Boots (2025) s01e08 Episode Script

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[ROCK MUSIC PLAYS]
You wanna earn the
right to be Devil Dogs?
Welcome to the Crucible,
a 54-hour test of
everything we taught you.
You will execute tactical simulations
on minimal sleep, minimal
food, over 40 miles.
[HOWITT] Move it! Faster!
If you conquer it,
you'll become a Marine.
If you don't, this is
where we say goodbye.
And one of you will emerge
as this platoon's Honor Man.
The Crucible is your refining fire.
[SULLIVAN] Move it!
So show me what you're really made of!
[MUSIC FADES]
Check your buddy. Ounces make pounds.
Better make sure you pack right!
This is it. Crucifixion.
- The Crucible.
- Yeah, same difference.
- How's that knee?
- It's good enough for government service.
You got this, old man.
[SLOVACEK] Gonna be a
cakewalk. Got this shit on lock.
The moment we graduate, I am
fucking up a bucket of fried chicken.
Chicken? Fuck that.
As soon as we ace this shit,
I'm getting my dick wet.
Unless the gators wet it first.
Have you heard about the six
recruits who died out there?
Out where?
See you in the swamps, boys.
[SULLIVAN] Get your shit squared away.
[HOWITT] Last looks, ding-dongs.
[RAY] You okay?
I mean, it's not broken.
I'm not talking about your hand.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Platoon! Atten! Hoo!
[SULLIVAN] Cope.
[MCKINNON] From the front
to the rear. Count off.
[RECRUITS] One, two
This meatbag's in your pack.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
Jones never leaves your side.
His fuckups are yours.
Don't disappoint me.
Sir, aye, sir.
Left face!
All forward!
Move!
This is what you asked for!
Back to being Sullivan's
special boy, huh?
Route, start!
March!
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYS]
Move, goddamn it! Ain't
a bed and breakfast!
Come on, you sons of bitches!
You wanna live forever?
If it ain't raining, we ain't
training! Pick up your goddamn feet!
You're not sweet enough to mouth,
princess! Pick it up, ladies!
Faster! Faster! Faster! Pick it up!
- Jones, get your head down!
- [CAMERON] Jones, get back!
Hey, Cope! Your buddy Jones
just got your tits
blown off! Move, damn it!
Kill!
Kill! [YELLS]
Let me hear you kill!
[GRUNTS] Kill!
[HOWITT] Crawl faster!
Your life depends on it!
Get your head down, dumbass!
- [YELLS]
- Whoo!
- [SULLIVAN] Let's go!
- [ALL STRAIN]
Move it!
Scream it, motherfuckers! Scream it!
Jones, pick up your shit! Hey,
Cope, come and get your meatbag!
[RECRUITS YELL]
[STRAINS]
[SANTOS GROANS]
- [NASH] Fuck!
- Again!
[MCKINNON] Get up!
Hurry up!
[GRUNTS]
Get over that wall, damn it!
I know it ain't as big as your
mama! Let's move! Let's move!
[SANTOS GRUNTS]
You know what? We're not
fucking done yet! Again!
[ALL STRAIN]
[SULLIVAN] Come on! Up!
[MUSIC FADES]
- [DOORBELL CHIMES]
- [WOMAN 1 ON TV] So now you're mad?
Funny. Trey wasn't thinking about you
when he was at my place last night.
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
[WOMAN 2 ON TV] Bitch,
what is your problem?
- [MAN ON TV] Let's bring out the man.
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[MAN ON TV] Ladies and
gentlemen, here's Trey.
[JUNE] Oh. Looks like you're packing.
[BARBARA] Yeah.
Time to move on.
Do you need any help?
Mm. I got a system.
Uh, now, I know things with the
Marine moms went a little bit, mm,
not good, but once a Marine
mom, always a Marine mom.
I didn't lie to those women.
I never said Cameron died.
But he might as well be dead. He
ran right into his own destruction.
Oh, Barbara.
He'll be all right.
Cameron's a smart boy,
and Ray's there with him.
I'm sure he'll be fine.
He's a homosexual, June.
Did you know that?
I I didn't know for sure.
But you know what they do to
homosexuals in the Marines, right?
That you know for sure.
You know, I keep thinking
about something from
from when Cameron was six years old.
Uh, he was out in the front yard,
drawing something in
chalk on the sidewalk.
A few neighborhood boys
came by on their bicycles.
Purposely rode up onto the
sidewalk, trying to scare him.
And instead of getting out of
their way, you know what he did?
He looked them right in the eye,
put his hands on his little hips,
and he said, "The sidewalk
is for pedestrians."
For pedestrians.
Six years old.
[LAUGHS] He had such a
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
He had such a little spark back then.
He he was so unafraid.
You know Well, then one of the
boys, you know, got off his bike,
and he shoved Cameron
right to the ground.
And they laughed, and they rode away.
And I sat there,
and I watched him cry.
I thought,
"Don't go to him."
"He needs to learn this."
"This will toughen him up."
You know, he needs to
learn about boys on bikes.
The world is full of boys on bikes.
I keep thinking about
how I didn't go to him.
You know?
How I left him to fend for himself.
[JUNE SIGHS]
Never too late
to be the mother you want to be.
[MCKINNON] Let's go.
Step it up, recruits.
[SERGEANT] Night course
is coming, gentlemen.
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [SERGEANT] All right, ladies!
Get ready for the night course.
Twelve hours left, so ration your food.
[CODY] Is that the chaplain?
- What the fuck do we need a priest for?
- Somebody's getting last rites.
Bowman!
Sir, here, sir!
[JOHN] Sir, here, sir!
- [SLOVACEK] Holy shit, is that John?
- [HICKS LAUGHS]
- Damn.
- [RECRUIT 1] Goddamn, Bowman.
- [RECRUIT 2] What happened to him?
- [RECRUIT 3] Bowman, nice!
- [RECRUIT 4] Looking good, man!
- [RECRUIT 5] Good job.
[RECRUIT 6] When you coming back to us?
[SULLIVAN] Cope!
You and the meatbag. Water
buffalo, two cans each. Now.
Sir, aye, sir!
[CHAPLAIN] I know this is terrible news.
There's a 72-hour bereavement leave.
Take you to Mainside now,
get you to your family.
I'm very sorry.
Aye, sir.
What are you doing?
We gotta go.
- I'm staying here.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
John, Dad's dead.
We're going home.
If that's what you need to do,
then go.
I'm where I'm supposed to be.
[MCKINNON] Son.
Nobody'll blame you
if you took your leave,
came back, picked up where you left
off, finished with another platoon.
But we do got a training schedule.
- Yes, sir.
- [MCKINNON] Gotta make your decision.
- [MUSIC FADES]
- Everybody's got their own shit.
Dude, his dad just died.
Life's a kick in the dick. What
do you want me to do about it?
[NASH] Talk to him. Make
sure he gets through this.
Why?
Because he's your boy,
and that's what Marines do.
[SCOFFS]
And because I'm asking.
You'd be in Rikers now
if it weren't for me.
[SIGHS] After this, my tab is paid.
Take it before I change my mind.
- Not hungry.
- [SLOVACEK] Don't go dark on me, Bam Bam.
Gotta eat.
Talk to him.
Just say something.
[GRUNTS]
How come you two ain't going
home to pay your respects?
My dad miserable fucking prick.
But let me tell you
something, when he croaks,
I'm gonna have a front-row seat
at whatever hole they stick him in.
Show up, looking sharp,
in my dress blues,
and I'm gonna tell him,
"Look who's the loser now, asshole."
If I was you, I would've gone home.
Stop talking.
What am I, Oprah Winfrey?
[RAY] Hey, hold still.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYS]
You tell anyone about this,
I'll put my foot up your ass.
You'd have to catch me first.
- [SANTOS] What is this?
- Cut up my rubber bitch, made you a brace.
- What are you, Doogie Howser now?
- [LAUGHS]
[SANTOS] Hey, I'm serious.
If the DIs find out I
got a busted knee again,
that's it for me.
If I shit the bed now,
I'll be kicked out for good.
I got no more lives left.
There. How's that feel?
[SANTOS GRUNTS]
All right, Doogie.
That'll work.
Fuck this. I'm starving.
[MUSIC STOPS]
And so are you.
Really in a hurry to get back to that?
Come on.
Five minutes.
Beans and franks?
I got beef stew.
Trade?
I like beans and franks.
You really don't see
what's happening here?
Sullivan fucked us both.
He's using me to shape you
into his own fucked-up image.
That's the only reason I'm still here.
He promised me a medical
discharge if I fucked with you.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
Was that before or after the woods?
When you said it was me
and you, you lied to me.
Oh, and lies are
suddenly an issue for you?
- [LAUGHS] You can lie with the best of us.
- I never lied to you.
- [JONES] Please, Cameron.
- I
You lie every day just to be here.
We both know they'd take
us out with the trash
if they knew the truth about us.
Only difference between you and me,
you think they'd be right to do it.
Get up. Let's go.
I'm sorry.
Come on, get up.
I'm sorry.
Okay? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Cameron, I don't see how a guy like you
looks at Sullivan and says, "Yeah,
I wanna be like him. Sign me up."
He's not real.
I know what he looks like,
but that guy is no hero.
He's just a self-hating bully.
Maybe I know more about
bullies than you do.
Sullivan isn't weak.
And I'm not going back to being weak.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MAN] The fuck are you
looking at, jarhead?
[SULLIVAN] The company commander.
- Good afternoon, ma'am.
- As you were, Senior Drill Instructor.
You, with me.
You owe me an explanation, Sergeant.
I have a sheriff on
base looking for a Marine
who almost killed a
civilian in a bar fight.
Put the son of a bitch
in ICU. Still in a coma.
Do you know anything about that?
Because they've got a good description.
Show me your hands, Sergeant.
I'll take what comes, ma'am.
Here's what's coming.
The family is pressing charges.
It's a felony. Do you understand?
That's it. Your whole
career, your reputation,
all of it gone over some pissant?
I told you I had your
back if this Guam thing
There's nothing you could do, ma'am.
So you'd rather be dishonorably
discharged for almost killing a man?
Fuck them.
And fuck you for letting them win.
I would pull your ass
off this field right now,
but I don't have the
manpower to cover you.
And I'm not putting my
recruits in harm's way.
You will finish your mission.
Every single one of these
recruits comes back to me a Marine.
And then you're done.
Is that clear, Sergeant?
Yes, ma'am.
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYS]
[SNIFFS]
[FAJARDO] Here?
[SULLIVAN] Yes, ma'am.
- [RECRUITS] Marine Corps! ♪
- I'll be a Marine till the day I die ♪
[RECRUITS] Marine Corps! ♪
[MUSIC FADES]
- No.
- Jones! Jones!
Sir!
Sir, I did what you wanted.
Cameron's back on your program.
I just need you to sign my medical
discharge like you promised.
Please, sir.
The situation has changed,
recruit. You're on your own.
[COMPUTER GAME BEEPS]
I was winning.
Pack it up.
- [OBJECTS CLATTER]
- [GROANS]
[SIGHS] God.
[SIGHS]
[INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYS]
I'll be damned.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
[CODY] John.
What, Cody?
[MUSIC FADES]
If you got something to say, say it.
I can't show up without you.
[JOHN] Bullshit.
Bullshit, Cody.
You don't get to come to me now
just because you finally figured out
that you can't do this by yourself.
Our whole lives,
you and Dad said that I was the weak one
and that I was the coward
and that I was the failure.
You know what I realized?
I'm not the one that needs a brother.
[MCKINNON] Rise and shine,
ladies! Out of your tents!
Get up! Get up, recruits! Move!
[HOWITT] Let's go, maggots! Wake up!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
Good morning, ladies!
Time to get to work!
Jones?
Break down your
shelters! Pack your gear!
Step out for Mainside in four minutes!
[MUSIC STOPS]
[RAY] What happened?
With Jones?
I woke up, and he was gone.
[MCKINNON] Copy. Out.
Search and rescue is on its way.
That Jones kid had a screw loose,
but I never thought he'd go UA.
He's impulsive. He's not stupid.
CRIP platoon had him under
observation for sleepwalking.
If he hit the swamps, he's in trouble.
Let me off leash, senior.
Every minute counts.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
I'm sure that they'll find him.
Just keep your eyes on the prize. Right?
Do me a favor. Tell them I didn't go UA.
What? Cam!
[MUSIC FADES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
- What are you doing, Cope?
- [MUSIC STOPS]
Front and center now.
You too, McAffey.
[WATER SPLASHES]
Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
You wanna tell me what the
fuck you two think you're doing?
Sir, the drill instructor said
Jones is in this recruit's pack, sir.
Sir, Cope is in this recruit's pack.
- Sir.
- [FAJARDO] 32 Charlie.
This is Foxtrot Actual. Over.
This is 32 Charlie. I have two
stowaways, Cope and McAffey.
I'm dispatching them back to camp. Over.
Negative. You escort them
back. I'm pulling you out.
All due respect, ma'am,
my orders were to return all recruits,
and that's what I'm gonna do. Out.
[FAJARDO] This is a direct order
Hardball's two clicks east.
You will meet the platoon
there. On the double.
Aye, sir.
Cam.
Look, Sullivan just
disobeyed a direct order.
He is in deep shit. If we don't
go back right now, we are too.
You're right. You're not getting
in trouble for me. Head back.
- I'm not gonna leave you here.
- Ray, I got this.
You don't need to take
care of me anymore.
I'll be okay.
I got this.
Trust me.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS]
I'll see you back at Mainside.
[MUSIC SWELLS]
[MCKINNON] Explain this
shit to me, recruit.
I wanna understand
how you came to believe
you're special enough to disobey
my orders and leave my platoon!
- Sir
- [MCKINNON] Shut your fucking mouth!
Here I thought you
were Honor Man material.
You can kiss that shit goodbye.
- Out of my sight!
- Sir, aye, sir!
[MCKINNON] Platoon, route, step. March!
Twenty bucks says Jones
is face down in the mud.
Fifty bucks says he's alligator food.
He's halfway to Florida by now.
Good for him. He's
the only sane one here.
Fuck that.
USMC, you signed the
motherfucking contract.
Popping smoke is a bitch-ass
move. Ain't that right, Bam Bam?
You don't walk out on
your fucking brothers.
What kind of bullshit is that?
Fucking pussy.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
I would have fucked him up.
Are you fucking kidding me?
[SLOVACEK] Cody, get your ass back here!
[CODY] No! John!
[SLOVACEK] I'm trying to help, asshole.
Well, shit.
[CODY] Dad is dead!
- Get the fuck off!
- Fuck.
- [HOWITT] Stop!
- [CODY YELLS]
- We're going home right now!
- [HOWITT] Stand down!
- Hey! Relent! Relent, goddamn it!
- John!
- [MCKINNON] Relent.
- [CODY YELLS]
Relent. Relent.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
[MCKINNON] Relent. Relent.
Get him in a chase vehicle.
Take him to the chaplain.
[SULLIVAN] I told you to go back.
[CAMERON] If you can
ignore an order, so can I.
[MUSIC STOPS]
I heard what the captain said.
They're forcing you out?
What, so that's it?
What happened to once a
Marine, always a Marine?
- No more talking.
- No.
I did everything that
you asked me to do.
I passed all your stupid tests
to prove I was good enough for you
and for the Marines, then
you just blow it all up?
It makes no sense.
You make no sense.
Jones was right about you.
- [SULLIVAN] You wanna be like Jones?
- No, I wanted to be like you.
[SULLIVAN] How old are you, Cope?
Eighteen.
Sir.
The same age as me when I joined.
You know, when I first went
to my recruiter's office,
he told me I was underweight.
I was skinnier than you back then.
I told him I'd come back.
I put on the pounds, but, uh
he must've been low on his quota
'cause he wasn't gonna
let me go that easy.
He took me that day to my physical.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS]
Before I stepped on the scales,
he taped a piece of metal
to my leg so I'd make weight.
I asked him after,
"Wasn't that cheating?"
"Didn't Marines look down
on that sort of thing?"
He said it wasn't wrong as long
as you made it right in the end.
That's not true of all things.
Not everything gets made right.
I'm
I'm not the guy on the poster, Cope.
But I wanted that too.
What'd the captain mean?
"You'd rather be discharged for
almost killing a man than "
One thing you're not, Cope, is stupid.
[JONES, IN THE DISTANCE] Help.
Help.
[SERGEANT] Vernon, Rubin, let's go!
[GROANS]
Hey. Come on, grab my arm.
No. I'm done. I'm done.
Come on.
Recruits must complete the Crucible
on their own strength, McAffey.
Your help is not helping.
Gonna quit five minutes
before the finish line?
- You need a medic?
- Sir, no, sir.
Then pick it up!
[SERGEANT] That's all you gotta do.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
- What are you doing?
- [NASH] Hey, just keep walking.
Share the load, boys.
- He can carry his own shit.
- Come on. Pitch in.
I pitched in enough today.
Yeah, not bad, Oprah.
Hey, pass it on.
Hey. This one you carry.
[SULLIVAN] You're gonna be okay.
[MUSIC FADES]
First aid kit's in my pack.
Three cheers for fraudulent
enlistment, eh, boys?
- [YELPS]
- Save your strength.
He needs a splint.
- Foxtrot Actual, this is 32 Charlie.
- [FAJARDO] Send it.
[SULLIVAN] I have Recruit Jones
here. Compound fracture, laceration.
He's stable. Requesting a medevac
and corpsmen at the hardball. Over.
[FAJARDO] Dispatching. Over.
Good to go, sir. What now?
- [EXHALES]
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
[HOWITT] Lock it in, you potato heads!
Move them gravy legs!
- Kill! Kill! Kill!
- [LAUGHS]
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYS]
[LAUGHS]
I'll see you in hell, Devil Dog.
Save me a seat.
Front row center.
[MUSIC FADES]
- Are you injured, recruit?
- No, ma'am.
Where's Sergeant Sullivan?
This recruit doesn't know, ma'am.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYS]
Congratulations, Marine.
You earned this shit Marine.
[CHUCKLES]
[MCKINNON] Congratulations, Marine.
Semper fi, Marine.
Ma'am, this recruit would
like to finish the Crucible.
Semper fi.
Congratulations, Marine.
[RAY] Get your ass over here, Cam!
[CHEERING]
Come on, Cope!
- Permission to step it up, ma'am?
- Permission granted, recruit!
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Let's go! Come on!
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYS]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- [MCKINNON] Sweat dries.
Blood clots.
Bones heal.
But what you just earned
will never fade.
Now go out there and fuck
'em with the whole dick.
[CHUCKLES]
- Oorah!
- [RECRUITS] Oorah!
[MILITARY MUSIC PLAYS]
Take us home, Honor Man.
Forward!
March!
Eyes, right!
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYS]
[SULLIVAN] What is your name, recruit?
Do you wanna be a Marine?
Yes, sir!
[RECRUITS] Oorah!
[CAMERON] Good to go, sir.
What now?
You take him from here.
- Sir?
- My job was to train you.
I may have been too hard on you.
I was just trying to
prepare you the best I could.
I'm sorry I let you down,
but you don't need me anymore.
You're ready, Cope.
You're a Marine now.
[MCKINNON] Ready! Front!
[MUSIC FADES]
All right, you knuckleheads, one
more. Everyone say, "Green Weenie!"
Green Weenie!
[CHUCKLES] Now one with your dad.
[BOTH CLEAR THROAT]
Well done, son.
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYS]
Introduce me.
Oh, sir, these are the scruits
[CHUCKLES] Staff Sergeant.
These are my parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Nash, I'm
Staff Sergeant McKinnon.
You must be very proud of this Marine.
I must admit, he looks good.
I'll be right back.
Okay.
- I forgot to ask you your name.
- Yeah, you did.
But I got you a
graduation present anyway.
Enjoy your day, Marine.
You too, Marine.
Wait, so what is it?
Guess you're gonna have
to call me and find out.
[CHUCKLES]
- [MUSIC FADES]
- Private First Class Cope?
- [CAMERON] Yes, Staff Sergeant.
- Captain would like to have a word.
[SQUEALS QUIETLY]
Oh.
[BARBARA EXHALES]
Look at you.
Your mother has brought
something to my attention
that wasn't disclosed
on your application.
Is it possible that you
misrepresented yourself?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
It's not his fault.
It's my fault. I never told him.
Uh, when you were four years old,
we were living in Minneapolis, right?
Do you remember that little
yellow house with the creaky porch?
There was a cut-off age to
enroll you in kindergarten,
but you were eight months shy,
which was it was inconvenient.
So I may have tweaked your
birth certificate just a little bit.
You're not 18. You're 17.
I don't understand.
Well, uh um
You're a minor, sweetheart.
A minor can't just run
away and join the Marines.
It's not true. She's lying.
You lie. You always lie.
Not this time, sweetheart.
This is good news.
Like, they gotta let you go
now. You know, you're free.
Without a signed waiver from your
mother, your enlistment is invalid.
You're saying that I
would have to leave?
That I'm not a Marine?
It's as if it never even happened.
But it did happen.
And for that, I'm truly sorry.
Permission to make a head call, ma'am?
[MUSIC FADES]
[INNER VOICE] What's
it gonna take, Cameron,
to see what's right in front of you?
She's giving us a way out.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
What if I don't want a way out?
You wanted me to stand up for myself.
To be strong. To change. And I did.
Here. With them.
With my brothers.
Nobody gave it to me.
I earned it.
And now you know what you're capable of.
But it's time to go.
She can't just come in here and take
away everything like she always
Cameron, this isn't about her.
You know what happens if you stay here.
You'll end up defeated like
Jones or broken like Sullivan.
- You don't know that.
- Yes, you do.
What if it's not that simple?
- What if I can find my own way?
- Cameron, wake up!
If you wanna learn from Sullivan,
then learn from Sullivan.
Living a lie is too high a price.
The longer that you stay here,
the more you'll betray
who you really are.
Until one day,
you won't remember who that is,
and I'll be gone.
What happens to me?
[MUSIC FADES]
You said you were
sorry that I came here.
I am sorry.
If you're truly sorry, show me.
- Sign the waiver.
- Cameron.
- I'm asking you to do one thing for me.
- Please think about this.
[BARBARA SIGHS]
This isn't you.
It is now.
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYS]
Thank you.
Whatever else you want to be
you will always be my son.
[MUSIC FADES]
Square it away, Private.
Squared away, ma'am.
Then go join your brothers.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪
Turn and face the strange ♪
Ch-ch-ch-changes ♪
Don't tell them to
grow up and out of it ♪
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪
Hey, always meant to tell you,
thank you for that third pull-up.
That was all you.
[RECRUITS] Time may change me ♪
But you can't trace time ♪
We did it, man!
- Yeah.
- We're Marines!
- Come on.
- Thank you.
[RECRUIT] Hicks, I love you!
[RECRUITS] Ah, changes are taking ♪
The pace I'm goin' through ♪
- What?
- It's just Nash.
The dress blues. Honor Man.
That could've been you.
You lost Honor Man because of me.
I would never choose Honor Man over you.
There's no honor in that.
[RECRUITS] Turn and face the strange ♪
Ch-ch-changes ♪
Besides Honor Man is a state of mind.
But you are picking up my bar
tabs for the rest of our lives.
Deal.
[HICKS] I said that
time may change me ♪
But I can't trace time ♪
[RECRUITS HOWL]
I heard what you did for Jones.
I heard what you did for Cody.
Yeah, well
that's what Marines do.
Someday, somebody's gonna make you ♪
Wanna turn around and say goodbye ♪
Until then, baby ♪
Now let's get fucked-up!
And make you cry ♪
[RECRUITS] Ooh! Ooh! Ooh, ooh,
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
- Oorah!
- [RECRUIT] Oorah!
Explosive development
near the Persian Gulf.
Word that Iraq has invaded the
neighboring state of Kuwait,
with fighting reported
along the border right now.
And Washington is confirming
Kuwaiti and Iraqi troops are indeed
moving in shortly before dawn.
The residents say that
they were awakened
by machine gun fire and heavy artillery.
For weeks, a hundred
thousand Iraqi troops
have been reported
massing near the border.
The Arab countries have
been trying this month
to defuse this building crisis.
I sent Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney
to discuss cooperative
measures we can take.
The Saudi government requested our help.
And I responded to that request
by ordering US air and ground forces
to deploy to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
[REPORTER] Iraq's invasion now threatens
the stability of the entire Gulf region.
The big question is, will the
arrival of American troops
bring an end to Saddam
Hussein's aggression,
or will this new escalation plunge
the world into an even wider war?
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Just like summer camp.
Mm-num-ba-da ♪
Dum-bum-ba-bay ♪
Doo-bah-dum-ba-bay-bay ♪
Pressure ♪
Pushing down on me ♪
Pressing down on you ♪
No man ask for ♪
Under pressure ♪
That brings a building down ♪
Splits a family in two ♪
Puts people on streets ♪
Um-ba-ba-bay ♪
Um-ba-ba-bay ♪
De-day-da ♪
Ee-day-da ♪
That's okay ♪
It's the terror of knowing
what this world is about ♪
Watching some good friends
screaming "Let me out!" ♪
Pray tomorrow gets me higher ♪
Pressure on people,
people on streets ♪
Day-day-de ♪
Chipping around ♪
Kick my brains around the floor ♪
These are the days ♪
It never rains, but it pours ♪
Ee-do-ba-buh ♪
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