Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)

Memories Are Forever (1981)

Tom Selleck: Thomas Magnum

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• Higgins : Magnum, I don't know if you're pulling my leg as yanks put it, or not. But you are acting frightfully strange.

  Magnum : Strange?

  Higgins : Yes. You're being nice.

  Magnum : I'm sorry Higgins, I didn't know that was bad.

  Higgins : Well with anyone else it wouldn't be, but with you, one must be suspicious.

  Magnum : Well, I will try and revert to type.

  Higgins : Please. You're upsetting our relationship. Being nice makes me... quite uncomfortable.

• Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : What do you know about the Tiger?

  Magnum : [pointing a gun at Buck]  Not much, but you're gonna brief me.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : I can't do that, Tom.

  Magnum : Oh shucks, Buck, why not?

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : Rules are rules.

  Magnum : Yeah, 'an eye for an eye' is my favorite one.

• TC : [slowly and with emphasis]  Why hasn't she contacted you?

  Magnum : Well, it would all have been pretty traumatic, maybe she has amnesia.

  TC : Oh come on, you believe that?

  Magnum : No! But it's possible!

  TC : It's also possible that I might hook up with Diana Ross, but I ain't counting on it.

• Magnum : We lost the war, Buck. It was over.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : That war's never over.

• Magnum : [narrating]  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.

• Rick : I would like to propose a toast... to the luckiest couple in Saigon. Me and TC.

  [Magnum laughs hysterically] 

  TC : Say what?

  [TC laughs nonetheless] 

  Rick : No, I mean it, we are the last of the bachelors. Everyone else we know is married.

  TC : Orville, I've heard you say some dumb things in my life, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard you say.

  Magnum : No, I think that's a good toast, TC, I'll drink to that.

  Michelle : Eh, you'll drink to anything.

  Rick : You see, you've only been married three hours and already she's cuttin' ya up on the booze.

• [Rick has grabbed a small Vietnamese boy] 

  Magnum : Rick, what the hell are you doing?

  Rick : While you were biddyboppin' around, little Victor Charlie here has been right on your tail.

  Magnum : What?

  Rick : That's right.

  [the kid makes a break for it but Rick grabs him once more] 

  Magnum : Will you let him go?

  TC : Hey hey, he's right, man. We spotted him awhile back.

• Magnum : That little turkey stole my wallet!

• [Magnum, Buck Greene and McReynolds drive to Little Saigon] 

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : She never did tell you she was married to a North Vietnamese officer?

  Magnum : Of course she did. She also told me he'd been killed in the Tet Offensive.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : [nods]  That's what she thought. The week we were pulling out of Saigon, she found out he was alive.

  Magnum : Why the hell didn't she tell me?

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : She was afraid to. Afraid you wouldn't leave.

  Magnum : Damn right! Not without her.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : 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.

  Magnum : [accusingly]  So you set it up to look like she'd been killed.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : I had to! She begged me to. It was the only way she could get you to leave Nam.

  Magnum : In exchange for what, Buck?

  Lieutenant McReynolds : Little Saigon.

  [McReynolds stops and they exit the car. Magnum faces Greene] 

  Magnum : You didn't answer me.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : She's been my contact in Saigon.

  Magnum : [disdainfully]  You bastard.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : 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.

  Magnum : [angrily]  You had a gun to her head!

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : [harshly]  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.

  Magnum : [firmly]  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.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : That war's never over.

  [pause] 

  Lieutenant McReynolds : Uh, Thomas, the chapel is at the end of the street. She'll be praying to the Virgin Mother...

  [Magnum walks away] 

  Lieutenant McReynolds : Colonel, are you gonna let him go, just like that? I know Magnum. He's gonna run with her.

  Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : [dryly]  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.

  [Buck Greene starts walking away. McReynolds follows him]