24: Redemption

Colonel Dubaku, we are just leaving the township now, sir.

How many do you have?

- Five. - Only five?

By the time we got to the field, most of the boys were gone.

I need soldiers, not excuses.

I will bring some more, sir. I promise.

Just bring them to me.

Youssou, get it for me.

You will learn to fight like men.

Of that I have no doubt.

This...

will make you strong, little soldiers.

This will make you free.

Come.

Take it.

How does it make you feel?

Powerful, yes?

Come.

Your mothers and your fathers, they have made you weak.

But General Juma, he will make you strong.

He will make you strong...

so that you can take back your country from the government...

and the traitors that work for them.

Like this cockroach, here.

This cockroach...

that works for the government and their white masters. Yes, yes.

They have taken our land.

No.

But soon, all that will change.

Soon, all the land will belong to the people again.

And so...

we must buy our freedom...

with the blood of this cockroach.

No.

You know what to do to cockroaches.

Kill the cockroach.

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

Kill the cockroach! Kill the cockroach!

The following takes place between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Events occur in real time.

I thought I told you to turn up the air conditioning.

All right, sir. I did, sir.

- But we need another player. - Find somebody else.

Who? Tell me, Willie. Who can handle the ball better than you?

That's right. No one.

We're not supposed to go without Mr. Benton.

Mr. Benton worries too much and so do you.

Hey, Desmond. Hurry or the bus will leave. Come on.

- Let's go. - You're not my father.

- I'm your brother, you'll do what I say. - No.

Fine, then.

The truck is here.

The truck is here.

It's arriving.

The truck is here.

I wasn't stealing it. I swear.

I was just looking.

I forgot these.

Very pretty. For a woman, yes?

I was gonna give it to my daughter one day.

You have a daughter?

Yeah.

Where did you get it?

Rajasthan.

India.

- You ask a lot of questions. - That's what Mr. Benton says.

I bet.

When were you there?

Last summer.

- Before you came here? - Yes.

- And before that, where were you? - Different places.

When are you going home?

I'm not going home.

Listen, I told the other boys I'd help them unload the truck.

- If you want that, you can keep it. - Really?

Really.

Willie.

You're gonna have to give me my knife back, though.

Go on.

Hey, Willie, the supply truck's here. The boys could use some help.

Look what Jack gave me.

- Very nice. - It's from India.

Jack, this is Frank Trammell.

He's the ambassador's chief political officer.

I know who he is.

He left messages for you to see him at the embassy.

I got his messages.

- What's going on? - I'll tell you what's going on.

The subcommittee has questions about the detention...

and torture of certain prisoners in Mr. Bauer's custody.

I have a subpoena requesting you to appear and it's way past due.

So consider yourself served.

I told the boys I'd help them unload the truck. Excuse me.

Failure to comply to a subpoena is a federal offense, Mr. Bauer.

- You are bound by law to respond. - Then give them my response.

If they want me back in Washington, they can come and get me.

The ambassador said that you and Bauer were in the Special Forces together.

- How long has he been here? - A few months.

He never mentioned the subpoena?

Nope.

He's been ducking it for more than a year, across different continents.

Washington is leaning on the ambassador to deliver him.

And now the ambassador is leaning on you.

If Bauer doesn't come back to the States on his own, they'll come for him.

That would be a mistake.

You're doing God's work here, Carl.

Between malaria and the wars, these kids never had a chance.

Now you're giving them a decent life. It'd be a shame if the funding dried up.

Don't threaten me, Frank.

I'm just giving you the facts.

You're his friend.

Talk some damn sense into him.

- Here, Jack. - Thank you, Thomas.

Okay.

- Now you. Go, go. - There he is.

The mighty warrior who traded his gun for a wheelbarrow.

Thank you.

Why are you here?

To do penance for all your sins?

You don't want to talk about it.

I don't blame you.

Here. Be careful. Don't drop that.

The government won't be able to hold out against us for long.

Except we have more weapons than soldiers who can use them.

We need to overrun the main garrison from the west.

We have minefields here and here.

Then I'll bring you more little soldiers to kill them.

Do not worry.

Our father would be really proud, Youssou.

Very proud.

You will have your little soldiers.

Go.

This is Colonel Dubaku.

Hodges here. I've just heard some troubling news, colonel.

That your recruiting numbers are still coming up a little short.

I want you to know my offer stands.

I've got personnel standing by across the border.

- They can be deployed within the hour. - That won't be necessary.

Do some thinking now, colonel. I'm offering you professional soldiers.

Not children you haven't had time to train.

You provided the weapons.

We will fight our own war.

Well...

it's your country.

It will be soon.

- Is there anything else, Mr. Hodges? - Yeah.

Tell General Juma to give me a call when he gets there, will you?

- I'll let him know. - Good.

That's one hard-nosed son of a bitch.

It is his country.

But I'm paying for it.

I don't want those transactions traceable, Mr. Nichols.

Not by the SEC, the I RS or any of my ex-wives.

You understand me, don't you?

John, what do you want me to tell you?

- You gotta hang in there and be patient. - Right.

No, hold on. Hold on. Stop, stop.

We got caught by the margin, it's gonna turn around.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, you've gotta give it time...

and just... Yeah, be patient.

Yeah. Okay.

Yes, yes, okay. All right. Bye-bye.

Chris.

- Yeah. - Would you come in here, please?

- Who was that guy? - A client.

I need you to close out Abu Dhabi and Eritrea.

Burn the records and bury the ashes.

- Go. - Yeah.

Jack. Can I have a word?

Yeah.

Willie, go on up to the truck. Pick up another load.

I think you should take a look at this.

I don't need to.

I know what it says.

Don't worry, Carl. I'll be gone by dark.

I'm not asking you to leave, Jack. I'm asking you to have a conversation.

Trammell says this subpoena's been chasing you for over a year now.

It's gonna catch up with you sometime.

I'm not going back.

I'm not saying you should.

But a year's a long time to spend looking over your shoulder.

A lifetime of that drives you out of your mind.

Whatever I've done, I've paid for in full.

All I've got is my freedom. I'm not letting them take that away from me.

Freedom? What kind of freedom's this, Jack? You're running away.

What do you want from me, Carl?

I want you to trust me, Jack. I am your friend.