I was sherriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe.
Grandfather was a law man. Father too.
Me and Him were sherriff's at the same time. Him up at Plano and me out here.
I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was.
Some of the Oldtime sherriff's never even wore a gun.
A lot of folks find that hard to believe.
Jim Scarborough never carrried one. That's the younger Jim.
Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one. That's up in Commanche County.
I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so.
You can't help but compare yourself to the oldtimers.
Can't help but wonder how they'd operated in these times.
There's this boy I sent to the electric chair in Huntsville here a while back.
My rest and my testimony.
He killed a 14 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 been planning to kill somebody for as long as he could remember
Said if I'd turned him out, He'd do it again.
Instead he was going to hell. Be there in about 15 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 it's measure.
It's not that I'm afraid of it.
I knew you'd have to be willing to die to even do this job.
But I don't want to push my chips farther, and go out and meet something I don't understand.
A man'd have to put his soul into hazard.
And got to say "OK"
"I'll be part of this world".
Yes Sir. I just walked in the door.
Sherriff he had some thing on him like an oxygen tank, or emphysema, or somethin'
And a hose that run down his sleeve.
You got me. Well you look at it when you get in.
Yes Sir. I got it under control.
Howdy, what's this about?
Step out of the car please, Sir.
What is that?
I need you to step out of the car, sir.
What is that for?
Would you hold still please, sir?
You hold still.
Shit.
Water... Water, please...
Water...
I ain't go no water.
- Water... - I told you I ain't got no água.
You speak English?
Where's the last guy?
Último hombre... Last man standing... There must've been one. Where'd he go?
Reckon he went out the right way he come in.
Feche a porta... há lobos aqui.
There ain't no lobos.
If you stopped to watch your backtrack...
Gonna shoot my dumb ass.
If you stopped...
You stopped in shade.
What's in the satchel?
Full of money.
Better be!
Where'd you get the pistol?
I forget the place.
Did you buy that gun?
No. I found it.
- Llewelyn! - What? Quit yer hollerin.
What you give for that thing?
You know you ain't got to know everything, Carla Jean.
I don't even know that.
Run that mouth of yours, I'm gonna take ya in the back and screw ya.
- 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 are you doin baby? - Goin out.
- Goin where? - Little somethin I forgot to do, but I'll be back.
What are you goin to do?
Fixin to do somethin dummber than hell, but I'm goin anyway.
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? - 69 cents.
- And the gas?
- Y'all gettin 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 nothin by it. - Didn't mean nothin.
Just passin the time.
If you can't accept that, I don't know what else I can do for you?
- Want to think of something else? - I don't know, will there?
- Is somethin wrong? - With what?
- With anything. - Is that what your asking me?
Is something wrong with anything?
- Will there be anything else? - You've already asked me that.
Well, I need to see about closing then.
- So you're closing? - Yes sir.
- What time do you close? - Now. We close now.
Now is not the time. What time do you close?
Generally around dark. At dark.
You don't know wht you're talking about, do you?
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 ya? 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 Wifes Fathers place originally.
You married into it?
We lived in Temple, Texas for many years.
Raised a family there, in Temple.
We came out here about 4 years ago.
- You married into it? - Well, if that's the way you want to put it.
I don't have some way to put it. Thats the way it is.
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
- Sir? - The most you ever lost on a coin toss.
I don't know. I couldn't say.
- Call it. - Call it?
- For what? - Just call it.
Well, we need to know what were callin it for here
You need to call it, I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair
- I didn't put nothin 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 travelling 22 years to get here.
And now it's here, I need you to heads or tails
And you have to 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, sir. Don't put it in your pocket, it's you luck ???.
Where do you want me to put it?
Anywhere, but not in your pocket.
It will mix with the others and become just another coin.
Which it is.
Llewelyn?
That you?
- To Odessa. - Why would we go to Odessa?
Not we, you. You stay with your Mother.
How come?
Right now, It's midnight Sunday. Court House opens 9 hours,
from now. Someones gonna be calling in the vehicle number from the inspection plate on my truck
Around 9.30, they are gonna show up here.
For how long do we have to...
Baby, at point would you quit looking for your 2 million dollars?
What am I supposed to tell Momma?
Try opening the door and yelling "Mum I'm home!"
- Llewelyn... - Cmon pack your things.
Anything you leave here, you ain't gonna see again
Thanks for apologising.
Baby things happen. I can't take em back.
Mind ridin bitch?
- This his truck? - Uh Huh.
Got a screwgie?
- Who cut his tyres? - Mexicans I guess, wasn't us.
- That's a dead dog. - Yes it is.
- Where's the reciever? - I got it.
There's some ripe petunia's.
Hold this please.
Want it.
- You getting anything on this? - Not a bleep.
Alright.
Give me that.
I thought it was a car fire.
It is a car fire. Wendell said there's something in the back country too
Up in there.
When is the county gonna start paying rent on my horse?
- I love you more and more everyday. - Thats 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?
Yes sire. Should've brought Weenies.
- That look like a 77 Ford, Wendell? - Could be.
I'd say it, without a doubt in my mind.
- The old boy shot by the highway? - Yes sir, his vehicle.
Man killed a Mars deputy, took his car,
Killed that man on the highway, swapped for his car, now here it is and he swapped again. For god knows what?
That's very linear sherriff.
- I had to flatten a man once. - Yes sir.
Then there's this other.
- You ride Winston. - You sure?
Oh I'm more than sure.
If anything happens to Loretta's horse, I don't want to be no party of it if it's a bullet.
It's the same tire tred coming as it was going, made about the same time too. You can see the tire tred real clear.
Somebody pried the inspection plate off this one.
I know this truck. Belongs to a fella named Moss.
- Llewelyn Moss? - Thats the boy.
- You figure him for a dope runner? - Nah, I don't know...
- Kinda doubt it. - OK Corral is just yonder.
Aw hells, they even shot the dog.
- This is just a deal gone wrong, isn't it? - Yeah...
Appears to have been a glitch or two.
- What calibers you got there sherriff? - Nine Millimetre.
Couple of .45 ACP's.
Somebody unloaded on that thing with a shotgun.
- How come you reckon the coyotes ain't been at them? - I don't know.
Probably the coyotes won't eat mexican.
These boys appear to be managerial.
I think we are looking at more than one frackas. Execution here, wild west over there
Mexican brown dope.
These boys is all swelled up, this was earlier.
Gettin set to trade... Then a load of differences!
- Not've even been no money. - It's possible.
But you don't believe it.
No.
Probably I don't.
It's a mess, ain't it sherriff?
If it ain't, it'll do till the mess get's here.
Yes sir?
I'm lookin Llewelyn Moss.
- Did you go up to his trailer? - Yes I did.
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 is it your going to Del Rio?
Goin to borrow a car from Roberto.
You can't afford one?
I don't want to register. Look, I'll call you in a couple of days.
- Promise. - Yes I do.
I got a bad feelin, Llewelyn.
You know I got a gun, so that oughta even it out.
Got to quit your worryin so much
- Momma's gonna raise hell. - Mmm Hmm.
- She's just gonna curse you up and down. - You should be used to that.
I'm used to lot's of things. I worked long and hard.
Not anymore, Carla Jean. You're retired.
- Llewelyn? - Yes Maam?
You're not comin back, ain't ya?
I shall return.
Sherriff's deprtment!
Look at that lock.
- We goin in? - Gun out and up.
- On my tail? - I'm right behind you.
Sherriff's department!
- I believe there's nobody shot. - I believe you're right.
- That from the lock? - Must be.
- When was he here sherriff? - I don't know. Ah...
Now that's aggravatin.
- It's still sweating. - Oh, Sherriff!
We just missed him!
We got to circulate this. On the radio.
Alright. What are we circulatin?
Looking for a man who recently drank milk?
- Ah, sir that's aggravtin. - What do you think.
Do you think this boy Moss has any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that are huntin him?
I don't know, he ought to.
He's seen the same things that I've seen, and it's certainly made an impression on me.
Take me to a motel.
- Yeah one of mine? - Some place cheap.
You tell me the option.
Do what now?
You pick the option that goes with the applicable rate.
I'm just one person, so I don't matter the side of the bed.
- Hello? - Is Llewelyn there?
- Llewelyn? No he ain't. - You expect him?
Why would I expect him? Who is this?
Can I help you?
Yeah, you got a pair of lederman's, shoulder size 11?
I'll check.
- You all sell socks? - Just white.
Thats all I wear. Bathroom?
- Don't stop. Just ride on past that room. - What room?
Just drive me around. I wanna see if someones here.
Keep goin. Don't stop.
- I don't want to get into some kind of a jackpot, buddy? - It's alright.
Why don't I just set you down right here, and we won't get into an argument about it?
- Take me to another motel. - Let's just call it square.
Look you're already in a jackpot, and I'm tryin to get you out of it.
Now take me to another motel.
Lab reports from Austin about the blood on the highway.
- What was the bullet? - There was no bullet.
- Was no bullet? - Yes sir, wasn't none.
Well Wendell, with all due respect. That doesn't make a lot of sense?
No sir.
You said entry wound to the forehead. No exit wound
Yes sir.
You saying he shot this boy in the head. Then went diggin around in there with a pocket knife?
- Sir I don't want to pick you add - You ain't.
Want me to refresh that for you there sherriff?
Yeah Moreen, you better had.
Rangers from the DEA are headed back out there this mornin. Gonna join em?
Any new bodies out there?
- No sir. - Then I guess I can skip it.
- 12 Gauge, need shells? - Yeah, "double ought".
- Now, that'll give you a wallop. - You all got camping supplies?
- Tent poles? - Mmm Hmm.
- You already have a tent? - Somethin like that.
Well you give me the model number on the tent and I'll order the poles.
- Nah. I want a tent? - What kind of then?
The kind with most poles.
- Can I get another room? - You want to change rooms?
No Maam, I want to keep my room and get another one.
- Another additional? - Yes Maam.
- You got a map of the rooms? - well, yeah.. We have a sort of one.
How about... 38.
You can have the one right next to yours. Number 137, It ain't took.
- 38 Will be fine - That's got two double beds.
Não me mate.
How'd you find it?
Não me mate.
Shouldn't be doing that.
Even a young man like you.
Doin what?
Hitch hiking.
Dangerous.
You know Anton Chigurh by sight, correct?
Yes sir. I know him every which way.
When did you last see him?
Ahh, November 28th last year?
You're pretty sure of the date, did I ask you to sit?
No sir, but you struck as a man who wouldn't want to waste a chair.
I remember dates, names, numbers. I saw him November 28th.
Got a loose cannon here. Lost a bunch of money, and the other party is without his product
Yes sir.
This will give up $1200 in any 24 hour period.
That's up from $1000. If your expenses run higher, I hope you will trust us for it
Ok.
So how well do you know Chigurh.
- What do you wanna know? - Just want to know your opinion of him in genral.
Just how dangerous is he.
Compared to what? The Bubonic Plague?
He's bad enough you called me.
He's a psychopathic killer... but so what. Just playin him around.
Killed 3 men in a Del Rio motel yesterday,
and two others in that collosal goat fuck out in the desert.
- We can stop that. - Seem pretty sure of yourself.
You've lived something of a charmed life haven't you Mr Wells?
You know honestly,
I can't say charm has had whole lot to do with it.
- I was wonderin... - Yes.
Could you validate my parking ticket?
An attempt at humor, I suppose.
Sorry.
You know I, uh... Counted the floors of this building from the street.
- And...? - There's one missin.
We'll look into it.
- Want a room. One Night. - That'll be 26 dollars.
Alrighty.
- You around here all night? - Yes sir, I'll be here till 10 next mornin.
This here's for you. Now I ain't askin for you to do anything illegal.
Someone has been lookin for me. Not police.
Just let me know if anyone else checks in.
By anyone, I mean any swingin dick.