Silver City Page #10

You wouldn't do that

to them, would you?

They don't know that, do they?

We can go somewhere else to talk.

They say you have to come with them

to the ruins, to Silver City.

So, when do we get to this joint?

This is it.

They buried the city years ago.

What now?

This is where Lzaro died?

He says Lzaro died where

they take the meat from the bones.

The slaughterhouse.

- BENagra.

- The BENagra slaughterhouse.

Lzaro was a newly arrived.

He was a very shy person.

Very afraid of everything in the north.

But especially afraid of the boss.

- And the jefe was?

- Vicente Esparza.

Vincent Esparza carries a gun?

We were the cleaning crew.

After midnight,

when they stop the line...

they come in to clean the metal with

scalding hot water mixed with clorina.

There is always so much noise...

and you can't see from the steam.

They have told Don Vicente

that thejob up above...

cleaning the machine that takes

the skin off the cows is not safe...

that there has to be more scaffolding

or something to hold onto.

But he says that only little babies

are crying for their mamas...

and he sends whoever

he doesn't like to do it.

This day he sends Lzaro Huerta.

They told Lzaro he shouldn't

shoot the steam full pressure...

when he's turning it on.

There was nobody else in

that part of the factory...

but these two men

and Vicente, their boss.

He asked them to put the body

in a garbage barrel...

and to clean his blood

with the blood of the animals.

At the end of work, they carried the body

out to his truck and he drove them here.

He told them he knew this place

from years ago...

when he was hired

to hide some kind of garbage.

They felt bad treating a man

they knew... a human being...

like he was garbage too.

They left the body

at the back of the tunnel...

and Vicente told them

that now they are part of a crime...

and if the police finds out

they are going to jail.

If he doesn't kill them first.

So you left the body up here?

They came back three days later

to bury him as a Christian, but...

He wasn't here?

He was gone.

Maybe it was a miracle.

They left him where there was

water on the floor.

So when they came back

the water was this high.

Show me.

Come on.

All right.

Wait for me here.

Help!

Help!

Help, up there!

Mr. O'Brien!

Are you there?

Mr. O'Brien!

Mr. O'Brien, you got all wet!

Look at you!

- Where are the guys?

- They took them away.

Took them?

La Migra come, chase those men

and take them away.

How come they didn't take you?

Because I carry

my citizen papers always.

Guess I'll have to leave you here, Lupe.

It's okay.

How come you didn't

take the day off?

I belong to the Iglesia Evanglica.

This? This is the devil's work.

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks for everything.

Be careful, Mr. O'Brien.

Hey.

You again.

Hey.

I'm sorry about last night.

I get disgusted with myself,

and I take it out on other people.

Don't worry about it.

You been swimming?

Cave diving.

I'm sorry if I got you in trouble.

The thing I'm investigating,

I got a little in over my head.

- You got fired?

- Probation.

Sorry.

Do you think you might

call me sometime?

Listen, Maddy...

You're scared of me, aren't you?

No. I'm scared of your family.

Would you say

those are ostrich skin?

The guy's boots?

Yeah. Tony Lamas.

Excuse me.

You got a problem, my friend?

You're Vicente Esparza.

Come on.

We gotta talk, you and me.

You're the one who's been

stirrin' up all this sh*t, huh?

Askin' about tattoos,

botherin' my workers.

Now I hear the police

are lookin' for me.

I've got nothing against you.

It's the people above you...

the ones that had you dump

those barrels into the mine.

- They knew what happened to Lzaro...

- What the f*** is it to you?

You don't come down here where I live

asking me f***in' questions!

- I'm not after you. It's them!

- That's right.

You don't care about me,

and I don't care about you.

I don't care

if you live or you die.

You see this?

You see what this is, cabrn?

You ask me

one more f***in' question...

Don't move!

Just freeze right there!

Put it down, Dave.

One's deader than a doornail,

and the other's unarmed.

- Put it down.

- He had his gun out.

Put it in the holster!

And then go keep that crowd

from coming back here! Go!

Jesus!

- You said it.

- He wasn't gonna shoot your deputy.

Boy's a little overtrained.

- This is Esparza?

- Yeah.

He's got that

wanted-for-questioning...

killed-while-resisting-arrest

look about him.

They didn't clean up

the cyanide waste.

They just dumped it

into an old mine.

Esparza was working

for Bentel then.

He told my guys that he'd dumped

something there before.

Only it's flooded now,

and it's flooding more every day.

Somehow Huerta's body

got swept away by it...

and pushed through the mountain into

one of the streams that feeds the lake.

This is sounding crazy, isn't it?

Throw a dead body into a cave...

and three days later it comes back out

into the world all on its own?

Sure, a lot of people'll buy that.

It's the water pressure.

The names of these two Mexicans

you say you talked to...

Come on!

You had Immigration follow us

and pick them up.

- Did I?

- Half this town is illegal.

Immigration is gonna bother to

drive into the middle of nowhere...

and just run into my witnesses?

Mr. Quiones and Mr. Lpez

have been debriefed by the I NS.

According to them, they were working

at BENagra Packing...

along with a certain Lzaro Huerta,

also an undocumented alien...

until one day he chose...

not to show up for work.

That's the last they saw of him.

- Of course they're gonna say that.

- They're back on a plane in 24 hours...

courtesy of

the United States government.

Unless, of course...

you choose to include that

crock of sh*t that you just told me...

in your official statement...

in which case, they'd be accessories

to wrongful death, at least.

Possibly murder.

They'd be f***ed.

Bien jodido is the phrase,

I believe, yeah.

Slaughterhouse?

The slaughterhouse operates

within guidelines set by the law.

All we've got is a failure

to report an accident...

and illegal burial...

which begins and ends

with Vince Esparza.

Doesn't it?

I'll give you a few minutes

to think about it.

You called his name.

When you were looking for him,

you called his name.

Your buddy in the hospital

put us on the lookout.

Vehicular homicide?

- It's the same speech every time.

- I don't have time now, Nora.

If I spent a few hours

reviewing his statistics...

Later.

Instead of just listening to him go on

and on and on... Come on, Leo!

Come on!

- What's the deal?

- Where have you been?

Out reporting the news. I know

it's easier to watch it on cable, but...

Staff meeting

in 15 minutes, people!

That means everybody!

- Then it's true.

- What?

They'll say,

"Nobody'll be let go."

But when they bought the Sentinel,

they cut 30 jobs the first month.

They who?

What are you talking about?

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