Basic Page #2
with WARRANT OFFICER JULIA OSBORNE - early 30's, attractive,
close cropped hair and icy eyes. In the middle of protesting.
5.
OSBORNE:
This is totally unnecessary-
STYLES:
He asked to see a policeman, we're
getting him a policeman .
OSBORNE:
But this guy you called, he's not
even Army-
STYLES:
He's former Army and the best I’ve
ever seen in a room. Besides, he
knows the territory, we did Basic
together here.
(off her look)
You've had three hours with Dunbar
and haven't gotten a peep, we need
to take a different tack.
OSBORNE:
He's not Army, it’s not official-
STYLES:
Then it's unofficial.
He takes a hit from an ASTHMA INHALER, as a '71 PONTIAC GTO
drives through the gate and pulls up. Hardy emerges.
OSBORNE:
(re:
his appearance)Doesn't get any unofficialer than
that...
The two old friends embrace.
HARDY:
How are you?
STYLES:
Been better.
(pause)
I read about what's been happening
With you... I should have called-
HARDY:
What kind of trouble are you in?
Styles looks at the ground. Momentarily flustered.
HARDY:
That bad?
STYLES:
Would I have called you if it wasn't?
6.
HARDY:
Tell me what I can do.
OSBORNE:
You can get us some answers.
Hardy takes off his sunglasses, noticing her.
STYLES:
This is Warrant Officer Julia Osborne,
The closest thing we have to an in-
House investigator.
HARDY:
And here you are going out of house.
How's that make you feel, Jules?
OSBORNE:
Hostile and uncooperative.
HARDY:
Fantastic. You want to tell me what's
going on?
INT. FORT MCKINLEY -- CORRIDORS MORNING
Hardy follows Styles and Osborne. They pass SOLDIERS
replacing broken windows and sweeping up glass.
STYLES:
The official term for it is
"Clusterfuck" . By the time Beth hit
us, I'd canceled all off base
exercises save one - a six man cadet
team and their Drill out in the bush.
We're missing three and the Sergeant.
The cadets are in their eighth week
of the cycle, nobody here knows much
about them, up to and including their
names. But the Sergeant...
HARDY:
It's not West, is it? Tell me it's
not West.
Styles' look tells him it is.
HARDY:
Ah, Christ
OSBORNE:
You knew Sergeant West?
HARDY:
He was our Drill here. Man's older
than sand.
7.
STYLES:
A few years ago, the Army picked our
good buddy as their go to non-com to
trot out to the press to talk about
the kinder, gentler military. He
even did the standard video greeting
played to all incoming Basic cadets
across the country.
HARDY:
Well, he's a good soldier.
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