Josh Hartnett credited as playing...
Danny Walker
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: I heard what you did.
- Rafe: We can explain that, sir.
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Explain what?
- Danny: Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.
- Rafe: J, L, M, K, P, O, E, T, X. Eyes like an eagle, ma'am.
- Evelyn: Slow down, flyboy. And instead of the bottom, read the very top. Both eyes.
- Rafe: Yeah. C. Sorry, J.
- [Clears throat]
- Rafe: C, W, uh, Q, uh, Q
- Evelyn: [Smiles] Read the bottom line again, please, but read it right to left and every other letter.
- Rafe: E, X...
- Danny: X, E.
- Rafe: X, E. X, E, ma'am. Ma'am, I know how this looks.
- Evelyn: I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I really am, but army and navy requires 20/20 vision.
- Rafe: Oh, I... It's not a problem with my eyes. I mean, I can see. I mean I can hit a runnin' rabbit with a $3.00 pistol. I got a problem with letters, that's all.
- Evelyn: Well, maybe after some schooling, you could come back and take the test again.
- Rafe: No, I had schooling. I mean, the teachers just never knew what to make of it, I... It's just letters. I mix 'em up sometimes. That's all. I mean, I just get 'em backword sometimes. Look here. My math and spatial reasoning and my verbal scores are all excellent.
- Evelyn: But you barely passed the written exam.
- Danny: Yeah, but he did pass it. So it's my turn now?
- Evelyn: No, you'll wait your turn.
- Danny: Yes, ma'am.
- Rafe: Ma'am, I'm never gonna be an English teacher. But I know why I'm here: to be a pilot. And you don't dogfight with manuals. You don't fly with gauges. I mean, it's all about feeling and speed, and lettin' that plane become like a part of your body. And that manual says that a guy who's a slow reader can't be a good pilot. That file says I'm the best pilot in this room. Ma'am, please, don't take my wings.
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Secretary of the Navy gave me these.
- Danny: What are they?
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.
- Rafe: What do you want me to do with them sir?
- Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.
- Danny: To Rafe McCawely the best pilot and the best friend I ever knew... Or ever will know. TO RAFE .
- Danny: You know he taught me to fly, I always knew that not matter what kind of trouble I got into, I wouldn't be in it alone, he'd be there with me. Up there he was always pushin me to be better and faster.
- Evelyn: He told me you were a great flyer... The same night he told me, he volunteered to go to England.
- Danny: He volunteered? He-he told me he'd been assigned. He was always tryin to protect me. But ya know what I look at myself in the mirror in this uniform... and I still don't know who I am, I look like a hero... but I don't feel like it.
- [sighs]
- Danny: Rafe... he always looked the part didn't he?
- Evelyn: He couldn't wait to be one
- Rafe: Alright Danny we gonna show 'em how to fly. We gonna play chicken. You ready?
- Danny: This ain't the farm and these ain't no crop dusters, I'm not playin chicken with ya.
- Rafe: Ah, come on, now don't be a baby.
- Danny: Not doin it Rafe.
- Rafe: Well, I'm comin right at ya, you can turn or you can hit me. It's up to you.
- Danny: Aah, why you always bustin my ass Rafe?
- Danny: [sighs]
- Danny: Which way ya goin?
- Rafe: Uh, right, no left. Left. I'll go left.
- Danny: Okay, we're goin left right?
- Rafe: Right, right?
- Danny: Right, like we're goin left, or right like we're goin right?
- Rafe: Well, now you got me all mixed up, I dunno make up your mind!
- Danny: God, Rafe, we're goin right. Righty-Tighty!
- Rafe: Dolittle assigned me. He wanted me to get some... some real combat training.
- Danny: Well guess what? It isn't training over there, it's war. Where losers die and there aren't any winners, just guys who turn into broken-down wrecks like my father. Now if trouble awaits me, I'm ready. But why go looking for it?