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Twenty years after his disappearance in 1908, an aged Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), living under the assumed name James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia, decides to end his long exile and return to the United States after learning of the death of Etta Place. He writes to their son, Ryan, telling him he intends to return. After years of raising horses and living a solitary life, Blackthorn sets off for Potosí to sell his horses. He tells his lover, Yana (Magaly Solier), that he will see her again before leaving Bolivia.

The Journey Begins

At Potosí, Blackthorn withdraws his savings from the bank, sells his horses, and then heads back to his village. Along the way, he is ambushed and nearly killed. He shoots his attacker, but not before Blackthorn’s horse, Cinco, bolts off with his money. The shooter is Eduardo Apodaca (Eduardo Noriega), a Spaniard mining engineer who claims he was shooting at pursuers. He begs Blackthorn to save him and offers to share part of the $50,000 he stole from powerful Bolivian industrialist and mine owner Simón Patiño. The money is hidden in an abandoned mine, and he will compensate Blackthorn for his help.

The Escape Plan

Blackthorn and the Spaniard set out across the desert plateau with Patiño’s posse within a day’s pursuit. They reach the abandoned mine and find the money, but the posse catches up with them. Following a shootout, Blackthorn and the Spaniard escape with the money. They make their way to Blackthorn’s cabin, where the famous outlaw remembers his old friendships with the Sundance Kid and Etta Place, and how they escaped from Pinkerton Detective Mackinley (Stephen Rea). Yana joins the men at the cabin, and Blackthorn gives her a pocket watch he won in a card game. At first, she rejects it as a “gringo machine”, but then accepts the gift as something to remember him by. Despite his asking her to spend one last night with him, she advises she must return to her own family. Later that night, Yana returns to the cabin to stay with Blackthorn on his last night before leaving.

A Heartbreaking Turn of Events

The next morning, two female members of the posse come to the cabin looking for the Spaniard, and in the ensuing gunfight, Blackthorn is wounded, and Yana is killed. A heartbroken Blackthorn and the Spaniard leave with the rest of the posse not far behind. They set out across the Uyuni salt flats, hoping to reach the coast where Blackthorn can find a boat to take him home. Halfway across, the posse catches up to them, but Blackthorn and the Spaniard split up and are able to kill their pursuers and escape.

The Final Confrontation

When he reaches Tupiza, Blackthorn is treated by a doctor, who notifies former Pinkerton Detective Mackinley—now living a quiet life in Bolivia—of his famous patient. Mackinley confirms the man’s identity. For years Mackinley claimed that the two bandits killed at San Vincente were not Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and now he will finally be proven correct. But after initially notifying the Bolivian army of the discovered outlaw, Mackinley changes his mind, returns Blackthorn’s pistol, and helps him escape. When Mackinley later discovers that Blackthorn was riding with the Spaniard, he reveals the truth; the $50,000 the Spaniard stole was not from the powerful mine owner, Patiño, but from his former employees, whose cooperatives recently took control of all Bolivian mines. The Spaniard stole money from poor people—something Butch Cassidy would never have done. A horrified Blackthorn recalls his gun battles against the miner’s posse but in a new light. Although disgusted by Blackthorn’s involvement with the Spaniard, Detective Mackinley does not betray him.

The Final Escape

In flashbacks to those days when he and the Sundance Kid rode together, he recalls how his partner, being wounded and near death, asks for Butch to “do it,” and so Butch regretfully and lovingly takes the life of his best friend.

In the present, Blackthorn, distressed, tracks the Spaniard into the Andes, with a Bolivian Army posse not far behind. When Blackthorn catches up with him and confronts him with the truth, the Spaniard does not deny it, saying the money he stole was indeed from the mine owners—just “different owners.” Blackthorn shoots the Spaniard in the leg and leaves him and the money for the Bolivian army, who soon arrive and kill the thief. The soldiers continue with Mackinley until they reach a notoriously barren region where the army commander leaves the detective alone and without a horse, as punishment for helping Blackthorn escape.

The Final Scene

In the closing scene, Blackthorn, remembering his life and friends in better days, is last seen looking back over his shoulder and presumably escaping across the mountains.