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Reece stares at Boozer, thinking he didn’t hear that right. BOOZER (CONT’D)
Snipers took a direct hit from an RPG. Rest of the platoon was lost in the tunnels. QRF went in, but all they got was body parts and DNA swabs. (then) The fuck happened in there, boss?
Off Reece, trying to remember... SNAP TO: EXT. FRACTURED MEMORIES -- POP FLASH --IN THE WIDE SECTION, Reece sees the SDF Trooper rushing towards the trip-wire, freaked out of his mind... --KA-FUCKING-BOOM... Reece is blown backwards into the murky water... the EXPLOSION roils over him... --AFTERMATH, Reece grabs a helmet floating in the water, only to see Donny Mitchell’s head staring up at him... SNAP TO: INT. HOSPITAL ROOM -- PRESENT REECE They knew we were coming. I should never have taken us in. BOOZER Boozer heads into the hallway, leaving Reece to ponder the magnitude of the loss. 14 of the best soldiers and friends he’s ever known... gone. INT. NCIS OFFICES -- THE NEXT DAY CAMCORDER POV: Reece sits at a FOLDING TABLE in a windowless room. On the wall behind him, a BULLETIN BOARD filled with BOLOs (Be-on-the-Lookouts). But Reece is in his own world; a commander feeling the growing isolation and anger of losing his men. (NOTE: Reece’s head-wrap has been replaced by a bandage. And he’s out of a hospital gown and back in Crye-Pro Camouflage). MAN’S VOICE (O.S.) You ready, Commander? Bullshit. It’s not on you, boss. We’re the battering ram. Someone else found that door... We knocked on the wrong fucking door.
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