All language subtitles for Popi.1969.1080p.WEBRip.x264-RARBG2_English

Junior.

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

Time to go!

[CHATTERING ON TV]

Time to go!

How many times I tell you
to close the door?

[SONG PLAYING ON TV]

[BABY CRYING]

[WOMAN SHOUTING IN SPANISH]

Junior!

Carajo,somebody break
the mailbox.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Some junkie did it, papi.

They thought there was
money in there.

Well, I fix it
when I come back.

[EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH]

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[HORN HONKING]

[SIREN WAILING]

He was too young to die.

Seventy-two?

Well, today 72 is young.
What cemetery
are we going to?

Holy Cross.

You got room in your car?

I don't have a car.
I'm going with my
brother-in-law.

[BOYS CRYING]He has a car.
You don't have a car?

I get you a ride
with my friend

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You and the boys.
I get you a ride
with my friend.

That's good.Julio.

[WOMEN CRYING]

[CHANTING IN SPANISH]

Poor Mama. It's so crowded.
How can she breathe?

Good boys. Good kids.

Junior's 11.
Both good in school.

Luis is nine.
Good in mathematics.

Junior plays the saxophone,
is good in art. Good kids.

You want these boys?
I'll give them to you.

Sign the papers,
everything.

You think I'm joking?
I'm not joking.

Nice kids.
Don't give you no trouble.

Okay, boys.
Come on, let's go.

[POPIPLAYING]

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

♪ Popi

Hey, come on,
don't play with that stuff.

Come on, throw that away.
Come on.

A trampoline!

Come on.

[CHILDREN CLAMORING]

Hey, muchachos,come on,
go upstairs and take a bath,

then you can come down
and play.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Hey! Hey!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CRYING]

Get back in the house.

You said we
could go out.

Get back in the house.

Who broke the mailbox?

How do I know?

The junkies.
They steal everything.

What the hell are you
hitting me for?

Who broke the mailbox?

I told you, I don't know.
I ain't no fortune teller.

Who broke the mailbox?

I did.

What was in the mailbox?

I don't know.

You know what was
in the mailbox.

You tell me.

A letter from the teacher.What it says?

That I wasn't in school
Thursday or Friday.

Where'd you go yesterday?42nd Street.

Who'd you go with?Silvia.

Where'd you get the money
to go to 42nd Street?

Didn't have any money.
We jumped the subway,
under the turnstile.

What did you do
on 42nd Street?Went to a show.

Where did you get
the money for the show?I sold a transistor to a pal.

Where'd you get
the transistor?I found it.

You... You stole it.

All right, I stole it
from the drugstore.
Call the cops!

I don't need... I don't...
I don't need no cops.

What'd you do after the show?Came right home.

You come home to a party
in Silvia's apartment

when her mother was working.

Just about six kids.
That's all.

What'd you have to drink?

Ah, some of the guys
had some booze.

You didn't drink no booze?

No.No?

Just one little shot.
I just wanted to try it.

Stop it!

What did you do in the
bedroom with Silvia?She's crazy.

What'd you do
with crazy Silvia?

The guys were kiddin' me,
callin' me retarded,
fag, this and that.

She's crazy
and you're retarded.

What happened in the bedroom?
You just wanted to try it.

[GROANS]

[JUNIOR CRYING]

Can I go out now?

No. You stay here and
clean up everything.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Who is that?

LUPE: It's me.

Hello, boys.

Hi, Lupe.

I was just passing by.

I just have time for one
quick cup of bustelo.

Hey.

You're such a big boy,
I got a job for you.

You don't love me anymore?

Don't talk like that.

You were at
the cemetery today.

That's not it.

What is it, Abraham?

I don't know.

Every day I'm afraid.

Of what?

Everything.

Afraid to make love to me?

I got to get my kids
out of this place.

[EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH]

Oh, Abraham,
why don't we just get

an apartment in Brooklyn
with two bedrooms?

That's no solution
to the problem.

I make $100 a week,
sometimes.

Then you get pregnant,
what happens?

I want my kids
to have everything.

Nice clothes,
beautiful city.
Nice house.

I want them to have cars,
go to college.

I want them to feel high
in their shoes.

That's a nice dream.

I know a way.

I've been thinking about it
for three months.

It's terrific.

Fantastico,impossible.

But they'd have everything.
Rich. Famous. I know a way.

What are you gonna do?

Is all right.

Steal?

I'm afraid to steal.

If I go to prison,
what happens to the kids?

Gamble?

No, I'm afraid to gamble.
I could lose.

No gambling, no kind of crime.
I don't do nothing to nobody.

Well, then why can't
you tell me?

'Cause I'm going to do it.

I got to do it.

Well, if you've got to do it
and it isn't a crime,
why don't you just do it?

'Cause it has to be
perfectamente.Exact.

And I'm afraid.

[BANGING ON DOOR] Papi, papi!Hurry up!
We need you!

Papi,hurry up!

Please, please, don't!

Please don't!
I'll give you quarter.

Do something. Do something.

What's going on?
Well, what is it?

Get out, get out.
Get out of here. Get out.

Get out.

Get out from this building.
Don't come back here no more.

Go back to your own place
where you belong.

[BOYS CRYING]

It's all right. Okay.
All right, all right. Okay.

We tried to get the
pigeon away from

and let it fly away.

He hit Luis and I jumped him,
but he's too big.

It's all right.
Well, you have to feel...

You have to feel sorry
for that kid.

He's... He's confused.

Hey, hey, hey...
Where's the laundry?

All over the street.

Carajo,go and get it.

He'll beat us up.

You get it.

Hey, don't go back there...

Because I just sprayed
for the cucarachas.

It's terrible in there.

[PHONE RINGING]

The phone.

Yeah, well,
we can't go in there.

Don't you want to answer
the phone?

No.

LUPE: Hello.

Abraham. Telephone.

We'll wait out here
until she puts her
clothes on.

Just a second. It's...

Just a second. He's coming.

It's the super's wife.
It's an emergency.
She wants you to come over.

Today is Saturday.
That's my day off.

A taxi costs two dollars!

All right, okay.

[GRUMBLING IN SPANISH]

All right, okay, all right.
All right, okay.

All right, all right,
all right.

[SHOES SQUELCHING]

Where are the kids?Out.

I got 10 minutes to give
them a little supervision

and they go away someplace!

They're kids.
They'll come when
they're hungry.

I don' want them to come
when they're hungry.

I want them to come
when I'm hungry!

I'll fix you a plate.

I don't got time.
I gotta go to the hotel.

Abraham. How long can you
go on this way?

Three jobs.
Five hours sleep a night?

Winston Churchill got
four hours sleep a night.

He was runnin'
a whole country.

Ai! My new shoes.

Five dollars I pay
for these shoes.

Hey, Mr. Rodriguez...

Mr. Rodriguez, you know
how long I been outta work?

Seven months.Yes.

You work at the Hilton, huh?That's right.

Maybe you could talk
to the guy there.

Maybe they need
somebody, huh?

A sweeper? A janitor?
A dishwasher?

You know, when you
ain't workin',
it's terrible.

But when you workin',
it's terrible.

All right, get back to work.
What's the matter with you?

You never seen a body before?

Hey, Rodriguez,
you wanna bus for Steve?Yeah.

Okay. Help me take
his jacket off. I'll
fix it with the union.

Oh, ho. That's...
That's terrific, Mr. Pinellia.

I really appreciate
that a lot.

WOMAN:
Not to behold Emilia's face,
her frame to view.

What was the contour of
her eyes, and what their hue?

Manolo's voice has gone,
its tones I do not hear.

Whenever I recall his voice,
he lives, hers here

beside me surely,
safe and sound,

though he did fly, he's only
playing hide-and-seek.

That is why I am living
in their heaven

with those who certainly
can hear me now,

for I hear them.
Who? Carabi!

[THANKS IN SPANISH]

[PLATES SHATTERING]

What's the matter with you?
You crazy or something?

I can't help it.

Be careful.

Look what a mess you make.

What's the matter
with you? You crazy?

[SINGING IN SPANISH]

[CHEERING CUBA IN SPANISH]

And now I have
a surprise for you.

Tonight, with us
we have six men

who will always have a place
of honor in our hearts.

Six heroes of the assault
on the Bay of Pigs.

Put the spotlight
over there, please.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[ALL CHEERING]

These men will always have a
place of honor in our hearts!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHEERS CUBA IN SPANISH]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHEERS CUBA IN SPANISH]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHEERS CUBA IN SPANISH]

[CROWD CHEERING]

Abraham Rodrigues.

[CHEERS PUERTO RICO
IN SPANISH]

[PEOPLE MURMURING]

Hey, Luis!

Stop the bus!

The door...

Hey!

Quarter to 1:00
in the morning?

I'm finished.
I'm bringing the bike back.

Chico Rodriguez...

A gangster. A gambler.
Maybe a killer.

What are you doin' workin'
for Chico Rodriguez?

Not me. A friend of mine.
He's sick tonight.

Luis, you lie to me,
I'm going to give you plenty.

I'm not lying.

I'm just taking
his place tonight.

This friend. He's sick.

Oh, yeah?

Well, you're going home.
I'm going to take
the bike back.

Papi!

You heard what I said.
Here. Take this with you.

It's got mashed potatoes
and filet mignon inside.
Go on. Go on home.

Just put the bike
in the front.

Okay. Go on home.

Move, go on.

[LATINO MUSIC PLAYING]

Hey, muchachos.You know
the kid that delivers
everything on that bike?

Yeah.
That's Chico's nephew.

Chico's nephew.
That's all I want to
find out.

[THANKS IN SPANISH]

Hey, mister.

[BOYS SHOUTING]

What do you do
to Chico's nephew?

[BOYS PANTING]What, are you crazy?
I don't know him.

He was on that bike.

The kid on that bike,
that was Chico's nephew?

Yeah, and if you've done
something to him,

Chico's gonna kill you.

Chico never do nothing.
That's my kid.

You Luis Rodriguez's father?

That's right.

Abraham Rodriguez.

Hey, that's Luis' picture.

Holy Mother.
Hey, hey, man, we're sorry.

Don't be mad.
We didn't know
who you was.

We were trying
to protect Luis.

That's okay.Are you mad?

No, No, I'm all right.

Get out. Stop the brushing.
Stop the brushing...

Okay, who told you
I'm Chico's brother?

Luis.

What else he told you?
Talk!

Aw, you know.
About the Hilton.

What about the Hilton?

The thing. The setup.

What setup?

BOY: The gambling.

The gambling?
What else'd he say?

About the police sergeant.

What about
the police sergeant?

You know about him being
your silent partner in the...

In the what?

Your whorehouses.

[EXHALES]

Aw, Luis has a big mouth.

Yeah, Mr. Rodriguez,
we didn't wanna say...

Hey, Mr. Rodriguez...

Eh, we're cool,
Mr. Rodriguez, you know,

but, ah, there's a lot
of phonies around here.

Listen. How many people
know that I'm a big gangster?

ALL: Everybody.

I'll see ya later, boys.

Mr. Rodriguez.What?

If I were you, man,
I'd have a talk with Luis.

Uh-huh, I'm gonna have
a talk with Luis.

Get up! Up!

Now you tell me about your
friend that work for Chico!

And you lie to me,
I gonna give you plenty.

And if I tell you the truth
you'll give me plenty.

No friend! It's me.
I had to have some money.

I give you money!

Yeah. But these guys
at school.

If you don't give them
your lunch money,

they'll beat you up.

Who does this to you?

Nobody. Not anymore.
Now they wanna be my friend.

That's beautiful.
You tell lies
and you get friends.

I figured nobody's gonna
mess around with me

if Chico's my uncle.

'Cause everybody
respects him.

That's not respect.
They're afraid of him
because he's a killer.

But they're not gonna
be afraid of him
when he goes to jail.

Chico? It's all fixed
with the politics.
Don't worry about Chico.

I don' worry about Chico
I worry about this guy,
that he told everybody

that his father is a gangster!

I had to. It don't figure
Chico's brother would be a...

A what?

A punk? A jerk? A handyman?

Nothing's wrong
with a handyman.

But it's better if I'm
in the whorehouse business.

[EXCLAIMS]

MAN ON TV: You can vacation
in Bermuda this year

for the same kind of money you
spent on last year's vacation.

Call Eastern
or your travel agent.

This year see how easy it is
to take the vacation

you thought you couldn't take.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

Take it to the morgue.

[GRUNTING]

[PHONE RINGING]

Rodriguez.Yes.

Pick up the phone.

For me?

Rodriguez.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MRS. CRUZ SHOUTING
IN SPANISH]

[HORN HONKING]

[MRS. CRUZ SHOUTING
IN SPANISH]

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

Where's my kids?

Watch out for that guy.

Watch out for that guy.

Hey, you want it?

Look out, he's got
a machine gun.

Come on. Come on. Come here.

Come here. Come on.

[BOYS SHOUTING]Come and get us, big shot.

Where's my kids?

JUNIOR: Papi,over here.

[BOYS CRYING]

Okay, All right.
Okay, I'm here.

Luis...
What are you doing? Eh?

Okay... What is it?

You had to talk to them
guys last night.

They saw Chico.

"Hey, Chico, we met
your brother last night."

That's right.

"Brother? What brother?

"Nephew?
I ain't got no nephew."

And they did this to you?

BOY: Yeah!

San Judas.I'm goin' to do it. I'm going to do it!

You are the Saint
of impossible things.

And you got to help me.
Because I'm going to do it!

[SHOUTS]
I'm going to do it!

[HORNS HONKING]

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Listen, give me two nice
red snappers, please.

I don't know. You know, you
always give me wonderful fish.

In fact,
you're a terrific guy.

In fact, you know
what I'm gonna do?What?

I'm gonna write
my next book about you.

Me?Yes.

You?Yeah.

You didn't know
I was a writer, did you?

You told me you were
a handyman.

Yeah, well you know I'm
workin' as a handyman

because I'm writing
a book about that.

I write books about
all kinds of things.

Hey, Joe, have you ever
been to Venezuela?

Never been to Venezuela?
I got a present or you.

This one of my books.

But it say here
Juan Valentin.

That's my real name.
Don't you know that...

To my dear friend,
senorPenabaz,
from Juan Valentin.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

I know what you're thinking.
You thinkin', if my real
name's Juan Valentin,

how come I go around
calling myself
Abraham Rodriguez, right?

Right.

Well, listen. If the
super know that I'm
Juan Valentin, famous writer,

he's not going to give me
a job as a handyman, right?

Ah, right.

Oh, I'm going to write
a nice book about you,
it's going to be terrific.

They're gonna read it
from this country.

They go crazy,
these people here.

They see a guy's come
to this country, one year...

He start his own business.

Everybody's gonna
read about you.

You and me,
we're going to be rich.

Rich.Rich.

PENABAZ: It's about time
somebody write
the story about us.

That we have to leave
the island and come
to the United States...

That we had to give up much
to get our freedom

and the man to do this,
senorValentin.

And senorValentin wants
to hear about you

and about everybody
and everything.

What you wanna know?

Oh, I want to know
the stories. Everything.

But first, I want to talk
to some guy that comes

from a small town on
the north coast
of the island.

I come from Nuevitas.

You come from Nuevitas?Yes. It's a fishing village
on the north coast.

A fishing village.
They got a lot
of boats there?

Oh, yes.

Can I come visit you
in your apartment?

Am I gonna be
in your book?

Sure, you're going to
be in my book.

[LAUGHING EXCITEDLY]

ABRAHAM: When you row out...
When you row out the one time,

when you are the other time,
the boat goes crazy.

All together. Come on,
it's an easy thing to do.

That's it. All right...

What the hell
do I know about it?

I've never been in
a boat in my life.

Well, you're going to learn.
Don't worry, you've got
to know everything

because you're going to be
on a boat with a motor.

A motor boat.
Hey, Junior,
a motor boat.

Papi,what's this all about?

You spent a buck and a half.
Come on, tell us.

You'll find out.
You'll find out.

Come on, just row.
We've got an hour.

Come on! Together!

Row. When you row out
one time, when you row
out another time,

that will make
the boat go crazy.

Together.
Don't make me mad.

There's the letter.

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

[IMITATES DOG BARKING]

[FOOTSTEPS RUNNING AWAY]

Go back to sleep.

[RAIN PATTERING]

[WATER DRIPPING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[ALARM RINGING]

[WATER DRIPPING]

And this is my store.

I sell food and shoes
and clothing, everything.

This is the movies.
This is...

What happened to
the movies?

Oh, the hurricane
blowed down the side
of the movies in 1964.

This is La Playa
we go swimming over there.

Listen, Miguel, you...

You'd better draw me
a picture of the whole town.

You know, so I can get
a better idea of everything.

The whole town.
And then I get
a better idea

what everything looks like.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Si, si,I draw you.

Nuevitas, fishing village.

What'd I say?

Nuevitas.Fishing village.

All right, keep all of
this in your head.

The houses are over here,

over here the boats,
the lighthouse...

This is where
the soldiers stay here,

and every two hours
a patrol boat goes by.

Patrol boat?Yeah.

What did I say about
the patrol boat?

Every two hours.Every two hours.

Right. What kind of houses
they got in Nuevitas?

I don't know, papi.

Where's the school?

I'm going to show you.

Look at these pictures,
slow, not fast.

What is this?

That's the movies.

This is the movies?

Yes. A hurricane
blowed down the side
of the movies in 1964.

When the hurricane blowed
down the side of the movies?

1964.1964.

Good. Where is the boats?

Right. You got a
boat with a motor?

No.Yes.

BOTH: Yes.Where they keep the boat?

Under the house.Very good.

What your father
used to do?

Ah, he was a fisherman.

That's good. That's good.

JUNIOR: Papi,what are
we doing this for?

Because they are
going to ask you
a lot of questions.

And I want you
to know everything.

But who's gonna ask
the questions?

You just pay attention
and listen to me.

Papi,what you gonna do,
pull some kind of racket?

This sounds like
some kind of hustle.

Keep your mouth closed
and your ears open,

pay attention
and look at the pictures.

Okay.

Is this the school?

Yes, that's the Catholic
school. Show Junior.

Is this where we go?

That's where you used to
go when you lived in Nuevitas.

What's the name
of the school?

Now, that's a good question.

Now we getting someplace.
You're going to be very good.

The name of the school
is Reina de los Angeles.

Reina de los Angeles.Reina de los Angeles.

That's it. That's it.

[BOAT MOTOR HUMMING]Like this.

See all of this?LUIS: Mmm-hmm.

Okay, come on.
We're going to try it.

You're next. Okay.

Sit right there.
Do what I say.

You sit over here.Can I have a try?

Yeah, after he does.
You're both
gonna have a turn.

Right?Yes.

Okay. A little
to the right.

A little to the right.

Okay. Pass.

Come on. Come on.

The other way. The other way.

To the right.
To the right.

Right. Right.

Okay. To the right,
the boat goes to the left.

To the left, the boat goes
to the right.

Don't hit the boat.

Okay, in the river,
you must guide the boat.

That's it.

Don't hit the boat...

Okay... Straight...
Straight ahead.

LUIS: Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey, how do
you like that?

It's too hot!It's not hot.

Not too hot. Not too hot.

Hello? Yes.

You have busses
that go to Miami?

How much one way to Miami?

Me and my two boys.

Yes, they're both under 12.

So that comes to...

$80 and 80 cents.
Thank you.

JUNIOR: Papi.Yes.

Are we moving out of
this neighborhood?

Yes.

I don't wanna move out
of this neighborhood.

I don't wanna live
in Miami.

You crazy?

All my friends are here.

This neighborhood?
With the filthy streets
and the garbage?

And the cockroaches
and the rats.

And everything falling down?
And the marijuana?
And the junkies?

It's fun here.Fun...

I like it.He likes it.

There's always a lot
of excitement, things
going around here.

Excitement.

You could do a lot of
different things
around here.

Yeah, with Silvia.

Where the hell is Miami?

I ain't leaving.

I ain't leaving.

[SIREN WAILING]

You hear that?

Something very exciting is
happening to somebody.

[LAUGHING]

[LAUGHING]

[MACHINES WHIRRING LOUDLY]

[INAUDIBLE]

[INAUDIBLE]

Okay. What?

This came in the mail
for papitoday.

Department of
Health Education
and Welfare?

Papi'scrazy.

Luis.

Come over to the house,
I'll show you
some other stuff.

What the hell is all this?

I don't know.

He's gonna take us
to live in Miami.

So why is he teaching us
about a town named Nuevitas?

Nuevitas? Where's that?

Sounds like Puerto Rico.
I don't know.

Revolution. Gulf stream?

JUNIOR: He's showing us how
to run a motor boat.

Health, Education
and Welfare?

What's it all about?

I don't know.

I'm telling you, man,
he's poco locoin the coco.

[DOOR OPENING]

Papi,this came in
the mail for you today.

Thank you.

Abraham, don't be
mad at the kids.

Papi,we had to
tell somebody.

Lupe's gonna be
our mother anyway.

ABRAHAM: No.LUIS: You're gonna
marry Lupe, ain't you?

No.

Kids need a mother.

Don't worry, you're
gonna have a mother.

LUIS: Lupe?ABRAHAM: No.

Then who?

Somebody.
Don't worry about it.

Hey, Lupe, Lupe, hey.

I don't got no other...
I don't got no other woman.

I don't care.
Just let me go.

I don't have no...
I want to talk to you.
You wait here.

You said the kids were going
to have a different mother.

Who is she?I don't know yet.

You don't know yet?

Lupe, I can't explain now.

But you say you love me!Lupe, I do love you.

I can't worry about you now.
I can't worry about me.

If everything goes
the way I plan,

maybe I come back
and get married.
I don't know.

But where are the kids
gonna be?

I don't know. Someplace
better than this.

Abraham, do the kids
know you're going
to give them away?

No.[EXCLAIMS] Abraham.

[EXCLAIMS] Abraham.

Nobody understands,
that's why I don't
tell nobody,

not even the priest.

Because you know
what he's going to say.

Because you're wrong
and it's a sin.

Priests don't have no kids.

What kind of man is it
that gives away his children?

Every day, everybody
in this neighborhood

gives his kids away
to the streets.

The priest doesn't
call that a sin. No!

A good man keeps
his family together.
That means he loves them.

Let them grow up around here.
Let them see everything.

Let their hearts get filled
with everything,

pretty soon
the heart closes up!

Let them grow up
to be elevator operators
and busboys,

and then when
they're 35 years old,

they get the same crap
from their kids.

They say, "Ah, but,
he was a goof man,

"he kept the family together."

You heard Junior.
Boys need a mother.

A mother to hold them
and kiss them,

and comb their hair
and give them hot cereal.

I had a mother. Junkies
and pimps have mothers.

I'm their father. I got
to think about their life.

You are crazy, Abraham.
You are absolutely crazy.

I'm crazy. I'm crazy.

Aye, Abraham, please.
Abraham...

Please. Abraham,
let's get married.

Yes, and move to Brooklyn,

then we won't
be Puerto Ricans no more.

Listen, it's not
news to me that
I'm Puerto Rican.

I am proud of it.

But I am just trying to
live because I know
I can't change things.

Yes. For you and me, it's
too late to change things,
but not for my kids!

Change what?
Give them away?

Ah, no...To some institution?

No, no.What are you going to change?

They'll end up with some
Puerto Rican family anyway.

No, no, no, no.

Abraham, who else
will take them?

You'll find out. Rich people.
High class people.

Two Puerto Rican kids?

No, no,
not two Puerto Rican kids,

two Cuban kids.

Ah, what are you
talking about?

All right.

You are crazy.I'm crazy.

You are absolutely crazy.
I tell you not to do this.

I am not going to let
you do this. I'm going
to tell the kids.

Don't you say nothing
to nobody, Lupe.

Do you hear me?

Nothing, to nobody!

Junior!

[PHONE RINGING]

[DOORKNOB RATTLES]

[IMITATING DOG BARKING]

JUNIOR: It's us, papi.

You look very good.

Nice and clean.

How fat you got. Everybody
treat you very nice, huh?

Everybody said, "Hello, Luis.
Hello, Junior, come in,

"we give you
something to eat."

It's nice out there, huh?

Where do you sleep?

In an empty building.

A whole apartment
just for yourself?

We had company.

Some of the company
ran over my foot.

And I said, "That's it."

And we got the hell
out of there.

What you eat?

Coke, hot dog.

Cupcakes.

Everything you want, huh?
It's easy to steal.

We didn't steal it.
We worked.

Where'd you work?

We shined shoes.

Where did you get the money
for the shoe box, and the
polish and everything?

A guy named Mr. Mendez.

He rents all that stuff
to kids. A dollar a day.

How much money
did you make?

Three dollars.

Both of you made
three dollars?

No. Together,
three dollars.

A dollar profit? Huh?

LUIS: We spent two
dollars on food.

So you still owe Mr. Mendez
one dollar for the shoebox?

Yeah.Yeah.

That's very good mathematics.
You didn't go to school?

I missed a test.

Oh. Well, I think
you learnt something.

Go to bed.

Papi...

What?

I need a white shirt
for tomorrow.
We got an assembly.

Tomorrow you don't
go to school.

Hello?

Yes. I'd like to make
three reservations
to Miami Beach tomorrow.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING LOUDLY]

Hey, come on.

This looks like a good place.

This good.

My butt hurts.

How long are we
gonna stay here?

Three days,
maybe four days,

but I'm going to tell you
something, muchachos.

Five days from now, the whole
world is going to know you.

The whole world is
going to love you.

Everybody's going to
kill themselves trying
to do everything for you.

I feel sick.

What's the matter?

That chicken, with all that
stuff all over it...

What do you expect in
a bus stop, rice and beans?

I gotta throw up.

Over there. Over there.

[LUIS RETCHING]

[BOTH GIGGLING]

ABRAHAM: All right, boys,
time to eat.

Come on, let's go!

[BOTH GIGGLING]

[BOAT MOTOR DRONING]

Hey, papi,where you
get the boat?

Hey, p api.

Shhh.

Hey. This is nice.

Not so much noise.

Hey, this is nice.

Come on now.Wow.

Pull.

It's a cool boat, papi.

Okay. Come on, we got to
get the boat out of here
and up into the trees.

Up there!

That's right.

What for?

Because I want it there.
That's why.

That boat's heavy.

That's why I need you
to help me.

Okay, now, push!

Once more. Push!

Again. Push!

My sunburn.

That's good. Come on. Push!

All right.
Not too far to go.
Let's go. Push!

Once more. Push.

I can't, it hurts.

Oh, come on, Luis,
it's important that
you're getting sunburned.

Come on,
I'm to fix it, here.

Is that better?

[INAUDIBLE]

[GIGGLING]

Come on, now, push.

What the hell
you doing?

Get the oars.

What for?

Get the oars.

All right, now, go sit
over there in the sun.

I don't want to stay
in the sun anymore.

Why do I have to tell you
everything 20 times?

For goodness sakes,
go do what I tell you,

there's a reason
for everything, now sit!

All right, now take the oars
and go like this.

Both hands.

We'll get blisters.

That's right. Both hands.
Come on.

Good. Now, this is
the most important thing.

From now on, we speak
only Spanish.
You understand?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Yeah.All right.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[BOYS SPEAKING SPANISH]

Why?

I mean, por que?

[ANSWERS IN SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Ain't you coming with us?No.

I thought you were
coming with us.

You're coming with us,
ain't you, papi?

I can't come with you.
Why do you think I teach
you everything for?

I'm not going.

Luis, there's nothing
to be afraid of.

Just go straight 'til
you run out of gas,

then throw the motor
and the tank in the ocean.

I'm not going.

Come on,
don't start crying.

What if a storm comes?

There won't be no storm.
This is July.

That's the best time.
I know all of this.

We could get
killed out there.

You... You think I'm going
to send you someplace where
you are going to get killed?

I don't wanna go.

I didn't know you wasn't
coming with us.

I can't come with you.
That's the whole idea.

You've got to be alone.

I ain't going.

Muchacho,come back here.

Let go. My sunburn.
I don't wanna go.

I'm sorry.

I don't wanna go.
I don't wanna go.

Papi.Put me down,
I don't wanna go.

I don't wanna go.
I don't wanna go.

Papi. Papi,please,
I don't wanna go.

What if the boat tips over?
We can't swim.

The boat ain't going
to tip over.

You'll be all right.
You know how to run this boat.

This ain't the East River.

Just a little bit
more water, that's all.

Papi,I don't wanna do it.

Now, you got to do
what I tell you.

You've got six gallons of gas.
That takes you 30 miles.

You'll be right in the middle
of the Gulf Stream.

Thousands of boats over there.

Down there is the
Florida Keys.
This is Miami.

This the whole east coast
of the United States.

Down there is all the islands,
Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo,
Haiti, Cuba.

Thousands of boats.

They all try to get in
the middle of the Gulf Stream

and that's where
you're going to be.

What do you think I read
all these books for?
To know all about this stuff.

We could drown out there.

Muchachos,you ain't
going to drown.

You stay in the boat until
somebody sees you, that's all.

We're going to drown
out there.

All right, you're going
to drown,

but it's better to drown in
the ocean than in the sewer.

Now, start the motor.

Papi,please,
I don't wanna go.

Start the motor.

I'll go out there,
turn around and come back
where you can't see me.

I don't wanna go.

Papi,I don't care.
I'm coming back.

I don't wanna go.

[BOYS CRYING]Quiet! Quiet!

Quiet. Shut up.

I don't care.

Listen. I figure this whole
thing out and you're going
to do what I told you.

You try to come back,
I'm going to kill you.

You go out there, when you run
out of gas, throw the motor
and the tank in the ocean

and the first people you see,
talk Spanish only!

Now, start the motor.

I hope you die.
I hate you.

Luis, I do this
because I love you.

You don't understand,
but I'm your papi
and I love you.

Start the motor and go!

I hate you. I hate you.
I hate you.

I hate you.

I love you!

I hate you.

I hate you.

Genoveva!

Genoveva, take care
of your kids.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO]

Hello. Coastguard?

Yeah, listen.
I was on a fishing
boat this morning...

My name?

My name is Johnson,
William Johnson.

Yeah.

Listen, I was on
a fishing boat
this morning.

About 25 miles...

And I see a little boat,
with-with two people in it.
Could be kids.

I don't know,
it could be kids.

Maybe 11 and 12 years old,
or something like this.

You didn't see nobody?

Well, I seen them.
I was out there.

I seen this boat
with these kids in it.

You better... You'd better...

Listen, you'd better
go look again.

Come in?
Why do I have to come in for?

No, I can't come in,
I'm a doctor.

I got a lot of patients
to see. I'm busy.

No, you'd better...

You'd better go and see.
These kids could be in
a lot of trouble...

So you find them.
Right. You look for them.

You... You find them.

[MAN OVER TV]
The Secretary said,
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"but the other side has given
no indication that it is
ready to talk peace."

The Sheriff's office announced today that there would be a shakeup in his department

as a result of
charges of corruption

made last week by the
Miami Citizens' Committee
for Honest Government.

And that's the news.

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That's a beautiful boat.

Thank you.

Hey, listen. Sometimes
do you happen to
get stuck out there?

Well, it hasn't
happened yet, Mister.

She's in top condition.

Maybe sometime you run
out of gas?

Auxiliary tanks.

Sometime your motor break
down, something like that?

Well, it hasn't happened
in 10 years.

Sometimes somebody has
trouble out there, right?

Yeah. A lot of times.

What happens when somebody
has trouble out there?

Nothing. They just radio
the Coast Guard

and they come out
and pick 'em up.

Then maybe they ain't got
no radio, you know,

if it's a small boat
of 12 feet.

Well, you gotta be crazy
to go too far out
in a small boat.

What if they come
from Cuba?

That how you come?

No, I came...
I came by airplane.

Oh, yeah. The airlift.

A lot... You know a lot
of people come by boat.

Yeah, they come in
here every week.

I give them people
a lot of credit.

That takes an awful
lot of guts.

Them people jump in
anything that floats.

You know, some guys
showed up once in a...

In a raft made
of inner tubes.

But that's luck.
That's luck.

Most of these people,
they'll look at a map, right?

Ninety miles across
the straits.

They figure they'll make that
in four or five hours, right?

But they don't know these
straits can be dangerous.

They make kinds of mistakes.
Get in all kinds of trouble.

Start out at the worst
time of the year.

Run outta gas, run outta food,
run outta water,
you know what I mean?

Get lost. Drift for days.

Start out for the Keys,
wind up ii the Bahamas.
Whew!

But they make it, right?

If they show up here,
we know they made it, right?

And how about the people
who started out, you know,

and never made it.

Listen. What happens
if you got a couple
of people in a small boat,

no food, and no water?

No food, no water?

Three days.

Three days?That's it.

See, people think you die
of exposure and shock.

You don't die of that,
you die of dehydration.

No water. Your body's
all dehydrated.

Three days.

Say, you don't wanna
go fishing, huh?

[MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO]

[ON RADIO] Demonstrators
smashed windows

of the American Embassy
and over-turned several cars.

Police battled the crowds with batons and water hoses in an effort to disperse them.

The State Department reports
that no one in the embassy
was injured. However...

Although Miamians are
accustomed to reports
of small boat arrivals,

spokesmen for the Children's Bureau, The Department of Health, Education and Welfare,

have assured me that there
has never been an occasion

when two children have made
the hazardous trip alone.

Discovered by a fishing party less than two and a half hours ago 20 miles from Miami,

these boys are being hailed
by the world as heroes.

It is assumed the boys
set out alone from some
northern Cuban town

in a gaily decorated boat
called Julio 26,

which, as everyone knows is
the name of Fidel Castro's...

[SCREAMING EXULTANTLY]

They are suffering
from exposure.

They are in shock.

They are
dangerously dehydrated

and both boys sustained
severe burns.

As Miamians know, the
temperature the past few days
has been in the 90s.

Asked if the boys would live,
doctors at Mercy Hospital
would give no answer.

That was as of 20 minutes ago.

However, a spokesman for
the hospital stated in
an exclusive interview...

[WOMAN CHATTERING OVER PA]

[OVER PA]
Doctor Pearl, Doctor Pearl.

Hello.

Yes?

How are you?

Fine. How are you?

Very good. Very good.
Listen. What room are
the two boys, please?

Ah, no visitors
up there, sir.

Yes. That is very wise.
But you see,
I'm not a visitor.

I'm Professor Echevarria
from the University of Havana.

Oh, yes. My appearance.

Well, you see, I was from
Washington by one hour ago

to take our plane to come here

and ah, my secretary told me
about the two boys

and I didn't take time
to shave or nothing.

Well, no one's allowed
up there, sir.

Don't tell me that.
There are a lot of
people up there.

Yes, but they're all directly
concerned with the case.

Well, I am directly
concerned by the case.

[STAMMERING] I am the
chairman, by the committee.

What committee?

The Committee
About The Cuban Children.

The Committee About The
Cuban Children.

Yeah.

Professor, we have to
protect the children
against curiosity seekers.

Even people who
wish them well, right?

Yeah.

And you wouldn't want
a policeman to show
you out, would you?

No.

Listen. Ah, ah,
how are the boys?

As well as can
be expected.

[WOMAN CHATTERING OVER PA]

[MAN OVER RADIO] There will be a special mass at St. Catherine of Genoa Church

for the recovery of
these two brave boys

who have captured
the heart and imagination

of the entire
freedom-loving world.

It would be a great tragedy
if these boys do not live.

Rarely do we encounter
an incident, an act of courage

which so magnificently
illustrates and dramatizes

man's unquenchable
thirst for liberty,

his willingness to do
and perhaps to die

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Now Mr. Elbert Harmon of
the Health, Education
and Welfare Department.

All I can say is,
that we are all just
hoping and praying

that the boys will make it

and that they will be able
to talk to us soon.

Dr. Perle, Dr. Perle.

[PEOPLE CLAMORING]REPORTER: Wait a minute.
Come on.

Say, come on.

[MOANING IN PAIN]

What happens in cases
like this?

Well, the Florida
Welfare Bureau always
tries to reunite families.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

The boys will live.

WOMAN: What's the
matter with him?

MAN: Hey, what happened?

Is he all right?

Hey, wha... What... What
are you doing? Get this...

Who are you?
What are you doing here?

I'm cubano.

There are a hundred thousand
Cubans in Miami.

Who are you?

Senor,can you tell us
who you are?

I want for you
to give me those two boys.

Are you registered as
a foster parent?

No. But I have
a beautiful apartment.

Two rooms.
I live alone,
alone by myself.

Senor,you're a good man.

I know how you feel
about those boys.

We'll find them
a very good home.

You'll give them to
rich guys.

No.No?

We don't even know who
those boys are yet.

Don't worry.
They'll be fine.

Oh, that's...
That's terrific.

Oh, you wonderful
people. America, gracias.

I don't bother you no more.

[CHEERS CUBA IN SPANISH]

Cuba libreto you.

MAN ON RADIO: The President
has invited the boys
to visit him

at the White House as soon
as they are able.

Congratulatory telegrams
are pouring in.

Life Magazine has offered
an education trust fund

for the exclusive rights
to the story of
their daring exploit.

Of course, no deals
can be made

until we know who speaks
for the boys.

Doctors expect, later today,
the boys will speak
for themselves,

and, of course,
a breathless world awaits
their first words.

It is inconceivable that these boys could have accomplished this feat

without the guidance and help
of some adult or...

[BABIES CRYING]

Can... Can I hold
my baby, please?

We only show the babies
between 3:00 and 5:00.

Well, you know, I'm going into
the Army in about an hour

and I may not see the kid
for a couple of years.

Yes. Which one is yours?

Which one you think?

Samoza?

Yeah. He looks
just like me, right?

She.

She. Wow. You know
I got so many kids.
Ten...

Let me hold
my little girl, please?

You'll have to wear a cap
and gown and mask.
I'll be right back.

[GROANING]

Mr. Diaz, please tell him
not to move his arm.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He's moving his mouth.He's going to say something.

Eh, Mr. Diaz, get in closer.Shhh.

Son of a bitch.

You must forgive the boy.

He... He doesn't know
what he's saying.

What did he call us,
Mr. Diaz?

Eh, when people drive cars
in this country,

that's what they
call each other.

But how would a Cuban
boy know that word?

He... He could have picked
it up from American
soldiers at Guantanamo.

But would that have
been his first word?

I don't think so...
Patients in pain,
coming out of delirium,

often blurt out dirty words.
But in their native tongue.

It was un-unmistakably
American.

That was American.

ABRAHAM:
That was in Spanish.

[SHUSHING]That was American.

Are you back?

Listen, Mister, just what
are you up to now?

I come to tell you
what they said, because
I speak Spanish.

Now, Mr. Diaz is
our translator.

Now get out of here
before I have you arrested.

Listen. The whole world
is waiting to hear
what these boys speak.

I'm going to told you
what they say.

We know what he say.

No, Mr. Diaz, I'm going
to tell you what they say.

Now, don't forget...

Now, his tongue is very fat,

so when he's talking Spanish,

it sounds like
a dirty word in English.

All right. Then
what did he say?

It... It could have been
20 things in Spanish.

For an example?

For example, you know
those toys they got
a couple of balls.

They call those toys
boliches,right?

Now, semanameans week,
right, Mr. Diaz?

Yes.

That is what he say.
Semana boliches.

The week of toys?
That doesn't make
any sense.

Then he could
said somos lapices.

We are pencils?

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

We got bedbugs.

All right. All right.

Sueno.I dream.

Babuchas,slippers.
Sueno babuchas.

I dream of slippers.
Oh, no, senor,no.

Listen. Mr. Diaz.
How do you say beans?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How do you say,
"They eat beans"?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

But he didn't say "ellos."

How do you say,
"A mouthful of water"?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How do you say,
"It is bad gossip"?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Saturday?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How do you say "bobby pins"?
Pinches.

Saturday bobby pins?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How do you say,
"We are sugarmills"?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How do you say,
"Sober bedbugs"?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You see what I'm saying.
This guy calls himself
a translator.

To say that these kids
are talking English,
that's crazy.

These kids don't talk
nothin' but Spanish.

Nothin' but Spanish.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Keep your voice down.

[SHOUTS IN SPANISH]

Get out of here
and if you ever show
your face here again,

[SHOUTS IN SPANISH]

I'll have you locked up.
Do you understand?

Don't you dare come back.

[SHOUTING IN SPANISH]

That man is a fool.
He's crazy.

"We are pencils."
"Sober bedbugs."
That doesn't make any sense.

I tell you what he say.

He say, "Somos hombres
de pelo en pecho."

We are men of courage.

[SNIFFLES]

[CRYING SOFTLY]

Luis...

What?

I guess somebody must
have picked us up.

How do you feel?

Okay.

How about the way
everybody treats us?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Papifigured out
the whole thing.

Pretty smart, right?

He knew what he was doing.

Hey, what you crying about?

You don't want to spoil
your beautiful eyes,
do you?

Luis, let me do
the talking, will ya?

Let me do the talking.

Morning.

There must be 50
reporters downstairs.

They're setting it up
in one of the rooms
in Children's Psychiatric.

Well, that's a good idea.

New York Times.

Sacramento Bee.No cameras, please.

Figaro.

Reuters.

El Diario.

[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

Gentlemen,
I'm Elbert Harmon,

Health, Education
and Welfare.

We felt that this would
be the best way
of satisfying the press

and making it as easy
as possible for the boys.

Now, when the lights
go out in your room,

uh, turn out
the lights please,

the children won't be
aware of your presence.

But you of course will
be able to see them.

The boys are coming.
No unnecessary noise, please.

Let's get their names,
Mr. Diaz.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

They are brothers.
Abraham and Luis Henriquez.

He is 11 years and he is 9.

We've assumed
that the boys
are Catholic.

Could you find out
if they are?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Well, um, first shouldn't
we welcome them
to the United States?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

What town are they from?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

A fishing village
on the north coast of Cuba.
Nuevitas.

It's not far from Havana.

HARMON: Nuevitas?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says the hurricane
blow down the side
of the theater in 1964.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Ask them about
their parents, Mr. Diaz.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says his mother
and father are dead

and he have nobody
in the world.

No uncles, aunts, nobody.

Well, I guess this isn't
a foster parents case,
Father Pickett.

I don't know.
This is a case
for adoption. I...

But let's go on.

I'm interested
in the escape.

Who helped them.
How they did it.
Mr. Diaz.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says it was
his father's idea

but he died the night
before they left Cuba.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

My father said to me,
"Swim until the boat
is out of the bay."

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

"And the soldiers
cannot see you."

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

"Row the boat until it is safe
to use the motor."

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

"And go toward Polaris."

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

"Five hours, six hours
and you will arrive
in Miami."

[JUNIOR SPEAKING SPANISH]

DIAZ: But in a little while
we run out of gasoline.

No food, no water.

[JUNIOR SPEAKING SPANISH]

The sun was very hot
and very bright.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says he
hates his father.

[PEOPLE MURMURING]MUSTO: Why? Why does
he hate his father?

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

DIAZ: He says he
wanted us to die.

MUSTO: Oh, but
that couldn't be.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

His father said to him,
it is better to die in
the ocean than in the sewer.

MUSTO: Oh, tell hire he
mustn't hate his father.

[DIAZ SPEAKING SPANISH]

Your father was
a marvelous man.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He didn't want you to die.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He wanted you to live.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You can't understand
the kind of love your
father had for you.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

But you will,
when you're older.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You don't realize
the sacrifice your
father made for you.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Your father was
a wonderful,
beautiful man...

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

...who wanted you
to have a better life.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

A free life.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You should be proud
of your father...

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

...and love him.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[BOTH CRYING]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says his father is dead.
He is crying for his papi.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He says no
more questions.

He's obviously blocking out
his father's death.

HARMON: Just take the boys
back to their room, please.

[LUIS SHOUTING IN SPANISH]

HARMON: Please remain where
you are until the boys get
into the elevator.

How are you today?

Fine, fine.

I have to fix the bathroom.

I was going in there...
I was going in there.

Back to bed.
I'll call the nurse.

ABRAHAM: Psst. Psst.

Papi! Papi!

[EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH]

Listen, I'm going crazy trying
to get in to this place.

I can't come no more because

Mr. Harmon says if he catches
me he's going to throw me
in prison so listen.

I wanna go home.

Oh, Luis you're going
to have a beautiful home.

If you read those newspapers,
you'll go crazy

to see what kind of stuff
they have in that.

I want to go home.

Everybody wants
to adopt you, rich guys.

One guy, one guy's got
a steel company in Colorado.

I don't want to be
adopted. I don't care.

Listen, are you...
Are you crazy?

Do you see all
that stuff out there?

Do you see that bike?
That's your bike.

I don't want
no lousy bike.

What do you mean,
you don't want no bike?

Sure you want a bike
and you're going to have
more than that.

You're going to have
a beautiful life with
a better class of people.

You're going to have
everything you ever wanted.
Do you hear me?

You got to try to understand
why I'm doing this.

Papi,I don't want
to be adopted.

I know what you're trying
to do and it's great

but still I don't want
you to do it.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]Listen, what's the matter
with you?

Yes, I'm comin' out,
I'm comin' out.

Do you think we're not
going to see each other?

We're going to see
each other again. We're
going to see each other.

I'm going to come to whatever
city you're at and I'm going
to be there all the time.

We'll see each other
all the time.

[BOTH CRYING]Come on, come on.

Come on. Don't mess it up.
Don't mess it up, please!

Will you please get
out of there, mister?

Come on.
Don't cry. Don't cry.

All right, lady,
one second.

I will have everything fixed.
Just hold it.

Muchachos.Who's in there?

OLD WOMAN: Mister!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Will you get out
of there, mister?

Will you please get out
of there, mister?

No, no! Papi!

Will you please get
out of there, mister?

I'm terribly sorry.

It's that same idiot.
What the hell is he
doing here now?

Hey, you, come back.
Come back here.

[DIAZ SPEAKING SPANISH]

Hey. Come back here! Stop!

[CHATTERING OVER PA]

MUSTO: Boys, cone back
here at once.
Oh, listen to me.

You... You must restrain
yourself in here.

[GRUNTING]

MUSTO: I want you to listen.

JUNIOR: Get your lousy hands
off him, you fag.

MUSTO: Don't you talk
like that, boys, listen...

Good God.

[DIAZ SPEAKING SPANISH]

He's my father.

Oh, my God.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You speak English?

You speak English?

The reporters...

Take the kids with you.
Take the kids.
Take the kids...

Come on.No. No.

Come on, come on. In there.

We are pencils.

Mr. Diaz. Come on.

After you.Get, get, get. Get?

DIAZ: I never saw anything
like this before.

Puerto Ricans from New York!

Those boys are due at
the White House
in two weeks.

I have to make a report to
the Judiciary Conmmittee.

What am I going to say?

You involved all of us
in a hoax.

Do you realize that,
my son?

Yes, Father, I'm sorry
for everything I've done.

I'm gonna tell
the reporters everything.

No. No. Don't do that.

[ALL CLAMORING NERVOUSLY]

Be quiet. Be quiet.
Let me think.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Look. Listen.

Ah, now what we do is this.

We keep quiet about this.
Mr. Diaz, I can deport you.

Miss Musto, the Florida
Welfare Department...

Just tell me what we do.

Father, how can we
deprive the world

of a happy ending
to this fairy tale?

How do we explain him?

He's what everybody thinks
he is, some nationalist nut.

[BANGING ON DOOR]

All right, as for the boys.

We, uh, we keep them
incommunicado for
a week or two

and, uh, then suddenly
they're gone.

Where are they?

"Boys Quietly Adopted,
Resettled in Western City."

Oh. That's beautiful.

I... That's beautiful,
Mr. Harmon.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

Don't thank me because
as soon as those
boys can travel

you're going back
where you came from.

What are you talking about?
You got to throw
me in prison.

Aw, you'd love that,
wouldn't you?

Listen, I stole a boat.

I did all those terrible
things. I'm a criminal.

Father, tell him he's got
to throw me in prison.

You are going home.

That's what you think,
Mr. Harmon.

You're not going
to get away with it.

Look I'll, I'll ship you
the toys and the bikes, huh?

You think I did all this
for lousy toys and bikes?

I want those kids to
be with the guy from
the steel company.

Otherwise, I'm going
to tell all those
reporters out there.

I'm gonna tell the guys
from Lifemagazine,

I'm gonna tell
everybody everything.

You guys are gonna
look pretty stupid.

Blackmailing the
United States?

That's right, lady.You listen.

You are going home,
and you're gonna keep
your mouth shut

and if you ever dare open it,
I'll see you in jail
for treason.

And your kids
in an institution.

You think I'm afraid of you?
I'm not afraid of you.

You're afraid of me.
And you're gonna
do what I say.

What difference does it
make to you?

None at all, you idiot.
None. I'd love
to do it your way.

Well, then do it.
Give the kids to the guy
with the steel company.

Oh, then have them run away?
Maybe kill the guy?

No, they'd blow it for
me the same way
they blew it for you.

They don't want to be adopted.
They want to be with you.

They love you.
You're their father.

Those lousy kids.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH]

♪ We wanna know were you once
a famous desperado, Popi?

♪ We wanna know do they have
any Spanish kids
in Colorado, Popi?

♪ We wanna know
what's a dream?

♪ Can you only have it
when you're sleeping, Popi?

♪ How far is Central Park
from Miami?

♪ Can a wish really come true?

♪ And what makes
a mustache grow?

♪ Why does it get so dark
in the night time?

♪ And how does a wristwatch
know it has the right time?

♪ And tell us why is the sky
up above instead of
down below us, Popi?

♪ And, Popi, how do you add
minus two and plus eleven?
Show us, Popi

♪ We wanna know is it
so you will never go away
without us, Popi?

♪ We're happy only
when we are with you

♪ You're the best Popi of all

♪ We love you, Popi

♪ We love you, Popi