Benjamin Bratt credited as playing...
Ernesto de la Cruz
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [to Mamá Imelda] Don't I know you?
- Mamá Imelda: [Smacks Ernesto with her shoe] That's for murdering the love of my life!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [Confused] Who the...?
- Héctor: She's talking about me!
- [to Imelda, touched]
- Héctor: I'm the love of your life?
- Mamá Imelda: I don't know, I'm still angry at you!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: Hector? How did you...
- [Imelda smacks him with her shoe again]
- Mamá Imelda: And *that's* for trying to murder my grandson!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: Grandson?
- Miguel: She's talking about me!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: You! Wait. You're related to Hector?
- Miguel: [pointing at De la Cruz's breast pocket] The photo!
- [the rest of the family appears from around the corner; De la Cruz runs]
- Mamá Imelda: After him!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: Security!
- Héctor: You said love of your life?
- Mamá Imelda: I don't know *what* I said!
- Miguel: [cheekily] That's what *I* heard...
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [after Héctor is taken away by security for attacking Ernesto after learning the truth about his death] I apologize, where were we?
- Miguel: You were going to give me your blessing.
- Ernesto de la Cruz: Yes, uh, si. Miguel, my reputation it is, ah, very important to me. I would hate to have you think...
- Miguel: That you murdered Héctor, for his songs?
- Ernesto de la Cruz: Ha ha. You don't think that, do you?
- Miguel: I... no. Everyone knows you're, the... the good guy.
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [Ernesto looks at Héctor's photo, and then puts it in his pocket]
- Miguel: Papa Ernesto, my blessing?
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [Ernesto looks at Miguel's marigold petal, and then crushes it into powder] Security, take care of Miguel. He'll be... extending his stay.
- Miguel: [as he is taken away by security] WHAT? BUT I'M YOUR FAMILY!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: And Héctor was my best friend. Success doesn't come for free, Miguel. You have to be willing to, do whatever it takes to... seize your moment. I know you understand.
- Miguel: No, NO!
- Héctor: [Ernesto takes Miguel at the edge of the stadium] Ernesto, STOP!
- [shudders and collapses to the floor]
- Héctor: Leave the boy alone.
- Ernesto de la Cruz: I've worked too hard, Hector. Too hard to let him destroy everything.
- Héctor: [pleading] He's a living child, Ernesto!
- [the other Riveras turn the camera on Ernesto so the audience can see]
- Ernesto de la Cruz: He's a THREAT!
- [the audience gasps]
- Ernesto de la Cruz: You think I'd let him go back to the land of the living with your photo? To keep your memory alive? No!
- Miguel: You're a coward!
- Ernesto de la Cruz: I am Ernesto de la Cruz, the greatest musician of all time!
- Miguel: Héctor's the REAL musician, you're just the guy who murdered him and stole his songs!
- [the audience gasps]
- Guy in audience: Murdered?
- Ernesto de la Cruz: [grabs Miguel by the shirt collar] I am the one who is willing to do what it takes to seize my moment. Whatever it takes.
- [Throws Miguel off the stadium]