The Boys in Company C (1978)

Stan Shaw: Tyrone Washington

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• Washington : You wouldn't have done it if that was a white boy back there!

  Captain Collins : Oh shit!

  Washington : Yeah but to you he's nothin' but a gook huh? I mean he's just a yellow nigger!

  Captain Collins : He is the enemy!

  Washington : No, *you're* the enemy!

• Washington : Sergeant Loyce don't give a damn!

  The Boys of Company C : Shipped our ass to Vietnam!

  Washington : Good Marines they never die!

  The Boys of Company C : When they're hit they never cry!

• Washington : You listen to me dipshit and I ain't gonna repeat myself. Don't mess with me! Don't mess near me! Don't bring no heat down on me! You're all headed for a fall and I ain't taking the ride, do you dig? You just stay clear of Tyrone! 'Cause you're all a bunch of fuck ups! And you all going to die, every last one of you! You too, dipshit!

• Washington : Sergeant stripes they give him class...

  The Boys of Company C : He just likes to kick our ass!

• Washington : Stay away from me! Hear? You stay the fuck away from me man! If I ever catch you near me again, I'm gonna put my foot upside your ass... sideways!

• SSgt. Loyce : You met our four new replacements yet? Their Drill Instructors call them the four fucking stooges.

  Washington : Replacements? Man I ain't no fool! Those fucks won't last a week out there and anybody who's gotta depend on them is already dead meat!

  SSgt. Loyce : I don't believe that. But I'll tell you what Washington, I respect your judge of character. Do you think they're any more fucked up than the rest of the shit we got in this Goddam platoon?

  Washington : Ah shit, why don't you just march the whole fuckin platoon out here, blow their damn brains out right here. Cuz your gonna end up killin all of us!

  SSgt. Loyce : I'm not the Goddam one that's killing these people. It's you asshole, you're the one. Not me.

  Washington : That's bullshit. That's bullshit. That's BULLSHIT!

  SSgt. Loyce : Let me tell you something Washington. I've got one hell of a shitty Goddam job here. They send me 60-80 buckets of civilian shit and expect me to train them to be combat Goddam ready Marines. I have to send these people to Vietnam. I'm the one that has to send them. They're gonna come back in bags. They're gonna come back in wheelchairs. They're gonna be maimed, they're gonna fucked up people when they come back. It's up to me how they come back. And YOU, asshole. Washington you're not motivated, you're not motivated at all. You could fucking help me. But no, hell no! You got your goddam head up your ass all the time. You're playing your own silly ass Goddam game. Well I'll tell you one thing dippy, you're gonna start playing my game. Or you're gonna find yourself in combat in Vietnam and you're gonna have Charlie shooting at you from the front and the four fucking stooges are going to be shooting at you from the rear!

  Washington : Sir are you talking to me man to man?

  SSgt. Loyce : Yeah I'm talking to you man to man.

  Washington : Then will you remove your hat sir so I can face you eye to eye?

  SSgt. Loyce : [Removing his campaign cover]  . I don't mind at all Washington if it's gonna help you out.

  Washington : OK so what do you want me to do huh? I mean WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO MAN? You want me to be a good nigger so you can match those boys out of the brig? Huh, is that it?

  SSgt. Loyce : No Washington I don't want it. GODDAMMIT I DON'T WANT A GOOD NIGGER! I want a Goddam man that out there pushing these people. Someone that they can trust. Someone that they know is trying to help them. I want someone that they can depend on in Vietnam. I don't want them to be afraid to fall down because they know someone's behind them to pick em up and stand em back up on their Goddam feet! Now you show me that kind of a Goddam nigger and I'll give you a platoon that will stand behind you. A platoon that'll save your ass in combat Washington, and they'll save their own asses too. Teamwork Goddammit! Teamwork!

  Washington : Sir, can you get em back?

  SSgt. Loyce : Yeah I can get them back. But I'll tell you one fuckin thing right now dippy. You start this lone wolf shit again on me and I'll stick you with the maggoty ass bunch of Goddam shit you've ever seen in your life. You are bound to get fuckin killed your first week in Vietnam.

  Washington : Get em back.

  SSgt. Loyce : Have I got your Goddam word?

  Washington : You've got my Goddam word.

  SSgt. Loyce : All right. Go out there and get rid of those four fucking scumbags. Send them back wherever the fuck they came from, and I'll go down to the brig and I'll pull some strings and I'll get our people back.

  Washington : Thank you sir.

  SSgt. Loyce : You don't have to thank me. Shit.

• Washington : You see that ambulance over there? You get on it. You get to a hospital and you just disappear.

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : I told you once and I meant it. I ain't gonna do nothing I'm gonna be ashamed of.

  Washington : Let me tell you what you got to be ashamed of. You're gonna have a little bastard running around calling someone else daddy. Now that's what you got to be ashamed of. Gunny!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Uh uh

  Washington : Gunny! We got a man here with brain damage. He's got a concussion and he won't go to the hospital!

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Ah that's cute man, that's real cute!

  Washington : You leave me no choice.

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : All I gotta do is tell em there's nothing wrong with me!

  Sergeant Curry : Pike, I can't use no man with a bruised brain! Now get on the ambulance you disloyal fuck! Understand?

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : Yes sir.

  [Glares at Washington] 

  Pvt. Billy Ray Pike : You big lummox! Now you don't deserve this you son of a bitch! You take care of it.

  [Pike takes off his prized baseball cap and gives it to Washington, then picks up his weapon and goes to the ambulance] 

  Washington : You take care of it too. Ole country ass boy.

• Washington : Pike! You fuckin' with pills again!... I fuckin' told your ass I don't want a junkie on my back... didn't I? !

• Washington : You're an asshole, you're gonna be dumb enough to pull a gun on a man you better be smart enough to pull the trigger!