Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)
Memories Are Forever (1981)
Lance LeGault: Colonel Buck Greene
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Quotes
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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.
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Magnum : We lost the war, Buck. It was over.
Colonel 'Buck' Greene, USMC : That war's never over.
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[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]