04x26 - The Tiburcio Mendez Story

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All of our judges

who were come back.

You get.

Same as we got.

I've heard about this diversion and this.

You heard the. Half of it.

He's a m*rder*r.

And Skunk wrote a 14 Marietta hair tail.

You mean he told you to turn back and then
you went out ahead and he attacked you?



We didn't stand a chance.

A bunch of miners against a regular army.

You know, I think he's crazy.

I do not. Cause I was wrong.

So is he going to let no more Yankees
into California and me from Georgia?

You better hightail for the river, Hawks.

If you don't.

You get do next.

Think I

got a lot more than.

That?

He has a saddle, but he's been
riding bareback just to same.

Something to keep out the way.

And now you have a saddle for the horse
if you do.

And Rico Garcia,

you have the ugliest toes
I ever seen all the way.

Put them away.

No. To steal.

You take them.

You need the boots. I got the top big.

Where your feet get to be as old as mine.

They will need all the fresh air
they can get.

They greengrocers.

Empty.

Go get something to eat.

Look at the.

Ragged pair of boots
and see the clothes and dancing.

The greatest.

Father.

I know what I bring to

France when a man

is to become brother

to this man. I.

I will k*ll him.

Pancho Who?

Antonio. I will tear him in bits.

Antonio, who.

Must be walking.

I will cut his throat. Who is he?

You must.

Have.

I forgot.

You have me.

Who taught you?

Say like that?

I don't remember.

You. Right.

The best kiss I've had all day.

No. Claw her heart out.

All of them.

Now, let us go.

Show those people over there
how one dances.

The death of that.

Nothing like walking that is nothing

like dancing

to Brazil.

He looks at the smile after our people
and in his heart cries.

He blames himself.

Always put the blame where it belongs on
the gringo.

Says it is hard to hate one grocer and.

All lion is still a lion.

Sometimes I think he right.

Oh, the gringo has taken
everything our people had.

And it was a long time ago. What?

It was yesterday.
It is today. It will be tomorrow.

And if you go on thinking
that way, we be forever.

You are a woman.

You have a short memory.

I remember 20 years of life

among the coyotes of a desert.

I would like better memories.

I you your.

Look.

At cow in a can.

Those gringos have great values.

Great talent, but little. Hey.

Hey, hey.

I tell her the milk is California milk,
not the gringo.

Oh, maybe he would not drink

to Brazil.

We must speak.

We speak.

Not here.

I talked with Alma.

You're going to marry her.

You should talk to her.

I am not in the mood for joking.

All right?

I'm not in the mood either.

When I hear how much talking,
I hear the words of your father,

who is almost my own father.

The mercy of

the gringos still come.

The gringo still keeps us
from the homes that are ours.

One fights thieves and robbers,

one who rode with Maria, who took an oath

to go on fighting the gringo to the end.

The end has not yet come.

You are young,

working one.

When I was young in moderate,

I went to the sea with a small bucket.

I was going to empty out the ocean.

I worked until I was so tired

I couldn't lift up a bucket.

And at the end of the day

the ocean was still there.

At the end of the day, I am tired working

and the ocean is still there.

But we must not put the bucket down.

There is such a good life
for the women and children.

There is so much freedom
here in the desert.

Well,
perhaps we should surrender to the gringo.

Perhaps there is more

freedom at the end of a rope.

The mercy of Please listen to me.

We have only one way to go.

If we are men,

we must go on fighting those who choose

to be our enemies.

A man can be tired and sick at heart

and still do what has to be done.

Robert, as your Gomez told us,
that stone on the wagon train approaching.

Are you going to help Moreira's people

by letting these gringos into California?

We will meet them tomorrow.

To fight or to talk.

That is up to that.

Look, I know nothing about no bandits,

but these miners we picked up
today are hurt real bad.

Now, if they can't do anything with
this, Mendez, how do you expect us to?

I hope it doesn't come to that cross.

You hope?

In view of the situation.

I think we should return to the river
and try to find another way to.

The coast.

We can't do it.

We don't have water enough or food enough.

Would have to go 300 miles north
or 150 miles south.

I have to get you people to Los Angeles
then to get myself back to the main train.

If we expect to get to the coast at all,

we're going to have to try it
right through here.

You people better turn in

Bill.

What do you know about this man, Mendez?

Oh, not too much.

Maybe he's just a hard loser.

How do you mean?

Well, he's supposed to be one of our key
marietta's lieutenants.

Not too many of those people
have any reason to like us.

Good luck in the morning. Boy.

Let us.

Be in your

that the night in Australia.

You know where it goes?

Yeah.

To the coast. See?

But first there's a grave.

It's your grave. You.

We have not dug it. You're growing up.

But I have the place picked out.

You're from the wagon,

but you'll have a name.

Bill Hawkes.

I am supporting Mendez.

You like somebody from the cactus?

Nope.

It's a wise decision for if you do not
know how to handle it, you could bite.

Is a very prickly fruit, but

sweet on the inside.

Say it, Mendez.

Turn your wagons around while you live.

Is working. Delgado.

He likes doing what Leslie and I do.

But he say the right thing.

We've been two weeks on that desert.

You know that.
We can't turn around. Go back.

You know how many don't make it
when they don't listen to me.

We're not here to argue.

You go back to your wagons,
turn them around, or leave California.

If you come ahead, you will die.

I can make a no brainer than that.

If we try to go back
across that desert, Mr..

We will die. Then you'll have a choice.

The desert or Mendez
The wise men chose the desert,

the foolish men.

Just fine.

Hawks You put us into a real hole.

If we can't go on, then I say turn around
and head back to the river.

You got a wife over there? A cross, maybe.

You've never seen anybody die of thirst.
That I have.

We don't have enough water
to make the river.

Well, I want to talk to you.

I know about Mendez.

Of course.

Our grand juries abandoned the rights
of the original Mexican settlers

in California.
Haven't carried much weight up till now.

Now, that's no secret.

That's one reason
I'm going to sit on the Los Angeles bench.

It may not be a cure all.

The California,
or at least have a. Voice in court.

If I could.

Talk to Mendez, explain to him.

There's nothing Mendez
would like better than to get his hands

on the United States. Judge,
You don't know this country,

do you want to see that
federal bench of yours?

You better start making up your mind
to do what I tell you.

I'm not sure you're the best judge of that
right now.

Well, I think that California's
got a raw deal myself,

but this is one subject I don't want
to discuss with commercial Mendez.

And as long as I'm in charge, you're safe.

You're not going to see Mendez

because he'd k*ll you outright
or hold you for ransom.

Are you sure of that?

I'm not sure of anything,

but I know that I'm not getting paid
to let you take chances.

Judge,

I. Oh, yeah.

I want to let Judge Black
to stand his ground, but he's gone.

What do you mean, he's gone?

With the sneaked. Off. He took a horse.

Oh, you make a fine sentry. Cross.

Where are you going?

I'm going after

your black.

Guy back here.

All in there.

Judge.

I hold it.

Has yard.

What are we going to do now,

stupid gringo,

we're not so stupid as you.

You think to run past us
all by yourself, huh?

I told you I came to speak with Mr.
Mendez.

The Presidio.

Mendez has no time to waste
on stupid gringos.

You have us a little disadvantage, mister.

Maybe you'd like to untie my hand.

You are one brave man, huh?

I wonder how brave.

You want to untie me now.

Alma.

They are thirsty.

They will not be thirsty long.

Give them no water.

And no backing.

Delgado gives the orders here
instead of the Bersamin.

This.

All right, then.

Give them the water.

Just remember, it is more than

the gringo has given us.

I want to see Mr.

Mendez.

We shall see him.

But you should not have come.

Are you his daughter?

See you.

Don't, Ma'am.

That young fella that tired

is sometimes a real hard
not kind of stopped your blood.

How about cutting us loose?

I have a soft hearted senora,

but not a soft head.

You will see my father.

Hello,

Judge.

Here. Blind malnutrition, I suppose.

And primitive living conditions
like these.

I've seen it before.

Always the children.

Well, right.

It's not our fault or theirs either.

Honest citizens can get medical care.

You know, sometimes.

Stand up, Judge.

I am prepared to see them in this.

We've met.

I gave you some good advice,
but you did not listen.

My name is Josiah Black.

I know who you are staying here. A judge.

We have a little use for gringo
judges here.

What does a gringo judge tell our people?

It doesn't dance with a rope.

Say, we are a poor peoples anywhere.

But we can afford a rock.

If you will listen to me,
you may not need one.

Why should I listen to you?

Don't anybody try, you gringo.

One of you, untie the judge.

You fail, you fool.

He is only one man,

only one gringo.

Every game I will take care of his g*n.

You and the others k*ll him.

Judge, Get out of here.

You stop it.

Leave him alone.

Let him get up.

I'm sorry, Bill.

Someone would have been k*lled.

Come away.

He wanted to talk with Sing. You.

There are children in your.

Camp who cannot see

others who.

Become ill too easily.

There will be more hunger.

A magistrate, not a doctor.

I don't have to be a doctor
to see what anyone can see.

People can't live without adequate food.

At least some kind of medical care.

Unless I'm mistaken.

You have needs.

We had them. You took them from us.

Mr. Mendez.

Without the magistrate, there is no doctor
or anything else worthwhile.

You should know that better than anyone.

You come with me to Brazil.

What are you doing?

You better come to

find Providencia.

Gomez,

Bring them to me.

Speak, senor.

Mr. Mendez,

how long have you and your people been.

Outlaws hiding in the hills like.

This? Outlaws

since the beginning of Angola.

When? Man,

you gringos have short memories.

You do not remember how it was
when California.

I belong to Mexico.

And we Californians lived on our own land.

As our father said, from San Diego
to Monterey, our land was full of peace.

We raised our cattle and made the wine
and the missions brought peace

and order and God to our

golden California
came the agreement with Common.

He would find open hearts and enough land
to live up on and raise a family upon.

Then we will take California from Mexico.

That's bad enough.

But then.

Then they are Mars

and find gold in Colombia
and suddenly there are a.

Hundred thousand gringos they don't hate.

They don't want home,
they don't want peace.

They want gold.

And sometimes that gold
is on the land of California.

He was like them in this family of Sonora.

And suddenly the land.

Disappears.

Under the hopes of the gringo horses
and those who own the land.

They had to run it.

And when it was over,

when the gold was found

or any other place, no more.

Except for.

What came Marietta.

And Deportivo Mendez

outlaws hiding in

our government is aware of the wrongs

done many of the Mexican residents
of California.

That's one reason I'm here.

For 15 years,

Mendez has been a refuge
to the Californians.

They had a choice to live with Mendez

Like a coyote, maybe, but just the same.

To live

or to stay and fight.

The gringo

robs them and spits on them and
takes their women and finally their lives.

But what has changed, huh?

You tell me what has changed.

And of course I'm talking to you.

Why don't you stop being a fool, Mendez,
and start acting like a man?

Know who you speak to, gringo?

You see, that's one way

you sit there like a herd dog.

Look in your wound.

Sure, you've got every reason to complain.

But now you got a chance to make it right.

But instead, you'd rather fight
innocent settlers who never harmed you.


they burnt you out, k*lled your families.

What is doing the same thing Make you.

A man who has not been burned
can speak lightly of fire.

Maybe Delgado's should burn a little.

And we see how easy you forgive

the Brazilian Mendez.

We have followed you without question.

Now I ask you one.

If we do not prove to the gringo
that the California is a man.

Who is left to show him,

let him say what he has come to say.

We lose nothing by hearing.

There is a thing of respect
which can be lost.

Speaks here

and remember that here and the judge

and not you.

What does the birth do?

Working.

Oh man. We were ordered to by

the n*gro of the heart.

The judge comes to talk us around it.

The Brazil listens.

He will not.

I have seen him as a son, sees his father.

I know him

not as gringo comes

with his lies
and talk to the old man of peace.

The old man will listen.

It is the gringo.

Do you understand?

What happens is their fault.

This magistrate may do it all The gringo
soldiers in California cannot do

the wolf like.

Like a rabbit.

It must not happen.

All I,

therefore, are.

The legitimate Spanish grants
in California are recognized and legal

no matter who holds them. Now,

you know what that means, sir.

Our lands will be ours

again, generally speaking.

And your property.

But not so long as you are outlaws
hiding in the desert.

The law protects only those who seek
her protection and obey her rules.

I'm not a tax anymore.

We are fighting a w*r that has been over
in many places to the gringo.

We are bandits

to my people.

I am a general leader in the army.

To this law of yours,

will we be soldiers or bandits?

Your children have committed no crime?

No. Your women.

Someone has the law demands
punishment for crimes.

But the law also dispenses justice.

I ask you to come with me
to Los Angeles and trust in the law.

This is a chance for a life. Senor Mendez.

Probably your last time

to give an honest man is an error.

I am willing.

We consider it

that place.

You have the freedom of the account
until we make our decision.

Your father is a remarkable
man, young lady.

He is my father.

Perhaps the father of all of us.

Judge



It took Moses 40 years, didn't it?

Let's see now.

I think it was this one.

And this one here.

And then you come under and

Joaquin.

Where is your father?

He meets with the heads of families.

What is wrong?

Alma invites our people
to step into chains.

You must not think that way.

Look through them,

smile.

I speak soft.
They make the children laugh.

The children have little enough
to laugh about.

What you think.

I know that I lead the soldiers.

I fight the gringos. But I am not blind.

I am sick. What I see.

But it is the doing of the gringo.

I remember the small eyes
and see only the darkness.

And I make the gringos pay dust.

But the children see.

I talk like a father.

Thank you.

I know of no wiser man.

Let him speak like a woman.

He does not speak for me.

I make no peace
with the murderers of my people.

My father is the leader here.

Your father

leads
only when he leads us against our enemies.

There are those of us
who will not lay down our arms and walking

to the tiger's mouth.

I love you, Almudena.

Alma. I want you by my side forever.

But if the Brazil Menderes
betrays our cause, you must make a choice.

We will not follow Méndez into a cage.

I think there are worse places to eat.

Cages.

There are great.

Rules.

What have they decided?

What plan?

I do not know.

But I have fears.

We came to the desert when we were young

and young women.

We had no other place to go with honor.

Now our children take husbands and wives

and still we have only the desert

and the children to come.

We know only the rocks and the
cactus and the burning sand.

It is a poor birthright.

But one of freedom to Brazil.

Mendez here, him, a child of my making.

He knows only of blood and hate.

These are the things that we have told
our children.

I ask no one here to forgive the gringo.

We want a man of peace.

And they had no worries from us.

And now, Mr.

Black, a gringo magistrate or a judge,
he tells us

that the old crimes against us
have been recognized.

I suppose he thinks we should be grateful.

I can only say

it has taken the gringo a long time

to see the difference
between night and day.

The gringos rolling into California
like a flood.

We tried to dam it up,
but we could not succeed.

Who can say that we did not fail?

There are several who say that
we should go down south to Mexico.

We would be welcome.

That is true.

Mexico is not our home.

And who knows when the gringo
would come to look for gold

down there?

The gringo governments and were

that some of us

may find peace with our

some of us may get their lands back.

Some of us, but one of the others.

Resistance to evil is no crime.

Those who harmed you will be punished.

Those of you who are responsible for
any outrages will face the bar of justice.

I say only that the innocent
will not suffer.

In any case.

What about Senor Mendez, Judge?

Mr. Mendez is a leader of his people.

My father is a great man.

He fought only those who around us.

I don't question his reasons, ma'am,
but a lot of innocent

immigrants died because of the raids
he's made on wagon trains.

Tell us.

Tell us of the innocents who have died.

There are those of us with long memories.

If it comes to honor, then

I say that honor is a way of dying.

Let our names be remembered
as men and women

who would not surrender to evil.

The gringos send us a magistrate
with sweet words,

I say if we even listen,
it is a sign that we are betraying

the spirit of what k*lled Marietta
and those who died protecting their homes

is still as a magistrate,

I said when I sent it back to them

with the cold steel of truth in his heart.

Senor Delgado is a brave man.

I know something about lost causes
a lot of my friends fight for one.

We were on opposite sides,
and when we fought, we ended one another.

And when it was over, there was a man.

Something like the judge who?

He stretched out his hand
and they took it.

Our nations won.

Now it's no longer divided.

If you take the hand it
the government is stretching out to you.

California will be won again.

Maybe none of you have heard of a man
by the name of Robert E Lee.

I was there at the end.

He stood out in front of his army.

He could have gone on and fought.

I'd have been glorious,
but it would have been butchery.

This was at a place called Appomattox.

And from mathematics,

his men went back home.

We have discussed it.

If what you say is true,
we accept your offer

and place our cause
in the hands of your law.

To pursue you. You cannot do this.

The good Lord help us if you lie.

You speak only for the cowards.

Mendez.

Now I speak for Marietta.

Nothing. Are changed.

The wagons
do not come through the mountains, and

neither do the right

again.

It is over now.

It will never be over.

Some smart footwork.

Thank you.

And my heart.

Come with me, Alma.

How can I live without you?

You can. Stay now.

You. No, I cannot.

I cannot come.

I came.

My father is right.

I will love you always.

Your father will remember him
as the man who was buried

on the grave of Marietta.

I okay.

The Mendez.

Hook them up, Cross. We're moving up.

To make one move.

You'll stay away from a cross.

What's the matter with you?

Hawk's
bringing a k*ller into camp. K*llers?

What's going to keep you alive
for the next few days?

You're entitled to an explanation,
Mr. Cross.

Some of Mendez people are determined
to keep us out of California.

He's going to escort us in.

Escort us into a trap, is what you mean.

He'll stab us in the back
the minute his people show up.

Let's say that's a chance we have to take.

We're going to trust him.

I got to trust him.

Well, maybe you do, but I don't.

The gringo government

will do justice for my people.

I told you,

only those who have committed crimes
will be punished.

Only those who have committed crimes

here are dead.

One thing I did not tell you about Mendez.

I was the chief. You understand?

When I gave the command,
my people had to obey those who did not.

They were k*lled.

What are you saying? It is true.

You look upon me as your father.

If you had been another man's daughter,
you would see me as Mendez, the man

who had to k*ll easily.

Your didn't
look as if they were afraid of you.

They were afraid to
show that They were afraid.

They had to do what I told them.

You understand?

I was working with Mendez,
who ruled with a g*n.

I think I understand.

Good.

Then you will remember.

Come get either.

It is a good sky

to live under,

that it should be good for my people

when they return to their homes.

It will soon be done.

Nassir.

Good night.

You are sure to burst here as we see.

And Alma,

What do we do?

Walking.

This shall not pass.

You would k*ll the man who raised you.

I will do what I must do.

And all the men.

Does it make it noise?

Your providence, your

When they come out,

Perhaps the Brazil will not be hurt.

He is my second father.

They didn't say.

In the river being here.

I thought. You sound sure

are on the ground level that

here there is shelter.

Men with good brothers can stop the world.

Better get back there. With your daughter.

I will stay close to you.

You will be sh**ting them in Mendez.

But you would like to see you dead.

But I don't think that he feels
the same way about me.

I will stay close to you.

It was for

Suit yourself.

I got the translation inside the wagon.

You only cover.

You can get.

Let's go, Jack.

I can get the gringo.

You might hate the Brazil.

The horses Let them come along
and we sh**t the horses.

As you say.

Better to get the gringo, though.

We can use the horses.

Delgado does show up.

What makes you think he'll help Eddie?

Hey, listen, It is in the last.

And if is people, there is only.

Maybe he changed his mind.

Well,

you better find some cover

to Brazil.

Get out of the way.

How are you doing?

I'm going to get this horse loose
and the rest of the outfit

and have the men spread out amongst
those rocks give us some cover.

And maybe the women
get the wagons through.

Maybe

that is a maybe as big as a mountain.

You got any better ideas, Mr.

Si, Senor.

Just come out here for a minute,
will you place

the leaders on the second wagon? No.

Give them a chance to turn back.

Now, you talk like the Brazil.

Almost with them.

In your jet.

You remember Mendez

is the chief
from the lips of Maria himself.

I was the leader.

All the commands, all the orders.

They came from me.

I remember.

Father. What are you going to do?

That no one else should die

when working with any new
I starting when he did something wrong.

I got to do that again.

He's no.

Maybe now he is a man with a g*n.

You cannot come along.

I'm gone

if you wish

to remember.

Judge your promise to my people.

You f*cking

walking.

Vamonos.

What's on your mind, Mendez?

One man cannot stand between his people

and justice.

Mean, I think I got it right here
with this life.

What are your highlights?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're tired.

You are talking to darkness. All of you.

Most of all, you.

So I chose to bring up as my own

alone and shake in the boots
I gave you myself.

The best deal. Do not do this.

You are scum that disobey Mendez.

You are like this could be enough.

The desert will fill my boat.

You can get away now.

You are not fit to hold that.

Drop your g*n and run like your brother.

He wrote it.

The both of you.

I meant what I said. Do not do this.

Don't open your mouth.

Me, you Some of this. Make

take your unclean hand of that g*n that I.

Gave you.

And crawl back to the rocks
from which you.

Came.

The wagons Do not move.

Then I k*ll you.

My says.

The birds.

They are.

I had to do it.

Why were you slow?

As could threw?

It was not trying to do it for her but.

Justice that you should have shot me.

You know

we can go Jet.

You know, Sam.

But eventually a lot of people on Mendez

watching the guy.

The court is like a Santa in death.

He will take you to Los Angeles.

You will find justice there.

Something that Mendez could not find
for you

in the desert.

Take them looking as they took them from.

What he had

revealed.

It is my work.

And it will be done.

Is your father would like.

Your father was my best friend.

You never told me to Brazil.

I could not tell you that it was.

It was my word to your father.

His name would have k*lled you.

Then who are the Brazil?

If only you were dead.

Maria.

I like.

I understand, Father.

I have good years.

Go and cry

in the years of Jerusalem
saying thus Say it the Lord.

I remember the the kindness of by you.

The love of darkness puzzled.

And I went,
Is that to me, into the wilderness

in a land that was not so.

Judge Black Yes,

people of Mendez will be coming in.

So what do you think will happen to them?

They, according to the law,
the man we just buried was a m*rder*r.

A thief and a butcher.

Mendez was a criminal.

You heard him say that everything that was
done was done on his orders.

What are you trying to tell me?

The guilt was his. All of it.

But he's dead now.

I can't very well punish him.

You mean you're going to let him
take the blame for all it's happened?

For all the wrongs that, as people
did, got a pretty good legal

precedent
established nearly 2000 years ago.

And read about it here.