Captain Willard travels up the Nung River into off-limits Cambodia to follow Kurtz’s trail to his remote stronghold island by means of a Navy Patrol Boat. The boat’s crew is a young group of draftees. Willard introduces them by saying, “The crew were mostly just kids, rock and rollers with one foot in their graves.” On the way to Kurtz’s base, two of the four crew members are killed, one gets shot in an ambush by Vietcong and the other is killed by a spear in a native tribe attack. When Willard and the two remaining soldiers reach Kurtz’s camp, an ancient Cambodian temple, they are met by native tribesmen and numerous members of Kurtz’s army. The temple is covered with hanging, mutilated corpses and heads scattered all over. As they approach, an American photojournalist who idolizes Kurtz as a great guru, welcomes them to the camp. “Out here, we’re all his children,” he comments, as he describes how the natives revere Kurtz. Willard is later taken to meet Kurtz, and in their conversation he tells Willard that he knows he was sent to kill him. Willard is then locked in a cage and a steel shed for a day, and then release and able to move arou

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