hold it. come back. the lights sweep back, find. cockpit's empty! we're checking the payload! colonel? we've got ourselves a broken arrow. got 'em! we've got one intact. let's go find the other one. rhodes starts off along the bottom of the crevice. hello? mcmurran? come in. suddenly, there's a soft popping sound and reed drops. reed? what the --? rhodes looks down, sees blood on reed. before he can say another word, there's a fusillade of soft popping sounds as silenced bullets ricochet off the rock around them. thomas goes down. raises his pistol and shoots at the source of the laser. we'll open up the access panels, put in a couple grenades. the nukes won't go nuclear, but they will go dirty. i won't lie and say we'll be all right. we won't. but if we're gonna go, might as well take those bastards with us. rhodes scrambles off.