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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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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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