Scott Mann

They'll disappear, and the Budweiser commercials will hit again, the country music songs, the yellow ribbons will come out, except this time, it'll be my kid, maybe yours, on C-17s.

I think it'll be sooner than when yours would be ready to go, but it certainly could be mine and other people watching this.

It could be our kids on those C-17s, and I think that they will go.

The difference takes me to the second part of the question.

I did a scene at the end of Last Out in Tampa that had never been done before in my play, where we actually turned the lights down at the end of the play, and we had Danny Patton, the Green Beret's son, Caden, like we heard this blackout sounds of the country's been attacked, and this is at the end of the play, and it says, America is now responding.

We think there are troops heading to Afghanistan.

And as the lights come up, Danny's son, Caden, is now full kitted up.

He's now a Green Beret, and he's rolling his parachute up.

And stepping out of the shadows is a commando in tattered rags.

He's got an M4 tricked out.

And all of the patches that he once wore, but it's all ripped up to shreds.

And he's got his weapon leveled right at Caden.

and Caden just looks up at him.

And there's this standoff between these two in this moment.

And then we drop the lights, you know, because that is what our kids are going to walk into.

They're not going to walk into the reception, I believe, of a resistance that is,

waiting anxiously for them to get there.

And you're gonna have this link up of unconventional warfare.

I think what you're gonna have are thousands of pissed off commandos and special forces and interpreters who were left behind, who've lost their families, who've been co-opted in many cases by bad actors.

And the very organizations that we trained that would have been the vanguard are now gonna be probably who we have to deal with face to face.