- [Director] And action!
- What are you bringing me, Sergeant?
(gun firing rapidly)
- Contact!
- No, don't shoot!
(helicopter whirring)
- There's a real rivalry between the army and Sec Corp.
- I know you guys hate us, resent that we're here.
But we're just like you.
- I'm not here to get rich.
- What are you here for?
- Actually, I'm not entirely sure.
But I've been told it's essential
to preserving the American way of life.
- It gave me an antagonist that wasn't a paper tiger
authoritative figure saying if you do this,
I'm gonna do that.
I didn't have to demonize the local Afghans.
They gave me, to a certain extent,
for lack of a better word, a villain.
(muffled shouting)
- Someone's been paying a lot of money
to get Sec Corp to clear
and secure this entire area
for whatever it is they're doing down there.
- Well, Buckley, just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- You think they killed him?
- Probably collateral damage.
- Can they do that?
- They an do whatever they want.
Sec Corp is often doing some super confidential missions
in the field.
Whatever it is.
Dude like Sasquatch pulls in probably a quarter mill a year.
- Either of you guys ever thought about working for them?
- What, are you nuts?
The mortality rate is through the roof for those guys.
- They don't know what they're doing there,
but they wanna find out.
Then Boz the goat, (goat bleats)
while they're looking into the situation, takes off.
So they're trying to stop the goat
and it runs up to one of the Sec Corp guys.
- It's a nice goat, come on, come on.
Here we go, here we go.
(crunching) Ow, my fingers!
- When I first read the missing fingers part with the goat,
I was laughing out loud.
The stage direction was talking about how missing fingers
was petting the goat, "Oh, good goat, you're a sweet goat.
"Do you want some food, goat?
"Here you go." (mimics screaming)
- It reminded me of my brother
when we were in a petting zoo
when he was very young got bitten
and it just sent me back, I laughed so much.
It was hilarious.
I love those animals, I think they're beautiful,
and they're sweet and all that.
They can be mean, so there you go.
- You guys in?
- Yeah. - Yep!
- Come on.
- You have any idea where we're going?
- Sure do.
This baby's got GPS.
- Didn't think so.
- Look, heading northwest is all I need to know.
- When I'm breaking out the stunts for "68 Whiskey,"
I look to see is this a funny moment,
does the action transition us into a harder moment?
We turned over a car, but it had to be funny.
- They're all gonna notice their vehicle's missing.
- Screw those bastards, they torched our ambulance.
Hey, this thing's driving really well.
(exploding) (shouting)
(crashing)
- Special effects were very specific
about the cage they made
and hoping to get the car to bounce a certain way,
so we all worked together to make that happen safely
and also to help the storyline.
(exploding)
What are the stunts about?
How do we carry the feeling of the scene
through the action
and not be taken out of it
because you see cars flipping over
or people hanging off of the helicopter?
I want them to see an organic continuation of the episode.
(engine humming)
- Sergeant Alvarez, you're gonna be
on the morning flight to Bagram.
- Yes, sir.
- From there you'll be flown directly to Ramstein
and then on to Fort Hood.
- I'll get deported the minute my feet hit US soil.
- I have no choice in the matter.
- Alvarez suffers the slings and arrows of her situation
and doesn't ask for sympathy.
I think that's something that all my characters
have in common.
They all just wanna get on with their lives.
And in the case of my medics, save lives.
- This is straight up an all the Mexicans
back to Mexico (beep).
- Neither of us is in a position to make that call.
- Afraid I am, sir.
I was granted that status as a medical professional.
Unless you lodged some sort of complaint,
I don't see how anything changed.
- Of course I didn't.
Your duty here for me has been exceptional.
At first, it's typical Austin, all business.
Yes, it's chain of command.
I'm doing what I'm supposed to do,
but I gotta take a minute here
because this is derailing everything
she's ever wanted to do in her life.
- You know, I might as well go back
because I have no (beep) idea
what kind of racist goddamn country
I'm defending by being here.
I worked damn hard so I wouldn't have to scrape
and wipe people's (beep) off of toilet seats like my mom.
It's tough.
He tries to make it better for her.
He understands the discrimination, you know?
- As a black man who's had to deal
with an ungodly amount of (beep) to rise to my rank,
I'm sympathetic to your plight.
But as a colonel in the United States army,
I obey the chain of command.
Chain of command is telling me you're out.
- (beep) the chain of command.
It's a goodbye scene.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for saving so many lives,
but we don't care.
You just go back and not even home
because Mexico is not home for her
because she's been in the States
pretty much her whole life.
- Davis feels pretty helpless
that this is a really good friend.
They've become a family unit
and without her, it's gonna feel like a great loss,
but he can't do anything about it.
- Colonel Austin's got me on the next convoy to Bagram.
From there to Germany.
From there to Texas.
From there I get deported back to Mexico.
- What?
- I'll be sure to send postcards
from all lovely places I visit.
- There's gotta be something you can do.
- White boys, gotta love their optimism.
- Never ceases to amuse.
Let's get this over with.
- Not gonna miss you.
- Not gonna miss you, either.
(upbeat music)
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