"And have some respect for yourself." "Don't trot after the boss' son like a pet dog." "I know you miss home." "So do I." "He has a friend outside." "He can stay the night here." "tell him I'II keep vigil with him." "We'II bury this one in the morning." "You're a good man." "Down!" "Down!" "Bring him up!" "My ears!" "My ears!" "I can't hear anything!" "It's not that bad." "I can't hear a thing!" "Am I going to be deaf?" "You won't die, just calm down!" "Powder?" "Is there a Wu Kai on our crew?" "Who?" "Wu Kai?" "I thought I knew everybody." "Where'd you hear that name?" "He's dead." "Don't talk about dead men." "He's dead?" "His name's in Bookman's ledger." "Bai Juan, and Shen Tiao..." "Listen!" "They're all dead!" "Now shut the hell up!" "I'II kill you, you little bastard." "Get lost!" "kill me?" "Without Lei Mo and his goons, it won't be that easy." "Get lost!" "So you're Lei Mo's man, right?" "little Tiger, this is none of your business." "Go back to your tent." "Go!" "You took something from me." "From you?" "Both you and Lei Mo took something from me." "Lei Mo?" "What're you talking about?" "The last guy Lei Mo sent after me said Lei Mo and your gang attacked my village, and killed my wife and daughter." "He left me this scar." "I sent his bones home as my own." "Listen, I didn't do it." "I was following Lei Mo's order." "Do you want your ashes sent home or buried here?" "I swear to God, I didn't do it." "Accident!" "Accident!" "Accident!" "There's a man down, on the rock face." "Get back!" "Take cover!" "Everybody take cover!" "Back to work!" "Nothing to see!" "little Tiger." "Where have you been?" "Out for a walk." "It's late for a walk." "I wasn't tired." "Then you're not working hard enough." "I've been looking for you for two hours." "I told you, I was out for a walk." "Your pay." "Is that why you were looking for me?" "Don't wander around at night where you don't belong." "You could end up getting shot as a prowler." "Read 'em and weep." "Two pays!" "Two pays!" "little Tiger, where've you been?" "Out for a walk." "Wonder if Bookman ever gets any joy out of Iife?" "could be he's got a shrew of a wife like mine." "Makes him send home every penny." "Nope." "Bookman doesn't have anybody." "How do you know?" "I'm just guessing." "How'd he get that scar?" "From a fight?" "Who with?" "That guy is dead." "Dead?" "Bookman killed a white guy?" "If he killed a white guy the Iaw would be on his tail!" "They were panning for gold." "A Chinese guy jumped his claim." "Bookman sIit his throat!" "He's a wanted man back home so he's stuck here." "I heard this story around the camp." "Come on, place your bets!" "little Tiger!" "Drop the pails." "Go help unload." "What are you staring at?" "Move it!" "Take it easy!" "You're gonna split the bags wide open." "Damn!" "The boss sends me rancid lard now!" "What are we, a bunch of pigs?" "I'm not going to cook with this!" "Where's Bookman?" "There." "What do you want?" "Powder asked me to find you." "I'II deal with him later." "Get back to work!" "Here you are." "Going through your box of secrets?" "Remember you said when you go back home you'II have two fat wives." "Give your mother a Iot of grandchildren?" "I never said fat." "You did." "Are you still going to?" "Go to sleep." "You're a good son." "Where are you going?" "For a walk." "Want me to go with you?" "No." "little Tiger, you're not a tea boy any more." "You wanted on the dynamite crew, you got it." "Damn it. now he steals my best tea boy and I'm left with a load of work." "Cooking, washing, cleaning, drying, back to cooking again." "Bring it up." "This is where you're going to work." "That's your chair." "Learn from Wang Ma." "I don't need to Iearn from him." "I know what to do." "He survived the Iast accident." "He can teach you something." "That scar on your face, how did you get it?" "From an accident." "Some accidents can change your life or end it." "They said you killed a man." "That was an accident as well." "You need to Iearn not to let accidents happen to you." "How much time do we have to set charges?" "As long as it takes." "The thing to remember is if the wind's playing tricks on you and blows the matches out, you quit and go back up right away." "Or there'II be pieces of you all over the canyon." "What are you doing?" "I'm a hawk!" "You're a fool, don't do that!" "I am a hawk!" "Wang Ma!" "Don't do that!" "Stop it!" "You're gonna fall!" "I am a hawk!" "Stop!" "Right now!" "You know what?" "Sometimes I think about that." "About what?" "Taking a header, getting it over with!" "little Tiger... you'd send my bones home for me, wouldn't you?" "Don't ever think that." "Never!" "Promise?" "Where did you go last night?" "What?" "I rolled over and you weren't there." "I was probably out for a leak." "probably." "Wang Ma." "little Tiger, well done." "Boss brought in fresh lard for the congee." "AII is fresh." "Powder, I have a question." "You know the fuses for the dynamite... can they make them longer?" "They're too short." "It's dangerous." "If the fuses were longer, I wouldn't have got my ass blasted." "Let me tell you." "A fuse this long will be nine days of your wages." "Those foreign devils." "Yeah, but they're risking our lives." "You get up to the top fast enough, you win." "I lost." "It's a gamble." "Come over tonight, we're playing dice." "No thanks." "How about you guys, win some, lose some?" "This is a lonely place." "Who said it wasn't?" "You know what someone should do?" "What?" "Write their names down and send the bones back home." "Doesn't Bookman do that?" "One of us should, just to be double sure." "You're right." "You know how to write, you should do it." "little Tiger, what's his name?" "You can't read?" "No." "Not at all." "What is his name?" "This is Di Hong's grave." "This marker says Wu Kai," "Bai Juan." "This is Shen Tiao." "Over here, Lieng Guo Cheng." "Wu Kai..." "Bai Juan..." "Shen Tiao..." "What's the matter?" "What's wrong, little Tiger?" "little Tiger." "Thanks." "Lai Gwan!" "Lai Gwan!" "Where's Lai Gwan, little Tiger?" "Down below." "Lai Gwan!" "Lai Gwan!" "Hang onto the ropes!" "Don't move!" "Lai Gwan!" "little Tiger!" "Wake up!" "Give me your hand!" "Reach up!" "climb!" "hold on to me." "pull!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "How do you know my name?" "Do you know my father?" "Where is he?" "The man you killed, was he my father?" "tell me!" "I didn't even recognise my own daughter." "They told me... you and your mother were dead." "My child..." "Forgive me." "Send me back home." "They told me you're leaving." "Yes." "I have to leave." "Why?" "Take care." "Your luck is about to change." "Rest well in China, Father." "I stay in this land to make a new life for myself and for your grandchildren." "It is estimated that three Chinese workers died for every mile of track they laid." "Once the railroad was completed, the Canadian government imposed a Head Tax on all immigration from China." "1 7 million dollars was collected from this tax, more than it cost to build the entire railroad." "In 2006, the government finally apologised to Chinese-Canadians who had paid the tax." "This film is dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives building the railroad."