Strike Back (2010–2018): Season 8, Episode 6 - Vendetta: Part 6 - full transcript
Long after the incident in Munich, Wyatt and Novin reunite with Mac, who has since left the military. But while he lives out a seemingly idyllic existence with his wife and daughter, his violent past haunts him.
Ceasefire!
ALEXANDER COLTRANE: Took
a gamble on keeping us alive.
You get this wrong,
it's your career.
See you on the other side, mate.
Other side, bro.
If we hesitate, he'll get away.
It's too late!
This is where we're needed.
- I have to do this.
- Mac...
I'm moving to engage.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
Fuck are you doing here?
- (GUNSHOT)
- (EAR PIERCING RING)
(HEART PALPITATIONS)
[engine revving]
[The Heavy's
"Short Change Hero"]
♪ ♪
‐ ♪ I can't see
where you coming from ♪
♪ But I know just what
you runnin' from ♪
♪ And what matters
ain't the "who's baddest" ♪
♪ But the ones who stop you
falling from your ladder ♪
♪ Come on, feelin' like
you're feelin' now ♪
♪ And doin' things
just to please your crowd ♪
♪ When I love you like the way
I love you ♪
♪ And I suffer,
but I ain't gonna cut you ♪
♪ 'Cause this ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
[wind whistling]
[ambient music]
♪ ♪
‐ [roars] ‐ [groans]
Who's that tiger attacking me?
I'm being attacked
in me own house.
Is the tiger ticklish?
Is the tiger‐‐ ‐ Riley.
Riley, come on.
Riley, go get your bag,
or we're gonna be late.
Go on.
And no running
in the house, please.
What happened
to cutting the grass, eh?
‐ Uh, don't panic about that.
I'm gonna cut it later.
‐ Well, that's
an interesting approach
to housework, isn't it?
‐ It is, yeah.
It's new.
I'm trying it out.
‐ Right.
Have you got everything?
‐ Yeah.
‐ What time are your friends
coming over?
‐ Uh, I said 5:00,
so knowing them,
probably 6:00 or something.
‐ All right.
Well, I hope today goes okay.
And just, you know, give me
a call when you're done.
‐ Sure, yeah.
[car chimes]
‐ It's unlocked.
Give me your bag.
‐ All right.
Come here, kid.
[grunts]
You're getting heavy.
All right, good luck.
‐ Why?
‐ It's just
what you say to someone
before they do something,
and I'm not gonna be there
to see you today, so...
I'm saying
good luck now.
- Boop!
- [chuckles]
You know
they give all the kids medals,
even if they come in last place?
‐ Excuse me?
She won't come last place.
She's a McAllister.
‐ All right.
Well, I'll see you later.
And, you know, good luck.
[engine turning over]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
‐ I was hoping maybe today
we could talk
about the incident.
‐ There's not much
to talk about.
‐ Well, it's why
you left the army.
And it's why you're here.
A terrorist attack in Munich.
You chased after the perpetrator
without waiting for backup.
- It's the job.
- This is a job too.
But I charge by the hour.
‐ Military's different.
‐ And that was the only thing
driving you, the job?
‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
I mean, the death toll.
Maybe I could've stopped that
from happening.
‐ If you'd sacrificed your team
before the gas station
outside of Sarajevo.
‐ Yeah, maybe it was that.
And...
the copper.
It all adds up, you know.
‐ You've not mentioned
a police officer before.
‐ His name was Spiegel.
A young Israeli police officer.
♪ ♪
He was killed.
I wound him up a bit
about being a hero
and making a difference.
And I was using him
to get what we needed.
‐ Compared to all you've seen
in your career...
why would one life
matter so much?
♪ ♪
‐ It's all we get.
‐ And this was on your mind
as you entered
the housing complex?
♪ ♪
Getting closer...
and closer to the target?
♪ ♪
Thomas, what is it?
‐ There was somebody else there.
♪ ♪
The widow of somebody I killed.
‐ And you'd forgotten this?
♪ ♪
‐ You remind me of her.
‐ And that disturbs you?
‐ What, that...
you remind me of her?
‐ That you'd killed her husband?
♪ ♪
‐ No, he deserved it.
‐ That's quite the judgment.
‐ He was selling bioweapons
to terrorists.
I don't have any conflict
over that.
♪ ♪
But she was unarmed.
‐ And weren't
that kind of soldier?
♪ ♪
Was it worth it?
♪ ♪
All the fighting?
The death?
What it did to you,
mind and body?
♪ ♪
Do you think you made
the world a better place?
♪ ♪
[timer chimes]
‐ Saved by the bell.
‐ You can answer
the question, Thomas.
If you want.
♪ ♪
‐ You've never
told her the story?
‐ Of course
I've told her the story.
‐ No, you told me a version
of the story, babe.
‐ Bet he says the gas tank
isn't his fault.
‐ Hey, it's not my fault
if Libyans don't keep
their fuel tanks full, is it?
‐ Well, it'd take you a second
to check.
‐ Says the guy
who stole a hearse.
‐ [laughs]
‐ I'm sorry, did he say
you stole a hearse?
‐ Mm‐mm‐mm.
No, no, I‐‐ ‐ Yes, yes.
‐ I believe that
Novin here was telling a story.
‐ I was trying to.
Anyway, I was out there
as special operations
command engineering,
and I get this call telling me
about two legends
who got themselves lost
in the desert.
‐ Whoa, let me stop you there,
because we weren't lost.
We just didn't know
where we were going.
‐ Exactly, it's different.
It's a different‐‐
‐ No, no, no, he argues
with the GPS all the time.
‐ Uh, my love,
just because it's a computer
doesn't mean it's right.
‐ Aww, you're such an idiot.
[laughter]
‐ You're the one who married me.
‐ I know.
Come here.
‐ Oh, God.
Can I please finish my story
before I throw up in my mouth?
[laughter]
Anyway, so I'm driving around
in a panic,
'cause someone gets stuck out
in that heat, they're fucked.
[laughter]
So just as I think it's a bust,
I'm driving around the corner
and I see these two dickheads
hiding behind a rock.
[laughter]
‐ Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So this hearse,
did it have a body in it?
‐ Uh, I mean‐‐ ‐ [mouthing word]
‐ Look‐‐[stammering]
I think you should
ask your husband that question.
"Husband."
Suits you.
‐ You shite talker.
[laughter]
‐ Go on, then.
‐ No, no, love, of course
it didn't have a body in it.
‐ Did it have a body in it?
‐ Yes, ma'am, it did.
[laughter]
‐ [groans] [laughter]
‐ Didn't want
to stink up your house.
- Very civilized.
- Thank you.
So how's things with the doc?
‐ Yeah.
Yeah, it's all right.
Lot of questions.
‐ Oh, yeah?
Mm‐hmm.
‐ "Was being a solider
worth it?"
And, "Did you make the world
a better place?"
‐ Fuck yeah, we did.
‐ Fuck yeah?
That's your answer?
‐ Yeah.
Bad guys were trying
to do bad things,
and we stopped them any way
we could, every fucking time.
[chuckles]
- Oh, fucking hell.
- [chuckles]
- I fucking missed you, mate.
- Mm‐hmm.
The friends you make out there
are the ones that stay
with you, right?
‐ Is he getting all sentimental?
‐ Yeah, a little bit.
‐ I never see you guys.
I'm allowed to be sentimental.
‐ Start singing,
I swear I'll take you down.
‐ [humming]
‐ You're a bloody dickhead.
‐ Hey.
What happened
to Arianna Demachi?
Think she was there...
When I got shot.
‐ Mate, maybe you're just
misremembering it, you know?
‐ Doesn't make sense,
though, does it?
Her being there alongside Zayef.
Are they working together?
Mafia widow and a jihadist?
‐ Mac, you got shot.
You almost died.
Nothing else matters.
[sighs]
I just wish you'd stayed on.
‐ No.
No, no, no, my boy
did the right thing.
Got out.
Look at him now.
He's got the house;
he's got the wife;
he's got the kid;
he's got the lawn,
which incidentally needs mowing.
‐ I know, I know,
I was supposed to do it, but...
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
‐ Mac?
Mac, stay with us, bro.
‐ On me.
- Sorry?
- Yellow car, one o'clock.
Stay low, stay in cover,
and we flank, yeah?
‐ Uh, think I'm missing
something here, buddy.
‐ Right.
Every day, it drives past.
Either that, or it's sat there
watching the house.
Every fucking day.
‐ Mac, I think we just‐‐
we need to calm down.
‐ Don't‐‐don't do that.
‐ Hey, stop.
It's cool, bro.
- Just back me up.
- Mac, Mac!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[bullets whizzing]
♪ ♪
‐ [panting]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[door opens]
♪ ♪
‐ Mac, are you all right?
Take it easy, mate.
Come on.
‐ Wait, wait, what happened?
Where am I?
‐ You're here. You're home.
We're calling to you.
It's like you couldn't hear us.
‐ No, no, I was‐‐
I was in Afghanistan.
[stammers]
There'd been an ambush.
‐ The hell are you
talking about?
‐ Yeah, and then‐‐then‐‐
there were‐‐I was in Munich.
‐ Mate, mate, all that's over.
It's over. You're safe.
We're all here.
‐ Let's get you inside.
[engine turning over]
Let's get you a glass of water.
Come on, come on, hey.
‐ Hey, hey!
Come here!
Hey!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
‐ Mac!
[dramatic music]
Hey, what was that?
‐ I saw the driver.
It was Zayef.
‐ Mac.
Can't have been him, Mac.
‐ Oh, bollocks, Wyatt.
You didn't see the driver,
all right? I did.
‐ Mac, Zayef is dead.
Confirmed kill.
‐ Really?
Are you sure about that, eh?
Because he's currently
doing fucking laps around
my neighborhood out there.
‐ Listen, maybe this
is something you should, uh‐‐
something to talk
to the doc about.
‐ Fuck you, Wyatt.
I'm not crazy.
‐ I didn't say that.
But first Arianna
and now Zayef? Come on.
‐ Mate, you know
we get this history‐‐
‐ You know what?
You don't fucking get anything!
I was the one
who went after him, okay?
I was the one
who got fucking shot.
Where were you two?
Where the fuck were you two?
Fucking nowhere!
[glass shatters]
I know what I saw!
‐ Tom!
‐ I'll clean it up.
‐ You just woke Riley up,
and you're scaring me.
‐ I just said I'll clean it up.
‐ We came for you, bro.
We did.
Yeah, we did.
- We came for you.
- Just leave it.
‐ Listen to me.
This happens.
This is exactly what happens.
And you're not
in combat anymore,
but those instincts
are fucking in you, man.
And they come out.
And now this is your home,
and this is your family,
and you want to protect that;
I understand.
When you see a fucking car
out the front
and it looks like a threat,
guess what.
Guess what, man.
You make it a threat.
That's all.
‐ What if I'm right
and you're wrong?
Yeah, what if there's
unfinished business?
What if he's fucking
still out there?
‐ He's not, man.
He's not.
‐ [exhales deeply]
[suspenseful music]
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
‐ I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
I'm sorry, kid.
♪ ♪
‐ [panting]
[both moaning]
‐ [grunting]
‐ You're not happy here?
‐ No, I‐‐I am.
I am.
This is...
This is the life
I always wanted.
‐ [chuckles] Yeah, right.
I mean, the roof's leaking.
We've got damp.
Garden needs work.
Living the dream,
aren't we, hmm?
‐ Yeah, but it's okay.
That's‐‐that's all just...
normal stuff.
‐ Yeah.
I'll remind of that next time
you forget cut the grass.
[chuckles]
You did your time in the forces.
You can let go now.
‐ Is it what
you've always wanted?
Family, home?
Some people see that as a trap
rather than a happy ending.
‐ Well, maybe when Wyatt left,
I was a little bit jealous
of him.
The way he was able to go back
to the real world,
just drop everything
and walk away.
- But he didn't stick it out.
- No, he gave it a go.
I didn't.
I‐‐I never tried.
I stopped looking for anything
outside of the military
because that was my everything.
‐ Was it, though?
You had a certain disrespect
for authority.
You questioned orders.
You broke the jaw
of your CO once.
‐ Yeah, you're taking those
out of context.
‐ Let's find the context, then.
Colonel Coltrane
told you to wait,
to not engage the enemy,
and yet you kept going.
You risked it all.
‐ Yeah, I had to do
because the bomb went off.
‐ Well, that wasn't your fault.
‐ I had Zayef handcuffed
to a bloody bench
right next to me.
And Mahir, I had him as well,
and...
I made a choice, okay?
I gambled.
It was all on me.
‐ So you felt responsible?
Willing to disobey orders
to risk your life?
To die alone?
Where do you think
that comes from?
[door thumps]
‐ What does it matter?
‐ Maybe it could help
explain your situation,
how you ended up here.
[door thumps]
When did you start to think
you knew better
than those above you?
[door thumps]
‐ What the fuck is that?
‐ What's what?
- [objects thump]
- That.
[explosion]
- Get out! Out, out!
- [yells indistinctly]
‐ Move, move!
Stay back!
[sustained automatic gunfire]
Mac, fall back!
‐ This is Kilo 22 Charlie.
‐ Mac!
‐ Enemy contact, grid 456.
IED, enemy ambush to our right.
[gunshot]
‐ Sniper!
Get your fucking heads down!
McAllister, on me!
‐ Quick, 456723!
Casualty, gunshot wound.
Request emergency CASEVAC, over!
Fuck!
[tense music]
Medic!
Mac, you need to clear Terry
out from the woods!
Go left, flanking!
Suppress their position!
Are you ready?
Two, one, move!
Front facing enemy, fire!
♪ ♪
Hill left!
Keep your heads down!
♪ ♪
‐ Kilo 22 Delta.
Possible sighting‐‐
enemy sniper.
Moving to engage.
♪ ♪
[indistinct shouting]
‐ Magazine!
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
‐ Kilo 22 Delta,
engaging enemy, over.
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Charlie,
this is Kilo 22 Delta.
Nothing heard, out.
[dramatic music]
‐ [labored breathing]
‐ Don't move!
Hands!
Let me see your hands!
‐ [breathing heavily]
‐ [speaking Pashto]
Hands on your head.
You understand English?
Huh?
You understand a gun, yeah?
Hands on your head!
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Delta, have enemy.
Come in, over.
♪ ♪
Oh, no, no, no, no.
When I say, not when you want.
Uh‐uh, I mean it, mate.
I mean it.
[birds singing]
‐ [groaning]
[coughs and gags]
♪ ♪
‐ What?
No, no, no!
Fucker!
No!
Sit the fuck back down!
- Sit down!
- [yelps and moans]
♪ ♪
‐ Why didn't you let him
kill me?
‐ Because he would have
killed me next.
[groans and coughs]
They are arbaki.
[panting]
Not like soldier, but...
[groans and pants]
They are
Ismatullah Rakesh's men.
He considers this his land.
Head north into Arghandab Valley
and you are in his fields.
‐ Poppy fields?
‐ Your people, my people.
All in his way.
Bad for business.
‐ Yeah, well, don't start
making fucking plans
for the future, mate.
Do you hear me?
This is Kilo 22 Delta, come in.
‐ There will be
more Rakesh men coming.
‐ What?
‐ And now you have
killed one of them.
You don't even know
the way out, do you?
‐ Uh, uh...
Walakandsa, then.
Yeah?
Small town,
friendlies in the area.
‐ I'm bleeding.
‐ I don't give a shit.
Get up and bleed.
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Delta, come in.
‐ I don't think it's working.
Ambushed you there for a reason.
No signal.
[wings fluttering]
‐ [whispering]
Shh, shh, get down.
‐ [grunting] ‐ Down.
‐ [groaning loudly] ‐ Be quiet.
‐ [groaning]
‐ All right.
Come on, let's go.
‐ I can't. I can't.
[groans]
‐ Fuck's sake.
‐ [groaning]
‐ Let me see.
All right,
let me try and patch you up.
But I mean it, if you fucking
try anything, anything.
‐ [moaning]
Surely, I'm dying.
I'm dying.
‐ You're not dying.
You should be, though.
Taking shots at us like that.
‐ This is my country.
‐ You're fucking Taliban.
Yeah, you're the bad guys.
We're trying to keep the peace.
‐ [laughs]
All those peaceful airstrikes.
All those women and children.
Very good job, my friend.
‐ I'm not here to have a debate.
I'm here to get out
of these woods.
‐ [groans loudly]
[men shouting in Pashto]
The warlord's men.
‐ Call for help.
I'm gonna go on that ridge
and you call for help.
Right?
Just do it.
‐ Yeah, yeah.
♪ ♪
[shouting in Pashto]
[man shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
‐ [speaking Pashto]
[gunshot]
[trigger clicks]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[knife scrapes]
♪ ♪
‐ [gasps]
[yelps and groans]
‐ [groans]
‐ [whimpering]
[coughing and gagging]
‐ You see the ways
the eyes move before death?
That's the brain
going over everything that
has happened in your life...
trying to find an answer
to this situation.
A way out...
forward, back...
there must be some way
to stay alive.
♪ ♪
How many men have you killed?
♪ ♪
‐ Three now.
♪ ♪
[grunts and groans]
♪ ♪
Come on, let's go.
‐ No.
Not that way.
‐ That's where
we were fucking going.
‐ There.
♪ ♪
‐ Come on, then.
♪ ♪
Come on.
‐ [groans]
‐ Move it.
♪ ♪
‐ [shouting in Pashto]
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ We won't outrun them.
♪ ♪
‐ You might not.
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ I have a wife and a daughter.
- What, do you want sympathy?
- I just don't want to die.
‐ You shot one of our guys.
Right now, he might be
in the back of some wagon,
bleeding out.
‐ Why was he even here?
♪ ♪
- It's our job.
- Your job?
You don't even know yourself.
‐ I know if you were smart,
you'd stop gobbing off
and move it.
Come on.
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ I can't.
‐ Don't sit.
What are you sitting down for?
Hey.
Do you want to see that wife
and daughter of yours again?
Hey, do you?
Move.
‐ [groans]
‐ What's that place?
‐ There is where the Russians
had their men back in the war.
♪ ♪
‐ All right, we hole up there
for five minutes, patch up,
and then we're moving again,
right?
♪ ♪
This is Kilo 22 Delta, uh,
northeast of the forest.
Stone structure,
hostiles in pursuit, over.
♪ ♪
‐ [groaning]
[coughing]
‐ Here.
♪ ♪
[groans]
♪ ♪
‐ [whistles softly]
[birds singing]
♪ ♪
‐ Maybe they've given up.
‐ They will not give up.
They get paid more
if they find people like us.
♪ ♪
‐ You local?
‐ No.
[groans]
My home is... far away.
♪ ♪
[coughing]
[coughing]
‐ [whispering]
Shh. Stay down.
Stop fucking moving.
Shut up.
[gunfire]
Move, move!
♪ ♪
Go, go, go!
Oh, shit!
Put your head down!
[yells]
Go!
Move, move, move!
Go!
[men shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
[gunshot]
This was a bad fucking idea.
We need to get out of here.
‐ Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
‐ Go.
[man shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
[gunfire]
[high‐pitched ringing]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
You okay?
- Good.
- Come on. Let's move.
We need to move.
Come on.
Do you have a rock up your ass?
Come on!
‐ [groans]
‐ Yeah?
♪ ♪
Hey!
[gunfire]
Come on.
♪ ♪
No, don't.
Don't.
♪ ♪
You get me
out of the forest, okay?
You get me to safety,
we both walk away.
Yeah?
We're a team.
‐ We're not a fucking team.
‐ No, we shouldn't be.
Yeah, we shouldn't be.
But right now, I'm only alive
because of you.
You're only alive because of me.
‐ That means more than orders?
‐ Yeah.
You have my word.
You fucking point a gun at me?
You point a fucking gun at me?
[growls]
Me and my fucking word.
‐ [groaning]
‐ Come on.
♪ ♪
[helicopter rotors whirring]
[radio crackles]
‐ Kilo 22 Delta,
this is 33 Alpha, radio check.
‐ This is Kilo 22 Delta.
Receiving, over.
‐ RP Kilo 22 Delta,
radio check, over.
‐ Good check.
- RV at 57342661.
- Copy that.
♪ ♪
It's all right.
You're good.
- Your word, yes?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
‐ McAllister!
♪ ♪
You split from your team
and then engaged the enemy.
‐ I radioed it in, sir,
and I got no response.
And considering the condition
of Lance Corporal Roberts
at the time...
How is he?
‐ He's stable.
Who's your pal?
‐ He's nobody.
He's just a local.
He gave me directions.
I thought we could give him
a lift to the next town.
What‐‐hang on a minute.
Wait, he's nothing
to do with this.
- Hang on a minute, boys.
- You don't get to decide this.
‐ Just hang on a second.
- Lance Corporal!
- Leave him alone.
‐ I strongly suggest
you stand down.
♪ ♪
‐ Sir.
[dramatic music]
‐ [muffled shouting]
♪ ♪
‐ It's back.
Dad, it's back.
‐ What's back?
[ominous music]
Go inside the house.
Go on, go.
♪ ♪
What are you doing
outside my house?
Hey, what do you want?
Come on!
What do you want?
Come on!
[girl screaming]
[screaming]
‐ What are you doing
in my house?
‐ [gasps]
What the hell?
‐ I'm sorry, I‐‐
I'm so sorry, I‐‐
I heard a noise, and I th‐‐
It's the car.
The car's outside.
♪ ♪
Everything's falling apart.
And if this goes on,
I'll lose Amy.
She'll take the kid.
‐ You don't want to let go.
♪ ♪
‐ No.
♪ ♪
‐ What happened
to the Taliban sniper?
♪ ♪
‐ I don't know.
‐ Thomas, when you lie to me,
you're really lying to yourself.
Haven't you figured that out?
‐ He wasn't some goat herder.
He was Taliban.
Whatever happened to him,
he deserved it.
‐ He died in custody.
The result
of enhanced interrogation,
which is a polite way
of saying "torture."
[water splattering
and garbled screaming]
[chains rattling]
‐ I could've done more.
♪ ♪
I shouldn't have
gave him my word.
‐ But it did set you on a road
that led to Section.
All the way
to the Schwarzer Tempel Estate.
It made you what you were.
‐ I was just a soldier.
♪ ♪
Nothing special.
♪ ♪
‐ You really believe that,
don't you?
You don't think
you were good enough,
that you made a difference.
Do you think
the Afghan was right?
Those last moments of a life?
‐ [gurgling]
‐ The brain running through
the past, the future,
trying to find an answer,
a way out?
A way to survive?
‐ I don't know.
‐ You should.
What was it like
lying there, bleeding out?
Picture yourself back there.
♪ ♪
The sounds, the smells.
What are you seeing?
♪ ♪
Thomas, what are you hearing?
[gunfire and shouting]
♪ ♪
‐ Shouts.
Gunfire.
‐ Who was it?
‐ Hold the fuck on, Mac!
Hold on!
♪ ♪
‐ It was them.
♪ ♪
They were coming to save me.
[intense music]
‐ Stairs right.
Moving out.
‐ Moving.
[indistinct shouting]
[gunfire]
‐ [shouts indistinctly]
‐ Let's go!
Move, move, move, move!
‐ Moving.
♪ ♪
‐ Thomas?
♪ ♪
Thomas.
♪ ♪
‐ Suppressing!
‐ Moving out!
♪ ♪
‐ Moving.
♪ ♪
‐ Fuck!
‐ Moving!
♪ ♪
Team is inbound.
Hold the fuck on, Mac!
Hold on!
Move, move!
♪ ♪
All right, on me.
Move, move, move!
♪ ♪
Clear!
Go, move!
♪ ♪
Here he is!
Eyes on, eyes on.
Mac!
Shit.
Med kit, med kit!
Hey, hey, hey.
Okay, is he breathing?
Hey, stay with us, bro.
Stay with us.
‐ They came for you.
[sparse dramatic music]
‐ I was thinking...
just to hold on.
Just one more breath.
♪ ♪
One more second.
‐ Then it would be all right.
♪ ♪
Lying there, bleeding out.
Just looking
for a way to survive.
♪ ♪
Every angle, past and present...
♪ ♪
And future.
♪ ♪
‐ [exhales heavily]
You have to try, right?
[sniffles]
♪ ♪
I know why you remind me
of her now.
♪ ♪
Even worse...
I've figured it all out.
♪ ♪
You and Zayef.
♪ ♪
Just one of those things
that all fell into place.
‐ It's a little too late.
‐ Yeah.
[sniffles]
Probably.
♪ ♪
They'll come for you.
♪ ♪
I know that for sure.
They'll come for you,
and you'll die alone.
♪ ♪
‐ It's all right, brother.
We're here for you.
We're here for you.
Hey, stay with us, bro.
Stay with us.
Another one.
Okay, another one.
It's okay, we're here for you.
♪ ♪
‐ Stupid, but...
this is
how I always pictured it.
One day, place like this...
kid like you.
♪ ♪
‐ We came for you.
You know that, right?
It's okay, bro.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.
We need help.
We need a‐‐we need medevac.
We need a medevac.
Don't you fucking leave me!
Don't you leave me.
‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
I heard you.
♪ ♪
And then I tried.
You know, I really,
really tried.
‐ It's okay, mate.
You did good, all said and done.
You did good, mate.
‐ Thanks, kid.
♪ ♪
‐ You can let go now.
♪ ♪
‐ Grass needs cutting, though.
[laughter]
‐ Bastard.
♪ ♪
[high‐pitched ringing]
♪ ♪
‐ No, no, no, no!
[sobs]
- It's okay.
- [crying]
- Come on.
- Shh.
- [breathing heavily]
- Don't you fucking leave me.
Don't you fucking leave me.
- He's gone.
- Yeah.
‐ [sobbing]
‐ [sniffles]
- It's over.
- [sobs] No.
- Let him go.
- No!
‐ Let him go.
- Come on.
- Man, fuck off.
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, you're going that way,
are you?
‐ [squeals and giggles]
‐ There's no getting away
from me.
‐ Can't catch me!
You're it, Mom.
‐ Come here, come here.
I'm gonna get ya.
[laughter]
Don't you get me.
I'm in charge here.
- Come here, girl!
- [squeals]
‐ I've got ya!
[chatter, laughter]
♪ ♪
[The Heavy's
"Short Change Hero"]
♪ ♪
‐ ♪ I can't see
where you coming from ♪
♪ But I know just what
you runnin' from ♪
♪ And what matters
ain't the "who's baddest" ♪
♪ But the ones who stop you
falling from your ladder ♪
♪ 'Cause this ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
SIR JAMES SPENCER: I can't
change what happened in Munich...
but I can change
whatever's coming next.
I understand that, for some
of you, this is personal.
Don't move!
Zayef. Where is he?
- Where is he?
- WOMAN: Loric Demachi.
Zayef, the Demachi's,
we have our lead.
Close the lighter.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
We came for you.
You know that, right?
Warren, Alin, and myself
read the scripts
at the same time
at Warren's house
on a Sunday afternoon.
All's said and done...
you did good, man.
DANIEL MACPHERSON: And by
halfway through the script,
Alin had her knees up
and a towel over her head
because she was crying so much.
I was absolutely bawling
my eyes out crying.
And‐‐ And here they are
just kind of, like,
having a farting competition.
This is the only way
this script could've been...
(CHUCKLES)
read.
THERAPIST:
A terrorist attack in Munich...
you chased after the perpetrator
without waiting for backup.
The death toll. Maybe I could've
stopped that from happening.
I knew when Mac died
that we weren't gonna treat it
like the other deaths.
We promised Warren that
"If you do go out,
we're gonna try and give you
the best possible send‐off we can."
‐(BREATHING HEAVILY) ‐Mac?
You all right?
Take it easy, mate. Come on.
You know, I knew
at the beginning of the season
that we would be saying
goodbye to Mac,
but didn't really know
in what context.
Certainly, episode six
was just so clever,
so well done.
- (GUNFIRE)
- SOLDIER: Move, move!
WARREN BROWN: I don't think
I was on flat land
for about a week.
Literally, no matter what,
you were either fighting
on a hill,
or there was dialogue on a hill,
or you were sat
crouching in cover,
but you were on a hill.
(GRUNTING)
It was absolutely brutal.
JACK LOTHIAN: What we were
interested in doing
was looking at,
when did Mac become Mac?
‐(GUNFIRE) ‐Move, move!
It was quite interesting
to go back and see
what was the first
section 20‐type mission
that Mac was ever on?
His first, sort of decision
to stand up to authority or not.
You split from your team,
and then engaged the enemy.
Sir.
(MAN GRUNTS)
And what laid the seeds
for the person
that he ended up being.
(MAN GROANING)
Everything's falling apart.
You don't want to let go.
JAMIE BAMBER: My favorite
episode that I've read so far
of Strike Back is episode six.
And it's an episode
I'm not really in, at all.
It just goes to show
we're not all selfish... actors.
What was it like,
lying there, bleeding out?
WARREN: When, you know,
the therapist is going,
"Think about this incident
and what can you see?"
And it was so fresh in my mind,
Wyatt and Alin
and fuckin'... tears
coming down on my face,
and that fuckin' hurt me.
Then I just went to bits
in that scene.
I was thinking...
"Just hold on..."
just...
one more breath.
"One more second."
That scene on the day,
didn't feel like
there was a lot of acting
involved. (CHUCKLES)
Seeing him lie there
in that pool of blood,
I couldn't look at it.
It felt like I was constantly
on the verge of falling apart,
and I think everyone felt
that way.
- MAN: Here he is!
- DANIEL: I deliberately...
slept about three hours
the night before.
'Cause I knew that
I'd be just raw,
and I said to Warren,
"I don't wanna see you that day.
First time I see you is
on the ground, bleeding out."
By that time, you're exhausted,
you're sweaty,
I haven't slept for days,
and, uh‐‐ And you go in,
and you see your‐‐
your best mate
trying to stay alive for you.
Don't you fuckin' leave me!
Don't you leave me!
I hope it's
a pretty powerful moment.
WARREN: So, originally‐‐ we have
afforded now with‐‐
certainly with our gang,
the two actually go
and do something
that is very... not Strike Back.
But still, quintessentially
Strike Back.
I gave it everything,
and so did everyone,
and I think it's just been
one fuckin'
hell of an experience
that I will cherish,
and never forget.
♪ (MUSIC OUTRO PLAYS) ♪
ALEXANDER COLTRANE: Took
a gamble on keeping us alive.
You get this wrong,
it's your career.
See you on the other side, mate.
Other side, bro.
If we hesitate, he'll get away.
It's too late!
This is where we're needed.
- I have to do this.
- Mac...
I'm moving to engage.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
Fuck are you doing here?
- (GUNSHOT)
- (EAR PIERCING RING)
(HEART PALPITATIONS)
[engine revving]
[The Heavy's
"Short Change Hero"]
♪ ♪
‐ ♪ I can't see
where you coming from ♪
♪ But I know just what
you runnin' from ♪
♪ And what matters
ain't the "who's baddest" ♪
♪ But the ones who stop you
falling from your ladder ♪
♪ Come on, feelin' like
you're feelin' now ♪
♪ And doin' things
just to please your crowd ♪
♪ When I love you like the way
I love you ♪
♪ And I suffer,
but I ain't gonna cut you ♪
♪ 'Cause this ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
[wind whistling]
[ambient music]
♪ ♪
‐ [roars] ‐ [groans]
Who's that tiger attacking me?
I'm being attacked
in me own house.
Is the tiger ticklish?
Is the tiger‐‐ ‐ Riley.
Riley, come on.
Riley, go get your bag,
or we're gonna be late.
Go on.
And no running
in the house, please.
What happened
to cutting the grass, eh?
‐ Uh, don't panic about that.
I'm gonna cut it later.
‐ Well, that's
an interesting approach
to housework, isn't it?
‐ It is, yeah.
It's new.
I'm trying it out.
‐ Right.
Have you got everything?
‐ Yeah.
‐ What time are your friends
coming over?
‐ Uh, I said 5:00,
so knowing them,
probably 6:00 or something.
‐ All right.
Well, I hope today goes okay.
And just, you know, give me
a call when you're done.
‐ Sure, yeah.
[car chimes]
‐ It's unlocked.
Give me your bag.
‐ All right.
Come here, kid.
[grunts]
You're getting heavy.
All right, good luck.
‐ Why?
‐ It's just
what you say to someone
before they do something,
and I'm not gonna be there
to see you today, so...
I'm saying
good luck now.
- Boop!
- [chuckles]
You know
they give all the kids medals,
even if they come in last place?
‐ Excuse me?
She won't come last place.
She's a McAllister.
‐ All right.
Well, I'll see you later.
And, you know, good luck.
[engine turning over]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
♪ ♪
‐ I was hoping maybe today
we could talk
about the incident.
‐ There's not much
to talk about.
‐ Well, it's why
you left the army.
And it's why you're here.
A terrorist attack in Munich.
You chased after the perpetrator
without waiting for backup.
- It's the job.
- This is a job too.
But I charge by the hour.
‐ Military's different.
‐ And that was the only thing
driving you, the job?
‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
I mean, the death toll.
Maybe I could've stopped that
from happening.
‐ If you'd sacrificed your team
before the gas station
outside of Sarajevo.
‐ Yeah, maybe it was that.
And...
the copper.
It all adds up, you know.
‐ You've not mentioned
a police officer before.
‐ His name was Spiegel.
A young Israeli police officer.
♪ ♪
He was killed.
I wound him up a bit
about being a hero
and making a difference.
And I was using him
to get what we needed.
‐ Compared to all you've seen
in your career...
why would one life
matter so much?
♪ ♪
‐ It's all we get.
‐ And this was on your mind
as you entered
the housing complex?
♪ ♪
Getting closer...
and closer to the target?
♪ ♪
Thomas, what is it?
‐ There was somebody else there.
♪ ♪
The widow of somebody I killed.
‐ And you'd forgotten this?
♪ ♪
‐ You remind me of her.
‐ And that disturbs you?
‐ What, that...
you remind me of her?
‐ That you'd killed her husband?
♪ ♪
‐ No, he deserved it.
‐ That's quite the judgment.
‐ He was selling bioweapons
to terrorists.
I don't have any conflict
over that.
♪ ♪
But she was unarmed.
‐ And weren't
that kind of soldier?
♪ ♪
Was it worth it?
♪ ♪
All the fighting?
The death?
What it did to you,
mind and body?
♪ ♪
Do you think you made
the world a better place?
♪ ♪
[timer chimes]
‐ Saved by the bell.
‐ You can answer
the question, Thomas.
If you want.
♪ ♪
‐ You've never
told her the story?
‐ Of course
I've told her the story.
‐ No, you told me a version
of the story, babe.
‐ Bet he says the gas tank
isn't his fault.
‐ Hey, it's not my fault
if Libyans don't keep
their fuel tanks full, is it?
‐ Well, it'd take you a second
to check.
‐ Says the guy
who stole a hearse.
‐ [laughs]
‐ I'm sorry, did he say
you stole a hearse?
‐ Mm‐mm‐mm.
No, no, I‐‐ ‐ Yes, yes.
‐ I believe that
Novin here was telling a story.
‐ I was trying to.
Anyway, I was out there
as special operations
command engineering,
and I get this call telling me
about two legends
who got themselves lost
in the desert.
‐ Whoa, let me stop you there,
because we weren't lost.
We just didn't know
where we were going.
‐ Exactly, it's different.
It's a different‐‐
‐ No, no, no, he argues
with the GPS all the time.
‐ Uh, my love,
just because it's a computer
doesn't mean it's right.
‐ Aww, you're such an idiot.
[laughter]
‐ You're the one who married me.
‐ I know.
Come here.
‐ Oh, God.
Can I please finish my story
before I throw up in my mouth?
[laughter]
Anyway, so I'm driving around
in a panic,
'cause someone gets stuck out
in that heat, they're fucked.
[laughter]
So just as I think it's a bust,
I'm driving around the corner
and I see these two dickheads
hiding behind a rock.
[laughter]
‐ Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So this hearse,
did it have a body in it?
‐ Uh, I mean‐‐ ‐ [mouthing word]
‐ Look‐‐[stammering]
I think you should
ask your husband that question.
"Husband."
Suits you.
‐ You shite talker.
[laughter]
‐ Go on, then.
‐ No, no, love, of course
it didn't have a body in it.
‐ Did it have a body in it?
‐ Yes, ma'am, it did.
[laughter]
‐ [groans] [laughter]
‐ Didn't want
to stink up your house.
- Very civilized.
- Thank you.
So how's things with the doc?
‐ Yeah.
Yeah, it's all right.
Lot of questions.
‐ Oh, yeah?
Mm‐hmm.
‐ "Was being a solider
worth it?"
And, "Did you make the world
a better place?"
‐ Fuck yeah, we did.
‐ Fuck yeah?
That's your answer?
‐ Yeah.
Bad guys were trying
to do bad things,
and we stopped them any way
we could, every fucking time.
[chuckles]
- Oh, fucking hell.
- [chuckles]
- I fucking missed you, mate.
- Mm‐hmm.
The friends you make out there
are the ones that stay
with you, right?
‐ Is he getting all sentimental?
‐ Yeah, a little bit.
‐ I never see you guys.
I'm allowed to be sentimental.
‐ Start singing,
I swear I'll take you down.
‐ [humming]
‐ You're a bloody dickhead.
‐ Hey.
What happened
to Arianna Demachi?
Think she was there...
When I got shot.
‐ Mate, maybe you're just
misremembering it, you know?
‐ Doesn't make sense,
though, does it?
Her being there alongside Zayef.
Are they working together?
Mafia widow and a jihadist?
‐ Mac, you got shot.
You almost died.
Nothing else matters.
[sighs]
I just wish you'd stayed on.
‐ No.
No, no, no, my boy
did the right thing.
Got out.
Look at him now.
He's got the house;
he's got the wife;
he's got the kid;
he's got the lawn,
which incidentally needs mowing.
‐ I know, I know,
I was supposed to do it, but...
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
‐ Mac?
Mac, stay with us, bro.
‐ On me.
- Sorry?
- Yellow car, one o'clock.
Stay low, stay in cover,
and we flank, yeah?
‐ Uh, think I'm missing
something here, buddy.
‐ Right.
Every day, it drives past.
Either that, or it's sat there
watching the house.
Every fucking day.
‐ Mac, I think we just‐‐
we need to calm down.
‐ Don't‐‐don't do that.
‐ Hey, stop.
It's cool, bro.
- Just back me up.
- Mac, Mac!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[bullets whizzing]
♪ ♪
‐ [panting]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[door opens]
♪ ♪
‐ Mac, are you all right?
Take it easy, mate.
Come on.
‐ Wait, wait, what happened?
Where am I?
‐ You're here. You're home.
We're calling to you.
It's like you couldn't hear us.
‐ No, no, I was‐‐
I was in Afghanistan.
[stammers]
There'd been an ambush.
‐ The hell are you
talking about?
‐ Yeah, and then‐‐then‐‐
there were‐‐I was in Munich.
‐ Mate, mate, all that's over.
It's over. You're safe.
We're all here.
‐ Let's get you inside.
[engine turning over]
Let's get you a glass of water.
Come on, come on, hey.
‐ Hey, hey!
Come here!
Hey!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
‐ Mac!
[dramatic music]
Hey, what was that?
‐ I saw the driver.
It was Zayef.
‐ Mac.
Can't have been him, Mac.
‐ Oh, bollocks, Wyatt.
You didn't see the driver,
all right? I did.
‐ Mac, Zayef is dead.
Confirmed kill.
‐ Really?
Are you sure about that, eh?
Because he's currently
doing fucking laps around
my neighborhood out there.
‐ Listen, maybe this
is something you should, uh‐‐
something to talk
to the doc about.
‐ Fuck you, Wyatt.
I'm not crazy.
‐ I didn't say that.
But first Arianna
and now Zayef? Come on.
‐ Mate, you know
we get this history‐‐
‐ You know what?
You don't fucking get anything!
I was the one
who went after him, okay?
I was the one
who got fucking shot.
Where were you two?
Where the fuck were you two?
Fucking nowhere!
[glass shatters]
I know what I saw!
‐ Tom!
‐ I'll clean it up.
‐ You just woke Riley up,
and you're scaring me.
‐ I just said I'll clean it up.
‐ We came for you, bro.
We did.
Yeah, we did.
- We came for you.
- Just leave it.
‐ Listen to me.
This happens.
This is exactly what happens.
And you're not
in combat anymore,
but those instincts
are fucking in you, man.
And they come out.
And now this is your home,
and this is your family,
and you want to protect that;
I understand.
When you see a fucking car
out the front
and it looks like a threat,
guess what.
Guess what, man.
You make it a threat.
That's all.
‐ What if I'm right
and you're wrong?
Yeah, what if there's
unfinished business?
What if he's fucking
still out there?
‐ He's not, man.
He's not.
‐ [exhales deeply]
[suspenseful music]
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
‐ I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
I'm sorry, kid.
♪ ♪
‐ [panting]
[both moaning]
‐ [grunting]
‐ You're not happy here?
‐ No, I‐‐I am.
I am.
This is...
This is the life
I always wanted.
‐ [chuckles] Yeah, right.
I mean, the roof's leaking.
We've got damp.
Garden needs work.
Living the dream,
aren't we, hmm?
‐ Yeah, but it's okay.
That's‐‐that's all just...
normal stuff.
‐ Yeah.
I'll remind of that next time
you forget cut the grass.
[chuckles]
You did your time in the forces.
You can let go now.
‐ Is it what
you've always wanted?
Family, home?
Some people see that as a trap
rather than a happy ending.
‐ Well, maybe when Wyatt left,
I was a little bit jealous
of him.
The way he was able to go back
to the real world,
just drop everything
and walk away.
- But he didn't stick it out.
- No, he gave it a go.
I didn't.
I‐‐I never tried.
I stopped looking for anything
outside of the military
because that was my everything.
‐ Was it, though?
You had a certain disrespect
for authority.
You questioned orders.
You broke the jaw
of your CO once.
‐ Yeah, you're taking those
out of context.
‐ Let's find the context, then.
Colonel Coltrane
told you to wait,
to not engage the enemy,
and yet you kept going.
You risked it all.
‐ Yeah, I had to do
because the bomb went off.
‐ Well, that wasn't your fault.
‐ I had Zayef handcuffed
to a bloody bench
right next to me.
And Mahir, I had him as well,
and...
I made a choice, okay?
I gambled.
It was all on me.
‐ So you felt responsible?
Willing to disobey orders
to risk your life?
To die alone?
Where do you think
that comes from?
[door thumps]
‐ What does it matter?
‐ Maybe it could help
explain your situation,
how you ended up here.
[door thumps]
When did you start to think
you knew better
than those above you?
[door thumps]
‐ What the fuck is that?
‐ What's what?
- [objects thump]
- That.
[explosion]
- Get out! Out, out!
- [yells indistinctly]
‐ Move, move!
Stay back!
[sustained automatic gunfire]
Mac, fall back!
‐ This is Kilo 22 Charlie.
‐ Mac!
‐ Enemy contact, grid 456.
IED, enemy ambush to our right.
[gunshot]
‐ Sniper!
Get your fucking heads down!
McAllister, on me!
‐ Quick, 456723!
Casualty, gunshot wound.
Request emergency CASEVAC, over!
Fuck!
[tense music]
Medic!
Mac, you need to clear Terry
out from the woods!
Go left, flanking!
Suppress their position!
Are you ready?
Two, one, move!
Front facing enemy, fire!
♪ ♪
Hill left!
Keep your heads down!
♪ ♪
‐ Kilo 22 Delta.
Possible sighting‐‐
enemy sniper.
Moving to engage.
♪ ♪
[indistinct shouting]
‐ Magazine!
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
‐ Kilo 22 Delta,
engaging enemy, over.
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Charlie,
this is Kilo 22 Delta.
Nothing heard, out.
[dramatic music]
‐ [labored breathing]
‐ Don't move!
Hands!
Let me see your hands!
‐ [breathing heavily]
‐ [speaking Pashto]
Hands on your head.
You understand English?
Huh?
You understand a gun, yeah?
Hands on your head!
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Delta, have enemy.
Come in, over.
♪ ♪
Oh, no, no, no, no.
When I say, not when you want.
Uh‐uh, I mean it, mate.
I mean it.
[birds singing]
‐ [groaning]
[coughs and gags]
♪ ♪
‐ What?
No, no, no!
Fucker!
No!
Sit the fuck back down!
- Sit down!
- [yelps and moans]
♪ ♪
‐ Why didn't you let him
kill me?
‐ Because he would have
killed me next.
[groans and coughs]
They are arbaki.
[panting]
Not like soldier, but...
[groans and pants]
They are
Ismatullah Rakesh's men.
He considers this his land.
Head north into Arghandab Valley
and you are in his fields.
‐ Poppy fields?
‐ Your people, my people.
All in his way.
Bad for business.
‐ Yeah, well, don't start
making fucking plans
for the future, mate.
Do you hear me?
This is Kilo 22 Delta, come in.
‐ There will be
more Rakesh men coming.
‐ What?
‐ And now you have
killed one of them.
You don't even know
the way out, do you?
‐ Uh, uh...
Walakandsa, then.
Yeah?
Small town,
friendlies in the area.
‐ I'm bleeding.
‐ I don't give a shit.
Get up and bleed.
♪ ♪
Kilo 22 Delta, come in.
‐ I don't think it's working.
Ambushed you there for a reason.
No signal.
[wings fluttering]
‐ [whispering]
Shh, shh, get down.
‐ [grunting] ‐ Down.
‐ [groaning loudly] ‐ Be quiet.
‐ [groaning]
‐ All right.
Come on, let's go.
‐ I can't. I can't.
[groans]
‐ Fuck's sake.
‐ [groaning]
‐ Let me see.
All right,
let me try and patch you up.
But I mean it, if you fucking
try anything, anything.
‐ [moaning]
Surely, I'm dying.
I'm dying.
‐ You're not dying.
You should be, though.
Taking shots at us like that.
‐ This is my country.
‐ You're fucking Taliban.
Yeah, you're the bad guys.
We're trying to keep the peace.
‐ [laughs]
All those peaceful airstrikes.
All those women and children.
Very good job, my friend.
‐ I'm not here to have a debate.
I'm here to get out
of these woods.
‐ [groans loudly]
[men shouting in Pashto]
The warlord's men.
‐ Call for help.
I'm gonna go on that ridge
and you call for help.
Right?
Just do it.
‐ Yeah, yeah.
♪ ♪
[shouting in Pashto]
[man shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
‐ [speaking Pashto]
[gunshot]
[trigger clicks]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[knife scrapes]
♪ ♪
‐ [gasps]
[yelps and groans]
‐ [groans]
‐ [whimpering]
[coughing and gagging]
‐ You see the ways
the eyes move before death?
That's the brain
going over everything that
has happened in your life...
trying to find an answer
to this situation.
A way out...
forward, back...
there must be some way
to stay alive.
♪ ♪
How many men have you killed?
♪ ♪
‐ Three now.
♪ ♪
[grunts and groans]
♪ ♪
Come on, let's go.
‐ No.
Not that way.
‐ That's where
we were fucking going.
‐ There.
♪ ♪
‐ Come on, then.
♪ ♪
Come on.
‐ [groans]
‐ Move it.
♪ ♪
‐ [shouting in Pashto]
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ We won't outrun them.
♪ ♪
‐ You might not.
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ I have a wife and a daughter.
- What, do you want sympathy?
- I just don't want to die.
‐ You shot one of our guys.
Right now, he might be
in the back of some wagon,
bleeding out.
‐ Why was he even here?
♪ ♪
- It's our job.
- Your job?
You don't even know yourself.
‐ I know if you were smart,
you'd stop gobbing off
and move it.
Come on.
[man shouting in Pashto]
‐ I can't.
‐ Don't sit.
What are you sitting down for?
Hey.
Do you want to see that wife
and daughter of yours again?
Hey, do you?
Move.
‐ [groans]
‐ What's that place?
‐ There is where the Russians
had their men back in the war.
♪ ♪
‐ All right, we hole up there
for five minutes, patch up,
and then we're moving again,
right?
♪ ♪
This is Kilo 22 Delta, uh,
northeast of the forest.
Stone structure,
hostiles in pursuit, over.
♪ ♪
‐ [groaning]
[coughing]
‐ Here.
♪ ♪
[groans]
♪ ♪
‐ [whistles softly]
[birds singing]
♪ ♪
‐ Maybe they've given up.
‐ They will not give up.
They get paid more
if they find people like us.
♪ ♪
‐ You local?
‐ No.
[groans]
My home is... far away.
♪ ♪
[coughing]
[coughing]
‐ [whispering]
Shh. Stay down.
Stop fucking moving.
Shut up.
[gunfire]
Move, move!
♪ ♪
Go, go, go!
Oh, shit!
Put your head down!
[yells]
Go!
Move, move, move!
Go!
[men shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
[gunshot]
This was a bad fucking idea.
We need to get out of here.
‐ Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
‐ Go.
[man shouting in Pashto]
♪ ♪
[gunfire]
[high‐pitched ringing]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
You okay?
- Good.
- Come on. Let's move.
We need to move.
Come on.
Do you have a rock up your ass?
Come on!
‐ [groans]
‐ Yeah?
♪ ♪
Hey!
[gunfire]
Come on.
♪ ♪
No, don't.
Don't.
♪ ♪
You get me
out of the forest, okay?
You get me to safety,
we both walk away.
Yeah?
We're a team.
‐ We're not a fucking team.
‐ No, we shouldn't be.
Yeah, we shouldn't be.
But right now, I'm only alive
because of you.
You're only alive because of me.
‐ That means more than orders?
‐ Yeah.
You have my word.
You fucking point a gun at me?
You point a fucking gun at me?
[growls]
Me and my fucking word.
‐ [groaning]
‐ Come on.
♪ ♪
[helicopter rotors whirring]
[radio crackles]
‐ Kilo 22 Delta,
this is 33 Alpha, radio check.
‐ This is Kilo 22 Delta.
Receiving, over.
‐ RP Kilo 22 Delta,
radio check, over.
‐ Good check.
- RV at 57342661.
- Copy that.
♪ ♪
It's all right.
You're good.
- Your word, yes?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
‐ McAllister!
♪ ♪
You split from your team
and then engaged the enemy.
‐ I radioed it in, sir,
and I got no response.
And considering the condition
of Lance Corporal Roberts
at the time...
How is he?
‐ He's stable.
Who's your pal?
‐ He's nobody.
He's just a local.
He gave me directions.
I thought we could give him
a lift to the next town.
What‐‐hang on a minute.
Wait, he's nothing
to do with this.
- Hang on a minute, boys.
- You don't get to decide this.
‐ Just hang on a second.
- Lance Corporal!
- Leave him alone.
‐ I strongly suggest
you stand down.
♪ ♪
‐ Sir.
[dramatic music]
‐ [muffled shouting]
♪ ♪
‐ It's back.
Dad, it's back.
‐ What's back?
[ominous music]
Go inside the house.
Go on, go.
♪ ♪
What are you doing
outside my house?
Hey, what do you want?
Come on!
What do you want?
Come on!
[girl screaming]
[screaming]
‐ What are you doing
in my house?
‐ [gasps]
What the hell?
‐ I'm sorry, I‐‐
I'm so sorry, I‐‐
I heard a noise, and I th‐‐
It's the car.
The car's outside.
♪ ♪
Everything's falling apart.
And if this goes on,
I'll lose Amy.
She'll take the kid.
‐ You don't want to let go.
♪ ♪
‐ No.
♪ ♪
‐ What happened
to the Taliban sniper?
♪ ♪
‐ I don't know.
‐ Thomas, when you lie to me,
you're really lying to yourself.
Haven't you figured that out?
‐ He wasn't some goat herder.
He was Taliban.
Whatever happened to him,
he deserved it.
‐ He died in custody.
The result
of enhanced interrogation,
which is a polite way
of saying "torture."
[water splattering
and garbled screaming]
[chains rattling]
‐ I could've done more.
♪ ♪
I shouldn't have
gave him my word.
‐ But it did set you on a road
that led to Section.
All the way
to the Schwarzer Tempel Estate.
It made you what you were.
‐ I was just a soldier.
♪ ♪
Nothing special.
♪ ♪
‐ You really believe that,
don't you?
You don't think
you were good enough,
that you made a difference.
Do you think
the Afghan was right?
Those last moments of a life?
‐ [gurgling]
‐ The brain running through
the past, the future,
trying to find an answer,
a way out?
A way to survive?
‐ I don't know.
‐ You should.
What was it like
lying there, bleeding out?
Picture yourself back there.
♪ ♪
The sounds, the smells.
What are you seeing?
♪ ♪
Thomas, what are you hearing?
[gunfire and shouting]
♪ ♪
‐ Shouts.
Gunfire.
‐ Who was it?
‐ Hold the fuck on, Mac!
Hold on!
♪ ♪
‐ It was them.
♪ ♪
They were coming to save me.
[intense music]
‐ Stairs right.
Moving out.
‐ Moving.
[indistinct shouting]
[gunfire]
‐ [shouts indistinctly]
‐ Let's go!
Move, move, move, move!
‐ Moving.
♪ ♪
‐ Thomas?
♪ ♪
Thomas.
♪ ♪
‐ Suppressing!
‐ Moving out!
♪ ♪
‐ Moving.
♪ ♪
‐ Fuck!
‐ Moving!
♪ ♪
Team is inbound.
Hold the fuck on, Mac!
Hold on!
Move, move!
♪ ♪
All right, on me.
Move, move, move!
♪ ♪
Clear!
Go, move!
♪ ♪
Here he is!
Eyes on, eyes on.
Mac!
Shit.
Med kit, med kit!
Hey, hey, hey.
Okay, is he breathing?
Hey, stay with us, bro.
Stay with us.
‐ They came for you.
[sparse dramatic music]
‐ I was thinking...
just to hold on.
Just one more breath.
♪ ♪
One more second.
‐ Then it would be all right.
♪ ♪
Lying there, bleeding out.
Just looking
for a way to survive.
♪ ♪
Every angle, past and present...
♪ ♪
And future.
♪ ♪
‐ [exhales heavily]
You have to try, right?
[sniffles]
♪ ♪
I know why you remind me
of her now.
♪ ♪
Even worse...
I've figured it all out.
♪ ♪
You and Zayef.
♪ ♪
Just one of those things
that all fell into place.
‐ It's a little too late.
‐ Yeah.
[sniffles]
Probably.
♪ ♪
They'll come for you.
♪ ♪
I know that for sure.
They'll come for you,
and you'll die alone.
♪ ♪
‐ It's all right, brother.
We're here for you.
We're here for you.
Hey, stay with us, bro.
Stay with us.
Another one.
Okay, another one.
It's okay, we're here for you.
♪ ♪
‐ Stupid, but...
this is
how I always pictured it.
One day, place like this...
kid like you.
♪ ♪
‐ We came for you.
You know that, right?
It's okay, bro.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.
We need help.
We need a‐‐we need medevac.
We need a medevac.
Don't you fucking leave me!
Don't you leave me.
‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
I heard you.
♪ ♪
And then I tried.
You know, I really,
really tried.
‐ It's okay, mate.
You did good, all said and done.
You did good, mate.
‐ Thanks, kid.
♪ ♪
‐ You can let go now.
♪ ♪
‐ Grass needs cutting, though.
[laughter]
‐ Bastard.
♪ ♪
[high‐pitched ringing]
♪ ♪
‐ No, no, no, no!
[sobs]
- It's okay.
- [crying]
- Come on.
- Shh.
- [breathing heavily]
- Don't you fucking leave me.
Don't you fucking leave me.
- He's gone.
- Yeah.
‐ [sobbing]
‐ [sniffles]
- It's over.
- [sobs] No.
- Let him go.
- No!
‐ Let him go.
- Come on.
- Man, fuck off.
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, you're going that way,
are you?
‐ [squeals and giggles]
‐ There's no getting away
from me.
‐ Can't catch me!
You're it, Mom.
‐ Come here, come here.
I'm gonna get ya.
[laughter]
Don't you get me.
I'm in charge here.
- Come here, girl!
- [squeals]
‐ I've got ya!
[chatter, laughter]
♪ ♪
[The Heavy's
"Short Change Hero"]
♪ ♪
‐ ♪ I can't see
where you coming from ♪
♪ But I know just what
you runnin' from ♪
♪ And what matters
ain't the "who's baddest" ♪
♪ But the ones who stop you
falling from your ladder ♪
♪ 'Cause this ain't no place
for no hero ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no better man ♪
♪ This ain't no place
for no hero to call home ♪
♪ ♪
[engine revving]
SIR JAMES SPENCER: I can't
change what happened in Munich...
but I can change
whatever's coming next.
I understand that, for some
of you, this is personal.
Don't move!
Zayef. Where is he?
- Where is he?
- WOMAN: Loric Demachi.
Zayef, the Demachi's,
we have our lead.
Close the lighter.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
We came for you.
You know that, right?
Warren, Alin, and myself
read the scripts
at the same time
at Warren's house
on a Sunday afternoon.
All's said and done...
you did good, man.
DANIEL MACPHERSON: And by
halfway through the script,
Alin had her knees up
and a towel over her head
because she was crying so much.
I was absolutely bawling
my eyes out crying.
And‐‐ And here they are
just kind of, like,
having a farting competition.
This is the only way
this script could've been...
(CHUCKLES)
read.
THERAPIST:
A terrorist attack in Munich...
you chased after the perpetrator
without waiting for backup.
The death toll. Maybe I could've
stopped that from happening.
I knew when Mac died
that we weren't gonna treat it
like the other deaths.
We promised Warren that
"If you do go out,
we're gonna try and give you
the best possible send‐off we can."
‐(BREATHING HEAVILY) ‐Mac?
You all right?
Take it easy, mate. Come on.
You know, I knew
at the beginning of the season
that we would be saying
goodbye to Mac,
but didn't really know
in what context.
Certainly, episode six
was just so clever,
so well done.
- (GUNFIRE)
- SOLDIER: Move, move!
WARREN BROWN: I don't think
I was on flat land
for about a week.
Literally, no matter what,
you were either fighting
on a hill,
or there was dialogue on a hill,
or you were sat
crouching in cover,
but you were on a hill.
(GRUNTING)
It was absolutely brutal.
JACK LOTHIAN: What we were
interested in doing
was looking at,
when did Mac become Mac?
‐(GUNFIRE) ‐Move, move!
It was quite interesting
to go back and see
what was the first
section 20‐type mission
that Mac was ever on?
His first, sort of decision
to stand up to authority or not.
You split from your team,
and then engaged the enemy.
Sir.
(MAN GRUNTS)
And what laid the seeds
for the person
that he ended up being.
(MAN GROANING)
Everything's falling apart.
You don't want to let go.
JAMIE BAMBER: My favorite
episode that I've read so far
of Strike Back is episode six.
And it's an episode
I'm not really in, at all.
It just goes to show
we're not all selfish... actors.
What was it like,
lying there, bleeding out?
WARREN: When, you know,
the therapist is going,
"Think about this incident
and what can you see?"
And it was so fresh in my mind,
Wyatt and Alin
and fuckin'... tears
coming down on my face,
and that fuckin' hurt me.
Then I just went to bits
in that scene.
I was thinking...
"Just hold on..."
just...
one more breath.
"One more second."
That scene on the day,
didn't feel like
there was a lot of acting
involved. (CHUCKLES)
Seeing him lie there
in that pool of blood,
I couldn't look at it.
It felt like I was constantly
on the verge of falling apart,
and I think everyone felt
that way.
- MAN: Here he is!
- DANIEL: I deliberately...
slept about three hours
the night before.
'Cause I knew that
I'd be just raw,
and I said to Warren,
"I don't wanna see you that day.
First time I see you is
on the ground, bleeding out."
By that time, you're exhausted,
you're sweaty,
I haven't slept for days,
and, uh‐‐ And you go in,
and you see your‐‐
your best mate
trying to stay alive for you.
Don't you fuckin' leave me!
Don't you leave me!
I hope it's
a pretty powerful moment.
WARREN: So, originally‐‐ we have
afforded now with‐‐
certainly with our gang,
the two actually go
and do something
that is very... not Strike Back.
But still, quintessentially
Strike Back.
I gave it everything,
and so did everyone,
and I think it's just been
one fuckin'
hell of an experience
that I will cherish,
and never forget.
♪ (MUSIC OUTRO PLAYS) ♪