Sunshine State Page #10

When you sent me away,

you broke mine.

Your father worked so hard...

...to maintain a degree

of respectability.

Everybody was watching him.

White people, black people.

And there I go...

...showing my colour.

Isn't that what they used to call it?

I thought it would be better for you,

for all of us.

Young girls get pregnant

and have babies every day.

We were trying to put an end to that.

We were hoping for a better life.

-Moving up.

-Taking care of ourselves.

Taking care of each other.

Talking isn't going to change

what's been done, is it?

How are you doing, Mama?

Dr. Lloyd....

I will live until I die.

If anything should happen...

...and you're worried about money

to take care of Terrell....

Baby, what good is money...

...gonna do for Terrell?

Stop Plantation now!

Stop Plantation now!

I'm with Exley!

It's just the same bunch

of malcontents.

We'll frame them out,

get footage of the machinery.

-The chanting?

-Don't worry, we won't run the sound.

-We got bones, boss.

-They used to raise cattle here.

-Don't look like no cow to me.

-A fuckload of them.

They've been dead a long time.

Everybody, I have to ask you

all to leave the premises...

...while we continue

this investigation.

Tell me that's not an arrowhead.

They say the only bad Indian

is a dead Indian.

Please, back it up.

Archaeologists say the find is

of enormous importance.

The remains, almost definitely

the first Native American inhabitants...

... of Plantation Island.

The site seems to be a well

or cistern of some sort.

We've discovered quite a few

crucifixes amongst the bones.

Based on the forensic examination, I'd

say we're dealing with a mass burial....

-This mean you're out of here?

-Hi.

When you turn over a rock,

you never know what you'll find.

-I've been shut down by fish, birds....

-Never by people?

Not by dead ones.

So where to now?

They're flying me to a site

on Vieques Island. Tomorrow.

Puerto Rico.

So kind of bad timing, huh?

With us?

Yeah.

You have fun down there.

It's bright daylight outside,

you don't need the flash.

Terrell, get in the picture.

Come on.

Stand in between us, Terrell.

That's it. Smile now!

-That's gonna be a nice one.

-I'm serious about those grades.

-I'll send you a copy when he gets them.

-You hear that? There's no escape.

-Take as much time as you need.

-Thanks.

Before it was land, it was gold.

That was the dream.

To be richer than kings.

Ponce de Len wanders ashore

and runs into a native...

...wearing a three-pound gold necklace.

He says, "Where did you get that?"

The native demonstrates in sign

language, "l picked it off the ground."

Soon, the place is lousy with Spanish.

They killed off entire tribes...

...forcing them to look for the stuff.

Where there was a Spaniard...

...there were six Indians

sweating their asses off...

...but not one nugget

did they find.

-So where'd the native guy get it?

-He picked it off the beach.

It washed ashore from

Spanish galleons that sank here.

The metal came from Bolivia, Peru.

Where they had mines...

...and an inexhaustible supply

of Indians to work.

-Chasing after their own treasure.

-Chasing the dream.

What do we have today to strike it

rich like that? Transform your life?

Hap Gordon won the Florida Lottery.

Where you scratch the card.

-It lacks poetry.

-In Lauderdale, I had a metal detector.

-Worked the beaches every morning.

-And?

Mostly tabs from beer cans.

We live in impoverished times.

Young people dream of appearing

on quiz shows, dating models....

-That's something.

-Compared to pieces of eight?

There's no mystery anymore.

There are footprints on the moon.

They say there might be gold

on the moon.

Now there's a thought.

Prospecting in outer space.

But what will we do for Indians?

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