No Country For Old Men - final scene transcript
BELL
Okay. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he never was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember so well but it was about meetin' him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night.
EXT. SNOWY MOUNTAIN PASS - NIGHT
We cut to night, and snow. It is the image that the movie began with. Continuing in voice over:
VOICEOVER
...goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and snowin', hard ridin'. Hard country. He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down...
The rider passes as described, horses' hooves drumming and scattering divots of earth and snow.
VOICEOVER (CONT'D)
...and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead.
The rider recedes and the image fades, the horn bearing fire going last.

Okay. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he never was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember so well but it was about meetin' him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night.
EXT. SNOWY MOUNTAIN PASS - NIGHT
We cut to night, and snow. It is the image that the movie began with. Continuing in voice over:
VOICEOVER
...goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and snowin', hard ridin'. Hard country. He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down...
The rider passes as described, horses' hooves drumming and scattering divots of earth and snow.
VOICEOVER (CONT'D)
...and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead.
The rider recedes and the image fades, the horn bearing fire going last.