[shot fired]
[groans]
[panting]
[car approaching]
Don't worry, I ain't gonna hurt you.
I need you to drive me on outta here.
[man gurgling]
[tires screeching]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
[people Iaughing]
- Why not? - I don't know, man.
[indistinct chattering]
[groans]
Were you in a car accident?
I'II give you 500 bucks for that coat.
Lemme see the money.
Were you in a car accident?
- Yeah. - OK, give me the money.
- It's right here. Give me the clothes. - Let him hold the money.
Give it here.
Gimme that beer too.
How much?
Brian, give him the beer.
[groans]
[grunting]
[coyotes howling]
Ah! [coughs]
[footsteps approaching]
[mariachi music]
[singing in Spanish]
[music, singing stops]
[groans]
Médico...
...por favor.
[people shout]
[people speaking Spanish]
Wait up!
[TV]...and I had a 44 inch waist. My diet specialist got a hold of me,
and that first week, I lost seven pounds!
Looking back on the diet, it was relatively easy to lose the weight,
though it did have moments. Sometimes, it looked as if I gained weight
instead of lost it. The most difficult part is still ahead.
Keeping weight off now that we 've lost it.
It's natural for you to gain a few pounds.
But as soon as you do, make sure you go on...
[exhales deeply]
Here are a few points to remember. First of all, weigh in every day.
Any word on those vehicles yet?
[woman] 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 20 years.
Want me to find out about the Mexican ones?
No. Lord, no.
There's this month's checks.
That DEA agent called again. You don't wanna talk to him?
Gonna try to keep from it much as I can.
Going back. Wanted to know if you wanted to go with him.
That's cordial of him.
Can I get you to call Loretta,
tell her I'm going to Odessa to see Carla Jean Moss?
- Yes, sheriff. - I'II call her when I get there.
I'd call now, but if she want me to come home, I might.
Do you want me to wait till you quit the building?
Uh-huh. Don't wanna Iie without what it's absolutely necessary.
What is it Torbert says about truth and justice?
Oh, we dedicate ourselves daily anew. Something Iike that.
I'm gonna commence dedicating myself twice daily.
- Might come to three before it's over. - [tires screech]
What the hell?
[siren sounds]
Sheriff?
You Iooked at your Ioad Iately?
- That is a damn outrage. - One of those tie-downs worked Ioose.
- How many bodies did you Ieave with? - I ain't Iost none of 'em, sheriff.
Couldn't y'all have taken a van out there?
We didn't have no van with four-wheel drive.
You gonna write me up for improperly secured Ioad?
You get your ass outta here.
- [clattering] - [Wells] Buenos días.
I'm guessing 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 who's after you.
I know that.
I've seen him.
You've seen him? And you're not dead?
Huh.
What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?
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's Chigurh. - Sugar?
Chigurh. Anton Chigurh.
- You know how he found you? - Yeah, I know how he found me.
- It's called a transponder. - I know what it's called.
- He won't find me again. - Not that way.
- Not any way. - Took me about three hours.
- Yeah, well, I 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?
- Yeah. - I don't mean braze.
- I didn't say braze. - Pot metal?
What did I say?
- Were you in 'Nam? - Yeah, I was '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.
[groans] It's too Iate. I spent it.
A million and a half on whores and whiskey,
and the rest of it, I just sorta blew it in.
How do you know he's not on his way to Odessa?
- Why would he go to Odessa? - Kill your wife.
Maybe he's the one that needs to be worried... about me.
He isn't.
Yeah. 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 Iet you keep a Iittle of the money.
If I was into cutting deals, why wouldn't I deal with Sugar?
No, no, you don't understand. You can't make a deal with him.
Even if you gave him the money, he'd still kill you for inconveniencing him.
He's a peculiar man.
Might even say he has principles, principles that transcend money or drugs
or anything Iike that. Not Iike you.
Yeah. He's not even Iike me.
No, he don't talk as much as you. I give him points for that.
Carla Jean, thank you for coming.
Don't know why I did.
I told you, I don't know where he is.
- You haven't heard from him? - No, I ain't.
- Nothing? - 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. - [sighs]
You know Charlie Walser's got that place out east of Sanderson?
You know how he used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em right there with a maul,
truss 'em and slit their throats?
Charlie's got one all trussed up, all set to drain him
and the beef comes to, thrashing around.
Six hundred pounds of very pissed off Iivestock.
You'II excuse the... Well...
Charlie grabs a gun, shoot the thing in the head,
but with the swinging and thrashing, it's a glance shot.
Ricochets, hits Charlie in the shoulder.
You go see Charlie, he still can't pick up his right hand for his hat.
The point being, that even in the contest between man and steer,
the issue is not certain.
When LIewelyn calls, just tell him I can make him safe.
[exhales] 'Course, they slaughter steers a Iot different these days.
Use a air gun. Shoots out a Iittle rod about that far under the brain.
Sucks right back in. Animal never knows what hit him.
- Why are you telling me that, sheriff? - I don't know.
My mind wanders.
Hello, Carson.
Let's go to your room.
You don't have to do this.
I'm a day trader. I could just go home.
- You could. - Make it worth your while,
take you to an ATM. There's 1 4 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.
I can find it from the river bank. I know where it is.
- I know something better. - What's that?
Where it's going to be.
- Where's that? - It will be brought to me
and placed at my feet.
You don't know to a certainty.
- In 20 minutes it could be here. - I do know to a certainty.
And you know what's gonna happen now, Carson?
You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
- You go to hell. - [chuckles]
AII right. 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... You can have the money, Anton.
[phone rings]
- [Wells grunts] - [phone continues to ring]
- [Llewelyn] Hello? - Yes?
Is, uh, 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 the 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. - AII right.
You know she won't be there.
It doesn't make any difference where she is.
So, what're you going up there for?
[sighs]
You know how this is gonna turn out, don't you?
Nope.
I think you do. So this is what I'II offer.
You bring me the money, and I'II Iet her go.
Otherwise, she's accountable, the same as you.
That's the best deal you're gonna get.
I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.
Yeah, I'm gonna bring you something, all right.
Decided to make you a project of mine.
You ain't gonna have to come Iook for me at all.
- The motel in Del Rio? - Yes, sir.
None of the three had ID on 'em,
but they're tellin' me that all three is Mexican... was Mexicans.
There's a question, whether they stopped being and when.
Yes, sir.
Wendell, did you inquire about the Iock cylinder?
- Yes, sir. It was punched out. - OK.
- Wanna drive out there? - No, that's all I had to Iook for,
it sound Iike these boys died of natural causes.
- How's that, sheriff? - Natural to the Iine of work they in.
- Yes, sir. - My God, Wendell, it's all-out war.
I can't think of any other word for it. Who are these people?
Here, Iast week they found this couple out in California.
They rent out rooms to old people, kill 'em, bury 'em in the yard,
cash their Social Security checks.
Oh, they'd torture 'em first. I don't know why.
Maybe their television set was broke.
And this went on until, 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 try.
But that's what it took, you notice, to get somebody's attention.
Digging graves in the backyard didn't bring any.
[suppresses Iaughter]
Well, that's all right. I Iaugh myself sometimes.
Ain't a whole Iot else you can do.
Tell me something.
Who gets through this gate into the United States?
I don't know. American citizens?
Some American citizens. Who do you think decides?
- You do, I reckon. - That is correct.
- How do I decide? - I don't know.
I ask questions. If I get sensible answers, then they get to go to America.
If I don't, they don't.
- Anything you don't understand? - No.
I ask again, how you come to be here with no clothes?
Well, I got an overcoat on.
- Are you jacking with me? - No, sir.
- Don't jack with me. - Yes, sir.
- You in the service? - No, I'm a veteran.
- 'Nam? - Yes, sir, two tours.
- What ourfit? - Twelfth Infantry Battalion,
August 7th, 1 966, July 2nd, 1 968.
- Wilson! - Yes, sir!
Get someone to help this man. He needs to get into town.
- How those Larry's holdin' up? - Good, good.
- I need everything else. - OK.
Have a Iot of people come in here without any clothes on?
No, sir. It's unusual.
- [woman] 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,
and don't you hang up this phone.
Discombobulated by a no-account son-in-law.
- LIewelyn? - Hey, you.
- What should I do? - You know what's going on?
I don't know. I had the sheriff here from T errell County. He...
- What'd you tell him? - What did I know to tell him?
- You're hurt, ain't you? - [scoffs]
What makes you say that?
- I can hear it in your voice. - [woman] It's falseness in his voice!
Look, I want you to meet me at the Desert Sands Motel in EI Paso.
I'm gonna give you the money, put you on a plane.
LIewelyn, I ain't gonna Ieave you in the Iurch.
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'II come and join you.
Find who? What am I supposed to do with mother?
- She'II be all right. - All right?
[woman] Be all right? I got the cancer!
Ain't nobody gonna bother her.
[man gurgles]
- [gurgling continues] - Hmm.
Who are you?
- Me? - Yes.
Nobody.
Accounting.
He gave the Mexicans a receiver.
He feels...
He felt that the more people Iooking...
That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.
I see.
Are you going to shoot me?
That depends.
Do you see me?
[woman] I always seen this is what it'd come to.
- Three years ago, I pre-visioned it. - It ain't three years we been married.
Three years ago I said them very words, "no" and "good."
Here we are, 90 degree heat,
I got the cancer and Iook at this, not even a home to go to.
We're going to EI Paso, Texas.
You know how may people I know in EI Paso, Texas?
- No, ma'am. - That's how many.
[man speaks Spanish]
[speaks Spanish]
- I didn't see my prednisone. - I put it in, Mama.
- Well, I didn't see it. - Well, I put it in that one.
You just set there. I'II get tickets and a cart for the bags.
You need help with the bags, madam?
Well, thank God, there is one gentleman Ieft in west Texas.
Yes, thank you. I am old and I am not well!
- Which bus are you taking? - Going to EI Paso, don't ask me why.
It's not often you see a Mexican in a suit.
You go to EI Paso? I know it. Where are you staying?
Oh...
[sheriff] Carla Jean, how are you?
Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?
Who's Charlie Walser? Uh! Oh...
[chuckles] Um...
True story. I couldn't swear to every detail,
- but it's certainly true it is a story. - Yeah, right.
Sheriff, can you give me your word on something?
Yes, ma'am.
If I tell you where LIewelyn's headed, you promise it'II be just you
who 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?
Yep, that'II suck some power, over time.
- You from around here? - Yeah, AIpine, born and bred.
- Here you go. - What airport would you use?
- Well, airport or airstrip? - Airport.
- Well, where you goin'? - I don't know.
Just Iightin' out for the territories, huh? [Iaughs] Brother, I been there.
Well, there's airstrips.
The airport is EI Paso.
If you want someplace specific,
you might could be better off just driving to Dallas, not have to connect.
You gonna clamp them, buddy?
Can you get those chicken crates out of the bed?
What are you talking about?
Hey, Mr. Sportin' Goods.
- Hey, yourself. - You a sport?
Yeah, that's me.
I got beers in my room.
- Oh, uh, I'm... I'm waiting on my wife. - Oh.
That's who you keep Iooking out the window for?
- Well, half. - What else then?
- Just Iooking for what's comin'. - [woman] Yeah.
But no one ever sees that.
Beer! That's what's comin'.
I'II bring the ice chest out. You can stay married.
No, ma'am, I know what beer Ieads to.
[Iaughs]
Beer Ieads to more beer.
[rapid gunfire]
- [men shouting in Spanish] - [tires squealing]
[woman sobbing]
[woman screams]
[women crying]
You all right?
Call the police.
[speaks Spanish]
Your Iocal Iaw enforcement.
I'm not on their radio.
[man] I met his daughter at the...
[man] Buy you a cup of coffee 'fore you drive home?
- No money in his room there? - Couple hundred, on his person.
Those hombres would have taken the stash.
I suppose so.
Though they was Ieavin' in a hurry.
It's all the goddamn money, Ed Tom. Money and the drugs.
It's just goddamn beyond everything.
What's it mean? What's it Ieading to?
You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago
I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns
with green hair, bones in their noses,
I just flat-out wouldn't have believed you.
Signs and wonders.
But I think once you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am," the rest is soon to foller.
- Oh, it's the tide. - Yeah.
It's the dismal tide. It is not the one thing.
Not the one thing.
Yeah, well, none of that explains your man, though.
Well, he's just a goddamn homicidal Iunatic, Ed Tom.
- I'm not sure he's a Iunatic. - Well, what would you call him?
Well, sometimes I think he's pretty much a ghost.
- He's real, all right. - Oh, yeah?
Yeah. AII of that over at the Eagle Hotel? Just beyond everything.
Yeah. Got some hard bark on him.
Why... Well, that don't hardly say it.
He shoots a desk clerk one day,
walks right back in the next and shoots a retired Army colonel.
It's hard to believe.
Just strolls right back into a crime scene.
Now, who'd do such a thing? How do you defend against it?
Well, good trip, Ed Tom.
Sorry we couldn't help your boy.
[engine shuts off]
[sighs]
[airplane flies overheard]
[cats meow]
- [man] In back! - How'd you know I was here?
Who else'd be driving up in your truck?
- You heard it? - How's that?
Did you hear my...? You're having fun with me.
What give you that idea? I seen one of the cats heard it.
- How'd you know it was my truck? - I deduced it when you walked in.
How many of them things you got now?
Cats? Oh, I don't know, several.
Well, it depends on what you mean by "got."
Some of 'em are half wild, some of 'em are just outlaws.
- How you been, EIIis? - You're Iooking at it.
I got to say, you're Iooking older.
I am older.
Got a Ietter from your wife.
She writes me pretty regular, keeps me up on the family news.
- Didn't know there was any. - Told me you're quittin'.
[inhales, exhales deeply]
- You want a cup? - Appreciate it.
How fresh is that coffee?
I generally make a fresh pot every week, even if there's some Ieft over.
That man that shot you died in prison?
Angola. Yeah.
What'd you done he'd a been released?
Oh, I don't know. Nothing.
Wouldn't be no point in it.
Kindly surprised to hear you say that.
Well, all the time you spend trying to get back
what's been took from you, more is going out the door.
After a while, you have to try to get a tourniquet on it.
Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.
Loretta tells me you're quittin'. How come you doing that?
I don't know.
I feel overmatched.
I always figured when I got older,
God would... sort of come into my Iife somehow.
And He didn't.
And I don't blame Him.
If I was Him, I'd have the same opinion of me that He does.
You don't know what He thinks.
I sent Uncle Mac's thumbbuster and badge over to the Rangers,
put it in their 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 there, all wanting this, wanting that.
Uncle Mac went back in the house to get the shotgun.
Well, they was ahead of him.
Shot him in his doorway.
Aunt EIIa come out, tried to stop the bleeding.
Uncle Mac all the while trying to get that shotgun.
They just sat there on their horses, watching him die.
After a while, one of 'em said something in Indian and they turned.
Left out.
Uncle Mac knew the score, even if Aunt EIIa didn't.
Shot through the Ieft Iung.
And that was that... as they say.
When'd he die?
Nineteen zero and, uh... nine?
No, I mean, was it right away or in the night or...
- When was it? - I believe it was that night.
She buried him the next morning. Digging in that hard old caliche.
What you got ain't nothin' new.
This country is hard on people.
You can't stop what's coming.
It ain't all waitin' on you.
That's vanity.
I knew this wasn't done with.
I ain't got the money.
What Iittle I had is Iong gone and there's bills aplenty to pay yet.
I buried my mother today. 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 Iike that.
Not Iike you say.
You don't have to do this.
People always say the same thing.
What do they say?
They say, "You don't have to do this."
- You don't. - OK.
This is the best I can do.
Call it.
I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting 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.
[rattling]
[boys chattering]
- [glass clattering] - [groaning]
[breathing heavily]
[groaning]
Mister, you got a bone sticking out of your arm.
I'm all right. Let me just sit here a minute.
There's an ambulance coming. The man went to call.
AII right.
Are you all right? You got a bone sticking out your arm.
What'II you take for the shirt?
- [sirens approaching] - [panting]
Well, hell, mister, I'II give you my shirt.
Look at that fucking bone.
Tie this for me.
Just tie it, just tie it.
- [sirens approaching] - [exhales]
Hell, mister. Look, I don't mind helping someone out.
- That's a Iot of money. - Take it.
Take it and... you didn't see me.
- I was already gone. - [sirens approaching]
Yes, sir.
- Part of that's mine, right? - You still got your damn shirt.
- Ain't even what it was for. - Maybe. But I'm still out a shirt.
- Maybe I'II go ridin'. - OK.
- What do you think? - Well, I can't plan your day.
- I mean, would you care to join me? - Lord, no, I'm not retired.
- Maybe I'II help out here then. - Uh... 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'II be polite.
AII right, then. Two of 'em, both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar.
I'm older now than he ever was by 20 years.
So, in a sense, he's the younger man.
Anyway, the first one I don't remember too well,
but it was about meeting him in town,
somewheres, and he give me some money.
I think I Iost it.
Second one, it was Iike we was both back in older times.
And I was a-horseback, going through the mountains of a night.
Going through this pass in the mountains.
It was cold, and there was snow on the ground.
And he rode past me and kept on going,
never said nothing going by, just rode on past.
He had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down.
When he rode past, I seen he was carrying fire in a horn,
the way people used to do, and I...
I could see the horn from the Iight inside of it,
'bout the color of the moon.
And, in the dream, I knew that he was...
...going on ahead.
He was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and cold.
And I knew that whenever I got there, he'd be there.
And then I woke up.