Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)

Memories Are Forever (1981)

Jeff MacKay: Lieutenant McReynolds

Quotes 

• [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]