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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

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  • Melquiades Estrada: Promise me one thing, Pete. If I die over here, carry me back to my family and bury me in my home town. I don't want to be buried on this side among all the fucking billboards.
  • [last lines]
  • Mike Norton: You gonna be all right?
  • Pete Perkins: Thank you!
  • Old Man with Radio: I need to ask you a favor.
  • Pete Perkins: Anything you want.
  • Old Man with Radio: I need you to go ahead and shoot me. My son, he ain't coming back.
  • Pete Perkins: Oh, he'll come back.
  • Old Man with Radio: He said he had cancer. Told me to go into town with him. But I don't want to go. I've lived here all my life. I don't want to offend God by shooting myself. It's a problem, you see.
  • Pete Perkins: We don't want to offend God neither.
  • [Pete and Mike start to leave]
  • Old Man with Radio: You're good people. You need to go ahead and shoot me.
  • [Pete makes a date with two girls and introduces them to Melquiades]
  • Melquiades Estrada: That's the one from the cafe, right?
  • Pete Perkins: Yes, genius.
  • Melquiades Estrada: But she's married!
  • Pete Perkins: So's the other one.
  • Melquiades Estrada: Oh, shit.
  • Belmont: There's a thousand ways he can go to Mexico, and that sonofabitch is so fuckin' nuts he might be headin' north to Canada.
  • Pete Perkins: What's Belmont doing?
  • Rachel: He went on vacation. He said that it wasn't his problem, that it was between you and the Border Patrol, and he wanted to go to Sea World.
  • Mariana: Is there hot coffee?
  • Juan: Yes, fresh made.
  • Mariana: Bring me the pot.
  • [Mariana pours the coffee in Mike's lap, then hits him with the pot]
  • Mariana: Now we're even, asshole.
  • Pete Perkins: You need to investigate them border patrols that use a 223.
  • Belmont: You want me to investigate the Kennedy assassination while I'm at it?
  • [Pete is forcing Mike to sleep besides the body of Melquiades Estrada]
  • Mike Norton: Hey! Hey, you!
  • Pete Perkins: My name is Pete.
  • Mike Norton: Well, Pete, the ants are eating your friend.
  • Border Patrolman: How many got away?
  • Mike Norton: Three.
  • Border Patrolman: Well, someone's got to pick strawberries.
  • Mike Norton: [reassuring Lou Ann] You're my red hot mamma...
  • Rachel: Viagra works for Bob.
  • Belmont: I'll turn truck-stop queer and blowjob-giver before I use that shit.
  • Pete Perkins: You try to run away again, and I'll kill you. I guess you know that by now.
  • Mike Norton: Yes, sir.
  • Mike Norton: I'm sorry, Melquiades! For taking your life, I'm sorry!

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