The Last Detail (1973)

1. Buddusky? Either of you guys seen Buddusky?

2. Buddusky?

3. Buddusky?

4. Buddusky?

5. What?

6. M.A.A. sent me. He wants to see you right away.

7. Tell M.A.A. to go fuck himself.

8. He said right away.

9. Come on, Buddusky.

10. It's your ass if you don't.

11. Look, maybe your orders came through.

12. Come on, Buddusky.

13. It's your ass.

14. Bullshit.

15. My ass.

16. Mulhall,

17. the Master at Arms wants to see you right away.

18. I ain't goin' on no shit detail. Come on, Mule.

19. It's my ass if you don't. I ain't goin' on no shit detail!

20. It's your ass too. Come on, maybe your orders came through.

21. Tell the M.A.A. you couldn't find me.

22. He knows where you are. Oh, yeah?

23. When you're in the Navy, you're in transit, nobody knows where the fuck you are.

24. Go tell that M.A.A. to fuck himself. I ain't goin' on no shit detail.

25. Morning.

26. You are one lucky son of a bitch, Badass.

27. You are one lucky son of a bitch.

28. Yeah. Where am I goin', Chief?

29. How come you're so lucky, Buddusky?

30. You're another lucky son of a bitch, Mulhall.

31. - Yeah? - You dudes pulled temporary duty as chasers.

32. Where to? Portsmouth Naval Prison.

33. Who we takin'? Seaman.

34. He used to be.

35. Meadows, Lawrence M. Drew eight years and a D.D.

36. Jesus Christ, what the hell did he do, kill the old man?

37. Come on inside.

38. Sweek, get these old boys some coffee.

39. All right, sir.

40. Who'd he kill, Chief?

41. Didn't kill nobody. Robbery.

42. How much did he lift?

43. Forty dollars. Forty dollars?

44. Forty dollars.

45. Shit. You're shittin' me.

46. I wouldn't shit you.

47. You're my favorite turd.

48. Ha, ha.

49. Jesus. Eight years and a D.D. for forty dollars.

50. I thought they only pull that shit in the Army.

51. Well,

52. you see, he tried to lift the polio contribution box.

53. Yeah?

54. Polio box is the old man's old lady's...

55. favorite do-gooder project.

56. She's responsible for all the polio contributions on the base, you know?

57. Every year they give her a plaque.

58. Along comes Meadows and fucks over charity.

59. She took it very seriously.

60. Jesus. Eight years.

61. That's very seriously.

62. You know what I mean? Well.

63. Good duty for you guys.

64. You get to go to Washington, New York,

65. to Boston.

66. I'd trade places with ya.

67. Listen, uh,

68. we can get this guy to Portsmouth in two days.

69. Less.

70. They're gonna give us a week to do it.

71. You know what I mean? So what?

72. We get him there in two days, they ain't gonna give us no week to get back.

73. Bullshit. Besides, they got to give us all that per diem regardless.

74. That's money— for you, for me and for him.

75. Now, we run this little shitbird's ass all the way to the brig,

76. save his per diem and ours, split it and spend it on the way back home.

77. You know what I mean?

78. Well, let's shag ass. You're goddamn right.

79. Ho-ho!

80. Okay, Buddusky, you're the honcho.

81. Carryall and driver are outside to take you to the bus.

82. Here's the keys to the cuffs.

83. Each of you gets one key.

84. I want you both to sign these chits for the pieces.

85. Here's one clip each.

86. I want to tell you somethin' off the record.

87. The old man and his lady have a personal interest in this case, so you fuck up, you know what.

88. Are you all set, Cochise?

89. All right, shitbird, on your feet.

90. These guys are taking you to Portsmouth.

91. This is Petty Officer Buddusky. This is Petty Officer Mulhall.

92. Yes, sir.

93. You know why they're chasers? Chasers, sir?

94. Do you know why they are taking you to the brig?

95. No, sir.

96. 'Cause they're mean bastards when they wanna be, and they always wanna be,

97. and you can take my word for it.

98. They aren't about to take any shit from a pussy like you.

99. If they do, they'll get reamed out, and they know it.

100. Yes, sir. What?

101. Yes, sir!

102. All right, he's all yours.

103. Come on.

104. It's colder than a witch boob, ain't it?

105. Coffee? Yeah.

106. Let's make it.

107. You have to go to the head? No, sir.

108. Be sure now, Meadows, because from now on whenever you do go to the head,

109. one of us is gonna have to go with ya.

110. I'm not gonna kill myself.

111. I don't think so, but, uh, you know how it is, Meadows.

112. Yes, sir, but I don't need to use the head anyway.

113. Well, let's go.

114. Kill yourself, huh? Huh?

115. Back of the bus.

116. Meadows? Yes, sir?

117. I'm removing your handcuffs, Meadows.

118. Navy feels that on certain kinds of vehicular transport,

119. the prisoner shall have the use of both his hands...

120. to protect himself in case of an accident.

121. Ain't that right, Mulhall? That's right.

122. Where'd you get that candy bar?

123. I had it with me.

124. Okay, sailor. I wasn't accusing you of nothin'.

125. I had 'em with me.

126. Hey, man, I ain't said a word.

127. Take it easy, Meadows. You're making "Mulhouse" hungry.

128. Meadows? Yes, sir?

129. You want anything? No, sir.

130. Let me have that. No, wait.

131. Give me this one.

132. - Thank you. - Ten cents.

133. You need a little help with that?

134. Thank you, young man.

135. Well, headin' north, eh, "Mulehall"?

136. Yeah, man. Headin' north.

137. My old stompin' grounds.

138. Where you from, "Mulehouse"?

139. Hey, man. Mulhall.

140. Mulhall. Understand?

141. Yeah.

142. Where ya from, Mulhall?

143. Bogalusa.

144. Where's that? It's above New Orleans.

145. Hot down there, ain't it?

146. Yeah.

147. Listen, man, call me Mule.

148. Everybody else does. Mule. Okay?

149. Sure. Sure.

150. Mule?

151. Yes, sir. They always used to have trouble with my name too.

152. Buddusky.

153. Always wanting to call me Badass.

154. Badass.

155. I am the badass.

156. Bad ass.

157. Is that true what the chief said, Meadows,

158. about your getting, uh, eight years and a dishonorable discharge...

159. for stealin' $40?

160. I didn't get no $40.

161. - You didn't get it? - No.

162. They caught me right while I was trying to lift it from the box.

163. I didn't get it.

164. Jesus Christ.

165. You gonna tell me they gave you eight years and a D.D. for $40, and you didn't even get it?

166. Oh, boy, they really stuck it to him, didn't they, Mule?

167. They sure hell did.

168. Boy, they really stuck it to you, kid.

169. Yeah. Yes, sir.

170. Stick it in and break it off.

171. Up your gigi with a wawa brush,

172. stick it in and break it off.

173. Leave the kid alone.

174. I ain't bothering him.

175. Am I bothering you, Meadows?

176. No, sir. I ain't botherin' him, man.

177. Just trying to be helpful.

178. Okay.

179. So tell me, how you gonna help him?

180. Meadows?

181. I want to ask you a few questions. You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

182. But maybe I can help ya.

183. Shee! Come on!

184. Now, before this polio thing,

185. did you have a record?

186. No. Well, not with the Navy.

187. I got into trouble a couple of time with the cops before I enlisted.

188. I see.

189. Well, uh,

190. was it, uh, in the nature of a serious offense?

191. For example, was it in the nature of a felony or a misdemeanor?

192. Well, it was in the nature of shoplifting.

193. But I never was in jail, if that's what you mean.

194. Yeah.

195. Well, uh‒

196. You know, well‒

197. Now‒

198. You know, Meadows,

199. this eight years, it ain't necessarily eight years.

200. It isn't? No, it isn't.

201. They're gonna knock two years off right at the beginning for good behavior.

202. So that's six years right there.

203. Really?

204. Well, that's somethin'.

205. Ain't it?

206. At least we got a long train ride.

207. Man, I sure love trains.

208. Yeah, beats the shit out of sitting up in shit city, don't it?

209. Yeah.

210. Man, he didn't have those with him.

211. No. No, he didn't.

212. Meadows?

213. Meadows?

214. - Meadows, why don't you take your coat off?

215. Meadows! Goddamn it, halt!

216. Meadows!

217. - Get out of here! - Goddamn it!

218. Meadows!

219. I got him. I've got him. Fuckin' asshole!

220. I got him. I've got him.

221. I got him.

222. All right. Don't you fuckin' move.

223. Sit down.

224. I'm sorry.

225. I'm sorry for stealin' the money.

226. I swear I didn't want it.

227. I'm always stealing junk I don't need.

228. All right. Come on, it's all right, Meadows. Come on, be a man.

229. Quart bottles of hair tonic, model cars.

230. I can't even build a model car.

231. Just crap.

232. You know?

233. I had money on the books. You can ask anybody.

234. But it's gone now 'cause...

235. I got forfeiture in pay and everything.

236. But I had money.

237. It's okay, man.

238. It's okay. It's not okay.

239. Jesus.

240. The kid's crazy.

241. Yeah, he oughta see a fuckin' psychiatrist.

242. What about now, man? We got a nut on our hands right now.

243. You know what I mean?

244. Well, maybe we oughta take him off the train in Washington,

245. walk him around a little bit till he gets cooled off.

246. He's a fuckin' mess.

247. Well, the last train don't take off till 10:30.

248. Plenty of time for some good chow.

249. Right?

250. Where do you wanna eat, Meadows?

251. I don't know.

252. What do you think?

253. Looks good.

254. A little crowded.

255. What do you think, Meadows?

256. It's fine.

257. Think they'll melt the cheese on the burgers?

258. I like the cheese melted.

259. Yeah.

260. Well, nice if they had a booth. You see a booth in there, Mule?

261. Mm-mmm.

262. It's a little crowded.

263. Fuck the crowd. I'm hungry. Yeah, me too.

264. Yeah. Maybe the next place, huh?

265. We're gonna miss our train.

266. We're gonna miss our train! Who gives a shit?

267. So we miss the fucking train. We got five days.

268. Come on!

269. Meadows,

270. is your word worth anything?

271. Sure it is, as good as the next guy's.

272. Next guy's a prick.

273. What I mean is, Meadows,

274. you aren't gonna try and run away while we're here in Washington, are ya?

275. Forget about that escape shit.

276. Will you not jump up and run and bang into people and embarrass us like that?

277. No, sir.

278. Not steal anything? No, sir.

279. Shit.

280. Goddamn it.

281. Hold still, Meadows, you son of a bitch.

282. Almost gets you high.

283. Cheese melted enough for you? Sure.

284. It ain't melted at all. Send it back.

285. It's all right. Send the goddamn thing back.

286. You're paying for it. It's all right.

287. Meadows, have it the way you want it. Waiter!

288. Melt the cheese on this for the chief, would ya? Thank you.

289. See, Meadows,

290. it's just as easy to have it the way that you want it.

291. Mmm. Goddamn.

292. Hey, where's these malts at?

293. Ahh. See what I mean, Meadows?

294. It's good.

295. Better catch that train.

296. We still got time for a beer.

297. Wait a minute, man. I ain't old enough.

298. You ain't old enough for what? For a beer.

299. Everybody's old enough for a beer. Ain't that right, Mule?

300. Yeah. Well, I'm not.

301. I know one place right here, nice and quiet.

302. Eight years and a D.D. At least we can buy the kid a beer.

303. Hi, Ed.

304. Thirty cents worth of beer in a glass, and the same for my shipmates here.

305. Ed don't work here no more. Let me see your I.D.s.

306. How come? 'Cause this kid ain't old enough.

307. - Listen, pal‒ - Listen yourself, pal.

308. The law says I have to serve him, and since I‒

309. I tell you what you better do, Mr. Citizen Bartender.

310. You take your beers and ram 'em up your ass sideways.

311. Can you dig it? Whoa there, sunshine.

312. We're going, so you can take your hand off that horsecock...

313. you've got stashed under the bar.

314. How do you know I don't have somethin' with a little more bark to it?

315. Ho, ho, ho. This redneck is talkin' about firearms.

316. I know you ain't got nothin' but wood under there, my man,

317. because I happened to be here one night when a sailor got it laid up the side of his head.

318. What do you think about that, redneck?

319. The boss would lose his license for sure if I served that kid.

320. I'm gonna kick your ass around the block for drill.

321. You try it, and I'll call the Shore Patrol.

322. I am the motherfucking Shore Patrol, motherfucker!

323. I am the motherfucking Shore Patrol!

324. - Now give this man a beer. - I don't want a beer.

325. You're gonna have a fuckin' beer! Come on, man.

326. - I don't feel like one right now. - Badass, come on.

327. Come on! Come on, let's go. Come on, man.

328. Motherfucker.

329. Huh? Huh?

330. Man, you are a badass. I am a badass, ain't I?

331. Yeah. "Yeah" what?

332. You're a badass. A what?

333. A badass. A what?

334. A badass! You ain't leavin' D.C. till you got a belly full of beer.

335. Come on, kid. Jesus Christ!

336. Did you see that cracker asshole?

337. "The law says that I gotta serve him—"

338. I thought he was gonna have a fuckin' heart attack, man.

339. Scared the shit out of him! He was scared.

340. He was ready to go. He was gone.

341. I would like to drink a toast to Batman,

342. Superman and the Human Torch.

343. What's a Human Torch? He's a pure, white, Southern American boy.

344. The Human Torch,

345. when he goes like this,

346. he throws a ball of flames off on ya, and the fuckin' building goes up.

347. He had a littler guy that flies around with him.

348. This is the best goddamn drink in the world, isn't it?

349. Yeah.

350. Maybe we can sneak it on the train and finish it off there.

351. Yeah. Know what I mean?

352. The train left 15 minutes ago.

353. What?

354. The train left 15 minutes ago.

355. Well, that's nice. That's fuckin' nice.

356. Oh, for Christ's sake. Give me a break.

357. We've got five days. We're on per diem.

358. I say what we do...

359. is check into a hotel,

360. pour ourselves a few more, have a good night's sleep.

361. Tomorrow we get on the train.

362. Sunday.

363. Okay.

364. What the fuck are you laughing at?

365. I'm laughin' at that silly son of a bitch over there.

366. That's what I'm laughin' at.

367. Aye, aye.

368. Let's get ourselves into...

369. I gotta go to the bathroom. a hotel room.

370. Wonderful idea.

371. Prisoner?

372. On your feet.

373. Come on.

374. Cheer up.

375. Ain't this the life, Mule?

376. Sure in the hell beats freezin' your ass off in that alley, don't it?

377. Beats the hell out of bein' back in shit city too. Yeah.

378. I bet it even beats being at Portsmouth too.

379. You know, kid,

380. you got a hell of a knack for killin' a conversation.

381. Let's just imagine that your hands...

382. are the hands of a clock.

383. "A" is 20 to 6:00.

384. "B," quarter to 6:00.

385. "C," 10 to 6:00.

386. "D," straight up 6:00. Come on, man.

387. We're watchin' the movie.

388. Meadows?

389. You wanna learn how to be a signalman? After the movie, man.

390. I always tell a new semaphore personality this,

391. to ensure that you send a more perfect semaphore.

392. Ready? I don't expect you to get it perfect.

393. This one happens to require a great deal of manual dexterity.

394. All right.

395. Yeah.

396. Mm-hmm.

397. Yes.

398. Well,

399. that's really good, Meadows.

400. Good, indeed.

401. You must have a flair for this sort of thing.

402. Some people do.

403. I do, for instance. I have a flair for this sort of thing.

404. Meadows.

405. We got it. We fucking got it.

406. Here it is.

407. The truck‒ Very nice catch. The truck that made your mama suck.

408. Whoo.

409. Oh, motherfuckin' Jesus H. Christ!

410. Hey.

411. You guys mind if I say somethin'?

412. That guy at the bar‒ Why did you get so mad at him?

413. I don't blame him not givin' me a beer.

414. Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?

415. Oh, sure, I do. Yeah.

416. Who do you get mad at?

417. Not at somebody who's doing their job.

418. Who, then?

419. Injustice.

420. Bullshit.

421. Hey, you don't never get mad at nobody. You're just a pussy.

422. I do too get mad.

423. Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?

424. Well, he‒ he was just—

425. Doin' his job.

426. Hey.

427. They're gonna take eight years out of your life, man.

428. Six years. You said six.

429. Hey, what the fuck difference does it make?

430. You don't even care about it.

431. Hey, come on, Badass. That don't help him. Fuck "help."

432. I mean, fuck "fair." Fuck "injustice."

433. Don't you ever want to fuckin' whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear,

434. just to do it, I mean, just to do it, to get it out of your system?

435. Well, I do‒ I do re‒ remember something I got mad at.

436. Something when I was in the brig a Marine did.

437. What happened? Grunts beat you up?

438. Yeah. But that didn't get me mad.

439. Well, goddamn it, what did get you mad?

440. This Marine guard,

441. he asked me if I believed in Jesus Christ.

442. I said, "Yeah."

443. And he said that from now on,

444. he was Jesus Christ, and I shouldn't ever forget it.

445. What'd you do?

446. Did you hit him?

447. Can you imagine that? That's awful.

448. Did you coldcock him?

449. He better hope the chaplain don't catch him at that.

450. Shit. Most of the Navy chaplains I know,

451. they want to stand up on the bridge with the old man and look through...

452. the aviator sunglasses.

453. Oh.

454. I don't— Mule!

455. - It takes a lot of dedication to be a chaplain in the Navy. - Shit.

456. Don't take diddly-shit, man.

457. Come on. Come on.

458. Come on! Take a fuckin' poke at me!

459. Take a poke at me. Come on. Come on. What for?

460. Hey, I'm gonna punch you out. Punch me out, you little prick!

461. Why? Go ahead. Punch me out.

462. Hey, man, he ain't gonna punch you. I'm gonna make him.

463. Badass, I like you. I like you.

464. Hey,

465. I'm taking you to jail, motherfucker.

466. That ain't your fault.

467. Come on, Mule! Come on, goddamn it!

468. You want to get the grunts, don't ya?

469. Get at some fuckin' grunts! Gotta find the grunts!

470. Hey.

471. Badass.

472. Would you teach me hand signals?

473. I don't give a shit.

474. One time...

475. when I was in Long Beach,

476. this friend of mine was looking for me,

477. and I was on top of the car, and I pissed on his head.

478. Just being crazy, you know what I mean?

479. Don't you get crazy with me.

480. I think I'm gonna be sick again.

481. How are we gonna work this out?

482. Work what out?

483. Who gets what bed?

484. What the fuck difference does it make?

485. Well, I can't take this shit indefinitely, man.

486. What shit?

487. Somebody's gotta make a decision.

488. Yeah?

489. There you go.

490. Just remember,

491. rank has its privileges.

492. Wait a minute.

493. This fucking thing's made from shit here.

494. What?

495. Fuckin' thing. Fuckin' thing.

496. Hey, this fuckin'‒ Oh.

497. All we gotta do is get off the train at Philly,

498. and take a bus to Camden.

499. What's the matter with that?

500. It's a couple of hours.

501. He didn't ask to see his mother.

502. He wouldn't even ask to go to the head if he had the runs.

503. I'm telling you, he wants to see his mother.

504. How do we know she's home?

505. It's Sunday! Sunday.

506. What's that supposed to mean?

507. Come on.

508. Do you wanna go and see your mother?

509. I don't wanna get you guys in trouble or nothin'.

510. I mean, you've been so good to me already.

511. Shit. Let's go and see your mother.

512. Don't worry about it, Mule.

513. That's Calvin Coolidge Junior High.

514. I went there.

515. Yeah? Yeah.

516. Where's your old man, Meadows? Seattle.

517. Seattle, Washington.

518. I know where it is. What's he doing?

519. Oh, I think he works at a hardware store.

520. He's married.

521. I mean, not to my mother, but to somebody else.

522. Maybe I even have a half-sister. I think I do.

523. Camden High.

524. I graduated from there.

525. Miss Marabito.

526. I wonder if she still teaches there.

527. She made me want to be a veterinarian.

528. You wanna check next door or anything?

529. Does your mom have any friends in the neighborhood?

530. Yeah, Mrs. Esposito. Maybe she's over there.

531. No, her car's gone.

532. Well, what do you wanna do?

533. You wanna wait around a little? No.

534. We'll wait around a little, huh? Huh?

535. I'll go check with Mrs. Esposito.

536. Okay.

537. Legs really bother you, don't they? Sometimes.

538. You oughta take vitamins.

539. No, take vitamins. Seriously, man.

540. Go to the dispensary. What's wrong?

541. We let that kid go off by himself! He could get away.

542. Don't get excited, Mule. That kid ain't going nowhere.

543. What makes you so sure? Well, you know him.

544. Jesus Christ.

545. Then where is he, huh? Where is he?

546. Where is he?

547. There. Don't get your balls in an uproar, Mule.

548. Meadows ain't goin' nowhere without us.

549. Let me tell you something about a kid like Meadows.

550. He's the kind of guy, he's goin' to the brig,

551. secretly, he's probably glad.

552. On the outside, too many things can happen to him.

553. All of it bad. This way the worst part's already happened.

554. He's probably glad.

555. Glad.

556. If you ain't right, you'd better be quick, 'cause I ain't.

557. She went for the day.

558. Sunday!

559. Do you wanna go in and wait for a while? What for?

560. Well, she might come home early.

561. No. No, thanks.

562. Well, at least you could sit in your own house.

563. Maybe we can get in.

564. I don't know what I would have said to her anyway.

565. You know what Meadows oughta do?

566. He oughta get his old lady to write to her congressman.

567. Shit.

568. His mother can write letters to her congressman till she owns the post office.

569. It don't mean diddly-shit.

570. Look, either we let him go, or he lives with it.

571. And we ain't about to let him go, understand?

572. Now look what you made him do. What I made him do?

573. Yeah. Where are you going?

574. To the head, okay?

575. Yeah, now if that don't make you just wanna shit in your flat hat, man.

576. Look what you went— Look what you‒ L-Lo‒ I hope you're satisfied.

577. You're the one who insisted we take him to see his mother!

578. I hate this detail.

579. I hate this fuckin' chickenshit detail!

580. I love the fuckin' detail, I suppose. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

581. I'm just trying to‒

582. Meadows!

583. Meadows!

584. Meadows, open up.

585. Meadows, are you all right?

586. Are you all right?

587. I consider myself in jeopardy with you, man.

588. Understand? In jeopardy.

589. This ain't no farewell party, and he ain't retiring.

590. Understand? He's a prisoner, and we're taking him to the jailhouse.

591. You have a tendency to forget that.

592. You're a menace, man. You ain't no simple shit, Badass.

593. You're a motherfuckin' menace.

594. From now on, M.A.A. can go piss up a rope. You ain't no honcho.

595. I wanna hear no more of this horseshit psychology jive.

596. No more turning that boy's head around to prove what a fuckin' big man you are.

597. You're a lifer, like me. The Navy's the best thing that ever happened to me.

598. I don't want you to fuck me up. You understand?

599. Buddusky. I hear you.

600. Do you agree?

601. I was just trying to show the kid a good time. You know what I mean?

602. He can't have a good time. It ain't in him.

603. He had a good time in Washington. Meadows? All right.

604. He had a good time in Washington.

605. Do you think that's gonna make it any easier for him to pull his eight years?

606. It won't. It'll make it harder.

607. So what?

608. I mean‒

609. Your attention, please.

610. Amtrak leaving for Chicago boarding at gate 23.

611. We go this way.

612. The train for Boston leaves in two hours.

613. We don't leave the building until then. You understand?

614. You got a quarter?

615. Where you goin'?

616. The head.

617. All right?

618. The sailor looks like he's lost something.

619. Probably have trouble finding it with those 13 buttons.

620. Yeah, if I was a Marine, I wouldn't have to fuck with no 13 buttons.

621. I'd just take my hat off.

622. Hi, boys.

623. That's cause for‒

624. What's going on?

625. Let's get out!

626. Whoo! Whoo!

627. Whoo! Whoo!

628. Wipe your nose, will you, kid?

629. He fought like a champ, though, didn't he, Mule? Jesus!

630. Goddamn, that was great. It was great, wasn't it?

631. It was great. Admit it. Give me a little of this!

632. Give me "just because they call me Shine" in here, huh?

633. I gotcha.

634. Now, Meadows,

635. right over here they've got the finest Italian sausage sandwiches in the world,

636. and I'm buyin', huh?

637. Goddamn.

638. I ask you, man.

639. Where else in the world can you get a sandwich like this?

640. Huh? And for 50 cents. Whoo.

641. I never ate anything so good.

642. I ain't shittin' ya.

643. I'm gonna have to have another one of these.

644. I'd like a little more onions.

645. A little more onions? Here. How 'bout some of these?

646. You got it.

647. We gotta figure out what we're gonna do.

648. And we will. We will.

649. Only we're gonna do it over a bottle of Heinekens.

650. Huh? What's "Heinekens"?

651. It's the finest beer in the world, kid.

652. President Kennedy used to drink it. Huh?

653. Ooh!

654. You wanna get in this, or do you wanna keep it quiet?

655. You know what I mean? All right, that should do, gents.

656. You gotta help me get Buddusky out of here.

657. He's betting with our travel money.

658. He's losing too.

659. - Yeah. - All right, gentlemen.

660. All right. You and me, one on one. I got—

661. You're on. Here's to you.

662. Cheers. You want the honors? You go.

663. Now, don't worry about a thing.

664. I'm hustling this guy. I got him right where I want him.

665. Maybe he's hustling you.

666. Yeah. Maybe he is, but, uh,

667. this is not the time to argue about it, because if I don't win,

668. we don't leave New York.

669. Fourteen years.

670. Fourteen motherfuckin' years.

671. The man's gonna hustle me, with glasses.

672. Huh?

673. 54, 61, 63 dollars.

674. That's $21 apiece. Apiece?

675. Sure. We're partners, ain't we?

676. Huh? Yeah, Badass.

677. Then take your fuckin' 21 bucks and don't give me such a hard time tonight.

678. Hey, you back here.

679. Bravo, Yankee, Bravo, Yankee.

680. Well, that was damn good, kid.

681. You oughta put in for signalman.

682. What's that?

683. I don't know. I hear it too.

684. What the hell is an "Indiana dog"?

685. Goddamn, that's the goddamndest thing I ever heard.

686. Hey, let's go take a look. Huh?

687. Let's go take a look.

688. I mean, what the hell? Eight years and a D.D.

689. Ooh.

690. Well, what do you want to do?

691. Take off your shoes.

692. Must be one of them Jap joints where we gotta take off all our shoes, you know what I mean?

693. What are they sayin'?

694. Hold it down.

695. I think we're in church.

696. - Good evening. - Good evening.

697. Welcome to a Nichiren Shoshu discussion meeting.

698. Tonight, throughout the city, there are hundreds of meetings like this going on,

699. where people are learning about Nam Myoho Renge Kyo and the Gohonzon.

700. What's a Gohonzon?

701. Shh. I'll tell you about it later.

702. And now we're going to try to do that through the experiences that we've had.

703. Who's had an experience?

704. John!

705. - Good evening! - Good evening!

706. To give you my own experience, when I first started chanting,

707. I wanted to really find a girl—

708. And she took me to a meeting like this,

709. and I remember thinking, "These people are out of their minds."

710. But— But afterwards, we went to her apartment, and I tried her Gohonzon.

711. Come on, what's a Gohonzon? Shh!

712. I'll tell you later.

713. And now, I‒ Well, I really love the clarinet,

714. and I‒ I can't even remember why I wanted the flute in the first place.

715. A.A.O.! A.A.O.! A.A.O.!

716. Jesus. A bunch of candy asses.

717. Ohh, did you ever hear such happy horseshit?

718. That one guy was a big homo. Huh?

719. Yeah, but you guys, he sure was a happy homo.

720. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

721. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

722. If you're gonna chant, let us figure out what you're gonna chant for.

723. How about I get sprung from Portsmouth?

724. Let's see if it works,

725. then you can chant for something really big.

726. Well, okay. Yeah.

727. Yeah, like how's about the three of us get laid, huh?

728. Well, should you chant for something like that?

729. Why the fuck not? Well, it's a religion.

730. You're too good to believe.

731. Yodeling in the canyon.

732. You ever heard of it?

733. Ever done that before?

734. Not exactly, no.

735. Are they really doing that when they take that picture?

736. Well, kid, there's more things in this life than you can possibly imagine.

737. I knew a whore once in Wilmington.

738. She had a glass eye.

739. Used to take it out and wink people off for a dollar.

740. Really?

741. There's still some room for your rank. You want it?

742. No, I don't think so.

743. Yeah, come on, kid. It's time you made your rate.

744. They busted me to E-1. You know that.

745. Listen, right now we're a Navy of three.

746. Pick a rate, any rate. I can make you...

747. anything I want to, 'cause I'm the honcho.

748. What'll it be? Huh?

749. Chief Signalman?

750. Okay, partner.

751. L. Meadows, S.M.C.

752. Show me some moves, kid!

753. He don't know what to do. He don't know!

754. He looks like a goddamn big penguin, don't he?

755. Watch out for children!

756. Hey, look‒ Goes right through 'em.

757. Give 'em the spinner, kid!

758. He sure is havin' a good time.

759. Sure is. And you said it wasn't in him.

760. Huh? All right.

761. Watch out for the Indian, kid.

762. Oh! Oh!

763. He'll crush somebody.

764. Look at the size of this guy on roller skates.

765. Huh?

766. Huh?

767. That was wonderfully done.

768. It worked.

769. I chanted to stay on my feet and I did. It worked.

770. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‒

771. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

772. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

773. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‒

774. Lighten up, will you, Meadows?

775. Jesus.

776. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

777. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

778. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

779. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‒

780. You're chanting.

781. Wow.

782. I'm a member of Nichiren Shoshu. My name is Donna.

783. How do you do? Hello.

784. What are you chanting for?

785. Go ahead, Meadows. Tell her what you're chanting for.

786. - A girl? - Well‒

787. That's okay. You can chant for anything.

788. What's your name? Meadows.

789. Your first name. Larry.

790. Larry. Larry,

791. um, why don't you come over and meet some people?

792. I'll introduce you. Just for a minute.

793. Come on. We'll be right back.

794. If this guy gets pussy out of this, I'm gonna eat my fuckin' flat hat, man.

795. Yeah, and I'm gonna start chanting too.

796. Hey, you guys, drop your socks and grab your cocks.

797. - We're going to a party. - Yeah?

798. This could be the big one, huh, Meadows?

799. You just moved in? Well, not too long ago.

800. But I think I might move out again too.

801. Yeah.

802. It's a problem finding a place. This is a nice party.

803. Might as well be at a fuckin' bus stop.

804. Relax. I am relaxed.

805. Hey, I'm tellin' ya, Mule, we got it made.

806. All we gotta do is get rid of that silly-looking creep there...

807. and we got these three chicks all to ourselves.

808. We have, huh? Yeah. Why not?

809. Because those three chicks would rather fuck each other...

810. than come near us, that's why not.

811. There's nothing like being on the sea.

812. Even in the Navy.

813. Being on the bridge.

814. Doing a man's job. Sounds great.

815. Where you going? Huh?

816. I'm not putting down the whole fuckin' government, Annette.

817. I just want him to tell me one thing.

818. There's gotta be one thing you don't like about Nixon.

819. You sure have a lot of records.

820. Yeah. I get most of 'em free.

821. I work in the business.

822. What business?

823. Hey, I smell grass. I smell grass, Badass.

824. Kid, I am giving this girl such a line of horseshit.

825. It is unbelievable.

826. Yeah. She loves it. She loves it.

827. Doing a man's job.

828. Talking... to ships.

829. Across miles and miles,

830. liquid real estate.

831. Ooh, big time.

832. How come you don't see more black officers?

833. 'Cause you got to have a recommendation from a white man usually.

834. Then how can you stay— Nothing that Nixon says disturbs you?

835. Is that right? Just tell me, is that right?

836. Henry, you're driving me crazy. Oh, shit.

837. You guys on leave, or what?

838. Liberty, you mean. Liberty.

839. No.

840. Well, uh, what are you guys doing, anyway?

841. They're taking me to jail.

842. I've seen things. I've seen men do things that—

843. I wouldn't even begin to tell you at a time like this, my fair darlin'.

844. I can see what it's done for you. Can you?

845. That's wonderful. Must be the uniform.

846. They are... cute, aren't they? Oh, yeah.

847. I like the‒ You know what I like about it?

848. One of my favorite things about this uniform...

849. is the way that it makes your dick look. Huh?

850. How did you feel about going to Vietnam?

851. The man says go, you gotta do what the man says.

852. We're living in this man's world, ain't we?

853. Oh, wow.

854. Eight years.

855. I get two off,

856. so it's only six.

857. Why don't you get away?

858. Get away?

859. To Canada.

860. I've got this friend, George Lucido.

861. He Shakubukued me. He's a group chief in Toronto.

862. I'll give you his number.

863. I couldn't. Why not?

864. It would be their ass.

865. What do you owe them?

866. They're my best friends, Donna.

867. Come on.

868. Where are we going? Come on.

869. What?

870. It's up to you.

871. But I'm gonna chant for you.

872. I'm gonna chant for you with my whole heart.

873. Chant?

874. Yes.

875. That you get away.

876. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

877. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

878. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

879. Badass?

880. What the fuck is it now, Meadows?

881. If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?

882. Did it get you laid? No.

883. Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for?

884. Chant your ass off, kid,

885. but any pussy you get in this world you're gonna have to pay for one way or another.

886. Hallelujah.

887. When do we get to Boston?

888. Two hours.

889. What time we got to be in Portsmouth?

890. Not after 1800 tomorrow.

891. Well, what do you think?

892. I think we oughta get the kid laid.

893. Laid? Excuse me.

894. Ever heard of it?

895. - Waiter? - Yes, sir.

896. I asked for my eggs over easy.

897. Well, they are over easy, sir. No, they're not.

898. I'm learnin'. I'm learnin'. Huh?

899. You're figurin' on taking that kid to a cathouse, ain't ya?

900. Yeah.

901. Come on, Mule. He's 18 years old, and he ain't never been fucked.

902. Next chance he gets, he's gonna be 26.

903. Yeah. He might not want any by then.

904. You mean, like right now, just go ahead and do it?

905. No, not this exact minute.

906. Later on tonight.

907. I think I would.

908. Yeah, get the old ashes hauled. Ashes hauled?

909. What are we doin'? Huh?

910. What are we doin'? Lookin' for a‒

911. There's a guy. Wait a minute.

912. Here, here, here, here.

913. Hey, hey!

914. - How they treatin' you, partner? - Fine, sailor. Where to?

915. Uh, just down the road.

916. Well, hell, let me tell you what we really want.

917. You look honest. I think I can trust you.

918. We're, uh‒

919. We're in transit, the three of us, see, and, uh,

920. we could really use the services of a decent whorehouse, you know what I mean?

921. One that don't hate G.I.s.

922. Sizable tip in it for you.

923. Save the tip. I get it at the other end.

924. - Hey, thanks a lot. - I've been in transit a few times too.

925. - I'm an old minesweep sailor myself. - Oh, yeah?

926. You're a swabbie? I thought you was. I did.

927. I thought he was a swabbie. Minesweep, eh?

928. Hi, boys. I'm Millie.

929. Hi, Millie. Come on in.

930. The Navy's always welcome here.

931. Welcome aboard.

932. Too late for Captain Kangaroo, ladies?

933. Let me tell you how it is, Mill.

934. We've got a friend here that we'd like to do a favor for.

935. He's going on a trip. Just him?

936. Just him. Well, what kind of party you after?

937. Well, it's‒ It's his party.

938. You name it, sailor.

939. Okay, sailor. Take your pick.

940. Pick a winner, kid.

941. Make it a good one, honey. It's gotta last a long time.

942. Sure. Anything you say.

943. Know what I mean?

944. Kid, you picked a real winner.

945. You boys just make yourselves comfortable.

946. He picked the same one I woulda.

947. She's a cute little thing, isn't she?

948. Uh, your coat, honey.

949. Come over here by the sink. Let me check you out.

950. Well, you're not going to have a bit of trouble.

951. Jesus Christ!

952. Well, that's what I call quick.

953. Look, those are the rules.

954. Doesn't matter if its ten hours or ten seconds.

955. Okay, toots, then we'll stake him to another shot.

956. I'm sorry.

957. Will you try it again, kid?

958. Yeah. Okay, honey.

959. Don't worry about it, kid. Plenty more where that came from.

960. You got all night, kid.

961. You ever been married?

962. Not so you'd notice.

963. Yeah. Once.

964. A little girl in Torrance. You know where that is?

965. Mm-mm.

966. It's near San Pedro on the way to Terminal Island, you know?

967. Dottie Brown.

968. She had great tits and wore angora sweaters all the time.

969. She wanted me to go to trade school and become a T.V. repairman.

970. Drive around all that smog and shit,

971. fixin' T.V.s out of the back of a V.W. bus.

972. I just couldn't do it.

973. - You ever been married? - Nah.

974. I still support my mama.

975. She can't brag enough about me.

976. Tells everybody all the places I go,

977. how many men are under me, all that shit.

978. Jim.

979. Yeah, man, I don't know what I would have done without the Navy.

980. Yeah.

981. I guess we're just a couple of lifers.

982. Yeah.

983. How was‒

984. How was what, honey?

985. Um‒

986. Well, you got off to a shaky start.

987. After that, you took to it like a duck to water.

988. I don't know if I have enough money to go again.

989. But I'll pay you what I have...

990. just to look at you.

991. Just to what?

992. Look at you.

993. I guess you haven't seen many girls with their clothes off, have you, honey?

994. Well, let me tell you. I've got a good body.

995. Not great, but pretty good.

996. It's beautiful.

997. What'd she say again?

998. "Let me check you out, honey."

999. I swear to God. Like it was in a gas station and she was checking the oil.

1000. And then‒ Then we know what happened.

1001. Yeah, but after.

1002. After‒

1003. Well, maybe it was an act for her.

1004. I mean, I know she was a whore,

1005. but I think she liked me.

1006. They got feelings just like everybody else, kid.

1007. She probably did.

1008. Well, it was real for me.

1009. That's what counts.

1010. Huh? Yeah.

1011. Welcome to the wonderful world of pussy, kid.

1012. Sink's yours.

1013. We don't have to be there till 1800.

1014. Takes an hour and a half to get to Portsmouth.

1015. We could go see a movie or two.

1016. We can get us a couple of six-packs, huh?

1017. Well, shit, man, we could even go back to the cathouse if you want to.

1018. No.

1019. I already did everything one time.

1020. That makes that one time stick out, you know what I mean?

1021. Yeah.

1022. Sure is a shit day. Ain't it the truth.

1023. Yeah, it is.

1024. If it was summer we could maybe have a picnic.

1025. Son of a bitch.

1026. Thank you.

1027. This wood's too fuckin' green, man. It ain't gonna burn.

1028. Huh?

1029. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

1030. What are you lookin' for? Buns.

1031. I forgot 'em. You forgot the buns?

1032. Yeah. How can you eat a hot dog without a bun?

1033. A hot dog's not a hot dog— Then don't eat the fuckin' thing then!

1034. Shit!

1035. It ain't bad.

1036. Mule.

1037. Shit.

1038. I don't want no fuckin' hot dogs.

1039. He don't eat 'em without buns.

1040. It's kinda like being at sea.

1041. I was on a weather ship once,

1042. off of Greenland.

1043. Right in the middle of winter.

1044. How was it? I like being at sea.

1045. Kid's come a long way in the last few days, ain't he?

1046. Yeah.

1047. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,

1048. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‒

1049. Let's get this over with.

1050. Yeah.

1051. Yeah.

1052. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

1053. He don't stand a chance in Portsmouth, you know.

1054. You know that, don't you?

1055. Goddamn grunts kicking the shit out of him for eight years.

1056. He don't stand a chance.

1057. I don't want to hear about it.

1058. Maggot this, maggot that.

1059. Marines are really assholes, you know that?

1060. Takes a certain kind of sadistic temperament to be a marine.

1061. What the fuck's he doing?

1062. Hey, Meadows!

1063. Huh?

1064. What's he doing?

1065. Bravo, Yankee.

1066. Bravo, Yankee.

1067. Bye-bye. End of the word. Hey, this son of a bitch is running away!

1068. - Meadows! Halt, you son of a bitch! - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

1069. Meadows!

1070. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‒ Meadows! Meadows!

1071. Meadows, you son of a bitch!

1072. Halt, you son of a bitch! Meadows!

1073. Halt, you motherfucker! Halt!

1074. - Don't shoot! Don't! - Halt, Meadows!

1075. Meadows!

1076. Goddamn! My fuckin' shoe!

1077. Meadows! Meadows!

1078. You son of a bitch!

1079. Son of a bitch!

1080. Son of a bitch!

1081. Buddusky, don't!

1082. Let me go, you bastard!

1083. Don't touch me! You bastard!

1084. You bastard!

1085. Shut up!

1086. Please let me go.

1087. I lost my— my—

1088. I lost— I lost my fuckin' shoe.

1089. Baker, Mooney. Prisoner from Norfolk.

1090. On the double.

1091. Where did you get the idea that strapping on an armband...

1092. and a sidearm entitles you to abuse a prisoner?

1093. They teach you that in the Navy?

1094. Or was that your idea of a good time? I guess.

1095. You guess what, sailor?

1096. Nothin'. Nothin'?

1097. Nothing, sir.

1098. Did the prisoner offer any resistance?

1099. No, sir.

1100. Did he try to escape?

1101. Not exactly.

1102. That's a little vague, Buddusky. Either he did or he didn't. Which is it?

1103. You don't have to look at him for the answer. Which is it?

1104. He didn't. He didn't what?

1105. He didn't try to escape.

1106. He didn't try to escape, sir.

1107. He didn't try to escape, sir.

1108. You haven't left yet. Sir?

1109. Your orders weren't endorsed when you left, so according to this, you're still in Norfolk.

1110. Well, we're standing here. It's not our fault.

1111. Yes, but you haven't left yet. It's not our fault.

1112. You haven't left! That's not our fault!

1113. Look, sir, we both got a lot of time in.

1114. - What's that supposed to mean? - Too much time to be hard-assed...

1115. because some dude in Norfolk forgot to endorse our orders.

1116. - You're asking for trouble, sailor. - I'm asking to see the X.O.

1117. Deep trouble.

1118. No.

1119. We ain't about to say anything else until we see the X.O.

1120. Now, get the hell out of here.

1121. You're supposed to pull a few copies.

1122. Goddamn grunts.

1123. Think they can get away with anything. Yeah.

1124. Tellin' me how to do my job.

1125. I know my job. I know my goddamn job better...

1126. than anybody else in the goddamn Navy.

1127. Yeah.

1128. We really told that son of a bitch, though, didn't we?

1129. Trying to ream our ass all over the place,

1130. and he don't even have enough sense to pull a few goddamn copies!

1131. Bunch of candy asses.

1132. I hate this motherfuckin' chickenshit detail.

1133. Where you goin'? Norfolk.

1134. I mean now. I don't know.

1135. Stop off in Baltimore, maybe. You?

1136. Back to New York, I guess.

1137. See you in Norfolk.

1138. Yeah. Maybe our fuckin' orders have come through.