Speaker 1: Count three. We're gonna say table read recall one two
Speaker 1: three stab reall.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Parade field dawn, the deserted parade field, empty bleachers, a
Speaker 3: cannon nearby.
Speaker 4: How a training policy here at the Academy is based
Speaker 4: on a simple theory, and that is, improvement and progress
Speaker 4: are in direct proportion to the effort expanded by the
Speaker 4: student and the teacher.
Speaker 3: Super February nineteen sixty one. Exterior Miami Military Academy Archway.
Speaker 3: A logo an eagle straddles an oblong world which encloses
Speaker 3: a symbol of a palm tree and an open book.
Speaker 3: Underneath is the motto Hody Prairie postri d very Boys Today,
Speaker 3: men tomorrow. Camera pulls back to reveal it is the
Speaker 3: emblem and the keystone of the Archway Miami Military Academy,
Speaker 3: established nineteen twenty one. Three.
Speaker 5: Each boy associates with the other boys in an atmosphere
Speaker 5: of courage and optimism.
Speaker 6: He learns the virtues of fair play.
Speaker 3: Interior Major Damaran's office, early morning. Major Damron is addressing
Speaker 3: a new boy, Steven Leshinsky, a bright eyed sixteen year
Speaker 3: old behind him sit his parents.
Speaker 5: I might add here that as a boy, some of
Speaker 5: my heart as times were trying to answer a question
Speaker 5: while the girls will always tee hee, and advances, oh,
Speaker 5: we don't have that problem here.
Speaker 3: Mister Leshinsky stifles a yawn, earning a glare from his wife.
Speaker 3: Looking through a window, he sees a batter jeep approach
Speaker 3: the archway cut to exterior parade field. Morning, a rooster
Speaker 3: crows the top a quantt hut. Arthur Lindquished, an odd
Speaker 3: looking boy of indeterminate age, peers through a cyclone fence
Speaker 3: at the deserted parade field. Inside the hut, we see
Speaker 3: Arthur's mother passed out in squalor on a ratty couch.
Speaker 3: He watches as the back jeep pulls through the archway
Speaker 3: entrance and stops in front of the Administration building. Commander
Speaker 3: Claire Patterson, US Navy, retired sixty sits behind the wheel
Speaker 3: of the jeep. The two boys in the rear seat
Speaker 3: are in full dress uniform. They appear to have been
Speaker 3: through a minor war and have gotten the worst of it.
Speaker 3: They are Anthony Slouched, Stanfordino Brooklyn Rough handsome, and Armando
Speaker 3: Bebop Saro pineda eighteen Cuban patrician Lean angular, named for
Speaker 3: his distinctive stride.
Speaker 7: Come on, commander, why can't you just let us out here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, commander, give us a break, Sir.
Speaker 3: Patterson ignores them. An eleven year old Lieutenant Harold Wheeler
Speaker 3: of middle aged temperament runs toward the jeep. He is
Speaker 3: in full dress uniform with a sword too large that
Speaker 3: bangs at his heels.
Speaker 8: Commander, you got him? Where'd you find him? Speak city right?
Speaker 9: Watch your mouth, tourist, We.
Speaker 7: Were on the road, punk. What are you the permanent
Speaker 7: around here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And your asses are grass?
Speaker 10: Where's Colonel Barnes? Lieutenant?
Speaker 7: All help? Commander, Please give us a break, Sir. We
Speaker 7: can't afford this.
Speaker 8: Morning prayers starting, But leave it to me, sir. I'll
Speaker 8: make sure they get to the colonel.
Speaker 10: You man enough to handle these characters.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Wheeler salutes and springs into action.
Speaker 8: All right, you to mother humpers out of that jeep
Speaker 8: and fall in, I said, fall in on the double,
Speaker 8: on the double.
Speaker 3: The two boys shake their heads but follow the orders.
Speaker 11: Right face for march left right, left right, call him.
Speaker 2: Right turn detailed holt right face.
Speaker 3: The two cadets are now standing with their backs toward
Speaker 3: the huge howitzer cannon overlooking the parade field and bay
Speaker 3: Wheeler walks behind the boys and takes a set of
Speaker 3: handcuffs from his pouch. He swiftly snaps the cuffs around
Speaker 3: Slouch's right wrist, through the recall the cannon, and onto
Speaker 3: be Pop's left wrist. The boys are now firmly handcuff
Speaker 3: to the howartzer.
Speaker 7: Whether what the fuck is wrong with you?
Speaker 9: You could go to prayer, Noel.
Speaker 3: Commander Patterson smiles, drives off down the Company street.
Speaker 7: Why do you encourage him?
Speaker 3: Sir, Commander Exterior Administration Office Day. Major Damron comes out
Speaker 3: of the building at Company by Steven Leshinsky and his parents.
Speaker 12: Well Son, keep your nose clean and trying to solve
Speaker 12: everything with your fists.
Speaker 1: Our plane doesn't leave until Friday.
Speaker 5: It's customary at the academy to impose a restriction on
Speaker 5: leaving visitation for new cadets for a two week period.
Speaker 3: She throws her arms around her embarrassed son.
Speaker 5: Dew ease the emotional strain on the change over from
Speaker 5: home to school.
Speaker 3: Let him be marian.
Speaker 2: He'll be home soon enough.
Speaker 7: We are damn it.
Speaker 13: Just because you got ranked don't mean you're not pissant.
Speaker 3: Damn Ron turns and sees Lieutenant Wheeler walking away from
Speaker 3: the cannon.
Speaker 6: Excuse me for a moment.
Speaker 3: Mind of rebellion. Turn walks to the cannon with controlled anger.
Speaker 6: Looking for an E five pottymouth hum.
Speaker 7: Lieutenant Wheeler report.
Speaker 8: A couple of a wall Sir.
Speaker 9: Nothing that won't keep, sir.
Speaker 7: We were just hanging out.
Speaker 3: Talk later, gentlemen, motioning to Lishnsky to join them.
Speaker 6: This is Stephen Lishinsky, a new CODID. He's going to
Speaker 6: BiVO Whac with Alpha Company. I want you to take
Speaker 6: him over there now, to Captain Jenkins on the double.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, follow me.
Speaker 5: There, Rambunk says, but healthy boys or boys. I'm sure
Speaker 5: Steven will fit right in.
Speaker 7: I'll see you to your car.
Speaker 3: I'm not so sure. Parents follow damn Ron to the
Speaker 3: parking lot. Wheeler takes Leshinsky in tow. They pass Slouch
Speaker 3: and b Bob Shackle to the cannon.
Speaker 7: Listen, you punk business. You let us out if you're
Speaker 7: right now, or I swear I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 7: I doubt it. We mean it now, I'm shaking. I'll
Speaker 7: do it.
Speaker 8: Think you twats later. I got dump the blonde number
Speaker 8: at prayer.
Speaker 3: We are living the shinski continue across the parade field
Speaker 3: toward the gymnasium.
Speaker 9: Why are those guys handcuffed to that gun? Where are
Speaker 9: you from, boy, Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 8: Maybe you call it a gun in Pottsville, but here
Speaker 8: it's a howitzer, my man, a five inch long range
Speaker 8: field artillery. When they set it off at morning information,
Speaker 8: those two butt cracks ain't likely to feel like going
Speaker 8: a wall for a while.
Speaker 3: What do they do?
Speaker 8: You'll know soon enough they're in your company, A company
Speaker 8: a for assholes.
Speaker 3: Exterior parade field day, slouch and Bebop's struggle with the handcuffs.
Speaker 7: Now we got the bull ring this weekend. Nobody asked
Speaker 7: for your help.
Speaker 12: Hey, stupio, those people are serious. You shoot your mouth
Speaker 12: off and they believe you.
Speaker 2: How you gonna get a bazooka.
Speaker 7: Out of here? I'll get it.
Speaker 12: You'll get us killed. This ain't no war games, man,
Speaker 12: this is for real. You shoot your mouth off, you
Speaker 12: get us killed. Okay, keep watching, you know, maybe you'll
Speaker 12: learn something.
Speaker 3: Beebop shakes his head in disbelief.
Speaker 7: All right, take it easy and has got your back.
Speaker 3: Interior Gymnasium entrance day the door cracks open, spilling a
Speaker 3: shaft of morning sunlight across the shorn furry bowed heads
Speaker 3: of the boys of Miami Military Academy, about two hundred
Speaker 3: boys in all. They're being led in the Cadet prayer
Speaker 3: by Colonel Morocca, Cadet Battle Group Commander. He's an overweight
Speaker 3: Cuban senior with a deep baritone voice.
Speaker 1: Oh God, our Father, the searcher of man's hearts, help.
Speaker 2: Us to draw here and sincerity and truth.
Speaker 14: May our religion be filled with gladness and our worship.
Speaker 3: Of the be natural. Wheeler nudges Leshinsky to bow his head,
Speaker 3: and they stand at the entrance listening to the prayer.
Speaker 3: The two boys have moved in next to Edwin Bova sixteen,
Speaker 3: slight and cynical. Won't ask, won't tell, don't care.
Speaker 7: You are, Stephen Leshinsky, that's the marvelous, said hey.
Speaker 3: The prayer continues in a rumble. We catch a word
Speaker 3: here and there as we pan the faces of the
Speaker 3: boys featuring a company. Us to live above the common
Speaker 3: level of life, the hard intead of the easier wrong.
Speaker 1: Hell of us in our work, in our.
Speaker 3: Way to keep physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight,
Speaker 3: that we made the honor of the course untarnished and unsullied.
Speaker 9: All this we ask in the name of the Great
Speaker 9: Friend and Master.
Speaker 7: From the man, welcome to Oz Dorothy Amen.
Speaker 3: In the silence of the hall, a slight man walks
Speaker 3: toward the podium and looks out over the sea of
Speaker 3: boys faces. He is Colonel Darryl Barnes sixty four, the
Speaker 3: common dant of the school, and he is not well.
Speaker 3: As he reaches the rostrum group simultaneously, they all respond
Speaker 3: featuring a company.
Speaker 2: Company, well tuned, squat up.
Speaker 3: Then huh the crash of bootheels echoes through the gym
Speaker 3: as Colonel Barnes grips the podium. Did he use a latrine?
Speaker 15: There's not a battleground for gang warfare. We're not animals here.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: I have no idea what.
Speaker 15: Happened in McKibben Barracks latrine last night, but I do
Speaker 15: know that Private Hearts for Andrews is in the Dade
Speaker 15: County Hospital where the fractured skull this morning.
Speaker 7: You didn't have to be there with his mother.
Speaker 15: She asked me, what kind of school are you running,
Speaker 15: Colonel score for a bunch of animals?
Speaker 7: And I couldn't answer that.
Speaker 3: Bonn seems to direct his speech toy A company cut
Speaker 3: to exterior parade Field Day. Slouch and Bebop had been
Speaker 3: joined at the cannon by the bugler Hard Graves sixteen
Speaker 3: and two flag raiders Major Dammar and steps in.
Speaker 7: Now what's going on?
Speaker 3: We can't set out the character slouching Bebop raise their
Speaker 3: chained arms.
Speaker 13: So all the tenant wheelers, sir, Hawgers, good Wheeler on
Speaker 13: the double cut to Interior Gymnasium day, hold you, oh, responsible.
Speaker 15: Violence of this heinous nature will not be tolerated. Gentlemen's
Speaker 15: disagreements are settled in the boxing drink or on some
Speaker 15: other field of honor. We do not sully that honor
Speaker 15: in such a despicable.
Speaker 14: Distasteful, disgusting way in a lot train, slipping and slutting
Speaker 14: in our own filth, cracking heads on cement floors.
Speaker 7: I tell myself, we are not animals here. Oh we,
Speaker 7: oh we, Oh.
Speaker 3: Word God, sir, Interior Gymnasium. Later, the Condeens are standing
Speaker 3: at full attention as Morocca gives the orders.
Speaker 1: Group ready to form up on Company Street for morning
Speaker 1: information and a company. I want the Barneyard comedians dismiss.
Speaker 3: A company begins to file out through the wide doors.
Speaker 2: I got a new man for a company.
Speaker 3: Master. Sergeant Slow, seventeen from Yonkers is yelling at Bova.
Speaker 2: Bova. You walk up to the colonel and you say, Sir,
Speaker 2: I don't want the entire company to be punished because
Speaker 2: I'm moved. You tell him, sir, I'm the moor.
Speaker 3: Wheeler hands the clipboard to Slow for him to sign
Speaker 3: I got a new He is interrupted by salt, shut up, midget, sir.
Speaker 2: So you go to him and say, I'm the more.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 13: Rate?
Speaker 7: The more?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 7: Who is the Moor? I don't know, Odello, how the
Speaker 7: fuck's that?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 7: Maybe it's a new kid, Sergeant, I ain't going all day. Yeah,
Speaker 7: over's the moor.
Speaker 2: We heard watch a move, motherfucker.
Speaker 7: It was better no wood.
Speaker 3: I just did the sheep park our graves, the bugler enters,
Speaker 3: the gym, the Keith wheeler.
Speaker 2: They were went the keys to the handcuff both ves.
Speaker 2: Just go tell him now or I'll pull up baseball,
Speaker 2: bat up yasses and check your hurl.
Speaker 7: That's an order.
Speaker 3: Bear smacks Bogo, who mumbles to himself. As they head
Speaker 3: out the door, Swallow takes the clipboard from Wheeler and
Speaker 3: signs it.
Speaker 2: Second Platoon, Third Squad, Seacow take him.
Speaker 3: Solow motions Lishinsky toward David. See cow Hamley fall in
Speaker 3: Exterior Gymnasium Day. The boys file out into the sunshine,
Speaker 3: with Lishinsky now trying to fall in step behind. See
Speaker 3: cow Hamley Exterior Company Street Day. A company marches down
Speaker 3: the Company Street toward formation with fatherly concerns. See cow
Speaker 3: is marching beside Lishinsky, helping him into step.
Speaker 7: That's it left, right, left, right? Where are you from?
Speaker 9: Uh, Pennsylvania Potsvel, Potsvel p Pa.
Speaker 7: Oh, well you'll like it here. I hope it's not
Speaker 7: like Potsvel.
Speaker 3: Lishinski is still trying very hard to fall into the
Speaker 3: cadence of the step. He unwittingly treads on the heels
Speaker 3: of the boy in front of it.
Speaker 7: Just keep off my heels, pissed pot.
Speaker 1: Jesus, will you get a lot of those two?
Speaker 3: We are not privy to the conversation that is going
Speaker 3: on between Bova Bear and Cadet Colonel Morocca as they
Speaker 3: walk along the parade square parallel to the company Street.
Speaker 3: Bear is still but Bova is gesturing energetically back and
Speaker 3: forth between Morocca and a company.
Speaker 2: What's that dipshit saying?
Speaker 16: Anyways, I better not be looking at any five this weekend,
Speaker 16: or Bova's gonna be looking at my fist.
Speaker 3: I doubt it. He points toward the cannon, look slouts
Speaker 3: and beebumper back. Okay, I give a exterior parade field day.
Speaker 6: He's the wrong case.
Speaker 8: I got him down on Flagger Street, sir, and they
Speaker 8: only cost me two bucks. I guess they jipped me.
Speaker 3: Who told you to do this?
Speaker 8: Lieutenant Commander Patterson, Sir, they're a walls. He found him
Speaker 8: down in little Havna hoaring around again.
Speaker 7: Punk, we missed the last bus, sir.
Speaker 3: That's all Command the Patterson.
Speaker 7: I'll get the heckst off from the supply.
Speaker 3: The exterior company street day, the entire school is forming
Speaker 3: up for morning and inspection. Out of the front of
Speaker 3: a company barracks comes a mountainous white Bahamian boy, Dudley
Speaker 3: Jenkins Bahama Mama seventeen. He is most often absent sleeping
Speaker 3: or eating. Cadet captain in charge of a company. Most
Speaker 3: everything is delegated to Master Sergeant Solo, First Lieutenant Schnupp
Speaker 3: and Second Lieutenant's Fisher and Quirt are also mainly window dressing.
Speaker 3: Bahama Mama yawns expansively, then lumbers past the assembled group
Speaker 3: to the front of the ranks. See cow is demonstrating
Speaker 3: proper attire to Lishinski, using Roger Coombs as an example.
Speaker 17: Now these here are your brass pieces on your lapills
Speaker 17: like mirrors from morning, especially where it's an A six.
Speaker 7: I use brass though squeaky clean. I'll have some you
Speaker 7: can use. Just remember they have to be signed every day.
Speaker 7: Shoes two spit sign. We usually have time for that.
Speaker 17: After recall, I'll sew you that tonight squeaky clean or
Speaker 17: it's an A six.
Speaker 3: Get As Bahama Mama reaches the front of the ranks,
Speaker 3: Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning, sir. Bahama Mama walks over
Speaker 3: his sergeants Swallow standing between the two platoons.
Speaker 7: What's in a sex improper uniform?
Speaker 3: He pulls out a small blue book from his back
Speaker 3: pocket and hands it to Lishinski.
Speaker 7: Learn it by heart. It's the Bible. Use my until
Speaker 7: you're outfitted.
Speaker 3: Swallow reports to Bahama. Mama.
Speaker 2: Got a new man, Sir, name's Lishinsky.
Speaker 7: I put him in Seacow' squad.
Speaker 3: Bahama, Mama turns and looks at Lishinski.
Speaker 7: Slatch and bee bumper back, sir. They get caught.
Speaker 3: Sallow points off toward the cannon. Obviously Exterior p Raid
Speaker 3: Field Day. Colonel Barnes and Commander Patterson are walking toward
Speaker 3: the formation from the Gymnasium.
Speaker 15: Well wellin this time Flagner Street.
Speaker 18: They were on a road probably the uncle again, your
Speaker 18: old pal with the pedro pans Raoul Christ's sake, Sterow,
Speaker 18: I told you not to get involved with these damn orphans.
Speaker 18: He bops more trouble than he's worth.
Speaker 7: That's Army subsidy.
Speaker 15: Pat our landlords, by the way, as you keep seeming
Speaker 15: to forget.
Speaker 7: Their arms, their land, their ordnance, host shebang.
Speaker 18: Besides, he's a good kid, I'm not saying he ain't.
Speaker 18: But the Army don't own these kids Cubans, Yeah maybe
Speaker 18: not our boys.
Speaker 10: Can't you make a call or something that.
Speaker 7: Not your concerned pat s need to know?
Speaker 10: Basis wish you'd be straight with me for once Stero
Speaker 10: clean up.
Speaker 3: It looked like hell. Patterson just shakes his head. Cut
Speaker 3: to Exterior Company Street Day. The entire school is formed
Speaker 3: up for morning report. The candemted Battlegroup. Commander Morocca takes
Speaker 3: charge of the formation group. The company's platoons and squads
Speaker 3: answer report.
Speaker 12: H and S companies, All president account of force SIRT.
Speaker 3: There is silence.
Speaker 12: A company report for did you present tune dispose Sir
Speaker 12: and disposed explain.
Speaker 3: AH Exterior Parade Field Day. Slouch pulls himself up as
Speaker 3: close to attention as he can.
Speaker 7: All president accounted for SIRT.
Speaker 3: A rousing cheer goes up from a company. The remaining
Speaker 3: companies report into sending order of age.
Speaker 7: B Company, All president accounted for, Sir.
Speaker 2: C Company, All president accounted for Sir.
Speaker 9: D Company, All president accounted forth, Sir.
Speaker 3: The last company drove his E company. The voice is
Speaker 3: high pitched, coming from a ten year.
Speaker 8: Old E company. All present and counter force.
Speaker 3: Sir, Exterior Parade field Day.
Speaker 7: I'll have him a part in a minute.
Speaker 14: There.
Speaker 3: The two cannoneers loaded charge into the breach of the cannon.
Speaker 3: The hack saw brakes through the handcuffs. The cannon is fired.
Speaker 3: The company's patoons and squad respond.
Speaker 1: For send arms.
Speaker 3: The boys salute as the flag is raised and buglar
Speaker 3: hard Graves plays called to colors. The handcuffs dangle from
Speaker 3: Slouch's salute. Cut to Interior a Company Barracks day, Trencher
Speaker 3: is chastising bear.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to crack his head on the floor
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody out you were all yelling.
Speaker 3: From You didn't have to Interior a Company Barracks day
Speaker 3: Trencher is chastising bear.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to crack his head on the floor
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody asked you to.
Speaker 2: You were all yelling at me for me to do it.
Speaker 2: You said he was the razor fiend, Trencher.
Speaker 1: So what was he doing in there at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 3: B Bob is gathering his books from his locker between
Speaker 3: the bunk beds.
Speaker 1: Probably taking a leak.
Speaker 7: What were you doing in there?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 7: We all know what Trunch was doing in there?
Speaker 3: See Cow is still hovering over Lishinsky.
Speaker 7: What watch the soup? When you watch somebody's putting razor
Speaker 7: blades in it?
Speaker 3: Lishinsky nods to the information Bahama Mama has finished his
Speaker 3: morning breakfast tray and signals to Quirt, who obviously operates
Speaker 3: as his valet, to remove it. Sergeant Solow hands Lishinsky
Speaker 3: a note.
Speaker 2: Class assignments any questions. Ask the ranking officer in class,
Speaker 2: see cow.
Speaker 7: Get him a bunk.
Speaker 3: Boba bursts through the door in a rage.
Speaker 14: There follows in E five A fucking evive and I
Speaker 14: gotta apologize.
Speaker 7: But nothing. I didn't even move.
Speaker 10: What about us?
Speaker 7: A blanket B eleven for the company.
Speaker 3: Lashinsky is thumbing through the blue book.
Speaker 16: Nothing bet, it's only five shit with the ten I
Speaker 16: got already. It puts me in the bull ring for
Speaker 16: the weekend.
Speaker 3: Lishinsky looks at Slouch, lying in the bottom bunk, starts
Speaker 3: to enroll the top mastress. It's okay, Slouch could give
Speaker 3: a rat's ass. A bell rings in the distance.
Speaker 2: Slouch, take Osinski over to the PX and get him outfitted.
Speaker 3: Slouch glares up at Leshinsky.
Speaker 7: Let's go stop doggling.
Speaker 3: Cut to interior Perez's PX. Captain Jose Perez, a squat
Speaker 3: Cuban in his late fifties, is measuring Leshinsky's waistline. The
Speaker 3: PX is a gathering place for the boys in their
Speaker 3: off time pin ball machine, soda counter, drug store, etc.
Speaker 3: Perez offers therapy and drug store philosophy. Now he measures
Speaker 3: Leshinsky as his assistant rights on a pad. Then the
Speaker 3: ojo Slouch and Lishinsky watched the ceiling mount to TV.
Speaker 3: Walter Kronkite does the news today.
Speaker 18: Two years after Fidel Castro's troops marched into the Makata
Speaker 18: Army barracks, effectively seizing control of the island nation, the
Speaker 18: United States severed all diplomatic relations with Cuba as a
Speaker 18: UN Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev lucidly spoke of news that
Speaker 18: aggressive American monopolists are preparing a direct attack on Cuba.
Speaker 3: Footage follows Castro entering Havana, Khrushchev haringing the UN, etc.
Speaker 7: Going on the invasion. Jose Galiza des Bojo, I'll get
Speaker 7: him that I know where they are.
Speaker 3: Slouch walks down the rows of coats and shirts to
Speaker 3: the back of the room. He looks back to see
Speaker 3: Perez Distracted by the TV. He goes to the bottom
Speaker 3: right drawer. He takes a key that reads bunker three
Speaker 3: of a circular tab attached and pockets it. Lashinski sees this.
Speaker 3: Slouch takes a hat off a shelf and walks back
Speaker 3: to the front of the p X cut to exterior fence. Lindquist,
Speaker 3: the odd boy, still in his pajamas, climbs the fence
Speaker 3: and creeps toward the classroom window. He peers through the
Speaker 3: window at Captain Miller's Chemistry class Interior Chemistry class day.
Speaker 6: If we were to peer through the mists of time
Speaker 6: with our mind's eye, we would see primitive man struggling
Speaker 6: against the forces of nature.
Speaker 3: As Miller yamers on Bebop and Slouch lab partners busily
Speaker 3: work over fuming test tubes. Lashinsky tries to move the
Speaker 3: Bunsen burner from under the foaming retort tube.
Speaker 1: Hey, keep your mits off, Lashinsky pulls back.
Speaker 9: Your flames are too high, So what's the key for?
Speaker 3: Said?
Speaker 7: Back off? Assle.
Speaker 3: Miller walks among the experiment tables, watching each of the
Speaker 3: boy's work.
Speaker 6: To construct some meaningful system about him that would explain
Speaker 6: the universe in a rational way.
Speaker 3: Slouch smiles out the window at Lindquist. He drinks from
Speaker 3: a test tube and does a Doctor Jekyl to amuse
Speaker 3: the boy.
Speaker 6: Then gave birth to the first mythology, and then to
Speaker 6: formalize scientific study.
Speaker 3: Miller's timer sounds an alarm.
Speaker 6: Secure your experiments and return to your desk.
Speaker 7: For a quick quiz, New boy, what's your name?
Speaker 9: Lashinsky?
Speaker 6: Sir, you won't be granted on this, but at least
Speaker 6: we can find out.
Speaker 3: Where you are. The boys are seated and begin writing.
Speaker 3: Lashinsky writes answer after answer while Slouch is struggling the
Speaker 3: retort to bubbles. Slouch starts to cheat off Lashinsky, who
Speaker 3: lets him. Slouch smiles at Leshinski for the first time.
Speaker 3: The retort tube explodes. Then Quiz runs from the window
Speaker 3: in terror. Across the parade field. Captain Miller has a
Speaker 3: fire extend wish her in hand, putting out the flames
Speaker 3: and flames too high. Interior mess hall day, the school
Speaker 3: is assembled for lunch. Boys move along the line through
Speaker 3: the stainless steel steam trays and sit at tables. Slouch
Speaker 3: and Bebop huddle conspiratorially. Lashinski comes into the mess hall
Speaker 3: after everybody else has been served. He picks up a
Speaker 3: tray and goes to the steam tables. Bullva and Bear
Speaker 3: are in the midst of argument.
Speaker 17: It's not that you didn't have anything to say, it's
Speaker 17: just that, well you always do it, do what. It's
Speaker 17: just that sometimes you frighten be ah know Hinna grabs
Speaker 17: your shirt.
Speaker 7: Well, yes, that's not a debate. Smith.
Speaker 3: Lashinski comes over to the table and sits down near
Speaker 3: slouching bee by Helsinski.
Speaker 1: How you like being a soldier so far?
Speaker 7: Okay? Yes, what are these brock amas? Corner holes? But
Speaker 7: but you wouldn't listen.
Speaker 2: You just kept shaking your head.
Speaker 10: I mean both.
Speaker 9: Sometimes you make a person really want to clock you.
Speaker 7: It was my turn to speak. That's the way it
Speaker 7: works in the debate. Understand a debate my turn?
Speaker 2: Then No, no, no, no, you didn't even give me
Speaker 2: a chance. You wouldn't shut up.
Speaker 10: I mean, with that, my learned colleagues.
Speaker 7: Hell, oh, for God's sake, you have to wait your
Speaker 7: term to debate. According to Robin's rules of water, you're
Speaker 7: supposed to wait your term, not use their hands. You
Speaker 7: talk about third bed.
Speaker 2: You okay, kye kay, sorry, I'll fix it.
Speaker 3: It's too lay tell Boggs, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: It's too late. You're up to the bait and team.
Speaker 7: He says, you have nothing to contribute.
Speaker 11: Oh so fuck y'all, Well shout, I'll I'll try sailing. Yeah,
Speaker 11: at least then I can sail out of this jail.
Speaker 3: Once in a while. Wheeler appears from nowhere and stands
Speaker 3: next to slouch.
Speaker 8: Three volunteers to police the parade field.
Speaker 7: You you and you come on, Lieutenant we started eating.
Speaker 1: Take your time.
Speaker 8: You got two minutes or do you want to d five.
Speaker 3: Exterior parade field day Slouch places is barely eating mess
Speaker 3: plate at the foot of a mango tree. Lin Quis
Speaker 3: scurries down from his perch in the tree and scarves
Speaker 3: up the remains. Slouch joined Bbop and Lishinski, who are
Speaker 3: police in the parade field in the heat of the
Speaker 3: midday sun. Lieutenant Wheeler oversees the operation.
Speaker 1: Sein fuegos. It's on the south coast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, before Castro. He used to be Spick Royalty, before
Speaker 7: they popped his old man. Really, Oh yeah, he hit
Speaker 7: a show for and everything.
Speaker 2: Slouch, you looked right by that piece of paper.
Speaker 7: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Wheeler stabs a loose piece of paper with his
Speaker 3: sword and exhibits it for the others.
Speaker 9: So what are you doing here?
Speaker 12: A friend of my father got me to Miami. Solato Kubano,
Speaker 12: he says, be a soldier, honor your family, defend your name.
Speaker 12: Someday soon we'll take back our country.
Speaker 9: I wanted to come here.
Speaker 7: What you volunteered?
Speaker 9: I like the brochure.
Speaker 13: No way, we just trying to get out of this place.
Speaker 13: I mean, I've been trying to get out for eight years,
Speaker 13: and you volunteered.
Speaker 3: At this place.
Speaker 9: Sure doesn't look like the brochure. It sucks.
Speaker 7: He volunteered.
Speaker 9: How long do you do you think it'll take me
Speaker 9: to get some rank?
Speaker 7: It takes at least a year.
Speaker 1: But you got a special problem.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, there ain't gonna be no next year.
Speaker 7: See that.
Speaker 3: He points to the high rise construction going on near
Speaker 3: the north border of the school.
Speaker 1: This time next year ain't gonna be a school. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a retirement village.
Speaker 9: I just got here.
Speaker 12: This place is an old army m of the old man, obsolete.
Speaker 12: They only lease it to Barnes. Yeah, and they're gonna
Speaker 12: take their shit backs in. I mean Barnes, he knows
Speaker 12: any chance to save in this place.
Speaker 3: How do you guys know?
Speaker 1: So damn much obvious even to Torrisa.
Speaker 9: They let me sign up here knowing that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, he still needs all the sucker cash
Speaker 13: he can get. And you're a first class win. I
Speaker 13: mean you volunteered.
Speaker 3: The Shitski turns and punches Slouch squarely in the mouth.
Speaker 3: Slouch is quick to retaliate with the flurry of punches
Speaker 3: of his own. BeBot merely stands and watches the action.
Speaker 3: Wheeler sees the fight.
Speaker 9: And drops his Hey, break it up.
Speaker 3: He rushes into the fray.
Speaker 12: Let them not have an out, Lieutenant, I said, break
Speaker 12: it up.
Speaker 3: Wheeler jumps in anyway, he catches a stray fist from
Speaker 3: Slouch on his nose. Slouch stops fighting and comes to Wheeler.
Speaker 9: Damn it, Wheeler, I'm sorry, my news I did, Lieutenant.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: That's indeed too.
Speaker 2: Don't you walk away from me?
Speaker 3: Honking off camera. Another angle, exterior gateway, we see Sally Barnes,
Speaker 3: a pert seventeen, the colonel's prodigal daughter, seated in a
Speaker 3: dilapidated Volkswagon bus, blaring the horn. Her path is blocked
Speaker 3: by the gate barrier. The young cadet in charge of
Speaker 3: gatekeeping is walking away.
Speaker 8: Open the damn the gates.
Speaker 2: Do you know who my father is?
Speaker 7: Sorry, man, I gotta go check with the office.
Speaker 3: Sally throws it in first gear and slams the Volts
Speaker 3: through the flimsy barrier. She drives across the parade field,
Speaker 3: nearly run down Leshinsky, and comes to a stop in
Speaker 3: front of the colonel's house. The boys cannot take their
Speaker 3: eyes off this whirlwind as she gets out of the
Speaker 3: jeep and storms onto the porch.
Speaker 12: The deserter's back reporting for duty, Sir, No excuse.
Speaker 3: Sir, as she kicks the screen door open and does
Speaker 3: Inside interior Barnes House, Barnes is seated in his living
Speaker 3: room chair, frantically trying to remove and hide his oxygen
Speaker 3: mask attached to a large metal bottle. Norico enters from
Speaker 3: the kitchen. She takes one look at Sally, starts to
Speaker 3: speak and darts out the door.
Speaker 9: You two guys still banging your nurse.
Speaker 15: That mouth? I you like your mother?
Speaker 9: So where can I put my stuff?
Speaker 3: Where do you think? Nods to a bedroom door. Sally
Speaker 3: goes to the door, looks in on the empty room
Speaker 3: she left long ago, a teddy bear on the striped cot,
Speaker 3: and on the desk, an old picture of her mom,
Speaker 3: Dad and Patterson raise in their beers, and a toast
Speaker 3: dissolved to interior. English class day. The boys are seated
Speaker 3: in Captain Sheldon Curry's English class, slouch and slows standing
Speaker 3: at the head of the class, are reading aloud from Shakespeare,
Speaker 3: but it sounds like really bad Long Island dinner. Peter.
Speaker 12: I'll not fight with thee, then yield the coward and
Speaker 12: live to be the showing days.
Speaker 7: Of the time.
Speaker 3: The class cheers Slouch.
Speaker 12: I will not yield to kiss the ground before young
Speaker 12: Malcolm's feet, though Burnham would become to dunsinane.
Speaker 3: Slouch mugs for the class before my body.
Speaker 2: I throw my warlock sealed layl McDuff and dan be
Speaker 2: him that first cries Hold enough.
Speaker 3: With a quick thrust, Slouch grabs Sollow by the throat
Speaker 3: and they wrestle each other to the floor.
Speaker 7: As you were God damn it exert fighting of the rooms.
Speaker 3: There is a rousing cheer from Slouch's victory.
Speaker 2: Oh, boys, boys, that's a D two Slouch.
Speaker 7: The rooms are sweet for us.
Speaker 3: Captain Curry hopelessly tries to pull the boys apart. Now
Speaker 3: be seated solo finally slams Slouch into his seat.
Speaker 7: We will read remained it from our seats, But sir
Speaker 7: it says, I got a renenter with his head.
Speaker 3: Shakespeare is fun Interior a company Barracks day. Here's the
Speaker 3: beginning of the recreation period. The boys are standing in
Speaker 3: front of their lockers, and each is changing into jim
Speaker 3: trunks and exercise togs. Slouch is sitting on his bunk
Speaker 3: and watching Sea Cow ands trucks.
Speaker 7: Leshinski, you fold up her socks, then flipped them like this.
Speaker 7: He stole them with the slit ups like this.
Speaker 13: Your underwear has to be folded three ways like this, Seacow,
Speaker 13: come here a minute.
Speaker 3: Sea Cow waddles over to the locker.
Speaker 7: I want you to inspect my locker. You nuts.
Speaker 3: Slouch opens his locker room with a finger. A small
Speaker 3: picture about Achelly's birth of Venus is taped to his door.
Speaker 3: He pulls a box of butterfingers andy bars from the
Speaker 3: folded socks.
Speaker 7: I'll let you confiscate them if you'll forget, say, tendemerites.
Speaker 12: Maybe I'd just better confiscate them anyway, Saja Sallo.
Speaker 3: Saul turns toward the sound of the yell Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: He flips through the pages of his clipboard. San Fondino.
Speaker 3: Here we are see cow hands, Slouch demerit slip. Slouch
Speaker 3: wads up the slip and pops it in his mouth
Speaker 3: and choose it. See cow pockets, the chocolate bars.
Speaker 7: Hey, you got an activity? No better stick with us.
Speaker 7: Why try sailing.
Speaker 3: Sure Exterior lagoon day, It is more like a large pond.
Speaker 3: The boys are dressed in their short pants and sneakers
Speaker 3: in the red and white of the school. There are
Speaker 3: two boys to each of the small sailing dinghies, and
Speaker 3: they circle the inside of the lagoon. On one side
Speaker 3: of a narrow canal leading out into Biscayne Bay are
Speaker 3: three ancient munitions bunkers. Lashinski and Bebop occupy one of
Speaker 3: the boats. Addison and Bear occupy the lead boat.
Speaker 10: Hard Graves come about Bova tighted up on that line.
Speaker 3: There Patterson is standing up in the bow of what
Speaker 3: is apparently the lead boat. The sail is a brilliant
Speaker 3: red with the eagle of the school emblem and blazoned
Speaker 3: in gold on the face of it.
Speaker 10: Hooper spill some wind out of that sail.
Speaker 3: Pay attention man Exterior Munitions Bunker Day. Slouch is hovering
Speaker 3: around the door of the far munition's bunker and fiddling
Speaker 3: with the lock. He inserts a key into the rusted
Speaker 3: lock and prize it open. He enters Interior Munition's bunker Day.
Speaker 3: There are rows of wooden olive drab crates containing M
Speaker 3: one rifles, grenades, thirty caliber ammunition and crates marked explosives.
Speaker 3: Slouch flicks his Zippo lighter, illuminating a case marked danger
Speaker 3: high Explosives. Slouch pries open a wooden case and takes
Speaker 3: out of bazooka exterior lagoon. Day.
Speaker 18: Now, we'll take him out single file and form the
Speaker 18: tri angular pattern we practice. When the last man, that's
Speaker 18: you Comb's boat number ten eisendoff. Turn that radio off
Speaker 18: and listen for my command. When the last sailing craft
Speaker 18: passes through the channel. You wait for my command to
Speaker 18: assume the triangular formation.
Speaker 3: Exterior boat, Doc Day. Slouch is running along the boat
Speaker 3: dock with the Berzuka broken down and wrapped with a
Speaker 3: life jacket. He makes a running leap off and talk
Speaker 3: into the boat with b Bob at the.
Speaker 11: Helm, San Fardino, what the hell are you doing a
Speaker 11: life jacket for the man?
Speaker 3: Sir Lashinsky is looking wide eyed at the Berzuoka in
Speaker 3: the bilge.
Speaker 10: What are three men doing in a two man sailing craft.
Speaker 7: We'll be fine, sir. Get that man up to the bow.
Speaker 3: Lashinsky is puzzled as to what to do. He sits
Speaker 3: in the bow. The bow convats Patterson wheels to Bear
Speaker 3: to see what he has said?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: As Patterson turns, the boove of the boat comes about
Speaker 3: and smacks him in the nose. Doc Oh, Patterson wipes
Speaker 3: the blood from his nose with his handkerchief.
Speaker 7: Can we be of any assistance, sir?
Speaker 3: Patterson is not hearing. He's holding his nose and glaring
Speaker 3: at Bear.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sir, I was just coming about. Didn't you
Speaker 2: hear me say coming about?
Speaker 9: Sir?
Speaker 10: Watch the lead boat, listen for my command. All right,
Speaker 10: move out.
Speaker 3: Lishinsky is still staring down at the Bezuko lying in
Speaker 3: the boat. Jesus Hard Graves, in bow of his boat,
Speaker 3: plays the sloop John b on a banjo as the
Speaker 3: tiny craft spread their way through the channel and out
Speaker 3: into Biscayne Bay. Exterior sailboat Biscayne Bay Day music over.
Speaker 9: If you guys got plans, you can just you can
Speaker 9: just drop me off on the dock too.
Speaker 8: Eight.
Speaker 7: You're in or you're dead? What are you?
Speaker 3: Chicken?
Speaker 8: Shit?
Speaker 7: Now and get up in the bow.
Speaker 3: Lishinsky hesitates a moment.
Speaker 7: The front and keep your eyes open.
Speaker 3: Lishinsky moved to the bow.
Speaker 7: I heads up ready attacked starboard.
Speaker 3: Our Graves plays the diggy comes about and Slouch and bebop,
Speaker 3: shift to the opposite side, shift to starboard.
Speaker 9: Come on, man, maybe I should like write some of
Speaker 9: this down.
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
Speaker 7: The Captain's a care of us, right.
Speaker 3: Captain Slouch ignores it.
Speaker 1: You know it's all about to see him and the commander.
Speaker 7: Oh, wind bags, don't knock the old man. He done
Speaker 7: his part. She never had a torpedo up your ass. Torpedo, yes,
Speaker 7: Samuel B. Roberts, motherfucker.
Speaker 13: Lazy golf, then Navy Special Forces or Cebe's or something.
Speaker 7: I can never get it straight.
Speaker 13: Purple heart's a lot of salad, big hero go, paying
Speaker 13: attention to his yell and just breaking the wind hell.
Speaker 13: I was Wheeler's age when I got here, and he
Speaker 13: was the only one who didn't give a shit. I
Speaker 13: didn't have no old lady cry over my ass when
Speaker 13: I was dumped here.
Speaker 1: Slouch is motherless a bird shit him out over Fort Laudergal.
Speaker 7: Yeah, at least be moderate hucking in Havana. And you
Speaker 7: don't want me to get started on your hand, do you?
Speaker 7: What are you?
Speaker 1: My historian?
Speaker 7: You like my aunt, but she's not too crazy about bedweathers.
Speaker 7: My lunch with those perfect hits fat Limmen.
Speaker 3: Two seconds, Sloush lifts the end of the bazooka and
Speaker 3: points it in Bebob's face. Click then at Lashinsky Click.
Speaker 3: Exterior Biscayne Bay Day. Another angle. A small motor launch
Speaker 3: lies more into an anchor buoy in a quiet part
Speaker 3: of the bay. Exterior sailboat, Biscayne Bay Day. There the
Speaker 3: sailboat heads for the launch and comes about to lie
Speaker 3: dead in the wind.
Speaker 10: Hola.
Speaker 3: A beautiful Cuban girl has been sunning herself in the
Speaker 3: bottom of the boat. She raises her head and peeks
Speaker 3: out from under her sunglasses. She is Anita Taurus Olah.
Speaker 7: Louder bigger you're calling there out there o lah bigger
Speaker 7: Olalla Anita katom key.
Speaker 3: The other one.
Speaker 7: Alistakabo kind of a lot come in.
Speaker 4: That's my.
Speaker 3: Slouch takes the bozuka from the bottom of the sailboat
Speaker 3: and hands it over to Anita.
Speaker 13: And you tell them I'm as good as my word
Speaker 13: tall rule. There's a lot more where this came from.
Speaker 13: We can pull our own weight.
Speaker 3: Anita nods to Slouch and starts the engine of the launch.
Speaker 3: She winks coyly at Lishinsky. She ribs the engine and
Speaker 3: peels away.
Speaker 7: Hey, you tell your uncle kind of sin. You tell
Speaker 7: them we got the juados.
Speaker 3: Cut to interior a company barracks. Night Slouch and Lishinski
Speaker 3: are sitting on the bottom bunks, spits, shining their shoes.
Speaker 3: It is study all time. Some of the boys are
Speaker 3: sitting at their fold out desks doing their homework. How's
Speaker 3: this come on?
Speaker 7: You got a long way to go. Hey, they gotta
Speaker 7: look like this.
Speaker 3: He shows Lishinski his boot like mears he watched them.
Speaker 3: Slouch lights a match to his wax can to heat
Speaker 3: the polish. Another angle. Bear is reading a paperback Clear
Speaker 3: Winter war Brides allowed to Trencher and others. Sergeant Sawlow
Speaker 3: is patrolling the length of the barrack, slapping a fly
Speaker 3: swatter at snoozing cadet.
Speaker 7: Slowly, he reached out and grabbed the back of her dress.
Speaker 7: She moaned.
Speaker 10: He moaned.
Speaker 11: The cataclysmic surges of earth and time stood still.
Speaker 3: Saw smacks them on top of the head with a
Speaker 3: fly swadow.
Speaker 2: No stroke books, This is time to study, Bear, Try
Speaker 2: and find something that won't dissipate you so much.
Speaker 3: Another ankle see cow Hamley is opening a Valentine present.
Speaker 3: The card reads, thinking of you with love from Mommy
Speaker 3: and Dad. Sea Cow shakes his package.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a whitland Semper.
Speaker 3: Trencher grabs a package from sea Cow and shakes it vigorously.
Speaker 3: See Cow grabs it back from him and rips open.
Speaker 1: The cuvering writing payper tough luck.
Speaker 3: Another angle. Roger Coombs is leaning forward with his head
Speaker 3: buried inside his locker. He is holding a crumpled letter
Speaker 3: in his left hand, transistor radio in his The radio
Speaker 3: is silent, put an ear plug and coombs his ear.
Speaker 3: He is crying, we can hear the sounds of the
Speaker 3: song raindrops coming from his radio earplug. He is staring
Speaker 3: at a crumpled picture of a girl lying on the
Speaker 3: bottom of his locker.
Speaker 8: Bitch.
Speaker 3: Another angle, Hey.
Speaker 1: Where's buffa with a hooch? I thought we were going
Speaker 1: to have a Valentine's party.
Speaker 3: He'll be here. Lieutenant Wheeler comes to the front door,
Speaker 3: followed by his ever present sword Parricks.
Speaker 8: Turn as you were happy Valentine's Day, gentlemen, Lishinsky Crow
Speaker 8: Once you come with me.
Speaker 3: Lashinski gets up from his shoes, shining, and moves to
Speaker 3: follow Wheeler out.
Speaker 1: Save us a look.
Speaker 3: End of BacT one Yeah