The Pacific (TV Mini Series)

Peleliu Landing (2010)

Rami Malek: PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton

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• PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : [sitting and watching the other men scrubbing out drums]  You assholes are gonna miss cleanin' out oil barrels pretty soon. You gonna be humpin' up some fuckin' hill...

  [he lights a cigarette, despite being beside a 'no smoking' sign] 

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : ... or across a beach, Japs pourin' shit for fire, pissin' your pants, cryin' boo-hoo, wishin' you were back here with nothin' asked of you but to scrub oil outta drums.

  Bill Leyden : [angrily]  Why don't you grab a brush and give us a hand?

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : Fuck that shit, I scrub drums for no man.

  Eugene B. Sledge : Can we take a break?

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : Do whatever you want, this ain't my detail.

  [the others look at each other incredulously] 

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : I was supposed to dump y'all off here and report back to the C.P.

  PFC Robert Oswalt : Then why're you still here?

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : [smirking]  I like to watch the new guys sweat.

• [last lines, as Sledge and Oswalt look out over the burning Peleliu airfield at night] 

  PFC Robert Oswalt : Look at that. You ever been to the Grand Canyon?

  Eugene B. Sledge : No.

  PFC Robert Oswalt : My dad went when he was a boy. He was always goin' on about it when I was little. I'd ask him about it, he said I had to see it to understand. He finally took me when I was ten. We got there late at night to these cabins, couldn't see a thing on account of the dark. Next morning, we got up, went outside... ten yards from where we slept, the fucking Grand Canyon. A mile down. Colors I'd never seen before. My dad was right. Pictures don't show it. You have to be there... lookin' down into it.

  PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton : [trying to fall asleep]  Shut the fuck up, you idiot.

  Eugene B. Sledge : [softly]  We have to go out there tomorrow.

  [Oswalt doesn't answer]