♪♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Captain Jack Turner?
Yes sir.
It's an honor to meet you, son.
Sorry this couldn't wait until you healed up,
but we follow procedure very carefully
on this type of thing.
Please, sit.
Well I... I understand.
Good.
Jack,
we need to debrief you
on the events that recently occurred.
Everything that happened.
No detail is too small.
I want you to know that
President Roosevelt personally commends you
and all of Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders.
As you know, after Pearl Harbor, bombing Tokyo
became of paramount importance to the President.
You guys really pulled it off.
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Thank you.
How many... how many of us made it back?
Before we get into that, Captain Turner,
it's important that we hear your side of the story,
exactly as it happened.
Particularly, your experience on the ground in China.
Who helped you and how did you get out of there.
What about the girl?
The girl will be fine.
Ok.
Well. We started off
with an unexpected launch off the Hornet.
Sixteen B-25's all crammed onto a flattop,
seven hundred miles off the coast of Japan...
Is this a drill, Sir?
Ain't no drill, Jack.
We've been compromised by a Jap patrol boat.
It's now or never.
We're four hours from the take-off zone!
We don't have the gas!
If we get a tail wind from Japan,
we'll make it to China.
Now get on board, son,
and Godspeed.
(AIRPLANE ENGINE TURNING OVER)
(ENGINES RUMBLING)
Pilot to Crew, comms check.
Navigator to Pilot. Copy?
Alright, Copy, Navigator.
Gunner to Pilot. Copy?
I got you, Stevie.
Bombardier to Pilot, copy?
JACK: Alright. Copy that.
Brace yourselves, boys, this is it.
MONROE: What the hell's he waiting for?!
Swell's gotta rise. Slingshot us out.
- We're too heavy! - We're good!
- Jack! - We are good! Flaps down!
(ENGINES REVVING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
♪♪
(DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING)
(WATER GURGLING)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN CHINESE)
(TAPPING)
(WOOD CREAKING)
(AIRPLANE ENGINES RUMBLING)
There's Tokyo!
Pilot to Bombardier, one minute from first target.
Copy that, Captain.
Open your bomb bay doors, Ben.
Opening bomb doors, Captain.
(METALLIC SCRAPING)
Gunner to Pilot, fighter ten o'clock and diving!
JACK: Less talking, more shooting, Stevie!
(GUNFIRE)
I got him! I got him!
JACK: Good Boy!
(AIRPLANE ENGINE WHOOSHING)
There's our target One, Asahi Electrical.
BOMBS AWAY!
(EXPLOSION)
Direct hit!
(MONROE WHOOPING)
Yokoyama warehouse, dead ahead.
Bombs away!
(EXPLOSIONS)
It's a bulls eye. Bombs away!
(EXPLOSIONS)
Just the incendiary, then we're out of here!
Coming up on Mitsubishi aircraft works.
Give 'em hell, Bennie.
Bombs away!
(EXPLOSIONS)
Everyone got a pulse?
A-okay, Captain!
STEVIE: It's the Fourth of July down there, Captain!
Why don't you set us a course for China, Mannie?
Yes, sir.
JACK: Get us on the Chungking Express.
(HISSING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
♪♪
(THUNDER RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
(ENGINES RUMBLING)
(HISSING)
Starboard engine's sucking way too much gas.
This headwind ain't helping either.
Hey Stevie, you definitely emptied
every single one of those cans?
STEVIE: All of them, Captain.
Ok, well, dump 'em... and any ammo you got left.
You, too, Ben. Come on, go, go, go!
Mannie, how far away are we from Quzhou airfield?
Six-zero minutes, Captain.
Then we'll make it...
Land ahoy!
(THUNDER RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(RAIN FALLING)
(PHONE HANGING UP)
(ENGINES RUMBLING)
OK, guys, prepare for landing! This may get rough.
What's going on?! What the hell are they doing?
You see the runway?
I don't see a damn thing!
What are we going to do, Jack?
Plan B.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(HISSING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(RAIN FALLING)
(WATER DROPLETS LANDING IN BUCKET)
(WATER DROPLETS LANDING IN BOWL)
(SIGHS)
Okay, just like we practiced, everybody.
Get your chutes on and prepare to bail out of the plane.
(ENGINES RUMBLING)
Alright. Go on, get your asses down to the hatch!
(AIRPLANE RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
(ENGINE STALLING)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
- Jack? - Gotta do this manually now.
Get out with the others, Mannie.
Tell them to jump, right now!
Right goddamn now! That's an order, soldier!
Go, go! Jump!
(ENGINE RUMBLING, WIND WHISTLING)
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
(ENGINE STALLING)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(WHOOSHING)
(PARACHUTE DEPLOYING)
(WHOOSHING)
(EXPLOSION)
(RAIN FALLING)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(WOOD CREAKING)
(SIGHS)
(DUCK QUACKING, DOG BARKING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(THUDDING)
(AIRPLANE ENGINE RUMBLING)
(RAIN FALLING)
(GROANING)
(ENGINE RUMBLING, BRAKES SQUEAKING)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(INSECTS CHITTERING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(GASPING)
(SLAP)
(GASPS, WHIMPERING)
(GUNSHOT, GASPING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(WOODEN DOOR GROANING)
(WATER GURGLING)
(BANGING, INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN CHINESE)
(DOG BARKING)
(RAIN FALLING)
(RAIN POURING)
(WATER DRIPPING INTO BOWL)
(NUNU SLURPING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(GASPING)
(WOOD CLATTERING)
(SOBBING)
Hey!
Wait. Wait!
No. Do you speak English?
Do you speak English?
Doctor?
Do you know what a doctor is?
(SIGHS)
(STREAM BURBLING)
♪♪
(INSECTS CHITTERING)
What is it?
The Japanese?
Are the Japanese coming?
OK, OK!
(DOOR CREAKING CLOSED)
(WOODEN DOOR GROANING)
(CHICKEN SQUAWKING)
(COW MOOING)
(DOOR CREAKING OPEN)
(DOOR CLOSING AND LOCKING)
(LIQUID SLOSHING)
(DOORS OPENING, DOGS BARKING)
(LIQUID POURING)
(GROANING)
I need to find my crew.
They bailed out with me...
you understand... you understand what I am saying...
you know what I mean...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN CHINESE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN JAPANESE)
(CRICKET CHIRPING)
(KNOCKING)
(DOOR UNLOCKING, OPENING)
(DOOR CREAKING OPEN)
(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)
(BOWL CLATTERING)
(RAIN POURING)
(WATER DRIPPING)
(KNOCKING)
(DOG BARKING)
(WOODEN DOOR GROANING)
Hey!
(GROANING)
(WATER SLOSHING)
(SLURPING)
Thank you.
Nunu?
Jack.
I am Jack,
Jack. Nunu, Jack.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah.
(WHISTLING "YANKEE DOODLE")
(SLURPING)
That was... that was good, thank you.
There were... there were five of us,
that's a plane.
That's me... that's Jack.
I need to find my other four... my crew.
Do you know?
They've been captured?
The Japanese have captured them?
You know... do you know where they are?
Do you know where they are?
You don't... You don't know what I am saying.
(SIGHS)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(DOG BARKING)
(WATER DRIPPING)
(WOOD CREAKING)
(DOOR CREAKING OPEN)
(WATER SLOSHING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, STREAM BURBLING)
(GASPING)
Sorry.
You want me to go back down there?
Alright.
Come back with someone who can help me, OK?
Chungking, I've got to get to Chungking.
Chungking?
Yeah, yeah, Chungking.
(BUMPING AND SCRAPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN JAPANESE)
(DUCKS QUACKING, THUDDING)
(SIGHS)
Come on, Jim, what the hell are you doing?
(SIGHS)
Screw it.
(OBJECTS CLATTERING AND THUDDING)
(BICYCLE BELL RINGING)
(TILE SCRAPING)
No, I'm just... I am fixing the roof.
Alright.
I am coming. Okay.
Alright.
I watched for twenty minutes, there is nobody around.
I am sorry.
I was just trying to fix the roof, OK?
I am sorry!
I am not going back down there. OK?
I can't breathe down there. I can't breathe.
No! No! No!
No, no!
Why am I even still here, OK?
Why haven't you brought anybody yet?
I don't even know what the hell is going on.
I need to get out of here!
♪♪
I had no right to speak to you like that.
This is your house.
You've done nothing but help me
and all I did was act like an ass!
I... I will go downstairs, OK?
I go downstairs.
(GRUNTING)
(RAIN FALLING)
(DUCK QUACKING)
(CHUCKLING)
(CLEARING THROAT)
(SCOFFS)
♪♪
(SNIFFLING)
(SOBBING)
(WHISTLING)
Jack?
(DOOR CREAKING OPEN)
(DOOR CREAKS CLOSED, LOCKS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(CHOPPING)
(WHISTLING "YANKEE DOODLE")
Hey, you in there hiding?
(WHISTLING "YANKEE DOODLE")
Try it.
C'mon, you can do better than that.
(WHISTLING)
(NUNU WHISTLING)
Ah, you did it!
You got it.
(CLAPPING)
(WHISTLING "YANKEE DOODLE")
(NUNU WHISTLING)
(KNOCKING)
(DOOR UNLOCKS, CREAKS OPEN)
JACK: One, Two, Three,
Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten. One!
- One. - One.
Two.
NUNU: Two.
JACK: Three.
Three.
(GIGGLING)
This is great...
thank you.
(RAIN POURING)
I know you guys can't understand me right now.
But, I just want to say thank you, you know.
Thank you.
And this is the best duck I've ever had too, by the way.
Really good.
♪♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(WOOD CREAKING)
(KNOCKING)
(DOOR UNLOCKS, CREAKS OPEN)
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
(DOORS CREAK CLOSED)
(SOBBING)
(SLAPPING)
(THUDDING, GRUNTING)
(WHIMPERING, CRYING)
(SCREAMING)
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
(GUNSHOT)
(GASPING, SOBBING)
(SNIFFLING)
(CLATTERING)
YingYou OK?
Are you OK?
Look, Shh... Shhhhh... be quiet.
Ying, listen, listen, pull yourself together, OK?
We're in a lot of trouble right now.
We need to move him down here right now, OK?
OK? C'mon!
(CLATTERING)
(THUDDING)
(KIDS PLAYING)
(NUNU WHISTLING "YANKEE DOODLE")
(KNOCKING)
(DOOR UNLOCKS, CREAKS OPEN)
♪♪
American,
if you are here,
I am your friend,
I can help you.
Sit down and put your hands where I can see them.
Come on in, lock the door.
JACK: I told you to sit down!
- Okay. - JACK: Sit the hell down!
Who are you?
I am Nunu's teacher.
I work for guerrillas.
How do I know you're not with the Japanese?
I can help you.
I can get a boat to take you upriver to safety.
Yeah, but where?
Chungking.
Chungking?
- Yes. - Chungking?
Yes!
How far is this river?
Behind the mountain...
half day walk.
JACK: My leg is going to slow us down.
We will carry you.
Wait, wait.
(BICYCLE CREAKING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING, RAIN POURING)
(OARS SPLASHING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(DOOR UNLOCKING, CREAKING OPEN)
(DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(PANTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(DOORS CREAKING OPEN)
(DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)
C'mon. C'mon.
American, get in the chair!
(DOGS BARKING)
(AIRPLANE ENGINE RUMBLING)
(GUNFIRE)
(AIRPLANE ENGINE REVVING)
(COCKS PISTOL, GUNFIRE)
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(EXPLOSION)
(DOGS BARKING)
♪♪
(GUNSHOT)
- (GUNSHOT) - (DOG WHIMPERING)
(GUNFIRE)
Get down!
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Get down!
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(RIFLE CLICKS EMPTY)
(HISSING)
(SWORD SCRAPING SHEATH)
(EXPLOSION)
(GUNSHOT)
Ying!!!
(NUNU SOBBING)
(SIGHING)
(FOOTSTEPS)
(NUNU SOBBING)
(OAR SPLASHING)
JACK: We arrived at some town.
I can't remember the name.
The locals handed Nunu and I over
to the Chinese Nationalist Army.
They tried to separate us.
They tried.
I brought her with me.
Same thing happened in Chungking. So...
It's why she's here with me now.
What about the others?
We're still missing a dozen men.
(AIRPLANE ENGINES RUMBLING)
PITWELL: Thank you, Captain Turner.
That will be all.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- After you, sir. - Thank you.
Jack,
I think you're ready to face the world again.
How are you, sir? I'll be damned!
I'm good, good.
I believe they didn't have to chop off your leg.
Yeah, they patched it up pretty good.
I'm glad to hear that, cause I got plans for you, son.
And what's your name, pretty one?
Say hi.
Sit, Jack. We got to do some talking.
Alright.
Lt. Sheng here has briefed me on all you went through.
You were lucky to get out alive, son.
I know, I know.
We lost a lot of good men there...
But their sacrifice was worth it.
She also told me you want to adopt this little girl.
Yeah, Nunu.
You can't do it, Jack.
You see, you're going back into action soon.
I'm starting a new unit... sub hunting...
and I'm going to need you there.
With all due respect, sir,
she's lost everything she has.
Jack, there's a war going on...
you can't be doing two things at the same time.
The social welfare people have found
a nice Chinese couple willing to adopt her.
They live out east... in Los Angeles.
I checked up on them.
They're good people.
They'll bring her up better than her mother could've wished for.
I can't just... leave her.
(SIGHS)
Jack, you have to.
Hey... you be good, alright?
They're going to take good care of you. And......
(SOBBING QUIETLY)
They're going to take real good care of you. Alright?
♪♪
Jack, there's a bunch of press people
waiting for you down the hall here.
You gotta go out there and be a hero.
I will leave you alone for a minute.
(DOOR OPENS)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
- (APPLAUSE) - (CAMERAS CLICKING)
♪♪
JACK: Dear Nunu,
It's been too long, much too long.
Funny how life passes.
It spins around, and before you can take it all into account,
you've lived a lifetime.
Fifty years have gone by since we first met
and not a day of that goes by
that I don't think about your mother.
I guess you know I fell in love with her
and often wonder what my life could've been
with her and with you.
My own life will soon becoming to a finish
and I want you to know before I go
that your mother did not die in vain.
She died a hero of the Chinese People.
With Love and Respect, Jack.
♪♪
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