All language subtitles for Lone.Star.1996.720p.WEBRip.x264-[YTS.LT]-English

we got cenizo,
and that's purple sage.

agave, nopal.

what's that stuff ?

yeah, that's that,
uh, whatchamacallit--

that's that
horse crippler.

this place
is a gold mine !

lead mine !
what ?

i said it's
a lead mine !
right.

i don't know why
i'm talkin' to you.
you got that thing on your head.

you findin' lots
of cactus and shit ?

not just cactus.
there's the acacias,
the yuccas--

looks like a lot
of cactus to me.

man knows 150 varieties of beer,
can't tell a poinsettia
from a prickly pear.

hey, cliff !

you live in a place,
you should learn
somethin' about it.

explore !
cliff, you gotta
look at this.

don't tell me.
spanish treasure, right ?

pieces of eight from
the coronado expedition ?

jesus.

was coronado in the masons ?

i got the forensics fellow
comin' down from san marcos.

there's no way to know
how old the body is
without some lab work.

that ring ?
masons been around
a long while.

is he
a treasure hunter ?
old bullets.

makes art out of 'em.

sheriff says we shouldn't
touch anything, mikey.

can't hear
with that ray gun. mikey !

hey, what do we got here ?

we're supposed
to leave everything
right where we found it.

they're real particular
about that.

the scene of the crime.

no tellin' yet
if there's been a crime.

but this country's seen
a good number of disagreements
over the years.

he went to school on the post
when we were in korea.

it's all kids in
the same boat. army brats.
i really need--

his record shows
that he's a good student.

i'm more worried
about the social thing.
are there gangs or guns ?

we haven't had
any serious violence,
if that's what you mean.

we've got a pretty
lively mix, though: mexican
kids, anglo kids, black kids.

and the blacks are--
they're our smallest group.

except for a couple
of kickapoo kids.

look, you're obviously
a concerned parent.

chet has no history
of gettin' into trouble.

pilar. is amado okay ?

- he's not here ?
- no. is he sick ?

he's gonna wish
he was dead.

somebody hand me
the cd player.

damelo, pendejos.

they sure come
a long way since those
old 8-track jobs, ain't they ?

- something wrong ?
- this is stolen property.

i'm hauling
the bunch of ya to jail.

if anything else
is wrong, tell me about it
on the way to the station.

...cleanin' the dirt out of
his toenails with a pocketknife.

he was the most hygienic
of all the mchenrys.

"fishbait," buddy says
in that quiet way of his,

"what do you know
about them tires that went
missin' from merkel's ?"

fishbait thinks
for a minute,

then lifts up a loose board
from the porch floor.

calls down into it,
"come on out, hooter !
they caught us !"

buddy deeds.
he had a way.

he known who it was on account
of the tire tracks in the dirt,

leadin' from the back of the
garage to where they loaded up.

"old fishbait," he said,
"never lifted a thing
in this world...

if there's a way
he could roll it."

there'll never be
another one like him.

that boy of his can't cut it.
if you ask me, he's all hat
and no cattle.

hey, fellas.

sam ! i was just tellin'
a few on your old man.

yeah, he was
a unique individual.

he was that.

big day comin' up.
i wish we'd have thought of it
while he was still livin'.

- went so unexpected.
- better late than never.

korean war hero.
sheriff for nearly 30 years.

the buddy deeds
memorial courthouse.

i heard there was
a bit of a fuss.

well, the usual
troublemakers.

danny padilla with the sentinel,
that crowd.

they call everything else
in the country after
martin luther king.

we can't have
one measly courthouse ?

king wasn't mexican,
fenton.

bad enough all the street names
are in spanish.

they were here first.

then let's call it after
big chief shitinthebucket.

that tonkawa had
the mexes beat by centuries.

nineteen out of twenty people
in this town are mexican.

there was a faction
pullin' for that boy killed
in the gulf war. reuben--

santiago.

mexicans that know,
that remember, understand
what buddy was for their people.

hell, it was mercedes over there
swung the deciding vote for 'im.

she made it
even three to three.

as mayor, i get
to cast the tiebreaker.

the old-timers won't
have any problem with it.

they remember how buddy
come to be sheriff.

tell that story,
hollis.

hell, everybody heard
that story a million times.

i'd like to hear it.
your version of it.

yeah, come on, hollis.

well, the two of us were
the only deputies back then.

me and buddy--
what ? '58 ?

'57, i think.

the sheriff at the time
was big charlie wade.

charlie was one of your
old-fashioned, bribe-or-bullets
kind of sheriffs.

he took a healthy bite
out of whatever moved
through this county.

it was in here one night,
back when jimmy herrera
run the place.

it started over
a basket of tortillas.

this beaner fare
doesn't agree with me,
but the price sure is right.

jimmy got a kitchen
full of wetbacks,
most of them relatives.

them people
breed like chickens.

so ?

so i roust
some muchacho on the street,
doesn't have his papers.

all he's got to say is,
yo trabajo parajimmy herrera.

sort of a i-scratch-his-back,
he-washes-mine arrangement,

if you know what i mean.

this will be one of
your pickups, buddy, first of
the month, just like the rent.

get the car, hollis.

i'm not doin' it.

come again ?

it's your deal.

there's gonna
be some left over for you.

- i take care of my boys.
- that's not the point, charlie.

you feelin' bad about jimmy ?

have him tell you
the size of the mordida
they took out of his hide...

when he run a place
on the other side.

those old boys
from ciudad leon--

i'm not pickin' it up.

you do whatever
i say you do or else
you put it on the trail, son.

well, how about this,
charlie ?

how about you lay that shield
on this table... and vanish...

before you end up dead
or in jail ?

you're not
makin' sense, buddy.

you stick around and
i'm bringin' up charges
on the county road project.

two-thirds of that money
went straight into your pocket.

you're bein' mighty careless
with your mouth, son.

you ever shoot a man
who was lookin' you
in the eye, charlie ?

it's a whole different
story, isn't it ?

you're fired.

not a soul in this county
isn't sick to death of your
bullshit, charlie wade.

you made yourself scarce,
you could make
a lot of people happy.

- you little pissant--
- now or later,

you won't have
any trouble findin' me.

you're a dead man.

get the goddamn car.
we're goin' to roderick's.

muchacho,
mas cerveza, por favor.

"mas cerveza, por favor."

that buddy was a cool breeze.

charlie wade
were known to put quite
a few people in the ground.

and your daddy gets
eyeball to eyeball with him.

we made our pickup
at roderick's place.

nobody seen hide nor hair
of him since.

he went missin' the next day,
along with $10,000 in county
funds from the safe at the jail.

never heard
from him again.

buddy deeds said a thing,
he damn well backed it up.

never be another one
like him.

so i suppose then he arrested
all of jimmy herrera's people...

and sent 'em back
to the other side ?

no, he come to
an accommodation.

money doesn't always
have to change hands
to keep the wheels turnin'.

i know you had problems
with your father.

and he and muriel--
your mother was a saint.

but buddy deeds
was my salvation.

won't be another like him.

it is an honor for me
to assume command
of this unit.

i'm looking forward
to working with all of you.

i'm sure you're all aware
of the army's decision
to shut this post down.

that does not mean, however,
that we are here to mark time
until we're reassigned.

you may have heard rumors that
i run a very tight operation.

these rumors
are not exaggerated.

wait a minute.

get down !
somebody
call the doctor !

somebody call the doctor !

hold him down !
hold him down !

somebody call, please !

you weren't in here
tonight, were you ?
n-no, sir.

go out the back way.
somebody call the doctor !

somebody call the doctor !

just tearin' everything down.
tearin' down our heritage.

tearin' down the memory
of people who fought
and died for this land.

we fought and died
for this land too.

we fought the u.s. army,
the texas rangers.

yeah, and you lost, buddy.
winners get the braggin' rights.
that's the way it goes.

people, people, it would be best
if we don't view this thing
in terms of winners and losers.

the way she's teachin' it,
it's got everything
switched around.

i was on the textbook committee,
and her version is not--

we think of the textbook
as a guide, not as an absolute.

it is not what
we set as the standard.

now you people can
believe whatever you want.

but when it comes
to teaching our children--

they're our children too.
as a majority in this community,
we have the right--

the men that founded
this state have the right
to have their story...

told the way it happened,
not the way somebody wanted it
to happen.

the men who founded this state
broke from mexico because they
needed slavery to be legal...

to make a fortune
in the cotton business.

-that's an oversimplification.
-you reportin' this meeting,
danny, or runnin' it ?

just adding a little
historical perspective.

you call it history,
i call it propaganda.

they got their own account
of the alamo on the other side,
but we're not on the other side.

there's no reason
to be so threatened--

- we're not about to have
school taught that way !
- excuse me.

i've only been trying
to get across...

part of the complexity
of our situation down here.

cultures coming together
in both negative
and positive ways.

if you're talkin' about
food and music and all,
i have no problem with that.

but when you start changin'
who did what to whom--

we're not changing anything.
we're just trying to present
a more complete picture.

that's what's got to stop !

there's enough ignorance
in the world without us
encouraging it in the classroom.

now who are you
callin' ignorant ?

i hope the sucker does
die, man. mess with me,
that's what you get.

hospital says the
other kid's in bad shape.

the shooter local ?
down from houston.

think he knew
the girl from before.

we'll take a statement
from all the g.i.'s
before they go back to post.

you can get the story
from otis over at the club.
okay.

any poop on the john doe
we found out there today ?

no, nothin' much.
rangers are puttin'
ben wetzel on it.

i'll catch ya later.
all right.

he's only 15.
he's about five-foot-five--

pilar ?

- something wrong ?
- they've got my son.

- they've got him here ?
- somebody called.

something about a house
that was broken into.
they say they don't have him--

i know what he looks like.
i'll see what's going on.

i was, uh--

i was real sorry
about nando.

he was a good fellow.

we haven't talked--

we haven't talked
since high school.

yeah. i'll go check
on your boy.

richie didn't say nothin',
'cause he didn't want
to get in it, see ?

then the next thing i know
there's shots,
and richie's down.

it just happened so fast.

we got some boys
you run in earlier today ?

they tell me you're good
at fixin' things.

your father was
a hell of a mechanic.

you know, if you figure
minimum wage on the time
most thieves spend in jail,

they could have bought
most everything
they stole.

they asked me
to hook it up for them.
i didn't steal anything.

i didn't say you did.

my name's sam,
by the way.

he's all yours.
are you okay ?

i don't even know
what the big deal is.

you'll find out
when i get you home.

- thanks, sam.
- it's no problem.

it was good
seeing you again.

big o's is the only place
in the county where
african-american soldiers are--

well, that they feel
comfortable in, sir.

have we had trouble
there before ?
fistfight now and then.

this town isn't much, colonel.
they didn't come
for vacation.

no, sir, but for a lot of them,
it's their first time
away from home.

dealing with new people.
i remember my first hitch.
substance abuse ?

yes, sir, but
i went through the program.
i haven't had a drink since--

i meant on the post
in general. how are you
dealing with it ?

we throw a urine test
at them once a month.

random numbers.
maybe 100 people
at a time.

let's make it once a week
for a while.
no problem, sir.

i sprint the last quarter mile.
you gentlemen don't have to
keep up if you don't care to.

appreciate it, sir.

guy cracks walnuts
with his asshole.

you get the feeling
he doesn't wanna be here ?

sam the man.

hey, ben.
thanks for comin' down.

so how's business ?

business is boomin'.
got your drugs,
got your illegals.

had a shootin'
the other night at o's place.
soldier got ventilated.

i hear they're closin'
fort mckenzie down.

gonna pull a lot of jobs
outta this county.

yeah, we'll have folks
swimmin' over to mexico
to work in the sweatshops.

that the word
on our boy ?
this is skinny.

skinny ?

when we find a body,
it's either
skinny or stinky,

dependin' how much meat
there is on the bones.

it's a nice job.

male caucasian,
40 to 60 years old.

five-foot-nine
to five-eleven.

chewed tobacco. then
we got the dental records
and the personal effects.

it's charlie wade.

that badge--
didn't come out
of a cereal box.

yeah.

look, you know
the popular version
of how he left town.

everybody on the border
knows that story.

so you got
a cause of death ?
skull was intact.

there's no signs
of trauma on what
we found of him.

not much to go on.

so he could have
gone out to the post,
uh, just hopped the fence,

dug down into the dirt
on the old rifle range
and had a heart attack.

you remember what old buddy
carried for a side arm ?

colt peacemaker.

forty-five.
he swore by it.

what ?

i's just wonderin'.

so is buddy
on your short list ?

if it was some poor mojado
who swam across at night
and got lost in the brush...

and starved out there,
i wouldn't go much further.

but this is a formerly
prominent citizen who
disappeared under a cloud--

you got to investigate.
there's no question about it.

what i will do is keep names
out of it until we get some
answers or hit a dead end.

you know how the press is
when they get a hold
of a murder story,

even if it's 40 years old.

yeah, yeah, they can do
a number on ya.

i remember charlie wade
come to my father's
hardware store once.

i was just a little boy.

but i'd heard stories about
how he'd shot this one...

and how he shot that one.

man winked at me.
i peed my pants.

winked at me.

okay, we have the fight
against the spanish...

with bloody conflict for
dozens of years 'til they
are finally defeated in 1821...

and mexican independence
is declared.

anglo settlers are invited
to colonize the area.

by the time
they begin the movement
against santa anna,

they outnumber
the mexicans here
by four to one.

the war between mexico
and the anglo forces...

ends in 1836...

with the formation
of the texas republic.

texas joins the
united states as a state
where slavery is legal...

in 1845 after
the so-called mexican war,

then secedes to join
the confederacy in 1861.

the confederacy is beaten,
and the reformation period here
is marked...

by range wars and race wars...

and all this paralleled
by the constant battles...

between both the mexican and
anglo settlers and the various
indian nations in the area.

what are we seeing here,
chet ?

um, everybody's
killing everybody else.

boy, i always wondered
what you mayors do when
you're not cuttin' ribbons.

sam !

partner ! ya caught me
playin' hooky.

yeah, floatin' around out here,
playin' hell with them bass.

sounds great.
where do i sign up ?

you been by your old place
lately ?
no.

new people painted it
some god-awful color.

we found a body out
by fort mckenzie yesterday.
it'd been there a long time.

was it davy crockett
or jim bowie ?

you recall if charlie wade
was a mason ?

charlie ?

yeah, i believe he used
to go for lodge meetings
over to laredo.

what's charlie wade
got to do with your body ?

well, all it was wearin' was
a big, old masonic ring...

and a rio county
sheriff's badge.

you remember anything else from
that last night you saw him ?

hell, i've told the story
enough times.

we were just in the car.
he was stewin' about
his fight with buddy...

as we drove over
to roderick bledsoe's.
bledsoe ?

he owned the colored
roadhouse before otis.

- he still livin' ?
- no.

i think his widow's
still in their place
in darktown, though.

you think it was
charlie wade, huh ?

forensics people
are sure of it.

you got any idea who might
have put him there ?

besides my father, i mean.

there's no call
for that, sam.

wade made hisself a pile
of enemies over the years.

yeah, and buddy
was one of 'em.

with the dedication tomorrow,
this is a hell of a time
to bring up old business.

people have worked this whole
big thing up around my father.

if it's built on a crime,
they deserve to know.

i understand why you might want
to believe he couldn't do it.

i understand why you might
want to think he could.

thanks for your time,
hollis.

hey, look at all this,
will ya ?

tackle, boat !

all just to catch
a little old fish,

mindin' his own business
down in the bottom of the lake.

hardly seems worth
the effort, does it, sam ?

so you knew
this young man before ?

from back in houston.
we both come up
on fifth street.

did you know he was
gonna be there last night ?

if i had, i wouldn't
have gone in.

and you and
private graves were...

we were just dancin'.

we're not runnin'
a datin' service here,
private.

i know that, sergeant.
we were just dancin'.

there was
a bunch of us there.

shadow-- shadow just come
down lookin' for trouble.

i don't like
to get involved with
the personal life of soldiers,

but when it interferes
with the training here--

shadow just gets crazy.

sergeant, how is richie doin'--
private graves ?

he'll live.
he'll be transferred to fort sam
as soon as he's stabilized.

he'll probably be getting
a medical discharge.

will this go
on my record ?

the incident will be noted.

but if it happened
the way you say it did,

there hasn't been
an infraction.

thank you, sergeant.

you're dismissed.
thank you, sergeant.

you spoil 'em, cliff.
you don't believe her ?

let's just say that wasn't
much of an interrogation.

i'm the one in charge
of her sorry ass,
and quite frankly--

i don't want to give her
the third degree because
her ex-boyfriend is a thug.

she's pulled herself
out of a pretty rough
neighborhood.

if she isn't careful,
she's gonna slide
right back into it.

mrs. bledsoe ?
that's me.

i'm sheriff deeds.

sheriff deeds is dead, honey.
you just sheriff junior.

yeah, that's
the story of my life.

you ever play one of these ?

yeah, i've seen 'em.

don't ever start up
on 'em, 'cause once
you do, you can't stop.

i tell myself i'm just
gonna play three little games
after breakfast.

and here i am
with half the day gone.

you mind if i ask you
a few questions about
your husband roderick ?

i ain't gonna say
nothin' bad about the man,
but you can ask away.

he had the club out
on the old trail road ?

we run that club
for over 20 years.

give it over
to otis payne in...

1967, april.

then you must
remember sheriff wade ?

them days,

you deal with sheriff wade
or you didn't deal.

first of the month
every month, he remind you
of who you really workin' for.

so he squeezed money
out of you ?

wasn't legal
to sell liquor
in a glass back then,

unless you was a club, see ?

roderick used to say,

"buy yourself a glass,
get a free membership."

that sheriff wade,
he could close you down anytime.

and my father ?

sheriff buddy was
a different story.

long as roderick throw
his weight the right way
at election day,

make sure all the colored
come out to vote,

throw a barbecue for the
right folks now and then,

sheriff buddy
kept to his word.

that sheriff wade, though,
he could get ugly.

and people didn't complain,
huh ?

not if you was colored
or mexican.

not if you wanted
to keep breathing.

i remember
the last time i seen him
before he go on missin'.

he come fussin'
around our place.

he used to come in
whilst we was in full swing,

makin' everybody nervous.

had him a smile
like the grim reaper.

he used to sit there
with his hand
on his old gun,

actin' the kingfish
with everybody.

otis payne come to work
for us about that time.

and that boy
had him some attitude.

* shake, rattle and roll *

* shake, rattle and roll *

* shake, rattle and roll *

* well, you won't do nothin'
to save your doggone soul *

* shake, rattle and roll *

pour it.

what ?

pour it !

i know you ?

- name's otis.
- otis what ?

payne.
they call me "o."

one of
cleroe payne's boys ?

uh-huh.

i sent your daddy
to the farm once.

yeah, i know that.

why you think that was ?

some crop needed pickin'.
the man was shorthanded.

as i remember it was because
he had a sassy mouth on him.

must run in the family.

you wouldn't be runnin'
numbers out of this club,
would ya, son ?

runnin' numbers
is illegal, sir.

runnin' numbers
without i know about it
is both illegal and unhealthy.

you remember that.

whoa, son.
you're not finished.

- pour his.
- i prefer it in a bottle.

shut up, hollis.

how come you don't
look familiar ?

i been away,
up to houston.
houston ?

i hear they let you boys
run wild up there.

oh, look what you done now.

better get something
to wipe it up, son.

you spilt it.
maybe you should wipe it up.

i told you to do something.
you gonna hop to it or are
we gonna have a problem ?

don't wanna turn tail in
front of your people, huh ?

i understand.

- come on, houston.
give it a try.

come to papa.

uh, don't mind him, sheriff !

the boy is a bit slow is all.
he don't mean nothin' by it.

that the problem, son ?
you slow ?

otis. apologize
to the sheriff.

sheriff, you got him
too scared to peep.

maybe if you'd
put that gun up ?

you tellin' me what to do ?

no, sheriff, i'm just--

is that whiskey in them glasses
on the bar ?

roderick, i'm gonna
have to cite you
for violation of state law.

this is a club, sheriff.
you been here.

all you people better
clear outta here now.

you learn how to act
your place, son.

this isn't houston.

'course, i was young...

and full of beans
back then.

i didn't understand the spot
i was puttin' roderick in.

and that was the last time
you saw him ?

i think he came in
one more time.

uh, with hollis and, uh--
no, no.

your daddy wasn't with him.
made their monthly pickup.

roderick wasn't in,
so i kept my mouth shut
and handed over that envelope.

and that was the night
he disappeared ?

could have been.

you own a gun ?

back then ?

no.

how about roderick ?

oh, he kept a big old piece
back behind the bar,

just so folks
knew it was there.

i don't keep one here now.
don't much care for 'em.

and when my father
was sheriff ?

- what about him ?
- what was your deal with him ?

buddy was more a part
of the big picture.

county political machine.

chamber of commerce.
zoning board.

if i kept those people happy,
he was pretty much on my side.

whenever somebody thought
of startin' up a new bar
for the black folks,

they'd be, uh--

how should i say this ?

they'd be
officially discouraged.

he ever accept cash
for a favor ?

i don't recall
a prisoner ever died
in your daddy's custody.

i don't recall
a man in this county--
black, white, mexican--

who'd hesitate
for a minute...

before they'd
call on buddy deeds
to solve a problem.

more than that,

i wouldn't care to say.

i'm supposed to tell
my friends they're
too low class to hang with ?

come on, amado.

just because i'm not like
little miss honor roll ?

leave your sister
out of this.

you and those
teachers in that dump,
your story's over.

so you don't want
anybody else to have fun.
you jerk !

i'm not talking to you.
you don't have any friends.

who'd want to be friends
with pachuco wanna-bes ?

i don't pretend i came
over on the mayflower.

and those stupid girls
who hang out with them.
shut up !

joanie orozco's telling
the whole school she's
in love with santo guerra.

- so ?
- it's pathetic.

you can't be
desperately in love
when you're 14 years old.

not if you have
half a brain.

of course you can.
what ?

it's got nothin' to do
with being smart.

it's ancient
goddamn history, danny.

1963, they dam up the north
branch to make lake pescadero.

a whole little town
disappears.

- a squatter's town !
- people had been living
in perdido for 100 years.

mexicans and chicanos
are deported, evicted,

moved forcibly out of
their houses by our local hero,
buddy deeds, and his department.

there was a bill
from the state legislature.

families were
split apart, jorge.
a community was destroyed.

who ends up with
lakefront property bought for
a fraction of the market price ?

buddy deeds,
sheriff of rio county, and
his chief deputy, hollis pogue.

you finished ?

look, i'm not
after you, sam.

i think people in town
ought to know the full story
on buddy deeds.

that makes two of us.

i don't see what
the big deal is.

go back over,
talk to the man
and bury the hatchet.

why should i be the one ?
he's had almost 40 years.
i haven't heard a word from him.

- he was probably embarrassed.
- otis payne was never
embarrassed in his life.

- dad.
- del, you were eight
when he left.

he didn't leave.
he moved three houses down with
one of my mother's best friends.

dad ?

"hey, delmore,
where's your daddy ?"

this godforsaken town.
everybody in everybody else's
business.

and everybody loved otis.
big o.

always there with a smile
or a loan or a free drink.

- dad, can i talk
to you about track ?
- people change.

- not that much.
- i talked to the track coach.

we already had this out.
next year if your grades
are higher.

-i have a "b" average.
-how many "b" averages do you
think they take at west point ?

we're stuck here
for three years.
we're gonna have to see him.

no. we don't.

get off the phone, enrique.
we've got people waiting.

¿ mami ?

these ones coming over are
getting stupider every year.

maybe you're just
gettin' less patient.

if they're going to
survive here, they have
to know how to work.

if you hire illegals,
what do you expect ?

nobody's illegal
in my cafe.

they've got green cards.
they've got relatives
who were born here.

if they only had
a little common sense,
i'd be very happy.

maybe if you took
more time training them,
you wouldn't have this--

you come here to teach me
how to run my business ?

i was wondering
if you wanted to take
a trip south with us.

maybe see where you grew up ?
why would i want
to go there ?

you must be curious
how it's changed.

amado is into this
big tejano roots thing.

i've never been further
than ciudad leon.

you wanna see mexicans ?
open your eyes
and look around you.

we're up to our ears
in them.

mami, how old were you...

when my father died ?

he was killed.

right.
when he was killed.

a little older
than paloma is now.

how come you never
got married again ?

it just didn't happen.

there must have
been somebody.

i was too busy.

mami, nobody is too busy.

maybe now.
it was different back then.

i had to do all the shopping,
all the cooking.

what do i need some chulo
with grease under his nails
to drink up the profit ?

thank you.

i don't mean fernando.

mami,when i brought him home,
those were your exact words.

some chulo with grease
under his nails.

- i never said that.
- you made it pretty damn
clear. you thought he was
nobody.

i felt you could
do better for yourself.

what ? what ?

become a nun ?
you didn't even want me
to go out with anglos.

i never said that.
it was just that boy.

"that boy."

mami, say his name,
for christ's sakes.

you people are stealing from me.
i entiende ! i robandome !

¿ lo madre ?

mm-hmm.

lo siento.

now, i'm as liberal
as the next guy.

if the next guy
is a redneck.

but i gotta say,
i think there's something
to this cold climate business.

i mean, you go to the beach,
what do you do ?

drink a few beers,
wait for that fish
to flop up on the sand.

can't build
no civilization that way.

but you got
a cold winter comin' on,
you got to plan ahead.

that gives your old
cerebral cortex a workout.

good thing you were
born down here then.

you joke about it, sam,
but we are in a state of crisis.

the lines of demarcation
are gettin' fuzzy.

to run a successful civilization
you have got to have
your lines of demarcation...

between right and wrong,
between this 'un and that 'un.

your daddy understood that.
he was a--
what do you call it ?

a referee for this
damn menudo we got down here.

he understood how
most folks don't want
their salt and sugar...

in the same jar.

boy, you mix drinks
as bad as you mix metaphors,
you'd be out of a job.

you're the last white sheriff
this town's gonna see.

hollis retires next year.
jorge guerra's gonna take over.

this is it right here, sam.

this bar is the last stand.

se habla american,
goddamn it.

even in here
it's slidin' away. tsk.

take that pair over there
in the corner.

place like this,
20 years ago,

buddy'd been on them two.

he'd have went over there
and give them a warning.

not that he had it in
for the colored, but just
as a kind of safety tip.

yeah, i bet he would.

day that man died,

they broke the goddamn mold.

seriously.
"seriously" ?

i think we should
get married.

we've been
through this before.

we should just do it.

and if i get transferred
to a different post ?
germany or korea ?

- i'd ask for a transfer too.
- which they are most likely
to turn down.

i'd quit the army for you,
if it came to that.

you know, you are somethin'.

man's gonna retire in two years,
and he offers to quit.

big goddamn deal.
excuse me.

sheriff. hi.
this is sergeant--

this is priscilla worth.

sheriff deeds was with us
on our archaeological find
yesterday.

it true they gonna build
a shopping mall out there ?

if certain people
have their way,
it's gonna be a new jail.

damn. they closin' down
military left and right...

and puttin' up jails
like 7-eleven stores.

say, do either of you
have any idea...

when they stopped usin'
that site as a rifle range ?

fort mckenzie stopped training
infantry there in the late '50s.

it was just a playground
for the jackrabbits 'til they
gave it to the county last year.

you know who it was
they dug up ?

i'm not for sure yet.

but i kind of
wish they hadn't.

es muy lindo,
su coche, senora.

in english, enrique.
this is the united states.

we speak english.

is very beautiful,
your car.

good night, enrique.
buenas noches, senora.

* since i met you, baby *

* my whole life
has changed *

* since i met you, baby *

* my whole life
has changed *
carolyn.

knock that off a minute.

* and if-- *

- black seminoles ?
- hobby of mine.

a few artifacts.

couple of pieces one of your men
out on the base made.

admission's free.

ah.

this is where he was shot ?

he fell right there
by the door.

get much of that in here ?

it's a bar.
folks come together.

drink, fall in love,
fall outta love,
air their grudges out.

deal drugs in the bathroom.

if i thought it would do
any good, i'd put up a sign
tellin' 'em not to.

right next to the one
about the employees
washin' their hands.

this here is carolyn.

honey, this is my son,
delmore.

nice to meet you, ma'am.

i'll be in back,
waiting for that delivery.

so ?

so.

tell me why i shouldn't
make this place off-limits.

this is an
official visit then.

i assume most of your business
is with our people.

your boys all cooped up
together out there.

they need someplace
to let the steam out.

if they black, there's not
but one spot in this county
where they feel welcome.

it's been that way
since before you were born.

we have an enlisted men's club
at the post.

you the man out there now,
ain't ya ? it's your call.

that's right.

i've been hearing about
this new commander out there
for a couple of weeks now.

boys say they hear
he's a hard case.

a real spit and polish man.

full bird colonel
by the name of payne.

bet you never figured
you'd end up back here.

the army offers you a command,
you go wherever it is.

right.

i hear things too.
they call you
the mayor of darktown.

over the years,
this is the one place
that's always been there.

i loan a little money out.
i settle a few arguments.

i got a cot in the back.
folks get scared to go home,
they can spend the night.

there's not enough of us to
run anything in this town.

it's holiness church
or big o's.

and the people
make a choice.

most of 'em choose both.

there's not like
there's a borderline...

between the good people
and the bad people.

you're not on either
one side or the other.

right.

i'm gonna meet
that family of yours ?

why would you
want to do that ?

because... i'm your father.

you'll get
official notification
when i make my decision.

so that's him.
yeah, that's him.

historic occasion,
ain't it ?

yeah, seems like we have
another one every week.

jorge and the boys
at the chamber of commerce
gotta keep things hummin'.

buildin' up tourism, sam.
people come
here to catch bass...

and to get laid at
the boy's town in ciudad leon.

you ought to put up a banner:
"frontera, texas, gateway
to inexpensive pussy."

that kind of talk
don't help.

i'd rather have that
than the ten-foot-high
catfish statute.

i got eddie richter
at the sentinel to kill
that story, sam.

what, the perdido thing ?
he agreed it
wasn't exactly news.

danny's gonna be out
for blood the next time.

that's the reason
we wanted to talk to you
about the new jail.

just so's we're
on the same page.
we don't need a new jail.

that's a matter of opinion.
we're already rentin' cells
to the feds for overflow.

there was a mandate
in the last election--
it wouldn't happen to be...

your construction company
gonna get the bid on buildin'
this thing, would it, fenton ?

and jorge,
you wouldn't be thinkin' about
a couple dozen new jobs...

to dangle in front
of the voters when you run
for mayor next election ?

the people are
concerned about crime.

i'm not gonna campaign
against your deal here.

but if anybody asks me,
i got to tell them the truth.

we don't need a new jail.

- when we backed you--
- when you backed me,

you needed somebody named deeds
to bump the other fellow
outta office.

hi, sam.
hey, folks.

fenton, what's up, buddy ?
hi ! how you doin' ?

let's get this thing
over with.
good to see ya.

i never thought i'd see
the day a buddy of mine
would be datin' a woman...

with three bars
on her shoulder.

it's beyond
what you'd call dating.

you gonna get married ?
maybe.

you met her family ?

they gonna be
cool about you
bein' a white guy ?

priscilla says they think
any woman over 30 who's not
married must be a lesbian.

she figures
they'll be so relieved
that i'm a man--

it's always heartwarming
to see a prejudice defeated
by a deeper prejudice.

marriage, man.
i don't know.

let's see. i did two tours
of duty in southeast asia.

i was married
for five years.

i couldn't tell you
which experience was worse.
hey, mikey.

i knew she was japanese
goin' into it, but she didn't
tell me the ninja assassin part.

mikey.
her parents
acted like...

i was gonna blow my nose
on their curtains.

mikey.
if i stayed out
past 10:00 with the guys,

she'd go into this
madame butterfly routine.

hey, mikey.
look at this.

what ? it's a bullet.
i'm lousy with bullets here.

- it's a .45.
- oh, yeah ?

this is the stuff
we picked up
the other day, right ?

the rest of this
is all .30 caliber.

they were
using m-1's, yeah.
yeah.

so what's a pistol slug
doin' on a rifle range ?

we better call
that sheriff.

back in the early '70s,

a reporter from a national
magazine asked the governor
of our lone star state,

"governor,
what's your ideal...

of what a real texan
oughta be ?"

governor said,
"son, that's easy.

"just go down to rio county
and get a look...

at sheriff buddy deeds."

thank you.

there's, uh, one more person
we ought to hear from.

i think he's somebody who knew
buddy better than any of us.

sam, uh, say a few words ?

well, you folks
who remember my father...

knew him as sheriff.

but at home, he was also
judge, jury and executioner.

this is a real honor
you're doin' him today.

and if buddy was around,
i'm sure his hat size...

would be gettin'
a lot bigger every minute.

i used to think there
wasn't a place in this town...

you could hide
from my old man.

and now i'm sure of it.

i do appreciate it though.

and wherever he is,
buddy's puttin' the beer
on ice for the bunch of ya.

thank you.

and now my favorite
council member...

and one of frontera's
most respected businesswomen,

mrs. mercedes cruz,
will do the honors.

senora cruz, espera
un momento. como esto.

gracias.

it does look
kind of like buddy.

i think he's gonna run that
mexican kid in for loitering.

nice to see you, mrs. cruz.

field trip ?
lunch hour.

my next class
isn't until 1:30.

you want
to take a walk ?

they cooked
the whole thing up
without asking me.

people liked him.

most people did.
yeah.

i remember him
watching me once...

when i was little...

before you and i--

i was on the playground
with all the other kids.

but i thought
he was only looking at me.

i was afraid
he was gonna arrest me.

he had those eyes,
you know, and that--
yeah.

hmm. it's weird
what you remember.

- hey, your boy there--
- amado.

- nice-lookin' kid.
- he hates me.

no.

with paloma, it's more like
she pities and tolerates me.

totally age appropriate.

but with amado--
he's always had
difficulty reading.

and me being
a teacher and caring
about those things,

it's like... a betrayal.

fernando did okay.
he dropped out.

fernando wasn't
pissed off at everybody.

he just wanted
to fix their cars.

i spent my first
15 years tryin' to be
just like buddy.

next fifteen tryin'
to give him a heart attack.

so why did you
come back here, sam ?

i got divorced.

i wasn't gonna work for
my father-in-law anymore.

the fellas down here,
they said they'd back me.

you don't wanna be sheriff.

i gotta admit, it's not
what i thought it'd be.

back when buddy had it--

hell, i'm just a jailer.

i run a 60-room hotel
with bars on the windows.

you remember this ?

i, um--
i oughta head back.

pilar--
it looks real bad
if the teacher's
late for class.

it's real nice
to talk with you, sam.

are you gonna tell her ?

you gonna tell him ?

he doesn't need to know
all my business.

he's gonna find out.

so ? what's he gonna do ?
arrest us ?

it's supposed
to be some big sin even
if you love each other.

you believe that ?

no.

me neither.

private johnson !

report to sergeant burr in the
orderly's room. the doctor's
gonna have a look at you.

i'm feelin' okay.

i'm real happy
to hear that, private.

go put some pee-pee
in a cup for dr. innis, and
i'm gonna be feelin' okay too.

y-you testin' me ?

you and 119 other
fortunate individuals.
put it in gear.

take this shit off now.
you been talkin'
so much trash today,

you got us thinkin'
you're a dangerous criminal.

you better be good, boy.
"boy" ? you're the one
who's a good boy.

man say fetch
and you fetch.
just doin' my job.

white man just usin' you
to keep the black man down.

this isn't houston, friend.
we're running things now.
our good day has come.

you chumps
ain't had a good day
since the alamo.

andale, amigo.

lupe ? would you get me
ben wetzel up in austin ?

i vamonos !

wetbacks again.

hello ? border patrol ?

mom ?
yeah ?

you gonna
stay out here ?
yeah. for a while.

what's she
singin' about ?
what do you think ?

hey !
good morning, sheriff !

- hey, pete. how's it goin' ?
- time marches on.

- how much you got left ?
- three months.

stop growin' that locoweed
at your place, you'd see
a lot more daylight.

it was for
personal consumption.

you gonna smoke
an acre and a half
of marijuana ?

look, i got a bad stomach.
it helps me to digest.

your father never
bothered me about it.

leastways, not 'til those
drug people got on his case
in the late '60s.

i thought he busted ya
a couple of times.

no. different charge.

i had a still.

i made my own mescal. that's
how come i ruined my stomach.

i'm surprised
he bothered with it.

he was afraid i was going
to poison somebody.

- your father tried
to do good for people.
- so i heard.

and your mother,
she was a saint.

you remember that summer
when i built that patio
at your house ?

she made me lunch
every day.

you were workin' there.

it could have been just
another box lunch from the jail.

you built our patio
while you were on the county ?

out in the fresh air,
nice gringa lady
makin' you pies.

who the hell's gonna sit back
in a little jail cell all day ?

oh, sheriff buddy, man.

como el no hay dos.

and after
that cabron charlie wade.

i heard wade was a bit tough
on the mexicans.

he murdered eladio cruz.
is that tough enough for you ?

murdered him ?

chucho montoya saw it
with his own eyes.

shot him in cold blood.

era muy cabron
ese charlie wade.

sam !

uh, sam, wait up.

you're out early.

yeah.

haven't seen much of you
at the jail lately.

i'm workin' on
a few things.
uh-huh.

i'm goin' over
to the other side.

the republicans ?
no. mexico.

oh.
gotta talk to someone.

well, they got telephones.

no. it's gotta
be in person.

sam, i--
i, uh--

the committee--
jorge and fenton and all--

they, uh--
well, they've asked me if--

they want you to stand
for sheriff next election.

yeah.

you'd do a good job.

thanks.
what about you ?

i don't know
if i'll still want it.

i, uh, just didn't want
to go around your back.
that's all.

appreciate you tellin' me.

you think we need
a new jail ?

well, sam, um,
it's a complicated issue.

yeah. right.

you'd be a hell
of a sheriff.

down here
we don't throw everything away
like you gringos do.

recycling, right ?

we invented that.

the government doesn't have
to tell people to do it.

so you own this place,
huh ?

this place, the one
across the street.

three or four others
in ciudad leon.

soy el rey de las llantas.

king of the tires.

a lot of your people
rolling over that bridge
on my rubber.

you lived in the states
for a while ?

fifteen years.

made some money,
came back here.

something like that.

you ever know a fellow
named eladio cruz ?

you're the sheriff
of rio county, right ?

un jefe muy respetado.

step across this line.

i ay, que milagro !

you're not the sheriff
of nothing anymore.

just some tejano
with a lot of questions
i don't have to answer.

a bird flying south.

you think he sees this line ?

rattlesnake, javelina,

whatever you got.

you think halfway across
that line they start
thinking different ?

why should a man ?

your government's
always been pretty happy
to have that line.

the question's just been
where to draw it.

my government
can go fuck itself
and so can yours.

i'm talking
about people here.

men.

mi amigo eladio cruz...

was giving some friends
of his a lift one day
in the back of his camion.

but because they're on one
side of this invisible line
and not the other,

they got to hide in
the back como criminales.

and because over there he's
just another mex bracero,

any man with a badge
is his jefe.

what's in the back ?

not much, jefe.
some watermelons.

drivin' 'em
up for the market.
should bring a good price.

i heard somebody been
haulin' wets on this road.

i haven't seen anybody
doing that.

this same person
been braggin'
all over the county...

how he doesn't have to cut
that big gringo sheriff
in on it.

he can run his own
operation without any help.

¿ como se llama, amigo ?

eladio cruz.

you know this road's
got a bad reputation,
eladio.

- reputation ?
- bandidos, injuns.

there's many an unfortunate
soul been ambushed
out on this stretch.

i hope you're carryin'
some protection.

protection ?

you carryin'
a firearm, son ?
don't lie to me now.

si. un escopeto.
just a shotgun.

just a shotgun.

better let me
have a look at that.

oh ! oh, jesus !

little greaser
son of a bitch is runnin'
a goddamn bus service.

think he can make a fool
out of charlie wade.

get them wets
out of the back, hollis.
see what we've got.

you killed him.
you got a talent for
statin' the obvious, son.

steve called for you.

steve ?
steve.
board of education steve.

who likes you.
he goes for us hot-blooded
mexican girls. i can tell.

spanish, please.
my mother would have
a heart attack.

your mother's family
is spanish ?

sure, they go
back to cortez.

when he was riding by,
they were squatting in a hut,
cooking hamsters for dinner.

you've got to be interested
in somebody, pilar.
all you do is work.

all my mother does is work.
that's how you get
to be spanish.

how about this sheriff ?
sheriff ?

the old high school
heartthrob sheriff ?

thought you were
crazy about each other.

he's available,
you're available.

i'm unmarried.
i'm not available.

you told me one time
it was true love.

nobody stays in love
for 23 years.

come on. get up !

i can't ! i can't !
get up !

let's go.

goddamn it !
come here.

what the hell are you doin',
you asshole ?
how old is that girl, huh ?

let me go! i pendejo !
come on now, missy.
get your clothes in order.

huh ? where's
your goddamn sense, son ?
you got no fuckin' right.

stay outta my life !

give me the goddamn car keys.
what am i supposed
to do with her, buddy ?

drive her home. tell her mother
where we found her.
sam !

you leave her alone !
move it, boy !

please don't tell my mother.
she's gonna kill me.

pilar !
don't argue with me.
git !

* my love, my love
is a mountainside *

* so from, so from it
can come the tide *

* my love for you
is a mountainside *

* it stands so firm
it can calm the tide *

* that's why my love *

* my love is
a mountainside *

* my love, my love
is an ocean roar *

* so strong, so strong
that i can't let you go *

* my love for you
is an ocean's roar *

* it grows so strong
that i can't let you go *

* that's why my love *

* my love is
an ocean's roar *

* my love is longer
than forever *

* and endless
as the march of time *

* 'til 99 years after never *

* in my heart
you'll still be mine *

* because my love *

* my love is
a deep blue sea *

* so deep, so deep that
i'll never be free *

* my love for you
is a deep blue sea *

* it's grown so strong
that i'll never be free *

* and that's why my love *

* my love is
a deep blue sea *

* oh, my love, my love *

* my love, my love
is a deep blue sea *

* my love *

follow me.

we thought we were
somethin', didn't we ?

yeah.

i look at
my kids in school--

tenth,
eleventh-graders--

that's who we were--
children.

i mean, what did we know
about anything ?

nothin'.

when nando died--
it was so sudden.

i... kind of went
into shock for a while.

and... then i woke up,

and there was
the rest of my life.

and i had no idea
what to do with it.

you know the other day
you asked why
i came back.

yeah ?

i came back
'cause you were here.

my mother hasn't changed
the songs since i was ten.

wow.

yeah.

how come it feels the same ?

i don't know.

it just feels good.

always did.

so, um--

what are we gonna do
about this ?

more. i hope.

huh ?

how long have
you lived here ?

two years.

there's nothin'
on the walls.

no pictures.

i don't have kids.

the other pictures--

i don't know.
it's nothin' that i want
to look back on.

like your story's over.

i've felt that way.
yeah.

it isn't.

mm-mmm.
not by a long shot.

pilar.

what was
your father's name ?

eladio.
eladio cruz.

that's john horse.

the spanish down in florida
call him juan caballo.

john horse.

he a black man
or an indian ?

both.

he's part of the seminole
nation got pushed into
the florida everglades...

back in pioneer days.

african people run off
from slaveholders,

hooked up with 'em,
married up, had children.

when the spanish
give up florida,
the u.s. army come down...

to move all the indian people
to oklahoma.

a couple of them held out.
that man john horse,

his friend wildcat,

another fellow
named osceola...

put together a fighting band,
held out for another
10, 15 years.

beat zach taylor and a thousand
troops at lake okeechobee.

so they stayed in florida ?

one night they packed up,
rode out to mexico.

then went to work
for general santa anna
down there.

after the civil war,
they came north to texas,

put up at fort duncan.

the men joined up what was
called the seminole negro
indian scouts.

they were the best trackers
on either side of the border.

they'd chase after
bandits, rustlers,

texas rednecks,
kiowas, comanches--

they fought
against the indians ?

- just like they did in mexico.
- but they were indians
themselves.

they were in the army.

like your father.

you know who i am ?

i got a pretty good guess.

t-that guy who got shot.

you didn't go tellin'
your father you were here ?

are you kidding ?
and face a court-martial ?

pretty tough old man, huh ?

every time he moves up a rank,
he's got to tighten
the screws more.

i mean, just
'cause he didn't--

you know, he didn't have--

didn't have a father.

he's still pissed off
about it.

when you're his age,

you'll still be
pissed off about him.

how come you got
into all of this ?

these are our people.

there are paynes in florida,
in oklahoma, piedras negras.

so i'm part indian ?

by blood ya are.

but blood only means
what you let it.

my father says
from the day you're born
you start from scratch.

no breaks and no excuses.

gotta pull yourself up
on your own.

he's livin' proof
of that, son.

livin' proof.

mornin', hollis.
sam ! sit down.

big to-do the other day.

meant a lot to folks
you said somethin'.

you thought any more
about our murder ?

i wish i could tell ya
i remembered something new.
i can't.

i got an idea
what happened.

you do ?

i think somewhere between
roderick bledsoe's club
and his house,

wade ran into buddy deeds.

i think buddy
put a bullet in him.

waited for him to die,
threw him in the trunk
of the sheriff's car...

and drove him out
by fort mckenzie.

i think he buried him
under four feet of sand
and never looked back.

you lived in
the man's house how long ?

seventeen, eighteen years.

you didn't get to know him
any better than that.

i gotta go see somebody
up in san antonio.

your memory gets any better,
i'll be back tonight.

she finally got up.
it's saturday.

you got in late last night.

i had some, um,
some school business.

could i get this ?

oh, paloma. nobody
really wears that stuff.

just 'cause you went
to catholic school
and wore a uniform.

i only went for
my last two years.

how come ?

my mother wanted
to keep me away from--

from boys.

did it work ?

longhorns go for
ten times the price.

but longhorns are hard
to come by these days.

sell much out here ?

how am i gonna sell things ?
nobody comes around.

this stretch of road
runs between...

nowhere and not much else.

hell of a spot
to put a business.

don't see much
competition, do you ?

used to sell these things
like hotcakes.

now, if it can't
play those disks,
they won't look at it.

i like it here.

once i tried going onto
the reservation to live,

couldn't take
the politics.

damn indians
will drive you
crazy with that.

now, your father--
this wasn't what
he had in mind.

he come out of korea,
bought a chevy with
too much engine.

he used to come roaring
up and down this road
all hours of the day and night,

lookin' for
somebody to race.

look here.

buffalo chips.

fellow down in santa fe told me
he sells these things...

as fast as the buffalo
can squeeze them out.

you think he killed
anybody in korea ?

they don't hand those
medals out for hidin'
in your foxhole.

would you buy this ?

no.

yeah. neither would i.

if he hadn't found
a deputy's job,

i believe buddy might have
gone down the other path.

got into serious trouble.

settled him right down.
that and your mother.

of course, he had
that other one later.

he had another woman ?

your mother was not one
to be chased off her patch.

half the damn county
knew about it.

nobody thought
the worse of her
for seeing it through.

you know who it was ?

the other one ?

hell, at my age, you learn
a new name you gotta forget
an old one.

here.

this big fellow was sleeping
in a crate at cisco's junkyard.

right when i was gonna open
to see what was in there,

jumped right at my face.

scared me so bad
i had to kill him
without thinking.

you gotta be careful
where you go pokin'.

who knows what you'll find.

private johnson,

are you unhappy
in the army ?

no, sir.

then how would you explain...

that out of 120 people...

you were the only one
who came up positive
for drugs ?

i'm sorry, sir.

when you were given
the opportunity to enlist,

a kind of contract
was agreed upon.

i think the army
has honored its part
of that agreement.

yes, sir.

do you believe in
what we're doin' here,
private johnson ?

i can do the job, sir.

what exactly do you think
your job is, private ?

um, follow orders.
do whatever they say.

who's "they" ?
the officers.

and that's the job ?
nothing about
serving your country ?

these are not
trick questions,
private johnson.

you'll be offered an article 15,
and we will go through the
process one way or the other.

i'm just trying
to understand...

how someone like you thinks.

- y-you really want to know ?
- please.

well, it's their country.

this is one of the best deals
they offer.

how do you think
i got to be a colonel ?

being good at your job.
do what they tell you.

- "do what they tell you" ?
- i mean, follow orders, sir.

with your attitude,
private,

i'm surprised you want
to stay in the service.

i do, sir.

because it's a job ?

outside, it's such a mess.
it's, um--

chaos.

why do you think they
let us in on the deal ?

they got people to fight.

you know, arabs,
yellow people, whatever.

they might as well use us.

it works like this, private.

every soldier in a war
doesn't have to believe...

in what he's fighting for.

most of them fight just to
back up the other soldiers
in their squad.

they try not
to get them killed.

they try not to get them
extra duty.

you try not to embarrass
yourself in front of them.

why don't you
start with that ?

y-yes, sir.

dismissed.

thank you, sir.

this time threads
the needle for painter.

the aggies jump
to a 14-point lead.

late in the second quarter,
sooners back to punt
on their own 27--

longhorns are gonna kick
some serious butt this saturday.
you just watch.

we got a kid, a tailback, from
down your way, out of el indio--

- that's in maverick county.
- oh. right. and you're in ?

- in rio.
- right. this kid, hosea brown,
he does the 40 in 3.4.

soft hands, lateral movement,
the whole package.
only a sophomore.

- still goin' to home games ?
- daddy's got his box
in the stadium.

i'll fly to the cowboy
away games when they're
in the conference.

and then on friday nights,
there's high school,
of course.

churchill's got this boy,
six-foot-six, 310.

moves like a cat.
high school we're talkin'.

guess how much
he can bench press.

bunny, you, uh--
you on that same medication ?

why ? do i seem jumpy ?

no, no, you look good.
just wonderin'.

last year was awful rough
with mama passin' on
and this business with o.j.

it's not like it's don
meredith or roger staubuch
or one of our boys.

but it kind of threw me
for a loop.

you look good.

then there was that squeaker
the aggies dropped to oklahoma.

that son of a bitch
stepped in some lucky shit
before he kicked that goal.

if they hadn't pulled me
off that woman, i would have
jerked a knot in her.

you were in a fight ?

daddy calls
that an altercation.

how you doin', sam ?
you look skinny.

i'm the same weight
i always was.

daddy hired a pinhead
to take your job.
said so himself.

says, "even my son-in-law's
better than this pinhead
i got now."

bunny, uh,

that stuff i left in
the garage still there ?

least he never called me that.
with me it was always
"high strung."

"my bunny would have done
something with her life if
she wasn't so high strung--"

or "tightly wound."
that's another one.

you haven't had one
of your fires, have you ?

the stuff i left in the garage,
some of it was my father's.

did you watch the draft
this year ?

of course, you didn't.
idiot question.

they try to make it dramatic.
like it's a big surprise...

who picks who
in the first round.

only they've been going over it
for months with their experts
and computers,

doctors' reports,
coaches' evaluations,

highlight reels,
psychological profiles.

i wouldn't be surprised
if they collected
stool samples on these boys,

had 'em analyzed.

all that to pick a football
player for your squad.

compared to that, what you
know about a person when
you get married to 'em...

doesn't amount
to diddly, does it ?

no, i suppose not.

you kind of bought yourself
a pig in a poke,
didn't ya, sam ?

that whole time we were
first seeing each other,

you didn't know
that i was tightly wound.

it wasn't just you.

no, it wasn't, was it ?

you didn't exactly
throw yourself into it
heart and soul, did ya ?

your shit's still in the garage,
if that's what you came for.

three-hundred-and-fifty
pounds.

that boy churchill's got.

he plays tackle both ways.

bench presses 350 pounds.

can you imagine havin'
that much weight on you
pressin' down ?

be hard to breathe,
hard to swallow.

i think they have
another fellow there
to keep it off your chest.

a spotter.

"i only got
my little girl now," he says.

"she's my lifeline."

then he tells me
i can't sit in the box anymore
if i don't control myself.

son of a bitch
doesn't watch the games.

he sits there drinking
with his business friends.

looks up at the tv
now and then.

i'd be better off sitting
in the cheap seats with
some real football people.

you look good, bunny.

it's nice to see you.

thanks.

i like it when
you say that, sam.

"dearest buddy--"

hi.
hey ! it's the general.

colonel.
is otis in ?
come on in.

if it's too late,
i can always come--
come on in.

otis sittin' up with
some people at the club.

i don't think he'll be long.

his hot sauce recipe
won a contest last year.

they're sellin' it
far away as san antonio.

um, you've been in
this house for a while ?

i've been here with him
eight years now.

he built it when
he was with leora.

never met her.

there was a bunch of 'em
you never met. me neither.

let me show you around.

he got into all this cowboys
and indians stuff a while back.

spent half his time pokin'
around the library
way up to austin.

kind of like a shrine,
isn't it ?

where'd he get
all this stuff ?

your mother's got
a brother, alfonse.

uncle al.

otis stood on good terms
with the man.

whenever you do something that
makes the news, he sends it on.

when they made you general,
otis about drove away customers
goin' on about it.

i'm a colonel.

yeah, i know.
man made me memorize the whole
damn army chain of command...

before he'd marry me.

uh--

my mother said that
he never asked about me.

he never asked her.

tell him i stopped by ?

thanks.

catch ya later,

colonel.

enrique !
yes !

senora cruz ?

who is it ?

enrique, what are you
doing out here ?
are you crazy ?

in english, enrique.
we are in the united states.

i have some friends,
and they have had
an accident.

you have somebody else
out there ?

we was by the river,
and i "heared" my friend,
calling for help.

i look and she has
falling in the water--

don't tell me lies.
what happened ?

we was crossing the river--

enrique ?
what are you doing
out there ?

who are those people ?
how could you bring them here ?

i need help, senora.

- senora.
- i'll call the border patrol.
they'll get her to the hospital.

you think you're doing
these people a favor ?

what are they going to do ?
either they get on welfare
or they become criminals.

look out.

this girl is a friend
of yours ?

i thought you were married.

i am married to
the cousin of a friend,

but only for her
to live here.

this is the mother
of my child.

typical.

homework ?

no. finished that.
i'm just messin' around.

tanks, huh ?

yeah, well, gotta be in
the army, you might as well
have something slick to drive.

so,

you're going in the army.

that's the general plan,
isn't it ?

that's up to you.

the army
isn't for everybody.

it's not that i don't think
you wouldn't be good at it.
it's-- you know.

i wouldn't be disappointed
if you decided to do
something else with your life.

you wouldn't ?

no.

so, uh-- so, how's
your room shapin' up ?

it's fine.
i'm pretty much moved in.
good.

are we ever gonna
see your father ?

my father ?

- yeah, he lives here, right ?
- yes, he does.

maybe we'll fix
that thing out back up...

and have a barbecue
next weekend.

we could invite
him and his wife over.

he makes his own sauce.

i vamos ! i rapidamente !

everybody in the world
is going to see.

he used to be a doctor
on the other side.

don't worry about it.
he owes me a few favors.

in english, enrique.
in english !

hollis ?

hollis ?

ya in there ?

hollis !

there's a big difference
between what he can guess--

fellas.

sam !

you're open late.

i'm not open.
we were just talkin'.

so hollis probably told you.
we found charlie wade.

is that right ?

start diggin' holes
in this county, no tellin'
what will come up.

you two saw it, didn't ya ?

you two saw it
when buddy killed him.

i'm gonna find out
one way or the other.

your father had the finest
sense of justice of any man
i've ever known.

yeah, and my mother
was a saint.

for 15 years,
the whole damn town knew...

he had another woman
on the side.

he stole $10,000
to set her up in business.

but, hell, what's that ?

you got a problem ?
old buddy'll fix it.

you facin'
some time in jail ?

buddy'll knock
half of it off if you do
what he says when he says.

you got some business
that's not exactly legal ?
just talk to buddy.

- buddy deeds--
- buddy deeds was a murderer.

that night at the cafe,

he didn't stay long after
you left, did he, hollis ?

maybe he decided
he'd gone too far with wade.

maybe he figured
he'd better not wait for
the sheriff to get behind him.

so he stepped out
to see if he could catch up.

and you were here
at the club that night.

weren't ya, o ?

i was here.

i'd been runnin' a game
on the side after hours.

craps.

draw poker on the weekends.

roderick didn't
know about it.

more important, charlie wade
didn't know about it,

'cause i didn't want
to cut him in on it.

i was pretty full of myself
back in those days.

hell, i just didn't expect
the man so early.

charlie wade !

easy. easy.

sheriff charlie
was the whip hand...

for old judge tibbs,

who pretty much owned
this county back then.

if the truth came out,
it wasn't gonna go easy
on hollis.

i don't know why
i trusted buddy with it.

don't know why
he trusted me.

the first time
i talked with him was
right there and then...

with a dead white man
leakin' blood on the floor
between us.

the three of us... cleaned up
and took him out by the post...

and put him under.

can't say i was much help.

and the $10,000 ?

widow's benefits.

we figured it'd make
the disappearance look better.

mercedes was just scraping by
after charlie killed her man.

buddy and her didn't
get hooked up 'til later.

time went on, people
liked the story we told...

better than anything
the truth might have been.

it's your call, sam.

i don't think the rangers
are likely to...

find out any more
than they already know.

as for me,

it's just one of
your unsolved mysteries.

word gets out
who the body was,

people gonna think
buddy done it.

buddy's a goddamn legend.

he can handle it.

night, fellas.

hey. when's
the picture start ?

you gonna tell your mother
we been seein' each other ?

she'll find out
sooner or later.

i don't have to ask
permission anymore,
if that's what you mean.

have any idea when
your father died ?
eladio ?

couple of months
before i was born.

try a year and a half.

buddy bought
the cafe for her...

with money he took
from the county.

no, they can't
pull this on me.

it's not fair.

i don't believe this.

he paid the hospital bill
when you were born.

your mother--
she always calls you...

"our beautiful daughter"
in the letters
she wrote to him.

from the first time
i saw you in school--

all those years we were
married to other people,
i always felt like--

like we were connected.

i remember thinkin'...

that you were
the one part of my life...

that buddy
didn't have a piece of.

i can't have
any more children.

after amado, i had
some complications.

i can't get pregnant
anymore, if that's
what the rule is about.

so that's it ?

you're not gonna
wanna be with me anymore ?

if i met you...

for the first time
today,

i'd still want
to be with ya.

we start from scratch ?

yeah.

all that other stuff
and all that history--

the hell with it,
right ?

forget the alamo.

* i wanna be
a cowboy sweetheart *

* i wanna learn to rope
and to ride *

* i wanna ride over the plains
and the desert *

* out west of
the great divide *

* i wanna hear
the coyotes howlin' *

* while the sun sinks
in the west *

* i wanna be
a cowboy sweetheart *

* that's the life
that i love best *

* i wanna ride old paint
goin' at a run *

* i wanna feel the wind
in my face *

* a thousand miles
from these city lights *

* pullin' a cowhand's pay *

* i wanna pillow my head
near the sleepin' herd *

* while the moon shines
down from above *

* i wanna strum
my guitar and-- *

* oh, that's the life
that i love *

* i wanna be
a cowboy sweetheart *

* i wanna learn to rope
and to ride *

* i wanna ride over the plains
and the desert *

* out west of
the great divide *

* i wanna hear
the coyotes howling *

* while the sun
sinks in the west *

* i wanna be
a cowboy sweetheart *

* that's the life
that i love best *