1970s: Promises and Lies
As the US is ramping up their exit strategi from Vietnam, Carl is becoming obsessed with Chi. It's not that he, by now, has not figured out what she is doing, but knowing does not make a difference to his heart. Not when Chi looks at him with such sadness in her eyes. "Why do you do this?" he asks her one night. "Have daughter and mother. Husband dead. Village no food, so I go to town, but no jobs. This is only job, so I take it and send money." Hating what she has been forced to do, Carl starts giving her extra money, starts finding reasons to see her outside of her "work", and find himself falling deeper. "You take me to America, soldier?" she jokes when he tries to see her during the day, at first joking, then as the weeks passes more seriously. Carl hates saying no, so he says he'll try. Then he says yes. He pretends he doesn't know deep down it's a lie. He even tries to make it happen. But his CO just laughs at him when he br...