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Serial

Escaping

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Bergdahl’s first year in captivity starts with an escape and ends with an escape. In between, he learns necessary, twisted lessons of survival.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously, on cereal.

0:03.0

We're like, man, is he like CIA or what?

0:06.0

He look at us and then he jump behind our bike.

0:10.0

We thought he's drunk, huh?

0:12.0

They will kill you just for the amusement of being able to shoot you.

0:17.0

And it quickly became very apparent to us that the Taliban knew...

0:20.0

This is fucking bullshit.

0:22.0

He's in Pakistan.

0:24.0

From this American.

0:30.0

From this American life in W.B.E.Z. Chicago, it's serial, one story told week by week.

0:34.8

I'm Sarah Kaneck. Right after Bo Bergdahl first went missing from his outpost in Afghanistan,

0:54.0

word came down that the higher-ups wanted someone from Bo's platoon,

0:58.0

Second Platoon Blackfoot Company, to record a message to Bo,

1:01.0

that they'd play on local radio. They wanted it to be a voice Bow would recognize. So they chose a guy Bow was friends with, a guy from Louisiana.

1:08.8

And he has a very thick Louisiana accent. So, so basically, uh, he, he went up there and they did, I guess they didn't like it.

1:20.5

So they came down and they got me.

1:22.0

That's Josh Quarter, originally from Pennsylvania.

1:24.0

He didn't want to make a message to Bo.

1:26.0

He says he felt a little disloyal to his platoon,

1:29.0

calling out to the guy who was causing them such turmoil.

1:31.0

But the...

1:32.0

They told me, come, they brought me up there, two officers brought me up there, and they put a piece of paper

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