The Hunt Page #2

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And he'll kill more than us. Don't know

where he finds the pulse.

Someone's coming.

It's Juan. About time.

The best time is about to end.

Your shotgun, Quique.

And be careful, let's

not spoil the day.

You too?

A Luger. "Made in Germany".

A quality gun.

- Where did you get it?

- It belongs to my father.

When they freeze, there's

no way to make them shoot.

Many a man died because of that.

Are we ready?

Luis! What are you doing?

I'm ready. I'm not going

to be carrying stuff.

Where are you going with that?

You'll ruin it.

It's just to have a memento.

Carcasses are the best mementos.

Leave that. Come on!

Let's get a move on.

Good morning.

I heard shots and

thought it was you.

- How are you, Don Jos?

- Where were you?

With the lambs. I work alone now.

As you know, my brother

left for Germany.

- I noticed you have ferrets.

- Yes, sir.

Here's the thing. We'll go out to see

if there's anything out there...

Watch out for traps.

They're marked in white.

Don't go too far and keep

an eye on our things.

And be here around one thirty

to fix us a "paella".

Yes, sir.

And where is your dog?

The one-eyed one?

He died this winter.

- I have another one now for the flock.

- Pity.

We're wasting time, Jose.

This is the best time.

With that plague, are

there any rabbits?

I've seen some.

I trapped one last week.

Just our luck.

I can't stand cripples,

they give me the creeps.

- Still obsessed?

- But, why?

That's just foolish.

I'd rather die than lose

an arm or a leg.

Besides, they're bad luck.

Juan is hard to understand.

But living here in the

bush with the cold winter...

and the hot summer...

Like now.

What annoys me is that

he sets rabbit traps...

and then says they're disappearing

due to myxomatosis.

Anyhow, I can forgive Juan.

He spends all year here in the bush...

It's not so bad... all year long

without anybody bothering you.

I'd change places with him.

It's all the same to you. You'd

change places with anyone.

"I've got this feeling of having

been here before.

"I like it... the heat,

the smell of thyme.

"What a strange feeling!

"When have I been in

a place like this?"

- Cuca!

- What's up with Cuca?

She must have seen something.

Out, Cuca, out!

A sick rabbit. We're done for.

And it's recent.

Never seen them like that?

C'mon, Cuca!

It's all ready, uncle.

Don't touch that stuff, Carmen!

I'm not touching, just looking.

Did you see the nice radio?

That Don Jos, the oldest one,

doe he own it all?

If only he'd think of improving

the land instead of hunting.

The soil is good, we could have

a decent harvest.

But what does he care?

- Did you know that myxomatosis was

spread by a French doctor? - What for?

Well, rabbits really know

how to multiply.

Now it's called multiplication.

Somebody had the idea of

taking rabbits to Australia...

and the rabbits didn't find

any natural enemies there.

They figure that a pair of rabbits had

Don't you know that in Australia some

parts of the bush seems to move...

- from so many rabbits?

- I tell you, rats and rabbits...

They say that a doctor,

what was his name...?

Devel or Dein. He infected one rabbit

with myxomatosis and let it loose.

The disease soon

crossed the Pyrenees...

- and that's how we got here.

- You know a lot about rabbits.

- Too much.

- And about other things, Paco.

"It didn't look like a rabbit.

It didn't even look like an animal.

"It was like a monster... Will the

rabbits we hunt be in that state?

Cuca! Cuca! Come here.

Easy, easy Cuca.

Almost caught it, right?

You almost did.

The first one you hunt

is all for you.

My pretty one!

Load it and get ahead of me.

I'll show you.

We start here. Paco and I on the right

and you cover the other flank.

Let Enrique cover a wing,

it's less dangerous.

- Do you mind?

- I don't care, as you wish.

OK then. Paco and I

will go on ahead...

then Enrique to the right and you

close the flank on the right.

Listen, this isn't a

military operation.

- I just want to shoot once and for all.

- Make sure you don't shoot us...

"If I could just convince Paco.

"He likes to hunt. He's a hunter.

"This damned sun is

making me nervous.

"If I could convince Paco,

everything might still be fixed.

"Can't get distracted.

Forget everything now.

"That trap could have

broken my ankle.

"That's all I would need."

"Why does he close the traps?

That Juan must live on rabbits.

"Sick rabbits, that's why he limps.

"Unbearable heat. What got into me?

Accepting Jose's hunting invitation.

"What an idiot I am. He's invited me

just to ask for money, I'm sure.

"What else?"

Can I have a drink?

- What's this?

- Go back to your place.

There she goes, Jose!

Damn!

Take it, it's yours.

Don't know where I hit it.

Rifle bullets are very small.

What are you doing?

Look, like that.

Cuca! Cuca!

Fetch! Cuca!

Fetch! Cuca!

Fetch!

Come on, Cuca. Fetch!

Cuca! Fetch over there!

Come on, Cuca.

Fetch there again.

"I wonder what Luca is doing.

She's with anybody, forget her.

"You've behaved like an idiot in

that and in everything else.

"It's too late to fix it now.

"And if we all had myxomatosis?

"Jose, Paco...

"are already old. And me?

Do I look as old as them?"

Jose, remember when we went out...?

- What?

- Nothing.

Look, Jose. Do you like it?

Take pictures of your father, boy.

Leave me alone.

"Could it be that I also

didn't notice at other times?

"I looked like one of those old men,

sunbathing on a street corner.

"I have to be careful,

it's only natural.

"After so much time

without working out.

"But he's always the same.

"Doesn't care about anything."

Don Jos.

Sit down. What is it?

You've seen my mother.

I brought her from the town.

She was worse off there.

And... just look, Don Jos,

where I have to lodge her.

And I don't know what will happen

when winter comes around.

It gets very cold here, Don Jos.

That's why... I thought it would

be best for her in a hospital.

You have connections...

that could help us a lot.

Sure, don't worry.

We'll see about that.

Don Elas, the town doctor...

you know...

Prescribed some medicine.

I... wanted to ask you a favor...

If you could advance me some money

and then take it out of my salary...

That's really difficult, Juan.

Really difficult.

And where are we going

to discount it from?

- I had thought around 5,000.

- Like I said.

Impossible. Things aren't

going well recently.

If you had asked last winter, or even

this one, it might have been possible.

I'm sorry, Juan. I'm really sorry.

- I've never asked for anything!

- It will come out all right, man.

I'll hear about the hospital.

As for the medicine...

I don't know... we'll see.

I'll do what I can.

Listen, Paco.

"There was a fifth planet which

exploded and blew up in little pieces...

"The moon was bombed and so was Earth.

Pieces the size of mountains fell...

"from the sky on the

Earth and the moon.

"Perhaps a few places were

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