Bless Me, Ultima Page #4

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sprinkle its blood on the body,

so the devil himself

can come at night...

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Okay. Sorry.

It is true, man.

Mark my words.

Tomorrow when they bring

that bruja to the church,

it will be in a coffin

made of cottonwood branches.

Hey, Tony!

Tony! Tony!

Tony! Tony! Tony! Tony!

Who's your teacher, Tony?

Miss Harris or Miss Violet?

We all got Miss Violet.

All the dumb kids

got Miss Violet.

Is it true your brother's

been spending time

with the girls at Rosie's?

Knock it off.

Everyone in town goes to Rosie's!

Including Ernie's

old man!

Very funny!

But at least I don't have

a witch around the house!

There ain't no such

thing as witches.

There are if you're a Catholic.

Bull!

Red don't know nothin'.

He's going to Hell

'cause he ain't Catholic!

It's true. Protestants can't

go to heaven, only Catholics!

Come on, Tony,

she's a witch, ain't she?

I heard they were

gonna burn her.

She's not a witch.

You callin' me a liar?

- Yeah!

- Fight!

Get off of him! Get off!

Come here. Come.

Come.

Winds swept across the Ilano,

and locked the earth

in an icy grip.

Our river no longer

sang the songs of summer.

Spring storms

freed the land,

but still,

there was evil in the air.

Let me go!

I'm gonna kill

that guy!

You don't have

the agallas!

I'll show you agallas!

That means you seek

to do harm to La Grande!

I will cut

your heart out!

I'll find a way

to get to that witch!

You get in the way,

I'll kill you!

Djalo! Djalo, vamos!

Nothing! It's only words!

It's only words!

Come in before you catch

your death in this cold!

Come on!

I'll buy you a drink.

No! BARTENDER:
No.

Come on!

No. I have to go

to warn La Grande.

Narciso!

You can't go to Marez

in the storm!

Let me in!

Let me in!

Narciso!

What's happened?

Let me in!

You're too drunk!

And I only allow gentlemen

to visit my girls.

I didn't come

for pleasure, Rosie!

I came to see Marez!

Which Marez?

Don't play games with me.

Call Marez!

Quin? Who?

Oh, Narciso, come in.

Come in.

No! No!

There's trouble.

You have to go to your home

and warn your parents!

What?

Tenorio!

He's making threats

against La Grande.

Is that all?

Come on!

Is that all?

He's made threats!

Where's Tenorio?

He drove off

in his truck!

Just now we fought

in the saloon!

In the saloon, right!

You've been drinking

and quarreling,

and now you're gonna make

a big story out of it!

For the sake of your mother,

please come!

Come where?

You have to leave now.

You're making trouble!

These girls

have turned your mind!

Just go!

Ah!

May your soul be

damned and go to Hell!

No!

You child

of that witch!

I'll go get my father!

No!

I'm dying.

I need confession.

I'm not a priest.

But you're pure of heart.

Confess me.

Come. Come.

My father went to the sheriff,

but he only had the word

of a small boy

as a witness against a man

of means and family name.

I wondered how God

could take such a man,

how he could let him sink

so quietly into the ground,

like the rain.

I wondered.

And in time,

no one remembered

anything good about Narciso.

Not long after,

Andrew quit his job at the grocery store.

And he dropped his plans

to finish high school,

to join Leon and Eugene

in Albuquerque.

Thanks, Mom.

No one knew that

he had forsaken Narciso.

No one knew that he

couldn't face his shame.

They've forsaken

their father.

My boys have left me.

It's my fault...

My fault.

I should have known that the Marez

blood in them would make them restless.

The same blood that set me

wandering when I was young.

Papa!

Oh!

It's time for supper, eh?

You know,

we're all just wanderers,

adrift at sea.

It's in the name,

Marez.

Perhaps the Luna blood

should win in the end.

It's more quiet,

like the moon.

Go inside.

"I believe in the Holy Ghost,

"the Communion of Saints,

"the forgiveness of sins,

"the resurrection

of the body,

"life everlasting...

Amen."

Mmm...

I'm so proud

of you, Antonio.

Just think, when you take

your First Communion,

all your sins

will be forgiven,

and you will be

at one with God.

Really?

I'll be one with God?

Yes.

He asked me how many people

is there in one God.

What'd you say?

Three, four...

I don't know!

What about you, Tony?

I had to recite

the Apostles' Creed

and tell what

each part meant.

Bull!

Tony could do it

if he wanted to.

Tony's gonna

be a priest!

I have an idea.

Why don't we all practice

going to confession

and make Tony

the priest?

No, no.

Tony's the priest.

Yeah.

Tony's the priest.

Tony's the priest!

Tony's the priest!

Tony's the priest!

Tony's the priest!

Okay! Okay.

I'm the priest.

Do it right.

Yeah, do it for reals!

Me first.

Me first.

Bless me father...

Bless me father...

Uh...

You have sinned.

Yeah.

What are your sins?

Tell him your worst one.

I know!

I know how to do it! Yeah!

One day,

when Miss Violet let me go to the bathroom,

I made a hole in the wall

with a nail.

Oh!

Then I could see

into the girls' bathroom.

Oh-ho-ho!

You're dirty!

Give him a penance!

Okay, for your penance,

say a rosary to the Virgin.

Florence next!

Nah, that's

enough practice.

Florence needs

the practice.

Yes. Why doesn't

he believe?

Stop it!

- Confess him!

- Confess him!

What are your sins?

I don't have any.

Yes, you do,

you jerk!

Everybody has sins!

Just tell me one.

I don't have any!

Confess your sins or you'll go to Hell!

Yeah! Confess!

I haven't sinned!

God sinned against me.

Florence,

don't say that.

Why?

It's the truth.

Why did he take

my parents from me?

Why did he

take Narciso?

What harm did

Narciso ever do?

We shouldn't

even listen to him.

He shouldn't

even be here.

Give him

a penance.

Make his

penance hard!

No! There'll be

no punishment!

- His sins are forgiven!

- What?

Punish him,

you have to!

I'm the priest. I've

absolved him of his sins.

You're

a bad priest, Tony!

We don't want

you for our priest!

Punish the priest.

Punish the priest!

Punish the priest!

Come inside.

Everyone!

Are you going to confession?

Yeah.

You?

No.

I can't.

I can't.

I have to.

Dear God...

I'm trying to remember

all the sins

I've ever committed.

Please forgive me for them.

Please forgive me.

Did he harm you

in any way?

No.

Did he leave anything

by the tree, hmm?

Anything you might have touched,

or picked up?

No, but...

The day

he killed Narciso,

he swore

he would kill you.

Don't worry

about Tenorio.

He's just an old wolf

who drags around the ground

where he made his kill.

His conscience

will not let him sleep.

But where

there is no penance,

there can be

no forgiveness.

The door's opening!

It's a big day,

Antonito.

Florence said

the blood is wine

because the priest

is a wino.

Oh, my God,

I'm sorry

for all my sins...

All good

and deserving...

Corpus Christi.

Amen.

- Corpus Christi.

- Amen.

Corpus Christi.

Corpus Christi.

Amen.

Tony! Tony! Go on,

you're holding up the line.

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