1 00:00:16,739 --> 00:00:24,576 _ 2 00:00:24,611 --> 00:00:28,572 _ 3 00:00:30,802 --> 00:00:32,096 _ 4 00:00:36,594 --> 00:00:40,723 Nowadays, the US government can listen to anything you say. 5 00:00:40,807 --> 00:00:44,143 They know where you are, they know who you're talking to, 6 00:00:44,226 --> 00:00:47,605 and trust me, they know who you're fucking. 7 00:00:47,689 --> 00:00:51,442 You turn on a cell phone or a computer, and you're doomed. 8 00:00:52,234 --> 00:00:56,656 But in Colombia in 1989, it wasn't that easy. 9 00:00:56,739 --> 00:00:58,950 First off, there was no Internet. 10 00:00:59,034 --> 00:01:00,451 No cells. 11 00:01:00,535 --> 00:01:02,203 The best they had were satellite phones, 12 00:01:02,286 --> 00:01:06,541 and in order to capture a satellite phone, you had to fly directly over it. 13 00:01:06,624 --> 00:01:10,920 On top of that, the only people who had sat phones were the filthy rich... 14 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:13,381 the landowners, the politicians... 15 00:01:14,757 --> 00:01:18,469 And lucky for us, the narcos were richer than them all. 16 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,944 And once you got a signal, you didn't know who you were listening to. 17 00:01:35,028 --> 00:01:38,614 That's why back then, the US government developed software that could identify 18 00:01:38,698 --> 00:01:41,158 the voices of our targets. 19 00:01:41,242 --> 00:01:45,371 I got Poison at 400 to 1700 megahertz, gentlemen. 20 00:01:45,454 --> 00:01:48,499 And you guessed it: no GPS either. 21 00:01:48,583 --> 00:01:50,960 Hammer, prepare to engage. 22 00:01:51,168 --> 00:01:54,463 Once we got a target, we still had to locate it. 23 00:01:54,547 --> 00:01:58,300 So we had to triangulate their signals using assets on the ground. 24 00:02:01,512 --> 00:02:04,057 OK, he's in Modelia. He's on the west side. 25 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:06,308 Hawkeye, how do you copy that? 26 00:02:06,392 --> 00:02:09,938 Can you be more specific? Police units are standing by. 27 00:02:18,738 --> 00:02:21,616 - It's gonna be raining women. - Poison didn't know it, 28 00:02:21,699 --> 00:02:23,910 but he'd just made himself a date. 29 00:02:23,993 --> 00:02:27,914 Negative on Hammer. This fuckwad just told us where he's going. 30 00:02:27,997 --> 00:02:29,874 Hammer, disengage. 31 00:02:29,958 --> 00:02:32,251 So who do we give this to? DEA? 32 00:02:32,334 --> 00:02:35,838 - Yeah. Let's give it to Javier Peña. - Peña's an asshole. 33 00:02:35,922 --> 00:02:38,007 - I'm gonna give it to the other guy. - Sure. 34 00:02:40,468 --> 00:02:42,470 By "the other guy," he meant me. 35 00:02:42,553 --> 00:02:45,723 I'm Steve Murphy, Drug Enforcement Agent. 36 00:02:45,807 --> 00:02:50,352 And as you can see, I am deeply embedded in Colombia. 37 00:02:50,436 --> 00:02:51,479 Hello? 38 00:02:51,562 --> 00:02:54,023 Poison will be partying at La Dispensaria. 39 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:54,941 Got it. 40 00:02:55,024 --> 00:02:57,652 He's meeting Lizard and the rest of them at midnight tonight. 41 00:02:57,735 --> 00:02:59,070 OK. 42 00:02:59,154 --> 00:03:01,739 I would've loved to go after Poison myself, 43 00:03:01,823 --> 00:03:05,160 but the DEA is restricted in a foreign country. 44 00:03:05,242 --> 00:03:09,246 So I did just what you would do... I called the cops. 45 00:03:09,330 --> 00:03:10,498 Hola. 46 00:03:51,539 --> 00:03:54,167 In case you're wondering, this is the asshole. 47 00:03:54,250 --> 00:03:57,128 Javier Peña, my partner. 48 00:03:57,336 --> 00:04:00,715 And this is Colonel Carrillo, the leader of the Search Bloc, 49 00:04:00,798 --> 00:04:03,759 the unit we helped create to capture the bad guys. 50 00:04:03,843 --> 00:04:06,637 Boy, did he have a lot of love for the narcos. 51 00:04:10,016 --> 00:04:14,436 Party time in Zona Rosa. Everybody goes there. 52 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,355 Especially the local hitmen. 53 00:04:16,438 --> 00:04:18,191 Colombians call them sicarios. 54 00:04:24,613 --> 00:04:26,615 Now, Poison, he was one of the best. 55 00:04:26,824 --> 00:04:30,619 Crazy motherfucker who killed dozens of people. 56 00:04:30,703 --> 00:04:32,163 Probably hundreds. 57 00:04:33,039 --> 00:04:34,040 But don't get me wrong. 58 00:04:34,123 --> 00:04:37,376 I would've sent Carrillo there even if Poison never killed a fly. 59 00:04:38,711 --> 00:04:40,963 I don't have a lot of love for the narcos either. 60 00:05:16,874 --> 00:05:20,253 I wouldn't blame you if you held me responsible for this bloodbath. 61 00:05:25,716 --> 00:05:27,676 Yeah, I pushed the buttons. 62 00:05:39,521 --> 00:05:42,191 But don't call me a bad guy just yet. 63 00:07:12,990 --> 00:07:14,367 My fellow Americans... 64 00:07:14,450 --> 00:07:16,785 Take Richard Nixon, for instance. 65 00:07:16,869 --> 00:07:20,956 People forget, but 47 million Americans voted for Nixon. 66 00:07:21,874 --> 00:07:23,959 We thought he was one of the good guys. 67 00:07:24,168 --> 00:07:27,255 And Nixon thought Chilean General Pinochet was a good guy 68 00:07:27,504 --> 00:07:29,048 because he hated the commies. 69 00:07:29,257 --> 00:07:31,717 So we helped Pinochet seize power. 70 00:07:36,597 --> 00:07:39,934 Then Pinochet turned around and killed thousands of people. 71 00:07:42,853 --> 00:07:45,689 Maybe not such a good guy after all. 72 00:07:52,613 --> 00:07:55,241 But sometimes, bad guys do good things. 73 00:07:57,743 --> 00:08:01,705 Nobody knows this, but back in '73, Chile was on its way 74 00:08:01,789 --> 00:08:05,709 to being the world's biggest cocaine processing and exporting center. 75 00:08:10,756 --> 00:08:14,302 They had deserts to hide the labs and miles of unpatrolled coastline 76 00:08:14,385 --> 00:08:15,511 to ship the product north. 77 00:08:24,937 --> 00:08:26,481 But Pinochet spoiled the party. 78 00:08:29,608 --> 00:08:33,862 He shut down 33 labs and arrested 346 drug dealers. 79 00:08:37,533 --> 00:08:39,994 And then, being Pinochet... 80 00:08:41,662 --> 00:08:43,080 he had them all killed. 81 00:09:04,268 --> 00:09:07,896 They say when a nuclear holocaust destroys the world, 82 00:09:07,980 --> 00:09:11,900 only the cockroaches will survive. 83 00:09:11,984 --> 00:09:13,694 I guess they were right. 84 00:09:16,947 --> 00:09:20,951 The bullets missed Mateo Moreno, aka Cockroach, 85 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:23,287 and he was smart enough to play dead. 86 00:09:26,832 --> 00:09:28,501 He wasn't killed on that day. 87 00:09:30,794 --> 00:09:33,922 Instead, he won the damn lottery. 88 00:09:37,259 --> 00:09:41,013 Cockroach had been stealing from his bosses for months. 89 00:09:41,096 --> 00:09:44,433 Now he was left alone in the world with the perfect product. 90 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:48,020 A product whose offer creates its own demand. 91 00:10:08,665 --> 00:10:12,253 Back then, we were just finding out about the effects of cocaine 92 00:10:12,503 --> 00:10:15,172 on the human brain. 93 00:10:15,256 --> 00:10:18,509 We didn't know much, but we knew it was some pretty powerful shit. 94 00:10:18,717 --> 00:10:20,928 ...this will give us better results, OK? 95 00:10:21,011 --> 00:10:24,223 Cocaine hijacks the pleasure centers in the brain. 96 00:10:24,306 --> 00:10:27,518 A rat will choose cocaine over food and water. 97 00:10:27,602 --> 00:10:33,441 It would choose cocaine over sleep, over sex... over life itself. 98 00:10:33,524 --> 00:10:36,652 The human brain isn't quite the same as a rodent's... 99 00:10:38,654 --> 00:10:40,906 unless we're talking about cocaine. 100 00:10:47,204 --> 00:10:49,373 Cockroach knew he had the perfect product. 101 00:10:50,374 --> 00:10:52,709 He just needed to smuggle it to the right markets. 102 00:10:52,793 --> 00:10:54,169 Gracias. 103 00:10:56,213 --> 00:10:58,924 And the best smugglers in the world were in Colombia. 104 00:10:59,007 --> 00:11:00,134 WELCOME TO COLOMBIA 105 00:11:03,929 --> 00:11:06,348 Like Goldilocks, he had three options. 106 00:11:06,432 --> 00:11:09,685 And pay attention, because all three are important to this story. 107 00:11:12,980 --> 00:11:17,568 The Ochoa brothers: Jorge, that's Fabio on the horse. 108 00:11:17,652 --> 00:11:21,363 A typical Colombian smuggling family. 109 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:23,865 - They were smart and rich... - Salud! 110 00:11:23,949 --> 00:11:27,119 ...but Cockroach felt the high life had made 'em too soft. 111 00:11:28,162 --> 00:11:31,957 Another possible partner was José Rodríguez Gacha, 112 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,836 nicknamed "The Mexican," for his love of tequila and sombreros. 113 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:38,714 He dominated the emerald smuggling routes. 114 00:11:45,346 --> 00:11:49,183 Emeralds are a pretty rough trade, even by Colombian standards. 115 00:11:49,266 --> 00:11:50,767 If you make it to the top... 116 00:11:52,227 --> 00:11:55,230 it means you've killed your enemies. 117 00:11:57,149 --> 00:11:59,360 _ 118 00:11:59,568 --> 00:12:01,195 And sometimes, your partners. 119 00:12:06,450 --> 00:12:10,037 Cockroach worried that the emerald trade had made Gacha too hard. 120 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:18,671 So he zeroed in on his third option: a man Cockroach knew would be just right. 121 00:12:21,590 --> 00:12:25,761 Yeah, you guessed it: Pablo Escobar. 122 00:12:25,844 --> 00:12:28,180 The man who would change my life forever. 123 00:12:30,098 --> 00:12:33,394 Pablo was making a killing in the smuggling business. 124 00:12:33,477 --> 00:12:35,937 Cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, you name it. 125 00:12:37,356 --> 00:12:40,817 At the time, Pablo owned half the police in Medellín. 126 00:12:42,152 --> 00:12:45,406 But DAS was Colombia's version of the FBI. 127 00:12:46,574 --> 00:12:48,701 They didn't play by the same rules. 128 00:12:50,244 --> 00:12:51,579 Good day. 129 00:19:07,121 --> 00:19:10,582 Back then, Miami was a paradise. 130 00:19:10,665 --> 00:19:13,543 I signed up for the sand, surf and women. 131 00:19:15,253 --> 00:19:18,465 In '79, the bad guys I was chasing wore flip-flops. 132 00:19:18,548 --> 00:19:19,716 DEA! Stop! 133 00:19:19,925 --> 00:19:23,929 I was a young DEA agent, partnered with my buddy, Kevin Brady. 134 00:19:25,139 --> 00:19:27,182 Kevin was a little slow afoot. 135 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,728 Why you running, huh? 136 00:19:31,937 --> 00:19:34,815 What you got? What is this? Huh? 137 00:19:34,898 --> 00:19:35,816 What is that? 138 00:19:35,899 --> 00:19:39,027 That right there... that's a goddamn promotion. 139 00:19:39,111 --> 00:19:41,196 Let's go celebrate. 140 00:19:41,404 --> 00:19:42,864 - Whoo! - Look at that. 141 00:19:45,325 --> 00:19:47,828 Go! Go! Go! 142 00:19:47,911 --> 00:19:50,371 How you like me now? 143 00:19:50,455 --> 00:19:51,623 How much money you owe me? 144 00:19:51,832 --> 00:19:53,458 What happened to the money you owed me last week? 145 00:19:53,583 --> 00:19:55,169 That's right, that's right. 146 00:19:57,754 --> 00:20:00,757 All right. All right, who do we pick? 147 00:20:00,966 --> 00:20:02,467 How 'bout her? 148 00:20:02,550 --> 00:20:03,969 No, no, no, we gotta fuck with him. 149 00:20:04,052 --> 00:20:06,054 - Yeah, let's mess with his head. - Um... 150 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:07,973 Oh, right there. See her? At the bar? 151 00:20:08,056 --> 00:20:10,184 - Which one? - Blue top, blond hair. That's his type. 152 00:20:10,391 --> 00:20:13,353 - Oh! Strike! - She's hot. 153 00:20:13,436 --> 00:20:14,729 - All right. - Whoo! 154 00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:16,940 Murph! Sparrow, three o'clock. 155 00:20:17,024 --> 00:20:20,861 Hey, while you were walking back, she was checking your ass out. 156 00:20:20,944 --> 00:20:22,487 Oh, she was checking out your ass. 157 00:20:22,570 --> 00:20:23,989 Get the fuck outta here. Come on. 158 00:20:24,072 --> 00:20:27,951 Listen, she eye-fucked you the entire time you were bowling. 159 00:20:28,035 --> 00:20:30,704 She was. She was eye-fucking you. The entire time. 160 00:20:30,912 --> 00:20:34,332 I'm serious, I'm serious. Look at her. 161 00:20:34,541 --> 00:20:37,127 - Uh-huh. That's his type. - Talking about the blond one? 162 00:20:37,211 --> 00:20:38,753 No, the other one. Of course the blond one. 163 00:20:38,837 --> 00:20:40,547 She's the hottest one there. She's your type. 164 00:20:41,297 --> 00:20:44,592 You dicking me around? 165 00:20:47,554 --> 00:20:48,930 Fuck it, I'm going in. 166 00:20:49,014 --> 00:20:50,182 - Go get her. - Mm! 167 00:20:50,265 --> 00:20:52,059 - Yup. - Hey, while you're up there, 168 00:20:52,142 --> 00:20:53,643 get us another pitcher, will ya? 169 00:20:53,852 --> 00:20:56,855 - Pace yourself. - Look at him. Look at his swagger. 170 00:21:06,990 --> 00:21:08,366 How you doing? 171 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:10,202 Busy. 172 00:21:11,828 --> 00:21:15,331 I just said, "Look, if you don't wanna be there, you don't have to be. 173 00:21:15,415 --> 00:21:18,626 No one's forcing you to do anything." So, I don't know... 174 00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:24,674 Yeah, those bastards got me. 175 00:21:24,758 --> 00:21:27,094 But I couldn't let it end like that. 176 00:21:27,177 --> 00:21:30,013 Excuse me. See those guys over there? 177 00:21:31,306 --> 00:21:32,599 Uh, they're fucking with me. 178 00:21:32,682 --> 00:21:36,144 Telling me you were checking out my ass, and who checks out a cop's ass, right? 179 00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:37,478 You're a cop? 180 00:21:37,562 --> 00:21:39,898 Not a cop, actually. I'm DEA. 181 00:21:40,107 --> 00:21:41,149 Drug Enforcement? 182 00:21:41,233 --> 00:21:43,235 So you're the one making pot more expensive. 183 00:21:44,069 --> 00:21:46,613 Come on, why don't you do me a favor? 184 00:21:46,696 --> 00:21:49,283 I wanna show these guys up. Why don't you, uh... 185 00:21:49,365 --> 00:21:51,076 give me your phone number? 186 00:21:51,910 --> 00:21:53,494 How about a fake number? 187 00:21:54,579 --> 00:21:55,580 That'll work. 188 00:21:56,414 --> 00:21:58,125 Hey, buddy, you got a pen? 189 00:22:12,806 --> 00:22:15,391 - I'm sorry for the trouble. - Sure. 190 00:22:16,310 --> 00:22:17,894 Have a good night. 191 00:22:20,563 --> 00:22:23,275 Aah... 192 00:22:23,358 --> 00:22:24,525 Shot down! 193 00:22:25,693 --> 00:22:28,363 - Where's the pitcher at? - The pitcher? Oh, I... 194 00:22:29,072 --> 00:22:30,531 I didn't make it back with the pitcher. 195 00:22:30,740 --> 00:22:33,994 I just came up with this and I couldn't read it. What does that say? 196 00:22:34,077 --> 00:22:36,537 - Read it and weep! - Aw... Gimme that. 197 00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:38,290 How much did that cost you? 198 00:22:38,373 --> 00:22:40,500 - That's your handwriting. - It's not my handwriting! 199 00:22:47,215 --> 00:22:49,592 I figured, what the hell. 200 00:22:49,676 --> 00:22:53,096 Worst that could happen, I'd wake up some grandmother in Boca. 201 00:22:59,477 --> 00:23:00,687 Hello? 202 00:23:02,189 --> 00:23:03,648 So it wasn't a fake. 203 00:23:03,857 --> 00:23:06,193 I thought you might figure it out. 204 00:23:06,276 --> 00:23:08,695 After all, you're DEA. 205 00:23:08,778 --> 00:23:12,157 And just like that... she had me. 206 00:23:13,574 --> 00:23:18,621 The minute Pablo laid his eyes on the paste-processing labs in Peru, 207 00:23:18,705 --> 00:23:20,498 cocaine had him. 208 00:23:23,501 --> 00:23:24,919 It's been a while. 209 00:25:58,406 --> 00:26:02,160 That's half a million dollars... per trip, 210 00:26:02,243 --> 00:26:05,372 using the same smuggling routes he always used. 211 00:26:08,166 --> 00:26:09,959 Easiest money he ever made. 212 00:26:15,298 --> 00:26:18,218 Back in Medellín, Pablo didn't waste any time. 213 00:26:18,301 --> 00:26:19,969 He bought a house in his old neighborhood 214 00:26:20,053 --> 00:26:25,099 and opened his first lab to turn Peruvian paste... into cocaine powder. 215 00:26:57,424 --> 00:27:01,719 It was a mom-and-pop operation, so small they called it The Kitchen. 216 00:27:01,802 --> 00:27:05,557 But make no mistake, it would change Medellín forever. 217 00:27:30,665 --> 00:27:33,167 There you go. 218 00:27:55,148 --> 00:27:58,985 Like her son, Pablo's mother Hermilda was very resourceful. 219 00:27:59,694 --> 00:28:03,197 Hey, Mom, how much do you think we can fit in there? 220 00:28:03,281 --> 00:28:06,701 - Around five kilos, honey. - That much? 221 00:28:06,784 --> 00:28:08,202 Trust me, Pablito. 222 00:28:08,286 --> 00:28:10,246 I love it. Let's do it. 223 00:28:13,667 --> 00:28:16,252 - Pablo. - Thank you, my love. 224 00:28:19,297 --> 00:28:20,590 It's Gustavo. 225 00:28:21,466 --> 00:28:22,800 Five kilos, right? 226 00:28:22,883 --> 00:28:26,429 Pablo loved his young bride Tata, and she loved him. 227 00:28:26,513 --> 00:28:28,931 He was a family man till the end. 228 00:28:29,015 --> 00:28:32,185 The guy they got to wear the jacket was the Lion. 229 00:28:35,396 --> 00:28:38,525 He was a friend of Gustavo's who'd spent his childhood in the United States. 230 00:29:30,660 --> 00:29:34,830 The Lion was one of the first guys to ever bring coke into Miami. 231 00:29:37,917 --> 00:29:39,252 Welcome to the United States. 232 00:29:39,335 --> 00:29:42,004 Thank you. Have a great day. 233 00:29:42,088 --> 00:29:42,963 Next, please. 234 00:29:43,047 --> 00:29:46,842 His contact was a crazy nut job named Carlos Lehder, 235 00:29:46,926 --> 00:29:51,806 half Colombian, half German, and 100 percent playboy. 236 00:29:51,889 --> 00:29:55,184 Big fan of John Lennon and Adolf Hitler. 237 00:29:55,268 --> 00:29:57,061 Go figure. 238 00:29:57,144 --> 00:30:01,065 Back in '79, this piece of work was flying bales of grass up from Colombia 239 00:30:01,148 --> 00:30:02,734 on a fleet of small planes. 240 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,288 The Lion made more than 20 flights between Medellín and Miami. 241 00:30:57,371 --> 00:30:59,666 Drugs in, cash out. 242 00:30:59,874 --> 00:31:03,002 And the rich and famous in Miami snorted every single gram of it. 243 00:31:03,085 --> 00:31:06,547 And in no time, Pablo had to replace his cars with trucks. 244 00:31:07,674 --> 00:31:10,217 Gustavo had the trucks filled to the brim with potatoes, 245 00:31:10,301 --> 00:31:12,679 the major item Colombia imported from Peru. 246 00:31:13,721 --> 00:31:15,765 He didn't even have to bribe the cops. 247 00:31:16,850 --> 00:31:19,393 The coke paste was hidden in the spare tires. 248 00:31:19,477 --> 00:31:21,937 Each tire could fit about 20 kilos. 249 00:31:22,021 --> 00:31:25,817 Ten trucks, 20 kilos each, going back and forth every day... 250 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:29,987 You do the math. No way the Lion could transport it all. 251 00:31:30,070 --> 00:31:32,448 Pretty soon, the Lion had to come up with new ways 252 00:31:32,532 --> 00:31:34,617 to smuggle the drug to Miami. 253 00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:46,355 During the early '80s, most flights out of Bogotá 254 00:32:46,439 --> 00:32:48,274 had several mules on them. 255 00:32:48,357 --> 00:32:50,443 They didn't even know about each other. 256 00:32:50,526 --> 00:32:52,111 And you know what? 257 00:32:52,194 --> 00:32:56,323 Getting in was easy, because nobody worried about cocaine in America. 258 00:32:56,407 --> 00:32:58,367 All we cared about was grass. 259 00:33:01,454 --> 00:33:05,959 Pretty soon, cocaine was hidden in almost every legitimate Colombian export. 260 00:33:06,041 --> 00:33:10,087 Fish, coffee, flowers, rubber hoses... anything. 261 00:33:27,229 --> 00:33:29,148 But even that didn't do it. 262 00:33:30,024 --> 00:33:34,487 The real game changer was filling Lehder's planes with coke instead of weed. 263 00:35:00,114 --> 00:35:01,908 Within months after meeting Cockroach, 264 00:35:01,991 --> 00:35:07,080 Pablo was establishing the first dedicated narco routes from Colombia to America. 265 00:35:08,414 --> 00:35:11,751 It was a real milestone in the story of narcotics, folks. 266 00:35:12,752 --> 00:35:15,922 Then Pablo closed The Kitchen and started opening cocaine labs 267 00:35:16,005 --> 00:35:17,506 in the middle of the jungle. 268 00:35:20,175 --> 00:35:22,553 Under the canopy cover of the Colombian rainforest, 269 00:35:22,636 --> 00:35:27,641 he could expand his production capability indefinitely without anybody noticing it. 270 00:36:31,371 --> 00:36:34,458 Pablo couldn't hide his success from his friends. 271 00:36:34,541 --> 00:36:38,212 They were violent, crazy and filthy rich. 272 00:36:38,295 --> 00:36:41,507 Guys used to getting what they want, one way or another. 273 00:38:43,337 --> 00:38:47,841 When I started, a one-kilo grass bust was cause for celebration. 274 00:38:54,056 --> 00:38:57,768 And before long, we were seizing 60 kilos of coke a day. 275 00:39:00,980 --> 00:39:03,316 We thought we were making a huge difference. 276 00:39:09,571 --> 00:39:12,325 Truth is, we weren't even making a dent. 277 00:39:13,617 --> 00:39:16,578 They let us have 60 so they could bring in 600. 278 00:39:26,130 --> 00:39:28,007 Pablo's coke flooded in. 279 00:39:29,049 --> 00:39:31,551 It didn't take long for Miami to get addicted. 280 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:33,095 And I mean that. 281 00:39:33,929 --> 00:39:37,350 It was like the whole city was running around trying to get this shit. 282 00:39:38,851 --> 00:39:40,353 And with the money... 283 00:39:41,436 --> 00:39:43,314 came the violence. 284 00:39:45,565 --> 00:39:47,484 The hippies had been replaced by Colombians, 285 00:39:47,567 --> 00:39:50,237 and these guys didn't wear flip-flops. 286 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,223 The Miami coroner said Colombians were like Dixie cups. 287 00:40:18,807 --> 00:40:21,143 Use 'em once, then throw 'em away. 288 00:40:22,561 --> 00:40:26,648 The Dade County morgue couldn't fit all the bodies from the drug war. 289 00:40:26,732 --> 00:40:29,609 They had to rent a refrigerated truck from a local company 290 00:40:29,693 --> 00:40:31,653 to hold all the extra corpses. 291 00:40:33,864 --> 00:40:35,699 That was the first person I ever shot. 292 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,161 A teenager not old enough to buy a six-pack. 293 00:40:58,889 --> 00:41:01,975 Hey... it was self-defense. 294 00:41:02,184 --> 00:41:05,145 - Kevin called you? - He's worried about you. 295 00:41:06,063 --> 00:41:08,148 Did he forget to tell you the kid was 17? 296 00:41:09,149 --> 00:41:10,776 He sells drugs, right? 297 00:41:12,194 --> 00:41:14,071 - Yeah. - Yeah, then fuck him. 298 00:41:21,078 --> 00:41:22,371 What happened? 299 00:41:25,665 --> 00:41:28,210 - Coming through! - I was about to finish my shift 300 00:41:28,461 --> 00:41:30,545 when we got hit with the lights and sirens. 301 00:41:30,629 --> 00:41:31,964 Stay with me. 302 00:41:32,172 --> 00:41:33,632 I have an unconscious pregnant female. 303 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,719 Paramedics said she collapsed after she got off her flight. 304 00:41:37,928 --> 00:41:41,265 By the time she got to us, she was barely breathing. 305 00:41:41,348 --> 00:41:45,102 - Pressure 60 over 40. - Dilated pupils, rapid pulse. 306 00:41:45,185 --> 00:41:47,646 I knew she'd overdosed on cocaine... 307 00:41:47,729 --> 00:41:51,442 ...but she had no residue on her nostrils, no injection marks. 308 00:41:53,860 --> 00:41:55,654 We did everything we could. 309 00:41:56,738 --> 00:41:58,365 She died in the ER. 310 00:42:00,742 --> 00:42:02,536 We tried to save the baby... 311 00:42:08,041 --> 00:42:10,085 The baby died in my hands. 312 00:42:12,838 --> 00:42:14,340 I'm so sorry. 313 00:42:15,090 --> 00:42:18,093 She was body-packing 11 ounces of cocaine. 314 00:42:19,011 --> 00:42:20,720 Two of the pellets split open. 315 00:42:22,597 --> 00:42:26,268 Twelve grams in her bloodstream. 316 00:42:28,562 --> 00:42:30,272 No one survives that. 317 00:43:13,148 --> 00:43:15,234 Pablo was fucking Cockroach over. 318 00:43:15,442 --> 00:43:18,695 But Cockroach should've listened to Gustavo. 319 00:43:18,778 --> 00:43:22,616 Instead, he found another way to get his fair share. 320 00:46:56,996 --> 00:46:59,499 Pablo didn't know it then... 321 00:46:59,583 --> 00:47:03,336 ...but this mug shot was gonna cause him a lot of grief down the line. 322 00:48:48,441 --> 00:48:51,820 Turns out Cockroach was a real cockroach. 323 00:48:51,904 --> 00:48:55,073 Not only did he sell Pablo to the authorities, 324 00:48:55,156 --> 00:48:58,827 he was stealing from him all along and selling his coke in Miami, too. 325 00:49:00,871 --> 00:49:06,125 Cockroach's dealer was Germán Zapata, a Colombian with a plumbing business 326 00:49:06,209 --> 00:49:08,921 that served as a front for his cocaine operation. 327 00:49:10,088 --> 00:49:14,843 He had 1200 keys in the van... and guess who was buying the load? 328 00:49:18,137 --> 00:49:19,723 The plan was to trade vehicles, 329 00:49:19,806 --> 00:49:22,893 and Zapata would be arrested once he left the port. 330 00:49:24,519 --> 00:49:27,105 1200 kilos. 331 00:49:27,188 --> 00:49:30,024 That would get us on the cover of the Miami Herald. 332 00:49:31,109 --> 00:49:33,612 OK, gringos. 333 00:49:33,695 --> 00:49:35,697 How's the plumbing business? 334 00:49:35,781 --> 00:49:37,115 Fine. 335 00:49:40,577 --> 00:49:43,580 - How's it look? - Plumbing business is very good. 336 00:49:45,373 --> 00:49:47,500 Come on, amigo. I'll show you. 337 00:49:49,085 --> 00:49:50,629 Everything was going perfect. 338 00:49:50,837 --> 00:49:55,717 Like I said, amigo... 100 percent pure. 339 00:49:55,801 --> 00:49:57,719 Except that Pablo was onto Cockroach. 340 00:49:57,803 --> 00:50:00,472 Got a full load here, Murph-- 341 00:50:08,062 --> 00:50:10,690 Don't move! Don't move. 342 00:50:10,774 --> 00:50:13,902 Don't move! Don't move. 343 00:50:13,986 --> 00:50:15,278 Get down! 344 00:50:18,698 --> 00:50:21,034 Hands! Down! 345 00:50:21,117 --> 00:50:22,201 Don't look at me. 346 00:50:25,705 --> 00:50:26,915 Fucking... 347 00:50:46,518 --> 00:50:51,064 In the case of the State of Florida v. Juan Diego Díaz, 348 00:50:51,147 --> 00:50:54,275 after taking into account all due considerations, 349 00:50:54,359 --> 00:50:59,572 bail has been set at two million dollars, or a bond of $200,000. 350 00:51:00,907 --> 00:51:04,243 I got to the courthouse early the day of La Quica's trial. 351 00:51:04,327 --> 00:51:07,413 My testimony was gonna put that bastard on death row. 352 00:51:09,290 --> 00:51:13,086 The US District Attorney said La Quica met his bail of two million dollars, 353 00:51:13,169 --> 00:51:17,883 paid by a wire transfer from, well... why don't you take a guess? 354 00:51:19,133 --> 00:51:22,428 La Quica boarded and was back in Medellín by midnight. 355 00:51:25,223 --> 00:51:31,563 From '79 to '84, there were 3,245 murders in Miami. 356 00:51:32,647 --> 00:51:34,858 And outside the Tourist Bureau and the cops, 357 00:51:35,067 --> 00:51:37,360 no one much cared about that. 358 00:51:37,569 --> 00:51:41,907 What got the US government to take notice was the money. 359 00:51:41,990 --> 00:51:46,536 Billions of dollars a year, all flowing from the US to Colombia. 360 00:51:47,537 --> 00:51:50,623 And that... America couldn't take. 361 00:51:52,208 --> 00:51:56,462 A group of powerful businessmen went and met with President Reagan. 362 00:51:56,671 --> 00:52:00,717 They were terrified the narco economy would sink the real economy of Miami. 363 00:52:01,634 --> 00:52:06,098 Or... maybe they were pissed off that they weren't getting a cut. 364 00:52:06,180 --> 00:52:09,601 Whatever it was, the businessmen came at just the right time. 365 00:52:10,309 --> 00:52:12,520 It's back-to-school time for America's children... 366 00:52:12,604 --> 00:52:15,982 It was time for America to suit up against a new enemy. 367 00:52:16,816 --> 00:52:19,235 Drugs are menacing our society. 368 00:52:19,318 --> 00:52:22,864 They're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions. 369 00:52:22,948 --> 00:52:25,033 They're killing our children. 370 00:52:25,117 --> 00:52:26,910 It was classic Reagan. 371 00:52:26,993 --> 00:52:29,913 Folksy, direct and tough. 372 00:52:29,996 --> 00:52:33,249 He vowed to go after drugs at the source. 373 00:52:33,458 --> 00:52:35,668 But it was Nancy who stole the show. 374 00:52:35,752 --> 00:52:39,965 So to my young friends out there, life can be great. 375 00:52:40,048 --> 00:52:42,175 But not when you can't see it. 376 00:52:42,258 --> 00:52:47,472 So open your eyes to life, to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us 377 00:52:47,555 --> 00:52:49,849 as a precious gift to His children. 378 00:52:49,933 --> 00:52:51,935 Say yes to your life. 379 00:52:52,018 --> 00:52:56,314 And when it comes to drugs and alcohol... just say no. 380 00:53:04,656 --> 00:53:08,034 They say when a nuclear holocaust destroys the world, 381 00:53:08,118 --> 00:53:10,120 only the cockroaches will survive. 382 00:53:10,203 --> 00:53:12,330 Leave that piece of shit there. 383 00:53:12,413 --> 00:53:14,290 I guess they were wrong. 384 00:53:16,126 --> 00:53:19,337 During his career, Pablo would kill over a thousand cops. 385 00:53:20,213 --> 00:53:22,132 But I wouldn't learn that till later. 386 00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:31,933 My dad volunteered to fight in World War II because of Pearl Harbor. 387 00:53:32,142 --> 00:53:34,186 But you think he knew anybody in Hawaii? 388 00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:36,604 No way. 389 00:53:37,271 --> 00:53:41,818 He was a West Virginia farm boy, but these fuckers stepped on our soil. 390 00:53:42,777 --> 00:53:45,613 So he laced up his army boots and went to fight. 391 00:53:46,656 --> 00:53:48,158 It was his duty. 392 00:53:49,826 --> 00:53:51,953 Cocaine in Miami? 393 00:53:52,037 --> 00:53:53,955 Kilos from Colombia? 394 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,333 This was my war. 395 00:53:57,416 --> 00:53:59,919 This was my duty. 396 00:54:00,003 --> 00:54:01,796 And I was ready to fight it. 397 00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,465 And my wife was ready to fight it with me, too. 398 00:54:04,549 --> 00:54:05,758 Your ticket, please. 399 00:54:07,135 --> 00:54:08,302 OK. 400 00:54:08,386 --> 00:54:11,389 We had no idea what we were in for. 401 00:54:12,765 --> 00:54:17,062 One year later... all that patriotic bullshit was right out the window. 402 00:54:17,145 --> 00:54:18,813 OK, man, what do we got? 403 00:54:18,897 --> 00:54:22,025 - We got Poison... - Excellent. Who else? 404 00:54:22,108 --> 00:54:23,442 We got Lizard. 405 00:54:24,569 --> 00:54:26,320 Uh... 406 00:54:26,404 --> 00:54:27,822 We got, we got... 407 00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:33,536 - Big Badmouth. - That motherfucker. 408 00:54:33,619 --> 00:54:36,289 - Thank you for the gift, agent. - No problem. 409 00:54:52,430 --> 00:54:55,975 If there's one thing I've learned in the narco world, 410 00:54:56,059 --> 00:54:59,062 it's that life is more complicated than you think. 411 00:55:00,105 --> 00:55:03,775 Good and bad... they're relative concepts. 412 00:55:05,068 --> 00:55:08,947 In the world of drug dealers, you do what you think is right... 413 00:55:09,864 --> 00:55:11,908 and hope for the best. 414 00:55:56,696 --> 00:56:01,696 Original: explosiveskull @ addic7ed.com Adjustment by HBash