Serial S02 - Ep. 3: Escaping

Serial

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🗓️ 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.

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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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