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No. No, no. You can't help him.

Just take care of the baby.

Think about her to mince the sadness.

I'm about sick of this senseless killing.

What are we gonna do about it?

Hold it right there, feller.

- What you got in your mouth? - No sé.

Aw, hell. He don't even understand English.

All right. I'll talk to him in Mexican, goddamn it.

¿Dónde fue Cortez?

- There's no one in the house. - No lo sé, no lo conozco.

Te voy a preguntar una vez más.

- ¡Habla! - He ain't gonna tell us nothin'.

Hey. Listen to this. Governor says he offers reward.

Been doing pretty good this season.

What kind of reward is it up to?

Looks like it's up to a thousand dollars.

Back from Baltimore. Here I lost 27.50 and won 25.

But for the season, I'm about 225 up.

Listen to this right here.

“The Mexicans makin' a break for the Rio Grande.

The man supposed to have fired the shots,

terminating the lives of Sheriffs Morris and Glover,

is evidently making bold efforts to reach the border.

Many determined men are in the saddle following tracks of murder suspects.”

Ya cálmate.

Quieta, mi hijita, te necesito ahorita.

Arriba. ¡Vámonos!

Come on. Get.

Hey, he jumped the fence.

Get the wire cutters.

Skin, give me your horse.

- Hey, hey, Billy. - Excuse me. Sir?

Can you tell me where I can...

find Ranger Rogers?

- Huh? - Ranger Rogers.

- Huh? - Ranger Rogers?

Oh, I think he's up there in the cook car.

Thank you very much. Excuse me. I'm looking for Ranger Rogers.

- You mean Captain Rogers. - I mean Captain Rogers.

- You're looking at him. - Well, how do you do?

Bill Blakely. San Antonio Express.

What can I do for you, Mr. Blakely?

I'm doing a story on the gang of Mexicans that killed Sheriffs Morris and Glover.

- Come on in. - Thank you.

How do you do?

- Cookie, get Mr. Blakely a cup of coffee. - Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Ooh. Ooh.

So...

I was wondering how the Texas Rangers are being used in this chase.

Well, with God's help, the Rangers will be the ones who bring him in.

How 'bout the train? How does that fit in the picture?

Well, the Mexicans have to head south to the border.

And the rail line runs in the same direction.

And we're in touch with the posses by wire.

So when they're sighted, we ride the rail to the nearest point,

cut 'em off.

It's a mighty big country.

All right, men, dismount. We'll make camp here.

- Let's get some fires set up. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Get the horses watered.

Whoo-hoo.

Howdy.

- Hello. - Bill Blakely, San Antonio Express.

- What's your name? - Anthony Meyer.

Where are you from?

Oh, a little town right north, San Angelo, Texas.

I don't think you'd know where it is.

It doesn't matter. Got anything you want me to tell the folks back home?

No, I don't guess. They don't even know where I am.

- Thanks for talking with me. - You bet.

Hey, thanks a lot.

Come on, Barton. Let's go to the water.

Excuse me. Howdy. Bill Blakely.

- Oh, Jones is the name. - Jones?

- Yeah. - How you doin'?

Pretty good, I guess. I tell you, I sure could use a drink of whiskey.

Yes, I know what you mean.

Te hablo. Cálmate.

No fue mi culpa.

What in the hell happened to you?

He take your horse?

Took my horse and my gun.

This is some picnic, ain't it?

You should be dead.

Come on, get up.

¡Esa!

Espérate, mi hijita.

Gracias.

Espérate otra vez.

Hyah.

Hyah!

Excuse me. You're Boone Choate, aren't you?

- Depends on who's asking. - Oh, sorry. Bill Blakely.

You were with Sheriff Morris the day he was killed, right?

That's right.

Well, I'm a reporter wit h the San Antonio Express.

I wonder if I could trouble you for your story about what happened.

I don't know.

I mean, uh, I was unarmed.

It'd have been a whole different story if I have had a gun.

You were Morris's interpreter, isn't that right?

Yeah, I was.

I talk Mexican.

I've been around 'em most of my life.

You were the only one with Morris, except for the Mexicans that day, is that right?

Well, at the shooting I was.

But before that, Mike Trimmell was with us.

- Huh? - He's a deputy.

Sheriff Morris's nephew.

We dropped him off just before we got up to the Cortez place

so he could check some brands on the livestock.

'Cause you suspected they were stolen?

Hell of a lot more than suspected.

We talked to a Mexican who had traded a horse with him a few weeks earlier.

We were just going to find out.

Whoa.

- Buenas tardes. - Buenas tardes.

Ask him what his name is.

¿Cómo te. ...? ¿“Cómos” te llamas?

Romaldo.

Romaldo.

Ask ol' Romaldo if he knows a Gregorio Cortez.

El sheriff quiere hablar con Gregorio Cortez.

Te quieren.

Gregorio Cortez a sus órdenes. ¿En qué les puedo ayudar?

He didn't tell him that you wanted to talk to him.

He told him you wanted him.

Ask him if he's traded him a horse lately.

El sheriff quiere saber si has cambiado un caballo ahora.

No. ¿Un caballo? No.

He says he hasn't traded a horse.

I understand “no,” Boone.

Uh, tell him another fellow said he did.

El sheriff dice que ya hablamos con el otro,

que no hay que mentir.

Dice que vinieron por el cambio que hice con los rinches.

Te dije.

No estamos mintiendo.

No cambiamos un caballo, era una yegua.

Pero hace dos días.

He ain't gonna tell you nothing.

Well, you habla him that he's under arrest.

El sheriff dice que te va a arrestar.

¿Por qué? No hemos hecho nada. No nos puede arrestar por nada.

No.

He says, “No man can arrest him.”

Boy, get back in that surrey.

I thought he might shoot me, so I got out of the surrey

and I run like hell.

And I run into Mike, who was riding up towards the house.

Mike!

Mike!

- What happened? - They got him. They shot the sheriff, Mike.

- They what? - They got him!

What do you mean, they got him?

We gotta get some help, Mike. He's dead.

- What do you mean, he's dead? - He's dead! They got him!

We lost him, Mike. They shot him three times.

We went off to get some help.

The rest of us didn't get back to Cortez's place till about dusk.

That's where he got it, Mike.

Shot him right there.

They either took him with 'em, or buried him.

- Hyah! Let's go! - I'm surprised they didn't take his watch.

Let's go.

Curly, get into town and call up Sheriff Glover over in Gonzales.

We're gonna be trackin' 'em.

Come on!

We followed the wagon tracks.

They led us right into Mexican Town.

Shh.

Shh.

So that's how you caught Romaldo. But how did you know where to look for Gregorio?

Well, let's just say that we persuaded him to tell us where he'd gone.

He headed north to hide out with a friend by the name of Martin Robledo.

So Glover and Mike and me and a half a dozen other boys

took the train for Belmont the next morning.

That's a little station near where the Cortez gang was hiding out.

It's your deal, Tim.

All right, listen here, boys. We're gonna be coming into Belmont soon.

I want every damn Mexican on the train arrested,

and we're gonna do the same when we get into town.

- This is the last hand. - Two?

Yup. Whatever you want. You're betting.

I don't want nobody warning them that we're coming.

I'm light.

- That's right. - Gonna scare you out.

Glover was close to Morris,

and I could tell it was really eatin' him up.

You owe me one dollar - two dollars.

What's the latest word on Mrs. McKinley?

Remember about a week ago, they said she was just hanging on.

Now they say she's, uh, like a spring chicken.

Goddamn it. It still doesn't make any sense to me.

- Boone? - Hmm?

You say that Mexican drew his pistol before Morris?

- Yep. - Had it behind him, you say?

I didn't see it in front of him. Pair of tens.

I mean, Morris was fast.

One of the fastest.

He didn't have it in front of him when he came off the porch,

so he had to have it behind his back, probably in his belt.

Pullin' a gun from the hip is a hell of a lot faster than from behind your back.

Damn, I still don't understand how Morris got plugged.

What you got?

Why the hell didn't you look for him that night?

Because we thought he was dead.

A dead man doesn't go crawling off into the bushes.

It wasn't a question of lookin' or not lookin'.

You couldn't see two feet in front of you.

Just haunts me to think of him laying out there all by himself, Trimmell.

Well, you know how it is in this business.

One slipup, adios.

Well, they'll pay.

From Belmont we rode on out to Henry Schnabel's place.

That's where we figured that the Cortez gang was hiding out.

Hey, Henry.

Hello, Sheriff. What brings you by here this evening?

Sheriff Morris got shot down in Karnes.

- We got word they headed this way. - Scheiße.

You've got some Mexicans living here, haven't you?

Yeah. Yeah, the Robledo family. But, uh, what do you want with them?

They've been working for me now for five years.

Don't want anything with them, Henry.

It's them Mexicans they know from Karnes. Name's Cortez. He's the ringleader.

Well, come on, Henry. Let's go talk to 'em.

- I haven't eaten yet my supper. - Goddamn it, Henry!

We're gonna have you back here in five minutes. Now, come on!

All right.

By the time we got to the Robledo house, it was dark.

We rode up like nothin' was wrong.

Howdy, Martin.

Then Glover tore around the side of the house,

and all hell broke loose.

Is he there?

Get him! Get him!

Then I saw Glover's horse.

And just a few feet away was Glover, lying there, dead.

They had a hell of an advantage on us,

being in the house and seeing us come up on 'em.

Later we found out there was a whole house full of guns and ammunition.

Glover got shot in the heart, you know.

Schnabel got hit in the head.

Couple of the Mexicans were wounded, but the worst ones got away.

I read something about a hanging. What about that?

Well, we had a little necktie party, all right, but we didn't croak 'em.

We just let them dangle for a while, then tried to get some truth out of 'em.

Yeah, we could've killed 'em.

Wasn't nothin' wrong with the rope.

- Well, did they talk? - No, they wouldn't say nothin'.

Next morning we took Glover and Schnabel into town.

It was real sad.

Mrs. Glover was there. Real sad.

Take care of the baby.

Think about that to mince the sadness.

That's three loved ones we lost in the last couple of days.

I don't know what it takes to get you folks riled up.

- Get on with it. - Hyah!

- Don't get out of the city much, do you? - Not recently.

But I covered Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign.

- That a fact? - Yes, sir.

Well, out here if it crawls it'll bite you, if it flies it'll sting you.

If it grows, it'll stick you.

- Mexicans! - Ho! Hey!

They got them horses.

Whoo!

Yeah, we got 'em now. We got 'em.

You got a dead one over there? All right. Load him up on his horse.

These two men over there. Round up those loose horses.

Bring him over here. Bring him over here.

Jones! Get over here and tend to this man.

- All right. - Get me Boone Choate over here!

Coming in.

- Boone? - Yeah.

All right. Let's see.

Yeah.

¿Dónde agarraste esos caballos ?

¿En dónde está Gregorio Cortez?

¿Lo conoces a Gregorio Cortez?

Neither one of these two are Cortez. I can vouch for that.

But they could be part of the gang, and those horses they got are probably stolen.

Hell with it.

Two less Mexicans we gotta chase down.

Anyway, uh,

after that we hunted around for a couple of days,

and we tracked them all the way down to Guadalupe River.

That's where we lost 'em.

The posse broke up after that.

I joined up with the Rangers.

I'm in it to the end now.

Thank you very much for talking to me. I'm gonna go in here and file this story.

I'd like to ask you some more questions later, if that's all right.

Good enough.

What did you say?

A man don't disappear. Well, you're right.

That's what I was saying.

I know that that's what you were saying. I'm just saying it too.

He's right ahead of us.

Yeah, that's right. We're right behind him.

I want to send a wire to the San Antonio Express.

I'll be with you in just a moment, sir.

Yeah! I'm still here.

Judge, this is not easy.

We have to follow the tracks.

Tracks!

What?

I - I said -

You said -

The whole country is following?

Oh! Oh, the whole country is following what is happening.

All right.

Damn it, Judge. I know it. I know that you need the results.

I need the results.

Well, hell, yes, I'm doing the best I can.

What?

Um... reward?

Did you say a reward?

Thousand dollar reward.

Good. Yeah.

Let everybody know. Mm-hmm.

Let the Mexicans know. Yeah, right.

Maybe that'll smoke 'em out.

I said -

Never mind.

All right. Good-bye.

Great invention.

Excuse me. You must be Frank Fly, the fellow took Glover's place.

You hit the fly right on the head.

Bill Blakely, San Antonio Express.

Must be the fellow reporting the chase.

That's right. I've just been riding with the Rangers.

I was with them when they caught two of the gang.

Excuse me. it'll just take me a minute to file this story.

- I'd like to talk to you if I could. - Well, you're gonna have to hurry.

- I gotta get back on the train. - Yes, sir.

We're ready for your story, Mr. Blakely.

All right.

Uh... San Diego, Texas.

Special.

A posse of Rangers...

encountered...

the men who are supposed

to have killed Sheriffs Morris

and Glover.

Maybe they were horse thieves, but I can't say.

They sure as hell aren't part of the Cortez gang because there isn't any.

What do you mean?

Just what I'm saying. There isn't any gang.

- It's, uh - it's just one man. - How do you know?

Been trailing him for over a week. Tracks don't lie.

It's, uh - it's one man, that's for sure.

If you'd like to see for yourself, why don't you come along?

- I'd like that. - Fine.

Agua.

Shh.

Es agua.

Shh.

Tienes sed.

Tengo una idea. Vente, mi hijita.

Hep. A-hep.

Ah, hey-oh.

Hep, a-hep.

Hep, a-hey-oh.

Hola. ¿Cómo están?

Buenas tardes.

Think that's one of 'em?

Nah, not watering cattle.

More'n likely one of the local pícaros.

We'll just sit tight and wait.

Well, boys, I hate to disturb your reverie,

but it's time to get back on the trail.

This here is Mr. Blakely,

a newspaperman from San Antonio.

- How you doing? Mike Trimmell. - Mike.

- That's Zach T. Porter. - Howdy.

Mr. Porter.

Manuel Tom. Call him Skin.

Skin?

Redskin.

Oh. How do you do?

You were a good friend of Glover's. Is that right?

- Glover and I were close. - How did you get involved?

On that particular night, I was in the jail playing dominoes with Judge Kennon.

And suddenly this fellow comes busting in. He says, “Glover's been shot.

Schnabel too.”

Then the judge swore me in as the sheriff.

I got together a bunch of boys. Then I got myself a good tracker.

Got out there as quick as we could.

¿Quieres hacer esto?

- Let that kid down! - Stay out of it, Frank!

Goddamn you, let that kid down!

Let that kid down.

I'll let him down, but you get that goddamn pistol out of my face.

All right.

Turn those women and children loose.

Jim, get down here and look at that boy.

Frank!

This is the bunch of greasers that killed Morris, Glover, and Schnabel!

We're trying to find out where the hell the rest of them went.

Looks like you're doing a damn good job!

We're doing our best.

- Who are you? - Mike Trimmell.

You're Morris's nephew, aren't you?

That's right.

- You responsible for this mess? - Yep.

My name's Frank Fly.

I've been appointed chief deputy in charge of this operation.

Boone, I'm gonna hold you responsible for getting those people back to town.

You tell Judge Kennon we started tracking that trail.

Mike, you're going with us.

Where's Glover?

Glover's on the porch.

Sorry about your uncle.

Heard he was more like a father.

You want to talk about what happened, that's fine.

You want to talk about my private life, that's where your job ends.

All right, Mike.

When Boone came back to you after your uncle was killed,

why didn't you go back?

You had a gun, didn't you?

I'd rather not talk about that, if you don't mind.

I can understand that, Mike, but when things like this happen,

people have a right to know what happened, and I have a right to find out.

Huh? You had a gun, didn't you?

Well, it was not really that simple.

I was about a quarter mile away from the house

when I saw Boone come running down through the sage.

- They got him, Mike. They got the sheriff. - They what?

They got him. There's a whole bunch of 'em.

What are you talking about, they shot him?

- They shot him three times, Mike! - Let's go get 'em!

- No, he's gone! - Stay here, Boone.

- He's gone, Mike! - Let go of the goddamn horse!

- We can't just leave him there! - There's too many of 'em. We'll get him back.

Gotta get some help.

Come on. We lost him, Mike.

Ruby, come.

Well, what about the Robledo place where Glover and Schnabel were shot?

- How'd that happen? - That was a mess.

What do you mean, a mess?

- There was a lot of confusion that night. - Confusion?

Was there drinking?

Look, Mike, if I write about it, I won't use any names,

but I know Glover was a heavy drinker and Boone isn't exactly a teetotaler.

I want to know what happened.

Yeah, there was some drinking.

There you go, boys. Pass it around.

Goes better on the inside than it does the bottle.

Don't give none to Billy Bob here.

Well, we stopped to make plans just before we got to the Robledo place.

We'd been goin' for a couple of days with little to eat and not much sleep.

Yeah.

By then, Glover was pretty worked up.

Hey, hey. Pass that down.

Come on. Don't keep that there.

That's for old Morris.

All right. Here's to Morris.

All right, let's go. Let's go get those sons of bitches.

Come on!

Hyah! Hyah!

Move. Move, you son of a bitch, and I'll blow your goddamn head off.

- Mike, is that you? - Yeah, I got one of 'em.

- Shit, I think it's Schnabel. - What?

Holy shit.

Son of a bitch.

Somebody shot him right up close. He's got powder burns on his face, Mike.

Oh, my God.

Could it have been one of your own men?

It could have been Mrs. Robledo, as far as we know.

- Could it have been one of your own men? - It's possible.

You ain't the ones looking for them Mexicans, are you?

How's that?

I saw y'all follow the tracks in.

Made me start thinking about a Mexican who come in here yesterday to water some cattle.

Get to thinking, after watching you follow 'em in,

we may have made a hell of a mistake.

Well, I can't argue with you there.

Hah!

Buenas tardes.

Buenas tardes.

¿Cómo está, señor?

Bien.

Hungry?

Gracias. Gracias.

¿No gusta poquito ?

Thank you.

Enjoy it.

- Coffee? - Por favor.

I make good coffee too.

Gracias.

Sí.

Do you speak English?

I don't speak Mexican.

I ain't that good a cook,

but I've been doing it all my life.

I had a woman cook for me about three months one time.

Oh, she sure was a good cook.

Good to have somebody to talk to.

Even if you don't understand me.

You wouldn't think a person would tire of his own company, would you?

After riding these fences for two months though,

a person gets tired of his own company.

Slow down.

Slow down.

You'll make yourself sick if you eat that fast.

Sick.

You don't understand a damn word I'm saying.

Yeah, that Barbara was the best.

She's something.

I wonder where she is.

Hey, I don't mean to talk your ear off.

Just good to have somebody to talk to, you know.

¿Señor?

Y gracias.

Nah.

No, de veras. Por favor.

Y gracias por todo.

You're gonna need that.

Gracias.

A usted, señor.

Por todo.

Gracias.

A usted.

What you got, Skin?

Cortez was here last night.

He spent the night there.

By the feel of the rocks, it's a little warm in there.

Which way did he go?

- South, this morning, top of this ridge. - South.

- How long? - Two hours.

Two hours.

Okay. Let's get him.

¿Qué pasó, mi hijita? Déjame ver la pierna.

Está malita.

Ya sé que también tienes sed.

Espérate.

Cálmate.

Abre la boca. Ábreme la boca.

Cálmate.

Ahora sí, levántate.

Ándale.

Ojalá que me hagas bien, mi hijita.

Tu hermana...

me hizo muy bien.

Ahí te vas.

¿Alguien te ha tratado bien?

Quieta, mi hijita. Cálmate.

Adiós, mi hijita.

Gracias por todo.

Whoa.

- There he is! - Come on.

Ha! Come on!

Hyah! Hyah!

Hah.

Whoa!

Ho!

Hyah!

Ándale, mi hijita.

We got him in a box canyon.

Shh.

Cálmate, mi hijita.

Cálmate.

I want to see a dozen men up on the rim of the canyon.

I want fires lit at 20-foot intervals, burning all night long.

We're going after him at first light in the morning.

Come on, move it!

Come on. Let's move out.

Aquí nos quedamos.

Well, Frank, looks like we got him.

Yeah, yeah, looks like we got him.

Move!

Con permiso.

Shh. Shh. Shh.

Shh.

Might be one way to look at it.

Maybe so. Right there, that's being a good neighbor.

Go.

Man, this ol' mare's rode to death.

- What's the story, Skin? - He left last night.

- Left last night. - One track here, and he didn't camp.

Looks like we sure underestimated that man, doesn't it?

Damn, that coyote buzzard.

I don't know how he got out of here, the way we had him surrounded.

- He's gone? - He is gone, Mr. Blakely.

Pick up his tracks there, Skin.

You men out there, go around, cover the other side of that thicket.

- Make sure he's not in there. - You hear that?

- Will do. - Right.

Should've come in after him last night, like I told 'em.

But they didn't wanna listen to me, so to hell with 'em.

Probably in Mexico by now.

Es un hombre que usa mucho la cabeza.

- Y además... - Deme un poco de cerveza.

Solo que la justicia lo persigue.

“A posse of Rangers encountered the men

who are supposed to have killed Sheriffs Morris and Glover

about ten miles northwest of Benavides this morning

and had a hard fight.

They killed one, captured one who was badly wounded,

and one escaped.”

- ¿Qué gusta? - Agua, por favor.

¿Quiere comer?

Arroz.

¿Con frijoles?

Sí.

“The clearing out of a large gang of Mexicans

who have, for several years, been stealing horses in this part of the state,

as well as committing many and other crimes.

All the lower country has been notified by wire to be on the lookout,

and strong hopes are entertained that he will be captured.”

Qué van a agarrar, es un hombre muy listo.

Yo también siento mucho miedo.

Es un gran hombre.

Como 400, 300 hombres están siguiéndolo...

Con permiso, señor.

por todas partes y no lo han podido agarrar.

Buscan a un hombre que se parece mucho a usted.

Yo no soy ese hombre.

Y además tiene también lo mexicano de su padre.

Solo que la justicia lo persigue.

Pero, al fin y al cabo, es un buen hombre.

Ojalá y que no lo vayan a agarrar.

Here's some more.

“A reward of $1,000 has been offered for his capture.”

A thousand dollars! Boy, that's a lot of money.

“The wife and children of the bandit, Gregorio Cortez,

are being held in the county jail here

- during the investigation of the killing... - Caramba, hermano. Qué tragedia.

Of Sheriff Morris of Karnes County.

- Su familia en la cárcel. - Cortez' brother died last night.”

Su hermano muerto.

- Pobrecito. - Sí, pobrecito.

Me da lástima con la familia.

Agarrarán a otro, pero no a él.

Si la suerte le ayuda, pues, va a estar zafo.

- Howdy. - Howdy.

Oye, puede venir a mi casa.

Vamos.

- Colorado, can I get a cup of that? - Sure.

Morning, Captain Rogers. How are ya?

Been reading that story you filed night before last.

Oh.

“Mexican supposed to be Cortez has been surrounded

and escape is considered impossible.

Captain Rogers and Sheriff Fly are leading the chase.

Excitement runs high here tonight,

and the prospects are very encouraging at this hour, midnight,

that Cortez will be captured in a few hours.”

Go on. I thought that was rather a good story.

- If we'd have caught him. - True.

Papa.

You know, over 600 men are hunting him,

but if he escapes to Mexico,

you can bet the Texas Rangers'll get blamed.

Well, you know, that's politics.

That reminds me, I meant to ask you.

The word around the capital is that the Texas Rangers are about to be disbanded,

that they've outlived their usefulness.

The future of the Rangers is not dependent on the capture of Cortez.

However, if he has crossed the border -

Pardon me, Captain.

Mr. Meza's got a burr under his blanket about somethin'.

¿Es verdad que pagan 1000 pesos por capturar a Gregorio Cortez?

He wants to know if it's true there's a thousand-dollar reward for Cortez.

- Yep, that's right. - Sí, la verdad.

¿Tiene el dinero aquí?

Wants to know if you have the money here.

No, but if you help us capture him, you'll get your money.

No está aquí, pero si nos ayudas, el dinero es tuyo.

You know where he is? Have you seen him?

¿Sabes en dónde está? ¿Lo has vista?

Él me dio esta.

Said he gave him these. They're his guns.

You Gregorio Cortez?

You're under arrest.

There he is! There he is!

You men stand down! Get the garbage from the tracks!

Come on! Let's string him up!

He's killed three men, Your Honor, two of 'em very well-respected sheriffs.

His alleged confessions have appeared in newspapers.

It's not a great case, Your Honor.

It is a difficult case, Mr. Abernathy, but the court's gonna require your abilities.

Appealing to the county, there might not ever be a trial.

Oh, there'll be a trial, all right.

Well, look at it this way, Bertram.

If the Mexicans ever do get around to using the vote,

you'll be the most popular man in the state.

Mama!

Mama.

Come on.

No.

No!

No! No!

No! No!

Oh, no!

¡Mi familia!

No!

No! No!

No! No!

No!

No. No.

No.

It's been a hard 11 days - Ten, 11, isn't it?

- And I want to thank you. - Whatever the expense.

- Gonzales thanks you. - Thank you, Frank.

- Everything all right? - By the way, it's delicious, Frank.

Put on a good spread, Frank.

Captain McDonald had been a-runnin' this,

we wouldn't have wasted all them taxpayers' money like we did.

- You boys done good. - Everybody's time's coming.

We'd have killed him right on the spot.

That's just the trouble.That's why the capital is thinking of disbanding the Rangers.

Texas is getting into the economic mainstream. You've got to have due process of law.

What are you gonna do with that sorrel you got?

Goddamn.

- Well, let's hear it! - All right!

Damn sure hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Skillet, I don't know what you're talking about, but this is a new century.

We gotta be a new type of law enforcement agency right along with it.

Things are changing fast.

Y'all have everything you want.

A napkin. I-I would like a napkin.

- Give me some fresh suds, will ya? - Damn right.

Greenhorn, you may be an awful good reporter...

but you oughta live with us a while and see what we'll put up with.

Indian poker.

Skin, look at this scalp you missed.

I'll bet you the big city'd scare you worse than that prairie scares me.

- I never have saw one, so - - That's what I'm saying.

It's a terrible thing. Terrible thing.

Mike, I wanna congratulate you and that little star of yours there.

How about some napkins?

I propose a toast to the new high sheriff of Karnes County.

- Thank you, William. - Here you go, Captain.

You know what to do if you do need something, don't you?

No, sir. I'm going to Beaumont.

There's no napkins?

He's gonna work out in the oil fields during the day,

and I'm gonna work the poker table.

At night I'm goin' out to the oil fields, he's comin' in to the poker table.

And I'll end up workin' a double shift, because y'all seen how he plays cards.

You oughta fire that son of a bitch.

I hate to repeat myself, but is there anything I can do for ya?

- Nope. - Anything at all.

- Ask, please. - No napkins.

- Gentlemen, I'd like to propose a toast. - I'll drink to that.

To Gregorio Cortez, who extended the life of the Texas Rangers.

- I'll drink to that. - Here's how.

Let's have one for Texas,

and let's have one for the men and women that make Texas.

All right, sir.

Señor Cortez...

yo estoy, uh, uh -

What's the word for “lawyer”?

I don't know.

Aw, hell, it's impossible.

You know that, uh - that Mexican lady from downstairs?

Yeah.

Would you ask her if she'd come up and interpret for me, please?

- Sure. Yeah. - Thanks, Frank.

Good afternoon, ma'am. Would you please step in?

Uh, my name is, uh, B.R. Abernathy.

Uh, I've been appointed

to represent, uh, Mr. Cortez in this case,

and, uh, apparently he speaks no English.

And my Spanish is, uh...

rudimentary, to say the least.

I was hoping that you might act as interpreter for me.

I'd be happy to.

Thank you, ma'am.

Señor Cortez.

¿Señor?

Este Señor es su abogado, el Sr. Abernathy.

Y, este, quiere hablar con us ted y yo le voy a traducir.

Siéntense, por favor.

He wants us to sit down.

Siéntense.

Uh, ma -

Uh, what was your name again, please, ma'am?

Carlota Muñoz.

Miss Muñoz, uh -

S-Señor - Señorita Muñoz?

Sí. Yes.

Um, would you ask Mr. Cortez...

to, um, tell me in detail...

what, uh - what occurred when Sheriff Morris, uh,

visited him at his home?

Dice su abogado que necesita saber detalladamente

todo lo que sucedió en este caso.

¿Le puede preguntar cómo está mi familia

y qué les va a pasar?

He wants to know what's going to become of his family.

Would you tell him, please,

that, uh, I've not yet seen his family,

but as soon as this interview is over I will see them

and, uh, make certain that their wants and needs will be taken care of.

Dice que no los ha visto,

pero que en cuanto tenga la oportunidad, va a asegurar que estén bien.

Gracias.

Gracias.

You're very welcome, sir.

Now, would you ask him to tell me...

in detail...

about, uh, what happened the day Sheriff Morris visited him at his home.

Quiere saber detalladamente

lo que sucedió el día que llegó el sheriff Morris a su casa.

Acabábamos de regresar de trabajar dos semanas.

They had just returned from working two weeks.

Me estaba rasurando mi esposa.

Y los niños estaban jugando. Era tarde, coma a las 4:00.

It was late in the afternoon.

The children were playing.

- ¿Me extrañaste ? - Claro.

¿No llovió?

¡Mi hijito!

Sí, tráeme el agua.

Valeriano, cuida al niño.

No se va ya a mojar tanto.

Valeriano.

Valeriano, tráeme por favor la navaja.

Gracias, mi hijito.

- ¿Cómo ha estado el niño? - Bien, gracias.

No ha llovido en dos semanas.

Valeriano, ven aquí, a ver si aprendiste.

Ten.

Lorenzo, estás pisando las plantas. Quítale de ahí.

¡Quítate!

Lo metes por acá.

Y luego ya para adentro... y ¡uf!

A ver quién es.

- ¿Cuántos son? - Dos.

Lleva a los niños adentro.

Whoa.

- Buenas tardes. - Buenas tardes.

- Ask him what his name is. - ¿Cómo te llamas ?

Romaldo.

Ask ol' Romaldo if he knows a Gregorio Cortez.

El sheriff quiere hablar con Gregorio Cortez.

Te quieren.

Gregorio Cortez a sus órdenes. ¿En qué les puedo ayudar?

Ask him if he's traded him a horse lately.

El sheriff quiere saber si has cambiado un caballo ahora.

No. ¿Un caballo? No.

El sheriff dice que ya hablamos con el otro,

que no hay que mentir.

Como se me hace que vinieron por el cambio que hice con los rinches.

Te dije.

No estamos mintiendo.

No cambiamos un caballo, era una yegua.

Well, then you habla him that he's under arrest.

El sheriff dice que te va a arrestar.

¿Por qué? No nos puede arrestar por nada. No hemos hecho nada.

No.

Says no man can arrest him.

Well, boy, get back in that surrey.

¡No, no dijo!

Valeriano!

Valeriano!

Agarra los caballos.

¡Andale!

Shh.

Te tienes que levantar.

Shh. Shh.

Cuélgate. Te tienes que levantar.

Ándale. Ándale.

Cuélgate.

Why -

Why did he tell the sheriff “no”

when the sheriff asked him if he'd traded a horse?

He said, no, he had not traded a caballo.

He had traded a yegua,

which is a mare.

I see.

In Spanish, we make the distinction

between a... male horse

and a female horse.

So it was a -

it was a matter of misunderstanding.

The, uh - The interpreter did not understand the word, uh -

- What was that word again? - “Yegua.”

Yegua.

So he told the sheriff, no, he hadn't traded a horse.

This - W-Would you please tell him that this is a very important fact?

It's - It's the most important fact that's come out so far.

¿Qué es importante?

Cuando llegó el sheriff Morris a su casa

y le preguntó que si había cambiado caballo,

usted dijo que no,

que era yegua,

y ellos no entendieron.

¿Por eso...?

¿Por eso murió mi hermano?

What did he say, please, ma'am?

He asked if that's -

if that confusion was why his brother died.

Yes. Yes, they -

they didn't understand what he said.

Sí, señor.

Era una confusión.

Please continue. What - What happened, uh, next?

¿Qué sucedió entonces?

Llevé a Romaldo a la casa de un amigo.

He took his brother to the house of a friend.

Shh.

Ya llegamos.

Shh.

Shh.

Tranquilo.

- He left him there. - And where did he go?

¿Qué hizo entonces, señor?

Me fui andando al norte.

He started walking north.

Porque sabía...

que iban a buscarme al sur.

Because he knew they would look for him in the south.

Fui a la casa de mi compadre, Martín Robledo.

Así pasó.

Acababa yo de decirle qué había pasado cuando vinieron.

He had just finished telling them what had happened when they arrived.

Whoa.

Did he know who these people were?

¿Sabía usted, señor, quiénes eran?

No.

Hold him, Mike. Come on.

Colgaron a mi...

Colgaron a mi ahijado.

They hanged his godson.

Yo lo vi.

He saw them do it.

Mr. Abernathy, you may address the jury.

Your Honor...

gentlemen of the jury,

let me attempt now to put in perspective

the facts that have been brought out in testimony here.

Gentlemen, I would be dwelling in a fool's paradise

to believe that you also had not heard these rumors

and read these headlines

that screamed for the lifeblood of this man.

Gentlemen, he's not a criminal. He's a simple man of the earth.

He acted legally under the laws of Texas.

Under our laws, a man may resist an illegal arrest,

even to the point of using deadly force,

if deadly force is, uh - is threatened against him.

When, uh, Sheriff Morris asked Mr. Cortez if he had traded for a horse,

Mr. Cortez said he had not traded for a horse,

he'd traded for a mare.

The interpreter did not know the word for “mare,”

so he simply told the sheriff, no, he had not traded a horse.

So put yourself in his shoes, ladies and gentlemen.

A man comes to your house, a man who speaks a tongue foreign to you.

You don't understand him. He asks questions.

You try your best to answer these questions,

and suddenly he draws a revolver and shoots your brother...

mortally wounding him.

What would you do, gentlemen?

Would you pull your revolver and fire,

trying to, uh, protect your life, your - your property,

your family, your brother?

Or would you stand there...

and accept the medicine that your brother has just taken?

I believe I know the answer to that.

I believe every honest man in this courtroom

can answer that question.

Of course you would fire.

Of course you'd fight to save your family.

And of course you'd flee.

For he knew -

had he stayed...

a posse would have come -

Not thirsting for justice -

thirsting for his blood.

He fled to the home of his friend, Mr. Martin Robledo,

who, uh, lives in Gonzales County.

In the evening, after it was dark,

they heard a noise.

He ran out the door and he saw this, uh -

this enormous shape of a man bearing down on him on horseback,

firing his pistols.

Well, Mr. Cortez, not knowing who this man was -

There was no announcement made -

fired his pistols wildly as he tried to run,

scrambling in the rocky earth.

No man could hit anything on purpose, moving like that.

If he did kill Sheriff Glover, it was self-defense.

Mr. Schnabel,

who my client is also accused of killing,

was on the other side of the house.

I'd like someone to explain to me how somebody could shoot a man on the other side of the house.

Maybe shoot over it and the bullet dropped down. I don't know.

Gentlemen, this man has suffered

untold pain and... agony.

He's lost his brother.

His family is, at this moment, incarcerated in jail.

His children, his wife.

Gentlemen, release this family.

Let 'em be together again.

The only crime that this man has committed is...

he's been too good a horseman.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Your Honor.

- Gracias. - Thank you.

Your Honor...

gentlemen of the jury...

members of the court...

my worthy adversary, Mr. Abernathy...

has sought...

to paint you some pretty pictures.

Ha pintado un cuadro muy bonito.

He has tried to draw a picture

that Gregorio Cortez

is a victim here.

Gregorio Cortez es la víctima.

- Well, there were only three victims... - Cuando en realidad solo hay tres víctimas.

- and they're all dead... - Y todas están muertas.

at the hands of Gregorio Cortez.

Now, who is Gregorio Cortez?

¿Quién es Gregorio Cortez?

Gregorio Cortez is a man who kills and runs...

in the cover of darkness.

Yeah.

He drew a gun

and shot our beloved sheriff...

Dick Glover...

and our friend,

Henry Schnabel.

And in his diabolical, scheming ways,

he rode in circles...

he rode in figures of eight,

eluding the law,

and I'm sure laughing all the way.

Riéndose todo el tiempo.

Mrs. Glover, your trials are just beginning...

with your six young, orphaned daughters.

There'll be nights that...

you'll wake...

in a feverish nightmare of loneliness...

and reach across your bed

for the protection and the love of your husband's arms.

But he won't be there.

Because Gregorio Cortez has taken him away.

And in the future,

when those six helpless,

young orphans...

need a father's touch...

their father's love -

When that little girl falls and scrapes her knees

and seeks to sit on her daddy's knee,

that knee will not be there.

Because Gregorio Cortez has taken it away.

And so I ask this jury...

to bring in the only verdict...

and that is murder...

in the first degree.

Take Gregorio Cortez...

out of this free world

and lock him away...

until it is time to hang him.

Hasta que sea momenta de ahorcarlo.

¿A quién trajeron ahora?

No, yo no sé.

- Pues es que es el Cortez. - Sí.

- ¿Seguro que dijeron? - Ese es alto.

No, es mi abogado.

¡Tú cállate!

Is the boss in? Hello?

Oh, I definitely expect trouble.

Hell, there's trouble right now.

Yes, sir.

Order!

- String him up! - Sit down!

Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

Take your seats.

Order in the court. Order in the court.

Order!

Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor. - Will the defendant please rise.

Por favor, póngase de pie.

“We, the jury, find the defendant

guilty of murder without malice.

50 years confinement in the Texas penitentiary.”

No, no maté a este hombre. Al otro sí maté, pero a este hombre no maté.

- Fifty years? No! - No es posible.

No, a este hombre no maté. ¡No, no maté a este hombre!

- ¡Yo no maté a este hombre! - Order in the court!

- You will take charge of the prisoner! - ¡Yo no maté a este hombre!

¡No! ¡No maté a ese hombre!

No kill man! No kill man!

¡No maté! ¡No maté a ese hombre!

¡No maté a ese hombre!

- ¡Que vida Gregorio! - ¡Que viva!

Señores. Señoras.

Muchísimas gracias por haber venido esta noche.

Amigos, si Gregorio Cortez es culpable, que lo castiguen.

Pero si no es, hágase la justicia.

La justicia, desgraciadamente, cuesta dinero.

Así es que, por favor, abran su corazón

y hagan su contribución, por favor, señores.

-- Muchísimas gracías, señor.

Su cooperación. Gracias, gracias.

Que el Señor se lo pague. Muchas gracias.

- Que el Señor se lo pague. - Se les agradece, señor.

♪ Decía Gregorio Cortez ♪

♪ Con su pistola en la mano ♪

Oww!

♪ No corran, rinches cobardes ♪

♪ Soy solo un mexicano ♪

Wayne?

Wayne?

Wayne?

Wayne?

All right.

- We want Cortez, Frank! - You know who we want, Frank!

What in the hell are you talking about?

You know what we're talkin' about!

He's ours, Frank!

- No, he's not yours! - We're gonna get 'im!

He belongs to the State of Texas. That's who he belongs to.

- No! We want him now! - Come on, boys!

Don't do this!

Don't get yourself in trouble like this, now!

Are we gonna stand here and let more sheriffs get killed?

No!

Damn you! Go home, boys!

We don't wanna hear no more talk, Frank.

You're gonna hear as much talk as I gotta talk.

I took an oath, damn you!

Break the door down!

Carmen!

- No! - Carmen!

Carmen!

Carmen!

Y'all better move!

Come on, boys!

I don't wanna have to shoot anyone, but I will.

Back off with that thing. Now, y'all just hold it just a minute.

I was a friend of Dick Glover's, just like the rest of ya.

We all know it.

But let me tell you how we all feel, Frank.

And I can speak for all of us.

All we want is that damn greaser.

I'd probably be out there with you tonight. You know that.

- Grab him. - That's enough jabberin', Frank.

- You gonna let us in? - That's all we want.

What in the hell's the matter with you people?

You want to avenge the death of Dick Glover,

well, why the hell don't you bring a friend of his up here?

Not one of his enemies.

You wouldn't dare come outside and say that.

There he is. That's Cortez.

Ese hombre, el vestido de negro, mírelo.

Ese es el Gregorio Cortez.

Va a ser un hombre más famoso.

There's Gregorio.

That's the man.

Stand back. Stand back.

Stand back.

♪ Decía Gregorio Cortez ♪

♪ Con su pistola en la mano ♪

♪ Ah, cuánto rinche cobarde ♪

♪ Para un solo mexicano ♪

♪ Ya con esta me despido ♪

♪ A la sombra de un ciprés ♪

♪ Y aquí se acaba el corrido ♪

♪ De don Gregorio Cortez ♪