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You looking for somebody?

Senor Rambo?

Yeah. I am Rafael Guerra.

Yeah, well, you love to eat yourself shots when you get up on somebody like

this. My apologies, senor.

I am a simple school teacher, and I am not familiar with the ways of American

etiquette.

Yeah. It, uh, it will not happen again.

It's just that, uh, I was kind of scared somebody would sneak up behind me.

Blow my head off, you know?

That is why I have asked you to come to this village.

To help me protect what is mine.

500 pesos, right?

Yes.

It is the time for the siesta.

That is why I have asked you to come here to meet me at this time.

Listen. Please come with me.

My home is a short distance outside the village.

The expected birth of my first child.

Well, congratulations, you know. You ought to be out celebrating.

No. Well, why not?

Because a thousand years of ignorance blocks it.

Does La Curandera mean anything to you?

Does La Curandera mean anything to you?

Nope. She's the healing woman whose only talent is recognizing and exploiting

ignorance.

Well, what'd she get to do with your baby?

She can cast a spell over it and over my wife.

Gee, tell me something.

You, uh, you believe that?

Of course not.

Well, then what'd you get to worry about?

I have not really explained.

You see...

In every village in Mexico, there is a curandera.

And in every village, the people have always listened to the curandera.

Believed in magic, obeyed the prescriptions.

What's that got to do with you? Don't you understand?

If I defy her, she must meet this challenge.

And if I defy her spell, she will include the village.

In her spell.

And those frightened, ignorant people will... Who knows what they will do.

Now do you understand?

And you don't want her in your house, right?

Five hundred pesos to keep her out.

See, you know, that's an awful lot of money for schoolteachers to be handing

out. The curandera is also a lot.

Okay.

We're stuck.

Here.

Esperanza! Teacher Guerra, I must hurry. Her time draws near. You must get back

in the house, Esperanza. Not without La Curandera.

Well, Senor Randall, he has come to help us. Please stay with your wife, Teacher

Guerra, until I return.

You will stay with my wife now.

But, Curandera. She will stay out.

But, but she's waiting to be summoned. Get in the house, Esperanza.

Curandera is la Curandera. And my wife is my wife.

Let me go, please. Let me go.

Esperanza!

You will stay here?

Yes, sir.

I'll allow no one to enter except the midwife.

No one.

You are sent from heaven, senor.

A lot of people figure I might come from the other direction.

Senor? I'll be right here.

Right.

I cannot tell her Esperanza refuses to stay.

Well, uh, if I had to, where would I be able to find her, sir?

Esperanza? Yeah.

The village is square.

Okay, well...

The father of my wife, Don Emilio Flores.

I warned you not to interfere in the birth of my grandson.

I am ashamed, Rafael Guerra, to have a son -in -law who prefers a desk to a

horse.

A book to a roundup.

Very well.

But my grandson will ride with me.

And if it is a girl, Don Emilio would refuse to accept her.

It will be a boy.

I have paid well a curandera to insure it.

Oh, uh... Friend of the family.

I know who you are, Senor Randall.

I knew of your arrival within the hour.

Now, remove yourself.

Teacher, I want to talk to La Curandera.

She is not in my house.

No, no, we'll wait for her.

I tell you this with respect, Don Emilio.

This is my house, and La Curandera will not enter.

Nor will you.

Don't do that.

Don't do that.

I warn you, Yankee, do not interfere.

Vamanos, senor.

Por favor. You may not see another sunrise.

Maybe.

I've never possessed a gun.

Shotgun, a squirrel gun, anything?

Nothing.

Yeah.

Come on over here with me, huh?

You ever fired a gun?

Sometimes when I was very young.

Yeah, well, chances are that aiming it will be enough. But you've got to fire

there. Fire low.

No sense in tearing a man all up for nothing.

Here she is.

Loaded. Four shots. You just pull back the hammer and you keep firing.

You understand what I mean?

Thank you. Yeah. And by the way, don't drop in the dirt or nothing, huh?

Hold on.

Hold on.

Excuse me.

I'm looking for a woman. It's Ronza.

Hey, sonny, you speak English?

Señor.

I speak English.

Good, good. I'm looking for a woman named Esperanza. Whiskey.

Here.

This woman's name is Esperanza. She's a midwife.

Who?

Esperanza. That's a woman's name.

Adios, senor. Oh, wait. I said, adios, senor. Adios, senor.

Looking for something, senor?

Yeah. A woman named Esperanza.

She is busy.

Don't think so.

My country is like your country, senor. You do not call a man a liar.

Well, at least he is.

So? I am a liar.

Now I tell you something that is true.

You are leaving.

Father!

The muscle, senor.

And Pablo.

Remove your sombreros.

You must remember, Señor

Randall is a guest in our country and must be treated with full courtesy.

All the way to the border.

Let us know in advance, Señor. The next time you plan to visit our country, we

will arrange a fiesta.

Andale ya!

How much, curandera?

How much in gratitude?

La curandera lives to serve.

She has only the privilege of giving to those who need, when they need.

This, this disturbance, has it dislodged your work, your decision?

You will have a grandson, Don Emilio.

I have willed it.

I have knelt.

In the cave of wisdom, I have stirred the ashes.

I have read there the message sent to me by my mother and

my mother's mother unto eternity.

You will have a cry.

Lead me to your daughter, Don Emilio.

By your gun, Don Emilio.

And La Curandera dies.

Yes.

I die.

But she dies first.

I warn you, Rafael. It is too late for warnings.

Do not force me.

You'll regret this, Rafael.

I don't know anything about guns. You're doing pretty well. Go and take care of

your wife. I'll take over here.

Howdy.

Of course.

How's this?

No, no, no.

I cannot hear you.

I beg of you, Kurandira.

I listen.

Spare my grandson, please.

Yes.

I obey.

I obey, mother.

Deeper than deep.

Blacker than black.

Infamy strikes this house tonight.

Whoever trespasses, man, woman, child, or beast, he dies tonight.

She needs Esperanza now.

It is time.

Yeah.

Well, I do respect you. There's a lot of people here. I can't take a chance of a

shootout. Somebody's liable to get hit and it ain't gonna be me.

Take your pistols out very carefully and drop them on the ground.

Now.

Thank you, sir.

There's a woman in here who's gonna have a baby, lady.

Without you, she might die.

Let's go.

Remember, the Yankee is cursed!

Not I. Not I, curandera.

I am not with the Yankee.

Let's go.

No, Esperanza, no!

Of course, Esperanza!

All right, she walked over the line.

Nobody's dead.

I want you all to go home.

Go home, now!

I mean you too, sir.

I want you to get in that house right now, now go on.

Help me, Rafael.

I've come for my grandson.

He has my eyes. She has your eyes. A little girl, you know. Hold your tongue,

Yankee. You're talking about my granddaughter.

Yes, sir.

How is my daughter?

My wife is well.

I meant no offense.

Nor did I.

This is my house, Don Emilio.

And whoever enters is my guest, invited by me.

I deserve this.

No, I am not punishing you.

I only ask for the courtesy that you demand in your house.

And you have earned it, Rafael.

Well, would you honor my house?

It is I who am honored.

A child needs a grandfather.

Thank you, my son.

All this money can never really begin to repay. Rafael, I will pay the Yankee.

That is with your permission, of course.

Yeah, the woman's got to have some.

Very well, then.

Yeah.

Come on, now. Later.

bartender. I don't want to rate them.

Girls.

Yeah, girls.

Well, uh, it is a slim.