"Which is it, Colonel?" "Lover or spy?" "I believe both." "Michelle's alive, and she's here." "I'm gonna find her." "Why hasn't she contacted you?" "Who is this Magnum?" "I don't know." "Perhaps your wife does." "The President just promoted you to full Commander." "And they give the condemned man a terrific last meal." "I asked Michelle to be my wife." "We've been hit!" "Even you couldn't make up a story this bizarre." "Michelle, behind you!" "Michelle!" "No!" "Michelle." "Dreams are supposed to represent your subconscious wishes and conflicts." "Sort of a private movie you write, produce and direct." "Only you can't hide your eyes in your dreams." "Even when they're scaring you to death." "Hi, guys." "I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong." "The dogs and I have had a truce for a couple of months now." "They let me alone, and I give them a steak once a week." "Of course, this week, all I could afford was hamburger." "Higgins!" "Higgins, do something." "Zeus, Apollo, sit." "Higgins, I'm getting tired of playing Little Eva on the ice floe." "You're dripping all over Robin Masters' Persian carpets." "Salt water, at that." "Well, that's usually what happens when one swims in the ocean." "One usually showers with fresh water before entering a house." "Some people have been known to towel themselves off." "Well, that's a little hard to do with these two on my butt." "No offence, guys." "I'm sorry, it's my fault." "I simply forgot to pull them in from night patrol." "You simply forgot?" "Come, Magnum, let's not make a big production out of it." "Look upon it is as a simple test." "A test?" "Yes, of your endurance, your speed, their teeth." "What have you been doing all night, Higgins?" "You been up toasting the regiment?" "I have been up all night writing." "I'm on what is known as a creative high." ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."" "Higgins, I think it's been published." "That's known as priming the pump." "I shall rewrite that on my edit." "Oh." ""Much of my formative years" ""were spent on the cricket fields of England." "I was known as Little Jonathan."" "Oh, Higgins, you're writing your memoirs." "Oh, how droll." "Give me that." "No." ""This nom de guerre" ""was an obvious reference" ""to Robin Hood's companion, Little John." ""For by the age of 14," ""I had attained the weight of 15 stone and a height of 6 feet."" "What do you want, Magnum?" "Nothing." "I was escorted in here." "Well, if you don't want to be escorted out," "I suggest you hand me that page and dry off." "Six feet?" "Let's see, I'm 6-foot-4." "Name it." "Well, let's see," "I could use a 35 mm reflex camera." "With the telephoto zoom, please." "That's a 200 mm lens." "Robin Masters paid $600 for that." "15 stone." "Let's see, a stone is 14 pounds." "That makes you..." "Thank you." "Oh, by the way, do you have any film?" "Zeus." "Apollo." "Ahh!" "Of course," "I could always pick some up in Honolulu." "Bye, you guys." "Sorry, lads." "Perhaps tomorrow." "Sunsets in Hawaii really are different." "Warmer, intenser, more romantic than anywhere I know in the world." "That is, if you have a girl." "If you don't, sunsets in Hawaii can be depressing." "And when you're depressed, there's only one thing to do." "Lose yourself in your work, which for me, happened to be a divorce case." "He was a used car dealer from Toledo and she was a school teacher from Cleveland." "His wife hired me to "get the goods on film,"" "as she put it." "Now that I had the goods," "I couldn't shake the feeling that I had just killed Romeo and Juliet." "Thank you." "I didn't like the wife." "She was a little too anxious to nail the little guy." "It didn't have anything to do with him, Just his money." "She was drooling over the thought of getting half of his used-car lot." "So why did I take the case?" "A guy has gotta eat to survive." "Or in my case, feed the dogs." "Maybe it was the sunset." "Maybe it was just that the two of them were obviously in love." "Or maybe, just maybe," "I'd done one divorce case too many." "Whatever it was, tossing the goods overboard sure made me feel a lot better." "There's a saying I've always loved:" ""Living well is the best revenge."" "Obviously, the people on the yacht knew it well." "My envy was fast changing to curiosity." "Occidentals and Orientals on million-dollar yachts aren't a common sight, even in Hawaii." "That's Michelle." "It's got to be." "What is going on here?" "Higgins, the red light was on." "Magnum, this area is off limits." "Consenting to let you use Robin Masters' camera in no way implied rights to the darkroom." "Rules are rules." "Without them, our life here would be chaos." "Of course, it's chaos with them, but that's beside the point." "I will not have my generosity taken as a sign of weakness." "Magnum, are you listening to me?" "Higgins, don't open that door, please." "This will cost you dearly." "I know." "Another divorce case?" "No." "Missing person?" "Yes." "Anyone I know?" "No." "Anyone famous?" "No." "Higgins, please develop the rest of the negatives." "I'll be back in a couple of hours." "No." "Come on, Higgins, I gave you carte blanche." "Precisely." "So why in the Queen's name should I do your tedious photographic work?" "Especially when I have my African campaign photos to copy." "Because it's very, very important to me." "You hit 20?" "Uh-huh." "Nobody hits 20." "I do." "Well, you're nuts." "Who won?" "2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14." "I'm $14 up on you." "Take a look at this." "Thomas, you won't believe what he did." "Who is she, guys?" "He hit on 20. 20!" "Damn it, Rick!" "Will you look at the picture?" "Please." "Yeah." "I don't know." "Of course, I can't see the face, especially with the sunglasses on." "But, man, believe me, with a body like this, if I were..." "I don't know who she is." "Neither do I." "But I guess you do." "Look, T.C., look at the hair." "Look at the shape of her face." "Look at the way she tilts her head." "Look, T.M., I guess you know who she is, so why don't you tell us?" "It's Michelle." "Why don't we take a walk?" "I don't want to take a walk." "Yeah, but I do." "You know, bro," "I've never seen Magnum act like this before." "Who is this Michelle?" "My wife." "I asked Michelle to be my wife." "You asked her to marry you?" "That's what I said." "Yeah, well, you must be nuts." "No, just in love." "Yeah, well, so am I, but I don't marry 'em." "Well, I do." "Hey, don't you know there's a war going on?" "Where?" "Damn!" "We've been hit!" "You see what even thinking about marriage can get you?" "Remember that time you took me surfing off Nha Trang?" "Man, up until that time, the only waves I had seen were the ones when I slipped in the bathtub." "But now, here I am out there where the big chompers live on a little bitty board trying to make like some Hollywood hotshot in Malibu." "She's alive, T.C." "No, she ain't, man." "I took that picture of her yesterday." "No, you took a picture of someone who looked like her a little, from the side..." "A lot." "From the front." "I saw her face from the front." "Yeah?" "Well, how come you didn't take a picture of her?" "I told you, I tried, but she turned ahead just as I started shooting." "I couldn't get another shot." "Uh-huh." "What about this big, fancy yacht she was on?" "I couldn't find it." "I searched Honolulu Harbor until 5:00 this morning." "It must have gone up the coast or to one of the other islands." "Don't you see what you're doin'?" "First you tell me about this dream you had about Michelle, about trying to save her." "Then the very next day, you see her on this big yacht through the long lens of your camera." "You can't get a picture unless her back is to you." "And even though you're a private investigator, you can't find an 80 or 90-foot yacht." "You think I'm hallucinating, that I'm crazy?" "No." "For what?" "For wishing someone you love back to life?" "No, I don't think that's crazy." "I think trying to find her is." "Michelle is dead." "Our own people verified that." "No." "Bodies were found." "They were burned and in pieces." "We were pulling out." "It was our last day in Saigon." "Now, what if somebody made a mistake?" "What if she wasn't in that hospital when it was hit?" "Come on, Thomas." "Now, hear me out!" "Damn it!" "Now, what if..." "What if somebody just assumed that... that she was on duty and to keep the record straight, he just counted the bodies, and checked the roster, and just let it go at that, so he could get his butt out of Nam." "Okay, okay, okay, let's say you're right." "Let's say she is alive and here in the islands." "Why hasn't she contacted you?" "Maybe she doesn't know I'm here." "Man, she's your wife." "All she would have to do would be to pick up the phone and call the Navy." "They'd tell her where you are, at least your last location." "Even better, she could have looked you up in the phone book." "No, see, I have thought about that, T.C." "I've thought about it a lot." "Now, say she was in that hospital when she was rocketed." "I mean, she would have been wounded." "She might have been buried in the rubble." "So she is listed as killed." "Charlie takes Saigon, they find her, and they hold her until she's able to escape, probably with some boat people." "Why hasn't she contacted you?" "Well, it would have all been pretty traumatic." "Maybe she has amnesia." "You believe that?" "No, but it's possible!" "It's also possible I might hook up with Diana Ross, but I ain't counting' on it." "Well, I'll take what I can get." "You know, it took you a long time to get over Michelle's death, man, if you ever did." "And you just should not go trying to scratch a wound that's beginning to heal, man." "You... you could get infected real bad." "Real bad." "They're late." "Yes." "A negotiating ploy?" "We shall see." "What shall you give them?" "Today, nothing." "Tomorrow?" "I will decide that after our meeting today." "It never ceases to amaze me." "They're willing to give up so much for nothing." "The remains of their airmen are not nothing to them." "They are stupid." "I suppose they are." "Have you discovered any leads to The Tiger?" "I've only been here for 48 hours." "You insisted I go on that cruise." "It takes time to make contacts, to check my sources." "The Tiger is very careful and has the help of the American intelligence community." "You know, Col. Ki," "I really don't understand you." "You are extraordinarily competent, well-trained by our KGB friend," "I am sure the finest of your type in all of Vietnam." "You don't have to make excuses and yet you do." "Why?" "I was not making excuses." "Merely pointing out with accuracy what has transpired in the limited time I have been in Hawaii." "They did this on purpose!" "Present-hut!" "Forward-hut!" "Sorry we're late, General." "Equipment failure." "I had to replace one of my choppers." "So I had my pilot take a short cut, come in the back door, so to speak, to save time." "I hope we didn't shake you up." "Not at all, Admiral." "But if you're having equipment problems, perhaps we should discuss returning some of your helicopters." "We have quite a collection of them in Vietnam." "This way, gentlemen." "Madam Hue, it's a pleasure to see you again." "And you, Admiral." "I hope that after your discussions with my husband, you and your officers will join us for lunch." "With pleasure." "I have always enjoyed Vietnamese cooking." "After your talks, then." "Admiral." "I would like to propose a toast to the luckiest couple in Saigon, me and T.C." "Say what?" "I mean it." "We are the last of the bachelors." "Everyone else we know is married." "Orville, I've heard you say some dumb things in my life, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard you say." "No, I think that's a good toast." "I'll drink to that." "You'll drink to anything." "You've only been married three hours and already she's cuttin' you off of the booze." "Well, no bride wants to see her man intoxicated on their wedding night." "I mean, really..." "You're blushing." "No, I am not." "Yes." "Isn't he blushing?" "Mmm-hmm." "Well, wouldn't you?" "Yeah, but who would notice?" "And I got one more toast." "Yes." "No." "And this one is gonna kill you." "Did you arrange this?" "Of course." "What's a wedding without fireworks?" "Thomas, I'm scared." "So am I." "At least if we both died now, it would be okay." "No it wouldn't." "We'd die happy." "I'd rather live happy." "The Vietcong may not let us." "You see, you see this?" "Hmm?" "That's magic stuff." "Nothing can get through it." "You see." "Don't worry." "They're not going to kill us, Michelle." "I promise." "It's okay." "I say, Magnum, may I come in?" "I, uh, knocked quite a few times." "I'm sorry, Higgins." "My mind was on something else." "What can I do for you?" "You could offer me a drink." "Oh, of course." "I'm sorry." "Uh, brandy, please." "To the regiment." "To the regiment." "Magnum, I don't know if you're pulling my leg, as you Yanks put it, or not, but you are acting frightfully strange." "Strange?" "Yes." "You're being nice." "I'm sorry, Higgins." "I didn't know that was bad." "No." "With anyone else it wouldn't be, but with you, one must be suspicious." "Well, I will try and revert to type." "Please." "You're upsetting our relationship." "Being nice makes me quite uncomfortable." "Does that mean you don't want anything for me using the darkroom this morning?" "Not that uncomfortable." "I'm debating whether to take the Ferrari for a month or have you exercise the lads until I'm done writing my memoirs." "Exercise the dogs?" "How?" "By having them chase you, of course." "Well, I must be off." "I'm writing a frightfully exciting chapter on the woman I almost married, the Lady Ashley." "She was constructed like the Prince Albert Memorial." "All..." "Well, in any case, she deserves a good chapter." "Oh, by the by, here are the prints you wanted me to make for you." "Well, I had finished developing my campaign pictures and, uh, the solution was still good." "So..." "Higgins, that's really very decent of you." "Yes." "It is, isn't it?" "Maybe T.C. Was right." "Maybe I didn't want to let her go." "Why didn't I take a better picture of her?" "Was it because if I did," "I'd see she really wasn't Michelle?" "And what about the yacht?" "Why couldn't I find it?" "If I'd been thinking clearly," "I guess I would have thought to get a picture of the name before it disappeared." "Magnum, you're positively disgusting." "Higgins, I'm not interested in her decolletage, just what this is around her neck." "Were you be able to lose the flare?" "Of course." "I gave it a longer exposure, approximately 35 seconds." "But whatever it is, it's going to be blurred." "You realize of course that if you had shot this at an f-16 instead of f-8, you would have had a greater depth of field and a sharper image." "A steadier hand would have helped, too." "Although I realize the difficulty in holding focus on a moving object," "I remember once off Kwangju..." "I was trying to take some combat photos of a Japanese destroyer from the deck of a motor torpedo boat on the attack." "As you can imagine, it was terribly difficult." "I finally managed to brace myself against the forward launch tube." "There I was, eyes blinded by salt spray, hands trembling with excitement." "I really must remember to put that in my memoirs." "I say." "That's the same French croix you have on your ring." "How bloody curious." "General, you do admit that a number of our pilots are buried in North Vietnamese cemeteries." "Yes." "Then why can't you return those remains?" "We sometimes buried three or four of your people in a single grave marking them with a Vietnamese name." "And why was that?" "Most of our people are simple farmers." "If you knew where someone was buried who had bombed your village, killed and murdered your wife and babies, napalmed your parents," "destroyed your rice with poisons..." "General, this is not a press conference." "Would you please simply answer the question?" "We buried them in those graves to protect them." "Yes." "And we greatly appreciate the steps you took to protect our dead." "Now we would also appreciate you returning them, now." "Many of those cemeteries were in villages bombed by your B-52s." "The records were lost." "Homes, schools, hospitals, even the cemeteries themselves were destroyed." "I had made it a point over the years to avoid the section of Honolulu called "Little Saigon", afraid it would bring back too many memories." "But now that I knew" "Michelle was alive and in the Islands, it was the first place I thought to look for her." "I'd lost her in Old Saigon." "Maybe I could find her in this new one." "What are you doing here?" "Oh, I got lonely for the old days, thought I would come down here to get a little Oriental soul food." "What do you think I'm doin' here?" "I'm lookin' for you." "Figured you might need a little help." "Hey, Thomas, what you..." "T.M., you've been..." "T.C., look, I appreciate what you're doing." "I know you got the best intentions..." "I know..." "I know..." "Best intentions in the world." "But I'm not suffering from delayed stress, and I'm not Looney Tunes." "Michelle is alive and she's here in the Islands." "Yeah, I know." "What?" "We know." "Orville and I went to your place looking for you." "Higgins showed us the blowup." "Man, is that little guy confused." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just pull me all about." "Rick, what the hell are you doing?" "While you were diddy-bopping, little Victor Charlie here has been on your tail." "What?" "Will you let him go?" "Yeah." "He... he's right." "We spotted him a while back." "You two gone nuts?" "Come here." "You okay, son?" "Will you speak English?" "Go ahead, son." "Take off." "Why did you turn that kid loose?" "Will you knock it off, Rick?" "Listen, Thomas, he understands." "Man, you forget real quick, don't you?" "Hey, let's drop it." "I don't believe you guys." "You really take the cake." "You come here looking for me, you roust a kid, you damn near start a riot." "This is Honolulu, and in case you haven't heard, the war's over." "Thomas, that kid was sneakin' up on you." "To do what?" "Frag me?" "No, but maybe..." "If that kid was following me, it was to hit me up for an ice cream cone." "Hey, man, it's this part of town." "It's enough to make anybody paranoid." "Well, I don't care." "That's no excuse." "Okay, okay, maybe you guys are right." "I guess I thought I got all that kind of stuff out of my head, but it's the smell and the sound around here." "And then seeing that kid doggin' you," "I guess I freaked out for a couple of minutes." "I'm sorry." "No." "I'm the one who should apologize." "It just came up on you and bit you in the butt when you weren't looking." "You know, I forgot what a pretty woman she was." "Nothin', huh?" "Nope." "Hey, you got any more of those pictures, Thomas?" "Yeah." "Well, fish 'em out." "Three of us can cover this village faster than one." "What's wrong?" "That little turkey stole my wallet." "Back up." "War's over, huh?" "At least they're not wearing black pajamas." "No cash." "Oh, money." "One, two, three..." "I knew that Ferrari wasn't his." "Who is she?" "A woman I was hired to find." "I'm a private investigator." "I could have proved that if that kid hadn't stolen my wallet." "Who hired you?" "I can't tell you that." "It's confidential." "Do you want your brains splattered all over the sidewalk?" "He did." "Thanks, pal." "Why do you want to find this woman?" "That's my business, monkey breath." "Good, good, make friends with the man." "Why don't you stick to driving and cooking?" "Drivin' and cooking'?" "Shut up now!" "Why do you seek this woman?" "It's none of your business." "Oh, come on, tell him." "I don't want my brains splattered all over just because I..." "I..." "I only get $200 a day." "$200?" "You pay him $200, and you only pay me" "$25 a day, the way I drive?" "The way you cook, you're lucky you get paid at all." "Why do you seek her?" "She was... she was my girlfriend in Nam." "What's so funny?" "Nothin'." "Don't tell me "nothin'." You're laughing at somethin'." "It's just that I can't imagine a short turkey like you with a woman like that." "Let's see just how hot you are without a piece, fuzzball." "You all right?" "Yeah." "What did that guy hit me with?" "You let them get away?" "Oh, what happened to yours?" "Oh, that crowd kind of ran interference for him." "Face it, T.C., you let him outrun you." "I didn't let him do nothing." "What's you guys' excuse?" "Rick's guy was bigger than he was." "Everybody's bigger than he is." "This look familiar?" "Yeah, it's a Tokarev Star 9 mm." "North Vietnamese regulars carried it." "I hope you have an uneventful flight back to Pearl Harbor." "Over here, the natives don't shoot at us, General." "At least not yet." "You never slack off, do you?" "Perhaps when the negotiations are over." "I look forward to that." "Madam Hue, again, thank you for your gracious hospitality." "The pleasure was ours, Admiral." "Who is this Magnum?" "I don't know." "Perhaps your wife does." "He was looking for her on the street they call "Little Saigon."" "Do you know this man?" "I've never seen this man before in my life." "We spent the rest of the day and night in Little Saigon, striking out." "No one knew Michelle, the three yo-yos, or the kid who stole my wallet." "Or to be more accurate, no one admitted knowing them." "By the time I hit the rack, it was nearly dawn." "It ended up being my second night without sleep and I knew there would be a lot more until I found her." "Oh, no." "Come on, guys." "It was then" "I decided to switch from lorries to camels." "A decision that would someday be credited as important as..." "Higgins!" ""A decision that would some day be credited as important as..."" "Churchill's decision to bomb Berlin." "Yes, yes." "Quite good." "Higgins, call off the dogs!" "What Lawrence had accomplished in the First Worid War," "I was determined to accomplish in the Second." "It was no small deed to lead a company of desert rats into that beastly hell." "Higgins, please call off the dogs!" "Good God, how is a man supposed to write around here?" "Yes?" "Magnum in?" "He's exercising the dogs." "I told you he's occupied." "Well, he'll have to get unoccupied." "I have a personal message for him from the President of the United States." "This is a joke." "I'm afraid not." "They can't do this to me." "I resigned my commission." "Well, the President just un-resigned it." "Well, Mac, I thought we fought a war against the British over impressment." "Yeah, we did." "That was the War of 1812." "That's funny, isn't it?" "No, it's not funny." "The Navy can't just pop into my life and say, "Anchors Aweigh."" "Well, we just did." "Why?" "I don't know." "Mac!" "Okay." "I can't lie to you, even though I..." "I have every right to, the way you con and hoodwink me." "It's got something to do with the DOD investigation into your unit in Nam." "Uh, they want you back to Washington to testify." "What, in uniform?" "Would you go if they just asked?" "Who had these orders cut?" "Well, it says the President." "Come on, Mac, you know what I mean." "Who requested I be reactivated?" "Col. Greene." "Buck Greene?" "Yeah, that's his nickname." "Uh, you know him?" "Yeah, Mac." "We served together in Nam on my last tour." "He was the Marine S-2 Officer attached to our TOC." "Very gung ho." "Is he stationed here?" "Yeah." "But... but you're not." "I've got to get you on a C-141 in the morning for Washington at 0600." "I am not going." "No way." "Thomas, don't make me do this the hard way." "The hard way?" "I've got two marine MPs out by the gate." "Maybe you can get by them, but you're gonna be AWOL." "There's not a court in the land that would convict me." "Maybe not a civil court, but you're in the military now." "And I..." "I know a lot of brass who would just love to see you in a brig at Norfolk." "Well, look at the bright side of this, there's a positive side." "The... the Navy will release you from active duty just as soon as you testify." "And Washington's beautiful this time of year, uh, and filled with lovely ladies, just especially for a Navy Commander." "I was a Lieutenant." "Well, not anymore." "The President just promoted you to full Commander, sir." "And they give the condemned man a terrific last meal, too." "With this ring, I thee wed." "Then, under the eyes of God, and by the powers vested in me by the Holy Roman Catholic Church," "I pronounce you man and wife." "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." "My last confession was April 29, 1975." "It's me, Michelle." "Thomas knows I'm alive and here." "He was looking for me in Little Saigon." "Someone stole his wallet and delivered it to Col. Ki." "I was afraid of something like this." "At least he's taken care of now until the negotiations are over." "How?" "Don't worry." "Nothing with prejudice." "I want to see him." "Impossible." "Arrange it." "I am not going to risk your being discovered just so you can see an old lover." "He was my husband, and if you want me to continue, set up the meeting." "Do you understand?" "When?" "Tonight, after novena." "Here." "I'll try." "I would do more..." "I would do more than try, Father." "Damn." "When Mac served me with the Presidential order, my first thought was to rabbit." "Then I realized the Navy was giving me a wonderful opportunity." "And I don't mean Buck Greene's trip to Washington." "That was a smoke screen." "He wanted to get rid of me for a while, and it had to have something to do with Michelle." "What, I didn't know, but I had a feeling the answer would be in the Naval Intelligence computer here at Pearl." "All I had to do was get access to it." "Any party crasher will tell you the key to getting in when you don't belong, is to look like you do." "And the Navy had been kind enough to put me on the base in uniform." "I figured I could bluff my way through the rest." "Yes, sir, Commander?" "MacReynolds." "Cryptic section." "You're new here aren't you, son?" "No, sir." "Been pulling duty here for about six months." "Sir, may I see that ID again, please?" "Do you always get ketchup on your blouse, son?" "Uh, no, sir." "Sorry, sir." "I must have done that at chow." "Well, I didn't think you did it at morning calisthenics." "You do fall out for calisthenics, don't you?" "Uh, no, sir." "Seamen on dogwatch aren't required to." "Well, I know one who will if I see spots like that on his uniform again." "Yes, sir." "Sir, that ID again, please." "Oh, of course." "That's very good, Corporal." "Now that's the way a trouser crease should look." "Although you could use a little more spit on that shoe shine." "Aye, aye, sir." "Sir." "What is it?" "The Seaman asked to see that ID card." "But he already saw it." "Yes, sir, but not close enough to let you through security and certainly not till I check it through the personnel computer." "Computer?" "Right." "Of course." "L..." "I forgot some papers in my car." "Tell you what." "I expect to be cleared by the time I come back." "Sir!" "Halt, please!" "Hey, Mac." "Couldn't sleep, huh?" "I know I get the same feeling when I've eaten too much." "Magnum, shut up." "Hey, come on, Mac..." "I don't wanna hear another word out of you, Magnum!" "Not one word." "Gi-give me my name tag." "What happened?" "He had your ID, sir." "Tried to use it to bluff his way through security." "I just wanted to see my old office." "If he says another word, gag him." "Come on, Mac." "What are you so hot about?" "I'm responsible for you until you catch your flight tomorrow and I have no intentions of giving Col. Greene any excuse to ship me to Guam for a year." "I wouldn't do that to you, Mac." "Attention." "At ease." "Magnum." "Been a while." "Yeah, a few years." "How's it feel to be back on active duty?" "Confining." "You wanna tell me what you're after here?" "Oh, it's a nostalgic tour." "I heard the Navy had preserved my old office exactly the way I left it." "I'll sign that release." "Well done." "Step over here." "I'm not getting on that flight, Buck." "Magnum..." "You stay out of this, Mac." "I don't know how, I don't know why, but Michelle's alive, and she's here, and you're mixed up in it." "You're the key." "Now I'm gonna find her." "And I don't care if I have to blow the lid off whatever operation you're running, and no matter who it hurts." "And I mean it." "You think he means it, Mac?" "Yes, sir, I do." "Then we'd better take him to Michelle." "Don't you ever knock, Colonel?" "Yes?" "What is it?" "The man who was seeking your wife in Little Saigon." "Magnum." "Yes?" "I have learned that he and your wife were lovers." "There is even a possibility they were married." "Then that would explain why he was looking for her, wouldn't it?" "Perhaps." "Damn it, Colonel!" "If you have something to say, say it." "This Magnum was a Naval Intelligence Officer who fought against us." "A key member of one of their assassination teams." "He left their navy two years ago to become a private investigator." "I believe he is a member of the CIA." "Go on, Colonel." "There is a possibility that The Tiger we seek is a Tigress." "That is Madam Hue, and her contact is Magnum." "Which is it, Colonel?" "Lover or spy?" "I believe both." "Then why would this Magnum be searching for her?" "If he's her CIA contact, he'd certainly know how to reach her!" "I feel I must interrogate" "Madam Hue and Magnum to answer that." "You're looking for scapegoats!" "You're running out of time and you have no idea who The Tiger is, where The Tiger is!" "So, you are trying to involve my wife because she is French and was a nurse in South Vietnam." "With all due respect, General Hue," "I have my own authority." "I came here to tell you this out of courtesy, not necessity." "You came out of hate and petty jealousy." "You forget, General, that this mission of yours is simply to provide me time to find The Tiger." "And when I find him, or her, to execute whoever it is in as public a manner as possible." "As you say, you have your own authority." "But if you are wrong..." "I give you my word, every precaution will be taken not to permanently harm Madam Hue." "She is quite beautiful..." "Do not say any more, Colonel." "Not one word more!" "She never did tell you she was married to a North Vietnamese officer?" "Of course she did." "She also told me he'd been killed in the Tet Offensive." "That's what she thought." "The week we were pulling out of Saigon, she found out he was alive." "Why the hell didn't she tell me?" "She was afraid to." "Afraid you wouldn't leave." "Damn right." "Not without her." "Michelle's a very devout Catholic, Tom." "As far as she's concerned, her marriage to you wasn't legal, especially in the eyes of the Church." "So you set it up to look like she'd been killed." "I had to." "She begged me to." "It was the only way she could get you to leave Nam." "In exchange for what, Buck?" "Little Saigon." "You didn't answer me." "She's been my contact in Saigon." "You bastard." "You know better than that." "She's married to a high-ranking NVA officer." "Of course I asked her to be a contact!" "It wasn't any precondition to helping her." "If she'd have said no, I'd have still done it." "You had a gun to her head!" "You're involved emotionally in the situation." "And it's clouding your judgment." "If it was me instead of you, you'd have done the same thing." "No." "No, I wouldn't." "I'd never use anybody as vulnerable as she was for a little information." "We'd lost the war, Buck." "It was over." "That war's never over." "Uh, Thomas, the chapel is at the end of the street." "She'll be praying to the Virgin Mother." "Colonel, are you gonna let him go, just like that?" "I know Magnum." "He's gonna run with her." "You can't run with someone unless they want to run with you, Mac." "Michelle may be in love with Magnum." "But Madam Hue will never leave her husband." "You sure you don't want any of this?" "I wouldn't touch it in Nam." "I'm not gonna start now." "I don't know why not." "It's delicious." "Over there it was mostly dog, or cat, or rat." "Of course, I'm sure it's different here." "Col. Ki is on his way." "To the church?" "Yes." "He hopes to find Madam Hue with Magnum." "Ki knows Magnum's here?" "No." "He only suspects she's with him." "He believes Magnum is CIA." "We gotta get them out of there." "Maybe not." "But if he catches them in there together..." "He may think he's made The Tiger." "Michelle's not The Tiger." "Colonel, you can't do this." "It isn't right." "That's one way" "Magnum and Michelle can be together." "If they escape." "But that's not why you're doin' it." "You're... you're trying to throw Ki off The Tiger's trail." "Keep your voice down, Lieutenant." "Would Magnum want this chance or not?" "Yeah, but..." "No buts." "If it works, it works for all of us." "Our marriage was not valid in the eyes of the law or the Church." "And what of our love?" "I loved Hue, and he is my husband." "Do you love him as much as you love me?" "Michelle," "what we had, what we still have" "is something that happens maybe once in a lifetime." "Don't throw it away." "There are laws that supersede love." "What, laws of the Church?" "No." "Laws of God." "The Church is only His instrument." "Thomas." "There are things one must cling to, to survive." "My faith is one of those." "It has sustained me through a lifetime of war." "I have seen everyone and everything" "I have ever loved destroyed." "I have survived because of my faith." "Don't ask me to throw it aside now." "Why are you saying all this to me now?" "Why didn't you tell me this in Saigon when he was..." "When you found out he was alive?" "Why did you lie, and why did you let me think you were dead?" "Because..." "Go through the pain." "Because I knew you would never leave Vietnam without me." "Thomas, I couldn't stand the thought of seeing you captured or destroyed, used as a pawn, traded for a shipment of rice." "You would never have left Vietnam without me, would you?" "No." "Just tell me something." "Why are you seeing me now?" "Why open up my guts and have me bleeding all over the floor?" "Because I love you." "Thomas." "I love you more than anything in this world." "I didn't know you were Catholic, Colonel." "And I didn't know you were so devout." "Prayers this afternoon and tonight, too." "Or do you come here to confess your sins?" "Good night, Colonel." "One moment." "How dare you." "Where is he?" "Unless you want Madam Hue shot, follow me." "Now!" "Don't do it, Thomas." "All the way, please." "My husband will have your head for this, Colonel." "Madam, your husband knows all about this." "Let's go." "No!" "Who's this Tiger?" "What do you know of The Tiger?" "Oh, those NVA types who jumped us in Little Saigon, they said something in Vietnamese about being after The Tiger." "Who is he?" "He heads the new revolutionary front." "What?" "Say it again." "I don't think I heard you right." "Yes, you did." "It is starting again?" "Well, there are many from the North who are as disillusioned with the reunification and party leadership as those in the South." "The most effective of these is called The Tiger." "He says the party has betrayed the people, has sold out to Moscow." "Does that include your husband?" "Yes." "That is why he insisted upon having the MIA negotiations here in Hawaii instead of Hanoi." "He and Col. Ki knew that The Tiger would be here this month to organize the refugee community and to negotiate for aid from your CIA." "The Tiger would trust us?" "No." "But he would take aid from anybody." "The Chinese, the Americans." "Anyone but the Russians." "Do you know who he is?" "No." "Why would I?" "Buck Greene admitted to me that you work for him." "Is that why Col. Ki came after you?" "I don't know." "Thomas, please, no." "Thomas." "No, please." "It's like we've never been apart." "As if those six years didn't exist." "But they do." "No." "Not at this moment, they don't." "Thomas, no." "One moment, please, General." "I realize she is your wife." "She's also an enemy of the people." "Do not allow your feelings for her to destroy you, too." "Do not tell me my duty." "Michelle." "Hue." "Where are you?" "It doesn't matter." "Can I speak?" "Yes." "What is going on?" "Last night, Col. Ki came to the church looking for me." "He said you knew he was there and... and that I should go with him." "Why?" "He believes that you are The Tiger." "Oh, Col. Ki is a fool." "Yeah." "On that we agree." "Oh, Hue." "What am I to do?" "I am your husband." "I will protect you." "I am afraid even to believe you." "I love you, Michelle." "There is so much that you don't know." "I know of your marriage to the American." "What?" "You thought I was dead." "It is understandable." "Meet me, Michelle." "To talk, to work this out." "Michelle." "Michelle." "There are times you know the worst has happened without anyone telling you." "My heart was racing, my palms were beginning to sweat." "I knew my nightmare was beginning again." "Only this time, I was wide awake." "Thomas, darling, some people have a lifetime to love." "You and I seem destined to have but a few moments." "Yet I know no one on God's earth can love more than we have." "I do what I must." "To do otherwise would destroy not only me, but eventually our love." "Please try to understand that." "And know that I have loved you since the first day I saw you." "I will continue to love you until the last day of my life, and beyond." "Your wife, Michelle." "Higgins." "Magnum." "I don't want to hear one word from you, not one bloody word." "It's been quite a few years since I retired from the regiment." "True I may have put on a stone or two, but that's to be expected when one leaves the rigors of Army life for a civilian position." "Higgins, I..." "I think you're in amazing shape for a man your age." "For a man my age?" "Sorry." "Uh, I didn't mean it to sound like that." "Higgins, I need your help." "Magnum, you always need my help." "Or something of mine, or Mr. Masters'..." "You look bloody awful." "Are you all right?" "No, but that doesn't matter." "I need your help to find my wife." "Higgins." "I thought you said you needed help to find your wife." "I did." "She... she was here last night and now she's gone." "I think she went back to her husband." "Oh, wait, wait, I gotta explain." "That doesn't make any sense." "See, technically, she's not my wife, because he wasn't dead when we were married." "Then when I found out that she was..." "This sounds crazy even to me." "Magnum." "I'm not crazy, Higgins." "Look, the photo." "Uh, where's that blowup that you and I made?" "Now, this woman, the one on the boat, she's my wife." "Okay, you showed these photos to T.C. And Rick." "What did they do?" "They ran out acting marmalades." "That's because they knew my wife always wore this cross." "It's the same cross as our team ring, and they realized she was alive." "Higgins, look, I promise I'll explain it all to you later." "Right now, I just need your help, no questions asked." "Right." "What do you want me to do?" "Keep an eye on me." "If I get in trouble, I'll tug on my ear." "Got you." "Oh, no." "Oh, yes." "Pardon me." "Can you tell me if Col. Greene ever commanded this vessel?" "No." "But I believe she had a navigator by that name." "Thank you for coming, Captain." "When did The Tiger approach you people?" "Less than 48 hours ago." "Quite frankly, we didn't know whether he was legitimate or just some bloody refugee trying to pull another scam." "How did you know to contact me?" "He told me." "You can stop signaling, Buck." "I've got MacReynolds." "Thank you, Higgins." "Any time, old boy." "Come here." "I always said you were good." "Turn around." "A little too sentimental, perhaps, but good." "Last night, I've got pretty well figured out." "You provided the cover fire so Col. Ki could see Michelle with me." "You want him to think she's an agent, maybe The Tiger." "What do you know about The Tiger?" "Not much." "But you're gonna brief me." "I can't do that, Tom." "Oh, shucks, Buck." "Why not?" "Rules are rules." "Yeah." ""An eye for an eye" is my favorite one." "I think Michelle is gonna die because of you." "What do you think?" "You're right." "Col. Ki believes she is The Tiger." "And I want him to think that." "At least until the real Tiger can finish his work here and return to Nam." "Which is?" "Set up a network of refugees, gather support, arrange funding, weapons, form a political base." "Oh, come on, Buck, you're not gonna dance to that fiddler again." "Well, that's not for me to say." "But in the meantime, we're trying all the channels we can to do whatever we can to get the bodies of our boys back." "Where's Michelle?" "Waiting to join her husband." "Can he protect her from Col. Ki?" "He'll try." "But he's counting on you to do that." "Can't." "Too risky." "It could..." "Blow his cover?" "He's The Tiger." "That's why I can't intervene." "Once, last night at the church, was risky enough." "Twice in 24 hours, no way." "Col. Ki would put it together." "He'd know we were being tipped off and he'd realize the man he's hunting is General Hue." "He probably already does." "Either way, you can't let Michelle walk into it!" "She was safe, she could have stayed with you." "Where is she?" "Sorry." "I can't tell you that." "Buck." "Go ahead." "Pull the trigger." "I won't jeopardize this operation just so you can have General Hue's wife." "Say again?" "If he's dead, the lady stays with you." "He knows it, she knows it, I know it." "And so do you." "I left Buck and Mac with Higgins, who was holding them with stories from his memoirs." "He was also holding Mac's.38." "Rick and T.C. Headed into Little Saigon to see if they could plain luck out and spot Michelle before she met the General and Col. Ki." "And I was driving to where I prayed she would be." "The scary part of all this was that Buck was right." "Deep down inside that little black box we all carry around was hiding a scared little man ready to kill Just to be loved." "I had to find Michelle." "Not just to save her, but to save me." "No." "Thomas, no." "Michelle." "Well, I'll be..." "Look!" "Hey, hey, hey." "Michelle!" "You, freeze!" "Let her go." "Back up the stairs slowly." "You, too." "Tell Thomas I'm sorry, but I have to go." "There is no other way." "Back up the stairs slowly!" "Move it." "Michelle!" "Michelle, behind you!" "Oh, Thomas!" "Traitor." "That would solve all our problems, wouldn't it?" "Hue, tell her who you are, what you're doing." "I'm afraid the whole world may know that now." "No." "Tell the world The Tiger was Col. Ki." "Michelle can help you sell that." "Only if she goes with me." "I know that." "Oh, Thomas, why couldn't you have stayed out of it?" "Because I love you." "And I love you." "But..." "But you have to go." "I understand." "Michelle." "Keep safe, until we..." "Keep safe, my love." "The C-133, bearing the bodies of six American airmen released through secret negotiations with the Vietnamese representatives arrived today at Hickam Field before flying the last leg of the flight home." "For these men, the war ended long ago in a rice paddy or a muddy river, or a fireball high in the sky over Hanoi." "But for their families and thousands of others" "Vietnam is a war that will never end until all the boys come home." "And for some, not even then."