Speaker 1: Stephen Lishinsky arrived expecting discipline. He found a powder keg
Speaker 1: slouching Biebock, two cadets running guns to Cuban rebels, Abazuka
Speaker 1: lifted from the bunkers, handed off on Biscayne Bay. Colonel
Speaker 1: Barnes is dying. Commander Patterson is drinking. The Army wants
Speaker 1: their land back. And on Valentine's Night, when Lishinsky tried
Speaker 1: to run, Patterson told him the only truth that matters
Speaker 1: boys run, men sit tight.
Speaker 2: So he's stayed.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Wheeler's pulling him out of the barracks.
Speaker 1: The barber wants to see him. Exterior Company Street night,
Speaker 1: Wheeler and Lishinsky walk along toward the rotundan near the
Speaker 1: Miss Hall.
Speaker 4: Is your nose feeling any better?
Speaker 2: Lieutenant?
Speaker 1: In their pisspot, Lishinsky heads toward the lighted door of
Speaker 1: the small building in front of him, Interior Crow's barber shop.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 1: Lishinsky, seated, watches Crow, the barber, run the electric hair
Speaker 1: clippers over the head of a cadet who is indifferent.
Speaker 2: To the fact that he's being clipped nearly bald.
Speaker 5: Do you know of any phone around here? I can use? Huh? Nope?
Speaker 1: Liashinsky looks around the harshty lit room. It is bare
Speaker 1: except for a table with a few barbering tools and
Speaker 1: a chair holding the victim. The floor is thick with
Speaker 1: a carpet of hair left by the cadets. The cadet
Speaker 1: is finished with his haircut, it gets.
Speaker 2: Down from a chair so long Wendell.
Speaker 1: The cadet doesn't reply. He walks to the door and exits.
Speaker 1: Crow stands by his chair waiting for Lishinsky.
Speaker 4: I'm probably not gonna be here for long, so if
Speaker 4: you could just like take a little off the sides
Speaker 4: and the rest, I can leave long under my hat.
Speaker 5: Oh it's the matter you don't like it here.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's not that. It's only that I don't
Speaker 4: think I'm gonna be here that long. So if you
Speaker 4: just take a little off the sides, I can leave
Speaker 4: the rest long under my hat.
Speaker 1: Like this, He pulls his hair back with both hands
Speaker 1: to show how it could be done.
Speaker 6: See oh yeah, yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 1: And with a gesture, invites Leshinsky to the chair. As
Speaker 1: Lishinski gets into the chairy, here's the hum of the clippers.
Speaker 1: The first sudden stroke zooms down the center of his head,
Speaker 1: leaving a barren, stretching bristle no.
Speaker 2: Interior a company barracks.
Speaker 1: Evening, Boba bursts through the door leading from the latrine,
Speaker 1: his frenzied and out of breath, carrying a brown paper
Speaker 1: bag of booze.
Speaker 5: Somebody's like this.
Speaker 1: Sensing the danger at helping Bova, nobody comes to his aid.
Speaker 5: Come on, will you?
Speaker 1: Boba runs over to his locker and throws open the door.
Speaker 1: He tosses the bag into the bottom of the locker.
Speaker 1: Commander Patterson lunches wheezing through the latree in doors in
Speaker 1: hot pursuit of Bova. He sees Bova's standing in front
Speaker 1: of his locker.
Speaker 5: Not fast enough, Boba, What are you talking about? Sarah
Speaker 5: working on this term paper?
Speaker 1: Patterson nods and looks at the locker. Boba feels the
Speaker 1: end is near.
Speaker 5: Do you know anything about the Punic War?
Speaker 7: Sir?
Speaker 2: Patterson opens the locker door.
Speaker 5: How about Dyoto?
Speaker 8: Sir?
Speaker 5: Every year with Dyoto.
Speaker 1: Patterson bends down and lifts the bag out of the locker.
Speaker 5: I have no idea how that up is, sir.
Speaker 9: You're sure, yes, sir, underage.
Speaker 10: Drinking, because if it is yours, it's a E five.
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, no, no, no, it ain't mine. There
Speaker 11: somebody's trying to frame me.
Speaker 1: Patterson looks into the bag, Jim Bean, Guilby's.
Speaker 9: Well, whosever it is?
Speaker 10: It's contraband way too young for this sort of behavior.
Speaker 1: Patterson folds atop the bag and starts to the door.
Speaker 2: Patterson stops and looks in the bag again.
Speaker 1: He pulls out a brown bottle Coconut rum.
Speaker 5: Sir, it's Valentine's Day.
Speaker 12: Wouldn't you just like to stay and join us for
Speaker 12: just a nip?
Speaker 10: Now? What kind of protocol would that be? Coconut rum?
Speaker 10: You boys should be eating candy lights out in fifteen
Speaker 10: minutes as you were.
Speaker 1: As he walks to the front door, he places the
Speaker 1: bottle on a ledge near the exit.
Speaker 2: He leaves.
Speaker 1: As Patterson leaves, the boys converge in the bottle of
Speaker 1: tonic water.
Speaker 13: No nice going lard ass.
Speaker 1: Exterior boat dock evening. From a mango tree overlooking the
Speaker 1: boat dock, Linquist watches Patterson lying by the shed down
Speaker 1: in the last of the Gilby's gin. Patterson throws the
Speaker 1: empty into the bay. He looks up at the silhouette
Speaker 1: of the high rise apartment buildings under construction. He looks
Speaker 1: back at the school. He musters his courage and stands up.
Speaker 1: He takes a deep breath and staggers forward across the
Speaker 1: parade field.
Speaker 9: Laugh, laugh, I had a good dame, but she lived.
Speaker 1: Exterior Norico's First Aid station.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 1: Patterson is outside of lighted window. He taps clumsily on
Speaker 1: the panel.
Speaker 2: Rico, the nurse we have.
Speaker 1: Seen at morning prayer and whom the boys referred to
Speaker 1: as Madam Butterfly. Norico Yakamoto fifty comes to the window.
Speaker 9: What, Norico, what you want? Well? I was thinking today
Speaker 9: is Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6: Go home, pat you're drunk.
Speaker 9: I want to kiss.
Speaker 6: You're drunk.
Speaker 10: I want to kiss for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6: I give you a kiss. You go home? Yes, your
Speaker 6: word as an officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 10: Alrica, oh, I always with the tests.
Speaker 1: Norika reaches out the window and pulls Patterson's head in
Speaker 1: through the frame.
Speaker 2: She kisses him gently.
Speaker 14: Drinking won't solve your problems, Pats, Hold.
Speaker 9: Me, blossom. It's gonna be a rough night.
Speaker 1: He tries to swing his leg up on the sash
Speaker 1: and an attempt to get inside. Finally relenting, Noriko starts
Speaker 1: to help him in. He is halfway through the window
Speaker 1: when Commander.
Speaker 9: Wheeler got to bed.
Speaker 15: Commander the new chicken's hay wall already, you take care
Speaker 15: of it, Wheeler. They puss my handcuff, sir, if you
Speaker 15: could just Patterson climbs down.
Speaker 9: Where is he?
Speaker 15: Just walk through the DM gate waiting for the j buss,
Speaker 15: probably misses.
Speaker 1: His Mommy cut to exterior academy gate night Wheeler is
Speaker 1: helping Patterson weave across the parade ground and through the gate.
Speaker 1: We see Lishinsky sitting on a bench crying. He is
Speaker 1: without hair, bloody nicks in his head. Patterson flops down
Speaker 1: next to Leshinsky. Wheeler stands at attention.
Speaker 16: What's wrong, Candy ass can't take.
Speaker 9: It as you were, Wheeler, get to your bunk.
Speaker 1: Wheeler salutes and doesn't about face, then rattles away, sword
Speaker 1: clanking behind. There is silence, Lishinsky discreetly trying to wipe
Speaker 1: his tears.
Speaker 9: Where are you are, headed son?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Home?
Speaker 9: I yes, this is your home, now, ain't it?
Speaker 2: I hate it here?
Speaker 9: I heard you volunteered, so why'd you come here?
Speaker 5: Then I read the brochure. The guy m the cover
Speaker 5: had a hat on. I don't know they hacked up
Speaker 5: your head?
Speaker 9: Well, now there's a reason for that, Lishinsky.
Speaker 17: Yeah, to make you feel like hell.
Speaker 10: Hygiene, to make you look like a soldier. Get rid
Speaker 10: of the excess baggage, trim you down.
Speaker 5: That explains the food.
Speaker 9: Well, that may not be the ritz, but it's nutritious.
Speaker 1: Patterson takes a bottle from his pocket and drinks.
Speaker 5: I just want to go home.
Speaker 1: Patterson offers him the bottle. Lushinski takes a slug.
Speaker 10: So get the bus, go home. Shame your parents. Is
Speaker 10: that what you want to do?
Speaker 16: Oh, sir, I just hate it here.
Speaker 10: Well you're not the first, but it ain't always what
Speaker 10: you hate and what you don't hate.
Speaker 9: Why not sit tight for a while.
Speaker 10: Who knows, Maybe it'll change your mind about what's important.
Speaker 10: That's what men do. Boys just run can always run
Speaker 10: home to mama. In my experience, if you're in a storm,
Speaker 10: it's best to sit tight. Once I was on a
Speaker 10: beach and Zio. You heard of Anzio? No, sir, what
Speaker 10: the hell have you been? Invasion of Italy amphibious landing.
Speaker 10: We made it up the beach and we hold up
Speaker 10: in this area. It was raining like a son of
Speaker 10: a bitch. A company's objective was to take this town,
Speaker 10: New Tuno. We were getting nothing from communications, but we
Speaker 10: had this objective see take Netuno. But seeing as how
Speaker 10: it was raining on us like elephant piss.
Speaker 9: Nobody knew where the hell we were, so what the hell?
Speaker 10: We just dug in for the night, set in the muck,
Speaker 10: mortars dropping, and so on morning comes the rain had
Speaker 10: stopped and we finally found the town, but the Germans
Speaker 10: had left.
Speaker 1: The jabuss pulls up to the stop in front of
Speaker 1: the bench and opens its door. Nobody moves, The door
Speaker 1: closes and moves off.
Speaker 10: The goddamn Heinees had pulled out during the night. We
Speaker 10: marched into the town without a shot being fired.
Speaker 9: Word objective accomplished.
Speaker 5: Sir, I thought you were in the Navy.
Speaker 10: Merchant Marines story for another night scent. Now are you
Speaker 10: going to head back to your unit or do I
Speaker 10: turn you over to Wheeler as a deserter?
Speaker 1: No, sir, swigs the pint Lashinski gets up from the bench.
Speaker 9: Wait a minute, give me that bottle. How old are
Speaker 9: you anyway to seventeen?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 10: Almost too young for despairs sixteen and going out at
Speaker 10: full bore. Just let it idle a bit and don't
Speaker 10: forget inspection tomorrow eight. Company better looks sharp, or I'll
Speaker 10: have the entire company.
Speaker 9: In the bull ring.
Speaker 1: Lashinsky walks away, sleep on it. Son Patterson sits alone
Speaker 1: on the bench Angle. As Lashinsky passes close to Colonel
Speaker 1: Barnes's house, Sally Barnes is painting by flashlight, putting the
Speaker 1: finishing touches on her VW Van now army green with
Speaker 1: a red cross insignia. She sees Lishinsky and stops. They
Speaker 1: stare at each other.
Speaker 2: For a moment. That nice job, yeah help.
Speaker 1: She smiles, gives him the finger, then heads into the house.
Speaker 1: Lashinsky watches for her to return, and she doesn't. He
Speaker 1: backs away toward the barracks, trying to catch sight of
Speaker 1: her again. Angle Linquist in the mango tree, watching fade
Speaker 1: to interior Barracks.
Speaker 15: Morning Barracks ten Hot Order of the day A company
Speaker 15: will police the parade grounds at zero nine point fifteen,
Speaker 15: immediately following d morning announcements.
Speaker 5: First platoon.
Speaker 1: That means you groans from one side of the barracks.
Speaker 17: As you were.
Speaker 1: He doesn't about face and heads for the door. One
Speaker 1: of the boys grabs Wheeler's hat on a way out
Speaker 1: the door. They laughingly pass it down the bunks.
Speaker 17: Give me that.
Speaker 1: The hat passes to Bear, who was just waking up. Wheeler,
Speaker 1: in a rage, points to Bear, what are a poor fellow?
Speaker 2: They are?
Speaker 1: Sheepishly hands the hat back to Wheeler. Wheelers snaps on
Speaker 1: his calf.
Speaker 16: Fifteen mils still formation.
Speaker 1: He marches out. Sallow gets out of bed and counts
Speaker 1: down the rose.
Speaker 5: All right, you heard the elf get in front of
Speaker 5: your beds.
Speaker 13: It ain't day country club.
Speaker 5: Let's count the boners sound off.
Speaker 1: The boys are still asleep and attention in front of
Speaker 1: their bunks. As Swallow comes down the rose, counting heads
Speaker 1: and tapping the beds of the late risers with his bat.
Speaker 1: They count off and roll call until they come to
Speaker 1: thirty two. There's a brief lapse, and a voice tries.
Speaker 2: To cover thirty two. Sallow is in on the ruse.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Cheetham, where the hell is Combs? No excuse, sir, girl,
Speaker 5: trouble shit, he better be back at inspection. At fourteen
Speaker 5: hundred hours.
Speaker 2: Bear is looking sheepish.
Speaker 5: He what the bed again?
Speaker 9: Serge? Can I have the top bunk? From now on?
Speaker 5: Pleasant dreams? Smith? Sergeant, serve, how did you ever find
Speaker 5: your way out? Of the Swampsmith's oh airboat.
Speaker 15: I see I trun I was hanging on the back
Speaker 15: end a cypress tree and the water was real warm, like.
Speaker 5: Sus Harmy Smith.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 5: Fifteen minutes. Everybody looks sharp.
Speaker 1: Interior a company barracks morning. The boys make their beds
Speaker 1: hospital style and dress. Somebody has a radio on. Johnny
Speaker 1: Mathis What will my Mary Say?
Speaker 2: Is playing?
Speaker 1: Interior Latrine warning. The first squad d Bop Slouch, Hamley, Lishinski,
Speaker 1: and Bova are standing at a row of sinks in
Speaker 1: they're undershorts. Another squad from b Companies on the other
Speaker 1: side of the wall. Hamley walks along the sinks doing
Speaker 1: fingernail inspections.
Speaker 8: Make sure the corners were all the dirt collects are
Speaker 8: as clean as the other parts of your fingernails.
Speaker 1: The shisky looks into the mirror at his butchered head.
Speaker 13: It'll grow back.
Speaker 2: He sprays shaving cream into his hands.
Speaker 5: Let's talk to bud.
Speaker 13: Oh, what do you say?
Speaker 5: Who give you right?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 9: He says?
Speaker 5: One more gentlemanly's yester, and you're out on your ass.
Speaker 5: That means no pigs.
Speaker 11: You touch your opponent and you out.
Speaker 9: Thanks, and.
Speaker 5: You have to replace Mussard.
Speaker 2: Oh another angle. Hell, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Last time I saw him, he had his head and
Speaker 5: his loco crying. Yeah, he got a letter from a sweetie.
Speaker 5: Combes is a romantic man.
Speaker 1: From the toilet stall behind slouching Bebop comes the voice
Speaker 1: of Trencher.
Speaker 9: If we get grounded, he's gonna be a demnomantic.
Speaker 1: Bear stands at the sink next to Bebop. He's beginning
Speaker 1: to wash up. Bova is hurrying to finish.
Speaker 5: That's my told play slouts Yeah, yeah, so lend me
Speaker 5: your brass.
Speaker 1: So after lunch, Bova gathers his kit and exits quickly.
Speaker 2: Trencher talks to Bear.
Speaker 5: Bear, you gotta give me top bunk.
Speaker 13: Okay, there, len me some clean cheese.
Speaker 1: What the hell the soap foam and Bear's hands is
Speaker 1: turning red with blood.
Speaker 5: A razor field.
Speaker 1: And it echoes around latrines.
Speaker 5: Son of a bit, son of a beit. Get him
Speaker 5: over to my damn butterfir.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior parade field day, bare hands, bandaged attention
Speaker 1: with the rest of a company. Solow addresses the assembly.
Speaker 4: If it's anybody in this company, I swear to God,
Speaker 4: I don't even want to.
Speaker 5: Think about what's gonna happen to him. But when we
Speaker 5: find out, and we're gonna find out, somebody's gonna be
Speaker 5: gator food.
Speaker 8: It's those extortionist bussers and be company, sir, bet to anything.
Speaker 5: Anybody seen coombs. Uh not yet, sir, I ain't going
Speaker 5: to cover for that idiot. Staff has been spot checking heads. Hey,
Speaker 5: I have an idea, sir, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Slouch points tolinquist hanging from his perch high on a
Speaker 1: mango tree. Cut to exterior parade field day. A company
Speaker 1: is attempting to march. The boy Linquist, now in uniform,
Speaker 1: is at the end of the formation. Boys stumble over
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 5: Do it to the left flank, double to the right flank,
Speaker 5: double to.
Speaker 13: The rear hut pathetic.
Speaker 5: You know your trouble. You gotta know what's free, de
Speaker 5: cor We're marching to a different drummer. Okay, who knows
Speaker 5: a song?
Speaker 13: Trencher?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: Are they no no a marching song?
Speaker 9: Bova mah, So.
Speaker 5: What's the cadence of the song Blake? My heart is
Speaker 5: show win. I must be go win. I have to
Speaker 5: hurry w what will Ma marry?
Speaker 15: Sir?
Speaker 5: Take you Bramo homo, not quite bova bear. You know
Speaker 5: any good swamp hits?
Speaker 13: Oh? Yeah, hm? Did you ever go to meeting Uncle Joe?
Speaker 13: Uncle Joe? Did you ever go to meeting Uncle Joe?
Speaker 13: Uncle Joe? Don't mind the weather win wind, don't both.
Speaker 1: The platoon leader comes to a halt along the edge
Speaker 1: of the lagoon. The boy see Patterson and Sally Barnes.
Speaker 1: The girl from the porch sailing out into the bay.
Speaker 16: What's her name?
Speaker 5: Sally Barnes?
Speaker 1: Steer clear cut to exterior dock side Biscayne Bay Day.
Speaker 1: Commander Patterson and Sally Bonds are taking in the late
Speaker 1: afternoon breeze.
Speaker 10: So how's your mom making out?
Speaker 17: She liked your letter? In spite of the news, you
Speaker 17: still care about her, don't you?
Speaker 2: Patterson is silent.
Speaker 9: Well, don't you as you were?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 3: Don't you as you were? Sally me, I'm not one
Speaker 3: of your criminal orphans.
Speaker 2: Patterson smiles at her defiance.
Speaker 3: Anyway, She's fine. I guess she's a boring zombie. She
Speaker 3: drives me crazy, but she's fine. She can't stand me
Speaker 3: and I can't stand her.
Speaker 9: It hurts me to hear you talk that way about
Speaker 9: your mother.
Speaker 2: Silence.
Speaker 3: You're the only ones she ever loved, Pat, Why didn't
Speaker 3: you save her? You were her lancelot. When she gets drinking,
Speaker 3: she talks about her lancelot. That sorry son of a
Speaker 3: bitch never even knew he knew.
Speaker 1: Cut to Interior a company barracks day. The boys are
Speaker 1: pulling old uniform pieces out of their lockers and handing
Speaker 1: them to Sea Cow, who dresses Linquist in the salvaged parts.
Speaker 7: All right, the guy that gives is the exact number
Speaker 7: of days we can keep link with disguise.
Speaker 9: As comes whin's the.
Speaker 2: Pond, Slouch holds up a large glass cookie jar.
Speaker 5: Put your dollars in here. Come on, let's have them.
Speaker 1: Let's have them boys. Auntie up is Slouch passes among
Speaker 1: the bunks.
Speaker 5: That includes the parade in the Dad County Fair. Right, Yep,
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 1: The shisk is at the window of the barracks looking
Speaker 1: out into Biscayne Bay through a pair of binoculars.
Speaker 18: Pawn's daughter huh us when we were both kids, she
Speaker 18: used to live over there, and lots and lots of yelling,
Speaker 18: Hey gentlemen, Auntie up come on, let's go.
Speaker 1: A bottle of coconut rum is passed around the bunks
Speaker 1: among the boys angle Bahama. Mama holds up a brass coin.
Speaker 5: This gold coin goes to the first man that nails
Speaker 5: the white Maiden, barnes his dog and lives to tell
Speaker 5: the tale in front of witnesses.
Speaker 11: Naturally, it brings the honor to a company.
Speaker 5: I'll be there first to spare of the wow.
Speaker 9: And he falls off his bunk drunk.
Speaker 1: They laughed, angle on Leshinsky as he still looks through
Speaker 1: binoculars out the window at a distant Sally crossfade to
Speaker 1: exterior boat dock day. Patterson Sally are sitting on patch
Speaker 1: bench by the bay.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we were getting on each other's nerves, and I
Speaker 3: have to decide what to do about college. Maybe after
Speaker 3: he dies, I'll hot out to California.
Speaker 9: College wouldn't be a bad idea for them.
Speaker 10: But you and your dad, maybe you can take this
Speaker 10: time to patch some fence.
Speaker 17: Oh maybe pigs whistle. It isn't like I haven't tried, Patty.
Speaker 10: He doesn't know me from Maybe you shouldn't give up yet.
Speaker 9: Getting late?
Speaker 17: So are you my father?
Speaker 9: Sally?
Speaker 10: I am I really can't answer that. Oh bullshit, No, Sally,
Speaker 10: I mean, I really don't know. It's a question I
Speaker 10: can't answer.
Speaker 9: It's possible, I guess, you guess.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's a question that blew us all apart
Speaker 10: a long time ago.
Speaker 9: None of us can be sure.
Speaker 18: It's just a.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10: Anyways, you're here, You're back, and we're glad. He's happy
Speaker 10: you're here.
Speaker 17: Bullshit, how the hell do you know anything?
Speaker 12: You wife?
Speaker 17: Fuck her?
Speaker 2: Patterson is silent.
Speaker 5: Finally, I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Me too, kiddo, more than I can say.
Speaker 9: I mean, not about you being here.
Speaker 17: So here I am ain't you guys fucking lucky?
Speaker 9: Anyway, it's good your back. He needs you.
Speaker 17: Oh, give us a break. He doesn't give a shit,
Speaker 17: and he never did.
Speaker 9: You couldn't be more wrong, right, I think I know? So?
Speaker 17: Who am I?
Speaker 9: Pat You're the best of us?
Speaker 1: They watch the setting sun. Cut to exterior parade field day.
Speaker 1: A company is marshaling in formation. Linquist is in love
Speaker 1: with his rifle as he tries to keep in step
Speaker 1: with the others. Cut to exterior lagoon day. A company
Speaker 1: is assembled on the grass outside of Patterson's hutch. In
Speaker 1: the background, seek cow Hamley is talking through the cyclone
Speaker 1: fence to Missus Linquist.
Speaker 10: Mister Trencher described to tactics and technique of a successful
Speaker 10: amphibious landing.
Speaker 9: Uh, no, excuse, sir, give me ten.
Speaker 1: Trencher gets down and does ten pushups. Angle cyclone fence,
Speaker 1: Sea Cow and Missus Linquist. Patterson can be heard in
Speaker 1: the background.
Speaker 17: Well, if you're sure it'll be all right, let's just.
Speaker 8: Try it for a couple of days and see how
Speaker 8: it works out. It ain't the ritz, but the food's
Speaker 8: pretty nutritious. What's the horn?
Speaker 5: Well, Arthur's always wanted to be a soldier.
Speaker 1: She indicates, Linquist sitting at the edge of Patterson's class.
Speaker 8: Okay, Missus Linquist, just so it's our secret angle Patterson.
Speaker 1: He sees sea Cow at the fence. Mister Hamley, Sea
Speaker 1: Cow double times back to class. Exterior munitions Bunker Day,
Speaker 1: Slouch and Bee Bop are hidden from Patterson's class. Slouch
Speaker 1: fits his key into the locked door. Cut to exterior
Speaker 1: lagoon Day. Patterson diagrams on blackboard, voice it on the grass.
Speaker 10: The first wave takes about twenty five minutes to hit
Speaker 10: the shore at two minute intervals. The next three waves arrive.
Speaker 10: The second wave contains the other rifle and weapons companies
Speaker 10: of each battalion, the third a tank company and support units,
Speaker 10: the fourth more support units.
Speaker 9: In eight minutes, over.
Speaker 10: Three thousand men and more than one hundred and fifty
Speaker 10: armored vehicles are ashore.
Speaker 2: Sir.
Speaker 5: What's some question?
Speaker 18: What is it?
Speaker 9: Bova, Sir?
Speaker 5: These three thousand men, How you gonna get them in
Speaker 5: the boats?
Speaker 9: Good question.
Speaker 10: The success of the entire MAAF hinges on the ability
Speaker 10: of these two dozen lvtps to get ashore and back
Speaker 10: in one piece.
Speaker 5: Third, No, No, what I mean is why the hell
Speaker 5: would they want to get in the boat? Come again,
Speaker 5: who's going to get in those boats? Infantry?
Speaker 9: Right, primarily is my understanding, sir.
Speaker 11: The ido's servant in the infantry and not being wounded
Speaker 11: at kild in this century are less than one in three.
Speaker 9: Where'd you hear that?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 9: It sir, stuff and nonsense.
Speaker 10: That's world infantry, Ruskies, goops, Japs, all those kinds of undisciplined,
Speaker 10: untrained forsheto bastard's cannon fodder. I'm talking us infantry, the
Speaker 10: most effectively prepared army in the world, the best equipped,
Speaker 10: training and leadership this country has to offer.
Speaker 1: Exterior Munition's bunker, Day Slouch and Beebop toss a large
Speaker 1: canvass bag into a storage bin outside the bunker.
Speaker 2: They run to rejoin the class.
Speaker 1: Lindquist, who has been watching from a distance, approaches the bin.
Speaker 1: He tentatively opens the bag and pulls out an object.
Speaker 1: He holds a thirty caliber M one clip in his hand.
Speaker 1: Cut to Exterior Lagoon. Day Patterson is lecturing still.
Speaker 10: And I'll tell you something else, mister. The infantry is
Speaker 10: the premier branch of the armed forces, the most noble calling,
Speaker 10: and the most respected and patriotic service one can render
Speaker 10: one's country.
Speaker 5: So I guess getting killed is the highest form of patriotism.
Speaker 10: Look, Bova, you don't fight a war to get shot.
Speaker 10: You fight to win. Sometimes they shoot back, that's a
Speaker 10: fact of life.
Speaker 5: I still don't know what will compel me to get
Speaker 5: in that damn boat.
Speaker 10: Sir, Class Class, Can anyone give Bova a good reason
Speaker 10: for getting in the boat?
Speaker 13: Cause if we don't, they'll come get us and rape
Speaker 13: our sisters.
Speaker 5: I don't have a sister, because it's your duty.
Speaker 18: Listen, It's like this, I watch your back and you
Speaker 18: watch mine, And if I get in the boat and
Speaker 18: you don't, I'm gonna blow your fucking head off.
Speaker 2: That's a good reason.
Speaker 1: Cut to interior Gymnasium day. Colonel Barnes is in a wheelchair. Now,
Speaker 1: damn Ron lower is the mic form at the podium.
Speaker 1: The boys are in their dress whites. They are just
Speaker 1: ending the morning prayer.
Speaker 5: Yes, in the name.
Speaker 8: Of a great fred Master, Amen before you.
Speaker 19: Your leave commences at thirteen hundred hours today. There are
Speaker 19: a few words I'd like to say, as we are
Speaker 19: all aware, the Dade County Fair is in two weeks
Speaker 19: loud years, and this is the first occasion in the
Speaker 19: two years that the school has been invited back to participate.
Speaker 19: I trust that our appearance that this function will not
Speaker 19: see a repetition of the.
Speaker 12: Melee that occurred the year before last.
Speaker 19: I know how difficult it is dealing with the taunts
Speaker 19: of the townies, but reacting with undue force is not
Speaker 19: our way.
Speaker 12: Of building character. Boys working off major punishments.
Speaker 19: Will be allowed three hours special leave from eighteen hundred
Speaker 19: to twenty one hundred hours that afternoon to attend the fair.
Speaker 19: I hope I don't live to regret this uncharacteristic display
Speaker 19: of generosity.
Speaker 5: Make me proud.
Speaker 12: Now, I think.
Speaker 19: Miss Yakimoto has an announcement to bank about the salt
Speaker 19: vaccine booster shot.
Speaker 1: Lorico stands at the podium and addresses the audience.
Speaker 14: Sharlie, the United States Armed Forces has provided us with
Speaker 14: this blessing. Please come to the dispensary beginning at zero
Speaker 14: eight hundred hours this morning for your shots.
Speaker 12: Thank you, Thank you, Miss Yakimoto.
Speaker 19: Colonel Argamanez dismiss the core.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior front gate day. The boys are making
Speaker 1: their exits for the weekend. Slouch and Beebop are furtively
Speaker 1: lucking a heavy Duffel bag through the gate. Leshinski remains
Speaker 1: inside the perimeter.
Speaker 5: Hey, don't worry the Sinsk. You ain't missing much. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just the beautiful women out there. He ain't missing nothing.
Speaker 5: We'll take care of it for you. Yeah, yeah, save
Speaker 5: it up for the fair.
Speaker 2: Bear joins them.
Speaker 13: Hold the Wild Mouse Riding two weeks. Oh hope they
Speaker 13: have the wild Mouse Ride this year.
Speaker 18: Hey Bear, I'm gonna need your boat again. Is it
Speaker 18: in the same place, but fill her up this time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Whatever, Lisinski, keep an eye on Linquist in case komb
Speaker 18: shows up.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior highway. Bebop and Slouch. You're watching the
Speaker 1: road for a car.
Speaker 5: You know why he leave her? Jeez, with those tits.
Speaker 5: He's gotta be crazy, can't he. Don't you say a
Speaker 5: word about him leaving her. I'm sure she feels bad
Speaker 5: enough without you asking a lot of stupid questions and
Speaker 5: no funny stuff. She's my aunt.
Speaker 1: A car pulls up near the gate with a very
Speaker 1: attractive Cuban woman driving.
Speaker 9: She waves to Beebop behave yourself.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, just so she don't give me a boner.
Speaker 1: Dissolved to exterior Parade Field day. Lishinski walks around the
Speaker 1: quiet school. It is deserted except for Wheeler in a distance,
Speaker 1: banging on a mango tree with his sword. He shouts
Speaker 1: up into the tree.
Speaker 16: Hey mister, come down here.
Speaker 1: That's norm A large mango flies out of the tree
Speaker 1: and bunks Wheeler on the head.
Speaker 6: You have it, Arthur, get out of that tree.
Speaker 1: Linquist throws another mango. Cut to exterior and Selena's kitchen day.
Speaker 1: Bebop and Slouch making sandwiches. Aunt Selena, forties in a
Speaker 1: low cut dress, puts more food out for them.
Speaker 9: Mmm.
Speaker 7: I didn't know for sure whether you'd be alone this time, Mando,
Speaker 7: or if your friend Antonio would be with you.
Speaker 5: I hope it's all right, Missus Sarah Knita.
Speaker 7: Of course it is, Antonio. You're welcome here anytime, Thank you, ma'am. Anyway,
Speaker 7: I stopped at the farmer's market. I got these steaks
Speaker 7: you like, Mando, Antonio. I got some Lebanon Baloni. I
Speaker 7: couldn't remember if you like it thick, sliced or thin slice,
Speaker 7: so I got both better safe than sorry. Then I
Speaker 7: couldn't decide if you like American cheese or Swiss cheese.
Speaker 7: But I only had the Swiss cheese sliced thin, and
Speaker 7: then the American slice thick. The man at the counter
Speaker 7: was a very rude.
Speaker 17: I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 5: Uh huh. You know, is that an dress, Missus Sario Panina.
Speaker 9: Ah, this old thing, and you know.
Speaker 5: It certainly sews off your figure.
Speaker 18: There you're out, amenaism Slaus, you got.
Speaker 1: Airs rum Cut to interior jbuss day, slouching Beebop puddle
Speaker 1: with their large duffel bag on a bus seat.
Speaker 2: A gun barrel is peeking out the top of the duffel.
Speaker 1: A gas can on the floor one of the passengers
Speaker 1: of crete ANDAs civilian looks them.
Speaker 12: Over, are you familiar with military procedure?
Speaker 2: Slouch tries to ignore the guy.
Speaker 1: Another angle, a pretty black woman carrying a child makes
Speaker 1: her way to the back of the bus. She jostles
Speaker 1: a white woman along the way. Angle slouching bebop, I said,
Speaker 1: are you familiar with correct military procedure?
Speaker 5: Are you familiar with your teeth?
Speaker 12: Now we skipped a partner, Yes, what's that? Let's go
Speaker 12: back again, I.
Speaker 19: Said, are you familiar with correct military procedure?
Speaker 5: What's that.
Speaker 12: Removing your hat on the bus?
Speaker 5: Are you familiar with your teeth? This is our stuff?
Speaker 5: And you know speaking of animals, lady the dog's ass continued.
Speaker 1: They stumble off the bus, the Duffel with a Bezuoka
Speaker 1: clinking against the door. Anita Taurus waits by a tree nearby.
Speaker 1: Cut to inter Your a Company. Barrack's day is empty
Speaker 1: except for Leashinsky lying on his bunk into the radio.
Speaker 6: Don't miss the Kingston Trio Next week at the Dade
Speaker 6: County Fair.
Speaker 2: Tom Deuley plays.
Speaker 1: Cut to Interior Major Damarn's office day. Madam butterflies with
Speaker 1: Wheeler and Lindquist.
Speaker 15: Excuse me, Miss Yakamoto is Major Damren around?
Speaker 6: Nobody here?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 16: Where's the officer of the day.
Speaker 6: He's gone? Nobody here now.
Speaker 16: Well, I'll take him over to Colonel Barnes.
Speaker 6: No, no sleeping, nobody gone.
Speaker 16: I got an imposter here.
Speaker 6: Hello, Arthur, are you a soldier now?
Speaker 1: Lindquist smiles. Cut to exterior everglades outpost day. Slouch and
Speaker 1: Bebop and Anita Taurus motor up to a dock and
Speaker 1: bear his airboat. Slouch is blindfolded. Bebop drives. Anita sits
Speaker 1: next to Slouch playfully stroked his cheek, a pistol on
Speaker 1: her lap. There are assorted Cubans and Cuban Americans gathered
Speaker 1: on the landing dock. Anita signals a man on the
Speaker 1: dock who lowers his rifle. He is Miguel sam.
Speaker 5: Chez Guatemala Mievo Mafren.
Speaker 1: Cut two interior shack. The room appears to be an
Speaker 1: arsenal in command center. Bebop empties the Duffel's contents onto
Speaker 1: a dimly lit table. Outfalls a Browning fifty caliber machine
Speaker 1: gun and stand ammunitions and several hand.
Speaker 18: Grenadesen Algusto has mio now can we come.
Speaker 17: Along, gringo? You think this is going to be a vacation.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior armory window day, Wheeler and Linquist.
Speaker 16: You want to be kumbs, mister Coombs, it is.
Speaker 1: Wheeler grabs her dog tags around, Linquist snack and reads
Speaker 1: his Linquist stands at the armory window.
Speaker 2: He is at least more ready than his earlier attempt.
Speaker 16: Cooms a two five seven three to two.
Speaker 1: Linquist mouths the words and holds his arms ready for
Speaker 1: the rifle. His calculations are a bit off, and the
Speaker 1: rifle soars out the window, past his waiting hands into
Speaker 1: the dirt. Wheeler cringes. Cut to exterior bull ring day.
Speaker 1: The bull ring is a white gravel courtyard separating the
Speaker 1: classroom buildings.
Speaker 2: It is hot.
Speaker 1: Lindquist attempts to march to Wheeler's commands. He's not doing
Speaker 1: that well all.
Speaker 15: Right, mister Coombs. You only fifteen demerits and that's before
Speaker 15: you in awell. Seems your asses grass, mister Coombs.
Speaker 16: Let's start with a little double time.
Speaker 9: Can we get a little more on that read?
Speaker 2: Please a little more? Yeah, you're you're in charge.
Speaker 16: You're in charge, all right, mister Coombs.
Speaker 15: You owe me fifteen demerits and that's before you went Awell,
Speaker 15: seems your ass is grass, mister Coombs. Let's start with
Speaker 15: a little double time left right, left, right.
Speaker 1: Lind Quist has no idea what Wheeler is yelling about.
Speaker 1: Wheeler pokes at him with his sword.
Speaker 15: Left right, Come on, get him up, mister movies.
Speaker 1: Lindquist dances to avoid the sword, then waddles away. Cut
Speaker 1: to interior movie theater day. Tippy Hendron is on screen
Speaker 1: running from the birds. There's a gas station scene where
Speaker 1: the car blows up. Sea Cow captivated is alone at
Speaker 1: a near empty theater. Cut to interior shack Day, slouch blindfolded.
Speaker 2: Here's the men laughing.
Speaker 5: Oh, what's the joke there's about to see us.
Speaker 1: Miguel Sanchez speaks to be Bob in Spanish, then gives
Speaker 1: a quick command Bebop, takes Slouch and leads him out
Speaker 1: onto the porch.
Speaker 5: He wants to talk to me for a minute. Say
Speaker 5: put right here. You know what, No, this is bullshit,
Speaker 5: don't be stupid and stop playing around.
Speaker 2: Cut to interior shack day.
Speaker 1: As Miguel explains something to be Bob in Spanish, a
Speaker 1: man about forty five American dressed in a business suit
Speaker 1: comes out of the back room.
Speaker 12: So is this the young man from cim Fuegos.
Speaker 1: Be Bob is silent. Miguel nods assurance to him. Be
Speaker 1: Bob then nods affirmation. The man points to spot on
Speaker 1: the map of Cuba laid out on the table, the
Speaker 1: southern port city of San Fuegos.
Speaker 12: Then I guess you uh know the Bahia de Corhas.
Speaker 5: Bay of Pigs. See not the best for surfing.
Speaker 12: You want to go home?
Speaker 2: Bebop smiles only if Miamigo comes to.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Airboat Day, Slouch, Bebop and Anita returning
Speaker 1: through the glades. Anita is finally removing Slouch's blindfold.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I don't have to kill you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they figured you know too much already and
Speaker 5: I told them you're indispensable and pedro ban So you're
Speaker 5: in for now. Great, that's great. When do we go?
Speaker 5: We wait, study you Espanol. Maybe you'll learn something.
Speaker 1: Dissolved to exterior Miami Beach Day. Aunt Selina and Slouch
Speaker 1: are in conversation while building a sand castle.
Speaker 2: She is not hot turquoise bikini.
Speaker 1: Bee Bob sits under a coconut palm, reading a book
Speaker 1: with Pat on the cover.
Speaker 7: He didn't seem too happy around Christmas time. So anyway,
Speaker 7: a month ago, last Tuesday, he went to the Pigley
Speaker 7: Wiggly for a pack of camels and never came back home.
Speaker 1: Slouch catches a glare from Bebop but ignores it.
Speaker 17: And do you want to know something, Antonio? In my heart,
Speaker 17: I was deeply relieved Slouch is in lust.
Speaker 7: I mean, I love him, I guess, but I never
Speaker 7: really liked the son of a bitch most of the time.
Speaker 7: God forgive me, pardon my French. Anyway, after two weeks
Speaker 7: I called his mother, who hates me. She informs me
Speaker 7: that he is in Colombia or Guatemala or God knows where,
Speaker 7: and it is to ask me so many questions, and
Speaker 7: that her little prick of a son would let me
Speaker 7: know when it was my business. Mama's boy, a goddamn
Speaker 7: mama's boy, the son of a bitch. If only he
Speaker 7: would have the decency to call me a goddamn son
Speaker 7: of a bitch.
Speaker 5: Pardon you're French.
Speaker 7: I mean to sneak out the back door again for cigarettes.
Speaker 17: I'm sick of it.
Speaker 1: Selina's eyes are moist as she kneels the sand near
Speaker 1: the water's edge.
Speaker 5: He'll be back, I mean, rouse a soldier, he has
Speaker 5: his duties.
Speaker 7: I know, duty, honor, and country and the American dream.
Speaker 7: All you militaristas are the same. Such macho nonsense.
Speaker 18: Maybe you shouldn't ought to be here if you think
Speaker 18: like that, maybe you should have stayed in Cuba.
Speaker 17: What gringo de mierda, you know nothing?
Speaker 5: I know Mierda ain't French.
Speaker 17: You think you know all about my life?
Speaker 18: Okay, look you may not have noticed, but had a
Speaker 18: lot going for you when you're a dental hygienis with
Speaker 18: a good income in America. I mean if you were
Speaker 18: in Cuba, your teeth will be fallen out. You have
Speaker 18: a fridge full of groceries, I mean a TV. And
Speaker 18: I mean you don't part of me saying so you
Speaker 18: got a terrific personality and body.
Speaker 5: I mean you name your ticket. Things ain't so bad
Speaker 5: you're here, I.
Speaker 17: Though you have a smart mouth. No, but you're right.
Speaker 7: Things are good here. But we gave up a lot
Speaker 7: to get here, A lot. You have Lebanon beloney II
Speaker 7: too much? Do you think I still have.
Speaker 9: A good bod?
Speaker 5: Are you kidding or what you're knock out?
Speaker 17: What are you all of seventeen?
Speaker 5: I've been around.
Speaker 2: She gets up and walks backwards seductively.
Speaker 7: I bet you have so you think I they'll have
Speaker 7: a nice bot.
Speaker 2: Selena backs into the waves, and.
Speaker 5: You know what you look like sitting there? A bottic shelley.
Speaker 1: She looks blankly at him as she stands in the surf.
Speaker 5: Venus, you are the birth of Venus.
Speaker 9: More on that you're calling out. She's getting further away
Speaker 9: from you.
Speaker 5: Venus, you are the birth of Venus.
Speaker 2: It registers with Selena.
Speaker 1: She becomes the painting, placing one hand over her breasts
Speaker 1: and the other over her delta. She backs into the sea,
Speaker 1: beckoning slouch to follow. Cut to interior Perez's PX Day,
Speaker 1: Dave Rubik's take Fireplace in the Jukeboxes. Wheeler enters with
Speaker 1: his sword banging through a doorway. Linquist follows. He is
Speaker 1: sweating profusely.
Speaker 16: From his marching Want a chocolate coke? They sit at
Speaker 16: the counter, two chocolate cokes, Jose, have you on a chocolate.
Speaker 1: Perez has been watching Walter Cronkite on the Evening News.
Speaker 10: E buddhas Monk sacrificed himself today in Saigon, another grizzly
Speaker 10: act that continues the ever increasing protests against the rule
Speaker 10: of President DM and his first lady.
Speaker 1: Madam New angle the TV as the picture flashes to
Speaker 1: a Buddhist monk setting himself a flame. Wheeler relinquists there
Speaker 1: at the.
Speaker 5: Screen dollars to know the comedies are behind that behind them?
Speaker 2: Sally Barnes enters the PX Wheeler Caesar.
Speaker 15: Comedies are that damn dragon, Lady, one of the two.
Speaker 15: You know, one of the most important things about the
Speaker 15: school is you can get yourself a decent education without
Speaker 15: girls teeing at you all the time.
Speaker 16: I've seen them come and go. Here and behind every
Speaker 16: major problem is a woman.
Speaker 2: Sally overhears and smiles to herself.
Speaker 16: Take Coombs the where did he knocked up some bimbo
Speaker 16: in Orlando? The end of a fine military career.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior looking late afternoon, Sally Barnes is a
Speaker 1: loan on the boat dock, talking to herself.
Speaker 3: You idiot, you self serving, pompousful Take the truck you want.
Speaker 5: To go to the fair. Take the truck. I don't
Speaker 5: want the truck.
Speaker 17: I don't want anything from you. You son up a bitch.
Speaker 17: I don't even want to be here.
Speaker 2: She is startled by a voice behind her. Neither do I.
Speaker 17: What are you doing here?
Speaker 5: Mister?
Speaker 17: This is off limits.
Speaker 3: That's a D five, As I recall, get out of here,
Speaker 3: get away from me.
Speaker 2: Are you all right?
Speaker 17: I said, fuck off?
Speaker 5: I heard you talking to somebody.
Speaker 17: I was talking to myself, you know, the asshole. What's
Speaker 17: the matter? Didn't you ever talk to yourself.
Speaker 9: All the time?
Speaker 2: But it's usually a pretty boring conversation.
Speaker 17: Can a person get any privacy in the damfish bowl?
Speaker 4: I haven't asked myself the same question, you know, when
Speaker 4: I talk to myself, I say, lishinsk you come to
Speaker 4: this place, you get kicked out of bed at five
Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning. You can get fed shit on
Speaker 4: a shingle and you want to barf in your bunk,
Speaker 4: But that's a D six. Then they shave my head
Speaker 4: so I look like more time or snurred. Then they
Speaker 4: march me around in circles for days, carrying a ten
Speaker 4: pound rifle and one hundred and ninety degree heat with
Speaker 4: an eleven year old hitler screaming in my face.
Speaker 5: Then I meet this beautiful girl who tells me to
Speaker 5: get lost. So here I am talking to you.
Speaker 9: That was great.
Speaker 5: I loved it. It's Mortimer's Mortemer right, Let's do it
Speaker 5: one more time. Keep that same fashion. That was fantastic.
Speaker 5: I've been asking myself the same question.
Speaker 4: You know, when I talk to myself, I say, Lishinsk,
Speaker 4: you come to this place, you get kicked out of
Speaker 4: bed at five o'clock in the morning, and you get
Speaker 4: fit shit on a shingle. You want to bar from
Speaker 4: your bunk, but that's a D six. Then they shave
Speaker 4: my head so I look like Mortimer snird. Then they
Speaker 4: marched me in circles for days, carrying a ten pound
Speaker 4: rifle and one hundred and ninetygree heat with eleven year
Speaker 4: old Hitler screaming in my face. Then I meet this
Speaker 4: beautiful girl who tells me to get lost. So here
Speaker 4: I am talking to you.
Speaker 17: You're right, you are boring.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Miami Beach day Dusk slouches on the
Speaker 1: each with Beebop aunt. Selena is in the water while
Speaker 1: Beebop and slouch argue.
Speaker 5: Just give me the towel. No, come on, it wasn't me.
Speaker 5: It was the way a wave came along and pulled
Speaker 5: them right off. You think I'm blind?
Speaker 18: You think I didn't see you copulating in the ocean
Speaker 18: like a couple of care free sperm wheel copulating?
Speaker 5: What is that some spick word swere're somebody about? You
Speaker 5: have the culture of a pit. Just give me the
Speaker 5: damn towel.
Speaker 1: Peebub throws a towel in Slouch's face. Slouch hurries to
Speaker 1: assist Aunt Selena, who is rapidly turning blue.
Speaker 5: Come on, ain't you ever been in love?
Speaker 1: Slouch takes a towel out into the surf and wraps
Speaker 1: it around Aunt Selena. Exterior parade field. Evening, Wheeler walks
Speaker 1: across the parade field with his family Chauffeur Edison.
Speaker 10: On Tuesday, I received a communication saying she would be
Speaker 10: sailing from Athens to Cape and TB's and was curious
Speaker 10: to know whether you would be able to join her
Speaker 10: for the summer in Crete.
Speaker 17: Is she still at that greaseball as far as I know.
Speaker 1: Wheeler Shakespea's had a discust as they approached the front gate.
Speaker 9: I was wondering if you were still interested in seeing
Speaker 9: ben her this weekend, that you had expressed some previous interest.
Speaker 16: Not this week in Edison duty calls very.
Speaker 9: Good, sir, Are you in need of any cash?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: Outside the gate.
Speaker 1: Wheeler opens a driver's door to a very long black
Speaker 1: limousine and usher's Edison inside.
Speaker 16: I'll check with you on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Edison hands Wheeler a cardboard box.
Speaker 9: Your shirt, sir, lighter on the starch this time.
Speaker 2: End of that too,