Suspecting that hidden German troops are responsible, the men violently interrogate Friedrich (who can also speak French, which Charlie understands). Charlie and Tate then find Barry's corpse lashed to the wall with barbed wire. As he shouts to alert the others, one of the corpses suddenly comes to life and ambushes him. Barry secludes himself but is distracted by strange sounds and finds three German corpses wrapped in barbed wire in a standing position. Their first night in the trench starts uneventfully and Corporal "Doc" Fairweather treats the wounded. Attempts to contact support via a crystal radio reveal White Company was thought to have been obliterated during the assault before communications are lost. Jack and Private Barry Starinski wound and subdue the German, but Thomas executes him with a pistol shot to the head and scalps him despite Tate's interference. Private Jack Hawkstone is ambushed by the second German hiding in the mud. While detonating charges to close off some passages, they hear a demon-like growl and vast amounts of blood pour from the mud. Compasses and watches also have stopped working.
They explore and find ominous signs that something has gone very wrong: rotting bodies with protruding barbed wire and German bayonets litter the ground.
Convinced they have broken through the enemy lines, the soldiers decide to secure the trenches. Private Thomas Quinn shoots and kills one but Willie stops him, the second German flees, and the third, Friedrich, surrenders.
There they find three terrified Germans, who ignore Private Willie McNess's cries for surrender in apparent fear of something further down the trenches. Many soldiers fall to machine-gun fire, artillery strikes, and the unit becomes lost in the fog.Īfter walking for hours, carrying Private Colin Chevasse who has been left paraplegic, the unit comes across a complex, maze-like network of trenches. The young Private Charlie Shakespeare initially refuses to join the attack but is coaxed along by Sergeant Tate. During World War I, soldiers of the British 5th Battalion's White Company under Captain Jennings charge a German trench as part of a larger assault.
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