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Act 2 scene 6 7 8
Cable: You wait to that basted Brackett hears about this he will jump out of his skin.
Emile: I would like to see such a jump.
Military music
What's that? What's that?
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That's was nothing sir
- Sounded like someone trying to send a message.
- Sounded like code.
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that was not code sir. It was the tin roof, it's metal cooling off at night.
Oh.
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Sir if you would like to go back to your office, I'll let you know as soon as....
- No, no.
- I don't want to add to your problems.
- I'll stay right here.
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Yes sir.
- We ought to be getting a message now.
- We ought to be getting a message, that's all.
- They'd had time to land and establish some sort of observation post by now.
- Don't you think.
- Oh!
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Harbison: Captain Brackett
- Yeah, what is it?
- What is it?
- Don't interrupt me now Bill,
- I'm very busy.
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Harbision: It's about this Seabee out her sir, Billis....
Billis's act this morning cost the Navy over six hundred thousand dollars!
- Six hundred..
- By god I'm going to chew hat guys ass.
- Send him in here!
- Let me know the moment you get any word.
- No matter what I'm doing.
- You just break right in.
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Yes sir!
Harbision: Get in there!.
Captain Brackett, this is Lt Buss Adams who flow the mission.
Adams: Captain
H'ya Adams.
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Pointing at Billis
- One man like you in an outfit is like a rotten apple in a barrel.
- Just what did you feel like,
- sitting down there in that little rubber boat,
- in the middle of the Empress Augusta Bay,
- with the whole dame Navy Air Force trying to rescue you?
- And how the hell did you fall out of a Catalina anyway?
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Billis: Well sir, the Jap anti-aircraft busted a hole in the side of a plane and I fell through, the wind just sucked me out.
- So I'm to understand that you deliberately hid in the baggage of a plane that you knew was taking off on a very dangerous mission.
- You had nerve enough to that all right.
- Then the moment an anti-aircraft gun hit the plane, you fell out.
- The wind just sucked you out, you and your little parachute.
- I don't think you fell our Billis, I think you jumped out.
- Which did you do>
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Billis: Well sir it was sort of half and half. get the picture.
This is one of the most humiliating things that ever happened to me.
Adams, when did you discover he was on the plane?
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Well sir.....There must have been 55 to 60 plans.
Billis 62
- You're not far off Adams.
- Harbison tells me this thing cost the Navy about six hundred thousand dollars.
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Billis: Six hundred thousand dol....
What the hell you so happy about?
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Billis: I was thinking about my uncle...
lousy slot machines. Can you imagine a guy..
- Why the hell did you do this anyway Billis?
- What would make a man like you do a thing like this?
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Well sir a fellow has to keep moving you know you kind of held in. If you're itching to take a trip to pick up a few souvenirs you got to kind o horn in.. Get the picture
How did you know about it?
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Billis: I didn't know about it exactly ....
Harbision....by god Captain Brackett and I are going to throw it at you.
Adam:...While the Japs were busy ...depositing the Frenchman and Jo behind the rocks.
- What the hell you want me to do,
- Pin a medal on this guy?
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Billis: I don't want a medal..
If you know what I mean.
Get the picture.
- Get out of here.
- Get out of here.
- Get the hell out of here.
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Billis: Yes sir.
Well Iron Belly, what would you have done?
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Harbision: I'd had thrown him in the brig....
Radio: messages
Adams: We'll ne going out in waves/
You know what I like Bill?
Projects, don't you?
(Blackout)
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