Visible crew/equipment: When Daryl wants to turn himself in, crew members are visible in the scene.
Red Dawn (1984)
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Directed by: John Milius
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean Stanton
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Question: Since Daryl was forced to swallow a transmitter, instead of killing him, wouldn't it make more sense to simply leave him behind or even tie him to a tree so that he couldn't follow them and give away their position again?
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Answer: Daryl's actions of swallowing the transmitter AND returning to the Wolverine camp branded him as both a coward and a traitor. He was killed, not as a safety precaution, but as a sentence for his "crime."
Michael Albert