Staff Sergeant William James:
[Speaking to his son]
You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your mommy, your daddy, your nature pajamas. You love everything, don’t ya? Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older… some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore, you know? Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you’ll realize it’s just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal, but the older you get, the fewer things you really love, and by the time you get to my age, maybe it’s only one or two things. With me, I think it’s one.

En bombröjningsgrupp som opererar i Irak får en ny överordnad, James. Till en början förvånas James underordnade av hans dödsförakt. Men allteftersom staden förfaller in i anarki visar den nye chefen sitt sanna ansikte.

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