"#ROAD ENDS#" "The part of this that kills me is, that was decaf." "You wash down speed with decaf." "I like the taste." "This guy's taking us right to the end of the fucking world." "You wanna take him on the road or wait until he stops, huh?" "Stop would be nice." "Well, you must live right." "Turn out the lights." "Well?" "Well, what?" "Get out of the car." "Jesus christ!" "#ROAD ENDS#" "Vamonos, vamonos." "Por favor ninos." "Recoje esa pelota." "Vamanos, vamanos." "Hey hey hey!" "Yes!" "This is Hawkeye, this is Hawkeye." "They're starting a move, over." "Hawkeye, I don't read you Faintly read you." "This is Hawkeye, this is Hawkeye." "Come in guys, over." "Hawkeye, try again!" "Please Hawkeye." "Say it again, buddy." "Hawkeye." "Hey, come on," "let me out of here." "Hey!" "Fuck!" "Come on!" "Oh!" "Man!" "I'm gonna hate explaining this one." "Gene!" "Over here." "Look this guy knows he fucked up, okay." "You don't need to tear him a new asshole." "Just count to ten, everything is going to be fine, all right?" "Gene?" "Is this him?" " Uh huh." " Shut up." "I was just" " I don't want to hear it." "Looking for this?" "That's one." "Three more for the rest of the day." "Right?" "So tell me how they jammed the radio." "Your going to love this." "We ran serial numbers on this thing." "It's one of ours." "It just gets better and better." "They didn't take much with them." "Just what they needed." "If they left anything behind that would tell us where they went, we sure haven't found it yet." "They sure came down a long way." "Yeah." "Come on Rog' show me the real bad news." "This way." "Oh, crazy Carl." " Gene." "So these two are Orosco's boys?" "Oh yeah." "I know this lovely couple." "This one used to be a big deal to Tommy." "That used to be one of his shooters." "So whatve we got Carl?" " Very efficient job." "They've been dead since the middle of last night." "Twenty-Two long in each of their heads." "Very professional very cold." "Excuse me, fella." "Still with us?" "I didn't mean to scare you." "I saw your car back there, then I saw you." "I wasn't sure you were all right." "Didn't mean to be a problem" " Chief Gilchrist." "Well, they call me Chief." "Well, I am the Chief, but I'm also the force and the janitor." "I'm sorry to be a problem, Chief." " No problem." "You've been on the road all night, it look like." "I wanted to get some fresh air." "I sat down to close my eyes for a second." "I know how that is." " It's real quiet here." "Yeah, it has been, ever since they closed down the orange packing plant." "Built a new one 70 miles north." "Then the town started to go." "I guess you noticed that as you drove through." "It ain't hardly a thriving metropolis these days." "I'm gonna meet some old acquaintences here." "Kind of have a reunion." "There ain't hardly anything to throw a party with around here." "Oh, we'll make out." "Is there some place I can stay?" "Yeah, there's a bed and breakfast right as you drive into town thats still running." "Ya' know, the folks around here, well, we've all kinda gotten used to it all bein' quiet, you know." "So when your friends get here keep it like that." " Do my best." "Right as you drive in to town." "Bed and breakfast." "Thanks, Chief." " Yeah, no problem." "We know this is a top priority every availible agent is here." "He got here half an hour ago." "I'll tell them." "She wants to talk to you." "Gene, Aramacost just called." "She's on her way right over." "Oh god dammit!" "Ouch!" "Ow!" "I think you're supposed to say "ahemn" or something like that." "Ahem." " So did you enjoy it." "It's the best view in town." " It was okay." "Smooth talker, huh." "What can I do you for?" "Police Chief said I can get a room here." "Oh!" "You're kidding." " He was lying?" "Lying?" "You could probably have a half a dozen rooms if you want them." "One's fine." " Shoot, how long you staying?" "Say, a week." " Great." "Hey, so, let's get you signed in." "Come on." "Either Gene is in there smoking or the house is on fire." "Well go get him, would ya\" "Gene." "Showtime." "Kathleen." " Gene." "Well our bosses time is extremely valuable so lets not waste any of it." "Well I appreciate that." "You wouldn't have anymore of that would you?" "Roger, why don't you run us through it." " Okay." "Twenty-Four hours ago, we get a request from Washington to locate and protect Esteban Maceda." "We can't find Maceda." "We initiate surveillance at a number of places, including this house, which belongs to his brother-In-Law, Joey Ayotte." "Maceda must've roosted here before we got our station set up, because we never saw him get here." "I don't think that the tennant will mind if I use their equipment." "Gene, do me a favor, put that out, would you?" "Are you Smokey "the fucking" Bear?" "Thank you." " Okay, this is what we catch last night a eleven-Ten." "The two guys in suits are hitmen." "The tall one is Orosco's favorite shooter." "They call him "la tumba"." ""La tumba"." "What does that mean?" " It's spanish for "the grave"." "That's where you're going after you meet him." " Sweet." "And the little dapper dan there is named Montero." "He's one of Orosco's top lieutenants." " This guy in the middle is Joey Ayotte." "Yeah, stop the tape." "Why do you think he let them in?" "I think he thought he could make a deal." " What do you think happened?" "I think they tried to whack him and he turned the tables on them." "If you want to know what I think, i think they fucking well deserved it." "Go ahead." " Okay, ah, we see this about an hour after Montero and Lopez arrive." "Surveillance thinks that this guy is Montero." " Oh!" "He does, does he?" "He's not the least bit curious about why Montero is rushing out of there by himself carrying two duffle bags?" "Well, he was told to look for Esteban Maceda." "It wasn't until later, after Joey Ayotte split with the rest of the family, in the morning that we reviewed the tape and realized that this man was in fact" "Esteban Maceda." " It's an easy mistake to make, Kathleen." "All mistakes are easy." "Nobody thought to tail him?" "We had no intelligence that he was in that house." "Unbelievable, you lost him." "Why don't you tell why you want him, all right?" "Since Roger and I are about the only ones in the dark here." "The word is the appellate court is getting ready to throw out" "Tommy Orosco's conviction." " Oh, it gets better and better." "Justice is going to state its intention to retry Orosco as soon as we get a court date." "Now Orosco knows a decision is forthcoming." "And he also knows what everybody else knows." "If there is going to be another trial, it's not going to happen without Esteban Maceda." "He's our star witness." " He's our only witness." "You know him better than anybody, Gene." "You recruited him." "You know the way he thinks." "How he operates." "Bring him back." "Oh he's going to love that Kathleen, especially since you dropped him like a hot potato after the trial." "All right, spare me the sob story." "You want to know something." "Esteban Maceda has got no complaints." "He got a suspended sentence." "I mean we're talking about a two bit tax evader." "So my sympathy is limited." " You loved him when you needed him." "Persuade him if you and if you cant, bring him back in cuffs." "When we announce this decision on monday, I want Esteban Maceda in custody." "Okay, it's friday." "That gives you roughly seventy-two hours to bring in your man, agent Gere." "Understood?" " Understood." "If you gentlemen will excuse me" "I've got to go give our sterling surveillance team an extreme bit of hell." "I had no idea." " No, no, no." "You don't have anything to say to me." "Move." "Well, that went pretty well, wouldn't you say?" "It's been such a long time, I wonder if I can find one of those cards." "I'll need a days deposit, cash or charge." "Cash." " You know, you are lucky." "I almost had them turn the cable off." "Here you go." " How much?" " Thirty-Five." "Put the rest on account." " Okay." "Could I have a room on the second floor?" "One that looks out on the street?" "I like the view." "Mister, as long as your paid up you can sleep on the roof for all I care." "No other guests?" " Smooth talker and eyes like an eagle." "If it's a quiet life you're after, you've come to the right place." "Anybody else been through here?" "People asking around?" "I'm supposed to meet some folks." "Thought I might have missed them." " Your it eagle eye." "Your sure?" " It would be hard not to notice don't you think." "Gene." "Gene." "Earth to Gene." "Unfortunately I'm here, Roger." "What side of the street you want?" "Uh, I'm already here." "Okay." "Hola." "Buenos dias." "Quiero hablar con usted de su vecino." "It's going to be a long day." "I'm just gonna start selling tickets, is what I'm gonna do." "Don't you have something better to do than hassle law abiding citizens?" "Nope." " Out chasing murderers and robbers and so on and so forth?" "A guy could get hurt doing that kinda work." "You look a lot easier to deal with." "Don't bet on it." " Do you mind if I just frisk you?" "Did you come by for some sort of reason?" "That car out front." "Oh yeah, guy checked in about an hour ago." "Yeah, I know, I found him down by the lake." "Thanks for the referral." "Wait a second you're not looking for some sort of kick back are you?" "That's an idea." "Let me have a look at his card." " Oh dear." "What did he do?" "Well, he looked a little ragged." "Whoa, now there's a major felony right there." " Well ha ha." "I was just wondering why a fella drives as hard as he must have been, to come here." "Now you know my own mother came this far out of the way, I'd be suspicious." "Know what I 'm saying, jellybean." "Yep." "Where's that dumb card?" "You're gonna put something in the kitty for that, aren't you?" "Sure." "He did say he was supposed to meet some people." "Gene Gere." "What are you thinking?" "Well, maybe he's just some guy his wife threw out." "I don't know." "Or?" "Well, if I was gonna make a dope deal or something like that," "I'd find this a nice quiet place to do it." "As long as he pays his bill, I don't care." "Yes, miss Creskin." "Ms. Creskin." "Screw you." "Anyway I don't think so." "It wasn't in his eyes." " Well, I hope you are right." "Anyway I'll see you over at the rattler net?" "Later?" "What, has a new place opened up?" "See you later." "Good morning." "This is Chief Gilchrist of the Desiree P.D." "Oh no mam' we're way down in the central valley." "Yeah well, what I need is an id check on a year old 800 series bmw, california tag number charles peter robert 777." "Oh no mam', we don't have a fax machine." "Mam', I'm lucky I got a telephone." "Why, why don't I just hold." "Thanks." "I don't know what you expect to find." "Your people have been through here so often." "Well I expect you know what you're doing." "Well, agent Gere is a highly trained professional, mam'." "You never know what a skilled investigator is going to turn up." "Isn't that right agent Gere?" " That's right, agent Modine." "Mam' did mr." "Maceda ever mention any friends or family." "Places they like to relax, or places they like to go to do business." "Anything like that?" "Frankly we never talked much." " You leased him this house two years ago and that's your house across the street." "You never talked?" "Well, as I recall I can't say they seemed to make any particular effort to get to know us." "And I'm not being critical you understand." "I'm sure it was very difficult for him." "How so?" " Well, you know different cultures." "Now, I've traveled a good deal and I find other cultures to be fascinating." "But it isn't easy for a new comer to except things he doesn't understand." "I'm sure." "You know what I mean." " Oh sure, I think it was very broad minded for you to lease him this house in the first place." "Well, you know." "I was rather surprised they could afford this house." "They seemed to come into their money rather quickly." "Then to hear about this drug business." "Well, they don't have the same values we have." "Oh, oh, absolutely not." "Or they'd be bankrupting S and L's." "I think we'll just take a look around." "Roger." " Yes, sir." "Another five minutes, she was going to ask me to do the windows, bet." "Please." " Oh that's all right captain boss man sir, I know my place now." "Roger, how can you be offended by an idiot." "Howdy." " Hi!" " Hi!" "There." "Finally got that old car running, huh!" " I just took it for a test drive." "I got that baby humming." "So mama, you feel like working tonight?" " Nope." "You ever consider puting anything else on the menu?" "Salad or something?" "Sorry." "I'll have a burger with cheese tonight." "Going all out tonight, huh Kat?" " Hey Arliss, ain't you heard?" "Kat get her a new paying customer today that pratically makes her a mag-night in lodging industry." "Regular hilton, huh." " Oh yeah." "So how is your star customer?" "Well, for all I know he died of a heart attack and he's fairly ripe by now." "Too bad, he's kinda cute." "Anyway" "I haven't seen hide nor hair of him since he checked in." "You don't say." "What, you still think he is a drug kingpin and all that." "That's what you get." "Hey Arliss, miss esp there thinks this new guy's all right because he's got nice eyes." "That's right." " Eyes are the witness to the soul." "Yeah well, ted bundy had nice eyes." " Oh please." "You're impossible." "He's right about that, ted bundy he was a real charming fella." "Hey, is that him?" "Oh good, why don't we just stare at the door." "Evening." " Evening." "You want to feed your body, mama will take care of you." "If you want to feed your soul, you come to me." "I could use a little of both." "You um, ah you wouldn't have any rice and black beans back there would you mama?" "Burger." "Burger and cheese." "Tough choice." "Burger will be fine." "Um got any french fries?" "Friers busted." " Burger will have to do." "You run a pretty lean outfit out here." "Yeah." "Everybody around here runs a tight outfit." "What can I do you for?" "You wouldn't have any sambooka?" " Sam and who?" "Shot and beer." " Oh right." "There you go." " Thank you." "Salud, bar." "Okay." " Oh yeah." "I don't want a stranger to eat alone." "Wouldn't want him to think we were inhospitable or something." "Actually, I could use the quiet." "No offense." "No offense." "None taken." "I'm sorry." " I just wont be much of a conversationalist." "It's okay." " Well you know I'm a pretty good conversationalist myself there, mr.Gere." "Maybe I could pick up the slack for you." "I wouldn't want to be any trouble." "No problem, your name is Gere, right?" "Gene." "That's how you registered at the inn, right?" " Yep, that's how i registered at the inn." "Oh that's funny." "You don't seem like a Gere." " No." "No." "Just what do you think a Gere should look like." "Gear." "That's a little round thing with sprockets on it." "Do I look like Anselrab, no, but that's his name so now I'm stuck with it." "She's right." "I'm a Gere on my fathers side." "And your mother?" "What was her name, you don't mind me asking." "No I don't mind." "Smith." "You got some reason to ask all these questions, Ben?" "I'm just making conversation." " Oh." "You see, I was kinda noticing your car." "I know." " It's a nice car." " Thanks." "I thought I remembered the tag numbers from a hot sheet." "That car is not on any hot sheet." "No it turns out it wasn't." "But it seems that car don't belong to no Gene Gere." " No." "No!" "Belongs to a guy named johnson from north hollywood." "Tell you what you do." "This is the number of the federal building in los angeles." "Call this number and ask for this extension and ask for Gene Gere." "Then if you still got a problem we'll have ourselves another conversation." "Fair enough?" "You can bet on that." "On second thought, if you wouldn't mind sharng a table." "Be my pleasure." "Buy you a drink?" "I'll stick with this." "What's this?" " Jelly donuts." "God damn it, Gene!" "I hate jelly donuts!" " You wouldn't let me smoke." "I don't let you smoke because cigarettes kill you." "Jelly donuts will kill you." " That's not the point." "I hate jelly donuts, you know I hate jelly donuts." "You've been my partner three years and you forgot that I hate jelly donuts." "Your suppose to be my role model, man." "That is why your wife left you." "No, my wife loved jelly donuts." "She loved to stab them with a fork and squeeze the blood out." "Anyway I didn't forget, its all they had." "I hate biting into those things." "It's like they're alive or something." "They're all creepy and crawly." " Oh Roger, did you ever eat chitlins?" "Yes, so?" " Well, that's pig guts so don't talk to me about jelly donuts." "Okay." "Look uh, I mean, do you really think that Joey Ayotte is just going to be sitting there waiting for us?" "Well color me stupid, but I think Maceda's brother-In-Law might be" "Thrilled to have a visit from two D.E.A. agents, as cute as we are." "Hello." " We're closed." "You're still working." " Don't remind me." "We're still closed." "You can drop your car off tomorrow morning and ask for henry." "You Henry." " Yeah, that's me." "You work a long day, Henry." " I work a damn long day." "We were hoping to see Joey Ayotte." "Is this his place?" " You want to talk to Joey?" "Yeah, he did some work for me a couple of years ago." "Are you local, state, a fed?" "Feds." "You pinche I.N.S. Everybody here has a card." "You want to see mine?" "You're just going to have to crawl up my ass and find it." "No one is looking to hassle your brother, man." "You guys were born to hassle." "We just want Joey Ayotte." " He's a good man." "He takes care of his people." "You want anything else, fuck off." "Henry, Joey may think he's doing a good deed, but they're some" "People out here who want to whack his ass." "Oh yeah, and who's fault is that?" "Hey, how is it going?" " Hey." " Jesus." "We don't get this busy when we're open, man." "Hey, amigo." "I'm looking for Joey Ayotte." "He told me to come by the shop to talk business." "He in?" " He's away for a few days, amigo." "How come you need Joey?" " Oh it's nothing, just, just an old debt." "Hey, I'll let you guys finish your business." "Hold up man, let me ask you a couple of questions." " Drop." " Get down." "Vamanos." "Vamanos." "Take cover." "Roger, Roger you all right?" "Gene, Gene you want to be helpful, do something about that fucking horn." "It just gets better and better." "What brought you here?" "I was born here." "Why did you stay?" " Same reasons as everyone else." "Same reasons as you." " Same reasons as me." "To get away from things." "Go to a place where you can hear yourself think." "You think thats why I came here?" "To get away from things?" "Why else?" " You'd be surprised." "Um, I think I've had enough of that." "I'll walk you back." " Actually, I can use the time alone." "Thanks for sharing my table." "Pleasant dreams mr." "Gere." "I doubt that." "Jesus, why didn't you just throw him down on the floor and do him right here?" "What about you coming on like mr." "Gestapo?" "Hey, I got some legitimate questions." "I don't think that criminology had much to do with your attitude tonight." "Children, children, children." "If you cant play nice, come one." "Kat, I'm just worried about this guy." "You know, that's all." "He's staying at your place, and I don't know." "You may want me to come over." "We'll watch some late night tv." "I'm a little tired." "Christ this guys not going anywhere." "We're going to be here all night." "These losers your idea, Kathleen?" "Yes, Gene." "Yes they are?" "Why?" " We think you might of tipped off Maceda." "You do." " Yeah, he knew about the overturn before we even new about the red flag." "There is no way he could of gotten out so fast he was totally prepared for Orosco's people." "And you know something, he had the radio jammer." "That was my god damn piece of hardware, Gene." "We all know how you feel about Maceda." "If you don't trust me on this Kathleen, pull me off or stay out of my face." "Hey, what about the key?" " Fuck the key!" "Sorry boss." " Your useless." "Yeah, uh hi." "This is, Chief, Gilchrist." "Ah, I'm with the Desiree P.D." "I'm looking for a fella that works down there named Gene Gere." "Oh, agent Gere." "No kidding, can I speak to him?" "Oh, he's working out of the office." "But you do have a Gene Gere." "Right, agent Gere." "No mam', no message." "Thank you very much, mam'." "I have some clean linens for you." "I'll drop them off later." "Sorry." "What happened to the Cadillac?" "Somebody torched it a couple of miles down the road." "I found a couple of orders of extra crispie fries inside." "No one knows what the hell happened." "And I thought that kind of stuff just went on in the big city." "How far is desiree?" " Desiree?" "What the hell you want to go there for?" "It's the end of the road." "Here keep the change." " Thank you." "Morning." "Morning." "I'm not use to seeing you around in the daytime." "I was beginning to think you were some sort of vampire or something." "I, ah, I didn't really think of you as the fishing type." "To tell you the truth, I don't particulary care if I catch anything." "Use to go fishing with my daddy." "We'd catch fish and put them in the boat, they'd be flopping and I would just freak out and start balling and he'd have to throw them back in." "He'd be so pissed at me." " You got over that, huh." "Oh yeah." "Mama's burgers will do that." "I get another quarter pounder of meat and I'll start hunting venison with a crossbow." "My father used to take me fishing." "That's what we did together." "Hold this, I don't have anything on there." "Where was that?" "Cuba." "What brought you to the states?" " My father died in prison." "My mother put me on a boat to florida when I was a kid." "After school I came out to L.A." "How do you stay here?" "I told you last night." "Born here." "No, that's not what I asked you." "I lived in the big city for a while." "Hung out with some cool guys." "We liked to party, when we partied, we drank." "When we drank, we did pills." "When we did pills did things I'd like to forget." "That was it for the big city." "I'm here to stay now." "Where would you go, if something happened to the hotel?" "If, you mean when it folds." "I don't know, I'd find a way to stay." "Like hunting venison with a crossbow." "Maybe." "Or maybe Chief Gilchrist." "He's a nice fella." "I know it don't always show." "You know, if I were you," "I'd keep that pop gun under wraps." "He ain't that nice." "Tommy." " I think we can trust mr." "Gene Gere." "He works for the federal government." "And the federal government does not hire assassins." "Como estas mano." "Bien." "Y usted?" " Bien, bien bien." "Siente te." " Thanks." "I haven't seen you since the trial." " No." "Your partner, how is he doing?" "He's very lucky he didn't die." "I know those were your shooters." "We're the cops Tommy." "You don't gun for us." "That's not the way the game is played." "It was a terrible mistake, huh." "Okay." "You're quite a reader." "American history." "It has become a special interest of mine." "Ever since the trial." " You're kidding." "Your fathers are the fathers of the men who took me to court." "They killed the indians." "Millions of them." "Everything west of the mississippi and south of oregon they stole from us mexicanos." "You know, what I do is more a part of the american tradition than what you do." "Huh, except for the way you sold out Maceda." "That was very american." "Let him go Tommy." "The guy just wants to get out." "I'm impressed this loyalty, huh." "It comes a bit late for Maceda but I'm impressed." "Pinche Maceda he's cuban you know." "He just doesn't get it." "He thinks I come to this country, I work real hard, and make something of myself." "I'm a good american." "The good americans they take a good look at and think "spick"." "Tommy with all do respect," "I'm not intersted in yesterday." "I can guarantee that Maceda will disappear." "He will not testify against you in court." "This is not about a trial." "Is that what you think all this is about?" "He made me trust him." "He made me love him." "If there was no trial tomorrow, there would be no difference." "I'm going to look for him and if I find him he's dead." "Oh maybe I should go, you can have him down here." " You cut it out." "I just feel sorry for him is all." "Something kinda sad about him." "Well that's what I came for, to watch you to be all moody over him." "Just sit down." "Yes, I burned it." " I know." "You always do." "Yeah, but I think i ruined your pot, too." "Thanks." "Turn the tv on." "I kinda like it burnt here." "We're surfing tonight, are we." "Um huh." "There's no videos." " Alrighty." "All right" "How nice." "Hey Chief." "Come on Chief." "Closing time." "Come one, wake up." " What time is it?" "Time to go home." "Come on, come on you're in my bed." "So what's the problem?" "If you stay there, I'm going to sleep in the bathtub." "Is there room for two in there?" " Come on." "You don't know what you're missing." "If you mean a face full of drool in the morning." "Oh christ." "Oh." "That's disgusting." "Pretty gross." "There you go." "Kat I." " Scoot, are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm okay." " Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" "Ow, oh wait, if you're going to push me out like this at least give me my jacket." "What's the matter with you." "Kat." "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite." " Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Good night." "Nice move chester." "You ain't getting any younger kid." "Ben wake up." "Ben there's shooting going on over here." "What do you mean who's shooting." "I don't know who's shooting." "You want a description, well wait a damn minute." "Kat, Kat are you all right?" "Huh?" "Where is he?" "The ejector was catching." "Sometimes that happens in these rapid fire jobs." "Put it down." "No, you put it down." "Don't start anything." " I wont." "But I'm willing to finish." "Are you?" "Hey." "Get out of here." "He saved my life, Ben." " Just get out of here." "Okay now stand up and put your hands on your head and turn around." "Okay." "Will you listen to me, Ben." "I tell you I did hear the shotgun first." "Frankly my dear, I don't give a shit." "He wants to plead selfdefense, that's fine." "Then he's got nothing to worry about turn around." " Ben." "Hello!" "It wasn't his fault." "Okay." "Maybe then he can explain why he's got enough unlicensed hardware to restart the cold war." "Now, I'm going to russle up some transport to get this maniac to county lock up." "And its time for you to stay with mama and Arliss." "They'll be more." "He was just the first." "They'll come here and they'll kill me." "And who ever else is in the way." "You, her." "They'll kill them too." "You've got an awful pessimistic view of life, you know that?" "I could have killed you up there." "Instead of letting you take me, I could have killed you." "Boy, you got to get the last word in, don't you." "Is that what this is all about, so you can show him up?" "What this is all about, little miss, is that body in your place over there." "Come on." " Don't leave me locked up like this." "Well, I'm gonna leave the light on for you." "Gene." " Present." "Good morning." "Breakfast." "You been here all night?" " Depends what time it is." "A little before eight." " Am or pm?" "Am." " I've been here all night." "Look, I think we may have something here." "Sheriff down in the boonies found a cadillac" "Maceda drove out of town burned out in a field." "Two bodies inside neither one Maceda." "How old is this?" " That's yesterday." "You still think he went to mexico?" "If he did he's gone by now." "But, I think it's a faint." "I think this is to take us south and he heads out across country in the opposite direction." "Maybe he went to florida." "They got people there." "Nah, it's to easy to track him to family." "I say he went right to mexico." "Do you still think I'm helping Maceda?" "Look, I want you to take a team and follow through on this." "Thank you, Kathleen." "But we're spread thin and I think I should go down right away and check it out." "I'll report back before we commit our guys all over hell and gone." "All right, fair enough." " Okay." "Good luck." "Good morning." " Good morning." "I brought you some breakfast." " Thank you." "Here, coffee." "Sorry you have to eat through the bars." " It's not your fault." "Uh, sit with me." "Don't make me eat alone." " Uh, so now you want some company." "Here." "It was self defense." "I'll testify." "I don't even mind if they find me here." "It's just I don't want them to take me like this." "You know I could have killed him last night." "Could have dropped him and walked to the car and that would have been the end of it." "But I'm not what he thinks I am." "Bring me the key." "Please bring me the key." " What are you doing?" "Just brought him some breakfast, which by the way I can't get through the bars." "I don't want you talking to him." "I don't want you near him." "Maybe these better just stay with me, huh." "Oh man." " You better go home, Kat." "Well mr." "Gere, or whoever you really are." "Looks like you are going to be spending some time with us." "The county can't spare a wagon to come for you until maybe day after tomorrow." "I suggest you make yourself comfortable." "I won't be here day after tomorrow." "Oh no." "And neither will you." "Hey, Rog." "How you doing?" " I'm on some dynamite pain killers." "Kind of stuff we usually bust people for." "Well, how you feeling?" "Could you go to work?" " Work." "What you got?" "We got him." " Maceda?" "The sup gave me that this morning." "Listen," "Gene, you ever wonder how Maceda was able to move so fast when Orosco's boys came up to his place." "It's because he knew they were coming." "How do you know?" "Because I told him." "You told him?" " Yeah," "I got a friend in the DC office." "He told me why we were really reinstating the surveillance on Maceda." "That justice was looking at an overturn in the Orosco case." "So I called up Maceda and I told him." "Do you really need to ask me why?" "Oh you stupid mother fucker." "This is a criminal act, Rog." "I mean I'm talking joint time." "And if I cover for you, I'm in just as deep." "Fuck the Gene." "You remember when we cut Maceda loose?" "Do you remember them taking away his business and his house?" "Who you talking to?" " No, no, no!" "Do you remember him calling us on the phone asking for help because he was taking his kid to school with an uzi in his lap?" "What did we say Gene, huh?" "Sorry Esteban, I'd love to help you, man, but the guys upstairs say you're used goods." "Well, this is our job." "We are the law, Roger." "And we may not be perfect, but we're better than the alternative." "The alternative keeps it's fucking word." "Heh, Maceda has one chance, Roger, and that is if you and I get to him first." "Now you come with me nobody knows about this." "I blew the sup off with bullshit." "Come on, it will be you and me and him." " Yeah, then what?" "Another bullshit story to get the guy to come back." "Some more fucking promises we're not going to keep." "I didn't sign on for that, Gene." "I'm out, man." "I retire." "Gene, you're going to need these." "You watch your ass." "You know you broke my heart, you mother fucker." "Good afternoon, ladies." "We have a little trouble here, did we?" " Oh yeah, kids." "They don't have anything better to do at night." "Breaking windows is their way of entertaining themselves." "Kids, I'll tell you." "Say, um, whose car is this over here?" " Why?" "I'm just looking for a friend of ours, we were supposed to meet up with him down here, do some fishing." "And, ah, I tell you that looks like his car." "You know, I don't know." "A guy dropped it there the other day, said he'd be back in 5 minutes." "He never came back." "I see, well maybe it doesn't belong to my friend after all thanks anyway." "No problem." "You ladies have a nice day." " You to." "You better call Ben." "Honey, I'm home." "Well I know I ain't as pretty as Kat, and mamas menu is limited." "But you'll just have to settle." "Chief, Chief." "You need an exercise yard." "Yeah." "What are you." "Don't shoot me." "Keys." "I don't know where they are." " Keys, keys, keys." " I'm looking, I'm looking." "Yeah, I got them." " All right." "Door." "Come on Chief open the door." "Come on Chief." "I'm trying." "I'm trying." "Come on, lets go." "Inside." "Inside." "Oh ah, if your girlfriend happens to show up, tell her the keys are on the roadside outside of town." "Have a nice life, Chief." "I know how your feeling right now and I'm telling you right now you can't leave me in here like this." "You're making yourself guilty right now." "If you're innocent for god sakes come back here and let me out of here." "Let me out." "You got to do that son." "You'll be running for the rest of your life if you don't let me out of here." "This is making you a guilty man." "He's not answering." "I'll go see what I can dig up on wyatt earp." "You go cruise the town." " Got you boss." "Nope." "You better go down there and see if you can find Ben." "You're right." "Thanks, mama." "Kat, you better go the back way." "Hello, anybody home?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Back here." "Bingo." "Quiet, you realize you almost got your head blown off?" "Shit." "There's two men." "I think they're looking for you." "You scared the shit out of me." "Hey wait." "That'll give us a little privacy." "Where's Ben?" " Cleaning out the cell." "Be serious." "Is he gonna be all right back there?" "Goddammit, answer me." " I can't worry about it." "Now, shut up." "You better be worried about it!" "If something happens to him, it's" "As much on your hands as it is on theirs." "You were so god damn proud of yourself." ""I coulda killed him", you said, "but I didn't"." "Big fucking deal." "What do you think you're doing now." "Do you think this is any different just cause you're not pulling the trigger?" "I'll tell you right now." "I know who you're looking for." "I don't know where he went and he lit out of here about, oh, ten minutes ago." "You didn't happen to note his direction?" "No." "My mind, ah, my mind was on my own problems." "I can appreciate that." "What are you doing?" "Well, pardon my saying so, fella, but you're a damned poor example to set for law enforcement" "you're probably telling the truth, though," "I mean considering how he humiliated you like this," "I don't see that you have any reason to protect him." "But." "What are you doing?" " I got to be sure." "I'll start with your knee." " No no no no no no." "Your other knee." "Then your elbows." "And by then I figure I'll know anything you're hiding." "Say cheese." "Hey, what's going on?" " Kat." "Kat, back here." "Ben?" " Back here." " Ben." "Kat." "Kat, get out of here." "Git, git." "Go, go." "Hey eagle eye, what's going on?" "Kat, getaway from here." " Why don't you let Ben out?" "Kat, get out of here." " It's over." "You're out." "Get out of my way." " Come on." "Stop." " Backoff." "It's over why?" "You want to buy it?" " Sure, why not." "How much?" "50 bucks." " I'll give you the address of my ex-Wife." "She's got all my money." "Too bad she wasn't in there, huh." "You're talking about the woman I love, son." "There were two bodies in it." "Damn tourist attraction." "Everybody is stopping by to take a look." "Is there something I should know?" "Is car made of gold or something?" "Just broken dreams, boy." "Broken dreams." "I know about that." "My name, my real name is Esteban Maceda." " Esteban Maceda." "Holy shit, you're the fella testified at Tommy Orosco's trial." "Who's Tommy Orosco?" " A big dope dealer from L.A. Very big." "I had a small real estate business." "Was doing very well." "But I got greedy." "I made some mistakes and got into big trouble with the da and I.R.S." "The feds said "work for us, all your troubles go away." "We want you to be Tommy Orosco's friend." "He'll trust somebody like you"." "So they, ah, they set me up with a cover and I went to work for Tommy Orosco." "When they train you to do this thing, there's somethings they cant prepare you for." "A man opens up to you wants to be your friend, you lie to him." "He shows loyalty, sell him out." "He trusts you, betray him." "After the trial, they cut me loose." "We had nothing." "And a few days ago, a friend called me, I didn't even know I had." "He told me they were going to overturn Tommy's conviction." "The feds would need me back and Tommy would need me out of the way." "So I ran." "I didn't know if I was going to get out of L.A. alive." "I couldn't let my wife and son come with me." "I told them we'd meet up later." "And I ended up here." "But now Tommy knows." "This time he'll come." "And one way or another, it finishes here." "How long?" "Sometime tonight, I'd guess." "Arliss, you and mama better go around and find out who ever is still in town and tell them to stay off the streets." "Better still, if they got some place to go they should go." "No." "This is my fight." "You know, if I'd been you," "I don't know that I'd come back to somebody wearing a badge." "You got me a little embarrassed about even wearing one." "Isn't there someone we can call?" "The sheriff, the states, somebody?" "You call any kinda cop they're gonna i.d. him and send him right back to the feds." "You know they get here they're gonna tear this town apart to find you." "This may not be much, but it's all that me and mama got." "Sides, that's away to get a lot of innocent people to get caught in the crossfire." "You got any suggestions?" " The hell he does." "Don't try to talk me out of this Kat, cause it wouldn't take much." "I'll be back for more of that." "Maceda and me we talked it over and," "it's best that you stay over with mama and Arliss." "And took off with them." "Oh yeah, this is a gift from your star tennant." "Wants you to have something on hand just in case." "You know how to use that?" " I'm a good country girl." "It's loaded and it's got no safety." "You better scat." "Now." "Okay." "I'll see you soon." " Well, I hope so." " Yeah." "Be careful I don't want anything to happen to you." "Especially now." "Bye." "What the hell is Maceda doing here?" "This place is dead." "He's gone." "If you give me your address I'll have him send you a post card." "You could be pen pals." "Where is he?" " Son, if I open up to you." "I've got to live here." "If I have to hear what a turd I am from these people." "You should make it worth my while." "You get to keep your life." "How's that for a deal" " Son, at my age that's hardly a bargin." "I was thinking more along the lines of five hundred dollars." "Make it a thousand." " Don't push your luck old man." "Dale siete cientos cincuenta?" "Seven hundred fifty dollars." "Oh that's fine." "That's a deal." "He's out at the packing plant, south of town." "Oh yeah, if he's not where you say he is," "I'm coming back for a refund." "You almost over played your hand you crazy old bastard." "I didn't want them tothink I was cheap." "I got a reputation in this town." "Besides Maceda told me to make it look good." "I just can't wait for this to happen." "This ain't your damn business, Kat." "I'm gonna make it my business." "These guys are killers, okay." "You see them, you shoot them." "Do you understand me?" "You shoot them, no mercy." "All right." "No mercy." "I want to believe that you." " Hey hey hey, yeah." " No mercy." "Okay." "No mercy." "All right." "Now we wait." "I got it." " All right." "Now we wait." "Oh shit." " What?" " Raise your right hand." "What?" " Raise your right hand." " What the fuck for?" "Just do it." " All right." "All right all right." "With the power invested in me by the town of desiree and so forth, you're now my deputy." "That's them." "All right." "Let's go Chief." " All right." "I'll go up there." " I know." " You go up here." "Fire." "Fire, damn it fire." "Hold it, police." "Remain calm and put your weapons down." "Pasen cavrones." "The switch." "Drop it Esteban." "I've dreamt about this moment." "But you know I am not enjoying this as much as I thought I would." "Tommy." "Drop it Tommy." "Don't even think about it." " Wait a minute, Gene." "Orosco kills me, you kill him, then you're rid of both of us, right?" "That's right, drop it Tommy." "It's over." "That's not a bad alternative." "At least I know Maceda's dead." "I like the alternative where I live." "Tommy, I'll kill you." "If I don't kill Maceda, you're gonna let him run, right?" "No." "He goes back to a judge and a jury." "It's not my call." "Tommy." "You said you were going to let him go." " That was then, I got the upper hand now." "Drop it Tommy." " What's in it for me?" "You live." "Who knows, maybe you'll beat it in court, Tommy." "You have three." "One." "Two." "All right." "I guess I don't have much choice." "You." "This is how the game is played, asshole." "You fuck." " You understand, Esteban?" "This has to be done." "Now we're even." "I think you better vacate the premises, mr." "Maceda." "While there is a couple of us still standing." "Who the hell is that?" "My old friend, Gene Gere." "The D.E.A. Agent?" " Yes." "How in the hell am I ever going to explain all this?" "Here you go eagle eye." "That should get you a couple hundred miles." "Well Chief, I guess it's you and me and a life time of burnt popcorn." "After we get you to the hospital." " Oh boy." "You gonna drive?" " Oh yeah." "You know, I'm gonna let you turn on that siren real loud." "I'm going to pick this up." "Oh boy, I tell you it do burn." "Nasty." " You can drive as fast as you want to." "Once you get those lights going just wail." "Come on." "Come on."