Visible crew/equipment: When Daryl wants to turn himself in, crew members are visible in the scene.
Red Dawn (1984)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: John Milius
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean Stanton
Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen die, the boy and the girl make it to the American Army Base, a memorial is set up for all the soldiers and rebels who died for their county.
Mackenzie Ray Lewis
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Col. Andy Tanner: You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.
Trivia: The cast underwent an intensive 8-week military training course before filming started.
Question: When Daryl is confronted by his friends, he tells them that he was forced to swallow something. What was it and why kill him if he was forced to do it?
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Answer: It was a tracking device which gave away their location. Since they couldn't remove it, they decided to kill him as he was now a liability.
Gavin Jackson
They killed him because he betrayed them.
How was Daryl forced to swallow it? Did they manage to apprehend him and force it down his throat, or was it something else entirely?