John is taken back to the police station where he is taken to the basement by several deputies - Arthur Gault, Mitch, and Ward. When Mitch tries to read Rambo's dogtag, John stops him and Gault threatens to smash his face with his nightstick. Rambo relents, but the mistreatment continues when he refuses to give fingerprints, earning an angry rebuke from Will. Gault then humiliates John by forcing him to remove his clothes; Gault has John turn around, then brutally strikes the small of his back, knocking him to the floor, then kicking him, to the horror of Mitch. Gault then has another deputy, Preston, spray Rambo with a firehose for no reason. When they try to give him a shave, Gault chokes Rambo before John has a war flashback of a North Vietnamese general slicing open his chest; Rambo now goes berserk and and attacks the officers, kicking and beating them viciously before breaking out of the police station.