![]() ![]() ![]() On their way across the harsh countryside, the pair experience a series of surrealistic encounters. Belmont sees them heading towards the Mexico border, but as he takes aim at Perkins, he can't bring himself to shoot and returns to town, leaving the pursuit to Border Patrol. It is clear to Sheriff Belmont that Perkins has kidnapped Norton, and so police officers and the Border Patrol begin to search for them. Perkins undertakes a journey on horseback into Mexico with the body tied to a mule and his captive Norton in tow. Perkins had promised Melquiades that he would bury him in his home town of Jiménez, if he died in Texas. Perkins kidnaps Norton after tying up his wife, Lou Ann, and forces him to dig up Melquiades' body. Pete Perkins, a rancher and Melquiades' best friend, finds out from a waitress, Rachel, that the killer was Norton. Evidence that he may have been killed by Border Patrol is ignored by the local sheriff, Belmont, who would prefer to avoid trouble with the Border Patrol. Melquiades' body is found and is reburied in a local cemetery by the sheriff's office. Norton quickly buries Melquiades and does not report anything. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades. Melquiades Estrada, a Mexican undocumented worker working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. ![]()
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