"RETURNOFTHEMAGNIFICENT7" "No, Chico." "No." "No." " Hello, Chris." " Vin." "I thought you were working as guard the steps of Overland." " I left." " Why?" "My health." "The doctor told me to look a climate with less lead in the air." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for a man." "There is a reward." "Who?" "To you." "You will not ask?" " What?" " Why come to you." "I've said it." "The reward." "Damn!" "You think I would do this?" "I came to warn you that put your head at a premium." "How much?" " Five hundred." " Dollars?" "Weights." "Enough that some desperate kill you while you sleep." "Should accompany you, you may need help." " Do not want to cause you problems." " No problem." "There is no problem." "Damn it, let him bullfighting." "I will pay the bull." "I also wonder if you'll pay for the funeral." "It's your friend?" "Petra." " I prayed that you were here" " What about Petra?" "What happened?" "Two days ago, many men armed entered the village." "Chico faced them." "Not avail." "They gathered in the square the men who killed   and took us to the desert." "Along the way, we passed two villages   and in both there was no man." "Only the women weeping their dead." "You said many men were armed." " How many?" " I do not know." "Fifty, maybe more." "They said nothing?" "Where led them?" "Why?" " Nothing." " What do you think, Chris?" " I do not know." " We can not confront an army." "If it were the contrary, Chico would do it." "Chico's stupid." "Because he left the gun, he married with Petra and tried something different?" "What did he say?" "Want to know if we behind them tonight or tomorrow." "It's a big country, we take long to find them." "Damn, that ten years ago not going anywhere." "And you too." "You're right." "Bring them up to my room." "You can sleep there." " Where are you going?" " Getting help." " It is not easy to find someone." " It depends where you look for." " What about this?" " Stole a pig, sir." " A pig?" " Yes." "Sai very cheap." " And this?" " Surprised his wife with another." "Both." "This is worth many pesos, sir." " If I were you ..." " Opens." "Opens." "Hello, Frank." "Chris." " Do not you have seen." " It is normal." "Was here." "Four men killed in a shootout." " It's true." " Would you like to go from here?" " I hear you." " I have some friends with problems." " What problems?" " Much like yours." " Against how many?" " Fifty." "Maybe more." "Accounts with someone?" "How much?" "It's too risky, sir." "100 pesos?" " Fifty." " He killed four men." "May be five." "Fifty." " Where can I find you?" " In the hotel." "Leave for South morning." "Got Horse?" "No." "I'll get one." "Not very friendly." "I am not hire friends." "They'll talk all night?" "If they had some respect by a convicted would shut up and let him spend their last hours alone." " Will run in the morning." " What have you done?" "What did you do?" "Is Luis Emilio Delgado." "I do not understand me, sir." "Are you Luis Delgado." " Do you know me?" " I heard about you." "Do not say it was famous?" "This is your last will." "Not sure what good it makes a man." " I imagine." " I mean the fact of who I am." "For years I told myself:" ""Luis, come the day that   will not have to ride more under the dust of others   and everyone will know who you are. "" ""There is no train or village stolen when people do not say" "'Who was robbed in bandit Luis Emilio Delgado. "" "And even when he was about to achieve it, it happened." "What will they think of me when they know performed by me just kill a man?" "A paltry creature." "I killed a dozen in just one day." "To find out more." " I tell you that there is no justice." " What if no one is informed?" " Will." " No, if you come with me to South" "Against fifty men or more?" "There is little chance." "More than you will tomorrow against the wall." "You're right." "So?" " What is the pay?" " What we pay to you free." " It's fair." " How much?" " But, sir, can not be." " 100 pesos." " It's me against the wall ..." " 200." " I have a wife, six children ..." " 250." "300." "But I can not let it go." "You must flee." "Open the latch." "Mind if I run away early in the morning?" "Hello, Chris." "Nowadays it is very difficult find an uncompromising woman." "Let's get outta here." "Was a close, was not it?" "Also the last time." "And the last." " When you will learn, Colbee?" " And how would I know that she was married?" "Women are not like cattle, which have the brand owner." "Would you like to use this belt something more than hold your pants?" "A village was attacked and captured a friend of mine." "I need help." "I would give you one hand, Chris, but ..." "They gathered all the men and took us to the desert." "Have not been sleeping well lately." " They took the men?" " Two days ago." "There is a village full of women   and there is nobody to help them sowing and cooking?" " There are no husbands?" " No husbands." "What you say!" "So how was it?" "Are you okay?" "They are alive." "What the hell do you think are you doing?" "The kid has already taken enough." " But I bet on him." " Well, you lost." "You will be ..." "The kid has had enough." "If you touch this gun, I'll kill you." "Are you okay?" "Manuel says he is called." "Listened to seek gunmen." "Want to join the group." " You'll take it." " This will give us luck." "With Chico, now we are seven." "Beautiful day, is not it?" " You arrive late." " I fell asleep." "Let's get outta here." "Coffee?" "I do not think evil." "Not bad." "You never know you're there." "You're very quiet, is not it?" "I once had a woman dead." "On the outside was quiet as a Sunday." "But inside was wild as the mountain landscape." "One of these days I'll be back there." " Where is it?" " In Sonora." " I was there once." " Once?" " Do not come back?" " Why?" "Because noise in ten women for every man." "I know what I mean." "One night I met half of them and could have been with all if it had cramps." "I tamed horses on this side the border and sold them in Deming." "But most of them girls were just an easy life, but in my opinion, a woman is a woman." "Not true, Frank?" "You talk too much, Colbee." "Since when does a man talk too much about women?" " Since when?" " Colbee." " You make the first round of sentinel." " You said it was the Vin." "I changed my mind." "Come on." "It was not necessary, Chris." "I would not provoke a fight, if that's what you think." "If you did, you had you in bad trouble." "He is fast." "Faster than you?" "Hate to live without knowing." "I will remember that." "Do it." "I wonder why on earth led the Chico and the others." "No idea." "When we reach the village, the sand has already covered the tracks." "Searching blindly we can not find them." "Petra said he had been attacked other two villages." "That means they have about 300 prisoners." "On foot, there is only one way to lead many men in the desert." "As if it were cattle." "From a pool of water to another." "This does not serve us very much." "There are many cattle trails hence the Sierra Madre." "There are herds to pursue them every day." "The word will spread." "But what shall we do?" "Petra and the Leave the boy in the village and ride in a large circle." " Try to find the trail of them." " We can take forever." "I know." "For ten years not going anywhere." "Vin, if you have to worry about with something, concern yourself with what will happen after we find them, not before." "Never thought I would." "Vin, Colbee." "Put it down." "Take us out of here." ""The Devil's Backbone"   going since the beginning of the River Concho, to the border." "According to the woman, her husband fled a village in the area." "That's where they are trapped Chico and the others." " Did he say why?" " Not been there long enough to know." "But there is no village between "The Devil's Backbone" and the Concho." " That's what the man says." " He spent much time in the desert." "May have lost the reason disoriented." " But thus far, was not it?" " I will prepare the horses." "Leave in the morning." "If we leave tonight We saved up our time." "If the horses get tired, we walk." "We will in the morning." "You better get some sleep." "You too, Colbee." "Damn, if only I were sure." "Sure of what?" "If I go because Chico is my friend or just looking for a fight, as Frank." "The desire to kill may take care of us." "And you think this happened to you?" "Why else be here?" "Of course, the Chico's my friend, but ..." "Damn, did not even know his last name." "Neither do I." "Does it make you think?" "No." "Why Chris?" "Because in all these years I lived with gun in hand   never fired on a man only to see it fall." "If this happens   I have put my guns in a bucket of water and I'm leaving." "And you too." " Who are you?" " Parents are dead." "Chico looks after him like his son." "Because they have taken Chico and the others?" " I do not know." " Maybe if we were to notify the Rural" " To ask for help." " It is no good." "It is supposed to protect us from them." " Have you ever done?" " No." "Never will." "Because we are poor." "Why do not you can afford." "It is true, is not it?" " Maybe this will change one day." " Yes, and in the meantime?" "We do what we can." "And died." "It was ever thus." "Chris." "Whatever happens, never you'll forget you and to others." "It's everything a man can ask." "We should have stayed there to help women." "Will experience difficulties with the planting and plowing." "You too, Colbee." "You too." "How is it that you are still with us, Luis?" "I thought that when you rid the firing squad, fugirias." " Me too." " What made you change your mind?" "I had a great conversation with myself." "I said to myself:" ""Luis, since you know   never did anything for anyone, except for yourself. "" ""Nothing." "It's time for the tasks"." ""What would become of you if they were not those poor peasants who steal? "" ""There is nothing serious." "Help this poor people,   and you can ride proud with head well up. "" "If you do not explode your head." "So, I will die in good company." "Well, Chris for ten years Walking to kill." "Vin, more or less than half that time." "Colbee between gunmen services, chasing other women." "Manuel is a simple chicken thief." "And you?" " I'm no better than them." " But remains with them." "You could have gone, like me." "I have my reasons to stay." "It has nothing to do with friendship nor to help poor peasants." "He saw the priest?" "I was looking for her." " Again?" " Have you heard of the deaths." "Said we should have been more reasonable with them." "Okay?" "I built a an empire is reasonable ... with renegades, bandits, corrupt soldiers?" "But they are not renegades or criminals." " Neither are corrupt." " Never get tired of being my conscience?" ""The strong will generous with the weak. "" "Do you know who invented that rule?" "The weak." "Francisco, I have to talk to you." "Last night killed two workers." " They tried to flee." " You have no right." "Listen, Father." "Know what feel for these people." "But it would be a more honorable death if they fell to pulling a plow?" " The Church can not approve ..." " Adopt?" "You wanted a church." "I could not build it with prayers and came to me." " You chose this place, these methods." " For a reason." "What reason is there for kill in cold blood, Francisco?" " I do not understand." " I see the murder and enslavement." "Listen, Father." "I will rebuild this church and the village   and I think doing it with his blessing or not." "Can not stay away and let it continue." " He said nothing that obliges him to stay." " Everything leads me to stay." "He's right, Father." "It should go away." " I can not." " Or do not want." "No, I can not." "What can we do for you?" "A friend of mine." "Have you prisoner." "I want him released." "And all the others." " No more no less." " No more no less." "You are either very stupid, is either very brave, sir." "A word from me and is a man dead." "Since we would be two." "Winchesters are five pointed to his head." "Professionals." " Professionals." " Maybe we could talk." "We just do it." " Father, you better go look for Francis." " Do not move, Fr." " It would kill a priest?" " Only if required." "The same as always Chris." "Shoulda known you would come." "Glad ..." "Whatever you and your men, receive, I double." "Triptych." " The same Lorca ever." " Come." "Talk." " I can not do." " It's the only thing you can do." "You are six to 60." "Do not wait that these farmers can help you." "Have no stomach for fighting." " No?" " No." "Kill him." "Come on." "Kill him." "'ve Killed others." " But they were not armed." " Were there three years ago," "When 200 men sacrificed their lives in this church." "Sacrificed their lives for rid this country of tyranny." "Do you think these farmers want to know   I chased the bandits immense desert and fought with them here   while they were hiding in their beds of straw?" "My children." "Tall, erect, two stallions as well created." "Are buried here, with others." "Their graves will not be more surrounded by ruins." "This church, this village will be a a monument honoring those who fought." "A monument built by the sweat and the blood of those who never fought." "I'll show you." "López." "do what he said." " Kill him." " Francis." " Do not meddle in it, Father." " Been a long time without getting into." "I beg you, Francis, before it is too late." "Before God damn you to hell for what you do here." "Once valued my life." "Now save your." "Gathers your men and get thee though." "Go away and not look back." "He was wrong." "You are no longer the same, Chris." "Do not Drown your sorrows with the blood of others, if that's what you mean." "Come on." "Go away." "There will be a next time." "He will return." "I know." "I swore I would never do this again." "What a man and swears he does, is not always the same." "Glad to see you, Chris." "And I see you in Chico." "Really?" "Lorca has a lot of men there." "I've shot at other times." "We can not pay to help us, Chris." "I once met a young gun." "When I met him, he was a boy a wild, almost drunk." "He became a man." "Enough to put aside the gun, marry and try something else in life." "He also became my friend." " Dying for it?" " If it were necessary." "And the others?" "They came for the fight." "If not this would be another." "Climb the bell tower." "Oversees the cemetery." "if they will be there." "And Chico." "Do not be too affections to this pistol." "When this is over ..." "I will throw it into the bucket of water ... and I'm leaving." "Never knew this would end this way." "When Francis lost his children, I tried to console him." "He told me he wanted to build a monument to those who died." "I convinced him that it was a church." "I wanted a church much like him." "Further." "God knows we have long I try to help these poor souls." "I speak to them about faith, love." "They believed me." "But my words and your prayers have not changed anything in their lives." "The children died, crops were lost." "And now I cheated." "I am not a religious man, Father." "But I tell you what." "They need you." "Now more than before." "I failed them." "With them not you." "They are defeated." "Get up, Father." "At least, put on his knees." "It is the latter." "And now, what we do?" " Let's go tonight?" " No way." "We're not leaving." "If they surprise us in the open with 300 men on foot, we have no chance." " And here we stand?" " We have coverage and groceries." "And they will come after us and this gives us a 50% chance." "There will be absent during long." "This will attempt to resolve all as soon as possible." " If only these walls were higher." " Will." "You and Frank, separate workers into two groups." "One group deals with the South wall, and the other from the north wall." "Arrange stones, wood, clay blocks, anything that serves as a barricade   and begin to build it." " Now?" " Now." "Since the storm passed." "It is a day trip to the farm, my friend." "Would seven gunmen flee and those peasants?" "Those cowards?" "We can only ammunition that we have belts   water that is the flasks and the food we have in the stomach." "That's enough." "More than enough." "To thee do not know, but me scared me to death." " Do you think they will attack again?" " With all the strength I can." "Okay, pal?" "I'll make them pay for it." "Will all pay for it." "Lopez, going to the farm." "Bring all the men who work for me." "All the boys are old enough to wield a weapon." "Farmers, cowboys." "Bring them all." "If you do not have a place to retreat." "The cattle will be lost in the hills and crops will be lost." "The job of a lifetime, my friend." "All my life's work is buried next to that church." "My children." "Do as I say, my friend." "It is curious how our mind works." "Up there, when they came to our meeting, thought they were husbands." " Husbands?" " That came after me." "I felt a cold shudder down the spine." "I swear that if we safarmos this, never going back to look for a woman." "Sorry." "It seems they will wait for the night." "if they attack us in the dark will be hard to keep us alive." "If we flee, we may be back the village in two days, maybe less." " And then?" " Resist it." "And women and children?" "Yeah." "It seems to me that you should have given me and used that reward." "That reward, Chris." "Never existed." "Just wanted to travel with you." " Well, maybe give up." " The Lorca not give up." "Do not give up until it finish once and for all." "It seems you know him well." "One day they paid me to kill him." "It is a pity that you did not." "Were the children." "children?" "He said they were tall, erect, two stallions as well created." "They were not." "They were gentle, like her mother." "Lorca thought were weak." "Treated them harshly, to make them like him." "The mother tried to stop him." "He died trying." "Hated him." "They wanted him dead   and hired you." "Lorca found out." "He could have killed me." "But he gave me a horse and let me go." "Not sure why." "Maybe he saw something in you he never saw the children." "Maybe." "How will the children they got there." "Knowing Lorca came obliged." "So why is building this church for them?" "Not for them, Vin." "It is for him." "He saw the opportunity to do something that could never have done when they were alive." "Be proud of them." "What are you waiting for?" "Hopefully you never had to Petra found, Chris." "Who never hadst in on it." "If you and others die, that serve?" "Do not change anything." "Whatever happens, nothing will change here." "There will always be someone like Lorca, that treats men as if they were cattle." "I'm tired of being afraid to flee, hide me." "When this is over, I go to North and cross the border." "Earned his living with his pistol." "Can I re-do it." "And Petra?" "The wife of a man who abandons its people, can not be proud." "She'll understand." "You will understand?" "You'll get drunk bird, if you are not careful." "Hello, Chris ..." "Manuel, wants to tell you something." "Come on, Manuel." "Tell him." "No, no, no." "Tell him what you taught." "For a long time ..." "What is he trying to tell you, Chris is   For many years he wandered from one village to another." "No relatives to remember." "Does not even know how many have, just know they're young e. .." "... they call him Manuel from infancy." "Another thing to remember is that always felt lost and alone." " But not now." "You know why?" " No." "Why?" "Because last night, while walking in the rain, saw a sign bearing the name of a village." "Anything "Del Norte"." " The first part of the sign was burned." " E?" "Manuel has always sought a place where he could have come, that might belong to, which be proud." "Found it." "This village has no people, and he has a village." " From now your name is ..." " Anything Manuel Del Norte." "Exactly. sounds good, right?" "Is." "Chris." "Anyway ... huh we should get him here?" "Not much use with a weapon, e. .." "... if they continue to attack us will hurt him." "Maybe we can send it to somewhere." "If we do, I would feel better." "And it?" "How would you feel?" "Now that we finally have a place to belong." "Yes .." "Frank was right." "I talk too much." "It's Frank!" " Are you okay?" " It's just a scratch." "Would you undo my head?" "It's my head." "If you do that you kill, thou shalt not do anyone any good." "Depends on the point of view." "What about him?" "This morning I saw you on the fence." "And now this." " Why?" " Is not you." "Chris." "Never known my wife, do you?" "We lived in a place in West Texas." "It was no big deal, we were getting, gathering cattle, sealing the area." "One night, some Comanches be drunk, left the reservation and began to kill, burn ..." "When we woke up, were within our hut." "It was 14 or 15." "I stopped them as I could, I have left until only one bullet." "She screamed for me not leave to take her alive." "He knew what he had done to others." "Did not stop begging me, pleading ..." "And I ..." "The Comanches saw what I did." "I thought it would kill me, but did not." "They're gone." "The next morning I started to follow them." "I killed them one by one, waiting to kill me." "Five years ago I seek finish the job." "But it seems that I have expect more." "I heard them talking." "Lorca sent for reinforcements." "Tomorrow will have 200 men, maybe more." "And not just want to finish us, Chris." "Wants to kill everyone." "Until the last man." "The others asked me to talk to you." "They do not want to die here, because of us." "Go away." "While there is time." "Do not kill us all." "Those who survive will return to the village, and start again." "If we were strong, as you ..." "But we are not." "We are weak." " Too weak to fight." " They fight every day." "Against the land, to plant crops." "Struggle to have a roof over your head and clothes to wear." " Not the same thing." " Sure it is." "We are a coward, sir." "We are afraid of everyone and everything." "We live life in fear." "We are born with fear." "Dead with fear." "We are like that." "We will always be so." "Please, sir." "Beg." "Before it's too late." "Go away, please." "You're not thinking of running away, do you, Chris?" "He might be right." "I once met a guy." "I was always the bluff." "But deep down, I was afraid of his own shadow ... and never could have overcome this, if not otherwise appear." "I speak of that night in Texas, when I have to stay Next to you on the street." "I remember you had to shoot me down four times." "For that I face those men." "We must do the same for them, Chris." "We have to fight alongside them, and so one day be able to fight alone." "After all do not think only in women, Colbee." "Before, I also fear them." "We are not going away, do you, Chris?" "Of course not." "If you are thinking about leaving, is better than we do now." "When they get here, will be more difficult." "How many men you have left?" "I counted 30." "You could surround them and attack from behind." "A chance in a thousand." "Better that than nothing." "Saddle the horses." "Already sealed." "You will not take you with us?" " Will cover ourselves from the bell tower." " We need all the help possible." "Will stay here." " To give us luck?" " To give us luck." "Chris." "Come on." "Chris." "Continue." "Come on!" "Chris." "I got it, Chris." "Finally I ..." "Chris." "Kill them." "Kill them." "Do not stop." "Kill them." "Kill them." "Chico had the idea of finish building the church, to bring the three villages here to form one." " Thought you were heading north." " I changed my mind." " I'm ready to go, Chico." " Where?" " To get the rest of women." " Volunteered." " Bye, Colbee." " Bye, Chris." "It is a pity that others have not had the opportunity to see this." "Will be remembered in our prayers." " Bye, Chico." " Chris." "Goodbye, father, Chico." "God bless you." "I'll be damned." "I doubt it." "I doubt it."