Deadline at Dawn Page #3

Is that what you'd tell to a lady

with a daughter, a son...

...a belly gunner somewhere over Japan?

- Just a minute...

Do you get out or do I throw you out?

I'm sorry. l...

Would you do me a favor, Miss Goffe?

It's not my intention

to burden you with my problems...

...but I have a lot of money here.

It's no good to me. You could use it.

Go back to Norfolk. Surprise your mother.

This is real money, son.

I took it.

Let us pause for station identification.

- You stole this money?

- I did and I didn't.

In my book, you do or you don't.

She made me mad.

I didn't know what I was doing.

She and her brother run this Italian place

where I went in to eat.

He comes over, the brother. Gives me

a drink and asks me if I care to play casino.

We played two hours.

He was cheating like a skunk.

Then I was broke.

- Why didn't you stop him if you saw him?

- I was too embarrassed.

They closed up and the sister asked

would I come home and fix her radio?

Because that's my rating in the Navy.

Up her house, she kept...

...drinking and being disgusting

in general.

But I fixed the radio.

By this time, I had a few drinks,

which resulted in a real blackout for me.

- When I turned around, she was fast asleep.

- Passed out.

Yes.

I remember I demanded

if she'd pay me for the radio, I would go.

Then I worked it out in my mind.

I'd take the money myself

for fixing the radio.

- And that's as far as I remember.

- Until when?

Until I was sitting at a newsstand drinking

black coffee, which the fellow gave to me.

Then this roll of bills

fell out of my pocket.

So you see what I did in this uniform?

Fourteen hundred dollars

and some checks.

She's probably still out. Put it back.

Suppose I'm caught. Her brother,

he's got a face like the back of a hairbrush.

- He knows where I'm from.

- Then put it back.

Don't go into prayer and fasting

about it.

Might I leave my radio here?

You might not.

I'd be asleep when you got back.

I wonder if you would help me,

Miss Goffe.

- All you'd have to do is wait downstairs...

- No. No.

I should say not.

It's just because I'm in the uniform.

I'd take my medicine standing up

if not for that.

You see, Miss Goffe?

Suppose I was your brother,

the belly gunner, Miss Goffe.

What an operator.

There any more at home like you?

Which house?

That one.

Opposite the place with the two lights.

That's a police station,

that place with the two lights.

This is it, Miss Goffe.

Call me June. It rhymes with moon.

I'll turn on the radio

if anybody starts up after you.

Yes, thanks.

Come on. Come along now.

No. No, you don't, Pop. No, you don't.

You can't come in here.

Take my advice,

don't make the sergeant mad.

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