Bad Labor (2018)

Salvador Chacon: Roberto Vargas

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Quotes 

• Stanley Tesla : So what's the fuckin story man? Why'd you come here?

  Roberto Vargas : I don't know man. I guess... . I just came here for a better life...

  Stanley Tesla : No no no no no no! Dude that's boring as shit, come on! Every Mexican that crosses over says that fuckin thing. Gimme something original! Gimme the Tale of Beto. "I came to this country because... ."

• Stanley Tesla : I can't see shit. You wouldn't happen to have a flashlight on you, would ya?

  Roberto Vargas : No.

  Stanley Tesla : Classic Roberto. Fuck it.

• Roberto Vargas : Stanley...

  Stanley Tesla : Yo!

  Roberto Vargas : Why you pick me man?

  Stanley Tesla : What do you mean?

  Roberto Vargas : You know, earlier this morning when you offered the job to the other guys. Why you pick me?

  Stanley Tesla : You have an honest face. Come on, it's getting late.

• [as "Mothafuckin Bday" plays loudly in the truck speakers] 

  Stanley Tesla : Do you know who that is?

  Roberto Vargas : No.

  Stanley Tesla : Dude it's me! I'm DJ Pancake!

  Roberto Vargas : You write songs?

  Stanley Tesla : Yea not a lot of people know this about me but I'm a singer / songwriter / dancer. I have a song for every occasion in every genre! Come on Beto, sing with me man!

  Roberto Vargas : What?

  Stanley Tesla : Sing!

  [throws his hands hard on the steering wheel] 

  Stanley Tesla : SING!

• Roberto Vargas : You're not freezing your huevos over there are you?

  Matt Vargas : A little! It snows a lot more here than it does in L.A.!

  Roberto Vargas : ....It doesn't snow in L.A., guey.

  Matt Vargas : My bad dad you're right...

  [They laugh over the phone] 

• [Stanley and Roberto exit the truck on a lonely desert hillside] 

  Stanley Tesla : So, I have a little confession to make. And honestly Roberto, I don't - I don't know how you're gonna take it, so... ..

  Roberto Vargas : Lemme guess. There's no $10,000.

  Stanley Tesla : [scoffs and touches his chest dramatically]  Beto. No! No of course there's $10,000, I mean come on, what do I look like a fuckin liar? No, I'm... I'm uh... ..

  [he pulls the truck bed down] 

  Stanley Tesla : I'm referring to this.

  Stanley Tesla : [Stanley removes blue tarp over his murder weapons. Roberto sees a chainsaw, ratchet straps, and a shovel]  Yea.

  Roberto Vargas : What's going on?

  Stanley Tesla : Well, uh... . ehehehah it's um... . Ah... . Eh, I mean it's... agh, eh.

  [sighs] 

  Stanley Tesla : I'm a killer, Beto.

  [imitates gun click] 

  Roberto Vargas : What?

  Stanley Tesla : YEA, yea I... I kill people for money.

  [laughs, stops, then shrugs] 

  Roberto Vargas : Why didn't you tell me that before I got into your fuckin' truck?

  Stanley Tesla : Oh yea right come on! Like you would've gotten in if I told you if I was a killer at the beginning! No way man.

  [chuckles] 

  Roberto Vargas : Is that why you pick me up? To kill me?

  Stanley Tesla : Oh my God, no. No no no Beto no no no. I- I like you. Listen it's - it's just like I said alright: I needed a worker for the day to come help me out.