"I have many brains." "My name is Veronica." "How are you?" "I am happy to be here." "Good." "You're getting better." "Welcome to Mexico." "Next." "Okay, girls, let's go." "This way." "Girls, this is Vadim Youchenko, head of the agency." " And this is..." " Manuel." "Manuel." "He'll be escorting you to Los Angeles." "Welcome to Mexico." "What a pretty smile." "Let's go." "We'II... talk in the car." "Oh." "I forgot." "Hey, what's up, my friend?" "Teotihuacán?" "Museum of Archaeology?" "No, thanks." "I'm cool." "What?" "Estoy muy cool." "Sabe?" "All you gotta do is take a look, Mr. Cool." "Hey, lookee, lookee, lookee." "Please." "Please look!" "Look." "Please." "Just a second." "Look." "Please." "You want a true Mexican 'sperience?" "We got treasures a little better than the fuckin' pyramids." "Your dollar, man, goes a long, long way down here." "The one on the left there..." "Rosita Lara Posita." "Numero uno, pal, for giving real good head." "Come on." "Very close." "Sorry, my friend, but tonight you won't be tasting the joys of Mexican pussy." " Don't kill me." " Just shut up and give me everything, okay?" "You don't like me right now, do you?" "I bet you hate all Mexicans right now." "Guys, what do we do to gringos who disrespect the Mexicans?" "Show him." "Die, bitch." "Yeah!" "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Chinga su madre, America!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, cabronl" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Jorge." "Jorge." "Puta madrel" "Gracias." "Come on." "Lay down." "Enjoy yourself." "I know where your son lives." "Vitamins." "Help against the pain." "English?" "A little." "Me, too." "Very little." "You pray to her?" "Yes." "She is strong." "She is great." "She make my brother to find me." "You have a brother?" "That's good." "Gracias." "Why don't you love her?" "Come on, sweet pea." "Cabron." "Puta madre." "No pills." "No good." "Understand?" "Okay." "It's okay." "Buenos días, señorita." "Is good." "Yes." "You must to eat." "Mommy no eat." "Hey, Mommy." "Adriana?" "Jorge?" "Hello?" " Freeze!" " Hands up!" "Don't move." "Ray?" "Is it you?" "Hi, Patty." "What's going on?" "Where are you?" "I'm in Juarez." "But I'll be home tomorrow." "How's Ramona doin'?" "She's not good." "I have to take her to the vet again." "What are you doing in Juarez?" "Nothin', really." "Get some sleep." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Bush just used his primetime speech from the Oval Office to announce a $1.9 billion campaign to tighten border security." "He's hoping to win conservative backing for overhauling the current immigration laws and plans to order thousands of troops to the Mexican border." "Welcome home, sir." "Thank you." "He's calling for a guest worker program..." " Open her up, Mike." " You got it." "Those three are next." "Ustedes tres..." "You, you, you." "Sir." "Sir." "Sir." " What do you want?" " We kidnap." "We taken." "Yeah, right." "Sit back down." "Kids, welcome." "You can walk around." "Meet your teacher back here in 30 minutes." "All right." "Come on." "Vehicle 174, we show you approaching the Mexican border with five returnees." "Copy that." "ETA three minutes." "Hey, hey, hey!" "Oh!" "Whoa!" "Come on." "Come here." "What the hell you doin' in my trunk, huh?" "Huh?" "How'd..." "How'd you get in there?" " When'd you get in..." " In Juarez." " Juarez." " Yeah." "I had to get across the border, man." "Oh, wait!" "You picked the wrong ride, genius." "Hey!" "Okay." "Okay." " Get in the car." " No." "Get in the car!" "Open this..." "Open this..." "Hey, kid." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Do not move." "Where are we going?" "We're goin' to the police." "Fuck." "You broke the law, son." "And you got real unlucky, 'cause I'm a cop." "This is so fucked up!" "Watch your language in my car." "Put your seat belt on." "What?" "Your belt!" "Put it on!" " Watch your language." " Está?" "Sí, sí." "Look, mister." "You can't take me to the police." "Well, I have to." "They'll send me back, and I gotta stay here." "I looking for my little sister." "She was kidnap." "I not kidding, man." "Sure." "My sister, she's just 13." "They took her in Mexico City, and I follow them to all that way to that house in Juarez." "What house?" "You know the house." "You were there." "Please, mister." "I need to get to New Jersey." "Why New Jersey?" "To find her!" "It's my fault she got taken!" "If you're a cop, why you can't help me?" "I'm not that kind of cop." "Why should I believe you, anyway?" "Look, if you're tellin' the truth, the police'll help you." "Yeah, right." "The fucking police." "This isn't Mexico." "Yeah, right, like, the cops are so different here." "They'll do nothing but send me back." "And then my sister will be here all alone." "Don't you understand?" "These guys will do something terrible to her." "She..." "She's pure!" "She's never..." "All right, I get it!" "So?" "What you gonna do?" "I'm going to the police." "I hate liars." "Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay." "Okay, okay, okay." "Let's go." "May I help you, ma'am?" "Uh, yes." "Our house has been broken into." "The back door was all smashed in." "My husband's out of town." "We just drove up." "I was hoping that an officer could come out to the house." "Absolutely, ma'am." "We'll have an officer out there this afternoon." "Your name, ma'am?" "It's Sarah Buchanan." "And, Ms. Buchanan, your address, please?" "6525 Rosewood Lane." "Don't move." "...sooner than that?" "We'll try to get somebody out there..." "Sorry to interrupt." "I need to see your commanding officer." "I got a boy here says that his sister's been kidnapped." "Which boy?" "Come here." "Where you goin'?" "New Jersey." "I told you." "Well, if you're going to New Jersey, you're going the wrong direction." "New Jersey's that way." "You're just gonna take me back to the cops." "No, I won't." "Look, if you say your sister's in New Jersey," "I know someone there who might be able to help us." ""Us."" "He's a guy I went to the Academy with." "He's a good man." "Come on, we should try to see him." "Is it far away from here?" "It's a little out of the way, but..." "I'll take you." "Why should I trust you?" "I don't think you have a choice." "Come on." "Please change the music." "You don't like that?" "Put your seat belt on." "What the fuck is that?" "Middle of the damn day?" "What you lookin' at, stupid?" "You think the cops takin' a nap?" "Are you crazy?" "That ain't bad." "We're here... aren't we?" "Oh..." "And I'm not crazy." "Got a name?" "Thought even Mexicans had names." "Fuck, what's your problem?" "Jorge." "Nice to meet you, Jorge." "I'm Ray." "How come you speak English so well?" "I work in tourist industry." "Put your foot down." "Jesus!" "What's the big deal?" "A car can be cleaned." "Exactly." "That's yours now." "So, how come you were in that house in Juarez?" "Private investigation." "Oh, what kind of investigation, Ray?" "It's private." "That means I don't want to talk about it." "Well, why not?" "Because I don't!" "All right." "Jesus." "Why you gettin' so pissed off?" "We gotta find a rest stop." "When was the last time you took a shower?" "What?" "Maybe you haven't noticed it, but you stink." "We stop here, and we'll make some good pocket change off of this." "Ain't real busy yet." "You stay with the rest of them." "No!" "Take me." " Let her go." " Take me!" "Hey!" "Let her go!" "Take me!" "Veronica!" "Yeah." "He's gonna go for it." "But no fucking with this one." "I have to keep her a little virgin." " How much?" " 80." "All right." "Go ahead." "No." "Please!" "Stop." "Please." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "It's only 14 more kilometers." "Stop!" "Sto..." "Patty, is something wrong?" "Why?" "How's Ramona?" "The..." "The vet had to put her to sleep." "When?" "This afternoon." "If you'd taken your goddamn cell phone with you for once," "I could've reached you." "I'm so sorry, Patty." "It's good to hear that." "It's really good to hear that." "Patty." "I can't talk anymore, Ray." "Okay." "Bye." " Let's eat." " Who's Ramona?" "It's our cat." "You have a cat?" "Yeah." "People do have pets, you know." "I hate cats." "Okay." "Any kids?" "Kids, no." "So, you guys live alone with a cat?" "Yeah." "That's cool." "New T-shirt?" "Pretty cool, huh?" "Listen, I only have pesos." "Are you going to pay?" "Do I have a choice?" "You order what you want." "Great." "You guys ready to order?" "Uh, yeah." "I'll have the orange juice, coffee, omelet with cheese and bacon." "Thank you." "I want a cup of coffee, too, and orange juice, the omelet with cheese, ham, mushrooms, and onions." "The fruit salad with yogurt, and the New York rib eye steak, medium-rare, please, with fries." "Pancakes with blueberries, and a strawberry milkshake, please." " What?" " Hmm?" "You said I could order what I want." "Fine." "I know that kid." "Shit!" "Hey!" "Get away from my van!" "Goddamn little punk!" "Oh." "What's goin' on here?" "I'm looking for somebody." "Let me see some I.D." "Oh, uh, I left it at home, sir." "Where do you live?" " I live..." " McAllen, Texas." "This is my son, officer." "Where the hell have you been?" " I've been..." " McAllen PD." "I've been looking all over for you." "No problem." " Have a nice night." " Thanks." "You, too." "What the hell's goin' on?" "I know that kid." "From where?" "He was with my sister." "I saw him." "He's one of the kids that they took." "Excuse me, sir." "Can I talk to you a second?" "Hey!" "You!" "I want to ask you a question." " Is this boy your son?" " I'm sorry?" "I asked you is this boy your son." " There's a misunder..." " Sure." " This is absurd." " Come on." "I'm trying to find the boy's parents." " I didn't do anything!" " Listen." " Where'd you get the boy?" " I don't know what you're talking about." "Jorge." "Jorge." "Calm down." "Calm down!" "I want you to take the boy outside and give him to the police." "Now, go on." "Take the boy outside." "Go on." "Go ahead." "Okay." "We got two possibilities here, okay?" "There's cops out there." "If you like, we can go out there." "We can let them handle this whole thing." "And you know, they love guys like you." "Or... you and me can handle this just between us." "Okay?" "What do you want from me?" "All I want is information." "You okay?" "You understand what I'm saying?" "Can you tell me what happened?" "I'll be back in a second." "What do we got?" "Got a possible child molester." "So?" "Right in the bathroom over there." "Nothin'." "Nothing?" "He doesn't know where the other kids are, just that they left." "Hands on your head!" "Come on." "We gotta roll." "Yes, yes." "Don't cry." "Tell me." "Tell me." "I no go home." "My mom no love me no more." "Mother always love you." "Always." "It's party time." "Leave us alone." "We no want." "It ain't a question of volunteering', bitch." "Please." "See?" "Ain't that a good little dog?" "Swallow." "Swallow like a good dog." "Come on." "Good dog." "I was just comin' to get ya." "I need your help." "That's her." "That's my sister." "Her name is Adriana, not Maria." "I'll kill them." "Yeah." "Yeah, I tried the cops." "Did you check out..." "Maybe a day." "All right." "I'll leave it up to you." "All right." "So." "What did your friend say?" "Good news." "He's on the case." "I gave him all the information..." "the password, all that stuff." "He's gonna pass that on to his friend in the, uh, Internet Crime Unit." "They'll take care of it." "Password." "That's what the guy gave you in the bathroom." "Yeah." "He bought that kid on the Internet." "He was the highest bidder." "Flew him all the way from Thailand." "He paid $25,000." "That's how it works." "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before." "I just I wanted to be sure." "I was trying to protect you." "Thanks." "Jorge, this is good news." "Jesus." "You don't trust anybody, do you?" "Not everyone's your enemy, you know." "Try a little optimism sometime." "Wouldn't kill you." "And be like you?" "And end up with a cat?" "Sorry." "I didn't mean it like that." "When is the auction?" "Soon." "I'd like to be in New Jersey when it happens, wouldn't you?" "Do you drive?" "You want me to drive?" "I'm tired." "But if I drive, we need to play another music." "What is your problem with my music?" "It puts me to sleep." "You want us to get killed or something?" "Now, it's two guys and three girls, and that's too many." "People gonna start to be suspicious." "It's only two now." "Alex freaked out last night." "The fat one." "Are you crazy?" "I don't have anything to do with this." "Whatever." "We are outta here, at latest, by tomorrow." " Look, I'm just..." " Don't worry." "This is the last time I'm..." "What?" "Nothin'." "Sí." "They set the next auction for tomorrow." "You're fuckin' kiddin' me." "No." "The little one, she's next." "We have to be in New Jersey by tomorrow." "That's bullshit." "Get up." "Get up." "Buenos días." "Morning." "What kind of cop are you?" "I'm in the fraud department." "What kind of fraud?" "Insurance, mainly." "You work for the insurance companies." "Well..." "I think you work for the wrong side." "Do you have any Mexican friends?" "I got Mexican friends." "I got a good friend, in fact." "He works in the office right next to mine." "Ernesto Contreras." "But you just have one Mexican friend?" "Good friend." "How can you live in Texas and not have a hundred of Mexican friends?" "What about you, wise ass?" "You got hundreds of, uh, American friends?" "All my friends are Americans." " Really." " Yes." "All Mexicans are Americans, and all my friends are Mexicans, so all my friends are Americans." "It's North America, Central America, and South America." "That's America, not just you ignorant gringos up here in gringo land." "Hey!" "Now!" "What the fuck?" "Okay." "Go." "I call." "Warn my family." "Look!" "The police!" "Look." "Go." "Operator." "May I help you?" "Yes." "Uh, collect." "Bydgoszcz, Poland." "Hold on." "I'll give you International." "International." "May I help you?" "Yes!" "Collect!" "Bydgoszcz, Poland!" "Number?" "Uh... uh, 7... 37... 5515." "And your name." " Veronica." " One moment, please." "Mama?" "Go!" "Get the fuck..." " Get my fuckin' gun!" " Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Fuckin' go!" "Who fuck did you call?" "Huh?" " Who fuck did you call?" " Called the cops, asshole!" " Called the cops!" " Who fuck did you call?" "Forget it, eh?" "You're gonna pay for this." "And your son." "Huh?" "Kick her fuckin' ass, bucko." "Just keep it outta sight." "You pay for this." "I make sure." "No!" "No!" "Hello." "Welcome to the Holiday Inn." "How may I help you?" "Um, I need two rooms if you got 'em." " Single or double, sir?" " Whatever you got." "It's fake." "You have Internet here?" "Sure." "We have a business center over there." "The passwords are in here, right?" "Would you like to put it on a credit card?" "Excuse me?" "...my wallet's here." "I'll be right back." "Ray." "2:00 P.M." "Here's your room key." "You go up and get some rest." "Hank'll be in his office." "I'm gonna go over there now." "Detective Sheridan, how exactly did you get involved in this case?" "Well, Ray normally works insurance fraud, but on a recent vacation, he bumped into this illegal down..." "Detective Jefferson, no offense, but I'd like to hear the story from Detective Sheridan himself." "The bottom line is... this girl's gonna be auctioned off in a few hours." "I need to know what you guys are gonna do about that auction." "Look, we've been monitoring this group for quite some time." "We know where their Jersey operations are." "Ray, the real problem here is that this thing is global." "Even though this group might be based in Mexico City, the operation's all over the U.S." "And all over every one of the continents." "Their server, for example, is located somewhere in the Maldives." "They're banking in South Africa." "There's a lot of jurisdictions working here..." "CIA, State Department, Interpol, et cetera, et cetera." "So what we're doing is we're gonna follow the money." "We'll connect the dots... and we'll come up with the source." "Yeah, I get all that, but you said you know where the operation is in New Jersey." "Yeah." "But you can't be bothered to do anything about this..." "one little Mexican girl 'cause you got..." "you got bigger plans." "That's what you're saying." "Did I hear you wrong?" "Now, gentlemen, if you'll excuse me." "Thank you." "We are the fuckin' gringos, aren't we?" "Sorry?" "I say we are the fucking gringos!" "Uh, Patty, listen, um, it's gonna be a few more days before I get home." "But, uh, in the meantime, uh, I need to ask you a favor." "Well, I want to take a big chunk of money out of our savings." "But I don't want to do it unless you say it's all right." "I guess I won't ask what it's for." "I'll tell you all about it when I get home." "Promise." "No more secrets." "Have you found her?" "Who?" "Carly?" "Carly." "That's..." "That's her name?" "Yeah." "Ray... if you find your daughter..." "I want you to bring her home." "If I do, I will." "Patty." "Yeah?" "Thank you." "You shouldn't thank me for loving you, Ray." "All right." "Bye." " Hey." " Hey." "What's going on?" "Got us some money." "You and me are gonna do the auction." "Well, what about your friend?" "Forget about him." "You really gotta tell me something, gringo." "Why are you doing this?" "Who is she?" "She's my daughter." "Your daughter?" "Yeah." "This is who you've been looking for." "Well, that picture was taken 10 years ago." "I really don't know what I'm looking for." "I met her mother just after I was married to Patty, my wife." "And I was a happily married man." "And then I met Alma, and everything changed." "She was, uh..." "Oh..." "She was so... wild." "And alive." "I don't know what I was expecting, but I was ready to give up everything... my... marriage, everything." "Stupid." "Stupid." "Then she, uh, she met this other guy, and, um..." "He was everything I wasn't." "I mean, she found him exciting, and adventurous and alive and..." "Anyway, she told me that she was pregnant with his child, and, uh that kinda did it." "I..." "I left and, uh..." "went back to Patty." "And Patty took you back?" "Yep." "Go figure." "That'll never happen in Mexico." "Just a few days ago," "I get a knock on the door." "There's a couple of officers there, and they tell me that Alma has died of an overdose." "And, uh, they found this letter in her apartment with my name on it that she'd written ten years before but never sent." "And she says that she needs money and, um... that Carly is my daughter." "Which I'd always... wondered about." "You didn't know she had a daughter, did you?" "I did." "We had her in our sights for years." "We used to help her out when we could." "But she was always in trouble." "And the daughter?" "In foster homes, mostly." "But Alma always managed to get her back." "After you." "She went over the border to Juarez about ten years ago." "Probably at the time that she wrote you that letter." "Was her daughter with her?" "We have no idea." "We do know that when she got back here, two years later, the girl was gone and Alma was still a mess." "Did you, uh..." "Did you ask her, uh, what happened to the daughter?" "She told us that she left her with her daddy." "I think we knew then what kind of daddy she was talkin' about, but, you know, we couldn't prove anything." "What are you talkin' about?" "We think she sold the girl." "Alma was a junkie." "It happens." "She sold her." "I mean, if I... if..." "If I'd gotten that letter ten years before everything would be different." "Me and Patty always wanted a child." "She's pretty, isn't she?" "Yes." "She has beautiful eyes." "Green." "Like her mother's." "So that's what you were doing at the house in Juarez." "Well, by the time you'd climbed into my trunk," "I'd pretty much given up on everything." "Now I realize I gave up too soon, which is something I do a lot of..." "I guess." "It started already." "Uh, we need a name." "Write, um, "World Traveler."" "Okay." "All right." "We're in." "One bidder is online at $8,000." "Go to 10,000." "Little Buddha goes to 12." "Try..." "Try 13." "He goes to 15 now." "We go to 18." " A new one from South Africa." " All right." "21?" "Yeah." "Oh, shit." "Go to 25." " Twenty seconds." " All right, all right." "All right, go to 29." "No." "Go to 32,000." "But wait till there's just two seconds left." "Now." "Oh!" "Thank..." "Let's..." " Thanks." " Let's find out where she is." " Thanks." " Sure." " They want to know where we are." " All right." "Give 'em the address of the hotel." "And tell 'em to ask for "World Traveler."" "Okay." "Yes?" "Congratulations." "Thank you." "You're a lucky guy." " We have your package real close by." " Okay." "Why are you at a hotel?" "Are you from out of town?" "Yeah." "I'm on the road a lot." "What do you do?" "I'm a sales rep." "Well, 32 grand's a lot of dough for a sales rep." "You must really like virgin pussy, huh?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah." "You're gonna get an address on your computer." "We'll pick you up there." "You bring the money, we bring the girl." "It's that simple." "World Traveler." "Yeah." "Got the money?" "Where's my girl?" "Not far from here." "Leave your car here." "We'll pick her up." "No." "I'll follow you." "Uh, No." "No, no, no, no." "You put your ass over here in my car, or there won't be virgin pussy for you today." "But you gotta bring me back." "Ah, sure." "I'm your designated driver." "Hello." "How you doin'?" "All right." " How are you?" " Good." "Have a seat." "No, no, no." "Give him the money." "So?" "Do you like her?" "Better in person, huh?" "Yeah." "Oh, yeah." "It's all there." "The money's all there." "She's a little shy." "Where are you from?" "Why do you want to know?" "No reason." "No reason." "Well, I mean, you... remind me of someone." "Hmm." "Who would that be?" "Someone I knew a long time ago." "You're very nosy." "Are you a cop?" "No, I'm not a cop." "What do you think, Manuel?" "I think he's a cop." "Look... why don't you just give me the girl?" "I'm tellin' you, I'm not a cop." "Sit down." "You're gonna prove you're not a cop." "Prove it how?" "How would I prove it?" "Easy." "First fuck is here." "I'm sorry?" "You're gonna fuck the little virgin right here." "That's not part of the deal." "I know, but, um... this is, um... kind of my insurance policy." "If you're not a cop, once you've been with her, you won't talk." "But if you are a cop, you won't fuck her, and then you're fuckin' dead." "Want some water?" "So." "What's it gonna be?" "I think for this amount of money," "I deserve a little privacy?" "Sure." "You can get your very own room." "Oh, and, uh..." "I want to see blood on the sheets." "It's okay." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "Uh... amigo." "I'm a friend of your brother's." "Jorge." "Jorge, your brother." "He's here with me." "We're gonna get you out." "I'm not sure how, exactly." "Wait." "Manuelo." "Just what I like to see... a satisfied customer." "Manuel's gonna drive you back to your car." "Adios, Adriana." "Good-bye, World Traveler." "What a nice daddy." "Jorge!" "Police!" "Police!" "Let's go!" "Put that..." "Put it down now!" "Don't move!" "Stay on the ground!" "Yard secured!" "Get on the ground." "Show him your hands." "Police." "Police." "Police." "Rear entrance is clear!" "It's just them as far as we can see!" "Come on!" "Get up!" "Get the street cordoned off!" "All right, we're good!" "Secure!" "I knew I had to keep an eye on you." " Stop resisting!" " Don't touch me, asshole." "Ray." "You'll be all right." "Here you go." " Thanks." " That's okay." "Thanks." "Yeah." "Adriana." "Adriana!" "Yes." "Good work." "Tell 'em I got 'em." "There's a basement!" "Over here." "That lady and that gentleman there are gonna take care of you." "They'll make sure you get on the plane, get home all right." "Here's your keys, sir." "Thank you." "They're good people." "Trust 'em... for once." "Can you do that?" "Okay, but you gotta come to visit us in Mexico once in a while." " I'll give you a tour." " Right." "For you." "Thank you." "Let this ambulance through!" "Take care of your sister." "You got a good brother there." "He'll look after you." "I'll be the best." "Jorge." "Yes?" "Take this." "Come on, don't argue." "Yeah, dispatch." "Roger." "Uh, we're all clear to go here." "Ray." "Gracias." "Thanks." "Good luck with everything." "You, too." "When you get home... just put all this behind you, all right?" "Just stay outta trouble." "Don't make me worry about you, okay, cabron?" "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now approaching Mexico City." "Ciao, Vadim." "Ciao." "Bye-bye." "Bye." "Papa!"