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Serial

Serial S02 - Ep. 3: Escaping

Serial

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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 serial.

0:03.0

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

0:06.0

He looked at us and then he jumped behind our bike.

0:10.0

We thought he's drunk.

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.

0:30.0

From this American life in W.B.E. Chicago, it's serial.

0:33.0

One story told week by week.

0:35.0

I'm Sarah Canick.

0:36.0

The first time I saw a movie was a movie.

0:39.0

It was a movie.

0:42.0

It was a movie.

0:45.0

It was a movie.

0:48.0

It was a movie.

0:51.0

Right after Bo Bergdall first went missing from his outpost in Afghanistan,

0:54.0

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

0:57.0

second platoon blackfoot company,

0:59.0

to record a message to Bo that they'd play on local radio.

1:03.0

They wanted it to be a voicebo would recognize.

1:05.0

So they chose a guy Bo was friends with.

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