I Witness Page #4

Synopsis: Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants turn up in an abandoned tunnel that has caved in, and two U.S. teen bikers are missing. As Rhodes pokes around and speculates on connections among these events, he's beaten up, warned off by a drug dealer's attorney, and given varying degrees of help by the U.S. State Department rep, the U.S. Trade rep, and an honest local cop. It's always about money, but whose is at stake and how cheap is Rhodes's life?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rowdy Herrington
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
R
Year:
2003
95 min
291 Views


is report what I see

and know to be the truth.

You want truth? Here is the truth.

They'll do anything.

Anything to keep the union out.

- What good are you, man?

- Not much.

- But I'm all you got.

- Juan, give the man a break.

He's trying to help us.

This way!

Father!

This is not your fight, Gringo.

F***ing priest you should mind

God's business and nothin' else!

Leave the priest alone!

No. No!!

No, I'm tellin' ya, man,

I recognized him, I did,

- He works for Daxmoore,

- Yes. I'm sorry.

- I cannot help you, senior.

- No. Get- get me a line-up!

- Just get...

- You do not wanna push you luck...

with them. They're not

as understanding as I am.

Heard you got your ass kicked

last night. Was it about my case?

No, I just seem to attract

love wherever I go.

I'm telling you my son and his

friend never made it back across...

the border. Now they're down here

somewhere and I want them found!

- We're doing everything we can...

- Anybody claim the campesino's...

- bodies yet?

- No.

- You don't think that's strange?

- No, this is a border town...

you know. They could be from

anywhere in Mexico.

People pass through

here like ghosts.

What if coyotes took the money and

then dropped the tunnel on them?

No witnesses.

The coyotes know Valdon

owns that tunnel.

He shits on people for f***in'

with his property.

You're beginning to bore me,

gringo.

You know, Castillo, sometimes

I think you don't...

wanna know what happened.

Maybe you should just go back home.

They have to take you in.

You don't have a home, do you?

- Recognize anybody?

- No.

- He was big, you know, strong.

- Well what's going on?

The union organizers

were ambushed last night.

Mr. Rhodes recognized one of the

attackers as a Daxmoore employee.

Well I hope you're not implying

that it happened...

- at Daxmoore's behest.

- Well, who else stands to gain...

- Ms. Thompson? These people?

- Mr. Rhodes...

this is a Fortune Five Hundred

company. It's inconceivable...

they'd involve themselves in

something that stupid.

Well it sounds like a police

matter. Have you talked to them?

I made a simple request

to Mr. Logan to...

You have no right to be here. You

represent no government agency.

This is a criminal matter

and I suggest you see...

the proper authorities.

Don't you agree, Mr. Logan?

Thanks for your help.

- What's this?

- It's a D.E.A. File.

- D.E.A., huh?

- Ballistics report.

The gun that killed those

campesinos is the same one used...

on two D.E.A. Informants

who worked for Valdon.

Why didn't you give this

to Captain Madrid?

You're the investigating officer,

aren't you?

The Captain told me you're

an honest cop. Are you?

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