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♪ One two ♪

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♪ A one two three and... ♪

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[theme song]

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♪ Chico don't be discouraged ♪

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♪ The Man he ain't
so hard to understand ♪

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♪ Chico if you try now ♪

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♪ I know that you can
lend a helping hand ♪

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♪ Because there's good
in every one ♪

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♪ And a new day has begun ♪

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♪ You can see the morning sun
if you try ♪

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♪ And I know
things will be better ♪

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♪ Oh yes they will
for Chico and The Man ♪

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♪ Yes they will
for Chico and The Man ♪♪

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Chico?

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Chico!

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Chico, where are the paper towels?

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[air hisses]

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Good lord!

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Good morning, my main pain.

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What is that, the new uniform
for the garbage collectors?

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No, these are my picket line clothes.

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You see we on the strike here.

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Strike? For what?
Free air wicks on your trucks?

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No, Ed, it's not the stink of the trash.

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It's the clink of the cash.

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Now what we want is 22,000 a year.

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$22,000 a year?

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Boy! I should've gone into garbage.

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Well, you've come as close as you could.

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Excuse me, gentlemen.

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Yeah, what can we do for you?

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Which one of you is Brown?

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We both are.

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He's Ed Brown, I'm dark brown.

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I, uh, I was told that you could be

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of some help to me, Mr. Brown.

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Yes, I'm looking for a kid.

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Well, keep your eye on the
alley because in a minute

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there'll be six of them
stripping your car.

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Oh, no, no, I'm a private investigator.

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My name is Maynard Jennings.
Here's my card.

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- Oh, thank you.
- Yes.

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I'm trying to locate a
Francisco Rodriguez

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known as Chico.

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Uh-uh, I've never heard of him.

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Well, I'd like to have you take
a good look at this photo.

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It was taken of course some years ago.

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Uh-huh.

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Small boy in a sailor suit.

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No, I've never seen anybody
like that around here.

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Yeah, take it back.

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You know something, Ed...

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...if you put a mustache on him--

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Yes, he'd then be a
3-year-old Chicano kid

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with a fuzzy lip.

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Ah, why are you looking for
this... What's his name?

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Well, I'm not at liberty to say.

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But is he here?

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No, no, no.
You have a the wrong garage.

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You see, I do employee
a Pancho Rodriguez.

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Yeah, yes.

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Hey, Ed, Louie.

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Got the paper towels.

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Paper towels?

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Wow!
Thank you very much, Pancho!

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This boy is hard of hearing.

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See, I told him to get some flowers

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he came in here with some towels.

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I said flowers, Pancho.

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Pancho?
What's playing here--

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Well, you see this man here?

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He's a detective and
he's looking for a guy

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with a name Chico Rodriguez

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who probably got himself
in some bad trouble.

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Maybe Pancho can help.

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No, he can't help, he never saw
this kid before in his life.

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There, take a look.
No, he doesn't recognize him.

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Let me see, man.

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Hey mister, where did
you get this picture?

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Why do you know him?

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Don't shout, I got 20-20 hearing.

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This is me.

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How can it be you?

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That kid's wearing a sailor suit

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you were in the infantry.

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And you admit, you are
Francisco Rodriguez?

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You bet your sweet dunkie, I am.

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Where'd you get my baby picture?

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Well, I'm not at liberty
to discuss that right now

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until I talk to my client.

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May I use your telephone?

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- It's in the office.
- Yeah.

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- And now long distance calls.
- Right.

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Don't worry, Chico, we'll
get you out of it.

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We'll get a lawyer, who'll
plead temporary insanity.

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Yeah, and I know the
judge who'll buy that

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knowing you worked for Ed Brown.

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- Yeah.
- I don't know, man.

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I don't remember doing anything wrong...

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...lately.

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When I was this age the
worst thing I did was

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snatch a hubcaps off a baby buggy.

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Well, uh, maybe it might
be something simple.

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Like what, Kojak?

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No, Blackjack.

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All right, young man.

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I can now divulge the
identity of my client.

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The gentleman who engaged
me to locate you

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is Gilberto Rodriguez.

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That was my father's name.

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My client is your father.

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Hey, what kinda scam is this, man?

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My father's been dead for 20 years.

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No, no, your father is very much alive

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and he's anxious to see you.

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Look, I don't know what
kinda game this is

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but I ain't playing.
You got the wrong Rodriguez.

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There's no mistake.

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Now look, I gave your
father this address

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and he's coming over here
before the day is out.

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Gentlemen, I bid you good day.

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J-just a minute, just a minute.

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What is this Gilberto Rodriguez like?

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Well, I've never met him face to face

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but, uh, his checks don't bounce.

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- What...
- Woo-wee!

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You can say that again.

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Is this for real?

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You know when I was a little kid

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I always dreamed this might happen.

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That I'd find out my father was alive.

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And if it's true, I don't
know whether I should be...

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...happy or sad.

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I feel like laughing and crying
and I don't know what else.

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What else is there? You just
about covered everything.

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All my life I believed
what my family told me

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that my father was dead.

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My Uncle Ramon told me, he said

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"Chico, your poor father, he
died from a terrible fever."

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Then my grandmother told me,

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"Pobrecito, Chico, your father

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went down in a ship wreck."

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So when I called them on it

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they put their two stories
together and said

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"Oh, yeah, your father
caught a terrible fever

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while the ship was sinking."

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Well, he's got some
nerve showing up now.

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Where was he when I needed him?

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When Mama died?

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Or when I was 9 years old
and that street gang

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"The Cobra Kissers" were
using me for a soccer ball?

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Or when I was 14 and I
needed some advice

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'cause Rita Melendez said she
could clear up my pimples.

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Now he thinks he can just
hustle his way in here

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and have a readymade grown up
sonny boy to take care of him.

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Well, no way, Jose.

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Oh, now listen to me, son.

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I'm not your son.

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I'm not nobody's son,
especially Gilberto's.

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Ah, he just passed judgment on
a man he's never even met.

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Is that my fault?

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I didn't cut out on him.

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It's kinda hard to hit the road

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when your diapers are
tangled up in your ankles.

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Well, how do you know
he wanted to leave?

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Maybe your mommy tossed him out.

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You know, a lot of mamas do that.

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Yeah, maybe he was tired of
your mother's nutty relatives.

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Oh, they weren't nutty,
they were colorful.

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- They're Latinos, you know.
- Yeah?

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What about your uncle who
thought he was a Greyhound?

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What he do, chase rabbits?

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No, he didn't chase rabbits, he
thought he was a Greyhound bus.

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He used to open his raincoat and holler

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"All aboard for San Diego."

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Well, you know, Ed, every
family a Cuckoo bird.

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Now, you take my cousin.

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He thinks he's a vacuum cleaner.

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His room is spotless, but
his lungs are filthy.

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[laughs]

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Guys, I know you're
trying to cheer me up

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but this is kind of a
personal thing, okay.

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Yeah, well, we're just
trying to help you.

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Don't be too harsh on him.

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Maybe he's sorry for all the
things that had happen

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and he wants to make it up to you.

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Yeah, give the creep a chance.

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Well, old buddy, how'd
you enjoy the lunch?

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What lunch?
You promised me soul food.

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That was fried fish.

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That's right.

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Fillet of soul food.

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Hey, Chico, I brought
some for you too, son.

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Thanks, Louie.

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Hey, Ed, how does he do that?

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Let me explain.

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I suppose you're gonna tell me
this is your half brother.

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See, in case my old man does show up

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I wanna get a good look at him

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before I decide if I wanna face him.

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[horn honks]

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[Louie] Oh-oh, lookie here!

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[car door opens]

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Oh, no, that can't be his father.

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Is there a Chico Rodriguez here?

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[Chico] Yeah.

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What can I do for you?

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Your father asked me to
drive you to his hotel.

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- Hotel?
- The Beverly Royal, sir.

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He decided it be best for you two

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to meet privately in his suite.

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- Oh, he decided?
- Yes. Shall I wait outside?

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Do what you want, I just
decided I ain't going.

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Chico, what's the matter with you?

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All my life he was never around
to decide anything for me

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he's not gonna start deciding
now. Just a minute.

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Listen, you tell that old man
that if he wants to see me

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he better haul himself
down here to the body

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and that's my decision.

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Hold on, come on, wait a minute, Chico.

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Now-now think this over
and give it a little...

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Well...

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...I'm sorry.

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My Mr. Rodriguez isn't gonna like this.

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Oh, my Mr. Rodriguez isn't
too happy about it either.

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Well, looks what we got here
is a Mexican standoff.

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Look at that face.

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Those eyes.

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How could any man in his right mind

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walk out on a woman like that?

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Chico, your mommy sure was beautiful.

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You must took after your father.

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Thanks, Louie.

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I don't even know what
my father looked like.

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Well, don't you have a picture of him?

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No, my family got rid of all of them.

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Even their wedding picture
was torn in half.

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All I saw was my mother
in a wedding dress

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with a hand around the hip.

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Okay, Chico, Garcia's
transmission's all finished.

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So put on a suit and tie and
take it out for a road test.

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You want me to put on a suit and
tie to road test a '68 Plymouth?

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Right, then drive it to Beverly Hills.

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When you get to your
father's hotel, stop,

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park the car and go in.

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Ed, don't you ever give up?

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I told you I'm not going over there.

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Chico, get wise to yourself.

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Your old man must be loaded.

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Yeah, Chico.

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You saw that great big old limousine

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he sent to pick you up in.

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That is a champagne
flight to easy street.

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00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:56,174
Well, both of you just
get off my back, okay.

255
00:11:56,258 --> 00:11:59,386
Come on, Chico, you've
gotta face it sometime.

256
00:11:59,469 --> 00:12:01,054
Now get out there and get it over with.

257
00:12:01,138 --> 00:12:03,348
- Come on.
- Okay, okay.

258
00:12:03,432 --> 00:12:05,725
Anything to shut you two up.

259
00:12:05,809 --> 00:12:07,227
Think I oughta shave off my mustache

260
00:12:07,309 --> 00:12:08,395
and put on a little sailor's suit

261
00:12:08,477 --> 00:12:10,397
so he'll recognize me?

262
00:12:14,317 --> 00:12:16,278
- You know something, Ed.
- What?

263
00:12:16,319 --> 00:12:19,030
We gonna mess around and
lose that boy forever.

264
00:12:19,114 --> 00:12:20,282
What do you mean, "We"?

265
00:12:20,323 --> 00:12:22,576
Just what I said, "We."

266
00:12:22,659 --> 00:12:25,828
Look, Ed, don't tell, Chico but...

267
00:12:25,871 --> 00:12:29,499
...deep down in my heart,
man, I adopted that boy too.

268
00:12:29,583 --> 00:12:31,083
Yeah?

269
00:12:31,168 --> 00:12:33,128
Ah, let him go.
So what?

270
00:12:33,170 --> 00:12:35,338
I can save his salary.

271
00:12:35,380 --> 00:12:38,633
At this rate I'll live twice
as long before I go broke.

272
00:12:39,509 --> 00:12:41,136
Look, let me tell you something.

273
00:12:41,178 --> 00:12:44,054
You can fool all the
people some of the time

274
00:12:44,139 --> 00:12:45,849
and some of the people all of the time

275
00:12:45,891 --> 00:12:49,436
but you ain't fooling this
people none of the time!

276
00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:51,188
Jive!

277
00:12:55,692 --> 00:12:57,652
[horn honks]

278
00:12:59,404 --> 00:13:01,405
Hey, Chico, that car is back!

279
00:13:01,490 --> 00:13:04,618
Hey, hey, Chico, he's here, he's here!

280
00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:07,370
- Where?
- Let them come in.

281
00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:08,872
- Ed...
- What?

282
00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:10,957
I didn't even get a
chance to fix myself up.

283
00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:12,876
- H-how do I look?
- Stop worrying.

284
00:13:12,918 --> 00:13:14,711
You're looking good.

285
00:13:17,672 --> 00:13:20,675
- [Louie] Mr. Rodriguez?
- Yes.

286
00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:22,344
[Louie] Chico's right in there.

287
00:13:22,385 --> 00:13:23,761
Ed, you go out, do
whatever you have to do.

288
00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:25,679
Stall him, okay.
I'm just... I'm not ready.

289
00:13:25,722 --> 00:13:29,309
Well, get ready, this man has
waited 20 years for this.

290
00:13:32,062 --> 00:13:34,397
I've waited all my life.

291
00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:36,191
[Ed] Ah, good afternoon.

292
00:13:36,232 --> 00:13:37,359
[Gilberto] Chico?

293
00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,405
[Ed] No, no, no.
I'm Ed Brown.

294
00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:45,951
Your son is inside but, uh...

295
00:13:46,034 --> 00:13:49,578
I think you oughta give
him a couple of seconds.

296
00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,269
You are Chico.

297
00:14:12,352 --> 00:14:15,230
Yeah, and you are 24 years late.

298
00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:21,027
You have your mother's eyes

299
00:14:21,111 --> 00:14:23,363
but your grandmother's tongue.

300
00:14:24,322 --> 00:14:26,408
Why didn't you come to my hotel?

301
00:14:26,449 --> 00:14:29,035
Why didn't you come to my
fourth birthday party?

302
00:14:29,119 --> 00:14:32,330
Or my 14th or my 24th?

303
00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:34,791
May I sit down, son?

304
00:14:36,293 --> 00:14:38,587
Just don't call me "Son."

305
00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:41,923
I understand your bitterness.

306
00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:43,800
You come by it honestly.

307
00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:47,095
It will you as long to
forget and to forgive...

308
00:14:47,137 --> 00:14:48,972
...as it has taken me.

309
00:14:49,055 --> 00:14:50,515
It's too late now.

310
00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:51,808
I don't want anything from you.

311
00:14:51,850 --> 00:14:53,560
Nor I from you.

312
00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:55,478
Then what are you doing here?

313
00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,481
I wanted only to see you.

314
00:14:58,523 --> 00:15:02,152
To, uh, discover the
man you have become.

315
00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:04,613
Isn't that natural?

316
00:15:04,654 --> 00:15:06,740
Have you never wondered about me?

317
00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:09,784
I stopped wondering about you
when they told me you were dead.

318
00:15:09,826 --> 00:15:11,411
In the eyes of your mother's family

319
00:15:11,494 --> 00:15:13,371
I was dead the day we married.

320
00:15:13,455 --> 00:15:15,165
Ah, excuse me, Chico.

321
00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:17,208
I thought perhaps your father and I

322
00:15:17,292 --> 00:15:19,502
could drink a little
toast to your reunion.

323
00:15:19,544 --> 00:15:21,963
- Well, thank you, Mr. Brown.
- There you are.

324
00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:23,465
Oh, but only two glasses?

325
00:15:23,506 --> 00:15:25,091
Well, Louie had to go picket.

326
00:15:25,175 --> 00:15:26,384
Yes, but Chico...

327
00:15:26,468 --> 00:15:28,178
Chico doesn't drink.

328
00:15:28,219 --> 00:15:31,640
Oh, well, then out of respect I
won't either in his presence.

329
00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,392
Oh, go ahead, that never stopped Ed.

330
00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:37,354
Ed is not your father.

331
00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:39,773
He's closer to it than you are.

332
00:15:40,815 --> 00:15:42,942
- I will join you, Mr. Brown.
- Oh, good.

333
00:15:43,026 --> 00:15:44,277
Let us drink to compassion.

334
00:15:44,361 --> 00:15:46,196
Chico's not making this easy for me.

335
00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:47,781
Okay.

336
00:15:47,864 --> 00:15:49,616
Well, that gives you rough idea

337
00:15:49,699 --> 00:15:53,244
of what I'd had to put up
with, the last three years.

338
00:15:53,328 --> 00:15:55,121
You've been together three years, huh?

339
00:15:55,205 --> 00:15:57,374
Ah, seems more like 30 years

340
00:15:57,457 --> 00:16:00,293
since a punk kid walked into this garage

341
00:16:00,377 --> 00:16:02,087
and conned me into giving him a job.

342
00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:04,881
Oh, yeah, that punk kid has grown
into a handsome caballero .

343
00:16:04,923 --> 00:16:06,007
He certainly has.

344
00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,258
Salud.

345
00:16:07,342 --> 00:16:09,052
Guacamole.

346
00:16:14,516 --> 00:16:17,227
Now, may we have a few moments alone?

347
00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:18,937
Oh, by all means.

348
00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:22,023
I'll be in my room, it's just upstairs.

349
00:16:22,065 --> 00:16:23,608
And I, uh...

350
00:16:24,484 --> 00:16:25,860
Oh, Chico...

351
00:16:25,902 --> 00:16:28,697
...your father's a pretty nice guy.

352
00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:33,159
Are you?

353
00:16:33,243 --> 00:16:35,161
A nice guy?

354
00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:36,871
Are you?

355
00:16:36,913 --> 00:16:39,541
Well, you don't see any good
conduct medals on me, do you?

356
00:16:39,582 --> 00:16:41,334
Do you know what kinda kid I was?

357
00:16:41,418 --> 00:16:44,421
A barrio street fighter, man.
In gangs.

358
00:16:44,504 --> 00:16:47,632
I could hot wire a car
by the time I was 9.

359
00:16:47,716 --> 00:16:49,926
Steal a tape deck in 7 seconds.

360
00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:51,428
Roll a drunk in 5.

361
00:16:51,511 --> 00:16:53,388
Pobrecito, you must've suffered.

362
00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:55,098
No, I didn't suffer.

363
00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:57,600
I talked myself out of it every
time, suspended sentence.

364
00:16:57,642 --> 00:16:59,436
[Chico] Used my mother's eyes.

365
00:16:59,477 --> 00:17:01,896
Remember my mother's eyes?

366
00:17:01,938 --> 00:17:03,565
Every time I'd see the
judge, I'd just say

367
00:17:03,606 --> 00:17:04,941
"Please, Your Honor, man.

368
00:17:05,023 --> 00:17:06,317
Don't put me in jail.

369
00:17:06,401 --> 00:17:07,902
I'm a poor orphan boy.

370
00:17:07,944 --> 00:17:10,989
My father died in the
pineapple factory in Mexico.

371
00:17:11,071 --> 00:17:13,116
He fell into the machine
and they had to bury him

372
00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,660
and 600 cans of fruit salad."

373
00:17:16,911 --> 00:17:20,957
How many times do you think
that hokey story worked?

374
00:17:20,999 --> 00:17:23,417
And where were you all that
time, Gilberto Rodriguez?

375
00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:25,378
Trying to make a life for you.

376
00:17:25,462 --> 00:17:26,713
For me?

377
00:17:26,796 --> 00:17:28,965
Looks like you did okay for yourself.

378
00:17:29,007 --> 00:17:32,469
At your age I-I didn't
even have as much as you.

379
00:17:33,261 --> 00:17:35,138
Until I met your mother.

380
00:17:36,347 --> 00:17:39,350
Maria was my inspiration.

381
00:17:39,434 --> 00:17:41,603
She was a beautiful woman.

382
00:17:41,644 --> 00:17:45,648
Yeah, even with her eyes red
from crying every night.

383
00:17:45,690 --> 00:17:47,275
In the eyes of your abuela,

384
00:17:47,317 --> 00:17:48,693
your grandmother,

385
00:17:48,777 --> 00:17:51,654
there was no man good
enough for her Maria.

386
00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:54,324
Her only daughter had to marry a prince.

387
00:17:54,407 --> 00:17:56,993
- And she deserved one.
- Hmm.

388
00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,578
I was a pauper.

389
00:17:59,621 --> 00:18:01,955
But we were deeply in love.

390
00:18:01,998 --> 00:18:06,544
Maria had enough confidence in
my future to elope with me.

391
00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:07,629
You eloped?

392
00:18:07,670 --> 00:18:09,756
It was the only way.

393
00:18:09,839 --> 00:18:12,008
We crossed the border.

394
00:18:12,050 --> 00:18:13,760
By night I studied

395
00:18:13,843 --> 00:18:16,221
by day I worked the fishing
boat in Mazatlan.

396
00:18:16,304 --> 00:18:19,516
Your mother taught English to
the children of the fishermen.

397
00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:21,142
Yeah, but I was born in California.

398
00:18:21,184 --> 00:18:24,229
Ah, because your mother wanted
you to be an American.

399
00:18:24,311 --> 00:18:26,523
And I could refuse her nothing.

400
00:18:26,564 --> 00:18:29,484
But that is when I made my big mistake.

401
00:18:29,526 --> 00:18:30,944
What big mistake?

402
00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:33,780
We were so poor I could
not afford a bus ticket.

403
00:18:33,863 --> 00:18:36,366
So, I borrowed a car to drive
her across the border.

404
00:18:36,407 --> 00:18:38,409
And just in time!

405
00:18:38,493 --> 00:18:40,703
Unfortunately, I neglected to get

406
00:18:40,744 --> 00:18:43,414
the owner's permission for the trip.

407
00:18:43,498 --> 00:18:46,042
You mean, I was born in a stolen car?

408
00:18:46,084 --> 00:18:47,877
[chuckles] Well...

409
00:18:47,919 --> 00:18:50,338
You know, when your young,
foolish and desperate

410
00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:52,173
you don't consider the consequences.

411
00:18:52,215 --> 00:18:54,300
And do you know the
consequence for stealing

412
00:18:54,384 --> 00:18:57,345
the only car in a Mexican village?

413
00:18:57,387 --> 00:18:58,555
The police car?

414
00:18:58,596 --> 00:19:00,306
[laughing]

415
00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:01,724
You stole the police car for me?

416
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:03,852
Es tremendo, magnifico!

417
00:19:03,893 --> 00:19:04,769
No...

418
00:19:04,853 --> 00:19:07,772
¡Muy estúpido!

419
00:19:07,856 --> 00:19:11,568
And when I returned the car I
found out the consequences.

420
00:19:11,609 --> 00:19:13,736
Two years in jail.

421
00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:16,446
Well, your mother's
family was disgraced.

422
00:19:16,531 --> 00:19:18,741
They wanted no part of a criminal.

423
00:19:18,782 --> 00:19:20,869
Oh, but mama must've understood.

424
00:19:20,910 --> 00:19:21,828
No.

425
00:19:21,911 --> 00:19:23,663
Every letter I wrote from jail

426
00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:26,416
was returned, unopened.

427
00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:29,836
But then when I was free again
I came back looking for you.

428
00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:31,588
But you had all disappeared.

429
00:19:31,671 --> 00:19:33,089
Well, where did you get
the picture of me

430
00:19:33,131 --> 00:19:34,590
in the sailor suit?

431
00:19:34,674 --> 00:19:36,467
Your Uncle Ramon sent it to me

432
00:19:36,551 --> 00:19:38,928
with no return address.

433
00:19:38,970 --> 00:19:40,471
It was then that I hired the first

434
00:19:40,555 --> 00:19:42,599
of several detectives to find you.

435
00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:44,893
And where did a fisherman
get that kinda loot?

436
00:19:44,934 --> 00:19:46,060
From fishing.

437
00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:48,688
At the end of three years
I had my own boat.

438
00:19:48,771 --> 00:19:50,481
The next year I had two.

439
00:19:50,565 --> 00:19:52,901
Today, Chico, I have a fleet.

440
00:19:52,942 --> 00:19:55,612
Long liners, shrimpers, purse seiners.

441
00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:56,946
Ah, congratulations.

442
00:19:56,988 --> 00:19:58,781
Next time I eat a shrimp
I'll think of you.

443
00:19:58,823 --> 00:20:01,618
[chuckles] You can eat
them out of silver bowls.

444
00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:03,119
I have a home in Acapulco.

445
00:20:03,161 --> 00:20:06,789
An entire wing is at your disposal.

446
00:20:06,830 --> 00:20:09,042
Are you asking me to come live with you?

447
00:20:09,125 --> 00:20:13,546
Well, a man needs someone
to spend what he earns.

448
00:20:14,172 --> 00:20:15,840
Mm.

449
00:20:15,924 --> 00:20:19,093
The way I see it, a man's
gotta earn it himself.

450
00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:22,555
I'm not trying to buy you, Chico.

451
00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:26,351
I'm merely offering you an
opportunity for a better life.

452
00:20:27,268 --> 00:20:29,686
Yeah, but it's your
idea of a better life.

453
00:20:29,771 --> 00:20:33,358
And thank you, but I,
I got my own ideas.

454
00:20:33,441 --> 00:20:36,069
I mean that old man up in that
room has helped me a lot.

455
00:20:36,152 --> 00:20:38,529
Helped me get my head
together, finish school,

456
00:20:38,613 --> 00:20:40,031
learn a trade.

457
00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:43,284
Ed Brown's done a lot for
me and I owe him a lot.

458
00:20:43,326 --> 00:20:45,787
Loyalty's not the least of it.

459
00:20:47,622 --> 00:20:50,124
Hey, Ed.

460
00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:53,586
I just happen to be...

461
00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:56,798
- Even if he is a snoop.
- Yeah, well...

462
00:20:57,590 --> 00:21:01,302
Chico, your father wants you.

463
00:21:01,344 --> 00:21:02,637
Why don't you go with him?

464
00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:05,390
You know, you-you deserve
a good home and a

465
00:21:05,473 --> 00:21:07,850
and a nice education and...

466
00:21:07,934 --> 00:21:10,228
maybe someday a business of your own.

467
00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:11,688
I'll get all those things.

468
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,940
If a fisherman can do
it, so can a mechanic.

469
00:21:14,023 --> 00:21:15,191
You helped me this far.

470
00:21:15,233 --> 00:21:17,234
Oh, I didn't do anything.

471
00:21:17,318 --> 00:21:18,695
He did it all himself.

472
00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:21,196
We can both be proud of him.

473
00:21:21,239 --> 00:21:22,782
I am.

474
00:21:23,907 --> 00:21:27,744
Mr. Brown, our son is a man
of honor and integrity.

475
00:21:27,829 --> 00:21:30,455
Our son is also a pretty good mechanic.

476
00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:32,083
Now, I'm sure...

477
00:21:32,166 --> 00:21:35,003
...if there is ever anything
I can do for either of you

478
00:21:35,044 --> 00:21:36,879
please, just let me know.

479
00:21:36,921 --> 00:21:39,048
No offense, but no thanks.

480
00:21:40,383 --> 00:21:41,592
I understand.

481
00:21:41,676 --> 00:21:45,388
Our son is also, uh, stupid.

482
00:21:48,099 --> 00:21:50,393
Thank you, Chico, for seeing me.

483
00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:54,188
I leave you, assured your
future is in good hands.

484
00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:56,107
Your own.

485
00:21:56,190 --> 00:21:59,569
- Goodbye, Mr. Brown.
- Goodbye.

486
00:21:59,652 --> 00:22:02,780
Goodbye, Mr. Rodriguez.

487
00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:07,744
Mm.

488
00:22:20,131 --> 00:22:23,676
Yeah, he's a very handsome man.

489
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,219
And, uh...

490
00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:31,100
...certainly is very
distinguished looking.

491
00:22:31,184 --> 00:22:32,351
Yeah.

492
00:22:33,728 --> 00:22:36,522
Well, I guess, uh, this'll
give you some idea

493
00:22:36,606 --> 00:22:38,941
what you'll look like in a few years.

494
00:22:38,983 --> 00:22:40,651
You really think so?

495
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:41,986
Well...

496
00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:44,946
...since you won't look like me.

497
00:22:56,501 --> 00:22:57,627
Chico!

498
00:22:57,667 --> 00:22:59,796
♪ The garbage isn't clover ♪

499
00:22:59,837 --> 00:23:02,090
♪ 'Cause our strike is over ♪♪

500
00:23:02,131 --> 00:23:03,382
[laughing]

501
00:23:05,551 --> 00:23:06,969
That's good.

502
00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:09,513
Hey, you do me a favor, lend me $20.

503
00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:11,474
$20? For what?

504
00:23:11,516 --> 00:23:13,518
Well, Father's Day is comin' up.

505
00:23:13,601 --> 00:23:15,520
Oh, so you gonna

506
00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:17,688
spend 20 bucks on Ed Brown, huh?

507
00:23:17,772 --> 00:23:20,817
Well, you see this year I'm
buying presents for two fathers.

508
00:23:20,858 --> 00:23:23,486
Oh, that's great, that's great, son.

509
00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:27,031
All right, let's see if I got
it here, I should have.

510
00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:29,492
All right, here is 10...

511
00:23:30,576 --> 00:23:32,161
...and 10 is 20.

512
00:23:32,203 --> 00:23:34,705
- Thank you, Louie.
- Sure.

513
00:23:34,789 --> 00:23:36,833
Hey, what's going on here?

514
00:23:36,874 --> 00:23:38,751
I don't pay you to sit around this room

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associating with the local riff-raff.

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Come on, get out there
and earn your salary

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you lazy good for nothing.

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Go on! Outside!

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Here, Louie.
Ten will do it.

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[narrator] "Chico And The
Man" was recorded live

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before a studio audience at NBC Studios

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Burbank, California.

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♪ Chico was born in El Barrio ♪

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♪ Spent much of his time
in the street ♪

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♪ His mind was crazy
for knowledge ♪

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♪ His belly for
something to eat ♪

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♪ But times are hard ♪

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♪ Chico and the Man ♪

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♪ Times are hard ♪

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♪ Chico and the Man ♪♪