Sin Nombre Page #14

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72.

WILLY:

We’re going to have to jump down.

HORACIO:

Why?

WILLY:

The train station is gated,

sometimes there are migra and

judicial police.

ORLANDO:

Where can we go then?

WILLY:

Around, as fast as we can.

They gather their belongings. Horacio feels suddenly and

begrudgingly dependent on Willy’s knowledge.

75A EXT. SOUTH SIDE OF ORIZABA TRAIN YARD - DAY 75A

The Maras’ Carrola comes to a skidding stop. Smiley jumps out

with the others and runs down the side of the train. The high-

pitched POP of the hydraulic breaks scares him -- he jumps

back.

The train pulls itself into the gated yard.

He scans the train cars, all empty

EL SCARFACE:

Smiley, we’ll go around and follow

the stragglers.

(to his THREE others)

Meet us on the other side of the

station.

They JUMP ONTO THE MOVING TRAIN, Scarface quickly jumping to

the other side of the train. Smiley hesitantly skitters

across the coupler and jumps off on the other side.

75B EXT. ORIZABA STREETS - MINUTES LATER 75B

Sayra, Willy, Horacio, Orlando, and SEVEN other immigrants

run down the streets, they are all out of breath.

73.

75C EXT. ORIZABA STREETS - SIMULTANEOUS 75C

Scarface and Smiley turn down the street. EIGHT YOUNG MEN

look at them curiously. One throws up his hand, stacking

letters like sign-language. Suddenly they realize that they

are in a Barrio 18 neighborhood. They’ve walked into the

hornets next.

They start to back peddle, but the BARRIO 18 members get up.

YELLING after them.

76 EXT. INDUSTRIAL YARDS - MINUTES LATER 76

Sayra, Willy, Horacio, and Orlando on their last legs,

meander down the crooked streets of Orizaba with a SEVEN

other immigrants in tow.

DONALD, who they haven’t seen since Tierra Blanca appears

next to them from a diagonal street. He starts running with

them.

DONALD:

Nice day for a run, eh?

Sayra and Willy are not laughing.

They jump down onto a dirt path that skirts a canal running

along the edge of the fenced train yard.

77 OMITTED 77

78 EXT. NORTH SIDE OF ORIZABA TRAIN YARD - MINUTES LATER 78

Sayra, Willy, Horacio, Orlando, and Donald emerge from the

canal on to the other side of the train yard, an open expanse

that faces the high mountains of Orizaba pass.

From what they can see, there are TWENTY Immigrants casually

waiting for the train to come through and no sign of police

or migra.

They sit and catch their breath. Just then, ruckus erupts

down towards the gate where the trains exit.

THREE Maras, El Pajaro, El Sipe and El Chino rush out of El

Scarface’s Carrola. They scan the immigrants, trudging

through huddled groups, throwing backpacks around and pushing

people. It is abundantly clear they are looking for Willy

and making a huge, fearless stir.

74.

Willy stands, calculates, has no options but to escape. He

picks up his machete, walks back slowly, then crouches down a

ditch away from the station, making his way down the tracks.

The Maras pass Sayra, Horacio, and Orlando. The family tries

not to look in the direction where Willy went.

El Sipe pauses, looking at Sayra suspiciously. He continues

on.

EXT. ABANDONED TRAIN CARS AND CANAL - CONTINUOUS

Willy hides behind a boxcar, breathing hard, his heart

thumping. El Chino is the first one to enter his alley of

abandoned cars. He turns the corner where Willy is standing,

but he’s gone. El Chino keeps moving.

Above, on top of the car, Willy lays on his belly. He looks

around, El Pajaro approaches from the other side. Noticing

El Sipe ahead of him, he climbs into the box car and looks

around. Willy can see him through holes in the roof, El Sipe

crosses the car onto the next tracks.

Willy crawls down into the boxcar through a hole. He lands

nimbly, then carefully peaks down the line of cars to see El

Sipe and El Pajaro’s progress.

THUMP. He looks up. Some one is one the roof. He steps

back against the wall of the car, light rays streaming down

around him, then a shadow. He sees a GUN in the man’s hands.

It’s El Pajaro.

Willy stops breathing, they are right next to each other.

The wind blows trash inside the car. El Pajaro stops, looks

down. He doesn’t seem to see Willy. He keeps moving.

Willy exhales. He waits for a moment, then slowly exits the

car, tracking back towards the station.

He passes another open boxcar, on the other side, El Sipe

stares at Willy. Recognition clicks.

WHOOMP. A rock slams into the side of his head. El Sipe

collapses.

Willy is confused. Then Horacio appears a car length down,

holding another rock in his hands.

Willy’s face reveals shock, then relief.

WILLY:

Take the gun.

*

75.

HORACIO:

I’ll have none of it.

Horacio kicks it under the train.

HORACIO:

Leave my family now. You brought

this, there’ll only be more to

come.

Willy nods to himself. He knows it’s true.

WILLY:

Let me cross the mountains with

you, I’ll be gone by tomorrow. I

promise.

GUN SHOTS erupt from far away, echoing over them like fireworks.

79A EXT. BARRIO 18 STREET, ORIZABA - SIMULTANEOUS 79A

A bullet ZIPS over Smiley and Scarface’s head. They are

trapped behind a car. Shards of glass spray over them as

bullets THUMP into the rocking car.

The Barrio 18 soldiers have fanned out down the street,

making their way towards them, firing POT SHOTS, advancing in

the open, then retreating as Scarface fires back.

Smiley is frozen with fear.

EL SCARFACE:

Pull out your f***ing gun, Smiley.

Smiley fumbles for the pistol in his pocket.

EL SCARFACE:

How many bullets do you have?

SMILEY:

Just these.

Scarface sneaks a peak at the Barrio 18’s progress.

EL SCARFACE:

Don’t worry, these guys can’t aim

for sh*t...

A bullet zips by his head

76.

EL SCARFACE:

-Except that one.

El Scarface leans out and starts firing.

EL SCARFACE:

Go, go, go!

Smiley rushes to the next car in a hurried retreat. The

bullets zip all around them.

79B EXT. ORIZABA STREETS - LATER 79B

El Pajaro drives the Carrola, El Chino holds a dazed El Sipe

in the back. They see El Scarface and Smiley in an

adrenaline drained run heading towards them.

EL SCARFACE:

Where the f*** where you guys? You

didn’t hear the shots?

EL PAJARO:

We did, but we almost had him, El

Casper.

EL SCARFACE:

So? Because of El Casper you

p*ssy’s left me and Smiley to fight

on our own? Where is he?

EL PAJARO:

He’s on the train again. To D.F.

EL SCARFACE:

This kid, Smiley, had my back. You

didn’t. Remember that. We’re

going to D.F. I’m going to kill

this f***er. Move!

El Pajaro moves out of his way. Scarface jumps into the car.

80 OMITTED 80

81 OMITTED 81

82 EXT. NORTHERN HIGHLANDS OF ORIZABA - DAY 82

The train heads towards a steep slope leading to a mountain

range.

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