Speaker 1: The weapons kept moving. Slouch and Bebop made contact in
Speaker 1: the Everglades, Cia. They have pigs they're going in. Sally
Speaker 1: Barnes came home to watch her father die, but she
Speaker 1: found Leshinsky first. They sailed to cat and Kidd's Island,
Speaker 1: stayed at night while the Colonel took his last breath
Speaker 1: from the mainland. Now he's buried, Sally's gone, Patterson signed
Speaker 1: papers he never wanted to sign, and the razor fiend
Speaker 1: Crow the barber finally showed his hand. Lindquish shot him.
Speaker 1: Now Slouch and Bebopper shipping out for Cuba, and whatever's
Speaker 1: left of this place won't survive the summer. In Timmy
Speaker 1: or Patterson's hot evening, the Commander is asleep in his
Speaker 1: bump while the radio plays. A lion sleeps tonight. Through
Speaker 1: the window, we see Sally and the Shinsky untying a
Speaker 1: boat and pushing it off into the lagoon. Cut to
Speaker 1: exterior Biscayne Bay afternoon. Sally and Li Shinske hoist the
Speaker 1: sail and head off toward Captain Kids Island. Cut to
Speaker 1: exterior Captain Kid's Island late afternoon. Sally is digging in
Speaker 1: the sand under a palm tree. Leshinsky sits and watches
Speaker 1: her my California.
Speaker 2: I want to go to UCLA, study poly Side, Barry
Speaker 2: Troy Donahue.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I need to get as far away from this graveyard
Speaker 2: as possible.
Speaker 1: It's not just a graveyard.
Speaker 4: Look around you.
Speaker 3: This is where everybody comes to die.
Speaker 2: Or haven't you noticed Miami Beach the last sunset.
Speaker 3: Your dad's pretty sick, Yeah, yeah, pretty sick.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen here? If you you.
Speaker 2: Know, well, if he you know, it's not my department.
Speaker 2: If I was you, I think about jumping Chip real soon.
Speaker 2: You could come with me to California. You could marry
Speaker 2: Sandra d but you'd have to change that bow hunk
Speaker 2: name of yours.
Speaker 1: Lashinsky rolls over in the sand and stares at the sky.
Speaker 1: Charles Brons's name is Charlie Boshinski.
Speaker 3: No fooling'.
Speaker 5: This is a neat hideout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Better before there were so many buildings out there, just
Speaker 2: the Fountain Blue and a couple of others.
Speaker 3: This was my island paradise. I used to run around
Speaker 3: naked and wait to be rescued.
Speaker 5: And here I am, and here you are. I could
Speaker 5: stay here forever.
Speaker 1: Sally points to the sailboat drifting away.
Speaker 3: We might have to we gotta swim back. These waters
Speaker 3: are infested with barracudas.
Speaker 4: Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Sally sits next to him in the sand.
Speaker 3: Don't you believe me?
Speaker 5: So we're stuck here.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid of the dark.
Speaker 1: Maybe dissolved To exterior Barnes House night, Commander Patterson knocks
Speaker 1: on the door. He turns to Wheeler and Linquist and
Speaker 1: dismisses them. Madam Butterfly comes to the door.
Speaker 5: Come in, Commander Hia Blossom. How's the colonel?
Speaker 6: Not good?
Speaker 1: Patterson enters interior Barnes House night. Madam Butterfly ushers Patterson
Speaker 1: into Barnes's room. There's a wash with oxygen bottles, intravenous injections,
Speaker 1: and all the accouterments of a death watch.
Speaker 5: I'll only stay a minute.
Speaker 1: Marico and Patterson watch the sleeping figure of Barnes in
Speaker 1: his bed. She looks at Patterson and leaves the room.
Speaker 1: Patterson walks around, looking at military souvenirs and memorabilia. He
Speaker 1: sits for a moment and watches the colonel's frail breathing.
Speaker 1: His eyes scan the photos of the colonel and Sally
Speaker 1: as a child. There are photos of the colonel's wife,
Speaker 1: a photo of Patterson, a buxom blonde, and the colonel
Speaker 1: drinking beer. They're all dressed in World War Two uniforms.
Speaker 1: Patterson opens a box of cigars, smiles and closes it.
Speaker 7: Take them Romeo and Juliet Moroka got him from Havana.
Speaker 5: How you feeling, Daryl, Saint Sally? Not tonight. We had
Speaker 5: a nice talk the other day.
Speaker 7: She's a handful.
Speaker 5: What do you expect. She's your daughter.
Speaker 7: Keep you an eye on her bed. Honey to the bees.
Speaker 5: I guess so a lot of bees around. You Gotta
Speaker 5: talk to her, Daryl. That's why she's here.
Speaker 1: There's nothing left to say that. That's a bit said.
Speaker 7: Your turn being daddy their mother like that.
Speaker 5: I was down on the range this afternoon checking out
Speaker 5: the new ar fives.
Speaker 7: Yeah, very flexible weapons.
Speaker 5: Made the boys a lot happier than those and ones.
Speaker 5: They're only six pounds firepower. You wouldn't believe jamming problems though.
Speaker 5: They need to work out. Pat I need.
Speaker 7: Armies calling us chips in what chips?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: She bang?
Speaker 7: Disbanding the farm Property Ordinance. Everything they're taking us down, Jesus,
Speaker 7: what about the boys? Yeah, I'm afraid it's over. Nothing
Speaker 7: left here. I need here, John Hancock. When the time
Speaker 7: comes and needs you to sign the papers over there,
Speaker 7: think I can make it. Dam Ron will notarize the
Speaker 7: damn thing.
Speaker 1: Patterson goes to the dresser and looks at the papers.
Speaker 5: He can't do this now, I don't want it. Give
Speaker 5: it the damn Ron. He's almost a damn lawyer, if.
Speaker 7: You're noticing, he always looks like you just sucked a lemon.
Speaker 7: This place will be a high rise in three months. Anyway,
Speaker 7: I need you to button up.
Speaker 5: Here, pat.
Speaker 7: Better you than Sally. And there's an envelope for her.
Speaker 5: Nice of you to let me know.
Speaker 7: Need to know basis bat.
Speaker 5: Now you know, thanks little goddamn late for that. Now
Speaker 5: you're a damn fool to think I can do this, no.
Speaker 1: Choice about.
Speaker 5: And you to start thinking ahead?
Speaker 9: Button her up.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Never been very good at contingencies. The case on's keep rolling.
Speaker 5: Where are they gonna go? Still? Just babies, most of them.
Speaker 5: This was your dream, your selfish bestard, not mine. There
Speaker 5: was a time I could have done more than just
Speaker 5: clean up your shit. Helped. There was a reason for
Speaker 5: respect trust at this place.
Speaker 1: It was you.
Speaker 5: What do I do now? Huh? Only home for most
Speaker 5: of them, though, gonna die on me now, you God
Speaker 5: damn coward.
Speaker 1: The colonel hasn't heard. He's asleep or drifting towards another place.
Speaker 1: Fade to interior Aunt Selina's house, day dawn. Be Bop
Speaker 1: is asleep on the living room sofa. The TV is
Speaker 1: blaring away with a Yogi Bear cartoon. The front door
Speaker 1: opens and a man enters carrying a pink stuffed alligator.
Speaker 1: He sees be Bop on the sofa and places the
Speaker 1: alligator next to him. The man takes off his shoes
Speaker 1: and Hawaiian shirt and tiptoes upstairs. Interior Selena's bedroom. Day
Speaker 1: Selena and Sloucher asleep like two spoons. Golden morning sun
Speaker 1: coming through the curtains. You can almost hear the bluebirds.
Speaker 1: Interior living room Day. Bebop wakes up at a sound
Speaker 1: on the stairs. De Wood, It doesn't Gaza. The man
Speaker 1: on the stairs turns and tries to quiet Beebop. He is,
Speaker 1: of course, Uncle Raoul.
Speaker 4: Sh It's doesn't gaza.
Speaker 1: Interior Selena's room. Slouch bolts up right in the bed
Speaker 1: and looks at Selena, who is all eyes as well.
Speaker 6: You know it's Si a ventro a supermercal a las
Speaker 6: Lemoniana Seio bought up up Ciga.
Speaker 1: Heels slouching Aunt Selena in a panic, grabbing at clothing
Speaker 1: as they scurry around the room. Interior the stairway day.
Speaker 1: Uncle Raoul is melting the stairs. The bedroom door atop
Speaker 1: of the stairs bursts open and Slouch runs out naked.
Speaker 1: He's carrying his clothes in a blanket that he throws
Speaker 1: over Uncle Raoul. As Uncle Raoul tumbles down the stairs,
Speaker 1: Slouch grabs a stuffed alligator from Bebop and smacks Uncle
Speaker 1: Raoul with it. Bebop and Slouch charge out the front
Speaker 1: door and down the street. Angle Aunt Selena if the
Speaker 1: top of the stairs, holding a sheet up to her
Speaker 1: otherwise naked body. She looks down at Raoul.
Speaker 10: Bo cut to exterior.
Speaker 1: The school Dawn Hargrave sounds readily. Patterson by the dock
Speaker 1: spots the empty drifting dinghy dissolved to interior. A company
Speaker 1: Barrack's day. The boys are preparing for inspection. Sea cow dresses,
Speaker 1: linquists and dress whites. Slouch is trying to borrow a
Speaker 1: pair of pants.
Speaker 11: All right, Come on, Sea Count, be a pow man.
Speaker 4: I mean, we'll all be stuck in here if I
Speaker 4: got no pants on.
Speaker 1: Sea Cow throws his pants at slouch. Thanks. Cut to Angle,
Speaker 1: Sea Cow and Linquist.
Speaker 9: If anybody ask you anything at all, just say no
Speaker 9: excuse sir?
Speaker 5: Can you all say that? Hopeless?
Speaker 1: Bova is looking out the indoor at the lagoon. He
Speaker 1: grabs Slo's binoculars and looks at something out the window.
Speaker 1: Through the binoculars, we see Patterson, Sally, and Lashinsky returning
Speaker 1: to the lagoon and a dinghy.
Speaker 9: Because Lisiysky looks like he gets the gold coy.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior lagoon Day. Sally sees the boys of
Speaker 1: a company watching through binoculars and whooping it up on shore,
Speaker 1: calling way to go, Lashinsky. She looks at Leshinsky blankly,
Speaker 1: her feelings of humiliation lost in a greater pain. Cut
Speaker 1: to exterior lagoon Day. Slow snatches the binoculars from Bova
Speaker 1: as the boys rush to get a look. Cut to
Speaker 1: boat dock Day. As soon as the dinghy lands, Sally
Speaker 1: runs towards her father's house. Angle, Patterson, and Lashinsky get
Speaker 1: to your barracks.
Speaker 5: And keep your mouth shut about the Colonel Sally on
Speaker 5: the double.
Speaker 1: Son, Leshinsky heads off in the direction of the barracks.
Speaker 1: Cut to interior a company barrack's day. As Lishinski enters,
Speaker 1: a loud cheer goes up from the boys. Lashinsky is
Speaker 1: stunned and silent as he stands at the door.
Speaker 9: Well, well, well, Lizhinsky, never know you had a deal o.
Speaker 1: Bahama Mama drapes a sheet over his shoulders and raises
Speaker 1: the makeshift laurel wreath above his head.
Speaker 9: Barracks ten.
Speaker 1: The boy snapped to attention as Bahama Mama waddles through
Speaker 1: the bunks toward the stun Leashinsky. The gold coin is
Speaker 1: held high above his head for all to see.
Speaker 12: Oh, Private Stephen Lishinsky has won the coveted award for
Speaker 12: spearing the White Whale. Sally Barnes has received the Honorable
Speaker 12: Seaman Award.
Speaker 1: Bahama Mama rests his arm on Lashinsky's shoulder. Lishinsky knocks
Speaker 1: it away.
Speaker 5: Your hands off me? Shit, can hey, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 9: Who's the matter?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 5: He led the rud the below eponent.
Speaker 1: Lishinsky punches bear in his huge laughing face, and the
Speaker 1: whole barracks is into it. Cut to angle Major Damron.
Speaker 1: He enters the barracks.
Speaker 11: Barracks ty not.
Speaker 13: Inspection before the parade will be conducted by a representative
Speaker 13: of the US Army this weekend, so I need not
Speaker 13: stress the importance of being on your best behavior as
Speaker 13: you were.
Speaker 1: He exits, dissolved to exterior Barnes porch day. A porch
Speaker 1: light is still on. Sally opens the door to her
Speaker 1: father's room. Barnes lies covered. Patterson and Norico come up
Speaker 1: behind her as she stands motionless.
Speaker 6: I called peabodies. They pick them up when you say too.
Speaker 5: We'll make the announcement when the boys get back from
Speaker 5: the parade tomorrow. No sense alarming anybody right now. After
Speaker 5: they leave, we can go down and make the arrangements.
Speaker 6: I'm so sorry, baby girl, the okay, just.
Speaker 3: Gimme a minute.
Speaker 1: She closes the door behind her. She looks at the
Speaker 1: pictures on the dresser. A five year old girl salutes
Speaker 1: her daddy. She opens the envelope pours it on the counter.
Speaker 1: It contains a cashier's check and two medals, the Army's
Speaker 1: silver star and a purple heart. She sits in the
Speaker 1: bedside chair, holds her father's cold hand. She won't cry.
Speaker 3: Who's the deserter?
Speaker 1: Now dissolved to exterior parade field. Today, Patterson stands at
Speaker 1: the podium overseeing the inspection. A US Army colonel and
Speaker 1: two Cuban civilians look on. The platoons are lined up,
Speaker 1: with the squad leaders checking the boys inspection arms. The
Speaker 1: boys release the bolt mechanisms of their weapons. As they do,
Speaker 1: a thirty caliber bullet fly eyes up and hits Sollow
Speaker 1: in the chest, then falls to his feet. Sawow reaches
Speaker 1: down and picks up the shell at the feet of Linquist.
Speaker 9: Where in the hell did you get this?
Speaker 1: Linquist smiles and points to his name tag, which reads
Speaker 1: Combs Jesus. But before Sauw can pursue an investigation company
Speaker 1: ten the company comes to attention as a distracted Patterson
Speaker 1: and the Army colonel rush through a haphazard inspection of
Speaker 1: a company. As they move on to B company, the
Speaker 1: colonel talks quietly to the Cubans, gesturing toward the AMMO dumps.
Speaker 1: That was easy angle on Patterson. Later the inspection is.
Speaker 5: Over, we'll be proceeding down one hundred and thirty fifth
Speaker 5: Street until we reach the fair grounds. We will follow
Speaker 5: the Fort Lauderdale majurettes.
Speaker 7: You were.
Speaker 5: We will then proceed with our drill angle trencher. I
Speaker 5: like the drill, the manager it following the drill. You
Speaker 5: will have three free hours at the fair. At eighteen
Speaker 5: hundred hours, we will reform at the parking lot, where
Speaker 5: buses will bring us back to the school. Anybody not
Speaker 5: at the parking lot at the appointed hour will be
Speaker 5: considered a wall and will be given a subsequent E five.
Speaker 5: I look forward to honorable behavior from each of you, gentlemen.
Speaker 5: All right, Colonel, move them out.
Speaker 1: Argimento shouts from the podium, Group.
Speaker 9: Company, Platoon, squad, right face, and.
Speaker 1: The parade marches off through the gate. The drum and
Speaker 1: bule corps play the Stars and stripes. Exterior Miami Street
Speaker 1: Day Parade montage. The boys march along the streets of Miami.
Speaker 1: It's a spectacular site. Ribbons and banners adorn the roofs
Speaker 1: of the building. Everywhere is a glint of brass and
Speaker 1: the sound of marching bands. Cut to exterior Street Day dusk.
Speaker 1: Uncle Raoul is standing among the spectators lining the street.
Speaker 1: He searches the faces of the boys in the parade
Speaker 1: as the Miami Military Academy passes. Cut to exterior Fairgrounds
Speaker 1: day dusk. An announcer is poison scaffolding overlooking the fairgrounds.
Speaker 11: Entering the fairgrounds is the Upper Dania High School Marching Band.
Speaker 1: The band marches smartly through the arch over the fairground entrance.
Speaker 1: They perform SUSA Badly.
Speaker 11: Followed by the Druger Department Store Sauerkraut Band.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Fairground parking lot day. The Miami Military
Speaker 1: Boys are in a holding pattern outside the fairgrounds. They
Speaker 1: are marking time behind the Fort Lauderdale majorrettes.
Speaker 5: Who's twenty you lucky lazy?
Speaker 1: We're gonna try that again. Who's tun of you lucky ladies?
Speaker 9: You'd like to ride the w mouse? Who's it gonna be?
Speaker 5: Waldmouse? Waldmouse?
Speaker 1: A major at Leonora is disgusted with bear.
Speaker 5: So be disgusting.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wants to even look at your wild mouse.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's a.
Speaker 4: Ride, some ride, I'll bet turn brains well.
Speaker 3: He's kind of culle Lenora.
Speaker 8: You've never seen them without their uniforms. Sound like Pillsbury
Speaker 8: dough boys, Oh white and fuzzy.
Speaker 11: And now the Fort Lauderdale majorrettes.
Speaker 1: And the girls begin to move out and into the fairground.
Speaker 11: Eleanor I like your mustache.
Speaker 1: Without losing a beat. Leonora catches Bear in the groin
Speaker 1: with her baton. He writhes in pain. As Leonora puts
Speaker 1: on her biggest smile for the crowd, he drops his
Speaker 1: rifle and doubles up.
Speaker 7: Company did four War march and back by popular request
Speaker 7: the Miami Military Academy.
Speaker 1: There is a resounding booth the spectators.
Speaker 9: Hey call me crazy, but I think they're starting to
Speaker 9: get to like us.
Speaker 1: Cut to interior Fairgrounds Day. The boys march through the
Speaker 1: gates to the tune of Stars and Stripes. They perform
Speaker 1: their varied military maneuvers in front of the grand stand,
Speaker 1: Bear managing as best he can with an exploding nutsack.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Midway day the games of Chance, rides
Speaker 1: and amusements. The boys are at play. Slouch and Beebop
Speaker 1: are sharing Merry go Round with a couple of major X.
Speaker 1: Exterior the Stockyards Day, Sea Cow and Linquist are taking
Speaker 1: in the animal husbandry exhibits, people grooming sheep, cows and goats.
Speaker 1: A milkmane is grooming a prize jersey cow.
Speaker 6: That's a good look at it's Oh.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 9: Hostings have the longer warns.
Speaker 8: I don't think so Jerseys are brown and Holsteins are
Speaker 8: usually black and white. Another thing, Jerseys get about twelve
Speaker 8: percent more butterfly one more time.
Speaker 2: Holstein's not Hollstein's Jewish.
Speaker 8: I don't think so jerseys are brown and Holsteins are
Speaker 8: usually black and white. Another thing, Jerseys give about two
Speaker 8: percent more.
Speaker 1: Butterfat cut two angle Linquist. As he wanders away from
Speaker 1: sea cow and the milk made over to the sheep exhibit,
Speaker 1: he watches the sad face of his sheep straddling a
Speaker 1: shearing block. Cut to exterior midway day, the clang of
Speaker 1: a bell a wider angle reveals Bear, Sollow, Bova, and
Speaker 1: hard Graves, all smoking fat cigars and laughing like fools.
Speaker 1: The disgruntled Carny is trying to discourage Bear from taking
Speaker 1: another swing with the hammer.
Speaker 14: Tons of limit, Give me the hammer, you what's the
Speaker 14: side eight off?
Speaker 1: Give me that hammer. One price to customer. All the
Speaker 1: while Bear is pounding away with the huge hammer and
Speaker 1: the bell at the top of the pole keeps ringing.
Speaker 1: They attract a crowd. The spectator's boo as the barker
Speaker 1: tries to get the hammer from Bear. Finally, Bear just
Speaker 1: tosses the hammer on the ground and walks away. Cut
Speaker 1: to exterior midway Wheeler in Patterson as they stroll along
Speaker 1: past the ring toss and other games of chance. Then
Speaker 1: announcement comes over the PA system.
Speaker 11: Five minutes fusand.
Speaker 5: Five minutes well the Kingston trio. Let's go, Commander, Nah,
Speaker 5: I hate that rock and roll stuff.
Speaker 4: Not rock and roll the Kingston Trio.
Speaker 7: Come on.
Speaker 1: He tugs at the commander, pulling him in the direction
Speaker 1: of the grand stand. Cut to exterior midway Wild Mouse
Speaker 1: Ride day.
Speaker 8: Look, I apologize, thought you were just being rude.
Speaker 5: David.
Speaker 3: Can you walk? Okay?
Speaker 14: Oh, no, big thing, I mean fun. I mean you
Speaker 14: just caught one of them another one. The other one
Speaker 14: is fine, not like crippled or nothing.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, maybe you should sit in front.
Speaker 7: Okay, I've been looking forward to this all year.
Speaker 1: Cut to interior sheet Pen day. Then Quist releases the
Speaker 1: catch on the pen and watch the sheep roam out
Speaker 1: onto the midway. He herds them out of their tents
Speaker 1: and claps to stampede them.
Speaker 7: Hey and boys, stop them sheeps stop that.
Speaker 1: Several people try to intercept the sheep as they escape.
Speaker 1: Lindquist looks proud. The man grabs Linquist by the neck.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior grand Standee, Patterson and Wheeler are leaving
Speaker 1: the stands.
Speaker 4: Great music Hall.
Speaker 5: Commander, Where's Arthur?
Speaker 4: He's a sea cow.
Speaker 15: Looking at the animals, I'm allergic animals, all animals.
Speaker 5: We better check.
Speaker 1: Cut to midway, Bebop and Slouch. They are eating cotton
Speaker 1: candy and smoking cigars like Pinocchio and lamp Wick at
Speaker 1: Pleasure Island. Midway another angle converging.
Speaker 4: Hey, you get your heads off.
Speaker 1: Bear, Bova, Sollow and hard Graves see the scuffle with Linquist,
Speaker 1: who his pin face first and a dirt by the
Speaker 1: irate man.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Wheeler rushes up and gets another fist to the nose.
Speaker 1: Suddenly Bear jumps in and heaves the man onto a
Speaker 1: popcorn stamp. A carne jumps on Bear, which brings Solo
Speaker 1: and Bova into it. Slouch him Bebop dive in our Grace,
Speaker 1: puts his bugle to his lips and blows call to arm.
Speaker 1: Cut to another angle. The sheep stampede the midway, heading
Speaker 1: into the fight, Tawnys condects, sheep, Farmers, Carnies all into it.
Speaker 1: Now Chaos reins. A beefy Carney is pummeling Bova and
Speaker 1: there's about to deal in the series blow when a
Speaker 1: large arm reaches in and swirls a carnee around. The
Speaker 1: arm punches a Carney and sends him sprawling among the
Speaker 1: puzzled sheet. It's Patterson, who has become John Wayne Cross.
Speaker 1: Fade to Interior Army bus night. Patterson is leading the convoy,
Speaker 1: driving with Wheeler and Linquists also in the front. Behind them.
Speaker 1: In the rows we can see the rest of the
Speaker 1: boys from a company. Bova holds an ice pack to
Speaker 1: his cheek. There has one on his crotch.
Speaker 4: So, Commander, would you like best at the fair?
Speaker 15: Ah?
Speaker 5: The music, I guess yeah, the Kingston Trail.
Speaker 7: They're all that.
Speaker 5: Old Woody Go three. Song they did was something else?
Speaker 15: No, No, they wrote all their own music and stuff.
Speaker 15: They got an album everything.
Speaker 5: Ruben James, that's an old song wood he wrote. What
Speaker 5: were their names? Tell me what were their names? Did
Speaker 5: you have a friend on the good Ruben James, No
Speaker 5: fool's In fact, I knew a fellow on the Ruben James.
Speaker 5: Two fellas actually the Cisco brothers, Johnny and Billy Cisco.
Speaker 5: He and his brother used to come up to the
Speaker 5: cabin I had in Stockbridge. We were the first nudist
Speaker 5: stuff there.
Speaker 4: Uh oh.
Speaker 5: We were in the Merchant Marines together, me and Billy
Speaker 5: and Johnny. Then the two of them got stationed down
Speaker 5: the destroyer the Ruben James. Johnny was killed when they
Speaker 5: got torpedo off Iceland, first casualties of the war, even
Speaker 5: before Pearl was hit another ocean away. Johnny was in
Speaker 5: the engine room when they got it and Billy was
Speaker 5: on deck. That's the way I heard it. Anyway, Billy
Speaker 5: kept jumping out of the lifeboat near drowned, trying to
Speaker 5: dive down and save his dead brother.
Speaker 11: Je sounds cold.
Speaker 5: They had to sit on him to keep him from
Speaker 5: jumping out of the boat. I ran into Billy in
Speaker 5: a bar up in Stockbridge after the war forty nine.
Speaker 5: We'd been drinking a lot of toasting a lot, and
Speaker 5: I got up and said to the memory of one
Speaker 5: of the finest men ever to die in the war,
Speaker 5: Johnny Cisco. Well, Billy depped me. I was out cold
Speaker 5: for a long time, and when I came to. He
Speaker 5: was is bending over me and crying and saying he
Speaker 5: was sorry. Then we drank some more. But to his
Speaker 5: dying day, he never believed that Johnny drowned. Thought in
Speaker 5: his mind that he was a prisoner of war. Somewhere,
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 1: Wheeler is asleep and Linquist's arms.
Speaker 5: He okay.
Speaker 1: Lindquist nods and holds Wheeler like a teddy bear, slouch
Speaker 1: smiles to himself. Be Bob has lost in thought. Exterior
Speaker 1: Bayfront day in the early morning, the flag at half mast.
Speaker 1: The entire school is assembled and dressed whites on the bayfront.
Speaker 1: Patterson and Sally and his skiff sell out of the lagoon.
Speaker 1: Entering the mouth of the bay, Hard Graves plays taps.
Speaker 1: Sally in his stern pour his ashes.
Speaker 5: From an urn.
Speaker 1: She is wearing an Army silver star and a purple
Speaker 1: heart tied with a ribbon around her neck. Angle Leshinsky
Speaker 1: as he watches Sally from the ranks. The band begins
Speaker 1: to play down the road. Dissolved to exterior barracks night.
Speaker 1: It's dark except for a light from the doorway. The
Speaker 1: school is asleep. Cut to interior latrine night. Lieutenant Wheeler
Speaker 1: sits on the can. He's in his pajamas, yet still
Speaker 1: wearing his sword. The sound of footsteps entering the darken latrine.
Speaker 1: A shadow moves along the wall and stops the sink.
Speaker 1: Cut too close shot the sink. A hand comes in
Speaker 1: and picks up the soap. Another hand em beds a
Speaker 1: razor blade deep into the bar of soap. Cut two.
Speaker 1: Wheeler sitting quietly in his door, watching the figure at
Speaker 1: the sink. Wheeler picks up his flashlight and aims the
Speaker 1: light on the figure at the washstand. It is Crow,
Speaker 1: the barber.
Speaker 4: Crow, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Crow fumbles the razor blades and they fall on the
Speaker 1: white tile floor. He bolts for the.
Speaker 4: Door, razervn razor fe.
Speaker 1: He tries to get his pants up. His Crow runs
Speaker 1: out the front door of the La Trees. Wheeler and
Speaker 1: hop pursuit leaps onto the back of the fleeing crow.
Speaker 1: Cut to exterior A company barracks night. The entire barracks
Speaker 1: is awake and running to see what is happening outside.
Speaker 1: Wheeler is on Crow's back and trying to bring him
Speaker 1: down like a steer. Crow gets tangled and Wheeler's sword.
Speaker 1: They tumble to the ground. Exterior parade fields. Night Crow
Speaker 1: has managed to get Wheeler's sword away from him, and
Speaker 1: he's about to slice him in half when a shot
Speaker 1: rings out. Crow yelps, grabs his arm, dropping the sword,
Speaker 1: and topples to the ground. Angle Mango Tree Night we
Speaker 1: see Linquist sitting in the trees, cradling his smoking rifle.
Speaker 1: He's terrified. Cut to exterior infirmary. Night Patterson is taughting
Speaker 1: to Earl the ambulance drivers. He closes the back of
Speaker 1: the ambulance. Norico stands by.
Speaker 5: He left me no choice, Earl. It was either him
Speaker 5: or one of my boys.
Speaker 11: He's always had a screw loose past.
Speaker 5: I can't say you weren't worn.
Speaker 1: I knew he tried something.
Speaker 5: If you let him come back here, Earl, about writing
Speaker 5: this up, God, forget about it. For all our sakes.
Speaker 11: We'll patch him up and they'll keep their mouth shuts.
Speaker 5: They know what's good for him. He's not hurt all
Speaker 5: that bad.
Speaker 1: Earl signals to his sidekick.
Speaker 11: Hey, come on, Hector, another cowboy for the ranch.
Speaker 1: Crows in the back of the ambulance.
Speaker 5: Don't make me go back, Commander.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I think it's best John. They can take better care
Speaker 5: of you there than we can. Commanda, he can't have
Speaker 5: you hurting the boys.
Speaker 1: John, Hector, and Earl get into the ambulance. Crow huddles
Speaker 1: up to the window behind the cab.
Speaker 6: We'll take good care of you, Johnny.
Speaker 5: Is ethel still there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's been asking for you.
Speaker 1: Both the drivers chuckle. Outside the ambulance, the boys are
Speaker 1: peering in the windows.
Speaker 5: A Crow, he's an old boy.
Speaker 9: I remember when he graduated an hour.
Speaker 3: Why'd you do it?
Speaker 5: Crow?
Speaker 4: What'd you do it for?
Speaker 11: Because sometimes boys have to be disciplined, the ones who
Speaker 11: have lost the way.
Speaker 1: The boys are pressing to get a last look at Crow.
Speaker 1: As the ambulance pulls away.
Speaker 5: Back to kiss Dorothy.
Speaker 1: Hermon, Marico places a hand on Patterson's shoulder.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Pat, sometimes you must let boys go.
Speaker 5: Well, No more haircuts.
Speaker 1: Dissolved to exterior Administration building. Day. Wheeler is talking on
Speaker 1: the payphone, slouching. Bebop A rushing him to get off.
Speaker 15: Put a sock into Edison and us in four minutes,
Speaker 15: we're traveling light. If she wants us to wear them
Speaker 15: greaseball Sivy's, she could buy us each a wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Woman, get there, slouch and Bebop check their watches as
Speaker 1: they listen to Wheeler Drone on.
Speaker 15: His name is Arthur Linquist. I sent you a picture,
Speaker 15: so get mom to take care of the passports.
Speaker 4: Hell, I don't know. She did it for the goomba.
Speaker 4: She could do it for me. Twelve hundred dollars sharp Monday.
Speaker 1: He hangs up the phone.
Speaker 15: If it ain't the Gunnerrhea Twins get lost Toesa Peko.
Speaker 1: Cut two Interior a company barracks. Night boys are in
Speaker 1: study halls, sitting on folding chairs at their desks. Leslie
Speaker 1: Gore's It's My Party plays on the radio. Bear is
Speaker 1: reading a stroke book to Linquist.
Speaker 14: She walked through the doorwaar in a neglige that looked
Speaker 14: like a week's work for a small spider. She had
Speaker 14: a deep throaty laugh, like the sound a dog makes
Speaker 14: before it throws up.
Speaker 1: Sallow grabs the book from Bear.
Speaker 11: Study Something none left to study?
Speaker 1: I finished on my test. Find something Cut to Exterior
Speaker 1: Administration Building. Night Bebop on the payphone. Slouch huddles next
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 5: Dig me see Webby in We're going in Vicon. I
Speaker 5: grew up on the beaches. You're my aid.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of cubano. Now no going back, so
Speaker 1: here we go. Dissolved to exterior Barnes Front porch. Night
Speaker 1: Sally sits on the steps. Leshinsky joins, Sir, get lost.
Speaker 5: I am lost.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could help me find the
Speaker 1: bay so I could jump in.
Speaker 3: You're not lost, You're a loser. You come up here
Speaker 3: to win another medal. I think you're a pig.
Speaker 10: Sally as god as my witness, oh scarlettle hair, and
Speaker 10: now I'm sorry for everything you, your dad, everybody seemed
Speaker 10: to you know, respect him. Shut up.
Speaker 3: Please you're also useless.
Speaker 4: Please just go away.
Speaker 5: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I won't. She lets out a sob, then the dam burst.
Speaker 1: L Shiski sits helplessly beside her for a long time.
Speaker 1: Finally she folds into his arms. Dissolved to exterior boat.
Speaker 1: Doc Knight Patterson sits on the bench and lights up.
Speaker 1: After a moment, he sees slouch in Biba. There's an
Speaker 1: open fishing boat tied up nearby. The two boys pull
Speaker 1: their duffels out of the bushes and sling them on
Speaker 1: their shoulders. Uncle Raoul, the Guel, Sanchez and Anita wait
Speaker 1: for them. Uncle Raoul sees Patterson. Raoul salutes Patterson with
Speaker 1: two fingers. Patterson pulls a forty five from his belt
Speaker 1: and aims at.
Speaker 5: At Raoul, as you were a commander.
Speaker 1: Patterson turns to see the army colonel, now a civilian clothes,
Speaker 1: and his three Cuban officials from the parade inspectrum.
Speaker 7: I believe Colonel Barnes put you in charge.
Speaker 5: What's going on? Colonel?
Speaker 7: Retrieving army ordinance? Commander?
Speaker 5: You got papers?
Speaker 7: Actually, Commander, we're not even here.
Speaker 5: Boys. Get back to your barracks.
Speaker 1: Raoul steps forward.
Speaker 5: Mano's leaving school a little early.
Speaker 4: His family needs him.
Speaker 5: I'm out of here, to Commander. I gotta do this.
Speaker 5: Where'd you get those keys? Son?
Speaker 7: Sorry, there's no time for this right now. Step aside, Commander,
Speaker 7: that's an order.
Speaker 5: I ain't in your army, mister.
Speaker 1: Patterson struggles for his gun as Miguel slams him to
Speaker 1: the ground. Another holds a wet cloth over his face. No,
Speaker 1: what are you doing, Patterson goes limb.
Speaker 7: Don't worry, he'll be good as new in a few hours.
Speaker 5: You coming in love a boy? Come on, Slash, you
Speaker 5: can't stay here now.
Speaker 1: Exterior boat Biscayne Bay Night be Bop and slouch watched
Speaker 1: from top side as Miami Military Academy is lost in
Speaker 1: the distance. Dissolved to interior Barracks night. Linquist lies on
Speaker 1: Coombs's bed, gazing out the window toward the boat shed.
Speaker 1: A light is flashing Morse code for the boat shed window.
Speaker 1: SOS cut to exterior boat dock Night. Linquist prize the
Speaker 1: lock off the boat shed door. Patterson sits in a stupor,
Speaker 1: bottle in one hand, flashlight another ammo dump keys at
Speaker 1: his feet.
Speaker 5: Must have locked myself in just between us okay.
Speaker 1: Linquist nods. Dissolved to exterior Biscayne Bay.
Speaker 5: Day.
Speaker 1: A sail boat race. Lishinski and Bearer in one boat,
Speaker 1: Wheeler and Linquist in another, racing against the teams from
Speaker 1: B Company. As they reached the final leg back from
Speaker 1: Captain Kids Eyele, Wheeler and Linquist are in the lead.
Speaker 1: The schools gathered along the shore cheering them onward. Wheeler
Speaker 1: works the sail while Linquist controls the tiller. They are
Speaker 1: very excited as they cross the finish line. Dissolved to
Speaker 1: interior Barnes' House Day. Sally stands in the darkened living room,
Speaker 1: sheets cover the remaining furniture. She retrieves a final carton
Speaker 1: and exits. Cut to exterior Barnes House day. Patterson is
Speaker 1: standing by on the porch. Sally locks the house door
Speaker 1: and hands him the key, then takes a frame picture
Speaker 1: from the carton.
Speaker 3: I think this was my birth announcement. I want you
Speaker 3: to have it.
Speaker 1: It's the picture of Sally's mom. Barnes and pat beers
Speaker 1: raised in a toast on a jubilant evening.
Speaker 5: I'll hold on to it for you.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm your job now for real. Always best
Speaker 3: to your mom if I see her first.
Speaker 1: She kisses him and walks down the steps. Leshinsky is
Speaker 1: standing beside Sally's van. It's packed for the road. He
Speaker 1: hands her a small box tied up with a ribbon.
Speaker 1: Sally opens it and holds up the brass coin suspend
Speaker 1: it on her ribbon. The note says twenty four carrot gold.
Speaker 3: Keep polish in your brass. You never know.
Speaker 1: She kisses him sweetly, then starts to drive away. She
Speaker 1: waits patiently as a cadet raises the barrier. The two
Speaker 1: men watch her disappear through the archway.
Speaker 9: Farewell, thou art too did for my possession, and like
Speaker 9: enough thou known stein estimate.
Speaker 1: Interior a company night taps sounds. The boys are in
Speaker 1: their bunks.
Speaker 5: If Coombs don't come back and link with graduates, who's
Speaker 5: going to win the pot?
Speaker 1: We didn't think of that, did we? Crossfade to interior
Speaker 1: inass Leshinsky lost in thought.
Speaker 9: For how do I hold thee? But by thy granting?
Speaker 9: And for that great riches, where is my deserving?
Speaker 1: Cross fade to exterior boat dock. Patterson nips a pint,
Speaker 1: stares across the bay. Crossfade to exterior highway. Day Sally
Speaker 1: drives along with the wind, blowing her hair like a whip.
Speaker 9: For I have loved thee as a dream, doth flatter
Speaker 9: and sleep a king, but waking no such matter.
Speaker 1: Dissolved to exterior doc Evening. Patterson sits on his bench,
Speaker 1: bleary eyed and vacant. Wheeler approaches.
Speaker 4: You need it up at the barrack, Sir, We got
Speaker 4: a discipline problem.
Speaker 5: Something you can handle, sun You can't.
Speaker 4: You sit on your ass the rest of your life, sir,
Speaker 4: We need your commander.
Speaker 1: Cut to interior a company barracks night. Patterson walks into
Speaker 1: the dark and barracks. He fumbles for the light switch
Speaker 1: and flicks it on. Party streamers fly across the room.
Speaker 1: The barracks breaks into songs.
Speaker 12: There's nobody kN tonag Happy Memorial Day, Commander kid him
Speaker 12: very well celebrated without her hero.
Speaker 5: I'd forgot well, boys, okay, but no underage drinking.
Speaker 9: Got everything right here, sir. Party hats pin the tail
Speaker 9: and a donkey and coconut rum.
Speaker 5: Well, but not for the youngsters.
Speaker 1: Wheeler and Linquist re enter the barracks with a silver
Speaker 1: Martini shaker and a doctor pepper. They both are wearing
Speaker 1: sat and dinner jackets.
Speaker 4: Hate to taste, Commander. Besides, someone has to keep frosty.
Speaker 5: Hey, Commander, on the level, we'll be back next year.
Speaker 9: Well, thank you, Commanders, will afloat for next year.
Speaker 5: Well on a level, it don't look good. I just
Speaker 5: I don't know, Fellas. I'm sorry. I just have to
Speaker 5: hope and hang on to keep afloat. Don't know where
Speaker 5: that'll take us, but whatever it is, you boys will
Speaker 5: always make me proud.
Speaker 9: I'm sure you'll think of something.
Speaker 5: Commander, Well, who knows things have a way of changing
Speaker 5: in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 4: Were coming back, and I'll tell you this I'm going
Speaker 4: to be a captain and kick them.
Speaker 11: Sorry ass, Wheeler, lernt your song, sir?
Speaker 15: Have you heard of a ship called the Good Reuben
Speaker 15: James men by.
Speaker 1: Hard Patterson is visibly touched. The boys pass soft drinks,
Speaker 1: but lace them with contraband.
Speaker 15: Boots, stripes of the land of the Free, but tonight
Speaker 15: cheese in her grave at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 4: Tell me what bro their names?
Speaker 15: Tell me?
Speaker 3: What were their names?
Speaker 15: Did you have a friend on the good Boob and James?
Speaker 3: What were their names?
Speaker 15: Tell me what was his name?
Speaker 4: Did you have a friend on the Good Boob and James?
Speaker 4: Will one hundred men went down in the dark watery grave?
Speaker 1: Crossfade to exterior ship night slouch on a ship deck,
Speaker 1: watching the horizon, a sliver of land ahead. Cross Fade
Speaker 1: to exterior parade field, Graduation day, montage, Damn Ron at
Speaker 1: the podium. The words duty, honor, and country weave through
Speaker 1: his speech, recall sounds, The boys march and review. Patterson
Speaker 1: and Faculty return their salute from the reviewing stand. The
Speaker 1: boys throw their hats in the air. Crossfade to exterior
Speaker 1: vents day. Wheeler and Linquist are standing at the cyclone
Speaker 1: fence talking with missus Lindquist. Wheeler is gesturing at length
Speaker 1: to the puzzled woman who might as well be in Iowa. Finally,
Speaker 1: Lindquist kisses her and the boys run off. Edison waits
Speaker 1: for them by the limo. Crossfade to exterior Bleachers Day.
Speaker 1: Aunt Selina sits alone in the bleachers. Left again, crossfade
Speaker 1: to exterior high Sally heads west on Root sixty six.
Speaker 1: Exterior Bay of pigs Day. Slow motion, gunfire, smoke, and
Speaker 1: chaos as a band of Cubans hit the beach. Bebop
Speaker 1: is hit as he steps on to the sand. He
Speaker 1: falls face first in the water. Blood colors the water
Speaker 1: as bombs explode. Slouch rushes to him. Slouch cradles the
Speaker 1: bleeding Bebop. A shadow stands over him, A heavily armed
Speaker 1: Cuban gestured toward the forest where other captured and wounded
Speaker 1: are being led. Exterior the school day. Leshinski is under
Speaker 1: the archway of the school. He turns around and looks
Speaker 1: up to the Eagle and the globe nearby. On the
Speaker 1: bench by the bus stop and Arico sits with a
Speaker 1: suitcase waiting for the j bus. Interior Patterson's hut Bay
Speaker 1: of pigs, fiasco, un condemns action. US pulls air support
Speaker 1: headlines the Miami Herald. The paper falls from Patterson's hands.
Speaker 1: He fights back, tears Exterior parade field dusk. The academy
Speaker 1: appears deserted, wind blows the palms. The camera leads us
Speaker 1: to exterior parade field dusk. Commander Patterson, US Navy, Retired
Speaker 1: takes a flag down and folds a try corner military fashion.
Speaker 1: He tucks it under his arm and walks down by
Speaker 1: the day by the bay. Fuck me, exterior parade field dusk.
Speaker 1: Commander Patterson, US Navy, Retired takes the flag down and
Speaker 1: folds a tri corner military fashion. He tucks it under
Speaker 1: his arm and walks down by the bay. Exterior boat
Speaker 1: dock dusk. Patterson sits on the bench under a palm tree,
Speaker 1: watching five Huey gunship helicopters flying low over the bay
Speaker 1: into the sun. Then the bench is empty. In the background,
Speaker 1: bulldozers begin plowing into a company barracks as we fade out.
Speaker 1: Dedicated to Stephen M. Leshinsky, Junior, Private first Class first
Speaker 1: Cavalry USARV Ground Casualty, kuang Nam Province, South Vietnam, nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five to nineteen sixty eight.
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