KURTZ
                         How far are you from the river?

                                     WILLARD
                         The Ohio River, sir?  About two
                         hundred miles.

                                     KURTZ
                         I went down that river once when I
                         was a kid.  There's a place in the
                         river, I can't remember...must
                         have been a gardenia plantation,
                         or a flower plantation at one time.  
                         It's all wild and overgrown now.  
                         But for about five miles, you'd
                         think that heaven just fell on the
                         earth, in the form of gardenias.

               Kurtz reaches down and picks up a bowl full of water.  He
               splashes water on his face and head.

                                     KURTZ
                         Have you ever considered, any real
                         freedoms?  Freedoms from the
                         opinions of others.  Even the
                         opinions of yourself.  Did they
                         say why, Willard?  Why they wanted
                         to terminate my command?

                                     WILLARD
                         I was sent on a classified mission,
                         sir.

                                     KURTZ
                         Its no longer classified, is it.