Alamo Bay

Howdy.

You're luckier than a pig I picked you up.

Some of these old boys around here...

would drive right over top of you, son.

Vietnamese, ain't you?

Uh-huh.

It's all right. Had a good time over there myself.

Good-looking women. Dynamite drugs.

You work for Mr. Wally Scheer?

Uh-uh.

Thought all of you in these parts did.

Well, hell, son, what'd you do, just get to Texas?

I think so.

I don't know what to tell you.

How about a beer?

Lone Star?

All right.

Now, that there, that is a Texas shrimp.

That's what this whole town lives on.

Up ahead is Wally Seafood.

I might be able to get you a job there.

I'll talk to his daughter for you.

No, I think-I think it's just gonna work out real great.

Listen, you have... You gonna have a big weekend, something's coming up.

All you gotta do is call.

We can make the delivery.

- So we got ourselves a deal? - Hey, hey, Glory.

Oh, great.

Hey, Luis, how you doing?

Yesterday you told me you was gonna quit.

I'm gonna quit, okay.

Well, move it. Don't stand around here.

But the boss don't believe me.

Careful how you load.

God damn it, Luis, watch 'em.

Come on, move it.

This number five here is slower than a strawberry.

Come on, number five, get them shrimp! Get them shrimp!

Hey, Leon, I just got off the phone...

with that new Shrimpy Wimpy in Corpus.

Switching their account to us chickens.

Hey. Hey, stop giving me new business.

I tell you, Wally, I don't want no more nails in my tires.

Oh, the bunch of yellow-bellied buzzards!

Listen, Cap, speaking of yellow, on the road from Corpus,

I picked up another one for you. Got him right up...

Well, he was right there.

Where'd he go?

You kids hush up that crying now. Your daddy's coming home.

Should we tell him you was bad?

Hey, darling.

What's everybody crying for? Huh?

What's the problem around here?

What you been doing to them?

There you go.

You're gonna kill them flowers,

watering them when the sun's still up.

Did you see Wendell about the boat loan?

I've been working today. I just got off the boat. Get in that pool.

You kids behave now. You got 200 pounds.

Marge says Percy says he saw you down at the docks talking to Glory Scheer.

“Marge says Percy says.”

I ain't even talked to her.

There's another one of 'em cutting through the yard again.

Hey, you! Get out of here!

Howdy.

Huh? What'd you say?

Howdy. I'm looking for the Vietnamese people.

You're standing on my damn lawn.

I ought to shoot you.

They live over there. Slop City.

Thank you, folks. Have a nice day.

Jesus H. Christ.

I'm gonna get me another dog, that's all there is to it.

I'm not having the kids bitten by one of them dogs again.

Shang, why can't we just move away from here?

Because my boat is about to be repossessed,

that's why we can't just move away from here.

Because you spend all the money I make.

Because you got yourself knocked up so I'd marry you,

and you knocked yourself up again,

that's why we can't just move away from here!

Come on, Shang. Be nice.

Amen.

Thank you.

So, are you gonna stay with us in Texas?

Saigon fancy boy. Stay here, be millionaire!

Dinh. Dinh.

Hope you guys have a good day.

Got a lot of big orders to fill.

Bye. See you later!

Dinh!

Hey, gook! Learn to drive!

Hey, you piss-complected slant-eyed bastard!

Cocksuckers!

Cocksuckers!

Hey, Luis. You know, that ain't much shrimp for 10 hours' work.

These gooks been raping the bay. That's a fact.

It's like a range. There's only so many fish.

You overgraze it, and everybody goes belly up.

You can smell 'em 20 feet away.

It's that damn stink sauce they eat.

Hey, listen, Daddy, I got Henry Gummer on the line,

and he needs some more shrimp tonight. What do you say?

Yeah, do that. Okay.

Talk to you later.

They're 40-50s, Shang, $2 a pound.

Hey, man, don't go jewin' me down. Them 36-40s.

At least why don't you put some of them big ones on your scale?

You said you was gonna take your business to Crankshaw, so do it.

I'm telling you what, you're gonna lose every white man you've got.

Keep an eye on him, Skinner.

Henry, we've been through all this before.

I can accommodate any kind of expansion that you're gonna make.

Okay, great. You need five more crates of 40-50s.

I can do it. It's a cinch.

Look, you have any problems, you call me up.

I'll handle it personally, all right?

Henry, we don't miss deliveries.

I don't know where you're hearing that.

Sure, there's always gonna be labor trouble, you know that.

You can count on us.

Okay

You, too, Henry. Bye.

You wore your shorts for me.

You were away all this time, you come back still wearing your shorts for me?

That was Henry Gummer on the phone.

He owns one of those high-class restaurants in Corpus, you know?

Gets all the convention trade.

When I worked at the Ramada Inn,

I mean, we used to send parties to him all the time.

Now he's calling up telling me that people from this dumb-ass town...

are telling him not to trade with us 'cause we use Vietnamese.

So, how are you, Shang?

I've been worse.

You still stuck-up, ain't you?

Hey, don't do that. Don't let Daddy catch you doing that.

He says you and your friends are trying to wreck our business.

“Our business”?

Yeah, I'm helping him out for a while since he's got sick.

That's why I came back.

I'm the new fish-house mama.

Seen my new boat, American Dream Girl?

I saw her out there.

I saw you driving down the street the other day.

I seen you a couple other places, too.

Excuse me. You got injector for a 671?

Just a second.

I'm real busy. Ls there anything else I can do for you?

You know what I want.

Look, don't come busting in here...

while I'm trying to talk to somebody else.

Now, what do you need, an N-65?

No, I want a N-55.

Them gooks are out there with binoculars.

Every time they see an American boat catching shrimp,

they come running right back up on him.

That's a crime.

You all give me a pain in the tail-butt. Get on my nerves.

He's talking about his nerves,

when I got me a boat out there...

I'm about to lose to the loan sharks...

on account of some people doing business with Vietnamese.

What do you think, Luis?

I think I'm a Mexican.

You do what you want, Wally, but the fact is we're gonna quit selling to you.

Well, you just do that!

I'm gonna get other white men to do the same thing.

You're gonna end up a stranger in your own town.

If I was your age, I'd wipe the dock with you!

Glory!

Sons of bitches... Drugstore fishermen!

Take one of your pills.

Daddy, are you crazy all the time?

What the hell's he doing back there after you?

Come on, Daddy!

Come on.

When he was sparking you in high school,

that's when I should've shot him.

Saigon city boy!

Two shots, Buddy.

Howdy, Ab.

Get a load of Shang and Glory dancing?

Yeah.

What are we, big ones or little ones?

Little ones.

I see your boat. It's right there.

No. I want you to get on board.

I gotta go home.