:36:01
No, you don't understand
what I'm asking.
:36:04
I want you
to be my lawyer.
:36:11
I'm a good enough lawyer to know
you need a better lawyer than me.
:36:14
'Sides that, I'm short.
:36:16
Two-nine plus one wake-up,
and I'm gone.
:36:17
You need one of those
Washington cats.
:36:20
I don't want some Starbucks
drinker who's never seen combat.
:36:24
- I need somebody who's been shot at.
- Yeah, I've been shot at.
:36:27
That's what I am...
a shot-up marine.
:36:30
As a matter of fact,
that's all the hell I am.
:36:33
No, wait a minute.
I'm also a weak lawyer.
:36:37
I'm a very weak lawyer...
:36:40
and the government is gonna come
at you with everything they've got.
:36:53
Major, Bill Sokal. It's a pleasure
to meet you. Come on in.
:36:56
Let me introduce you.
:36:58
Gentlemen, this
is Major Mark Biggs.
:37:00
He'll be prosecuting
the Childers court-martial.
:37:02
The marines put the major
through Stanford Law,
:37:05
and he owes them a couple of years
before he takes over the world.
:37:08
You know General Lowry.
:37:10
I'd like you to meet the general
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
:37:12
General West, and the secretary
of Defense, Mr. Wyatt.
:37:15
Have a seat.
Make yourself comfortable.
:37:17
What I gather from our esteemed NSC
advisor and secretary of state...
:37:21
is that we've got a trial
in two weeks.
:37:23
- Seems awfully damned fast.
- Everyone in this room will agree...
:37:26
it's in the national interest that
this trial be moved along quickly.
:37:29
The Article 32 investigation
was complete and comprehensive.
:37:32
It all seems to point
in one direction.
:37:34
Has he got a lawyer yet?
:37:35
He's requested a military
attorney, Colonel Hayes Hodges.
:37:38
Second Marine Division, Lejeune.
:37:41
Any relation to
General H. Lawrence Hodges?
:37:43
His son.
:37:44
Larry Hodges was one of this country's
most distinguished officers.
:37:47
What do we know about
Colonel Hayes Hodges?
:37:49
He's a guy who got
blown apart in Vietnam,
:37:51
then went to Georgetown Law
and became a cynic.
:37:54
Is that about right, Major?
:37:56
He was 67th in his class
at Georgetown, sir.
:37:58
He doesn't take too many cases,
doesn't win too many.