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KATIE Only if you want to talk. REECE If you know about the Op, you’ve
already heard all the details myself or Boozer will give. KATIE Boozer? Reece looks behind him for backup, but Boozer’s already out the bar door, waving an ‘I’m outta here’ salute. REECE Look, Ms. Buranek, I’m sorry. I might not leak stories, but I still respect what you’re doing over here. Someone has to keep shouting into the void. The drink arrives. Reece slaps cash on the bar -- a little too hard -- then slides the whiskey towards Katie. REECE (CONT’D) A parting gift for your efforts. Reece follows Boozer outside. HOLD ON: Katie, sensing she was close to a story. A BARTENDER tries to take the whiskey back, but Katie stops him. KATIE Don’t even think about it. As Katie takes the glass and downs the High West... INT. C-17 CARGO HOLD -- DAY Reece enters the C-17, stows his backpack, and collapses in a JUMPSEAT near Boozer. Reece drunkenly stares at the 14 FLAG DRAPED CASKETS in the hold. As the door rises... FADE TO: EXT. SYRIA -- FLASHBACK --THE GUNSHIP’s rear door lowers, revealing jet black water skimming beneath us... --IN THE FIREFIGHT, Reece sees the SDF Trooper freaking out and calls the SDF INTERPRETER over... REECE Tell him to calm the fuck down, or I will shoot him... Tell him!
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