Were you in a car accident?
I'll give you five hundred bucks for that coat.
Let me see the money.
Were you in a car accident?
Yeah.
- Gimme the money. - It's right here. Give me the clothes.
Let him hold the money.
Gimme that beer too.
How much?
Brian. Give him the beer.
Medico. Por favor.
Any word on those vehicles yet?
Sheriff, I found out everything there was to find.
Those vehicles are titled and registered to deceased people.
The owner of that Bronco's been dead twenty years.
Did you want me to see what I could find out about the Mexican ones?
No. Lord no.
Here's this month's checks.
That DEA agent called again.
You don't want to talk to him?
I'm goin' to try and keep from it as much as I can.
He's goin' back out there and he wanted to know if you wanted to go with him.
That's cordial of him.
Could I get you to call Loretta for me...
...and tell her I'm goin' to Odessa to see Carla Jean Moss?
Yes, Sheriff.
I'll call her when I get there.
I'd call her now but she'll want me to come home and I just might.
- You want me to wait til you've quit the building? - Uhuh.
You don't want to lie without what it's absolutely necessary.
What is it that Torbert says about truth and justice?
Oh, we dedicate ourselves daily anew. Something like that.
I think I'm goin' to commence dedicatin' myself twice daily.
It might come to three times before it's over...
Oh, what the hell?
Sheriff?
Have you looked at your load lately?
That is a damned outrage.
Oh. One of those tiedowns worked lose.
How many bodies did you leave with?
I ain't lost none of 'em, Sheriff.
Couldn't you all of took a van out there?
Didn't have no van with four-wheel drive.
You going to write me up for improperly secured load?
You get your ass out of here.
I'm guessin' this isn't the future you had pictured for yourself...
...when you first clapped eyes on that money.
Don't worry. I'm not the man that's after you.
I know.
- I've seen him. - You've seen him?
And you're not dead.
Is this guy supposed to be the ultimate bad-ass?
- No, I don't think that's how I'd describe him. - How would you describe him?
I guess I'd say... he doesn't have a sense of humor.
His name is Chigurh.
- Sugar? - Chigurh. Anton Chigurh.
- You know how he found you? - I know how he found me.
- It's called a transponder. - I know what it is.
He won't find me again.
- Not that way. - Not any way.
- Took me about three hours. - Yeah, well, I've been immobile.
No. You don't understand.
- What do you do? - I'm retired.
What did you do?
- Welder. - Acetylene? Mig? Tig?
Any of it. If it can be welded, I can weld it.
- Cast iron? - Yes.
- I don't mean braze. - I didn't say braze.
- Pot metal? - What did I say?
Were you in Nam?
Yeah. I was in Nam.
So was I.
So what does that make me, your buddy?
Look, you gotta give me this money. I got no other reason to protect you.
It's too late. I spent it.
About a million and a half on whores and whiskey and the rest of it I just sort of blew it here.
How do you know he's not on his way to Odessa?
- Why would he go to Odessa? - To kill your wife.
Maybe he's the one who needs to be worried.
- About me. - He isn't.
You're not cut out for this.
You're just a guy who happened to find those vehicles.
I'm across the river. At the Hotel Eagle. Carson Wells.
Call me when you've had enough.
I can even let you keep a little of the money.
If I was into cutting deals,...
...why wouldn't I just deal with this guy Chigurh?
You don't understand. You can't make a deal with him.
Even if you gave him the money back, he'd still kill you...
...just for inconvenience in him.
He's a peculiar man. Might even say he has principles.
Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that.
He's not like you. He's not even like me.
He don't talk as much as you, I give him points for that.
Carla Jean. Thank you for comin'.
Don't know why I did.
I told you, I don't know where he is.
- You ain't heard from him? - No I ain't.
- Nothin'? - Not word one.
- Would you tell me if you had? - Well, I don't know.
- He don't need any trouble from you. - It ain't me he's in trouble with.
- Who's he in trouble with then? - Some pretty bad people.
These people will kill him, Carla Jean. They won't quit.
He won't neither. He never has.
He can take all comers.
You know Charlie Walser? He's got that place out east of Sanderson?
Well you know how they used to slaughter beefs, hit 'em right there with a maul...
..truss 'em up and slit their throats?
Here Charlie's got one all trussed up and all set to drain him...
...and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around.
Six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you'll excuse me.
Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head...
...but with all the swayin' and then the trashin' it's a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder.
You go see Charlie,...
he still can't pick up his right hand for his hat...
The point bein', even in the contest between man and steer,...
...the issue is not certain.
When Llewelyn calls, just tell him I'll make him safe.
Course they slaughter steers a lot different these days.
Use a air gun.
Shoots out a little rock, about that far into the brain. Sucks right back in. Animal never knows what hit him.
- Why you telling me that, Sheriff? - I don't know.
My mind wanders.
Hello, Carson.
Let's go to your room.
We don't have to do this.
I'm a daytrader. I could just go home.
Why would I let you do that?
I'll make it worth your while.
Take you to an ATM. Forteen grand in it.
And everybody just walks away.
An ATM...
- I know where the satchel is. - If you knew, you would have it with you.
Find it from the river bank. I know where it is.
I know something better.
- What's that? - I know where it's going to be.
- Where is that? - It will be brought to me and placed at my feet.
You don't know to a certainty. Twenty minutes it could be here.
I do know to a certainty. And you know what's going to happen now, Carson?
You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
You go to hell.
Alright.
Let me ask you something.
If the rule you followed brought you to this,...
...of what use was the rule?
Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
You mean the nature of this conversation?
I mean the nature of you.
You can have the money, Anton.
Hello?
Yes?
Is Carson Wells there?
Not in the sense that you mean.
You need to come see me.
Who is this?
You know who it is.
You need to talk to me.
I don't need to talk to you.
I think you do.
Do you know where I'm going?
Why would I care where you're going.
I know where you are.
Yeah? Where am I?
You're in a hospital across the river.
But that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?
Yeah. I know where you're going.
Alright.
You know she won't be there.
It doesn't make any difference where she is.
So what're you goin up there for?
You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?
No.
I think you do too. So this is what I'll offer.
You bring me the money and I'll let her go.
Otherwise she's accountable. Same as you.
That's the best deal you're going to get.
I won't tell you you can save yourself because you can't.
Yeah, I'm goin to bring you somethin' alright.
I've decided to make you a special project of mine.
You ain't goin' to have to come look for me at all.
- The motel in Del Rio? - Yessir.
None of the three had ID on 'em,...
...but they're tellin me that all three is Mexicans.
Was Mexicans.
There's a question. Whether they stopped it? And when?
Yessir.
Now, Wendell, did you inquire about the lock cylinder?
- Yessir. It was punched out. - Okay.
You wanna drive out there?
No, that's all I've to look for and it sounds like these old boys died of natural causes.
How's that, Sheriff?
Natural to the line of work they was in.
Yessir.
My god, Wendell, it's just all-out war. I can't think of any other word for it.
Who are these people?
Here last week they found this couple out...
...in California, they'd rent out rooms to old people.
Kill em, bury em in the yard and cash their social security checks.
They'd torture them first. I don't know why.
Maybe their television set was broke.
And this went on until, and here I quote:
Neighbors were alerted when a man ran from the premises wearing only a dog collar.
You can't make up such a thing as that. I dare you to even try.
But that's what it took, you'll notice. Get somebody's attention.
Diggin graves in the back yard didn't bring any.
That's all right. I laugh myself sometimes.
There ain't a whole lot else you can do.
Tell me something.
Who do you think gets through this gate into the United States of America?
I don't know. American citizens?
Some American citizens. Who do you think decides?
- Well, you do, I reckon. - That is correct. How do I decide?
- I don't know. - I ask questions.
And if I get sensible answers then they get to go to America. If I don't get sensible answers they don't.
- Anything about that you don't understand? - No sir.
Then I ask you again. How you come to be out here with no clothes?
I got an overcoat on.
- Are you jackin' with me? - Oh, no sir.
- Don't jack with me. - Yes sir.
- Are you in the service? - No sir. I'm a veteran.
- Nam? - Yes sir. Two tours.
What outfit?
Twelfth Infantry Battalion. August 7th 1966 to July 2nd 1968.
- Wilson! - Yessir.
Get someone to help this man. He needs to get into town.
- How those Larries holdin' up? - Oh, good.
- I need everything else. - Okay.
You have a lot of people come in here without any clothes on?
No sir, it's unusual.
She don't want to talk to you.
Yes she does. Put her on.
Do you know what time it is?
I don't care what time it is. And don't you hang up this phone.
- Llewelyn. - Hey you.
- What should I do ? - You know what's goin' on?
I don't know, I had the sheriff here from Terrell County.
What did you tell him?
What did I know to tell him? You're hurt, ain't you?
What makes you say that?
I can hear it in your voice.
There is falseness in his voice!
Look, I want you to meet me at the Desert Sands motel in El Paso.
Cause I'm gonna give you the money and I'ma put you on a plane.
Llewelyn, I ain't gonna leave you in the lurch.
No. This works better. With you gone and I don't have the money, he can't touch me.
But I can sure touch him.
And after I find him I'll come and join you.
Find who? What am I supposed to do with Mother?
- Nah, she'll be alright. - She'll be alright?
Be all right?! I've got the cancer!
Ain't nobody's gonna bother her.
Who are you?
- Me? - Yes.
Nobody. Accounting.
He gave the Mexicans a receiver.
He feels...he felt that... the more people looking...
That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.
I see. Are you going to shoot me?
That depends. Do you see me?
I always seen this is what it would come to.
Three years ago I pre-visioned it.
It ain't even three years we been married.
Three years ago I said them very words. No and Good.
Here we are. Ninety degree heat.
I got the cancer. And look at this. Not even a home to go to.
We're goin' to El Paso Texas. You know how many people I know in El Paso Texas?
- No ma'am. - That's how many.
- I didn't see my Prednizone. - I put it in, Mama.
- Well I didn't see it. - Well, I put it in. That one.
You just set there. I'll get tickets and a cart for the bags.
Do you need help with the bags, madam?
Well, thank god there is one gentleman left in West Texas.
Yes, thank you. I am old and I am not well.
- Which bus are you taking? - We're going to El Paso. Don't ask me why.
It's not often you see a Mexican in a suit.
You go to El Paso? I know it. Where are you staying?
Carla Jean, how are you?
Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?
Who's Charlie Walser?
Oh! Oh, I, uh... True story? I couldn't swear to ever detail but it's certainly true that it is a story.
Yeah, right.
Sheriff, can you give me your word on somethin'?
Yes ma'am?
If I tell you where Llewelyn's headed,...
...you promise it'll be just you goes and talks with him?
You and nobody else.
Yes ma'am, I do.
Llewelyn would never ask for help.
He never thinks he needs any.
Carla Jean, I will not harm your man.
And he needs help, whether he knows it or not.
What's the problem there, neighbor?
That'll suck some power. Over time.
- You from around here? - Alpine. Born and bred.
Here ya go.
- What airport would you use? - Well? Airport or airstrip?
- Airport. - Well, where ya goin'?
- I don't know. - Just lightin' out for the territories, huh?
Brother, I been there.
Well...
There's airstrips. The airport is El Paso.
You want some place specific you might could be better off just drivin' to Dallas.
Not have to connect.
- You gonna clamp them, buddy? - Can you get those chicken crates out of the bed?
What're you talkin' about?
- Hey. Mr. Sporting Goods. - Hey yourself.
You a sport?
Yeah, that's me.
I got beers in my room.
Waiting on my wife.
- That's who you keep lookin' out the window for? - Half.
- What else then? - Just lookin' for what's comin'.
Yeah, but no one ever sees that.
Beer. That's what's comin'.
I'll bring the ice chest out here. You can stay married.
No ma'am. I know what beer leads to.
Beer leads to more beer.
Call police.
Your local law enforcement.
I'm not on their radio.
Buy you a cup of coffee before you drive home?
No money in his room there?
Couple hundred on his person. Those hombres would've taken the stash.
I suppose so. Though they was leavin' in a hurry.
It's all the goddamned money, Ed Tom.
The money and the drugs.
It's just goddamned beyond everything.
What's it mean? What's it leading to?
You know, if you'd a told me twenty years ago, I'd see children walking...
the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses.
I just flat out wouldn't of believed you.
Signs and wonders. But I think once you quit hearin' sir and ma'am,...
...the rest is soon to follow.
Oh, it's the tide. It's the dismal tide.
- It is not the one thing. - Not the one thing.
None of that explains your man though.
He's just a goddamn homicidal lunatic, Ed Tom.
- I'm not sure he's a lunatic. - Yeah well, what would you call him?
I don't know. Sometimes I think he's pretty much a ghost.
- He's real all right. - Oh yeah?
All that at the ??? Motel. It's beyond everything.
Yeah, he has some hard bark on him.
That don't hardly say it.
He shoots the desk clerk one day.
Walks right back in the next and shoots a retired army colonel.
It's hard to believe.
Strolls right back into a crime scene.
Who would do such a thing? How do you defend against it?
Good trip, Ed Tom.
I'm sorry we couldn't help your boy.
Min back!
- How'd you know I was here? - Who else'd be driving up your truck?
- You heard it? - How's that?
- You heard what I'm - you havin fun with me? - What give you that idea?
- I seen one of the cats heard it. - But - how'd you know it was my truck?
I deduced it. When you walked in.
How many of those things you got now?
Cats? I don't know. Several.
Well, it depends on what you mean by got.
Some of 'em are half-wild, and some of 'em are just outlaws.
How you been, Ellis?
You lookin' at it. I got to say you lookin' older.
I am older.
Got a letter from your wife.
She writes to me pretty regular, keep me up on the family news.
- Didn't know there was any. - She told me you were quittin'.
- You want a cup? - 'Preciate it.
How fresh is that coffee?
I generally make a fresh pot ever week even if there's some left over.
That man who shot you died in prison.
In Angola. Yeah.
What would you a done if he'd been released?
I don't know. Nothin. Wouldn't be no point to it.
I'm kindly surprised to hear you say that.
Well, all the time you spend tryin' to get back...
...what's been took from you more is goin' out the door.
After a while, you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.
Your granddaddy never asked me to sign on as a deputy.
Loretta tells me you're quittin'.
How come're you doin' that?
I don't know.
I feel overmatched.
I always figured when I got older,...
...God would sort of come into my life in some way.
He didn't.
I don't blame him.
If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
You don't know what he thinks.
I sent Uncle Mac's thumbbuster and badge over to the Rangers.
Put up in a museum.
Your daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward?
Gunned down on his own porch over in Hudspeth County.
Seven or eight of 'em come up to here. Wantin' this and wantin' that.
Uncle Mac went back in the house and got the shotgun,...
They was way ahead of him.
Shot him in the doorway.
Aunt Ella came out and tried to stop the bleedin'.
Uncle Mac all the while tryin' to get that shotgun.
They just sat there on their horses watchin' him die.
After a while, one of 'em says somethin in Injun and they all turned and left out.
Well, Uncle Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't.
Shot through the left lung.
And that was that. As they say.
- When did he die? - 1909.
No, I mean was it right away or in the night or when was it?
I believe it's that night. She buried him the next mornin'.
Diggin' in that hard old caliche.
What you got ain't nothin new.
This country is hard on people.
You can't stop what's comin'.
Ain't all waitin' on you.
That's vanity.
- I knew this wasn't done with. - No.
I ain't got the money.
What little I had is long gone and there's bills aplenty to pay yet.
I buried my mother today. I ain't paid for that neither.
I wouldn't worry about it.
I need to sit down.
You got no cause to hurt me.
No. But I gave my word.
- You gave your word? - To your husband.
That don't make sense. You gave your word to my husband to kill me?
Your husband had the opportunity to save you.
Instead, he used you to try to save himself.
Not like that. Not like you say.
You don't have to do this.
They'll always say the same thing.
What did they say?
They say you don't have to do this.
You don't.
This is the best I can do.
Call it.
I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sittin' there.
I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
- Call it. - No.
I ain't gonna call it.
- Call it. - The coin don't have no say.
It's just you.
Well, I got here the same way the coin did.
Mister, there's a bone stickin' out of your arm.
I'm alright. Let me just sit here a minute.
There's an ambulance comin'. Man over yonder went to call.
Alright.
Are you all right? You got a bone stickin' out of your arm.
What will you take for that shirt?
Hell mister, I'll give you my shirt.
Look at that fuckin' bone.
Tie this for me.
Just tie it.
Hell mister. Look, I don't mind helping someone out. That's a lot of money.
Take it. Take it and you didn't see me.
I was already gone.
Yessir.
- Part of that's mine. - You still got your damn shirt.
- That ain't what it was for. - Well maybe, but I'm still out a shirt.
- Maybe I'll go ridin'. - Okay.
- What do you think? - I can't plan your day.
I mean, would you care to join me?
Lord no. I'm not retired.
Maybe I'll help out here then.
Better not.
- How'd you sleep? - I don't know. Had dreams.
Well you got time for 'em now. Anything interesting?
They always is to the party concerned.
Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
Okay. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar.
I'm older now than he ever was by twenty years.
So, in a sense he's the younger man.
Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but...
It was about meeting him in town someplace where he gave me some money.
I think I lost it.
The second one, it was like we was both back in older times...
...and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night.
Goin' through this pass in the mountains.
It was cold and there's snow on the ground. He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin goin' by. He just rode on past.
He had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down.
When he rode past I seen he was...
...carryin fire in a horn...
...the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it.
About the color of the moon.
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead...
and that he's fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold.
I knew that whenever I got there he'd be there.
Then, I woke up.