I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old.
Hard to believe.
Grandfather was a lawman. Father too.
Me and him was sheriff at the same time, him up in Plano and me out here.
I think he was pretty proud of that.
I know I was.
Some of the old-time sheriffs never even wore a gun.
A lot of folks find that hard to believe.
Jim Scarborough never carried one.
That the younger Jim.
Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Commanche County.
Now I always liked to hear about the old-timers.
Never missed a chance to do so.
You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers.
Can't help but wonder how they would've operated these times.
There is this boy I sent to the electric chair in Huntsville here a while back.
My arrest and my testimony.
He killed a fourteen-year-old girl.
Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it.
Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember.
Said if they turned him out he'd do it again.
Said he knew he was going to hell.
Be there in about fifteen minutes.
I don't know what to make of that.
I surely don't.
The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure.
It's not that I'm afraid of it.
I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job.
But I don't want to push my chips forward...
...and go out and meet something I don't understand.
A man would have to put his soul at hazard.
He just have to say, okay.
I'll be part of this world.
Yessir, I just walked in the door.
Sheriff he had some sort of thing on him like a...
...oxygen tanks for emphysema or something.
And a hose that run down his sleeve...
You got me.
You'll look at it when you get in.
Yessir, I got it under control.
Howdy, what's this about?
Step out of the car please, sir.
What is it?
I need you to step out of the car, sir.
What is that for?
Would you hold still please, sir.
Hold still.
Agua.
...Agua. Por Dios.
Agua.
I ain't got no water.
Agua.
I ain't got no agua.
You speak English?
Where's the last guy?
Ultimo hombre.
Last man standing. There must've been one.
Where'd he go?
I reckon I'd go out the way I came in.
La puerta...
Hay lobos...
Ain't no lobos.
If you stopped and watch your backtrack, you're gonna shoot my dumb ass.
But if you stopped, you stopped in the shade.
What's in the satchel?
It's full of money.
That'll be the day.
Where'd you get the pistol?
At the gettin' place.
Did you buy that gun?
No. I found it.
Welyn!
What?
Quit your hollering.
What'd you give for that thing?
You don't need to know everything, Carla Jean.
I need to know that.
You keep running that mouth of yours I'm gonna take you in the back and screw you.
Big talk.
Keep it up.
Fine. I don't wanna know.
I don't even wanna know where you been all day.
That'll work.
Alright.
Llewelyn.
Yeah?
What're you doing, baby?
I'm going out.
Going where?
Something I forgot to do but I'll be back.
What're you going to do?
I'm fixing to do something dumber now but I'm going anyways.
If I don't come back tell Mother I love her.
Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Well then. I'll tell her myself.
How much?
Sixty-nine cents.
And the gas.
Y'all getting any rain up your way?
What way would that be?
I seen you was from Dallas.
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
I didn't mean nothing by it.
Didn't mean nothing.
Just passing my time.
If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else I can do for you.
Will there be something else?
I don't know. Will there?
Is somethin wrong?
With what?
With anything?
Is that what you're asking me?
Is there something wrong with anything?
Will there be anything else?
You already asked me that.
Well... I need to see about closing.
See about closing.
Yessir.
What time do you close?
Now. We close now.
Now is not a time.
What time do you close?
Generally around dark. At dark.
You don't know what you're talking about, do you?
Sir?
I said you don't know what you're talking about.
What time do you go to bed?
Sir?
You're a bit deaf, aren't you?
I said what time do you go to bed?
Somewhere around 9:30.
I'd say around 9:30.
I could come back then.
Why would you be coming back?
We'd be closed.
Yeah. You said that.
Well... I got to close now.
You live in that house out back?
Yes I do.
You lived here all your life?
This is my wife's father's place. Originally.
You married into it.
We lived in Temple Texas for many years.
Raised a family there.
In Temple.
We come out here about four years ago.
You married into it.
If that's the way you wanna put it.
I don't have some way to put it.
That's the way it is.
What's the most you've ever lost in a coin toss?
Sir?
The most you ever lost in a coin toss.
I don't know. I couldn't say.
Call it.
Call it?
Yes.
For what?
Just call it.
Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
You need to call it.
I can't call it for you.
It wouldn't be fair.
I didn't put nothing up.
Yes, you did.
You've been putting it up your whole life.
You just didn't know it.
You know what date is on this coin?
No.
1958.
It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here.
And now it's here.
And it's either heads or tails.
And you have to say. Call it.
Look... I need to know what I stand to win.
Everything.
How's that?
You stand to win everything. Call it.
Alright. Heads then.
Well done.
Don't put it in your pocket.
Sir?
Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Where you want me to put it?
Anywhere not in your pocket.
Or it'll be mixed in with the others and become just a coin.
Which it is.
Llewelyn?
What the hell?
Odessa.
Why would we go to Odessa?
Not we, you. Stay with your mother.
Well, how come?
Right now it's midnight Sunday.
When the courthouse opens nine hours from now,...
...someone's gonna be callin' in the vehicle number on the inspection plate on the truck.
And by 9:30, they'll show up here.
But for how long do we have to...
Baby, at what point would you quit bothering to look for your two million dollars?
What am I supposed to tell Mama?
Try standin' in the door and holler "Mama, I'm home".
Llewelyn...
C'mon, pack your things.
Anything you leave you ain't gonna see it again.
Well, thanks for falling all over and apologizing.
Baby, things happened. I can't take 'em back.
Mind ridin', bitch?
This his truck?
Mm-Mm.
Got a screwgie?
Who cut his tires?
Mexicans, I guess. Wasn't us.
That's a dead dog.
Yes, it is.
Where's the receiver?
I've got it.
They're ripe petunias.
Hold this please.
You want it?
You getting anything though?
Not a bleep.
Alright...
Gimme that.
I thought it was a car afire.
It is a car afire.
But Wnedell said there was something backcountry too.
When is the county gonna start paying a rental on my horse?
I love you more and more everyday.
That's very nice.
Be careful.
Always am.
Don't get hurt.
Never do.
Don't hurt no one.
If you say so.
Wouldn't think a car would burn like that.
Yessir. We should've brought weenies.
That look like about a '77 Ford to you, Wendell?
It could be.
I'd say it is. Not a doubt in my mind.
The old boy shot by the highway?
Yessir, his vehicle.
Man killed Lamar's deputy and took his car.
Killed that man on the highway,...
...swapped for his car...
...and now here it is and he's swapped again for god knows what.
That's very linear, Sheriff.
Well. Old age flattens a man.
Yessir. But then there's this other.
You ride Winston.
- You sure? - Oh, I'm more than sure.
Anything happens to Loretta's horse out here,...
...I can tell you right now I don't wanna be the party that was aboard.
It's the same tire tread comin back as going.
Made about the same time too. You can see the sipes real clear.
Somebodies pried the inspection plate off the door on this one.
I know this truck.
Belongs to a fella named Moss.
- Llewelyn Moss? - That's the boy.
You figure him for a doperunner?
I don't know but I kindly doubt it.
Restul sunt acolo.
Oh hell's bells, they even shot the dog.
Well this is just a deal gone wrong, isn't it?
Yeah, appears to have been a glitch or two.
What calibers you got there, Sheriff?
Nine millimeter. Couple of .45 ACP's.
Somebody unloaded on that thing with a shotgun.
How come do you reckon the coyotes ain't been at 'em?
I don't know.
Supposedly coyotes won't eat a Mexican.
These boys appear to be managerial.
I think we're lookin at more than one fracas...
Execution here...
...Wild West over there
That Mexican brown dope.
These boys is all swole up.
So this was earlier, getting set to trade.
Then, whoa, differences...
You know might not of even been no money.
That's possible.
But you don't believe it.
No. Probably I don't.
Well, it's a mess, ain't it Sheriff?
If it ain't, it'll do till a mess gets here.
Yessir?
I'm looking for Llewelyn Moss.
Did you go up to his trailer?
Yes.
Well, I'd say he's at work. Do you want to leave a message?
Where does he work?
I can't say.
Where does he work?
Sir, I ain't at liberty to give out no information about our residents.
Where does he work?
Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information.
Why all the way to Del Rio?
I'm gonna borrow a car from Roberto.
You can't afford one?
I don't wanna register it.
Look, I'll call you in a couple days.
- Promise? - Yes, I do.
I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.
Well I got a good one. So, they ought to even out.
Quit worrying so much.
Mama's gonna raise hell.
She is just gonna curse you up and down.
You should be used to that.
I'm used to lots of things, I work at Wal-Mart.
Not any more, Carla Jean. You're retired.
- Llewelyn? - Yes ma'am?
- You are comin back, ain't ya? - I shall return.
Sheriff's Department!
Look at that lock.
We goin' in?
Gun out and up.
- What about yours? - I'm hidin behind you.
Sheriff's Department!
I believe they've lit a shuck.
I believe you're right.
That from the lock?
Probably must be.
When was he here, Sheriff?
I don't know.
Oh. Now that's aggravating.
Sheriff?
Still sweating.
Oh, Sheriff, we just missed him!
We gotta circulate this. On radio.
Alright.
What do we circulate?
Lookin for a man who has recently drunk milk?
Ah, Sheriff, that's aggravating.
I'm ahead of you there.
You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that are hunting him?
I don't know. He ought to...
He seen the same things I've seen,...
...and it certainly made an impression on me.
- Take me to a motel. - Got one in mind?
Someplace cheap.
You tell me the option.
Do what now?
You pick the option goes with the applicable rate.
I'm just one person. So, don't matter the size of the bed.
This is Roberto Sagramore, I'm not here right now.
Please leave a message.
Hello?
Is Llewelyn there?
Llewelyn?! No he ain't.
You expect him?
Now why would I expect him?
Who's this?
Can I help you?
Yeah. You got a pair of Larry Mahan's, shoulder size 11.
I'll check.
- You sell socks? - Just white.
White is all I wear.
You got a bathroom?
Don't stop. Just ride me up past those rooms.
- What room? - Just drive me around.
I want to see if someone's here.
Keep going. Don't stop.
I don't wanna get into some kind of a jackpot here, buddy.
It's alright.
Why don't I just set you down around here and we won't argue about it.
Take me to another motel.
Let's just call it square.
Look, you're already in a jackpot. I'm trying to get you out of it.
Now take me to another motel.
The lab reports from Austin on that boy by the highway.
What was the bullet?
There wasn't no bullet.
Wasn't no bullet?
Yessir. Wasn't none.
Well, Wendell, with all due respect, that don't make a lot of sense.
No sir.
You said entry wound in the forehead.
No exit wound.
Yes sir.
Are you telling he shot this boy in the head...
...and then went digging around in there with a pocket knife?
Sir, I don't want to picture that.
I don't either!
Can I freshen that there for you, Sheriff?
Yeah, Noreen, you better had.
The Rangers and the DEA are headed back out to the scene this morning.
You gonna join 'em?
Any new bodies accumulated out there?
No sir.
Well then, I guess I can skip it.
Twelve gauge. You need shells?
- Yeah. Double ought. - They'll give you a wallop.
Y'all got camping supplies?
Tent poles?
You already have a tent?
Somethin' like that.
Well, you give me the model number on the tent, I can order you the poles.
Never mind. I want a tent.
- Well, what kind of tent? - The kind with the most poles.
Could I get another room?
You want to change rooms?
No m'am, I want to keep my room and get another one.
Another additional?
Yes, m'am.
And do you have a map of the rooms?
Yeah, we had a sorta one.
How bout 38?
Well, you can have the one right next to yours if you want.
Number 137. It ain't took.
No, 38 will be fine.
That's got two double beds.
No me, mate.
How'd you find it?
No me, mate.
Shouldn't be doin' that. Even a young man like you.
- Doin what? - Hitchhiking.
Dangerous.
You know Anton Chigurh by sight, is that correct?
Yessir.
When did you last see him?
November 28th, last year.
You seem pretty sure of the date. Did I ask you to sit?
No sir.
But you struck me as a man who wouldn't want to waste a chair.
I remember dates. Names. Numbers. I saw him November the 28th.
We got a loose cannon here.
And we're out a bunch of money,...
...and the other party is out his product.
Yessir.
This account will give up twelve hundred dollars in any twenty-four hour period.
That's up from a thousand.
If your expenses run higher I hope you'll trust us for it.
Okay.
Just how well do you know Chigurh?
What do you want to know?
I just want to know your opinion of him.
In general.
Just how dangerous is he?
Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
He's bad enough that you called me.
Yeah, he's a psychopathic killer but so what?
There's plenty of them around.
He killed three men in Del Rio Motel yesterday.
And two others in that colossal goatfuck out in the desert.
We can stop that.
You seem pretty sure of yourself.
You've led something of a charmed life haven't you, Mr. Wells?
In all honesty,...
...I can't say that charm has had a whole lot to do with it.
I'm wondering...
Yes?
Can I get my parking ticket validated?
An attempt at humor, I suppose.
I'm sorry.
- You know I counted the floors of this building from the street? - And?
There's one missing.
We'll look into it.
One room, one night.
- That'll be twenty-six dollars. - Alright.
You on all night?
Yessir, I'll be around here until ten o'clock in the morning.
This here's for you. Now, I ain't asking you to do anything illegal.
There's someone who's been lookin for me. Not police.
Just call me if anyone else checks in tonight.
By anyone, I mean any swinging dude.
There just ain't no way.