do you ever like. think about Brad Colbert and how he tries to show so little emotion but also feels so deeply. and the respect and devotion he shows to every member of his team. and the way he looks at Ray when no one else is looking. like the way he looks at Ray in Baghdad and then after the football game and in that last scene, how it’s just like fond and helpless and concerned all at the same time, like he’s spent three quarters of the show trying to take care of everyone and it’s all started to unwind. his speech to Tony falls flat, Walt shoots the driver of the car, Ray is crashing, and he’s watching the entire war spiraling away from them. like he’s the Iceman but he’s not, you can see him trying to hold it together and he never really breaks down but. you can still see how much it hurts.
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Where Godfather calls on Nate to hear about what happened to Ray after he got burned.
So, from what we know, Ray got burned because Rudy’s espresso maker went haywire. Brad and others most likely reported what happened to Nate and Mike and Nate and Mike probably decided together that they should just lie and say that there was a stove malfunction outside the tent. (We don’t see this, but it’s implied).
Godfather says that he got the report from Encino Man about what happened, doesn’t say anything more about it, just tells Nate that his CO has passed on the report he’d submitted. Through the looks between Nate and Encino Man, the look on Sixta’s face, and the look Godfather and Eckloff give both Encino Man and Nate, it’s pretty clear (to me) that while submitting Nate’s report, Encino Man must have indicated that he did not actually believe that what Nate says happened actually happened that way.
Nate easily continues to tell the lie that he submitted before. That, his Marines were in regulation, but a stove malfunctioned right where Ray was kneeling (outside the tent).
Godfather again asks, after shooting a look to Encino Man, about where this actually happened (again, pretty clear to me that Encino Man has indicated to him earlier that he doesn’t believe the incident happened outside of the tent).
Nate again lies and doubles down on that lie by saying that he witnessed the scene himself, and saw his men coming to the aid of Ray.
Now,
A LOT is going on in this scene that is just ‘looks’ based (which is true of most of this show tbh), I’ve already mentioned the few times where it’s pretty clear what certain looks mean (though, I could be wrong about them). But, after all of what I just wrote up there, there is another long look given by Godfather to Encino Man (who keeps his gaze averted throughout this whole scene), before Godfather tells Nate that he should think about writing up some of his men for commendation.
How do people read how this scene resolves itself? Because I’ve found myself going different ways with what I think is happening.
I tend to read the scene as Godfather believes Nate’s lies, everyone around him believes Nate’s lies, and everyone is like, ‘wow Encino Man is calling Nate a liar when he’s clearly not’.
Another reading could be that Godfather doesn’t believe the lie, none of them do, and all the smirking that’s going on (there is a lot of smirking happening in this scene that always makes me question my reading of this scene and makes me think this is actually what’s happening) is that they don’t believe him but they’re just gonna go with it because they already decided they would, they just wanted to see what he was going to say.
Now, I don’t personally think that’s how it is since we see throughout this show this group of men’s stringent rule-following (the grooming standard) regardless if it’s the ‘right time’ for it.
Is the scene just meant to show us Nate’s willingness to lie for his men? That can’t be easy, boldly lying to a group of your superiors like nothing is amiss. (Nate’s a good liar, by the way, I’m not sure I explore that enough in my fics/headcanons and definitely will need to start doing that).
I think it’s that most of the scene is predicated on looks that makes it feel like my interpretation could be completely wrong. There could be something going on that I’m not even thinking about here.
What do you all think is happening in that scene?
Also, this is our first hint at Nate and Encino Man butting heads. After Nate submitted that report, instead of Encino Man going back to him and questioning him on it, he went right to Godfather with his doubts (this is all an assumption, since we don’t see any of that happen, and maybe he did question Nate a bunch of times and when Nate just kept outright lying he decided to take it to Godfather, but I really doubt that’s what happened).
I think the scene is meant to show the beginning tensions between Nate/Mike and Encino Man, as well as Nate’s willingness to do anything for his Marines, even if that is putting himself on the line for getting caught in a lie.
What do you all think?
Ferrando’s been a marine for a long time and encino man is not his only sauce. He def knew what was up and was being sarcastic and kinda annoyed he was being lied to but proud at nate that he’d go out for his men like that. Was my reading.
Here’s a continuation of this conversation, if you’re interested. Your take is pretty much the consensus we came to as well. (I think that link has most of everything that was discussed)
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