Comrades
Episode 2
~ Starring ~ CHOI Sujong
LEE Taeran
LEE Deokhwa
KIM Roeha ~ IM Wonhee
NAM Seongjin ~ HONG Gyeongin ~ PARK Sangwook
LEE Seunghyo ~ RYU Sangwook ~ AHN Yongjun
KIM Myeongsu ~ JUNG Taewoo ~ LEE Inhye
~ Episode 2 ~
Survive through thick and thin and get married instead...
Why the hell did you have to get stabbed instead of me, you prick?
Who asked you to do that, you wretched fool?
So many of our men were wounded,
we're using the headquarters building as a makeshift ward.
And the victims?
Moved back to their respective encampments.
But we still haven't been able to bury them.
We've lost over a thousand men.
They had to fight a pitched battle in such circumstances.
They will attack us again in no time.
Resupply ammo,
and rearrange our artillery positions.
We must protect this post,
and help our fallen soldiers rest in peace.
Yes, Sir.
Goddamn...
Why aren't they coming?
They will soon attack.
Can we really hold them back?
I've never seen so many soldiers attack at once.
They filled the line of sight.
Don't let them scare you.
Or their numbers will only double in your eyes.
Ahh... What's wrong with you?
He's having the time of his life, I guess?!
Quiet!
They're coming.
Fire on my command!
Fire!
Eagle 3rd company, support! You must hold them back at all cost!
General.
Enemy numbers are too much for them to handle.
If they don't retreat now, they'll be annihilated!
General!
Which units aren't under attack at the moment?
Kite 3rd battalion.
- Establish contact. - Yes.
Set up defense at the Mt. Okryeon ridgeline, and cover for retreating troops.
Yes, Sir.
Even if the PLA attacks, you must maintain your positions at all cost.
If you don't hold them back, our division will be annihilated.
Sir. Yes, Sir.
- I have faith you will make it. - Yes! Loyalty!
The entire company will fall back to the Mount Okryeon ridgeline.
- Convey the order. - Yes, Sir!
It's division headquarters.
Immediately fall back to the Mount Okryeon ridgeline.
Eagle regiment, retreat. Repeat, retreat.
Eagle 8th company. Eagle 8th company.
While providing cover for retreating troops, fall back to Mount Okryeon.
Quick!
The retreat signal!
Fall back!
1st squad, fall back!
Quick!
Have we located Eagle regiment's leader yet?
We lost radio contact with him.
We might have lost them.
General. They're heading this way as well.
They've already penetrated the outer line of defense.
You must find refuge.
All right.
Prepare the wounded for the transfer.
Yes, Sir.
General! Are you all right?
Let's leave this place.
We must leave.
General, come on board.
- To Kite 3rd battalion's post. - Quick.
Too careless.
We were much too careless.
Private Jung.
Quick! Fill it!
We're all out of ammo, which way do you plan to go?
We're going back to headquarters.
We can't. HQ is not going to be safe by now.
Let's take the Mt. Okryeon pass instead.
If the division has fallen back,
there's a good chance they might be setting up defense there.
No.
We're going back to HQ for now.
We still are without any orders,
so we must find a superior first.
It's the platoon leader who must decide in these situations.
And if something goes wrong?
- Lieutenant... - Enough.
We're going back to HQ.
Just one bullet left.
If things went wrong, I planned to use it for this...
Let's go.
Let's move.
Ehh... Doesn't sound right.
No decision the platoon leader has made so far has gone right...
What now?!
I'm even out of bullets.
Sergeant.
That's the place we stayed at yesterday.
My...
Wonder how that old man is doing.
Must have been scared to death all night.
Seems like he died last night.
And I told him to wave the Korean flag if soldiers passed by...
Commie bastards...
Here. Move.
I should have just told him not to wave anything.
Here... Let's go.
Sergeant.
Hey! Private!
Here!
Hurry up and come here!
Loyalty!
Quiet. Stay down.
- Are you alone? - Y...es.
What's your affiliation?
Eagle 1st battalion, Sir.
2nd company, 2nd platoon.
- Are you the only survivor? - What?!
Yes...
Is that so?
Then, any ammo left?
Yes.
Give it here, we'll have to share it.
You don't have any left?
Right, we shot it all.
So hurry up and give it here.
Quick!
Yes...
What's this?
How could there be so many left?
What?
You haven't shot once?
Speak to me.
You said all the others died.
And you didn't even shoot once while that happened?
You little...
You ran away, didn't you?
Right?
- What are you doing? - Don't move!
What are you trying to do?
Stay put!
If you move, I'll shoot!
- I ought to... - You bastard!
Want to die?
All right.
Don't move a finger.
Is that clear?
All right.
Don't shoot.
If you do, they'll hear the shot.
Then, you'll be in danger as well.
Just go.
We'll just stay here as we were.
Give me my bullets back.
Lieutenant.
Piss break, please.
Let's stop ten minutes.
Sergeant.
It's the PLA.
They're NKPA deserters.
Deserters?!
Let's go our separate ways.
You commie bastards...
Private Jung!
Don't!
Private Han...
Private Han! Chanyoung.
Private Park.
Private Park!
It's all right.
Can he make it?
The wound is too deep.
Sergeant!
The enemy is approaching.
Sergeant, let's go now.
- Sergeant... - Chanyoung.
Kill me, and leave.
Chanyoung!
Sergeant...
We need to hurry, or we'll all die here!
Sergeant...
We'll see you again later.
Fall back. Now!
Quick!
Sergeant Kim!
I think they hit my leg.
Private Park.
It's all right, it's a superficial wound.
Just leave me here, uh?
Do what?
Come on, let's carry him.
Come on, quick!
Quick!
Did they drink roe deer blood? How could they run so fast?!
Do you plan to just continue staring at them?
Shouldn't we go help them out by now?
Be careful.
Don't you worry.
Here. Let's go.
What are you waiting for?
You just wait here.
Can we really send her by herself?
They're all following her, who's by herself?
I didn't mean that...
A little roe deer blood and she's afraid of nobody.
Run! Quick!
Just a little scratch and you have people carry you?
Take a breather, will you?
Just come back.
What's the point of going after them?
Want to follow them all the way to their hideout?
I told you not to attack them, didn't I?
If you hadn't done that, Chanyoung would still be alive!
Uh?
I am sorry.
Sorry?!
Sorry?
Sergeant!
Save the apologies for when you meet Chanyoung again.
Isn't that Lieutenant Lee?
We're rescuing him.
But we have no ammo?!
Stop prattling and follow me.
We're really thankful for rescuing us.
Don't even mention it.
It was just good luck that made us meet.
Are you an anti-communist guerrilla unit?
We are a guerrilla unit indeed,
but not anti-communist.
We have no use for things like ideology.
It's just that we don't support the Communist Party,
so we're forced to hide here in the mountains.
I see.
It's not the end of the world, is it?
You just made it alive, what's wrong with your faces?
Aren't you happy you survived?
Many of my men have died.
Don't move.
- The password. - Ahh... Just shoot, will you?
Badger.
Still don't remember the password?
You change it every day, how the hell can I?
Cuckoo. Do you copy?
Cuckoo. Cuck...
Cuckoo.
Cuckoo, do you copy?
Cuckoo.
Cuckoo's Nest. Cuckoo, you may speak.
Cuckoo's Nest.
*old military radio code for division or company leader
This is X-ray*. Repeat, X-ray.
X-ray?! Is that really you?
That's right. It's X-ray.
My current location...
X-ray!
X-ray! What's the matter?
Put it down.
X-ray!
What do you plan to do with me?
I'll take you to the Chinese PLA.
You're a high-ranking officer, so they'll be pleased.
But, why are you by yourself?
No need to know.
Did you fall behind?
- Or maybe you deserted? - Shut your mouth!
Are you even a People's Army soldier?
I ought to...
Say another word, and the next bullet's for you!
That way.
Let's head that way.
The PLA has to be that way.
You don't just go into the mountains like that.
- It's all dark already... - I said go!
You'll get the both of us killed, that way.
Inside that forest are not only PLA troops.
There will be straggling Korean Army forces,
not to mention deserters from both sides.
At night, the first to move is in danger.
Let's continue once dawn breaks.
So there was this girl's school, right after winter break was over.
On the first day back, the teacher asks this to his students.
"Students, what did you do during the holidays?"
So one of them gets up and answers.
"I made a pair of gloves to forget him."
- "Him?" - He! He! He!
- He who? - Who! Who! Who!
- Who who? - He! He! He!
What they call this kind of laughter is the "dating addiction laugh."
As for the next story...
So there was this blind fella passing by. Suddenly this woman stops him in his tracks.
She goes, "So just because I stand still, you think you can stand me up,"
"and just because I look away, think you can look down on me?"
"Look down? Look?! Who, me?"
"Are you making fun of me just because I'm blind?"
"You damned brat!"
Here. That'd be all for tonight.
*gagman and actor, one of the pioneers of satirical theater in Korea
Your stories are so funny, even Shin Bulchul* would be in tears.
Actually, my dream was that of becoming a famous gagman like Shin Bulchul.
So, if you'll excuse me.
I need to take a leak, so staying here would be kind of dangerous.
You never know, might start seeing yellow stuff coming out of my pants!
Good night.
Ahh... Really.
Think I'm going to like this place.
- I'll go out a moment. - Again?
So you can leave, again?
Never mind. Just go.
Park Juyong.
What's wrong?
It's nothing, Sir.
Why do you keep washing your hands like that?
Was it just murder?
Don't blame yourself for something you had no control over.
We can't afford that luxury with dead bodies surrounding us.
Let's go inside. Dinner is ready.
Sergeant, can you just shake it off like that?
I'm just curious, seriously.
Can you shrug it off like that?
Let's go.
The food will get cold.
Let's eat.
Here, have some.
It's roe deer meat.
Here, you too.
Ahh... Stop worrying and eat. My hands are clean.
We will get going.
In the middle of the night?
Yes, we have no time to waste.
Out of the question.
What are you trying to say?
That you can't leave now.
The PLA has been searching all over the mountains since sunset.
Leave here carelessly, and nine out of ten will become breakfast for vultures.
We will worry about that ourselves.
We said no.
Actually, your division leader has disappeared.
General Park?
That's right.
Trusting they'll get their hands on him, the PLA are ransacking the mountain.
Hide here for the night. That would be wiser.
We must find him at all cost.
Yes, Sir.
I'd heard of his reputation ever since my days in the 8th Route Army.
Even when we were fighting Chiang Kaishek,
he was able to derail many of our missions.
Captain Lee Sugyeong.
Yes.
If we manage to arrest him, I'll leave the questioning to you.
Convince him to cooperate with us.
Yes.
Cuckoo's Nest here. Repeat, Cuckoo's Nest here.
Kite, do you copy? Over.
He tried radio contact at 1630 hours, but then we lost him.
Nothing after that.
So no troops saw him while retreating, either.
That's right. None as of yet.
What's the retreating unit which has suffered the least number of casualties?
Yes. Eagle 2nd battalion.
Contact their leader and order him to organize a search squad.
But he disappeared within enemy lines.
I know.
Still, we can't let the general alone in enemy territory.
Whatever it takes, we must rescue him.
Call the battalion leader right now.
Yes, Sir.
- Call Eagle 2nd battalion. - Yes, Sir.
Cuckoo's Nest here. Repeat, Cuckoo's Nest here.
Eagle 2nd battalion, do you copy? Over.
Come here and lean on me.
Don't try anything funny.
I'm just cold, that's why.
You even tied me up, what's there to fear?
Come on.
What's your name?
And your hometown?
Why did you desert?
What are you saying?
I know that you're a Korean Army soldier.
If you'd been NKPA,
you wouldn't have called them PLA,
but the People Volunteer's Army, I suppose.
Are you from our division?
If that's the case, I'll pretend nothing happened.
If I transfer you to another regiment,
we will never have to see each other again.
Stop it!
You have my word.
I promise.
~ On The Next Episode Of ~ C O M R A D E S
They were ordered to annihilate them.
- Is it our division? - Cooperate with us.
That's the only way to protect your men.
What happened?
Sergeant Lee... You must rescue the general.
I'm counting on you.
- Don't you know how risky it is? - We are prepared to face them.
Why did you do that?
If you don't want to come, just stay. I'm not forcing it on you.
- How did you capture the POW? - I attacked him.
All alone?
Don't even dream about it.
Spare me.
Hold fire!
Or I'll shoot myself!
Drop your gun!
Do you know each other?
She's the woman I love.