Hard Eyes restored outtakes

Their boys from La Protestante in the tan pants chased after the boys from La Catolica in dark blue pants, and the Publica in wine red pants. Gaby grabbed Peri's arm. "Let's play El Rubio."

slowing down only when they passed the cuartel, in case the soldiers with the long guns could tell they were rebeldes.

he listened in outside the door of the empty room in the middle of the house where Papi kept a table and sometimes wrote his sermons. Gaby had listened because he had never seen Papi take anyone into that room but him. The man who visited was telling Papi he had been torturado. Papi had offered to lead the man in prayer and then in his preacher voice, called out, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

All Gaby knew was tortura was like rebelde, guerrilla and revolucion, adulto words. He could only picture them as empty rooms beyond empty rooms, empty except for miedo.

maybe Jose with his coat of many colors.

For now Cari got to sleep with Abuela in her big bed in the next room. Gaby heard them talk softly and laugh for a long time. They knew nothing of missing heads, or missing eyeballs and could whisper and laugh in the night. He imagined tiptoeing over to their bed and crawling in between them.

He was surrounded everywhere by people who went through their hours and days not knowing. And here was another secret he was afraid to tell.

Gaby had to bite his tongue wanting to confront them with the secrets when they gathered after the sermon for cafe y bizcochos y saludos, or here in the Capital, when the family gathered around the long dining table for desayunos and comidas. Or just before bed when the the women gathered to feel the baby kicking inside Mami's belly. He'd like them all to know so they too could stay up all night safeguarding their eyeballs by keeping their eyes wide open.

He'd rather watch these grownups than have anything to do with them, and here now was one of the best subjects of his inquiry approaching.

drew a horse, not a very good one, but still, Gaby could tell it was a horse.

Gaby had seen puppies and kittens do that and had seen Abuela Rosario milk the tetas on the goat she kept in the big patio. The goat was lose and Gaby could see it through the barred window poking its snout into the shut bottom half of the patio door. He was drinking that goat milk now and trying to shut out talk of the Bautizo de la Nina.

If he drank it very slowly his tongue found the way it was sweet.

Oscarito had a beat up car that rattled but Gaby was excited sitting on the edge of the back seat

He'd had enough kissing with Cari and Oscarito who had barely looked at the screen once during the movie.

He never got to know because not long after Oscarito left the movie went off, the cine was pitch black and suddenly swarmed with police men wearing the same navy blue uniform Tio Justo wore

throng of people flowing like the Rio Caiman.

At any moment the Rio Caiman would appear and all he would have to do is resist the dream command to jump into the jaws of the caimanes. They didn't have to walk the whole way home, though.