Sin Nombre Page #10

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EL CASPER (CONT’D)

(beginning to cry angrily)

He killed Martha Marlen.

Smiley looks at him in confusion again.

EL CASPER (CONT’D)

Go home Benito! Go back to your

Grandma.

50.

Smiley retreats down the ladder.

50 EXT. BETWEEN CARS 50

Smiley makes a cross on his chest and jumps off the train.

His feet pedal fast but his momentum topples him, *

50A rolling him several times down the train’s road bed to a foot 50A

path. The train passes by rapidly.

51 EXT. TOP OF BOXCAR 51

Sayra moans an exhausted cry. El Lil' Mago’s blood washes

down her face in drops of rain. Orlando and Horacio reach

out to her...

HORACIO:

Are you okay? Did he hurt you?

Horacio tries to hold her, but she pushes him away.

From this moment on, EL Casper is no longer El Casper, he has

become the civilian WILLY and will be described as such.

Nauseated, WILLY stumbles to the other end of the boxcar and

vomits, placing the chimba and the bloody machete next to

him.

52 EXT. ROAD BED - LATER 52

The rain has stopped. Smiley stands above El Lil' Mago’s

body lying in a puddle of blood and water. His eyes are open

and his skin is blue/gray, his left leg is gone, ripped off

at the hip and his other leg is twisted 180 degrees in the

other direction. Flies and mosquitos buzz around his head.

Smiley digs around his clothes, pulls out his cell phone. He

checks it, it works.

53 EXT. TOP OF BOXCAR - NIGHT 53

The rain has stopped and the sky is clear. Sayra is quiet.

She trembles from the cold and wet clothes.

On the other end of the car, Willy sits by himself.

Horacio, Orlando, and several other immigrants whisper

inaudibly to each other, all we hear is...

51.

IMMIGRANT 1

We are riding with the Devil.

He’ll curse us all.

They keep their eyes on Willy, unaware that he knows they are

watching him. THREE IMMIGRANTS present themselves in front

of Horacio, offering CIGARETTES and a COUPLE LOLLI-POPs for

Sayra. Horacio accepts the gifts.

54 OTHER SIDE OF BOX CAR - NIGHT 54

Tears begin to drip down Willy’s face. He breaks down but

makes no noise, as if he were crying on mute.

55 TOP OF BOXCAR - NIGHT 55

Horacio’s eyes are red, but they are wide and wary. He looks

down at Sayra. She holds herself to stay warm.

Orlando covers her with the plastic bag and leans in to

whisper to her.

ORLANDO:

Are you okay?

Sayra turns away. With her back to Horacio and Orlando, she

watches Willy cry.

Horacio turns on a FLASHLIGHT and scans the ground next to

the tracks. All along the train OTHER IMMIGRANTS do the

same, DOZENS of flashlights scanning for bandits, Migra, and

Mareros, like WWII air-raid search lights, only here they are

pointed at the ground.

56 EXT. TOP OF BOXCAR - DAY 56

Dawn. The car is divided into two sides, Willy on the front

side and the rest of the FORTY immigrants jammed on the other

half.

Everyone is awake, including Horacio and Orlando (lollipops

in mouth), watching Willy. He sits on the edge of the car

with his legs dangling over the edge, his eyes half-closed.

He struggles to stay awake, wary of the immigrants watching

him, but sleep overtakes him.

THREE IMMIGRANTS from the night before motion to each other.

Two have their farming tools, machetes wrapped in plastic

protective sheathes. The other scavenges a large rock

formerly used to hold down his tarp.

52.

They creep towards Willy quietly, ready to attack.

Sayra gasps awake between Horacio and Orlando, both of whom

intently watch what is about to go down.

Slowly... Sayra realizes what they are doing. They close in

on Willy, she points out to the horizon, at first unable to

speak, she repeats herself until she finds her voice,

suddenly screaming...

SAYRA:

Migra!

Everyone, including Willy and the THREE attackers look at

her, then where she’s pointing.

Willy looks at Sayra -- then the attackers. He understands

their intent and grabs his chimba.

The element of surprise is lost, they retreat back to their

side of the train car.

Meanwhile, the entire train comes alive as others pass the

word, screaming...

IMMIGRANTS:

(telephoning down the

train)

Migra! ...

Hundreds scramble to their feet, ducking and scanning the

horizon. Some point out to the side, searching for a glimpse

of the raid. Others ready to jump.

Horacio and Orlando look where Sayra is pointing, but they

cannot see anything. There is no Migra raid.

The THREE immigrants who were going to attack Willy sit near

Horacio and Sayra, they stare at her suspiciously.

Horacio and Orlando look at her, she looks straight back at

them, unflinching.

57 OTHER SIDE OF TRAIN CAR - LATER 57

Willy stands up. On the car in front of him, a group of

immigrants stare at him. Willy looks at them and they

immediately look away. He turns and looks behind him. The

same effect happens with the group on his car. Only Sayra

holds his stare.

53.

He looks down at the rails passing beneath him, flirting with

the sensation of falling. He closes his eyes, feels the air

rushing around him. His balance waivers, he opens them again

and turns to see if Sayra is still staring at him. She is.

Orlando and Horacio check in with each other, wondering what

he is doing.

Willy kneels down and picks up his chimba; he looks around

him, at the immigrants who pretend like they’re not looking

at him, then tosses it off the side of the train.

58 EXT. SIDE OF BOXCAR - DAY 58

The train is stopped. Horacio, Sayra, and Orlando eat more

tortillas and beans from a can.

Without anything else to drink, immigrants collect brackish

water from an irrigation ditch along the tracks with empty

soda bottles.

Donald offers Sayra a sip. She declines.

DONALD:

It’s clean.

ORLANDO:

It looks like Kool-aid.

Donald sticks the bottle of water to his eye and stares into

it like a kaleidoscope.

DONALD:

(smiling)

Clean.

He grabs his shirt, wraps it around the opening and drinks

through it like a filter. He pulls out a small box from his

pocket and shakes it like a rattler.

DONALD (CONT’D)

If we get sick, I have pills.

He rubs his stomach soothingly.

Sayra takes the water, wraps her shirt around the top and

takes a few sips.

She looks at Willy, still in the same place. She grabs a

scrap of newspaper, wraps a couple tortillas in it with beans

and starts to climb up the train, Horacio grabs her arm...

54.

HORACIO:

Sayra.

She yanks free and keeps climbing. Horacio spits.

HORACIO (CONT’D)

We’re cleaned out, and she gives

him our last...

ORLANDO:

Be patient with her.

Horacio is visibly frustrated.

ORLANDO:

Can’t Yessenia send money?

Horacio shakes his head.

HORACIO:

No, we’ll have to make it to the

border on our own, then she can

wire the money for the crossing.

59 EXT. TOP OF STOPPED TRAIN 59

Willy sits by himself. His cell phone beeps again. It’s EL

Sol:
GREENLIGHT. You’re dead. The BATTERY warning signals

as well. Willy stuffs the phone away, digesting the news.

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