The Missing (I) (2003)

Cate Blanchett: Magdalena Gilkeson

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Quotes 

• Maggie Gilkeson : I've never worked on an Indian before

  Samuel Jones : [Sarcastically]  They have green blood and a pinecone where their heart should be

• Maggie Gilkeson : You know that Indian name of yours? Wha, what's that, what's that mean?

  Samuel Jones : Very hard to translate that.

  Maggie Gilkeson : Try it.

  Samuel Jones : It means "shit for luck."

• Maggie : Why didn't you stay?

  Samuel : [long pause]  There's an Apache story about a man that woke up one morning and saw a hawk on the wind. Walked outside and never returned. After he died he met his wife in the spirit world. She asked him why he never came home, he said "Well, the hawk kept flying".

  [pause] 

  Samuel : There's always the next something, Maggie. And that will take a man away.

• Samuel Jones : You take this money for your children.

  Maggie Gilkeson : No, you take it for your funeral.

• Maggie Gilkeson : [on Dot being shocked by her grandfather on Brujos]  You're scaring her!

  Samuel Jones : [visibly shaken]  She needs to be scared... and so do you!

• Kayitah : [speaking Chiricahua]  Forget the hides. Give us your horses and your guns and we'll call it even.

  Samuel : They want our horses and guns.

  Maggie : I am not giving over my horses!

  [to Kayitah] 

  Maggie : You understand? You'll have to kill me first!

  [turns to Samuel] 

  Maggie : You tell em... You, you tell em what I said.

  Samuel : [speaking Chiricahua]  Now look. You pissed her off.

• Dot Gilkeson : [on finding Wittick]  Momma look at his eyes

  Maggie : Maybe he had a heart attack crashed his wagon

  Samuel Jones : [digging up the heart]  No he didn't his heart's over here