Dawson and Downey are two marines (=a soldier who is trained, especially one in the US Marine Corps or the British Royal Marines) in the US Marine Corps at Guantánamo Bay who have unintentionally killed their fellow Santiago. They are accused now of killing them; and the lawyer Daniel is assigned to defend them in the court. Santiago had asked to be transferred through writing letters to higher ranks and this made the colonel who was the head of the marines angry. Meanwhile Jo, who is more familiar with such cases related to Guantánamo Bay tempts to help Daniel in the case. She believes the problem is related to a code called “Code Red”. Code Red is actually a special order given about lazy or casual marines in order to somehow punish them. The problem is that the colonel would not admit that he has ordered the Code Red! His fault is being so proud and at last our lawyer Daniel takes advantage of this fault.
On the way of the lawyer and his colleagues’ working hard, Mathew, who was below the colonel tries to help the two marines out of the charge. He tells Daniel that it had been a Code Red and that Santiago was not going to be transferred opposing the colonel’s statements. Mathew commits suicide unfortunately feeling guilty about Santiago’s death. Daniel bravely asks for colonel’s attendance in the court; which was a serious threat for him if it did not work. After an enthusiastic argument between Daniel and the colonel with Daniel’s trying to make the colonel accept his guilt for ordering a Code Red, the colonel’s pride makes him fall into the trap and accepts the guilt to keep his pride.
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