Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

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.