"...holding your hand... but I didn't enjoy your life story." "Boring." "But you are not boring." "Only your life story is boring." "Yes, indeed." "But has been nice sitting with you." "Bye." "Goodbye." "Hold it." "The movie stunk." "We have to wait here." "Are all American cops so good-looking?" "I'm Lt. Martin Castillo." "That answers my question." "We have reason to believe your life's in danger." "In my country, a cop in a civilian suit comes up to you... you can, how you say... kiss yourself goodbye." "But my country has kicked me out." "Why do you think they shipped me here, Lieutenant?" "They murder me in my country, they make me into a martyr." "It takes no great intellect to figure that out." "They bought me a first-class ticket to my own killing." "Where is my daughter?" "Why isn't my daughter here?" "She's waiting at the safe house for you." "What is a safe house?" "Just what it sounds like, sir." "Yeah." "Sounds like house arrest to me." "But maybe your television is better here than back home." "Privileged diplomatic materials." "Thank you for all your help and your assistance." "Mr. Sandoval, how long will you be in Miami?" "Just visiting on the way to Washington." "After Washington, back to your own country?" "Not till the death squads die and they have free elections there." "Let us through here, folks, let us through." "Please." "How does it feel to be free, Mr. Sandoval?" "Beautiful, beautiful." "I would like to talk to you at greater length." "My dear, I am all yours." "Okay, that's enough." "Step aside, please." "Come to the museum at the reception there." "I see you." "This old man will be easy to kill." "All right, already." "I'm waiting an hour." "Sure." "Hey, welcome to the babysitting detail." "Any reason why this is our gig and not the federals'?" "The word came down to Castillo that we had to do it... cause we're so efficient." "And inconspicuous." "Where's Crockett?" "In court." "Why would anybody want to kill a poet?" "Maybe they don't like his iambic pentameter." "Sandoval's not your Joe Average poet." "I mean, he's waiting for a phone call from Stockholm." "Nobel Prize, you know?" "Sure." "Is that the word on the street?" "He swings heavy weight on international opinion." "That makes him more than a wordsmith." "Shelley said that poets were unacknowledged legislators." "My government agreed with him." "That was their excuse for arresting me." "To protect me from the right-wing death squads." "As if they were not in bed with the death squads." "I spent a year in house arrest... during which time I wrote a political memoir." "They took the manuscript... and burned it... in front of me." ""Now you can leave," they said." "It didn't matter." "It was all in my head." "And now I will tell it all at the hearings in your Congress." "Señor Sandoval." "We have a problem with your itinerary." "Such as?" "You want to go to a reception tonight, for one." "And an appearance at an awards ceremony... for a poetry prize at the university." "Yes, the Porter Prize." "They gave it to me when I was "in stir."" "Is that your phrase?" "Now I can thank them in person." "Well, for your own personal safety... you should send your regrets to both functions." "Save your personal appearance for Washington." "No." "To address a Congressional committee is my duty." "To appear here in Miami is my pleasure!" "I want to see my friends." "I want to get my prize!" "This is typical." "His vanity means more to him than his life." "My devoted daughter, Blanca... who has been contradicting me since she was two years old." "You're not listening to us, sir." "Call me Hector." "I am democratic." "If you insist on attending these functions... you'll make it easier for them and harder for us." "What he's saying makes sense, Father." "I will not stay a prisoner out of fear." "I will attend these affairs." "It's a free country." "Isn't that what they say?" "Is that your final decision?" "All right." "We'll set up security at both functions." "Det." "Tubbs, who you met at the airport... will be with you at all times." "Not the ladies?" "No." "If you want to attend these functions, you'll do it our way." "Absolutely." "We are going to have a great deal of fun during my stay." "While it lasts." "Now, where is the TV?" "You have wrestling, yes?" "Cartoons?" "I have instructions for you." "You will not come here again." "If we do, would you still be working here?" "And you will receive no more supplies from home after this." "You won't have any more to give if we don't succeed." "Americans support you only because they fear the guerrillas." "Let Sandoval speak to the Congress... and the dollar part of that support may evaporate." "Nevertheless, we wash our hands of you." "We deeply appreciate the use of your diplomatic pouch." "Yes." "I've been raising money for medical supplies." "Why is that a problem for you?" "Because the money ends up with the guerrillas." "Don't you understand?" "That money ends up for medicine for the people in the villages." "Who also end up with the guerrillas." "The guerrillas at least offer the peasants something." "Yes, they offer them a choice." "Join us or hang from a tree upside-down." "They are not democratic." "Only Jose Plentos is democratic and he is dead." "Excuse me." "This is not a good place to stand." "Why not?" "'Cause it's a little too open for our tastes." "I thought we were going to be safe here." "You are safe." "But inside the house you'll even be safer." "Zito, would you mind helping Mr. Sandoval inside?" "Why not?" "Tell me some more about Shelby." "Shelley." "About Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound... about freedom...." "Your father's quite a character." "He's a great poet." "You sound so sure." "History will record it." "His poems are his real children." "So that's why you two argue so much?" "I like to argue with him up to a point." "And then I get really mad, so he wins." "So why don't you back off and then you win?" "Before we got onto politics, he used to complain... that I didn't bring any of my young pretty girlfriends to meet him." "Do you believe that?" "When a man spends a year in prison..." "I think he could use some female companionship." "He was that way before he was arrested." "He likes them young." "Starry-eyed." "Why do you think he wants to go to that party?" "For a medal?" "So what's in this for you?" "I edit a small newspaper for political émigrés." "I'm against the government." "If I still lived down there, they would have disappeared me long ago." "You think you'll ever go back down there?" "Maybe after the civil war?" "I don't think there'll be anything left." "Take it easy." "Hey, I said easy." "What do you, you call that easy?" "This is flesh you're knocking around like that, you understand?" "What, do you think I can't feel?" "I feel something, you know that?" "I can." "Look at this car." "Is this a car?" "What do you call that, a fin?" "Hey, maybe it's a fish, not a car?" "Look at the way the curves catch the light." "Beautiful." "Freedom in metal, that's what it is." "Watch your step." "This is America." "Soaring, flamboyant...." "Slide across there." "Now, Mr. Sandoval, you have to lay down for security reasons." "Later, I want to feel the breeze." "Hey, listen, you guys, follow close." "Mr. Sandoval." "Mr. Sandoval, you're not listening to me." "Lay down, for security reasons." "Hey, Larry, take this blanket off him." "No, leave it on." "Make a grand revelation." "Want me to take the blanket off?" "No, I'll do it when I am ready." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "So nice...." "Those knuckles in your hand... are like the mountains... of our land." "And they remain beautiful... the whole country remains beautiful... the shoreline...." "Wait'll you see a picture of a re-education camp...." "Sure." "Okay." "There you are." "See you later." "You folks from Iowa?" "I think they're from Ohio." "Excuse me." "Blanca." "How are you doing?" "It's so good to see you." "Thank you." "Who is he?" "Been a long time." "You didn't tell me you were going to be here." "You know me, I appear-- How long has it been?" "Three years." "Oh, my God." "Have you seen Papa?" "Not yet." "I'm going to see him now." "You gentlemen enjoying the evening?" "He is." "And when I say the most...." "He's got half an hour more." "Not merely the United States." "I'm flattered that you think so." "But, I do." "You don't find me too old?" "At your age a man is just beginning to be sexy." "It's your power over the word that I find so exciting." "I've seen that woman before." "The way you get your message across." "I have a message for you." "At the airport." "We've had enough of you, fool." "We're gonna get you disappeared." "Gun." "Nobody move!" "Police officers!" "Listen." "I've been thinking." "I need a gun." "You need a what?" "Pistola." "Bang, bang!" "Why don't we go fishing and say we didn't?" "Aren't you concerned about your daughter's safety?" "She's stayed out all night before without calling, believe me." "What about the gun?" "Forget it, Hector." "But I may have to protect myself." "Look what happened last night." "Why don't you go out there and... write some nice poetry about the ocean maybe, or something." "Let us do the police work." "What the hell's that?" "Come on." "He's okay." "He's an old friend." "What's the matter with you?" "You trying to get yourself killed?" "I was perfectly safe with Manuel." "I trust him with my life." "Yeah, you did just that." "And your father's, too." "Manuel Guerrero?" "Blanca, you realize you've compromised your father's safety by bringing him here?" "I should say so." "Gentlemen, my old student..." "Manuel Guerrero." "I didn't give you that good a grade." "Hey, watch out for him." "He has a penetrating and devious mind." "So, you look in pretty good shape." "They didn't touch me from the outside." "What about you, Guerrero?" "You still seated on the left hand of God?" "No." "I'm enjoying the bourgeois life too much." "I've moved to the center." ""The center cannot hold" ""Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"" "William Butler Yeats." "_?" "I'm sorry to have worried you." "The disappearing act was not a cool move." "Would I be wrong if I thought that your concern was not merely official... but also personal?" "Could get that way." "Maybe after this is all over." "Oh?" "What did you have in mind?" "Casual sex?" "Romance?" "What do you make of this Guerrero?" "I don't know." "He's either a student or a friend or a chowder head." "Reminds them of better days?" "All right, I got it." "Thanks." "You got the ID on that assassin I smoked last night?" "Yeah, it just came in." "She's known as "La Muerta."" "A right-wing fanatic who operated with death squads." "She's also wanted in Argentina." "Maybe she was alone." "Maybe." "What do you say we put a string on Guerrero when he leaves here?" "Maybe he'll lead us to something." "I'll be downtown if you need me." "Cool, man." "You want to play?" "Sure, there's a lot shaking... but it's not what we're looking for." "He's definitely a man of leisure." "Yeah, well he certainly doesn't lead a lonely life, huh?" "Hey." "See what I see?" "Miami Vice." "Freeze." "Four of them." "There were four of them and they were armed like NATO." "These politicos are bad news." "Thank you." "Sandoval will not fore go the awards ceremony... no matter what the risks." "We'll need heavy backup." "You got it." "This is the last time Sandoval's going into public in Miami." "What about Guerrero?" "We lost him." "Zito and Switek are on it." "I got a hunch Guerrero's gonna give up the safe house, Lieutenant." "They won't ask him politely." "We won't take Sandoval back to the safe house." "But I'll be leaving personnel there, in case they want to hit it." "You guys feel all right?" "Sure." "You got it." "That's it." "You sure you're up for this?" "Piece of cake." "Were you looking for me?" "You got it." "Death squad's car's been spotted." "It's parked off the coast road by the sheik's mansion." "Yeah, I know the place." "Let's see, he bought that and never moved in." "Death squad's probably holding Guerrero there." "SRT is already on the way." "They'll wait and take direction from you." "Okay." "I'm gonna pick up Switek and I'll be on my way." ""In the place where I came from" ""the jungles were a jade wall" ""and the plains were rolled like the sea" ""The mountains carried the wind on their shoulders" ""But some thought the sky was too bright" ""and they wept" ""And others thought the sea was too deep" ""and they gasped for breath" ""And some said" ""'We use the land" ""'It cannot be owned or possessed'" ""And others said" ""'We did not create this" ""'and so it mocks us" ""'and therefore" ""'we will take it!" "'" ""And they said" ""'That which we did not create" ""'we still can kill'" ""And they rolled out" ""in all their armor" ""The horses weighed down under the weight" ""And the rains came and the mud" ""and they sank" ""in the land which they could not possess" ""upon the earth" ""which they did not create"" "No!" "No!" "Take him!" "Stop Him!" "Hey come on, it's okay, all right?" "Okay." "It's me." "I'm a cop." "You remember me, okay?" "Everything's gonna be great." "I'm gonna get some help." "Everything will be fine." "Where is he?" "343." "Around the corner." "Manuel, my man." "How you feeling?" "Well, I'm alive." "Did you ID any of these guys?" "The leader was Alfredo Gomez." "When I saw him, I thought I was through." "His reputation precedes him." "Yeah." "We got people looking for him." "You have any idea where he and his friends might have gone?" "They said they were to go to the awards ceremony." "They didn't show." "Where did they go?" "Look, maybe they've given up." "Listen, this guy, Gomez... did you tell him anything about the safe house?" "No." "They didn't even know I'd seen Sandoval... and they didn't ask any questions about a safe house." "Why did they grab you?" "I don't know." "Really?" "Wouldn't it be because you support leftist guerillas... with your own personal funds?" "I guess I can expect no more protection from you." "This is America, pal." "You can expect the same protection any citizen has a right to." "We don't play banana politics here." "No." "Not at home." "But you export it abroad." "Lady, I'll be glad to debate the issue with you sometime." "Right now, we're just trying to keep your father alive." "Let's take a walk." "I don't like it." "Why didn't they kill him?" "What's your drift?" "We don't know jack about this guy." "He didn't arrange to get snatched... and leaned on unless he's suicidal." "You're right, but he's wrong." "Hold it, guys." "Yeah, okay." "Thanks." "Big problem." "We gotta find Sandoval." "I thought our people took Sandoval to the Casa Blanca Hotel." "We did." "Then when they got to the room... he threw a big fit, said he didn't like the room... didn't like the hotel... didn't like the way he was being treated." "When they went down to make new arrangements... he gave them the slip." "This guy is out of his mind." "He also has a gun." "Great." "What?" "He asked me for mine, so I gave it to him." "Beautiful." "Call Castillo." "Tell him we're on the move." "Right." "The phone call was Castillo." "He wants us to go out on the streets and look for Sandoval." "Blanca?" "Medical center." "With Guerrero." "# Sometimes I try to do things #" "# And it just doesn't work out the way I wanted #" "# I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it #" "# And I take my time #" "# And it doesn't work out the way I wanted to #" "# It's like I concentrate real hard #" "# And it doesn't work out #" "# Everything I do and everything I try never turns out #" "# It's like I need time to figure these things out #" "# But there's always someone there going #" "# "Hey, Mike, you know we've been noticing #" "# "You've been having a lot of problems lately you know #" "# "Maybe you should get away #" "# "And maybe you should talk about it you'll feel a lot better" #" "# And I go, "No, it's okay, you know, I'll figure it out #" "# "Just leave me alone I'll figure it out #" "# "You know I'll just work by myself" #" "# And they go, "Well, you know #" "# "If you want to talk about it I'll be here you know #" "# "And you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it" #" "# And I go #" "Hey, let's dance!" "I'm not ready for you, pops." "But maybe later." "Come on." "Hey." "# You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes #" "# You won't have any say #" "You did?" "Yeah, give me the address." "Okay." "Thank you very much." "Jackpot, ladies." "Cabbie says that he dropped some crazy dude... in a wheelchair at Miami Springs." "Party time, huh?" "Looks like it." "# I'm not crazy institutionalized #" "# You're the one who's crazy institutionalized #" "# You're driving me crazy institutionalized #" "# They stuck me in an institution #" "# Said it was the only solution #" "# To give me the needed professional help #" "# To protect me from the enemy, myself #" "Get me a drink!" "# Just like staring at the wall #" "Where is my drink?" "# And then my mom came in #" "# And I didn't even know she was there #" "# She called my name and I didn't even hear it ##" "Hey, I know you." "Yes?" "No, I do." "You're Hector Sandoval, right?" "You have found me." "I read your stuff." "I'm not kidding." "I used to read it all the time." "Cloud Cities." "That was my favorite." "Too bad." "I heard some scuzz were out to snuff you." "They have failed." "But if they try it again, this is for them." "All right!" "So what do you say, Hector... are you ready to rock-and-roll?" "You got it, baby." "Let's go." "Come on." "Come on, let's go." "Hey!" "I'm taking my girl." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Where are you going?" "Hey." "That's my girl, what are you doing?" "Hey." "Buzz off, four-wheels." ""Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce" ""And cannot tell the Garment from the Man"" ""An aged man is but a paltry thing" ""A tattered coat upon a stick" ""unless Soul clap its hands" ""and sing" ""and louder sing" ""For every tatter in its mortal dress" ""Nor is there singing school" ""but Monuments" ""of its own magnificence"" ""The Son of Morn" ""in weary Night's decline"" "One... two, three." "What're you trying to do, Hector, kill something?" "There's a lot of people knocking themselves out... trying to keep you alive, pal." "And you're out here in the streets waving a gun around like it's legal." "Now, I want your word you're not gonna pull a stunt like this again." "Hey, you got it, pal." "What's going on with you, Hector?" "You gotta make it to Washington alive." "Deliver your words to Congress." "Look, Hector, this is too important to shine on." "I look at an empty page... and I can only see the emptiness in myself." "The memoir the government burned... it was my duty to write, but the love of words is gone." "That stuff you delivered the other night, it blew everybody away." "It was beautiful." "That was an old piece." "I haven't written a new poem... in a very long time." "Hey, Hector." "If you lighten up, maybe the words will come back." "I am forced to be a hero, not a poet." "I will stand for something." "That makes me worth killing." "But what makes it worth living?" "Hello?" "This is hospital security in the lobby." "Your father is down here in a taxi." "I'm afraid he's very drunk." "That sounds like him." "Thank God he's all right." "We cannot let him go up in this condition." "Can you come down?" "Yes, I'll be right down." "Hector, can we get you some coffee or something to eat or something?" "Coffee's good." "Sonny." "Tubbs." "My office." "Tomark...." "Shut the door." "They found vehicle tracks in the woods by the safe house." "Somebody's been eavesdropping." "Guerrero told the death squads where it was." "Gina and Trudy are on their way to the hospital... to take Guerrero into custody." "Washington says Guerrero's not a civilian." "He's a highly placed, highly motivated operative... from the left in Sandoval's country." "Beautiful." "Well, that could explain his interest in Sandoval, huh?" "He specializes in difficult assassinations." "I thought it was the right... that was out to get Sandoval, not the left." "Left wants to make him a martyr." "So if the right goes ahead and kills him..." "Guerrero doesn't get his hands dirty." "He's a dedicated man." "Give me the players any day." "At least you know going in, they're motivated by the money." "It's the greed." "But with these politicos, man, they just like it." "Excuse me, Lieutenant, there's a call for Sandoval on the line." "She's not dead yet." "She will be if you don't make the meet at the beach." "If you want your daughter to live... you do exactly as I say." "You understand?" "I understand." "And no cops." "My life for hers." "Did you agree?" "I have no choice." "An old life for a young one." "You have a choice." "Check to see how much we got on the wire." "Alert SRT and-- No police." "No police and no helicopters." "Listen, just relax." "We can handle this." "Tell us everything that they said to you." "Where's the meet?" "I have to go." "Hector." "Stay with us, buddy." "Come on, now." "Just relax." "My daughter...." "Your daughter is in the hotel." "She's with someone who wants to see you." "No." "Bring her down." "No." "They're gonna do him now, Rico." "Freeze!" "Miami Vice!" "Good as your word, huh?" "And you?" "Are you good as your word?" "Hector, why don't you and Blanca go outside?" "The war follows us everywhere." "We are the walking wounded." "And yet, see, we are alive." "You would have given your life for me." "In your place, I might not have done the same." "And you better not, either." "Because if you do..." "I will be very angry with you." "Manuel." "Are you all right?" "Shouldn't I be asking you that?" "Why aren't you in the hospital?" "The death squad described this place in great detail." "Where is Gomez?" "I think you'll find him inside." "I have business with you, Hector." "It will be you, Guerrero, eh?" "I should have known." "Manuel, no." "I've always loved you both." "This has nothing to do with my feelings." "You lost your feelings when you gave your soul to the revolution." "It is an historical necessity that I do this now." "The revolution will honor your name, Hector." "Your revolution, Guerrero?" "I spit on it." "Goodbye, old friend." "Manuel." "You all right?"