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?
1:17:12
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
1:17:19
You may have come in here
as a boy piper, Sinclair...
1:17:22
but I was here before you.
1:17:24
I was born with this regiment
born into an idea.
1:17:28
The bandaged feet at Corunna...
1:17:30
the square at Waterloo,
the thin red line...
1:17:33
the charge of our Highlanders
hanging onto the cavalry's stirrups...
1:17:36
and "Scotland the Brave"...
1:17:38
the mud at Passchendaele,
in which my own father fell.
1:17:41
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...
1:17:57
since my first toy soldier.
1:18:04
I'm sorry.
1:18:07
Oh, no, no.
No, don't be sorry.
1:18:10
Perhaps it's rather late for apologies
on either side.
1:18:13
But if I could, with honor,
find a way out...
1:18:17
I assure you I would take it.
1:18:19
No, no, no, no, Colonel.
1:18:22
But I'm lying here thinking, uh...
1:18:25
who's hurt by the headlines?
1:18:29
Ex-colonel strikes
lover-boy corporal, eh?
1:18:32
And I'll tell you who suffers most.
1:18:35
Not Morag, not the corporal,
not me, but the, um
1:18:38
Uh, you express yourself
better than me.
1:18:41
Uh Uh, not just the battalion.
What was it you said?
1:18:46
- The idea.
- That's it.
1:18:49
The idea of the battalion.
1:18:53
The living and the dead,
all together.
1:18:56
The regiment.
1:18:59
That's what suffers most.