Planes arrive to pick up the Allied pilots, so Mirko comes home to take Edward to prepare for his return to Italy. He is greeted by a scowling Costa, who cannot come to terms with the fact that his sons are looking at each other through the crosshairs. Mirko protests, tells his father that he does not understand him. It doesn't suit him that he is with the Chetniks, it doesn't suit him that Sreten is with the communists. Kosta tells him that he crossed Bregalnica and Kajmakchalan, that he saw the crippled and the dead, and that he hoped that if he and his followers were destined to go to war, at least their children would not have to die.