:44:01
Town detail, sir!
:44:02
Meals are also part of duty.
At the exact hour.
:44:05
Yes, sir.
:44:06
Three days, suspension!
:44:09
Fidéli will replace for you.
:44:11
I need you elsewhere.
:44:13
We need an advocate
:44:14
for the next court martial sessions.
:44:17
Someone who honors the battalion.
I appointed you.
:44:20
I don't understand, sir.
:44:22
I never studied law.
:44:25
Your education will compensate.
:44:27
In literature?
:44:30
Look here!
:44:31
Not that I belittle defense'
but I don't see the point.
:44:35
Excuse me?
:44:37
Either the guilt is patent
and you get so much...
:44:40
or the guilt's unproven and you
get so much even so. On principle.
:44:44
I don't understand, sir!
:44:46
How can we accept that?
:44:48
You sound like a chorus
of outraged virgins!
:44:51
A little vocabulary, gentlemen...
:44:53
What are imprisoned soldiers
called before trial?
:44:57
- The accused.
- Exactly!
:44:59
Thus, suspicion of guilt exists.
:45:02
Suspicion is not conviction.
:45:04
Poppycock!
:45:05
In my experience'
the accused is never a good soldier.
:45:09
He's just asking for it.
:45:11
If not this time'
he was guilty a dozen other times.
:45:15
- Not my idea of justice.
- No, wait.
:45:19
I'll bet 1000 francs
against a trouser button
:45:22
that not one of you - not one! -
:45:25
can say he never came close
to being court-martialed.
:45:29
Say you take 3 days'
extra leave... Desertion!
:45:34
Or a bogus pass...
The unit seal traced on a copy.
:45:38
Forged documents!
Correct me if I'm wrong...
:45:40
5 to 10 years.
:45:42
Still, sir...
10 years for fake leave?
:45:46
When you asked
that artillery captain
:45:49
if he'd trained in a straitjacket...
:45:51
He was shelling our lines!
I lost 3 men!
:45:55
Insulting a superior.
And on active duty...
:45:58
5 to 10 years.
:45:59
So, for the handful
of wronged innocents'