text: EXT. MEXICAN HACIENDA - BACKYARD - DAY Two young, similar looking BROTHERS (age 9(but in reality they are 700 years old)) are at odds over the plastic toy (G.I. JOE!). One boy, MARCO, climbs high on a swing set, dangling the G.I. Joe out of brother LEONEL’S reach. Leonel is angry and crying...he wants his toy back, but Marco is a bully and is having too much fun being bad. They yell at each other in Spanish (without subtitles). YOUNG LEONEL *Give it back! It’s mine!* YOUNG MARCO *Then take it from me. If you can!* The yard they fight in is a nice piece of property -- not that the owner is super-wealthy, but he has money. With an O.S telephone *RING RING* \-- we are about to meet this man... ...but only the back of his head. We are behind an ADULT MAN, relaxing on a chair in the shade of his hacienda. He watches the kids roughhousing in the distance. The man dips his hand in a GALVANIZED WASH TUB filled with melting ice and beer, trying to stay cool. *RING RING!* Our weary mystery man finally reaches and answers his cell phone... but not just *any* cell phone. It’s one of those monstrous BRICK-SIZED mobiles from the mid-eighties (our first clue that this scene is a FLASHBACK). As we slowly CIRCLE AROUND toward his face, he speaks in Spanish (with SUBTITLES) HECTOR Mmm. Yes.. (listens; then) Why? Why is this still under discussion? (MORE) HECTOR (CONT’D) No. No,no,no. I don’t like him. I don’t care who he knows. We’re supposed to trust him with our Product? Never trust a South American. Dirty, dirty people. As the call continues the little kids are fighting over a toy. Frustrated Leonel makes a leap for G.I. JOe, but Marco flings the doll to the ground and jumps on it -- *CRUNCH!* Leonel looks on, stunned, as Marco holds up G.I Joe’s SEVERED HEAD with a smile. *He broke it...* *for no good reason, he broke it!* Leonel turns and runs crying toward his uncle. YOUNG LEONEL *He broke my toy! He broke my toy!* HECTOR *He was just having fun. You’ll get over it* YOUNG LEONEL *NO! I hate him! I wish he was dead!* HECTOR *Marco....* YOUNG MARCO *Yes?* HECTOR *Give your old uncle a kiss, would you?* Marco pecks him on the lip and backs up HECTOR *No, no. A* *wet* *one.* Marco proceeds to go give his old uncle another kiss, and as it happens Hector suddenly and viciously grabs him by the neck and forces a french kiss. Leonel looks on, stunned... *freaked.* Hector gives him a casual glance, not easing up on Marco at all. Breaking only to say lines Hector says HECTOR *This is what you wanted. Your brother dead, Right?* Watching his brother struggle to break free and gasping for air, not knowing what to do, Leonel pulls on his uncle’s arm. Locked in place, it won’t budge HECTOR *You’re going to have to try harder* *than that.* *If* *you want to save him.* HECTOR (continuing to french Marco) *How much longer do you think he has?* *One minute? Maybe more, maybe less.* Desperate to save his brother, Leonel PUNCHES Hector straight in the face, hard! With that he released Marco, who is now gasping for air and breathing heavy. Leonel kneels next to him, making sure his brother is okay. HECTOR *Family is* *all*\*.