Over There

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I was going home today, i was going home after a year in this sh**hole and yesterday they tell me that i'm staying 90 more days and taking on a squad of virgins! guess what the Sergeant you trained with had have his tonsils out. I Guarn-god-damn-tee you that one of you fools will do something stupid and get yourself killed within the week, [yells] within the week, damn it!

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
[holding up a sign with Arabic writing on it] Do you think this squiggly sh*t really means "halt"?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
That's how it looks in the Sarges' phrasebook.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Yeah, but if we got one of the dots wrong it could mean "Sunnis suck" or something.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
As long as it don't say "Ram This" I'm cool.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
We didn't come for your oil! We came to kick your ass!

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
It smells like a barnyard in here.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
It smells like a slaughterhouse.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
How do you know what a slaughterhouse smells like?

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
How do you know what a barnyard smells like?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
There are farms on Long Island... [stares at Dim for a second]

[repeated line]

Iraqi Kid:
I beat you, America... I beat you! I beat you! I beat you! I beat you!

Lieutenant Underpants:
[interrogating the squad] Which one of you is spreading rumors about me and hinting that I be reassigned?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
[appears behind the Lieutenant] I am, sir. So if you want to scream at anyone, you yell at me. But I scream back, sir. That's why they call me "Scream".

Vanessa Dunphy:
You're an a**hole Mr. Howard. Five minutes from now I won't be yelling but you'll still be an a**hole.

John Moffet:
Just... tell Smoke, I'll make it up to him

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
What's that supposed to mean?

Jarhead:
[Emerges from an APC, banging the hatch open] SHUT THE HELL UP! I'm trying to get some shut-eye in here, and if you keep yelling, I'm gonna take your god-damned head off!

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
What are you doing sleeping in a Bradley for? It's a hundred degrees ou....

Jarhead:
...SHUT UP! Soldier!

John Moffet:
Just... tell Smoke, I'll make it up to him

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
What's that supposed to mean?

Jan:
[Emerges from an APC, banging the hatch open] SHUT THE HELL UP! I'm trying to get some shut-eye in here, and if you keep yelling, I'm gonna take your god-damned head off!

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
What are you doing sleeping in a Bradley for? It's a hundred degrees ou...

Jan:
...SHUT UP! Soldier!

Pfc. Bo Rider:
don't know if I can do this.

Terry Ryder:
What, what can't you do?

Pfc. Bo Rider:
Be a father.

Terry Ryder:
Bo -

Pfc. Bo Rider:
How do you give what you never got? How do you teach what you've never been taught. I know I can hurt people. I've been doing it all my life.

Terry Ryder:
Bo.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
I don't-, how do I do the other?

Terry Ryder:
Shhh. You're doing it now

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
We've been waiting for two and a half hours goddam it. Could have slept til 0600 instead of three-goddam-thirty. Every goddam thing that could've gone wrong has gone wrong with this. We waited three hours to form up. We wait two more hours till the airport pickup. Everyone in the goddam country knows we're coming now. I don't even want to know what's in the panel truck he's all revved up about. Now we're driving the most dangerous stretch of road in the world. It's worse than the B.Q.E.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
What's that?

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. 400 traffic fatalities a year on a stretch of raod that four miles long.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Why do you encourage him, Angel?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
He's much better telling us something we don't know that when he's just complaining. Don't you agree.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
No.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
You giving Dim advice last night?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
None worth takin'.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
How com you never give me any advice?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
'Cause you never ask. It's all right. I wouldn't ask me for advice neither.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
Is that why you think I don't?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
Yeah, I guess so.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
I'm just to proud.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
To talk to me?

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
To ask for help.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
I'd help you Doublewide, but I don't know sh*t. I guarantee you.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
Tell me what you think I should do anyway, okay?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
About Sergio?

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
Yeah, you listen to every word of out conversations. I know you do.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
You love him a lot, don't you.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
With everything I got.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
Well there's your answer. Love him with everything you've got.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
That's it?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
That's it.

Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio:
You're a fountain of wisdom.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
Thank you.

Lieutenant Underpants:
We have to make our way to the back of the column.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Why?

Lieutenant Underpants:
'Cause that's where we are going to make our stand.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Our stand? What are you? General Custer?

Lieutenant Underpants:
That's where we're going, Sergeant. Now get your people together.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Can we pretend we never heard him?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
No.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
What do you think we should do?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Confort the dying.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Who's dying?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Some of the civilian drivers. I can hear them on my radio. One of them told me the names of his children.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Can the Lieutenant hear them?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Yeah. Let's go.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Say a prayer for us will you Angel?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
You do it.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Me? I don't believe in anything.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
No, I know. Except for your country and your step-son.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
And us. I believe in us.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
say what's in your heart. That's what prayer is.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Well, we solve our problems with violence. That's who we are. That's who we've always been. Not just in this war, but in all wars. And when we're done. We aske each other for forgiveness, understanding, and peace. Let's hope, let's pray I guess. Let's pray our capacity for forgiveness doesn't run out before our capacity for tearing each other apart.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Amen.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
Should we stop for breakfast Sergeant or did you fill up on croissant?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Shut up, Smoke. Just drive.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I'm not reenlisting, sir

Captain Baron:
This have anything to do with the disaster Lieutenant Hunter provokes?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
No, Sir.

Captain Baron:
Your 13 years in Sergeant. Seven more and you can retire with full benefits.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I'm ready for something new, Sir.

Captain Baron:
You're on of the best staff N.C.O.'s I've got, and I want you to stay. Do you have something waiting on the outside better than this?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Carpets, Sir. A friend of mine from high school opened a chain of carpet stores in Topeka. His business is doing well, he wants me to run it. You know, he's offerin me a, a real opportunity, Sir.

Captain Baron:
You're not from Topeka.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
No, Sir. How did you know that, Sir?

Captain Baron:
I read your file. You're from Bellmore.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Yes, Sir.

Captain Baron:
I'm from Long Island too.

Tariq Nassiri:
Sergeant, this is a 'notice to quit the premises'.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
Somebody gettin' evicted, bro.

Tariq Nassiri:
I know that.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
Homey don't pay, Homey gotta go.

Tariq Nassiri:
Why are we delivering it Sergeant? We working for a landlord now?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
The Iraqi Interim Government.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Why they evicting people?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
They need the building, I guess, for a police station, or something. They have the right to take private property for public projects.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Eminent domain.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Apparently, whoever's in it doesn't want to move though.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Imagine that.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
I've been evicted.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Now you're on the other side.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
I guess I'm moving up in the world.

[Dim and Smoke are playing a game of chess]

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
You guys almost done?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Yes.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
No.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Got a call to pick up Scream. He's at the orphanage.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Why did he go out there so early?

Tariq Nassiri:
Question is, why didn't he come home last night?

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
Ohhhhhh.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Sergeant Scream and the strident frog? Right on!

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Yeah, but we should go.

Maurice "Smoke" Williams:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. [moves chess piece] Now we can go. I beat you America

[the morning after Scream spent the night with the French woman who oversees and Iraqi orphanage]

Sophie:
You will visit?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Well, I think you'd be better off it the army stays away for a while.

Sophie:
But you are not the Army.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I am actually. I am the Army. I gotta go.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
We're not here for you oil. We're here to kick your ass!

Pfc. Bo Rider:
Discharge?

Terry Ryder:
thought we should know the options so we could make the right decision.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
Decision to quit?

Terry Ryder:
Baby, it's not like that.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
What other kind of discharge is there, Terry? I'm working my ass off every day to get back to my unit.

Terry Ryder:
This is your unit.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
I'm a soldier. I took an oath.

Terry Ryder:
You took another oath too

Pfc. Bo Rider:
This has nothing to do with you.

Terry Ryder:
It has everything to do with me.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
I am not a cripple, Terry.

Terry Ryder:
You don't touch me anymore. Baby, there was a time when you'd see me and you'd just light up. Light up. 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.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
What the hell was that all about?

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
The Humvee was right out back.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
You're a goddam mechanic.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
Somebody had to do something.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I'm a goddam staff sergant.

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
I don't see what that has to do with...

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I will tell you when to risk your sorry ass! You will not go off and be a hero on your own goddam schedule! I will pick the time and place! I'm putting you in for a bronze start anyway, you dumb-ass.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
You could've taken the money, you know. Ten grand for your child. Everyone would've understood. It's gotta be hard. If my stepson got sick...

Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell:
went AWOL. That's what happened. I deserted on the army. I deserted on my own son. That's why I'm back late.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
You came back though

Lieutenant Underpants:
What's this?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Cohiba Esplendido, sir. You confiscating my cigar, Lieutenant?

Lieutenant Underpants:
It's not yours, Sergeant. It's the U.S. Army's, isn't it.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
It is now.

[Angel and Cpl Shaver are preparing to go rescue Private Dana who has been taken hostage by a father who wants medical attention for his son]

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
What do we need scalpels for?

Corporal Shaver:
I don't know. I'm just telling you what's called what okay?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
I think we should just get in there and see what's what.

Corporal Shaver:
Sh*t, you've got it worse than me.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
What?

Corporal Shaver:
Death wish.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Brother, you couldn't be more wrong.

Corporal Shaver:
Yeah? You wanna live?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Dang tootin'.

Corporal Shaver:
But you wanna go in there with the crazy father with the M4?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
The sooner we go in, the sooner we come out.

Corporal Shaver:
Okay, screw the scalpels. We're going in.

Corporal Shaver:
Angel, I've been here 18 months. I not only don't believe in God anymore, I don't believe in intelligence.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
They got any mean old ladies who are suicide bombers?

Other soldier:
Nah, man. Just young men. Young men are the only ones dumb enough to buy the bullshit.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Yeah. What bullshit is that?

Other soldier:
The bullshit where some old dude tells you "You should die for Allah, but I shouldn't." Must be one hell of a used car salesman 'round here somewhere, 'cause that's some serious bullshit.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
As opposed to the bullshit we fell for.

Other soldier:
Yeah, well, I told you. Young men are the only ones dumb enough.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Did I hear a rumor about you re-upping Sergeant?

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
I don't recall starting a conversation about my personal life.

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Well, you didn't. I did. Only 'cause it has something to do with us, that's all.

Sgt. "Scream" Silas:
Oh. Yeah?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
wondering did you do it cause you love us so much? Or 'cause we love you?

Pfc. Bo Rider:
Man, being in a firefight, Denny, I'm telling you it's a rush. Sh*t, it's better than playing ball. You remember when a dude's coming at you full speed, right? And, and, and he goes one way looks, looks for the ball and you just lower your head and you just, you just go at him and you whack him? Sh*t, so hard you woozy yourself? You remember that sh*t?

Denny:
Yeah.

Pfc. Bo Rider:
It's better than that

Denny:
Damn. Wow, man.

Basir:
I've been trying to talk to you all day

Tariq Nassiri:
Yeah, well, not in front of the Lieutenant.

Basir:
Why not?

Tariq Nassiri:
'Cause he's dangerous. All right, you have 10 seconds.

Basir:
The famiy of the kid who ran, they were eating nutella, a swiss chocolate spread, for breakfast.

Tariq Nassiri:
So.

Basir:
So, I used to eat it in England.

Tariq Nassiri:
So what, there's plenty of engish soldiers in this country.

Basir:
So I've never seen it in Iraq. It would be so wildly expensive they could either eat it or add another room to their house. I had a feeling someone who's used to better was staying with them.

Tariq Nassiri:
That's not much to go on.

Basir:
I'm telling you I had a strong feeling.

Tariq Nassiri:
Yeah, and I'm telling you that's still not much to go on. What do you think Angel? Do we go to the sergeant with this?

Pvt. Avery "Angel" King:
Yup.

Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy:
Absolutely.