The Alamo Page #3

Crockett!

I have, I believe, learned

two things about you.

Worthwhile, I hope.

You're not the illiterate country bumpkin

you would have people believe.

You speak an excellent and

concise English when you wish.

The... uh... bad grammar is a pose.

A fella has to do a lot to get elected to

Congress. I've kissed many a baby, too.

The other is that you came

to Texas to fight with us.

Don't tell my Tennesseans that.

They think we came south

to hunt and... get drunk.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

They... uh... seem

to have accomplished that.

Good evening, my almost-vanishing lady.

- Puedes irte, Juan.

- S, Seor Sand.

Trae el equipaje.

Incredible! I arranged for this carriage...

I would be heartbroken

if you left Bexar just now.

Even more so if you left

with my team of horses...

...which would bring

a pretty penny in these times...

...with two factions

buying anything on four legs.

Do you have business here?

I promised Mother.

Your mother?

Pray to the North Star.

Ten minutes every night.

A long line of star-worshippers.

It keeps the rheumatiz away.

It seems to me you're looking for trouble.

It do?

Let's go upstairs. Unless you prefer

discussing your business...

...in front of every drunken loafer in Bexar.

ndala, pues!

I suppose that overdressed ignoramus...

...is one of the riffraff

here to resist Santa Anna.

They'll find graves and nothing else.

Santa Anna will sweep across...

Overdressed?

I paid good money for these clothes.

Why?

Lady's luggage.

Gratuity for the boy. You forgot.

Dinero.

Son, I guess he isn't gonna tip you.

Another thing I promised Mother.

Never to get in situations

where people pointed guns at me.

Ma'am, it is possible that I am mistaken...

...but it seems to me you find this

gentleman's company distasteful.

Tell him to get out.

Thank you, sir, but there is no way

in which you could be of help.

- And I am in no danger.

- I bid you good night, ma'am.

Gratuity for the boy.

Your property, sir.

Muchsimas gracias!

We are guaranteed the protection

of the generalissimo himself.

Ah, but please don't misunderstand me.

I don't want all of your lands.

Half will be sufficient for me.

I'm no glutton.

T eres el ms digno

descendiente de la liga de fuerzas!

El ms bajo de los cobardes!

Pero cmo es posible que

tengas tan poca dignidad?

Cmo es posible que tengas

tan poca vergenza?

Easy, Graciela, easy! I speak your

language, but that's too fast for me.

Though I dare say

I'm better off not understanding.

You actually wanted me to agree to this?

This atrocity?!

I actually did and I actually do.

You're an educated woman, Graciela.

Intelligent.

Is there any other way

to restore your family properties?

Santa Anna's administrators rule Potos.

You... you expect me to marry you...

...with my father and four brothers newly

buried in Potos... and my husband?

I expect it because it is the logical course.

To marry you? Logical?!

Of course!

I am acceptable to Santa Anna.

If he should be defeated, I will manage

to become acceptable to his successors.

Oh...

That's the trick. To be acceptable

to the powers that be.

Let's not pretend

you're a broken-hearted widow.

You barely knew the man.

The marriage was as much arranged

as this one would be.

- Your family picked him up.

- That's the way of my people.

You'll say yes.

It's your only possible path.

Like all women,

you'll postpone the decision.

But you will say yes.

Forgive me, ma'am, but I was

having a smoke out on that gallery...

...and I couldn't help but overhear...

I wasn't eavesdropping.

But it rankles me when somebody tries

to force somebody to do something.

You haven't seen me before tonight,

but I am offering you my services.

If that fella's making you stay in Bexar...

...I'm ready, willing and able

to provide you...

...a transport to wherever you wanna go.

And on the other hand,

if you choose to stay in Bexar...

...I'm ready, willing and able

to see that he don't bother you.

Would you answer one question with

complete honesty, Mr... Tall American?

Ma'am, only modesty

restrains me from telling you...

...that I am widely known

for my truthfulness.

Would you so quickly offer to defend me

if I were 60 years old and wrinkled?

Or is it because

I am young and a widow...

...and you are far from home

and your loved ones?

But thank you, anyway, sir.

In any event...

...this is a matter in which

no outsider could help.

Mr Tall American!

I do believe that a woman in trouble,

even though 60 and wrinkled...

...could turn to you for help.

Good night, ma'am.

Adelante!

Ha!

Well, thanks, friend!

If you don't insist on having them

to yourself, I'll give you a hand.

Pleasure, friend.

You must be Jim Bowie.

The size and the shape is as described...

...and this knife is certainly

everything I heard it was.

- I'm Bowie.

- I'm Davy Crockett.

Well! I've heard a lot about you!

I've heard a lot about you, too.

I'd admire to buy you a drink,

or eight or ten.

Oh... Excuse me.

Did you have some trouble

with Emil Sand?

- Who's Emil Sand?

- Merchant.

- Tall fella? Butter-coloured hair?

- That's him.

I've had some words with him.

Intend to have some more.

- How about that drink?

- Honoured, Congressman Crockett!

Please, Jim! Don't call me that!

I've been trying to live it down.

Here's your extra coat, Davy. And a jug.

Thoughtful. You'd better

get some sleep, Smitty.

I'm not tired.

It's Mexico. Exciting night.

Yeah, well, you'd still

better get some sleep.

All right, Davy.

Night, Smitty.

Good night, Colonel Bowie... Jim.

Took a long time for

this night to get unexciting.

It sure did.

'Tis a mighty pretty one though.

I understand you moved down here

lock, stock, and barrel, Jim.

I didn't plan on moving.

Came for a visit and stayed.

- I gather you like it.

- Oh, Davy! If you only knew Mexico!

It's wonderful!

I thought she was a burnt-over

desert most of the time.

Nah... Most northerners

think that. It ain't so.

Big valleys between high mountains.

Just everything a man could want

in the way of country.

For looking at or... or for growing on.

But mostly...

Mostly it's the people, Davy.

They got...

This is kinda hard to explain, but...

...they got courage and they got dignity.

They ain't afraid to die.

What seems most important to me

is that they ain't afraid to live.

Today is important to them,

not the dollar tomorrow might bring.

I suppose the Yankee says that's lazy.

Me? I say it's a way of livin'.

And the womenfolk!

Well, Davy...

I figured you favoured the Mexican ladies.

They tell me you married one.

Yeah, I... uh...

I did.

I... uh...

Well, Davy, I...

I just ain't got, you know, your way

of putting things into... into words, but...

I got a fine family.

A wonderful wife and...

...two fine boys.

I guess I'm what you'd call a lucky man.

Now, that ain't a bad stab

at putting it into words.

I, uh, sent them up to Coahuila with

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