Sin Nombre Page #19

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Willy smiles wistfully. She leans on him.

SAYRA (CONT’D)

I’m not allowed to hug you?

Willy shrugs.

WILLY:

When we get to the other side, I

want you to make me a promise.

SAYRA:

What?

WILLY:

No matter what happens, you’ll try

to find your family.

SAYRA:

They’re not my family.

WILLY:

You’ve got little sisters who don’t

have a father now.

SAYRA:

I’d just be a burden, like I am to

everyone else.

WILLY:

To me no.

(BEAT)

And you could help them. You could

work or something.

SAYRA:

You’d be with me?

WILLY:

Of course.

She shyly hands him the camera. He’s surprised. He looks at

her, only slightly angered, but more happy to have the camera

back.

100.

121 EXT. BRIAR WEEDS - DAY 121

Leche leads Willy and Sayra through the maze of weeds. A

SILHOUETTE dashes across an opening in the distance. No one

notices it but Willy. He grabs onto Sayra and pushes her

along faster.

122 EXT. RIO BRAVO - DAY 122

Leche sits on an INNER-TUBE in a speedo.

LECHE:

I can only take one of you at a

time.

WILLY:

We paid for two tubes.

Leche shrugs. He’s not changing his mind. Sayra notices

that Willy is heavily disappointed about this. He motions

for her to go.

Money?

LECHE:

WILLY:

Once we get across.

Leche clicks his tongue, no. He holds out his hand. Neither

Willy nor Sayra have any money. He reaches into his pocket

and gives Leche the camera. Leche inspects it. Accepts.

Sayra is bitter-sweetly amazed.

WILLY (CONT’D)

You first.

Sayra looks at him nervously.

WILLY (CONT’D)

Go on, now.

She hugs him tightly, he kisses her on her forehead.

WILLY (CONT’D)

(to Leche)

Hey, you. Turn around.

Willy points at Leche, who was watching Sayra optimistically.

Willy gives Sayra her privacy too and turns around, just as

he sees movement again in the tall weeds.

101.

WILLY (CONT’D)

Hurry up and get in the water,

girl.

Sayra undresses to her underwear quickly, puts her clothes in

a plastic bag and slips into the water. Willy turns around,

he tells Sayra slowly and deliberately...

WILLY (CONT’D)

It’ll be okay.

Leche grabs onto a rope tied to the BLACK INNER-TUBE and

pulls Sayra into the current of the river.

Sayra watches Willy as she’s pulled further into the river,

there is a sadness in his eyes. She suddenly understands

why, he’s not getting ready.

A TATTOOED FACE appears in a clearing. She barely has time

to warn him when he raises a chimba, BAM! A bullet whizzes

over Willy’s head. Willy ducks, then picks up a rock and

throws it at the Marero.

Willy darts into the briar patch of tunnels.

Sayra yells after him...

SAYRA:

Willy!

But he’s gone.

SAYRA (CONT’D)

(to Leche)

We have to go back.

LECHE:

No.

She struggles with Leche.

SAYRA:

Let go of me, let go.

LECHE:

If you get off you’ll drown. There

are whirlpools all along that bank.

102.

123 EXT./INT. RIO BRAVO SHORE MAZE 123

The rustling footsteps increase, silhouettes and shadows zoom

by Willy. COOING and CAWING sounds from all directions. The

turns and roundabouts in the maze become blurs.

Willy comes face to face with another MARERO, his entire face

is covered in tattoos. Willy ducks as he lunges for him.

He dives behind a log. His fingers scan the ground for a

weapon, he finds a boulder and waits.

As another set of footsteps approach, he jumps out, hammering

the bolder into a man’s stomach. He looks down, it’s El Sol,

gasping for air.

Willy dashes for the river, but just when he gets to the

edge, he sees Smiley blocking his way, the rusted revolver

hanging heavily in his lowered hand.

Smiley?

WILLY:

Smiley looks up at Willy fearfully, his mouth goes dry.

Willy implores him with his eyes to let him by.

The silhouettes of the pursuing Maras, including El Scarface,

fast approach. Smiley can see them, feel the pressure of them

getting closer, his eyes change to confused, sad anger. He

raises the pistol.

Smiley...

WILLY:

SMILEY:

La Mara, carnal.

BAM! Smiley fires into Willy’s stomach.

Willy stumbles to the waters edge.

It leaks blood.

Crying, he fires again. WHAM! The bullet hits his kidney.

Then again and again and again.

124 OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER 124

Sayra just reaches the shore as the second shot blasts out.

She screams...

103.

SAYRA:

Willy!

(to Leche)

We have to go back for him.

Leche backs into the weeds on the U.S. side of the river,

then turns and runs away.

She grabs the inner-tube and jumps back into the water.

She struggles to swim back towards Willy but the current has

already brought her far enough down river that it’s making it

impossible for her to get back to his position.

125 EXT. WILLY AND SMILEY’S SIDE OF THE RIVER 125

More Mareros gather, watching Willy stumble into the water.

Suddenly they open up on him, BULLETS from their wide variety

of weaponry pummeling his body.

The Mareros each take turns spitting on him. Smiley is the

only one not to do it. He looks at Willy’s body with a

mixture of hurt and nausea.

SIRENS from both sides of the river approach their direction.

As a group the men disappear into the shadows of the weeds.

126 EXT. DOWN RIVER 126

Sayra cannot compete with the force of the current, she’s

floating away. She stops trying.

127 EXT. U.S SIDE OF RIVER - CONTINUOUS 127

TWO U.S. Border Patrol vehicles speed to the site, drawn by

the gun fire.

128 EXT. RIVER 128

Mareros follow Willy’s body as it drifts down stream,

silently observing its progress from the shadows.

129 POV FROM UNDERWATER 129

Willy’s lifeless body leaks black blood into the green water.

104.

130 EXT. U.S SIDE OF RIVER 130

The Border Patrol vehicles follow as well.

Sayra ditches the inner-tube and struggles to an alcove of

weeds on the U.S. side of the river.

She collapses with fatigue and cries. She breathes hard as

the weight of all that has happened sinks in. Her labored

breathing slowly becomes a heavy, moaning cry. She has lost

everyone.

FADE OUT:

MONTAGE FADE IN:

131 INT. EL LIL' MAGO’S HOUSE, TAPACHULA - DAY 131

MUSIC fades in. The LOCATION SOUND is practically muted as

the music ties one character to the next...

Smiley sits in the middle of the destroyer. Other Maras

mingle around him, but he doesn’t look at them. He stares

past us absently, as if he were looking at something 1000

yards away.

132 EXT. RIO SUCHIATE, GUATEMALA - DAY 132

Orlando, on the same river we began the film, steps onto a

raft with a small group of immigrants.

His face shows the fatigue from the journey, but there is

nothing in his face that shows he’s going to give up.

Around him, other immigrants, individuals and families, make

their first steps on a journey he knows all too well.

133 EXT. RIO GRANDE - DAY 133

Sayra finishes dressing herself. She washes her hands and

face in the river, then disappears into the shrubs towards

the U.S.

134 INT. MORGUE 134

Willy’s lifeless face peeks from a closing PINE BOX COFFIN.

A WORKER staple guns the lid shut.

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