Across the Pacific

- The court is open.

- Yes, sir.

Captain Leland, this court

has considered your case...

...and reached its conclusions

based on evidence...

...introduced while you were present.

At the close of evidence,

court was closed...

...and by secret ballot, in which

two-thirds of the court concurred...

...the court reached its findings.

Which are, of all specifications

and of all charges, guilty.

Then again, by secret ballot, in which

at least two-thirds of the court concurred...

...the court decided your punishment.

Which is that you be sentenced

to dismissal from United States Army...

...and forfeit all pay and allowances

due or to become due...

...subject to approval

of the reviewing authority.

- Any further business?

- No, sir.

Do I hear a motion for adjournment?

- I move that the court adjourn.

- I second the motion.

Any objections? Apparently not.

The court is adjourned

to meet at the call of the president.

How about a game, fellows?

All right, Hanson.

You and me against Greer and Parsons.

Ill take a cue.

Well, captain...

...anything bothering you?

Used to be a custom in the British army

when a man disgraced his uniform.

Too bad we cant do it.

Come in.

Well, Rick?

An officer shouldnt associate with one

who'ss been dishonorably dismissed.

The regulations say so.

The adjutant gave his permission.

In spite of the evidence,

I just cant believe.

Or if you did do it,

you must have had a reason.

One that you thought was important.

Tell me. Im your friend.

Its all in the testimony.

I could have loaned you the money,

or part of it.

And there were others

who would have been glad.

I just cant believe.

You, of everybody I know.

Yeah, I guess nobody

ever really knows anybody.

What are you going to do, Rick?

Ill probably go up to Canada.

- They need artillerymen there.

- But, Rick...

Well, anyway, good luck.

Thanks.

Goodbye.

Sit down.

I see youre an artilleryman,

Mr. Leland.

What is your experience,

and with what type or ordnance?

All types and calibers of both fixed

and mobile coastal guns...

...including one year

in an antiaircraft battery.

Where were you stationed?

Two years at Fort MacArthur,

one year and eight months, Fort Totten...

...one and two months,

Fort Kamehameha...

...four years in the Panama Canal Zone.

Your full name?

Richard Loomis Leland.

- Richard Leland?

- Thats right, sir.

Im sorry, Mr. Leland,

but I believe at this time...

...we have a full compliment

of coast artillery officers of all ranks.

I thought the Canadian army

needed men of experience.

Oh, regardless of his qualifications,

no one man is indispensable.

Maybe Chiang Kai-shek

wont be so particular.

Im aware neither of the desperation

of the generalissimo'ss needs...

...nor how good

are his sources of information.

Good day, Mr. Leland.

Your baggage checks, Ms. Marlow.

The ship sails from Pier 19.

Sailing time will be midnight,

but passengers be aboard by 11:00, please.

Thank you.

What was that boat

you were talking about?

The Genoa Maru,

sailing tonight for Yokohama...

...by way of New York,

the Panama Canal and Honolulu.

- Its for me.

- Excuse, please?

How much?

To port of final destination, $212.80.

Excuse, please. I cannot promise

passage on the Genoa Maru...

...unless we have cancellation.

However, there is possibility.

If you will leave name and address,

I shall inform you in time before sailing.

- Well, when is the next sailing?

- Next Wednesday.

The Nakimura Maru.

Bigger, more passenger space, same fare.

Well, try to make it Genoa Maru.

Ill be packed and waiting.

We trust we can be satisfactorily

of service, Mr. Leland.

- Good night, Mr. Leland.

- Night.

This is Mr. Leland speaking.

The N.Y.K. steamship office call me?

Youre sure?

Well, thanks.

Yes?

Yeah. Yeah, speaking.

The Genoa Maru it is, eh?

Okay.

You send the tickets over,

and Ill pay the messenger.

Right.

- Passenger?

- Yes.

Bags, should-a be.

- What time do we sail?

- Soon.

Ten minutes or half-hour, should-a be.

Should?

- Leland Richard.

- No, Richard Leland.

Should-a be.

- Bed hard?

- Its very hard.

Should-a be.

My name Sugi.

I think Ill call you "SShould-a Be,"

if you don'tt mind.

Should-a be.

For drink.

Wash hand.

Fan.

For read.

Anything else?

Were going to know each other eventually,

so why not now?

That seems reasonable enough.

Im Alberta Marlow.

My names Rick Leland.

Would you mind

stepping into the light?

Please.

Well, on a Jap freighter too.

Youd better pinch me.

I dont think I know you that well.

A pretty girl on a boat with no college boys,

no handsome officers...

...no eligible men of any description.

Thats wonderful.

Youve traveled a lot?

Some, but never so luxuriously.

This is my first time on a big ship.

Well, this is not a ship.

This is a boat.

In Medicine Hat

we wouldnt know about such things.

That where you come from?

How far you going?

Through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles

and then back home by train.

Vacation?

Ill try to make the trip

as pleasant as possible.

Thank you.

- Good night, Mr. Leland.

- Well, now, dont go.

Lets go into the salon and talk.

Sorry. Hope Ill see you

around again soon.

Well probably bump into each other.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Thick night out.

- Yes, sir.

Cant open the liquor until you get

outside the 12-mile limit?

That is so.

- Silly rule, huh?

- Yes, sir.

- Excuse, please. Yes, sir.

- Yes.

- I presume youre Mr. Leland.

- That'ss right.

Im Dr. Lorenz.

Not much chance of mistaking

ones fellow voyagers on this passage.

Not much.

- May I inquire where youre bound for?

- The Orient.

Excellent. I too.

The Philippines, that is.

I hold the chair of sociology

at the university there.

My man. He doesnt speak English.

That would be T. Oki

of the passenger list?

I take him everywhere.

The Japanese make great servants.

Will this be your first trip

to the Orient?

Never been further than Hawaii.

Indeed? Ive lived and worked

in the Far East going on 30 years.

Oh, thats a long time.

The Oriental way of life

holds a great appeal for me.

Im going to take a turn

about deck before retiring.

- Would you care to join me?

- Thats a good idea.

- Youre an American, are you not?

- Yes.

Then you dont share

my enthusiasm for the Japanese.

I dont know.

Never thought about them.

Wonderful little people. Wonderful.

Greatly misunderstood, believe me.

To know them,

that is...

...to really know them, is to feel

the deepest affection toward them.

I understand we have a charming

young lady passenger aboard.

Yes. A creature

of rare loveliness, doctor.

She walks in beauty.

Im a very, very happy man, but very.

- Usually on a freighter...

- But not this one.

A fellow couldnt do half as well

on a trans-Atlantic liner.

I have no objection

to your discussing me...

...but do you mind doing it farther off?

Im trying to sleep.

Youre fortunate. Fortunate and young.

Occasionally I wish I were young again.

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