right, guys, choose a bunker and I'll see what's occurring on the score front.
I fucking swear there's better facilities in Strangeways.
Have you done time, then, have you? Do time for you, mate.
Right, what were you telling me? - What? - Oh, very homoerotic.
Yeah, well, you'd know.
Oh, boys, put your dicks away and choose a pit.
Good call, Richards.
Right, I'll be back in five, so get washed up and stop arsing around.
- Boss has already had words.
- Sarge.
- Sarge.
- Sarge.
Do you mind taking over for me? There you go.
Boss.
There's information they need from him, Lane.
Right, well, we'll need to give him medical attention he needs.
- Well, be careful.
- Boss? He's not some innocent kid there.
He's a child soldier who kills, and he'd have no qualms about killing you.
- Understood.
- Lane Don't compromise your own safety.
Brains Talk to me.
I'm genuinely worried.
I want the old Brains back.
SHE SIGHS If you're not stable enough for this tour It's my parents.
What's happened? I'm a grown-up.
I shouldn't be reacting like this.
What? Come on.
- I'm a dick - Brains.
- HE SNIFFS - Talk to me.
I got a voice message from them, just before we left for Nigeria.
They're splitting up.
I mean, everyone's parents split up, don't they? Why am I being such a dick about it? - You're not being a dick about it.
- I am.
Well, you are a bit.
HE LAUGHS Look, it's traumatic and it's awful.
I completely understand.
- Do you want me to get you home? - No.
No, honestly, that's the last thing I want.
Right, well, you need me not to worry, then.
I can't have you out there with a weapon.
I'm never going to do anything stupid.
You have been a bit stupid, haven't you? Now I've told you, it feels like You've had a weight lifted off your shoulders? Yeah.
Please let me stay.
I'll discuss it with Captain James.
Won't he just send me home? I'm a medic.
He'll listen to me.
I'm sorry.
Hey, come on.
Relax.
OK? Come on.
I just - I find it hard.
- I know.
Everybody thought they were perfect.
I thought they were perfect, but my mum, she She wants a new life.
I know how she feels.
Come on.
I'm trusting you.
No more daftness.
And if you ever feel discombobulated, you come and talk to me.
Yeah? OK.
I feel about fucking ten.
THEY LAUGH Right, get on with your duties.
And remember, I'm your mate.
- Thank you.
- OK.
- He's not going to escape! - Now he's not.
- What about your men? - They are staying there.
All right, well, I need to check his blood pressure.
Yeah.
We will kill you all.
You are the enemy.
We will kill you or die trying.
- You don't want to die.
- It doesn't matter.
My death doesn't matter.
Your death is important.
You're a young boy.
You should be Allah says the best fighters are those who fight at the front.
I don't think Allah wants young boys killing innocent people.
- Who is innocent? - The people that you're killing are.
The Nigerian colonel wants to question you.
If I betray my leaders, I'll be executed, with my hands bound.
Is that what happens in Lampese? Go there and they will kill you.
I'm not afraid of dying either.
I know you're from Lampese.
One of the guards said.
Do you know where the girls are? Lampese.
Here.
On the border of Boko Haram-controlled territory.
The plan was always to go to the outreach clinic, boss.
It's only a mile or two from Lampese.
That's why we're here.
I think, while we're there, we make enquiries about the schoolgirls.
We're here to assist on the outreach project, not locate the missing schoolgirls, Lane.
Boss, but if we left at first light we can assess the situation in the town before we get to the outreach project.
Look, if we gather any bit of intel, surely that is a good thing.
We're not going off-piste and risking lives.
We're not going off-piste.
It's a town next to the outreach clinic.
We're going there to hand out flyers saying we're doing inoculation for the kids.
We'll do the leaflet drop and then we'll evacuate for the outreach project.
More medicine than the Royal Infirmary.
- Do they really need this lot, Georgie? - Yes.
- Girl power.
- You what? I'm joking.
You had me worried for a sec.
But - Go on.
- But If we could locate these schoolgirls What, me and you, like Wonder Women? I obviously don't mean that, do I? All right, imagine if it was my sister.
Or you.
Imagine if it was you that got kidnapped and no-one did anything about it.
If we could somehow find out where they are and let the chain of command sort out a rescue mission.
- But how? - Well, go into town.
Try and talk to the locals.
Befriend them as we're handing out the flyers.
And, likewise, we can talk to the mothers in the clinic.
Surely one of the must know something.
Yeah, it would be great.
Oh, mate, imagine.
Exactly.
Right, guys, on me! In your pairs, we're going to proceed along this main route through the village here.
Put up notifications about the inoculations, hand out flyers and then get back to the truck.
- Lids on, boss? - Indeed, Kingy.
You need to stay alert, guys.
Let's get on it.
Somebody here will know where they are.
You OK? When the girls are taken, we feel powerless.
Maybe they're not important enough to the authorities.
- They are to me.
- Yeah, and to me.
SHE SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE My name's Georgie, I'm a medic with the British Army outreach clinic.
We're doing inoculations.
So bring any children under the age of ten, there you go.
And we've got medicine as well for the older girls.
Pregnant girls, girls who might need our help.
Do you get the feeling they are being watched, so they can't say anything? Something's spooked them.
Come on.
Excuse me, we're We're offering inoculations.
They're too afraid to speak to us, aren't they? Wouldn't you be? Probably.
Boss.
I'm getting the feeling we've got eyes on us.
Have you seen anything? No, but I get the feeling they have.
There's something properly weird about round here.
I was expecting to see a pile of corpses.
- I'm pleasantly surprised.
- Stop at the estate agents, Fingers, get yourself a little crib round here.
They got an estate agents? Get in before the property boom takes off.
Liverpool will still be cheaper than round here, Brains.
THEY LAUGH You have drugs for sickness? For pregnant sickness? Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Where's the girl? Could you bring her to the clinic? I just need safe drugs for her sickness.
We have got safe drugs.
She knows where they are.
You don't know that, Lane.
Are gut instincts not allowed in the Army? No.
I don't believe that you'd think like that.
Look, this woman knows where those girls are.
There was a moment of eye contact, she was desperate.
- On gut instinct? - Yeah.
Her gut instincts are not to be sniffed at.
I should know, I shared a dorm with her.
BOTH: Shut up, Richards.
We should at least go back and try and find this woman.
They want medicine, they come to the outreach project.
End of.
We need to go and look for that woman.
- Are you questioning authority now? - Yeah, I am.
Hey, bro.
I'm sorry about being a bit of a twat.
Ah.
Juicy Fruit.
OK, first priority, let's get the children in for their inoculations.
I'll get their details, medical history No, no, no, task someone else with that.
Richards, I need you to take all the details of each child inoculated.
I need Adewole outside dealing with people with other medical conditions.
Is that clear? Right, let's get this place sorted.
On there.
You actually think you could win? Yes.
Going to beat you with the biggest goal.
Oh! Right, go on, over there.
I'm going to go and speak to my captain, I'll be back in one minute.
OK.
It's on.
It's on, boys.
Ahem.
Boss.
Boss.
What do you reckon? What? Troops versus locals.
Good PR exercise, boss, show 'em we care.
May I remind you that you are on duty, Fingers, you massive cockwomble.
FINGERS CHUCKLES Thank you, sir, you haven't called me that in a very long time.
- Must be love, Fingers.
- Come on.
Focus up, guys.
Decent.
Banging.
CHEERING OK.
Do you mind just rolling her sleeve up there for me, just holding it up? Perfect, thank you.
- Are you going to be a brave girl? - How old is she? Very, very quick.
CHILDREN CRY There you go.
All done.
All done.
Just hold that there for me.
Perfect, thank you.
Good girl! You're brave, you're very, very brave.
Why have I got to be in goal? It's always where we put the two-bob tossers.
- No offence.
- None taken.
Easy.
Hey! Could have had my eye out, that! Come on, Rab, sort it out.
Look, we are not losing to this lot.
We invented football.
- Did we? - Yeah, of course we did.
Bobby Moore? AMERICAN ACCENT: Let's do this.
Let's play ball.
Ooh! THEY LAUGH: It's all right, lads, you relax.
I'll do all the hard work.
It's heart and minds, Lane.
Come on, then, boys, let's go.
There's some of the children that could not make it into the clinic.
I'll send one of the NGOs to collect them.
Well, why don't we just go? Without the others.
But we can't go alone.
CHEERING All right, on me.
- Get out my way.
- I don't know what I'm doing.
Ow! Where's the defence? Boss, I need to go and pick a couple of infants up who couldn't get in.
- Orphans.
- What are you talking about? Well, we'll only be five minutes.
Can't the NGOs pick them up? No, because they need to triage before bringing them back.
OK.
Kingy, Rab.
Escorting Lane to pick up some infants.
- Thanks, boss.
- Rab.
Come on, 2 Section! All the way! All the way, all the way! VEHICLE APPROACHES Before we pick the kids up, why don't we have a quick scout around the town for that woman? She won't be there.
We don't know.
And you don't know that she will be there.
If we don't look, we'll never know, will we? Yeah, and if we don't go and look we won't be getting ourselves into any bother.
We're not going to get ourselves into any bother, - we're trying to help.
- I can't believe all of a sudden I'm the - grown-up.
- Yeah, exactly.
- What?! - We'll go to the town, look for the woman and we'll be straight back to pick the kids up.
Agreed? Isn't that that tosser from the market? Yeah, I think so.
Let's do this.
Come on, 2 Section! - Come on.
- Right, let's go! Yes, yes, yes! Ah! Come on! CHEERING AND CLAPPING Kingy, there's an RTA up ahead! Right, let's get eyes on, see what's happened.
Help! Help! Help! THEY SHOUT IN OWN LANGUAGE All the way round! Come on! Move! Adewole! The abandoned vehicle was discovered here.
Way off where they were supposed to be.
What is he supposed to have done? - He's a medic! - British Army is not a religion.
That's not like being Muslim.
HE GRUNTS Get the vest off, get the vest off! Take cover! Take cover!
I'm not your mum, mate.
I need a medic! When's she back, Kingy? She's in transit.
Richards, did you get the memo that this is not actually a nature trip? But look at that, though, Kingy.
Bit nice or what? Aww! Put it to your ear and see if you can hear me tell you to drop the bloody thing and run! Can we increase the pace, please? You tossers are starting to do my head in.
Seriously, text Lane, and tell her to bring my inhaler! Idiot, man.
I didn't think she was coming back, to be honest.
She's made of much tougher stuff than that, Richards.
Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? Can you hear the people coming louder than the drums? Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? Can you hear the people coming? Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? This is a battle cry Can you hear the people marching louder than the drums? This is a battle cry.
Lane? Never normally get a royal welcome.
- You calling me royal? - If the cap fits.
I am posh, but I'm not that posh.
- How was the flight? - Good.
Ready for another tour? Six months of regimental duties and press duties enough to cure anyone from anything.
Did you need curing? Maybe I needed time to heal.
Oh, and we are allowed to say the Elvis word, by the way.
Yeah Seeing you at his funeral was odd.
Did I make a tit of myself? Mum said I was high.
Of course you didn't make a tit out of yourself.
I felt so hollow.
You know? Empty.
I don't even remember the funeral.
But anyway, I'm back, and I won't let you down.
Training and mentoring a section of Nigerians.
Working in a medical outreach project up country.
Towards the Boko Haram territories.
What could possibly go wrong? - It's good to have you back, Lane.
- It's good to be back, boss.
Eyes, ears, and intelligence! Check room, and shout "clear!" Clear! Good man.
Bogey! Nine o'clock! Switch on! Shoot him before he shoots you! HE SIGHS - Sorry.
- Don't say sorry to me, my friend.
Say sorry to her as they spoon her into a body bag.
Carry on.
You do not shoot until you are certain.
Waste of bullets otherwise.
It's a waste of an innocent person's life, and a waste of your own life to boot.
If you kill an innocent person, it will haunt you forever.
Ray, can you step out? Brains, you're up next.
Good to have you here, Captain James.
Well, I'm pleased to help.
There have been over 80,000 deaths since the emergence of Boko Haram.
It is a war we must not lose.
Their strongholds are in the northern part of the country, where they control swathes of land through fear.
And we try to reclaim that land? You make it sound very easy.
Nigeria's a complicated country.
Shh! Get down, get down.
- Oh, you ruined it! - You doughnut! - Hey! Hello! - Hi! - Group hug! - Nice to see you.
All right! Get off me, grease! - Always greased.
- Shut up.
- Good to have you back, babes.
- Medic, to you.
Thanks.
I'm glad I won't be the only Doris on the firm any more.
- Where's Brains? - Don't ask.
- What? - He's being a right sulky Sue.
- Welcome home, Lane.
- Thanks, Sam.
All right, unpack and head to the med facility.
Medic on duty.
Oh, joy.
Obstacle course, 15 minutes.
Yeah, I'm on the track.
All right, guys.
It's a full circuit, with a sprint to the finish line.
The first pair to finish are obviously the winners, and go through to the next round.
All those that get knocked out, it's an eight-mile tab, full kit.
So it's worth your while to not leave your compadre behind! You're on my shoulder, all the way.
- Yeah.
- We're not losing this, understood? - Yeah.
- It's about teamwork.
And remember, there is no "I" in "wanker".
- Me V you, then? - Oi, oi, clash of the clever clogs! You're joking, right, Brains? Are we? On my whistle.
Go, boys! Come on, boys! Showing commitment.
It's kind of like the Army V Navy rugby.
Come on.
Hey, get a move on! God's sake! Brains, what are you doing? What's gotten into Brains all of a sudden? Yeah, what's he doing? - Place your bets.
- I'm going for Rob.
Actually wait, no, no, Brains is doing it.
Oh! Brains is doing it! Ooh, it's close.
- Come on, boys! - Yes! Come on! Come on! Condolences and all that, lad, but the best team won.
Now that's eight miles, full kit, and don't forget to pack your bruised ego.
Ungentlemanly conduct, Khalil! You'll find yourself on that run too now.
How is that fair, boss?! And technically, I beat the jumped-up Yorkshire gobshite! All right, enough now, Brains! If only he had enough brains, son.
I've got more brains than you'll ever have! What's the capital of Albania? - Get out of my face.
- What's the square root of 1 million? What's the capital of Australia? Canberra.
You think you're so funny, don't you? My wit and natural good looks have got me this far.
Yeah, well, careful.
Someone might just wipe that smile off your face.
Oi! Oi! Calm yourself, you nutter! What's his problem? At the moment, you! All right, shut it! The pair of you! Enough.
I don't know what the hell your problem is, but you will sort your shit out, understood? Boss.
Boss.
Now shake hands.
Shake hands.
One more episode like this, and you can square your kit away and see our your days digging holes for the Council.
- It's an embarrassment! - You've really let us down.
- Make amends.
- Now get out of my sight.
You, that way.
Oh, nice to meet you.
You all right, Brains? - Why shouldn't I be? - I didn't mean I meant Yeah, I'm fine.
OK? Sit up.
Now, relax, guys.
You've all now had a chance to study the brief.
We'll be escorting the Nigerian Army to the north of the country towards Boko Haram territory to deliver and dispense medical supplies.
Lane, supervising inoculations.
This is primarily a training and mentoring exercise, but with the added benefit of reassuring local communities affected by Boko Haram that they've not been forgotten about.
Our final destination is approximately 800 km north of Lagos.
Now, it was this area where the schoolgirls were taken from.
As you know, there was global coverage of the kidnapped girls, but there were another dozen or so girls taken from this village here.
About six months ago, Lampese.
About 3km or 4km from the outreach project that we're headed to.
Boss, are the girls being taken, like, all the time? They promise brides to their fighters.
Once they're pregnant, it's always hard to get them back.
Sometimes, they sacrifice the life they had to raise their child.
The mothers do not want to leave their babies.
That's a proper "what the heck do you do?" situation.
We defeat Boko Haram, and that is what we do.
- It does make you think, doesn't it? - What? Why are the beautiful places so messed up? You know, Boko Haram and all that.
It's God, levelling it all out.
Do you reckon? You can have glorious sunsets, nice beaches, and a murderous gang of fanatics slaughtering everyone.
Do you reckon God speaks in your funny little accent? Oh, aye.
So God made you funny, but he gave you a big schnozz.
- I haven't got a big schnozz.
- Well, it's a nice schnozz, but let's face it, mate, it's a whopper.
What, so God made you beautiful but with a wonky eye? I haven't got a wonky eye.
Well, you have if I've got a big schnozz.
- My mum says it's perfectly chiselled.
- Really? You've made me all self-conscious now! No, I'm just joking! No, I make your mum right.
You've got a well-chiselled nose.
Chiselled by a blind chiseller, obviously.
How's your knuckles? I pulled the punch.
Didn't want to hurt him.
Well, it looked to me like they pulled him off you just before he killed you.
HE LAUGHS - He just went all like - Yeah, I know! He's suddenly got anger issues.
Well, at least you haven't got that to go with everything else you got.
Charmed, I'm sure.
20 km to Kebbi.
There was a suicide bombing in the market there in October.
You do take us to the nicest places, boss.
Well, we could always just leave you there, Richards? You couldn't function without me, boss.
Oh, really? Eyes on the road, driver.
I was just thinking, boss, we're bringing up daughters in the UK, right? That can be a caution.
Could you imagine around here? I guess we're lucky, to come from where we come from.
If I was from around here, and I had kids, I wouldn't let them out of my sight.
Yeah, you'd want to scoop them up and take them somewhere safe, - wouldn't you? - Mm.
You're not sprogged up, are you, boss? Do you mean, have I got children? Yes.
One, boy.
Is he just like Prince George? Does he wear posh shorts and have blonde flicky hair and that? Yes! Exactly like that.
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE Doesn't seem like too much of a hotbed of hatred to me.
MOCKNEY: That's because you's from London, innit, fam? That's the worst accent ever! Yeah.
I'd say Scouse is.
What do you reckon, eh, Brains? So you were the first medic at the scene of the blast? In the market? Yes, ma'am.
You don't have to call me "ma'am".
I work for a living.
It's Georgie.
I just had basic supplies.
I tried to keep them alive until help came, but The suicide bomber was a young girl.
They don't arouse suspicion.
She just walked up to a stall, to all the crowds, saying she was looking for her mother.
Don't make sense to us, does it? Don't make sense to anyone, Richards.
They are brainwashed into thinking they are doing something good.
17 died.
I did my best.
The captain said you excelled yourself.
Bodies everywhere.
No medical supplies.
There was a stall selling bags, so I was ripping off the handles and straps and using them as tourniquets.
The Nigerian army are lucky to have you in their ranks.
Are you OK? It's the first time I've been back here.
Yeah, I know.
The toughest bit is once you've seen something, you can't un-see it.
Your colleagues have told me the things you have seen.
Yeah, well That's the thing you've got to carry on.
- And do what we can.
- Exactly.
Since the bombing, we have prioritised this region, so the local population feel safe.
Are Boko Haram, like, around here, then? Mm-mm.
This is all government.
Boko Haram want an Islamic state to bomb themselves into power.
HORN BLARES No, no, no! Get out of here! Get out of here! Boy.
Catch you doing that again, I will snap you in half.
- Do you understand? - Oi! - What do you think you're playing at? - Why don't you run along, love? Because you're going to look mighty fucking silly doing your make-up with a broken arm.
If you were a man, I'd beat the shit out of you.
- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.
Corporal Lane, step away now.
You all right? ENGINE STARTS 10-15, guys.
Businessman in the motor, and that thug is his hired help.
- Ex forces.
- How did you work that one out? - Mercenary.
I make you right, Rab.
- Would've earned shedloads.
Yeah, if I don't get put up for SF selection, I might get myself a bit of that.
- Mercenary? - Why not? I just don't see you as that sort.
Saying I couldn't hack it? I just think you're too nice.
It's a compliment, Fingers! Take that dude he's a bully.
There you are, all better now.
All right, who wants to see a magic trick? Come around, come around.
OK.
This is an English pound coin, yeah? I'm going to put this bottle on top of it, like that, OK? Then I'm going to get this cloth, and put that over the bottle like that.
And with my magic powers I've got magic powers, haven't I, Richards? Yeah.
I can guarantee she's a bit of a witch, guys.
CHILDREN LAUGH OK.
Well, with my magic powers, I'm going to make that coin jump into the bottle.
On three.
One, two, three! Right, I need a volunteer to check.
You? OK, bend down.
Get your face quite close to the bottle, cos you need to see inside.
That's it.
After three.
One, two CHILDREN LAUGH All right, guys, listen in.
- What did we learn out there today? - Stay focused at all times, boss.
- Indeed.
- Who do you reckon that guy was, boss? Yeah, Fingers fancied a bit of mercenary work.
Yo, tax-free.
What's not to love, bro? Getting your head blown off.
Can we focus up and concentrate, please? - Kingy.
- We're heading to Lampese.
400km.
All right, Lane.
You're on me.
All right guys, let's load up.
- How are you doing? - I'm all right.
I'll tell you when I'm not, how about that? It was interesting to see your aggressive side back to the fore just then.
You wouldn't let me deck him one, though, would you? Well, I didn't want see a grown man cry.
He did seem a bit unstable.
Yeah, I make you right.
Wanker.
That was a nice magic trick, by the way.
I've got to learn me a magic trick.
There's nothing like a good magic trick, and that was nothing like a good magic trick.
Remember when we was in Kenya, and I said Africa smelled funny, and you all laughed? If this is neither funny nor informative, please may I suggest that you zip it? Hear me out, Kingy.
It's the same smell round here.
You do know it's 2,000 miles away from Kenya, don't you? About the same as from London to Moscow.
Whoa, weren't your grandad from Africa? I'm not saying it's a bad smell.
Where's your grandad from, Monk? Somalia.
Like Mo Farah.
Oh, my heritage is from around here, actually.
- Shut up! - Well, not literally here, but Nigeria.
Oh, mate.
I remember my great uncle come and stayed with us when I was small, right? And they told me that he was a prince.
This guy turns up in flip-flops that had seen better days, a pair of ragamuffin jeans and a T-shirt with his last three weeks' dinner down the front.
Turns out his name was Prince.
He worked in a bicycle repair shop.
Oi, oi! You should be laughing, it's funny.
WEAK LAUGHTER All right, guys.
Go out and stretch your legs.
OK, piss stop.
Right, don't touch anything, and wash your hands after, please.
Bicycle repair, right? Runs in my family too.
Go on.
After partition, right, our bit of the family went to Pakistan.
Before my time, but, you know.
These two uncles went to Tanzania.
I get the feeling they were a tad on the illiterate side.
One ends up a bicycle repair man, the other taking the tops off drinks bottles.
Guess what their names were? Harry and Rumpelstiltskin? Once my branch of the family settled into the UK, they came over and had to change names.
Their names were Bicycle Repair Weller and Soda Bottle Opener Weller.
I absolutely shit you not, hand on heart.
How's that for witty and informative? All rolled Don't forget to wash your hands.
Bicycle Repair Weller?! Go out with me, Maisie, and you can be married into the most interesting family in Leeds.
Steeped in history, exotic, and yet strangely patriotic.
Rab, if you were the last fellow on earth, I would become a card-carrying lesbian.
So would it be OK if I watched? Why do boys always say that? I can't answer for all boys, but me, I was hoping to make you laugh, and then maybe make you change your mind? - You know you love me.
- Yeah, I do love you, Rab.
But as a mate.
Deal with it.
GUNFIRE Hold your fire! Hold fire! What the hell's going on? - They think they heard something.
- Heard something?! That's ridiculous! HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE Fellas, do not engage! You do not engage unless the enemy makes contact! You can't just fire randomly into the thicket! There could be innocent civilians there! Is everyone OK?! - Boss! - Has anyone got eyes on Rab? - Here! - We're ready! Anybody want a soda? Rab will open it for you! Soda Bottle Opener Weller! - Think you might have over shared.
- There's no secrets in the army.
So, my nan was like I don't even know what you're saying.
- I don't know why I find it so funny.
- So I was like Why are you looking at me like that for? Don't know.
- Who you texting, Lane? - Oh, my wayward sister.
You should get her to join.
She won't even pass two-day selection.
What, you'd let your daughter enrol? It's not that shit a life, is it? Nah, well - except sometimes.
- Yeah.
That's a cartoon amount of food, Fingers.
You would know, with your little cartoon face.
You're going to have a cartoon belly after that lot.
- I'm trying to bulk up, bro.
- But that's all carbs, no protein.
Need my carbs, protein AFTER training.
I've got bulk up if I make selection.
Got it all sorted out, then, eh, Fingers? What about you, Brains? You going to try for special forces, or what? Knock, knock.
- Who's there? - Lane.
Lane who? It wasn't meant to be a joke.
I just meant it was me.
Oh.
For tonight, hydrate.
What do you want, Lane? Water run.
OK, well thank you.
OK, look.
My dad once jumped into the Manchester Ship Canal cos he saw all these kittens drowning.
Couldn't save them all, but he did manage to save a few.
Apparently, the QE2 once traversed that canal.
Shouldn't we be doing more, boss? Right, even if we save half a dozen schoolgirls, - at least then on this tour, we - No.
Goodnight, Lane.
I think we are failing in our duty if we don't at least try.
Don't be naive.
We're guests in someone else's country.
SHE EXHALES - Is everything OK? - Yes.
Why shouldn't it be? Well maybe you needed some more time.
Sitting in Preston is not going to change anything.
Yeah, I realise that.
But at least in Preston, you have some space.
You're not out here on tour getting het up about things.
So I'm het up about children being abducted and abused? Now, excuse me for being idealistic.
You finished? Yes, boss.
Look, you're doing great work out here.
Like today, in the village with the kids.
Thank you.
Just a shame about the dick in the Hummer, hm? Yeah, he's a bully.
Are you sure everything's all right? Everything's all right.
What's going on over there, boss man? Oil pipes.
People siphon them off, causing fires.
I didn't even know Nigeria had oil.
Oil and gas, diamonds and gold.
So they're, like, rich, then? Well, clearly, only some people are.
Why don't they just share it all out, than everyone can be rich? What, a just and fair world, Richards? Then what would we do for a living? GUNFIRE Pull over! Contact Kingy, defensive positions.
Medical, on me.
Brains, give covering fire.
Defence now.
Guys, peel there, give cover.
Fingers, down there.
- Colonel, what's happening? - Child soldiers.
And you just start randomly firing? You open fire or not? MAN SPEAKS ON RADIO Yeah, copy that.
Kingy, hold the ground.
You two, on me.
HE SHOUTS Oi! I need to treat that boy.
We have to question him first.
Fucking do what the medic says.
- Brains! - What? Get back on the truck now.
Brains, move.
Colonel, he needs treatment.
Has he been shot? No, he just cut himself on his way, he's fine.
HE ASKS AND REPEATS A QUESTION Let me treat him before you question him.
Get down, sit down.
HE SHOUTS IN PAIN Easy! What's your name, hm? My name's Georgie.
Can he understand? OK.
Let's get the cut cleaned up.
Let's put a few stitches in.
COLONEL SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE - We don't behave like that.
- They do.
- We don't.
- Colonel! We need to get back to the fort before nightfall.
We take the kid back for medical treatment and then we question him.
Is that understood? - You all right, Lane? - Yeah.
What's your name? This lady will take care of you.
- Cala.
- He looks about eight.
The bullets he's firing still would have killed you, though, mate.
Well, who knows what kind of shit life he's had up till now? Just saying, he still would have killed you given half a chance, - that's all I'm saying.
- Best nobody say anything.
How many stitches we looking at, Georgie? - Oh, try some on your gob, Monk.
- I was only asking.
About 18.
I need more gauze.
Thank you.
She'll look after you.
You're in the best possible hands.
I will look after you, Cala.
He'll be wanting compensation, next.
We'll treat him in the same way if you have a laceration to your leg, Fingers.
Stitch him up and lock him up.
No, stitch him up, course of antibiotics, and change the dressing every day, if that's all right with you.
You got told.
Monk, Fingers, get him in the med centre.
You see, the only way we can get them to talk is to frighten them a bit.
Well, he looked frightened enough.
He needs to be treated before you question him.
Right, guys, choose a bunker and I'll see what's occurring on the score front.
I fucking swear there's better facilities in Strangeways.
Have you done time, then, have you? Do time for you, mate.
Right, what were you telling me? - What? - Oh, very homoerotic.
Yeah, well, you'd know.
Oh, boys, put your dicks away and choose a pit.
Good call, Richards.
Right, I'll be back in five, so get washed up and stop arsing around.
- Boss has already had words.
- Sarge.
- Sarge.
- Sarge.
Do you mind taking over for me? There you go.
Boss.
There's information they need from him, Lane.
Right, well, we'll need to give him medical attention he needs.
- Well, be careful.
- Boss? He's not some innocent kid there.
He's a child soldier who kills, and he'd have no qualms about killing you.
- Understood.
- Lane Don't compromise your own safety.
Brains Talk to me.
I'm genuinely worried.
I want the old Brains back.
SHE SIGHS If you're not stable enough for this tour It's my parents.
What's happened? I'm a grown-up.
I shouldn't be reacting like this.
What? Come on.
- I'm a dick - Brains.
- HE SNIFFS - Talk to me.
I got a voice message from them, just before we left for Nigeria.
They're splitting up.
I mean, everyone's parents split up, don't they? Why am I being such a dick about it? - You're not being a dick about it.
- I am.
Well, you are a bit.
HE LAUGHS Look, it's traumatic and it's awful.
I completely understand.
- Do you want me to get you home? - No.
No, honestly, that's the last thing I want.
Right, well, you need me not to worry, then.
I can't have you out there with a weapon.
I'm never going to do anything stupid.
You have been a bit stupid, haven't you? Now I've told you, it feels like You've had a weight lifted off your shoulders? Yeah.
Please let me stay.
I'll discuss it with Captain James.
Won't he just send me home? I'm a medic.
He'll listen to me.
I'm sorry.
Hey, come on.
Relax.
OK? Come on.
I just - I find it hard.
- I know.
Everybody thought they were perfect.
I thought they were perfect, but my mum, she She wants a new life.
I know how she feels.
Come on.
I'm trusting you.
No more daftness.
And if you ever feel discombobulated, you come and talk to me.
Yeah? OK.
I feel about fucking ten.
THEY LAUGH Right, get on with your duties.
And remember, I'm your mate.
- Thank you.
- OK.
- He's not going to escape! - Now he's not.
- What about your men? - They are staying there.
All right, well, I need to check his blood pressure.
Yeah.
We will kill you all.
You are the enemy.
We will kill you or die trying.
- You don't want to die.
- It doesn't matter.
My death doesn't matter.
Your death is important.
You're a young boy.
You should be Allah says the best fighters are those who fight at the front.
I don't think Allah wants young boys killing innocent people.
- Who is innocent? - The people that you're killing are.
The Nigerian colonel wants to question you.
If I betray my leaders, I'll be executed, with my hands bound.
Is that what happens in Lampese? Go there and they will kill you.
I'm not afraid of dying either.
I know you're from Lampese.
One of the guards said.
Do you know where the girls are? Lampese.
Here.
On the border of Boko Haram-controlled territory.
The plan was always to go to the outreach clinic, boss.
It's only a mile or two from Lampese.
That's why we're here.
I think, while we're there, we make enquiries about the schoolgirls.
We're here to assist on the outreach project, not locate the missing schoolgirls, Lane.
Boss, but if we left at first light we can assess the situation in the town before we get to the outreach project.
Look, if we gather any bit of intel, surely that is a good thing.
We're not going off-piste and risking lives.
We're not going off-piste.
It's a town next to the outreach clinic.
We're going there to hand out flyers saying we're doing inoculation for the kids.
We'll do the leaflet drop and then we'll evacuate for the outreach project.
More medicine than the Royal Infirmary.
- Do they really need this lot, Georgie? - Yes.
- Girl power.
- You what? I'm joking.
You had me worried for a sec.
But - Go on.
- But If we could locate these schoolgirls What, me and you, like Wonder Women? I obviously don't mean that, do I? All right, imagine if it was my sister.
Or you.
Imagine if it was you that got kidnapped and no-one did anything about it.
If we could somehow find out where they are and let the chain of command sort out a rescue mission.
- But how? - Well, go into town.
Try and talk to the locals.
Befriend them as we're handing out the flyers.
And, likewise, we can talk to the mothers in the clinic.
Surely one of the must know something.
Yeah, it would be great.
Oh, mate, imagine.
Exactly.
Right, guys, on me! In your pairs, we're going to proceed along this main route through the village here.
Put up notifications about the inoculations, hand out flyers and then get back to the truck.
- Lids on, boss? - Indeed, Kingy.
You need to stay alert, guys.
Let's get on it.
Somebody here will know where they are.
You OK? When the girls are taken, we feel powerless.
Maybe they're not important enough to the authorities.
- They are to me.
- Yeah, and to me.
SHE SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE My name's Georgie, I'm a medic with the British Army outreach clinic.
We're doing inoculations.
So bring any children under the age of ten, there you go.
And we've got medicine as well for the older girls.
Pregnant girls, girls who might need our help.
Do you get the feeling they are being watched, so they can't say anything? Something's spooked them.
Come on.
Excuse me, we're We're offering inoculations.
They're too afraid to speak to us, aren't they? Wouldn't you be? Probably.
Boss.
I'm getting the feeling we've got eyes on us.
Have you seen anything? No, but I get the feeling they have.
There's something properly weird about round here.
I was expecting to see a pile of corpses.
- I'm pleasantly surprised.
- Stop at the estate agents, Fingers, get yourself a little crib round here.
They got an estate agents? Get in before the property boom takes off.
Liverpool will still be cheaper than round here, Brains.
THEY LAUGH You have drugs for sickness? For pregnant sickness? Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Where's the girl? Could you bring her to the clinic? I just need safe drugs for her sickness.
We have got safe drugs.
She knows where they are.
You don't know that, Lane.
Are gut instincts not allowed in the Army? No.
I don't believe that you'd think like that.
Look, this woman knows where those girls are.
There was a moment of eye contact, she was desperate.
- On gut instinct? - Yeah.
Her gut instincts are not to be sniffed at.
I should know, I shared a dorm with her.
BOTH: Shut up, Richards.
We should at least go back and try and find this woman.
They want medicine, they come to the outreach project.
End of.
We need to go and look for that woman.
- Are you questioning authority now? - Yeah, I am.
Hey, bro.
I'm sorry about being a bit of a twat.
Ah.
Juicy Fruit.
OK, first priority, let's get the children in for their inoculations.
I'll get their details, medical history No, no, no, task someone else with that.
Richards, I need you to take all the details of each child inoculated.
I need Adewole outside dealing with people with other medical conditions.
Is that clear? Right, let's get this place sorted.
On there.
You actually think you could win? Yes.
Going to beat you with the biggest goal.
Oh! Right, go on, over there.
I'm going to go and speak to my captain, I'll be back in one minute.
OK.
It's on.
It's on, boys.
Ahem.
Boss.
Boss.
What do you reckon? What? Troops versus locals.
Good PR exercise, boss, show 'em we care.
May I remind you that you are on duty, Fingers, you massive cockwomble.
FINGERS CHUCKLES Thank you, sir, you haven't called me that in a very long time.
- Must be love, Fingers.
- Come on.
Focus up, guys.
Decent.
Banging.
CHEERING OK.
Do you mind just rolling her sleeve up there for me, just holding it up? Perfect, thank you.
- Are you going to be a brave girl? - How old is she? Very, very quick.
CHILDREN CRY There you go.
All done.
All done.
Just hold that there for me.
Perfect, thank you.
Good girl! You're brave, you're very, very brave.
Why have I got to be in goal? It's always where we put the two-bob tossers.
- No offence.
- None taken.
Easy.
Hey! Could have had my eye out, that! Come on, Rab, sort it out.
Look, we are not losing to this lot.
We invented football.
- Did we? - Yeah, of course we did.
Bobby Moore? AMERICAN ACCENT: Let's do this.
Let's play ball.
Ooh! THEY LAUGH: It's all right, lads, you relax.
I'll do all the hard work.
It's heart and minds, Lane.
Come on, then, boys, let's go.
There's some of the children that could not make it into the clinic.
I'll send one of the NGOs to collect them.
Well, why don't we just go? Without the others.
But we can't go alone.
CHEERING All right, on me.
- Get out my way.
- I don't know what I'm doing.
Ow! Where's the defence? Boss, I need to go and pick a couple of infants up who couldn't get in.
- Orphans.
- What are you talking about? Well, we'll only be five minutes.
Can't the NGOs pick them up? No, because they need to triage before bringing them back.
OK.
Kingy, Rab.
Escorting Lane to pick up some infants.
- Thanks, boss.
- Rab.
Come on, 2 Section! All the way! All the way, all the way! VEHICLE APPROACHES Before we pick the kids up, why don't we have a quick scout around the town for that woman? She won't be there.
We don't know.
And you don't know that she will be there.
If we don't look, we'll never know, will we? Yeah, and if we don't go and look we won't be getting ourselves into any bother.
We're not going to get ourselves into any bother, - we're trying to help.
- I can't believe all of a sudden I'm the - grown-up.
- Yeah, exactly.
- What?! - We'll go to the town, look for the woman and we'll be straight back to pick the kids up.
Agreed? Isn't that that tosser from the market? Yeah, I think so.
Let's do this.
Come on, 2 Section! - Come on.
- Right, let's go! Yes, yes, yes! Ah! Come on! CHEERING AND CLAPPING Kingy, there's an RTA up ahead! Right, let's get eyes on, see what's happened.
Help! Help! Help! THEY SHOUT IN OWN LANGUAGE All the way round! Come on! Move! Adewole! The abandoned vehicle was discovered here.
Way off where they were supposed to be.
What is he supposed to have done? - He's a medic! - British Army is not a religion.
That's not like being Muslim.
HE GRUNTS Get the vest off, get the vest off! Take cover! Take cover!