PEARL HARBOR

INT.  LOBBY - NIGHT

The other guys drop their duffels with the bell hops; Rafe
moves to the reception desk.

                     RAFE
          McCawley.

The manager hands him a key, and smiles curiously.

                     MANAGER
          Have fun.

INT.  HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT

Rafe enters his room and finds the light on...and Evelyn's
there waiting.

                     RAFE
          What?...

                     EVELYN
          They were bringing back a ship full of
          wounded and needed extra nurses along.  I
          wrote Colonel Doolittle, and told him I
          needed to see you before you go.

                     RAFE
          It must of been a convincing letter.

                     EVELYN
          It was.  I couldn't have you go away,
          wherever it is...to war...without knowing
          something.  You think I made a choice, of
          Danny over you.  I didn't.  I didn't have
          a choice.  I'm pregnant.

The blood drains from Rafe's heart.  Yet he finds the
strength to move to her.  She turns away, so she won't throw
her arms around him.

                     RAFE
          Does Danny know?

She shakes her head, refuses to cry.

                     EVELYN
          I wasn't sure, until the day you turned
          up alive.  I never had a chance to tell
          him.  Now I can't have him thinking about
          this when he needs to be thinking about
          his mission, and how to come back from
          it.

She turns and faces him again.

                     EVELYN
          I want you thinking about that too.  Just
          come back.
               (beat)
          Rafe, I see it in your face.  You're
          thinking you don't have anything to live
          for.  Don't you dare think that way.
          I'll never write a letter, or look at a
          sunset, without thinking of you.  I'll
          love you my whole life.  And I want you
          to live.

She looks at him, her eyes bright with tears, but still she
refuses to cry.  They both know they can't touch, or they'll
never let go.  She walks past him, out of the room, closing
the door softly behind her.

EXT.  SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR - DAY

The USS HORNET clears the Golden Gate Bridge, with cruisers
and destroyers rounding out its battle group.

Rafe and Danny stand on the flight deck, watching the city
recede behind them.

Evelyn is on a hilltop watching them go.  Danny can't see
her, doesn't know she's there.  Rafe can't see her either --
but he knows.

                     SHIP'S INTERCOM
          Army pilots to the briefing room.

INT.  THE CARRIER HORNET - BRIEFING ROOM - DAY

The pilots are gathered expectantly in the carrier's
conference room.  Doolittle strides in.

                     DOOLITTLE
          Gentlemen, I can now tell you that the
          target of this mission is Tokyo.

The pilots love it.  The ones who have not seen battle are
grinning and vocal.  Rafe, Danny, Anthony, and Red are
quieter, savoring the prospect of revenge.

                     RED
          And where's the secret base, Sir?  The
          one we t-takeoff from.

                     DOOLITTLE
          The navy will get us to within 400 miles
          of the Japanese coast.  We'll launch off
          the carriers from there.

Suddenly the pilots don't like the sound of this.

                     ANTHONY
          Sir, has this ever been done, launching
          an army bomber off a navy carrier?

                     DOOLITTLE
          No.  Any other questions?

                     RED
          C-Colonel, we been p-practicing
          takeoff's, but I ain't sure we can land
          on these carriers d-decks.

                     DOOLITTLE
          We won't have the fuel to get back to the
          carriers; they'll turn and run back to
          Hawaii the minute we're airborne.

                     RED
          Then wh-where do we land?

                     DOOLITTLE
          I have a phrase I want you all to
          memorize:  "Lushu hoo megwa fugi."  It
          means "I am an American."  In Chinese.

Absolute silence among the pilots.

EXT.  FLIGHT DECK OF THE HORNET - DAY

The sailors who man the flight deck look at each other with
bafflement as the worried pilots pace from one end of the
deck to the other.  They're in a line like ducks, Rafe in the
lead and the others following, counting steps, each man
measuring the distance.  Shaking their heads, worrying.

They stop at the end and look down at the sea far below them;
it's dizzying.  Anthony shoves Red for fun before grabbing
his shoulder to stop him from falling.

                     RED
          A-a-asshole!... Maybe it's l-longer
          going this way.

He starts pacing back the other way, as if the ship's longer
in that direction.  The other pilots watch him for a moment,
then follow him, counting again.

Rafe and Danny are left standing alone at the end of the
flight deck.  Far over the surging sea.

                     DANNY
          It's shorter than our practice runway.

                     RAFE
          They'll turn the ship into the wind
          before we launch.  That'll help.

                     DANNY
          We'll be loaded with 2,000 pounds of
          bombs and 1,500 pounds of fuel.  I got
          another Chinese phrase for Doolittle.
          "Mug wump rickshaw mushu pork."  It
          means "Who the fuck thought up this
          shit?"

Doolittle appears right beside them.

                     DOOLITTLE
          He was a navy man.

Doolittle walks away.

                     RAFE
          Maybe we'll be lucky with the weather.

                                                    SMASH TO:

EXT.  PACIFIC - A FEROCIOUS STORM - NIGHT

The Hornet tosses, bashed by a vicious storm.

INT.  CARRIER HORNET - BRIEFING ROOM - DAY

The ships is rolling; most of the fliers are green.
Doolittle stands at the podium.

                     DOOLITTLE
          Since we'll be on our own once we're in
          the air, I thought I had a good idea
          letting each crew select it's own target.

He looks at a pile of paper slips in front of him.

                     DOOLITTLE
          Now we have fifteen requests for the
          Emperor's Palace...and one for Tokyo
          baseball stadium.

                     RED
          I d-don't think Japs ought'a be allowed
          to p-play baseball.

                     DOOLITTLE
          I'd like to bomb their Emperor too.  But
          I think that'd just piss 'em off.  The
          idea here, Gentlemen, is not revenge.
          We're here to prove to them that they're
          neither invincible nor superior.  So
          let's try this again.  Military targets
          only.

                     RED
          Colonel, to f-fight you need strategy.
          To have strategy, ya gotta practice.  And
          to practice it, ya gotta play --

                     DOOLITTLE
          No baseball diamonds, Red.

                     RED
          Y-Yes Sir.

EXT.  PACIFIC - DAY

The storm is subsiding, but it's still raining.  From the
bridge of the Hornet, they spot the ENTERPRISE.