PEARL HARBOR

                     ADMIRAL
          So they pop out and attack where?

                     VICE ADMIRAL
          That's the problem, Admiral.  They could
          hit anywhere they want.

Nobody has any solution.

EXT.  PACIFIC OCEAN - DAY

A huge Japanese fleet steams toward Hawaii.  It is an awesome
sight.  Carriers, battleships, destroyers, and entire battle
group, traveling under complete radio silence, their hulls
power through the waves.  On the lower decks of the carriers
are hundreds of planes -- fighters and bombers.

EXT.  PEARL HARBOR - DAY

The American ships are lined up at anchor, calm, placid.

EXT.  BEACH - DAY

The sailors and soldiers bask in the sun, play volleyball.

The aircraft carrier Lexington steams past toward the harbor
entrance.

                     VOLLEYBALL PLAYER 1
          Where's the Lexington going?

                     VOLLEYBALL PLAYER 2
          Out on maneuvers, like the Enterprise.

EXT.  GOLF COURSES - OAHU - DAY

Men in military haircuts -- officers -- stroll the golf
courses, enjoying themselves.

INT.  DENTIST'S OFFICE - DAY

The DENTIST, an ethnic Japanese, is working on a patient with
his mouth agape.  The DENTIST ASSISTANT intrudes.

                     DENTAL ASSISTANT
          Dr. Takanawa, you have a call from Tokyo.

                     DENTIST
          Please excuse me.  Just relax.

Leaving his patient with a mouth full of instruments, the
Dentist moves to his outer office, which looks directly out
over Pearl Harbor.  He speaks in Japanese.

                     DENTIST
          Takanawa... Yes?...

He seems confused by the call, but he responds by looking out
over the harbor, then saying into the receiver --

                     DENTIST
          Yes, they are all...no wait, I see the
          big one moving.  The one that's flat on
          top, what do they call it?...

INT.  SURVEILLANCE BASE - DAY

Some tired Army Intelligence types -- A LISTENER, a TRACKER,
and an INTELLIGENCE SUPERVISOR, are sitting at a bank of
phones.  The LISTENER is a Japanese-American.

                     LISTENER
          Here's something, over the line from
          Tokyo.

He switches on the recording equipment and looks to the
TRACER, sitting at a battery of equipment.

                     TRACER
          It's connected to a local dentist.  His
          office is beside Pearl Harbor.

                     INTELLIGENCE SUPERVISOR
          This dentist, is he a spy?

                     LISTENER
          Sounds too innocent.  His accent is from
          the old country.  Somebody official-
          sounding calls, he thinks it's
          discourteous not to respond.

INT.  BARBER SHOP - DAY

Admiral Kimmel is settling into the barber chair when his
AIDE enters and nods for the barber to move a few paces away,
so that he can speak privately.

                     AIDE
          Sir, we just had an intelligence
          intercept.  Someone from Tokyo called a
          local dentist whose office looks over
          Pearl.  They wanted to know the exact
          location of the ships.

                     ADMIRAL KIMMEL
          Someone from Tokyo asks a dentist how the
          ships are sitting... What are we supposed
          to do about that?

                     AIDE
          I...don't know, Sir.  But it just seemed
          significant.

                     ADMIRAL KIMMEL
          Have intelligence keep monitoring him.

The Admiral sinks back into the chair.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - DAY

A young amateur PHOTOGRAPHER, about 16, wearing a hat with
"PICTURES OF PARADISE" printed on it's crown is ready to snap
a shot of Evelyn and her nurse friends having a picnic lunch
on the lawn outside the hospital.

                     PHOTOGRAPHER
          Closer, ladies!  Closer!  Now smile!...
          Great!  Next week I'll show you a print
          and you can order your Pictures of
          Paradise!

He hustles off.  Betty hands out picnic baskets.

                     BETTY
          Barbara, here's yours...and Evelyn, here
          you are.

Evelyn opens her basket, and finds a lei of Hawaiian flowers
stuffed in the top.  Betty scoots over and puts the flowers
around Evelyn's neck.

                     BETTY
          It's been a month and you haven't smiled.
          We just want you to know we love you.

Evelyn's touched -- but before she can react two P-40's zoom
out of the skies, wings clipping the tops of the palm trees
as they blast over head.

INT.  COCKPIT'S OF THE P-40'S - DAY

Danny and Anthony are the pilots; as they pull up and away,
they pass over some officers on the golf course, scaring the
shit out of them as they putt.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - DAY

The nurses have sprawled to the ground; now even Evelyn is
smiling.

                     BARBARA
          What is it with nurses and pilots?

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - EVENING

Evelyn walks out of the hospital.  She's still wearing her
lei.  The sun is going down in a spectacular sunset.

She stares at the orange glow at the edge of the world.  She
breathes in the sea air, and tries to breathe out the
sadness.  The water of the harbor laps close to where she
stands, the sunset polishing its surface.

She takes the lei from her neck, plucks a single flower, and
holds it like the rose Rafe once gave her.  Then she tosses
the rest of the lei into the ocean and watches it float away,
as the sun sinks behind the horizon.

INT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Evelyn finds her purse, and tucks the flower into it.  She's
alone in the hospital, everyone else has gone; she turns her
mind toward work, something to lose herself in.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE - NEAR THE PILOTS' BARRACKS - DAY

Danny is walking toward the barracks when a COLONEL hopping
mad, confronts him.

                     COLONEL
          You're Walker, right?

                     DANNY
          Yes Sir.

                     COLONEL
          That was a nice little stunt you pulled,
          buzzing the base.

                     DANNY
          You liked that?

                     COLONEL
          Oh yeah.  I liked it so much I'm cutting
          you out of the squadron.

                     DANNY
          Sir?

                     COLONEL
          I don't buy that hot dog shit.  So you
          and your buddies are gonna transfer your
          planes up to Haleiwa.

                     DANNY
          Hale-what?

                     COLONEL
          You'll love it.  No base, no bars, just
          lots of sun and aircraft maintenance.

                     DANNY
          Sir, I --

                     COLONEL
          Too late for apologies, Walker.

                     DANNY
          I wasn't gonna apologize, Sir.  I was
          just gonna say it was worth it to feel
          like a real pilot again, even if it was
          only for five seconds.

The Colonel glares at him and stalks away.

INT.  BASE CANTEEN - NIGHT

Danny and Evelyn are having coffee at the base canteen.

                     DANNY
          How's everything?

                     EVELYN
          We got some soldiers in traction from a
          jeep accident, but it's quiet.  Except
          for the occasional fighter plane buzzing
          us.

                     DANNY
          That might not have been such a good
          idea.  They're making us fly out of a
          half-paved airfield.  The real punishment
          is that I won't be back to the barracks
          till it's too late for dinner or coffee.
          So I guess it's goodbye for awhile.

                     EVELYN
          I was just thinking that war is a series
          of goodbyes.  Do you think that's why
          we're meeting.  To help us say goodbye to
          Rafe?

                     DANNY
          I swore not to talk about him tonight,
          but there's all this stuff I think I
          ought to tell you, that he didn't get a
          chance to.  Rafe was...he was lonely.  He
          had such high expectations of himself
          that he always felt empty.  The week he
          met you he told me he felt his heart had
          always lived in winter, and for the first
          time in his life he has seen the spring.

He's been lost in his own thoughts of Rafe; now he notices
the tears welling up in her eyes.

                     DANNY
          Sorry.

                     EVELYN
          He told me he didn't want to leave me
          with regret.  Now that's all I have.

                     DANNY
          Hey, have you seen Pearl Harbor at night?

                     EVELYN
          Well...sure.

                     DANNY
          From the air?

EXT.  HALEIWA AIR FIELD - NIGHT

A P-40 takes off from the remote airfield, lit only by the
full moon.

INT.  P-40 - NIGHT

Evelyn sits on Danny's lap, like Rafe sat in his Daddy's lap
years before.  Danny flies easily, the cockpit open, his arms
slipped under hers.

The sky above them is startlingly clear; a billion stars
dancing around a full moon.

                     EVELYN
          So beautiful!

                     DANNY
          Hang on.

He spins the plane in an easy half turn, inverting their
heads above Pearl Harbor, gorgeous in the moonlight, the
battleships aglow, the moon reflected in the peaceful water,
embraced by the island of Oahu.

EXT.  HALEIWA AIR FIELD - NIGHT

The P-40 soars easily in and settles to earth.  Danny shuts
down the engine.  Danny carefully removes the harness around
her.  She looks overhead.  The stars are still bright above
them.

                     EVELYN
          I didn't realize until tonight that I've
          stopped wanting to live.

She turns in his lap, and looks at him.  Their eyes connect.
Tentatively, almost reluctantly, they kiss.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

The POV of someone moving through the gathering darkness
approaches the hospital.

The lights from within the hospital, and the pristine white
beds beneath those lights, give the place a kind of glow,
where Evelyn moves alone and beautiful, like a ballerina in a
giant's jewel box.

Now we see the shoulders of the figure, from behind, and can
tell that it is a man in uniform, but at first we can't tell
who.  He's standing dead still, transfixed in watching Evelyn
through the windows.

INT.  BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Evelyn moves to her desk, and sits down.  She looks at the
calender turning back to October, where she wrote on the
square of October 22, "Order supplies" -- she counts the
weeks from then to today, December 6.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

We see the full figure of the man watching her.  And now we
see his face.  It is Rafe.

His left hand is bandaged, but he is very much alive --
though seeing Evelyn has taken his breath, and even seems to
have robbed him of the power to move.  His eyes pick up every
detail of her -- her face...her hands.

And as Rafe watches Evelyn, he has the SUDDEN JOLTS OF
SUBLIMINAL FLASHBACKS...punctuated by fragments of the letter
she wrote to him, and INTERCUT with Rafe in the present,
watching Evelyn.

                     EVELYN'S VOICE
          Dearest Rafe --

IN SUBLIMINAL FLASHBACK, RAFE'S SPITFIRE, crippled and
trailing smoke, passing through a patch of cloud as Rafe
hurls himself from the cockpit and jerks the ripcord of his
chute.

IN THE PRESENT...Rafe's face winces with the memory, and he
rivets his eyes on Evelyn, as if to force himself to know
that this moment is real.

SUBLIMINAL FLASHBACK...RAFE LANDS IN THE WATER, and the shock
of its coldness travels up his body faster than his body
sinks into the water.  He's cloaked in the fog; his
parachute, pushed by the wind, is pulling him along face
down.  He fights with the straps, flips himself over, and
pulls the release...

But he's still in desperate trouble; in his flying clothes,
his heavy leather jacket soaking with sea-water, he's going
down; his body sinks beneath the surface...

                     EVELYN'S VOICE
          ...Every sunset...

IN THE PRESENT, Rafe's chest trembles... Is it from the
memory of the frozen water, from the emotion of seeing Evelyn
again -- or both?

SUBLIMINAL FLASHBACKS -- Below the surface of the North Sea,
Rafe's body drifts, but he fights his way back up...he kicks
off his shoes, sheds the jacket, strips off his pants and
starts tying the cuffs into knots.

Then, in a CUT, he is floating in the water, his pants turned
into a makeshift life preserver, his body shaking
convulsively from the cold.

Then in another CUT we see him after he's been in the water
for so long that his body no longer trembles; he's lost
consciousness.  He has no strength, no will to live... His
face settles into the water...his body slips from his
preserver, and drifts beneath the surface...

                     EVELYN'S VOICE
          ...gather it's heat into my heart, and
          send it to you...

IN FLASHBACK, Rafe beneath the surface... His eyes come open.
From his POV beneath the water, he sees something above the
surface.  It's only in his mind, but that makes it no less
real...an orange glow, the warmth of the sunset, and her face
above the surface... His limbs come to life, and he fights
his way up, breaking the surface.  The whole sea around him
is dark and empty, but he grabs his makeshift preserver and
holds on for dear life...and for Evelyn.

IN THE PRESENT Rafe stares through the window, at Evelyn, but
he can't go in.  He backs away from the window.

INT.  PILOT'S BARRACKS - NIGHT

A Japanese-American MESSAGE BOY parks his motorbike outside
and enters the barracks.

                     MESSAGE BOY
          Daniel Walker?...

Danny rises from his bunk and accepts the telegram.  As the
message boy leaves, Danny reads... The news he learns stuns
him...

EXT.  BENCH - OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Rafe is still lost in thought.  He hears steps running up --
and sees Danny -- who spots him at the same moment.