Ambush Bay Page #6

by rattlesnakes.

But what do you suggest, lady?

How far is it?

From here...

about a day and a half, with luck.

Have you heard

of the term "piggy-back"?

Is that an offer or a question?

Either way.

Don't you ever complain, Sergeant?

Sure.

I haven't heard you

say a word yet.

I'm in charge. I can't.

What did you do

before the war?

Complained.

Of what?

Everything.

The Depression...

Hitler...

Downtown Cincinnati,

my kid brothers...

You wanna swap life stories?

How many kid brothers?

Two.

Billy was killed in North Africa,

Don just made the Marine Corps.

When did you make

the Marine Corps?

December 8, 1941. 9:00 a.m.

What were you doing

when the war started?

Making love.

To a 40-year-old divorcee

who made a career out of her figure.

I meant where were you.

Fountain Plaza Hotel.

Beach boy...

...towel dispenser...

...head gigolo

all rolled into one.

Yeah, it was a great life.

Too bad there had to be a war.

Yes, isn't it?

My folks would still be

in their home in Long Beach...

instead of the internment camp

out by the Santa Anita Racetrack.

I suppose it's for our own protection.

Maybe they're afraid

we'll poison their gardens.

How did you...

how'd you get in this line of work?

I was a Civil Service employee

in Long Beach.

I had a good record.

So you volunteered?

So I volunteered.

I never thought it would take me to...

what it took me to.

But then the same

must be true for you.

Not quite.

You left something you liked.

You didn't?

Divorcees with suntans?

I meant yourself.

Don't you like yourself, Sergeant?

I didn't.

I like you.

Hey, I got clean and polluted.

Which do you want?

Clean, you idiot.

Nobody gets polluted until 5:00.

Idiot.

That was the first nice word

he'd ever said to me.

You are Americans?

Yeah.

What about her?

She is not an American.

Yes. American born.

American soldiers?

Marines.

Working for General MacArthur?

Well, yeah. Sort of.

Oh. Welcome, American soldiers.

Welcome.

Friends!

General MacArthur has returned!

Wait. Japanese.

Many soldiers.

Here soon.

Look for Americans.

Max, we gotta try

to get out of here.

How do we get to Bucan Bay?

Go behind...

...past water...

...boat there.

Take boat down Bucan Bay.

That's Koyamatsu.

- You know him?

- Yes.

He's sober now.

A human pig.

He'd torture you first.

I could detain him.

Max could drag me out of here.

Captain Koyamatsu

would be happy to see me.

I could tell him you disappeared

in the jungles, five miles back.

That you'd forced me

to go with you.

It could give you a chance.

Can you make him believe you?

Hold his attention?

I have always held his attention.

And if I know him,

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