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Miami military academy established 1923 each boy associates with the other boys in an atmosphere of courage and optimism. He learns the virtues of fair play. Interior Major Dameron's office Early morning Major Dameron is addressing a new boy, Steven Leschinsky, a bright eyed 16 year old. Behind him sit his parents. I might add here that as a boy some of my hardest times were trying to answer a question while the girls were always teeheeing at my answers. We don't have that problem here. Mr. Leschinsky stifles a yawn, earning a glare from his wife. Looking through a window, he sees a battered jeep approach the archway. CUT to EXTERIOR PARADE FIELD Morning. A rooster crows atop a quonset hut. Arthur Lindquist, an odd looking boy of indeterminate age, peers through a cyclone fence at the deserted parade field. Inside the hut we see Arthur's mother passed out in squalor on a ratty couch. He watches as the battered jeep pulls through the archway entrance and stops in front of the administration building. Commander Claire Patterson, U.S. navy retired, 60, sits behind the wheel of a Jeep. The two boys in the rear seat are in full dress uniform. They appear to have been through a minor war and have gotten the worst of it. They are Anthony Slouch Zanfortino, Brooklyn, rough, handsome and armando Bebop Seropeneda, 18, Cuban, Patrician, Lean, angular, named for his distinctive stride. Come on Commander, why can't you just let us out here? Yeah Commander, give us a break, sir. Patterson ignores them. An 11 year old lieutenant Harold Wheeler of middle aged temperament runs toward the jeep. He is in full dress uniform with a sword too large that bangs at his heels. Commander, you got him. Where'd you find him? Spic city, right? Watch your mouth, tourist. We were on the road, punk. What are you, the permanent OD around here? Yeah, and your asses are grass. Where's Colonel Barnes, Lieutenant? Oh hell, Commander, please give us a break, sir. We can't afford this. Morning prayer started, but leave it to me, sir. I'll make sure they get to the Colonel. You man enough to handle these characters? Lieutenant Wheeler salutes and springs into action. All right, you two mother humpers out of that Jeep and fall in. I said fall in. On the double. On the double. The two boys shake their heads but follow the orders. Right face. Forward march. Left, right, left. Right. Column right turn. Detailed. Halt. Right face. The two cadets are now standing with their backs toward the huge howitzer cannon overlooking the parade field and bay. Wheeler walks behind the boys and takes a set of handcuffs from his pouch. He swiftly snaps the cuffs around Slouch's right wrist through the recoil of the cannon and onto Bebop's left wrist. The boys are now firmly handcuffed to the howitzer. Wheeler. What the fuck is wrong with you? You could go to prayer now. Commander Patterson smiles, drives off down the company street. Why do you encourage him, sir? Commander Exterior Administration OFFICE Day Major Damron comes out of the building accompanied by Steven Leschinsky and his parents. Well, son, keep your nose clean. Try not to solve everything with your fists. Our plane doesn't leave until Friday. It's customary at the academy to impose a restriction on leave and visitation for new cadets for a two week period. She throws her arms around her embarrassed son. Do ease the emotional strain on the changeover from home to school life. Let him be, Marion. He'll be home soon enough. Wheeler. Dammit. Just because you got rank don't mean you ain't pissing. Damron turns and sees Lieutenant Wheeler walking away from the cannon. Excuse me for a moment. Minor rebellion. Turns and walks to cannon with controlled anger. Looking for an E5 potty mouth. Hmm. Lieutenant Wheeler report a couple of AWOLs, sir. Nothing that won't keep, sir. We were just hanging out. Talk later. Gentlemen. Motioning to Leshinsky to join them. This is Stephen Leschinsky, a new cadet. He's going to bivouac with Alpha Company. I want you to take him over there now to Captain Jenkins on the double. Yes, sir. Follow me. They're rambunctious, but healthy. Boys are boys. I'm sure Steven will fit right in. I'll see you to your car. The not so sure parents follow Damron to the parking lot. Wheeler takes Leshinsky in tow. They pass Slouch and Bebop Shackle to the cannon. Listen, you punk mutant pissants. You let us out of here right now or I swear I'm going to kill you. I doubt it. We mean it now. Ooh, I'm shaking. I'll deal with you two twats later. I gotta go dump the blonde number. At prayer, Wheeler and Leschinsky continue across the parade field toward the gymnasium. Why are those guys handcuffed to that Gun. Where are you from, boy? Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Maybe you call it a gun in Pottsville, but here it's a howitzer, my man. A five inch long range filled artillery. When they set it off at morning formation, those two butt cracks ain't likely to feel like going AWOL for a while. What did they do? You'll know soon enough. They're in your company A. Company A for assholes. Exterior, Parade field Day. Slouch and Bebop struggle with the handcuffs. Now we got the bullring this weekend. Nobody asked for your help. Hey, stupido, those people are serious. You shoot your mouth off and they believe you, how you gonna get a bazooka out of here? I'll get it. You'll get us killed. This ain't no war games, man. This is for real. You shoot your mouth off, you get us killed. Okay? Keep watching, you know, maybe you'll learn something. Bebop shakes his head in disbelief. All right, take it easy. And I always got your back. Interior, Gymnasium Entrance day. The door cracks open, spilling a shaft of morning sunlight across the shorn, furry bowed heads of the boys of Miami military academy. About 200 boys in all. They're being led in the cadet prayer by Colonel Maraca, Cadet battle group commander. He's an overweight Cuban senior with a deep baritone voice. O God, our Father, Thou searcher of men's hearts, help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth. May our religion be filled with gladness and may our worship of Thee be natural. Wheeler nudges Leschinsky to bow his head and they stand at the entrance listening to the prayer. The two boys have moved in next to Edwin Bova, 16, slight and cynical. Won't ask, won't tell, don't care. You are Steven Leschinsky. That's a marvelous head of hair. The prayer continues in a rumble. We catch a word here and there as we pan the faces of the boys featuring A company Encourage us to live above the common level of life. Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong. Help us in our work and in our way to keep physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. That we may better maintain the honor of the corpse, untarnished and unsullied. All this we ask in the name of the great friend and master of men. Welcome to Oz, Dorothy. Amen. In the silence of the hall, a slight man walks toward the podium and looks out over the sea of boys faces. He is Colonel Darrell Barnes, 64, the commandant of the school, and he is not well as he Reaches the rostrum group. Simultaneously, they all respond, featuring a company company platoon. Squat out there and huck. The crash of boot heels echoes through the gym as Colonel Barnes grips the podium. At ease. A latrine is not a battleground for gang warfare. We're not animals here. Now, I have no idea what happened in McKibben Barracks latrine last night, but I do know that Private Hartsford Ann Druse is in the Dade county hospital with a fractured skull this morning. You didn't have to be there with his mother. She asked me, what kind of school are you running, Colonel? School for a bunch of animals? And I couldn't answer that. Barnes seems to direct his speech toward a company. Cut to exterior parade field. Day. Slouch and Bebop have been joined to the cannon by the Bugler Hargraves, 16 and two flag raisers. Major Dameron steps in. Now what's going on? We can't set out the cannon, sir. Slouch and Bebop raise their chained arms. Saw Lieutenant Wheeler, sir. Hargraves, get Wheeler on the double. Cut to interior Gymnasium Day. I hold you all responsible. Violence of this heinous nature will not be tolerated. Gentlemen's disagreements are settled in the boxing ring or on some other field of honor. We do not suffer that honor in such a despicable, distasteful, disgusting way in a latrine. Slipping and sliding in our own filth, cracking heads on cement floors. I tell myself, we are not animals here. Or are we? Are we? No, sir. Are we? No, sir. Interior gymnasium later. The cadets are standing at full attention as Maraca gives the orders. Group ready to form up on company street for more information. And A Company, I want the barnyard comedians dismissed. A company begins to file out through the wide doors. I got a new man for a Company. Master Sergeant Salo, 17 from Yonkers, is yelling at Bova Bova. You walk up to the colonel and you say, sir, I don't want the entire company to be punished because I'm mooed. You tell him, sir, I'm the Moore. Wheeler hands the clipboard to Salo for him to sign. I got a new. He is interrupted by Solo. Shut up, midget. Sir. So you go to him and say, I'm the Moor. What are you talking about? I ain't the Moore. Then who is the Moor? I don't know, Odello. How the fuck should I know? Maybe it's the new kid. Sergeant, I ain't called all day. Yeah, over's the Moore. We heard. Watch a Move, motherfucker. It was better. No, it wasn't. I just did the sheep part. Hargraves the Bugler enters the gym. The keys. Wheeler Damero wants the keys to the handcuffs. Both of youse go tell him now. Or I'll put a baseball bat up your asses and check your Earl. That's an order. Bear smacks Bova, who mumbles to himself as they head out the door. Solo takes the clipboard from Wheeler and signs it 2nd Platoon, 3rd Squad. Sea Cow Take him. Solo motions Lashinski toward David. Sea Cow Hamley fall in. Exterior Gymnasium Day the boys file out into the sunshine with Leschinsky now trying to fall in step behind Sea Cow Hamley bro, from the show last night to this drive. Why is it never chill? Cause this is our life backstage on the road. It's loud, messy, real. And that's the best part. Whole crew, no plan, just moving. Good thing Nissan builds for that kind of chaos. Not just test tracks, real life scenes, late nights, road trips. All of it. That's why it holds up. Nissan was ranked number one in initial quality among mainstream brands by J.D. power. 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Oh, well, you'll like it here. I hope it's not like Pottsville. Leschinsky is still trying very hard to fall into the cadence of the step. He unwittingly treads on the heels of the boy in front of. Just keep off my heels, piss pot. Jesus, will you get a lot of those, too? We are not privy to the conversation that is going on between Bova Bear and Cadet Colonel Maraca as they walk along the parade square parallel to the company street. Behr is still, but Bova is gesturing energetically back and forth between Maraca and A Company. What's that dipshit saying, anyways? I better not be looking at an E5 this weekend or Bova's gonna be looking at my. I doubt it. He points toward the cannon. Oh, look. Slouch and Bebop are back. Okay, I give up. Exterior Parade Field Day. These are the wrong keys. Um, I got them down on Flagger street, sir, and they only cost me two bucks. I guess they jibbed me. Who told you to do this? Lieutenant Commander Patterson, sir. They're AWOLs. He found them down in Little Havana whoring around again. That's a lie, punk. We just missed the last bus, sir. That's all, Commander Patterson. Eh, I'll get the hex off from the supply, sir. Exterior Company street. Day. The entire school is forming up for morning inspection. Out of the front of A company barracks comes a mountainous white Bahamian boy, Dudley Jenkins. Bahama Mama, 17. He is most often absent sleeping or eating. Cadet captain in charge of A company. Most everything is delegated to Master Sergeant Salo. First Lieutenant Schnup and Second Lieutenants Fisher and Quirt are also mainly window dressing. Bahama Mama yawns expansively, then lumbers past the assembled group to the front of the ranks. Sea Cow is demonstrating proper attire to Leschinsky, using Roger Coombs as an example. No, these here are your brass Pieces on your lapels gotta shine like mirrors for morning expression. Or it's an A6. I use Brasso. Squeaky clean. I have some you can use. Just remember they have to be shined every day. Shoes too. Spit shined. We usually have time for that after recall. I'll show you that tonight. Squeaky clean or it's an A6. Get off. As Bahama Mama reaches the front of the ranks. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Bahama Mama walks over to Sergeant Solo standing between the two platoons. What's an A6? Improper uniform. He pulls out a small blue book from his back pocket and hands it to Leschinsky. Learn it by heart. It's the Bible. Use mine till you're outfitted. Salo reports to Bahama Mama. Got a new man, sir. Name's Leschinsky. I put him in Sea Cow squad. Bahama Mama turns and looks at Leshinsky. Slouch and Bebop are back, sir. They get caught. Salo points off toward the cannon. Obviously. Exterior Parade field Day. Colonel Barnes and Commander Patterson are walking toward the formation from the gymnasium. Where were they this time? Flagler Street. They were on a road. Probably the uncle again. Your old pal with the Pedro Pans. Raul. Christ sakes, Darrell, I told you not to get involved with these damn orphans. Bebop's more trouble than he's worth. That's army subsidy, Pat. Our landlords, by the way, as you keep seeming to forget their arms, their land, their ordinance, Hoshi bank. Besides, he's a good kid. I'm not saying he ain't. But the army don't own these kids. Cubans. Yeah, maybe not our boys. Can't you make a call or something? Not your concern, Pat. It's a need to no basis. Wish you'd be straight with me for once. Daryl. Clean up. You look like hell. Patterson just shakes his head. CUT to EXTERIOR Company Street Day. The entire school is formed up for morning report. The cadet battle group Commander Maraca takes charge of the formation. Group the companies, platoons and squads answer report. H and S Companies all present and accounted for, sir. There is silence. A company report 42 present to indisposed, sir. Indisposed. Explain. Exterior Parade field Day. Slouch pulls himself up as close to attention as he can. All present? Accounted for, sir. A rousing cheer goes up from A Company. The remaining companies report in descending order of age. B Company all present and accounted for, sir. C Company all present and accounted for, sir. D Company all present and accounted for, sir. The last company to Report is E Company. The voice is high pitched coming from a 10 year old E Company. All present and counted for, sir. Exterior, Parade Field Day. I'll have him apart in a minute, sir. The two cannoneers load a charge into the breech of the cannon. The hacksaw breaks through the handcuffs. The cannon is fired. The company's platoons and squad respond. Present arms. The boys salute as the flag is raised and bugler Hargraves plays Call to Colors. The handcuffs dangle from Slouch's salute. Cut to Interior, A Company barracks day. Trencher is chastising Bear. You didn't have to crack his head on the floor like that. Nobody asked. You were all yelling at me. Can you give me that light again? You didn't have to. Interior, A Company barracks Day. Trencher is chastising Bear. You didn't have to crack his head on the floor like that. Nobody asked you to. You were all yelling at me for me to do it. You said he was the razor fiend. Trencher. So what was he doing in there at 3 o' clock in the morning? Bebop is gathering his books from his locker between the bunk beds. Probably taking a leak. What were you doing in there? Oh, we all know what Trencher was doing in there. Sea Cow is still hovering over Lishinski. Watch the soap when you wash. Somebody's putting razor blades in it. Leshinsky nods to the information. Bahama Mama has finished his morning breakfast tray and signals to Quirt, who obviously operates as his valet, to remove it. Sergeant Salo hands Leshinsky a note. Class assignments. Any questions, ask the ranking officer in class. Seekal. Get him a bunk. Bova bursts through the door in a rage. Bear follows. An E5. A fucking E5. And I gotta apologize for nothing. I didn't even move. What about us? A blanket. B11 for the company. Leschinsky is thumbing through the blue book. Nothing bad. It's only five. Shit, with the ten I got already, it puts me in the bullring for the weekend. Leshinsky looks at Slouch lying in the bottom bunk. Starts to unroll the top masters. It's okay. Slouch could give a rat's ass. A bell rings in the distance. Slouch, take Leshinski over to the PX and get him outfitted. Slouch glares up at Leshinski. Let's go. Stop dawdling. Cut to interior Perez's PX. Captain Jose Perez, a squat Cuban in his late 50s, is measuring Leschinsky's waistline. The PX is a gathering place for the boys in their off time. Pinball machine, soda counter, drugstore, et cetera. Perez offers therapy and drugstore philosophy. Now he measures Leschinsky as his assistant writes on a pad. Vente Ocho. Slouch and Leshinsky watched the ceiling mounted tv. Walter Cronkite does the news today. Two years after Fidel Castro's troops marched into the Makita army barracks, effectively seizing control of the island nation, the United States severed all diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the UN Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev lucidly spoke of nature that aggressive American monopolists are preparing a direct attack on Cuba. Footage follows Castro entering Havana. Khrushchev haranguing the UN Et cetera. Going on the invasion. Jose Cabeza Siete y siete. Ocho. I'll get him the hat. I know where they are. Slouch walks down the rows of coats and shirts to the back of the rock. He looks back to see Perez distracted by the tv. He goes to the bottom right drawer. He takes a key that reads Bunker 3 on the circular tab attached and pockets it. Leschinski sees this. Slouch takes a hat off the shelf and walks back to the front of the px. CUT TO EXTERIOR FENCE Lindquist, the odd boy, still in his pajamas, climbs the fence and creeps toward the classroom window. He peers through the window at Captain Miller's chemistry class. INTERIOR CHEMISTRY CLASS DAY if we were to peer through the mists of time with our mind's eye, we would see primitive man struggling against the forces of nature. As Miller yammers on, Bebop and Slouch, lab partners busily work over fuming test tubes. Leschinsky tries to move the Bunsen burner from under the foaming retort tubes. Hey, keep your mitts off. Leschisky pulls back. Your flames are too high. So what's the key for, say, Back off, asshole. Miller walks among the experiment tables, watching each of the boys work to construct some meaningful system about him that would explain the universe in a rational way. Slouch smiles out the window at Lindquist. He drinks from a test tube and does a Dr. Jekyll to amuse the boy that gave birth to the first mythology and then to formalized scientific study. Miller's timer sounds an alarm. Secure your experiments and return to your desk for a quick quiz. NEW BOY what's your name? Leschinsky, sir. You won't be graded on this, but at least we can find out where you are. The boys are seated and begin writing. LESCHINSKY writes answer after answer. While Slouch is struggling, the retort tube bubbles. Slouch starts to cheat off Leshinsky, who lets him. Slouch smiles at Leshinsky for the first time. The retort tube explodes. Lindquist runs from the window in terror. Across the parade field, Captain Miller has a fire extinguisher in hand, putting out the flames. The flames too high. Interior, Mess hall. Day. The school is assembled for lunch. Boys move along the line through the stainless steel steam trays and at tables. Slouch and Bebop huddle conspiratorially. Lashinsky comes into the mess hall after everybody else has been served. He picks up a tray and goes to the steam tables. Bova and Bear are in the midst of argument. It's not that you didn't have anything to say. It's just that. Well, you always do it. Do what? It's just that sometimes you frighten people. Ah, I know. Shouldn't have grabbed your shirt. Well, yes. That's not a debate, Smith. Lashinsky comes over to the table and sits down near Slouch and Bebop. Hey, Leshinski, how you like being a soldier? So far? Okay, I guess. What are these? Rock Gamma's cornholes. You see, but, but, but you wouldn't listen. You just kept shaking your head. I mean, Bova, sometimes you make a person really want a clock. It was my turn to speak. That's the way it works in a debate. Understand? A debate. My turn, then. Your turn. No, no, no, no. You didn't even give me a chance. You wouldn't shut up. I mean, with that, my learned colleague. Crab the floor, for God's sake. You have to wait your turn to debate. According to Robert's rules of order, you're supposed to wait your turn, not use your hands. You tore my shirt, man. You ripped my. Okay, okay, okay. Sorry. I'll fix it. It's too late. Hey, tell Boggs I'm sorry. It's too late. You're off to the baiting team. He says you have nothing to contribute. Oh, so fuck y'. All. Well, I'll. I'll. I'll try sailing. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. At least then I can sail out of this jail once in a while. Wheeler appears from nowhere and stands next to Slouch. Three volunteers to police the parade field. You, you and you. Come on, Lieutenant. We just started eating. Take your time. You got two minutes. Or do you want a D5? Exterior, parade field, day. Slouch places his barely eaten mess plate at the foot of a Mango tree. Lindquist scurries down from his perch in the tree and scarves up the remains. Slouch joins Bebop and Leshinski, who are policing the parade field in the heat of the midday sun. Lieutenant Wheeler oversees the Operation Cienfuegos. It's on the south coast. Yeah, before Castro used to be spic royalty. Before they popped his old man. Really? Oh, yeah. He had a chauffeur and everything. Slouch, you walked right by that piece of paper. I'm sorry? Lt. Wheeler stabs a loose piece of paper with his sword and exhibits it for the others. So what are you doing here? A friend of my father got me to Miami. Salado Cubano. He says, be a soldier. Honor your family. Defend your name. Someday soon, we'll take back our country. I wanted to come here. What? You volunteered? I like the brochure. No way. Everybody's trying to get out of this place. I mean, I've been trying to get out for eight years. You volunteered? This place sure doesn't look like the brochure. It sucks. He volunteered. You hear that? How long do you think it'll take me to get some rank? It takes at least a year. But you got a special problem. Yeah, I mean, there ain't gonna be no next year. See that? He points to the high rise construction going on near the north border of the school. This time next year ain't gonna be a school. It's gonna be a retirement village. I just got here. This place is an old army ammo dump. Old man. Obsolete. They only lease it to Barnes. Yeah, and they're gonna take their shit back soon. I mean, Barnes, he knows there ain't a chance of saving this place. How do you guys know so damn much? Obvious even to a tourista. No, they let me sign up here knowing that. Yeah, I mean, he still needs all the sucker cash he can get. And you're a first class one. I mean, he volunteered. Leschinski turns and punches Slouch squarely in the mouth. Slouch is quick to retaliate with a flurry of punches of his own. Bebop merely stands and watches the action. Wheeler sees the fight and drops his sword. Hey. Hey. Break it up. He rushes into the fray. Let them have it out, Lieutenant. I said break it up. Wheeler jumps in. Anyway, he catches a stray fist from Slouch on his nose. Slouch stops fighting and comes to Wheeler. Damn it, Wheeler. I'm sorry. Who hit my nose? I did. Lieutenant. I'm sorry. That's indeed too don't you walk away from me. Honking off camera Another angle Exterior gateway. We see Sally Barnes, a PERT 17, the Colonel's prodigal daughter, seated in a dilapidated Volkswagen bus. Blaring her path is blocked by the gate barrier. The young cadet in charge of gatekeeping is walking away. Open the damn gate. Do you know who my father is? Sorry ma', am, I gotta go check with the office. Sally throws it in first gear and slams the volks through the flimsy barrier. She drives across the parade field, nearly running down Leschinsky and comes to a stop in front of the Colonel's house. The boys cannot take their eyes off off this whirlwind as she gets out of the jeep and storms onto the porch. The deserter's back reporting for duty, sir. No excuse, sir, as she kicks the screen door open and goes inside. Bro. From the show last night to this drive. Why is it never chill? Cuz this is our life backstage on the road. It's loud, messy, real. And that's the best part. Whole crew, no plan, just moving. Good thing Nissan builds for that kind of chaos. 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A teddy bear on the striped cot and on the desk an old picture of her mom, dad and Patterson raising their beers in a toast dissolved to Interior English Class Day the boys are seated in Captain Sheldon Curry's English class. Slouch and Sallow, standing at the head of the class, are reading aloud from Shakespeare, but it sounds like really bad Long island dinner theater. I'll not fight with thee, then yield thee, coward and lad, to be the show and gaze of the time. The class cheers. Slouch I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, though Burnham would be come to Dunsinane. Slouch mugs for the class. Before my body I throw my warlike shield Leia Macduff and damn be him that first cries hold Enough. With a quick thrust, Slouch grabs Solo by the throat and they wrestle each other to the the floor. As you were. God damn it. Excellent fighting Other rooms There is a rousing cheer from Slouch's victory. Oh boys, boys. That's a D2 Slouch. The rooms were straight. Flourish. Captain Curry hopelessly tries to pull the boys apart. Now be seated Solo finally slams Slouch into his seat. We will read the remainder from our seats. But, sir, it says I gotta reenter with his head. Last slap. Shakespeare is fun. Interior. A company barracks day is the beginning of the recreation period. The boys are standing in front of their lockers and each is changing into gym trunks and exercise togs. Slouch is sitting on his bunk and watching Sea Cow instruct Leschinsky. You fold up your socks, then flip them like this. You stow them with the slit up like this. Your underwear has to be folded three ways, like this. Hey, Sea Cow, come here a minute. Sea Cow waddles over to the locker. I want you to inspect my locker. You nuts? Slouch opens his locker room with a finger. A small picture of Botticelli's Birth of Venus is taped to his door. He pulls a box of Butterfingers candy bars from the folded socks. I'll let you confiscate them if you'll forgive, say, 10 demerits. Maybe I just better confiscate them anyway. Sergeant Salo Saul turns toward the sound of the yell. Okay, okay. He flips through the pages of his clipboard. San Frondino, Here we are. Sea Cow hands Slouch a demerit slip. Slouch wads up the slip and pops it in his mouth and chews it. Sea Cow pockets the chocolate bars. Hey, you got an activity? No. Better stick with us. Want to try sailing? Sure. Exterior Lagoon day. It is more like a large pond. The boys are dressed in their short pants and sneakers in the red and white of the school. There are two boys to each of the small sailing dinghies, and they circle the inside of the lagoon. On one side of a narrow canal leading out into Biscayne Bay are three ancient munitions bunkers. Leshinski and Bebop occupy one of the boats. Patterson and Bear occupy the lead boat. Hargraves, come about, Bova. Tighten up on that line there. Patterson is standing up in the bow of what is apparently the lead boat. The sail is a brilliant red with the eagle of the school emblem emblazoned in gold on the face of it. Hooper, spill some wind out of that sail. Pay attention, man. Exterior, Munitions bunker day. Slouch is hovering around the door of the farm munitions bunker and fiddling with the lock. He inserts a key into the rusted lock and pries it open. He enters. Interior, munitions bunker day. There are rows of wooden olive drab crates containing M1 rifles, grenades,30 caliber ammunition and crates marked explosives. Slouch flicks his Zippo lighter, illuminating a case marked danger high explosives. Slutch pries open a wooden case and takes out a bazooka. Exterior, Lagoon day. Now we'll take them out single file and form the triangular pattern. We practice when the last man. That's you. Combs Boat number 10. Eisendorf, turn that radio off and listen for my command. When the last sailing craft passes through the channel, you wait for my command to ascend the triangular formation. Exterior, boat dock. Day. Slouch is running along the boat dock with the bazooka broken down and wrapped with a life jacket. He makes a running leap off the dock into the boat with Bebop at the helm. San Fardino, what the hell are you doing? A life jacket for the new man, sir. Leshinsky is looking wide eyed at the bazooka in the bilge. What are three men doing in a two man sailing craft? Uh, we'll be fine, sir. Get that man up to the bow. Leshinsky is puzzled as to what to do. He sits in the bow. The bow coming about, sir. Patterson wheels to bear to see what he has said. What? As Patterson turns, the boom of the boat comes about and smacks him in the nose. Duck, sir. Oh. Oh. Patterson wipes the blood from his nose with his handkerchief. Uh, can we be of any assistance, sir? Patterson Lyskin is not hearing. He's holding his nose and glaring at Bear. I'm sorry, sir. I was just coming about. Didn't you hear me say coming about, sir? Watch the lead boat. Listen for my command. All right, move out. Leshinsky is still staring down at the bazooka lying in the boat. Jesus. Hargraves in Bova's boat plays the sloop John B. On a banjo as the tiny craft thread their way through the channel and out into Biscayne Bay. Exterior, sailboat. Biscayne Bay, Day. Music over. If you guys got plans, you can just. You can just drop me off on the dock. Too late. You're in or you're dead. What are you, chicken shit? No. Then get up in the bow. Leshinsky hesitates a moment. The front. Keep your eyes open. Leshinski moves to the bow. I heads up. Ready. Attack to starboard. Hargraves plays the dinghy comes about and slouch and Bebop, shift to the opposite side. Shift to starboard. Come on, man. Maybe I should like write some of this down. Don't worry. The captain took care of us. Right, Captain? Slouch ignores him. He knows all about the sea, him and the commander. Oh, windbags don't knock the old man. He done his part. You never had a torpedo up your ass? Torpedo? Yeah. Samuel B. Roberts, motherfucker. Late T Gulf, then Navy, Special Forces or Seabees or something. I can never get it straight. Purple Hearts, a lot of salad. Big hero. Don't pay any attention to his yelling. Just breaking wind. Hell, I was Wheeler's age when I got here and he was the only one who didn't give a shit. I didn't have no old lady cry over my ass when I was dumped here. Slouch is motherless. A bird shit him out over Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, at least me mod ain't hooking in Havana. And you don't want me to get started on your aunt, do you? What are you, my historian? You like my aunt, but she's not too crazy about bedwetters, right? Slouch with those perfect tits. Fat lip. Two seconds. Slouch lifts the end of the bazooka and points it in Bebop's face. Click. Then at Leshinsky. Click. EXTERIOR BISCAYNE BAY Day ANOTHER angle A small motor launch lies moored to an anchor buoy in a quiet part of the bay. EXTERIOR SAILBOAT Biscayne BAY DAY There. The sailboat heads for the launch and comes about to lie dead in the wind. Hola. A beautiful Cuban girl has been sunning herself in the bottom of the boat. She raises her head and peeks out from under her sunglasses. She is Anita Torres. Hola. Louder. Bigger. You're calling bear out there. Hola. Bigger. Hola. Louder. Hola. Slouch takes the bazooka from the bottom of the sailboat and hands it over to Anita. You tell him I'm as good as my word. Tell Rule there's a lot more where this came from. We can pull our own weight. Anita nods to Slouch and starts the engine of the launch. She winks coyly at Leschinsky. She revs the engine and peels away. Hey, you tell your uncle to count us in. You tell him we got the huevos. Cut to interior A company barracks. Night. Slouch and Leshinski are sitting on the bottom bunks, spit shining their shoes. It is study hall time. Some of the boys are sitting at their fold out desks doing their homework. How's this? Come on. You got a long way to go. Hey, they ought to look like this. He shows Leshinsky his boot like mirrors. Here, watch. Slouch lights a match to his wax can to heat the polish. ANOTHER ANGLE Bear is reading a paperback. Nuclear Winter War Brides Allowed to Trencher and others. Sergeant Salo was patrolling the length of the barracks, slapping a fly swatter at Snoozing Cadet. Slowly he reached out and grabbed the back of her dress. She moaned. He moaned. The cataclysmic surges of earth and time stood still. Solo smacks him on top of the head with a fly swat. Ow. No stroke books. This is time to study. Bear. Try and find something that won't dissipate you so much. ANOTHER ANGLE See Cow Hamley is opening a Valentine present. The card reads, thinking of you. With love from Mommy and Dad. Sea Cow shakes his package. Sounds like a Witland Samper. Trencher grabs the package from Sea Cow and shakes it vigorously. Sea Cow grabs it back from him and rips open the covering writing paper. Tough luck. 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