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By the time I left Miami,
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Americans were doing a couple hundred tons
of cocaine every year.
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To satisfy American noses,
the narcos ramped up their operations.
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- Here, honey.
- Ah, thank you.
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- Hey, is that the Bahamas?
- Hm?
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Oh... Yeah.
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That's beautiful.
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They were flying so many planes,
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they needed a refueling stop
between Colombia and Miami.
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So Carlos Lehder
bought an island in the Bahamas
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as a transshipment point
for the drugs and money.
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Turns out...
it was a damn good place to party.
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It was modern day Sodom and Gomorrah,
with the three things Carlos liked most:
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- sex, drugs, and Nazi sympathizers.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
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The problem was
no longer demand... It was supply.
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We should be over the Amazon by now.
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From 10,000 feet, Colombia
was a paradise of untouched rainforest.
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But things were different
on the ground.
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Pablo and his partners built superlabs
the size of small cities.
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From leaf to paste to powder,
they produced 10,000 kilos a week.
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At 50 grand a kilo,
that's five billion dollars a year.
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These guys weren't fuckin' around.
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Pablo's cousin Gustavo flew chemists in
from Germany to liquefy the cocaine.
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They added it to liquor, to coffee,
and just to be funny...
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they put it back in Coca-Cola.
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¿Patrón?
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Looks good?
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Cocaine was no longer
hidden alongside products.
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It was the product.
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The narcos even
had their own drug-sniffing dogs.
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Gacha bet Pablo that not even
a German scientist could fool his dog.
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And that's what they tried first.
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On paper, Pablo had
the most profitable taxi company ever.
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He only had three cars,
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but he was pulling in
more than five million dollars a week.
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And Gacha had the most successful
emerald mine of all time.
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He would inject bad stones with oil
to make them shiny,
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then have his friends in Miami
buy the emeralds with drug money
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and give them as gifts
to hookers in town.
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Everybody was happy.
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But no matter what they did,
they couldn't hide all that money.
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It just kept coming in.
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And that's what they did.
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They buried it in fields...
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they hid it in caletas,
hiding places in walls and ceilings.
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They even stuck a million dollars
in Pablo's mother's couch.
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Pablo called this accountant "Blackbeard,"
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not because he looked like a pirate,
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but because his job was to map out
where the treasure was hidden.
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But not even the pirate did the trick.
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The problem was Colombia itself.
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It was too small a country
for a fortune that big.
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It was inevitable... someone, somewhere
would try to snatch the narcos' treasure.
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I know what you're thinking.
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No one's crazy enough
to kidnap drug dealers, right?
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But if you're thinking that, it's because
you're not familiar with M-19.
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M-19 was a communist guerrilla group
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made up of college students
and intellectuals
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who read too much Karl Marx
for their own good.
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Their leader was
Ivan "the Terrible" Torres...
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a history professor
who knew nothing about guerilla warfare,
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but understood the power of symbols.
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He broke into
the Quinta de Bolívar Museum
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with his buddy Alejandro
and Alejandro's girlfriend, Elisa,
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and stole a national treasure...
the sword of Simón Bolívar,
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the mythic general who led Colombia
to independence from the Spanish empire.
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These jokers even left a note:
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"Bolívar, your sword
returns to the battlefield."
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It was a stroke of genius...
a marketing stunt way ahead of its time.
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And it made them famous overnight.
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And I guess it went to their heads.
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March 13th, 1981,
the day they kidnapped Marta Ochoa,
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was also the day the Lion
completed 100 trips to Miami.
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Hola.
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Does the cat have any papers?
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- Sí.
- Please.
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Thank you.
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Mm.
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Excuse me a second, please.
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My boss is not having a good day.
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I think his wife left him.
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Yeah, well, he's a little bit cranky,
so... how important is this cat to you?
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Excuse me?
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OK.
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Come with me, please.
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So... wait here, please.
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And my boss will ask you
for this paper later.
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How long is it gonna be?
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I don't know.
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Pablo! Pablo!
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While I was trying to get into Bogotá,
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Pablo was trying to get into politics.
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When he said he was going
to be president of Colombia, he meant it.
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Where is this guy?
We've been waiting for hours now.
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Maybe he's at "terapia de pareja."
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What's that?
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Couples counseling.
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Right.
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What're you doing?
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Oh, I'm practicing my Spanish.
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Yeah, you heard that right.
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She just compared Pablo Escobar
to fucking Robin Hood.
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And in a way, she was right.
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When you've run out of ways
to hide your money,
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that's when you give it to the poor.
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But I don't want to get ahead of myself.
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Connie, you know who that is?
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Bet he could get our cat
into the country.
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I can't believe it.
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They don't even know
he's a fucking drug dealer.
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At the time,
Pablo was just a blip on my radar.
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I didn't know
I was about to be a blip on his.
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Well, we've been waiting
for hours. Thanks for coming out.
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Uh, my wife's a little exhausted,
so here is the cat's vaccination--
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Your passport.
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I'm sorry?
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Your passport, please.
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What do you do at
the United States Embassy, Mr. Murphy?
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I am in, uh,
janitorial services.
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Janitorial services.
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Another one.
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Your embassy must be very clean.
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Oh, yeah.
You bet your ass it is.
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Your cat's cleared.
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Enjoy Colombia.
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And just like that, the narcos
had me on file the very first day.
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As for Valeria Velez,
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the journalist who first
interviewed Pablo... watch out.
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She was as dangerous as M-19.
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Aah!
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You gotta give it to her.
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She saw Pablo coming a mile away.
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And she got herself in just the
right place to take full advantage of him.
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Not unlike my partner Javier Peña,
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who figured the best way
to get inside narco information
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was to hang out
with the same women they did.
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Well...
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Oh, God! What was that?
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That was like a .38.
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- About four blocks away.
- Oh...
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Welcome to Bogotá.
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Should we do it under the bed?
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First day at the American Embassy.
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- I met my partner...
- Javier?
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...who introduced me to the DEA.
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Murphy, this is Weaver and Wisnicki.
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These guys are R.I.P.
"Retired in Place."
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- Eat me, Peña.
- Paid vacation's over, fellas.
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Murphy and I are going to Medellín.
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We'll telex the T-3 reports.
They go straight to Washington.
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We are going to Medellín?
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- Then the Mil Group.
- Jarheads... this is Murphy.
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Murphy, this is Mil Group.
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They advise Colombian military
on communist threats in the countryside.
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Hey, those are classified.
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- Now they're declassified.
- That's the ambassador's call.
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No problem.
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And the last stop...
the ambassador's office.
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Why do you need this intel?
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There's an unusual number of prostitutes
headed to Medellín this weekend.
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Every high-end girl in Bogotá.
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First class airfare,
five-star hotels.
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The narcos are having a meeting
and then a party.
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What does the M-19
have to do with this?
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Somebody kidnapped Marta Ochoa.
Intel suggests it was M-19.
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I need access to the M-19 files
to confirm.
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If I find out one single dollar
of American taxpayer money
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went to any of those hookers,
it'll be your ass.
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OK, thank you.
One last thing, Ambassador.
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Yes, Agent Peña?
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I'm filing a visa request
for my informant. I need your signature.
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You're bothering me.
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She sure likes you.
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Is your informant really a prostitute?
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Everybody works for somebody.
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The very next day,
I was flying with Peña to Medellín,
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Pablo's home turf.
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First stop: Carlos Holguín School,
Colonel Carrillo's base of operations.
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I want you
to meet our new DEA, Steve Murphy.
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Then we went straight to a fancy
hotel where the narcos were about to meet.
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The pictures I took that day
helped to ID guys for months to come.
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There was Carlos Lehder...
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...the Ochoa brothers...
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Fernando Galeano,
"the Wolfman"...
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Is that Gacha?
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I've never seen him
with other traffickers.
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And last but not least...
Gustavo and Pablo.
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Get pictures of that fucker.
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They were all under one roof
and Peña got us there to document it all.
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What we didn't know was
that we were witnessing the formation
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of the famed Medellín cartel.
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Pablo took advantage
of the kidnapping of Marta Ochoa
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to bring all the narcos together
for the very first time.
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And then he proclaimed himself
their leader.
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Salud.
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We knew the meeting was over
when the hookers came to play.
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Peña had finally
gotten one of his informants
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right into the heart of the action.
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She should be here by now.
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You think she slipped?
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Nah, she's no dummy.
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Maybe she's getting pretty for you.
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Yeah.
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Helena wanted a US visa so bad,
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she was willing to do anything
to help our cause.
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And that was a problem.
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They're
telling me the girl left a long time ago.
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- She's already dead.
- No, they wouldn't kill her at the hotel.
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Then they killed her somewhere else.
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She knew the risks.
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If we're going back,
we go back now.
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Gonna stick around here
and see if she shows up, OK?
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- Yeah, and where are you going?
- We're gonna go look for her.
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That's it, guys.
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Any news on the radio?
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00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:02,745
Hey, gringo.
Carrillo is calling. Come on.
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No habla inglés, huh?
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¡Vamos!
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Where the fuck's Peña?
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- How is she?
- Sedated.
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- Is she gonna be OK?
- Physically, yeah.
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Mentally, I haven't got a fucking clue.
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- You left me behind on purpose.
- Look, man--
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If we're gonna be partners,
I don't get left behind.
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I didn't come all the way down here, Peña,
to sit on the fucking sidelines.
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Whatever's going on here...
I'm in all the way.
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Is that understood?
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Understood.
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I hope you know what that means.
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Pablo's message
to the kidnappers was simple.
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He was going to kill them, one by one,
until he got Marta Ochoa back.
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Ivan "the Terrible" thought he could
hide in the jungle and wait it out.
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Sooner or later,
he figured the narcos would cave in.
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Big mistake.
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M-19 didn't stand a chance.
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Needless to say,
Marta Ochoa was released unharmed.
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And the killing didn't stop.
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Pablo had tasted blood,
and he liked it.
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That...
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That's it. Perfect.
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Sending the photos
of the hanging M-19 to the newspapers
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gave Pablo an image of invincibility.
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If he could do this
to the feared communists,
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he could do it to anyone.
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Ivan "the Terrible"
was quick to realize...
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there was only one thing he could do.
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Welcome to the Medellín cartel.
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The narcos had their army,
but me and Peña had ours, too.
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Many Colombians
like Major Horacio Carrillo
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were so invested
in the future of their country
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that they were ready
to do whatever it took to fix it.
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This was a war that would shake
an entire country to its foundations.
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And in the carnage...
mine would be shaken as well.
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Even my wife, Connie,
wanted to help.
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She got a job as a nurse
in a local comuna.
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She wanted to make a difference.
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I guess she forgot we were in Colombia.
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Look, our escolta will drive me
there and back every day.
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- Yeah.
- He'll wait outside all day.
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You know the last time you were in church
is when we got married.
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Well, I'm letting the Lord
back into my life.
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Hey, stop right here.
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Praise God.
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Perdón.
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I want that escolta watching
every inch of you at that comuna now.
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Hey, did we leave the door open?
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Oh, my God, Steve!
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Get back.
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You stay right there
and don't move.
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Original: explosiveskull @addic7ed.com
Editing: HBash