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Scene 1: Cold Open
Camera opens on the Tactical Operation Center as events ended there at the end of Episode 1 in the early morning hours of 12 JUL 2000 . Camera focuses on PFC Ramirez, at her computer as all heck is breaking loose in the G2. We see her perspective. Enemy attack info and positions being updated on wall maps. CW2 McConnell and MAJ Piper huddling. SSG Marsh joins them. She overhears phrases and snippets. The Camera then looks at SPC Randall and pans to see the other Junior Enlisted subordinates and them witnessing and seeing and hearing the same things.
Music starts (below) and then a montage of the previous day’s events begins to unfold to the music (with no dialogue, just the song), and we see different subordinates witnessing different things: SPC Lane seeing SSG Beck’s furtive meeting with CPT Melville, PVT Rzad watching Chief McConnell and 2LT Twarowski planning the meet the next day, etc., This continues as the attacks start, and all the events occur; attack in the North, Intelligence and Battlefield successes reported, frenetic work and discussion and then ending with SSG Beck seeing the signal to Łask going offline and the satellite feed ending as the song ends.
Track 1: “Destination Unknown” by Missing Persons, 1982.
We return to present opening with PFC Ramirez She looks at SSG Marsh and says, “Sergeant, what are we working on here? Are we going to be OK?” Hard Cut.
Scene 2: Opening Credits
Actor and Main personnel credits over montage scenes of militaries moving, Jets flying, politicians talking through the Cold War in B&W and up to the current date of setting where it becomes color after the anti-Gorbachev Coup of the timeline, with shots of combat, protests in streets, and finally nukes, destruction etc.
Main Cast: 2LT Kathryn Twarowski (Gordon), 2LT Donovan Duffy (Ned), SSG Bob Beck (Scott), SSG Ash Marsh (Michael).
Track 1: “Fascination Street” by The Cure, 1987.
Scene 3: “Contact & Code”
The Music (below) starts in the background. CW2 McConnell observes from the Observation Post on top of the MP HQ as the MPs conduct a pre-arranged “search” of the partisan contact, Tomasz. “Contraband” is found, and he gets “tuned up” by the MPs. The refugee crowd gets restless and 2LT Twarowski is summoned by radio. A Polish woman accuses the Americans of promising to help them again and again and abandoning them again and again. Twarowski calms her a bit, but things are obviously getting tenser and tenser outside. They examine a an edition of Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, instructions on how to use this as a code book and radio contact instructions and times with Commander Masterlez’s Polish Free Legion.
Track 3: “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That” by Cypress Hill, 1993
Scene 4: “Beck Does Some Deals”
SSG Beck has a furtive meeting with SPC Lane, his subordinate. Beck brings Lane into the contingency planning and tasks Lane to “borrow” 2 Crates of MREs from a known location where the Infantry Battalion seems to have stashed it. SSG Beck goes with CPT Melville and meets 1LT Shorter at G4 Operations. The Music (below) starts in the background. Beck has a furtive meeting in the back of a truck with one of Shorter’s NCOs acting as lookout. They agree on a deal; Intelligence reports of enemy positions for two steel drums of diesel fuel. Shorter asks for Beck’s aid in repairing a 2 ½ ton Truck and offers another one that isn’t working if Beck can repair that as well.
Track 4: “The Jean Genie” by David Bowie, 1973.
Scene 5: “Staff Meeting”
The Music (below) starts in the forground and then recedes to the background. Shots of each of MAJ Piper, 2LT Twarowski, 2LT Duffy, CW2 McConnell and SSG Marsh individually breaking away from the TOC and individual shots of each furtively making their way to the abandoned upper floor for a clandestine meeting. An acrimonious discussion is had. Contingencies are pondered regarding leaving some 341 BN Members behind. 2LT Twarowski pretests vehemently against any course of action that means abandoning any of her people. Duffy and Marsh concur. MAJ Piper is miffed at the vehemence. The pot is simmered but is still ready to boil over as they discuss courses of action regarding what to tell subordinates chose immediate courses of action.
Track 5: “Go Back” by Public Image Ltd, 1981
Scene 6: “We’re Still Here”
SSG Beck is interrupted by SPC Lane who reports issues with the Microwave transmitter. The Music (below) starts in the foreground. Beck arrives and discovers that the Intelligence Support Detachment at Łask Air Base is alive and in hiding via one of his people turning the connection from Łask to this location on and off, using that as Morse code. Music plays over the Morse code communication with subtitles displaying the communication. They are in hiding in a disused bunker, surrounded by enemy troops who are unaware they are there.
Track 6: “Hush” by Deep Purple, 1968.
Scene 7: “Flanked“
The Music (below) plays in the background, after kicking off in the foreground when contact is made with Masterlez’s Legion. They inform 2LT Twarowski that that elements of two Soviet Divisions may be flanking the 5ID(M) to the South. This causes frantic activity. The music continues as the Łask Intelligence Support Team, at great risk, establish satellite contact again and reconnect the Division with “the world” as well as providing imagery again. The reports to the South are confirmed. Two strong Soviet Division columns are speeding to Ostrow, where e they will hammer the 2 Brigade Task Force and cut off the 5th Division’s retreat. As well attacks begin again in earnest in the North and near the Warta River in the Center.
Track 7: “TV Eye” by The Stooges, 1970.
Scene 8: “Good Luck”
Major Piper is summoned with Senior Staff to witness a broadcast the Division Commander is going to make, now that he has the information that the situation is hopeless. The commander goes behind a screened off area and gets on the radio and broadcasts in the open to the Division: Verification code “Cypress Park, I repeat Cypress Park.” All units this is Red Diamond 6. You’ve done well and given more than anyone could have possibly asked. You’ve saved many lives. I am proud of you, prouder than many of you could imagine. Stay strong. Take care of each other. All Units, your orders are “Short Farewell, I repeat, Short Farewell.” Good luck. You’re on your own, now. Then the radio goes quiet. A gunshot is heard behind the screen. Sharp cut to Black. End Credits, Full Credits on Black. Music is over credits on black.
Track 8: “Films” by Gary Numan, 1979.