"Para." "(in Spanish) Hide." "Hide." ""hide"?" " (in Spanish) lt must have been the sun.N- (in Spanish) The sun didn't tie his hands." "(gunshots)" "(gunshots)" "Chico!" "Chico." "No." "No." "(in Spanish) Drive them into the square." " (crowd cheering)N- (drum beating)" "(crowd) Olé!" "Olé!" "Olé!" "(applause)" "Olé!" "Olé!" "Chris.N" " Vin." "Thought you took a job riding' shotgun for Overland." " l quit.N" " How come?" "My health." "Doctor said to find a climate with less lead in the air." "What are you doing here?" "Tracked a man across the line for bounty." " Who?" "N- (crowd) Olé!" "You." "ain't you gonna ask?" " What?" "N" " Why I'm after ya." "You just told me." "Bounty." "you think I'd do a thing like that?" "I came so you'd know there was a price on your head." "How much?" " Five hundred.N" " Dollars?" "Pesos." "it's enough some shypoke might throw down on you while you're asleep." "Maybe I oughta ride with ya in case you need any help." " Wouldn't want to put you to any trouble.N" " No trouble." "No trouble at all." "Bravo!" "... ..let him fight." " l'll pay for the bull.N- ¿ Ypagarás el entierro?" "He wants to know if you'll pay for the funeral, too." "(coins jangle)" "(crowd) Olé!" "Olé!" "Aha!" "Aha!" "Friend of yours?" "Petra." "Petra?" "What happened?" "many men with guns rode into our village." "Chico tried to fight them. lt was no use." "All the men they did not kill they drove into the square... ..and took them off into the desert." "Coming here we passed through two villages,... ..both of them empty of men." "crying over their dead." "You say many men with guns." "maybe more." "They didn't say anything?" "NWhere they were taking them?" "Why?" "Chris?" " l don't know.N" " We can't fight a whole army of 'em." "if it was the other way round." "Chico's a fool." "... ..married Petra tried to amount to something?" "o mañana?" "What did he say?" "He wants to know if we are going after them tonight, or in the morning." "It's a big country.NFindin' 'em could take a long time." "I haven't been going anywhere for ten years." "Either have you." "Ain't it the truth." "Take them to my room.NThey can sleep there." " Where are you headin'?" "N" " To get help." " Findin' men ain't gonna be easy.N" " Depends where you look." "señor." " A pig?" "N" " Yes." "I can let you have him very cheap." " This one?" "N" " He caught his wife with another man." "Both of them." "señor." " But if I were you..." "N" " Open it." " Señor..." "N" " Open." "Frank." "Chris." " Haven't seen you around.N" " Haven't been around." "Been in here." "He killed four men in a gunfight." " That's a fact.N" " How would you like to get out?" " l'm listenin'.N" " Friend of mine's in trouble." " How much trouble?" "N" " About as much as you are." " How many guns you up against?" "N" " Fifty..." "Maybe more." "Anybody on your side?" "How much?" "señor." "A hundred pesos?" " Fifty.N" " He killed four men." "I could make it five." "Fifty." " Where'll I find you?" "N" " At the hotel." "We're riding south in the morning.NYou got a horse?" "No..." "I'll get one." "He is not very friendly." "I'm not hiring friends." "Are you going to talk all night?" "If you had any respect for a condemned man,... ..you'd keep quiet and let him spend his last hours in peace." " He is going to be shot in the morning.N" " What'd he do?" "Huh!" "What didn't he do?" "That is Luis Emilio Delgado." "señor." "You are Luis Delgado." " You know me?" "N" " Heard of you." "Did I not tell you I was famous?" "That is his last request." "You don't know how good that makes a man feel." "... ..who I am." "the day will come... ..when you'll not have to ride in the dust of others,... ..when everyone will know who you are."" ""There'll not be a train or a village robbed that people will not say... ..'The one who robbed from us was el bandido Luis Emilio Delgado."'" "And just when I was about to amount to something, this had to happen." "What will people think of me when they find out I was shot for killing one man?" "One stinking little man." "I have killed a dozen in a single day." "More!" "there is no justice.N" " What if they don't find out?" " But they will.N" " Not if you ride south with me." "maybe more?" "NThe odds are not good." "Better than you'll have against that wall tomorrow." "You've got a point." "Well?" " What is the pay?" "N" " Whatever it takes to get you out." " Fair enough.N" " How much?" "I cannot.N" " A hundred pesos." " They will stand me against the wall..." "N- 200." "six little ones..." "N- 250." "Three." "But I cannot let him go." "He will have to escape." "señor." "Do you mind if I escape first thing in the morning?" "(gunshots)" "(arguing in Spanish)" "Chris." "It's gettin' so a fella can't find an unattached woman anywhere hardly." "Let's get out of here." "huh?" "So was the last time.NAnd the time before that." "Colbee?" "N" " How'd I know she was married?" "with a brand to let you know they're another man's stock." "How would you like to use that gun belt for more than just holding up your pants?" "a friend of mine taken prisoner. I need help." "I'd like to give you a hand, Chris, but..." "They took all the men..." "drove them into the desert." "I ain't been gettin' much sleep lately." "you say?" "N" " Two days ago." "You mean there's a village full of women... ..and no one there to help them with their planting' and their harvesting'?" " No husbands?" "N" " No husbands." "The hell you say." "(frenzied shouting)" "How'd you do?" "They any good?" "They're alive." "Hey!" "what the hell do you think you're doin'?" " Basta con el pequeño.N" " He said the little one had enough." " But I had my money bet on him.N" " You lost." "you... (crowd shouting)" " (silence)N" " The little one's had enough." "I'll kill you." "Are you all right?" "señor.N- (shouting)" "Señor..." "Me llamo Manuel." "Yo he oido que busca pistoleros.N¿ Podria llevarme?" "He says his name is Manuel.NHe heard we were looking for fighters." "He'd like to come along." " You're gonna take him?" "N" " For luck." "that makes seven." "(gunshots)" "no?" " You're late.N- l overslept." " (gunshots)N" " Let's get the hell outta here!" "Gracias." " Coffee?" "N" " Oh." "Don't mind if I do." "Don't mind at all." "You'd never know she's around would you, quiet like she is?" "Had me a quiet woman once." "Outside she was calm as Sunday." "Inside she was wild like mountain scenery." "I'm gonna ride back that way again one of these days." " Where's that?" "N" " Sonora Town." " l was there once.N" " Once?" " You mean you didn't go back?" "N" " For what?" "there's over ten head of females for every male in Sonora, that's for what." "And I oughta know. I went through over half of 'em one night." "And woulda got around to the rest of 'em if I hadn't pulled a leg muscle." "I was bucking' horses this side of the line and sellin' 'em tame up in Deming." "a good amount of 'em was no more than hoorah girls,... ..but the way I look at it a woman's a woman." "Frank?" "Colbee." "Since when can a man talk too much about a woman?" " Since when?" "N" " Colbee!" " You take the first watch.N" " But you said Vin was a'gonna." "I changed my mind." "Go on." "Chris." "I wouldn't push him into a fight if that's what you think." "you might have been in trouble." "He's fast." "Fast as you are?" "I'd hate to have to live on the difference." "I'll remember that." "Do that." "I wonder why the hell they took Chico and them others off." "Damned if I know." "blowsand will have covered up any tracks." "If we strike out blind we don't stand a chance of finding' 'em." "Petra said there were two other villages raided." "That means they took close to 300 prisoners." "Only one way to move that many men on foot in the desert." "Like cattle." "From one water hole to the other." "that don't narrow it down too awful much." "Lotta cow trails between here and the Sierra Madre." "Herds moving on them every day." "Word gets round." "What do we do in the meantime?" "Drop Petra and the boy off at the village and start riding a wide circle." " See if we can cut their trail.N" " That could take one hell of a long time." "I know. I haven't been goin' anywhere for ten years." "if you have to worry about something,... not if we find them." "I never thought I'd come back." "Colbee." "Cut him down." " Get 'em out of here.N" " Llévatelos de aqui." "(gunshot)" "(dogs barking)" "(in Spanish) He escaped - and see what they did." "My poor little one." "The Devil's Spine." "It ranges from the headwaters of the Concho, north to the border." "her husband escaped from a village about here." "That's where they're holdingNChico and the others." " Did he say why?" "N" " He wasn't there long enough to find out." "But there ain't no village between the Devil's Spine and the Concho." "Chris." "He coulda been out of his head got turned around." "didn't he?" "N- l'll catch up the horses." "We'll leave in the morning." "we could save time." "we'll be on foot." "We'll leave in the morning." "Better get some sleep." "Colbee." "I wish to hell I knew for sure." "Knew what?" "or if I'm just on the prod for a fight like Frank." "Killin' can get inside of you." "And you think that's happened to you." "Why else would I be here?" "but... I don't even know his last name." "Neither do I." "Don't it make you wonder?" "No." "Chris?" "Because in all the years I've made my way with a gun,... ..I never once shot a man just to see him fall." "... ..I throw my guns in the water bucket and ride out." "So will you." " Who does he belong to?" "N" " His parents are dead." "Chico looks after him like he was his own." "why would they takeNChico and the others away?" " l don't know.N" " Maybe... ..if you went to the Rurales asked for help." " lt wouldn't do any good.N" " But they are supposed to protect us." " Have they ever?" "N" " No." "They never will." "Because we are poor." "Because we cannot pay them." "isn't it?" " Maybe someday it'll be different.N" " And in the meantime?" "We do what we can." "And die." "There's always that." "Chris." "... and the others." "That's all a man can ask." "we ought've stayed on back there and given them women a hand." "They're gonna fall behind in their planting' and ploughing'." "Colbee." "So will you." "Luis?" "Thought once you got clear of that firing squad, you'd head for the hills." " So did l.N" " What changed your mind?" "I had a long talk with myself." "in all the years that I've known you,... ..you've not done one thing for anyone but yourself."" ""Not one." "And it's about time that you did."" ""Where would you be if it was not for the poor farmers you've stolen from?"" "... ..and you'll be able to ride proud with your head high up."" "If somebody don't blow it off." "Then I would die in good company." "Hell..." "Chris there he's been killin' for ten years." "about half that time." "he hunts other men's wives between gun jobs." "Manuel's nothin' but a chicken thief." "And you?" " l'm no better than they are.N" " But you're still along." "same as me." "I got my reason for stayin'." "And it don't have one damn thing to do with friendship,... ..or helping' poor farmers." "compadre." "Have you seen the priest?" "nhe was looking for you." " Again?" "N" " He heard about the killings." "He said we should have tried to reason with them." "Reason?" "NDid I build an empire upon reason?" "Did we reason with renegades bandits, corrupt officials?" "nor bandits." " Nor are they corrupt.N" " You never tire of being my conscience." ""The strong must be generous to the weak."" "You know who made up that rule?" "The weak!" "I have to talk to you.NTwo workers were killed last night." " They were trying to escape.N" " But you have no right." "Father. I know your feelings for these people." "But would it be a more honourable death if they fell pulling a plough?" " The Church cannot sanction..." "N" " Sanction?" "You wanted a church." "You couldn't pray it into existence so you came to me." "these methods.N" " For a reason." "What reason can there be for killing in cold blood, Francisco?" "slavery." "Father. I set out to rebuild this church, this village,... ..and that is what I'm going to do with or without your blessing." "I cannot stand by and let this go on, Francisco." " Nothing says you have to stay.N" " Everything says I have to stay." "Father.NYou should leave this place." " l can't.N" " You mean you won't." "I mean I can't." "señor.N" " Buenas tardes." "What can we do for you?" "A friend of mine." "You're holding him prisoner." "I want him." "And all the others." " Just like that.N" " Just like that." "You are either a very stupid or a very brave man, señor." "One word from me and you would be dead." "That'll make two of us." "There are five Winchesters pointed at your head." "Professionals." " Professionals.N" " Perhaps we should have a little talk." "We just did." "Father." " You would kill a priest?" "N" " Only if I have to." "(laughs) Same old Chris." "I might have known you'd be along." "It's good to..." "Whatever you and your men are being paid,... ..I'll double it. I'll triple it." " Same old Lorca.N" " Come." "We will talk." " Can't do that.N" " That's the only thing you can do." "You're six against 60.NDon't expect these farmers to help you." "They have no stomach to fight." " No?" "N" " No." "Kill him." "Go on." "Kill him." "You've killed others." " But they didn't have guns.N" " They had guns three years ago... ..when 200 men gave up their lives inside the walls of this church." "Gave up their lives to rid this country of tyranny." "Do you think it concerns these farmers... ..that I tracked bandits across miles of desert and fought them on this ground... ..while they hid under their straw beds?" "Mis hijos." "erect like two well-bred stallions." "They're buried here with the others." "No longer will their graves be marked by ruins." "... ..will be a monument for those who fought so well." "A monument built with the sweat and blood of those who never fight." "I'll prove it to you." "Lopez." "Do as he says." " Kill him.N" " Francisco!" "Father.N- l have stayed out of it as long as I can." "before it is too late." "Before God damns you to hell for what you are doing here." "You spared my life once." "Now I'm going to save yours." "Take your vaqueros and ride out of here." "Ride out and don't look back." "I was wrong." "You're not the same old Chris." "I won't let you drown your grief in other men's blood, if that's what you mean." "Go on." "Get out." "compadre." "¡Muchachos!" "¡Vámonos!" "There will be a next time." "¡Vámonos!" "He will be back." "I know." "I swore I would never wear this again." "What a man swears and what he does isn't always the same." "Chris." "Chico." "is it?" "Lorca has many men out there." "I've been shot at before." "Chris." "I knew a young gun once." "He was a wild mostly drunk kid when I met him." "Turned out to be a man." "Man enough to set his gun aside take a wife,... ..try to amount to something." "He also turned out to be a friend." " Worth dying for?" "N- lf l have to." "What about the others?" "They're along for the fight." "it would be another." "Get up in the bell tower.NWatch off toward the cemetery." "it'll be from there." "And Chico." "Don't get too attached to that gun.NWhen this is over... I'll throw it in the water bucket..." "and ride out." "I did not know it would come to this." "When Francisco lost his sons I tried to give him consolation." "He told me he wanted to build a monument to those who had fallen." "I convinced him it should be a church." "I wanted it as much as he did." "Even more." "I have tried to help these poor souls,... ..tried for so long." "... ..of love." "They believed me." "But my words and their prayers have changed nothing for them." "... ..the crops have failed." "And now I have betrayed them." "Father." "But I'll tell you this." "They need you.NMore now than ever before." "I failed them." "You failed yourself." "Got knocked down." "Father." "At least as far as your knees." "That's the last of 'em." "Now what?" " We movin' out tonight?" "N" " We're not moving out at all." "Catch us in the open with 300 men on foot, we won't have a chance." "we got supplies." "And they have to come to us.NThat cuts the odds in half." "They won't lay out there very long." "Like as not they'll try to get it over with as fast as they can." " l wish to hell these walls were higher.N" " They will be." "You and Frank split the workers in two groups." "One take the south wall the other take the north." "adobe blocks anything a man can stay alive behind,... ..and start building." " Now?" "N" " Now." "The storm is over." "It's a long day's ride to the hacienda, compadre." "Would you have me run from seven guns and those farmers?" "Those cowards?" "All we have left is the ammunition in our belts,... ..the water in our canteens and the food in our stomachs." "That is enough." "That is more than enough." "muchachos!" "Adentro." "muchachos!" "¡Vámonos!" "I don't know about you but that scared the hell outta me." " You reckon they'll hit us again?" "N" " Just as hard as they can." "(in Spanish) Bring me a horse!" "Come on!" "compadre?" "I will make them suffer for this." "I will make them all suffer for this." "you may ride to the hacienda." "Get every man that works for me." "Every boy old enough to carry a gun." "the vaqueros.NBring them all here!" "But if I do that you will have nothing to go back to." "The cattle will scatter into the hills and the crops will fail in the fields." "compadre." "All I have worked for is buried beside that church." "My sons." "compadre." "Funny how your mind'll play tricks on ya." "when they was comin' at us l got to thinkin' they were husbands." " Husbands?" "N" " Ganged up on me." "Sent a shiver up my spine." "I ain't ever gonna look at another woman." "Ever!" " Agh!" "N" " Oh." "Sorry." "Looks like they're gonna wait for night." "it could get kinda hard to stay alive in here." "we can be back at the village in two days, maybe less." " And then what?" "N" " Make our stand there." "What about the women and children?" "Yeah." "Looks like you should have turned me in for that bounty." "Chris." "There never was a price on ya." "I just wanted to ride along with you for a ways." "maybe they'll back off.N" " Not Lorca." "He won't let go till this is over once and for good." "You seem like you know him pretty well." "I was paid to kill him once." "Shame you didn't get the job done." "By his sons." "His sons?" "erect like finely bred stallions." "They weren't." "like their mother." "Lorca thought they were weak." "He rode roughshod over them trying to make them over in his own image." "Their mother tried to stop him." "Died trying." "wanted him dead." "So they hired you." "Lorca found out about it." "He could have had me killed." "Instead he gave me a horse let me ride out." "Don't know why." "Maybe he saw in you what he never saw in his own." "Maybe." "Wonder how come the two of 'em ended here." "he shamed them into it." "Then why is he building this church for 'em?" "Vin." "For him." "He got his chance to do the one thing he could never do when they were alive." "Be proud of them." "What are they waiting for?" "I wish now that Petra had never found you, Chris." "That you'd never gotten into this." "You and the others get killed what good will it do?" "Nothing will change." "No matter what happens here nothing will change." "... ..someone to push men around like cattle." "... hiding." "When this is over I'm heading north across the border." "I made my living with a gun once." "I can do it again." "What about Petra?" "doesn't leave a wife a whole lot to be proud of." "She'll understand." "Will she?" "(in Spanish) Chief López went to the hacienda." "(second bandit)NTomorrow he'll bring 400 guns." "(third bandit) lf he does this will soon be over." "the better.N- (third bandit) I agree." "You'll get that old bird drunk you don't watch out." "No entiendo." "Tú hacer ese pájaro borracho." "... he's got somethin' he wants to tell ya." "Manuel." "Tell him." "Todo este tiempo... no." "You tell him what I taught ya." "Hable en inglés." "For a long time... compadre." "What he's tryin' to tell you, Chris, is that... ..for a lotta years now he's been knockin' around from one village to another." "He ain't got no folks that he can remember." "He don't even know how old he is except he's young and, uh,... ..he's been called Manuel ever since he was knee-high to a grasshopper." "Another thing he remembers is that he always felt kinda lost and lonely." " But he don't no more." "Know why?" "N" " No." "Why?" "Because when I was out there stompin' around in the rain last night,... ..I come across a sign with the name of the village on it." "Something "Del Norte"." " First part of it had been burned off.N" " So?" "Manuel was always lookin' for some place to come from,... ..some place he can belong to be proud of." "Now he can." "Village ain't got no people he ain't got no village." " So from now on they can call him..." "N" " Manuel from Something Del Norte." "ain't it?" "Yeah." "Chris." "Um... uh..." "Think we oughta get him outta here safe?" "he ain't a whole lot with a gun, and, uh,... ..they keep comin' at us that way, he's gonna get hurt." "Maybe we could send him off somewheres." "I'd sure feel a whole lot better." "What about him?" "How'd he feel?" "Now that he's finally got something to belong to." "Yep..." "Frank was right." "I talk too damn much." "It's Frank!" " You all right?" "N" " Just a crease." "Were you tryin' to get your head blowed off?" "It's my head." "You get yourself killed it won't do anybody any good." "Depends how you look at it." "What's eatin' him?" "I saw you up there on the wall this morning." "Now this." " Why?" "N" " None of your damn business." "Chris." "did you?" "We had us a place in West Texas." "just gettin' started." "Had a herd to build, wire to string and such." "... ..jumped the reservation lit out, killin', burnin'... they was all around the cabin - 1 4, 1 5 of 'em." "I held 'em off as long as I could till I only had one shell left." "Ellie screamed at me not to let 'em take her alive." "She'd... seen what they'd done to others." "begging'..." "So I..." "The Comanches saw what I'd done." "I thought they'd kill me too but they didn't." "They just rode off." "Next morning I started tracking' 'em." "Killed 'em one at a time all the while hoping' they'd kill me." "I've been tryin' to get the job done." "But it don't look like I have to wait much longer." "I heard 'em talkin' out there.NLorca sent for help." "Come tomorrow he's gonna have 200 guns, maybe more." "And he's not gonna settle for just us, Chris." "He wants 'em all dead." "Every last one of 'em." "Señor... they have asked me to talk to you." "They don't want you to die here because of them." "Go." "While there is still time." "They will not kill us all." "Those who are left will return to the village,... ..begin again." "If we are strong like you..." "But we are not." "We are weak." " Too weak to fight.N" " You fight every day of your lives." "You fight the land to grow crops." "You fight to keep a roof over your heads clothes on your back." " That is not the same.N" " The hell it's not." "señor." "of everything." "Our whole life is one of fear." "We are born with it." "We die with it." "It is our way. lt will always be our way." "señor." "We beg you." "Before it is too late." "Go... please." "You ain't thinkin' of runnin', are you, Chris?" "He may be right." "always bragging'." "Inside he was afraid of his own shadow." "Never woulda got over it either if this other fella hadn't come along." "I'm talkin' about that night in Texas... ..when you made me stand alongside you in the street." "I remember you had to knock me down four times... ..before I'd go against them guns." "Chris." "We got to stand alongside of 'em so that someday they can stand alone." "I thought all you did was think about women, Colbee." "I used to be afraid of them too." "Chris?" "no." "(men recite prayer in Spanish)" "frates." "(recite prayer)" "If you're thinkin' about goin' out there we'd better get at it." "Those others get here the hills are gonna get higher to climb." "How many men does he have left?" "I counted 30." "We could circle high around and come at 'em from behind." "One chance in hell." "That's better than none at all." "Saddle the horses." "I already did." "(farmers praying)" "(horse whinnies)" "Tú quédate aqui." "Ain't you gonna take him with us?" " He'll cover us from the bell tower.N" " We'll need all the help we can get." "He stays behind." " For luck?" "N" " For luck." " Kyrie eleison.N" " Kyrie eleison." " Kyrie eleison.N" " Kyrie eleison." "(Vin) Chris!" "Hey!" "Come on!" "(Vin) Chris!" "Keep going." "Ya!" "Giddap!" "Ya!" "Chris!" "¡Alto el fuego!" "¡Alto!" "Vámonos." "Chris." "I finally..." "Chris." "Kill them." "Kill them." "Don't stop." "Kill them." "Kill them." "(recites last rites in Latin)" "It was Chico's idea to finish building the church,... ..to bring all three villages here and make them into one." " l thought you were heading north.N- l changed my mind." "Chico.N" " Go where?" "back to get the rest of the women.N" " He volunteered." "Chris." "Too bad the others couldn't have seen this." "We'll remember them in our prayers." "Chico.N" " Chris." "Chico." " Adios.N" " God bless you." "I'll be damned." "I doubt that." "I doubt that very much." "Visiontext Subtitles:" "Paul Murray"