All language subtitles for Lone.Star.1996.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD2.0.x264-AJP69

We got cenizo,
and that's purple sage.

Agave, nopal.

What's that stuff?

Yeah, that's that,
uh, whatchamacallit--

that's that horse crippler.

This place is a gold mine!

Lead mine!
What?

I said it's a lead mine!
Right.

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

You findin' lots
of cactus and shit?

Not just cactus. There's the acacias,
the yuccas--

looks like a lot
of cactus to me.

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

Hey, cliff!

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

Explore! Cliff,
you gotta look at this.

Don't tell me.
Spanish treasure, right?

Pieces of eight from
the Coronado expedition?

Jesus.

Was Coronado in the masons?

I got the forensics fellow
comin' down from San Marcos.

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

That ring? Masons
been around a long while.

Is he a treasure
hunter? Old bullets.

Makes art out of 'em.

Sheriff says we shouldn't
touch anything, Mikey.

Can't hear
with that ray gun. Mikey!

Hey, what do we got here?

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

They're real particular
about that.

The scene of the crime.

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

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

He went to school on the post
when we were in Korea.

It's all kids in the same boat.
Army brats. I really need--

his record shows
that he's a good student.

I'm more worried about the social
thing. Are there gangs or guns?

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

We've got a pretty lively mix, though:
Mexican kids, anglo kids, black kids.

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

Except for a couple
of Kickapoo kids.

Look, you're obviously
a concerned parent.

Chet has no history
of gettin' into trouble.

Pilar. Is Amado okay?

- He's not here?
- No. Is he sick?

He's gonna wish he was dead.

Somebody hand me the CD player.

Dámelo pendejos!

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

- Something wrong?
- This is stolen property.

I'm hauling
the bunch of ya to jail.

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

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

He was the most hygienic
of all the McHenrys.

"Fishbait," Buddy says
in that quiet way of his,

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

Fishbait thinks for a minute,

then lifts up a loose board
from the porch floor.

Calls down into it, "come on out,
hooter! They caught us!"

Buddy Deeds.
He had a way.

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

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

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

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

There'll never be
another one like him.

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

Hey, fellas.

Sam! I was just tellin'
a few on your old man.

Yeah, he was
a unique individual.

He was that.

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

- Went so unexpected.
- Better late than never.

Korean war hero.
Sheriff for nearly 30 years.

The Buddy Deeds
Memorial Courthouse.

I heard there was
a bit of a fuss.

Well, the usual troublemakers.

Danny Padilla with the sentinel,
that crowd.

They call everything else in the
country after Martin Luther King.

We can't have
one measly courthouse?

King wasn't Mexican, Fenton.

Bad enough all the street names
are in Spanish.

They were here first.

Then let's call it after
Big Chief Shitinthebucket.

That Tonkawa had
the Mexies beat by centuries.

Nineteen out of twenty people
in this town are Mexican.

There was a faction pullin' for that
boy killed in the Gulf war. Reuben--

Santiago.

Mexicans that know, that remember,
understand what Buddy was for their people.

Hell, it was Mercedes over there
swung the deciding vote for 'im.

She made it even three to three.

As mayor, I get
to cast the tiebreaker.

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

They remember how Buddy
come to be sheriff.

Tell that story, Hollis.

Hell, everybody heard
that story a million times.

I'd like to hear it.
Your version of it.

Yeah, come on, Hollis.

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

Me and Buddy--
what? '58?

'57, I think.

The sheriff at the time
was big Charlie Wade.

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

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

It was in here one night,
back when Jimmy Herrera run the place.

It started over
a basket of tortillas.

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

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

Them people breed like chickens.

So?

So I roust some muchacho on the street,
doesn't have his papers.

All he's got to say is,
yo trabajo parajimmy Herrera.

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

if you know what I mean.

This will be one of your pickups, Buddy,
first of the month, just like the rent.

Get the car, Hollis.

I'm not doin' it.

Come again?

It's your deal.

There's gonna
be some left over for you.

- I take care of my boys.
- That's not the point, Charlie.

You feelin' bad about Jimmy?

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

When he run a place
on the other side.

Those old boys
from Ciudad Leon--

I'm not pickin' it up.

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

Well, how about this, Charlie?

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

Before you end up dead
or in jail?

You're not makin' sense, Buddy.

You stick around and I'm bringin' up
charges on the county road project.

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

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

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

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

You're fired.

Not a soul in this county isn't sick to
death of your bullshit, Charlie Wade.

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

- You little pissant--
- now or later,

you won't have
any trouble findin' me.

You're a dead man.

Get the goddamn car.
We're goin' to Roderick's.

Muchacho,
mas cerveza, por favor.

"Mas cerveza, por favor."

That Buddy was a cool breeze.

Charlie Wade were known to put
quite a few people in the ground.

And your daddy gets
eyeball to eyeball with him.

We made our pickup
at Roderick's place.

Nobody seen hide nor hair
of him since.

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

Never heard from him again.

Buddy Deeds said a thing,
he damn well backed it up.

Never be another one like him.

So I suppose then he arrested
all of Jimmy Herrera's people...

And sent 'em back
to the other side?

No, he come to an accommodation.

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

I know you had problems
with your father.

And he and Muriel--
your mother was a Saint.

But Buddy Deeds
was my salvation.

Won't be another like him.

It is an honour for me to
assume command of this unit.

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

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

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

You may have heard rumours that
I run a very tight operation.

These rumours
are not exaggerated.

Wait a minute.

Get down! Somebody
call the doctor!

Somebody call the doctor!

Hold him down!
Hold him down!

Somebody call, please!

You weren't in here tonight,
were you? N-No, sir.

Go out the back way.
Somebody call the doctor!

Somebody call the doctor!

Just tearin' everything down.
Tearin' down our heritage.

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

We fought and died
for this land too.

We fought the U.S. Army,
the Texas rangers.

Yeah, and you lost, Buddy. Winners get the
braggin' rights. That's the way it goes.

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

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

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

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

It is not what
we set as the standard.

Now you people can
believe whatever you want.

But when it comes
to teaching our children--

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

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

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

The men who founded this state broke from Mexico
because they needed slavery to be legal...

To make a fortune
in the cotton business.

-That's an oversimplification.
-You reportin' this meeting, Danny, or runnin' it?

Just adding a little
historical perspective.

You call it history,
I call it propaganda.

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

There's no reason
to be so threatened--

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

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

Part of the complexity
of our situation down here.

Cultures coming together in
both negative and positive ways.

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

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

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

That's what's got to stop!

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

Now who are you
callin' ignorant?

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

Hospital says the
other kid's in bad shape.

The shooter local?
Down from Houston.

Think he knew
the girl from before.

We'll take a statement from all the
G.I.'s before they go back to post.

You can get the story from
Otis over at the club. Okay.

Any poop on the John Doe
we found out there today?

No, nothin' much. Rangers
are puttin' Ben Wetzel on it.

I'll catch ya later.
All right.

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

Pilar?

- Something wrong?
- They've got my son.

- They've got him here?
- Somebody called.

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

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

I was, uh--

I was real sorry about Nando.

He was a good fellow.

We haven't talked--

we haven't talked
since high school.

Yeah. I'll go check
on your boy.

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

Then the next thing I know there's shots,
and Richie's down.

It just happened so fast.

We got some boys
you run in earlier today?

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

Your father was
a hell of a mechanic.

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

they could have bought
most everything they stole.

They asked me to hook it up
for them. I didn't steal anything.

I didn't say you did.

My name's Sam, by the way.

He's all yours.
Are you okay?

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

You'll find out
when I get you home.

- Thanks, Sam.
- It's no problem.

It was good seeing you again.

Big O's is the only place in the county
where African-American soldiers are--

well, that they feel
comfortable in, sir.

Have we had trouble there
before? Fistfight now and then.

This town isn't much,
colonel. They didn't come for vacation.

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

Dealing with new people. I remember
my first hitch. Substance abuse?

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

I meant on the post in general.
How are you dealing with it?

We throw a urine test
at them once a month.

Random numbers. Maybe
100 people at a time.

Let's make it once a week
for a while. No problem, sir.

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

Appreciate it, sir.

Guy cracks walnuts
with his asshole.

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

Sam the man.

Hey, Ben.
Thanks for comin' down.

So how's business?

Business is boomin'. Got your drugs,
got your illegals.

Had a shootin' the other night at
O's place. Soldier got ventilated.

I hear they're closin'
Fort McKenzie down.

Gonna pull a lot of jobs
outta this county.

Yeah, we'll have folks swimmin' over
to Mexico to work in the sweatshops.

That the word on our
boy? This is skinny.

Skinny?

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

dependin' how much meat
there is on the bones.

It's a nice job.

Male Caucasian,
40 to 60 years old.

Five-foot-nine to five-eleven.

Chewed tobacco. Then we got the
dental records and the personal effects.

It's Charlie Wade.

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

Yeah.

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

Everybody on the border
knows that story.

So you got a cause of
death? Skull was intact.

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

Not much to go on.

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

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

You remember what old Buddy
carried for a side arm?

Colt peacemaker.

Forty-five.
He swore by it.

What?

I's just wonderin'.

So is Buddy on your short list?

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

And starved out there,
I wouldn't go much further.

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

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

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

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

even if it's 40 years old.

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

I remember Charlie Wade come
to my father's hardware store once.

I was just a little boy.

But I'd heard stories about
how he'd shot this one...

And how he shot that one.

Man winked at me.
I peed my pants.

Winked at me.

Okay, we have the fight
against the Spanish...

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

And Mexican independence
is declared.

Anglo settlers are invited
to colonize the area.

By the time they begin the
movement against Santa Anna,

they outnumber the
Mexicans here by four to one.

The war between Mexico
and the anglo forces...

Ends in 1836...

With the formation
of the Texas republic.

Texas joins the United States
as a state where slavery is legal...

In 1845 after
the so-called Mexican war,

then secedes to join
the confederacy in 1861.

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

By range wars and race wars...

And all this paralleled
by the constant battles...

Between both the Mexican and anglo settlers
and the various Indian nations in the area.

What are we seeing here, Chet?

Um, everybody's
killing everybody else.

Boy, I always wondered what you
mayors do when you're not cuttin' ribbons.

Sam!

Partner! Ya caught me
playin' hooky.

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

Sounds great.
Where do I sign up?

You been by your
old place lately? No.

New people painted it
some god-awful colour.

We found a body out by fort McKenzie
yesterday. It'd been there a long time.

Was it Davy Crockett
or Jim bowie?

You recall if Charlie Wade
was a Mason?

Charlie?

Yeah, I believe he used to go
for lodge meetings over to Laredo.

What's Charlie Wade
got to do with your body?

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

And a Rio County
Sheriff's badge.

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

Hell, I've told the story
enough times.

We were just in the car. He was
stewin' about his fight with Buddy...

As we drove over to
Roderick Bledsoe's. Bledsoe?

He owned the coloured
roadhouse before Otis.

- He still livin'?
- No.

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

You think it was
Charlie Wade, huh?

Forensics people are sure of it.

You got any idea who might
have put him there?

Besides my father, I mean.

There's no call for that, Sam.

Wade made hisself a pile
of enemies over the years.

Yeah, and Buddy was one of 'em.

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

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

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

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

I understand why you might
want to think he could.

Thanks for your time, Hollis.

Hey, look at all this, will ya?

Tackle, boat!

All just to catch
a little old fish,

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

Hardly seems worth
the effort, does it, Sam?

So you knew
this young man before?

From back in Houston. We
both come up on fifth street.

Did you know he was
gonna be there last night?

If I had, I wouldn't
have gone in.

And you and
private graves were...

We were just dancin'.

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

I know that, sergeant.
We were just dancin'.

There was a bunch of us there.

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

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

but when it interferes
with the training here--

shadow just gets crazy.

Sergeant, how is Richie doin'--
private graves?

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

He'll probably be getting
a medical discharge.

Will this go on my record?

The incident will be noted.

But if it happened
the way you say it did,

there hasn't been an infraction.

Thank you, sergeant.

You're dismissed.
Thank you, sergeant.

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

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

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

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

She's pulled herself out of a
pretty rough neighbourhood.

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

Mrs. Bledsoe?
That's me.

I'm Sheriff Deeds.

Sheriff Deeds is dead, honey.
You just Sheriff Junior.

Yeah, that's
the story of my life.

You ever play one of these?

Yeah, I've seen 'em.

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

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

And here I am
with half the day gone.

You mind if I ask you a few questions
about your husband Roderick?

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

He had the club out
on the old trail road?

We run that club
for over 20 years.

Give it over to Otis Payne in...

1967, April.

Then you must
remember Sheriff Wade?

Them days,

you deal with Sheriff Wade
or you didn't deal.

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

So he squeezed money out of you?

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

unless you was a club, see?

Roderick used to say,

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

That Sheriff Wade,
he could close you down anytime.

And my father?

Sheriff Buddy was
a different story.

Long as Roderick throw his
weight the right way at election day,

make sure all the coloured
come out to vote,

throw a barbecue for the
right folks now and then,

Sheriff Buddy kept to his word.

That Sheriff Wade, though,
he could get ugly.

And people didn't complain, huh?

Not if you was coloured
or Mexican.

Not if you wanted
to keep breathing.

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

He come fussin'
around our place.

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

makin' everybody nervous.

Had him a smile
like the grim reaper.

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

actin' the kingfish
with everybody.

Otis Payne come to work
for us about that time.

And that boy
had him some attitude.

Pour it.

What?

Pour it!

I know you?

- Name's Otis.
- Otis what?

Payne.
They call me "O."

One of Cleroe Payne's boys?

Uh-huh.

I sent your daddy
to the farm once.

Yeah, I know that.

Why you think that was?

Some crop needed pickin'.
The man was short-handed.

As I remember it was because
he had a sassy mouth on him.

Must run in the family.

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

Runnin' numbers is illegal, sir.

Runnin' numbers without I know
about it is both illegal and unhealthy.

You remember that.

Whoa, son.
You're not finished.

- Pour his.
- I prefer it in a bottle.

Shut up, Hollis.

How come you don't
look familiar?

I been away,
up to Houston. Houston?

I hear they let you boys
run wild up there.

Oh, look what you done now.

Better get something
to wipe it up, son.

You spilt it.
Maybe you should wipe it up.

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

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

I understand.

Come on, Houston.
Give it a try.

Come to papa.

Uh, don't mind him Sheriff!

The boy is a bit slow is all.
He don't mean nothin' by it.

That the problem, son?
You slow?

Otis. Apologize
to the sheriff.

Sheriff, you got him
too scared to peep.

Maybe if you'd put that gun up?

You tellin' me what to do?

No, Sheriff, I'm just--

is that whiskey in them glasses
on the bar?

Roderick, I'm gonna have to
cite you for violation of state law.

This is a club, Sheriff.
You been here.

All you people better
clear outta here now.

You learn how to act
your place, son.

This isn't Houston.

'Course, I was young...

And full of beans back then.

I didn't understand the spot
I was puttin' Roderick in.

And that was the last time
you saw him?

I think he came in
one more time.

Uh, with Hollis and, uh--
no, no.

Your daddy wasn't with him.
Made their monthly pickup.

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

And that was the night
he disappeared?

Could have been.

You own a gun?

Back then?

No.

How about Roderick?

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

just so folks knew it was there.

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

And when my father was sheriff?

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

Buddy was more a part
of the big picture.

County political machine.

Chamber of commerce.
Zoning board.

If I kept those people happy,
he was pretty much on my side.

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

they'd be, uh--

how should I say this?

They'd be
officially discouraged.

He ever accept cash for a favor?

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

I don't recall a man in this
county-- black, white, Mexican--

who'd hesitate for a minute...

Before they'd call on Buddy
Deeds to solve a problem.

More than that,

I wouldn't care to say.

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

Come on, Amado.

Just because I'm not like
little miss honour roll?

Leave your sister out of this.

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

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

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

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

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

And those stupid girls who
hang out with them. Shut up!

Joanie Orozco's telling the whole
school she's in love with Santo Guerra.

- So?
- It's pathetic.

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

Not if you have half a brain.

Of course you can.
What?

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

It's ancient
goddamn history, Danny.

1963, they dam up the north
branch to make Lake Pescadero.

A whole little town disappears.

- A squatter's town!
- People had been living in Perdido for 100 years.

Mexicans and Chicanos
are deported, evicted,

moved forcibly out of their houses by our
local hero, Buddy Deeds, and his department.

There was a bill
from the state legislature.

Families were split apart,
Jorge. A community was destroyed.

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

Buddy Deeds, Sheriff of Rio County,
and his chief deputy, Hollis Pogue.

You finished?

Look, I'm not after you, Sam.

I think people in town ought to
know the full story on Buddy Deeds.

That makes two of us.

I don't see what
the big deal is.

Go back over,
talk to the man and Bury the hatchet.

Why should I be the one? He's had almost
40 years. I haven't heard a word from him.

- He was probably embarrassed.
- Otis Payne was never embarrassed in his life.

- Dad.
- Del, you were eight when he left.

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

Dad?

"Hey, Delmore,
where's your daddy?"

This godforsaken town. Everybody
in everybody else's business.

And everybody loved Otis.
Big O.

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

- Dad, can I talk to you about track?
- People change.

- Not that much.
- I talked to the track coach.

We already had this out. Next
year if your grades are higher.

-I have a "B" average.
-How many "B" averages do you think they take at west point?

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

No. We don't.

Get off the phone, Enrique.
We've got people waiting.

¿Mami?

These ones coming over are
getting stupider every year.

Maybe you're just
gettin' less patient.

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

If you hire illegals,
what do you expect?

Nobody's illegal in my cafe.

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

If they only had a little common sense,
I'd be very happy.

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

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

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

Maybe see where you grew
up? Why would I want to go there?

You must be curious
how it's changed.

Amado is into this
big Tejano roots thing.

I've never been further
than Ciudad Leon.

You wanna see Mexicans? Open
your eyes and look around you.

We're up to our ears in them.

Mami, how old were you...

When my father died?

He was killed.

Right.
When he was killed.

A little older
than Paloma is now.

How come you never
got married again?

It just didn't happen.

There must have been somebody.

I was too busy.

Mami, nobody is too busy.

Maybe now.
It was different back then.

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

What do I need some chulo with grease
under his nails to drink up the profit?

Thank you.

I don't mean Fernando.

Mami,when I brought him home,
those were your exact words.

Some chulo with grease
under his nails.

- I never said that.
- You made it pretty damn clear. You thought he was nobody.

I felt you could
do better for yourself.

What? What?

Become a nun? You didn't even
want me to go out with anglos.

I never said that.
It was just that boy.

"That boy."

Mami, say his name,
for Christ's sakes.

You people are stealing from me.
I entiende! I robandome!

¿Lo madre?

Mm-hmm.

Lo siento.

Now, I'm as liberal
as the next guy.

If the next guy is a redneck.

But I gotta say, I think there's
something to this cold climate business.

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

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

Can't build
no civilization that way.

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

That gives your old
cerebral cortex a workout.

Good thing you were
born down here then.

You joke about it, Sam,
but we are in a state of crisis.

The lines of demarcation
are gettin' fuzzy.

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

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

Your daddy understood that.
He was a-- what do you call it?

A referee for this
damn menudo we got down here.

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

In the same jar.

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

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

Hollis retires next year.
Jorge Guerra's gonna take over.

This is it right here, Sam.

This bar is the last stand.

Se habla American, goddamn it.

Even in here
it's slidin' away. Tsk.

Take that pair over there
in the corner.

Place like this, 20 years ago,

Buddy'd been on them two.

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

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

Yeah, I bet he would.

Day that man died,

they broke the goddamn mould.

Seriously.
"Seriously"?

I think we should get married.

We've been through this before.

We should just do it.

And if I get transferred to a
different post? Germany or Korea?

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

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

You know, you are somethin'.

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

- Big goddamn deal.
- Excuse me.

Sheriff. Hi.
This is sergeant--

this is Priscilla worth.

Sheriff Deeds was with us on
our archaeological find yesterday.

It true they gonna build
a shopping mall out there?

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

Damn. They closin' down
military left and right...

And puttin' up jails
like 7-Eleven stores.

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

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

Fort McKenzie stopped training
infantry there in the late '50s.

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

You know who it was they dug up?

I'm not for sure yet.

But I kind of wish they hadn't.

Es muy lindo, su coche, senora.

In English, Enrique.
This is the United States.

We speak English.

Is very beautiful, your car.

Good night, Enrique.
Buenas noches, senora.

Knock that off a minute.

- Black Seminoles?
- Hobby of mine.

A few artefacts.

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

Admission's free.

Ah.

This is where he was shot?

He fell right there by the door.

Get much of that in here?

It's a bar.
Folks come together.

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

Deal drugs in the bathroom.

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

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

This here is Carolyn.

Honey, this is my son, Delmore.

Nice to meet you, ma'am.

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

So?

So.

Tell me why I shouldn't
make this place off-limits.

This is an official visit then.

I assume most of your business
is with our people.

Your boys all cooped up
together out there.

They need someplace
to let the steam out.

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

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

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

You the man out there now,
ain't ya? It's your call.

That's right.

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

Boys say they hear
he's a hard case.

A real spit and Polish man.

Full bird colonel
by the name of Payne.

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

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

Right.

I hear things too. They call
you the mayor of darktown.

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

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

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

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

It's holiness church or big O's.

And the people make a choice.

Most of 'em choose both.

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

Between the good people
and the bad people.

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

Right.

I'm gonna meet
that family of yours?

Why would you want to do that?

Because... I'm your father.

You'll get official notification
when I make my decision.

So that's him.
Yeah, that's him.

Historic occasion, ain't it?

Yeah, seems like we have
another one every week.

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

Buildin' up tourism,
Sam. People come here to catch bass...

And to get laid at
the boy's town in Ciudad Leon.

"Frontera, Texas, gateway
to inexpensive pussy."

That kind of talk don't help.

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

I got Eddie Richter at the
sentinel to kill that story, Sam.

What, the Perdido thing? He
agreed it wasn't exactly news.

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

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

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

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

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

Your construction company gonna get the bid
on buildin' this thing, would it, Fenton?

And Jorge, you wouldn't be thinkin'
about a couple dozen new jobs...

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

The people are
concerned about crime.

I'm not gonna campaign
against your deal here.

But if anybody asks me,
I got to tell them the truth.

We don't need a new jail.

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

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

Hi, Sam.
Hey, folks.

- Fenton, what's up buddy?
- Hi! How you doin'?

Let's get this thing over
with. Good to see ya.

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

With three bars on her shoulder.

It's beyond
what you'd call dating.

You gonna get married?
Maybe.

You met her family?

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

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

She figures they'll be so
relieved that I'm a man--

it's always heart-warming to see a
prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.

Marriage, man.
I don't know.

Let's see. I did two tours
of duty in Southeast Asia.

I was married for five years.

I couldn't tell you which
experience was worse. Hey, Mikey.

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

Mikey.
Her parents
acted like...

I was gonna blow my nose
on their curtains.

Mikey. If I stayed out
past 10:00 with the guys,

she'd go into this
madame butterfly routine.

Hey, Mikey.
Look at this.

What? It's a bullet.
I'm lousy with bullets here.

- It's a.45.
- Oh, yeah?

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

The rest of this
is all.30 calibre.

They were using M-1's,
yeah. Yeah.

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

We better call that sheriff.

Back in the early '70s,

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

"governor, what's your ideal...

Of what a real Texan
oughta be?"

Governor said,
"son, that's easy.

"Just go down to Rio County
and get a look...

At Sheriff Buddy Deeds."

Thank you.

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

I think he's somebody who knew
Buddy better than any of us.

Sam, uh, say a few words?

Well, you folks
who remember my father...

Knew him as Sheriff.

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

This is a real honour
you're doin' him today.

And if Buddy was around,
I'm sure his hat size...

Would be gettin'
a lot bigger every minute.

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

You could hide from my old man.

And now I'm sure of it.

I do appreciate it though.

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

Thank you.

And now my favourite
council member...

And one of Frontera's
most respected businesswomen,

Mrs. Mercedes Cruz,
will do the honours.

Senora Cruz, espera
un momento. Como esto.

Gracias.

It does look kind of like Buddy.

I think he's gonna run that
Mexican kid in for loitering.

Nice to see you, Mrs. Cruz.

Field trip?
Lunch hour.

My next class
isn't until 1:30.

You want to take a walk?

They cooked the whole
thing up without asking me.

People liked him.

Most people did.
Yeah.

I remember him
watching me once...

When I was little...

Before you and i--

I was on the playground
with all the other kids.

But I thought
he was only looking at me.

I was afraid
he was gonna arrest me.

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

Hmm. It's weird
what you remember.

- Hey, your boy there--
- amado.

- Nice-lookin' kid.
- He hates me.

No.

With Paloma, it's more like
she pities and tolerates me.

Totally age appropriate.

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

And me being a teacher
and caring about those things,

it's like... a betrayal.

Fernando did okay.
He dropped out.

Fernando wasn't
pissed off at everybody.

He just wanted
to fix their cars.

I spent my first 15 years
tryin' to be just like Buddy.

Next fifteen tryin'
to give him a heart attack.

So why did you
come back here, Sam?

I got divorced.

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

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

You don't wanna be sheriff.

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

Back when Buddy had it--

hell, I'm just a jailer.

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

You remember this?

I, um-- I oughta head back.

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

It's real nice
to talk with you, Sam.

Are you gonna tell her?

You gonna tell him?

He doesn't need to know
all my business.

He's gonna find out.

So? What's he gonna do?
Arrest us?

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

You believe that?

No.

Me neither.

Private Johnson!

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

I'm feelin' okay.

I'm real happy
to hear that, private.

Go put some pee-pee in a cup for Dr. Innis,
and I'm gonna be feelin' okay too.

Y-You testin' me?

You and 119 other fortunate
individuals. Put it in gear.

Take this shit off now. You
been talkin' so much trash today,

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

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

Man say fetch and you
fetch. Just doin' my job.

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

This isn't Houston, friend. We're running
things now. Our good day has come.

You chumps ain't had a
good day since the Alamo.

Andale, amigo.

Lupe? Would you get me
Ben Wetzel up in Austin?

I vamonos!

Wetbacks again.

Hello? Border patrol?

Mum?
Yeah?

You gonna stay out
here? Yeah. For a while.

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

Hey!
Good morning Sheriff!

- Hey, Pete. How's it goin'?
- Time marches on.

- How much you got left?
- Three months.

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

It was for personal consumption.

You gonna smoke an acre
and a half of marijuana?

Look, I got a bad stomach.
It helps me to digest.

Your father never
bothered me about it.

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

I thought he busted ya
a couple of times.

No. Different charge.

I had a still.

I made my own mescal. That's
how come I ruined my stomach.

I'm surprised
he bothered with it.

He was afraid I was going
to poison somebody.

- Your father tried to do good for people.
- So I heard.

And your mother,
she was a Saint.

You remember that summer
when I built that patio at your house?

She made me lunch every day.

You were workin' there.

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

You built our patio
while you were on the county?

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

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

Oh, Sheriff Buddy, man.

Como El no hay dos.

And after
that cabron Charlie Wade.

I heard Wade was a bit tough
on the Mexicans.

He murdered Eladio Cruz.
Is that tough enough for you?

Murdered him?

Chucho Montoya saw it
with his own eyes.

Shot him in cold blood.

Era muy cabron ese Charlie Wade.

Sam!

Uh, Sam, wait up.

You're out early.

Yeah.

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

I'm workin' on a
few things. Uh-huh.

I'm goin' over
to the other side.

The Republicans?
No. Mexico.

Oh.
Gotta talk to someone.

Well, they got telephones.

No. It's gotta
be in person.

Sam, i-- i, uh--

the committee--
Jorge and Fenton and all--

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

they want you to stand
for sheriff next election.

Yeah.

You'd do a good job.

Thanks.
What about you?

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

I, uh, just didn't want to go
around your back. That's all.

Appreciate you tellin' me.

You think we need a new jail?

Well, Sam, um,
it's a complicated issue.

Yeah. Right.

You'd be a hell of a sheriff.

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

Recycling, right?

We invented that.

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

So you own this place, huh?

This place, the one
across the street.

Three or four others
in Ciudad Leon.

Soy El Rey de las llantas.

King of the tires.

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

You lived in the states
for a while?

Fifteen years.

Made some money, came back here.

Something like that.

You ever know a fellow
named Eladio Cruz?

You're the Sheriff
of Rio County, right?

Un jefe muy respetado.

Step across this line.

I ay, que milagro!

You're not the sheriff
of nothing anymore.

Just some Tejano with a lot of
questions I don't have to answer.

A bird flying south.

You think he sees this line?

Rattlesnake, javelina,

whatever you got.

You think halfway across that
line they start thinking different?

Why should a man?

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

The question's just been
where to draw it.

My government can go
fuck itself and so can yours.

I'm talking about people here.

Men.

Mi amigo Eladio Cruz...

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

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

they got to hide in
the back como criminales.

And because over there he's
just another Mex bracero,

any man with a badge
is his jefe.

What's in the back?

Not much, jefe.
Some watermelons.

Drivin' 'em up for the market.
Should bring a good price.

I heard somebody been
haulin' wets on this road.

I haven't seen anybody
doing that.

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

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

He can run his own
operation without any help.

¿Como se llama, amigo?

Eladio Cruz.

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

- Reputation?
- Bandidos, injuns.

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

I hope you're carryin'
some protection.

Protection?

You carryin' a firearm,
son? Don't lie to me now.

Si. Un escopeto.
Just a shotgun.

Just a shotgun.

Better let me
have a look at that.

Oh! Oh, Jesus!

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

Think he can make a fool
out of Charlie Wade.

Get them wets out of the back,
Hollis. See what we've got.

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

Steve called for you.

Steve? Steve. Board
of education Steve.

Who likes you. He goes for us
hot-blooded Mexican girls. I can tell.

Spanish, please. My mother
would have a heart attack.

Your mother's family is Spanish?

Sure, they go back to Cortez.

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

You've got to be interested in somebody,
Pilar. All you do is work.

All my mother does is work.
That's how you get to be Spanish.

How about this sheriff?
Sheriff?

The old high school
heartthrob sheriff?

Thought you were
crazy about each other.

He's available,
you're available.

I'm unmarried.
I'm not available.

You told me one time
it was true love.

Nobody stays in love
for 23 years.

Come on. Get up!

I can't! I can't!
Get up!

Let's go.

Goddamn it!
Come here.

What the hell are you doin',
you asshole? How old is that girl, huh?

Let me go! I pendejo! Come on now,
Missy. Get your clothes in order.

Huh? Where's your goddamn sense,
son? You got no fuckin' right.

Stay outta my life!

Give me the goddamn car keys. What
am I supposed to do with her, Buddy?

Drive her home. Tell her
mother where we found her. Sam!

You leave her alone!
Move it, boy!

Please don't tell my mother.
She's gonna kill me.

Pilar!
Don't argue with me.
Git!

Follow me.

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

Yeah.

I look at my kids in school--

tenth, eleventh-graders--

that's who we were-- children.

I mean, what did we know
about anything?

Nothin'.

When Nando died--
it was so sudden.

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

And... then I woke up,

and there was
the rest of my life.

And I had no idea
what to do with it.

You know the other day
you asked why I came back.

Yeah?

I came back
'cause you were here.

My mother hasn't changed
the songs since I was ten.

Wow.

Yeah.

How come it feels the same?

I don't know.

It just feels good.

Always did.

So, um--

what are we gonna do about this?

More. I hope.

Huh?

How long have you lived here?

Two years.

There's nothin' on the walls.

No pictures.

I don't have kids.

The other pictures--

I don't know. It's nothin'
that I want to look back on.

Like your story's over.

I've felt that way.
Yeah.

It isn't.

Mm-mmm.
Not by a long shot.

Pilar.

What was your father's name?

Eladio.
Eladio Cruz.

That's John horse.

The Spanish down in Florida
call him Juan Caballo.

John horse.

He a black man or an Indian?

Both.

He's part of the Seminole nation got
pushed into the Florida Everglades...

Back in pioneer days.

African people run off
from slaveholders,

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

When the Spanish give up Florida,
the U.S. Army come down...

To move all the Indian people
to Oklahoma.

A couple of them held out.
That man John horse,

his friend wildcat,

another fellow named Osceola...

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

Beat Zach Taylor and a thousand
troops at Lake Okeechobee.

So they stayed in Florida?

One night they packed up,
rode out to Mexico.

Then went to work for
general Santa Anna down there.

After the civil war,
they came north to Texas,

put up at fort Duncan.

The men joined up what was called
the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts.

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

They'd chase after
bandits, rustlers,

Texas rednecks,
Kiowa, Comanches--

they fought against the Indians?

- Just like they did in Mexico.
- But they were Indians themselves.

They were in the army.

Like your father.

You know who I am?

I got a pretty good guess.

T-That guy who got shot.

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

Are you kidding?
And face a court-martial?

Pretty tough old man, huh?

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

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

you know, he didn't have--

didn't have a father.

He's still pissed off about it.

When you're his age,

you'll still be
pissed off about him.

How come you got
into all of this?

These are our people.

There are Payne's in Florida,
in Oklahoma, Piedras Negras.

So I'm part Indian?

By blood ya are.

But blood only means
what you let it.

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

No breaks and no excuses.

Gotta pull yourself up
on your own.

He's livin' proof of that, son.

Livin' proof.

Mornin', Hollis.
Sam! Sit down.

Big to-do the other day.

Meant a lot to folks
you said somethin'.

You thought any more
about our murder?

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

I got an idea what happened.

You do?

I think somewhere between
Roderick Bledsoe's club and his house,

Wade ran into Buddy Deeds.

I think Buddy
put a bullet in him.

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

And drove him out
by fort McKenzie.

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

You lived in
the man's house how long?

Seventeen, eighteen years.

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

I gotta go see somebody
up in San Antonio.

Your memory gets any better,
I'll be back tonight.

She finally got up.
It's Saturday.

You got in late last night.

I had some, um,
some school business.

Could I get this?

Oh, Paloma. Nobody
really wears that stuff.

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

I only went for
my last two years.

How come?

My mother wanted
to keep me away from--

from boys.

Did it work?

Longhorns go for
ten times the price.

But longhorns are hard
to come by these days.

Sell much out here?

How am I gonna sell things?
Nobody comes around.

This stretch of road
runs between...

Nowhere and not much else.

Hell of a spot
to put a business.

Don't see much
competition, do you?

Used to sell these things
like hotcakes.

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

I like it here.

Once I tried going onto
the reservation to live,

couldn't take the politics.

Damn Indians will
drive you crazy with that.

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

He come out of Korea,
bought a Chevy with too much engine.

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

lookin' for somebody to race.

Look here.

Buffalo chips.

Fellow down in Santa Fe told me
he sells these things...

As fast as the buffalo
can squeeze them out.

You think he killed
anybody in Korea?

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

Would you buy this?

No.

Yeah. Neither would I.

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

I believe Buddy might have
gone down the other path.

Got into serious trouble.

Settled him right down.
That and your mother.

Of course, he had
that other one later.

He had another woman?

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

Half the damn county
knew about it.

Nobody thought the worse
of her for seeing it through.

You know who it was?

The other one?

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

Here.

This big fellow was sleeping
in a crate at Cisco's Junkyard.

Right when I was gonna open
to see what was in there,

jumped right at my face.

Scared me so bad I had
to kill him without thinking.

You gotta be careful
where you go pokin'.

Who knows what you'll find.

Private Johnson,

are you unhappy in the army?

No, sir.

Then how would you explain...

That out of 120 people...

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

I'm sorry, sir.

When you were given
the opportunity to enlist,

a kind of contract
was agreed upon.

I think the army has honoured
its part of that agreement.

Yes, sir.

Do you believe in what we're doin' here,
private Johnson?

I can do the job, sir.

What exactly do you think
your job is, private?

Um, follow orders.
Do whatever they say.

Who's "they"?
The officers.

And that's the job? Nothing
about serving your country?

These are not trick questions,
private Johnson.

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

I'm just trying to understand...

How someone like you thinks.

- Y-You really want to know?
- Please.

Well, it's their country.

This is one of the best deals
they offer.

How do you think
I got to be a colonel?

Being good at your job.
Do what they tell you.

- "Do what they tell you"?
- I mean, follow orders, sir.

With your attitude, private,

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

I do, sir.

Because it's a job?

Outside, it's such a mess.
It's, um--

chaos.

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

They got people to fight.

You know, Arabs,
yellow people, whatever.

They might as well use us.

It works like this, private.

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

In what he's fighting for.

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

They try not to get them killed.

They try not to get them
extra duty.

You try not to embarrass
yourself in front of them.

Why don't you start with that?

Y-Yes, sir.

Dismissed.

Thank you, sir.

This time threads
the needle for painter.

The Aggies jump
to a 14-point lead.

Late in the second quarter,
Sooners back to punt on their own 27--

longhorns are gonna kick some serious
butt this Saturday. You just watch.

We got a kid, a tailback, from
down your way, out of El Indio--

- that's in Maverick County.
- Oh. Right. And you're in?

- In Rio.
- Right. This kid, Hosea Brown, he does the 40 in 3.4.

Soft hands, lateral movement,
the whole package. Only a sophomore.

- Still goin' to home games?
- Daddy's got his box in the stadium.

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

And then on Friday nights,
there's high school, of course.

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

Moves like a cat.
High school we're talkin'.

Guess how much
he can bench press.

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

Why? Do I seem jumpy?

No, no, you look good.
Just wonderin'.

Last year was awful rough with mama
passin' on and this business with O.J.

It's not like it's Don Meredith or
Roger Staubuch or one of our boys.

But it kind of threw me
for a loop.

You look good.

Then there was that squeaker
the Aggies dropped to Oklahoma.

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

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

You were in a fight?

Daddy calls that an altercation.

How you doin', Sam?
You look skinny.

I'm the same weight
I always was.

Daddy hired a pinhead to
take your job. Said so himself.

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

Bunny, uh,

that stuff I left in
the garage still there?

Least he never called me that.
With me it was always "high strung."

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

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

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

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

Did you watch the draft
this year?

Of course, you didn't.
Idiot question.

They try to make it dramatic.
Like it's a big surprise...

Who picks who
in the first round.

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

doctors' reports,
coaches' evaluations,

highlight reels,
psychological profiles.

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

had 'em analysed.

All that to pick a football
player for your squad.

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

Doesn't amount
to diddly, does it?

No, I suppose not.

You kind of bought yourself a
pig in a poke, didn't ya, Sam?

That whole time we were
first seeing each other,

you didn't know
that I was tightly wound.

It wasn't just you.

No, it wasn't, was it?

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

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

Three-hundred-and-fifty pounds.

That boy Churchill's got.

He plays tackle both ways.

Bench presses 350 pounds.

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

Be hard to breathe,
hard to swallow.

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

A spotter.

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

"She's my lifeline."

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

Son of a bitch
doesn't watch the games.

He sits there drinking
with his business friends.

Looks up at the TV now and then.

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

You look good, bunny.

It's nice to see you.

Thanks.

I like it when
you say that, Sam.

"Dearest Buddy--"

Hi.
Hey! It's the general.

Colonel.
Is Otis in?
Come on in.

If it's too late,
I can always come-- come on in.

Otis sittin' up with
some people at the club.

I don't think he'll be long.

His hot sauce recipe
won a contest last year.

They're sellin' it
far away as San Antonio.

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

I've been here with him
eight years now.

He built it when
he was with Leora.

Never met her.

There was a bunch of 'em
you never met. Me neither.

Let me show you around.

He got into all this cowboys
and Indians stuff a while back.

Spent half his time pokin'
around the library way up to Austin.

Kind of like a shrine, isn't it?

Where'd he get all this stuff?

Your mother's got
a brother, Alfonse.

Uncle al.

Otis stood on good terms
with the man.

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

When they made you general, Otis about
drove away customers goin' on about it.

I'm a colonel.

Yeah, I know. Man made me memorize
the whole damn army chain of command...

Before he'd marry me.

Uh--

my mother said that
he never asked about me.

He never asked her.

Tell him I stopped by?

Thanks.

Catch ya later,

colonel.

Enrique!
Yes!

Senora Cruz?

Who is it?

Enrique, what are you doing
out here? Are you crazy?

In English, Enrique.
We are in the United States.

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

You have somebody else
out there?

We was by the river, and I
"heared" my friend, calling for help.

I look and she has
falling in the water--

don't tell me lies.
What happened?

We was crossing the river--

Enrique? What are
you doing out there?

Who are those people?
How could you bring them here?

I need help, senora.

- Senora.
- I'll call the border patrol. They'll get her to the hospital.

You think you're doing
these people a favor?

What are they going to do? Either they
get on welfare or they become criminals.

Look out.

This girl is a friend of yours?

I thought you were married.

I am married to
the cousin of a friend,

but only for her to live here.

This is the mother of my child.

Typical.

Homework?

No. Finished that.
I'm just messin' around.

Tanks, huh?

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

So,

you're going in the army.

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

That's up to you.

The army isn't for everybody.

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

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

You wouldn't?

No.

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

It's fine. I'm pretty
much moved in. Good.

Are we ever gonna
see your father?

My father?

- Yeah, he lives here, right?
- Yes, he does.

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

And have a barbecue
next weekend.

We could invite
him and his wife over.

He makes his own sauce.

I vamos! I rapidamente!

Everybody in the world
is going to see.

He used to be a doctor
on the other side.

Don't worry about it.
He owes me a few favours.

In English, Enrique.
In English!

Hollis?

Hollis?

Ya in there?

Hollis!

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

fellas.

Sam!

You're open late.

I'm not open.
We were just talkin'.

So Hollis probably told you.
We found Charlie Wade.

Is that right?

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

You two saw it, didn't ya?

You two saw it
when Buddy killed him.

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

Your father had the finest sense of
justice of any man I've ever known.

Yeah, and my mother was a Saint.

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

He had another woman
on the side.

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

But, hell, what's that?

You got a problem?
Old Buddy'll fix it.

You facin' some time in jail?

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

You got some business that's not
exactly legal? Just talk to Buddy.

- Buddy Deeds--
- Buddy Deeds was a murderer.

That night at the cafe,

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

Maybe he decided
he'd gone too far with Wade.

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

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

And you were here
at the club that night.

Weren't ya, O?

I was here.

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

Craps.

Draw poker on the weekends.

Roderick didn't know about it.

More important, Charlie Wade
didn't know about it,

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

I was pretty full of myself
back in those days.

Hell, I just didn't expect
the man so early.

Charlie Wade!

Easy. Easy.

Sheriff Charlie
was the whip hand...

For old Judge Tibbs,

who pretty much owned
this county back then.

If the truth came out,
it wasn't gonna go easy on Hollis.

I don't know why
I trusted Buddy with it.

Don't know why he trusted me.

The first time I talked with
him was right there and then...

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

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

And put him under.

Can't say I was much help.

And the $10,000?

Widow's benefits.

We figured it'd make
the disappearance look better.

Mercedes was just scraping by
after Charlie killed her man.

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

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

Better than anything
the truth might have been.

It's your call, Sam.

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

Find out any more
than they already know.

As for me,

it's just one of
your unsolved mysteries.

Word gets out who the body was,

people gonna think
Buddy done it.

Buddy's a goddamn legend.

He can handle it.

Night, fellas.

Hey. When's
the picture start?

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

She'll find out sooner or later.

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

Have any idea when
your father died? Eladio?

Couple of months
before I was born.

Try a year and a half.

Buddy bought the cafe for her...

With money he took
from the county.

No, they can't pull this on me.

It's not fair.

I don't believe this.

He paid the hospital bill
when you were born.

Your mother--
she always calls you...

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

From the first time
I saw you in school--

All those years we were married
to other people, I always felt like--

like we were connected.

I remember thinkin'...

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

That Buddy
didn't have a piece of.

I can't have any more children.

After amado, I had
some complications.

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

So that's it?

You're not gonna
wanna be with me anymore?

If I met you...

For the first time today,

I'd still want to be with ya.

We start from scratch?

Yeah.

All that other stuff
and all that history--

the hell with it, right?

Forget the Alamo.