Operation Pacific Page #2

We're going back to contact exploders.

Maybe we can get a few hits now.

Here is our patrol report.

Yes?

Sister Anna is leaving

and wants to say goodbye.

Go ahead.

Duke, you brought them aboard.

You take the bow.

Bows we take together.

'Bye.

-We've been looking for you.

-Commander Gifford.

We've been wondering what to say

after "thank you"?

-Leave it at that.

-It's been a pleasure to have you aboard.

Tonight in chapel,

I know the words will come to me.

I seem to think better

when I'm kneeling. Goodbye.

-What's the matter?

-Oh, nothing!

Don't you think we better get below with

the braid?

Just a minute. I'll be right back.

I'm sorry, Nurse. I thought she was...

I thought you were somebody else.

I beg your pardon.

Think you knew her?

There was a nurse in Darwin and l....

We better get below.

-Do you want to have them all crying?

-No, I was--

-Where's your mask?

-Mask?

Over your nose.

You're breathing germs on them.

-Where's yours?

-Are you the baby's father?

-No.

-You shouldn't be here. Leave.

Wait. I carried that baby through jungles,

helped deliver him.

All right. Now he's delivered.

As for the rest of it, may I remind you,

that this is not the jungle! Good day.

How do you like that?

All I wanted to do was say hello to Butch

and she comes charging in.

I suppose you don't you like Butch

for a name.

I suppose I love it. I knew a Butch.

-It's still there, huh?

-What?

-That old zing.

-Of course it's still there, you big ape.

-What do you think had happened to it?

-Those things you said at the trial....

Do you think anybody ever tells

the real reason for a divorce at the trial?

What was the real reason?

Just now when I kissed you, well,

that's where we were four years ago.

I'm proud of you. Where did you train?

General Hospital, Durham.

What did the gentleman

from North Carolina say?

Dad was all for it.

I told him it was sort of a penance.

You felt like you should do penance?

I felt like one of us should.

Penance.

I've been numb for four years

trying to figure what happened to us.

We had something,

but I guess I kicked it around.

Why don't we pick up the pieces

and start over?

-What time do you get out?

-6:
30.

At 6:
30, you pick up your hat, coat, stick

and gloves and we'll go out on the town.

-Wine?

-Wine, of course.

-Remember that little hotel?

-The waiter asked about you.

You too?

After dinner we'll dance awhile

and then we'll sneak away. I know--

-I've got a date.

-Break it.

I can't. It's with Bob Perry.

You ought to remember him.

Little Bobby Perry? Pop's kid brother?

-Why do you think he's such a kid?

-I used to pat him on the head.

-Seen him recently?

-No.

Next time you pat him on the head,

let me know. I want to be there.

-I will take care of that later. Now about--

-Duke, I've got a date.

It's all right, Commander.

This is my headache.

I could never marry a submariner.

I like to sleep with the windows open.

-Mr. Caldwell is doing all right.

-He sure is.

Tasty. Special?

I promised somebody I'd buy wine tonight.

Here we go.

Say, whatever happened to that...

kid brother of yours?

Bob? You'd never know him, Duke.

What a great big,

good-looking guy he turned out to be.

And what he does to those gals.

He's sure got all the glamour in our family.

-Good evening. For two, please.

-Right this way.

Look, Bob. It's Pop and Duke.

You remember Bob,

or don't you recognize him?

Yes. Fly-fly boy.

We got that cruiser for you.

If you run into any more good targets,

just let us know.

-We'll take care of them.

-Don't say anything.

We can never hope for any glory

like they get.

You realize that? We can do things

you pigboat boys can never do.

You sure can. For instance...

there's no record of a submarine ever

sinking one of our own planes by mistake.

-All right.

-Sit down, the wine's good.

Duke's buying.

We'd like to, but Mary Stuart and l

were just about to dance.

It's a funny thing, but Mary Stuart

and I were just about to dance.

What do you say, sugar?

It's a very funny thing,

but I was just going to ask Pop to dance.

Excuse us.

What's the matter, Cupid?

I read your wire.

Have you been seeing a lot of Bob?

So we're level, like always?

-Like always, Pop.

-Good.

I think you and Duke belong together.

I don't know what's keeping you apart.

I'd hate to think you were using

my kid brother to solve your problem.

Why didn't I meet you first?

Tell me about yourself. Pop hasn't

given me a rundown for quite a while.

I'm a big disappointment to my brother.

When I decided against that Navy career,

I stabbed him.

-What did you want to be?

-What do you mean, "want to be"?

I am an architect. I build things.

You can't build much from 10,000 feet

with a load of bombs.

There's a war on.

You know, Duke, I've always envied you.

When I was a high school senior,

an All-City Tackle...

you ran 92 yards for touchdown

to beat Army.

When I got to Stanford...

and won the UCLA game

with a home run in the ninth inning...

the papers were full of you and the raising

of that sunken sub. Remember?

400 dives on that job. I made 10 of them.

I know, but you're the guy

they talked about.

And then when I joined up,

got my picture in the hometown paper...

they crowded me off in a corner

with a story about what a hero you were...

at the bombing of Cavite.

And now, here we go again.

-Aren't you dramatizing this thing a little?

-No.

It's different this time.

You're not the hero, you're the sucker.

Any man who would let Mary Stuart

get away from him is a sucker.

I see what you mean.

But, as the fella says:

"Like the Isis of Alexander,

I was once Alexander."

I'm not sure I get that.

But just to keep the record straight...

Mary Stuart and I are going to be married.

-You told her that?

-Several times.

What did she say?

She didn't say no.

Excuse me.

-Cutting in, Captain.

-Sure, Duke.

You look wonderful tonight.

I've always liked--

The kid says he asked you to marry him.

How about it?

I had no idea it was so late.

-I want to explain a little situation to you.

-All right.

-Will you get me back before curfew?

-I sure will.

-Excuse me.

-Good night, Pop.

Good night, Duke.

Thanks for the wine.

Big night for you.

Yes.

I enjoyed it.

He must be a nice guy.

Pop wouldn't like him and

you wouldn't have married him.

So how is it with us? Still the same?

I wonder if it's ever still the same

when a girl meets her ex-husband.

I see what you mean.

I'll call you tomorrow.

Please do.

You're still the softest-walking man

I ever heard.

-Kid says he asked you to marry him.

-That's right.

-Are you gonna do it?

-I don't know.

He wants to go someplace

where they never heard of the Navy.

And that appeals to you?

His idea is to fly back to Wichita, Kansas.

Start walking inland with a pair of oars.

When we get to where somebody says:

"What's that you've got

on your shoulders?" That's it.

Just tell me one thing.

When you kiss him,

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