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If there were a man like that, with a kink in his brain around here loose, what would he be like.
To the eye? Like other men.
I don't mean that. How would he act? What would he do?
He'd act normally when he was with other people. It would be a man who suffered remorse and even pity when it was all over.
Couldn't you tell a man like that when you saw him?
No. He would be a hard man to find, Jerry. Particularly if he were a clever men. He would go about his ordinary business calmly and coolly except when the fit to kill was on him.
You've thought of all this before. You know it isn't the leopard Don't you?
It was you, Galbraith!
No.
It was you.
Not! I tell you. No!
You shot the leopard. We know that. You killed Consuelo. You killed Clo Clo. Then tonight
I didn't do anything. She screamed. Something frightened her.
Consuelo screamed too and Clo Clo. Why did you do it? Why? Quick. Tell me why?
It's better you don't know.
Tell me.
Why do yo&i accuse me? You don't know what you're doing you don't understand nobody understands
Tormented ? Why?
I couldn't rest I couldn't sleep. All I could see was Teresa Delgado's body broken mangled. I saw it day and night. It was waiting everywhere I turned.
Then you found the leopard
I didn't want to kill, but I had to. I heard her in the cemetery talking to the man in the auto
Oh, Mr. Galbraith! I'm so glad you're here.
Good evening.
You know all about these things and I've lived here all my life and I still don't know what the Procession means.
It's to remind people of the great tragedy that took place here so that they won't ever forget that a peaceful village of Indians was wiped out by the Conquistadores, back in the 17th Century... A band of monks buried the dead and prayed for them and did penance for their deaths that's what this procession is supposed to be.
Oh, that's so interesting!
Well, now that you've had your history lesson, I think I'll get on to the museum.
It may sound like music to her I can do better with my teeth in a cold Shower. Click click click.
She's a local. When the dudes come out to New Mexico, they went to wallow in Latin glamour. This is a bad town for blondes.
Yes. So I've noticed. Jerry's noticed He'll come up with something.
You think be's pretty nice, don't you?
Why not? He's a good press agent and a good friend. Besides, we've shared a lot of headaches
You're lucky. I wish he'd front page for me.
Maybe. For three years I've sung in rats' nests, while Jerry pounded his feet off and his brains out trying to get me a real chance. We're due for a little luck!
I mean you being a star and me being just a cigarette girl.
I know. I know. You've got the talent. I got the breaks.
And if you've got cold feet honey, Ill take over for you. That red dress of yours fits just perfect on me.
I bet you try on my coffin some day I hope it "fits just perfect."
Oh, dear I don't know what I'm going to do without you honestly, I don't
Hey I'm over here.
I'll miss you too, honey
He will be waiting...
You must say that you went to take some of the roses to your father's grave...
At four. He will be there at four.
Pedro is waiting for me, too.
Rosita I have wondered
What, senorita?
When you are going to see Pedro, does your heart beat until you tremble?
Love is different for different people.
I suppose so. I suppose it will be different for us, too when everyone knows. Then we will be just like other people. But these last weeks will always be our secret a lovely secret to remember all our lives.
It's a blackcard and bad card, but not the card of the cat not the card of fourfooted things.
I saw Teresa. Maybe I was the last to see her except perhaps her Mamacita and her little brother. I was going past
) They buried Teresa today and they were hunting the leopard again out in the country this time. But they didn't get him.
They're fools. Why don't they let Charlie HowCome hunt it alone. He's an Indian.
All men are fools. They like to make a big show shout and hunt
What did they say before the bad card came up?
You'll meet a rich man and he will give, you money.
You and your cards. Meet a rich man! I look for them with money. What rich man hasn't money. And for what was I born if it wasn't for money? You're not telling me anything.
Watch and see, A day or a week but certainly this month you will have money from a man and then
Well did he give you a lot of money?
Who?
The elderly man I told you about.
Cut.
What are you doing that for?
Something black something on its way to you
Go on
Don't look at it!
Let me see it
The death card
Maybe not cards mean different things different times
See you tomorrow
Tomorrow
Can't make a buck without my leopard. I tell you, Mr. Manning, you gotta find that cat for me or pay up.
Look, Charlie, just be patient. I'll fix everything. You don't want that cat, anyway. It killed two people.
No, sir. That girl in the cemetery? My cat didn't kill that girl. I told you cats don't go around looking for trouble. If that cat's alive, it's out in the country hiding under a bush, starving to death.
You really think so, Charlie?
That cat ain't mean. I feed him out of my own hand for six years. Why don't he kill me? At night in the truck, I let him out of the cage. When I am falling asleep I hear him walking back and forth. I go to sleep. He don't hurt me.
They all say the cat killed this second girl.
They don't say it to me.
I'd like one of them to say it to you, Charlie. I'd like to have you hear his side of it his reasons. Want to hear them?
Sure.
Let's get in your truck.
Where's that man?
Up at the museum.
Sure, I like my leopards
But he admitted quick enough that it killed the first girl.
Sure!
No. I'm serious about this.
Charlie wasn't drunk last night.
Yes, I was drunk, Mr. Manning.
I'm sick.
Here have a cigarette. He was only kidding.
No, he wasn't kidding. I'm sick. Claw women? Hurt little girls? No!
I don't know. I want to see Robles.
What do you want to see him for?
I want him to lock me up.
Look, Charlie, you didn't do it, and you know you didn't.
I don't know. I want him to lock me up.
Two hundred and fifty dollars you owe met
You found the leopard!