Pit Fighter Page #2

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Well, they haven't seen

your color yet!

You ready to start, all right?

Zambista!

Go!

Known only as El Yanqui!

!Yanqui!

Are you ready?

Are you ready?

!Yanqui!Yanqui!

!Yanqui!Yanqui!

Hit him!

You have to hit him, or else

we're headed for the minus pool!

We're both screwed!

You understand?

He's the champion! Gotta let him

have his time out of respect!

- I'll beat him with dignity!

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah!

- Well, fiirst you gotta hit him, my friend!

Hit him!

Yanqui! Yanqui! Yanqui!

!Yanqui!Yanqui!

Listen to me!

Hey, you, listen!

I took a chance on you, okay?

I put everything into you!

The whole church thing,

the Virgin Mary and everything!

And I fell for it like a sucker?

Is that your game?

Third round defeat is acceptable!

What?

What are you talking about?

For a champion!

Okay! Okay!

All right! All right!

!Yanqui!Yanqui!Yanqui!

!Yanqui!Yanqui!Yanqui!

What's goin'on?

- And we have a new winner!

- Yes! Yes!

!Yanqui!Yanqui!

Let's hear it for Yanqui!

- Let's go!

- Yanqui, our new winner!

Yanqui!

Marianne.

You know,

when we fiirst met!

I was trying to fiigure out, like,

four different ways to kill you!

and make it look like

it wasn't my fault!

Yeah! I don't know

what stopped me!

I guess I, uh-

guess I never actually

killed a gringo!

We're partners, Manolo!

Cabron, you were

my punishment!

You were my penance!

Yeah! Turned out

to be my savior!

Saved my life!

Gave me a reason for being!

It's hot, man!

It's hot! Well-

Well, chico, you must've

loved that woman a lot, man!

I talk to her every day!

About what?

About my day, my life!

- Boxing?

- Everything.

She knows everything.

Yeah, well!

Mira. Eh, you know,

I was thinking!

uh, that's great!

I know you put some money aside,

'cause I never see you spend any!

Which is smart! You're a smart boy!

I was thinking, you know,

you could move on, you know?

You know, and live

a little, you know?

I know that she'll tell me

when it's time to leave!

She's a strong woman!

You know that?

- She's-

- I mean, she was a strong woman.

But that strength lives on!

It lives on in me!

- You understand, right?

- Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm!

Yeah! Yeah!

Uh, yeah, well, okay!

Um, tienes hambre. I'm gonna

go warm up the truck, okay?

Uh, tienes hambre, eh?

My people are like this dust!

We start in the mountains,

come down!

with the rivers, riding in trucks,

on the wind!

Itinerant as the Santa Ana!

Fighter, there's

no great advantage!

in knowing what your past is!

See, I know mine,

and I'll tell you!

my old man, his pa,

was a tequilero.

He used to smuggle wine,

Havana wine!

up San Ysidro,

the devil's backbone!

So, naturally, he went

into the family business!

Cocaina contrabando. Cocaine!

You know cocaine? And then

heroin from Tepatitlan!

My grandpa was gunned down!

outside the town

of Badriaguato!

To the criminal class!

without whom

there would be no heroes!

Los criminales.

Jack? Jack Severino!

They told me you'd been buried

in the jungle outside of Agualilla!

It's me. It's Nathan.

Senor, this man is the Yanqui.

He is a well-known fiighter!

Around here, anyway!

I know you! Yeah, you work for the Marietta,

Veneno's company!

I got no issue with you.

Tierra Caliente? Michocan?

It was me who scraped you

off the road for Veneno!

Jack, I drove 70 miles with the smell of

your blood going rotten on my hands, man.

- Sorry, man!

- Senor, you are in error!

I know your face!

I know it well!

'Cause when the fiists were

flying, or even the bullets...

I've stood back-to-back

with you!

I've been soaked to the skin

with rain, sweat and blood!

I've smelled death

on a spring afternoon.

I've defeated the hands of an enemy

that doesn't know Christ!

Yours is a face

with only one side.

So help me,Jack!

that I might be struck down

where I stand if I lie!

but I would die for you,

my brother.

Your place isn't with

this panhandling gutter trash!

Whatever misfortunes overcome you,

you call me, all right?

I'm at the Ambassador Hotel

for the next two days!

I saw your new shoes.

New seda shirt, Manolo.

You're looking good!

Now, the more successful you become,

the less you can trust those around you!

You never won anything

before, did you?

I never believed in anything!

- Do you like Cuban cigars?

- Sure!

Gracias,jefe.

He's going to win his next fiight?

I know where my money's going!

Hey, he asked you a question.

I never noticed you

before, Manolo!

It's always the quiet ones.

Are you ambitious?

Don't answer that!

If you had said no,

then I'd be really suspicious.

I like boxing.

Isn't there a fiighter that

you're supposed to be training?

Uh, it's his, uh, day off.

You know, Sunday.

Go!

Take the day off with him!

Did you go to church?

Go to church.

Do something. Go, go.

What?

What the f*** is wrong?

Giving that peasant

one of your best cigars?

That lowlife!

Look at the way he dresses!

Mira, Carlitos.

I'm going to tell you a story!

I remember this crusty old f***,

Paulino, from the mountains!

He had to have been

He ran a mule packed of dope every day

through my village for three years!

until someone squealed

to the federales.

Now, what nobody knew!

was that Paulino

was a real motherf***er!

He took a large snort

of cocaine!

drank a whole bottle of wine

and prepared an ambush!

Killed every soldier

in the squad!

and then hunts down

the squealing f*** who set him up!

What I'm trying to tell you!

what I'm trying to make you understand

is that this only comes to show!

that you must never, never

judge a man by his appearance!

You got a point there, jefe.

End of my speech!

I've seen her!

She's alive!

Everything is gonna

come together for me!

Hey, loco!

I'm coming in!

Good morning! 5:
00 a!m!

You want coffee?

Come on!

Wakey, wakey. Eggs and bakey.

Yanqui, Yanqui,

it's been fiive years!

She could have moved on, you know?

She thought you were dead!

That doesn't matter!

I know she's coming!

Hey, we gotta pick up the pace here, will ya?

Come on! Come on! Sprint!

You know, my grandmother

could read the future!

My mother too!

They made a living at it!

I will, too, when I get too old

and ugly for this work!

I can read your face!

Your hands!

Turn them over!

Let me see!

You have deep lines!

That's good!

Some luck, and then-

- They say nothing! It's all fiine!

- So what's my fortune?

There's nothing there!

Meeting you!

was the best thing

that ever happened to me!

They're treating us

like we're sons of the family!

Do you understand?

They love us!

- That's good!

- Yeah!

Listen! I understand them though!

I know what they're about!

They're animals, you know?

Never forget that!

They're not like you!

They don't feel any empathy

with their opponent!

They'll kill mercilessly

without hesitation!

We ever cross them,

they'll bury us!

Just-

Those are the rules down here, you know?

That's why they survived

for so long!

But right now I'm in!

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