Hyena Road

- Alright, fine. - Thanks. 418 00:39:37,842 --> 00:39:40,443 - What a beautiful night... 419 00:39:40,445 --> 00:39:44,514 You know, if they get this place together, I'd come back. 420 00:39:44,516 --> 00:39:46,916 - Bring Joey camping. - Camping. 421 00:39:46,918 --> 00:39:48,918 - Yeah. - In kandahar? 422 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,821 - Why the fuck not? 423 00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:54,924 - Number two totally offloaded. 424 00:39:54,926 --> 00:39:58,528 Good to go. 425 00:40:00,531 --> 00:40:02,065 - Three niner Alpha, 426 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:05,935 this is 66 bravo. Ready for extraction. Over. 427 00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:09,072 - Let's move. 428 00:40:26,857 --> 00:40:30,093 - It's a beautiful morning. - Has been for two hours. 429 00:40:30,095 --> 00:40:34,631 How long until the convoy? - Should be on the move, five, ten Mikes, maybe. 430 00:40:34,633 --> 00:40:38,802 - These a&a dudes... - You trust these guys? 431 00:40:38,804 --> 00:40:41,604 - With my life. 432 00:40:41,606 --> 00:40:44,073 It's their war. We're just along for the ride. 433 00:40:44,075 --> 00:40:46,075 Hey, walid... 434 00:40:46,077 --> 00:40:49,979 - Huh? - What's he got going on the tunes? 435 00:40:53,517 --> 00:40:57,487 - Leif Garrett. - You're shitting me. Come on, put it out for all to hear. 436 00:41:52,644 --> 00:41:54,677 On the move. Mount up. 437 00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:17,834 - Gulf niner whiskey, we're falling in. Over. 438 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:13,756 - We'll take this right. 439 00:43:16,994 --> 00:43:20,797 - This is Gulf niner whiskey, we're breaking off. Thanks for the tow. 440 00:43:20,799 --> 00:43:23,132 - Pete, anywhere here. 441 00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:35,211 - Who is that guy? - He's called the cleaner. 442 00:43:35,213 --> 00:43:38,681 He's the bravest man I've ever known. My greatest ally here. 443 00:43:38,683 --> 00:43:41,384 He works for us but can't be seen with us, if you know what I mean. 444 00:43:41,386 --> 00:43:43,620 His family's up in Kabul, 445 00:43:43,622 --> 00:43:46,222 and he hasn't seen them or slept in the same bed 446 00:43:46,224 --> 00:43:48,691 more than three nights running in the last two years. 447 00:43:48,693 --> 00:43:51,761 - Why is he doing it? 448 00:43:51,763 --> 00:43:54,831 - Love of country? - I honestly don't know. 449 00:43:54,833 --> 00:43:57,934 Can't just be for the money we pay him. 450 00:44:50,988 --> 00:44:55,291 - Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam. 451 00:45:24,354 --> 00:45:26,355 - He says his name is Mohammed. 452 00:45:26,357 --> 00:45:30,860 - Yeah, of course it is. - This bread looks very good. 453 00:45:34,498 --> 00:45:38,334 My friend, Ryan. We have been friends, 454 00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:42,739 we have known each other and loved each other for many, many years. 455 00:45:42,741 --> 00:45:45,408 And you helped my friend in the village of haji baba. 456 00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:55,084 And I would like to repay you for that kindness. 457 00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:57,053 Now you must need something? 458 00:45:57,055 --> 00:45:59,322 Perhaps new prayer rugs for your mosque. 459 00:45:59,324 --> 00:46:02,125 I would like to help with that. 460 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:10,433 - How much is that? - I have no idea. 461 00:46:10,435 --> 00:46:12,969 This is for your village. 462 00:46:28,385 --> 00:46:32,822 - He says, "only a fool accepts a gift without knowing what it's for." 463 00:46:37,327 --> 00:46:40,296 - There was a legendary warrior, a mujahedeen in the jihad 464 00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:43,132 against the Soviets. He was called 'the lion of the desert'. 465 00:46:55,913 --> 00:46:58,214 - He says he's heard of this man. 466 00:46:58,216 --> 00:47:02,585 - The word is that he's back. - He's once again mujahid. 467 00:47:02,587 --> 00:47:05,321 Have you heard anything about these rumours? 468 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,435 May I ask where you're from? 469 00:47:26,476 --> 00:47:30,880 - He says his village is called Abdullah jan. - Ah, so you're Pakistani? 470 00:47:44,528 --> 00:47:46,929 - "I've been a Pakistani for many years, 471 00:47:46,931 --> 00:47:49,565 a Muslim for fourteen hundred and a pashtun for five thousand." 472 00:47:49,567 --> 00:47:50,967 - I understand. 473 00:47:55,505 --> 00:47:58,274 If you hear anything about the lion, 474 00:47:58,276 --> 00:48:00,476 I would greatly appreciate it. 475 00:48:18,528 --> 00:48:22,098 - So he's Pakistani? - No. 476 00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:25,001 No, that was just a kind of test. 477 00:48:25,003 --> 00:48:28,571 Abdullah jan is just the ruins of some village 478 00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:31,274 across the border from spin boldak. 479 00:48:31,276 --> 00:48:34,977 Nobody's really lived there for a couple hundred years, least of all him. 480 00:48:34,979 --> 00:48:39,348 - So he'...