"I'll get us some burritos and Cokes while you pull a few." "The unions are squeezing' me." "Threatenin' to burn this place down." " I'm in a union." " That's a whole other thing." "I'm talkin' about the life and death of my operation and half the factories in LA." "They want a minimum wage." "The day I gotta start payin' these people $2.50 an hour my business is a memory." "Well, I gotta have a couple of 'em." "Pick any two you want." "Be my guest." "Mendoza?" "You want him, you take him." "But I gotta tell ya, he's got a lot of mouths to feed." " All right, what about these two?" " You want 'em, take 'em." "Señores." "Un momento." " Tiene niños?" " Sí." "Tengo dos." "Dos?" " What about you?" " No, no tengo." "Lou, you gonna have jobs for them when they come back?" "Sure." "These are good workers." "Hey, buenos trabajadores, huh?" "When you come back, you got good jobs." "Six bucks a day." "Over here." "Lean up against the wall there." "You're under arrest by the authority of the United States Bureau..." " Lou!" "...of Naturalization and lmmigration." "I gotta go." "You're doin' a good job." "Come on." "Let's take a walk." " Hi, hon." " Hi." "Charlie, there is no time for anything at all." "I didn't even have time to wash my hair today." "What do you do all day?" "Ah!" "Here it is." "Look at that." "What is it?" "Look at it." "Isn't that the prettiest duplex you ever did see?" "Where'd this come from?" "From El Paso." "From my dear, darlin' friend Savannah." "That's hers, and she's made it possible for us to have the one right next to it." "What are you talking about?" "Buying a duplex?" "With what?" "Darlin', the price is right." "The price is gonna sky rocket." "It's everything we ever dreamed of." "I never dreamed of living in El Paso." "How hungry are you?" "Hungry Man or normal?" "Hungry Man." "I was thinkin' about maybe goin' back into the Recreation and Parks Service." "You gotta think of goin' forward, not backward." "Remember when we used to feed those ducks?" "Maybe the Forest Service." " Darlin', that's a dead end." " I, uh..." "I liked feeding those ducks." "It's my woman's intuition that things could be better for us in El Paso." "I just wanna talk about it." "We never talk about anything, Marcy." "We never fuckin' talk about anything." "I'm available to talk any time you would like." "Es norteamérica." "They're here!" "They're here now!" "Just look at it." "It's just like the picture says." "Charlie, I'm in paradise." "I do believe I'm gonna sprout wings and a halo." "I'm the welcome wagon." " Look at you." " We're here, we're here!" "This here's Charlie." " Hi." " Hi." " He's really cute." " Thanks." " And you're Cat." " Real nice to meet you." "You must be Timmy." "Aren't you the darlingest thing?" " How you doing, Charlie?" " I'm doing fine." " Have a nice trip?" " Sure did." " This is Timmy." " How you doin' up there?" "Come on in." "Don't go having' vapours, honey." "You have got to carry her." " Savannah..." " The man has just driven 1,000 miles." " I've put on a little..." " Across the threshold." " Come on, we've been married 11 years." " I suppose it's never too late." " Up you go." " Attaboy." "You got her." "Oh!" "It's just..." "It's beautiful." "It's just perfectly beautiful." "It's so lovely." "I can't believe it." "That's where I can put the Nu-Vue." "Nu-Vue just happens to be one of the top pool manufacturing companies." "Oh, I could cry." "Really." " I think you're gonna like it here." " Oh, I know we are." "Dad, I wanna go swimming." "OK, Tim, go ahead." "Don't stay too long." "You're not talkin' a whole bunch, Charlie." "Yeah, well, I'm just takin' everything in." "Thanks." "Here's a great big kiss for bringin' Marcy back home to Texas where she belongs." " Isn't she as pretty as I said?" " She sure is." "Well, I used to be something but now I drive past the high and them little girls are wearing my old tits." "Marcy, do you still think we could knock 'em dead?" "I know we can." "She tell you how we could ginger up the stadium?" "Let's show 'em." "A- one and a-two and a-ba-ba-ba-ba." "# Eagles born and Eagles bred" "# When I die, I'll be an Eagle head" "# Fight, you Eagles." "Knock 'em dead" "# If we win, we'll give you head #" "I didn't say that." "I did not!" "Charlie, you and me have scored the best damn pussy in the whole state of Texas." "No!" "Charlie, you ought to get the shirts tailored." " Look a whole lot better." " Do you think so?" "It's a matter of preference." "I get mine done that way." "Well, uh, what's it cost to get the tailoring done?" "The shirts'll cost you $10 each and we can narrow the pants for five." "They got some really nice boots here." "You ought to look at a pair, Charlie." "I better take it easy." "$125 clothing allowance..." "Don't worry." "Buster can bill you for it." "Give you time to catch up." "That's right." "Free for 30 days." "No, I think I better take it just the way it comes off the rack." "I can't tell you how glad I am to have you down here, Charlie." "I really wanna thank you and your wife for all your help." "It's you that's helped me." "I'm stuck with guys here that are too dumb to roll rocks down a steep hill." "No reason why you can't move real fast down here, Charlie." "Real fast." "Today your partner's Hawker." "He's a sonofabitch." "But he knows what he's doing." " Why'd you transfer out here?" " A change." "My wife's from Dallas." " How long's the fence?" " Tortilla curtain?" "It's only three miles to get around it." "People just cut holes in it." "Saves a lot of time." "You'll find there's a pretty good bunch of boys here." "You can pretty much trust 'em." "Most of 'em." "It's funny what you can see in a man just by the way he wears his clothes." "Uniform's supposed to make everyone the same." "That's what the word means." "Uniform." "But if you..." "Hit..." "Andale, andale." "Pronto, pronto!" "Day workers, mostly." "Come over in the morning, go back at night." "No way to stop 'em, no point in really bothering." "Did you ever throw dirt clods as a kid?" "It's the same damn game." "This is the desert, ain't a dirt clod to be found for miles." "Doesn't really get rough till after dark." "Coyote's the one in the lead." "We usually let 'em get across." "Easier to pick 'em up on this side." "If you surprise 'em in the river, they just hunker down and get pneumonia." "Life's tough enough for 'em without makin' it worse." " You wanna watch us book 'em in?" " Sure." "Let's go." "I brought Charlie to see how you big boys work." "Sanchez, why don't you go back to Nogales and cross there?" "Been driving you back so often, we'll have to charge you bus fare." "We got a call." "We gotta go." "Hold your ass." "Don't usually get calls from up here." " Stay here." " OK." "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Station One, this is Charlie Smith." "Get us some goddamn help!" " Where is he?" " I don't know." "I didn't see him go down." "He was right out here in front of the truck." " Can you see him?" " Hawker?" "Hawker!" "Give me some cover, Charlie." " OK, you ready?" " Yeah." " Ready?" " Ready." "Go." "He's fuckin' dead." "They had it on the radio this morning." "We heard it coming in." "Bastards." "You didn't really get a look at them, huh, Charlie?" "No, I didn't." "FBI will send some boys to poke around." "Any kind of evidence, they'll find it." "He probably came on some dopers." "Surprised 'em." "Tough break for you, Charlie." "First time out." " Fuckin' dopers." " Andy!" "You tell them damn mechanics of ours, Andy, that speedometer on my rig says 140 miles an hour and it damn well better go 140 miles an hour the next time I want it to." "Yes, sir." "Red, this here's Charlie Smith." "Sir." "Oh, hello there, Charlie." "I've been wanting to meet you, welcome you to the unit." "And I'm real sorry it's under circumstances like this." "Right face!" "Shoulder arms!" "Commence fire!" "Commence fire!" "Commence fire!" "Left face!" "Present arms!" "Buenas tardes." " Su niña es bonita." " Gracias." "Hey!" "I'll break your goddamn cabeza in half." "Son de usted?" "Sí." "Gracias." "Gracias, señora." "Señora?" "Señora?" "Espera." "Marcy?" "Isn't it beautiful?" "Goddamn." "What did this fuckin' thing cost?" " Did you say something?" " I was asking you how much this cost." "We don't have to worry about that." "I opened up a charge account at the Galleria." " Uh-huh." " Uh-huh." "Charlie, uh..." "Am I gaining weight?" "I suppose you are." "You eat so goddamn much." "Don't make fun of me." "I know you like the way I feel." "Do you wanna feel it?" "Feel it?" "Charlie, do you know somethin'?" "It's real cool." "Real cool in the summer." "And it can get real hot in the winter." "We'llgotogether." "We'll go to another place." "Well..." "Captain Cook's Fish Fiesta." "A bucket of giant jumbo shrimp, succulent chunks of fried fish, luscious bites of langostino." "Ibettercastoff for  Captain Cook's Fish Fiesta right now." "Andrememberno fishysmell, no fishy taste, shipshape clean and the eating's great." "I got him!" "OK." "Alto." " Easy, Cat, easy." " Easy?" "Ever see this before?" "Push this in schools." "Ten-year-old kids getting hooked on this shit." "Stick him in the box for me." "Señora?" "Hey." "Yo." "... hubcaps." "No, no, no!" "Por favor!" "Por favor, por favor." "Basta." "I believe she was hooking' for ya." "Do you think that's funny?" " Quieres agua, hombre?" " No, no quiero." "This here's my eye, Charlie." "Works with us on the other side." "Manuel, Charlie." "They can use you in the write-up room, Charlie." " Adiós." " Òrale." "You know what they're getting for Wets delivered up North?" " Haven't a clue." " $550 a head." "Then we're sending them the wrong way." "Texas been running on Wet labour since before I was born." "Runs damn good, too." "You think we could get by without 'em?" "You go out on a boiling day and pick your own lettuce and beans." "You figuring on turning in that uniform and becoming a Coyote?" "Brush up on his Spanish and he'd make a damn good Coyote." "Hey, Charlie, how do you spell "illiterate"?" "Why'd you ask a stupid question like that?" "Look it up in a dictionary." "How are you supposed to look it up if you can't spell it?" "There you go, Charlie." "Got a live one for you." "Seems kinda silly, don't it?" "Busting our asses to send 'em back, and respectable business people paying' to bring 'em in." "I guess out in LA it was pretty much the same." " Pretty much, yeah." " There sure ain't no way to stop 'em." "Man of your experience must know that sometimes it makes no sense to even try." "Somebody shit in your beer?" "What are you fishing for?" "I figure we might have some of the same ideas about things." "I mean, we're neighbours..." "I'm trying to build something for my family." "And I know how hard you been working to build something for yourself and Marcy." "I'm onto something good and maybe I can bring you in." "Well, you figured wrong, Cat." "Hey!" "OK." "Any way you want it, partner." "I mean, I'll fight you, fuck you, run you a foot race, whatever you want." "Cos I want us to be friends." "" " Hi, hon." "Hi." "Charlie, I'm gonna show you." "What is your opinion, your honest opinion of TV?" " I think it sucks." " No, Charlie." "I mean for me." "For me." " I must be missing the point." " As a medium for my expression." "Savannah says I have a certain style." "What happened to your face?" "Are you tryin' to tell me that you wanna be on television?" "Charlie, it is a seed." "A little, tiny seed that is sprouting in my mind." "I married a banana." "I married a fuckin' banana!" "Charlie, I have never been more serious in my life." "Marcy, I don't know how you would get a job like that." " I don't know how you'd get it." " Charlie, it's just that..." "Charlie!" "My God!" "What are you doing?" " What the fuck is this?" " It's our new swimming pool." "Charlie, are you all right?" "Señora?" "Perdóname, señora." "Hey, man, you want to fuck some girls?" "No." "...laying on my back with the door open and in walks the cutest blue-eyed doctor you ever saw." "And he asks me if I'm ready." " That's enough." " I'm just having a little fun, OK?" "So don't be inhibiting me." " You know how pissed off I get." " Then what happened?" "I said "I have never in my life been more ready"." "Charlie, where have you been?" "What are you doing dressed like this?" "Coming to this nice party with all this nice stuff." "Look at the way you're dressed." "Charlie!" "I had this dream I was making these..." " Charlie!" "My God, you're sweaty!" " What the hell happened to you?" " Can I talk to you for a second?" " I love sweaty men." "Sure." " Excuse me." " You're a wicked girl." "That kid is dead." " What kid?" " The one we pulled last week." "The one with the dope on him." "He's dead." "I turned him over to Manuel." "Somebody slit his goddamned throat." "I just left him on the other side." "Jesus Christ." "Well, the kid was a doper, Charlie." "They have their own way of dealing with things." "Are you saying Manuel did it?" "I don't know." "I only know he's dead cos you're telling me." "The Mexicans, they have their own kind ofjustice." "Same as we do." "We all take care of our own." "Dopers kill and get killed all the time." " Yeah, but..." " Well, hello there, Charlie." "Say, you didn't have to dress up on my account." "Maybe you better check his Green Card, Cat." "I think he's come in Wet." "Red, that doper we brought in last week," "Charlie found him on the other side." "He's dead." "I already called the Rangers." "What were you doing over there?" "I just went over there to look around." "Maybe you don't know this, but I don't like my men going over there." "Not even for a Mexican meal." "You get in trouble over there, I'd have a hell of a time getting you out." "What the hell." "Let's have some fun." "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday, dear Red" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday, dear Red" "# Happy birthday to you #" "Get up!" "Let's go!" "Let's go." "Come on, move it." "Ah, señores." " Juan!" " I got him." "I got him!" " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "OK, Charlie?" "Man, you had me scared shitless." "Absolutely scared shitless." "Risking your life for that fucker." "Hey, Charlie." "Hey, Charlie." "Chief wants to see you." "Hey, Charlie!" " How ya doin'?" " Fine." "I wanna tell you that Cat told me about the incident on the train." " That's a fine piece of work." " Oh, thanks." " How about a chew?" " No, sir." "I chew at work." "My wife don't like it round the house." "Shoot?" " Shoot?" " Birds?" "No." "In October we got ducks sittin' in these levies like flies on shit." "Well, I haven't done much huntin' since I was a kid." "Well, I'll let you have my wide-pattern Browning." "Can't miss and won't embarrass you." "I'm sure I'm not gonna be telling you anything you don't know." "The game's a little different around here." "There's some real big money on the table." "Smart man's gonna play his cards right tight up against his chest." "Mi niño." "Dónde está mi niño?" "Dónde está la señora..." "Juan!" "Juan!" "Of course if some farmer throws a sack of onions in the back of your car," "I don't mind you leave a few Wets in his field." "But anything unusual comes up, I gotta be the first to know about it." "What is going on?" "What's all that hollerin'?" "Get 'em out." "Get 'em on the buses." "Get 'em back to Mexico!" "I don't need no confrontation this way." "Nice work, boys." "Nice work." "Good job, good job." "You fellas that are hurt, get over to First Aid." " What happened out there?" " I'm not sure, sir." " Where's that baby?" " It's OK." "You stole a baby out of the compound." "What do you mean, it's OK?" "Òrale, This ain't the little baby Jesus, just some Indio." "I don't go in for stealin' babies." "Any kind." "I don't cotton to that kind of shit." "Understand me?" "Don't worry." "The kid is OK." "An Anglo family." "They pay big money for him." "He's gonna have it real good." "Big cars, swimming pools." "We did a good thing for him." "I just make a little money on the side." "No big deal." "I told you before, we're in the business of moving Wets, nothing else." "You ever come across running babies or dope," "I'll knock your dick into the dirt." "OK." "OK." "Don't worry, man." "With me you ain't got no problem." "That's him." "El Scorcho, the burned face." "He's running Wets on our territory." "Competition, amigo." "That's the total order." "Tell the boys where to spot that sofa." "Be careful going through the door!" "I think it'd look nice right over there." " What about this?" " Oh, I don't know." " You want the plastic on or off?" " I want it out." "Hi, hon." "You're up." "I was gonna surprise you." "I think I'll take the plastic off myself, OK?" "Very well, ma'am." "Sign here." "OK." "Thank you." "I think we should have the plastic made into permanent covers..." "No more, Marcy." "No more is no more." "No more does not mean more and more and more." "No more means no more." "I am doing this for us, Charlie." "All our money is in this house." "After they take the mortgage payments out of my pay, there's not enough left to buy you tampons." "Charlie, I am doing the best that I know how to make you a dream house." " I want this for you." " I can't afford a fuckin' dream house!" "I can't afford it." "You got it?" "All you do is yell about money." "Don't you care about..." " I'm sorry." " Charlie, do you know something?" "All I ever do is try to make you happy." "I'm sorry." "What's on your mind, Charlie?" "You still working on that deal?" "Hm-mm." "I just wanna say I'm open, that's all." " I'm open." " All right." "I tried to sit you on the right horse from the start." "Why'd you make it so rough?" "Don't matter, does it?" "Hell, no." "No." "Whatever your reasons are, I respect 'em." "This here is the drop house." "JJ?" "Hey!" "Hey, JJ." "Got a message from Manuel you got a load coming over." "Who's that?" "This here's Charlie Smith." "Charlie's my partner now." "Where you from, boy?" "California." "California." "I used to work out there during the war in them shipyards." "Whole time I was there I never met anybody who was worth a pinch of shit." " Bunch of scum-suckin' dogs." " Come on, lay off." "I ain't kiddin' ya." "I'd go down there and hold my nose and put a double rubber on my dick and fuck all those dockside whores down there." "Likely as not," "I might've knowed your mother, sonny." "Just a teeny little push, that's all." "Just a teeny little push." "Guess we caught JJ with a wild hair up his ass." "Come on, Charlie." "Wait outside while we talk." "It's OK." "Put that fucking gun away." "Why'd you pull that kind of shit anyway?" "I can tell by the way that guy looks through his face that he's crazier than a shithouse rat." "If you really need that boy, you oughta put a collar on him and make sure he don't get out the yard." "What the hell do you think this is?" "That's just money, boy." "That's all that is." "That ain't enough." "I'd like you to meet Bobbie and Alice." " Hello, Charlie." "Nice to meet you." " Would you hurry up?" "Hurry up!" "Hi, Angie." "Nice to see you." "Hey, Charlie, when are them coals gonna be ready?" "I'm so damned hungry I could eat fried pig shit." "...in a nice, sweet, sultry voice." "... with belly dancing, religious figures, unsolved mysteries..." "How an electric toothbrush can revitalise your sex life." "We'd have the best damn show on TV." "Sav, take Timmy home." " You take him." " You're drunk." "I'm just remembering how much you hate scenes, so don't be jerkin' my reins." "You need a hand?" "I thought I might help you skewer a while." "Could you hurry up?" "Now, don't be pickin' on Charlie." "He's doing a fine job and I'm helpin' him." "Yeah, well, we're running out of dip and everything." "Hell, if they're that hungry we might as well feed them right now." "Girl, if you wanna play, you got a party." "Charlie, do something!" "The meat's on fire!" "Soup's on." " Cat to Charlie." " Yeah." "I got a blue pickup with a top over the bed, just picked up nine or ten." "Out." " Guess you got me, huh?" " Guess I did." "Well, look here." "Nice work, Charlie." "This old boy and his amigos must be running ten loads a week." "I don't know nothing." "It's just work." "Oh, yeah, I know." "I'll take it from here." " Where are you taking him?" " To the station." "You take care of the Wets." "Transportation's right behind me." "This has been one hell of a day." "This is my fourth load since I came in." "Tullies along the river was full of 'em." "If they paid us by the head, we'd all be millionaires." " Got it?" " Yeah." "Take it easy, Charlie." "How you doing?" "I ain't in this for murder, you hear me?" " No way that I'm in this for murder." " Take it easy." "You're killing drivers." "Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about." "Where's the driver you took in today?" "He ain't in there and he ain't in there." "So where is he?" " He pulled a gun." " He didn't have no gun!" " He did and you fucking missed it!" " Bullshit." "He near got me because you didn't search him good." "Don't bullshit me." "Charlie, you're all steamed up." "Listen to me, partner." "We got a business situation here." "These independents get too big, that comes out of our end." " So you just kill 'em?" " We take care of business, Charlie." "See this line?" "This line right here I don't cross." "This fucking line right here." "Listen, I ain't exactly paying you dog squeeze." "I don't care about your money." "Your life'll be fly shit before I get involved in murder." "Understand?" " Do you?" " OK." "OK." "I can respect that." "Seriously, I can respect that." "Now I know." "Now you know." "Jesus Christ!" "I feel like there's a whole other person in there." "Just not the Charlie Smith that I married." "They've all got their secret sides." " Thelma's ready for you." " OK." "The other night, he went around the house and looked at the Nu-Vue and everything and he turned to me and said," ""Marcy, what the hell are we doing here?"" ""What's the point?"" " The point?" " Yeah." "I said "The point is that we're happy"." "And he looked at me real funny." "Sort of sad like." "And he said "So this is all it takes to make you happy?"" "And I felt real scared, Savannah." "He was standing there in the room with me and I felt all alone." "Oh, honey, I wouldn't worry about it." "Just keep that sweet thing buttered up." "He won't wander too far from home." "You know what?" "You look like my husband." "He'd fuck a woodpile if he thought there was a snake in it." "Well, I've fucked a woodpile or two myself." "I bet you have." "Well..." "Doesn't really matter, does it?" "I read somewhere in a poem that everything's just a dream." "Whose dream is it?" "I don't know whose dream." "Well, it doesn't matter, does it?" "I guess not." "Motherfucker!" "Juan!" " You remember me?" " Yeah." " How you doing?" " OK." " Where'd you get the sneakers?" " Same place I get this watch." " You boosting now?" " I only work for money." " Comprende?" " Sí." "Dónde está su hermana?" "Cinco dólares?" "Cinco dólares." "Vamos." "She don't wanna work here." "She have to earn money, get baby." "What's the matter with the baby?" "Is it sick?" "Está enfermo el niño?" "No, they took the baby." "She has to earn money or no give back." "Hiya, Charlie." "Cómo estás, amigo?" "What would you like?" "Cerveza, tequila?" "How about some whisky?" "Anything you want, on the house." "Free." "I came over to talk to one of the girls." "You want some pussy?" "Pick one you like." "She's yours for nothing." "I'll talk to this one." "Esta?" "No, Charlie, she's only good for go-go dancing." "We got girls you're really gonna like." "I got some really fine pussy for you." "She's crazy, man." "I'm taking her out of here right now." "Señora?" "Understand?" "Anybody tries to stop me, I'll throw this fucking place into the street." "Por favor." "You want her, you can have her." "Hey, gringo." "Take me home, huh?" "Take me home." "Feel his mouth." "Come on, Tim, you're not feelin' his mouth." "That guy, Charlie." "He's all weirded out." " I know." " Came after that girl with that baby." "Don't worry about it." "Do something or we're all in the shitter." "I know what to do." "Get your heel down!" "He's gonna be trouble." "I'm gonna stick Charlie so deep in my pocket, they're gonna have to pipe light in him." "That's great." "Hey, Charlie, that driver you got." "How many Wets did that sucker have?" " None." " Says here he had two." "Two for San Antone." " Who typed this up?" " Honk." "Then Honk fucked up." "I just talked to him." "That's what the kid told him." "You did look in the van?" " Yeah, I looked in the van." " Did you look in the windows?" "Sometimes they're hunkered down so low, you can't see 'em." "I know how they sit." "Honk confused my driver with another driver." "Van was empty." "Only caught one driver today, Charlie." "Beef, if Charlie says the van was empty, it was empty." "The kid was probably stoned or boozed or something." "Can you imagine if he'd made San Antone?" "He opens his door and no one's there?" "Hey, Charlie." "How's it going?" "Here." "What are you waiting for?" " I looked." "I'm telling ya, I looked." " Come off it, Charlie." "There weren't no fucking Wets in that truck." "All right, whatever it is you wanna believe, all right?" "That ain't gonna change the fact there's a pair of Wets in the back of that van." "Listen up, Charlie." "I'm gonna cover you on this." "But from now on, you do exactly like I say." "If I tell you a piss ant can haul a bale of cotton, you don't question me." "You go ahead and push them wets in the goddamn hole." "What's wrong now?" "Something wrong now?" "Nothing." "Charlie?" "What are you sitting there for?" "Honey, what's the matter?" "Honey, you look exhausted." "It's all right." "I love you." "I love you." "Juan?" "I wanna see your sister." "I'll take you both across." "Wanna go to Chicago." "Chicago..." " Just take me to your sister." " OK." "This is the address of the Coyote." "Dirección del Coyote." "Llévale este dinero." "Manaña pueden cruzar" "Estados Unidos." "No, no, no, no." "No, señora, no." "You don't owe me anything." "Por qué?" "Por qué?" "I wanna feel good about something some time." "And because you have to find your kid and you can't do it alone." "You don't understand anything I'm saying, do you?" " No comprende?" " No." "Estará bien." "Manaña cruzan a los Estados Unidos." "Gracias." "Large group at W14." "I guess that's our sector." " See you later." " Yeah." "They arrived yet?" "Wets will be coming along pretty soon." "This is your shit bucket, folks." "This is the paper." "Charlie!" " Boys pulled 'em out." "Wanna check 'em?" " I sure do." "Hold that fucker." "What you got there, boy?" "I'll be goddamned." "Wearing pantyhose with a little dope in there, huh?" "What have you got?" "The same goddamned thing." "Take 'em away in the shed." " See that?" " Yeah." "Shit, let's take a look." "DPC-4 to Control." "Suspicious furniture truck on Highway 23." " Giving chase." "Six miles east." " That's our truck." "Why should we give a shit?" "We delivered." "Dónde está Juan?" " Hi, hon." " Hi." "Esta es mi esposa." "Charlie, what's going on here?" " She's been in an accident, Marcy." " I'll call an ambulance." "No, don't call an ambulance." "She has to stay here." "I'm gonna go back." " Wait for Juan." " Who's Juan?" " Please explain to me what's going on." " Marcy, not right now." "But, Charlie, would you..." "Help the girl out, Marcy." "Give her a drink." "Uh... would you like an aspirin?" "How come that goddamn truck got busted?" "JJ, the truck got busted because two honest border patrolmen were out doing their duty." "Now I ain't got no control over that, don't you see that?" "I can't have the whole goddamn sector on the take." "I'm gonna tell you something." "I don't care how you handle it, but you know on that last load we got screwed out of 25%." "25% of one load, JJ, is peanuts." "You think you got expenses?" " Hell, come up to my house..." " Hold it right there." "Don't move." "All right." "Up." "Easy." "Put that goddamn gun away, Smith." " Shit, Red." " What do you want, boy?" " That kid you took off the truck." " He's already hauled ass to Mexico." "Uh, your foot?" "Is it better?" "Good." " Charlie, where have you been?" " Maria..." "Charlie, what's going on?" "Her brother's on the other side." "I'm taking her back." " You're going with her?" " I'll be back." "But, Charlie..." "What is your relationship with her?" "Quit it." "You don't have to do this." "Charlie, you're leaving with her, aren't you?" "Marcy, I'm gonna be right back." "Charlie, what are you doing with her?" "Charlie, I have a right to know." "Charlie?" "Charlie, please don't go." "Marcy, I'm gonna be right back." " Charlie, please!" " Goddamnit!" "Charlie!" "Charlie, please don't go." "What am I gonna do without you?" "Charlie, please don't go!" "Juan!" "Juan?" "Juan?" "Juan!" "Juan?" "Juan?" "Abajo, Maria." "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Who'd you sell the baby to?" "I can take you to him." "We haven't sold him yet." "He's OK." "The baby's OK." "I was waiting for a good home for him." "Charlie rich people pay 25 grand for a baby like that." "You and me, we could cut a deal." "Let's go." "Hola." "Nobody home." "Get back." "Hit it!" "Charlie!" "I can't believe we couldn't work something out." "Gracias." "Gracias." "[Bell tolls]" "[Singing]" "[Praying]" "[Service in Spanish]" "[Baby crying]" "[Blessing in Latin]" "[Rumbling]" "[Screaming]" "[Wood splintering]" "[Bell clanging]" "[# Freddie Fender:" "Across The Borderline]" "I'll get us some burritos and Cokes while you pull a few." "The unions are squeezing' me." "Threatenin' to burn this place down." " I'm in a union." " That's a whole other thing." "I'm talkin' about the life and death of my operation and half the factories in LA." "They want a minimum wage." "The day I gotta start payin' these people $2.50 an hour my business is a memory." "Well, I gotta have a couple of 'em." "Pick any two you want." "Be my guest." "Mendoza?" "You want him, you take him." "But I gotta tell ya, he's got a lot of mouths to feed." " All right, what about these two?" " You want 'em, take 'em." "Señores." "Un momento." " Tiene niños?" " Sí." "Tengo dos." "Dos?" " What about you?" " No, no tengo." "Lou, you gonna have jobs for them when they come back?" "Sure." "These are good workers." "Hey, buenos trabajadores, huh?" "When you come back, you got good jobs." "Six bucks a day." "Over here." "Lean up against the wall there." "You're under arrest by the authority of the United States Bureau..." " Lou!" "...of Naturalization and lmmigration." "I gotta go." "You're doin' a good job." "Come on." "Let's take a walk." " Hi, hon." " Hi." "Charlie, there is no time for anything at all." "I didn't even have time to wash my hair today." "What do you do all day?" "Ah!" "Here it is." "Look at that." "What is it?" "Look at it." "Isn't that the prettiest duplex you ever did see?" "Where'd this come from?" "From El Paso." "From my dear, darlin' friend Savannah." "That's hers, and she's made it possible for us to have the one right next to it." "What are you talking about?" "Buying a duplex?" "With what?" "Darlin', the price is right." "The price is gonna sky rocket." "It's everything we ever dreamed of." "I never dreamed of living in El Paso." "How hungry are you?" "Hungry Man or normal?" "Hungry Man." "I was thinkin' about maybe goin' back into the Recreation and Parks Service." "You gotta think of goin' forward, not backward." "Remember when we used to feed those ducks?" "Maybe the Forest Service." " Darlin', that's a dead end." " I, uh..." "I liked feeding those ducks." "It's my woman's intuition that things could be better for us in El Paso." "I just wanna talk about it." "We never talk about anything, Marcy." "We never fuckin' talk about anything." "I'm available to talk any time you would like." "[# John Hiatt:" "Too Late]" "[Factory horn]" "Es norteamérica." "[Baby crying]" "[Car horn]" "They're here!" "They're here now!" "Just look at it." "It's just like the picture says." "Charlie, I'm in paradise." "I do believe I'm gonna sprout wings and a halo." "[Delighted squeal]" "I'm the welcome wagon." " Look at you." " We're here, we're here!" "This here's Charlie." " [Charlie] Hi." " Hi." " He's really cute." " Thanks." " And you're Cat." " Real nice to meet you." "You must be Timmy." "Aren't you the darlingest thing?" " How you doing, Charlie?" " I'm doing fine." " Have a nice trip?" " Sure did." " This is Timmy." " How you doin' up there?" "Come on in." " [Marcy squeals]" " Don't go having' vapours, honey." "You have got to carry her." " Savannah..." " The man has just driven 1,000 miles." " I've put on a little..." " Across the threshold." " Come on, we've been married 11 years." " I suppose it's never too late." " Up you go." " Attaboy." "You got her." "[Marcy laughing]" "Oh!" "It's just..." "It's beautiful." "It's just perfectly beautiful." "It's so lovely." "I can't believe it." "That's where I can put the Nu-Vue." "Nu-Vue just happens to be one of the top pool manufacturing companies." "Oh, I could cry." "Really." " I think you're gonna like it here." " Oh, I know we are." "Dad, I wanna go swimming." "OK, Tim, go ahead." "Don't stay too long." "You're not talkin' a whole bunch, Charlie." "Yeah, well, I'm just takin' everything in." "Thanks." "Here's a great big kiss for bringin' Marcy back home to Texas where she belongs." " Isn't she as pretty as I said?" " She sure is." "Well, I used to be something but now I drive past the high and them little girls are wearing my old tits." "Marcy, do you still think we could knock 'em dead?" "I know we can." "She tell you how we could ginger up the stadium?" "Let's show 'em." "[Both] A-one and a-two and a-ba-ba-ba-ba." "# Eagles born and Eagles bred" "# When I die, I'll be an Eagle head" "# Fight, you Eagles." "Knock 'em dead" "# If we win, we'll give you head #" "I didn't say that." "I did not!" "Charlie, you and me have scored the best damn pussy in the whole state of Texas." "No!" "Charlie, you ought to get the shirts tailored." " Look a whole lot better." " Do you think so?" "It's a matter of preference." "I get mine done that way." "Well, uh, what's it cost to get the tailoring done?" "The shirts'll cost you $10 each and we can narrow the pants for five." "They got some really nice boots here." "You ought to look at a pair, Charlie." "I better take it easy." "$125 clothing allowance..." "Don't worry." "Buster can bill you for it." "Give you time to catch up." "That's right." "Free for 30 days." "No, I think I better take it just the way it comes off the rack." "I can't tell you how glad I am to have you down here, Charlie." "I really wanna thank you and your wife for all your help." "It's you that's helped me." "I'm stuck with guys here that are too dumb to roll rocks down a steep hill." "No reason why you can't move real fast down here, Charlie." "Real fast." "Today your partner's Hawker." "He's a sonofabitch." "But he knows what he's doing." " [Hawker] Why'd you transfer out here?" " A change." "My wife's from Dallas." " How long's the fence?" " Tortilla curtain?" "It's only three miles to get around it." "People just cut holes in it." "Saves a lot of time." "You'll find there's a pretty good bunch of boys here." "You can pretty much trust 'em." "Most of 'em." "It's funny what you can see in a man just by the way he wears his clothes." "Uniform's supposed to make everyone the same." "That's what the word means." "Uniform." "But if you..." "Hit..." "Andale, andale." "Pronto, prontol" "Day workers, mostly." "Come over in the morning, go back at night." "No way to stop 'em, no point in really bothering." "Did you ever throw dirt clods as a kid?" "It's the same damn game." "This is the desert, ain't a dirt clod to be found for miles." "Doesn't really get rough till after dark." "[Hawker] Coyote's the one in the lead." "We usually let 'em get across." "Easier to pick 'em up on this side." "If you surprise 'em in the river, they just hunker down and get pneumonia." "Life's tough enough for 'em without makin' it worse." " You wanna watch us book 'em in?" " Sure." " [Helicopter] - [Officer] Let's go." "[Hawker] I brought Charlie to see how you big boys work." "[Officer] Sanchez, why don't you go back to Nogales and cross there?" "Been driving you back so often, we'll have to charge you bus fare." "We got a call." "We gotta go." "Hold your ass." "[Tyres screeching]" "Don't usually get calls from up here." " Stay here." " OK." "[Gunshots]" "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Hawker!" "Station One, this is Charlie Smith." "Get us some goddamn help!" " Where is he?" " I don't know." "I didn't see him go down." "He was right out here in front of the truck." " Can you see him?" " Hawker?" "Hawker!" "Give me some cover, Charlie." " OK, you ready?" " Yeah." " Ready?" " Ready." "Go." "He's fuckin' dead." "They had it on the radio this morning." "We heard it coming in." "Bastards." "You didn't really get a look at them, huh, Charlie?" "No, I didn't." "FBI will send some boys to poke around." "Any kind of evidence, they'll find it." "He probably came on some dopers." "Surprised 'em." "Tough break for you, Charlie." "First time out." " Fuckin' dopers." " [Man] Andy!" "You tell them damn mechanics of ours, Andy, that speedometer on my rig says 140 miles an hour and it damn well better go 140 miles an hour the next time I want it to." "Yes, sir." "Red, this here's Charlie Smith." "Sir." "Oh, hello there, Charlie." "I've been wanting to meet you, welcome you to the unit." "And I'm real sorry it's under circumstances like this." "Right face!" "Shoulder arms!" "Commence fire!" "Commence fire!" "Commence fire!" "Left face!" "Present arms!" "[Bugle:" "The Last Post]" "Buenas tardes." " Su niña es bonita." " Gracias." "[Animal chirrups]" "Hey!" "I'll break your goddamn cabeza in half." "[Arguing in Spanish]" "Son de usted?" "Sí." "Gracias." "Gracias, señora." "Señora?" "Señora?" "Espera." "[Man on TV]" "[Gurgling sound]" "Marcy?" "Isn't it beautiful?" "Goddamn." "What did this fuckin' thing cost?" " Did you say something?" " I was asking you how much this cost." "We don't have to worry about that." "I opened up a charge account at the Galleria." " Uh-huh." " Uh-huh." "Charlie, uh..." "Am I gaining weight?" "I suppose you are." "You eat so goddamn much." "Don't make fun of me." "I know you like the way I feel." "Do you wanna feel it?" "Feel it?" "Charlie, do you know somethin'?" "It's real cool." "Real cool in the summer." "And it can get real hot in the winter." "[Woman on TV] We'll go together." "We'll go to another place." "Well... [woman on TV] Captain Cook's Fish Fiesta." "A bucket of giant jumbo shrimp, succulent chunks of fried fish, luscious bites of langostino." "[Man] I better cast off for Captain Cook's Fish Fiesta right now." "[Woman] And remember no fishy smell, no fishy taste, shipshape clean and the eating's great." "[Cat speaks Spanish]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "I got him!" " OK." " [Man speaks Spanish]" "Alto." " Easy, Cat, easy." " Easy?" "Ever see this before?" "Push this in schools." "Ten-year-old kids getting hooked on this shit." "Stick him in the box for me." "[Cat speaking Spanish]" "Señora?" "Hey." "Yo." "[Spanish]... hubcaps." " [Spanish]" " No, no, no!" "Por favorl" "Por favor, por favor." "Basta." "I believe she was hooking' for ya." "Do you think that's funny?" " Quieres agua, hombre?" " No, no quiero." "This here's my eye, Charlie." "Works with us on the other side." "Manuel, Charlie." "[Both speak Spanish]" "They can use you in the write-up room, Charlie." " Adiós." " Òrale." "You know what they're getting for Wets delivered up North?" " Haven't a clue." " $550 a head." "Then we're sending them the wrong way." "Texas been running on Wet labour since before I was born." "Runs damn good, too." "You think we could get by without 'em?" "You go out on a boiling day and pick your own lettuce and beans." "You figuring on turning in that uniform and becoming a Coyote?" "Brush up on his Spanish and he'd make a damn good Coyote." "Hey, Charlie, how do you spell "illiterate"?" "Why'd you ask a stupid question like that?" "Look it up in a dictionary." "How are you supposed to look it up if you can't spell it?" "[Baby grizzling]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "There you go, Charlie." "Got a live one for you." "Seems kinda silly, don't it?" "Busting our asses to send 'em back, and respectable business people paying' to bring 'em in." "I guess out in LA it was pretty much the same." " Pretty much, yeah." " There sure ain't no way to stop 'em." "Man of your experience must know that sometimes it makes no sense to even try." "Somebody shit in your beer?" "What are you fishing for?" "I figure we might have some of the same ideas about things." "I mean, we're neighbours..." "I'm trying to build something for my family." "And I know how hard you been working to build something for yourself and Marcy." "I'm onto something good and maybe I can bring you in." "Well, you figured wrong, Cat." "Hey!" "OK." "Any way you want it, partner." "I mean, I'll fight you, fuck you, run you a foot race, whatever you want." "Cos I want us to be friends." " [man on TV] - [Marcy] Hi, hon." "Hi." "Charlie, I'm gonna show you." "What is your opinion, your honest opinion of TV?" " I think it sucks." " No, Charlie." "I mean for me." "For me." " I must be missing the point." " As a medium for my expression." "Savannah says I have a certain style." "What happened to your face?" "Are you tryin' to tell me that you wanna be on television?" "Charlie, it is a seed." "A little, tiny seed that is sprouting in my mind." "I married a banana." "I married a fuckin' banana!" "Charlie, I have never been more serious in my life." "Marcy, I don't know how you would get a job like that." " I don't know how you'd get it." " Charlie, it's just that..." "Charlie!" "My God!" "What are you doing?" " What the fuck is this?" " It's our new swimming pool." "Charlie, are you all right?" "Señora?" "Perdóname, señora." "[Children laughing, Spanish music]" "Hey, man, you want to fuck some girls?" "No." "[Mocking in Spanish]" "[Dog growling]" "[Rubble falls]" "[Spanish music] ...laying on my back with the door open and in walks the cutest blue-eyed doctor you ever saw." "And he asks me if I'm ready." " That's enough." " I'm just having a little fun, OK?" "So don't be inhibiting me." " You know how pissed off I get." " Then what happened?" "I said "I have never in my life been more ready"." "Charlie, where have you been?" "What are you doing dressed like this?" "Coming to this nice party with all this nice stuff." "Look at the way you're dressed." "Charlie!" "I had this dream I was making these..." " Charlie!" "My God, you're sweaty!" " What the hell happened to you?" " Can I talk to you for a second?" " I love sweaty men." "Sure." " Excuse me." " You're a wicked girl." "That kid is dead." " What kid?" " The one we pulled last week." "The one with the dope on him." "He's dead." "I turned him over to Manuel." "Somebody slit his goddamned throat." "I just left him on the other side." "Jesus Christ." "Well, the kid was a doper, Charlie." "They have their own way of dealing with things." "Are you saying Manuel did it?" "I don't know." "I only know he's dead cos you're telling me." "The Mexicans, they have their own kind ofjustice." "Same as we do." "We all take care of our own." "Dopers kill and get killed all the time." " Yeah, but..." " Well, hello there, Charlie." "Say, you didn't have to dress up on my account." "Maybe you better check his Green Card, Cat." "I think he's come in Wet." "[Cat] Red, that doper we brought in last week," "Charlie found him on the other side." "He's dead." "I already called the Rangers." "What were you doing over there?" "I just went over there to look around." "Maybe you don't know this, but I don't like my men going over there." "Not even for a Mexican meal." "You get in trouble over there, I'd have a hell of a time getting you out." "What the hell." "Let's have some fun." "[# Happy Birthday]" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday, dear Red" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday, dear Red" "# Happy birthday to you #" "[train horn]" "[Officer] Get up!" "Let's go!" "Let's go." "Come on, move it." "Ah, señores." "[Speaking Spanish]" " Juan!" " I got him." "I got him!" "[Train starts up]" " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "OK, Charlie?" "Man, you had me scared shitless." "Absolutely scared shitless." "Risking your life for that fucker." "Hey, Charlie." "Hey, Charlie." "Chief wants to see you." "[Conversation in Spanish]" "Hey, Charlie!" " How ya doin'?" " Fine." "I wanna tell you that Cat told me about the incident on the train." " That's a fine piece of work." " Oh, thanks." " How about a chew?" " No, sir." "I chew at work." "My wife don't like it round the house." "Shoot?" " Shoot?" " Birds?" "No." "In October we got ducks sittin' in these levies like flies on shit." "Well, I haven't done much huntin' since I was a kid." "Well, I'll let you have my wide-pattern Browning." "Can't miss and won't embarrass you." "[Speaking Spanish]" "[Baby cries]" "I'm sure I'm not gonna be telling you anything you don't know." "The game's a little different around here." "There's some real big money on the table." "Smart man's gonna play his cards right tight up against his chest." "Mi niño." "Dónde está mi niño?" "Dónde está la señora... [continues in Spanish]" "Juan!" "Juan!" "[Spanish]" "Of course if some farmer throws a sack of onions in the back of your car," "I don't mind you leave a few Wets in his field." "But anything unusual comes up, I gotta be the first to know about it." "[Commotion outside]" "What is going on?" "What's all that hollerin'?" "[Alarm klaxon]" "Get 'em out." "Get 'em on the buses." "Get 'em back to Mexico!" "I don't need no confrontation this way." "Nice work, boys." "Nice work." "Good job, good job." "You fellas that are hurt, get over to First Aid." " What happened out there?" " I'm not sure, sir." " [Cat] Where's that baby?" " [Manuel] It's OK." "You stole a baby out of the compound." "What do you mean, it's OK?" "Òrale, This ain't the little baby Jesus, just some Indio." "I don't go in for stealin' babies." "Any kind." "I don't cotton to that kind of shit." "Understand me?" "Don't worry." "The kid is OK." "An Anglo family." "They pay big money for him." "He's gonna have it real good." "Big cars, swimming pools." "We did a good thing for him." "I just make a little money on the side." "No big deal." "I told you before, we're in the business of moving Wets, nothing else." "You ever come across running babies or dope," "I'll knock your dick into the dirt." "OK." "OK." "Don't worry, man." "With me you ain't got no problem." "That's him." "El Scorcho, the burned face." "He's running Wets on our territory." "Competition, amigo." "That's the total order." "Tell the boys where to spot that sofa." "Be careful going through the door!" "I think it'd look nice right over there." " [Man] What about this?" " [Marcy] Oh, I don't know." "[Water bed gurgles]" " You want the plastic on or off?" " I want it out." "Hi, hon." "You're up." "I was gonna surprise you." "I think I'll take the plastic off myself, OK?" "Very well, ma'am." "Sign here." "[Marcy] OK." "Thank you." "I think we should have the plastic made into permanent covers... [waste disposal drowns out Marcy]" "No more, Marcy." "No more is no more." "No more does not mean more and more and more." "No more means no more." "I am doing this for us, Charlie." "All our money is in this house." "After they take the mortgage payments out of my pay, there's not enough left to buy you tampons." "Charlie, I am doing the best that I know how to make you a dream house." " I want this for you." " I can't afford a fuckin' dream house!" "I can't afford it." "You got it?" "All you do is yell about money." "Don't you care about..." " I'm sorry." " Charlie, do you know something?" "All I ever do is try to make you happy." "I'm sorry." "[Cat] What's on your mind, Charlie?" "You still working on that deal?" "Hm-mm." "I just wanna say I'm open, that's all." " I'm open." " All right." "I tried to sit you on the right horse from the start." "Why'd you make it so rough?" "Don't matter, does it?" "Hell, no." "No." "Whatever your reasons are, I respect 'em." "[Cat] This here is the drop house." "[Dog barking, snarling]" "JJ?" "Hey!" "Hey, JJ." "Got a message from Manuel you got a load coming over." "Who's that?" "This here's Charlie Smith." "Charlie's my partner now." "Where you from, boy?" "California." "California." "I used to work out there during the war in them shipyards." "Whole time I was there I never met anybody who was worth a pinch of shit." " Bunch of scum-suckin' dogs." " Come on, lay off." "I ain't kiddin' ya." "I'd go down there and hold my nose and put a double rubber on my dick and fuck all those dockside whores down there." "Likely as not," "I might've knowed your mother, sonny." "Just a teeny little push, that's all." "Just a teeny little push." "Guess we caught JJ with a wild hair up his ass." "Come on, Charlie." "Wait outside while we talk." "It's OK." "Put that fucking gun away." "Why'd you pull that kind of shit anyway?" "I can tell by the way that guy looks through his face that he's crazier than a shithouse rat." "[Barking]" "If you really need that boy, you oughta put a collar on him and make sure he don't get out the yard." "What the hell do you think this is?" "That's just money, boy." "That's all that is." "That ain't enough." "I'd like you to meet Bobbie and Alice." " Hello, Charlie." "Nice to meet you." " Would you hurry up?" "Hurry up!" "Hi, Angie." "Nice to see you." "Hey, Charlie, when are them coals gonna be ready?" "I'm so damned hungry I could eat fried pig shit." "...in a nice, sweet, sultry voice." "[Savannah]... with belly dancing, religious figures, unsolved mysteries..." "How an electric toothbrush can revitalise your sex life." "[Savannah] We'd have the best damn show on TV." "Sav, take Timmy home." " You take him." " You're drunk." "I'm just remembering how much you hate scenes, so don't be jerkin' my reins." "You need a hand?" "I thought I might help you skewer a while." "Could you hurry up?" "Now, don't be pickin' on Charlie." "He's doing a fine job and I'm helpin' him." "Yeah, well, we're running out of dip and everything." "Hell, if they're that hungry we might as well feed them right now." "Girl, if you wanna play, you got a party." "Charlie, do something!" "The meat's on fire!" "Soup's on." " Cat to Charlie." " Yeah." "I got a blue pickup with a top over the bed, just picked up nine or ten." "Out." " Guess you got me, huh?" " Guess I did." "[Charlie speaks Spanish]" "[Men coughing]" "Well, look here." "Nice work, Charlie." "This old boy and his amigos must be running ten loads a week." "I don't know nothing." "It's just work." "Oh, yeah, I know." "I'll take it from here." " Where are you taking him?" " To the station." "You take care of the Wets." "[Cat] Transportation's right behind me." "[Speaks Spanish]" "This has been one hell of a day." "This is my fourth load since I came in." "Tullies along the river was full of 'em." "If they paid us by the head, we'd all be millionaires." " Got it?" " Yeah." "Take it easy, Charlie." "[Gunshot]" "[Gunshot]" "How you doing?" "I ain't in this for murder, you hear me?" " No way that I'm in this for murder." " Take it easy." "You're killing drivers." "Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about." "Where's the driver you took in today?" "He ain't in there and he ain't in there." "So where is he?" " He pulled a gun." " He didn't have no gun!" " He did and you fucking missed it!" " Bullshit." "He near got me because you didn't search him good." "Don't bullshit me." "Charlie, you're all steamed up." "Listen to me, partner." "We got a business situation here." "These independents get too big, that comes out of our end." " So you just kill 'em?" " We take care of business, Charlie." "See this line?" "This line right here I don't cross." "This fucking line right here." "Listen, I ain't exactly paying you dog squeeze." "I don't care about your money." "Your life'll be fly shit before I get involved in murder." "Understand?" " Do you?" " OK." "OK." "I can respect that." "Seriously, I can respect that." "Now I know." "Now you know." "Jesus Christ!" "I feel like there's a whole other person in there." "Just not the Charlie Smith that I married." "They've all got their secret sides." " Thelma's ready for you." " OK." "The other night, he went around the house and looked at the Nu-Vue and everything and he turned to me and said," ""Marcy, what the hell are we doing here?"" ""What's the point?"" " The point?" " Yeah." "I said "The point is that we're happy"." "And he looked at me real funny." "Sort of sad like." "And he said "So this is all it takes to make you happy?"" "And I felt real scared, Savannah." "He was standing there in the room with me and I felt all alone." "Oh, honey, I wouldn't worry about it." "Just keep that sweet thing buttered up." "He won't wander too far from home." "[Belches]" "You know what?" "You look like my husband." "He'd fuck a woodpile if he thought there was a snake in it." "Well, I've fucked a woodpile or two myself." "I bet you have." "Well..." "Doesn't really matter, does it?" "I read somewhere in a poem that everything's just a dream." "Whose dream is it?" "I don't know whose dream." "Well, it doesn't matter, does it?" "I guess not." "Motherfucker!" "Juan!" " You remember me?" " Yeah." " How you doing?" " OK." " Where'd you get the sneakers?" " Same place I get this watch." " You boosting now?" " I only work for money." " Comprende?" " Sí." "Dónde está su hermana?" "[Speaks Spanish]" "Cinco dólares?" "Cinco dólares." "Vamos." "[# John Hiatt:" "Skin Game]" "She don't wanna work here." "She have to earn money, get baby." "What's the matter with the baby?" "Is it sick?" "Está enfermo el niño?" "No, they took the baby." "She has to earn money or no give back." "Hiya, Charlie." "Cómo estás, amigo?" "What would you like?" "Cerveza, tequila?" "How about some whisky?" "Anything you want, on the house." "Free." "I came over to talk to one of the girls." "You want some pussy?" "Pick one you like." "She's yours for nothing." "I'll talk to this one." "Esta?" "No, Charlie, she's only good for go-go dancing." "We got girls you're really gonna like." "I got some really fine pussy for you." "[Charlie speaks Spanish]" "She's crazy, man." "I'm taking her out of here right now." "Señora?" "Understand?" "Anybody tries to stop me, I'll throw this fucking place into the street." "Por favor." "You want her, you can have her." "[Woman] Hey, gringo." "Take me home, huh?" "Take me home." "Feel his mouth." "Come on, Tim, you're not feelin' his mouth." "That guy, Charlie." "He's all weirded out." " I know." " Came after that girl with that baby." "Don't worry about it." "Do something or we're all in the shitter." "I know what to do." "Get your heel down!" "He's gonna be trouble." "I'm gonna stick Charlie so deep in my pocket, they're gonna have to pipe light in him." "That's great." "[Speaking Spanish]" "Hey, Charlie, that driver you got." "How many Wets did that sucker have?" " None." " Says here he had two." "Two for San Antone." " Who typed this up?" " Honk." "Then Honk fucked up." "I just talked to him." "That's what the kid told him." "You did look in the van?" " Yeah, I looked in the van." " Did you look in the windows?" "Sometimes they're hunkered down so low, you can't see 'em." "I know how they sit." "Honk confused my driver with another driver." "Van was empty." "Only caught one driver today, Charlie." "Beef, if Charlie says the van was empty, it was empty." "The kid was probably stoned or boozed or something." "Can you imagine if he'd made San Antone?" "He opens his door and no one's there?" "Hey, Charlie." "How's it going?" "Here." "What are you waiting for?" " I looked." "I'm telling ya, I looked." " Come off it, Charlie." "There weren't no fucking Wets in that truck." "All right, whatever it is you wanna believe, all right?" "That ain't gonna change the fact there's a pair of Wets in the back of that van." "Listen up, Charlie." "I'm gonna cover you on this." "But from now on, you do exactly like I say." "If I tell you a piss ant can haul a bale of cotton, you don't question me." "You go ahead and push them wets in the goddamn hole." "What's wrong now?" "Something wrong now?" "Nothing." "Charlie?" "What are you sitting there for?" "Honey, what's the matter?" "Honey, you look exhausted." "It's all right." "I love you." "I love you." "Juan?" "I wanna see your sister." "I'll take you both across." "Wanna go to Chicago." "Chicago..." " Just take me to your sister." " OK." "[Speaks Spanish]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "This is the address of the Coyote." "Dirección del Coyote." "Llévale este dinero." "Manaña pueden cruzar" "Estados Unidos." "[Speaks Spanish]" "No, no, no, no." "No, señora, no." "You don't owe me anything." "Por qué?" "Por qué?" "I wanna feel good about something some time." "And because you have to find your kid and you can't do it alone." "You don't understand anything I'm saying, do you?" " No comprende?" " No." "Estará bien." "Manaña cruzan a los Estados Unidos." "Gracias." "Large group at W14." "I guess that's our sector." " See you later." " Yeah." "[Whistles]" "[Whistle]" "[Whistles]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "They arrived yet?" "Wets will be coming along pretty soon." "This is your shit bucket, folks." "This is the paper." "Charlie!" " Boys pulled 'em out." "Wanna check 'em?" " I sure do." "[JJ] Hold that fucker." "What you got there, boy?" "I'll be goddamned." "Wearing pantyhose with a little dope in there, huh?" "What have you got?" "The same goddamned thing." "Take 'em away in the shed." "[Click]" " See that?" " Yeah." "Shit, let's take a look." " [Siren]" " DPC-4 to Control." "Suspicious furniture truck on Highway 23." " Giving chase." "Six miles east." " [Charlie] That's our truck." "[Cat] Why should we give a shit?" "We delivered." "[Siren]" "[Screaming]" "[Indistinct]" "[Screaming]" "Dónde está Juan?" "[Man on TV]" " Hi, hon." " Hi." "Esta es mi esposa." "Charlie, what's going on here?" " She's been in an accident, Marcy." " I'll call an ambulance." "No, don't call an ambulance." "She has to stay here." "I'm gonna go back." " Wait for Juan." " Who's Juan?" " Please explain to me what's going on." " Marcy, not right now." "But, Charlie, would you..." "Help the girl out, Marcy." "Give her a drink." "Uh... would you like an aspirin?" "[Train klaxon]" "How come that goddamn truck got busted?" "JJ, the truck got busted because two honest border patrolmen were out doing their duty." "Now I ain't got no control over that, don't you see that?" "I can't have the whole goddamn sector on the take." "[JJ sighs]" "[JJ] I'm gonna tell you something." "I don't care how you handle it, but you know on that last load we got screwed out of 25%." "[Red] 25% of one load, JJ, is peanuts." "You think you got expenses?" " Hell, come up to my house..." " Hold it right there." "Don't move." "All right." "Up." "Easy." "Put that goddamn gun away, Smith." " Shit, Red." " What do you want, boy?" " That kid you took off the truck." " He's already hauled ass to Mexico." "Uh, your foot?" "Is it better?" " [Speaks Spanish] - [Replies]" "Good." "[Car pulls up]" " Charlie, where have you been?" " Maria... [speaks Spanish]" "Charlie, what's going on?" "Her brother's on the other side." "I'm taking her back." " You're going with her?" " I'll be back." "But, Charlie..." "What is your relationship with her?" "Quit it." "You don't have to do this." "Charlie, you're leaving with her, aren't you?" "Marcy, I'm gonna be right back." "Charlie, what are you doing with her?" "Charlie, I have a right to know." "Charlie?" "Charlie, please don't go." "Marcy, I'm gonna be right back." " Charlie, please!" " Goddamnit!" "Charlie!" "Charlie, please don't go." "What am I gonna do without you?" "Charlie, please don't go!" "Juan!" "[Speaks Spanish]" "Juan?" "Juan?" "[Speaks Spanish]" "Juan!" "Juan?" "Juan?" "[Prays in Spanish]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "Abajo, Maria." "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Who'd you sell the baby to?" "I can take you to him." "We haven't sold him yet." "He's OK." "The baby's OK." "I was waiting for a good home for him." "Charlie rich people pay 25 grand for a baby like that." "You and me, we could cut a deal." "Let's go." "[Crying]" "[Car pulls up]" "[Manuel] Hola." "[Manuel] Nobody home." "[Charlie] Get back." "[Bird screeching]" "[Music on radio]" "[Baby cries]" "[Gunshots]" "Hit it!" "[Screaming]" "[Baby crying]" "Charlie!" "I can't believe we couldn't work something out." "[Yells]" "[Baby cries]" "[Speaks Spanish]" "Gracias." "Gracias." "[# Freddie Fender:" "Borderline]"