The Missing

Senora Nunez came in.

She's burning up with fever.

Go cool her head, recite the 23rd psalm.

I'll be there in a bit.

"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

"I will fear no evil."

- Morning, kids. - "Thou art with me.

"Thy rod and staff, they comfort me.

"Thou preparest a table before me

“in the presence of mine enemies.

"Thou anointest my head with oil.

"My cup runneth over.

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

"all the days of my life and I will dwell

"in the house of the lord forever."

Darling, get me some cocea paste

and my tooth plier, please.

Yes, ma'am.

No, no.

She don't worry about the pain, no.

It is her only tooth.

She worry how she look.

Thank you, come on,.

Thank you.

No, no!

I'm gonna need you to hold your grandmother down.

Darling, can you hold her arm?

Pin that, dot, hold her nose, hold her nose.

I hate to ask but can you pay me for this today?

Ma, would you say I'm more fearless and eloquent

or serene and dignified?

One's Paris fashion and the other's London.

London, huh?

But personally I think I'm more Paris.

You're not even looking.

I've never known such a dainty piece of girlhood.

Do you think you can change them bedclothes?

Can't dot ever change 'em?

You're always dreaming about expensive flirty things.

I don't have to buy 'em.

No one better be giving you gifts, child.

I can sew you know.

And just where are you gonna be wearing them, Lilly?

Now get to them bedclothes.

Jumping "pinches coyotes sons of bitches.

That lightning sure did kill her.

This calf ain't gonna last the night out here.

Let's put her in the barn.

Senor brake.

Indian.

Apache, maybe.

Some kind of apache son of a bitch.

Good day, sir.

I said, hello.

That your man over there in the trees?

What is he planning on doing with that carbine?

We've had trouble with coyotes killing calves.

Tell him I'm not a coyote.

Is that the healer's place?

You come for doctoring?

Lady shuts her doors at sundown.

She's pretty firm about her hours.

You're welcome to spend the night,

see her in the morning though.

I thank you kindly.

Barn's this way, mister.

There's a spare bunk over there, Mr...

Mr. Fernandez.

Jones.

The man that owned that saddle tried to kill me.

I was living with the jicarilla.

I suppose he thought I was one of them.

You're apache, huh?

What'd you say?

Forget it.

What did you say?

Come over here.

Hey!

Now, I mean it!

There'll be no trouble here.

If that's too tough for you to understand, you can move on.

Emiliano, unpack his mule.

You will keep your hands off of my mule

Emiliano.

- Don't slam that door. - Yes, ma'am.

There are houses in Cleveland with lamps

that run on electricity.

= I'd like to see Cleveland.

Can you fetch the water, please, dot?

Yes, ma'am.

At the fair, there's gonna be expositions of the future.

There's gonna be a graphophone.

You can hear your own voice back on it.

The dickersons are going.

Brake can't spare you.

Not tomorrow with the cows calving.

= the fosters too.

Got all the future you need right here.

Riding all day with this cramping and all.

Don't you ever act helpless

and pitiable to win favor with a man.

Some people shouldn't give advice on how to act with men.

And it's pitiful, not pitiable in english.

= you heard what I said.

That pail's half-empty.

= t didn't do it.

It's that old Indian's dumb old mule.

What Indian?

Some drifter looking for doctoring.

If you're gonna eat barefoot

why don't you take supper

with the other animals in the barn?

My boots don't fit no more.

Cut off my blood circulation.

It's your birthday soon.

I'll have gangrene by then.

Your mother may just have to saw off your feet, then.

Like poor old Mr. swenson.

Mr. Jones.

Maggie, this is the visiting gentleman I mentioned.

I'll bet a warm meal sounds pretty good to you.

Magdalena.

I'm afraid we have just enough food for family.

We can't be offering our hospitality tonight.

I'm sure we can all do with a little less on our plate.

I'm quite sure we can't!

I have two growing girls to feed.

Maggie?

Maggie.

Lilly, why don't you say grace.

= that man in the house her husband?

These are good people, stay away from them,

go steal somewhere else.

Go away,.

The damn coyote came up to the barn.

What's going on?

Everything's fine, Mr. Jones just shot a coyote.

That was no coyote.

He's good at killing things.

That wasn't no lucky shot.

Made for that lion to climb this slope

in the light of the moon.

Nice shot.

= no wind.

Who is he?

Called you magdalena.

Your hair bristles when you lay eyes on him.

He scares me, is all.

Nobody scares you.

= can't trust him.

Maggie, who is he?

He's my father.

I thought your father was dead.

He is.

To me, he is.

I want him gone, brake.

You want him gone?

He's your kin, you just can't...

He ran off when I wasn't dot's age.

Went Indian.

Turn your back, he'll eat your horses and dogs.

He's being chased or running from something,

ti don't know what.

But he's bad, brake, I swear.

I do not want him near my children.

We're Indians, Lilly.

We're Indians.

Does he do that all night?

Oh, he's just getting started.

You come here for the healing?

In a manner of speaking.

Thought you might be hungry.

It's rabbit stew.

= t can't eat rabbits.

I was bitten by a rattlesnake.

All right.

When there's company, you sleep in there.

Is that right?

That's right.

= you're not her husband?

No, sir.

Not for lack of asking.

They your children?

= no.

What happened to their father?

You don't know this?

I can't say what all happened between you two but,

you ain't welcome here sir.

But she's a good Christian.

She won't turn away any man in need.

Tomorrow, she'll give you what doctoring she can

then you're on your way.

There's some places where a father would kill a young man

for doing what you're doing, you know that, don't you?

If you have something to say, say it.

Are you really a Indian?

Brake said you rode with the chiricahua.

That's right.

So that means I'm part Indian, right?

= no.