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Private Affair- Falling For A Secret Army Billionaire Full Hd
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00:00You know I be on the what, yeah, it's all hard, ain't no fear here, you ain't giving
00:23this to all you stick with.
00:30You missed the ball, I caught what I wanted, this isn't the capital, there's no handlers,
00:56there's no headlines, just duty and sweat.
01:00Try not to make a mess of it.
01:02Good to see you too, dad.
01:04You're here because the optics are bad.
01:06You went off script, again.
01:09I gave an honest answer to a dishonest question, I didn't like the building on fire.
01:13You embarrassed Rhodes, you embarrassed me.
01:17Maybe if you stopped treating me like a press release and started treating me like a person
01:20I wouldn't keep embarrassing you.
01:22Rhodes will be here soon.
01:24You'll accompany him to drills.
01:26Keep appearances.
01:28I didn't ask to be here, and I sure as hell didn't ask for Rhodes.
01:32You're not here to ask, you're here to repair what your name used to mean.
01:36Huh?
01:37Are you ready for the comeback?
01:38You know we the ones that, ready for whatever, we gon' have to show em something man, let
01:43me see them heads up.
01:44That'll do it.
01:45Nice.
01:46Of course.
01:47My buddy Jackson from back home taught me everything I know about engines.
01:49He knows his stuff, that's for sure.
01:50Good work, buddy.
01:51Private?
01:52That wasn't a suggestion.
01:53Didn't realize you outranked me, ma'am.
01:54I'm civilian liaison to the operations commander.
01:55You're expected to acknowledge Prince.
01:56I don't understand that I'm too...
01:57Of course.
01:58My buddy Jackson from back home taught me everything I know about engines.
02:00He knows his stuff, that's for sure.
02:01Good work, buddy.
02:02Private?
02:03That wasn't a suggestion.
02:04Didn't realize you outranked me, ma'am.
02:05I'm civilian liaison to the operations commander.
02:18You're expected to acknowledge protocol.
02:19I thought you were just passing through.
02:21I'm stationed here, behind comms.
02:24Lucky us.
02:27What's your name?
02:28Callahan.
02:31Private.
02:32Are you always this friendly?
02:34Only to people who expect it.
02:38Bring the band in!
02:40Try not to get your shoes dirty.
02:42Woo!
02:43Well, alright.
02:45Still attracting the wrong kind of attention, I see.
02:48Stay away from that one if I were you.
02:50Have you always been this territorial, Harper?
02:53Only when you show up when invited.
02:55I thought we outgrew this in Fort Lexington.
02:58You outgrew the army.
03:00I didn't.
03:01Okay.
03:02Supply tents.
03:03Alpha through Indigo.
03:04You'll supervise the loading for the med run.
03:05Your details already been pulled.
03:06Uh, it says here...
03:07Private Callahan?
03:08Do you have a problem with that?
03:09I'm just surprised I thought someone with more experience would want to...
03:10He volunteered.
03:11I guess we're working together.
03:12Okay.
03:13I just did.
03:14Okay.
03:15That's fine.
03:16No.
03:17Wait.
03:18I'm just a little bit worried, man.
03:19No.
03:20Okay.
03:21Go ahead.
03:22Okay, I don't believe that.
03:24No.
03:26Oh, I came here.
03:27I can see what we are doing.
03:30This is the same way.
03:31I guess we're working together.
03:42Guess so.
03:43You volunteered?
03:44Somebody's got to move the boxes.
03:46So you're planning on taking orders, or are you going to play independent contractor again?
03:50That depends.
03:51Do you plan on giving orders, or just playing officer?
03:57Start with the bandages, and then the field kits.
03:59Don't drop anything.
04:13Unless you want to get struck, it might be time to stop playing supervisor.
04:25You really volunteered for this detail?
04:27It was either this, or sanitation.
04:30You'd probably be less irritating there.
04:32You think I'm irritating?
04:36You walk around like you don't answer to anyone.
04:39I walk around not pretending, either.
04:41Do you know who I am?
04:42I know exactly who you are.
04:45Doesn't mean I care.
04:47You're really bad at making friends.
04:49I'm not here to make friends.
04:51Cause I don't know what you're looking for.
05:02Wow.
05:04Cozy.
05:05Face brief has been pushed until after the thunderstorm.
05:08So.
05:10As you were.
05:11Perfect timing.
05:12As always.
05:13Were you not going to tell her that we were doing inventory?
05:17Were you going to tell her that we were on?
05:23Made on a mission, I'ma get it.
05:25You know I be on.
05:26What?
05:26You weren't supposed to be here till tomorrow.
05:31I figured I'd surprise you.
05:33Thought you might need the motivation.
05:36I was in the middle of rounds.
05:38No you're not.
05:39Come on let's do a walkthrough together.
05:41You can show me what you've been up to.
05:43I have three more units to check and two more.
05:45Emma.
05:46Came all the way down here early.
05:48Least you can do is spend the next ten minutes looking like you're still happy.
05:55Yeah this base is doing something to you.
05:57You seem tense.
05:59Maybe I'm just tired.
06:00Maybe you've forgotten what's at stake.
06:02This assignment is about redemption.
06:04Not rebellion.
06:05I have work to do.
06:06You work for me Emma.
06:08Or did that change while I was in the air?
06:11Jack.
06:20Finally.
06:21Hi mom.
06:21You look thin.
06:23Hard to stay full on rations and coffee.
06:25Tell me again while you're still out here pretending to be one of them.
06:30I'm not pretending.
06:31You're wasting time Jack.
06:33Your father's getting worse.
06:35And you should be here learning how to take over Callahan defense.
06:40Our stock is dropping.
06:41We're losing hundreds of millions in value every week.
06:46When your father's gone, you're it.
06:51I didn't know you worked night shifts.
06:55You okay?
06:57I'm fine.
06:58You don't look fine.
07:07Must be the lighting.
07:09You don't talk much.
07:11You ever think that's why everyone wonders what your story is?
07:14I'm not here to be a story.
07:15What are you here for?
07:16Maybe I wanted to remember what it felt like to earn something.
07:22Or I got tired of being told of who I'm supposed to be.
07:25Sounds like someone with a past.
07:27We all got one here.
07:29Some of us are better at hiding it.
07:30Or too afraid to share it.
07:32You afraid of me?
07:33No.
07:36I think you're afraid of me.
07:37You can't be here.
07:55I know.
07:56You can't sleep?
08:02Not with everything in my head.
08:05You can get used to it.
08:07I don't want to get used to it.
08:08I don't know who you are.
08:11I don't care right now.
08:12Jack.
08:13You just don't talk.
08:36You can't do this.
08:38I know.
08:43What the hell are we doing?
08:45Something we both knew we couldn't stop.
08:48No, you don't get it.
08:52I don't get to make mistakes.
08:54Not here.
08:55Not with you.
08:56So that's what this was?
08:58A mistake?
08:59I don't need saving Emma.
09:01But I didn't think I'd be somebody that you would regret.
09:05That's not what I was actually trying to get.
09:08You don't have to explain.
09:09Explain.
09:13I'll let myself out.
09:19You'll forget about this faster than I will.
09:30You've been quiet lately.
09:32Distant.
09:32Well, it's a forward operating base, Jeremy.
09:34Not exactly the Four Seasons.
09:35Look, I'm trying.
09:37I know I came in hot the other day.
09:40But this place, it's bringing out your worst instincts.
09:42My worst instincts?
09:44You get reckless when you feel trapped.
09:46And you're not trapped.
09:46You just need to stay focused.
09:48You think I'm the problem here?
09:49I think you need to remember what we came here to fix and not create more damage.
09:59Him?
10:00Stay away from him.
10:02I'm serious.
10:03You don't own me, Jeremy.
10:04You shouldn't have to.
10:07Breakfast was great.
10:08As always.
10:09Yes.
10:12Are you here to inspect my stacking technique?
10:24I needed a minute.
10:26Are you okay?
10:27Jeremy cornered me at breakfast.
10:30Says that I'm distracted.
10:32That you're the distraction.
10:34Is that true?
10:35Depends.
10:36Depends on what?
10:38If you're worth it.
10:39You don't have to pretend I didn't leave.
10:41You don't have to pretend it didn't hurt.
10:43I could handle orders.
10:45Even silence.
10:46But when you look at me like it didn't mean anything, now that's the part that screws with
10:49me.
10:50Anyone can walk in.
10:51Then don't say anything you don't mean.
10:54I can't stop thinking about it.
10:57About you.
10:58And say it when it matters.
11:00Not just when it's safe.
11:09Callahan, Jack, Unit 4, who the hell are you?
11:19Why are you lying?
11:23What are you up to?
11:25Oh, just getting ahead of these logistics errors.
11:28Last week's were a mess.
11:29Well, let me know if you need help looking through some of the grunts.
11:32I know, some of them come with complications.
11:36I can handle complications.
11:37I know.
11:38That's what worries me.
11:41You requested me?
11:42Just wanted to bring something to your tent bin.
11:45Callahan.
11:46Supplies unit.
11:47New detail.
11:48He's on Emma's logistics team?
11:50He was.
11:51He was reassigned twice in the last week and he always ends up back in her proximity.
11:56Think he's targeting her?
11:57I think she's not thinking clearly and he's taking advantage.
12:00There's something off about him.
12:01His transfer is clean, but too clean.
12:04I've been saying this.
12:05No one's listened.
12:07Let me help you take back what's yours.
12:13Didn't expect to see you today.
12:16Where were you stationed before this?
12:18Why?
12:18No reason.
12:20You don't talk much.
12:21Makes a girl wonder.
12:22Infantry training.
12:23Stateside.
12:24Low profile.
12:25That's all?
12:26That's all that matters.
12:29Right.
12:29Is there something you're not saying?
12:32No.
12:32Just trying to figure out who's on my team and who's pretending to be.
12:36Are you looking for a reason not to trust me?
12:38Maybe I'm looking for a reason to trust you.
12:41Look here.
12:51We need to have an actual conversation.
12:56Oh, after you've run my name through every restricted log on base.
13:01Who told you?
13:02It doesn't matter.
13:03It's the truth, isn't it?
13:04I trusted you, Emma.
13:06And I'm supposed to trust someone who doesn't even have a real service history?
13:08I didn't enlist to be tracked.
13:10I enlisted to disappear.
13:12And I did.
13:13Until you.
13:14What are you running from?
13:15Everything.
13:17But why can't you just tell me the truth?
13:18Because I want one thing that's real in my life before it gets ripped apart.
13:24You're Private Jack Callahan of Callahan Defense Systems.
13:26This field base alone is probably a half a billion dollar contract for you.
13:30Are you here for some sort of secret shopper bullshit?
13:32I'm here because I needed to understand the people that my family's weapons are killing.
13:36You wanted the truth?
13:38There it is.
13:39Look, I didn't want to bring you to this.
13:42I tried to keep you out of it.
13:43Then why did you kiss me?
13:45Why didn't you just leave?
13:46Because I couldn't.
13:47You think that makes it better?
13:48No, but it makes it honest.
13:50You made me fall for you walking around pretending to be someone else that you weren't.
13:53I wasn't pretending.
13:55I was trying to figure out who I really am.
13:58And then you happened.
13:59I'm here.
13:59I'm here.
14:02You want to hate me?
14:04Fine.
14:05But don't act like I'm the only one hiding behind a uniform.
14:08I'm not hiding.
14:10No?
14:10Then why are you still pretending you're okay with him?
14:13This isn't about Jeremy.
14:16Isn't it?
14:23Stay away from me.
14:30You sure about this?
14:31Transfer's going to fly command.
14:33No one know why.
14:33Let them ask.
14:35I'll be gone before they even decide.
14:37Don't!
14:42You shouldn't be here.
14:44Then you shouldn't be leaving.
14:45What, you're just going to disappear?
14:46What else do you expect?
14:48Every day someone else comes sniffing around.
14:51Jeremy.
14:52Harper.
14:53Your father.
14:54You!
14:55I wasn't trying to destroy you.
14:56I was trying to understand.
14:59Oh, and understanding comes with a background check?
15:01And trust doesn't come with silence.
15:04If you turn that in, you're not just walking away from the base.
15:07You're walking away from me.
15:09Maybe that's the only way to protect you.
15:11You don't get to decide that.
15:12Not when I'm standing right here.
15:26You've been quiet.
15:28Didn't know there's much left to say.
15:30You always say that, and then you say something that sticks in my head all night.
15:34My dad is sick.
15:36Stage four.
15:37Nobody's saying it out loud, but we all know it's coming.
15:40They want me to take over the company.
15:42Not just the public side.
15:45Weapons, tech, defense contracts, all of it.
15:48They're not just the type of company that asks for permission.
15:52They just build the tools and let the war sort themselves out.
15:55And you're next in line?
15:56Like a coronation.
15:58Except for the part where they ask, do you want the crown?
16:05I joined up because I couldn't sleep at night thinking about the people that we were building for.
16:10What it felt like to be the person pulling the trigger, or carrying the gear, or not coming home.
16:16So you think this will fix it?
16:18No.
16:19But now I understand it.
16:21I never meant to drag you into this.
16:22I never expected you.
16:26I didn't expect any of this either.
16:30You've been visible lately.
16:34I've been performing my assigned duties.
16:36I'm not talking about duties.
16:39I'm talking about whispers.
16:41The kind that don't stay within the wire.
16:43People you surround yourself with are a direct reflection on the space.
16:47And on me.
16:48And on the army.
16:49Is that code for Jack?
16:50It's code for judgment.
16:52Yours.
16:53And Jeremy's judgment?
16:54Still pristine?
16:56He's an officer.
16:57And will be your fiancée.
16:59So I'm property.
17:00Dress it up however you want.
17:01That's what you mean.
17:02You're not here to question policy.
17:04You're here to prove that you still belong in this world.
17:07Now stay away from that private.
17:08Or I'll make sure that neither of you make it to the finish of the season.
17:11Late for a debrief, boss.
17:18Not if I'm bringing something useful.
17:21Jack Callahan.
17:22You know that name, right?
17:23The recruit?
17:24I'm a shadow?
17:25No.
17:26Jack Callahan.
17:27Only son of Owen Callahan.
17:29Chairman and CEO of Callahan Defense Systems.
17:32The same company used to supply half the space's tech.
17:36That's not possible.
17:38We vet everyone.
17:39Not if he's trying to disappear.
17:40No fanfare.
17:41No press.
17:42He just enlists under a private transfer through a proxy recruiter.
17:46It's legal, but buried.
17:47So what?
17:48He's hearing some kind of PR stunt?
17:51More like self-assigned field research.
17:53Understand the product from the user's perspective.
17:55That's the line he gave Emma.
17:57Oh, he told Emma this.
17:58Every word.
17:59She knew this and she didn't report it.
18:01She's protecting him.
18:02Just like she's protecting their relationship.
18:05Fraternization.
18:05National security risk.
18:07Rounds for full discharge.
18:09For both of them.
18:14Way more.
18:17What are you doing?
18:18Something I should have done before I deployed.
18:21I know we've had our attentions.
18:22No, I haven't always made space for what you need, but I've always known what we are.
18:25Jeremy, not here.
18:27If it's not here, then where?
18:28This is where we met.
18:29Where we trained.
18:30Where we became what we are.
18:35Marry me.
18:37Get up.
18:38This is real.
18:39I'm not playing games.
18:41No, you're just making moves.
18:43You want to be seen as strong, then you stand with me the way we're supposed to.
18:46Jeremy?
18:48Get up.
18:49You say no to this?
18:53You better be ready for what comes next.
18:58What are you laughing at, huh?
18:59Are you lost?
19:07I just thought I'd drop the requisition list.
19:10She left it in the admin tent.
19:12You don't usually do favors.
19:14Maybe I'm just tired of pretending I don't notice things.
19:17You and Emma?
19:18The looks?
19:19The disappearances?
19:21The not-so-secret secrets?
19:23Is this where you tell me I'm not good enough?
19:25No.
19:25This is where I remind you that there's an easier path with fewer risks.
19:33Like me.
19:36You could have a clean slate.
19:38A promotion.
19:39A future that doesn't depend on someone who's already halfway out the door.
19:44And you don't have to say anything right now.
19:48But stop pretending like you haven't thought about it before.
19:51I'm not yours to manipulate.
19:55Sorry to interrupt.
19:56I'll let you get back to whatever this is.
19:58Okay.
20:03Emma, wait!
20:07She came into my tent.
20:08I didn't ask for that.
20:09You didn't stop her either.
20:11Yes, I did.
20:12You weren't there.
20:13Do you know what it feels like to have someone reach out like they already own you?
20:16I've only ever wanted you.
20:18Nothing has changed.
20:19Then why does it feel like I keep walking in on the middle of your story?
20:22So this is where we're doing it now.
20:24Mid-base, midnight apologies.
20:27Jeremy, not here, not now.
20:28You humiliate me in front of half the base, and now you're sneaking around with him again.
20:32We weren't sneaking around.
20:33That is rich.
20:34Following someone like a damn stray dog after you spend weeks flying to every month.
20:38Stop!
20:39No.
20:39Let's talk about what's going on here.
20:41Let's talk about what he is and what you're willing to risk.
20:44Chasing.
20:44Whatever this is.
20:45Watch your tone.
20:47That's enough!
20:48Stand down!
20:49Sir, I think you should-
20:50You're dismissed.
20:52All of you.
20:53That means you too, Private.
20:58You summoned me?
21:00Do you think this is a game?
21:02No, sir.
21:03You humiliated an officer publicly, and now you're crawling around with a soldier.
21:08You barely know.
21:09A soldier who's going to drag you down with him.
21:11I'm not!
21:11Don't talk!
21:13You will accept Jeremy's proposal.
21:15You will marry him for the next deployment.
21:17Do you understand me?
21:19You can't force me.
21:21You know what happens if you walk away from this?
21:24No army.
21:26No clearance.
21:27No future.
21:29Why are you doing this?
21:31Because I'm not going to watch you throw your life break for some private-
21:34place soldier.
21:35Say it.
21:36Right.
21:37Now.
21:38Yes, sir.
21:40Get cleaned up.
21:43Go make it public first thing in the morning.
21:49Morning.
21:50Look, I know this isn't how you pictured it, but this, it fixes everything.
21:57I'm not broken.
21:59It's not what I meant.
22:01We don't have to be in love, Emma.
22:03We have to be aligned.
22:05You and me were built for this.
22:07Legacy.
22:08Power.
22:09Security.
22:10What if I want more than that?
22:11Then you'd be gone already, but you're not.
22:13You say yes to this, everything stabilizes.
22:16For you, for me, for your father.
22:18This is how we win.
22:21Do it quickly.
22:32Gentlemen.
22:33Before we begin this morning's assignments, I am proud to acknowledge an announcement
22:37from Captain Rhodes.
22:39This base has been a test of all of us, of who we are under pressure, of who we protect.
22:45And for me, it's shown me who I want beside me when it matters.
22:50Emma Whitmore, will you marry me?
22:54Yes.
23:03Just breathe.
23:08The smiles are twice when we're almost done.
23:11I'd like to say a few words.
23:13When I first met Emma, she didn't follow any rules.
23:16But leadership comes in many forms.
23:19It takes strength to choose order.
23:22To choose a man like Jeremy.
23:24To the future, Mrs. Rhodes.
23:26Can I do anything to help?
23:47You shouldn't be here.
23:48That stopped mattering weeks ago.
23:50And you said yes, right in front of me.
23:52Yeah, and I saw you look right at me and then leave.
23:55Because I thought you were gone.
23:56And then I had to watch you say yes in front of everyone.
23:59You think I wanted that?
24:00I think you let it happen.
24:02And I think you're letting him win.
24:03I'm not letting anything happen.
24:07You don't know what he's holding over me.
24:08You don't know what he's capable of.
24:10Then tell me.
24:11It wouldn't change anything.
24:12It would change me.
24:14Listen, I never asked you to pick me.
24:16I just wanted to believe that you would try.
24:21You have no idea how hard I'm trying.
24:23I'm engaged to a man I don't love.
24:25Controlled by a father who doesn't even see me.
24:27And now I'm haunted by a man who still looks at me like I could be his future.
24:31Then run with me right now.
24:37I can't.
24:49We all saw her face.
24:52There's a difference between saying yes and meaning it.
24:55He staged that whole thing.
24:57He's trying to lock her down before something explodes.
24:59It already did.
25:00Oh, you think this is over?
25:03You better walk away before someone gets hurt.
25:05You have just another name on a roster.
25:07And then she looked at you like you mattered.
25:09You want to finish this now?
25:10Finish your gloves.
25:11Doesn't matter.
25:17No medals.
25:19No ranks.
25:20Just truth.
25:21Trying to get medical leave.
25:31Enough of the talking.
25:32Here we go, boys.
25:34We're either walking out or getting carried out.
25:36You're not mad that I took her.
25:56You're mad because she never even wanted to.
25:57You should be in med tent.
26:10They don't want the paperwork.
26:14Was it satisfying?
26:16Watching you get hit?
26:17Watching me lose.
26:19No.
26:20You know, I tried, right?
26:22You tried to control me.
26:24Because I didn't know how to keep you.
26:26You always look like you belong to the light.
26:30I was just trying to keep up.
26:32You don't have to be like him, you know?
26:34No.
26:34No.
26:50You shouldn't be here.
26:56I shouldn't be.
26:57And yet?
26:59I saw you walk away.
27:01And that hurt more than saying yes ever did.
27:03You can't keep coming and going like this.
27:05It's killing me.
27:06And let me stay.
27:08Are you sure?
27:09I'm sure.
27:20I'm sure.
27:50If I run away from all this, will you still be the same?
28:12That's all I've been waiting for.
28:14Yeah.
28:20Copy you.
28:30You wanted to see me, sir?
28:31How's your father?
28:33Stable.
28:33Last I heard.
28:34But still stubborn.
28:36That's how I remember him.
28:38We grew up on the same street.
28:39Did you know that?
28:40No, sir.
28:41He was my best friend.
28:42That kind of keeps your secrets.
28:44Even when you don't deserve it.
28:45Is that why I'm still here?
28:46I knew who you were the moment I saw your name on the enlistment roll.
28:50Your father called in a favor.
28:53Said you needed time.
28:55Perspective.
28:55He knew this whole time.
28:58The questions.
28:59The threats.
29:01That wasn't for me.
29:02That was theater.
29:03Stand down, son.
29:05It was protection.
29:06Until it wasn't.
29:06This space is under review.
29:11Command wants clean optics.
29:13No scandal.
29:14No stories.
29:14Just order.
29:15And I'm not a part of that order?
29:17You were never supposed to matter.
29:19Then Emma happened.
29:21I've tried to keep you safe, but she's my daughter.
29:23And I can't protect both of you.
29:25So what happens now?
29:27You disappear.
29:28Quietly.
29:29With honor.
29:31Before we all go down.
29:32What was so urgent?
29:46I need to tell you something.
29:47Before somebody else tells you their version.
29:49Is it about Harper?
29:50No.
29:51It's about your father and me.
29:53He's known who I was this whole time.
29:55Day one, my enlistment wasn't random.
29:58My father asked him to keep me under the radar.
30:00Give me perspective.
30:01A reset.
30:01So you're saying that this was just a favor?
30:04I didn't ask for it.
30:05I didn't even know until today.
30:07And he just told you this out of the kindness of his heart?
30:10No, because Command knows.
30:12And now he wants me gone.
30:13Quietly.
30:14So this whole time you were here, you were protected by him while I was getting interrogated.
30:20Threatened.
30:21I never used it.
30:22I didn't even want it.
30:23While I was falling for you, you were still a part of their game.
30:26I didn't know, Emma.
30:27I swear.
30:28I didn't know.
30:28You always say that.
30:29I didn't know.
30:30I didn't mean to.
30:31Maybe that's the real problem.
30:32You only figure things out when it's too late.
30:34I only told you this because I thought you deserved the truth.
30:36Well, here's mine.
30:37I don't know who to hate more right now.
30:39Him?
30:41Or you?
30:41I take no pleasure in this.
30:51Then don't do it.
30:52That's not how this works.
30:55You're going to marry Captain Rhodes.
30:57There's a ceremony scheduled.
30:5948 hours.
31:00It'll be quiet, contained, and attended by command reps.
31:04Afterward, your record will be sealed and we'll all move forward.
31:08You think this fixes it?
31:09It neutralizes it.
31:11You're treating this like a scandal cleanup, like I'm a problem that you have to manage.
31:15You are my daughter, and this is the price of protecting your name and mine.
31:20And Jack?
31:21We'll go quietly reassigned.
31:23No charges, no noise.
31:25That was the deal.
31:26So you protect the institution and just bury everything else?
31:28I gave you space.
31:30I'll let you make mistakes.
31:31This one doesn't get to leave a footprint.
31:33I expect you to cooperate.
31:35Dress fitting is at 0800 hours.
31:37What if I say no?
31:38Then you're no longer my daughter.
31:43Understood, sir.
31:44Sorry, I usually tie tents, not dresses, but Miss Whitmore, I think you look fantastic.
31:57Well, you look perfect.
32:02It's not real.
32:04It's real enough.
32:05After this, everything resets.
32:08The whispers stop.
32:10Paperwork disappears.
32:11We go back to who we were supposed to be.
32:14I don't even know what that means anymore.
32:16You and me.
32:17The version everyone respects.
32:20I was never that version.
32:21Then fake it a little longer.
32:24Just get through the ceremony, and I'll give you space.
32:27You can sleep in a different tent if all I can.
32:30But we finish this together.
32:33Fine.
32:34Good.
32:41Have you seen requisitions for the North Perimeter Detail?
32:53I think Corporal Ditwit filed it this morning.
32:55Didn't expect to see you working comms.
32:57Just tying up some loose ends.
32:59Are you always this helpful?
33:00I guess scandal brings out the teen spirit, right?
33:03You know, Whitmore, it's always the people who pretend to follow the rules who break them the hardest.
33:09You saying that to me or about me?
33:13Just an observation.
33:15But you'll want to get ahead of it.
33:16Seems like things are about to get messy.
33:27Yo!
33:28Check out Bates T-Chat.
33:31That's the General's kid.
33:33And Callahan?
33:34I thought he was just a grunt.
33:35I didn't know he had it in him.
33:39I swear, I didn't.
33:43I know.
33:44It doesn't matter now.
33:45We'll work this out.
33:47Together or separately?
33:49It's cute.
33:50Real cute.
33:52Are you gonna explain or let the pictures talk?
33:55Not here.
33:57Show's over.
33:58Get back to work.
34:03You don't know who you're messing with.
34:0424 hours ago, this base had just...
34:11Now every private with a data plan is a paparazzi.
34:14I want this breach traced.
34:16Com's a scrubbing channel, sir.
34:17My team's isolating the origin server.
34:20Origins, not the problem.
34:22Perceptionist.
34:23Half the brigade thinks we're a soap opera.
34:24And that perception changes tomorrow, 1,300 hours.
34:27When you put a ring on my daughter's hand, camera captures all the unity.
34:31Understood?
34:32Yes, sir.
34:33This waiting carries the weight of my command.
34:36Your reputation.
34:37The mother's memory.
34:38One flawless ceremony and all the chatter dies.
34:41I won't sabotage it, sir.
34:43See that you don't.
34:44Lieutenant Voss will take point.
34:46Guest lists, press frames, photos.
34:49All locked by 1,800 hours.
34:50I don't care who took the photos.
34:55After tomorrow, they mean nothing.
34:57Give them the perfect story to print.
34:59Dismiss.
35:00You leaked them.
35:13I manage logistics, not gossip.
35:17Wingle.
35:18Timestamp.
35:19Vantage point.
35:20Only someone with your clearance could pull that feed.
35:23You know, you think you're a damsel in distress.
35:25But no, Whitmore.
35:26You're a damsel in disgrace.
35:28You've ruined careers for sport.
35:30What's the win?
35:31Truth, accountability, and maybe a promotion when command sees who keeps the house clean.
35:36My father will know.
35:37My father already knows everything.
35:39And tomorrow, he's going to walk you down the aisle like a pretty apology.
35:43My hands are clean.
35:44Yours never were.
35:57Sir, we need to talk now.
35:58I'll leave you to it, sir.
35:59Make it quick, Private.
36:01I'll disappear today.
36:02New post.
36:03New name.
36:04No noise.
36:05But you call off the wedding, and Emma walks free.
36:07You think this is about two kids in love?
36:09Command wants a narrative.
36:11Fallen daughter reforged through honorable union.
36:14This wedding is a firebreak point between mutiny and scandal.
36:18Then you burn my record, not hers.
36:20Your record's not the headline here.
36:21Her face is.
36:23One ceremony, one picture set, story ends.
36:26You were my father's friend.
36:28Which is why you're still standing here.
36:31Walk away now as she keeps her name.
36:33Disrupt tomorrow, and I will shred both of you with every post-action report till kingdom come.
36:40And you better write fast, sir.
36:42Because I will never let her stand alone again.
36:45I'm glad you came.
37:06I'm glad you came.
37:06Tomorrow's already planned.
37:32Plans change.
37:33Sign it, and hand it to the chaplain, mid-ceremony.
37:41Then walk towards me.
37:42I'll be waiting.
37:44They'll court-martial you for disruption.
37:46And they'll court-martial you for loving me.
37:48Unless we write a headline they can't spin.
37:51Tomorrow.
37:52Thirteen hundred hours, loud and clear.
37:53After the shock settles, we'll leave together.
37:56No uniform.
37:57Just us.
37:57Just us.
38:02You should go.
38:03I need to be with you right now.
38:11I used to dream about command like a kid dreams about space.
38:15Now it just feels like orbiting a dead star.
38:18Chart a different sky.
38:20The call is selfish.
38:21Selfish is living a lie just so other people feel comfortable.
38:25Once I sign.
38:26There's no pension, no clearance.
38:28All the doors that my father promised.
38:30We'll build new doors.
38:30Not a ring, but a promise.
38:34Tangle together.
38:44Tangle together.
38:44Is today the start of the end?
38:57Or the beginning?
38:59Beginning.
39:01Thirteen hours.
39:03You'll hand the chaplain that letter.
39:04Then walk straight towards me.
39:07Would the MPs grab you first?
39:11They'll need a reason with all those witnesses.
39:13It's not good for the optics, right?
39:17After the ceremony, head for the South Service Road.
39:22I stashed a civilian jeep beyond the tree line.
39:25We'll be fugitives.
39:26I'll be free.
39:44Chaplain's on standby.
39:46Press still outside the wire.
39:48Just smile and salute the flag.
39:50Easy.
39:50Ain't a minute alone with my brat.
39:54Try not to screw this up, Whitmore.
40:02Tell me the truth, Emma.
40:05Answer today where you try, or do you spend the rest of your life chasing a ghost named Jack?
40:12After today, I don't answer to anyone.
40:16What is this?
40:17A promise you can't touch.
40:18I was the future.
40:21Now I'm a headline footnote.
40:23Because you need adventure?
40:25I needed honesty.
40:39Private Callahan.
40:41Logistics courier.
40:42Ceremony supplies got rerouted, and I need in.
40:44Our orders to detain Private Jack Callahan under personal audit lockdown.
40:48On a wedding day?
40:50Explain this, Captain.
40:52Man safeguards optics, Callahan.
40:54Can't risk a logistics mishap spoiling my vows.
40:58You can't bury me.
41:00Take him away.
41:02Callahan, don't make us do this the hard way.
41:04Let's go.
41:05No.
41:05No!
41:08Check-ups every ten minutes.
41:10If you need water, just holler.
41:12Politely.
41:13Auditors.
41:19He's running late.
41:22Figured I'd keep you company.
41:28Music's about to roll.
41:30Then say what you came to say.
41:31I know you're waiting for him, but I had him detained.
41:34Detained where?
41:35You won every war but this one, Dad.
41:37You can still call it off, okay?
41:39Release him.
41:39End the charade.
41:40The optics are set.
41:42Command, press, donors.
41:44This wedding stabilizes all of us.
41:46All of us?
41:47Or you?
41:48If you walk away from this today, you lose your career, clearance, and any ties to it.
41:54I can't shield you.
41:56I'm not asking for your shield.
41:57I'm asking for my life back.
41:59Let him go, Dad.
42:01Let me go.
42:03Just one more march and you're safe.
42:05The only safe place is truth.
42:07You may the truth serve you better than rank served me.
42:09She'll see that aisle empty.
42:16No.
42:17She won't.
42:19She'll see a groom who shows up.
42:21I know the best part.
42:23Tomorrow morning press will print.
42:24Fairytale base wedding.
42:27And you're going to be a footnote on your security factions.
42:31That's for the bruise you gave my ego.
42:36Do you recognize this?
42:38Huh?
42:39You should.
42:40Your family's factory.
42:41They made it.
42:41You made it.
42:43And it ends you.
42:45That's kind of poetic.
42:46You keep clawing.
42:50And clawing for the stage.
42:53And this little piece, your family legacy, it writes your eulogy.
42:58Pull that trigger and you'll prove all the headlines right about you.
43:00My headlines are written by survivors here.
43:02Tomorrow, the army ships you off of some.
43:10I will articulate our base.
43:12For no one remembers the name.
43:14All rise for the bride, please.
43:44MP reports still secure.
43:49You're clear.
43:50Family, comrades, and guardians of honor.
43:53We gather here today to bless this sacred union born of service between Captain Jeremy Rhodes and Miss Emma Widmore.
44:03Captain, you may say your vows.
44:05Emma, you and I are both fighters.
44:08I want to conquer this world with you hand in hand.
44:11Captain Jeremy Rhodes, having spoken your vows, do you take Miss Emma Widmore to be your lawfully wedded wife?
44:18I do.
44:22Miss Emma Widmore, do you take Captain Rhodes to be your lawfully wedded husband, honor, and to cherish for the days of your lives?
44:35Miss Widmore?
44:37Emma, don't say it.
44:41I do.
44:48I want you, Jack.
44:57And I resign my commission.
44:58I got some nerve.
45:10Stay down.
45:12Get him out of here.
45:14No.
45:15Him.
45:16Time to go, Captain.
45:17What?
45:18Drop frame.
45:22You're almost too late.
45:24We had to give him the story worth writing about.
45:26Now we control the optics.
45:30You invaded my command, hijacked my ceremony, and put a thousand cameras on my failure.
45:41And you gave me the only stage big enough to show her that I would never leave.
45:46I choose him, Dad.
45:48Not as rebellion, but as the only truth left.
45:51You'll both carry the fallout.
45:53We'll carry it together.
45:54Okay.
45:56She runs, Hop.
45:58When command wouldn't bend, I'd bend.
46:00Promise me that you will.
46:02I promise.
46:02I taught you to salute before you spoke.
46:05You taught me to listen.
46:06Just like me.
46:06I never wanted to break your command.
46:16I just wanted to find my own.
46:18We commanded.
46:19Just promise you'll come home sometime.
46:20I don't know.
46:21Well, General, if the battlefield is clear, are we still having a wedding, or am I overdressed?
46:41This is yours, Padre.
46:46Let's do this the right way.
46:47The truth speaks.
46:48Vows only need witness.
46:50I choose you, beyond rank, beyond fear, for every dawn.
46:58And I choose you, against orders, against odds, for every desk.
47:05Witness by heart and honor.
47:07And one very patient brigade.
47:10Cowhand did it.
47:11Your man and wife.
47:13You may now kiss the bride.
47:15Hoorah!
47:16Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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