Triage Page #3

What?

You would have shot me?

Yeah. For your own good.

To stop you from suffering.

And what about your friend?

He never came to visit you.

He wouldn't even know I'm here.

He left the day before it happened.

First day of the offensive.

Smart man.

You war people,

you all think you're immortal.

Probably not good for morale

to see a colleague

end up in Harir cave.

That's all I can find.

I hope they fit.

Oh, Mr. Walsh.

You're making progress.

What do you think?

How many doctors in the world

have to clean their gun?

You should sterilize it, too.

Oh, sarcasm is back.

Great.

You must have a lot of regret.

Regret what, Mr. Walsh?

That I spared them

a few days of terrible suffering

'cause I have no way of saving them

or easing the unbearable pain?

Do you think I kill those poor men

because I enjoy it?

Geez, no.

In quiet times,

when there is not a lot of fighting

and I have more time,

I give out very few blues.

But when there is a lot of fighting,

a lot of wounded coming in...

No.

I have to think of those

I can still save.

That's the one.

Some live, some die,

that's the only way to look at it.

[In Kurdish]

Thank you.

Anything else is just arrogance,

the arrogance of imagining

you can do something to change it.

I'm sure they lecture against this

in medical school,

smoking in operating room.

I think you'll get away

with it tonight.

Do you know

what Pesh Merga means?

It means, "those who face death."

Romantic.

Poetic, even.

Personally, I've never seen

one face death.

They all turn away at the end.

A Jeep is leaving tomorrow morning

for the frontier.

- Why?

- The offensive has been discussed.

You better leave while you can.

Set to go?

Yep.

Ah, it's much better.

I guess it's yours.

You're joking me.

I hope you had an enjoyable visit.

A lovely trip.

Don't know why you don't get

more tourists over in these parts.

I'm sorry. It's very Kurdish.

It's a point of honor

to make sure strangers are content.

Well, in that case, just think of me

as another happy customer.

Dr. Talzani.

Thank you so much.

Pleasure is mine.

Mr. Walsh, good luck.

Oh!

Oh!

No, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Easy, easy, easy.

Oh! Dios mio!

What happened to you?

Oh, it was dark.

I fell into a river and got dragged

over some rocks a bit, banged up.

Just another day at the office.

Why didn't you call me

to say you're coming?

'Cause I had a quick connection

from Istanbul.

Well, what's this?

What do we got here?

You like it?

Yeah, I love it

when you go shopping

and then, all of a sudden, presto!

There's something there

that makes the place less... simple.

You mean monastic?

No, simple.

We had nowhere to sit.

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