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380:), while he is having a drink. However, he fails to complete the mission and is shot at by a counter-sniper. Beckett kills the sniper but is arrested by Vietnamese authorities. In custody, Beckett sees Finnegan in another cell, who claims that he abandoned his wife and child because he felt "alive" in the jungle, but claims that he was "sold out" by the very people he worked for. Finnegan blows up the police station to escape, which gives Beckett an opportunity to escape as well. Beckett contacts Quan who demands that he provide him with a weapon and a way home. Suspicious of the purpose to his mission, Beckett wants to find Finnegan and get to the bottom of things. He locates Finnegan in "the ditch", old
310:) thinks he is too old and bull-headed to still be active duty. Beckett attends the wedding of Neil Finnegan (Ken Streutker), the son of his best friend, Paul Finnegan, who served with him in Vietnam and saved his life before he was killed just before the fall of Saigon. Beckett reads a letter written given to him by Paul decades earlier just in case he did not make it to his son's wedding day. Beckett then dances with Paul's widow, Sydney (
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376:). Beckett is shaken due to the personal nature of his task and calls Sydney, forgetting the time difference. Beckett tells Sydney that he just wants her and Neil to know how much they mean to him, as he never truly had a family of his own. Later that night, Beckett goes to the Club Cong, to kill Finnegan (
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