American Pastime Page #4

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- Kazuo, what he's trying to say is--

- Emi.

I just want a chance for this.

- I know that I haven't been--

- No booze.

Yeah, yeah, okay.

No gambling.

All right.

No seeing that girl.

What?

What does she have to do

with anything?

Everyone in camp knows.

Everyone is talking.

I don't care what they say.

I say.

No hakujin.

Kaz, it could be a chance for him.

Quiet.

Lyle. Lyle.

If your father won't let you play

on his team...

...there are other teams to play for.

- You can--

- You tell my son to turn his back on me?

No.

Next batter.

All right.

What you get? What you get?

Give me one, bro.

Strike one.

Come on, brother.

You need some glasses.

Strike.

- Give me another one.

- Never could stand Hawaiian music.

Well, you know da kine jazz?

Give me one big headache, bro.

- Foul ball.

- Jeez.

- It was a long strike.

- You know aloha means "hello," yeah?

What you get? What you get?

Okay. All right. All right.

You know, it also means

"I love you," brother.

What you get? What you get?

Hey, doesn't it also mean goodbye?

Aloha.

I had an idea

about when I win the scholarship.

How do you know you're gonna win it?

I'll win it.

But when I get out of here, I was thinking

that you would come with me.

- Come with you?

- Yeah.

I've been thinking about it a lot.

I mean, you're a good musician, Katie.

A really good musician,

but you need to learn more.

You need to play with other people...

...you need to, you know,

get more experience.

Then maybe one day, you know...

...you could play professionally

or you could teach.

Lyle, I'm--

That school is in Delaware.

I've never been outside of Abraham

in my life.

Yeah, but that is the point, Katie.

You've got to get out of Abraham.

There's nothing there.

Delaware has this

really good music department.

And I already got you an application.

We--

I want you to come with me.

Yes.

I will.

Ed, guess what.

Yankees are looking for a catcher.

Dapper Don might be coming down here.

I don't give a sh*t about that.

What's the matter with you?

I always figured Katie and my boy Jackie

would be together someday.

And I even came to think of her

as my own daughter.

Yeah, and?

Now I don't.

You've been seeing some Jap?

What?

You've been seeing some Jap boy?

- Billy, what--?

- Answer the question, Katie.

- No.

- No?

You haven't been

seeing that Jap, Nomura?

No. No, of course not.

Well, what Ed heard is wrong.

I know you wouldn't do that.

I know you would never do

anything like that.

Not to me, not to our family.

Not to the memory of your brother.

I spoke to Director Watson...

...about how to ease tension

between us and the people in town.

We had an idea to have a game...

...between your baseball team

and our Topaz team.

Maybe we have--

No. Nobody on our team

would ever set foot in that camp.

Delivery's running late.

They just called,

said they'll be about 15, 20 minutes.

I got a package to pick up

at the post office.

Take care of their order

when the delivery comes.

A basket for you and your wife.

Thank you, Kaz.

This town is sick to death of you people.

Why don't you go back

where you came from?

I'm from Los Angeles.

No. Get off.

You hungry? Go ahead, eat.

Eat!

Hey! Hey, knock it off!

The hell are you doing out here, Nomura?

Nomura? This that kid?

All right, that's enough.

Break it up. Break it up.

Come here. Break it up!

Everybody, go on. Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Take it home, Ed.

All right. Okay.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- Okay?

- Get him in the jeep.

- No, I'm fine.

- Okay.

- Who told you that one?

- Mary Beth.

We had a little trouble in town today.

One of the prisoners tried to run off.

Run off?

Where are they gonna run to?

- There's nothing around for 300 miles.

- He wasn't trying to escape.

He came into town with us

to get some supplies...

...and then he decided

he'd just wander off...

...and get himself a burger.

That Nomura kid.

What did you do to him?

Me? Nothing.

Couple fellas in town

roughed him up a little bit.

- Excuse me for just a second.

- Sit your ass down.

You're not going back

to that camp, Katie.

Not tomorrow, not the next day.

Not ever.

- What?

- You've been fired from your job.

You try to go back into that camp,

the guards will stop you.

Heard you didn't get the scholarship

because of your injury.

That's too bad.

Things happen. Whatever happens,

we have to deal with it.

Tough luck, kid.

Deal with it.

The Japanese-American

442nd Regimental Combat Team...

...moving up from their battles in Italy

into the Vosges mountains in France...

...fighting in tough terrain

against seasoned German forces...

...trying to rescue a lost battalion

of fellow Americans.

Mission after mission, these stalwart

fighting men are proving themselves...

...bringing honor to themselves

and the nation...

...that is proud to call them citizens.

Hey, Billy.

You know anybody in the Texas 36th?

No, I think Mack knows

a bunch of guys with them.

Well, the Krauts cut them off

up in the Vosges mountains in France.

They got ripped up bad.

None of our other guys

could get up the mountain to help them.

Except for them.

The 442nd, they took 800 casualties...

...to save 211 guys in the 36th.

These guys...

...they're all from Topaz.

Barber says to her, "Sweetheart,

you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie."

She says, "I know.

I'm gonna get boobies too."

Just got off the bus from Phoenix.

On my way to Topaz.

Thought I'd get cleaned up

before seeing my folks.

The back's kind of raggedy...

...so think it could use a trim right now.

Billy gets called up, we're gonna be

missing a pretty big bat next year.

Not gonna be as easy to win

a championship again.

Still, as long as Grover's with us,

you know, we got a good arm there.

I'm kind of in a hurry here.

An MP's picking me up

in a couple minutes.

I don't cut Jap hair.

Lieutenant Nomura.

Corporal Norris, here to pick you up.

At ease.

Welcome back, sir.

Thank you.

Hi, Mom.

Dad.

Lane, we kept everything.

He wanted to show you

how he kept them.

And I was telling him

that he was acting like a librarian.

And the news.

And I really think

that he can still get a new job as a librarian.

Hey. I heard you were back.

Hi, Lyle.

How've you been?

Fine.

I went around to neighbors

and got everything you like.

When Mrs. Watanabe came

with the mochi...

...I thought it was perfect.

I have everything I wanted.

I thought you would've lost more weight.

You'd be like skinny, skinny, skinny.

Now you're gonna have

home cooking again.

Sounds good.

I can't stand it anymore.

I'm doing nothing.

I can't play music, I can't come here.

I'm just stuck in that house

here in Abraham.

I have to do something.

I'm going away.

What?

I am going away...

...on my own.

Where are you going?

I'm going to Delaware. To school.

I got accepted.

No, that wasn't the plan.

You were going there because I was.

I applied because of you, but now it--

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