Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

Just what significance the hour set may have we do not know, but be on alert accordingly."

The irony is bitter in his throat.

EXT. JAPANESE EMBASSY - OAHU - DAY The Honolulu police roar up to the embassy in squad cars, and burst through the doors.

INT. JAPANESE EMBASSY - OAHU - DAY The police storm through the embassy and find the Japanese there burning documents.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - AFTERMATH - DAY Divers are going down, trying to save the trapped men. But the tangle of the Arizona is horrific. One diver gets trapped, and another tries to extricate him, and the steel shifts and falls on them both.

ON THE DECK OF BOMB-SHATTERED BATTLESHIP, a naval CAPTAIN oversees rescue efforts. The 17-year-old sailor he sent off for ammo now approaches him, with great concern.

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAILOR Sir, I...I lost the dinghy.

The captain looks out over the wreckage, great battleships devastated in every direction.

CAPTAIN:

Well, son, we won't worry about the dinghy today.

EXT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT Danny and Rafe arrive at the hospital. Their fears of what they might find aren't helped when they see the stairs into the hospital covered in blood.

INT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT Rafe and Danny enter. It's a scene from hell. Doctors are doing amputations in the hallway. The once-pristine hospital is now all red, with blood dripping through the mattresses, onto the floor... In the main ward, Evelyn and the other nurses are using the fly sprayers to spritz cooling antiseptic on the charred bodies. Evelyn looks up and sees both Rafe and Danny. Her eyes register relief, but they are the only part of her that can show emotion now; the rest of her is covered in blood.

Rafe and Danny move to her.

RAFE:

How can we help?

INT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT Rafe and Danny sit quietly as Evelyn adjusts the tubes conducting blood from their arms into sterilized Coke bottles for transfusion.

RAFE:

What else can we do?

EVELYN:

There's nothing you can do here, they'll die or they won't, we just -- She stops, afraid if she says more, she'll lose grip on her emotions. She can see the wreckage out in the harbor.

EVELYN:

There was a sailor, a black man on the West Virginia, named Dorie Miller. I'd like to know if he's alive.

She goes back to her work.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY Rafe and Danny hop from the ambulance in which they've hitched a ride to the harbor. They see the awful devastation.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - NIGHT Rafe and Danny reach the West Virginia's pier, but in the darkness, they can't find anything. They stop a NAVAL OFFICER.

DANNY:

Where is the West Virginia?

OFFICER:

There.

He points; the battleship has sunk, its superstructure barely showing above the water.

It looks hopeless to find a single sailor here; but then they see a powerful black sailor, pulling to the dock with a dinghy full of dead men retrieved from the water. As workers unload the bodies, the black sailor sits down, exhausted physically and emotionally, his head in his hands. Rafe and Danny approach him.

DANNY:

We're looking for Dorie Miller.