(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(CAR APPROACHING)
Howdy.
You're luckier than a pig I picked you up.
Some of these old boys around here...
would drive right over top of you, son.
Vietnamese, ain't you?
DINH: Uh-huh.
It's all right. Had a good time over there myself.
Good-looking women. Dynamite drugs.
(CHUCKLES)
You work for Mr. Wally Scheer?
Uh-uh.
Thought all ofyou in these parts did.
Well, hell, son, what'd you do, just get to Texas?
I think so.
I don't know what to tell you.
How about a beer?
Lone Star?
(BOTH LAUGH)
All right.
LEON: Now, that there, that is a Texas shrimp.
That's what this whole town lives on.
Up ahead is Wally Seafood.
I might be able to get you a job there.
I'll talk to his daughter for you.
No, I think - I think it's just gonna work out real great.
Listen, you have... You gonna have a big weekend, something's coming up.
All you gotta do is call.
(HORN HONKING) We can make the delivery.
So we got ourselves a deal? LEON: Hey, hey, Glory.
Oh, great.
(ALL CHATTERING)
Hey, Luis, how you doing?
Yesterday you told me you was gonna quit.
I'm gonna quit, okay.
WALLY: Well, move it. Don't stand around here.
But the boss don't believe me.
Careful how you load.
God damn it, Luis, watch 'em.
Come on, move it.
This number five here is slower than a strawberry.
Come on, number five, get them shrimp! Get them shrimp!
Hey, Leon, I just got off the phone...
with that new Shrimpy Wimpy in Corpus.
Switching their account to us chickens.
Hey. Hey, stop giving me new business.
I tell you, Wally, I don't want no more nails in my tires.
Oh, the bunch of yellow-bellied buzzards!
(LAUGHING)
Listen, Cap, speaking of yellow, on the road from Corpus,
I picked up another one for you. Got him right up...
Well, he was right there.
Where'd he go?
(CRYING)
You kids hush up that crying now. Your daddy's coming home.
HONEY: Should we tell him you was bad?
(KIDS WAILING)
Hey, darling.
What's everybody crying for? Huh?
What's the problem around here?
What you been doing to them?
(WAILING)
There you go.
You're gonna kill them flowers,
watering them when the sun's still up.
Did you see Wendell about the boat loan?
I've been working today. I just got off the boat. Get in that pool.
You kids behave now. You got 200 pounds.
Marge says Percy says he saw you down at the docks talking to Glory Scheer.
(IMITATING HONEY) "Marge says Percy says."
I ain't even talked to her.
There's another one of'em cutting through the yard again.
Hey, you! Get out of here!
Howdy.
Huh? What'd you say?
Howdy. I'm looking for the Vietnamese people.
You're standing on my damn lawn.
I ought to shoot you.
They live over there. Slop City.
(MEN CHATTERING)
Thank you, folks. Have a nice day.
SHANG:Jesus H. Christ.
I'm gonna get me another dog, that's all there is to it.
I'm not having the kids bitten by one of them dogs again.
Shang, why can't we just move away from here?
Because my boat is about to be repossessed,
that's why we can't just move away from here.
Because you spend all the money I make.
Because you got yourself knocked up so I'd marry you,
and you knocked yourself up again,
that's why we can't just move away from here!
Come on, Shang. Be nice.
(DOOR SLAMS)
(PEOPLE SINGING IN VIETNAMESE)
ALL: Amen.
(ALL CHATTERING IN VIETNAMESE)
Thank you.
So, are you gonna stay with us in Texas?
Saigon fancy boy. Stay here, be millionaire!
(ALL LAUGHING)
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
MAN: Dinh. Dinh.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(SEAGULLS CAWING)
(MAN CHATTERING)
GLORY: Hope you guys have a good day.
Got a lot of big orders to fill.
Bye. See you later!
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
MAN: Dinh!
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(MEN CHATTERING)
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(BOAT HORN BLOWING)
Hey, gook! Learn to drive!
Hey, you piss-complected slant-eyed bastard!
Cocksuckers!
Hey, Luis. You know, that ain't much shrimp for 10 hours' work.
These gooks been raping the bay. That's a fact.
It's like a range. There's only so many fish.
You overgraze it, and everybody goes belly up.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
You can smell 'em 20 feet away.
It's that damn stink sauce they eat.
GLORY: Hey, listen, Daddy, I got Henry Gummer on the line,
and he needs some more shrimp tonight. What do you say?
Yeah, do that. Okay.
Talk to you later.
They're 40-50s, Shang, $2 a pound.
Hey, man, don't go jewin' me down. Them 36-40s.
At least why don't you put some of them big ones on your scale?
You said you was gonna take your business to Crankshaw, so do it.
I'm telling you what, you're gonna lose every white man you've got.
Keep an eye on him, Skinner.
GLORY: Henry, we've been through all this before.
I can accommodate any kind of expansion that you're gonna make.
Okay, great. You need five more crates of 40-50s.
I can do it. It's a cinch.
Look, you have any problems, you call me up.
I'll handle it personally, all right?
Henry, we don't miss deliveries.
I don't know where you're hearing that.
Sure, there's always gonna be labor trouble, you know that.
You can count on us.
Okay.
You, too, Henry. Bye.
You wore your shorts for me.
You were away all this time, you come back still wearing your shorts for me?
That was Henry Gummer on the phone.
He owns one of those high-class restaurants in Corpus, you know?
Gets all the convention trade.
When I worked at the Ramada Inn,
I mean, we used to send parties to him all the time.
Now he's calling up telling me that people from this dumb-ass town...
are telling him not to trade with us 'cause we use Vietnamese.
So, how are you, Shang?
I've been worse.
You still stuck-up, ain't you?
Hey, don't do that. Don't let Daddy catch you doing that.
He says you and your friends are trying to wreck our business.
"Our business"?
Yeah, I'm helping him out for a while since he's got sick.
That's why I came back.
I'm the new fish-house mama.
Seen my new boat, American Dream Girl?
I saw her out there.
I saw you driving down the street the other day.
I seen you a couple other places, too.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Excuse me. You got injector for a 671?
Just a second.
I'm real busy. Is there anything else I can do for you?
You know what I want.
Look, don't come busting in here...
while I'm trying to talk to somebody else.
Now, what do you need, an N-65?
No, I want a N-55.
Them gooks are out there with binoculars.
Every time they see an American boat catching shrimp,
they come running right back up on him.
BUDDY: That's a crime.
You all give me a pain in the tail-butt. Get on my nerves.
He's talking about his nerves,
when I got me a boat out there...
I'm about to lose to the loan sharks...
on account of some people doing business with Vietnamese.
What do you think, Luis?
I think I'm a Mexican.
You do what you want, Wally, but the fact is we're gonna quit selling to you.
Well, you just do that!
I'm gonna get other white men to do the same thing.
You're gonna end up a stranger in your own town.
If I was your age, I'd wipe the dock with you!
Glory!
Sons of bitches... Drugstore fishermen!
Take one of your pills.
Daddy, are you crazy all the time?
What the hell's he doing back there after you?
Come on, Daddy!
Come on.
When he was sparking you in high school,
that's when I should've shot him.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(MOTOR SPUTTERING)
(MEN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(MOTOR STARTING)
(LAUGHING)
Saigon city boy!
(WHOOPING)
♪ I'm dancing with my baby...
♪ Like a brand new pair of cheap shoes...
♪ The kind that don't last...
♪ As long as they should...
♪ You wear 'em out fast...
♪ When it starts feeling good...
♪ To be close...
♪ Almost too close...
BARTENDER: Two shots, Buddy.
Howdy, Ab.
Get a load of Shang and Glory dancing?
Yeah.
What are we, big ones or little ones?
Little ones.
♪ Looks like a razor...
♪ Won't fit in between...
♪ I'm dancing so close to my baby...
♪ And the whole world just turned upside down...
♪ A cold second chance...
♪ Is still worth a try...
♪ To kiss my long-term aspirations...
♪ Goodbye...
♪ Make no mistake...
♪ It's a cold cheating game...
♪ Your heart starts to break...
♪ You know who's to blame...
♪ When we're close...
♪ Almost too close...
♪ I'm not gonna fall...
♪ I'm just trying to leave...
♪ Looks like a razor...
♪ Won't fit in between ♪
(MEN CHATTERING)
GLORY: I see your boat. It's right there.
SHANG: No. I want you to get on board.
I gotta go home.
Didn't you say you want to go swimming? No!
Put me down!
(GLORY SCREAMING) Oh, no!
(LAUGHING) Please stop! Put me down.
Just shut up and get on board. Put me down! Come on.
No, no, nothing's gonna happen to you. Please. I gotta go home.
(LAUGHING) Put me down!
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
GLORY: Ow!
(GLORY LAUGHING)
SHANG: What are you laughing at?
GLORY: ...smashing my head in.
(MAN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
PETE: Now, last night, y'all broke the law.
(MEN CHATTERING IN VIETNAMESE)
While you're on the coast of Texas,
you don't shrimp after the sun goes down, or before it comes up.
Thank you, sir.
Look, it's not a present.
You're— You're gonna have to go to court and pay a fine.
I told you the other day about the identification on your boats.
Yours don't show up at all.
Now, you ought to name 'em,
like after a-a TV character, something American.
Now, I know some of you understand better than you're letting on.
You're supposed to have flotation cushions and life jackets.
BEN: Yes, sir.
PETE: If you're as smart as you think you are, you could help me out.
Can't expect to stay up all night and pump gas, right?
Look, Daddy, I'm free, white and over 21.
PETE: Now, for instance, one other thing.
A gizmo breaks on your boats,
don't throw it in the water,
because it's gonna rip the nets of native fishermen and make 'em mad.
Yes, sir. Never mind polluting.
I wish I could convince you to go into this shark fishing.
There's money in it and a load less conflict.
(LAUGHING DERISIVELY) Shark fishing!
Wally, get them to pay a little more attention to regulations.
They don't even have identification numbers.
Poor boogers come across the China Sea,
didn't have identification numbers.
Oh, he just likes 'em 'cause they're so polite to older people.
Well, I don't know what to tell you, Wally.
The situation's heating up out there, and I'm just one guy.
Well, what do you want me to do?
Immigration run off all my good Mexicans.
Klan is coming in, Wally.
WALLY: Pete, I didn't sponsor these people,
but they're good workers, that's all I can say.
Mr. Game Warden,
can I get the book of rules?
The book of rules?
I surely don't have a copy on me.
I'm gonna get my own boat.
I want to know the rules.
(KIDS CHATTERING)
Well, no, not really. But, you know,
on something like this, we've got a lot of flexibility.
There won't be any problems.
Well, I hope you'll be able to get the paperwork done as soon as possible,
because we're really looking forward to getting into our new building.
Excuse me, Reverend Disney. Hi, Shang. How are you?
Good. Wendell, you got a minute?
Let's see. Yeah, sure. Go ahead and step on over.
All right.
(TYPEWRITER CLICKING)
Hey, Tammy.
Hello, Shang. How are you? Good. How you been?
Just fine. You're looking good.
Well, thank you.
Wendell. Sit down, Shang.
Okay.
Speak of the devil, I was just telling Reverend Disney...
we ought to get you out coaching ball.
(CHUCKLES)
What about the extension on the loan, Wendell?
Uh, well, I'll tell you what, Shang.
Why don't you have a seat?
Here, let me get out your folder.
You know, because the time I lose coming in here dinking around,
I could be out shrimping, making money to pay you back.
We've been having a lot of problems with our fishing loans.
Let's see. Here it is.
You have to admit that the industry is not producing like it used to.
Hey, Wendell, I got a picture of my boat here.
I want you to see it.
Shang, you- you haven't been able to reduce your loan in months.
I told you, I busted my crankshaft. Cost me 15 grand.
Here, take a look at my boat.
Mmm-hmm.
I'd-I'd love to help you, Shang. I-I dearly would.
I ain't gonna lose her.
I'm gonna have to advise you right here to explore other avenues.
Give me back my picture, Wendell.
Damn, if you ain't turning me down.
Don't personalize it, Shang.
You know, the trouble with the fishing industry in this town...
is the trouble with the goddamn government.
We defend everybody all over the world,
but there's no protection for any American.
And that ain't right.
(TYPEWRITER CLICKING)
MAN: Don't let the cable backlash on the way.
Watch out for the man-of-war tentacles on that lazy line.
Watch out for hard head.
You should crew for me all the time.
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
Luis, I want to get my own boat.
Why? I worked 20 years for Wally.
I don't even own this boat.
In America, everybody want to get rich.
Ah, America.
They go too fast and miss life.
You've got a girlfriend?
I'm working on it. Good.
(HORN BLOWING)
(MAN SPEAKING ON RADIO)
Listen, you do what you want,
but remember, this is a gringo bay.
GLORY: Don't.
(LAUGHING) Come on, I said...
Ow! Don't do that.
(SHANG LAUGHS)
SHANG: You always have been one of God's great pieces.
Oh, God, say something else but that.
What do you want?
Say something nice.
Okay, uh, you got a fat ass for a thin woman.
(GRUNTING) I'm gonna kill you!
Come on, cut it out, will you?
Come on, stop!
Say it! Say, "I love you." Say, "I love you, Glory."
Say, "I can't live without you...
and I'm gonna run off with you."
Yeah, that's all I need. Alimony and child support.
(SIGHS)
Hey, I didn't mean nothing.
I'm sorry. I've been thinking about my boat.
The bank turned me down.
I'm gonna lose her.
Oh, honey, you're gonna get that loan.
There's lots of banks. I got one for my condo.
Nobody's gonna give me 30 grand.
Nobody.
Would you?
Oh, honey.
You know I'd give you that money if I had it,
except the money I made from the condo...
I already gave to Wally for the business.
Please don't go yet.
Some of us still gotta get up and work tomorrow, sugar pie.
Look, hey, I'll talk to Wally about it.
What'd you give it to him for, anyway? Hmm?
I'm the one who loves you.
You know?
Well, he is my daddy.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(KIDS SHOUTING)
(BELL RINGING)
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
HONEY: You fucker, you just get out!
I don't wanna see you again! Shut up!
I'm taking the kids. Shut up already!
You're never gonna see them again!
Get back in the house. You fucker!
Oh, Shang! Get o¤
Get off of me!
Shang, don't go! Shang, don't leave me now.
Get off me. (SOBBING) No.
(WAILING) You make me sick.
Get to work. You're late. You fucker!
I hate you.
You! I'm gonna kill you!
(HONEY WAILING)
(SOBBING)
WALLY: One barrel of five-sixteenths chain.
Two-inch pillar box. Four-inch pillar box.
Quarter-inch shackles. Five-sixteenths shackles.
Half-inch nylon rope.
Eight rolls number nine twine. Six rolls number eight twine.
And J hooks, we're low on them.
Daddy? J hooks, we need more of them.
Daddy?
Well, I've been thinkin', if it's all right with you,
I'd just as soon like to have my money back for a while.
I mean, it's been way over a year and everything and...
Didn't you say you needed it just for six months?
Well, I ain't done needing it yet.
You know how many people are looking for me to go under...
'cause I can't pay my bills?
Crankshaw sits over there like a vulture.
I thought you paid those bills.
Well, that's pretty unchristian.
I had a lot of pain with that accident.
You shouldn't have loaned me your money if you had to get it right back.
Well, at least you could've told me.
Well, sir, I'm telling you now.
Well, let's get on.
Two boxes of sewing needles,
one barrel of five-sixteenths chain,
two barrel of half-inch chain,
43 grommets.
HONEY: Shang never hit me that hard before.
The way he's been running around and drinking,
he's gonna wreck the truck for sure.
Ooh, that burns me. Speaking of car wrecks and drinking,
the church is having one of them encounter groups again.
You really ought to go. You'd enjoy it.
HONEY: You try getting my husband to go to church.
Well, Shang's a piece of work, I'll give you that.
KID 1: I want one. KID 2: I've got one.
They all come in on Sundays when there's less of us to watch them.
Tex is back there, isn't he?
Something I can do for you?
Yeah. Does it look nice?
Well, you got to turn it around there, son.
You got it back to front.
This way?
Yeah. Well, I guess.
HONEY: You stay away from that candy, you hear?
You got to weigh that fruit.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
I said you got to weigh that.
You're gonna pay for that!
Excuse me. She don't understand English.
Don't give me that.
Tex, to the checkout, please.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
Tex, I need you at the front of the store right away.
Right away.
What's the matter?
I'm sick and tired of these people trying to steal from under my nose.
She's not stealing.
Okey dokey, you gotta go.
Now, just a minute, Tex.
There's just been a little bit of a misunderstanding here.
Like hell. Whose side are you on?
Oh, now, Honey, I can see your side of it,
but I don't quite believe that little lady knew she was supposed to weigh that fruit.
That's what I said. Misunderstanding.
You calling me a liar?
'Cause if that's what you're doing, I'm just about...
TEX: (CHUCKLING) Honey! Honey.
Why don't you go take a little coffee break?
I-I'll take overyour register for a while.
(SEAGULLS CAWING)
WOMAN: Yoo-hoo! How's the take, y'all?
MAN: How's the shrimping?
Have a good one.
And then he says to the farmer now,
"What in the world are you doing with a pig with a wooden leg?"
So the farmer says, "Now, last week, that pig saved my life.
"My house was burning down..."
MAN 1: You boys getting an idea...
how long this situation is gonna exist in this community?
MAN 2: Another 10 or18 months.
Too long.
These Indochinese are creating all the danger in this community.
Well, I never used to lock my doors, but, boy, I sure do now.
Ain't that the truth? You know what I was just thinking about, y'all?
Those gooks could hide dynamite in the bay.
They could blow y'all up, and we could never prove it.
There are no laws for them, anyhow.
You see, these wimp politicians...
that pull the wool over the eyes of the average citizen.
The Communists and the Catholic religion planned it that way.
They're no dummies.
SKINNER: They sure ain't. They're everywhere.
I'd sure like to get you old boys organized and working with us.
It's my own time I use to travel with, my own gas.
That's how much importance I attach to the issue.
How about Shang Pierce? He's kind of a leader, isn't he?
SKINNER: He, uh, ain't no joiner.
BRANDON: Shang's on his own.
MAC: Fishermen are a tough bunch to organize.
(MEN LAUGHING)
(DOOR SHUTS)
What you need here?
Lone Star beer, please.
Hey, Leroy, you got a dog in the bar. You better kick him out.
(MEN SNICKERING)
Look, this is an American bar.
We're plumb out of brew.
I want to speak to Skinner Atkins...
about outboard motor.
Who said you could say my name?
Skinner, somebody say you got motor for sale.
Is that right?
MAN: (IMITATING ACCENT) Hey. Hey, Skinner.
(MEN SNICKERING)
I don't want no gook coming in here saying the name Skinner Atkins.
(MEN GUFFAWING)
Hey, I'll cut him up for you and feed him to the sharks.
Yeah, he's a nice little yellowtail.
Why don't we filet him, huh?
(ALL LAUGH)
Hey, Skinner, you want my knife?
(LAUGHS)
Big men picking on a kid?
A gook kid.
You know, Glory, I don't think you belong in this town anymore.
Diane, if your jaw should ever break, I'd love to wire it shut.
Okay, but, people, this isn't the way to organize.
Now, do you want these Indochinese out of your area,
or do you want a bunch of bar fights?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Glory?
What, are you crazy, going in there?
That was Mac McWilliams.
Do you even know what the Klan is?
See, I tried to get a cheap motor for my boat.
Jesus. You really got a case, don't you?
(TIRES SCREECH)
Get in here.
Thanks.
(EXCLAIMS)
You all right?
Where you been? I've been waiting on you.
I talked to Wally today.
And, uh...
Well, he tells me that all the money's tied up in the business.
But we're gonna come up with something.
I know we will. There's lots of ways.
Want to go to the Sailfish?
I ain't got money for the Sailfish.
Well, I'll pay.
You got money for what you want, huh?
Come on. You don't mean that.
I had some time to think about some things today.
And, yeah, I do mean it.
Who were you talking to back there?
Nobody. What do you mean, nobody?
You're getting jealous about some kid that works for me?
What's wrong with you?
You go down on him, too?
You...
Huh?
Why don't you just go back to your gooks and your gook business?
And I suppose if I'd had the money,
you were gonna leave your wife and kids for me.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
God, who kept these books, a mental case?
Glory, where'd you put them trout nets?
Daddy, I can't do everything around here.
What is it now?
Damn, it's just a question.
What's eating on you?
Glory! Dinh say you come now.
Come.
Mr. Pierce.
MAN 1: What's going on?
MAN 2: Jumpin' Shang's boat. Damn shame.
I'm real sorry about this, Mr. Pierce.
They say you're 90 days overdue.
You know, it's a damn shame. The Russians can borrow money for their wheat,
an American veteran can't borrow money for his boat.
Hey, Mr. Crankshaw, I'm just doing my job.
Some job.
We could take 'em, Shang.
(KIDS LAUGHING)
Hey, Glory, whose name is there?
Not now, Dinh. Please.
Woman on a boat.
The worst damn luck there is.
(CHATTERING)
Bound to happen.
Nobody in this country wants to work anymore.
Daddy, can't you get off my back? I broke up with him.
Can't you quit pushing at me?
I don't know how Mama stood you.
Da-Daddy, I'm sorry.
I'm real sorry about your boat.
Hi, Skinner.
Hell, you heard Crankshaw.
Let's go out on the Gul¤ and rake it in.
I don't wanna work for nobody else.
Looks like you're on your own, Skinner.
I'm going back to crabbing like my daddy did.
And if anybody gets in my way...
(MEN CHATTERING IN VIETNAMESE)
(MEN CLAMORING)
(GUN FIRING)
Shit.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
What's going on? What are they saying?
They say they go out tomorrow,
but they want more money.
What are you talking about?
They say maybe they get shot again.
They should get more money.
I don't believe this. I'm supposed to tell Wally that?
All right! Brandon, what are you doing on that gook's boat?
Huh? What are you doing?
(WHOOPING)
Ride 'em, cowboy!
That's my boat!
Get off my boat.
Hey! Whoa!
Yeah, I think I've seen this one before.
Hey, grab a leg, Buddy!
(MEN CHEERING)
(GRUNTING)
One, two and three!
(LAUGHING)
MAN 1: Let's go.
MAN 2: That's probably the first bath he's had in weeks.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
Shove these up the ass of the Pope of Rome,
but keep your goddamn gooks out of my family's fishing grounds.
WALLY: There's a war going on out there,
and the law's looking the other way.
Hell, my fishermen are getting shot at.
When asked for help, I'm getting the old runaround.
Parks and Wildlife tells me to go to Coast Guard.
Coast Guard tells me to go to the police.
Police tells me to go to the sheriff's department.
Buzz, where the hell have you been?
Wally, the bay is not in my jurisdiction, so I don't go in it.
Well, it's in somebody's jurisdiction.
Okay, Wally, we heard you,
but we're trying to iron this thing out in a Christian way.
The federal government abandoned these people here in our town...
without educating them on how we do things.
Now, there lies half of your problem.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
I got something to say.
These Vietnamese, they work cheaper...
than regular Americans can afford to work, or ought to work.
(MURMURING IN AGREEMEN¤
And then they got the welfare paying 'em to do it.
They give 'em $700 a month and a book of food stamps yea thick.
Yea thick!
Well, there's the one that's getting the profit right there...
while he's exploiting them.
Don't start with me, Crankshaw.
Daddy, come on. Or one of these days you're gonna finish with me!
Daddy, sit down, now. Come on.
I don't have to sit here and take this. Shut up, ma'am.
Brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters.
We are here to do the Lord's work.
Now let's not give in to the Devil.
My boy fought the VC over there!
Now they're right here in Texas...
taking the bread out of our mouths.
(ALL CLAMORING)
I think we'd all like to hear from their pastor.
Reverend Ky, you go ahead.
Thank you, Reverend Disney.
Here, in Port Alamo, we got nothing from the government.
No food stamps, no welfare.
Who finances your boats? The Communists?
RITA: The Moonies? We finance our own boats.
We just want to have a chance to make our living.
To be Americans. MAN: You're never gonna be American.
DISNEY: Mrs. Ranney?
I'm just worried about how all this is going to affect...
what we're trying to accomplish at the school.
The kids are getting along,
but the adults have got to set the example.
(PEOPLE MURMURING)
DISNEY: Wendell?
I was just thinking that, you know,
more than anything, what's making our-our population nervous, uh...
I-I mean, it's admirable,
but if your people just wouldn't fish so hard...
What probably nobody anticipated...
was that your people wanted to own the boats, Reverend.
DINH: I want to say something.
Yes, go ahead.
Excuse me. These people, Skinner Atkins and Buddy,
they broke the law.
Hey, I told you not to say my name.
They did this to my boat and bent my motor.
(PEOPLE CHUCKLING)
Mr. Sheriff, you arrest them.
(ALL CLAMORING)
People, please. Please, order in the Lord's annex.
Order, order!
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Here, kitty.
How about a little poontang? Sure, come on in the truck.
Don't you trust us?
Let's go. Come on, just...
(SIREN WAILING)
Hey.
You two quit staring at the boys,
and get your little butts home.
Christ, hasn't anybody got any sense anymore?
(WHOOPING)
Yeah!
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO)
I'm gonna blow your head off!
Get away from here, you little shit.
Somebody help...
GLORY: Daddy?
Daddy, are you all right?
No, stay down.
Hey, Buzz. Some kid dumped this on our lawn last night,
and Wally's in the hospital in Corpus.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that, but what the hell's wrong with you?
You're the sheriff, damn it. You're supposed to be protecting us.
I'm doin' the best I can. Oh!
Look, some of these teenagers are hearing...
that you're driving their daddies out of business,
and they'rejust trying to protect their way of life. That's all.
That's an excuse 'cause you ain't doing your job.
Your trouble starts with running around with a married man.
Well, how about you and Beezy Grayson?
Look, you can do business with these Indochinese any way you see fit,
but just don't put me in charge of telling people they gotta like it.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Wally's in the hospital.
Is that all you can say?
He asked for it.
That's funny. That's really funny.
Wally said the same thing about you the day you lost your boat.
Only I stood up for you.
Hey, listen! Quit this.
You threatening me?
I don't want you hurt.
I still care about you.
Shut down for a while.
Why are you sticking up for these people?
Huh?
Why?
(MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO)
I gotta go see Wally in Corpus.
You're gonna ride down Main Street with that gook?
He's not a gook. And, yeah, I am gonna ride with him.
Communist cunt!
(HORN HONKING)
MAN ON RADIO: Treasury officials...
Take 35 south.
Here in Texas, tensions continue to mount...
between Anglo fishermen and Vietnamese refugees along the Gulf Coast.
In Kemah, 200 white shrimpers met last night to protest...
increased Vietnamese fishing activity in Galveston Bay.
(CHATTERING)
MAN: Hey, Roscoe. How you doing?
MAC: Sure am glad you're all coming down here this morning.
We knew we could count on you Port Alamo boys.
Darling, these biscuits are old enough to vote.
Y'all remember, history is with the white race.
Hmm.
If you keep up this pressure,
little by little, you are going to win your battle.
We're gonna be organizing a demonstration next week down the coast at St. Mary's.
MAC: This fight is just beginning.
Yeah.
But I think what we need is a little search and destroy.
You got that right.
Let's get ourselves orientated here.
You see, Skinner, you got to understand public relations.
That's what you gotta learn from strategists like Martin Luther King.
SKINNER: Martin Luther King?
You're pissing in the wind, Mac.
Gonna take a lot more than public relations to loosen up these gooks.
You got that right.
I've got quite a bit of experience in organizing, Shang.
I get barnacles on my boat, I don't take a nail file to 'em.
(ALL LAUGHING)
You guys want the gooks out of Alamo Bay, or don't you?
ALL: Yeah.
MAC: Let's take things in order.
You come along if you want to,
but I'm tired of this bullshit.
We gotta make a move here.
What you got in mind, Shang?
Well, I've been thinking about something.
Oh, hi, Bergee. How are you today?
Just fine.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Sorry, folks, we're closing. Closing for the holiday.
Close? Closing.
Not open. Closed. Cerrado.
HONEY: We're closing up for the holiday now. Bye-bye.
We're closing now.
It's going to be a holiday here for a while.
(WHISTLING)
What's going on?
Can't come through. The road isn't safe.
How am I supposed to pick up my shrimp?
You ain't.
Who says? You?
And Shang Pierce.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
Move on out. You're through in this harbor.
I repeat, move it, move it, move it, move it!
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(MAN YELLING IN VIETNAMESE)
Move on out. This harbor's closed.
I repeat, get your asses out of here!
You're through in this harbor.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
Come on, move it. I repeat, get your asses out of here.
This harbor's closed.
Come on, now. Move it.
(IMITATING VIETNAMESE)
Move it. Come on, now. Git, git, git, git, git, git, git, git, git.
(MEN SHOUTING)
(MAN WHOOPING)
WOMAN ON PA: Dr. Chambers, please report to radiolog¤.
Dr. Chambers, please report to radiology.
There.
You look good, Daddy, you really do.
Don't bullshit me.
No, you do look good. Doesn't he look good, Dinh?
Uh-huh.
Guess what? We were visiting our customers today,
and they're all real happy with the produce.
¤OMAN ON PA: Dr. O'Malley, Dr. O'Malley...
You hurt? No. No, no.
Well, you're a tough old thing.
You'll be up on your feet in no time.
Pain in the ass.
Yeah, I bet it is.
But the nurses here are real pretty.
I bet you're giving them a fit.
Dr. Frankheisen to admitting. Dr. Frankheisen to admitting.
How are you?
Fine. Fine. Everything's fine.
Shang?
I told him to go straight to hell.
You old devil, you're smiling. You see him smiling?
You're gonna be fine.
(SLOW COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
GLORY: Would you believe Port Alamo's only 40 miles from here?
(EXCLAIMS) There is a world of difference.
You know, these people aren't rednecks, Dinh. They work in offices.
They just like to dress up like cowboys to go dancing.
DINH: You should've stayed here.
Yeah.
Well, Daddy needed me back there helping with the business.
He's all the family I got left.
That nurse thinks he's gonna make it,
and he will, 'cause he's a fighter.
I know it.
You know, the funny thing is I never realized how much I cared about him.
You didn't? Everybody should care for their father.
That's the way it is where you come from, huh?
You know, I've been crazy about Shang Pierce ever since I was 15 years old.
Even when I was working down here in Corpus,
living in the condo with a swimming pool,
going out with guys with educations,
he was always on my mind.
And you know what?
I wasted a lot of time, 'cause he is nobody.
But he's still on my mind.
♪ Oh, no, don't touch me...
♪ If you don't love me...
♪ Sweetheart ♪
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
No, it's my turn to pay.
SINGER: Thank you all very much. Thank you.
We sure do appreciate that.
We're gonna do a little tune here...
you can really kickyour heels up and dance to.
Take it away, Johnny. Take it away.
(UPBEAT COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAN WHOOPING)
Here I am always talking about me.
What's the worst thing that ever happened to you in your whole life?
The worst?
I was scared one time.
Our village was burned by the Communists.
At the time, I was a small kid.
I got lost from my mother. Soldiers were killing people.
I stayed in the jungle one week by myself.
I was eating grass to stay alive.
You were eating grass? God, Dinh.
I lived through it.
(PEOPLE WHOOPING)
KLANSMAN 1: O Lord, watch over us as we do your work.
ALL: Long live the Klan!
Long live the Klan!
KLANSMAN 2: White power!
ALL: White power!
(KLANSMEN SHOUTING)
Hey. Hey, hey.
KLANSMAN 2: Death to the gooks!
ALL: Death to the gooks.
Death to the gooks. Death to the gooks.
KLANSMAN 1: The Bible teaches us separation of the races.
Long live the Klan!
ALL: Long live the Klan! Long live the Klan!
KLANSMAN 2: America for Americans!
ALL: America for Americans! America for Americans!
America for Americans!
(KLANSMEN SHOUTING)
(KLANSMEN CHEERING)
ALL: Death to the gooks. Death to the gooks.
Death to the Cong. Death to the Cong. Death to the Cong.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Goodbye, Mrs. Ranney. Oh, bye. Bye.
Goodbye. Goodbye, sweetie. Oh, my.
Goodbye.
Maybe you'll write me some postcards if you don't come right back.
Okay?
Tim. Good job, Mac.
Y'all remember now,
nobody from the Third World can hold a candle to us...
unless we tie our hands behind our backs.
We're all set, Mac.
History is with us.
(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)
JAMES: How we doing over there?
PATIENT: Morning, James.
Wally?
(JAMES RUNNING)
DISNEY: The earth and the sea shall give up the dead,
and under God Almighty we command the soul of our brother departed.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.
LUIS: It was a very nice funeral.
Yeah.
You know, Wally always liked me in this dress.
Thanks for sticking around, Luis.
Do you want me to follow you back home?
No. No.
Hey, you say hi to Mexico for me.
(ENGINE STARTS)
I left the keys and the paper in the office for you.
You ask plenty of money for her. She's a good boat.
You always did worry about me.
What the hell are you doing here?
You're supposed to be in Houston with the priest.
And what are you doing with your damn boots up on my desk?
I'm thinking.
I'm broke now.
But I have a plan.
You have a plan?
Me and Ben, we rent Luis's boat from you.
You're gonna rent Luis's boat? Well, you must be crazy.
There's nobody with us.
Those are some rough old boys out there.
You'll go get yourself killed if you try... You must think positive.
Give me a sip of that beer.
You know, I can't believe you came back here.
You should've stayed with the rest of them. Why didn't you?
I don't like people who try to scare me.
Okay.
Okay, you got yourself a damn deal.
I'm gonna call up the Coast Guard,
and I'm gonna tell 'em we're going out on that water tomorrow.
I don't know what to tell you, Dinh.
You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas.
(DIALING)
Dad, gooks.
Yeah, that's Luis's boat, all right.
Amateur to Sea Lorraine. Amateur to Sea Lorraine. Gooks.
Amateur to Sea Lorraine. Amateur to Sea Lorraine. Come back.
Gooks are coming out on Luis's boat. Come back.
Got you, Crankshaw.
They're coming right at us.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
BUDDY: What's the matter?
Coast Guard.
No, that's a military helicopter from Old Island.
They don't see us.
MAN: Guard. Move along. Aboard the Sea Lorraine.
SHANG: Yeah, they do.
Skipperon the Sea Lorraine. Move along.
Hey! (CHEERING)
They would've been out of here if it hadn't been for Glory.
Shang, don't worry about it. Only one boat got through.
Why don't you just give me a beer?
What do I care what you heard on the radio?
Like I told you, I'm coming with the shrimp tonight.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE) GLORY: Henry, I am a woman of my word.
No, there's not gonna be any trouble. Don't worry about it.
Okay, I'll see you later.
Okay, I'm on my way.
I'm going with you.
You have to stay here and watch the fish house.
Look, if anything comes up, I'll give you a call, okay?
Okay.
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(HORN HONKING)
Get the hell out of my road!
Where you think you're heading?
To Corpus with my shrimp.
You don't take advice very good, do you?
No.
Okay, go on through.
Okay, let her through.
Are you serious?
I said, let her through.
Shang!
Go on home, Brandon. Your war is over now. Go on.
(MEN CHATTERING)
(SIZZLING)
(PHONE RINGING)
Glory? Glory?
Are you all right?
Glory?
Glory...
MAN 1: Messed up. MAN 2: Mmm-hmm. I told you.
Okay. Side pocket.
(BILLIARD BALLS CLACKING)
Get to work. Go.
(MEN CHATTERING)
(CHUCKLES)
Watch out.
BARTENDER: Okay, fellas, we're gonna be closing now.
Give me a double shot of whiskey, Leroy.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
You got any matches?
Give me that thing.
Here, use this.
Listen, you guys, don't do nothing till I tell you to.
Gotcha.
(CLATTERING)
Light that thing up. Light it up.
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
Take it easy. They ain't going nowhere. Take it easy.
I'm going. I'm going in. Buddy, wait!
Buddy, wait, man! Buddy, get down!
Get down!
Man, I'm going in.
Get down.
I'm coming. You wait there for me, all right?
All right.
(GRUNTS)
(SHOUTS)
(GUN FIRES)
(COCKS GUN)
(GROANS)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(CAR DOOR SLAMS)
GLORY: Shang, stop it!
Shang?
(EXCLAIMS)
(GROANING)
(GROANS)
GLORY: (COCKING GUN) Shang?
(GUN FIRES)
(COUGHS)
(SIRENS WAILING)
(MEN CHATTERING)