You sure he...? He actually said that? He wants to come?
I think he will.
- He wasn't so sure about it, but... - Yeah, I'll bet he wasn't.
- has asked President Bush to activate...
... thousands of military reservists.
Hey, Pop!
Hey, what are you doing in here?
Look at you.
Spiffy.
Are you coming with us?
Please. My parents are so excited to meet you, Mr. Tyree.
Yeah.
You hungry?
I made meatloaf.
I know you made meatloaf, Pop. It's Saturday.
We can take it with us.
You mind if we take it with us?
Well, I don't...
Is that okay? I'll wrap it up.
I don't mean... I'm sorry, but could...?
Could you stop the car, because I need to go back.
- Should I turn around? - Stop the car, please. Stop the car.
- Forget something? - Okay.
No, I need to get out of the car. Please.
- All right, just... Just relax, okay? - Yeah.
I don't think I can do this.
- Look, you're fine. You're fine. - No, I just... Please. I need to get out.
You're okay, Pop. It's fine.
- Look, stop the car, I can't... - Okay, I'll turn around.
We're fine, we're fine, we're fine.
- I gotta get out. Stop the car. - Okay, all right.
- Come on, Dad, stop! - Okay.
Pop. Come on, don't do that.
Hey, Mr. Tyree.
Hey, you all right?
- You okay? - I'm sorry.
It's okay.
But hey, let's...
We're gonna wait for you in the car, all right?
- No, I'm fine, I'm fine. - No, don't, honestly,
We can stay. Let's just stay.
Okay? Let's stay, because I can go next year.
Pop, I only got one night.
I mean, I gotta go back. Do you understand that?
You should go. You both should go.
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Wall Street will re-open on Monday.
He tried. At least he tried.
Hello, welcome.
My girl.
Mom, this is John.
John, I feel like I already know you. Where's your father, did he come too?
- No, ma'am. - Oh, that's okay.
I'm just glad that you made it home safe.
We thought about canceling with everything that's going on...
...but we felt like everybody should be together.
I've been briefing him in the car and I think he's good.
It was good intel. With solid tactical training, I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
I love him already.
Mrs. Curtis, Savannah.
- Hey, dude, how's it going? - John.
It's good to see you again.
All right, You know what? You look like you could use a drink.
- I'll grab one for you. - Yes, thank you.
- John. - What's he doing here?
He's here because I invited him. His family lives just up the street.
What are you, like, hanging out now?
He's really not that bad once you get to know him, I swear to you, John.
Here you go.
It's bourbon, it's not gonna kill you.
Be right back.
We got off on the wrong foot and I want to apologize for the way I treated you.
If I had known that Savannah was actually gonna stay with you...
...I wouldn't have treated you that way. In all seriousness, I'm sorry.
Fair enough.
If you need anything and...
- Enjoy yourself. - Right.
So this is him.
Yup. No tough-guy routine from you, Dad.
Routine? I bench press refrigerators, honey.
Your boyfriends need to know these things.
He's absolutely right. Nice to meet you, Mr. Curtis.
But I think Tim here might have already beat you to the punch.
He said he'd rough me up if ever I hurt her.
I was very convincing too. I think I made quite an impact.
Well, cheers, son. Glad you could join us.
Thank you, sir.
- Billy! You actually showed up! - See, hard part's over.
- Good to see you again, John. - How you doing, Tim?
Hi. Hey, Tim, how are you doing?
- Good. - I haven't seen your wife. Is she here?
Yeah, she's on vacation actually.
- So I'll tell her you said hello. - Please do.
I will.
Alan, remember what we talked about?
Another vacation?
Yeah.
Alan ever ask about her?
Yeah, he does. I just don't know what to say.
Hey, look, I'm not a father.
You know, I'm really in no position to give you advice at all.
When I was a kid, I waited around every day...
...hoping that today would finally be the day...
...that my mom would come home.
I waited around 15 years.
So I know how painful it might have been for my dad to...
...just tell me the truth.
It would have saved me a lot of waiting around.
You know?
Well, I guess if the worst thing you can say about your father...
...is he tried to protect you too much then...
...that's a pretty good father, isn't it?
I'm sorry. You're John, right? Savannah's John?
- Yes, sir. - I wanna thank you for what you do.
Know our prayers are with you. I hope whatever happens...
...it'll be over soon. So you boys can come home safe and sound.
Oh, it won't be over anytime soon.
Afghanistan will just be the first stop of many.
He's right, you know. Pretty soon they'll ask y'all to reenlist for another tour.
Slowly but surely they'll stop asking and start telling.
None of the soldiers I know need to be asked, sir.
And we sure don't need to be told.
What do you mean by we?
It was great to see you guys. See you next year.
Savannah...
So you're gonna reenlist, just like that?
It's something we should talk about.
Two more years, John.
Have you already done it? Have you already re-upped?
No.
But you decided that you're going to?
Do I have a say?
Do I have a say in this?
- You don't understand. - Don't ever tell me I don't understand.
Leave me alone, John.
Please.
What do you...?
What do you want from me?
Savannah, I mean...
Just tell me what you want from me. I mean, you want me to quit?
Is that it?
Look, I don't know how we got here. I don't know what happened.
Just woke up and...
...there's buildings falling and...
I mean, I had a plan... I had a plan, but now I don't.
And I have no idea what to do.
I don't know what to do and I just... All I know is I wanna stay here.
I just wanna stay right here with you as long as I possibly can.
You're just all that matters, okay? You're all that matters to me.
I'm trying to figure out what the right thing is and I don't know.
I don't have any idea how to get there. I just... Because I need you to tell me.
I just need you to tell me, okay?
Can you just tell me, please...? Just tell me what you want me to do.
I want you to come with me.
Hey, Pop.
Thank you. Thank you for coming.
Well...
So you think you're gonna be okay by yourself this time?
Yeah, why wouldn't I be?
I should probably be getting going.
Take care of yourself.
So are we...? I mean, we're okay though.
Right? Nothing has changed?
Be careful not to step in any fires, okay?
Okay. I will.
So I'll see you soon, then.
I'll see you soon, then.
Welcome back, guys.
Hope you had a good weekend. Wish it could've been longer...
...but sometimes you got to take what you can get.
So that's it then?
It's unanimous?
Okay.
I'll start the paperwork.
Thank you, sir.
O'Neill, here you go!
This smells pretty good, Russ.
And we got Daniels. Where's he at?
Move, move, move, up and shoot!
- Hey, yo. - Yeah, nothing today, man. Sorry.
Go, go, go.
Yo, you guys seen John? Is he back here?
Yo, John.
Got one for you, dude.
- Yeah? - That's it, though.
Dear John, I know it's been way too long since I last wrote you.
I've been staring at this blank page for the last two hours.
Well, if I'm being honest...
... I've been staring at it for the last two months.
Please forgive me for what I'm about to say.
And know that this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
My life without you has no meaning.
And I cannot live... I'm sorry.
Yo, listen to this, hedge fund manager on Wall Street, right?
How much do you think he made at his regular job?
Twenty-seven million dollars, he ran a hedge fund. Works on Wall Street.
That is amazing.
You making mud pies, buddy?
What's going on, man?
You wanna talk about it?
Nothing to talk about.
She found somebody else.
You got any idea who it is?
No, she didn't say.
I mean, I got a pretty good idea.
Look, man...
...you know, this happens, dude. I mean, you'll get her back.
You get home, she comes running.
- It's the whole cycle, dude. - They already got engaged.
Jesus.
Hey, I'm sorry, man.
Let me know if I can do anything, all right?
- Off the bottom rim. You wouldn't think a squirrel could swim, but I swear...
...swam 20 yards to the shoreline.
- Swimming squirrel. - That's crazy, dude.
Hey, notice that. Did y'all see that?
I mean, that's as sexy as it gets around here.
They can't show their legs, so they got fishnets on their faces.
I'm gonna bring that back to the States and make my girl wear that.
How mysterious.
Back up, back up!
- What's he saying? - Hey, he's speaking Turkish.
- What is he saying, though? - I don't know. I don't know.
Come on, specialist, figure it out!
Look, man, I speak Pashtu, I speak Farsi, I speak all kinds of shit.
What languages you speak? Come here.
- Good work, man. - Stay right there.
- Hey, where are you going? - Somebody's gotta figure it out.
- Noodles, go with him. - Yeah.
Back up, back up.
Tyree!
Wait for further instructions.
Let's move out.
- Good? - Yeah, you?
We got a man down! Noodles, you gonna be all right, man! Hold on, man!
Copy that, man down! Man down!
- Come here. - You see it?
I got you. Get your hands up!
Tyree, do you read? Talk to me, Tyree.
Lucky SOB. It hit your plate.
Jesus, I never loved a piece of clothing more in my entire life, I swear to God.
John!
Man down! Medic!
Medic! John.
Come on, man.
Medic!
Look, come on, you're gonna be fine, all right? It's nothing.
It's nothing. You got this.
Stay awake, okay? You just look in my eyes, just look in my eyes!
Keep your eyes open, okay?
Eyes, awake, awake, right at me, okay?
Jakes!
Welcome back, Sergeant Tyree.
Rest easy, okay? You're in the hospital in Germany.
And you're gonna be just fine.
Tyree.
- You look good, man. - Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to come by and let you know I'll be extending.
Extending. Tyree, it's been three months.
I'm impressed, but I'm not stupid.
Go home, John. Get some R&R.
Keep your dad some company for a while.
Have a seat.
Listen, I'm being transferred.
Now, this has nothing to do with what happened.
My captain duties are done here.
Going back to Fort Bragg. I actually miss my family.
That's good, sir.
Berry and Daniels are getting out, the others, coming down on assignment.
- And you've got less than four months... - I'm definitely extending.
Your war is over, John. You served your country well.
You know what? I might just make this a career.
No talking you out of this, huh?
Mark, on my mark!
Mark!
Where you thinking next?
Oh, man. I don't know, wherever they send us.
Actually, we're sending you home to the States, John.
I'm sorry, we just got the news.
He's conscious, but he's not lucid.
And he's hardly ever responsive.
It's hard for me to say how severe the stroke really is...
...because we don't know how long he was down before they found him.
If I'd have been there to find him like that earlier...
...do you think it would've made a difference?
I doubt it. I really doubt it.
- Hey, Jeff, here's that scan. - No problem.
Hey, Pop.
What...? What the heck do you...? Ma'am, why do you have him out here?
You okay? How you feeling?
I...
I mean, it's nothing, but I wrote you... I wrote you a letter.
No, no, don't read it now. You don't have to...
I didn't think you'd... Why don't you read it when I'm not around?
You know what? The hell with it. I'll just read it to you.
"Dear Dad.
There's something I've been wanting to tell you.
You remember a few years back...
...when I got shot.
Well, you wanna know the very first thing...
...that entered my mind at that moment?
Right before I blacked out?
Coins.
Suddenly I was 8 years old again.
I was on that tour of the U.S. Mint.
I was listening to the guide explain how coins are made.
How they're punched out of sheet metal and how they're rimmed and beveled.
How they're stamped and cleaned.
And how each and every batch of coins are personally examined...
...in case any have slipped through with the slightest imperfection.
Do you remember that, Dad?
I mean, do you remember that trip to Philadelphia we took?
That's what popped into my head.
I'm a coin of the United States Army.
And I was minted in the year 1980.
I've been punched from sheet metal.
I've been stamped and cleaned.
And my edges have been rimmed and beveled.
But now I have two small holes in me.
So I'm no longer in perfect condition."
How about it, Dad? You know, we're just a couple of culls here, huh?
"But there's one... There's one more thing...
...that I want to tell you too.
After I got shot, you know, right before I blacked out.
You wanna know the very last thing I thought of?"
I'm sorry.
The very last thing I thought of...
You wanna know the very last thing I thought of?
I'm so sorry, I don't want to rush you...
...but we have another service coming in.
John.
What brings you home?
It's my dad.
How's your dad?
He...
I'm sorry.
I wish I had known.
It's okay.
It wouldn't have made any difference.
I'm so sorry.
He's... He was a really good man.
You finally did it, huh?
Camp Horse Sense.
No.
I didn't. I tried.
It only lasted one summer after we took over this place from my parents.
It was... It was expensive.
Do you want to come inside?
It's just me.
When do you have to go back?
As soon as I get my dad's stuff squared away.
Have you settled down yet?
No.
But you must be dating a lot, huh?
No. I don't think you can call it dating exactly.
It's so good to see you.
Here. Alive.
Hold on. I'm just gonna... I'm sorry.
Hello?
Hey.
No, I'm fine.
I...
Well, John... John is here.
Yeah, John Tyree.
Yeah, I'm gonna leave soon.
Okay, I'll see you.
I'll be there in like 20 minutes, okay?
I love you too. Bye.
He wants to see you.
Wait, what?
It's Tim?
Initially after he was diagnosed, he was so optimistic.
He wasn't concerned, all he cared about was Alan...
...which was inspiring.
It wasn't until after the cancer spread to stage four that I noticed a big change.
What kind of cancer is it?
Lymphoma.
He's had it with being cooped up in that room...
...so he basically just spends all his time out here.
Sometimes with Alan.
- Can I have a crumble cake? - Alan, do you remember John?
Hello, John.
Hey, Alan.
He's gotten big.
- How are you? - Good.
I'm gonna get him a crumble cake.
Oh, that's a good idea. He's been talking about that.
Come on, Alan.
I guess you must want to kick my ass, huh?
There's not a lot I can do about it here, is there?
It's all part of my master plan.
Hell of a plan.
I love her.
Everything that happened in my life before, it's gone now.
It's been wiped clean.
I wanted to tell you that.
And I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for how it happened with you so far away.
But I know now that Alan will always have someone to take care of him.
He will always be in good hands.
She still loves you, you know.
Why is it black?
It's plain as day, you can see it all over her face.
I wish that weren't the case...
...but she's never looked at me the way she used to look at you.
You should know that.
Be careful, Alan.
He still loves those horses, huh?
Yeah, he'll be out there till bedtime.
I gotta get him out of that hospital.
He needs to come home.
There's a company in Texas with an experimental drug.
That might help.
But the insurance companies don't pay for it, of course.
My parents sold their beach house a year ago.
Which was a godsend.
We've done a few fundraisers.
But I never would have guessed that we would run out so fast.
Stay for dinner, okay?
So you drink now.
Just a glass or two at dinner.
Tim got me started a couple years ago.
Why are you looking at me like that?
What do you mean?
How am I looking at you?
Differently.
I don't know, how do you want me to look at you?
You're different.
I don't know...
I don't know why I came here. I mean, what are we doing?
We're sitting here and we're eating and we're talking...
...but no one's actually saying anything.
What do you want me to say? What do you want to talk about?
Why didn't you call?
Why didn't you call me?
I mean, did I not deserve any more explanation than...
...that letter?
You couldn't have called me?
You couldn't have given me some sort of chance to change your mind?
Don't you think you owed me that?
I couldn't.
You couldn't?
You thought that little of me that you couldn't have just called me.
Why?
Because I couldn't.
Give me an answer. Why? Why not?
- Because I couldn't. - An answer.
Because just hearing your voice, I would have changed my mind.
Is that what you wanna hear, John? What you came all this way to hear?
You think it was tough out there? Think it was easy for me without you?
You thought that every single day it wasn't...
...a goddamn marathon of my life without you?
Tim was sick.
He was sick and he needed me.
He needed me to help him.
He needed me to help him with Alan, with everything.
I was alone and I had no idea what I was doing.
I didn't plan this. I didn't know that it was gonna happen to me.
But it did.
You don't think I've tried...?
I picked up the phone a thousand times to try to call you.
You think that I really wanna be standing here in front of you like this?
I had no choice.
I know.
I saved every single one of them.
You've been so many places.
I think the yellow envelopes are from Africa or something.
Really?
I even have your first, your very first letter to me.
Tim's water bill.
Sorry.
It's okay.
Hope you have more where that came from.
I'm gonna put a pot of coffee on.
I should go.
I'll see you soon, then?
Say it back.
When I say it, you say it.
Remember?
John?
Just say it.
Goodbye, Savannah.
I don't think you remember me. But I believe you knew my father, Bill Tyree.
Oh, yeah, of course I did. I haven't seen him in a while, though. How is he?
He recently passed.
I'm sorry.
I think you might've offered to buy his coin collection one time. Is that right?
Sure did. More than once.
Just out of curiosity, how much do you think a collection like his is worth?
A collection that big? I don't know, I'd have to see it.
Look, I only got about one condition.
All the mules, they gotta stay together.
You can sell them as a set or keep them for yourself.
They have to stay together.
You're really going to sell me all his coins?
Yes, sir.
All but one.
This comes up nickel, we're gonna set up right here. We got shade.
It comes up penny, we'll be up on the ridge. We got visibility.
- That'd be penny side. - All right, let's go to the ridge.
Sergeant.
Thank you.
Dear John...
... it's been almost five years since I wrote with an actual pen...
... on an actual sheet of paper.
I thought I could write and tell you...
... all that's happened since I saw you last.
A few weeks after you showed up here...
... Tim received an anonymous donation.
A donation that was enough to give him...
... what the insurance companies wouldn't:
Time.
Time to finally come home.
Time to spend with his son.
Time to say goodbye.
The problem with time, I've learned...
... whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you...
... or those final two months I got to spend with him...
... eventually time always runs out.
I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John.
But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago.
No matter how many years go by...
... I know one thing to be as true as it ever was.
I'll see you soon, then.