From Mexico with Love Page #4

get back to my guests.

Y'all can start to have fun

with the help.

All right. We'll stay.

No, no, no,

you're not going anywhere now.

- Fancy.

- Robert!

Where you going, baby?

- You can pick this cucumber right here.

- Where are you going?

Hey.

Hey, take it easy, honey.

What the hell's going on?

What? They're just having fun.

Fun? You call that fun?

They're my friends,

and I tell you,

I sure have learned my lesson

with your boy Hector

about trying to help

you people out.

Hello?

Hey, Berta, it's me, Hector.

Is my mom there?

No, Hector, your mama,

she's sleeping.

Oh, okay. Is Tito there?

Oh, s. Hold on, okay?

Come, telfono.

Gracias, pues.

Hey, Tito. How are you?

Good.

- How's my mom?

- Your mom's okay.

I checked in on her earlier.

Cool.

I was calling you because,

listen, man, I need to borrow

some money from you.

I knew this was coming.

Hey, Hector,

you already owe me and Chucho.

Yeah, I know.

I swear to God,

I'm going to pay you guys back, okay?

It's just that

I'm really worried about my mom,

and I need to make sure

she's getting her medicine, you know.

I just need the money, please, man.

Yeah, I'll see what I can do, Hector.

Thanks, bro.

Really appreciate it, man.

Hey, guess what?

I'm going to get Billy to train me

so I can fight Robert at Red's.

Wait a minute, you're fight...

Are you stupid?

I really got to go.

Thank you so much.

Really appreciate it.

Take care, bye-bye.

This is you?

A while back, yeah.

Cool.

You fought Bob Foster?

You know Bob Foster?

Well, yeah.

I got some of his old posters.

They were my dad's.

I mean,

he was one on the greatest.

Nobody went the distance with him.

I did.

Fifteen rounds,

fighting for

the light heavyweight championship.

I lost the decision,

but I went the distance.

How many fights you have?

Fifty-eight.

I won the fifty.

Wow, what happened?

I mean, after all that,

how did you end up here?

What's wrong with here?

Nothing.

It's just not there.

Only thing guaranteed in life

is a hangover, kid.

Breakfast?

Too far, too fast,

dig you a deep hole in this game,

and if you're not careful,

that hole can right quick

become your grave.

Your dad,

Tito brought him to me.

He died on his own.

I'm not in the business

of bar fights.

And Tito brings you other boxers?

Tito's got a good eye.

He's got a way of doing things

before anyone knows what hit them.

He would have made a good boxer.

The old guys,

Joe Lewis, Jack Dempsey,

Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano,

Muhammad Ali,

you know what set those guys apart

from the rest of the boxing world?

Brains.

A chump don't

become champ without them.

It's what you did wrong

with EI Angelito.

You let him get in your head,

get you mad.

You get angry, you get frustrated,

you can't think,

and you're as good as dead.

Your father never understood that.

All he wanted to do

was hit people.

Any piece of meat can fight, kid.

Boxing is thinking.

You got to read the other guy

like a chessboard,

always think two,

three moves ahead of him.

I'm not that good

with the big words in English.

Well, you can read the pictures,

can't you?

I'll tell you what.

I'll train you

if you learn the words.

Only two kinds of these

in the world, kid.

Ones that get you into trouble

and ones that get you out.

Which side are you on?

Your side.

Good.

Fifty for the mitts and two hundred

for first and last month's rent.

You got it.

That won't get you far.

Well, I don't need to go that far,

just up to Red's.

I want to take on Robert,

and you can get me there, right?

That's powerful ambitious right there.

That's just this side of stupid.

Listen, I know it's kind of crazy,

but I need this fight, man.

I want to take care of my mom

and get her out of the fields.

And I can do it,

but I need your help.

Let's see what you do

with the book first.

Here, you can work off

what you owe.

I'm used to that.

Okay, watch this guy, now.

He's got heavy hands.

He can hurt you.

You don't want to trade with him.

Elusive. Elusive.

I said elusivo!

My trainer's so hard on me

Well, my trainer's so hard on me

His basket of rocks

About to bust my jock

My trainer is so hard on me

What'd you do that for?

Wasp.

This fighter has all the speed

you're going to have to deal with

with Robert.

I ain't fighting a girl. Come on.

Yes, you are.

What, you want me to kiss her

or something?

I don't care what you do with her

after you spar with her.

Time.

What the hell was that?

- The wasp again.

- I didn't hear no wasp.

Do you want me

to let him sting you, huh?

What the f***?

Look, you got to think

under pressure.

You got to learn to concentrate

when you're getting clobbered

from all sides.

You lose your cool in the ring,

and it's all over.

You okay?

Honor the ring, touch gloves.

My trainer is so hard on me

Billy Jenks is so mean on me

Makes me haul him up and back

In this rusty piece of crap

My trainer is so mean on me

Way behind on points, son.

- It's not funny.

- Offense, offense.

It's not working, son.

You've got to make him miss.

All that stuff we talked about.

- Time.

- You okay?

- You sure?

- Yeah, I'm okay.

I'm sorry, okay?

I'm sorry.

If it was a guy,

would you apologize?

No.

Then don't apologize to her.

It's insulting.

Okay, I'm sorry.

What did I just say?

I'm just saying sorry

for insulting her!

Don't say sorry at all!

I was just being polite!

If I wanted polite,

I'd be training ballerinas!

- Sorry.

- Damn it.

Y'all, I'll tell you

My trainer, he's so hard on me

- His basket of rocks

- Time!

About to bust my jock

My trainer is so hard on me

Makes me haul him up and back

- In his busted Cadillac.

- Come on, big fella.

My trainer is so hard on me

Got a little one.

I want you to take him

all over this ring.

You'll wear him out.

Get him breathing out of his mouth

without hitting him once, okay?

What's up, man?

Mam.

Hijo.

You've been fighting?

I'm learning to play chess.

I got my own place now, okay?

So I'm going to take you there

and take care of you.

How's that?

I got something for you.

Yeah?

Mam...

don't go.

Mama?

I love you.

He's been up there for a while.

Leave him.

He'll come down when he's ready.

Take him something to eat, mija.

Hermanita, qu buena eres.

What the hell happened

to this place?

I don't remember it this bad.

I don't remember

the last time you came back.

It's people like you

who help make it this way, my brother.

I like to think I help people,

not chase them away.

If all the people who left

had the money to come back,

do you think

they would come back here?

I would.

And how much money

would it take?

How much is enough?

I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

You were right.

About what?

Robert and everything.

Wait.

Sit down.

What did he do?

Nothing.

Maria, hey...

did he hurt you?

No, just...

You were right.

We're just a game for them.

I don't want you to fight him.

How can you say that?

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