"Junior." "Time to go!" "Time to go!" "How many times I tell you to close the door?" "Junior!" "Carajo, somebody break the mailbox." "Some junkie did it, papi." "They thought there was money in there." "Well, I fix it when I come back." "He was too young to die." "Seventy-two?" "Well, today 72 is young." "What cemetery are we going to?" "Holy Cross." "You got room in your car?" "I don't have a car." "I'm going with my brother-in-law." "He has a car." "You don't have a car?" "I get you a ride with my friend." "You and the boys." "I get you a ride with my friend." "That's good." "Julio." "Poor Mama." "It's so crowded." "How can she breathe?" "Good boys." "Good kids." "Junior's 11." "Both good in school." "Luis is nine." "Good in mathematics." "Junior plays the saxophone, is good in art." "Good kids." "You want these boys?" "I'll give them to you." "Sign the papers, everything." "You think I'm joking?" "I'm not joking." "Nice kids." "Don't give you no trouble." "Okay, boys." "Come on, let's go." "Hey, come on, don't play with that stuff." "Come on, throw that away." "Come on." "A trampoline!" "Come on." "Hey, muchachos, come on, go upstairs and take a bath, then you can come down and play." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get back in the house." "You said we could go out." "Get back in the house." "Who broke the mailbox?" "How do I know?" "The junkies." "They steal everything." "What the hell are you hitting me for?" "Who broke the mailbox?" "I told you, I don't know." "I ain't no fortune teller." "Who broke the mailbox?" "I did." "What was in the mailbox?" "I don't know." "You know what was in the mailbox." "You tell me." "A letter from the teacher." "What it says?" "That I wasn't in school Thursday or Friday." "Where'd you go yesterday?" "42nd Street." "Who'd you go with?" "Silvia." "Where'd you get the money to go to 42nd Street?" "Didn't have any money." "We jumped the subway, under the turnstile." "What did you do on 42nd Street?" "Went to a show." "Where did you get the money for the show?" "I sold a transistor to a pal." "Where'd you get the transistor?" "I found it." "You..." "You stole it." "All right, I stole it from the drugstore." "Call the cops!" "I don't need..." "I don't..." "I don't need no cops." "What'd you do after the show?" "Came right home." "You come home to a party in Silvia's apartment when her mother was working." "Just about six kids." "That's all." "What'd you have to drink?" "Some of the guys had some booze." "You didn't drink no booze?" "No." "No?" "Just one little shot." "I just wanted to try it." "Stop it!" "What did you do in the bedroom with Silvia?" "She's crazy." "What'd you do with crazy Silvia?" "The guys were kidding' me, callin' me retarded, fag, this and that." "She's crazy and you're retarded." "What happened in the bedroom?" "You just wanted to try it." "Can I go out now?" "No." "You stay here and clean up everything." "Who is that?" "It's me." "Hello, boys." "Hi, Lupe." "I was just passing by." "I just have time for one quick cup of bustelo." "Hey." "You're such a big boy, I got a job for you." "You don't love me anymore?" "Don't talk like that." "You were at the cemetery today." "That's not it." "What is it, Abraham?" "I don't know." "Every day I'm afraid." "Of what?" "Everything." "Afraid to make love to me?" "I got to get my kids out of this place." "Abraham, why don't we just get an apartment in Brooklyn with two bedrooms?" "That's no solution to the problem." "I make $100 a week, sometimes." "Then you get pregnant, what happens?" "I want my kids to have everything." "Nice clothes, beautiful city." "Nice house." "I want them to have cars, go to college." "I want them to feel high in their shoes." "That's a nice dream." "I know a way." "I've been thinking about it for three months." "It's terrific." "Fantastico, impossible." "But they'd have everything." "Rich." "Famous." "I know a way." "What are you gonna do?" "Is all right." "Steal?" "I'm afraid to steal." "If I go to prison, what happens to the kids?" "Gamble?" "No, I'm afraid to gamble." "I could lose." "No gambling, no kind of crime." "I don't do nothing to nobody." "Well, then why can't you tell me?" "'Cause I'm going to do it." "I got to do it." "Well, if you've got to do it and it isn't a crime, why don't you just do it?" "'Cause it has to be perfectamente." "Exact." "And I'm afraid." "Papi, papi!" "Hurry up!" "We need you!" "Papi, hurry up!" "Please, please, don't!" "Please don't!" "I'll give you quarter." "Do something." "Do something." "What's going on?" "Well, what is it?" "Get out, get out." "Get out of here." "Get out." "Get out." "Get out from this building." "Don't come back here no more." "Go back to your own place where you belong." "It's all right." "Okay." "All right, all right." "Okay." "We tried to get the pigeon away from and let it fly away." "He hit Luis and I jumped him, but he's too big." "It's all right." "Well, you have to feel..." "You have to feel sorry for that kid." "He's..." "He's confused." "Hey, hey, hey..." "Where's the laundry?" "All over the street." "Carajo, go and get it." "He'll beat us up." "You get it." "Hey, don't go back there..." "Because I just sprayed for the cucarachas." "It's terrible in there." "The phone." "Yeah, well, we can't go in there." "Don't you want to answer the phone?" "No." "Hello." "Abraham." "Telephone." "We'll wait out here until she puts her clothes on." "Just a second." "It's..." "Just a second." "He's coming." "It's the super's wife." "It's an emergency." "She wants you to come over." "Today is Saturday." "That's my day off." "A taxi costs two dollars!" "All right, okay." "All right, okay, all right." "All right, okay." "All right, all right, all right." "Where are the kids?" "Out." "I got 10 minutes to give them a little supervision and they go away someplace!" "They're kids." "They'll come when they're hungry." "I don' want them to come when they're hungry." "I want them to come when I'm hungry!" "I'll fix you a plate." "I don't got time." "I gotta go to the hotel." "Abraham." "How long can you go on this way?" "Three jobs." "Five hours sleep a night?" "Winston Churchill got four hours sleep a night." "He was runnin' a whole country." "Ai!" "My new shoes." "Five dollars I pay for these shoes." "Hey, Mr. Rodriguez..." "Mr. Rodriguez, you know how long I been outta work?" "Seven months." "Yes." "You work at the Hilton?" "That's right." "Maybe you could talk to the guy there." "Maybe they need somebody?" "A sweeper?" "A janitor?" "A dishwasher?" "You know, when you ain't workin', it's terrible." "But when you workin', it's terrible." "All right, get back to work." "What's the matter with you?" "You never seen a body before?" "Hey, Rodriguez, you wanna bus for Steve?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Help me take his jacket off." "I'll fix it with the union." "Ho." "That's..." "That's terrific, Mr. Pinellia." "I really appreciate that a lot." "Not to behold Emilia's face, her frame to view." "What was the contour of her eyes, and what their hue?" "Manolo's voice has gone, its tones I do not hear." "Whenever I recall his voice, he lives, hers here beside me surely, safe and sound, though he did fly, he's only playing hide-and-seek." "That is why I am living in their heaven with those who certainly can hear me now, for I hear them." "Who?" "Carabi!" "What's the matter with you?" "You crazy or something?" "I can't help it." "Be careful." "Look what a mess you make." "What's the matter with you?" "You crazy?" "And now I have a surprise for you." "Tonight, with us we have six men who will always have a place of honor in our hearts." "Six heroes of the assault on the Bay of Pigs." "Put the spotlight over there, please." "These men will always have a place of honor in our hearts!" "Abraham Rodrigues." "Hey, Luis!" "Stop the bus!" "The door..." "Hey!" "Quarter to 1:00 in the morning?" "I'm finished." "I'm bringing the bike back." "Chico Rodriguez..." "A gangster." "A gambler." "Maybe a killer." "What are you doin' workin' for Chico Rodriguez?" "Not me." "A friend of mine." "He's sick tonight." "Luis, you lie to me, I'm going to give you plenty." "I'm not lying." "I'm just taking his place tonight." "This friend." "He's sick." "Yeah?" "Well, you're going home." "I'm going to take the bike back." "Papi!" "You heard what I said." "Here." "Take this with you." "It's got mashed potatoes and filet mignon inside." "Go on." "Go on home." "Just put the bike in the front." "Okay." "Go on home." "Move, go on." "Hey, muchachos." "You know the kid that delivers everything on that bike?" "Yeah." "That's Chico's nephew." "Chico's nephew." "That's all I want to find out." "Hey, mister." "What do you do to Chico's nephew?" "What, are you crazy?" "I don't know him." "He was on that bike." "The kid on that bike, that was Chico's nephew?" "Yeah, and if you've done something to him," "Chico's gonna kill you." "Chico never do nothing." "That's my kid." "You Luis Rodriguez's father?" "That's right." "Abraham Rodriguez." "Hey, that's Luis' picture." "Holy Mother." "Hey, hey, man, we're sorry." "Don't be mad." "We didn't know who you was." "We were trying to protect Luis." "That's okay." "Are you mad?" "No, No, I'm all right." "Get out." "Stop the brushing." "Stop the brushing..." "Okay, who told you I'm Chico's brother?" "Luis." "What else he told you?" "Talk!" "You know." "About the Hilton." "What about the Hilton?" "The thing." "The setup." "What setup?" "The gambling." "The gambling?" "What else'd he say?" "About the police sergeant." "What about the police sergeant?" "You know about him being your silent partner in the..." "In the what?" "Your whorehouses." "Luis has a big mouth." "Yeah, Mr. Rodriguez, we didn't wanna say..." "Hey, Mr. Rodriguez..." "We're cool, Mr. Rodriguez, you know, but, there's a lot of phonies around here." "Listen." "How many people know that I'm a big gangster?" "Everybody." "I'll see ya later, boys." "Mr. Rodriguez." "What?" "If I were you, man, I'd have a talk with Luis." "I'm gonna have a talk with Luis." "Get up!" "Up!" "Now you tell me about your friend that work for Chico!" "And you lie to me, I gonna give you plenty." "And if I tell you the truth you'll give me plenty." "No friend!" "It's me." "I had to have some money." "I give you money!" "Yeah." "But these guys at school." "If you don't give them your lunch money, they'll beat you up." "Who does this to you?" "Nobody." "Not anymore." "Now they wanna be my friend." "That's beautiful." "You tell lies and you get friends." "I figured nobody's gonna mess around with me if Chico's my uncle." "'Cause everybody respects him." "That's not respect." "They're afraid of him because he's a killer." "But they're not gonna be afraid of him when he goes to jail." "Chico?" "It's all fixed with the politics." "Don't worry about Chico." "I don' worry about Chico I worry about this guy, that he told everybody that his father is a gangster!" "I had to." "It don't figure Chico's brother would be a..." "A what?" "A punk?" "A jerk?" "A handyman?" "Nothing's wrong with a handyman." "But it's better if I'm in the whorehouse business." "You can vacation in Bermuda this year for the same kind of money you spent on last year's vacation." "Call Eastern or your travel agent." "This year see how easy it is to take the vacation you thought you couldn't take." "Take it to the morgue." "Rodriguez." "Yes." "Pick up the phone." "For me?" "Rodriguez." "Where's my kids?" "Watch out for that guy." "Watch out for that guy." "Hey, you want it?" "Look out, he's got a machine gun." "Come on." "Come on." "Come here." "Come here." "Come on." "Come and get us, big shot." "Where's my kids?" "Papi, over here." "Okay, All right." "Okay, I'm here." "Luis..." "What are you doing?" "Okay..." "What is it?" "You had to talk to them guys last night." "They saw Chico." ""Hey, Chico, we met your brother last night."" "That's right." ""Brother?" "What brother?"" ""Nephew?" "I ain't got no nephew."" "And they did this to you?" "Yeah!" "San Judas." "I'm goin' to do it." "I'm going to do it!" "You are the Saint of impossible things." "And you got to help me." "Because I'm going to do it!" "I'm going to do it!" "Listen, give me two nice red snappers, please." "I don't know." "You know, you always give me wonderful fish." "In fact, you're a terrific guy." "In fact, you know what I'm gonna do?" "What?" "I'm gonna write my next book about you." "Me?" "Yes." "You?" "Yeah." "You didn't know I was a writer, did you?" "You told me you were a handyman." "Yeah, well you know I'm workin' as a handyman because I'm writing a book about that." "I write books about all kinds of things." "Hey, Joe, have you ever been to Venezuela?" "Never been to Venezuela?" "I got a present or you." "This one of my books." "But it say here Juan Valentin." "That's my real name." "Don't you know that..." "To my dear friend, senor Penabaz, from Juan Valentin." "I know what you're thinking." "You thinkin', if my real name's Juan Valentin, how come I go around calling myself Abraham Rodriguez, right?" "Right." "Well, listen." "If the super know that I'm Juan Valentin, famous writer, he's not going to give me a job as a handyman, right?" "Right." "I'm going to write a nice book about you, it's going to be terrific." "They're gonna read it from this country." "They go crazy, these people here." "They see a guy's come to this country, one year..." "He start his own business." "Everybody's gonna read about you." "You and me, we're going to be rich." "Rich." "Rich." "It's about time somebody write the story about us." "That we have to leave the island and come to the United States..." "That we had to give up much to get our freedom and the man to do this, senor Valentin." "And senor Valentin wants to hear about you and about everybody and everything." "What you wanna know?" "I want to know the stories." "Everything." "But first, I want to talk to some guy that comes from a small town on the north coast of the island." "I come from Nuevitas." "You come from Nuevitas?" "Yes." "It's a fishing village on the north coast." "A fishing village." "They got a lot of boats there?" "Yes." "Can I come visit you in your apartment?" "Am I gonna be in your book?" "Sure, you're going to be in my book." "When you row out..." "When you row out the one time, when you are the other time, the boat goes crazy." "All together." "Come on, it's an easy thing to do." "That's it." "All right..." "What the hell do I know about it?" "I've never been in a boat in my life." "Well, you're going to learn." "Don't worry, you've got to know everything because you're going to be on a boat with a motor." "A motor boat." "Hey, Junior, a motor boat." "Papi, what's this all about?" "You spent a buck and a half." "Come on, tell us." "You'll find out." "You'll find out." "Come on, just row." "We've got an hour." "Come on!" "Together!" "Row." "When you row out one time, when you row out another time, that will make the boat go crazy." "Together." "Don't make me mad." "There's the letter." "Go back to sleep." "And this is my store." "I sell food and shoes and clothing, everything." "This is the movies." "This is..." "What happened to the movies?" "The hurricane blowed down the side of the movies in 1964." "This is La Playa we go swimming over there." "Listen, Miguel, you..." "You'd better draw me a picture of the whole town." "You know, so I can get a better idea of everything." "The whole town." "And then I get a better idea what everything looks like." "Si, si, I draw you." "Nuevitas, fishing village." "What'd I say?" "Nuevitas." "Fishing village." "All right, keep all of this in your head." "The houses are over here, over here the boats, the lighthouse..." "This is where the soldiers stay here, and every two hours a patrol boat goes by." "Patrol boat?" "Yeah." "What did I say about the patrol boat?" "Every two hours." "Every two hours." "Right." "What kind of houses they got in Nuevitas?" "I don't know, papi." "Where's the school?" "I'm going to show you." "Look at these pictures, slow, not fast." "What is this?" "That's the movies." "This is the movies?" "Yes." "A hurricane blowed down the side of the movies in 1964." "When the hurricane blowed down the side of the movies?" "1964." "1964." "Good." "Where is the boats?" "Right." "You got a boat with a motor?" "No." "Yes." "Yes." "Where they keep the boat?" "Under the house." "Very good." "What your father used to do?" "He was a fisherman." "That's good." "That's good." "Papi, what are we doing this for?" "Because they are going to ask you a lot of questions." "And I want you to know everything." "But who's gonna ask the questions?" "You just pay attention and listen to me." "Papi, what you gonna do, pull some kind of racket?" "This sounds like some kind of hustle." "Keep your mouth closed and your ears open, pay attention and look at the pictures." "Okay." "Is this the school?" "Yes, that's the Catholic school." "Show Junior." "Is this where we go?" "That's where you used to go when you lived in Nuevitas." "What's the name of the school?" "Now, that's a good question." "Now we getting someplace." "You're going to be very good." "The name of the school is Reina de Los Angeles." "Reina de Los Angeles." "Reina de Los Angeles." "That's it." "That's it." "Like this." "See all of this?" "Okay, come on." "We're going to try it." "You're next." "Okay." "Sit right there." "Do what I say." "You sit over here." "Can I have a try?" "Yeah, after he does." "You're both gonna have a turn." "Right?" "Yes." "Okay." "A little to the right." "A little to the right." "Okay." "Pass." "Come on." "Come on." "The other way." "The other way." "To the right." "To the right." "Right." "Right." "Okay." "To the right, the boat goes to the left." "To the left, the boat goes to the right." "Don't hit the boat." "Okay, in the river, you must guide the boat." "That's it." "Don't hit the boat..." "Okay..." "Straight..." "Straight ahead." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, how do you like that?" "It's too hot!" "It's not hot." "Not too hot." "Not too hot." "Hello?" "Yes." "You have busses that go to Miami?" "How much one way to Miami?" "Me and my two boys." "Yes, they're both under 12." "So that comes to... $80 and 80 cents." "Thank you." "Papi." "Yes." "Are we moving out of this neighborhood?" "Yes." "I don't wanna move out of this neighborhood." "I don't wanna live in Miami." "You crazy?" "All my friends are here." "This neighborhood?" "With the filthy streets and the garbage?" "And the cockroaches and the rats." "And everything falling down?" "And the marijuana?" "And the junkies?" "It's fun here." "Fun..." "I like it." "He likes it." "There's always a lot of excitement, things going around here." "Excitement." "You could do a lot of different things around here." "Yeah, with Silvia." "Where the hell is Miami?" "I ain't leaving." "I ain't leaving." "You hear that?" "Something very exciting is happening to somebody." "Okay." "What?" "This came in the mail for papi today." "Department of Health Education and Welfare?" "Papi's crazy." "Luis." "Come over to the house, I'll show you some other stuff." "What the hell is all this?" "I don't know." "He's gonna take us to live in Miami." "So why is he teaching us about a town named Nuevitas?" "Nuevitas?" "Where's that?" "Sounds like Puerto Rico." "I don't know." "Revolution." "Gulf stream?" "He's showing us how to run a motor boat." "Health, Education and Welfare?" "What's it all about?" "I don't know." "I'm telling you, man, he's poco loco in the coco." "Papi, this came in the mail for you today." "Thank you." "Abraham, don't be mad at the kids." "Papi, we had to tell somebody." "Lupe's gonna be our mother anyway." "No." "You're gonna marry Lupe, ain't you?" "No." "Kids need a mother." "Don't worry, you're gonna have a mother." " Lupe?" " No." "Then who?" "Somebody." "Don't worry about it." "Hey, Lupe, Lupe, hey." "I don't got no other..." "I don't got no other woman." "I don't care." "Just let me go." "I don't have no..." "I want to talk to you." "You wait here." "You said the kids were going to have a different mother." "Who is she?" "I don't know yet." "You don't know yet?" "Lupe, I can't explain now." "But you say you love me!" "Lupe, I do love you." "I can't worry about you now." "I can't worry about me." "If everything goes the way I plan, maybe I come back and get married." "I don't know." "But where are the kids gonna be?" "I don't know." "Someplace better than this." "Abraham, do the kids know you're going to give them away?" "No." "Abraham." "Abraham." "Nobody understands, that's why I don't tell nobody, not even the priest." "Because you know what he's going to say." "Because you're wrong and it's a sin." "Priests don't have no kids." "What kind of man is it that gives away his children?" "Every day, everybody in this neighborhood gives his kids away to the streets." "The priest doesn't call that a sin." "No!" "A good man keeps his family together." "That means he loves them." "Let them grow up around here." "Let them see everything." "Let their hearts get filled with everything, pretty soon the heart closes up!" "Let them grow up to be elevator operators and busboys, and then when they're 35 years old, they get the same crap from their kids." "They say, "But, he was a goof man"," ""he kept the family together."" "You heard Junior." "Boys need a mother." "A mother to hold them and kiss them, and comb their hair and give them hot cereal." "I had a mother." "Junkies and pimps have mothers." "I'm their father." "I got to think about their life." "You are crazy, Abraham." "You are absolutely crazy." "I'm crazy." "I'm crazy." "Aye, Abraham, please." "Abraham..." "Please." "Abraham, let's get married." "Yes, and move to Brooklyn, then we won't be Puerto Ricans no more." "Listen, it's not news to me that I'm Puerto Rican." "I am proud of it." "But I am just trying to live because I know I can't change things." "Yes." "For you and me, it's too late to change things, but not for my kids!" "Change what?" "Give them away?" "No..." "To some institution?" "No, no." "What are you going to change?" "They'll end up with some Puerto Rican family anyway." "No, no, no, no." "Abraham, who else will take them?" "You'll find out." "Rich people." "High class people." "Two Puerto Rican kids?" "No, no, not two Puerto Rican kids, two Cuban kids." "What are you talking about?" "All right." "You are crazy." "I'm crazy." "You are absolutely crazy." "I tell you not to do this." "I am not going to let you do this." "I'm going to tell the kids." "Don't you say nothing to nobody, Lupe." "Do you hear me?" "Nothing, to nobody!" "Junior!" "It's us, papi." "You look very good." "Nice and clean." "How fat you got." "Everybody treat you very nice?" "Everybody said, "Hello, Luis." "Hello, Junior, come in"," ""we give you something to eat."" "It's nice out there?" "Where do you sleep?" "In an empty building." "A whole apartment just for yourself?" "We had company." "Some of the company ran over my foot." "And I said, "That's it."" "And we got the hell out of there." "What you eat?" "Coke, hot dog." "Cupcakes." "Everything you want?" "It's easy to steal." "We didn't steal it." "We worked." "Where'd you work?" "We shined shoes." "Where did you get the money for the shoe box, and the Polish and everything?" "A guy named Mr. Mendez." "He rents all that stuff to kids." "A dollar a day." "How much money did you make?" "Three dollars." "Both of you made three dollars?" "No." "Together, three dollars." "A dollar profit?" "We spent two dollars on food." "So you still owe Mr. Mendez one dollar for the shoebox?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "That's very good mathematics." "You didn't go to school?" "I missed a test." "Well, I think you learnt something." "Go to bed." "Papi..." "What?" "I need a white shirt for tomorrow." "We got an assembly." "Tomorrow you don't go to school." "Hello?" "Yes." "I'd like to make three reservations to Miami Beach tomorrow." "Hey, come on." "This looks like a good place." "This good." "My butt hurts." "How long are we gonna stay here?" "Three days, maybe four days, but I'm going to tell you something, muchachos." "Five days from now, the whole world is going to know you." "The whole world is going to love you." "Everybody's going to kill themselves trying to do everything for you." "I feel sick." "What's the matter?" "That chicken, with all that stuff all over it..." "What do you expect in a bus stop, rice and beans?" "I gotta throw up." "Over there." "Over there." "All right, boys, time to eat." "Come on, let's go!" "Hey, papi, where you get the boat?" "Hey, p api." "Shhh." "Hey." "This is nice." "Not so much noise." "Hey, this is nice." "Come on now." "Wow." "Pull." "It's a cool boat, papi." "Okay." "Come on, we got to get the boat out of here and up into the trees." "Up there!" "That's right." "What for?" "Because I want it there." "That's why." "That boat's heavy." "That's why I need you to help me." "Okay, now, push!" "Once more." "Push!" "Again." "Push!" "My sunburn." "That's good." "Come on." "Push!" "All right." "Not too far to go." "Let's go." "Push!" "Once more." "Push." "I can't, it hurts." "Come on, Luis, it's important that you're getting sunburned." "Come on, I'm to fix it, here." "Is that better?" "Come on, now, push." "What the hell you doing?" "Get the oars." "What for?" "Get the oars." "All right, now, go sit over there in the sun." "I don't want to stay in the sun anymore." "Why do I have to tell you everything 20 times?" "For goodness sakes, go do what I tell you, there's a reason for everything, now sit!" "All right, now take the oars and go like this." "Both hands." "We'll get blisters." "That's right." "Both hands." "Come on." "Good." "Now, this is the most important thing." "From now on, we speak only Spanish." "You understand?" "Yeah." "All right." "Why?" "I mean, por que?" "Ain't you coming with us?" "No." "I thought you were coming with us." "You're coming with us, ain't you, papi?" "I can't come with you." "Why do you think I teach you everything for?" "I'm not going." "Luis, there's nothing to be afraid of." "Just go straight 'til you run out of gas, then throw the motor and the tank in the ocean." "I'm not going." "Come on, don't start crying." "What if a storm comes?" "There won't be no storm." "This is July." "That's the best time." "I know all of this." "We could get killed out there." "You..." "You think I'm going to send you someplace where you are going to get killed?" "I don't wanna go." "I didn't know you wasn't coming with us." "I can't come with you." "That's the whole idea." "You've got to be alone." "I ain't going." "Muchacho, come back here." "Let go." "My sunburn." "I don't wanna go." "I'm sorry." "I don't wanna go." "I don't wanna go." "Papi." "Put me down, I don't wanna go." "I don't wanna go." "I don't wanna go." "Papi." "Papi, please, I don't wanna go." "What if the boat tips over?" "We can't swim." "The boat ain't going to tip over." "You'll be all right." "You know how to run this boat." "This ain't the East River." "Just a little bit more water, that's all." "Papi, I don't wanna do it." "Now, you got to do what I tell you." "You've got six gallons of gas." "That takes you 30 miles." "You'll be right in the middle of the Gulf Stream." "Thousands of boats over there." "Down there is the Florida Keys." "This is Miami." "This the whole east coast of the United States." "Down there is all the islands, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba." "Thousands of boats." "They all try to get in the middle of the Gulf Stream and that's where you're going to be." "What do you think I read all these books for?" "To know all about this stuff." "We could drown out there." "Muchachos, you ain't going to drown." "You stay in the boat until somebody sees you, that's all." "We're going to drown out there." "All right, you're going to drown, but it's better to drown in the ocean than in the sewer." "Now, start the motor." "Papi, please, I don't wanna go." "Start the motor." "I'll go out there, turn around and come back where you can't see me." "I don't wanna go." "Papi, I don't care." "I'm coming back." "I don't wanna go." "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "Quiet." "Shut up." "I don't care." "Listen." "I figure this whole thing out and you're going to do what I told you." "You try to come back, I'm going to kill you." "You go out there, when you run out of gas, throw the motor and the tank in the ocean and the first people you see, talk Spanish only!" "Now, start the motor." "I hope you die." "I hate you." "Luis, I do this because I love you." "You don't understand, but I'm your papi and I love you." "Start the motor and go!" "I hate you." "I hate you." "I hate you." "I hate you." "I love you!" "I hate you." "I hate you." "Genoveva!" "Genoveva, take care of your kids." "Hello." "Coastguard?" "Yeah, listen." "I was on a fishing boat this morning..." "My name?" "My name is Johnson, William Johnson." "Yeah." "Listen, I was on a fishing boat this morning." "About 25 miles..." "And I see a little boat, with-with two people in it." "Could be kids." "I don't know, it could be kids." "Maybe 11 and 12 years old, or something like this." "You didn't see nobody?" "Well, I seen them." "I was out there." "I seen this boat with these kids in it." "You better..." "You'd better..." "Listen, you'd better go look again." "Come in?" "Why do I have to come in for?" "No, I can't come in, I'm a doctor." "I got a lot of patients to see." "I'm busy." "No, you'd better..." "You'd better go and see." "These kids could be in a lot of trouble..." "So you find them." "Right." "You look for them." "You..." "You find them." ""The Secretary said," We are always ready" ""but the other side has given no indication that it is ready to talk peace."" "The Sheriff's office announced today that there would be a shakeup in his department as a result of charges of corruption made last week by the Miami Citizens' Committee for Honest Government." "And that's the news." "Shut up!" "Brought to you by Miami Federal Savings Bank," "Miami's oldest and most trusted banking institution." "This has been the 11th hour edition of WFLA News." "First in news, 24 hours a day." "The wrap-up will be on two hours from now and we invite you to stay tuned for another fabulous flick on the late late show." "That's a beautiful boat." "Thank you." "Hey, listen." "Sometimes do you happen to get stuck out there?" "Well, it hasn't happened yet, Mister." "She's in top condition." "Maybe sometime you run out of gas?" "Auxiliary tanks." "Sometime your motor break down, something like that?" "Well, it hasn't happened in 10 years." "Sometimes somebody has trouble out there, right?" "Yeah." "A lot of times." "What happens when somebody has trouble out there?" "Nothing." "They just radio the Coast Guard and they come out and pick 'em up." "Then maybe they ain't got no radio, you know, if it's a small boat of 12 feet." "Well, you gotta be crazy to go too far out in a small boat." "What if they come from Cuba?" "That how you come?" "No, I came..." "I came by airplane." "Yeah." "The airlift." "A lot..." "You know a lot of people come by boat." "Yeah, they come in here every week." "I give them people a lot of credit." "That takes an awful lot of guts." "Them people jump in anything that floats." "You know, some guys showed up once in a..." "In a raft made of inner tubes." "But that's luck." "That's luck." "Most of these people, they'll look at a map, right?" "Ninety miles across the straits." "They figure they'll make that in four or five hours, right?" "But they don't know these straits can be dangerous." "They make kinds of mistakes." "Get in all kinds of trouble." "Start out at the worst time of the year." "Run outta gas, run outta food, run outta water, you know what I mean?" "Get lost." "Drift for days." "Start out for the Keys, wind up ii the Bahamas." "But they make it, right?" "If they show up here, we know they made it, right?" "And how about the people who started out, you know, and never made it." "Listen." "What happens if you got a couple of people in a small boat, no food, and no water?" "No food, no water?" "Three days." "Three days?" "That's it." "See, people think you die of exposure and shock." "You don't die of that, you die of dehydration." "No water." "Your body's all dehydrated." "Three days." "Say, you don't wanna go fishing?" "Demonstrators smashed windows of the American Embassy and over-turned several cars." "Police battled the crowds with batons and water hoses in an effort to disperse them." "The State Department reports that no one in the embassy was injured." "However..." "Although Miamians are accustomed to reports of small boat arrivals, spokesmen for the Children's Bureau, The Department of Health, Education and Welfare, have assured me that there has never been an occasion when two children have made the hazardous trip alone." "Discovered by a fishing party less than two and a half hours ago 20 miles from Miami, these boys are being hailed by the world as heroes." "It is assumed the boys set out alone from some northern Cuban town in a gaily decorated boat called Julio 26, which, as everyone knows is the name of Fidel Castro's..." "They are suffering from exposure." "They are in shock." "They are dangerously dehydrated and both boys sustained severe burns." "As Miamians know, the temperature the past few days has been in the 90s." "Asked if the boys would live, doctors at Mercy Hospital would give no answer." "That was as of 20 minutes ago." "However, a spokesman for the hospital stated in an exclusive interview..." "Doctor Pearl, Doctor Pearl." "Hello." "Yes?" "How are you?" "Fine." "How are you?" "Very good." "Very good." "Listen." "What room are the two boys, please?" "No visitors up there, sir." "Yes." "That is very wise." "But you see, I'm not a visitor." "I'm Professor Echevarria from the University of Havana." "Yes." "My appearance." "Well, you see, I was from Washington by one hour ago to take our plane to come here and my secretary told me about the two boys and I didn't take time to shave or nothing." "Well, no one's allowed up there, sir." "Don't tell me that." "There are a lot of people up there." "Yes, but they're all directly concerned with the case." "Well, I am directly concerned by the case." "I am the chairman, by the committee." "What committee?" "The Committee About The Cuban Children." "The Committee About The Cuban Children." "Yeah." "Professor, we have to protect the children against curiosity seekers." "Even people who wish them well, right?" "Yeah." "And you wouldn't want a policeman to show you out, would you?" "No." "Listen." "How are the boys?" "As well as can be expected." "There will be a special mass at St. Catherine of Genoa Church for the recovery of these two brave boys who have captured the heart and imagination of the entire freedom-loving world." "It would be a great tragedy if these boys do not live." "Rarely do we encounter an incident, an act of courage which so magnificently illustrates and dramatizes man's unquenchable thirst for Liberty, his willingness to do and perhaps to die." "Now Mr. Elbert Harmon of the Health, Education and Welfare Department." "All I can say is, that we are all just hoping and praying that the boys will make it and that they will be able to talk to us soon." "Dr. Perle, Dr. Perle." "Wait a minute." "Come on." "Say, come on." "What happens in cases like this?" "Well, the Florida Welfare Bureau always tries to reunite families." "The boys will live." "What's the matter with him?" "Hey, what happened?" "Is he all right?" "Hey, wha..." "What..." "What are you doing?" "Get this..." "Who are you?" "What are you doing here?" "I'm cubano." "There are a hundred thousand Cubans in Miami." "Who are you?" "Senor, can you tell us who you are?" "I want for you to give me those two boys." "Are you registered as a foster parent?" "No." "But I have a beautiful apartment." "Two rooms." "I live alone, alone by myself." "Senor, you're a good man." "I know how you feel about those boys." "We'll find them a very good home." "You'll give them to rich guys." "No." "No?" "We don't even know who those boys are yet." "Don't worry." "They'll be fine." "That's..." "That's terrific." "You wonderful people." "America, gracias." "I don't bother you no more." "Cuba libre to you." "The President has invited the boys to visit him at the White House as soon as they are able." "Congratulatory telegrams are pouring in." "Life Magazine has offered an education trust fund for the exclusive rights to the story of their daring exploit." "Of course, no deals can be made until we know who speaks for the boys." "Doctors expect, later today, the boys will speak for themselves, and, of course, a breathless world awaits their first words." "It is inconceivable that these boys could have accomplished this feat without the guidance and help of some adult or..." "Can..." "Can I hold my baby, please?" "We only show the babies between 3:00 and 5:00." "Well, you know, I'm going into the Army in about an hour and I may not see the kid for a couple of years." "Yes." "Which one is yours?" "Which one you think?" "Samoza?" "Yeah." "He looks just like me, right?" "She." "She." "Wow." "You know I got so many kids." "Ten..." "Let me hold my little girl, please?" "You'll have to wear a cap and gown and mask." "I'll be right back." "Mr. Diaz, please tell him not to move his arm." "He's moving his mouth." "He's going to say something." "Mr. Diaz, get in closer." "Shhh." "Son of a bitch." "You must forgive the boy." "He..." "He doesn't know what he's saying." "What did he call us, Mr. Diaz?" "When people drive cars in this country, that's what they call each other." "But how would a Cuban boy know that word?" "He..." "He could have picked it up from American soldiers at Guantanamo." "But would that have been his first word?" "I don't think so..." "Patients in pain, coming out of delirium, often blurt out dirty words." "But in their native tongue." "It was un-unmistakably American." "That was American." "That was in Spanish." "That was American." "Are you back?" "Listen, Mister, just what are you up to now?" "I come to tell you what they said, because I speak Spanish." "Now, Mr. Diaz is our translator." "Now get out of here before I have you arrested." "Listen." "The whole world is waiting to hear what these boys speak." "I'm going to told you what they say." "We know what he say." "No, Mr. Diaz, I'm going to tell you what they say." "Now, don't forget..." "Now, his tongue is very fat, so when he's talking Spanish, it sounds like a dirty word in English." "All right." "Then what did he say?" "It..." "It could have been 20 things in Spanish." "For an example?" "For example, you know those toys they got a couple of balls." "They call those toys boliches, right?" "Now, semana means week, right, Mr. Diaz?" "Yes." "That is what he say." "Semana boliches." "The week of toys?" "That doesn't make any sense." "Then he could said somos lapices." "We are pencils?" "We got bedbugs." "All right." "All right." "Sueno." "I dream." "Babuchas, slippers." "Sueno babuchas." "I dream of slippers." "No, senor, no." "Listen." "Mr. Diaz." "How do you say beans?" "How do you say, "They eat beans"?" "But he didn't say "ellos."" "How do you say, "A mouthful of water"?" "How do you say, "It is bad gossip"?" "Saturday?" "How do you say "Bobby pins"?" "Pinches." "Saturday Bobby pins?" "How do you say, "We are sugarmills"?" "How do you say, "Sober bedbugs"?" "You see what I'm saying." "This guy calls himself a translator." "To say that these kids are talking English, that's crazy." "These kids don't talk nothin' but Spanish." "Nothin' but Spanish." "Keep your voice down." "Get out of here and if you ever show your face here again," "I'll have you locked up." "Do you understand?" "Don't you dare come back." "That man is a fool." "He's crazy." ""We are pencils." "Sober bedbugs." That doesn't make any sense." "I tell you what he say." "He say, "Somos hombres de pelo en pecho."" "We are men of courage." "Luis..." "What?" "I guess somebody must have picked us up." "How do you feel?" "Okay." "How about the way everybody treats us?" "Papi figured out the whole thing." "Pretty smart, right?" "He knew what he was doing." "Hey, what you crying about?" "You don't want to spoil your beautiful eyes, do you?" "Luis, let me do the talking, will ya?" "Let me do the talking." "Morning." "There must be 50 reporters downstairs." "They're setting it up in one of the rooms in Children's Psychiatric." "Well, that's a good idea." "New York Times." "Sacramento Bee." "No cameras, please." "Figaro." "Reuters." "El Diario." "Gentlemen, I'm Elbert Harmon," "Health, Education and Welfare." "We felt that this would be the best way of satisfying the press and making it as easy as possible for the boys." "Now, when the lights go out in your room, turn out the lights please, the children won't be aware of your presence." "But you of course will be able to see them." "The boys are coming." "No unnecessary noise, please." "Let's get their names, Mr. Diaz." "They are brothers." "Abraham and Luis Henriquez." "He is 11 years and he is 9." "We've assumed that the boys are Catholic." "Could you find out if they are?" "Well, first shouldn't we welcome them to the United States?" "What town are they from?" "A fishing village on the north coast of Cuba." "Nuevitas." "It's not far from Havana." "Nuevitas?" "He says the hurricane blow down the side of the theater in 1964." "Ask them about their parents, Mr. Diaz." "He says his mother and father are dead and he have nobody in the world." "No uncles, aunts, nobody." "Well, I guess this isn't a foster parents case, Father Pickett." "I don't know." "This is a case for adoption." "I..." "But let's go on." "I'm interested in the escape." "Who helped them." "How they did it." "Mr. Diaz." "He says it was his father's idea but he died the night before they left Cuba." "My father said to me, "Swim until the boat is out of the bay."" ""And the soldiers cannot see you."" ""Row the boat until it is safe to use the motor."" ""And go toward Polaris."" ""Five hours, six hours and you will arrive in Miami."" "But in a little while we run out of gasoline." "No food, no water." "The sun was very hot and very bright." "He says he hates his father." "Why?" "Why does he hate his father?" "He says he wanted us to die." "But that couldn't be." "His father said to him, it is better to die in the ocean than in the sewer." "Tell hire he mustn't hate his father." "Your father was a marvelous man." "He didn't want you to die." "He wanted you to live." "You can't understand the kind of love your father had for you." "But you will, when you're older." "You don't realize the sacrifice your father made for you." "Your father was a wonderful, beautiful man... who wanted you to have a better life." "A free life." "You should be proud of your father... and love him." "He says his father is dead." "He is crying for his papi." "He says no more questions." "He's obviously blocking out his father's death." "Just take the boys back to their room, please." "Please remain where you are until the boys get into the elevator." "How are you today?" "Fine, fine." "I have to fix the bathroom." "I was going in there..." "I was going in there." "Back to bed." "I'll call the nurse." "Papi!" "Papi!" "Listen, I'm going crazy trying to get in to this place." "I can't come no more because." "Mr. Harmon says if he catches me he's going to throw me in prison so listen." "I wanna go home." "Luis you're going to have a beautiful home." "If you read those newspapers, you'll go crazy to see what kind of stuff they have in that." "I want to go home." "Everybody wants to adopt you, rich guys." "One guy, one guy's got a steel company in Colorado." "I don't want to be adopted." "I don't care." "Listen, are you..." "Are you crazy?" "Do you see all that stuff out there?" "Do you see that bike?" "That's your bike." "I don't want no lousy bike." "What do you mean, you don't want no bike?" "Sure you want a bike and you're going to have more than that." "You're going to have a beautiful life with a better class of people." "You're going to have everything you ever wanted." "Do you hear me?" "You got to try to understand why I'm doing this." "Papi, I don't want to be adopted." "I know what you're trying to do and it's great but still I don't want you to do it." "Listen, what's the matter with you?" "Yes, I'm comin' out, I'm comin' out." "Do you think we're not going to see each other?" "We're going to see each other again." "We're going to see each other." "I'm going to come to whatever city you're at and I'm going to be there all the time." "We'll see each other all the time." "Come on, come on." "Come on." "Don't mess it up." "Don't mess it up, please!" "Will you please get out of there, mister?" "Come on." "Don't cry." "Don't cry." "All right, lady, one second." "I will have everything fixed." "Just hold it." "Muchachos." "Who's in there?" "Mister!" "Will you get out of there, mister?" "Will you please get out of there, mister?" "No, no!" "Papi!" "Will you please get out of there, mister?" "I'm terribly sorry." "It's that same idiot." "What the hell is he doing here now?" "Hey, you, come back." "Come back here." "Hey." "Come back here!" "Stop!" "Boys, cone back here at once." "Listen to me." "You..." "You must restrain yourself in here." "I want you to listen." "Get your lousy hands off him, you fag." "Don't you talk like that, boys, listen..." "Good God." "He's my father." "My God." "You speak English?" "You speak English?" "The reporters..." "Take the kids with you." "Take the kids." "Take the kids..." "Come on." "No." "No." "Come on, come on." "In there." "We are pencils." "Mr. Diaz." "Come on." "After you." "Get, get, get." "Get?" "I never saw anything like this before." "Puerto Ricans from New York!" "Those boys are due at the White House in two weeks." "I have to make a report to the Judiciary Conmmittee." "What am I going to say?" "You involved all of us in a hoax." "Do you realize that, my son?" "Yes, Father, I'm sorry for everything I've done." "I'm gonna tell the reporters everything." "No." "No." "Don't do that." "Be quiet." "Be quiet." "Let me think." "Look." "Listen." "Now what we do is this." "We keep quiet about this." "Mr. Diaz, I can deport you." "Miss Musto, the Florida Welfare Department..." "Just tell me what we do." "Father, how can we deprive the world of a happy ending to this fairy tale?" "How do we explain him?" "He's what everybody thinks he is, some nationalist nut." "All right, as for the boys." "We, we keep them incommunicado for a week or two and, then suddenly they're gone." "Where are they?" ""Boys Quietly Adopted, Resettled in Western City."" "That's beautiful." "I..." "That's beautiful, Mr. Harmon." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Don't thank me because as soon as those boys can travel you're going back where you came from." "What are you talking about?" "You got to throw me in prison." "You'd love that, wouldn't you?" "Listen, I stole a boat." "I did all those terrible things." "I'm a criminal." "Father, tell him he's got to throw me in prison." "You are going home." "That's what you think, Mr. Harmon." "You're not going to get away with it." "Look I'll, I'll ship you the toys and the bikes?" "You think I did all this for lousy toys and bikes?" "I want those kids to be with the guy from the steel company." "Otherwise, I'm going to tell all those reporters out there." "I'm gonna tell the guys from Life magazine," "I'm gonna tell everybody everything." "You guys are gonna look pretty stupid." "Blackmailing the United States?" "That's right, lady." "You listen." "You are going home, and you're gonna keep your mouth shut and if you ever dare open it, I'll see you in jail for treason." "And your kids in an institution." "You think I'm afraid of you?" "I'm not afraid of you." "You're afraid of me." "And you're gonna do what I say." "What difference does it make to you?" "None at all, you idiot." "None." "I'd love to do it your way." "Well, then do it." "Give the kids to the guy with the steel company." "Then have them run away?" "Maybe kill the guy?" "No, they'd blow it for me the same way they blew it for you." "They don't want to be adopted." "They want to be with you." "They love you." "You're their father." "Those lousy kids."