1:16:00
This isn't easy for me, you know.
1:16:02
- What do you think it is for me? A bloody picnic?
- No, I don't think that.
1:16:07
Jock, I'm sorry.
Really sorry.
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Whatever the circumstances,
no reasonable man...
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can be expected to enjoy
the business of hurting a brother officer.
1:16:15
Oh, for Pete's sake.
1:16:17
All right. You're sorry.
Good for you.
1:16:21
You haven't told me yet
what you've done anyway.
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Mr. Riddick is collecting
formal evidence with a view to court-martial.
1:16:32
- I'm afraid I had no choice.
- What do you mean, "no choice"?
1:16:35
You could deal with it
yourself, couldn't you?
1:16:37
- I wish I could.
- You're the colonel, aren't you?
1:16:40
That's exactly what I mean,
and I put it to you:
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Under the given circumstances,
can you find any possible reason...
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why I shouldn't send you up for trial?
1:16:47
If one of my officers had done it,
I'd give him one such hell of a row.
1:16:52
I took my orders from brigade,
but I never had to take my dirty washing there.
1:16:56
There were
civilian witnesses present. If I
1:16:58
Oh, to hell with you, Barrow boy.
1:17:00
What are you?
A man or a book?
1:17:02
You come in here to say sorry in one breath
and ax me down with the next.
1:17:06
You'll be away to brigade
in a year or two anyway.
1:17:09
What does commanding
the battalion mean to you?
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- Nothing.
- Nothing?
1:17:19
You may have come in here
as a boy piper, Sinclair...
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but I was here before you.
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I was born with this regiment
born into an idea.
1:17:28
The bandaged feet at Corunna...
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the square at Waterloo,
the thin red line...
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the charge of our Highlanders
hanging onto the cavalry's stirrups...
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and "Scotland the Brave"...
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the mud at Passchendaele,
in which my own father fell.
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And I've kept up with the history.
1:17:43
I even know the chapter
where you took over in the desert...
1:17:46
sitting on the edge of a bren gun carrier
like a... bobby at a tattoo.
1:17:51
Accuse me of anything you like, Jock,
but don't accuse me of not caring.
1:17:54
I've eaten, walked, slept
and dreamt this regiment...
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since my first toy soldier.