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--REECE ON THE RADIO WITH T.O.C. hears screaming and spins... It’s still the SDF TROOPER rushing towards him, panicking... -- KA-BOOM! REECE is blown backwards into the water... --REECE grabs the helmet... Donny’s head looks up at him... SNAP TO: INT. C-17 CARGO HOLD -- DAY Reece wakes, alone, in the searing light of Southern California. An AIRMAN (early 20s) stands over him. AIRMAN Commander Reece. Bravo Platoon is about to start the offload. Reece looks for Boozer. But he’s already deplaned. So Reece grabs his backpack and heads down the ramp to join the arrival ceremony on the tarmac... EXT. CORONADO NAVAL AIR STATION -- TARMAC -- DAY --Reece stands in a ROW OF AIRMEN and SAILORS as SEALS from ONE TROOP’S BRAVO PLATOON solemnly offload the 14 CASKETS. --Reece looks down the rows of YOUNG FACES on the tarmac. Many stare back or WHISPER TO EACH OTHER, no doubt about him. --The last HEARSE DOOR is shut, and the CARAVAN leaves the Tarmac. The ORDERLY ROWS of soldiers start to disperse. LT. PRITCHARD (Bravo Platoon’s leader, 34, dress blue uniform, rugged face) sees Reece preparing to leave. PRITCHARD
I’m sorry, Commander. Group 1 pulled us from theater so we could be the ones to welcome home the fallen. But Bravo Platoon shoulda’ been out there to watch Alpha’s back. REECE No, Pritchard. If you were there, there’d just be more caskets coming off that plane.
Reece spots COMMANDER COX and MASTER CHIEF INBRUCK watching him from across the tarmac. Inbruck gives Reece a nod. But Reece, anger welling, doesn’t return it. He pulls on his GATORZ SUNGLASSES, and shakes Pritchard’s hand.
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