Pocha: Manifest Destiny Page #2

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Claudia.

We're gonna go fix fences.

Coming with us.

How much?

Close to $10.

An hour?

A day.

I'll work with him.

That's very delicate.

Why don't you help me with this?

Just cut it like this.

Be careful.

Put these on.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

How many do we have left?

From here, four or five posts on this line,

and that's it.

Okay, let's finish what's left and then

we'll go to the other side of the ranch.

You should use better materials.

Something that lasts.

You're gonna start here

and you're gonna keep going.

The whole south fence needs to be repaired.

Then you'll start on the north side.

Keeps the cows in, people out.

Works just fine.

(SIGHS)

This sucks.

You should have stayed in prison then.

Would have been better than this.

Well, I can take you back if you want.

Get on the horse and...

Let's do it.

(COW SQUEALS)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Hold her head, please.

You wanna get kicked?

ANDRES:

Stand there if you wanna get kicked.

(MOOING)

(COW SQUEALING)

(SHUSHING)

Claudia, take it.

(SHUSHING)

You see plastic,

you pick it up.

Is this normal?

ANDRES:
Yeah, it's the same problem,

over and over.

Animals are stubborn.

They only know one way to be.

Even if it hurts them.

I don't wanna go inside that house with him.

Well, he's your dad.

(MOOING)

(SIGHS)

Thank you.

Hey, why is there a checkpoint?

Is somebody smuggling drugs, people?

No, not people.

The military uses it

to control whatever is passing through.

Do you know someone

who can help me get back?

Andrs wouldn't like that.

I don't care what Andrs thinks.

(PHONE RINGING AND VIBRATING)

Bueno.

Was that Andrs?

It's no one.

Get to work.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(MOANS)

Congratulations.

I got something.

(CLATTERS)

(ENGINE COUGHING)

-(TIRES SCREECHING)

-(THUDDING)

(MOANS)

(SCREAMS)

Stop! Stop!

(NEIGHING)

You're an American?

Arturo.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

You going for a jog in the desert, bro?

(RICKY SCOFFS)

Think he's a good guy, right?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

What's going on, Ricky?

Why show up like this?

Why don't you tell her what's going on?

Nothing is going on.

Tell her who you work for.

In English.

Here.

Say it.

Say it.

I work for Ricky.

You can call me Rick.

You work for me? Mmm?

That's not what I heard.

I heard you were working for someone else.

(SCOFFS)

Why would I wanna do that?

Look,

the truth is that the Sergeant talked to me,

and, yeah, he offered me money

to give him information,

but you don't think

I'd do something like that? I'm not a traitor.

Ricky, you know I would never do that, right?

(SHUSHING)

But we're friends, right?

(SIGHS)

But you know the deal.

You mess with my stuff,

I have to kill you.

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