Coco2017

[Héctor confronts Miguel and Ernesto de la Cruz]

Héctor:
We had a deal, chamaco!

Ernesto:
Who are you? What is the meaning of this? [Héctor steps in his Frida disguise] Oh, Frida. I thought you couldn't make it.

Héctor:
[takes off his disguise] You said you'd take back my photo. You promised, Miguel!

Ernesto:
[to Miguel] You know this, uh… man?

Miguel:
I just met him tonight. He told me he knew you.

Ernesto:
[widens his eyes in realization] H-Héctor?

Héctor:
Please, Miguel. [takes out his photo] Put my photo up.

[Miguel reaches for the photo, but Ernesto takes it]

Ernesto:
My friend. You're, you're being forgotten.

Héctor:
[angrily] And whose fault is that?!

Ernesto:
Héctor, please.

Héctor:
Those were my songs you took. My songs that made you famous!

Miguel:
What?

Héctor:
If I'm being forgotten, it's because you never told anyone that I wrote them!

Miguel:
That's crazy. De la Cruz wrote all his own songs.

Héctor:
[to Ernesto] You want to tell him or should I?

Ernesto:
Héctor, I never meant to take credit. We made a great team, but you died and I... I only sang your songs because I wanted to keep a part of you alive.

Héctor:
[sarcastically] Oh, how generous.

Miguel:
You really did play together.

Héctor:
Look, I don't want to fight about it. I just want you to make it right. Miguel can put my photo up...

Ernesto:
Héctor...

Héctor:
And I can cross over the bridge. I can see my girl. Ernesto, remember the night I left?

Ernesto:
That was a long time ago.

Héctor:
We drank together, and you told me you would move heaven and earth for your amigo. Well, I'm asking you to, now.

Miguel:
"Heaven and earth", like in the movie?

Héctor:
What?

Miguel:
That's Don Hidalgo's toast. In the de la Cruz movie, "El Camino a Casa".

Héctor:
I'm talking about my real life, Miguel!

Miguel:
No, it's in there. Look!

["El Camino a Casa" is playing on a screen]

Don Hidalgo:
[in movie] Never were truer words spoken. This calls for a toast… to our friendship! Haha! I would move heaven and earth for you, mi amigo.

Miguel:
But in the movie, Don Hidalgo poisons the drink.

Don Hidalgo:
[in movie] Salud! [he and Ernesto toast and drink]

Ernesto:
[in movie; spits it out] Poison!

[The fist fight breaks out; Héctor remembers something.]

Héctor:
That night, Ernesto... the night I left... [Flashback; a younger Héctor packs up his suitcase.] We've been performing on the road for months. I got homesick and I packed up my songs.

Young Ernesto:
You wanna give up now... when we're this close to reaching our dream?

Young Héctor:
[heading for the door] This was your dream, you'll manage.

Young Ernesto:
[grabs his suitcase] I can't do this without your songs, Héctor!

Young Héctor:
[pulls away] I'm going home, Ernesto. Hate me if you want, but my mind is made up.

Young Ernesto:
[angry, but then controls himself] Oh, I could never hate you. If you must go, then I'm... I'm sending you off with a toast... [pours 2 drinks] …To our friendship. I would move heaven and earth for you, mi amigo. Salud!

[They toast and drink as Ernesto looks at Héctor rather coldly. Later on the streets...]

Héctor:
You walked me to the train station... [stumbles and clutches his stomach painfully] But I felt a pain in my stomach. I thought it must have been something I ate.

Young Ernesto:
Perhaps, it was that chorizo, my friend?

Héctor:
Or something I... drank. [collapses in the street and dies; fade to black.] I woke up... dead. [has a realization after the flashback ends] You... poisoned me.

Ernesto:
You're confusing movies with reality, Héctor.

Héctor:
All this time… I thought it was just bad luck. [Flashback; Ernesto takes Héctor's songbook, reads Remember Me.] I never thought that you might have... that you... [Flashback ends; Héctor becomes furious and lunges at Ernesto for murdering him] HOW COULD YOU?!

Miguel:
Héctor!

Ernesto:
Security, security!

[Two security guard rushes into the room.]

Héctor:
YOU TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME, YOU RAT! [The security guards pulls him away.]

Ernesto:
[stands up from the ground] Have him taken care of. He's not well.

Héctor:
I just wanted to go back home! No! NO!! NOOO!!!

[The security guards takes Héctor away.]

Ernesto:
[to Miguel] I apologize. Where were we?

Miguel:
You're going to give me your blessing.

Ernesto:
Yes, uh... Sí. [takes a petal of Aztec from his pocket] Miguel, uh... my reputation is very important to me. I would hate to have you think...

Miguel:
...That you murdered Héctor for his songs?

Ernesto:
[laughs] You don't think that... [seriously] Do you?

Miguel:
I... No, everyone knows you're the... the good guy. [Ernesto cuts a sharp, doubtful face. He looks at Héctor's photo, then takes it to his pocket] Papá Ernesto, my blessing…?

Ernesto:
[looks at the petal, and crumbles it immediately] Security… [the security guards rushes into the room again] Take care of Miguel! He'll be... extending his stay.

Miguel:
[shocked] What?! But I'm your family!

Ernesto:
And Héctor was my best friend. [smiling cruelly] Success doesn't come for free, Miguel. You have to be willing to do whatever it takes to... seize your moment. [Miguel gasps] I know you'll understand.

[The security guards takes Miguel out of the room.]

Miguel:
No! NOOOO!!!!