S02 - Ep. 2: The Golden Chicken

Serial - Serial S02 - Ep. 3: Escaping

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

Serial S02 - Ep. 3: Escaping

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

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

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

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

The first time I saw a movie was a movie.

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

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

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

They wanted it to be a voicebo would recognize.

Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.

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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.
	...

Serial S02 - Ep. 3: Escaping

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