PEARL HARBOR

                     DANNY
          Rafe!

INT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Evelyn puts away the calender.

EXT.  MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Rafe is sitting at the bench, his head down.

ANGLE - Evelyn on the path; she sees someone on the bench,
his form hauntingly familiar.  He hears her, and looks up.
It's Rafe.

From Evelyn's POV, the whole world spins.  She faints.

Rafe jumps to catch her before she slams to the ground.  He
gathers her into his arms, and she looks up into his face.
He's real, very real.

                     RAFE
          Evelyn.

She's trembling, shaking.  He lifts her to her feet, and
moves her to the bench.

                     RAFE
          I sent telegrams, I guess the military
          traffic held them up.

                     EVELYN
          Why were you sitting here, instead of...

                     RAFE
          I saw you, I couldn't go in, I...just
          stood there wondering if you knew.  You
          looked...sad, and I had to sit down a
          minute.

                     EVELYN
          How did you?...

                     RAFE
          ...Survive?  I jumped in a patch of fog,
          and nobody could see me.  I hit the water
          hard.  And it was so...cold.

He looks toward the horizon, when the last light of day fades
to black.  There's something he thinks about saying, and
doesn't.  Then...

                     RAFE
          I don't know how long I was in the water.
          A Norwegian freighter picked me up.  They
          were headed to Spain.  They docked in La
          Rota, right beside a German ship, and
          told me to stay hidden below.  I was
          afraid they'd turn me in, so I stole some
          clothes, jumped ship, and found a church,
          where the priest contacted the
          resistance, and got me on a freighter to
          New York.

He looks at her, then looks down again.

                     RAFE
          I called my folks, then Colonel
          Doolittle.  The Colonel sent a man to
          pick me up.  They wanted to debrief me.
          I told the Colonel I needed to see
          somebody first, and he had a supply
          flight heading out in an hour.
               (beat)
          I've done a lot of talking.  You haven't
          said anything.

                     EVELYN
          I'm just...so amazed, so glad to know
          that you're okay.  You are okay, aren't
          you?

                     RAFE
          Nothing that won't heal.  I guess.

At these words, she looks at him for a long, long moment.

                     EVELYN
          It's been...so different, being so sure
          you were dead.

                     RAFE
          I'm so sorry for what you must've gone
          through, but I'm back.

He sees the troubled look on her face.

                     RAFE
          Maybe I've assumed too much.  Has
          something changed?
               (beat)
          I'm afraid to ask what.  And I'm afraid
          not to.
               (beat)
          Have you fallen in love?

She nods; she can't even say it.  Rafe's dying inside.

                     RAFE
          It's all right.  Danny always said I see
          things with my emotions instead of my
          eyes.

                     EVELYN
          It's not your fault, Rafe.  The letter I
          wrote you, they --

                     RAFE
          Don't worry about that.  Guys away from
          home, lonely, good-hearted women try to
          cheer them up.

                     EVELYN
          It's not that I didn't mean everything I
          wrote.  It's just that -- I thought you
          were dead.  And now --

Danny runs up, through the darkness.

                     DANNY
          You're alive!

Rafe and Danny stare at each other; Danny hesitates, looking
from Rafe to Evelyn, wondering what they've said.  Then Rafe
looks at Evelyn, and picks up the look on her face.  In that
moment he puts it all together.

                     RAFE
          Aw, God.  Oh my God.

Danny's speechless, and for a moment Evelyn is too.

                     EVELYN
          Rafe --

He puts up a hand, to silence her, and walks away suddenly.
Evelyn and Danny are left frozen.

EXT.  SHORE OF PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Rafe stares out at the harbor, seeing nothing.  As he stands
there alone and shattered, he has one more

SUBLIMINAL FLASHBACK

Rafe is in the water of the North Sea; he seems dead, but his
makeshift preserver is keeping his face above the surface.
Something slides through the water and stops beside him; it's
a dinghy, and behind it is a trawler.

Hands grab Rafe and drag him onto the dinghy...

In a QUICK CUT, Rafe's body is laid out on the deck of the
trawler.  The crewmen think he's dead.  His body is stiff,
his lips white; and they say so, in Norwegian...

But one of the other crewmen notices a quiver in his eyelid,
then quickly covers Rafe with his on wool peacoat and presses
back an eyelid to see his pupils.  Rafe's white lips move.
The crewmen realize he's trying to say something.

And Rafe does utter something, barely audible; something the
Norwegian crewmen don't understand.

                     RAFE
          Evelyn...

IN THE PRESENT Rafe struggles to bury that memory so far that
he'll never feel it again.

EXT.  NURSES' QUARTERS - NIGHT

Danny escorts Evelyn back to her quarters.

                     DANNY
          Don't worry.  I'll find him.

He hugs her; their embrace earnest yet tingled with guilt,
and Danny leave quickly.  Betty steps out of the nurses'
quarters and hands Evelyn a telegram.

                     BETTY
          This came while you were gone.

Evelyn knows it's the telegram from Rafe, to tell her he's
alive.  Without opening it, she begins to cry, and hurries
away from the barracks so the other nurses won't see.

EXT.  HICKAM FIELD - NIGHT

Danny crosses the tarmac toward the clustered P-40's.  He
spots what he's looking for.  Sitting in the cockpit of one
of the P-40's is Rafe.  Rafe won't look at him.  Danny climbs
up on the wing, and sits down there.

                     DANNY
          You'd always go sit in a plane whenever
          you were upset.

                     RAFE
          Upset?  Why should I be upset?

                     DANNY
          Let's go get a drink.  Unless you're
          scared to talk about it.

CLOSE - A Mai-Tai volcano clunks onto a table.

INT.  FUNKY OAHU BAR - DAY

                     DANNY
          Drink up.  Then we'll talk.

Rafe takes the challenge, and takes a long pull on one of the
straws.  Red, Anthony, Billy, and several others enter the
bar.

                     ANTHONY
          Rafe?!

They rush the table...

INT.  FUNKY OAHU BAR - LATER

They're all drinking, and the whole bar is rocking.  Rafe
uses glasses to show his buddies tactics.

                     RAFE
          They'll go under you because their planes
          are faster, then they run so you can't
          catch 'em.  But then they'll come around
          and take you from behind -- like some
          Americans will.

The last words bring the group to silence.  The other guys
drift away, to give them room.

                     RAFE
          Sorry.

                     DANNY
          Why be sorry?  That's what you feel, it's
          better to come out with it.

                     RAFE
          I didn't mean it.

                     DANNY
          Sure you did.  So come on.  Say what you
          think.

                     RAFE
          Waitress!  Four beers!

                     DANNY
          You don't wanna put beer over mai-tai.

                     RAFE
          If you can't keep up, don't drink yours.

The waitress delivers four bottles to the table.  Rafe takes
a slow sip, then stares at Danny.

                     RAFE
          We gotta face some facts here.

                     DANNY
          What facts are those?

                     RAFE
          I understand how it could happen.  I know
          why any guy would love her.  And I can't
          blame you that it happened.  You thought
          I was dead, she was grieving, you were
          trying to help her.

                     DANNY
          I was grieving too.

                     RAFE
          Yeah, right.  Anyway, you didn't know.

                     DANNY
          So what are you saying?

                     RAFE
          I'm saying now you do know.  So it's time
          for you to fuck off.

                     DANNY
          You left her.  How's that for a fact?

                     RAFE
          How's this for a fact?  I loved her
          first.

Danny takes a long pull of beer, and Rafe does the same.

                     DANNY
          You know, you're a lousy drinker.
          Drinking's supposed to make men feel
          bigger.  It only makes you stupid.  And
          weak.

Rafe nods thoughtfully, and sets down his beer.

                     RAFE
          How's this?

BAM!  He knocks Danny out of the chair, flat on his ass.
Danny backhands the blood from the corner of his mouth.

                     DANNY
          You want it, you got it.

He kicks Rafe in the back of the knee, then mule kicks him in
the chest as he goes down, and the fight is on.

The bar's bouncer, a big Samoan, moves over to break them up
-- but Anthony steps in his way.

                     ANTHONY
          Let 'em fight, they need it.

The bouncer tosses Anthony aside, but before he can move in
to interrupt the fight, Red breaks a lava volcano of Mai-Tai
over the bouncer's skull.  The bartender picks up the phone
to call the M.P.'s.

Rafe and Danny are exchanging punches in the middle of the
room.  Sailors sitting at the bar have swung around on their
stools to watch the action.  The other pilots are wincing
with the punches their friends exchange, and bobbing and
weaving as if in the fight themselves.  A SAILOR tapes Billy.

                     SAILOR
          Is this a private fight or can anybody
          jump in?

Billy hits him.  The whole bar erupts.

Rafe and Danny are really having at it, fueled by so much
emotion that nothing hurts.  They're on the floor now, trying
to rip each other apart.  They struggle to their feet and
Rafe manages to knee Danny in the balls.  Danny doubles over
in pain.

                     RAFE
          That hurt?  I didn't think you had any
          balls.

Without looking up, Danny lunges at Rafe, tackling him around
the waist, driving him at the wall.

But they don't hit the wall; they tumble through the back
window of the bar -- not covered in glass, but fronds and
wood -- and out into the back alley.

They're lying there in the debris when they see the M.P.
jeeps coming.  They drag each other to their feet, and run
away.

EXT.  PACIFIC OCEAN - NIGHT

The Japanese task force rumbles through the night, the bows
of the great ships blasting through the crashing waves.

INT.  AIRCRAFT CARRIER AKAGI - NIGHT

Yamamoto's flagship.  The clock reaches midnight, and a
sailor tears off it's calender.  It's December 7, 1941.

                     YAMAMOTO
          The submarines will be reaching the
          harbor soon.  I hope they don't set off
          the alarm too soon.

EXT.  PACIFIC OCEAN - NEAR PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

An American destroyer, the SELFRIDGE, leads a squadron of
destroyers on patrol, near the entrance of Pearl Harbor.
LOOKOUTS on the bridge think they spot something.

INT.  CONTROL ROOM - DESTROYER SELFRIDGE - NIGHT

The WATCH OFFICER listens to a report on his headset and
turns to the CAPTAIN.

                     WATCH OFFICER
          Captain, lookouts report a sighting, two
          points off the starboard beam.

The sonar operator looks up and nods.

                     SELFRIDGE CAPTAIN
          How big?

                     SONAR OPERATOR
          ...I've lost it.

                     SELFRIDGE CAPTAIN
          Probably a blackfish.  I've seen them
          look like subs.

EXT.  PACIFIC OCEAN - NEAR PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT

Another destroyer, the RALPH TALBOT, cruises behind the
Selfridge.  On it's bridge, the DUTY OFFICER speaks to the
CAPTAIN.

                     DUTY OFFICER
          Sir, Selfridge reports a contact, then
          lost it.  Now our sonar reports the
          contact.

The Captain looks toward the Selfridge, then trains his
binoculars on the water were the Duty Officer points.  He
sees something dark and black slipping along beneath the
surface.  He gets onto his intercom.

                     CAPTAIN OF THE RALPH TALBOT
          Radio room!  Raise the Selfridge.  Tell
          the Squadron Commander we have spotted a
          sub and request permission to depth
          charge.

He looks again at the black shape, passing a few hundred
yards from them.

                     CAPTAIN OF THE RALPH TALBOT
          We're five miles from Pearl Harbor and
          it's moving in from the open sea.
          Prepare to move to attack speed.

The INTERCOM comes alive.

                     INTERCOM
          Sir, the Squadron Commander on Selfridge
          denies permission.