PART FOUR
El Topo appears sitting
motionlessly
in the lotus position
with a flower in his hands.
His hair is bleached,
his beard is white, his lips are
painted red, his cheeks
are rouged, his eyes are made up.
He wears only a saint's
loincloth and a vest.
His eyes are shut closed.
El Topo awakens.
He is inside an enormous
grotto,
sitting on a rock shaped
like an altar.
He wants to stand, but
his body is numb.
He can barelly move.
He hears footsteps.
El Topo returns to his
former position
and pretends to be asleep.
A woman wearing a grey
cassock approaches.
She is very small, much
smaller than a normal woman.
Her steps are very
short.
Her face is very lovely.
She climbs a ladder that
leads to El Topo.
She arranges the flowers
around him, combs his hair,
paints his mouth and eyes,
the way a priest would
paint the face of a wooden
statue of a saint.
Suddenly, she is stirred
by desire. Affectionately
and sensually, she touches
El Topo's body and
kisses them on the
mouth.
El Topo opens his eyes.
The Small Woman screams
and backs away.
EL TOPO
(to the Small Woman)
I'm not a god. I'm
a man.
How long have I been here?
SMALL
WOMAN
I wasn't born when you
came.
I've taken care of you
since I was a child.
The Elder says that you
will free us. Come!
The Small Woman leads
El
Topo through a city of rusty oil drums.
Hundreds of drums are
piled one on top of the other in the enormous
cave. Deformed human
beings sleep inside them like larvae.
El Topo and the Small
Woman walk through the narrow passages
of children's cries,
misery,
sickness. The beings stare at El Topo
as though silently asking
for help. El Topo is moved.
The Small Woman leads
El Topo down into the inner cavern.
The ceiling is more than
a mile high.
In the center of the
ceiling
is a small opening.
Some beggars approach
El Topo and offer him biscuits.
SMALL
WOMAN
We've been prisoners in
this cave for many years.
That opening is the only
way out.
It takes several days
of climbing
the walls of the cave
to get to it.
Outside, at the foot of
the mountain is a large town.
They won't help us out
of here.
We're deformed from years
of incest.
We're repulsive to them.
El Topo caresses the Small Woman tenderly.
EL TOPO
Was it very difficult
to bring me here?
Why did they do it?
SMALL
WOMAN
The Elder knows why.
She was the one who sent
them to look for you.
She wants to see you now.
The Elder is a woman
more
than a hundred years old. She has long bushy white
hair and wears priests'
robes made of burlap. A Tree of Life is embroidered
with bright colored yarns
on her outer vestment. Beside her is another
old woman dressed as a
Cardinal. Her vestments are made of rubbish.
On the ground in
front of the Elder, two large black beetles
lie on a wooden
plate.
Egyptians scarabs.
The Elder picks up one
of the beetles and sucks on the rear of its carapace.
She hands the other beetle
to El Topo. When he puts the animal to his mouth,
he is overcome with
nausea.
He forces himself to swallow the juices he sucks from
the beetle's
stomach.
The juices drug him. He feels a change in his breathing.
He feels his conciousness
dissolve. Suddenly, he finds himself embracing and
kissing the Elder,
crushing
himself against her, disappearing beneath her robe.
Assisted by the Small
Woman and an altar boy, the Elder cries out as though
she were giving birth.
El Topo feels the old woman's belly eject him into
life once again.
His body squirms on the ground like a child being born.
EL TOPO
(screaming)
This isn't me! This
isn't my face!
He tries to tear the
skin
from his face.
He raises his torso off
the ground, forming an arc with his body.
With the Elder and the
Cardinal as witnesses,
the Small Woman clips
El Topo's hair with a pair of scissors.
His face radiates with
enlightenment.
El Topo's head is
completely
shaved, including his beard and eyebrows.
His face resembles that
of a newborn child.
All the inhabitants of
the cave come to see him.
El Topo wears a brown
floor-length cassock.
EL TOPO
I'll get some money and
dig a tunnel through the mountain.
When I finish the tunnel,
you will be free.
You shall leave this place.
El Topo emerges with
great
difficulty from the opening of the cave.
He carries the Small Woman
on his back. They stand, hand in hand,
on the grassy top of the
mountain. They see the town below.
[The physical
relationship
between El Topo and the
Small Woman is very
congenial.
They could be brother
and sister, father and
daughter or, when they climb
out of the cave, a mother
carrying her baby on her back.
El Topo gives no sense
of sexuality: he is androgynous.]
EL TOPO
So this is the great town!
Masked executioners
gallop
through the main street
stabbing at a large group
of Indians with wooden spears.
Among the Indians, all
dressed in white, is a Young Black Man.
A group of ladies
appear.
They are lavishly dressed in furs, hats,
and parasols. Each carries
a banner painted with a triangle and eye.
The women walk over to
some bleachers and sit down to watch a rodeo.
Instead of steers, the
cowboys rope the Indians and the Young Black Man.
They chase them on
horseback,
lasso them, brand them with the triangle and
eye symbol. The victims
scream with pain. The women squeal with delight.
Their husbands are all
in front of the town bar, the Oriental Saloon, trying
to conceal the arrival
of a long wooden crate transported in a horse-drawn
cart. They attempt
to lift the crate with a pulley, but it crashes down into
the cart and breaks
open.
A woman's ass is seen. A rhumba dancer steps
out of the crate, very
drunk. She wants to seduce all the men, but they
are preoccupied with
concealing
her secret arrival. In her drunkenness,
she begins to strip as
she lurches toward the door to the saloon.
The men cover her with
their jackets, and they all disappear into the bar.
The women of the town
are
led by an executioner to a lineup of slaves.
They inspect their teeth
as though they were buying horses and select the most
valuable specimins.
They climb onto the slaves' backs and ride them into town.
Six of the slaves throw
their riders to the ground and try to flee,
but they are stopped short
of the men of the town, who surround them.
The Sheriff and his
Deputy
arrive. The Sheriff, dressed in bright green satin,
is a totally effeminate
queer. His Deputy is a quiet, obese homosexual.
He is dressed in
sheepskin.
His beard is bleached yellow.
They capture the slaves,
line them up face down on the ground and,
amid rounds of applause
from the townspeople,
shoot them one by one
in the back.
A religious procession.
The townspeople parade through the street carrying
a statue of Christ. The
procession halts at an intersection to allow six men
on horseback to
cross.
They drag behind them the bleeding bodies of the
executed criminals. They
ride past the intersection, and the procession continues.
El Topo and the Small
Woman
have observed these events from the mountaintop.
They are distressed.
They realize how hard it will be to accomplish their goal.
EL TOPO
We'll have to beg.
Hundreds of children
run
through the street yelling, "El Topo! El Topo!"
The sound of a horn is
heard.
[A chofar.]
The children run to El
Topo, who rides into town on a burro.
He carries a small seven
runged ladder on his lap.
The burro is led by the
Small Woman, who is blowing the horn.
[An image that can be
related
to the Virgin and Saint Joseph
searching for shelter
or to the arrival of Christ riding a burro.]
El Topo jumps off the
burro
and runs through the street,
playing with the
children:
he's become a clown.
The entire town joins
the
children, who have formed a circle around
El Topo and the Small
Woman. The two begin their pantomime act.
El Topo lifts up his
cassock,
exposing to the crowd black satin shorts
with a large red heart
sewn on the back. That's how he expresses his
love for the Small Woman.
She returns it. El Topo walks over to her
and tries to embrace her.
She is so small, he misses her. He tries
again. He misses.
It doesn't occur to him to get down on his knees.
They are unable to kiss
each other. Suddenly, the Small Woman
has an idea. She
kisses her own hand and holds it out to El Topo.
El Topo rubs his hand
over hers, lifts it to his mouth and licks it.
The people
laugh.
Finally, El Topo discovers the solution.
He picks up the ladder,
leans it against his chest and lets the
Small Woman climb until
she reaches his height. They kiss.
As the people laugh,
El Topo pretends to be overcome with
emotion and falls to the
ground with the Small Woman.
El Topo is seen passing
his hat amoung the crowd.
He carries the Small Woman
on his hip.
The people give them many
coins.
A beauty salon.
Five women of the town
are dressed in corsets and brassieres.
The Young Black Man
quietly
attends them. A large woman wearing
black underwear and
rollers
in her hair calls to the Young Man.
She speaks with
a coarse baritone voice.
LARGE
WOMAN
Curl my hair!
The Young Man goes over
to her and starts fixing her curlers.
Aroused, she sticks out
her tongue and wets her lips.
Another woman, dressed
all in pink, romantically extends her
hand to the Young Man,
exposing an underarm so full of
black hairs that it looks
like a woman's sex.
WOMAN
OF
THE HAIRY ARMPITS
(delicately)
Paint my nails.
The Young Man paints her nails while she sighs, exhaling in his face.
Another woman, her arm
grotesquely deformed
by a huge scar, calls
to the Young Man.
SCARRED
WOMAN
The cream.
The Young Man rubs her
scar with a gelatinous cream.
The woman presses the
Young Man's hand against her large, soft breasts.
Another woman with a protruding stomach calls to the Young Man.
WOMAN
OF
THE LARGE STOMACH
Fan!
She pretends to be
overcome
by the heat.
The Young Man brings a
fan.
As he fans her, she edges
closer and closer,
pressing her large stomach
against his sex.
Finally, a fat woman
sitting
at a dressing table
tells the Young Man to
paint her lips.
FAT
WOMAN
(with the voice of a child)
Lipstick!
He paints her
lips.
She opens her legs and drops a brush
between them. The Young
Man bends down to pick it up.
She takes his head and
presses it against her sex.
FAT
WOMAN
(screaming)
This degenerate is looking
at my legs!
The Young Man backs
off,
stand up and is confronted
by the Large Woman of
the Black Underwear.
She slaps him several
times and forces him to embrace her.
LARGE
WOMAN
Help! He's holding
me by force!
The Woman of the Large
Stomach
takes his face in her
hands and kisses him.
WOMAN
OF
THE LARGE STOMACH
You are witnesses.
He's kissing me by force!
The Woman of the Hairy
Armpits
takes his hands and rubs
them over her breasts.
WOMAN
OF
THE HAIRY ARMPITS
(squealing)
Filthy slave! How
dare you!
FAT
WOMAN
Help! He's raping
us!
The women throw
themselves
on top of the Young Man,
who is sprawled out on
the floor. Roaring like lions, they
begin to lick his body
or devour it. We don't know which.
Half dressed, the women
run into the street screaming,
"Help! Arrest
him!
Rapist!"
The Young Man tries to
escape, but the executioners overtake him
and deliver him to the
Sheriff and the Deputy, who order him strung
up by his feet. The
Sheriff
selects one of his Deputy's eight pistols
and aims it at the
Young Man. The Deputy curls his finger around
the trigger and
fires.
The Young Man dies. The people applaud.
El Topo and the Small
Woman
are on their way back to the cave.
This time, the Small Woman
rides the burro and El Topo leads her.
He carries a small round
stool, half red and half blue.
[Parallel with the Tao symbol.]
SMALL
WOMAN
Do you think it's worth
it for my people
to leave the cave for
this? This is worse!
El Topo halts the burro.
EL TOPO
I'll keep digging.
With great determination, he heads toward the mountain.
Part of the tunnel has
been completed. El Topo comes out of
the opening he has made
high on the side of the mountain.
He carries a large basket
filled with rocks. With the help of the
Small Woman, he
dumps the rocks over the side of the mountain.
SMALL
WOMAN
How many meters have we
progressed?
El Topo gives her an affectionate tap on the head.
EL TOPO
I progress.
He disappears into the tunnel to continue digging.
In the town, a large
crowd
has gathered to watch a new show:
a boxing match between
two slaves. Someone wraps barbed
wire around their boxing
gloves, while others yell, "Place your
bets, gentlemen.
Place your bets." An executioner fires a shot
in the air and forces
the slaves to fight. The crowd heckles them
and goads them into
destroying
each other with the barbed
wire gloves. They
are very frightened, but have no alternative.
One punches the other,
who falls to the ground bleeding.
El Topo passes by with
the Small Woman and tries to
help the fallen
slave.
The crowd kicks him away.
EL TOPO
We've lost our audience.
They walk past the Sheriff's office.
SHERIFF
Hey! Monsters!
Come here!
El Topo and the Small Woman look at each other.
SHERIFF
Yes, you.
Monsters.
Come here.
They walk over to the
Sheriff's
office.
The Sheriff and his Deputy
offer them a job.
DEPUTY
We'll pay you well.
El Topo and the Small
Woman
enter the jail. The Deputy gets up
from the toilet where
he has defecated and tells them to clean it.
They start to work while
the Deputyforces three prisoners out of a
luxurious bed at gun
point.
The bed is covered with a velvet spread.
The prisoners are in
nightshirts.
A banquet table has been prepared in
the jail with fine linens,
champagne, roast chicken, pastries. The jail
looks more like a brothel
than a prison. The Sheriff plays romantic
music on an organ. The
Deputy kisses him affectionately and, like a
pair of newlyweds, they
stroll over to the prisoners. The Sheriff
inspects them from head
to toe. He orders them to turn their back
to him. He rips
the nightshirt of one of the prisoners to expose
his buttocks, then lunges
at him. The fight continues on the street.
The two slaves are covered
with blood from head to foot.
A Franciscan monk ties
his horse to a nearby post and heads
toward the crowd. He is
a young man, but has El Topo's features.
It is Brontis, fully
grown.
Brontis works his way through the crowd
and tries to stop the
fight, but the prisoners fall to the ground. He stoops
to examine the prisoners.
Both are dead. He blesses them and stands up.
BRONTIS
They're dead.
DRUNKEN
CROWD
MEMBER
Who died first?
Brontis points to one
of
the boxers. The Drunken Crowd
Member reaches down and
raises the other one's arm.
DRUNKEN
CROWD
MEMBER
This one's the champion!
The crowd applauds, and the winners begin to collect their bets.
Brontis enters a
church.
Painfully, he removes his white gloves
stained with the blood
of the two slaves. He goes to the front
of the church where an
Old Priest kneels before an altar,
seemingly in prayer.
Brontis
lays his hand on the Priest's
shoulder. Startled,
the Priest jumps up and spits out a
mouthful of wine. With
the bottle still in his hand, the Priest
embraces Brontis and
offers
him a drink. Brontis refuses.
The church is filled
with
people chanting and clapping
their hands in an ecstatic
rhythm. They seem possessed.
CONGREGATION
You will protect us, Oh
Lord.
You will protect us, Oh
Lord ...
The interior walls of
the
church are covered with white
sheets painted in black
with the triangle and eye. The Old
Priest, his vestments
also decorated with the triangle and eye,
stands before the
congregation
and draws a revolver.
He loads it with
a single bullet, spins the cylinder and approaches
the congregation, his
arms raised high above his head.
OLD
PRIEST
(shouting)
God loves us and protects
us.
If he have faith in Him,
nothing can harm us.
We have to gamble with
Our Lord.
The bet is Death.
May he who doesn't believe perish.
The chant
continues.
Members of the congregation cry out,
"Me!
Me!"
They reach for the revolver. A woman grabs the gun,
puts it to her temple
and pulls the trigger. The gun clicks.
CONGREGATION
(in unison)
Miracle! Miracle!
The chant
continues:
"You will protect us, Oh Lord ..." Another woman
reaches for the revolver,
puts it to her temple and pulls the trigger.
The gun clicks
again.
Everyone shouts, "Miracle! Miracle!"
A gravedigger, dressed
in black and wearing a brimmed hat
decorated with black
flowers
and chiffon, takes the gun and pulls
the trigger. The
gun clicks. Once again, the people shout, "Miracle!"
The gravedigger hand the
revolver to the young priest, to Brontis.
He examines it.
The Old Priest pulls him aside and whispers in his ear.
OLD
PRIEST
Don't be afraid.
It's a blank.
Brontis reacts
violently.
He removes the blank from the gun,
takes a real bullet from
the gunbelt of one of the members of
the congregation, loads
it into the revolver, spins the cylinder,
puts the gun to his temple
and pulls the trigger.
The gun clicks.
With great reverence, the congregation says,
"Miracle!"
A stupid-looking man grabs the gun from Brontis and
pulls the
trigger.
The gun clicks. A child runs up, grabs the gun,
pulls the trigger and
blows out his brains. Desperate screams.
The church is
empty.
The Old Priest sits in one of the front pews.
He is wearing lay
clothes.
His bloody vestments are on the pew
beside him.
Brontis stands before him.
OLD
PRIEST
They won't come back.
The circus is over.
I'm going too.
The Old Priest walks
out
of the church. Brontis closes the door
behind him. He rips from
the wall one of the sheets with the
triangle and eye. He moves
around the church tearing down all
the sheets until he comes
to the altar, where a huge sheet
with an enormous triangle
and eye covers the entire wall.
He tugs at it furiously
and pulls it down, uncovering a large
painting of a black cross
with a white cross crucified on it.
[Parallel between the
duality
of the cross
and the duality of the
Tao symbol.]
In front of the
Oriental
Saloon, El Topo does a clumsy dance inspired
by American music hall
routines. The Small Woman stands off to one
side playing an instrument
made out of a pole, a tin can and a string.
A group of ladies arrive
carrying placards of the triangle and eye.
The owner of the bar
greets
them courteously and opens the
door for them. They
enter the bar. El Topo and the Small
Woman haven't received
a cent from passers-by on the street.
A drunk opens the bar
door and sees them going through their act.
DRUNK
Come on in.
El Topo and the Small
Woman
enter the bar. Three or four men
are earnestly listening
to the leader of the group of ladies.
LEADER
After its monthly
inspection,
the League of
Decent Women congratulates
their husbands
as usual. Everything here
is utter decency.
The ladies start to
file
out. El Topo holds out his hat to see if they will
give him a little money,
but the women ignore him as they pass by.
The men whisper among
themselves. One of them comes over to El Topo.
MAN
You want to earn some
money?
El Topo nods.
When
the men are sure the ladies have gone,
they open a trap door
that leads to the basement of the bar.
Sensual music risees up
from below. They motion El Topo
down the ladder.
El Topo and the Small Woman descend.
A large basement.
A man dressed like a woman plays a
bass fiddle, a child plays
a violin, an old woman plays a
piano. Nude
prostitutes
dance with the men. Other nude
prostitutes are sprawled
on a bed in the middle of the room.
The women's clothes
are strewn over the floor like rugs.
One of the drunken
customers
shoves El Topo
and the Small Woman into
the group of people.
DRUNK
Do your kissing number!
El Topo and the Small
Woman
sadly go through their act among
the prostitutes and
drunks,
who watch them passively. When they
come to where the Small
Woman has to reach El Topo's mouth to
kiss him, he lifts her
up on the bed. One of the women on the bed
makes room for the Small
Woman, and she kisses El Topo.
Abruptly, one of the
drunks
draws his pistol on the pair.
DRUNK
Now we want to see the
rest. Undress. The Wedding Night!
Raucous laughter.
El Topo is forced to take off his
cassock. He helps the
Small Woman take off her dress.
Slowly, she turns,
exhibiting
her breasts to the audience.
More laughter. The
drunk shoves them down on the bed,
and El Topo falls on top
of the Small Woman.
DRUNK
Come on! The Wedding
Night!
Offensive laughter. El
Topo embraces the Small Woman.
She whispers in his ear.
SMALL
WOMAN
I love you. They
don't exist.
There's not one here but
you.
Take me. Please.
El Topo embraces her
tenderly
while the prostitutes
vomit up crude
laughter.
The drunk bites off a piece
of a raw carrot he holds
upright on the prongs of a fork.
El Topo sits on top of
the mountain resewing the red heart on his black
satin shorts. On
the ground in front of him, some blankets cover a bulky
form. The Small
Woman, hiding. El Topo takes off his hat, jingles the coins
he's placed inside and
dumps them on the ground. He jingles some of
the coins in his
hands.
The Small Woman doesn't move. El Topo taps the
blanket a few times. He
tugs at the blankets to try to uncover her face,
but she holds them tightly
over her. El Topo taps her again affectionately.
She continues to hide.
EL TOPO
We'll be able to buy
dynamite
to continue digging.
No answer. He
hits
her with his hat and
forces her out from under
the blankets.
EL TOPO
Hey! Why are you
hiding?
SMALL
WOMAN
I'm ashamed. I must
be repulsive to you.
You're going to leave
me.
Smiling wordlessly, El
Topo kisses her on the forehead,
picks her up in his arms
like a sack of flour and runs her
down a path that leads
to the town. She kicks and screams.
With the Small Woman
still
struggling in his arms, El Topo enters
the church. He sits
down in one of the pews and motions
toward the priest praying
at the altar with his back to them.
EL TOPO
Tell him to marry us.
The Small Woman can't
believe
her ears.
She's overcome with joy.
She runs to the priest.
SMALL
WOMAN
We're going to be married,
Father.
Smiling, Brontis turns
to meet the bridegroom. He recognizes his
father immediately.
El Topo remembers his own. The two faces
are almost
identical.
Suddenly, Brontis throws El Topo to the floor.
He lifts up his robe and
draws a pistol..
[I don't know if he draws it from a gunbelt or from his unconcious.]
He strikes El Topo
several
times with the butt of the gun and
backs off to take
aim.
The Small Woman grabs the barrel
of the revolver to stop
Brontis from pulling the trigger.
SMALL
WOMAN
Don't kill him!
He's doing important work!
Brontis emerges from
the
dark cave. He wears the same outfit El Topo
used to wear, down to
the silver-plated pistol and the two knives.
El Topo and the Small
Woman are sitting on the ground outside the
opening of the cave. El
Topo cleans the wounds on his face from Brontis'
blows. The Small Woman
is telling Brontis about El Topo's new life.
SMALL
WOMAN
... and he promised to
dig a tunnel to free us.
Brontis stands over El Topo. He hesitates.
BRONTIS
(with controlled hatred)
I'll wait until you've
finished your work.
Then I'll kill you.
But I intend to watch
you day and night so you
won't escape.
And from this moment,
Brontis
doesn't let El Topo or the Small
Woman out of his
sight.
He follows them everywhere, like a shadow.
El Topo lifts a beer
keg
from a cart. The Small Woman taps him on
the back. She wants to
help. El Topo picks her up and lets her
wash the upper part of
the window. She is four months pregnant.
Brontis stands guard.
El Topo gathers up
horse
manure from the streets and dumps it
into a burlap bag the
Small Woman holds for him. She is seven
months pregnant. El Topo
stops working and puts his ear to the
Small Woman's belly,
trying
to hear the baby's movements.
Brontis stands guard.
El Topo carries a
basket
of stones from the cave and dumps them
over the side of the
mountain.
The Small Woman helps him laboriously.
She is eight months
pregnant.
Brontis can no longer contain himself.
He stands facing El Topo.
BRONTIS
(furiously)
This is endless!
You are taking too long!
EL TOPO
(with a saintly expression
on his face)
If you want us to move
faster, help us dig.
And if you want us to
finish sooner, help us beg.
A crowd of people in
the
town. El Topo, the Small Woman and Brontis
are doing a pantomime
routine. Brontis wears a cassock again.
Bright-colored ribbons
stream from his head.
The people laugh.
The three receive many coins.
El Topo unloads a water
jug from the cart, and Brontis unloads
a beer keg. They
carry them into the bar. The Small Woman,
barely able to move,
follows
them and wipes their brows.
El Topo and his son
wash
a shop window. The Small Woman taps them
both on the back. Brontis
kisses her very gently on the forehead.
They pick her up and let
her wash the upper part of the window.
Inside the tunnel,
Brontis
and El Topo hit at a rock
obstructing the
passageway.
The Small Woman watches.
BRONTIS
It's very hard rock. We've
hit it a thousand times.
We'll never crack it.
El Topo hits the rock with his pick, and a large piece breaks off.
EL TOPO
Only a thousand times?
He continues working.
An explosion in the
tunnel.
Brontis carries El Topo outside to the fresh air.
El Topo bandages his
wounded
leg.
BRONTIS
Your pain must be
unbearable.
EL TOPO
This body feels the
pain.
I don't.
He finishes wrapping
the
wound, picks up a stick, limps back
into the cave,
determined
to continue working.
More time has
passed.
Brontis can endure it no longer. He throws down his
pick and tears off his
work smock. Again, he's dressed in black leather.
BRONTIS
Stop it! You'll
never make it!
He draws his gun on El
Topo. El Topo shoves him aside and, with
superstrength, runs to
the far wall of the tunnel, hits the rock
with his pick and finally
breaks through into the main cavern.
SMALL
WOMAN
(shouting)
We've done it! We've
done it!
She climbs through the hole to tell the others.
EL TOPO
(calling after her)
Don't tell them yet.
They're not prepared.
He tries to stop her,
but
Brontis pulls him back and leads him outside the tunnel.
El Topo takes off
his work smock, looks Brontis in the eye, calmly awaits his death.
Brontis points his
gun at him and tries to shoot. He hesitates, then closes his eyes.
BRONTIS
I can't kill my Master.
He throws down his gun and runs off in tears.
