M*A*S*H (TV Series)
The More I See You (1976)
Alan Alda: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
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Quotes
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[Hawkeye's old flame has arrived at the camp]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I think I'll check this out. Find out how long she's staying, you know? Maybe she's not even staying. Maybe it's not even her.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Maybe you're not even you.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Right.
[pause]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : It's me. It's her. It's us.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : You?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Me what?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Ever been unfaithful?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : To whom?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Well, who could you be unfaithful to?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Myself, for openers.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : No, no. Come on. You know what I mean, to your wife.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : You mean have I ever strayed?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Ever checked in somewhere without a toothbrush.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Never.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Never been tempted?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Tempted's another subject.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Ah, you *have* been tempted.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Never. But it's another subject.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : [sigh] I love the way she drops into my life every few years just to give me a little open heart surgery.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : It's got to be rough.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I'll live.
[pause]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : In some ways, I don't mind that she's gone again.
[pause]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : It's just that she never altogether leaves.
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[Klinger has just installed a new light bulb]
Maxwell Klinger : Look at that. Talent. I'm not just a pretty face, right?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Especially since you started parting the hair on your legs in the middle.
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[Hawkeye and Carlye are talking about Carlye's marriage]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Any children?
Carlye Breslin Walton : No, not yet. We're still talking about that.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : That's not how you get 'em. I just read a paper on that.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I hated you for a long time. Passionately. Hate: the real thing. If I'd met you during my celebrated blue period, I don't know what I'd have done.
Carlye Breslin Walton : I know I hurt ya, Hawk.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Hurt? You broke my legs. It really tore me apart when you left me.
Carlye Breslin Walton : There was no reason for you to feel that way, you know. You let it happen.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Well, I still felt betrayed. And mad as hell. Finally - finally, finally, finally, finally - I thought I'd gotten over it. I got over the hate, but I never got over the love. When you came into camp that first day, I heard this strange sound. It was my heart beating again. One look at you and it got a jump charge. I can't just *just* work around you.
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[Carlye has decided to leave]
Carlye Breslin Walton : I can't stay here with you, with me, the way we are again.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : "Be yourself," you said. Well, myself happens to love you. What can I do?
Carlye Breslin Walton : I love you.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Oh, *now* I understand! Since we're in love, there's no possible reason for us to stay together.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I don't- I don't mind her being here. No, I don't think I really mind at all.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Is that why you're reading Frank's diary?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I mean, she can't help being sent wherever those idiots send her.
[pause]
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : It's just that of all the people to jump out of a Jeep in southwest Korea why the hell does it have to be *her*?
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Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : [Having delivered a welcome basket to nurses] That's the end of our goodies. If there's anything else we can do to make your sentence bearable...
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : We're right across the road. Tent's called the swamp. Stop in for a drink after chow.
Becky : Oh thank you.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut : Dinner here is around 7.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Nausea is around 8.
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[Hawkeye poorly attempts to propose to Carlye]
Carlye Breslin Walton : Look at yourself! Looks where you are! You're trapped! You just proposed yourself into a corner.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : So? However I did it, I did it.
Carlye Breslin Walton : You didn't propose to me. You proposed to yourself!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Well, I wanted to try it out on me first.
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Carlye Breslin Walton : The third casualty of war has to be fidelity.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Third now and moving up fast.
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Carlye Breslin Walton : What have the other nurses said?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : I never bring nurses here, except in an emergency. Fortunately...
Carlye Breslin Walton : There's a constant state of emergency.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Care for a bottle of khaki champagne?
Carlye Breslin Walton : My, there's lots of drinking over here, isn't there?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Well, if truth is the first casualty of war, I guess sobriety is second. I bet Hannibal crossed the Alps on pink elephants.
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Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : Look, uh... minding my own business is a full-time job. In my spare time, it's my hobby. I can't divide myself emotionally. I, uh... I couldn't break my word to Peg. And not because God'll send me to hell without an electric fan or because it's not the right thing to do. I simply don't want to.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : You've got a lot to learn about messing up your life.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : [to Carlye] There's been no one since you. Faint copies at best.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : [Hawkeye and Carlye are saying goodbye] Do me a favor, huh?
Carlye Breslin Walton : Yeah?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : If anybody asks, *I* turned YOU down.
Carlye Breslin Walton : Right.
[They stare lingeringly. Hawkeye walks away]
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : [Hawkeye tries to propose to Carlye] Look. There was a time when I couldn't ask you because that... But that was then, this is now! We're two different people. I know I certainly am. I think I can handle it now. Huh? Sure! Of course, I can. Listen, why shouldn't we? Why couldn't we? Let's just... Let's!
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : How do you stand on the subject of sitting?
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Carlye Breslin Walton : [Carlye has put in for a transfer] I was going to tell you. I wouldn't have just slipped away.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Well, it's always worked before.
Carlye Breslin Walton : Oh, you're still working on last time?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Last time turns out to be a warm-up for this time.
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Carlye Breslin Walton : Doug was struggling when we got married.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Struggling in ADVERTISING? What would've been the loss? One less huckster persuading America its breath is bad? That they're condemned to purgatory if their armpits don't smell like roses? I was training for medicine!
Carlye Breslin Walton : Maybe if you'd been just a little less good at it you might have needed me a little more. Doug is able to commit to something beyond his work. Happily, I am that something.
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Carlye Breslin Walton : How about you?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Children? No. I'm still my only child.
Carlye Breslin Walton : No one has gotten you to wear a topknot?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Huh?
Carlye Breslin Walton : Is there a Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pierce?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : My ring finger is clean. I remain un-betrothed, my bachelorhood intact. A solitary figure seemingly sentenced to singleness.