The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by New York Times war correspondent and journalist Chris Hedges: “The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
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In the spring of 1944, 1 SSF First Lieutenant Aldo Raine is tasked to recruit a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers for a mission to go behind enemy lines and bring fear to all German servicemen. He tells the soldiers that they each owe him one hundred Nazi scalps.
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In December 2009, military virologist Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville , lost his wife Zoe and daughter Marley in a helicopter accident during the chaotic quarantine of Manhattan. K.V. , a genetically-engineered variant of the measles virus meant as a cancer cure
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Dieter Dengler, a U.S. Navy pilot in squadron VA-145, is shot down in his A-1 Skyraider over Laos in February 1966, while on a combat mission. He survives the crash only to be pursued, and ultimately captured, by a local militia of the Pathet Lao.
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