Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

EXT. SKIES - RAFE AND DANNY'S PLANE - NIGHT Danny's engines are sputtering; his gunner pours the last drops of gas into the tanks.

DANNY:

Flash Rafe. We're gonna bail.

Red sees Anthony signal.

RED:

They've gotta jump.

RAFE:

Not unless we know he's over land!

Rafe yells at Danny, as if he could hear --

RAFE:

You are not bailing out into water!

RAFE'S NAVIGATOR Coastline below!

Through a break in the clouds they spot a rocky shoreline.

RAFE:

We've got coast! Signal him to climb and jump.

Red signals; Danny's plane signals back.

RED:

They don't have fuel to make altitude.

He's gonna set it down in the water.

Rafe looks over at Danny, who is gesturing; he gives up on the hand signals and grabs the flasher; Red reads the Morse code...

RED:

Y-O-U... G-O. You go on.

Rafe grabs the flasher and angrily flashes back two letters.

RAFE:

N-O! We stay together! I'll go in first.

Rafe turns his bomber and Danny follows, their planes arcing down toward the rocky coast; it's hairy, the clouds masking their view, as the altimeter winds down... At the last moment they see rocks looming out of the surf.

INT. RAFE'S PLANE - NIGHT He's shouting to his crew --

RAFE:

Hang on tight! I'll put her in the smooth water and we'll swim in!

INT. DANNY'S PLANE - NIGHT His engines are sputtering, catching, sputtering; he fights to stay in control.

EXT. CHINA COAST - NIGHT Rafe's plane settles down toward the water; he guns the engine to level out, and the plane skims across the surface; then the propellers catch and the plane stops like it hit a wall, flipping over it's nose.

DANNY'S PLANE is struggling; when he tries to add throttle, the engines sputter out. The plane drops, skips once on the surface, then hits a shoreline rock belly first.

Danny and Anthony are ejected through the top of the fuselage; Coma is hurled forward right through the glass nose of the plane.

INT. RAFE'S PLANE - NIGHT Rafe and Red come to in the plane inverted and sinking. They react, unbuckling, grabbing for their crewmates as the plane is quickly filling. The navigator and gunner are unconscious; the bombardier is dead. Red struggles with the hatch and can't make it budge.