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[Eerie music playing]

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(Narrator) You unlock this door
with the k e y of ima Gina t/on.

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Beyond it is another dimension.

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A dimension of sound.

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A dimension of sight.
A dimension of mind.

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You're moving into a land of
both shadowand substance,

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of things and ideas.

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You've just crossed over
into the twilight zone.

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Still burning.

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How long, you figure?

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Three, four hours at the most.

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Any idea how many?

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My guess is if general custer's
really looking for the sioux,

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he's gonna have his britches full
of 'em before the sun goes down.

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Is that the junction over there?

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Bighorn and the little bighorn.
That's where they converge.

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That'd put them in at the
Ford, about four miles up.

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That's where he's
thinking about crossing.

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Them sioux. Wonder
where they are now.

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Iwouldn't be too
impatient, Mr. Two stripes.

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We can go on back and
tell your general custer

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this Indian trail is
just as fresh as ever.

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Little too fresh for my pay.

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[Groans]

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Hey, those were
shots, weren't they?

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Yeah.

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Hey, tiger! Whoa, easy.
These are just maneuvers.

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Everybody starts getting trigger-happy,
it's gonna turn into a real war.

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Hunting season, huh, maybe?

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How about that, McCluskey? How'd
you like to go hunting some buffalo?

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Let's, uh, go have a look.

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Well, if it's the
enemy, I'm giving up.

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They can take me prisoner of war,
and I'll sit out the rest of the games.

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I'm getting mighty hot in that
portable oven we're driving.

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McCluskey, I'm surprised at you.

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The old man, the sergeant here,
we've had our eyes on you, son.

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We was thinking of recommending
you for o.C.S., wasn't we, sarge?

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Other than the fact that
you read a map upside down

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and, uh, couldn't navigate
a plow across a ballroom,

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we think you've got
a lot of potential.

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It's a wigwam. An
honest-to-Pete wigwam.

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Oh, there's a million
men in national guard,

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but it's just my luck
to ride around in a tank

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with the last of the
red-hot eagle scouts.

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You're right, McCluskey,
that's a wigwam.

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Now, why does that
make you so happy?

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Well, it's interesting.

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Right over there's the junction of
the bighorn and little bighorn rivers.

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Not far from there
is where custer fought.

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Yeah, custer? Custer who?

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General custer. That's where the
7th cavalry fought the sioux Indians.

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Hey, take a look at that.

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Hey, where'd you get that?

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Seventh cavalry. How
do you figure, sarge?

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Well, I figure it's
in pretty good shape,

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considering it's been laying around
here for about 80 years, wouldn't you say?

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You know, there must be a lot of
ghosts running around a place like this.

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Oh, yeah, ghosts, sure, mm-hm.

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Yeah, McCluskey's got it right.

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Somewhere along this river
they fought a pretty big battle.

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Custer and 200-odd men
against 2,000 sioux, probably.

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Yeah, custer's last stand. Didn't
you ever hear of it, langsford?

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I-I heard of it,
McCluskey. I heard of it.

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Why don't you boys
get you a job in a museum?

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Maybe they'd send you out here on an
expedition and pick up some antiques.

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I thought this was supposed
to be a motorized patrol, sarge,

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and I thought that we were supposed
to be involved in some war games.

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Personally, I don't care. I'd just
as soon be out reconnoitering

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in some dark saloon some place or,
uh, maybe hanging around the y.W.C.A.

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In a pinch, I'd settle for
something tall and cold and...

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[Wind ho w/ing]

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Do-don't you think we'd better
get back and find the c.P.?

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Shoot, what's
the matter, McCluskey?

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Don't you want to hang around
and wait for the union cavalry, huh?

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So, this is where they fought,
huh, sarge? Right around here?

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Yeah, yeah, it was
around here some place.

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You know, when I was a kid, I read about
everything that was ever written on it.

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Custer and the seventh were an
advance guard for a general named Terry.

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The last thing anybody
ever heard from custer

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was thathe was div/ding h/s
reg/ment /nto three part/es.

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He was planning on surrounding what
he thought was a small bunch of Indians.

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And, uh, see, captain benteen took
three troops and he went south.

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And major Reno, he crossed the
river and he followed an Indian trail.

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And custer went
right up the middle,

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and rode right into 'em
and he was slaughtered.

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1876. That was the year.

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Ah, now, come on, now, sarge. Somebody
planted this thing around here for a gag.

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That canteen's not 80 years old.

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Well, shoot,
it's practically new.

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Either that, or,
uh, we've had some...

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[Wind resumes howling]

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Come on, let's get out of here.

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Come on, you guys. Let's
get back to the tank.

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[Indian war cry]

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What was that?

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That was the wind.

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Yeah. The wind.

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Yeah, that's what
it was, the wind.

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(Narrator) June 25, 1.964.

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Or if you prefer, June 25, 1876.

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The cast of characters in
order of their appearance:

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A patrol of general
custer's ca valry

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and a pa trol of na t/onal
guardsmen ona maneuver.

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Past and present are
about to collide head-on

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as they are won't to do in
a very special bivouac area

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known as the twilight zone.

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All units reported
in now, Finnegan?

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Yes, lieutenant.

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Good.

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Bl ueb/rd 7, come
in, over. Bl ueb/rd.

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Connors, the captain wants
to see you in his tent right away,

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and it sounded like to me it was
a little more than an invitation.

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Captain?

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How nice of you to come back.

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Did you happen to bring the tank
with you? You were gone so long,

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I thought maybe you drove it out to
a lot and traded it for a convertible.

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Well, sir, we got a little, uh,
hung up down by the riverbed there.

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Hung up by what? The blue team
went north of us, you went south.

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For a guy with as much
regular army as you've got,

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you've played this one
bonehead from start to finish.

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If there'd been an umpire around, you'd
have your tank crossed off and your men.

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I'm sorry, s/r, but we heard some r/fle
f/re down there and we went to check it out.

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Rifle fire? According to the lieutenant,
you were down at the little bighorn,

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forty miles away from where you were
supposed to be. How'd you hear rifle fire?

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That's just it, sir. We never found out
where it came from or who it came from.

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I think you guys must have
had a bottle in that tank.

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Tomorrow you'll take your tank
and head up here, rosebud creek.

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Follow the creek
for about 15 miles.

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We f/gure the blue team
must've moved across to...

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What's the matter with you,
Connors? Are you hung over?

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No, sir. No, sir, nothing
like that at all, sir.

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But tha t rosebud creek,
tha t's custer's route.

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When he left the yellowstone
river, he went with a major Reno,

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and Reno followed a trail
along that creek.

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Sergeant, let's
synchronize, shall we?

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My watch says 23:20 hours.
My calendar says 1964.

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If you've got a big thing for these Indians,
you got here a little late in the day.

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Captain, I want to tell you we
heard 'em! Indians! Their war cries!

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Where? When?

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This afternoon, sir, at the junction
of the bighorn and the little bighorn.

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Captain, now, I know
this sounds crazy.

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Believe me, I know it.
But we found a canteen...

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Well, I must have
left it in the tank, sir.

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That canteen is marked seventh cavalry.
And we found a tepee close to the river.

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A tepee? Are you bucking
for a section eight, sergeant?

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That's the same tepee that Reno's
scouts found the night before the battle!

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Reno's scouts, huh? Reno being?

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Major Reno. When custer spl/t h/s force /nto
three columns he sent Reno's to the north...

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All right, Connors, that'll do. Line up your
patrol and head out at 0600 tomorrow morning.

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And if you meet any Indians, if you
meet Indians, will you take it very slow?

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Because they're all
college graduates

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and they're probably
running tests on the soil.

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Where to now, sarge?

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Well, we'll, uh, we'll follow this
trail about two, three more miles.

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That's Reno's route.

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Yeah.

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For Pete's sakes. Are
you guys still on that?

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It's Reno this, benteen that,
custer something else.

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I don't know what? t's the matter
with you. You talkabout /tall n/ght.

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Hey!

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Hey, wait a minute. Hold
on, now, wait a minute.

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That's an incinerator, or it's
somebody cooking a steak or something,

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or It's some tour/sts that don't d/g smokey
the bear. Will you guys knock /t off?

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[Drumbeaz's in distance]

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It figures. It has to.

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Reno's scouts found the tepee
the night before the battle,

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and the following morning,
the column saw smoke signals.

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And late that morning,
they got their first Indian.

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When the war party went by, one of
their troopers shot the last rider.

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Aw, will you stop it?

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Come on, now, / can takea
joke just like anybodyelse,

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but this is too much, man. I'm
tell/ng you, this is too much.

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You're going to tell me that
somewhere around that bend

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we're going to run into
a war party of sioux!

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I'm telling you if that happens,

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I'm checking myself in with the
medics, man, for the rubber room.

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But I wanna make a reservation
for three, you understand me?

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[Hoof beats, Indian war cries]

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McCluskey, you moron! Kid,
what are you shooting at?

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Give me that...

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McCluskey, look!

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Oh, my dear god.

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An Indian horse without a rider.

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I killed him. Sergeant, I just fired
blind into that dust cloud, but...

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All right, langsford, you,
uh, you got something to say,

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well, why don't you say it?

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No, sarge.

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I got something to ask.

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I'd like to know what's
going on around here.

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I don't know. I don't
know for sure.

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But I got an idea.
Somehow, some way,

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we're following the same
trail that custer did.

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Look, let's f/gure it out.

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Now, first, the tepee. Now, when did
we find it? Yesterday afternoon, right?

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Just like the scout d/d before.

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And the smoke signals, just like
Reno's column saw the next morning.

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McCluskey, he gets
himself an Indian, just...

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Just like on
the day of the battle.

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All right, Connors.

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Okay, let's say-let's
say that you're right.

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Let's say that this thing is
happening, just like you said it is.

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Let's say that we're gonna
follow this trail just like, uh,

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well, just like
they did it, huh?

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Now, what I wanna know
is what's gonna happen next?

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We're gonna wind up
at a massacre.

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That's what.

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You gonna stop it?

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Yeah, stop it, or

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join it.

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[Whistles]

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[Tank creaking]

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Finnegan? Has
Connors reported in?

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Not yet, sir.

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Get him.

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Yes, sir.

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Bluebird nine?
Bluebird nine. This is c.P.

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Bl ueb/rd n/ne,
blue b/rd n/ne, over.

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This is bluebird nine,
go ahead, c.P.

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They're acknowledging, sir.

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Connors? This is the captain.

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This is McCluskey, sir.

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McCluskey? Do you think you
guys might extend yourselves a bit

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and give me your position?

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We're about four miles down rosebud
creek. We're about to cross over.

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You're about to come back here on the double.
You're about to report to me personally.

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You're about to do it
within the next half-hour

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00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:16,249
or you'll be spend/ng the next three na
t/onal hol/da ys /n the guardhouse, read me?

228
00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:19,001
Yes, sir, just a minute.
Here's sergeant Connors.

229
00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:21,003
Captain, this is Connors.

230
00:15:21,087 --> 00:15:24,132
Connors, do I have to send a
couple of m.P.S down there?

231
00:15:24,215 --> 00:15:27,844
Captain, look, we're just a mile
from where major Reno met the sioux!

232
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:33,141
Listen to me, Connors. I'm going
to give this to you just once.

233
00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:36,436
When these maneuvers are over,
you can come back here on avacation

234
00:15:36,477 --> 00:15:38,813
and dig arrowheads,
or anything you like.

235
00:15:38,896 --> 00:15:42,650
But right now, I want a government-issue
tank back here at the command post

236
00:15:42,733 --> 00:15:46,612
with three national guardsmen named Connors,
McCluskey and langsford right alongside it.

237
00:15:46,696 --> 00:15:51,367
Now, you've got exactly 30 minutes
to bring her back here. Acknowledge!

238
00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:54,537
Connors, acknowledge! Connors!

239
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,289
He's broken off, sir.

240
00:15:56,372 --> 00:15:58,458
Lieutenant!

241
00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:02,962
Take a Jeep and three
men down rosebud crick.

242
00:16:03,045 --> 00:16:05,047
Just follow the tread
marks, and bring 'em back.

243
00:16:05,131 --> 00:16:07,133
What if they resist?

244
00:16:07,175 --> 00:16:09,552
I'll tell you what
you do, lieutenant.

245
00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:13,598
First apologize to them, then shoot
each one in the leg. Now, do you read me?

246
00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:17,685
All right, let's move out.

247
00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:22,648
[Speaking indistinctly]

248
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:01,729
(Mc cluske y) N 0 thing.

249
00:17:01,812 --> 00:17:06,859
Nothing and no one. And right down
there is where Reno had his battle.

250
00:17:06,943 --> 00:17:10,613
Well, you guys better manufacture
a couple of Indians in a hurry.

251
00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:13,282
Because, uh, / know
a na t/onal guards capta/n

252
00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:15,785
that's probably on his
way here with a net!

253
00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,870
Where are they, sarge?
How come we missed out?

254
00:17:17,912 --> 00:17:21,207
How come we missed out?
You want an explanation?

255
00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:25,044
We missed out because we're
looking for dead cavalry,

256
00:17:25,086 --> 00:17:27,588
buried Indians, and
an 80-year-old battle.

257
00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:30,174
Tha t's why we m/ssed out.

258
00:17:30,258 --> 00:17:33,970
I've been doing some thinking about
this thing, see, and I got it figured out.

259
00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:39,600
Th/s whole th/ng ls str/ctl yan illus/on.
Tha t's the goods. It's an illus/on!

260
00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:42,228
We've talked ourselves
into a stinking illusion.

261
00:17:42,311 --> 00:17:47,066
No, that's not it.
That's not it at all.

262
00:17:47,108 --> 00:17:51,487
McCluskey, do you remember what it
was that Reno found before the battle?

263
00:17:51,571 --> 00:17:53,906
He even sent a message
back to custer about it.

264
00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:56,951
Sure, the village.

265
00:17:57,034 --> 00:18:00,746
What village? What village?

266
00:18:00,788 --> 00:18:04,458
What do I have to tell you guys
to straighten you out, huh? Tell me.

267
00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:06,711
Reno's scouts
found an Indian village,

268
00:18:06,794 --> 00:18:10,089
and it was an hour after that that
the whole troop went into action.

269
00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:13,509
Aw, man, my aching back.
I swear, I give up.

270
00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:17,305
I give up!

271
00:18:17,388 --> 00:18:21,100
This is where the men
separate from the nutsies.

272
00:18:21,142 --> 00:18:22,977
Where're you going?

273
00:18:23,060 --> 00:18:25,855
I'm going to cut back
to c. P., if I can find it.

274
00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:29,358
But don't worry, boys. I'm gonna
send you a padded ambulance.

275
00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:33,237
Arr/ vederc/. Yo u al I!

276
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,351
[Whistles]

277
00:19:06,604 --> 00:19:08,814
[Whistles again]

278
00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:14,320
[Whistling]

279
00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,334
It's the village.

280
00:19:28,417 --> 00:19:31,003
[Panting]

281
00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:33,714
That's a mirage,
is it, langsford?

282
00:19:33,798 --> 00:19:36,008
It's not really there, is it?

283
00:19:36,092 --> 00:19:39,679
I don't know, man, don't ask me
anything. Don't-don't ask me nothing.

284
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,890
I'll go down and scout it.

285
00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:46,102
You know, an hour
ago if he'd said that,

286
00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:51,190
I'd have laughed at him or
shut him up, but now I don't know.

287
00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:54,568
Just be careful, McCluskey.

288
00:19:54,652 --> 00:19:57,279
All right, what
happens now, sergeant?

289
00:19:57,363 --> 00:19:59,865
I mean, what happens next?

290
00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:03,536
Beyond the village
is where benteen engages.

291
00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:08,040
Well, I mean, uh,
what about custer?

292
00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:10,292
He loses a right arm.

293
00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:13,796
And as of the moment
Reno got cut off back there,

294
00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:16,924
custer's column was doomed.

295
00:20:17,007 --> 00:20:22,054
Man, this is wild. I mean, you
know, this is really wild. It's, uh...

296
00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:24,223
It's like chasing history.

297
00:20:24,306 --> 00:20:27,643
It's like chasing history
and trying to change it.

298
00:20:27,727 --> 00:20:29,228
Yeah.

299
00:20:29,311 --> 00:20:32,064
Connors? Langsford?

300
00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:34,567
If it's a mirage,
it sure went the route.

301
00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:36,318
Kid, you all right?

302
00:20:36,402 --> 00:20:38,070
What's the matter?

303
00:20:38,112 --> 00:20:41,490
I just seen the
granddaddy of all mirages.

304
00:20:41,574 --> 00:20:45,578
This one's sticking
out of my back.

305
00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:50,666
Bluebird nine, bluebird nine.
This is c.P. Come in, bluebird nine.

306
00:20:54,879 --> 00:20:56,964
Captain.

307
00:20:57,047 --> 00:20:59,842
You'd better tell me they're just
a few hundred yards behind you.

308
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:02,303
I can't tell you that, sir.

309
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:05,973
You'd better be telling me something
else, like the whereabouts of an m-4 tank.

310
00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:08,517
We found the tank, sir.
And this was on it.

311
00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:15,649
"Crossing rosebud creek.
Trying to reach seventh cavalry.

312
00:21:15,733 --> 00:21:18,527
Have to."

313
00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:21,489
I don't get it.

314
00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:23,282
I swear I don't get it.

315
00:21:23,324 --> 00:21:26,368
What's he mean by the
seventh cavalry, captain?

316
00:21:26,452 --> 00:21:28,788
Who's the seventh cavalry?

317
00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:33,709
It's a very hot outfit headed up by a
tiger by the name of George custer.

318
00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:37,630
And don't ask me any more 'cause
I wouldn't be able to tell you.

319
00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:55,147
Come on, just hang on now. We're
gonna to make it. Just hang on.

320
00:21:55,231 --> 00:21:57,483
I'll make it all right.

321
00:21:57,566 --> 00:22:01,320
Just a few hundred more feet, that's
all. They're right over that Ridge.

322
00:22:01,362 --> 00:22:04,198
Come on.

323
00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:15,668
[Horses neighing]

324
00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:17,837
[Indian war cries]

325
00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:19,839
[Gunshots]

326
00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:39,191
All right, fellows. Let's do it!

327
00:22:41,235 --> 00:22:43,362
[Loud gunfire]

328
00:23:14,852 --> 00:23:17,396
There's no sign of the
men on either side, captain.

329
00:23:17,438 --> 00:23:21,567
The tank's up there on the Ridge, but
there's no sign of the men. No sign at all.

330
00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:23,068
Keep looking.

331
00:23:23,152 --> 00:23:25,362
Yes, sir.

332
00:23:25,446 --> 00:23:27,823
Put them on report, sir?

333
00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:30,159
Put 'em on report.

334
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:34,622
Captain!

335
00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:46,175
"W/ll/am Connors,
m/chael McCluskey,

336
00:23:46,258 --> 00:23:47,927
r/chard langsford."

337
00:23:50,387 --> 00:23:52,640
Kind of a coincidence, sir?

338
00:23:52,723 --> 00:23:55,684
Quite a coincidence.

339
00:23:55,768 --> 00:23:59,188
Too bad they couldn't have brought
the tank up. It would have helped.

340
00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:02,358
Beg pardon, sir?

341
00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,360
Nothing, lieutenant.

342
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:08,030
I didn't say anything.

343
00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:10,783
(Narrator)
Sergean t w/I I iam Connors,

344
00:24:10,824 --> 00:24:14,203
trooper m/chael mccl uskey,
and trooper r/chard langsford

345
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:17,790
who ona hotafternoon /n
June madea charge overa h/ll

346
00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:19,625
and never returned.

347
00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:22,044
Look for this one
under "p" for phantom

348
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:24,880
In a historical ledger
loca Ted /n a read/ng room

349
00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:28,092
known as the tw/I /ght zone.

350
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,889
(Male presenter)
And now, Mr. Serl/ng.

351
00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,725
No one likes to age,
but it's a natural process

352
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:38,978
like death and taxes
and the weather.

353
00:24:39,061 --> 00:24:41,480
But next time on
tw/I/ghtzone, we tell the story

354
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:43,983
about what happens when
a certain man doesn't age.

355
00:24:44,024 --> 00:24:46,235
As a matter of fact,
he grows younger.

356
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:49,363
Patrick O'Neal stars in a short
drink froma certain fountain.

357
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:53,575
Now, if this one doesn't pull you up by
the shoulders, I don't think anything will.

358
00:24:53,659 --> 00:24:56,161
I hope we see you next time.

359
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,041
[Eerie music playing]