"Pollos?" "Yes." "There's seven more." "There's a couple of girls." "I need two cups of blue." " Manolo!" "" "That's it." " Manolo!" "Keep your fucking hoods on!" "Manolo!" "Take your clothes off!" "Turn the fuck around!" "You find a shoulder, and you walk." "Walk!" "Elena?" "If you can pay, you can leave." "Two thousand, eight hundred dollars." "That's what it costs you to leave." "We..." "I paid the coyote, the guy that brought us to the Van in the desert." " I paid him in nuevo laredo." "" "Oh." "See, that was your crossing fee." "For him to get you here, to the u-s-of-a." "And here you are." "Nothing is free here." "Two thousand, eight hundred dollars, and the longer you stay, the more you have to pay!" "Nothing is free here." "And just one more thing:" "Don't..." "Fuck with me." "I could kill you and dump your body out into the street." "And no one would even know who you were, or who they could call to ask." "Welcome to America." "Come on!" "No, no, no..." "It's okay." "Alright then." "Easy." "There you go." "No, no, no..." "It's okay." "Shh." "I'm pregnant." "Shh." "Ooh." "We've been working real fucking hard." "Smokey!" "What did you come down here for?" "Get the fuck outta here." "How sweet..." "How the wheels roll around!" "Congratulations, guys!" "It's gonna be a great opportunity for anybody who wants to buy your house." "How are you?" "Thanks for coming." "These are the owners." "We're gonna look at the house." "You'll love it." "It's fabulous." "Come on this way." "You like it?" "There you go." "This is who you get." "The boss says, no more blue juice for the ladies..." "Unless they don't comply." "Blue juice, huh?" "You must've made one hell of an impression..." "Huh?" "Hey." "You displease Kay, here," "and I'll have to re-assess our boundaries." "When the food's cooked, you'll bring it to them." "Hey." "Hey." "You sleep?" "No." "Did you hear anything about where they keep the women?" "No." "Feels like it's gonna dry up on you, doesn't it?" "You think you're gonna find an exit sign we didn't see," " or something?" "Let's go!" "Follow me!" "Elena!" "Elena!" "That was her." "I saw her hands." "She's in the house." "Your wife is here?" "I have a wife too." "She hasn't heard from me in three weeks, now." "He was traveling with her..." "We're from two towns really close together..." "Just north of antig-- there was a lot of us in Mexico." "Look, we don't have time for this." "No time for what, compadre?" "Where are you goin'?" "There's nothing you can do right now." "Sit." "Eat that bread." "Might be all the food you get today." ""All-you-can-eat!"" "That's what my brother told me." "There'd be these restaurants here called buffets." "All-you-can-eat." "He's been here the longest." "I can't get much out of him." "Can't get much out of anybody, really." "The first day I got here, there was this one guy, he was a bit of a talker." "There was an argument in here, actually." "The thugs came in fast, roughed up a couple of guys, then they took him out." "We never saw him again." "I don't have money to give these people." "I think..." "If you cry now..." "You won't have enough for when they drag you to the basement." "What's in the basement?" "Psst." "In this house, nobody fucks around, you got it?" "Come on." "Can you pay?" "Señor,mywifewas here." "Is she okay?" "Yes, your wife is here." "And you're gonna have to pay for her too." "She's okay?" "Señor, we don't have your money!" "We spent most of our money before we got to nuevo Leon." "The rest of it was stolen when we were riding on the trains." "Maybe you can borrow it from someone." "A cousin, aunt, uncle, brother." "Something..." "Señor,whyus ?" "You know who we are." "We were just trying to take a ride into the town." "You don't choose the fish that bites." "I have a boss, who owns this house." "And he wants his rent." "He's a real asshole." "You live in this house, you pay." "I don't wanna live here!" "Why don't you try and leave?" "Tomorrow..." "We make arrangements." "Hi, sweetheart!" "Daddy's sweetie pie." "Hi, sweetie pie." "What the hell is she doing in there?" "She's cleaning." "Whatever." "I don't want her anywhere near Taylor, you understand?" "If you put a shirt on her it makes her more likely to think about leaving." "It's for me." "Kay, I don't wanna have to go over this again and again." "I owe silo a lot of fucking money." "We have to be really careful, especially with his cousin in the house." "He was rubbing up on her..." "You know?" "Yeah." "They've gotta be after something else." "He's gotta realize who we are." "He knows." "It is what it's about." "Who we are." "We're nobody." "I don't have 3000 dollars!" "Nobody here does." "That one guy did, today." "He didn't come back, did he?" "Or maybe he didn't pay..." "These guys..." "They need bodies to keep business going." "New whores to pimp out." "Drug mules, maybe." "Or they might have dangerous deliveries, all kinds of shit to beat us into doing..." "How do you know all this stuff?" "Tonight." "Yes." "Give him a rag." "Get the Van ready, but don't leave until the money is cleared, in pocket." "Smokey is waiting at the money union." "There's only 1200." "That's all we're gonna get from him." "I'm on it." "Amigo!" "Don'tmakethatface ." "I'm sorry you saw that." "He was just one of those guys who didn't believe me when I said I was serious." "He could've believed me from the start!" "And then that guy that he called..." "He just needed a little convincing, right?" "Go on, sit." "Ah, come on!" "You don't need to be nervous, okay?" "Alright?" "It doesn't have to go like that." "No." "This is just..." "A business transaction, right?" "You just need to understand..." "That I am serious." "Elena!" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "What?" "Did they touch you?" "What?" "Did they touch you?" "They drugged us..." "I was numb all over..." "Manolito, what if it did something to the baby?" " What are you doing?" "" "No!" "Elena!" "" " Manolo!" "They're raping Elena, out there!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Don't be stupid, chapin!" "Fuck!" "Elena!" "I can help you." "I'm a-- what?" "Are you fucking crazy?" " They will kill you!" "What good will you be to your wife then?" "Hi." "I'm here on behalf of Laurel barbel." "She's running to represent your council district in the upcoming election." "Oh." "Let me tell you what Laurel stands for." "Laurel's on record as being an advocate of both the protect Arizona now and the support your law enforcement and safe neighborhood acts." "So..." "I see you got a child." "One of the things Laurel loves is family." "She loves fighting on behalf of family units." "I won't take up any more of your time." "I'll just leave some literature in your box." "Thank you." "Can I ask..." "Who did you vote for, in the last election?" "We're new to the neighborhood, so we weren't actually here during the last voting." "Oh, I see!" "Um..." "I won't bother you anymore..." "So I can count on your vote?" "Yeah, definitely." "Okay." "Okay, thanks." "Today, instead of food, you get to look at this." "Tomorrow we want answers." "Cash or phone calls." "Okay, okay, okay..." "Up, up, up." "We're gonna die in this room." "My wife." "Elenadidn'twannacome." "Ipromisedher thatwewouldbeokay ." "She'spregnant, andshe'sgonnadie here, becauseofme ." "We're gonna die here." "No one's gonna die." "I can get the cops here, bust us all out." "I write for the Arizona current." "Whatever it is you're brewing', no one here is drinkin', cerote!" "He's gonna get us all out of here." "You're a journalist, right?" "Who the fuck are you?" "I'm a journalist." "And he's gonna bring the police." "It's not what you think." "I'm three months into going undercover in Mexico, to buy a cross from a coyote" "who's involved in a human smuggling ring." "What does that mean?" "It means, if they let me make a phone call, there's someone waiting to trace it, and put these guys' faces on every front page in the country." "You've been here for four days while I'm being roughed up downstairs and you haven't told anyone?" "I wanted to expose more people, bigger people." "Fuck." "It's over." "They bust the house, we all walk out free." "We lock the bad guys up!" "Fantastico!" "They'll knock those putos over the head, but while this guy goes back to his nice little house downtown and washes this costume off," "you and me, we're gonna be in a real fucking prison, waiting, until they send us back to where we all came from." "But you'll be alive!" "Will I?" "You may not be able to relate to that, journalist, but there's a reason we left our homes." "I go back to tegucigalpa, papa, and they're gonna chop my head off." "There's a contract on my head there." "There's a contract on your head here." "Did you hear what he said?" "He can get us out of here!" "It's not all about you!" "Don't talk to me about what I want!" "You wanna stop the love session going on with your girl, that's what you want!" "But it ain't about you either, cerote!" "Rafa's brother trying to wire money from San Salvador, right?" "And your sister is working on rounding up some cash, no?" "My cousin's driving money over from Kansas City." "He'll be in Phoenix in two days." "You wanna get sent back?" "Speak up!" "Now." "No." "Thanks for the noble crusade, for the rights of the poor centroamericanitos!" "But we don't want a crusade." "We don't want new laws." "We don't wanna be in the papers." "We want a life." "I'm walking out of here in two days, papa." "I'm never going back to tegus." "Never." "You keep your mouth shut." "When is the police coming?" "You wanna get sent back?" "I don't like it here." "I don't like it here either, Antonio." "They put a phone in my hand," "I'm splitting this house wide open." "Six months ago..." "I got a call from my cousin from Mexico." "Says he's in trouble." "Says he needs money." "It was weird." "I hadn't seen him or talked to him since we were, like, eight." "I hung up." "Two days later, they call me again..." "I don't know what they were doing to him, but the screams were..." "They had me." "I would've paid anything!" "The line cut, and they didn't have enough time to ask for anything." "You know what's gonna happen to me if someone talks, yeah?" "Come on!" "Come." "What's a guy like you doing, trying to get into America?" "I mean, did you have a job?" "I used to deliver booze bags mama made at the house." "So, your mama made you the bag bitch, so everyone would think you had a job." "Cute." " It was a job." "" "Mm." "It was a job?" "So where's all your money?" "Where's all your money?" "Huh?" "Why did you have to leave?" "I..." "Come on!" "What would possess a guy like you to make that journey?" "My mama thought I could send some money back, so we could..." "Mama sent you." "Mama sent you." "What did they say back home?" ""This guy is going to El norte?"" ""This guy?"" "How the fuck did you even make it here?" "I can't call home!" "If I call, everything was for nothing." "The train." "The desert." "That room!" "If I call, it would be like if I failed." "Again." "You know what I'm gonna do, for you?" "I'm gonna call your mama myself." "And I'm gonna tell her that you're dead, and that you failed, right to the end." "Alright, we gotta start clearing this room!" "Now, some of you have got leads that we need to finalize." "Who wants to go first?" "Tegus!" "We got an address for your cousin." "What's happening?" "They're onto him!" "Let's go." "Did something happen?" "No." "So you think..." "San Diego's gonna come through for you?" "Yeah." "I..." "I think..." "Uh..." "Did you change your mind?" "About what?" "Let's make a phone call." "Right." "Here!" "Let's call." "Let's go in the other room." "Why don't you write about this?" "That's one down!" "Silo's gonna love that." "You're the one who picks up the pollos!" "Maybe I should let you tell your cousin how you picked up a fucking reporter from the current, and nearly put us all on the front page!" "You wrap that shit up!" "Psst!" "Rafa!" "Shh, shh, shh, shh..." "Stop!" "You stay off of me, cerote!" "We left for a reason too." "I didn't want my baby growing up in a place where she had to be scared all the time." "We left because of bastards like you." "I'll work..." "Huh?" "I'll do whatever." "Anything." "My wife." "You have to promise that she's gonna be okay." "You'll work." "Why didn't I think of that?" "Of course!" "You'll work!" "You can trim my hedge!" "Or mow my lawn, or wash my car..." "How about you wipe my ass after I take a shit?" "That's what I need." "Not your fucking work!" "Maybe I should just shoot you, and put your wife to work!" "She can make me some money." "Let's go ask elenita." " I don't have anything!" "What do you want me to do?" "Did they do this to..." "You got two choices, you motherfucker!" "You either pay, or you end up wrapped in plastic, with mister newspaperman." " Huh?" "" "Wyler!" "Wyler!" "Silo." "Yeah?" "You cashing me out this Sunday?" "Yeah, no, I know i said by the weekend, but..." "You're losing pollos out there!" "You know how this happens!" "Some of these guys have just been here two days!" "You take the backend, how I handle the middle is up to me." "Therehasto be abackend, that'sthepoint!" "We got 22 more coming, who will bedroppedat yourhouse." "You take them to chino's, or some other house!" "Stall them in the fucking desert for all I care!" "Don'ttellme  wheretodropthem!" "Fine." "You'recashingme out, andthey'regettingdropped atyourhouse!" "Fine!" "You told him about the fucking reporter." "What I tell silo or don't is none of your business." "Everything that happens in this house is my fucking business!" "Silo knows." "Silo knows what i fucking put in his pocket." "Yeah?" "He ain't happy with what you been putting there lately." "Or how." "He needs someone to do what needs to be done to get these pesos from these pollos," "not someone with a nice button-up shirt, that sides with the spick bitches..." "They could be fucking niggers for all I care." "You don't pay up when he shows up, the niggers are takin' over." "Oh, hey!" "There you are!" "I've been looking for ya." "Yeah..." "They're just saying that they're having a barbecue..." "Next Friday?" "Friday evening." "They were saying we should come over." " Be great to see you!" "Oh!" "That's long overdue!" " Great!" "Yeah." "Great." " Alright!" "Here." "" "Friday, right?" "Yeah, Friday evening." " How's it going?" "" "Good." "Good to see you, then." "What the fuck are you doing over there?" "What the fuck were you doing over there?" "Their dog came over, wyler!" "I thought it was better than them coming over!" "You said we had to act normal, right?" "I wanna be normal, wyler!" "What are we doing?" "Look what's in our house!" "Kay, don't start..." "Good morning!" "Don't!" "Kay!" "Kay!" "Would you listen to me?" "You told me this was it." "That's enough!" "Look, I have no choice." "I have to take every miserable fucker out of that room, one by one, and squeeze..." "And if there's no juice, then I have to cross 'em out!" "I don't wanna be here for that." "I'm taking Taylor." "Thenumberyouhavereached isnotin service," "pleasecheckthenumberand- " "Tony!" "I swear to fucking god, you dial that number one more time..." "Good morning." "I don't think so." "You see..." "Nobody showed this morning." "What the fuck?" "I don't know, you talked to them yourself!" "I don't know." "What happened?" "You fucking tell me what happened!" "Listen!" "Let me call them, there's gotta be some type of a problem, like a setback." "A fucking setback!" "Good idea." "Let's call." "Hm?" "  Hello." " Luis!" "What the fuck, man?" "No, it's not like that!" "You don't..." "You don't fucking get where they got me, you asshole!" "You say you gonna be there at some time, you get there!" "Icouldn'tgetthe money..." "This is not the dentist!" " Listen to him, Luis!" "" "Listen to me!" "Just fucking listen!" "You were not there!" " Do what they say!" "" "I don't give a fuck!" "I do not care how fucking sorry..." "Listen to me!" "Then listen to your fucking cousin!" "Primo, i fucking need your help!" "You fucking do what they" "shh..." "Good... now..." "Tomorrow." " Same place." "" " Okay." "7:30." "Your last plan didn't work out so good." "They're not fucking around, we gotta..." "It doesn't look like your plan worked out so good, either." "Get me up there!" "Maybe we can leave from the roof." "Maybe we can climb over the walls." "And I can go get the women..." "What if they come in?" "What happens when there's no more fingers to break?" "Get up there." "Pedro." "It's working." " Shh, shh." "Take this." "Just a little bit more!" "That's it!" "Shh!" "That's it." "There's nothing." "It's just an attic, it's all closed in!" "It doesn't go anywhere." "Are you sure?" "There's nothing." "There's no way!" "Shh!" "Shh!" "Rafa." "Rafa!" "Let's go, man!" "Your cousin's waiting!" "The fuck, you wanna stay?" "Today's the day!" "You wanna leave, right?" "You're not fucking acting like it!" "Get down." "Hey!" "Get down from there!" "Come on, come down!" "Hold this." "I found something." " Hey, get down!" "Elena!" "Maria, where is Elena?" "Where is Elena?" "Shut your face!" "Where is Elena, Maria?" "Señora!" "Maria!" "WhereisElena?" "Maria!" "It's coming off!" "Make sure it doesn't fall!" "Grab it in the middle." "Wait, wait, wait." "Wait!" "I can't leave Elena here." "In the middle." "We can't leave without Elena!" "Wait." "Wait, fuck!" "It's too small." "We're never gonna fit there!" "We gotta break it." "They're gonna hear us." "Take too long for us to sneak out!" " Back off!" "" "Wait!" "They're gonna hear us!" "They're gonna hear us." "And then what?" "We need a diversion." "We need to make a big noise somewhere else to cover the sound of the window breaking." "I can't leave Elena here, please." "There's a mirror in the bathroom." "Out in the hall." "He's right." "There's a mirror, in this bathroom." "If we break it, it'll cover the sound of the window breaking." "I'll break it." "He's right." "I was in there before." "I know." "I saw you with the black fucker before they killed paolo." "We'll break the window in here, and you'll give us up!" "'Cause they put me on a hit to kill a guy." "I couldn't do that." "So I fled." "I would've killed back home, there would've been no reason to flee." "The reporter wasn't me." "Listen." "I get them to put me in that bathroom, we need to sync." "I'll flush the toilet so you can hear it through the wall, we count to five, and I smash that mirror while you break the window in here." "On the beat after five." "Flush." "And five." "They're gonna kill you." "They'll rough me up." "I got it coming, and I seen worse." "You wait for me." "Good news!" "Finally, somebody listened." "The wire came through from his cousin." "Just like that, he will never see us again." "Okay, pollos!" "The hourglass has been tipped." "It's check-out time!" "Manolito!" "Come here." "Come." "Here." "Your little offer got interrupted last time." "It's time we continue it." "Hm?" "Oh, tegus..." "Tegus!" "Your fuck-head cousin called." "He's on his way." "But he says he's only got half the cash." "What can I say?" "Does no one there hear about what happens to wetbacks here?" "Fucking señor?" "There needs to be new blood!" "You should've paid up long ago!" " Silo needs to see how the-- -hey!" "What, you think this is how it's done?" "I was gonna get him to call someone, get this shit over with!" "So, did he call someone?" "You fuckers got mixed up with the wrong coyote, this week!" "We could break it." "They'll hear us if we break it!" "No!" "Back off, cerotes!" "Back off!" "You think you can leave me alone to hold the wood before, and that I'll just let you waltz out, now?" "He carried you the whole time, and you won't even wait 15 minutes for him to come back?" "We wait!" "We wait." "When they come back in, with him or not," "I'll beg into that washroom, and we go for flush-and-five." "If you fuckheads think I'm gonna take the fall for you, then you don't know me!" "If you don't settle up with me right now, then your wife is gonna be fucking strangers on east Van buren." "She's gonna pay us off one sucked dick at the time, that's how we're gonna settle this, you understand?" "She's gonna suck dick right here!" "Manolo!" "Elena!" "The fuck is wrong with you?" "Talk, talk, talk... that's all you fucking do, is talk!" "Don't you move!" "Put the fucking knife down, what is wrong with you?" "I'll take this one." "You stand in the fucking corner!" "Move back!" "Big fucking mistake!" "You tell me you can't think of someone to call now, right?" "Dial the fucking phone!" "I don't know who to call!" "Dial the fucking phone!" "Dial!" "Dial the fucking number!" "I don't know who to call!" " You fucking..." "Manolo!" " Silo's coming at noon?" "It doesn't matter." "We gotta get this house clean before he gets here." "Fuck that shit!" "We gotta go now!" "Put him off a few more days." "He keeps-- wyler!" "Alright." "We need money." "We squeeze until the morning." "We know the rat will pay!" "Alright, we get his money tonight, and leave by sunrise." "We need some water!" "I need to get next door-- what the fuck?" "I can't feel..." "I need water, I need" " I need water." "You." "Come." "Come on!" "You like to talk?" "It's time to talk." "Come on!" "Pedro!" "You said i was gonna be okay!" "Hey, pedrito." "Do you know why you told me about the reporter?" "It's because you're a "gimme", that's what you were born to be." "You don't wanna call home, but you don't have to worry, because everyone there expects you to!" "Right?" "Call your mama, and tell her that I'm about to kill you." "You're still here." "No more waiting, chapin." "You said I was gonna be okay." "I told you, I can't call." "I don't give a fuck what you said!" "I don't give a fuck what you think!" "So call." "I can't leave her here." "You're gonna have to choose, papa." "Her." "Or you and her." "And me, and..." "I'm sorry." "  Hello?" " Hello!" "Wedidn'tgettochoose anyofit ,didwe?" "We didn't get to choose" "we didn't get to choose if we were able to kill in cold blood" "we didn't get to choose..." "If we were born in a place that sold all-you-can-eat buffets," "or if we were born in a place..." "Where we couldn't afford frijoles." "What we didn't choose, that's what shaped us..." "Made us who we are." "Being locked up in this room is the smallest thing this world ever did to us." "If we have anything left inside, anything," "fromwhenwe left and we walked thousands of miles into the unknown..." "For our families..." "Thentherearenowalls, andthere'sno doors," "just like there was no borders, ornolaws,tokeep usin ." "Pedro!" "  -¡Cabron!" "Fuck!" "Pedro!" "What if it's not him?" "Then we're all dead." " What the fuck are you doing?" "" "It's fucking Pedro!" "Jesus!" "Get up off the fl..." "On your knees!" "On your fucking knees!" "Everyone!" "Down!" "Fuck it!" "Get the hoods." "Get the hoods, get the ties!" "Kay!" "Kay!" "Fuck it!" "Sit the fuck down!" "T!" "Town?" "Kay?" "Go." "Manolo, let's go." "Manolo!" "Don't fucking move!" "You fucker!" "Brother!" "Let's go!"