On the Borderline (2001) - full transcript
Luke and Nikky, a young couple with a baby, leave Detroit headed for a job and their dreams in California. In a Texas town near the Mexican border, Dean, a low-life gas-station owner, steals their cash when they're not looking. They're stuck, with just a few days before the job starts. She gets work as a waitress, and the only way Luke can get some quick cash is to hook up with Dean, who brings Mexican workers across the border at night under the nose of the border patrol. Will Luke get the cash so they can get to Pomona, or will his crossing into lawlessness get him in trouble? Dean also has his eye on Nikky: is she safe?
- [Radio] This is WFM Detroit.
You know, a lot of controversy
concerning the closing
of the automobile
plants around here.
We'd like to talk about it
so let's take a phone call.
Second caller, Holly,
from Lansing, Michigan.
You're on WFM.
- [Holly] Yeah, hi,
Mark, this is Holly.
- [Mark] Hey.
- [Girl] Thank you.
- For what?
- For taking the scenic
route to California.
For giving Tyler
his first vacation.
- [Luke] Well, you're welcome,
but I don't know if
I'd call it a vacation.
- [Nicky] What do you mean?
According to this map
we're almost to Utopia.
Look, there it is. (laughs)
See, what did I tell ya?
Stick with me, baby, we're
goin' places. (laughs)
- Welcome to Utopia, Ohio,
the Dancing Pig capital
of the world.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- [Radio] Cloudy
tonight, increased
cloudiness, rainstorms.
Another wet, rainy day.
- When we get to Hollywood--
- Pomona, we're goin'
to Pomona, remember?
- Pomona.
Can we have one of
those jungle bedrooms
like Elvis had in Graceland?
- Sure.
- How'd I get so lucky?
- What do you mean?
- I mean you really would
let me have a jungle bedroom.
- Yeah, why not.
- I'm just lucky, that's all.
Luke?
Are you sure you're
not gonna miss Detroit?
- Not as long as I
have you and Tyler.
(gentle music)
- [Radio] It's the updated
farmer's report for Oklahoma
and the surrounding state.
(upbeat music)
(baby coos)
- It's El Diablo the bull,
the world's largest cow.
- I swear to God, this has
gotta be the radioactive state.
Everything is five times as
large as it is everywhere else.
- We gotta go.
- All right, where is it?
- It's right on
the Mexican border.
Think of it,
margaritas, fiestas.
(speaks in foreign language)
- Does that mean give me a kiss?
- Uh huh.
(upbeat rock music)
- Easy money back
'ere, boy. Easy money.
♪ My truck is out there, man
♪ I give it all I can
- Ah...
(sirens wail)
Be still.
Bitch.
You alive?
♪ There's just too
many miles to go ♪
♪ This life is so barren and
this coffee got me starin' ♪
♪ Straight down the
center of the road ♪
- Come on, damn it.
♪ Push this right
down the road ♪
(tires squealing)
Goddammit!
(glass shattering)
- Call in a 10-47, tell
'em we've got Jimmy Neil
and a half dozen illegals
out here splattered
all over the road.
- 10-4, Captain.
- Good evening, folks.
- Good evening officer.
- [Elias] Sorry for
the inconvenience,
you can see we've got
a problem out here.
What do you got in the back?
- Those are our belongings.
We're moving to California.
- Officer, please,
the baby's sleeping.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Tell you what folks, you
can proceed on very slowly
and stay as far left as you can.
Be prepared to stop.
Go head on now.
(upbeat music)
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Could you fill it up please?
- Sure enough, that's
what we're here for.
- Excuse me, is there a
lady's room around here?
- Yes, ma'am.
Right this way.
- Tyler. Look at that. (gasps)
Daddy will be right back.
- Hey, how much are these?
- For you, free for the asking.
- Thanks.
- Hang on, Tyler.
(intense music)
- You all set?
- Yeah, let's go.
- 16 on the nose.
- Thanks a lot.
- Sure.
- Nikki, can you pay?
- Oh, yeah.
Luke, can you come here, please?
- What's the matter?
- The money, it's gone.
- What do you mean?
- It was in my
bag and it's gone.
I have this 20 that I
keep in the side pocket
but that's it.
- Well, it's gotta
be here, right?
- I paid the bill at
the motel this morning,
it must've fallen out.
- Maybe it's in one
of those suitcases?
- I paid the bill after
we'd already packed.
It's not here.
- Everything all right?
- Yeah, everything's fine.
Give me the 20.
Thank you.
- [Man] Thank you.
So, where y'all headed
on such a fine morning?
- West, actually,
one tank of gas west.
- California.
- Luke got a job on a
stock car racing team.
- Stock car racing team?
Where'd you get a job like that?
- Guess I just got lucky.
- Yeah, well, we won't be
so lucky if we don't get
to Hollywood on Monday.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
(upbeat music)
- Why don't we call the
hotel, maybe they found it.
- It's not the kind of place
that holds lost
money for anyone.
- I know, I just, I
don't know what the hell
we're gonna do.
- What are we gonna do?
We already called
everyone we know.
There's no one else
we can borrow from.
- Nicky.
Hey, hey, Nicky.
Nicky.
Hey, we've been
through worse, right?
Huh?
Hey, trust me.
♪ Homeward, angel
♪ It's time to go
♪ For you can't stay
♪ Around here any more
♪ I loved you so long
(baby crying)
♪ Go homeward, angel
♪ The Devil's got my heart
- Shh shh, Tyler.
- You want more coffee, hon?
- Let's get that
table near the front.
♪ You're here with me
- Good morning.
Hi there little guy.
Do y'all wanna see menus
or you just want the usual
like everybody else?
- I don't know, just
some coffee, thanks.
Actually, how much for a donut?
- They're 40 apiece.
- Can we get one
of those, please?
- And that's it?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
- [Waitress] I think I can
handle that little guy.
- You're not eating?
- You eat.
You know I'm gonna have
to go and look for a job.
- Gotta eat something.
- No, we gotta get
back on the road.
♪ From here hold on
- This should cover you
and Tyler while I'm gone.
- I've gotta get
him some diapers
or we're gonna have
a real problem.
♪ Devil's got my heart
(coins clattering)
- That's all of it.
- Why don't we just go with you?
- Probably be easier
if you didn't.
Gonna wish me luck?
- Luck.
Say good luck to daddy. (laughs)
Don't eat the money,
that's all that we have.
♪ Any more
♪ Homeward, angel
(dog barking)
(tense music)
(sign creaking)
- Howdy. Back for more gas?
- Sorry to bother you guys.
- What's up?
- Just wondering if you
had any extra work here?
- Thought you were on
your way to California.
- Oh, I am.
We had a change of
plans, you know?
You know, I'm really
good with cars.
Four years on the
line back in Detroit.
- Is that right?
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- Except, you know the
people in these parts,
they could balance the
tires on their strollers
'fore they could walk.
- Got to around here.
- Yeah.
Well, they can fix 'em,
but I can build 'em.
- Well, you could be Henry Ford,
people still gonna
fix their own.
- There's nothing I
can do around here?
I mean, I'll pump
gas, I'll fix flats.
I mean, I'll sweep
up if you want me to.
It's just that...
Never mind.
- No, what, what?
You got what?
- I got a family I
have to take care of.
I just need a couple day's work.
That's all I'm asking for.
- Now, I thought you was
heading to California
to be a big time
race car driver.
- No, no, no, no, you
weren't listening right.
He said he was a
mechanic, not the driver.
They leave the driving to
the professionals, right?
Sorry, I don't have
nothing for ya.
Now the tourist season's over.
You might have more
luck in San Antone.
- Thanks for the tip.
♪ I used to be an angel
♪ Now I am so mean
♪ Rude and unkind
♪ Bitter and frequently fool
♪ I never
- [Waitress] Hey there,
it's been a while,
what would you like?
♪ In the way you dream of me
♪ Like the harvest is in
♪ It seems that for some
- Well, if it ain't the
great bounty hunter himself.
Hope you don't scare
off the help, Elias,
That way we'll never get to eat.
- Well, excuse me, Mr. Kane,
but I came in here for
the biscuits and gravy.
Not a bowl full
of your bullshit.
Whoa, excuse me, darling.
- I'm sorry, Sheriff.
- I'm only your sheriff
if you're not an American.
Captain Elias,
Texas Border Patrol.
Hey buddy.
Excuse me.
At your service anyhow.
♪ You look like you're again
- Oh, what's all this?
It must be some mistake,
I didn't order this.
- Now, don't say anything,
just relax and enjoy
a little Texas hospitality.
- But I can't pay for this.
- Don't worry, hon, I'm
just gonna charge you
for the donut and coffee.
- Thank you.
♪ And then you'll see
- Ma'am, this is so nice and
it's really too generous.
Can I work it off in the
kitchen or something?
- That's real sweet.
But there's no point working
here when the pay's so low
an ant wouldn't call
it pocket change.
- Well anyway, I'm Nicky.
Sorry. (laughs)
- It's a pleasure, Nicky.
People call me Connie.
- Good morning, Connie.
- Morning, Elias.
- You look real good today.
- Elias, Jimmy Neil was a
popular boy around here.
I hear he's gonna be
drinking out a straw
the rest of his life.
You can't expect people
to take kindly to you
treating him like that.
- With all due respect, Kane,
Jimmy Neil was evading arrest
with a truck full if illegals.
- Elias.
Kane, drink your cola.
Don't you mind Elias none.
He just lives by
them damn law books.
His daddy got sent
to Brownsville
when he was eight
years old for life.
That boy was so ashamed,
he never went to
see his daddy once.
- That's so sad.
- It is sad.
That's why he can't
understand that life
is just full of mistakes.
(gentle music)
(children laughing)
- [Luke] Afternoon.
How are ya?
- You from the church?
- No sir, I'm just
looking for some work.
- Don't need any help.
- Can you just give me a chance?
I've been up and down
these roads all day.
My wife and kid are hungry.
We don't even have a
place to sleep tonight.
- You take one step closer,
I'll blow your head off.
- I'm sorry.
♪ Care for me, Angelina
♪ I'll be gone before the
dawn makes its first light ♪
- Connie, Connie, Connie.
You're looking mighty
fine this afternoon.
As a matter of fact I can't
tell which looks sweeter,
you or them corn muffins.
- Knowing you, it'll
be the muffins.
(man laughs)
- I'll just keep it
short and have the usual.
- Well, how 'bout that.
I figured I'd find you in here.
- Elias.
Afternoon, miss.
- Hi.
Now, I thought I saw your
husband out sightseeing earlier.
Figured I'd find you with him.
- My husband isn't
sightseeing, he's job hunting.
- Job hunting.
I thought you all were
going to Hollywood?
I'll bet you're fixin' on
goin' into the movies, right?
I mean, you already
look like a movie star.
- We're only staying
until we have enough money
to be on our way.
- There something
I can do for you?
- Well, as a matter
of fact, there is.
You need to find yourself
a new line of work
before I put you
out of business.
- Forcin' a man to
give up his livelihood,
now that sounds
un-American to me.
Now I've been running' that
service station for 10 years.
Besides I get to meet
all sorts of people.
I'm the kind of person
who likes to meet people.
- Don't get cute with me.
You ain't half as smart as
you think you are, buddy.
I've had a hunch
all along that you
and Jimmy Neil were coyotes.
Just a matter of time
before I bring the big
hammer down on you.
- Yeah, well, I ain't
roadkill yet, so why don't you
get off my back?
- I bet your daddy's rolling
over in his grave right now.
He'd be real proud
of you, wouldn't he?
♪ My canteens are empty
♪ And no water nearby
- You gotta excuse Elias,
he ain't a bad man.
He just got some peculiar ideas
about how the local
economy works.
- What'd you do to
get him so upset?
- Don't really
matter, now does it?
Now, if you're going to
California, that don't leave you
much time to sample
our fine hospitality.
I mean, here you are.
Deep in the heart of Texas,
I bet you ain't even learn
to two-step yet.
♪ Before the first
light of the dawn ♪
I could teach ya, it ain't hard.
- I don't doubt that.
(both laugh)
No, I've got the baby.
- All right then.
Pleasure to meet you, miss.
- I'm Nicole, people
call me Nicky.
- Well, Ms. Nicole,
my name's Dean,
people refer to me as Dean.
♪ Angelina
- Come on, let's two-step, baby.
Let's show her how
it's done. (laughs)
- You sure it's not hard?
- I promise you.
As a matter of fact, I give
you my money back guarantee.
I'll only show you a few
steps I know you can learn.
Don't be shy, darling.
Come on.
It's real easy.
♪ Nobody loving me
- Two to the left,
one to the right.
That's it. Just follow me.
That's it. That's it.
Fits like a glove, you see that?
Two to the left,
one to the right.
Sure you haven't
done this before?
Come on now.
- (laughs) Yee-haw.
(both laugh)
- You got it.
♪ I don't need?
- You holding out on me now?
You ain't done this before?
- Yee-haw.
- Nicky.
- Hey.
- What are you doing?
- Dean was just teaching
me how to two-step.
- Right, friend,
we're just dancing.
No harm done.
- I'm not your friend.
- (laughs) Whoa, now,
I just killing time
while I was waiting for you.
- You were waiting for me?
- That's right, I got
a proposition for ya.
I can't exactly
talk about it here.
Come on over to the gas
station, I'll explain it to ya.
What, you coming or not?
I got others willing.
- I'll be right back.
- After you.
You work tonight?
- You pay cash?
- Hell yeah.
- Well, what do you need?
- How good a driver are you?
- Now, you heard him
Dean, the ol' boy's headed
to California to be
on a race car team.
- Don't worry about my driving.
- Good, you drive down to
the border, it's simple.
You pick up some passengers,
sort of like a taxi.
- In the middle of the night?
Tell me something.
These passengers of yours,
they have any drugs?
Is that what this is about?
- No drugs.
We love America too much.
- They're illegal.
- Oh, I don't doubt that.
Illegal what?
- Undocumented Mexican
workers, we just slip 'em
over the border,
hook 'em up with
farmers, construction,
that kind of thing.
(Luke sighs)
(dog barks)
- I'm sorry. I'd like to
help you but I can't do it.
- I don't understand you,
Luke, I really don't.
You come to me this
morning looking for work,
I give you a golden opportunity
to do something right
by your family.
Let me ask you a question,
where's that boy of yours
gonna sleep tonight,
in that car?
You have any idea how cold
the desert gets at night?
- Don't you get it?
It's because of them
I can't do this.
This is dangerous, Dean.
- Dangerous?
You're driving half
way across the country
to start a new life.
That sounds like more
of a gamble to me.
I give you $200 cash.
- I need money to get
my wife and my son
a motel room tonight.
- No front money
for a job like this.
- I told you, my
family comes first.
I can't do this, not unless
I know they're taken care of.
- That outta hold you over.
- I want half right now.
- (laughs) This
boy's got a pair.
Damn.
- No, now I'm trusting
you, Yankee boy,
you be back here by
eight o'clock sharp.
Oh hey, Yankee boy,
you need a comfortable
place to stay tonight?
There's a motel on route six.
- [Nicky] Maybe we can still
see that giant cow tomorrow.
- [Luke] Yeah, if I
get out of this alive.
- [Nicky] What do you mean?
What kind of job is this?
- [Luke] You know
what a coyote is?
- A what?
- Coyote.
Dean wants me to help him
smuggle illegal workers
across the border in our car.
- Wait a second.
- Nicky.
He needs our car.
We need the money.
- I saw Elias today.
He's onto us, I mean
he's been onto us.
- Do tell.
Now, he knows no one
local will work with us,
now that Jimmy
Neil is fucked up.
So I want you to keep
an eye on Mr. Hollywood,
make sure he doesn't
do anything stupid.
- Don't you worry none.
First time that greenhorn
steps on his dick,
I'll take him to the woodshed.
- You take him,
I'll take the wife.
- Figures.
- It's not too late to back out.
I know we could find
something tomorrow.
- Nicky.
There isn't gonna be a tomorrow.
We got five days
to get to Pomona.
After tonight, we'll
be halfway there.
- You hold the fort
down while I'm gone.
- Come home safe, ya hear?
- (laughs) Hey, we'll be fine.
I promise.
Okay?
(tense music)
(gentle music)
- Elias, Elias, Elias.
Marco-fucking-Polo. (laughs)
Never catch me.
- [TV Announcer]
You've won the game.
- And you, Tyler, have won a
fabulous furnished dream house
in Hollywood, California.
- Want a cigarette?
- Thanks, don't smoke.
- [Luke] Thought all you
tough cowboys smoked, huh?
Bet you don't even own
a horse, do ya, hm.
- [Dean] Would it help
if I said yee-haw for ya?
(both laugh)
You think the West is dead
just 'cause don't look like
a John Wayne movie anymore.
Well, it ain't dead.
It's just updated. (laughs)
That's right.
We traded our horses
in for pickup trucks.
- And your cattle for
illegal aliens, huh?
- That's right. (laughs)
- Damn, what is
taking so long, Dean?
- Look Luke, if you're
gonna do this job
you gotta learn some patience.
Why don't you go
relieve Webb on lookout.
Give you something to do.
- That's the Rio Grande?
- Yep.
- That's the only thing
that separates Mexico
from the United States?
- Makes it easy
to tell 'em apart.
- Yeah, but it's so small.
I mean, doesn't even look
like a real boundary.
- It ain't.
- Yeah but the Rio Grande,
it's suppose to be--
- Hey, hey, they're here.
Let's tell Dean our
guests have arrived.
- [Hilario] Dean?
- [Dean] Hilario.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Dean, his liver's doin'
much better, thank you.
You crazy son of a bitch.
You know what?
I have something for you.
- Damn well oughta. I
got something' for you.
- Yeah?
(both laugh)
Brought tequila.
- Oh yeah.
Here's something for your
father while he's recovering.
He's a Merle Haggard fan, right?
- Yeah.
"Lonesome Fugitive."
This is, this is hard
to find. Gracias.
- (speaking in
foreign language).
All the way from
Tuxtla. (laughs)
- Good, they look big
enough to do the work.
Tell Sanchez to get 'em
in the vehicles fast.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Webb.
(speaking in foreign language)
(tense music)
- Luke.
- Huh?
- Luke, come on, come on.
Forget about it,
somebody else's property.
(baby yawning)
(intense music)
(men shouting)
(slow music)
(men cheering)
- Yeah!
(men laughing)
Go long!
(men cheering)
(gun fires)
Yeah!
Let me ask you something.
Now that it's all
over, how do you feel?
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
- Tired.
Glad I'm not dead.
- That's right, that's right.
You're actually aware
that you're alive!
Now how many times in life
you actually feel that?
How many times you
actually feel that?
- Thanks for the beer.
(men laughs)
- Come on Luke, you're
out in the desert.
Freezing cold, scared of the
aliens, scared of the cops,
hell, you're probably
even scared of me.
But you walked through the
Valley of the Shadow of Death
and you made it!
You're a renegade!
You got cajones of steel!
You feel invincible
now, don't ya?
Don't ya?
Come on.
- More exhausted, punch drunk.
(men laughing)
- All right now, whatever
you wanna call it.
Whatever you wanna call it.
Fact is there you are.
Paid in full for
services rendered.
Now we got another
job tomorrow night,
that'll be another $500.
It should take you to
Hollywood or California.
Where the hell you
going, same thing, right?
- It's all the same.
- What's it going to be?
What's it going to be?
- All right, all right, deal.
(men cheer)
- Buddy, give him a spanking.
Give him a spanking.
- You did it, race car!
- You did it! You did it!
- This boy's a class act.
Now, listen we're gonna go
over, get something to eat
at the diner.
You're welcome to join.
We got a lot more beer.
- I got a wife and
kid waiting for me.
- Ain't that a shame.
- We're gonna have
a few more beers.
We'll get something to eat.
Oh, tequila.
You want some tequila?
- I'll see you later.
- You drive safely now.
You're a renegade!
You got cajones of steel!
(upbeat music)
- Luke?
- Shh. Everything's
fine, go back to sleep.
- Thank God.
Honey?
- Yeah?
- If you want I'll drive
first this morning.
- I can't go yet.
- Hm?
- I got one more run to do.
- What do you mean?
- It'll take us all
the way to Ponoma.
(soft music)
- Morning.
You're still here.
Didn't know whether y'all
we're gonna stop here
before you got back on the
road to Hollywood. (laughs)
- Well, that's just it.
Can't really get
to Hollywood yet.
We lost all our travel money
and we don't have enough
to make it to California,
we're in a little trouble.
I know you said the pay was
bad but I'm asking again,
I need a job, maybe you can ask
the owner, I'll do anything,
I'll work in the kitchen.
I'll chop potatoes,
I'll clean the bathroom.
- Hon, hon, don't,
don't, besides, only
Mexicans work here.
All right, have you
ever had any experience
working in a restaurant before?
Well, let me see what I can
do, Connie, can she work here,
sure, heck, why not?
Come on.
I own this dream.
- Ta-da! (laughs)
How do I look?
- Like you're wearing
a waitress uniform.
Come on, we'll feed
you some breakfast.
- So, the Texan says to the
Frenchman right, he says,
"Now if God had
intended a Texan to ski,
"he'd of made bullshit white."
(men laughing)
Connie, my
compliments, your taste
in the service is improving.
- Now don't you
start on her, Dean.
She don't know you like I do.
- Weren't you even
gonna say hi, Nicole?
- I prefer not to, I'd
rather you kept out
of my life and Luke's.
- Honey, what are you doing
in that waitress uniform?
I thought y'all
were leaving town.
- Don't mess with me, Dean.
- Hey baby.
I'm just trying to make
your dreams come true.
It's what I do.
I make people's
dreams come true.
If it were up to me, you
wouldn't have to work a day
in your life.
Unless you wanted to.
- Well, I want to.
I'll do whatever I can
to get Luke away from you
and this town.
- No one put a gun to his head.
Luke's just an enterprising man.
(men laughing)
- Pardon me miss, is
that your El Camino
parked out front
with Michigan plates?
- Yes.
Were you down driving
by the river last night?
- Now Elias, are you telling
me a family of Yankee tourists
can't come all the way down
to Texas without visiting
the Rio Grande without
being under your suspicions?
I mean, is nobody safe?
- I was in the
motel with my baby.
- Well, that's real strange
'cause there's Rio Grande dirt
all over your car.
- Now, she didn't say she
didn't go down the river,
did you hear her say she
didn't go down the river.
She said she didn't go down
to the river last night.
Now, honestly Elias, lots
of tourists come down here
to see the Rio Grande.
That's what they
come down here for.
- Yep.
- Hon, you will
excuse my ignorance
but it's the first time
I ever saw a tourist
in a waitress uniform.
Now, to the best of
your recollection,
what time did you take your
little sightseeing tour
down by the river last night.
- Listen to what you're saying.
I mean, he already runs
one guy off the road,
now he's gunning for
an innocent woman.
Elias, this town's
gonna file a complaint
with the Border Control
if you don't back off.
- You know, there's a
nasty echo in this place.
I wanna thank you
for your cooperation.
And I'm sure if I
need your help again,
you'll do everything
you can, won't ya?
- Yes.
- That's a good girl.
Y'all outta get out
and enjoy some of that
beautiful Texas sunshine today.
Weather man says it's
going to be a beaut.
- Thank you.
- My pleasure.
- Where have you been?
- Connie gave me a job
waitressing at the diner.
I was gonna call
you but we got busy.
- [Luke] I told you that I
was gonna take care of us.
- I don't want you risking your
life for a few lousy bucks.
- Nicky, it's more
than a few bucks!
What are we gonna do?
Live off your tips?
If we don't go to
California, I lose the job.
- That cop I told you about,
he knows what's going on.
He saw the dirt on our car and
he was asking me questions.
- What did you tell him?
- Dean was there.
He said that we were tourists
sightseeing down at the river.
- Yeah.
Yeah, Dean's a clever one, huh?
It's fortunate how
he's always around.
- You need to get another job.
- Dean, you think we oughta
hang low for a while?
- What's on your mind, Webb?
- Jimmy Neil.
Worried about Elias.
- Worried about old Elias?
Jimmy Neil got careless.
He slipped up.
Hey.
Elias couldn't find his dick
if he were playing with it.
- Can always go back to Detroit.
- No.
I've spent my entire
life dreaming of working
on the stock car circuit.
Every day for four
years I went to work
on that assembly line
wondering what the
hell I was doing there.
And when it closed down, I
spent another eight months
wishing I had any job at all.
I want my son to be proud of me.
(gentle music)
(tense music)
- Hey, look alive, Yankee boy.
Got to stay alert.
- Where'd you get
Yankee boy from?
I lived in Detroit,
not New England.
- Far as I'm concerned,
anyone born north
of the Mason-Dixon
line's still a Yankee.
- How long have
you lived in Texas?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, how long have
you lived in Texas?
- I've never been anywhere
in my life but Texas.
Never wanted to be.
- So, why do you smuggle?
I mean, you own your
own gas station,
you don't need the money.
- I do it for the
same reason you do it.
Because I can.
- I'm doing it because my
wife and I need the money.
You get that?
- Okay.
How long you been married?
- Three years.
Known each other
since junior high.
- You a lucky man.
Beautiful wife, nice kid.
What the hell you
wanna go to LA for?
- Nicky and I have always
wanted to go to California.
I finally got a job there.
It makes her happy.
- Yeah, I guess I'd do the
same thing to hold onto
a woman like that.
- Yeah.
That's why I'm not
letting her go.
- (whistles) Hey, look
alive. They're coming.
- Hilario, I'm gonna
buy you a damn watch
so you show up on time.
- I ought to get you a hammock
so you can learn
to relax, amigo.
- Relax? Wait a minute?
What's going on?
What the hell is going on.
Cutting corners, asshole?
Get off.
What is this bullshit?
What kind of shit
you trying to run?
- I can explain.
- Women and children?
Jesus Christ, you got
any fucking cripples?
You got any cripples?
- No, all right, my brother
sent me a bus from Guatemala.
- I need mestizos, farm workers
on a goddamn bus, tonight!
What am I supposed to
tell this guy, huh?
Just hang out in Texas while
we get our shit together?
- Hey, hey, hey, just
calm down, all right?
My brother sent me a
bus from Guatemala.
They came a few days early,
what do you want me to do?
All you gotta do is
take 'em off my hands.
- Fuck your goddamn
brother-in-law!
- Fuck your goddam--
- Drop the goddamn gun, Sanchez.
- Just calm down, huh?
All right, all right, all right.
- Never fuckin'
pull a gun on me.
I'll blow your goddamn head off.
- All right, all right.
- Want me to blow
your goddamn head off?
What do you want?
(speaking in foreign language)
Let me tell you something.
I'm gonna explain it clearly,
and I've explained
it to you before.
Elias has been on my ass.
Ever since Jimmy Neil fucked up.
It's too hot right now,
this was suppose to be
the last goddamn run.
You leave that fucking gun.
Hey, drop your fucking gun!
- Sanchez, drop
your goddamn gun!
Put that up your ass!
Like a fucking pogo stick.
(speaking in foreign language)
- All right, just relax, okay.
- I'm relaxed.
- All right, now look.
Man, we're desperate.
And they need to go.
I can't handle them
right now and you owe me.
But you're gonna
be taken care of.
- Give me the damn
money. All right.
Let's move 'em out of here.
Let's move 'em out of here.
Move 'em. Come on.
Come on!
(speaking in foreign language)
Come on.
- I'll get your
mestizos tomorrow, okay?
- Tomorrow,
motherfucker, tomorrow.
Let's move it, come on!
(speaking in foreign language)
(group shouting)
Move it! Come on!
(baby crying)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hey, it's gonna be all right.
Hey, be careful, get off her!
Hey, come on now!
Don't, she's got
a baby, goddammit!
Get away!
(baby screaming)
(speaking in foreign language)
Easy, hey.
(people yelling)
- Come on!
- Careful! He's an old man!
(speaking in foreign language)
- Damn, I thought we'd never
get them on that damn train.
- Those Guatemalans,
what are you?
- They're going to Houston,
don't worry about it.
- This is wrong, you know that.
- They'll be fine.
What you worried about?
- It's been a real
experience working with you.
- What are you talking about?
- Look, I appreciate
all you've done.
But Nicky's waiting for me.
We got to get on the
road first thing.
So, if you can just give
me my money I'll get going.
- Like hell you will.
- What?
- You heard Hilario.
We've got the last group
of Mexicans tomorrow night.
I'm gonna need you.
- You and I agreed to tonight.
- No, no, no, see.
That's not what we agreed.
What we agreed to is
that you would help
with this last
group of mestizos.
All right, ain't
my fault they late.
Job ain't finished yet.
- That wasn't the deal.
Give me my fucking money.
- (laughs) Can you
believe this guy?
All right, all right.
Take it easy.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
On account of our
little misunderstanding,
I'll give you the $500 I
owe you plus a $500 bonus
just for being you.
Should be enough to
take you to Hollywood
in grand old style.
- Dean, I need that
fucking money right now.
Do you understand me?
- You don't understand.
I ain't asking. You understand?
Now, if you don't help us
with this last group of
mestizos tomorrow night
then you and that precious
little family of yours
will never leave this town.
(laughs) Don't be so sad.
I can't stand it
when you're sad.
All right, come on now.
You with me?
Now, you do the job tomorrow
and we're outta there.
Okay, now have a beer.
- Don't make me do this, Dean.
- Tomorrow night, the
job's finished, all right?
Now have a damn beer.
Come on, it's party time.
(metal clanks)
Now that's a waste
of a perfectly fine
beer. Come on, Luke.
(birds chirping)
(slow music)
Morning, Ms. Nicole.
If I known you was working,
I'd waited to order.
- Nicky take these
pies over to table six.
- Connie, did you
hear what happened?
They found a bunch of illegals
locked in a box car last night.
The box car was filled
with pesticides.
- What happened to them?
- The Border Control took them
to the hospital for observation.
(glass breaking)
What got into her?
- Now, Nicole,
don't go away mad.
Can't stand to see people mad.
- This is between
me and my husband.
- Oh now normally
I like to stay out
of these marital disputes
but this does concern me.
Don't judge us too harshly.
- It's too late for that.
- Luke didn't know,
hell I didn't know.
Thought we was
doin' 'em a favor.
- You call that a favor?
Locking up families in a
box car full of pesticides?
- Well, most folks would've just
left them out in the desert.
- Oh, that's suppose
to make me feel better?
You almost killed those
people and Luke helped.
- Nothing happened,
nobody got hurt.
- Get out of my way.
- You're not going
anywhere, Miss Nicole.
Didn't Luke tell ya?
He ain't fulfilled his
part of the deal yet.
- He won't do it, we're leaving.
- Suit yourself.
I sure would like
to see you tomorrow.
- Hey, how's my girl?
Did you forget something.
- The box car you
locked those people in
was filled with pesticides.
- I don't understand, Dean
said they were gonna be fine.
Nicky, he swore to me they
were on a train to Houston.
- Listen to me, you're gonna
help me pack the car now
and we're gonna get as far
away from here as we can.
We'll drive all
night if we have to.
- He didn't pay me, we
don't have any money!
- I don't care, Luke, we're
getting out of here now.
- Look out the window.
- So what, we're prisoners now?
Is this how you're
gonna take care of us?
I'm going to the police.
- And what are you
gonna tell them? Huh?
What are you gonna
tell them, Nicky?
My husband's smuggling illegals?
Do you want me to go to prison?
Is that it?
Nicky, all those illegal
aliens are trying to do
is make a better life for
themselves and their families.
That's all I'm
trying to do for us.
- Maybe I can't stop you
from hurting yourself,
but I can stop you from
hurting me and Tyler.
We're leaving,
it's for the best.
- It's for the best?
Don't tear my family apart
and try and tell me
it's for the best.
Don't!
- Afternoon.
Look at those thunder heads.
Weather man said it's
gonna be a real ass kicker.
- Gonna be a hell of a
night for a crossing.
- Well, at least Elias and
his boys won't expect us
to try nothin'.
- Oh yeah, what do
you make of that?
- Son, I realize you're
not from these parts
so I don't expect you to
know every little thing
that's going on around here.
But you have a real
nice little family
and I sure would hate
to seem 'em get hurt.
- I'm not sure I know
what you're talking about.
Is there a problem, officer?
- Do you know what the
Navajos call a coyote?
A trickster.
You see, to the Indians,
a coyote is a deceiver.
Someone who not only steals
from you but loves doing it.
Just a little something
for you to bear in mind.
- Why are you telling me this?
- Your family needs you.
You need them. Think about it.
- I don't need you to tell me
how to take care of my family.
I'm not doing anything
wrong, you hear?
- Good. I'm glad to hear that.
You have a nice day.
- This can't be good.
- Elias already saw--
- He already suspects us.
- Well, so what, you don't
think he's gonna turn us in.
- Let's hope for Nicky's
sake he ain't that stupid.
- Guess we're about to find out.
- What's up with you, boy,
look like you just saw
Hank William's ghost.
- We need to talk about this.
I can't do this tonight.
- Come on.
Now, Luke, I'm just as
heartbroke as you are
about those folks
in the box car.
But we're innocent.
How was I suppose to
know there was any poison
in that box car?
- You know what? I
don't believe you.
If I do this run tonight,
my wife is gonna leave me.
You hear me?
- Yeah but Luke,
you got the car.
- What?
Are you fucking crazy?
She'll take the bus, Dean.
You don't know her.
She sets her mind to
something, that's it.
I'm not gonna do
this run tonight.
- I understand, 'course, I
don't gotta be a family man
to understand the
situation you're in.
I'll take of your wife.
- Leave us the fuck alone!
(gun clicks)
- You're driving. Webb,
follow us in the truck.
(intense music)
(thunder rumbling)
Hey Webb, you wanna do
a little babysitting?
- Oh yeah.
Come on now, Luke!
You be back real soon now, Dean.
(knocking)
Ah ah ah.
- How's my hair?
- Who is it?
- It's Dean.
Evening, Miss Nicole.
- What do you want?
- Luke asked me to stop by.
(baby crying)
I know you've endured
a lot on this trip.
- No you don't know.
- Let me get right to the point.
Luke's coming with us tonight.
But I wanna make it up to you.
I'll give you solemn promise
that this is the
absolute last time.
- You act like Luke's
one of your illegals
that you just haggle
over for money.
- Everything comes with
a price, Miss Nicole.
Including your trip Hollywood.
- How 'bout openin' up, huh?
How 'bout openin' up?
Come on, Luke.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- You're a very special
woman, Miss Nicole.
Let's hope Luke knows how
lucky he is to have you.
- Get out.
- Oh, that's nice.
You know Nicky,
she's a lucky gal.
You got a pretty mouth.
- Here we go.
- Yeah.
- Look forward to
doing it again.
You girls have a good time?
- Oh, we're having a big time.
Aren't we Luke. We're
having a big time.
- I want you to go
in, say goodbye, keep
it short and sweet,
or we're coming in.
- Be back real soon, yeah.
- Nicky, I'm so sorry.
You're still leaving?
- Unless you wanna
drive away right now.
Dean's waiting outside.
Do you understand?
I have no choice.
Nicky, this is gonna work out.
You have to believe me.
We'll leave in the morning.
- That's a boy knows
how to follow orders.
Slow down now, we're not riding
in this one, it's too hot.
You're driving in one of
Webb's old trucks tonight.
(car engine starts)
(Nicky sniffs)
- Hi, Connie.
- It's late, is something wrong?
- No, I just thought
that I'd drop by
to have a cup of coffee.
- Think I'll join ya.
(Nicky crying)
I'm worried about that young
waitress and her family.
She was practically
in tears yesterday.
- Yeah, that sweet little gal's
husband has gotten himself
tangled up with Dean.
- They're good people, Elias.
- We'll see about that.
- Why do you always have
to be so hard on folks?
You always push everyone away.
- Like you?
- I found out what it's like
to make a mistake around you.
- Hon, that young boy's
not just making a mistake,
he's breaking the law.
(Nicky cries)
♪ When you run
♪ Out of places to hide
♪ When you run
- Unit 208, this is 214
♪ From what's rolling aside
(Elias sighs)
♪ Walk with me, I'll
take you to the fire ♪
- Duty calls.
♪ Walk with me, I'll
never let you down ♪
(thunder rumbles)
- Well now, Luke, saw you
talking to Elias today.
Thought you might be
cutting a deal or something.
- Are you guys getting paranoid?
- I'm just saying it would
be an awful nasty night
for Nicky and that
little kid of yours
if you was to sell us out.
- You know what?
I've heard enough
about my wife from you.
Let's just finish the
job we came here to do,
so I can take my family and
get the fuck out of here.
- Good, if there's no problem,
we won't bring Nicky into this.
(lighter clicks)
- No smoking.
I said, put the
goddamn cigarette out.
- Come on girls, don't make
me pull this truck over.
- It is pulled over!
- Then shut up.
(thunder rumbles)
- Think it's Hilario?
- If it is, it's the
first time in memory,
he's ever showed up on time.
- Webb, think maybe
it's a coyote?
I mean, a real one.
- Now, if you were a dog,
would you be out on
a night like this?
- Right, yeah, I don't
know what I was thinking.
Be that stupid, you'd
have to be human, right?
- You gotta get your
mind right, Luke.
(all laugh)
- Hey Luke, why don't
you got check it out?
- Why don't you go
check it out, Dean, hm?
- (laughs) 'Cause this
ain't a democracy.
And even if it was,
Webb would vote with me.
Go check it out.
- What do you think, guys?
Maybe I should have a gun?
- I don't have a spare.
You got a spare?
- No.
- We don't have a spare.
Don't want you shooting
yourself in the foot.
Don't want you shooting
the merchandise either.
Now, go check it the fuck out.
(tense music)
(knocking)
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I wanted to bring you this,
didn't know if you'd be here.
- Calm down, calm down.
Let me have the baby.
Come on, come on.
(Nicky crying)
What's the matter?
- I'm leaving.
Tyler and I are leaving.
Luke, we were desperate,
we lost all our money.
- And Dean gave him work.
(Nicky cries)
Shh shh.
Elias told me.
Hold on.
Here.
Don't leave your husband.
He's a good husband
and he loves you.
Maybe you'll find your
dream in California
or maybe you won't.
But don't get stuck
her on the borderline,
you go find out and
you take him with you.
He needs you.
Men aren't strong like us.
Strong.
(gentle music)
It's gonna be okay.
Look at him.
- Thank you.
What about you, Connie?
- I take my comfort
where I can find it.
(thunder rumbles)
(coyote howling)
- That's him.
- About time.
- Let's go.
- All right, this is
it, let's go get 'em.
(intense music)
(men whispering)
- What did I tell
you, my friend?
Hilario's a man of his word.
- Give me the money.
- Don't spend it all
in one place, amigo.
- Come on.
(tense music)
(shouting in foreign language)
- Freeze, this is the
Texas Border Control!
You are all under arrest!
Put your hands in the air
where we can see them.
Now!
(guns firing)
(tense rock music)
(guns banging)
- Where the hell is Luke?
- I told you that
dog sold us out.
Fucking race car.
(man screaming)
- Let's get out
of here. Come on!
(guns firing)
Come on!
(guns firing)
Fuck you!
(car tires squealing)
(guns firing)
(tense music)
- Damn Elias!
- What the hell we
gonna do now, huh?
That Luke sold us out.
I told he was no good, Dean.
The hell we gonna do now?
- I lived my whole
life in this town.
Now, I gotta slink
away into the night
like a mangy coyote.
All for Mr. Hollywood.
- Told ya!
(guns firing)
(tires squealing)
The hell are you doing?
- I'm not leaving till
I settle this score.
- Dean, we gotta get
the hell outta here!
- We got the hell out of here
when I say we get
the hell out of here.
(tires squealing)
(car tires squealing)
What in the heck are you doing?
- I'm getting ready.
- Getting ready for what?
You what, you think she's
got an army at the motel?
- Gotta be prepared, Dean.
- What are you, a
fucking boy scout?
Give me a .38.
- No, no, I hate automatics,
they always jam on me,
I wanna use the .38.
- I'll use the 38,
give me the Luger.
The Luger!
- Actually now that
you mentioned it,
I believe I could
use the automatic.
You use the .38.
(intense music)
(sirens wail)
Yeah, yeah, motherfucker.
- Dean?
- What?
- This automatic's creeping
me out, I wanna use a .38.
- Fine, you use the .38.
Just give me a fucking gun!
(knocking)
- Where's Luke?
- Darling, Nicole, we
got a little problem,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
It's real bad.
Luke's hurting.
He's bleeding, he's bleeding
a lot in the head area.
I got him over at the garage.
He's asking for ya.
- Why didn't you take
him to the hospital?
- Now, you know we can't.
You know we can't do
that, so let us bring
you over there to him.
- You know what, Dean.
This time she ain't
buying your shit.
(Nicky screams)
Drop it or I'll
drop you. Drop it!
- Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
- Drop it!
- Glad you went first?
- Put it down!
- What did you do with
Luke, you said he was hurt!
- Ah, shut up!
(Nicky screams)
I lied, I lied!
Listen, Nicky, okay,
your husband sold us out.
He betrayed us to
Elias for money.
Now I'm gonna take you down to
the river and make you drink.
Oh, great!
- Get the hell out of
here. Grab the kid!
- Tyler! Tyler! Tyler!
- [Webb] Whores like
you always think
you're gonna get
your own fucking way!
- My baby! You animals! My baby!
- Bitch!
- My baby.
Please, leave my baby.
(baby screaming)
Tyler!
- What'd you think was
gonna happen, Nicky, huh?
Think you were just
gonna walk away?
(baby crying)
- Tyler!
Please, just leave my baby.
You take me, just leave my baby.
Leave my baby.
- Don't go getting
all motherly on me.
Get!
(Tyler crying)
- I got it on channel three.
I got it on channel three.
Where's the remote control?
- Please!
- How come you ain't
got a remote control?
- [Nicky] Tyler, Tyler! (crying)
- There's gotta be
civilized people watching,
how come you ain't
go no remote control?
(items crashing)
You have a whole place here
without a friggin'
remote control!
God dammit!
(Dean shouting)
(glass crashing)
- Tyler, Tyler!
(baby crying)
Move away from me
or I'll kill you.
- [Webb] Fucking whore!
- Nicky!
(guns firing)
(slow, tense music)
(Nicky screaming)
- What you running from, girl?
Just looking for the
right moment to propose.
Get a farm, have
a couple chickens.
- What the hell kind of mess
you got yourself into now, boy?
(Nicky whimpering)
- They got a nice little
chapel just north of here.
Elvis impersonators
and everything.
(Nicky screams)
Oh, you know you
want me to catch ya.
- [Elias] Come on!
- Now if you just keep running,
you're gonna get tired,
and if you get tired, you're
gonna just get all cranky.
(tense music)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
(Dean laughs)
(gun fires)
(Dean laughs)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
- Goddamn!
- This one's for Webb, you
ass-licking' cocksucker.
(gun fires)
(Elias grunts)
Yankee boy. (laughs)
(gun fires)
(Dean grunts)
(Dean groans)
(gun fires)
(Dean screams)
(Dean laughs)
- Luke?
Shh shh, it's all
right. It's all right.
(Tyler crying)
- It's okay.
(soft music)
Are you okay?
(Elias groans)
- Are you gonna be all right?
- I want you to take your
little family out and put 'em
in that car.
- Yeah.
- Drive north up to I-10 West
and just don't look
back, you understand?
Now go on.
Wait a minute. I almost forgot.
There's a bounty on
coyotes in Texas.
Now get out of here.
Get on out of here.
- Thank you.
- Send me a picture or
postcard from Hollywood.
- Ponoma.
- Whatever.
♪ Out of daylight
♪ Out of irons
♪ Out of the flatlands
♪ I ran like the rain
♪ Into the freedom
♪ That I took as a given
- Wow. Some cow.
♪ Not knowing I carry
♪ Art in my brain
- [Luke] No more roadside
attractions, okay?
♪ Like a whistle
♪ To a blind dog
♪ Like each station
♪ Of the Nazarene
♪ She's been branded
♪ Into my memory
♪ Scarlet mouth
♪ And black blue jeans
♪ Passing billboards
♪ Passing strip lights
♪ Seeing that big jet
♪ Black the sun on the wing
♪ Ain't that tall, man
♪ To ride out that landscape
♪ Where nothing is sacred
♪ And nothing profane
♪ Like a whistle
♪ To a blind dog
♪ Like each station
♪ Of the Nazarene
♪ She's been branded
♪ Into my memory
♪ Scarlet mouth
♪ And black blue jeans
♪ Out of breath now
♪ Under starlight
♪ I stood and I stared out
♪ Across the great plains
(majestic music)
You know, a lot of controversy
concerning the closing
of the automobile
plants around here.
We'd like to talk about it
so let's take a phone call.
Second caller, Holly,
from Lansing, Michigan.
You're on WFM.
- [Holly] Yeah, hi,
Mark, this is Holly.
- [Mark] Hey.
- [Girl] Thank you.
- For what?
- For taking the scenic
route to California.
For giving Tyler
his first vacation.
- [Luke] Well, you're welcome,
but I don't know if
I'd call it a vacation.
- [Nicky] What do you mean?
According to this map
we're almost to Utopia.
Look, there it is. (laughs)
See, what did I tell ya?
Stick with me, baby, we're
goin' places. (laughs)
- Welcome to Utopia, Ohio,
the Dancing Pig capital
of the world.
(gentle music)
(upbeat music)
- [Radio] Cloudy
tonight, increased
cloudiness, rainstorms.
Another wet, rainy day.
- When we get to Hollywood--
- Pomona, we're goin'
to Pomona, remember?
- Pomona.
Can we have one of
those jungle bedrooms
like Elvis had in Graceland?
- Sure.
- How'd I get so lucky?
- What do you mean?
- I mean you really would
let me have a jungle bedroom.
- Yeah, why not.
- I'm just lucky, that's all.
Luke?
Are you sure you're
not gonna miss Detroit?
- Not as long as I
have you and Tyler.
(gentle music)
- [Radio] It's the updated
farmer's report for Oklahoma
and the surrounding state.
(upbeat music)
(baby coos)
- It's El Diablo the bull,
the world's largest cow.
- I swear to God, this has
gotta be the radioactive state.
Everything is five times as
large as it is everywhere else.
- We gotta go.
- All right, where is it?
- It's right on
the Mexican border.
Think of it,
margaritas, fiestas.
(speaks in foreign language)
- Does that mean give me a kiss?
- Uh huh.
(upbeat rock music)
- Easy money back
'ere, boy. Easy money.
♪ My truck is out there, man
♪ I give it all I can
- Ah...
(sirens wail)
Be still.
Bitch.
You alive?
♪ There's just too
many miles to go ♪
♪ This life is so barren and
this coffee got me starin' ♪
♪ Straight down the
center of the road ♪
- Come on, damn it.
♪ Push this right
down the road ♪
(tires squealing)
Goddammit!
(glass shattering)
- Call in a 10-47, tell
'em we've got Jimmy Neil
and a half dozen illegals
out here splattered
all over the road.
- 10-4, Captain.
- Good evening, folks.
- Good evening officer.
- [Elias] Sorry for
the inconvenience,
you can see we've got
a problem out here.
What do you got in the back?
- Those are our belongings.
We're moving to California.
- Officer, please,
the baby's sleeping.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Tell you what folks, you
can proceed on very slowly
and stay as far left as you can.
Be prepared to stop.
Go head on now.
(upbeat music)
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Could you fill it up please?
- Sure enough, that's
what we're here for.
- Excuse me, is there a
lady's room around here?
- Yes, ma'am.
Right this way.
- Tyler. Look at that. (gasps)
Daddy will be right back.
- Hey, how much are these?
- For you, free for the asking.
- Thanks.
- Hang on, Tyler.
(intense music)
- You all set?
- Yeah, let's go.
- 16 on the nose.
- Thanks a lot.
- Sure.
- Nikki, can you pay?
- Oh, yeah.
Luke, can you come here, please?
- What's the matter?
- The money, it's gone.
- What do you mean?
- It was in my
bag and it's gone.
I have this 20 that I
keep in the side pocket
but that's it.
- Well, it's gotta
be here, right?
- I paid the bill at
the motel this morning,
it must've fallen out.
- Maybe it's in one
of those suitcases?
- I paid the bill after
we'd already packed.
It's not here.
- Everything all right?
- Yeah, everything's fine.
Give me the 20.
Thank you.
- [Man] Thank you.
So, where y'all headed
on such a fine morning?
- West, actually,
one tank of gas west.
- California.
- Luke got a job on a
stock car racing team.
- Stock car racing team?
Where'd you get a job like that?
- Guess I just got lucky.
- Yeah, well, we won't be
so lucky if we don't get
to Hollywood on Monday.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
(upbeat music)
- Why don't we call the
hotel, maybe they found it.
- It's not the kind of place
that holds lost
money for anyone.
- I know, I just, I
don't know what the hell
we're gonna do.
- What are we gonna do?
We already called
everyone we know.
There's no one else
we can borrow from.
- Nicky.
Hey, hey, Nicky.
Nicky.
Hey, we've been
through worse, right?
Huh?
Hey, trust me.
♪ Homeward, angel
♪ It's time to go
♪ For you can't stay
♪ Around here any more
♪ I loved you so long
(baby crying)
♪ Go homeward, angel
♪ The Devil's got my heart
- Shh shh, Tyler.
- You want more coffee, hon?
- Let's get that
table near the front.
♪ You're here with me
- Good morning.
Hi there little guy.
Do y'all wanna see menus
or you just want the usual
like everybody else?
- I don't know, just
some coffee, thanks.
Actually, how much for a donut?
- They're 40 apiece.
- Can we get one
of those, please?
- And that's it?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
- [Waitress] I think I can
handle that little guy.
- You're not eating?
- You eat.
You know I'm gonna have
to go and look for a job.
- Gotta eat something.
- No, we gotta get
back on the road.
♪ From here hold on
- This should cover you
and Tyler while I'm gone.
- I've gotta get
him some diapers
or we're gonna have
a real problem.
♪ Devil's got my heart
(coins clattering)
- That's all of it.
- Why don't we just go with you?
- Probably be easier
if you didn't.
Gonna wish me luck?
- Luck.
Say good luck to daddy. (laughs)
Don't eat the money,
that's all that we have.
♪ Any more
♪ Homeward, angel
(dog barking)
(tense music)
(sign creaking)
- Howdy. Back for more gas?
- Sorry to bother you guys.
- What's up?
- Just wondering if you
had any extra work here?
- Thought you were on
your way to California.
- Oh, I am.
We had a change of
plans, you know?
You know, I'm really
good with cars.
Four years on the
line back in Detroit.
- Is that right?
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- Except, you know the
people in these parts,
they could balance the
tires on their strollers
'fore they could walk.
- Got to around here.
- Yeah.
Well, they can fix 'em,
but I can build 'em.
- Well, you could be Henry Ford,
people still gonna
fix their own.
- There's nothing I
can do around here?
I mean, I'll pump
gas, I'll fix flats.
I mean, I'll sweep
up if you want me to.
It's just that...
Never mind.
- No, what, what?
You got what?
- I got a family I
have to take care of.
I just need a couple day's work.
That's all I'm asking for.
- Now, I thought you was
heading to California
to be a big time
race car driver.
- No, no, no, no, you
weren't listening right.
He said he was a
mechanic, not the driver.
They leave the driving to
the professionals, right?
Sorry, I don't have
nothing for ya.
Now the tourist season's over.
You might have more
luck in San Antone.
- Thanks for the tip.
♪ I used to be an angel
♪ Now I am so mean
♪ Rude and unkind
♪ Bitter and frequently fool
♪ I never
- [Waitress] Hey there,
it's been a while,
what would you like?
♪ In the way you dream of me
♪ Like the harvest is in
♪ It seems that for some
- Well, if it ain't the
great bounty hunter himself.
Hope you don't scare
off the help, Elias,
That way we'll never get to eat.
- Well, excuse me, Mr. Kane,
but I came in here for
the biscuits and gravy.
Not a bowl full
of your bullshit.
Whoa, excuse me, darling.
- I'm sorry, Sheriff.
- I'm only your sheriff
if you're not an American.
Captain Elias,
Texas Border Patrol.
Hey buddy.
Excuse me.
At your service anyhow.
♪ You look like you're again
- Oh, what's all this?
It must be some mistake,
I didn't order this.
- Now, don't say anything,
just relax and enjoy
a little Texas hospitality.
- But I can't pay for this.
- Don't worry, hon, I'm
just gonna charge you
for the donut and coffee.
- Thank you.
♪ And then you'll see
- Ma'am, this is so nice and
it's really too generous.
Can I work it off in the
kitchen or something?
- That's real sweet.
But there's no point working
here when the pay's so low
an ant wouldn't call
it pocket change.
- Well anyway, I'm Nicky.
Sorry. (laughs)
- It's a pleasure, Nicky.
People call me Connie.
- Good morning, Connie.
- Morning, Elias.
- You look real good today.
- Elias, Jimmy Neil was a
popular boy around here.
I hear he's gonna be
drinking out a straw
the rest of his life.
You can't expect people
to take kindly to you
treating him like that.
- With all due respect, Kane,
Jimmy Neil was evading arrest
with a truck full if illegals.
- Elias.
Kane, drink your cola.
Don't you mind Elias none.
He just lives by
them damn law books.
His daddy got sent
to Brownsville
when he was eight
years old for life.
That boy was so ashamed,
he never went to
see his daddy once.
- That's so sad.
- It is sad.
That's why he can't
understand that life
is just full of mistakes.
(gentle music)
(children laughing)
- [Luke] Afternoon.
How are ya?
- You from the church?
- No sir, I'm just
looking for some work.
- Don't need any help.
- Can you just give me a chance?
I've been up and down
these roads all day.
My wife and kid are hungry.
We don't even have a
place to sleep tonight.
- You take one step closer,
I'll blow your head off.
- I'm sorry.
♪ Care for me, Angelina
♪ I'll be gone before the
dawn makes its first light ♪
- Connie, Connie, Connie.
You're looking mighty
fine this afternoon.
As a matter of fact I can't
tell which looks sweeter,
you or them corn muffins.
- Knowing you, it'll
be the muffins.
(man laughs)
- I'll just keep it
short and have the usual.
- Well, how 'bout that.
I figured I'd find you in here.
- Elias.
Afternoon, miss.
- Hi.
Now, I thought I saw your
husband out sightseeing earlier.
Figured I'd find you with him.
- My husband isn't
sightseeing, he's job hunting.
- Job hunting.
I thought you all were
going to Hollywood?
I'll bet you're fixin' on
goin' into the movies, right?
I mean, you already
look like a movie star.
- We're only staying
until we have enough money
to be on our way.
- There something
I can do for you?
- Well, as a matter
of fact, there is.
You need to find yourself
a new line of work
before I put you
out of business.
- Forcin' a man to
give up his livelihood,
now that sounds
un-American to me.
Now I've been running' that
service station for 10 years.
Besides I get to meet
all sorts of people.
I'm the kind of person
who likes to meet people.
- Don't get cute with me.
You ain't half as smart as
you think you are, buddy.
I've had a hunch
all along that you
and Jimmy Neil were coyotes.
Just a matter of time
before I bring the big
hammer down on you.
- Yeah, well, I ain't
roadkill yet, so why don't you
get off my back?
- I bet your daddy's rolling
over in his grave right now.
He'd be real proud
of you, wouldn't he?
♪ My canteens are empty
♪ And no water nearby
- You gotta excuse Elias,
he ain't a bad man.
He just got some peculiar ideas
about how the local
economy works.
- What'd you do to
get him so upset?
- Don't really
matter, now does it?
Now, if you're going to
California, that don't leave you
much time to sample
our fine hospitality.
I mean, here you are.
Deep in the heart of Texas,
I bet you ain't even learn
to two-step yet.
♪ Before the first
light of the dawn ♪
I could teach ya, it ain't hard.
- I don't doubt that.
(both laugh)
No, I've got the baby.
- All right then.
Pleasure to meet you, miss.
- I'm Nicole, people
call me Nicky.
- Well, Ms. Nicole,
my name's Dean,
people refer to me as Dean.
♪ Angelina
- Come on, let's two-step, baby.
Let's show her how
it's done. (laughs)
- You sure it's not hard?
- I promise you.
As a matter of fact, I give
you my money back guarantee.
I'll only show you a few
steps I know you can learn.
Don't be shy, darling.
Come on.
It's real easy.
♪ Nobody loving me
- Two to the left,
one to the right.
That's it. Just follow me.
That's it. That's it.
Fits like a glove, you see that?
Two to the left,
one to the right.
Sure you haven't
done this before?
Come on now.
- (laughs) Yee-haw.
(both laugh)
- You got it.
♪ I don't need?
- You holding out on me now?
You ain't done this before?
- Yee-haw.
- Nicky.
- Hey.
- What are you doing?
- Dean was just teaching
me how to two-step.
- Right, friend,
we're just dancing.
No harm done.
- I'm not your friend.
- (laughs) Whoa, now,
I just killing time
while I was waiting for you.
- You were waiting for me?
- That's right, I got
a proposition for ya.
I can't exactly
talk about it here.
Come on over to the gas
station, I'll explain it to ya.
What, you coming or not?
I got others willing.
- I'll be right back.
- After you.
You work tonight?
- You pay cash?
- Hell yeah.
- Well, what do you need?
- How good a driver are you?
- Now, you heard him
Dean, the ol' boy's headed
to California to be
on a race car team.
- Don't worry about my driving.
- Good, you drive down to
the border, it's simple.
You pick up some passengers,
sort of like a taxi.
- In the middle of the night?
Tell me something.
These passengers of yours,
they have any drugs?
Is that what this is about?
- No drugs.
We love America too much.
- They're illegal.
- Oh, I don't doubt that.
Illegal what?
- Undocumented Mexican
workers, we just slip 'em
over the border,
hook 'em up with
farmers, construction,
that kind of thing.
(Luke sighs)
(dog barks)
- I'm sorry. I'd like to
help you but I can't do it.
- I don't understand you,
Luke, I really don't.
You come to me this
morning looking for work,
I give you a golden opportunity
to do something right
by your family.
Let me ask you a question,
where's that boy of yours
gonna sleep tonight,
in that car?
You have any idea how cold
the desert gets at night?
- Don't you get it?
It's because of them
I can't do this.
This is dangerous, Dean.
- Dangerous?
You're driving half
way across the country
to start a new life.
That sounds like more
of a gamble to me.
I give you $200 cash.
- I need money to get
my wife and my son
a motel room tonight.
- No front money
for a job like this.
- I told you, my
family comes first.
I can't do this, not unless
I know they're taken care of.
- That outta hold you over.
- I want half right now.
- (laughs) This
boy's got a pair.
Damn.
- No, now I'm trusting
you, Yankee boy,
you be back here by
eight o'clock sharp.
Oh hey, Yankee boy,
you need a comfortable
place to stay tonight?
There's a motel on route six.
- [Nicky] Maybe we can still
see that giant cow tomorrow.
- [Luke] Yeah, if I
get out of this alive.
- [Nicky] What do you mean?
What kind of job is this?
- [Luke] You know
what a coyote is?
- A what?
- Coyote.
Dean wants me to help him
smuggle illegal workers
across the border in our car.
- Wait a second.
- Nicky.
He needs our car.
We need the money.
- I saw Elias today.
He's onto us, I mean
he's been onto us.
- Do tell.
Now, he knows no one
local will work with us,
now that Jimmy
Neil is fucked up.
So I want you to keep
an eye on Mr. Hollywood,
make sure he doesn't
do anything stupid.
- Don't you worry none.
First time that greenhorn
steps on his dick,
I'll take him to the woodshed.
- You take him,
I'll take the wife.
- Figures.
- It's not too late to back out.
I know we could find
something tomorrow.
- Nicky.
There isn't gonna be a tomorrow.
We got five days
to get to Pomona.
After tonight, we'll
be halfway there.
- You hold the fort
down while I'm gone.
- Come home safe, ya hear?
- (laughs) Hey, we'll be fine.
I promise.
Okay?
(tense music)
(gentle music)
- Elias, Elias, Elias.
Marco-fucking-Polo. (laughs)
Never catch me.
- [TV Announcer]
You've won the game.
- And you, Tyler, have won a
fabulous furnished dream house
in Hollywood, California.
- Want a cigarette?
- Thanks, don't smoke.
- [Luke] Thought all you
tough cowboys smoked, huh?
Bet you don't even own
a horse, do ya, hm.
- [Dean] Would it help
if I said yee-haw for ya?
(both laugh)
You think the West is dead
just 'cause don't look like
a John Wayne movie anymore.
Well, it ain't dead.
It's just updated. (laughs)
That's right.
We traded our horses
in for pickup trucks.
- And your cattle for
illegal aliens, huh?
- That's right. (laughs)
- Damn, what is
taking so long, Dean?
- Look Luke, if you're
gonna do this job
you gotta learn some patience.
Why don't you go
relieve Webb on lookout.
Give you something to do.
- That's the Rio Grande?
- Yep.
- That's the only thing
that separates Mexico
from the United States?
- Makes it easy
to tell 'em apart.
- Yeah, but it's so small.
I mean, doesn't even look
like a real boundary.
- It ain't.
- Yeah but the Rio Grande,
it's suppose to be--
- Hey, hey, they're here.
Let's tell Dean our
guests have arrived.
- [Hilario] Dean?
- [Dean] Hilario.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Dean, his liver's doin'
much better, thank you.
You crazy son of a bitch.
You know what?
I have something for you.
- Damn well oughta. I
got something' for you.
- Yeah?
(both laugh)
Brought tequila.
- Oh yeah.
Here's something for your
father while he's recovering.
He's a Merle Haggard fan, right?
- Yeah.
"Lonesome Fugitive."
This is, this is hard
to find. Gracias.
- (speaking in
foreign language).
All the way from
Tuxtla. (laughs)
- Good, they look big
enough to do the work.
Tell Sanchez to get 'em
in the vehicles fast.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Webb.
(speaking in foreign language)
(tense music)
- Luke.
- Huh?
- Luke, come on, come on.
Forget about it,
somebody else's property.
(baby yawning)
(intense music)
(men shouting)
(slow music)
(men cheering)
- Yeah!
(men laughing)
Go long!
(men cheering)
(gun fires)
Yeah!
Let me ask you something.
Now that it's all
over, how do you feel?
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
- Tired.
Glad I'm not dead.
- That's right, that's right.
You're actually aware
that you're alive!
Now how many times in life
you actually feel that?
How many times you
actually feel that?
- Thanks for the beer.
(men laughs)
- Come on Luke, you're
out in the desert.
Freezing cold, scared of the
aliens, scared of the cops,
hell, you're probably
even scared of me.
But you walked through the
Valley of the Shadow of Death
and you made it!
You're a renegade!
You got cajones of steel!
You feel invincible
now, don't ya?
Don't ya?
Come on.
- More exhausted, punch drunk.
(men laughing)
- All right now, whatever
you wanna call it.
Whatever you wanna call it.
Fact is there you are.
Paid in full for
services rendered.
Now we got another
job tomorrow night,
that'll be another $500.
It should take you to
Hollywood or California.
Where the hell you
going, same thing, right?
- It's all the same.
- What's it going to be?
What's it going to be?
- All right, all right, deal.
(men cheer)
- Buddy, give him a spanking.
Give him a spanking.
- You did it, race car!
- You did it! You did it!
- This boy's a class act.
Now, listen we're gonna go
over, get something to eat
at the diner.
You're welcome to join.
We got a lot more beer.
- I got a wife and
kid waiting for me.
- Ain't that a shame.
- We're gonna have
a few more beers.
We'll get something to eat.
Oh, tequila.
You want some tequila?
- I'll see you later.
- You drive safely now.
You're a renegade!
You got cajones of steel!
(upbeat music)
- Luke?
- Shh. Everything's
fine, go back to sleep.
- Thank God.
Honey?
- Yeah?
- If you want I'll drive
first this morning.
- I can't go yet.
- Hm?
- I got one more run to do.
- What do you mean?
- It'll take us all
the way to Ponoma.
(soft music)
- Morning.
You're still here.
Didn't know whether y'all
we're gonna stop here
before you got back on the
road to Hollywood. (laughs)
- Well, that's just it.
Can't really get
to Hollywood yet.
We lost all our travel money
and we don't have enough
to make it to California,
we're in a little trouble.
I know you said the pay was
bad but I'm asking again,
I need a job, maybe you can ask
the owner, I'll do anything,
I'll work in the kitchen.
I'll chop potatoes,
I'll clean the bathroom.
- Hon, hon, don't,
don't, besides, only
Mexicans work here.
All right, have you
ever had any experience
working in a restaurant before?
Well, let me see what I can
do, Connie, can she work here,
sure, heck, why not?
Come on.
I own this dream.
- Ta-da! (laughs)
How do I look?
- Like you're wearing
a waitress uniform.
Come on, we'll feed
you some breakfast.
- So, the Texan says to the
Frenchman right, he says,
"Now if God had
intended a Texan to ski,
"he'd of made bullshit white."
(men laughing)
Connie, my
compliments, your taste
in the service is improving.
- Now don't you
start on her, Dean.
She don't know you like I do.
- Weren't you even
gonna say hi, Nicole?
- I prefer not to, I'd
rather you kept out
of my life and Luke's.
- Honey, what are you doing
in that waitress uniform?
I thought y'all
were leaving town.
- Don't mess with me, Dean.
- Hey baby.
I'm just trying to make
your dreams come true.
It's what I do.
I make people's
dreams come true.
If it were up to me, you
wouldn't have to work a day
in your life.
Unless you wanted to.
- Well, I want to.
I'll do whatever I can
to get Luke away from you
and this town.
- No one put a gun to his head.
Luke's just an enterprising man.
(men laughing)
- Pardon me miss, is
that your El Camino
parked out front
with Michigan plates?
- Yes.
Were you down driving
by the river last night?
- Now Elias, are you telling
me a family of Yankee tourists
can't come all the way down
to Texas without visiting
the Rio Grande without
being under your suspicions?
I mean, is nobody safe?
- I was in the
motel with my baby.
- Well, that's real strange
'cause there's Rio Grande dirt
all over your car.
- Now, she didn't say she
didn't go down the river,
did you hear her say she
didn't go down the river.
She said she didn't go down
to the river last night.
Now, honestly Elias, lots
of tourists come down here
to see the Rio Grande.
That's what they
come down here for.
- Yep.
- Hon, you will
excuse my ignorance
but it's the first time
I ever saw a tourist
in a waitress uniform.
Now, to the best of
your recollection,
what time did you take your
little sightseeing tour
down by the river last night.
- Listen to what you're saying.
I mean, he already runs
one guy off the road,
now he's gunning for
an innocent woman.
Elias, this town's
gonna file a complaint
with the Border Control
if you don't back off.
- You know, there's a
nasty echo in this place.
I wanna thank you
for your cooperation.
And I'm sure if I
need your help again,
you'll do everything
you can, won't ya?
- Yes.
- That's a good girl.
Y'all outta get out
and enjoy some of that
beautiful Texas sunshine today.
Weather man says it's
going to be a beaut.
- Thank you.
- My pleasure.
- Where have you been?
- Connie gave me a job
waitressing at the diner.
I was gonna call
you but we got busy.
- [Luke] I told you that I
was gonna take care of us.
- I don't want you risking your
life for a few lousy bucks.
- Nicky, it's more
than a few bucks!
What are we gonna do?
Live off your tips?
If we don't go to
California, I lose the job.
- That cop I told you about,
he knows what's going on.
He saw the dirt on our car and
he was asking me questions.
- What did you tell him?
- Dean was there.
He said that we were tourists
sightseeing down at the river.
- Yeah.
Yeah, Dean's a clever one, huh?
It's fortunate how
he's always around.
- You need to get another job.
- Dean, you think we oughta
hang low for a while?
- What's on your mind, Webb?
- Jimmy Neil.
Worried about Elias.
- Worried about old Elias?
Jimmy Neil got careless.
He slipped up.
Hey.
Elias couldn't find his dick
if he were playing with it.
- Can always go back to Detroit.
- No.
I've spent my entire
life dreaming of working
on the stock car circuit.
Every day for four
years I went to work
on that assembly line
wondering what the
hell I was doing there.
And when it closed down, I
spent another eight months
wishing I had any job at all.
I want my son to be proud of me.
(gentle music)
(tense music)
- Hey, look alive, Yankee boy.
Got to stay alert.
- Where'd you get
Yankee boy from?
I lived in Detroit,
not New England.
- Far as I'm concerned,
anyone born north
of the Mason-Dixon
line's still a Yankee.
- How long have
you lived in Texas?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, how long have
you lived in Texas?
- I've never been anywhere
in my life but Texas.
Never wanted to be.
- So, why do you smuggle?
I mean, you own your
own gas station,
you don't need the money.
- I do it for the
same reason you do it.
Because I can.
- I'm doing it because my
wife and I need the money.
You get that?
- Okay.
How long you been married?
- Three years.
Known each other
since junior high.
- You a lucky man.
Beautiful wife, nice kid.
What the hell you
wanna go to LA for?
- Nicky and I have always
wanted to go to California.
I finally got a job there.
It makes her happy.
- Yeah, I guess I'd do the
same thing to hold onto
a woman like that.
- Yeah.
That's why I'm not
letting her go.
- (whistles) Hey, look
alive. They're coming.
- Hilario, I'm gonna
buy you a damn watch
so you show up on time.
- I ought to get you a hammock
so you can learn
to relax, amigo.
- Relax? Wait a minute?
What's going on?
What the hell is going on.
Cutting corners, asshole?
Get off.
What is this bullshit?
What kind of shit
you trying to run?
- I can explain.
- Women and children?
Jesus Christ, you got
any fucking cripples?
You got any cripples?
- No, all right, my brother
sent me a bus from Guatemala.
- I need mestizos, farm workers
on a goddamn bus, tonight!
What am I supposed to
tell this guy, huh?
Just hang out in Texas while
we get our shit together?
- Hey, hey, hey, just
calm down, all right?
My brother sent me a
bus from Guatemala.
They came a few days early,
what do you want me to do?
All you gotta do is
take 'em off my hands.
- Fuck your goddamn
brother-in-law!
- Fuck your goddam--
- Drop the goddamn gun, Sanchez.
- Just calm down, huh?
All right, all right, all right.
- Never fuckin'
pull a gun on me.
I'll blow your goddamn head off.
- All right, all right.
- Want me to blow
your goddamn head off?
What do you want?
(speaking in foreign language)
Let me tell you something.
I'm gonna explain it clearly,
and I've explained
it to you before.
Elias has been on my ass.
Ever since Jimmy Neil fucked up.
It's too hot right now,
this was suppose to be
the last goddamn run.
You leave that fucking gun.
Hey, drop your fucking gun!
- Sanchez, drop
your goddamn gun!
Put that up your ass!
Like a fucking pogo stick.
(speaking in foreign language)
- All right, just relax, okay.
- I'm relaxed.
- All right, now look.
Man, we're desperate.
And they need to go.
I can't handle them
right now and you owe me.
But you're gonna
be taken care of.
- Give me the damn
money. All right.
Let's move 'em out of here.
Let's move 'em out of here.
Move 'em. Come on.
Come on!
(speaking in foreign language)
Come on.
- I'll get your
mestizos tomorrow, okay?
- Tomorrow,
motherfucker, tomorrow.
Let's move it, come on!
(speaking in foreign language)
(group shouting)
Move it! Come on!
(baby crying)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hey, it's gonna be all right.
Hey, be careful, get off her!
Hey, come on now!
Don't, she's got
a baby, goddammit!
Get away!
(baby screaming)
(speaking in foreign language)
Easy, hey.
(people yelling)
- Come on!
- Careful! He's an old man!
(speaking in foreign language)
- Damn, I thought we'd never
get them on that damn train.
- Those Guatemalans,
what are you?
- They're going to Houston,
don't worry about it.
- This is wrong, you know that.
- They'll be fine.
What you worried about?
- It's been a real
experience working with you.
- What are you talking about?
- Look, I appreciate
all you've done.
But Nicky's waiting for me.
We got to get on the
road first thing.
So, if you can just give
me my money I'll get going.
- Like hell you will.
- What?
- You heard Hilario.
We've got the last group
of Mexicans tomorrow night.
I'm gonna need you.
- You and I agreed to tonight.
- No, no, no, see.
That's not what we agreed.
What we agreed to is
that you would help
with this last
group of mestizos.
All right, ain't
my fault they late.
Job ain't finished yet.
- That wasn't the deal.
Give me my fucking money.
- (laughs) Can you
believe this guy?
All right, all right.
Take it easy.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
On account of our
little misunderstanding,
I'll give you the $500 I
owe you plus a $500 bonus
just for being you.
Should be enough to
take you to Hollywood
in grand old style.
- Dean, I need that
fucking money right now.
Do you understand me?
- You don't understand.
I ain't asking. You understand?
Now, if you don't help us
with this last group of
mestizos tomorrow night
then you and that precious
little family of yours
will never leave this town.
(laughs) Don't be so sad.
I can't stand it
when you're sad.
All right, come on now.
You with me?
Now, you do the job tomorrow
and we're outta there.
Okay, now have a beer.
- Don't make me do this, Dean.
- Tomorrow night, the
job's finished, all right?
Now have a damn beer.
Come on, it's party time.
(metal clanks)
Now that's a waste
of a perfectly fine
beer. Come on, Luke.
(birds chirping)
(slow music)
Morning, Ms. Nicole.
If I known you was working,
I'd waited to order.
- Nicky take these
pies over to table six.
- Connie, did you
hear what happened?
They found a bunch of illegals
locked in a box car last night.
The box car was filled
with pesticides.
- What happened to them?
- The Border Control took them
to the hospital for observation.
(glass breaking)
What got into her?
- Now, Nicole,
don't go away mad.
Can't stand to see people mad.
- This is between
me and my husband.
- Oh now normally
I like to stay out
of these marital disputes
but this does concern me.
Don't judge us too harshly.
- It's too late for that.
- Luke didn't know,
hell I didn't know.
Thought we was
doin' 'em a favor.
- You call that a favor?
Locking up families in a
box car full of pesticides?
- Well, most folks would've just
left them out in the desert.
- Oh, that's suppose
to make me feel better?
You almost killed those
people and Luke helped.
- Nothing happened,
nobody got hurt.
- Get out of my way.
- You're not going
anywhere, Miss Nicole.
Didn't Luke tell ya?
He ain't fulfilled his
part of the deal yet.
- He won't do it, we're leaving.
- Suit yourself.
I sure would like
to see you tomorrow.
- Hey, how's my girl?
Did you forget something.
- The box car you
locked those people in
was filled with pesticides.
- I don't understand, Dean
said they were gonna be fine.
Nicky, he swore to me they
were on a train to Houston.
- Listen to me, you're gonna
help me pack the car now
and we're gonna get as far
away from here as we can.
We'll drive all
night if we have to.
- He didn't pay me, we
don't have any money!
- I don't care, Luke, we're
getting out of here now.
- Look out the window.
- So what, we're prisoners now?
Is this how you're
gonna take care of us?
I'm going to the police.
- And what are you
gonna tell them? Huh?
What are you gonna
tell them, Nicky?
My husband's smuggling illegals?
Do you want me to go to prison?
Is that it?
Nicky, all those illegal
aliens are trying to do
is make a better life for
themselves and their families.
That's all I'm
trying to do for us.
- Maybe I can't stop you
from hurting yourself,
but I can stop you from
hurting me and Tyler.
We're leaving,
it's for the best.
- It's for the best?
Don't tear my family apart
and try and tell me
it's for the best.
Don't!
- Afternoon.
Look at those thunder heads.
Weather man said it's
gonna be a real ass kicker.
- Gonna be a hell of a
night for a crossing.
- Well, at least Elias and
his boys won't expect us
to try nothin'.
- Oh yeah, what do
you make of that?
- Son, I realize you're
not from these parts
so I don't expect you to
know every little thing
that's going on around here.
But you have a real
nice little family
and I sure would hate
to seem 'em get hurt.
- I'm not sure I know
what you're talking about.
Is there a problem, officer?
- Do you know what the
Navajos call a coyote?
A trickster.
You see, to the Indians,
a coyote is a deceiver.
Someone who not only steals
from you but loves doing it.
Just a little something
for you to bear in mind.
- Why are you telling me this?
- Your family needs you.
You need them. Think about it.
- I don't need you to tell me
how to take care of my family.
I'm not doing anything
wrong, you hear?
- Good. I'm glad to hear that.
You have a nice day.
- This can't be good.
- Elias already saw--
- He already suspects us.
- Well, so what, you don't
think he's gonna turn us in.
- Let's hope for Nicky's
sake he ain't that stupid.
- Guess we're about to find out.
- What's up with you, boy,
look like you just saw
Hank William's ghost.
- We need to talk about this.
I can't do this tonight.
- Come on.
Now, Luke, I'm just as
heartbroke as you are
about those folks
in the box car.
But we're innocent.
How was I suppose to
know there was any poison
in that box car?
- You know what? I
don't believe you.
If I do this run tonight,
my wife is gonna leave me.
You hear me?
- Yeah but Luke,
you got the car.
- What?
Are you fucking crazy?
She'll take the bus, Dean.
You don't know her.
She sets her mind to
something, that's it.
I'm not gonna do
this run tonight.
- I understand, 'course, I
don't gotta be a family man
to understand the
situation you're in.
I'll take of your wife.
- Leave us the fuck alone!
(gun clicks)
- You're driving. Webb,
follow us in the truck.
(intense music)
(thunder rumbling)
Hey Webb, you wanna do
a little babysitting?
- Oh yeah.
Come on now, Luke!
You be back real soon now, Dean.
(knocking)
Ah ah ah.
- How's my hair?
- Who is it?
- It's Dean.
Evening, Miss Nicole.
- What do you want?
- Luke asked me to stop by.
(baby crying)
I know you've endured
a lot on this trip.
- No you don't know.
- Let me get right to the point.
Luke's coming with us tonight.
But I wanna make it up to you.
I'll give you solemn promise
that this is the
absolute last time.
- You act like Luke's
one of your illegals
that you just haggle
over for money.
- Everything comes with
a price, Miss Nicole.
Including your trip Hollywood.
- How 'bout openin' up, huh?
How 'bout openin' up?
Come on, Luke.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- You're a very special
woman, Miss Nicole.
Let's hope Luke knows how
lucky he is to have you.
- Get out.
- Oh, that's nice.
You know Nicky,
she's a lucky gal.
You got a pretty mouth.
- Here we go.
- Yeah.
- Look forward to
doing it again.
You girls have a good time?
- Oh, we're having a big time.
Aren't we Luke. We're
having a big time.
- I want you to go
in, say goodbye, keep
it short and sweet,
or we're coming in.
- Be back real soon, yeah.
- Nicky, I'm so sorry.
You're still leaving?
- Unless you wanna
drive away right now.
Dean's waiting outside.
Do you understand?
I have no choice.
Nicky, this is gonna work out.
You have to believe me.
We'll leave in the morning.
- That's a boy knows
how to follow orders.
Slow down now, we're not riding
in this one, it's too hot.
You're driving in one of
Webb's old trucks tonight.
(car engine starts)
(Nicky sniffs)
- Hi, Connie.
- It's late, is something wrong?
- No, I just thought
that I'd drop by
to have a cup of coffee.
- Think I'll join ya.
(Nicky crying)
I'm worried about that young
waitress and her family.
She was practically
in tears yesterday.
- Yeah, that sweet little gal's
husband has gotten himself
tangled up with Dean.
- They're good people, Elias.
- We'll see about that.
- Why do you always have
to be so hard on folks?
You always push everyone away.
- Like you?
- I found out what it's like
to make a mistake around you.
- Hon, that young boy's
not just making a mistake,
he's breaking the law.
(Nicky cries)
♪ When you run
♪ Out of places to hide
♪ When you run
- Unit 208, this is 214
♪ From what's rolling aside
(Elias sighs)
♪ Walk with me, I'll
take you to the fire ♪
- Duty calls.
♪ Walk with me, I'll
never let you down ♪
(thunder rumbles)
- Well now, Luke, saw you
talking to Elias today.
Thought you might be
cutting a deal or something.
- Are you guys getting paranoid?
- I'm just saying it would
be an awful nasty night
for Nicky and that
little kid of yours
if you was to sell us out.
- You know what?
I've heard enough
about my wife from you.
Let's just finish the
job we came here to do,
so I can take my family and
get the fuck out of here.
- Good, if there's no problem,
we won't bring Nicky into this.
(lighter clicks)
- No smoking.
I said, put the
goddamn cigarette out.
- Come on girls, don't make
me pull this truck over.
- It is pulled over!
- Then shut up.
(thunder rumbles)
- Think it's Hilario?
- If it is, it's the
first time in memory,
he's ever showed up on time.
- Webb, think maybe
it's a coyote?
I mean, a real one.
- Now, if you were a dog,
would you be out on
a night like this?
- Right, yeah, I don't
know what I was thinking.
Be that stupid, you'd
have to be human, right?
- You gotta get your
mind right, Luke.
(all laugh)
- Hey Luke, why don't
you got check it out?
- Why don't you go
check it out, Dean, hm?
- (laughs) 'Cause this
ain't a democracy.
And even if it was,
Webb would vote with me.
Go check it out.
- What do you think, guys?
Maybe I should have a gun?
- I don't have a spare.
You got a spare?
- No.
- We don't have a spare.
Don't want you shooting
yourself in the foot.
Don't want you shooting
the merchandise either.
Now, go check it the fuck out.
(tense music)
(knocking)
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I wanted to bring you this,
didn't know if you'd be here.
- Calm down, calm down.
Let me have the baby.
Come on, come on.
(Nicky crying)
What's the matter?
- I'm leaving.
Tyler and I are leaving.
Luke, we were desperate,
we lost all our money.
- And Dean gave him work.
(Nicky cries)
Shh shh.
Elias told me.
Hold on.
Here.
Don't leave your husband.
He's a good husband
and he loves you.
Maybe you'll find your
dream in California
or maybe you won't.
But don't get stuck
her on the borderline,
you go find out and
you take him with you.
He needs you.
Men aren't strong like us.
Strong.
(gentle music)
It's gonna be okay.
Look at him.
- Thank you.
What about you, Connie?
- I take my comfort
where I can find it.
(thunder rumbles)
(coyote howling)
- That's him.
- About time.
- Let's go.
- All right, this is
it, let's go get 'em.
(intense music)
(men whispering)
- What did I tell
you, my friend?
Hilario's a man of his word.
- Give me the money.
- Don't spend it all
in one place, amigo.
- Come on.
(tense music)
(shouting in foreign language)
- Freeze, this is the
Texas Border Control!
You are all under arrest!
Put your hands in the air
where we can see them.
Now!
(guns firing)
(tense rock music)
(guns banging)
- Where the hell is Luke?
- I told you that
dog sold us out.
Fucking race car.
(man screaming)
- Let's get out
of here. Come on!
(guns firing)
Come on!
(guns firing)
Fuck you!
(car tires squealing)
(guns firing)
(tense music)
- Damn Elias!
- What the hell we
gonna do now, huh?
That Luke sold us out.
I told he was no good, Dean.
The hell we gonna do now?
- I lived my whole
life in this town.
Now, I gotta slink
away into the night
like a mangy coyote.
All for Mr. Hollywood.
- Told ya!
(guns firing)
(tires squealing)
The hell are you doing?
- I'm not leaving till
I settle this score.
- Dean, we gotta get
the hell outta here!
- We got the hell out of here
when I say we get
the hell out of here.
(tires squealing)
(car tires squealing)
What in the heck are you doing?
- I'm getting ready.
- Getting ready for what?
You what, you think she's
got an army at the motel?
- Gotta be prepared, Dean.
- What are you, a
fucking boy scout?
Give me a .38.
- No, no, I hate automatics,
they always jam on me,
I wanna use the .38.
- I'll use the 38,
give me the Luger.
The Luger!
- Actually now that
you mentioned it,
I believe I could
use the automatic.
You use the .38.
(intense music)
(sirens wail)
Yeah, yeah, motherfucker.
- Dean?
- What?
- This automatic's creeping
me out, I wanna use a .38.
- Fine, you use the .38.
Just give me a fucking gun!
(knocking)
- Where's Luke?
- Darling, Nicole, we
got a little problem,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
It's real bad.
Luke's hurting.
He's bleeding, he's bleeding
a lot in the head area.
I got him over at the garage.
He's asking for ya.
- Why didn't you take
him to the hospital?
- Now, you know we can't.
You know we can't do
that, so let us bring
you over there to him.
- You know what, Dean.
This time she ain't
buying your shit.
(Nicky screams)
Drop it or I'll
drop you. Drop it!
- Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
- Drop it!
- Glad you went first?
- Put it down!
- What did you do with
Luke, you said he was hurt!
- Ah, shut up!
(Nicky screams)
I lied, I lied!
Listen, Nicky, okay,
your husband sold us out.
He betrayed us to
Elias for money.
Now I'm gonna take you down to
the river and make you drink.
Oh, great!
- Get the hell out of
here. Grab the kid!
- Tyler! Tyler! Tyler!
- [Webb] Whores like
you always think
you're gonna get
your own fucking way!
- My baby! You animals! My baby!
- Bitch!
- My baby.
Please, leave my baby.
(baby screaming)
Tyler!
- What'd you think was
gonna happen, Nicky, huh?
Think you were just
gonna walk away?
(baby crying)
- Tyler!
Please, just leave my baby.
You take me, just leave my baby.
Leave my baby.
- Don't go getting
all motherly on me.
Get!
(Tyler crying)
- I got it on channel three.
I got it on channel three.
Where's the remote control?
- Please!
- How come you ain't
got a remote control?
- [Nicky] Tyler, Tyler! (crying)
- There's gotta be
civilized people watching,
how come you ain't
go no remote control?
(items crashing)
You have a whole place here
without a friggin'
remote control!
God dammit!
(Dean shouting)
(glass crashing)
- Tyler, Tyler!
(baby crying)
Move away from me
or I'll kill you.
- [Webb] Fucking whore!
- Nicky!
(guns firing)
(slow, tense music)
(Nicky screaming)
- What you running from, girl?
Just looking for the
right moment to propose.
Get a farm, have
a couple chickens.
- What the hell kind of mess
you got yourself into now, boy?
(Nicky whimpering)
- They got a nice little
chapel just north of here.
Elvis impersonators
and everything.
(Nicky screams)
Oh, you know you
want me to catch ya.
- [Elias] Come on!
- Now if you just keep running,
you're gonna get tired,
and if you get tired, you're
gonna just get all cranky.
(tense music)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
(Dean laughs)
(gun fires)
(Dean laughs)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
(gun fires)
- Goddamn!
- This one's for Webb, you
ass-licking' cocksucker.
(gun fires)
(Elias grunts)
Yankee boy. (laughs)
(gun fires)
(Dean grunts)
(Dean groans)
(gun fires)
(Dean screams)
(Dean laughs)
- Luke?
Shh shh, it's all
right. It's all right.
(Tyler crying)
- It's okay.
(soft music)
Are you okay?
(Elias groans)
- Are you gonna be all right?
- I want you to take your
little family out and put 'em
in that car.
- Yeah.
- Drive north up to I-10 West
and just don't look
back, you understand?
Now go on.
Wait a minute. I almost forgot.
There's a bounty on
coyotes in Texas.
Now get out of here.
Get on out of here.
- Thank you.
- Send me a picture or
postcard from Hollywood.
- Ponoma.
- Whatever.
♪ Out of daylight
♪ Out of irons
♪ Out of the flatlands
♪ I ran like the rain
♪ Into the freedom
♪ That I took as a given
- Wow. Some cow.
♪ Not knowing I carry
♪ Art in my brain
- [Luke] No more roadside
attractions, okay?
♪ Like a whistle
♪ To a blind dog
♪ Like each station
♪ Of the Nazarene
♪ She's been branded
♪ Into my memory
♪ Scarlet mouth
♪ And black blue jeans
♪ Passing billboards
♪ Passing strip lights
♪ Seeing that big jet
♪ Black the sun on the wing
♪ Ain't that tall, man
♪ To ride out that landscape
♪ Where nothing is sacred
♪ And nothing profane
♪ Like a whistle
♪ To a blind dog
♪ Like each station
♪ Of the Nazarene
♪ She's been branded
♪ Into my memory
♪ Scarlet mouth
♪ And black blue jeans
♪ Out of breath now
♪ Under starlight
♪ I stood and I stared out
♪ Across the great plains
(majestic music)