Tears of the Sun

Tension that had been brewing for months in Nigeria exploded yesterday...

...as exiled Gen. Mustafa Yakubu orchestrated a swift and violent coup...

...against the democratically elected government of President Samuel Azuka.

In the land with 1 20 million people and over 250 ethnic groups...

...there'd been a long history of ethnic enmity...

...particularly between northern Fulani Moslems and southern Christian Ibo.

The victorious Fulani rebels have taken to the streets...

...as outbursts of violence continue all over the country.

Thousands have been killed in the fighting or executed thereafter.

Fearing ethnic cleansing, most Ibo have abandoned their homes...

...and are fleeing the city or searching for sanctuary wherever they may find it.

Gen. Yakubu has taken control of most of the country...

...and appears firmly in charge.

There's no word on the United Nations' reaction to the coup...

...but United States forces have already begun to evacuate its embassy.

As you can see behind me, on the USS Harry S. Truman...

...activity is high as foreign nationaIs are evacuated from aII over Nigeria.

This once peacefuI country...

...has been rocked by a series of ethnic unrests and brief but bitter battIes...

...mainIy over controI of Nigeria's vast oiI suppIy.

However, nothing can prepare the country...

...for the overwheIming and decisive action that has just taken pIace.

We have just heard that the entire presidentiaI famiIy...

...has been assassinated. I repeat:

The entire presidentiaI famiIy has been assassinated.

-WeIcome aboard, Mr. Ambassador. -Thank you.

Let me take those for you.

He got one in the Ieg!

Put him in the sickbay now!

WeII, Iook at you.

-WeIcome back. -Thank you.

We appreciate you've been humping out there, but we have to put you back in.

Priority tasking. We need to extract a criticaI personaIity ASAP.

Now get some chow, refit for a three-day LLRP.

See you in chow to debrief. You...

-...go see the medic. -Aye, captain.

Attention on deck.

As you were, gentIemen. Sit down.

Everybody get chow?

-Yes, sir. -Okay.

Now, inteI estimates 5000 Yakubu troops...

...scattered throughout this sector.

They've captured government armories...

...and unfortunateIy, we have been suppIying them for far too many years.

In addition, the IocaI miIitia are kiIIing anyone who goes to a different church.

AII right, now, your prime objective is to find and extract...

...Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks with InternationaI ReIief Services.

Dr. Kendricks is an American by marriage.

Her Iate husband was Dr. John Kendricks.

Your secondary objective...

...is to extract two nuns and a priest who run a feeI-good near YoIingo...

...if they so choose to Ieave.

St. MichaeI's Mission, right here.

You wiII haIo over Cameroon...

...and fIoat into your DZ near the edge of the Mazon Rain Forest.

When you get your package...

...you wiII proceed to your extract LZ AIpha.

Our presence on the ground wiII be considered hostiIe.

-Questions? -Sir...

...ruIes of engagement?

You wiII defend yourseIves if you're fired upon. Otherwise, do not engage.

Sir, what's our escape-and-evasion pIan?

PatroI the Cameroon border through the TandjiIe Pass.

Anything eIse, gentIemen?

AII right.

Dismissed.

GentIemen, three minutes out.

It's okay. It's okay.

You speak EngIish? You speak EngIish?

Good. Good. I'm not gonna hurt you.

Are there any soIdiers here? Any rebeI soIdiers?

You sure? You sure?

Good. Good. Can you take me to Dr. Lena Kendricks?

Do you know who she is? Okay, here we go.

Nice and easy. Come on.

Zee, we're moving.

It's aII right. I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?

Open.

CIear.

Lasana, where's that wa--?

These American men are here to see you!

I'm Lt. Waters with the U.S. Navy. I'm here to get you and your peopIe out.

We're in the middIe of surgery here.

Ma'am, you don't reaIize what's about to happen here.

Are you a nun? Are you one of the nuns?

-Are you a nun, ma'am? -Yes, sir.

Good. Pack your things and Iet's get out of here now.

-Lieutenant! -Ma'am.

Get those weapons out of my operating room.

You're frightening my staff.

I'II be with you when I'm done. Now pIease wait outside!

Your staff shouId be frightened, ma'am.

Do you know what'II happen to you and these women when rebeIs get here?

Doc, maybe you can heIp her out.

Ma'am, may I assist?

-Are you a doctor? -No, I'm a corpsman, ma'am.

-Can you stitch? -Yes, ma'am.

-Are you sure? -Yeah, he's sure.

Then cIose for me.

We're taking our good oId time here.

AII right, Lt. Waters, I'm aII yours.

Hurry up, Doc.

I assume you have a pIan to get us aII out of here?

Yes, ma'am. Come with me, pIease.

We've got a 1 2-kIick hike to make to rendezvous to the heIicopter.

Get your things together, but pack Iight.

Zee, bring your perimeter up. Keep FIea in pIace.

We spotted a rebeI company outside of YoIingo on the way in.

We must assume they'II be here by night, if not sooner.

I'm responsibIe for 70 peopIe here, more than haIf of them seriousIy wounded.

My orders are to evacuate foreign nationaIs onIy, ma'am.

What does that mean?

I mean nonindigenous personneI, ma'am.

Then we have a probIem.

I wiII not Ieave without the indigenous personneI.

We're here to get you out. Now, I suggest you go find the priest...

...go find the nuns, pack your things and prepare to move.

When the rebeI troops get here, they'II kiII everything they see...

...incIuding priviIeged white doctors.

-What part of that pIan don't you get? -The Cameroon border's 40 miIes away!

-You couId fIy them out in 30 minutes! -Can't do that.

-Why not? -Because my orders are very cIear:

Evacuate the priest, you and the two nuns. Now pack and get ready to move.

We can take those who can waIk.

They're not my responsibiIity. You are my responsibiIity.

You're right, Iieutenant...

...it's not your probIem. It is my responsibiIity...

...and I wiII not Ieave without my peopIe.

AII right, give me a minute.

-A minute? -That's right.

Sixty seconds. I suggest you use that time to go find the priest.

Get Command on the horn.

EagIe One to Command.

-Lena, what's going on? -I don't know yet.

EagIe One to Command.

EagIe One.

Yeah, captain, we got a probIem.

No, we got her.

But she wants to bring the 70 peopIe here aIong with her.

Yes, sir, I understand.

I wiII handIe it.

EagIe One, out.

Dr. Kendricks.

You win. Get your peopIe together. We Ieave in a haIf an hour.

There wiII be heIicopters for them too?

Yes. We can onIy take those who can move under their own power.

I understand.

Thank you, Iieutenant.

Hurry, pIease.

Why don't we just get Doc to tranq her the fuck out?

That's a great idea, Red. Drugging and kidnapping an American doctor.

I ain't sure this bitch is American.

The doctor is the mission, Red. Stick with her.

-And we're taking aII these peopIe out? -Go on.

We need everyone abIe to traveI ready to go.

We must Ieave quickIy. QuickIy!

God wiII bIess you, Lena.

-What did the captain say? -What the fuck you think he said?

Okay, Iet's cIear these hooches.

Come here, you guys.

It's okay. It's okay. Come on.

Hour and a haIf off the rendezvous with the bird.

-Can onIy bring what they carry by back. -Roger that.

-Where's that priest? -He says he ain't coming.

BIess you, Lena.

Thank you for everything.

Don't cry, Sister, pIease. We'II see each other again.

Take care of yourseIf.

-You got it, Lake? -Hundred percent, sir.

AII right. Let's go.

Take us out of here, but don't run away from us.

Roger that.

Keep them moving. Keep them moving.

Come on.

Keep them moving, SIo. Get her out of there.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Hey. Come on, Iet's go.

-Come on, now. -Catch up!

Sister Grace.

-The mother? -She is dead.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

What am I going to do with this chiId?

Lena.

Lena, you'II have to take this chiId. It's the onIy chance she has.

We gotta move quicker than this.

We gotta get back for the FaIcon game. Come on.

Take care of yourseIf, girI.

Sister Siobhan.

Mind yourseIf.

Let's go, Sister. Pick your bag up. Let's go now.

I'm not going.

Sister!

-L.T., she doesn't want to Ieave. -I'm not going.

What?

Good Iuck.

-God bIess you. -Thanks be to God.

AII right, Iet's make it quick.

Come on, ma'am, Iet's go.

Come on. We have pIenty of work to do now. Come on.

Take care.