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wow

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so

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so

oh

hey

where'd you put down that came in uh e6

uh what time did you put 4 p.m it's all

right yeah it's good enough for

government work uh

i don't know

yes ma'am

yes ma'am

join the party jack grab a guatemalan or

maybe you'd rather have an el

salvadorian there's plenty to go around

you catch him you clean them

ah willie what do you got

two groups guys split with their money

left these poor bastards rambling around

in a brush for two days with no food do

you think they're part of that sand

canyon bunch no way

too sloppy

things right away

that's me

who are you fonte sir

jimmy fante

i've been sent out here on detail from

new york

oh hey you're a day late i kept getting

lost

yeah well

where are the others

they didn't send anybody else with you

not as far as i know sir oh jesus i

asked for a dozen extra hands and they

send one

i guess they feel one grunt from new

york is worth 12 men that right bunty

i kind of doubt that certainly uh no

more sir just call me jeff okay right

chad station uh let me see now oh my god

hey where you taking him hold

he's a guide

son of a [ __ ] preys on these other poor

people

hey willie

this is uh jimmy fancy

will he uh show him around fill him in

come on this way

my name is willie lambert

over here

all right now then you look at this map

you see this here's our sector that's

about uh 1200 square miles uh

maybe a thousand canyons now 10 years

ago we were lucky if we caught 100

aliens a month but right now we're in

the middle of a damned invasion they're

running right over us last summer this

little station pulled in over

3 000 a month for everyone we caught

three of them slipped past us

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how's your spanish

impeccable impact we can use a lot of

impeccable right now

wait maybe uh impeccable was just

stronger work well whatever it is you

just sit down here next to mr monroe and

practice your spanish charlie monroe

this is uh jimmy fonte

okay let me find you somebody here let's

see

you sir

boyfriend

um

miguel

this is fun

gonzalez

your ass is really dragging you look

down scooter oh just a little tired of

it

chase these mexicans all over these

goddamn hills you catch them one day and

they're back to next now there's a young

kid in there i caught him four times

this month myself but just look at it

this way if they didn't keep running

you'd be out of a job

what's happening kid

i don't know

is it always like this

i just processed an old man who sold his

tailor shop and gave up his life savings

to come here now he's got nothing his

whole life went down the drain and i

watched it

well you're gonna hear a lot of sad

stories so don't let it get to you

what's coming down chief we're supposed

to assist chula tonight we're go thai

mesa well the men they got up there they

want assistance

there ain't been four of us on duty

tonight cover this whole sector yeah i

know but the orders just came down

there's a bunch coming through and we

have to give them some help me willie

and the kids we'll take the mesa

you can work censor traffic

you get a chance to drop down around

takadi

down there will [ __ ] it

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sleep tight america

your tax dollars are hard at work

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foreign

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give you a little field training

you know what a sensor is

no

and i'll show you

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there's a seismic sensor

you step on it

anywhere near it it sends a signal to

lamigra telling them exactly where you

are

by the time you hit the road they're

waiting for you with a greyhound bus

take it back home

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how did you know that was there

one of my guides got

busted coming through here last week

see those trails crisscross

that's right planet if i was in

you're pretty smart for a white guy

uncle sam spent a lot of bread and now

i'm teaching me how to be

okay we split up here you take your

group up that trail horse trailer will

meet you on the road

megan say

hey

foreign

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push him down toward the sandbar driver

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oh

boys

okay

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finally

foreign

foreign

i just got it good time no wait wait why

don't you ride up in front with me it

smells like a cattle truck back here

gringo with you this time of night

that'd be like waving a red flag

no no no no no no

good boy

he's your son i've had a son before

mirandas

but all i know i am father to 50 little

bastards in tijuana

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please

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i wonder if he's hauling anything

besides tomatoes

i think his tomatoes are wet

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so

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wow

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hey

908.63b

wanna notice in your good evening

what's the problem officer my tail

lights out

no

this is just a routine check

what are you fellas doing up this time

of night well we have to deliver these

tomatoes all the way up to l.a

that's my boy i brought him along to

help me

that's all you're hauling back there

tomatoes

what else

well i thought maybe you might have some

of your cousins stuck in the back there

my worthless cousins i would haul on the

manure

not tomatoes you must judge me senor

well maybe i'd still like to have a look

just to make sure

would you hand me the keys with your

left hand please

i should say office

you step out of the truck please

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you want to open that door for me

well what do you know

all right partner let's get this other

side open

close it up

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are you the maggie

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get the boy

do you think he fallen into license no

he didn't have enough time

and there are too many witnesses who

they going to talk to

come on let's go

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hey phil uh can i take that list with

you here yeah keep three one eight seven

this belongs to him

just got here 45 minutes ago

let me do mine first i'm not gonna go

anywhere

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you're the kid

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you're a scooter

you

and

you

you're mine

will you see the tire tracks

yeah looks like a pretty heavy truck

i'll get hurt to get us some pictures

you know those sons of bitch's rifle

scooter's car they took his star scope

and i don't know what else do you think

these mean anything

in the truck maybe

what else you got here

okay it's so awful

yeah we all know

so where where'd you see him over there

uh-huh

uh-oh here come those phoebes

run those tomatoes over to the

university ask for dog warner in the lab

and tell them i'll call them later okay

okay

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any id on the kid

no but he's wet

shotgun

they were shot here

landed over here you would drag down

where you see them now

sawed off

drugs

yeah that's what i figure i'll check

with saying you see through a custom see

what came in last now wait a minute they

could be aliens nobody kills for wet

packs

this kid was probably a mule gotten away

your man returned fire

the gun was never drawn

oh well

we're sorry about your man we'll do what

we can to get the guys that did it

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you were late getting in last night

hotchkiss

i had the choppers out had to hold back

up in the hills until they cleared

everything's okay though

piece of cake

i heard a border patrolman got killed

last night

shotgun

was on the news

a description they gave i thought it

might have been near one of our pickup

points

no

it almost been somewhere else

might get hot around here for a few days

maybe we should ship all the wets out

and clean the place up yeah

already in work

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you know what time the funeral is yeah

i know that willie's already talked to

you but i still have a couple things

the fbi is officially conducting this

investigation but we're not going to

wait for them

what we're looking for is an old

paratroop boat

with a gash in the left heel and the

driver is wearing a heavy ripple

from now on every man here is on a 12

hour shift no vacations no sick pay no

time off

and when you're out there

remember that every truck and van is a

possible load vehicle i don't want

anybody coming back here and giving me

all that crap about probable cars

all right let's go

jimmy

can you come with me

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these are the tracks all right

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well this is the place

and a lot of foot traffic through here

wouldn't you say you say

let's go

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mind telling me what we're doing

we're cutting sign tracking

that's what we've been doing for the

last hour

what are you gonna do next pull your air

to the ground

come here

sorry come here i'm just gonna mark your

boat

turn around

we always mark our own boots

i knew one little fart that didn't

though

and one day

when he was working a section

he got all confused

started to follow his own footprints

what happened to him

well he followed himself right up his

own ass we never did see him again

hey i see that print

they came from there right down this way

how do you know it wasn't a cow kyle has

a cloven hoof would have cut this grass

but a man pushes it down and sometimes

bruises it

although i didn't know a crazy bastard

tied kyle's hooves to his feet didn't

work though

because the cows got four legs right

right now you're catching on

some of these guys strap tin cans rugs

to the bottom of their feet even walk

backwards

they sure go to a lot of trouble stakes

are high

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they find these offer

it's only the third time i've ever seen

it and all in the last couple months

look at that

it's the same damn boot print

we're dealing with one damn smart

polyero

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what

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hey man what's happening look what

you're shaking like a junkie

you can hear what happened last night on

the road

that was

one of la megana was killed

no [ __ ]

we're cruising down highway 94

this dude pulls us over

el marino blew him away

just like that

one of the boys got in the way

he blew him away too

don't say anything man crazy faster i'll

kill the both of us look i say i'm cool

okay

you got them all cleaned up

didn't let them mix with the others all

right just like you said

good

load them up

open the door

foreign

foreign

if the checkpoint is working at san

clemente we're going to have to take the

long way around to la now they're not

going to la

that's too close

arturo

take them across i-10 to phoenix

put them on planes to chicago chicago

all the flight information is in here

they've all got reservations there's a

lot more money in here than you're gonna

need

tell them not to worry about anything

there'll be people waiting for them when

they get off the planes

if you get a chance give them a couple

water breaks okay

okay okay

hey

amigo

esta todo

hey come on

put a smile on your face

there's nothing to worry about

come on we're gonna find a place to

ditch this great you follow me okay i

follow you

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in november we delivered 4 690 units mr

lydell which is 21 up from the previous

month

good work richards very impressive it is

considering these are traditionally slow

months

we've managed to overcome that make it a

solid year-round business

878 units came from countries other than

mexico we're making up to

hundred dollars extra on each one of

them

what's the bottom line

well last month we grossed two million

two hundred and seventy thousand

drivers were paid 156 000

and guides were paid 319 000

and hotchkiss took 310 000. that leaves

a net to lydell industries of

765 thousand dollars

that basket gets as much out of this

operation as i do i know but he's the

key to it

without him we'd be lucky to move a

thousand buddies a month

by the way

do you know anything about this

i heard about it

we're not involved are we no

but we plan a low profile for a week or

so just as a precaution we're supposed

to ship 2000 around christmas i wouldn't

want something stupid like this to screw

things up

don't worry

good

uh starting the first of the year i want

to increase our deliveries to 7 500 a

month

of which at least a thousand should be

women

can we do it well i don't know

winter's a slow time push on hotchkiss

new york will take 2 000 a month we can

send them

we also have calls for at least a

thousand each from chicago boston and

philadelphia

tijuana is going to get awfully crowded

we'll do our best to use their

population explosion

keep up the good workers

you know

someday this may be legitimate it will

be listed on the commodities exchange

yeah

trading in wet bag futures

[ __ ] doesn't have a future

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yes

i'm looking for an e morales

where did you get this address

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why are you looking for this person

well there was a kid killed down on the

border last night he was a mexican kid

and he had that in his

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do you mind waiting here please now your

elbow goes on the green

get that handle there now it's your knee

on the red

and then your elena could i see you a

minute oh yeah

don't move till i get back

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this man needs to see you

elena morales

who are you

his name is jeb maynard

did you send this

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are you sure he was her son couldn't

there be some mistake no mistake

how did this accident happened

you know mrs morales it wasn't an

accident

some was murdered

some of the authorities believe that he

was mixed up with drugs oh no never

never i don't believe it either

i think he was being smuggled across the

border i also think you expected him

here you're la migra

yes but um i'm not here to harm you you

will have to go down and identify the

body no

but please

nobody will bother you i'll take you

down myself

why

why do you do this

i had a friend that was killed along

with your son

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all those reports

uh

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if i han sent in the money he would

still be alive today

i must take him

home i don't think you'll be able to do

that

your son was murdered so they won't

release the body never

no not never but not for a while

this is morales

is there anything you can tell me that

might help me catch the killer no

is there anything you can tell me about

the man that brought you across the

border where he took you anything at all

i'm sorry i do not remember those things

mr maynard i i would like to help you

but

will you find the man who did this

oh yes we'll find him

may take some time but we'll find him

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we commit his body to the ground

earth

ashes to ashes dust to dust

ensure uncertain hope of the

resurrection unto everlasting life

jesus christ our lord let us pray

dear god and sorrow of heart and

inquiredness and confidence

together for these last solemn and

tender moments of faith and love lift us

above the shadows and sadness of death

speak to each of us by word of peace

two months from retirement this happens

doesn't seem fair

yeah

makes you wonder sometimes huh

it's good to see you jeff despite your

circumstances good to see you too

malcolm

what's happening in washington uh same

old [ __ ]

still trying to get a decent bill

through congress so you can have the

manpower and the equipment you need to

send the tide out here i mean what's

happening on scooter's case for the fbi

it's still under investigation which

means they haven't a damn thing to go on

right

you know

why don't they realize it has nothing to

do with drugs

it has to do with smuggling aliens

why would anyone kill for aliens oh come

on malcolm

for the money times have changed it's a

big business now hell they're running us

over coming across that border yeah

don't start huh

cfbi's department if they don't look for

aliens

they don't look for killers and back

robbers huh play off

field units this is factory does anybody

copy

second two go ahead

the fbi

fbi found that truck we've been looking

for on highway 64.

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uh

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standard 68 ford is stripped no plates

no id numbers

it's the truck all right the tire tracks

match

it's drugs just like we thought how do

you figure that

they must have had three tons of

marijuana stashed in the back of this

thing

we'll call drug enforcement on this one

i guess that blows your theory on wets

manor

we'll let you know if the lab comes up

with anything

what do you think

he's one of them but not the one we want

someone went to the trouble of removing

all identification but they leave a

trace of marijuana like those banks

no i don't buy it

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satisfied

about the drugs yeah

let the fbi take care of it they know

what they're doing it's not our

jurisdiction it's theirs don't worry

about it

okay

yeah sure okay

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so

hey you forgot your tickets

this is morales

i'd like to talk with you

i cannot talk now please come back later

it won't wait

i'm working

please mrs morales

it's very important

uh

can we do this alone

is gringo

how did you find me

well the lady you worked for gave me

this address

go to your son mrs morales he was not

mixed up with the drugs

he was being smuggled across the border

just like i said and the guy that was

bringing him across killed him

you find the men

no

i'm having a lot of problems that way

as far as everybody else is concerned

the case is closed and you're the only

one who can help me that's why i'm here

how

well you know the way that you came

across the border into this country now

if you and me went down into mexico and

came back the same way oh no i couldn't

mrs morales

it's not my way to

threaten anybody but i'll have to send

you back on a border patrol bus

but if you go over with me you have a

chance of coming back if i tell you

where you can meet the arranger isn't

that enough i couldn't get away with it

alone my spanish isn't good enough to

pass as a mexican that spot me right

away

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oh

oh

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they will let the gringo woman go and

next week she'll come to tijuana again

to get her new mate

me

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that bar over there that's that's where

we start

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okay

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we wait for the arrangement

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oh here comes trouble

no it's all right

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hey

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understand

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is

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lotingo

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sorry

um

uh

you see that thing he's looking through

see if he can find out where he got it

yes

is

foreign

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ah

all right

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foreign

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oh

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let me show you your first job

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follow the guide

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hurry up man

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what is this

airport

glad to see you're hard at work willie

what the hell are you doing out here

whose side are you on anyway it's a long

story i'll tell you about it later

can we go yeah yeah

what do you do now

i don't know

and me

what about you

when will you send your men here to pick

me up

will i have time to pack my clothes

or will you pick me up like the coyote

do across the border

a minute

wait a minute listen

after the holidays

why don't you get in touch with me and

i'll try to help you get permanent

resident status okay

will you do that

sure you tried to help me i'll try to

help you

thank you

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so

um

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chad

it's me jimmy

uh

hey jim hmm come on wake up

all right

it's a beautiful day

oh yeah

uh why don't you go out there and enjoy

it you know

i don't see it tomorrow

everybody tell me about your trip across

the board

sounded like fun

that's pretty close to something but i

blew it

that's too bad

so what now

somebody gets a brilliant idea

i guess we're gonna have to do it the

hard way

hope maybe we can find those boot prints

someplace else sometime

maybe we can improve the odds a little

how's that remember those tomatoes i

found in scooter's body

that guy down at the university lab came

up with something very interesting

they were sprayed with a pesticide

called diazena real deadly stuff only

the biggest commercial growers can get a

permit

so i checked it out at the agricultural

office

it seems nearly a thousand people put in

for pesticide permits last year

but only 86 use diazena

hey am i boring you or what yes but uh

it's educating go ahead

well i just wanted to tell you that uh

out of the 86

only six growth tomatoes

what

six

yeah six

hey that's a damn fine piece of tracking

i'm proud of you you did well

you all received your assignments do you

know what you're looking for yeah right

the guy we're looking for is anglo

remember that

we'll work our way west from the glen

allen ranch let's not waste daylight

okay

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echo one this is echo four we got a

bunch near pipers and we'll need a

couple of vans

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any of the

manglos negative

let him go

repeat

i said let him go we're only looking for

anglos

what the hell for we're only looking for

anglos

and what the hell are we doing out in

the field what the hell am i supposed to

know

i tell you the shit's turned old jeb's

head around

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oh

what do you got here willie

well i followed a group of workers

through the fields down the road and

this is where they led me how many of

them are there

25 or 30.

what do you want to do you want to bust

oh

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foreign

sir

we need 10 thousand a month next year

carl you're getting greedy

you two stay out of sight

what do you think they want it's just

routine but what about the stuff in the

barn no they won't even look

okay take it easy

relax

hey look man i got in the mustache

he was in the group i brought over the

other night

you're crazy no man i'm sure

that's the head honcho of the la mesa

station

get out of here

hi carl

how you doing

holding up come to bust my gardens

well i did notice you have a whole new

crew working the back property maybe i

will

i don't know why you go to all this

trouble after all these years

you know we can't get anyone else to do

this work not for the wages you pay

you have some more hidden around maybe

in the barns in the house

no

mind if i take a look yes

not very neighborly

i don't think it's very navally to go

around busting people who are trying to

better themselves when i take them off

here they better themselves

i don't suppose you'll just have a drink

of water sure

use the hose like everyone else

this guy richards is a real sweetheart

he's got these people living and [ __ ]

and he's got the ball factors if he

cares about

well he doesn't care about them it's the

economics he cares about

hey wait a minute

look at this

hey willie oh come here

look at that print belongs to the guy

we're looking for

jesus

spread the men out see if they can spot

him

you bet

where the hell are they gone

andy never mind those two check with

woody right over there all right

what the hell is going on i'm gonna have

a look in your house you don't get

inside the house without a warrant

what's the problem carl

somebody turn in your cleaning lady

some guys never outgrow the need to play

cowboys and indians

don't be too harsh on my buddy here he

needs all the help he can get

i see tomorrow carl

take it easy excuse me

we can't afford to lay off right now

we've got 2 000 wets on order by the end

of the month half the money's already in

with another million due on delivery

we have got to maintain our credibility

i think it's too risky

i mean it's on to something

i can just feel it

you're overreacting

look he's like a bulldog he gets

something between his teeth he doesn't

let go

how long would it take you to put two

thousand words together overnight but

that's not the problem it's getting them

across the border and off the ranch

that's the problem all

in one day

that's impossible

nothing's impossible

we're going to do it christmas eve and

christmas day

la mesa always runs a skeleton crew then

the day after christmas the ranch will

be clean again i still don't think it

can be done

richards

it will be done

we're making one big run tomorrow night

we're bringing 2 000 wets across and

we're moving them off this ranch in less

than 12 hours

it's impossible

no it isn't

for working christmas eve you'll each

receive a bonus of one thousand dollars

okay

we're all taking the mother grundy truck

trail what about amiga sensors

yeah arturo and i tore out the sensors

yesterday afternoon

now we hit the trail at 30-minute

intervals

arturo's load goes first

i'll bring the last group through

it's imperative that each group hit the

trail

and the road

at the time designated for it to do so

if you have any problems if you cannot

make it on time ditch your group and leg

at home

i've got no time for screw-ups

any questions

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why don't you come back all right

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uh

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so

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hey remember me

huh

we came across the board a couple nights

ago now you remember

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freshen up your memory damn quick

hey

hey

you killed a friend of mine

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i want you to tell me about it

and i want

you go free if i

nail damn

all right

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you tell him what he said

boys

i want to remind everybody not to be too

anxious tonight and jump the gun

we want to hit him inside the ranch

property which is about right here

also want to remind you to check your

flashlight's walkie-talkies scopes

and especially your firearms

we might have use for them tonight

any questions

oh

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so

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yeah well let's move in

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what's it look like over there my area

is clean there's a light on in the barn

yeah i thought i heard some more yeah

you better check that out jimmy you go

with it right

you and i position the men so that the

entire area is covered

right

so

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what the hell

come along kyle

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foreign

oh carl this is quite an operation you

got here

really classy

how many men were in here

just those two

hey jeff i think the first truck just

came on the property

okay we're ready for them here but make

sure you're not seen now

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holy sucker

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okay pal inside

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go

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so

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come on come on let's go

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oh

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bingo

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what do you think hodgkiss is he's

supposed to be in the last truck

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starting to run behind schedules

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okay charlie this guy's dangerous be

careful

right

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stop at the house get them in the barn i

gotta talk to richards we're running

late

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so

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make sure nobody gets out now get

everybody

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good

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uh

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so

wow

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wow

end of the road

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let's set up

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would you like to make a statement

regarding the trial mr lydell

i was never concerned because i knew the

charges were groundless

you have to believe in the american

system

and i'll tell you something

the system works

in a month you'll be back in business

it's okay kid so are

we here

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hey

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um

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ah

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hey

bye

so

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so

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you