[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour, there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show! [MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[GUARDS SPEAKING SPANISH]
MAN: Ah! Let go of me.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH] [GROANS]
[CONTINUES SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
You tear my jacket, you're duck soup.
[GRUNTS]
Not my boot! [GRUNTS]
[EXCLAIMS]
I've got protection.
They're gonna find you guys out at the dump next week
with big holes where your faces used to be.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH] [LAUGHING]
Hey! You better not lay a finger on my Porsche.
That car has very delicate gears.
Great.
Jeez. Tell me that's the latrine.
Adios.
[SPLASHES]
Wow!
Ow! Ow!
Let me go. You're hurting me.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
I'm not a thief. I didn't see you there. Okay?
Jeez.
You could've broken my wrist.
If anything happens to me,
the American Embassy is going to be all over this place.
Kicking butt and taking names.
[SPEAKING IN BROKEN SPANISH] Me hombre important-ey. Comprehend-ey?
Only way to see mountains...
What do you know...
somebody in enchilada-ville speaks English.
I'm sorry.
I wasn't gonna steal your mirror. I just wanted to
see what they did to my face.
You think I could borrow it for a minute?
Thanks man.
You're okay.
[SNORTS]
Can't show up in Cancun tomorrow looking like that.
You must be very bad man.
Innocent tourist minding my own business.
You must be a very bad man.
Keep saying that for?
They put you in a bad cell.
Same as yours.
That cell only for drug dealer, killer...
communista, man who do the bad thing to children...
They put him in that cell.
And it take one...
maybe two nights and he's gone.
Nobody see him again.
[LAUGHS]
How come you're in the bad cell?
Next to bad cell.
This is good cell.
Nothing bad have happened to me.
I'm in this cell now for...
very long time.
How long?
Very long.
So, what did you do?
"El Jefe," what you call the...
"Strong man" wanted my land.
My father's land, and his father's...
back to before...
cartels, before Aztecs.
But I would not give up the land,
I wrote to Governor.
" El Jefe " angry...
Took my land and put me here.
Why didn't he save himself some trouble and just shoot you.
He's afraid because I'm of the Familias Viajeras,
of the old families before cartels.
Then I guess, it's some kind of honor
to meet somebody from the old families.
Most people do not think this.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Hey, what about me?
You don't need water. You go soon.
Hey, bean breath. Get back here and bring me some water.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
What?
He said, his new shoes too tight.
He no like to walk so much.
[LAUGHS MOCKINGLY]
[FOOTSTEPS RETREATING]
I gotta have some water.
Hey, buddy.
How about you give me yours?
I'll pay you a 100 bucks U.S.
Thanks. Take a traveler's check?
You no pay me... You need.
I drink later.
[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Will you shut up?
Hey! I said, can it!
I say good night to the sun,
to help him in his journey, in river below ground.
Yeah. Well, it's getting on my nerves.
So, cut it out, huh?
But, I must sing, every night,
to help sun.
If he lose his way in river underground,
it will be bad.
Now it's time.
No day...
no plant grow...
[CONTINUES SINGING]
[BANGS BED CONTINUOSLY]
GUARD: Eh , gringo,
lawyer.
Timothy Danforth? God bless America.
You from the embassy? Well, not exactly.
The liaison officer put me in touch with your father's lawyer in Los Angeles.
Frankly, the embassy likes to keep it's distance from this sort of thing.
But, don't worry Timothy, I've handled dozens of these little...
inter-American mix ups before. You'll be outta here in no time.
Get a little "pick-me-up?"
What do you mean, "no time?"
Aren't you taking me out right now?
[COUGHS AND LAUGHS]
If it were that easy, there'd be one less case of high blood pressure in this world.
Well, for starters, we gotta locate a judge.
Then we got to uh...
persuade him that you deserve bail.
Now, you just put your "John Hancock"
on my standard little fees and services agreement...
Bail? It was an accident.
Accident?
[STAMMERING] Oh, you mean, about the little boy?
I didn't see him. I swear I didn't.
Listen...
I'm driving along. I...
I hear this little thud...
The next thing I know, there's like
ten million of these taco-heads running around screaming...
How fast were you going?
A car like mine is safer if you go a little faster.
Then you got the speed and the power to take evasive action.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they're not bringing charges about the little boy.
Apparently, the authorities are more concerned about the cop you decked.
You ruined his dental work.
[SNIGGERS] Dude had a real attitude problem.
You'd think it was his kid or something.
What are they gonna do to me?
Oh, you got nothing to worry about.
You got plenty of clout.
Your dad must be a very important man.
Not terribly.
He only owns the largest savings and loan in California.
Voted, "Mr. S and L," three years straight.
I see.
Look...
it won't be in writing...
But, I think I can get a promise from the Minister of Justice
for a full pardon from " El Jefe" himself,
Next week after the elections. So, you just sign this.
Next week?
You get me out of this cell, right now!
These things take time, Timothy.
Of course, if you want a second opinion?
I'll have to take "the starve."
I'll bring some food and some bottled water, the next time I come.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Wait, uh...
Maybe, you can talk to somebody and get me a better cell.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] I'll mention it to " El Jefe."
Don't go.
[SIGHS]
Stick around. [STAMMERS] Talk to me.
I'd love to stay an talk to you, Timothy, but...
I wanna get out of this town before... Before what?
Would you look at the time!
Before what? You talk, or I tell my dad not to pay you.
Before dark.
Oh, look, It's nothing. It's a... It's a lot of...
superstitious mumbo jumbo about
demons of the old religion.
But, there have been some real disappearances.
Even the death squads stay out of this town after the sun goes down.
People disappear at night?
Yeah.
But you got nothing to worry about.
You're in a nice, safe cell.
[YELLING] You lousy shyster!
What are you lookin' at?
Nothing.
[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[DROPLETS SPLASHING]
[SQUEAKING]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
[EXHALES]
Oh, gross me out.
[EXCLAIMING IN HORROR]
[COUGHS]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[CREATURE SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
[COUGHING AND GASPING]
[TIMOTHY BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SCREAMS] Hey! Hey!
[OLD MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
OLD MAN: I will be back mañana.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GUARD SPEAKING SPANISH]
He's gone.
I think you are funny.
Hey, you're wasting your time.
He's not coming back.
" El viejo " always comes back.
Every time.
Please, sir.
Señor...
Listen...
Hey, leave the cell door unlocked, okay?
Then you give me the keys for my Porsche.
And, I'll make you so rich,
you'll be eating lobster tamales till the day you die.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Traveler's checks?
Five thousand dollars.
No.
What's the matter with you?
I'm offering you a chance to make some serious money
for the first time in your life.
You stay here, gringo.
Not long.
Soon, you gone.
Okay, I'll tell you what...
I'll tie you up.
We'll make it look like an escape.
That way, you won't get into trouble wilh " El huevo ."
I don't wanna be tied up in that cell.
You know what happened in here, don't you?
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Yes. Yes, you know about that...
thing.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Dammit, talk English like a normal person!
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Oh, I...
You got my walking papers?
Well, we're working on it.
We managed to track the judge down to a house party
at General Tortugo's estate.
I sent Pablo, my associate, to get the documents.
Now my housewife put together some food for you.
I was attacked last night.
You provoked the guards?
No, it was the guy in the other cell.
Where is he?
I killed him.
I mean, I think I did.
With this. Hey, hey, you be careful.
I woke up...
and his hand was eating my arm.
So, I stuck it with the mirror,
he turned into like, this...
Now, wait... Let me get this straight.
You were asleep and you thought...
It wasn't a dream.
You ever see anything like that?
I'm a lawyer, not a dermatologist.
And as a lawyer, I'd like to know exactly how you managed
to smuggle mind altering drugs into this jail.
Drugs? It was real, man.
Look at those poles over there.
No, no, no. Let's get back to drugs.
The policia found a bundle of 20's
in a false gas tank in your Porsche.
Now, exactly what were you doing with all that cash in San Gordo?
I told you, I was on vacation.
From what?
I'm vice president of a savings and loan bank.
And did the bank finance this little vacation?
None of your business.
We won't get too far if we don't level with our attorney, will we?
I was supposed to invest it if I saw a good real estate dealer some...
Or a good supply of a certain local agricultural product.
Shut up, shyster. Get me out of this cell or your butt is alfalfa.
Hoo-hah! [YELLING IN SPANISH]
Picture's comin' in real clear, Jimbo.
You came down here to close a deal
you got high, you drove too fast and a little kid died.
I'll get you out.
But, I don't think I feel like helping you get your drug money back
if there's any left.
That money's gonna melt away like ice cream in the sun.
In a town like this, they don't get many shots at 10,000 bucks.
Ten? I had a 150 grand in that bag.
Oh, "Mr. S and L," eh?
LAWYER: Well, assuming I meet the judge's price.
I'm willing to bet my Aunt Martha's gallstones
he sets bail at the local equivalent of $10,000 U.S.,
in a rather dusty court.
Stand up real slow.
[EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH]
Now, give me the keys to your car.
Don't be stupid.
Wait until you're out on bail and then skip.
You'll get "life," for an escape.
The keys, or, I slit his throat.
[SPEAKS SPANISH] [SIGHS]
Go ahead.
See how far you get.
[EXCLAIMS] [GRUNTS]
Ow, my arm!
I'm your client. You're supposed to help me.
Not every criminal lawyer is a criminal.
When my dad hears about this, you will never work again in your life.
Promises, promises...
Wait!
How can you just leave me here?
We lousy shysters are like that.
Hey!
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[SQUEAKING]
[DOGS HOWLING]
OLD MAN: Mañana is here gringo.
Eh, gringo!
Mañana is here.
Guard!
[SHOUTS] Guard!
[SHOUTS] Hey!
Oh, no.
Oh, God.
Oh, God. Help me!
[CRYING] God, help me, I'm sorry.
Oh, God!
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GROANING]
[SCREAMING]
[CHOKING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Good morning, Timothy. I...
I must be better at this, than I thought
I got your bail and you can head for the border in your very own Porsche.
Well, come on boy. Rise and shine.
Before the judge sobers up and...
You all right?
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Hey...
Where's my client?
He's gone. He no come back.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]