"You think it's..." "Well, I mean..." "No, "around the block" means, uh..." "Never mind." "Okay, let me see if I got this right." "Over there is the lake." "And up there, the ski lodge?" "Yeah." "And the condos." "Uh-huh." "And the golf course." "That's it!" "You've got it." " What's that over there?" "Those shiny lines over there?" "That is Joe Mondragon's bean field, and it looks like he's watered it again." "Son of a gun." "Sure got some huevos on him." "Huevos?" "Eggs." "Eggs?" "You know, balls." "Huevos." "I like that." "That's cute." "Joe can't afford a grazing permit, so he keeps his cow in Sammy Cantu's fileid." "It's right by the forest line." "It's cheaper, 'cause there's not much grass." "What do you do if you find a cow grazing on federal land without a permit?" "We impound it." "There's a fine?" "Yeah, it costs a hundred bucks to get it back." "So Mondragon's cow somehow wanders into a national forest." "Excuse me, gentlemen." "I didn't hear this." "Okay." "Come on!" "Come on, cow." "Come on." "What are you looking at?" "Get behind her." "Come on!" "Jesus!" "Come on." "What's her name?" " I don't know what her name is." " Come on, you goddamn cow." " Come on." " That's it." "That's it." "Don't let her stop." " They got your cow." " Joe, they got your cow." "In the Floresta pen." "What?" " They got your cow in the Floresta pen." " Son of a bitch!" "Si." "Joe?" "Cow broke out of Cantu's field." "The Floresta's got her." "They're gonna yank my permit." "I'm gonna get my cow.!" "What are you gonna do, shoot it?" "I'm gonna shoot Cantu for not keeping up his fences!" "Oh, great!" "Kill!" "Kill!" "Remember the time I asked you to kill a turkey for dinner?" "Did you use an axe?" "No, notJoe!" "You take a pistol and shoot it." "Only, you don't aim so good." "I aim good; it didn't die right away." "It didn't die at all." "It just flopped around." "Hey!" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Taking my cow." " You got the hundred bucks for the fine?" " I'll take her and pay later." "Joe, you come back here!" "Hold it right there!" "You're under arrest for stealing government property." "Holy shit!" "Hold it, please!" "Please." "What's the trouble?" "Joe's trying to steal government property." "How can I steal something that belongs..." "She ate on federal grounds!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Jerry, holster the gun before somebody gets hurt." "If I do, they'll shoot my nuts off." "IfJerry holsters his gun, are you gonna shoot his nuts off?" "Jerry, when did you find that cow?" "About 10:00 this morning." "When you do reckon she escaped from Sammy's field?" "She was fine last night." "There." "See?" "You guys probably found the cow before she ate any government property, so she's stillJoe's." "Bernie, you don't know your ass from the law on this case." "It's your ass that's got a bull's-eye on it right now, Jerry G." "Fuck the cow!" "He's trying to save our lives!" "Maybe you're right." "Maybe the cow didn't eat enough grass." "I wasn't gonna shoot anybody." "You people know that." "Right?" "Right." "Right." "Right." "We showed them that the Forest Service can be flexible." "How 'bout a little snack, fellas?" "Huh?" "What are you gonna do, Bernie?" "What do you want me to do?" "Check it for fingerprints?" "Yeah, so when the Spaniards brought in Christianity, they tried to wipe out all the pagan rituals of the American Indian." "Yeah, but everybody around here is Catholic." "That's true." "But you see, they worship to the carved statues of saints." "They don't worship to God." "We believe in God." "Yeah, but it's still a form of idolatry, except now those idols represent Christian heroes, like saints, instead of pagan gods." " The rituals themselves..." " Agh!" "Did you get any kind of look at them?" "No!" "Pssst!" "Bed!" "Get your head up." "Aah!" "What happened?" "The Zopilote sent them." " Ow!" " This whole thing is getting out of hand." "Did you get to where he says, "This does not mean nothing"?" "No." "Are you expecting somebody?" "No." "Wait a minute." "Just a minute." "Did ya hear?" "Did ya hear what happened toJoe?" "Uh, yes." "You don't look like you're writing about it." "The paper doesn't come out for three days." "Could we talk tomorrow?" "What's the matter?" "Got a girlfriend?" "Ruby." "Okay, listen." "I don't want to ruin your evening, but things are heating up." "You'd like to see 'em fried." "We're going to have a harvesting party when the beans are ready." "Who's that?" "Sylvia Lopez?" "No." "Have you cleared this harvesting thing with Joe?" "No!" "He'd never agree to something like that." "I want you to print an announcement in your paper." "Okay." "Good!" "No!" "You can't!" "Let me rent your machines." "Do you know how to work them?" "No!" "I'll do the flyers tomorrow, but nothing in the paper." "Okay." "Wait." "The petition." "You want to be first to sign?" "Jesus Christ, woman!" "Don't you ever let up?" "Gloria Martinez." "Ay." "Ah, Jesus!" ";" "Hola, chamaco.!" "Pistolero, eh?" "Get out of my way." "I see." "Desperate times... call for desperate measures, eh?" "Bullshit!" "Ay, pobrecito." "Pero que cojones!" "What kind of bullets does this take?" "I forget." ".45s. Why?" "How much?" "Well, let me see." "7.95." "Hey, what are you doing?" "You can't buy bullets with food stamps, Grandpa." "It is the same as money." "It's not the same!" "You can't buy beer; you can't buy cigarettes." "Where you going?" "Gracias." "Que pasa?" "Do you think you are Pancho Villa?" "How do you know you can pull the trigger?" "Don't encourage him." "Leave him alone." "Fuck him." "Sinverguenza!" "Me la vas a pagar!" "Vuelve a la cocina a limpiar los platos!" "Do something!" "Start a forest fire." "Oh." "What?" "Put everybody to work on the fire line." "Get their minds off that damn bean field." "Shorty, you're crazy." "Build some more cabins out there behind the tennis courts." "I don't need any more cabins, Shorty." "Ladd, Joe Mondragon needs three months' pay as crew boss." "You buy all your plumbing from Ruby, all the fiixtures..." "She's off your back too." "That's pretty good thinkin' for an old mule." "Well, if you pay 'em, they ain't gonna slit your throat." "Que no, Bernie?" "Three cabins?" "Yes!" "I head the crew." "You supply the plumbing." "And do you know for what price?" "Fourteen dollars an hour!" "That's three months' work guaranteed." "Just a bribe, Jose." "So what?" "As long as you're being overpaid, see if you can get some work at the condos too." "You know what I could do with $ 14.00 an hour?" "I could pay off the refrigerator, that stupid TV." "Buy yourself a new truck." "And in return, you give up the bean field, right?" "What bean field?" "I'll make more in one day than on all those beans." "Four-wheel drive." "AM-FM." "They want to buy you!" " She's right, Jose." " Oh!" "Now you want me growing the bean field?" "I don't know!" "At first I was scared." "Now they make me mad!" " I gotta look out for this family, right?" " What about everybody else?" "If you quit now, you let a lot of people down!" "Who?" "Name five people who have signed that petition." "Nobody's gonna miss that field." "How about the guys who saved your ass at the Floresta?" "They're so old, they'll all be dead by the time I get those cabins built." " So you gonna take the job?" " I don't know!" "I don't know.!" "You know, we could use that money." "I hate that fucking bean field!" "Joe, no!" "Joe!" "Two boxes of 30-30s." "Put it on my bill." "Hey!" "You still owe me 96 bucks!" " Toma!" " 12-gauge." " 12-gauge, high-power." " Huh?" " 30-30 Winchester." "What?" "30-30 Winchester!" "30-06, high velocity." "Remington,.22" "long." "30-30 Winchesters." "A can of beef stew." "And a box of 16-gauge Express." "Yeah." "The worse-case scenario, we'll have 80% of these units sold..." "Mr. Devine." "We could actually be showing a profit while we're still in construction." "Yeah?" "There's a problem with your sign." "I want to know who the dumb-ass was... that shot at Mondragon's house." "Well, don't look at me." "I don't think joe did this." " Then who did?" " I don't know." "Maybe it was El Brazo Onofre." "That guy don't like anybody." "Jesus!" "Yeah, maybe it was his arm, Shorty." "Christ!" "This valley's turned into a goddamn war zone!" "Somebody sure got a lot of time on their hands." "Hi, honey." "When did you start carrying a gun?" "I won already, okay?" "You got nothin' right now." "Now you got a pair..." "Tonight, President Reagan will make a special address to the American people..." "Yeah." "from the Oval Office." "What time he'll make his speech tonight, we're uncertain at this point." "As soon as the White House tells us..." "Did you hear anything?" "Mm-mmm." "Oh, it's probably Mondragon pouring gasoline on all the cottages." "You know something, honey?" "When we were first married, it was different." "Oh, it's that goddamn bean field!" "I should've come down hard on it right at the start." "I thought I was really doin' something' good for this town." "You were, honey." "I just don't know if the world really needs another golf course." "That bean field don't look so bad." "I've seen worse." "No thanks to you." "I thought you were going to help." "When are you going to do something?" "I don't do things;" "I give advice." "You have some advice?" "You're gonna need a big sacrifice here." "You get down from there." "Back off, old man!" "This bean field business has gone far enough!" "You get down or I'll blow a hole in your chest big enough for an owl to nest in." "Jesus Christ!" "Don't be pointing that thing at me!" "Get out of the way.!" "Shit.!" "Okay.!" "Okay!" "All right." "Now get out of here." "Hey, hey, that's Devine's." "You better not be doing that." "Crazy old bastard.!" "We'll be back.!" "Butterfiies ate your arm?" "Yes." "I had fallen asleep on a very warm spring day." "It was cold the night before." "One thousand butterflies took it, and I haven't been able to find it since." "It has to be somewhere..." ";" "Hola.!" "Que pasa?" "Getting groceries for your friend." "Hey, hope you didn't buy any beans!" "We'll have our own in a few days." "Ay, Dios mio.!" "You fucking..." "Hija de su chingada!" "Vete!" "No vas a chingar mas!" "Whoa!" " Jesus, Joe, you hit him." " Oh, Jesus." "No!" "Wait!" "Don't shoot!" "Oh, my God!" " My God!" "Oh, no!" " Oh, Jesus." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry!" "Oh, my God!" "Get a doctor!" "Let's get him outta here." "Get him a doctor!" "Come on!" "Hold on, viejito." "Hold on!" "You better get out of here, Joe." "Let's get him to the clinic." "You gotta get out of here, Joe." "But he didn't mean to." " Nobody's gonna believe that." " Joe, you gotta get out of here." "Let's go!" "I just can't leave him." "Get away from here, Joe." ";" "Vete, Joe, vete.!" "Why is it... every time we're mad at one of them, we end up hurting one of us?" "You've got to defend him, Charlie.!" "Ruby, will you just lay off." "Don't push!" "I'm trying to get it together so we can at least get printing material." "We can't even get up a spirit master." "I do not know if I want to represent somebody." "Why not?" "In the fiirst place, I do not have all the facts." "What facts?" "Charlie, what facts?" "It was self-defense." "Let's hope so, Ruby." "I don't know if he wants or needs representation." "I've been away from this stuff, and I don't know if I'm good anymore." "And besides, I've told ya... or maybe I didn't tell you..." "I lost a lot of my cases." "Come in." "Both of you know thatJoe Mondragon is a fugitive from justice." "He's a fugitive anyway." "If you have any idea where he is or any information that might be helpful in finding him," "I suggest that now's the time to speak." "How 'bout yourself?" "I have no idea." "I remind you that withholding information is a felony." "So is harboring a fugitive." "If I discover that either of you is involved like that," "I'll have you prosecuted to the full extent of the law." "Hold it!" "I am Joe Mondragon's lawyer." "And he has certain rights... with which I'm sure you are familiar." "And if you go after him and shoot him down like a dog, or even manhandle him in the least little bit," "I'll hang you by your balls, even if I have to go to the Supreme Court to do it.!" "Hmm." "How many men you got, Bernie?" " Around 20 or 30." " I mean exactly." "Twenty-six." "Did you count 'em?" " No." " Count 'em." "Don't sing." "Hey." "This posse couldn't find itself." "Unless it wanted to." "We're wasting our time." "Take the men back down before it gets dark." "What are you gonna do?" "Take a look around." "By myself." "I doubt you'll ever find him." "Maybe not." "If I thought you had a chance," "I wouldn't go back." "Ay-yi-yi-yi" "Canta y no llores" "Porque cantando se alegran" "Cielito lindo los corazones" "Ay-yi-yi-yi" "Canta y no llores" "He's not gonna die." "He should have been dead a long time ago, but he never quits." "Hey." "Hmm." "Let me see here." "Here." "Here." "Let me open that for ya." "Uh, no tamales." "I hope, uh, that the tacos are okay." "Sorry if I'm not doing this right." "I mean, I don't want to insult you or anything, but, uh," "I'd really appreciate it if you could help my friend Amarante." "He's a good man." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Bloom?" "Yeah?" "Did you open the gate?" "Somebody had to." "Be a shame to let it all die now." "Okay, Bloom." "Do you hear that?" "What?" "You don't hear anything?" "Uh-uh." "Ahh." "What are you all doing here?" " Buenas tardes, viejo." " Where's my pistola?" "I don't know where your gun is, Amarante." "I wish I did know." "But I found one of your bullets... in Joe Mondragon's wall." ".45 Peacemaker?" "You wouldn't know anything about who burned Devine's sign, would you?" "No." "What about the rest of you?" "How about the crosses?" "Dead fiish?" "Flaming arrow?" "I didn't think so." "I hate climbing rocks." "Madre!" "Son of a bitch." "Right here." "Son of a bitch!" "Don't run!" "It's over, Joe." "You won't get hurt if you come out with your hands above your head." " Come on out now!" " I got a pistol." "No, you don't!" "How can you be sure?" "If you did, you'd have used it by now." "I've been saving my last bullet." "I don't believe ya." " Why not?" "It's possible." " I'm comin', Joe." "I should have built those cabins." "Joe." "Shorty?" "Headed up to Baldy Bear Creek?" "Yeah." "Be some big rainbows up there." "Oh!" "Looks like Amarante's gonna make it." "Thanks, Shorty." "It'd be a shame for it to end like that." "I'm gettin' kind of interested in what's gonna happen next." "Be seein' ya." "Hey, Shorty." "How 'bout a ride down the hill?" "Well, I wouldn't push it, Joe." "That's the message, because..." "You cannot get it from books." "I'm hungry." "I am so hungry!" "Luisa!" "Maria!" "Papa!" " Joe." " How's Amarante?" " Joe!" " The doctor says he's okay." "At least he's awake." " Joe, what happened?" " I came back!" " You still got that petition?" " Yeah." " I want to sign it." "Joe, there's things that you and I have to talk about." "Sure." "Later." "Later?" "Let's go." "Wait a minute." "Where ya goin'?" " Pick beans." " We're gonna pick beans." "We're gonna pick beans, beans, beans.!" "Vamos corriendo!" "Come on.!" "Joe?" "Hey, Joe!" "Mario, go get the baskets." "Hey, sign this.!" "Everybody, come sign the petition!" "Come sign the petition." "You want that first pot of beans?" "Then you start picking." "The pintos, eh?" "Glad to see you." "There you go." "Taste it." "Here." "Put them all in the basket for me." "Gracias, amigo." "What now?" "Mondragon, you're under arrest." "Cuff him." " Wait a minute." "What's he charged with?" " Attempted murder." "Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution." "Let's go." "I hope none of these people cause trouble for your sake." "Montana, the key." "I don't have the authority to do that." "You'd better get somebody who's got the authority right now." " What's the problem?" " Because we're about to have a fucking war!" "I'm warning you people, don't try to interfere." "Maybe we shouldn't push this." "Quiet!" "Hold it.!" "Montana." "Hold it.!" "Hold it right there." "Nobody move." "Put those guns down." "I think we better slow down here." "Tell these people to back off!" "I'm takin' him in." " No, you're not." " What?" "Amarante's feeling much better." "He refuses to press charges." "So, there's no attempted murder;" "there's no unlawful flight." "And unless he has a warrant to arrestJoe for taking water, he's outside his jurisdiction!" "Get out of my way." "I'm deputizing everybody in this crowd for crowd control duty." " You gotta be jokin'." " Mr. Montana.!" " There's a call for you on the radio." " Not now!" "Sir." "Sir." "It's important." "Can I speak to you?" "Don't let him move!" " Governor's on the phone." "He needs to talk to you." " Bruno, the name Custer ring a bell?" "Kyril?" "Yeah." "You got Mondragon with ya?" "Yes." "Stop the arrest procedures." "Come back to the offiice and bring the men with you." "What?" "You can't do that to me." "He's..." "He's already under arrest." "I'm..." "I'm takin' him in." "Don't arrest him." "Get the men back in." "I'll explain it later." "Do you follow?" "Right." "Let him go." "Yeah." " You can undeputize your crowd, Bernie." "Maybe I'll be back." "If not, I'll send you a sack of beans." "Montana." "The key." "You're a pain in the ass!" "La-La-Ladd?" "Yeah, uh, yeah, it's Harry." "The governor." "Yeah, how you doin'?" "Yeah, listen, uh, there's a little somethin' we gotta talk about." "I don't believe it!" ""Let's put it on the back burner"!" "I gave money to that chicken-shit!" "Son of a bitch!" "I even voted for him.!" "Look at all these signatures." "Yeah." "You know, they're all gonna have hangovers tomorrow, and they're gonna come begging and crying to take their names off that list." "But right now, at this moment, isn't it wonderful?" "It sure is." "Ruby." "Give me that petition." "You're gonna lose your job." "If I'm lucky." "Nice." "Ypor eso los grandes amores" "De muchos colores me gustan a mi" "Por eso los grandes amores" "De muchos colores me gustan a mi" "Ypor eso los grandes amores" "De muchos colores me gustan a mi" "Hey, compadre, where you going?" "I've got to get to the bean field." "Ah, yes." "There's one hell of a party going on." "Come on." "Come on." "I know a shortcut." "Shortcut?" "Yes, my feet are killing me." "Come on!" "Sometimes you do not act like an angel." "I want to tell you something." "I don't want to know anything." "I hate beans." "What?" "You are a disgrace!" "I'd rather have steak." "Oh, sometimes I think you're just making fun of me." "Cuidado!" "Whoa!" "Not bad." "Not bad." "Mira." "Estas un atleta." "Nunca habia caminado tanto en mi vida." "Ay, pobrecito." "Pero no falta mucho ahora." "En un ratito, creo que vamos a oir la musica." "M" " Musica?" "Si, hombre." "Musica de la fiiesta, naturalmente." "The fiesta." "There's a fiesta."