Jeffrey Wright credited as playing...
Al Melvin
- Al Melvin: I'm just! I'm just... I'm just a little stuck, Sir.
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Because I remember, okay, Shaw...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Shaw, okay... Shaw saving us, right?
- [another pause]
- Al Melvin: But that doesn't make sense, because... that should've been you. Okay, if Shaw is in the Hummer...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: The Toyota is here...
- [breaks down to the floor and sobs]
- Ben Marco: [Marco grabs him and holds him up to his feet] All right. Just get up, get up!
- [pause]
- Ben Marco: Listen, it's... That's over with. That's done. Okay? You gotta move on...
- Al Melvin: [stutters] What I was hoping is that, you know, maybe...
- Ben Marco: You need some money or something?
- Al Melvin: No. No, Sir...
- Ben Marco: Wait a minute...
- Al Melvin: I don't need your money, man!
- Ben Marco: All right. Well, it was great to see you...
- [Melvin walks away]
- Al Melvin: [disturbingly] I have these dreams, Sir.
- Ben Marco: [puzzled] Dreams?
- Al Melvin: [continues] Yes, Sir. Kuwait. It's you and me, Ingram and Baker and...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Raymond Shaw.
- Ben Marco: Okay.
- Al Melvin: See, I remember it happened...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Like you just said and then...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: I don't...
- Ben Marco: Well, we had it pretty rough over there, Melvin. That was a long time ago. Memories shift...
- Al Melvin: [cutting Ben off] Do you have dreams, Sir?
- Ben Marco: [smiles] Everybody has dreams, Corporal...
- Al Melvin: [frustratingly] No, not these!
- Al Melvin: [trying to explain his dreams] I write it all down. You know, like, every night...
- [he shows Marco a notebook with strange notes scribbled in it]
- Al Melvin: Right when I wake up, I try to get it down. It doesn't always come together, you know? Not everything that I can remember...
- Ben Marco: Maybe you should go to the V.A. Hospital. Talk to one of the doctors...
- Al Melvin: [angrily throws his notebook on the floor] I've *BEEN* to doctors, man!