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It's roughly 25 hours of recorded conversations, a lot of it rangy and raw. He had been talking to a filmmaker named Mark Boal.

#The office script season 2 ep 1 tv#

His story was only going to live in that kind of antiseptic, upstairs realm of pissed-off politicians and military experts and cable TV commentators.Д«ut last spring, I found out that Bowe Bergdahl had been talking to someone, for almost a year. And through all of this, Bowe Bergdahl himself was like a ghost, a blank. The army launched a big investigation into what exactly happened-why did Bergdahl leave his post? Even now, other soldiers are so enraged by what Bergdahl did that, for his own protection, he's got to have a security detail with him when he leaves his base in San Antonio.ДЇinally, the army charged Bergdahl with two crimes, one of which carries the possibility of a life sentence. Congressional leaders condemned the trade the president made to get Bergdahl back-the release of five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay-saying the trade was not only ill-conceived but illegal. Some people took offense that in the Rose Garden event, Bob Bergdahl, who had grown a long beard in his son's absence, had spoken some phrases in Arabic and Pashto. Others were saying he was a traitor, even, who might have collaborated with the Taliban. Some of his former platoon mates called him a deserter. Because Bowe Bergdahl deliberately walked off his post into hostile territory. Within days-within hours of his rescue, in fact-people began saying that we shouldn't be celebrating him. But then, so suddenly, the whole story flipped. I'm Sarah Koenig.Д«ergdahl's hometown of Hailey, Idaho-which for five years had Bring Bowe Home posters and yellow ribbons all over the place-they planned this big celebration for him. The video cuts off.ДЇrom This American Life and WBEZ Chicago, it's Serial, one story told week by week. At the helicopter, they pat him down one more time, and then he's on board. Bergdahl is walking stiffly, lumbering almost. They don't want to turn their backs on the Taliban just yet. The Americans put their hands on him, pull him towards the Black Hawk while they're walking backwards. The two sides meet in the middle of the clearing, shake hands-like team captains right before the starting whistle.Д«ergdahl steps forward. Bergdahl walks forward, flanked by two men, while three men from the helicopter-the US Special Operations team-jog toward him.

Then, at about six minutes in, right after some cows wander onto the scene, the helicopter lands, dust flies. He's out of the truck now, looking up at the sky. You will not get out alive.'Д«lack spots appear in the cloudy sky, and you see that they're planes or helicopters. One guy says something in Pashto, which is translated on screen as 'Don't come back to Afghanistan.' What I've heard since is that the guy said, 'Do not come back to Afghanistan. One or two of the guys lean in to where Bergdahl is sitting, and they're talking to him. He keeps blinking and rubbing them.ДЄ wider shot shows that the scrubby, rocky hills all around the truck are dotted with other guys-Taliban-holding rifles or rocket-propelled grenades. He looks sort of like a cult leader from a '70s movie. The camera closes in, and you see this pale, young man. A bareheaded figure is sitting with his knees up against the seat in front of him.

In the backseat of the truck, the door is open. They're standing next to a silver pickup truck. They've got scarves on their heads or covering their faces, and they're holding machine guns. The first thing you see is a couple of guys in traditional Afghan clothes. He was the US soldier who was captured by the Taliban and held captive for just shy of five years. It showed the rescue of a guy named Bowe Bergdahl. About a year and a half ago, clips from this video appeared on every major news broadcast.