Big Jim McLain Page #6

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Pick me up at my place.

I'm sorry, Nancy. This woman has

some information on Nomaka.

You'll have to have dinner alone.

Not necessarily.

Just because I'm not dining with you

doesn't mean I have to eat alone.

Especially while you're out

with a beautiful blonde.

A bag.

Oh, quick switch.

Give me a description.

Oh, she doesn't look like

anything in particular.

Listen to the trained investigator

who remembers every detail.

Now, just a minute.

Suppose you come home late some night

and give me some mysterious story

about how you're on top-secret business

and you can't tell me for security reasons.

Oh, I don't think I'm going to like

being married to an investigator.

Me, I'm gonna like you

being married to an investigator.

Good-bye.

Bye.

I hope you appreciate the fact that

I'm showing you the charm of our island.

But since this is the first time

you're over here,

I thought I ought to show you

how we kamaainas live.

I want to show you, 76, it's just wonderful.

You've shown me 18 saloons

I couldn't possibly have found

in Altoona, Pennsylvania

or Lansing, Michigan.

Now, how about giving me that letter?

In due time, 76, in due time.

Take it easy. Relax.

You always get the job done better

if you take it real slow and easy.

You know, over here in Hawaii

we do things much slower

than they do on the mainland.

What's that mean?

Well, it's hard to say in English.

It means to take it easy,

never to get angry at anybody.

Why don't you keep your big fat feet

out of the aisle?

So that's what it means.

Easy living and good manners.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

Now, could we eat?

Oh, not just yet.

One more little drinkie

and then I'll take you

to a real quaint little restaurant.

Don't worry. We'll get everything done.

Just remember...

Take it slow, take it easy.

Oh, let's not order yet.

Bring us another round.

I'm hungry. Supposing we order now

and eat after this round.

Nope. I like to get a little glow before I eat.

Okay.

Why don't you stop playing games

and give me that letter?

Because I like playing games, old 76.

And if I give you the letter,

you might blow,

and the deal was for a dinner.

You think I'm a heel?

Oh, 76, what I think about you

has to be said in the dark.

Give me a quarter.

I gotta phone.

Has the lady decided yet?

On food? No.

I don't think the lady's mind is on food.

I think you're right.

Shall I bring some more drinks?

Not unless we have to.

This is the most perfect evening I've had

since my return

from tour of duty in Guam.

Really?

I mean it. You're so lovely.

No.

You know,

a guy gets pretty tired of brunettes.

- You think so?

- I know so.

Well, hello, Jim.

How do you do?

Badly, thanks.

As long as I introduced you two,

which I'm beginning to think

was a mistake,

I'm entitled to make a speech.

It concerns the Navy.

When I was a Marine, the Navy kept

putting me on boats and taking me places.

My bunk was always too short.

The Navy would take me to an island

someplace, put me on a beach

where a lot of angry people

would start shooting at me.

And when the shooting died down,

the Navy would put me back on a boat

where the bunk was too short,

and take me to another island,

where more people would shoot at me.

Now, during this I became very annoyed

with the Navy, but I kept my temper.

I did not strike even one sailor.

However, there is a limit to my patience.

And if I have any more trouble

with the Navy, you are nominated.

Shall we dance?

Oh, yes, let's. The music is divine.

Hey, what's the idea of table hopping?

When a gentleman's out with me,

I don't go for no table hopping from him.

You're my date tonight,

and don't you forget it.

You men are all alike.

You see a good-Iooking dame

and there you are.

- Let's eat.

- Let's have one more round.

- Steak and potatoes.

- Please?

Sliced tomatoes.

Listen, if I give you the letter now,

can we have one more round?

Yeah. Another round.

Nomaka must have wrote it

to these people in Japan,

and they didn't live at that address,

so it came back.

- You opened this?

- Well, sure.

The postal authorities get very peevish

about people opening other people's mail.

There's a law.

So? I'm a woman, and women are curious.

Didn't do you much good.

No. It's written in Japanese.

So here you are.

So, sure. So here I am.

I knew it. It come to me just like a dream.

I was just passing the buoy

off of Diamond Head,

and it come to me

just like I was in a transom.

And I says to myself,

"She had that look in her eye."

So I gives the rudder a full turn

and brings my good old garbage scow

back to the wharf.

- Please, not so loud.

- Blow, bud.

I'll probably lose my contract.

For 20 years,

I've been living up to my contract.

For 20 years I've been hauling

Honolulu's garbage out to sea.

My reputation, right down the drain.

Go down the drain with it.

It's like I was stabbed

right through the heart.

You maybe will be.

You must keep quiet.

Don't waste time. Call the bouncers.

I want to fight.

All right, I will.

My name is McLain. I can explain this.

Yeah, your name will be mud

if you wanna step out

in the parking lot with me.

I don't. It's been delightful

knowing you two lovebirds.

Oh, yellow, huh?

Very.

Get him out of here.

Well, at least I've still got one pleasure

left in life.

Don't twist that thumb so hard.

You'll break it again.

So long, 76.

Why didn't you bring your friends over?

They seemed charming.

Yes, she's a Sunday School teacher,

and he has something to do

with transportation.

As a hobby, he bites silver dollars in half.

So nice that you could join us again

for just a minute.

I'm looking forward to

seeing you again sometime.

You know, Clint is one of the bright boys

of Naval Intelligence.

Expert on Asiatic languages.

He reads, writes and speaks Japanese.

And fifteen dialects of Chinese.

Also Tibetan, Manchu, Siamese,

and six or eight others

which modesty forbids me to mention.

Translate this.

You bring it in to the office first thing

in the morning, and I'll be glad to.

Thank you. That I will.

And I'll tell Admiral Clay that it's probably

some clue to a naval sabotage,

that you wanted me to wait until morning.

Ouch.

The music is divine. Shall we dance?

Pretty smug, huh?

Sure, I'm smug. The greatest girl

in the world's stuck on me.

Mr. McLain?

I asked you to come out here today

because I thought you could be

of some assistance to us.

Well, I had hopes

it'd be the other way around.

We're a security agency, Mr. McLain,

and I think you've stumbled onto

something that concerns us.

This Nomaka was mixed up

in a sabotage operation

involving a U.S. Naval vessel.

One of the crew members who was killed

was a boyhood friend of Nomaka's,

and they swore some brotherhood

in a Shinto shrine.

We know when, where, and how

this sabotage occurred,

but we don't know exactly

how many others are involved in it.

And, well, we're still working.

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