0:00:02 > 0:00:15This programme contains some strong language.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam -
0:01:11 > 0:01:14that a woman's voice can drug you...
0:01:15 > 0:01:18..that everything is so intense.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21The colours...
0:01:21 > 0:01:23the taste...
0:01:23 > 0:01:25even the rain.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Nothing like the filthy rain in London.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38DISTANT GUNFIRE
0:01:38 > 0:01:41They say whatever you're looking for,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43you will find here.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45They say you come to Vietnam
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and you understand a lot in a few minutes,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51but the rest has got to be lived.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55The smell, that's the first thing that hits you,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58promising everything in exchange for your soul.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02And the heat.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Your shirt is straightaway a rag.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08You can hardly remember your name
0:02:08 > 0:02:10or what you came to escape from.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14But at night,
0:02:14 > 0:02:15there's a breeze.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18The river is beautiful.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24that the gunshots were fireworks,
0:02:24 > 0:02:26that only pleasure matters.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29A pipe of opium...
0:02:29 > 0:02:31or the touch of a girl
0:02:31 > 0:02:34who might tell you she loves you.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36THUD, SPLASH
0:02:37 > 0:02:40And then something happens...
0:02:40 > 0:02:42as you knew it would.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45And nothing can ever be the same again.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Monsieur Fowler,
0:02:50 > 0:02:52thank you for coming in.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54I'm sorry to ask you at this hour.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Well, I know about as much as you do.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00He's an American. He's about 30.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02He works for the Economic Aid Mission
0:03:02 > 0:03:04and I like him.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07He's a very good chap. Serious.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12Not like those noisy bastards down at the Continental.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14He's a quiet American.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Yes, a VERY quiet American.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21He's dead, isn't he?
0:03:23 > 0:03:28Not guilty. I-I-I just put two and two together.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54He was killed by a knife.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59- <- Can you identify him?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Yes.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05He was...
0:04:05 > 0:04:07a friend.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10To tell you the truth, I'm not completely sorry.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13These Americans are causing a lot of trouble to us.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18But still, a murder is a murder.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Anything to help us?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23No.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Nothing at all.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Please.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38BELL RINGS
0:04:38 > 0:04:40THUNDER CLAPS
0:05:15 > 0:05:17DOOR OPENS
0:05:18 > 0:05:20DOOR CLOSES
0:05:32 > 0:05:33OPENS DOOR
0:05:35 > 0:05:37CLOSES DOOR
0:05:48 > 0:05:49Pyle...
0:05:54 > 0:05:56..est mort.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Assassinated.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10How?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14He was stabbed.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Pyle est mort.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Yes.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32He was in love with me.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Yes, he was.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42I'm so sorry, Phuong.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49I go to my mother's.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55I must think.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09FOWLER: I met Pyle where you meet everybody -
0:07:09 > 0:07:11at the Hotel Continental.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14I'm there every morning at 11.00.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16I'm English. I have habits.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18I drink tea.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21I'm a reporter, so I listen.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22I have a lover.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26I like to watch her arrive with her friends at the milk bar.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30And there was Alden Pyle -
0:07:30 > 0:07:32a face with no history and no problems.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34The face we all had once.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35I'm Alden Pyle.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37I'm Thomas Fowler.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38The London Times.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40You've done your homework.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Well, I've read your articles.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43May I join you?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Please.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And what brings you to Saigon, Mr Pyle?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Well, I'm with the Economic Aid Mission.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50I'm on the medical side.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51My speciality is eye disease.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Do you know trachoma? It's very common here.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55It's actually very easy to treat and prevent.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56You staying at the hotel?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58No, I just dropped by
0:07:58 > 0:08:00for a cup of tea on the way to the office.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02This is really a stroke of luck for me.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04You know, you're one of the few correspondents
0:08:04 > 0:08:05who has a reputation
0:08:05 > 0:08:07of actually going out into the field
0:08:07 > 0:08:08to see what's happening.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Not any more. And besides...
0:08:10 > 0:08:11I have never thought of myself
0:08:11 > 0:08:13as a correspondent.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14I am just a reporter.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I offer no point of view,
0:08:16 > 0:08:17I take no action,
0:08:17 > 0:08:18I don't get involved.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20I just report what I see.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22But you must have an opinion.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Even an opinion is a form of action.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Still, I'd really appreciate it if you could...
0:08:25 > 0:08:26'Pyle was hungry
0:08:26 > 0:08:28'for everything I could tell him about Vietnam
0:08:28 > 0:08:31'and her fight for independence.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33'Why were the French losing the war?
0:08:33 > 0:08:34'And why were the communists winning?
0:08:37 > 0:08:39'Then he saw Phuong.'
0:08:39 > 0:08:41HE MOUTHS
0:08:41 > 0:08:43'I should've realised how saving a country
0:08:43 > 0:08:46'and saving a woman would be the same thing
0:08:46 > 0:08:47'to someone like Pyle.'
0:08:47 > 0:08:49PYLE: We've got to contain communism,
0:08:49 > 0:08:50or what they call communism...
0:08:50 > 0:08:52FOWLER: 'What could be done, what should be done,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55'what he thought, what he dread.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57'He made me remember there was a time
0:08:57 > 0:08:59'when I had wanted to make a difference.'
0:08:59 > 0:09:00..To watch liberty snuffed out?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02"Liberty" is a very Western word.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05How do you define it for the Vietnamese?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07By giving people the freedom to choose.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09OK, you give them the freedom to choose,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11they vote, and they elect Ho Chi Minh.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Things are more complicated than they seem.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14EXPLOSION
0:09:14 > 0:09:16What was that?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17A grenade.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18WHISTLE BLOWS
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Sounded like a car backfiring.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22A week here, and you'll know the difference.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24It's been a genuine pleasure meeting you.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Maybe we could eat dinner sometime.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Yes, I look forward to it.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Great.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Good morning.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32MAN TALKS INDISTINCTLY
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Morning, Hinh.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Anything new?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Oh, corruption, mendacity.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41I said "new".
0:09:41 > 0:09:43There is a rumour that the communists
0:09:43 > 0:09:46are planning an attack in the north, at Phat Diem.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48One of your contacts?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Yes, sir.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Oh...
0:09:53 > 0:09:54and a telegram.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Oh.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56From the London office.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Mr Stemins.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00He says the paper has conducted a review
0:10:00 > 0:10:01of the foreign desk.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04He wants you based in London.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Christ.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08I thought you liked London, sir.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11I do, but I like it just where it is.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13I don't want to bloody go there.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15For what, a desk job?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17They probably think it's cheaper
0:10:17 > 0:10:19to let the wire services cover Vietnam.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21How many stories have we given them?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23This year?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Yes.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- <- Three.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28No shit.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Maybe...
0:10:42 > 0:10:45I should go up there.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46- <- Where, sir?
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Phat Diem.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It's not an easy place to get into
0:10:51 > 0:10:53with the communist attack.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Send a cable to Stemins.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00"Understand your current concern. Stop.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03"Am working on a story of major proportions.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06"Stop. Suggest I remain in Saigon
0:11:06 > 0:11:09"until completed. Stop.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11"Fowler."
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Which story is that, sir?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17I don't know.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21But I'm sure that you know someone
0:11:21 > 0:11:23who can get me in there.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH ON RADIO
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Ah!
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Today our anniversary. Did you forget?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Can it be? Two years already?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Yes. - Heh, heh. Yes.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Ah. Be careful with me.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I'm old and fragile.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Not so old.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Not so fragile.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Tom!
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Thomas.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Thomas.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26- <- Hello.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Hello again.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Say, I'm here with some friends.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29I was wondering if you'd care to join us.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Phuong, this is Mr Pyle.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32- <- Alden, please.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Enchantee.
0:12:34 > 0:12:40SPEAKS FRENCH
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Thomas, you know Joe, Joe Tunney,
0:12:41 > 0:12:42from the American legation.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Yes, I know Joe.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Overthrown any small countries recently?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Fowler sees conspiracies everywhere. That's for sure.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Bill, say, is it true that the communists
0:12:51 > 0:12:52are attacking Phat Diem?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Well, how the fuck should I know?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56We only report victories.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57The reason that I ask is because
0:12:57 > 0:12:59one of our medical teams wasn't allowed past Nam Dinh.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01I was thinking of going up there.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02- PYLE:- It's a Catholic town, isn't it?
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Yeah.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04- BILL:- You got a date tonight?
0:13:04 > 0:13:05- PYLE:- They're pretty strong against the communists.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Bill.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08She's got a date every night.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12Well, you got your piece of ass, I want mine.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Pyle, fellas,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17let's go to the House of 500 Girls.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Oh, no. No, no, no. Thanks.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21I was planning on taking Mr Fowler...
0:13:21 > 0:13:23We've already got a table at the Arc en Ciel.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Oh, well, that's great.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26You go eat at the Arc en Ciel,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29and I'll get eaten next door.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Sounds like a plan.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Yeah.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Come on, Bill. Walk with me.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Thomas.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37PEOPLE CHATTERING
0:13:48 > 0:13:50FOWLER: Seems like a nice young man.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52What does he do?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Something with medical aid.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57- PYLE:- Where are we going?
0:13:58 > 0:14:00You go and get us a table,
0:14:00 > 0:14:02and I'll go and rescue our Mr Pyle.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Merci, monsieur.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Thank you.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27WOMAN SINGING IN VIETNAMESE
0:14:33 > 0:14:35WOMEN SHOUTING
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- PYLE: - I'm just dropping him off.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I'm not staying.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55No, no, no.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Please, please, please. No, come on.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Pyle, let's get out of here.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02No, no, no. C'est fini.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Let me go.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Put your arm around this one.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08If they think you've chosen one,
0:15:08 > 0:15:09they'll let you go.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10Put your arm around her.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Excusez-moi! Excusez-moi!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- GRANGER:- Who wants to be with me?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Good night, Granger!
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Who wants to be with me?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Miss Phuong, I'm so sorry.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Please forgive us for keeping you waiting.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36I forgive you.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38We had to make sure that Bill Granger got home.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Home. Ha ha ha!
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Monsieur, a ticket?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Sorry?
0:15:42 > 0:15:43Tickets for the taxi dancers.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46With the girls here, you buy a ticket for a dance.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47- PHUONG: - Buy a ticket,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50maybe I dance with you.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53- PYLE: - There you are.
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Shall we?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31SONG ENDS
0:16:38 > 0:16:40NEW SONG BEGINS
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Phong is a very beautiful name.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Phuong.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Phuong.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56It means "phoenix".
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Oh.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I thought it meant "flower,"
0:17:01 > 0:17:03like the ones in your hair.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Do you like my hair?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07This is traditional style.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09It's very nice.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Do you know Vietnamese?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Yeah, sure. Try me.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22No, I don't.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24I only know two words. I know, er...
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- Mr Fowler? - Hello.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33May I?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Of course.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Thanks.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Haven't seen you for a long time.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40I'm away a lot.
0:17:40 > 0:17:41Yes.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Who's he?
0:17:47 > 0:17:48Your friend?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50His name is Pyle.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52He's with the American Economic Mission.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54He's from Boston, in America.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56He's a very bad dancer.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Yes.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03SONG ENDS
0:18:03 > 0:18:05He is married?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Not that I know of, no.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12This is Miss Hei, Phuong's sister.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Alden Pyle.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Very happy to meet you.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Your father is a businessman?
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Uh, no.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23He's a professor.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26My sister is very good dancer, yes?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Well, she's too good for me.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30She's my only sister.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Your sister's a very pretty girl.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43My sister is the most beautiful girl
0:18:43 > 0:18:45in Saigon.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47I don't doubt that at all.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Mr Fowler's a very lucky man.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- MISS HEI:- My father was very sad.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55He had no grandchildren.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Would you like a drink?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59No, thank you.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01My friends.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04So pleased to have met you.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06I hope we meet again soon.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Perhaps you could arrange.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09When I get back from the north.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11You are going north?
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Yes.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Then you must come and have dinner
0:19:16 > 0:19:18with me and my sister
0:19:18 > 0:19:19while Mr Fowler is gone
0:19:19 > 0:19:21to cheer her up.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Well, thank you. I'd like that very much.
0:19:30 > 0:19:31What a nice woman.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32An absolute saint.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34She used to work in office,
0:19:34 > 0:19:35import-export.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Really?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38She knows shorthand.
0:19:38 > 0:19:39Does she?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Maybe you need someone.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Maybe, er, we could work something out.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Please forgive me for dancing with Miss Phuong
0:19:52 > 0:19:53so many times.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55That's all right. I like watching her dance.
0:19:55 > 0:19:56She's a very good dancer.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59She should be. She used to do it for a living.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02What do you mean?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04She was a taxi dancer, a hostess,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06here at the Arc en Ciel.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Oh.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09I thought you said she came from a good family.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11She did, but the father died,
0:20:11 > 0:20:12so the sisters had to go out
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- and earn a living. - Oh.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Well, that's too bad.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17What?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Well, isn't that just a step up
0:20:18 > 0:20:20from the girls across the street?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Oh, good God, no. Took me six months
0:20:22 > 0:20:24to get her to go out on a date.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Oh.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26EXPLOSION
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Grenade.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31A grenade.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34WHISTLE BLOWS
0:20:34 > 0:20:36So, are you married?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Yes, I am.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38Hmm.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Bonsoir, mademoiselle.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45But not to her.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25There's something I haven't told you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I got a telegram from the paper
0:21:29 > 0:21:32asking me to go back to London.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36So, when you go?
0:21:36 > 0:21:39I've cabled them,
0:21:39 > 0:21:42asking them to let me stay, but...
0:21:44 > 0:21:47..if they stop paying me,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49I'm not sure how we'll live.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I come with you to London.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57I'd marry you if I could.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00You know that?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Yes.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06That's what I always tell my sister.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Do you think your wife will give divorce?
0:22:25 > 0:22:26I doubt it.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39FOWLER: 'When did everything change?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43'Maybe there isn't one moment.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49'A cable from London calling me home, or...
0:22:49 > 0:22:51'or watching them dancing together,
0:22:51 > 0:22:55'or what followed between us - she and I -
0:22:55 > 0:22:57'through the long night.'
0:22:57 > 0:22:59PEOPLE SHOUTING
0:23:04 > 0:23:07'I was never brave,
0:23:07 > 0:23:11'but there I was, heading north,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14'the fear of losing Phuong more terrifying
0:23:14 > 0:23:16'than the fear of any bullet.'
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- FRENCH OFFICER: - The communists attacked four days ago.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29We pushed them back only yesterday.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32We think there is 300 in this village.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35But you will not see them.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37FOWLER: It's getting worse, isn't it?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40How long can you keep going?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42A few months maybe.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44My men are counting bullets.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Silence.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02DISTANT RUMBLE
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Vite! Cachez-vous.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11ENGINE RUMBLES
0:24:18 > 0:24:19GUNSHOT
0:24:22 > 0:24:25No, no, no, no! Don't shoot. Don't shoot!
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Ho!
0:24:26 > 0:24:27Pyle?
0:24:30 > 0:24:31What the hell are you doing here?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- PYLE:- They wouldn't let my trachoma team
0:24:33 > 0:24:34out of Nam Dinh, so I figured I might as well
0:24:34 > 0:24:37see what was going on for myself.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40You know, you're lucky to get here alive!
0:24:41 > 0:24:42RADIO CHATTERING
0:24:42 > 0:24:44It wasn't that hard after I hired a boat.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46It wasn't that expensive, actually.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47In the end, I just bought it.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48You are mad.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- I'm mad? - Yes.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Have you ever seen anyone with trachoma, Thomas?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Yes, I suppose I have.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57You know, it's not that easy to remain uninvolved.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58Here.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01FOWLER: "Not that easy to remain uninvolved."
0:25:04 > 0:25:07'I had hidden for so long behind a typewriter.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11'What we found there,
0:25:11 > 0:25:13'what we saw
0:25:13 > 0:25:16'in Phat Diem,
0:25:16 > 0:25:18'what did that do...
0:25:19 > 0:25:20'..to his zeal,
0:25:20 > 0:25:22'to my detachment?
0:25:24 > 0:25:25'The dead are not involved.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28'The dead have no zeal.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32'They are lying in wait.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34'You see them,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37'all their tenderness,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39'and then they haunt you.'
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Communists?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Clearly. This is not the work
0:25:43 > 0:25:44of French soldiers.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47FOWLER: It doesn't make sense.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51The communists don't kill townspeople.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53It is not in their interest.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- SOLDIER:- Maybe another faction.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57There are so many of them.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Each with their own army.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15What's that book you're always reading?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18York Harding, "Dangers to Democracy".
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- An American? - Yeah.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22He was out here a couple of years back.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Was he here long?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26I don't know. I heard him lecture once.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Joe actually met him.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29He's the one that put forward the idea
0:26:29 > 0:26:31of a third force to run Vietnam,
0:26:31 > 0:26:33not the communists and not the French.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Not the Americans?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36No, we're not colonialists.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Something that could really help these people.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41You have a gun, either of you?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42No.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44They shall attack again tonight.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47You don't want to be taken alive.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Believe me.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Shoot yourselves.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54- Thank you. - Thanks.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Stay inside that bunker!
0:27:02 > 0:27:04MAN SHOUTS IN FRENCH
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Do you want something to eat?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15No, thank you.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Come on.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22You didn't come up to check your medical team.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Joe Tunney sent you, right?
0:27:24 > 0:27:27A little intelligence work.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33I've never been very good
0:27:33 > 0:27:35at keeping secrets.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37There is another reason why I came up here.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43It's you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Me?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Yep.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Um, you said that you might be coming up here.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Yeah.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53COW MOOS
0:27:53 > 0:27:56EXPLOSIONS
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Um...
0:28:01 > 0:28:03The thing is, it's about Phuong.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Um, well, I guess it started
0:28:06 > 0:28:08that night when we were at the Arc en Ciel,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10and I was dancing with her.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Ha ha. I didn't think you ever got close enough.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And then I had dinner with her
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and her sister...
0:28:17 > 0:28:18BOMB WHISTLES
0:28:18 > 0:28:20..last Saturday and...
0:28:22 > 0:28:24..just when I was
0:28:24 > 0:28:26sitting there looking at her,
0:28:26 > 0:28:30it all just became so clear to me.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32I see.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Look, Tom, none of this was planned.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35There's no way...
0:28:35 > 0:28:38I never ever used to believe
0:28:38 > 0:28:40in love at first sight.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42But after seeing all those other girls
0:28:42 > 0:28:45in that awful place and thinking that Phuong
0:28:45 > 0:28:47could very easily become one of them,
0:28:47 > 0:28:49I don't know, I want to protect her.
0:28:49 > 0:28:50And what did she say
0:28:50 > 0:28:52when you offered her your protection?
0:28:52 > 0:28:54I haven't told her yet.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55You haven't told her?
0:28:55 > 0:28:56No. I didn't think it would be right.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58I wanted to speak with you first.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00MEN SHOUTING
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Look, if you two had been married,
0:29:02 > 0:29:04that'd be a completely different situation.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06I could never marry her. Oh, shit.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08My wife would never give me a divorce.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09She's a Catholic.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12BOMBS WHISTLE
0:29:12 > 0:29:15It's getting closer.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16They're walking it in.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21BOMBS EXPLODING
0:29:30 > 0:29:32MEN TALKING
0:29:38 > 0:29:39- PYLE:- "Dear Thomas,
0:29:39 > 0:29:42"I guess I'll be back in Saigon ahead of you,
0:29:42 > 0:29:45"and I wanted to reassure you
0:29:45 > 0:29:47"that I won't go to see Phuong
0:29:47 > 0:29:49"until after you return.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51"If you can make the next transport out,
0:29:51 > 0:29:54"you should be back by the end of the week.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56"I can check in with your assistant
0:29:56 > 0:29:58"to see if you made it.
0:29:58 > 0:29:59"If so...
0:29:59 > 0:30:02"I'll come around to see you both together on Friday,
0:30:02 > 0:30:03"say, 5.00?"
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Anyone due to go out to Hong Kong?
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Someone from Reuters, I believe.
0:30:09 > 0:30:10Type this up, will you,
0:30:10 > 0:30:12and ask him to cable it to London for me?
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Your big story?
0:30:14 > 0:30:16Yes. Massacre at Phat Diem.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Nobody did it, of course.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Not the French, not the communists,
0:30:20 > 0:30:23but there are rumours.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26What's going on?
0:30:26 > 0:30:27I forgot.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30- What? - It's a rally.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32A new political party.
0:30:32 > 0:30:33Bloody hell.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35I think I better leave your car here, sir.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37We can walk.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11Isn't that Colonel The?
0:31:11 > 0:31:13General The.
0:31:13 > 0:31:14Who made him a general?
0:31:14 > 0:31:15He did.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17He broke away from the French
0:31:17 > 0:31:19and formed his own army.
0:31:52 > 0:31:53FOWLER: Hello.
0:31:53 > 0:31:54Hi.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58You have a dog.
0:32:00 > 0:32:01Come in.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Thanks.
0:32:03 > 0:32:04- WHISTLES TO DOG: - Come on.
0:32:09 > 0:32:10Is Phuong...?
0:32:10 > 0:32:12She's gone to see her sister.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14Oh.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17Would you like a whisky?
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Oh, just a soda, thanks.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Does he have to do that?
0:32:24 > 0:32:25Huh?
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Duke, come here. Come here.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29You called him Duke?
0:32:29 > 0:32:32Yeah. Found this guy on the street.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Didn't I? Who could turn their back
0:32:34 > 0:32:36on a mug like that, huh?
0:32:36 > 0:32:39I saw you and Joe Tunney at the parade.
0:32:39 > 0:32:40Go sit.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Did you go on to the rally?
0:32:42 > 0:32:44Thanks. Uh, yeah, I did.
0:32:44 > 0:32:45It was really something else.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47I thought only American politicians
0:32:47 > 0:32:48went in for that nonsense.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51All that was missing was the ticker tape.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Well, they sure didn't forget the brass band.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56He's a pretty impressive guy, that General The.
0:32:56 > 0:32:57It doesn't trouble you
0:32:57 > 0:32:59that he's a complete egomaniac?
0:32:59 > 0:33:01Look, um, I don't want to talk
0:33:01 > 0:33:02about Phuong behind her back.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05I thought she was going to be here.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Her sister told me about her predicament.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10And what predicament is that?
0:33:10 > 0:33:11I think you know.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12No.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Well, you can't marry her,
0:33:14 > 0:33:16and by living with you, she can never have
0:33:16 > 0:33:18a proper marriage to a Vietnamese man.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20She doesn't need a proper marriage
0:33:20 > 0:33:21with a Vietnamese man.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23She's with me.
0:33:23 > 0:33:24DOOR OPENS
0:33:24 > 0:33:26There she is.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Hello, Phuong.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31- PHUONG: - My sister is out.
0:33:31 > 0:33:32Oh.
0:33:32 > 0:33:33Hello.
0:33:33 > 0:33:34Hello. It's very nice to see you.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Actually, it's you that Mr Pyle
0:33:36 > 0:33:38has come to visit, Phuong.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41So, why don't we all sit down?
0:33:41 > 0:33:43Unless of course you want me to leave.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45No. No, no, no, that wouldn't be right.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48We shall sit down then.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Fire away.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Phuong...
0:34:07 > 0:34:09..ever since I met you
0:34:09 > 0:34:11and danced with you
0:34:11 > 0:34:13and talked with you...
0:34:14 > 0:34:16I haven't been able to get you
0:34:16 > 0:34:17out of my thoughts
0:34:17 > 0:34:19for more than a moment.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24And...
0:34:24 > 0:34:27I've fallen in love with you.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35You fall in love with me?
0:34:35 > 0:34:36Please, believe me when I say
0:34:36 > 0:34:38I've never behaved like this before.
0:34:38 > 0:34:39I apologise.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41It is abrupt,
0:34:41 > 0:34:42and it is ill-mannered,
0:34:42 > 0:34:44but...
0:34:44 > 0:34:47I'm in love with you.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Well, shouldn't you be on one knee?
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Look, Phuong, I'm not a rich man,
0:34:59 > 0:35:01but I do have assets...
0:35:01 > 0:35:01Let's toss for her.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03What can you offer her?
0:35:03 > 0:35:04Oh, Christ.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Listen, I don't expect you to love me right away.
0:35:06 > 0:35:07That'll come with time.
0:35:07 > 0:35:08You can always make love to the chauffeur
0:35:08 > 0:35:09while he's at the office.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11You have no right to insult her!
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Will you shut your bloody dog up?
0:35:13 > 0:35:14You can come away with me right now.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Tell him to bugger off and take his dog with him.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18DOG GROWLS
0:35:20 > 0:35:21No.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27She said no.
0:35:28 > 0:35:29Yes.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Sit down, have a scotch.
0:35:31 > 0:35:32No. I should go.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34I'm so sorry. I-I apologise.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35Do you want to smoke a pipe?
0:35:35 > 0:35:37A pipe?
0:35:37 > 0:35:38Opium.
0:35:38 > 0:35:39No.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Why would I do that?
0:35:41 > 0:35:42WHISTLES
0:35:59 > 0:36:01THOMAS: "I know before we married
0:36:01 > 0:36:02"you warned me your beliefs meant
0:36:02 > 0:36:05"that there could never be a divorce.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09"All the same, that's what I'm asking for now.
0:36:09 > 0:36:13"The fact is, I love someone very much.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15"I want you to feel affection,
0:36:15 > 0:36:17"act before you have time to think
0:36:17 > 0:36:20"and just cable me and tell me you agree."
0:36:27 > 0:36:31I've just asked my wife for a divorce.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Your sister...
0:36:41 > 0:36:43..was she really out?
0:36:43 > 0:36:45I told you.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52I thought perhaps she sent you back
0:36:52 > 0:36:55so that you could meet Pyle.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57He's very young.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03That's not so important.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13- HINH:- Good news.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16They printed your story.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Got a cable from Stemins.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22This got me a month's reprieve.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24Page 10...
0:37:24 > 0:37:26"French break communist siege."
0:37:27 > 0:37:29They didn't use much, did they?
0:37:31 > 0:37:32Nothing here about
0:37:32 > 0:37:34the villagers that were killed.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35What did the French paper say?
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Headlines blaming it
0:37:37 > 0:37:39on the communists, of course.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42Well, a month is a month.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46What else can you tell me about this General The?
0:37:48 > 0:37:49He set himself up against
0:37:49 > 0:37:51both the French and the communists.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Do you think he'd give me an interview
0:37:55 > 0:37:57if I went up the holy mountain?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Difficult to say.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Perhaps if he thought
0:38:01 > 0:38:02he could get his message across.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Well, the problem with that would be
0:38:04 > 0:38:06getting it past the censor.
0:38:06 > 0:38:07No, the real problem would be
0:38:07 > 0:38:09to get close to the Cambodian border
0:38:09 > 0:38:10and back before dark.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13The communists control that road at night.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15So many Europeans have been killed out there.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:38:27 > 0:38:29I am Thomas Fowler of the London Times.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34I'm here to interview General...General The.
0:38:34 > 0:38:35SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:38:35 > 0:38:39Thomas Fowler of the London Times.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42I'm here to see General The.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46SHOUTS IN VIETNAMESE
0:38:49 > 0:38:51SHOUTS IN VIETNAMESE
0:38:51 > 0:38:55'September, October, November.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57'I'd seen Pyle only once
0:38:57 > 0:38:59'since he'd asked Phuong to marry him,
0:38:59 > 0:39:01'at the Continental.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03'He'd been polite, of course.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06'How was I? How was Phuong?
0:39:06 > 0:39:09'He'd been busy, he said, out of the city,
0:39:09 > 0:39:10'working on his medical programme.'
0:39:10 > 0:39:11- PYLE:- Thomas!
0:39:11 > 0:39:13'So somehow I wasn't surprised to see him.'
0:39:13 > 0:39:14Thomas!
0:39:14 > 0:39:18'I was surprised to be pleased to see him.'
0:39:18 > 0:39:20What brings you out to these parts?
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Well, I was hoping to interview the general,
0:39:22 > 0:39:24but they've thrown me out of the place.
0:39:24 > 0:39:25Oh.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27What's your excuse this time?
0:39:27 > 0:39:29Well, this is like a test run for us.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31The French, in a typically French way,
0:39:31 > 0:39:33have been very uncooperative,
0:39:33 > 0:39:34but General The has been good enough
0:39:34 > 0:39:35to let us set up camp here.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39I'll get him to let you in.
0:39:39 > 0:39:40SPEAKING VIETNAMESE
0:39:40 > 0:39:42- PYLE:- Joe Tunney's running aid programmes
0:39:42 > 0:39:44with some of the businesspeople close to The.
0:39:44 > 0:39:45Mr Muoi?
0:39:45 > 0:39:46Mr Pyle.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48Hello, how are you?
0:39:48 > 0:39:49Good.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52His name is Thomas Fowler.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54He's looking for an interview with the general.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58GUNFIRE
0:40:08 > 0:40:10My name is Mr Muoi.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12The general only has a few moments.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15FOWLER: May I first ask you a question?
0:40:15 > 0:40:16Please.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18What is your relationship to the general?
0:40:18 > 0:40:21- MUOI:- I'm a businessman and a patriot.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Many of the supplies and aid you see here
0:40:25 > 0:40:27are the result of my efforts.
0:40:27 > 0:40:29Shall we begin with the first question?
0:40:29 > 0:40:31FOWLER: You say you've broken away
0:40:31 > 0:40:33from the French and Vietnamese forces
0:40:33 > 0:40:35with which you served.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37Do any ties remain?
0:40:37 > 0:40:38MUOI TRANSLATES
0:40:38 > 0:40:41SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:40:41 > 0:40:43- MUOI:- The French are colonialists.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47Not to be trusted.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53It will take
0:40:53 > 0:40:54an independent Vietnamese leader
0:40:54 > 0:40:56to rule our country.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58How does the general expect to launch
0:40:58 > 0:41:01a successful campaign against the larger forces
0:41:01 > 0:41:02of the communists and the French
0:41:02 > 0:41:04with so few men and supplies?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07And who is providing the means
0:41:07 > 0:41:09for the general to achieve this victory?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11MUOI TRANSLATES
0:41:14 > 0:41:16SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Has he been fighting his war in the north?
0:41:38 > 0:41:40There was a massacre at Phat Diem.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Were your forces present?
0:41:43 > 0:41:45SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:41:53 > 0:41:54SHOUTS
0:41:56 > 0:41:58Regrettably, the general has just recalled
0:41:58 > 0:42:00that, er, he has another urgent appointment,
0:42:00 > 0:42:01so, please...
0:42:01 > 0:42:03Thank you.
0:42:15 > 0:42:16That was quick.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Things didn't go entirely according to plan.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Watch yourself with Joe.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26I think he's up to something with General The.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30Say, can I get a ride back to Saigon with you?
0:42:30 > 0:42:31There's something wrong with my car.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Yes, of course you can.
0:42:33 > 0:42:34Hello.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37Some kind soul has had mine cleaned.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48I heard a rumour that you've been recalled to London.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51Really?
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Who told you that?
0:42:54 > 0:42:55Phuong's sister.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59ENGINE RATTLES
0:43:01 > 0:43:02Shit.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04What is it?
0:43:04 > 0:43:06We're out of petrol.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Some bugger up in the mountains
0:43:08 > 0:43:10must have siphoned it off.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23FOWLER: They might have some spare petrol
0:43:23 > 0:43:25in that watch tower.
0:43:25 > 0:43:26CAR DOOR OPENS
0:43:32 > 0:43:34Hello!
0:43:42 > 0:43:45FOWLER: It looks like it's deserted.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47I'll go in and have a look.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53OPENS DOOR
0:43:56 > 0:43:57Hello?
0:44:13 > 0:44:14Excusez-moi.
0:44:22 > 0:44:23No.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25Is everything OK?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27FOWLER: Yes. Come up.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Hey...
0:44:48 > 0:44:50Je vais fermer la porte.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52OK?
0:44:52 > 0:44:53Go easy.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Whoa-whoa.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02- PYLE:- C'est bon. C'est pas necessaire.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35What are you thinking?
0:45:38 > 0:45:41I was wondering what she was doing right now.
0:45:50 > 0:45:51WHISPERS: This morning
0:45:51 > 0:45:53she met her friends for elevenses
0:45:53 > 0:45:56at La Fontaine.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59Ice cream and the latest gossip.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02On her way home,
0:46:02 > 0:46:04she stopped at the market
0:46:04 > 0:46:06for fresh fish for dinner.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11And now she's flipping through
0:46:11 > 0:46:14the pages of magazines,
0:46:14 > 0:46:16looking at photographs
0:46:16 > 0:46:18of the royal family and film stars...
0:46:20 > 0:46:23And listening to Bach's well tempered clavier.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28I just got her started on Bach.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37Have you had a lot of women, Thomas?
0:46:39 > 0:46:43You start out by being promiscuous...
0:46:43 > 0:46:46and end up like your grandfather,
0:46:46 > 0:46:48faithful to one woman.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53I know I'm not essential to Phuong...
0:46:55 > 0:46:58But believe me when I tell you
0:46:58 > 0:47:01that if I were to lose her...
0:47:02 > 0:47:04..for me...
0:47:06 > 0:47:09it would be the beginning of death.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14DISTANT GUNFIRE
0:47:18 > 0:47:19Somebody's had it.
0:47:21 > 0:47:22There's 30 or 40 of these towers
0:47:22 > 0:47:25between here and Saigon.
0:47:25 > 0:47:26They only hit one or two a night,
0:47:26 > 0:47:28so our odds aren't too bad.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31SPEAKING VIETNAMESE
0:47:31 > 0:47:33So, what do you think
0:47:33 > 0:47:35they'd do if the communists attacked?
0:47:35 > 0:47:36These two?
0:47:36 > 0:47:38They'd fire a shot and run.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40Why should they die for us?
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Or the French?
0:47:42 > 0:47:44What's that?
0:47:44 > 0:47:45What?
0:47:45 > 0:47:46I thought I saw something move.
0:47:51 > 0:47:53FEMALE SHOUTS IN VIETNAMESE
0:47:53 > 0:47:55Christ, they're here!
0:47:55 > 0:47:57SHOUTS CONTINUE
0:47:59 > 0:48:01FOWLER: As far as I can make out,
0:48:01 > 0:48:03she's told them to give us up or else.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07MAN SPEAKS IN VIETNAMESE
0:48:09 > 0:48:11Stop. Give me that!
0:48:11 > 0:48:12Shh.
0:48:12 > 0:48:13Come on, Thomas.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23What is it?
0:48:23 > 0:48:24I think I twisted my ankle.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29MEN SCREAM
0:48:39 > 0:48:41PANTING AND GRUNTING
0:49:06 > 0:49:08I'm gonna head up the road
0:49:08 > 0:49:10to the next watch tower,
0:49:10 > 0:49:13See if I can't find a French patrol.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15Sit tight, OK?
0:49:15 > 0:49:16I'll be right back.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:49:53 > 0:49:54Hey!
0:49:54 > 0:49:55Hey!
0:49:55 > 0:49:57May I introduce myself?
0:49:57 > 0:49:59Thomas Fowler.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06PHUONG LAUGHS
0:50:15 > 0:50:16Thomas.
0:50:16 > 0:50:17Thomas.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19I found a patrol.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21If I had died...
0:50:22 > 0:50:24..you could've had her.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32CHATTERING
0:50:35 > 0:50:37FOWLER: And I think you should inform your sources
0:50:37 > 0:50:40that General The has a lot more men
0:50:40 > 0:50:41than the hundred of their last count.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44He's a story we should take seriously.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47Never underestimate a patriot, sir.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49What do you know about this Muoi chap?
0:50:49 > 0:50:51Would he have the means to finance The's army?
0:50:51 > 0:50:53Muoi. He owns a bicycle factory.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56Well, I think Joe Tunney's plotting
0:50:56 > 0:50:58with both he and The,
0:50:58 > 0:51:01and it's more than just foreign aid programmes.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03I'll see what I can find out, sir.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING
0:51:08 > 0:51:11Things are under control at the office.
0:51:11 > 0:51:12Try to get some rest.
0:51:12 > 0:51:13Thank you, Hinh.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46Mmm. Ahh!
0:51:46 > 0:51:47I miss you!
0:51:47 > 0:51:48Ow. Ow.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50Are you all right?
0:51:50 > 0:51:51I'm all in one piece.
0:51:51 > 0:51:52You got a letter.
0:51:52 > 0:51:53A letter?
0:51:53 > 0:51:54- From London. - Yes?
0:51:54 > 0:51:56I fetch it for you?
0:51:56 > 0:51:57No.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Give me a kiss.
0:51:59 > 0:52:00Give me one.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02Mmm.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04Mmm.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06I will get it.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17- PHUONG:- You look afraid.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21I think I'd better have a brandy and soda.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35KNOCK ON DOOR
0:52:37 > 0:52:39Hello.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43JAZZ MUSIC ENDS
0:52:43 > 0:52:45Pyle. Come in, come in.
0:52:48 > 0:52:50Thought I'd drop by and see how you're doing.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Very well, thanks.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Good. How's that leg?
0:52:54 > 0:52:56I expect my tennis game will suffer,
0:52:56 > 0:52:58but it wasn't much to begin with.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03Ah, thank you.
0:53:03 > 0:53:04I'm glad you dropped by.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07We have to thank Mr Pyle, Phuong,
0:53:07 > 0:53:09for saving my life.
0:53:12 > 0:53:14Thank you.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16How's your sister doing?
0:53:16 > 0:53:17Sister?
0:53:17 > 0:53:21Yes. Alden got her a job with Americans.
0:53:21 > 0:53:22Oh, yes?
0:53:22 > 0:53:25She likes it very much. Thank you.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27- PYLE:- Good. I'm very glad to hear that.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Since you're both here,
0:53:29 > 0:53:31now is as good a time as any to tell you
0:53:31 > 0:53:35that I have received a letter from my wife
0:53:35 > 0:53:37and she has more or less agreed
0:53:37 > 0:53:39to give me a divorce.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41LAUGHS
0:53:42 > 0:53:43Ow!
0:53:45 > 0:53:46Well, that's wonderful.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53Come sit.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Oh, no, thank you. Um, I've got plans.
0:53:56 > 0:53:57Thank you for dropping by.
0:53:59 > 0:54:01All right, bye.
0:54:06 > 0:54:07- PYLE:- Bye, Phuong.
0:54:07 > 0:54:08- PHUONG:- Goodbye.
0:54:08 > 0:54:09DOOR CLOSES
0:54:12 > 0:54:15HINH SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:54:19 > 0:54:21Sir, I...
0:54:24 > 0:54:26I trusted you, Thomas.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Always a mistake when there's a woman involved.
0:54:30 > 0:54:33Couldn't you have won without lying?
0:54:33 > 0:54:35What is it, anyway?
0:54:35 > 0:54:39My sister read the letter from your wife.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41I show it to her
0:54:41 > 0:54:45because I was so proud,
0:54:45 > 0:54:47so happy.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49How could you treat her like this?
0:54:52 > 0:54:53"Dear Thomas,
0:54:53 > 0:54:55"you always picked up women
0:54:55 > 0:54:57like you picked up mud on your shoes."
0:54:57 > 0:54:59I'm sorry, Phuong.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02So then why did you lie to her?
0:55:02 > 0:55:04Obviously because I wanted to keep her.
0:55:04 > 0:55:05That's not love.
0:55:10 > 0:55:11"Have you ever stopped to think
0:55:11 > 0:55:13"how sad and lonely this girl will be in England,
0:55:13 > 0:55:15especially when you decide to leave her?"
0:55:15 > 0:55:16Shut up, for Christ's sake.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21"I don't believe in divorce.
0:55:21 > 0:55:23"My religion forbids it,
0:55:23 > 0:55:28"and so the answer is no...no."
0:55:28 > 0:55:32I was taught never to read other people's letters.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34I was taught not to tell lies.
0:55:34 > 0:55:35- PYLE: - Come on, Phuong.
0:55:35 > 0:55:39SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:55:39 > 0:55:41I don't speak Vietnamese.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Get lost.
0:55:51 > 0:55:52You were right about Muoi.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54He does have connections.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57- Can we discuss this some other time, Hinh?- I am...
0:55:57 > 0:55:59Crates from overseas have been moving
0:55:59 > 0:56:01through his factory, bypassing French customs.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03My sources have been unable to determine
0:56:03 > 0:56:04what they contain.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09He's probably got someone on the take.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11He's an exporter, not an importer.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13Yes, well, about that, we...
0:56:13 > 0:56:15we'll do that tomorrow, OK?
0:56:15 > 0:56:17No, a shipment just came in this afternoon.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19It could be gone by the morning.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41METAL CLANGS
0:56:42 > 0:56:44MAN SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
0:57:17 > 0:57:18DOOR OPENS
0:57:43 > 0:57:45FOWLER: What is this "diolacton"?
0:57:45 > 0:57:46- HINH:- We must leave immediately.
0:57:48 > 0:57:50Go home. Rest. Go. Go.
0:57:53 > 0:57:54What are you doing?
0:57:54 > 0:57:56Trying to save your life. Go!
0:58:08 > 0:58:09Phuong?
0:58:24 > 0:58:25Phuong?
0:58:36 > 0:58:37Good morning.
0:58:37 > 0:58:38Can I help you?
0:58:38 > 0:58:40I think you've done quite enough already!
0:58:40 > 0:58:43Where's Pyle?
0:58:43 > 0:58:44Alden?
0:58:44 > 0:58:46He's not in the office this morning.
0:58:46 > 0:58:47He does a lot of his work at home.
0:58:47 > 0:58:49I know what he does at home.
0:58:49 > 0:58:50What do you mean?
0:58:50 > 0:58:51Ask her.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53She fixed him up with my girl.
0:58:53 > 0:58:55Now, now, we can't have scenes in the office.
0:58:55 > 0:58:56I know I am behaving badly,
0:58:56 > 0:58:58but I have every intention of behaving badly.
0:58:58 > 0:58:59As a matter of fact,
0:58:59 > 0:59:01this is exactly the kind of situation
0:59:01 > 0:59:03where one should behave badly.
0:59:03 > 0:59:04Could we please just lower our voice...?
0:59:04 > 0:59:05Why don't you bugger off!
0:59:05 > 0:59:08Thomas, there is a lady here.
0:59:08 > 0:59:10This lady and I know each other quite well.
0:59:10 > 0:59:11She tried to get a rake off from me,
0:59:11 > 0:59:13but now she's getting one from Pyle.
0:59:13 > 0:59:14We have a lot of work to do, Thomas.
0:59:14 > 0:59:16If Pyle phones, tell him I called.
0:59:16 > 0:59:19It would be polite to return the visit.
0:59:23 > 0:59:24How did he get in here?
0:59:28 > 0:59:30SOBBING
1:00:01 > 1:00:03This is Boston?
1:00:03 > 1:00:05- PYLE:- No, that's Niagara falls.
1:00:05 > 1:00:08So is that.
1:00:08 > 1:00:10This is Boston.
1:00:10 > 1:00:11That's Fanueil Hall.
1:00:13 > 1:00:16I can't wait to take you to my country.
1:00:26 > 1:00:29My friend from school,
1:00:29 > 1:00:33she go to airport with her boyfriend.
1:00:35 > 1:00:38He said he take her to France.
1:00:43 > 1:00:47But in the airport he disappear,
1:00:47 > 1:00:50leave her there.
1:00:50 > 1:00:53So many girls with French boyfriend.
1:00:55 > 1:00:57No-one to marry them.
1:00:59 > 1:01:02Well, that'll never happen to you.
1:01:16 > 1:01:17I promise.
1:01:28 > 1:01:29Hi.
1:01:29 > 1:01:30Hi.
1:01:30 > 1:01:32Have a nice Christmas?
1:01:32 > 1:01:33One long party.
1:01:33 > 1:01:36Did Phuong forget something?
1:01:36 > 1:01:38Heard you came by the legation.
1:01:38 > 1:01:40Yes.
1:01:40 > 1:01:41Who's this?
1:01:41 > 1:01:42It's a bodyguard.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44We all have to have them now.
1:01:44 > 1:01:46Are you married yet?
1:01:46 > 1:01:48Um, no, I figured I'd wait until we got home
1:01:48 > 1:01:49and do it properly.
1:01:49 > 1:01:51You don't mind living here improperly?
1:01:51 > 1:01:53You know, it's hard to talk to you
1:01:53 > 1:01:55if you're going to be so cynical.
1:01:55 > 1:01:55I just meant that it would be good
1:01:55 > 1:01:57to do it with my parents there.
1:01:57 > 1:02:00I had a cable from head office.
1:02:00 > 1:02:02They want me back.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04Oh, that's, uh...
1:02:04 > 1:02:06So it's good that Phuong went off with you.
1:02:06 > 1:02:08If I'd had to leave, she might've ended up
1:02:08 > 1:02:10as another piece of ass for someone like Granger.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12At least I know you'll treat her right.
1:02:12 > 1:02:14So, er, does this mean
1:02:14 > 1:02:17that we can still be friends?
1:02:17 > 1:02:19I don't see why not.
1:02:27 > 1:02:31So, what is diolacton, anyway?
1:02:31 > 1:02:33- <- You know about that?
1:02:33 > 1:02:34Shouldn't I?
1:02:34 > 1:02:37Well, er, diolacton is a milk-based plastic.
1:02:37 > 1:02:40It's used for the frames in the eyeglasses.
1:02:40 > 1:02:42Are you still in touch with General The?
1:02:42 > 1:02:45Well, we keep the channels open.
1:02:45 > 1:02:46And Muoi?
1:02:46 > 1:02:48Mr Muoi's been very helpful in helping us
1:02:48 > 1:02:49get all our supplies through customs.
1:02:49 > 1:02:51You know, the French have started to charge us...
1:02:51 > 1:02:53You asked me for advice once.
1:02:53 > 1:02:54Well, here it is.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56Leave the bloody third force to Joe,
1:02:56 > 1:02:58forget York Harding,
1:02:58 > 1:03:00and go home with Phuong.
1:03:03 > 1:03:05And would you shut the door on the way out, please?
1:03:22 > 1:03:25FOWLER: Morning, Larry. What is it today?
1:03:25 > 1:03:27Ah, you know, some cockamamie assignment.
1:03:31 > 1:03:33- WOMAN: - Hey, we should go.
1:03:33 > 1:03:34- SECOND WOMAN: - You think so?
1:03:34 > 1:03:35Joe Tunney said to be out of here
1:03:35 > 1:03:36by ten to eleven. It's five-of now.
1:03:36 > 1:03:38What is it, anyway?
1:03:38 > 1:03:39I'm not sure.
1:03:39 > 1:03:41Is it a demonstration?
1:03:41 > 1:03:44I don't know, but if Joe Tunney says...
1:04:01 > 1:04:04SCREAMING
1:04:29 > 1:04:30SPEAKS VIETNAMESE
1:04:30 > 1:04:33My friend is in there!
1:06:10 > 1:06:12SIREN WAILS
1:06:22 > 1:06:24- HINH:- Did you cut your hand, sir?
1:06:30 > 1:06:32Yes.
1:06:34 > 1:06:36How is it down there?
1:06:36 > 1:06:3830 dead.
1:06:38 > 1:06:41Probably 20 more by morning.
1:06:43 > 1:06:45They've started arresting communist sympathisers.
1:06:47 > 1:06:48There was a woman...
1:06:50 > 1:06:51..with a baby.
1:06:56 > 1:06:59She covered it with her hat.
1:07:12 > 1:07:13This man...
1:07:13 > 1:07:15he died...
1:07:17 > 1:07:19..right in front of his family.
1:07:29 > 1:07:31Pyle...
1:07:33 > 1:07:35Did you see him?
1:07:38 > 1:07:41He spoke Vietnamese.
1:07:42 > 1:07:46Vietnamese.
1:07:46 > 1:07:49Like it was his, you know,
1:07:49 > 1:07:51native language.
1:07:53 > 1:07:55Larry. Larry!
1:07:55 > 1:07:56Come over here! Get this!
1:07:56 > 1:07:58Move it. Right here! Right here!
1:07:58 > 1:08:00On this side! No, over here. No!
1:08:00 > 1:08:02Get this! Right here!
1:08:02 > 1:08:03Get it right here! Over here!
1:08:03 > 1:08:04No, no, no!
1:08:04 > 1:08:06SPEAKING VIETNAMESE
1:08:12 > 1:08:14CONVERSE IN VIETNAMESE
1:08:21 > 1:08:22Understand?
1:08:22 > 1:08:24Now go make yourself useful somewhere else!
1:08:24 > 1:08:26- PYLE:- 'Diolactin is a milk-based plastic.
1:08:26 > 1:08:29'We use it for the frames in the eyeglasses.
1:08:29 > 1:08:32'Mr Muoi's been very helpful in helping us
1:08:32 > 1:08:34'get all of our supplies through customs.'
1:08:34 > 1:08:36"Casein plastics.
1:08:36 > 1:08:39"Made from milk protein."
1:08:39 > 1:08:42- PYLE:- 'York Harding, Dangers to Democracy.
1:08:42 > 1:08:44'He's the one who put forward the idea of a third force.'
1:08:44 > 1:08:45"Used in the manufacture
1:08:45 > 1:08:49"of imitation tortoiseshell and jade.
1:08:49 > 1:08:51"Trade name, diolacton.
1:08:51 > 1:08:55"Also used as a plasticiser
1:08:55 > 1:08:58"in explosive compounds."
1:08:58 > 1:09:00- PYLE:- 'Joe Tunney's running aid programmes
1:09:00 > 1:09:03'with some of the businesspeople close to The.'
1:09:03 > 1:09:05Muoi...
1:09:05 > 1:09:07and The...
1:09:07 > 1:09:10- MUOI:- 'It will take an independent Vietnamese leader to rule our country.'
1:09:10 > 1:09:13FOWLER: The Americans have been supplying them
1:09:13 > 1:09:16with materials to make bombs.
1:09:18 > 1:09:22- TUNNEY:- 'Fowler sees conspiracies everywhere.'
1:09:22 > 1:09:27I have some contacts who would like to speak to your friend.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29Joe Tunney?
1:09:31 > 1:09:33Pyle?
1:09:33 > 1:09:36They feel he can give them
1:09:36 > 1:09:39important information about all this.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42You're saying Pyle is OSS?
1:09:42 > 1:09:45I believe the new name is CIA.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52Anyone can speak to him.
1:09:52 > 1:09:53It's not so easy.
1:09:53 > 1:09:56He's followed by protectors.
1:09:56 > 1:09:59But if you ask to meet with him,
1:09:59 > 1:10:01man to man,
1:10:01 > 1:10:03he would come alone.
1:10:03 > 1:10:05SIREN WAILS
1:10:09 > 1:10:12These contacts, are they communists?
1:10:12 > 1:10:13Officially, no.
1:10:13 > 1:10:16Unofficially, yes.
1:10:16 > 1:10:18I don't know.
1:10:18 > 1:10:20Suppose you invite him to dinner
1:10:20 > 1:10:24at the Vieux Moulin, say, between 9.00, 9.30.
1:10:24 > 1:10:26It's quiet near there.
1:10:26 > 1:10:30My friends can speak to him undisturbed.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32Maybe he's engaged.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34At 6.30...
1:10:34 > 1:10:37my contacts will have someone in the street
1:10:37 > 1:10:39outside your apartment.
1:10:39 > 1:10:41All you have to do,
1:10:41 > 1:10:44if you decide to invite him to dinner,
1:10:44 > 1:10:47go to the window and open a book.
1:10:51 > 1:10:53What will they do to him?
1:10:53 > 1:10:54I promise you
1:10:54 > 1:10:57my contact will act as gently
1:10:57 > 1:10:59as the situation allows.
1:11:03 > 1:11:05Sooner or later, Mr Fowler,
1:11:05 > 1:11:08one has to take sides
1:11:08 > 1:11:10if one is to remain human.
1:11:28 > 1:11:30Pyle...
1:11:30 > 1:11:32I need to speak to you
1:11:32 > 1:11:34about what happened this morning
1:11:34 > 1:11:36in the Place Garnier.
1:11:53 > 1:11:56INDISTINCT VOICES
1:12:01 > 1:12:03Phuong.
1:12:03 > 1:12:05A letter for you.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07MEN CONVERSE IN VIETNAMESE
1:12:07 > 1:12:08Thank you.
1:12:08 > 1:12:10Just give me a few minutes, all right?
1:12:16 > 1:12:18SPEAKING VIETNAMESE
1:12:35 > 1:12:37DOOR CLOSES
1:12:44 > 1:12:46KNOCK ON DOOR
1:12:48 > 1:12:50KNOCKING PERSISTS
1:12:53 > 1:12:55Come in.
1:12:59 > 1:13:01I got your message.
1:13:01 > 1:13:03So I see.
1:13:03 > 1:13:05Lie down, lie down.
1:13:09 > 1:13:10I'd love a drink.
1:13:10 > 1:13:12I've only got hard liquor
1:13:12 > 1:13:13and you're probably on duty.
1:13:13 > 1:13:15As a matter of fact, I've noticed
1:13:15 > 1:13:17you're rarely off-duty these days.
1:13:17 > 1:13:18Whisky would be fine.
1:13:18 > 1:13:19People change.
1:13:19 > 1:13:22Or maybe they just never were
1:13:22 > 1:13:24what we thought they were.
1:13:24 > 1:13:25Hmm?
1:13:25 > 1:13:27Who of us is, Thomas?
1:13:27 > 1:13:28Who of us is?
1:13:35 > 1:13:38So, I suppose you want to talk about General The.
1:13:38 > 1:13:40Yes. and Mr Muoi...
1:13:40 > 1:13:43and diolacton.
1:13:47 > 1:13:49Well, we met with The this afternoon.
1:13:49 > 1:13:51He's in Saigon?
1:13:51 > 1:13:53Come to see how his explosives worked(?)
1:13:53 > 1:13:56You know, his original target was a military parade.
1:13:56 > 1:13:58I don't mind telling you that we were pretty tough on him.
1:13:58 > 1:13:59Did you tell him
1:13:59 > 1:14:01you weren't going to support him any more?
1:14:01 > 1:14:02We told him that if he steps out of line again...
1:14:02 > 1:14:04He tried to kill you on the road to Saigon.
1:14:04 > 1:14:08No. He tried to kill you.
1:14:09 > 1:14:10And you knew?
1:14:10 > 1:14:13Well, I suspected he might try something,
1:14:13 > 1:14:15or one of his officers might,
1:14:15 > 1:14:17so I tagged along just in case.
1:14:17 > 1:14:18Then you're a fool if you think
1:14:18 > 1:14:20you can control General The.
1:14:20 > 1:14:22In a war, you use the tools you've got,
1:14:22 > 1:14:25and right now he's the best we have.
1:14:25 > 1:14:28Yes, and in the meantime, even more people must die.
1:14:28 > 1:14:29Last year, the US Government
1:14:29 > 1:14:32gave 210 million in military assistance
1:14:32 > 1:14:33to the French in Indochina.
1:14:33 > 1:14:35If we are going to stop communism
1:14:35 > 1:14:38and underwrite a third way,
1:14:38 > 1:14:40we need to give the people a leader who they admire.
1:14:40 > 1:14:42Tomorrow morning, when Congress
1:14:42 > 1:14:44reads the reports and sees the photographs
1:14:44 > 1:14:45of the communist atrocities in the square,
1:14:45 > 1:14:47they are going to give us that support.
1:14:47 > 1:14:49The French aren't going to stop the communists.
1:14:49 > 1:14:51They haven't got the brains
1:14:51 > 1:14:52and they haven't got the guts.
1:14:55 > 1:14:58How did I fit into all this?
1:14:58 > 1:15:01Am I part of your cover?
1:15:02 > 1:15:04Or a source of information?
1:15:06 > 1:15:08Or did you have your eye on Phuong
1:15:08 > 1:15:10all the time?
1:15:10 > 1:15:11You and Phuong, I never planned
1:15:11 > 1:15:13for any of that to happen.
1:15:13 > 1:15:15Believe me, it would have been easier
1:15:15 > 1:15:16if I never met either one of you.
1:15:16 > 1:15:18But you did,
1:15:18 > 1:15:20and you lied to us.
1:15:20 > 1:15:22What do you want me to tell you, Thomas?
1:15:22 > 1:15:23That I take no action,
1:15:23 > 1:15:25that I have no opinion?
1:15:28 > 1:15:31Tell me that you don't mean any of this.
1:15:31 > 1:15:34Tell me that you were only obeying orders
1:15:34 > 1:15:36or...or tell me
1:15:36 > 1:15:37that after what you saw in the square -
1:15:37 > 1:15:38those children
1:15:38 > 1:15:40who did nothing and hurt no-one -
1:15:40 > 1:15:42tell me that you were so confused and horrified
1:15:42 > 1:15:46at how brutal and insane these actions are...
1:15:46 > 1:15:48Tell me how your love for Phuong
1:15:48 > 1:15:50has caused you to have some doubts.
1:15:50 > 1:15:51But it is because of Phuong
1:15:51 > 1:15:53that I am even more determined.
1:15:53 > 1:15:55Let's just look at Phuong.
1:15:55 > 1:15:57This beauty,
1:15:57 > 1:15:58this daughter of a professor.
1:15:58 > 1:16:01Taxi dancer, mistress of an older European man.
1:16:01 > 1:16:02Well, that pretty well describes
1:16:02 > 1:16:04the whole country, doesn't it?
1:16:04 > 1:16:05Look, Thomas, we are here
1:16:05 > 1:16:08to save Vietnam from all of that.
1:16:08 > 1:16:10What happened in the square today makes me sick.
1:16:10 > 1:16:13But in the long run, I'm going to save lives.
1:16:15 > 1:16:18It's you, isn't it?
1:16:18 > 1:16:19Joe Tunney,
1:16:19 > 1:16:21the staff at the legation,
1:16:21 > 1:16:24Mr Muoi, General The,
1:16:24 > 1:16:27they all take their fucking orders
1:16:27 > 1:16:28from you, Pyle.
1:16:28 > 1:16:31York Harding prattles on about a third force
1:16:31 > 1:16:33in that book you carry around.
1:16:34 > 1:16:37You've actually gone out and made one.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40I don't think you see the big picture, Thomas.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44No, I do not see the big picture.
1:16:55 > 1:16:57FOWLER: Do you know this poem?
1:16:57 > 1:17:00"I walk down the street, and I don't give a damn.
1:17:00 > 1:17:03"The people, they stare, and they ask who I am.
1:17:03 > 1:17:07"And if by chance I should run over a cat,
1:17:07 > 1:17:12"I can pay for the damage if ever so bad."
1:17:13 > 1:17:15We can disagree and remain friends,
1:17:15 > 1:17:16can't we, Thomas?
1:17:21 > 1:17:23Yes.
1:17:24 > 1:17:26Look, er, I'm sorry.
1:17:26 > 1:17:27Let's have dinner
1:17:27 > 1:17:30and put all this mess behind us.
1:17:30 > 1:17:33Nine o'clock, Vieux Moulin, OK?
1:17:33 > 1:17:35That sounds great.
1:17:35 > 1:17:37You know, I miss our conversations.
1:17:37 > 1:17:40Vieux Moulin it is.
1:17:40 > 1:17:41All right, then.
1:17:41 > 1:17:42Um, I'll tell Phuong
1:17:42 > 1:17:45that she can have dinner with her sister.
1:17:45 > 1:17:47I'll get her to meet me here afterward.
1:17:52 > 1:17:54Look, if, uh...
1:17:54 > 1:17:56if you can't make it,
1:17:56 > 1:17:57come straight here.
1:17:57 > 1:17:59I'll wait for you.
1:17:59 > 1:18:02All right. I'll see you soon, Thomas.
1:18:02 > 1:18:04DOOR CLOSES
1:18:36 > 1:18:38ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYS
1:19:44 > 1:19:45Walk.
1:19:53 > 1:19:55CHAIR SQUEAKS
1:19:55 > 1:19:59Uhh. I need to talk to somebody who speaks English.
1:19:59 > 1:20:03See, it's my son's birthday tonight.
1:20:03 > 1:20:05SHOUTING IN VIETNAMESE
1:20:10 > 1:20:12We need to ask you some questions.
1:20:12 > 1:20:14Look, I'm from the American legation.
1:20:14 > 1:20:15I'm just trying to help people see.
1:20:15 > 1:20:17DOG BARKS
1:20:20 > 1:20:22The thing is, I, er...
1:20:22 > 1:20:25I got a cable from my wife.
1:20:29 > 1:20:30My boy has polio.
1:20:30 > 1:20:33They don't know if he's going to make it.
1:20:37 > 1:20:39I don't care if he's crippled.
1:20:39 > 1:20:41I just don't want him to die.
1:21:13 > 1:21:15GASPING
1:21:15 > 1:21:17GROANING
1:21:21 > 1:21:23I'm sorry. I've just got to get some air.
1:22:08 > 1:22:11MAN ON RADIO: 'At least 2,000 people were killed
1:22:11 > 1:22:13'and scores of others injured.
1:22:13 > 1:22:15'In the wake of last week's
1:22:15 > 1:22:17'devastating bomb blast in Saigon,
1:22:17 > 1:22:18'French officials report that...'
1:22:18 > 1:22:21KNOCK ON DOOR
1:22:21 > 1:22:23Phuong?
1:22:25 > 1:22:27I'm sorry to bother you,
1:22:27 > 1:22:28but, er, would you mind
1:22:28 > 1:22:30to come downstairs with me for a moment?
1:22:30 > 1:22:32What do you want?
1:22:32 > 1:22:34There's something I would like to show you.
1:22:36 > 1:22:38It seems Monsieur Pyle
1:22:38 > 1:22:41came to see you the night he died.
1:22:41 > 1:22:42So what, Vigot?
1:22:42 > 1:22:44You said he did not.
1:22:46 > 1:22:48By the way...
1:22:48 > 1:22:51we found Pyle's dog.
1:22:51 > 1:22:52They cut his throat.
1:22:54 > 1:22:56RUBBING FLOOR
1:22:56 > 1:22:57You see here?
1:22:57 > 1:22:59Pyle's dog
1:22:59 > 1:23:01had cement between its toes.
1:23:01 > 1:23:03This was poured
1:23:03 > 1:23:05on the afternoon of his murder.
1:23:05 > 1:23:07So what does that prove?
1:23:09 > 1:23:11Monsieur Bertrand of the Vieux Moulin
1:23:11 > 1:23:13told me that night
1:23:13 > 1:23:17you asked for a table for one,
1:23:17 > 1:23:18not two.
1:23:20 > 1:23:21I have nothing more to add
1:23:21 > 1:23:23to my original statement.
1:23:26 > 1:23:28Nothing?
1:23:32 > 1:23:35You know I didn't kill him, Vigot.
1:23:39 > 1:23:42There's a war on.
1:23:42 > 1:23:45People are dying every day.
1:24:04 > 1:24:06DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
1:25:03 > 1:25:04Ask another girl.
1:25:06 > 1:25:08I don't want another girl.
1:25:38 > 1:25:40Will you come back now, Phuong?
1:25:41 > 1:25:43Will you come back to me?
1:25:43 > 1:25:44To London?
1:25:44 > 1:25:46No.
1:25:46 > 1:25:48Not to London.
1:25:49 > 1:25:52Then I don't come back.
1:25:52 > 1:25:53Please, I...
1:25:55 > 1:25:57I can't take you to London...
1:25:59 > 1:26:00..because I'm not going.
1:26:02 > 1:26:04I'm not leaving you.
1:26:10 > 1:26:12Never.
1:26:15 > 1:26:17Will you come back to me?
1:26:50 > 1:26:53Will you take down my hair?
1:26:53 > 1:26:54Yes.
1:27:12 > 1:27:14Do you miss him?
1:27:21 > 1:27:23Yes.
1:27:24 > 1:27:26I'm sorry.
1:27:28 > 1:27:30Why are you sorry?
1:27:30 > 1:27:33I don't know.
1:27:35 > 1:27:37I just feel that...
1:27:37 > 1:27:40I ought to apologise to someone.
1:27:43 > 1:27:45Not to me.
1:27:47 > 1:27:49Never to me.
1:27:57 > 1:27:59'They say you come to Vietnam
1:27:59 > 1:28:03'and understand a lot in a few minutes.
1:28:03 > 1:28:06'The rest has got to be lived.
1:28:06 > 1:28:10'They say whatever it was you were looking for
1:28:10 > 1:28:12'you will find here.
1:28:13 > 1:28:18'They say there is a ghost in every house,
1:28:18 > 1:28:20'and if you can make peace with him,
1:28:20 > 1:28:22'he will stay quiet.'