China Beach
1988
Dr Dick Richard: You wanna keep it down? I can't hear the war.
Dr Dick Richard: Well, someone got up on the wrong side of the bedpan!
Soldier: Dr Richard, phone call for you. Dr Dick Richard: If it's Boston, tell them I'm in a mortar attack, I'll call back in I survive.
Cherry: I really feel for them. Colleen McMurphy: We all do. That's why we're here. Laurette Barber: Yeah, I never thought there'd be too much men for me to handle. K.C.: It's called supply and demand, ladies. When men are scarce, their value goes up. When men are plentiful, like they are here, the market value gets flooded. Laurette Barber: You're right. There's no place for us to hide. Cherry: I hate to say this, but if one more guy walks up to me, I swear I'm just gonna scream. Dr Dick Richard: Hello ladies. (Cherry, McMurphy, K.C. & Laurette all scream)
K.C.: Candy's dandy but liqueur's quicker.
Dr Dick Richard: I didn't save these men just so they could die. Dodger: We're dead already, nobody here gets out alive. Breathing maybe, eating, sleeping. Be ride the bus to work, cash a pay check, wait. But your life is there, here, always. Dr Dick Richard: You're very chatty tonight. Dodger: We were dead the day we got off the plane. Dr Dick Richard: You know, you'd make a great recruiter.
Colleen McMurphy: I remember thinking nothing had changed, the choppers coming in, the boys, and the body bags. Everything was exactly the same as the day I arrived, except for me.
Colleen McMurphy: Sex is a bad word, but it feels good. Love is a good word, but it hurts.
Dodger: (counting after each mortar explosion) 381... 217... 96... Dr Dick Richard: 96? Dodger: 96 feet. Dr Dick Richard: 96 feet what? Dodger: The drop. The distance from impact. (another mortar round explodes nearby) Dr Dick Richard: Damn it! Dodger: 77... well, their aim's getting good. Dr Dick Richard: This is a hospital. Can't they see the great big red cross on the building? Dodger: Don't care. Dr Dick Richard: We should get these men out of here. Dodger: There's no place to go. Out there, the VC, they own it. Right now, there're coming in along the river. They'll split off along the perimeter, with 25 men assaulting at each side. They'll come through the wires in twos. At the first sizable clearance, they'll come through that door and we'll be lucky to knock one or two of them down. Dr Dick Richard: Not the outside door? Dodger: No, never. What'd you expect?
Sergeant: All right listen. We got a division of NVA moving up through the valley. At 1900 hours the big boy 52s are gonna be dropping the heavy stuff just outside of the tree line where they'll be coming from. Now, you guys stay here in your foxholes, pull your helmets down to your heels and don't move until I come back. You understand? Don't move from here. Soldier: (to Dodger) A division? How many is that? Dodger: Too many.
Dr Colleen Flaherty Richards: (Wayloo has sauntered away after flirting with Dr Richard at a reunion) So, are there any women in this room who you *haven't* slept with?
Amn. Wayloo Marie Holmes: (Wayloo has a minor injury to her derriere) Is there a doctor around here? Dr Dick Richard: (hastily grabs the nearest stethoscope and dons it) I'm a doctor. Please play along.