PEARL HARBOR

Rafe's head snaps forward, crunched with the butt of a rifle;
a Japanese patrol, four men, have arrived.  They're angry,
scared, hyped.  They knock Red down too, yelling and
brandishing their rifles at the fliers on the beach, living
and dead.

The Japanese officer is barking orders.  They find the
Captain's insignia on Danny's jacket, and begin binding him
to a yoke, his wrists tied to the wood like a crucifixion, a
wire around his neck.  They find the navigator unconscious,
but alive.  The officer snaps a single word and a soldier
shoots the navigator.

The others wire Rafe's ankles together... Rafe is
emotionless.

RAFE'S CONSCIOUSNESS fades in and out.  He hears Danny
choking, and his mind sees Danny as a boy those long years
ago, being carried by the neck across the field by his
father...

Then Rafe sees THE PRESENT:  Danny being half-carried, half-
dragged by the neck by two Japanese.  The officer is pulling
Red along, hands bound behind him.  And Rafe starts moving,
being dragged on his back, pulled by his feet along the rocky
sand.

His hand slides by the pistol he tossed behind the rock.

The whole world slows down.

He clutches it, shoots one of the men towing Danny.  And as
the man dragging Rafe turns around, Rafe shoots him in the
face.

The officer spins, raising his rifle; the soldier pulling
Red, shoves him onto his face in the sand and aims his rifle
too.  The officer is pulling the trigger to kill Rafe when
Danny slams him down from behind.

The fourth soldier shoots Danny in the gut, then takes aim
for Rafe's heart -- and is shot through the chest from
behind.

The Japanese officers rises in surprise and is cut down by
scythes carried by the Chinese peasant soldiers who are just
arriving.

Rafe struggles to Danny, moving the Chinese aside.  Danny
lies on his back, clutching his wound as if to hold onto his
life.

                     RAFE
          Danny...

                     DANNY
          I can't make it.

                     RAFE
          Yes you can.

But Danny is silent, his eyes drifting shut, and in that
moment Rafe thinks he is gone already.  Then Danny's eyes
drift open, finding him.

                     DANNY
          Take care of Evelyn.

The words almost kill Rafe, filling him with grief.  From
somewhere he finds the strength to say --

                     RAFE
          I will.  And your baby.
               (beat)
          You're gonna be a father.

Did Danny hear?  His eyes are closed again.  But his head
comes up; Rafe takes it, and Danny pulls him closer to
whisper --

                     DANNY
          No.  You are.

Rafe cradles Danny in his arms.  Danny's eyes are open, but
Rafe sees no light there.

                     RAFE
          Danny... Land of the free... Land of the
          free...

But Danny will never answer him again.  Rafe hugs Danny
tight, and weeps.

EXT.  VARIOUS SHOTS - DAY

The news of the raid hits Washington...and the rest of
America.  If it isn't wild celebration; when people see the
headline:  AIR RAID ON TOKYO, and DOOLITTLE DOES MUCH; their
faces change, as if finally told what they already knew --
that America would prevail.

                     VOICE OVER
          The Doolittle Raid was the pivotal moment
          of America's war with Japan.  Before it,
          America knew nothing but defeat; after
          it, nothing but victory.
               (beat)
          One crew of Doolittle's raiders made it to
          Vladivostok, Russia, where they were
          interred for much of the war.  Thirteen
          planes crash landed in China, where the
          Chinese people helped the Americans
          escape, and had their villages destroyed
          and citizens executed by the Japanese
          forces of occupation.  Two crews were
          captured by the Japanese and three fliers
          were executed without trial, called "war
          criminals" by the Japanese.  Jimmy
          Doolittle was promoted to General, and
          given the medal of honor.

We see the ceremony at the White House, as Roosevelt presents
Doolittle with the metal.

EXT.  TENNESSEE - DAY

Out by the crop dusting landing field is a memorial to Danny
Walker, with an American flag flying high above it.  Standing
at the memorial are Rafe and Evelyn.  Rafe holds a child in
his arms, a boy, named Danny.

                                                    FADE OUT.

                          THE END