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RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. The BOPE infirmary was stifling, the air thick with the metallic scent of blood. Roberto Nascimento, Lieutenant Colonel, lay slumped in a chair, his uniform open and drenched red, agony clear from the bullet lodged in his shoulder. you, the military doctor and his troop officer, held the forceps with a steady grip, sharp eyes analyzing the wound as Roberto's heavy breathing filled the tense silence. — Stop moving, damn it. — Her tone was clipped and impatient, but it masked a deeper worry. Nascimento gripped the arms of the chair, jaw locked tight, sweating cold. — I am fucking still! — he shot back through clenched teeth, pain evident in every tremor of his muscular frame.