1 00:00:04,131 --> 00:00:07,385 I'm more of a dog man myself, but no cat deserves this. 2 00:00:08,386 --> 00:00:10,513 Did you tell anyone about why you were down here? 3 00:00:10,597 --> 00:00:12,557 Someone on the plane? Someone you met at a restaurant? 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:13,724 'Course not. 5 00:00:13,807 --> 00:00:17,728 Not to get personal, but have you had any, uh... encounters? 6 00:00:17,895 --> 00:00:19,522 - "Encounters"? - Yeah. 7 00:00:19,606 --> 00:00:21,815 I'm married. 8 00:00:22,983 --> 00:00:24,235 Right. 9 00:00:24,985 --> 00:00:27,655 Only people I've encountered outside the DEA and my wife 10 00:00:27,738 --> 00:00:29,240 are those Colombian cops in Medellín. 11 00:00:29,407 --> 00:00:30,824 No, no, Carrillo's solid. 12 00:00:30,908 --> 00:00:32,701 Did anyone have access to your credentials? 13 00:00:32,868 --> 00:00:35,204 Did you drop your wallet? 14 00:00:35,288 --> 00:00:36,372 Passport. 15 00:00:36,539 --> 00:00:38,416 How important is this cat to you? 16 00:00:39,125 --> 00:00:40,000 Excuse me? 17 00:00:40,167 --> 00:00:41,794 You gave someone your passport? 18 00:00:43,879 --> 00:00:46,006 We were trying to get Puff through Immigration. 19 00:00:46,173 --> 00:00:47,383 "Puff"? 20 00:00:47,550 --> 00:00:49,176 I didn't name it, dude. 21 00:00:49,343 --> 00:00:52,012 Traffickers pay people at the airports for intel. 22 00:00:52,179 --> 00:00:55,224 A gringo coming in from Miami raises suspicions. That's how you got made. 23 00:00:56,142 --> 00:00:57,851 Don't let it rattle you. That's what they want. 24 00:00:57,935 --> 00:01:00,688 You probably got a price on your head, but no one's gonna take the contract. 25 00:01:00,854 --> 00:01:01,855 Fucking price on my head? 26 00:01:01,939 --> 00:01:06,360 There's a standing bounty of 350,000 US on any DEA down here, 27 00:01:06,444 --> 00:01:09,238 but you're safe... because of Kiki. 28 00:01:10,490 --> 00:01:12,450 The "Kiki" Peña was referring to 29 00:01:12,617 --> 00:01:17,955 was Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent who went after the Guadalajara cartel in Mexico. 30 00:01:18,122 --> 00:01:20,333 Kiki was captured and tortured. 31 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,419 They skinned his legs, put a bullet in each limb, 32 00:01:23,503 --> 00:01:26,005 used an electric drill on his head until he died. 33 00:01:26,922 --> 00:01:29,049 What the fuck were they thinking? 34 00:01:29,216 --> 00:01:33,471 They could kill an American government agent and get away with it? 35 00:01:33,554 --> 00:01:37,308 Uncle Sam doesn't fuck around. The cocksuckers paid in blood. 36 00:01:38,225 --> 00:01:40,687 They went after them so hard, every single narco in the world 37 00:01:40,853 --> 00:01:44,649 got the message that the DEA is off-limits. 38 00:01:44,732 --> 00:01:47,234 Kiki was like Jesus Christ to us. 39 00:01:47,318 --> 00:01:48,569 He died to save us all. 40 00:01:49,028 --> 00:01:51,864 Do not tell Connie that story. 41 00:01:52,031 --> 00:01:53,240 I won't. 42 00:01:53,324 --> 00:01:55,743 - But you shouldn't forget it either. - Why? 43 00:01:56,619 --> 00:01:58,871 This cat is DEA. 44 00:01:58,954 --> 00:02:01,081 Mark my words, it will get justice. 45 00:04:19,178 --> 00:04:20,847 Uh-huh. 46 00:06:00,446 --> 00:06:03,991 A drug dealer running for president. It was crazy, right? 47 00:06:04,074 --> 00:06:07,202 Well, not in Colombia. Not in the mid-'80s. 48 00:06:07,369 --> 00:06:10,581 As far as Colombians go, Pablo wasn't a drug dealer at all. 49 00:06:10,664 --> 00:06:12,750 He was a fucking winner. 50 00:06:12,917 --> 00:06:15,502 The living embodiment of the Colombian dream. 51 00:06:15,586 --> 00:06:18,672 The guy who'd buy houses for the poor in exchange for nothing. 52 00:06:19,506 --> 00:06:23,010 As far as Pablo could tell, the doors to political success were there... 53 00:06:24,136 --> 00:06:26,179 and all he had to do was to get to them. 54 00:06:28,641 --> 00:06:30,559 And in order to do that, 55 00:06:30,643 --> 00:06:34,605 he asked Valeria Velez to introduce him to Fernando Duque. 56 00:06:39,860 --> 00:06:43,656 Duque was a lawyer and a lobbyist who represented the New Liberals, 57 00:06:43,739 --> 00:06:46,450 a party who claimed to represent the people. 58 00:06:52,498 --> 00:06:53,332 Pablo! 59 00:09:47,881 --> 00:09:52,219 And just like that... an honest man blinked. 60 00:09:52,427 --> 00:09:54,471 You're not going back to that comuna! 61 00:09:54,554 --> 00:09:57,099 What, you want me to stay in this apartment for the next two years? 62 00:09:58,558 --> 00:10:00,268 Oh, my God, you do. 63 00:10:00,435 --> 00:10:02,146 Honey, your cat was killed as a warning to me. 64 00:10:02,312 --> 00:10:03,355 Our cat. 65 00:10:03,522 --> 00:10:04,606 OK, our cat. 66 00:10:05,983 --> 00:10:09,361 What if you went back to Miami just for a little while until things quiet down? 67 00:10:09,444 --> 00:10:13,281 - Oh, you're gonna make them quiet down? - You're that good, huh? 68 00:10:13,448 --> 00:10:16,952 I'll tell you what. I'll agree to go back to Miami if you agree to go back, too. 69 00:10:17,036 --> 00:10:19,663 - You prepared to do that? - I'm not giving in on this one! 70 00:10:29,215 --> 00:10:31,842 OK. I'll be waiting to take you home. 71 00:10:32,009 --> 00:10:34,220 I already stick out like a sore thumb. 72 00:10:34,302 --> 00:10:36,555 The bodyguards are only gonna draw more attention. 73 00:10:36,722 --> 00:10:38,265 Just humor me. 74 00:10:38,431 --> 00:10:41,351 I can't do my job if I'm worried about your safety. 75 00:10:42,352 --> 00:10:43,270 Mm... 76 00:10:48,525 --> 00:10:50,652 Hey, mind parking down the street a little? 77 00:10:50,777 --> 00:10:52,279 I'll scream if I need you. 78 00:11:01,371 --> 00:11:02,998 - Buenos días, Father. - Connie. 79 00:11:03,082 --> 00:11:04,624 What, are you surprised to see me? 80 00:11:04,708 --> 00:11:07,335 We've had American volunteers. They come and go. 81 00:11:07,419 --> 00:11:08,962 Well, this one will keep coming. 82 00:11:13,592 --> 00:11:16,595 Surprised to see Elisa, a communist M-19 guerrilla, 83 00:11:16,678 --> 00:11:18,222 working in the comuna? 84 00:11:18,388 --> 00:11:22,059 That's because you don't know the liberation church in Colombia. 85 00:11:22,226 --> 00:11:25,104 And the priest... innocent, right? 86 00:11:25,187 --> 00:11:28,023 Wrong. He's more of a commie than she is. 87 00:11:47,293 --> 00:11:49,836 - What's he saying? - I'm telling him about the cat. 88 00:12:01,223 --> 00:12:03,475 No hablo español. I don't know what you're saying. 89 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,829 - What is he saying? - They don't like cats in this country. 90 00:12:23,912 --> 00:12:25,247 Tell me about it. 91 00:12:46,310 --> 00:12:48,270 - Is that a D-103? - Yup. 92 00:12:48,436 --> 00:12:51,148 Let me get this straight. Gotta pay this cop off for information, 93 00:12:51,315 --> 00:12:54,776 - then you gotta get a receipt? - I gotta get reimbursed. 94 00:13:41,865 --> 00:13:43,742 Yeah, you guys stalled me at the airport 95 00:13:43,825 --> 00:13:47,413 so you could take my passport and copy and scan it, didn't you? 96 00:15:54,789 --> 00:15:57,625 According to CNP wiretaps, the sicario "Poison" 97 00:15:57,709 --> 00:16:00,170 was recorded saying he was driving to Bogotá this afternoon. 98 00:16:00,253 --> 00:16:01,838 For what purpose, we don't know. 99 00:16:01,921 --> 00:16:04,799 But if we don't respond to the obvious threat to Agent Murphy, 100 00:16:04,966 --> 00:16:06,385 we're sending the wrong message. 101 00:16:06,468 --> 00:16:08,845 Police have the information, then they should make the arrest. 102 00:16:08,928 --> 00:16:11,097 No. No, if we leave it to them, someone will sell us out. 103 00:16:11,181 --> 00:16:13,808 The narcos have informants in their department. 104 00:16:13,975 --> 00:16:16,562 What Peña's driving at is that Major Carrillo should man a roadblock. 105 00:16:16,644 --> 00:16:18,397 - We can trust Carrillo. - I don't have authority 106 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,690 - over the Colombian police. - All due respect, Ambassador, 107 00:16:20,773 --> 00:16:22,526 but you know where we are. 108 00:16:22,609 --> 00:16:24,361 With enough money, you can get anything done. 109 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:31,535 Excuse me for saying so... but this isn't much of a roadblock, is it? 110 00:16:31,618 --> 00:16:33,036 Well, if the roadblock is too obvious, 111 00:16:33,119 --> 00:16:36,456 Pablo can be tipped off by a cop or by a passerby, who knows. 112 00:16:37,916 --> 00:16:40,126 Can anybody in this country keep a secret? 113 00:16:40,835 --> 00:16:43,088 I've got a spotter set up about four kilometers away. 114 00:16:43,171 --> 00:16:44,714 He's gonna let us know when Poison passes. 115 00:16:44,881 --> 00:16:47,050 You're gonna question them, right? Because we need to-- 116 00:16:47,217 --> 00:16:48,594 Poison's killed three of my men already. 117 00:16:48,676 --> 00:16:50,678 If I catch him alive, you guys can question him here. 118 00:16:51,638 --> 00:16:52,931 Then you guys gotta go. 119 00:18:54,177 --> 00:18:57,305 OK. We have visual confirmation. Four kilometers away. 120 00:19:39,222 --> 00:19:40,390 OK! 121 00:19:46,521 --> 00:19:49,232 I'm calling this off. Nobody's coming. 122 00:19:50,191 --> 00:19:53,653 - What the fuck has happened here? - Maybe Poison spotted the spotter. 123 00:19:53,820 --> 00:19:55,321 Either that or Suárez sold you out. 124 00:19:55,488 --> 00:19:57,824 Yeah, if he did, he must've had a better offer, 125 00:19:57,907 --> 00:19:59,743 and it wasn't a fucking cat. 126 00:20:11,963 --> 00:20:14,882 To avoid suspicion and questioning about his fortune, 127 00:20:15,049 --> 00:20:18,261 Pablo ran as an alternate for Jairo Ortega, 128 00:20:18,344 --> 00:20:20,680 a former congressman from Antioquia. 129 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:27,312 It was the first time an alternate was more important than the main candidate. 130 00:25:07,675 --> 00:25:10,261 Shh. 131 00:25:10,386 --> 00:25:11,888 Shh. 132 00:28:09,274 --> 00:28:11,400 Pablo held most of his campaign rallies 133 00:28:11,483 --> 00:28:14,153 in the poorest neighborhoods of his electoral district. 134 00:28:15,321 --> 00:28:17,949 He placed himself on the side of the poor and the weak 135 00:28:18,116 --> 00:28:21,493 in the fight against the oligarchs, "The Men of Always." 136 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:26,999 And just like any politician, he made plenty of promises. 137 00:28:27,083 --> 00:28:31,420 Only difference was Pablo had the men and the money to back them up. 138 00:28:33,923 --> 00:28:36,425 It was becoming clear to everyone that Pablo was gonna win. 139 00:28:36,592 --> 00:28:37,927 Pablo! Pablo! 140 00:28:38,010 --> 00:28:41,264 The only question remaining was... what to do about that. 141 00:28:42,723 --> 00:28:45,559 Gustavo made good on his promise to quit the labs, 142 00:28:45,643 --> 00:28:49,105 so Pablo put Carlos Lehder in charge. 143 00:28:49,188 --> 00:28:53,818 With characteristic German efficiency, he turned the labs into Nazilandia, 144 00:28:53,901 --> 00:28:57,404 and production rose 12 percent in just two short months. 145 00:28:59,991 --> 00:29:03,369 Gacha and the Ochoas adopted a wait-and-see attitude, 146 00:29:03,452 --> 00:29:06,497 debating how and when Pablo would dispose of Jairo Ortega, 147 00:29:06,580 --> 00:29:08,624 his front man, once the election was over. 148 00:29:22,138 --> 00:29:24,640 As for us, we were kind of divided. 149 00:29:24,723 --> 00:29:27,726 We cannot have Colombia become a narco state. 150 00:29:27,810 --> 00:29:30,729 We need to find someone who can prove this guy is a drug dealer. 151 00:29:30,813 --> 00:29:32,690 Let's stop his campaign before it starts. 152 00:29:32,773 --> 00:29:34,483 No one will go on record. 153 00:29:35,651 --> 00:29:37,111 I got a better idea. 154 00:29:38,196 --> 00:29:39,697 We let him win. 155 00:29:39,864 --> 00:29:41,949 If we put him in the spotlight and prove he's a trafficker, 156 00:29:42,116 --> 00:29:44,660 the embarrassment alone might get this country off its ass. 157 00:29:46,954 --> 00:29:48,664 But first, we had to get proof 158 00:29:48,747 --> 00:29:51,250 that Pablo was the drug dealer we knew he was. 159 00:29:51,417 --> 00:29:53,502 So we went to Suárez, 160 00:29:53,585 --> 00:29:55,921 and gave him a lot of money. 161 00:29:57,173 --> 00:30:01,427 First, he told us that Pablo was arrested for trafficking back in '76, 162 00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:05,181 and then he gave us the name of a sergeant who could give us the files. 163 00:30:08,893 --> 00:30:13,480 Problem was, Suárez was on both the DEA and the narcos' payroll. 164 00:30:20,696 --> 00:30:23,741 - Sixty-six. - Bullshit. I shot him first. 165 00:30:27,995 --> 00:30:30,039 Then Suárez gave us the name of the journalist 166 00:30:30,122 --> 00:30:32,417 who reported the arrest... 167 00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:35,169 ...and then the lawyer who defended Pablo... 168 00:30:35,378 --> 00:30:38,381 and finally, the judge who signed Pablo's arrest warrant. 169 00:30:40,299 --> 00:30:42,801 We were like the Bermuda Triangle. 170 00:30:42,968 --> 00:30:45,221 You get too close to us, you disappear. 171 00:30:45,388 --> 00:30:47,681 We gotta get something on this motherfucker. 172 00:30:49,016 --> 00:30:50,893 If he was arrested, there's gotta be a mug shot. 173 00:30:50,976 --> 00:30:52,937 Yeah, well, the file's gone. 174 00:30:53,104 --> 00:30:55,481 If there was a mug shot, then it's gone, too. 175 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,026 If there was a photo, there's a negative. 176 00:31:00,111 --> 00:31:02,029 Finally, it dawned on us. 177 00:31:02,196 --> 00:31:05,574 We had to find someone without Suárez's help, 178 00:31:05,657 --> 00:31:10,121 and that was the photographer who had taken Pablo's mug shot years ago. 179 00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:18,504 We got his negatives, and for safekeeping, we put him into witness protection. 180 00:31:22,467 --> 00:31:24,718 - How long have you had this picture? - That's classified. 181 00:31:26,553 --> 00:31:27,638 And what am I doing here? 182 00:31:27,721 --> 00:31:30,599 It's not America's role to get involved in other countries' elections. 183 00:31:30,682 --> 00:31:33,685 Once again, the hand of the United States remains invisible. 184 00:31:33,769 --> 00:31:35,604 Your party took money from Escobar. 185 00:31:35,687 --> 00:31:37,440 I should think you'd want to get ahead of this. 186 00:31:37,523 --> 00:31:38,816 Everyone took money. 187 00:31:38,983 --> 00:31:43,237 By the way, it's all American money, so why don't you take this to the press? 188 00:31:43,321 --> 00:31:46,198 It should come from you. You're the Minister of Justice. 189 00:31:48,534 --> 00:31:52,079 Come election day, sure enough, it was a landslide. 190 00:31:52,246 --> 00:31:54,540 The New Liberal party had the candidate 191 00:31:54,706 --> 00:31:57,543 who got the most votes in all of Antioquia... 192 00:31:57,626 --> 00:31:59,753 and his name was Jairo Ortega. 193 00:33:05,861 --> 00:33:08,447 Imagine you were born in a poor family, 194 00:33:08,531 --> 00:33:12,451 in a poor city, in a poor country, 195 00:33:12,535 --> 00:33:14,828 and by the time you were 28 years old, 196 00:33:14,912 --> 00:33:17,956 you have so much money you can't even count it. 197 00:33:21,126 --> 00:33:22,711 What do you do? 198 00:33:22,878 --> 00:33:26,006 You make your dreams come true. 199 00:33:33,222 --> 00:33:35,974 Problem is, nobody can control the dreams they have. 200 00:33:41,313 --> 00:33:43,065 Especially if you were Pablo Escobar. 201 00:33:44,983 --> 00:33:47,653 Especially if you grew up in Colombia. 202 00:33:52,783 --> 00:33:55,869 There's a reason magical realism was born in Colombia. 203 00:33:57,913 --> 00:34:00,999 It's a country where dreams and reality are conflated... 204 00:34:03,877 --> 00:34:06,880 where, in their heads, people fly as high as Icarus. 205 00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:12,678 But even magical realism has its limits. 206 00:34:49,381 --> 00:34:51,676 And when you get too close to the sun... 207 00:34:52,718 --> 00:34:54,803 your dreams may melt away. 208 00:38:15,796 --> 00:38:18,340 Pablo and his lawyers went on the offense, 209 00:38:18,423 --> 00:38:20,718 trying to smear Lara with accusations. 210 00:38:43,990 --> 00:38:45,659 But Lara wouldn't back down. 211 00:38:45,743 --> 00:38:48,245 He denounced narcos at every opportunity, 212 00:38:48,328 --> 00:38:51,248 going after the guys that we hadn't been able to touch. 213 00:38:51,331 --> 00:38:54,668 He revealed that six of the country's nine soccer teams 214 00:38:54,752 --> 00:38:56,503 were owned by drug traffickers. 215 00:38:57,963 --> 00:39:02,008 Gacha the Mexican was forced to give up ownership of his team, 216 00:39:02,092 --> 00:39:04,595 aptly nicknamed "The Millionaires." 217 00:39:05,846 --> 00:39:09,850 Lara denied flying permits for 57 planes in the Ochoa fleet. 218 00:39:13,812 --> 00:39:16,231 He even fined Pablo for illegal importation 219 00:39:16,398 --> 00:39:18,066 of elephants and camels from Africa. 220 00:39:20,402 --> 00:39:22,696 And with the action of one brave man, 221 00:39:22,780 --> 00:39:25,824 Pablo knew his dream of presidency was over. 222 00:39:41,757 --> 00:39:45,677 Rodrigo Lara became the most important political figure in Colombia 223 00:39:45,761 --> 00:39:47,805 with his stand against the narcos. 224 00:39:47,888 --> 00:39:50,348 He just wouldn't stop going after them. 225 00:39:50,432 --> 00:39:55,186 His bravery in the face of danger made him the most wanted man in the country. 226 00:39:55,270 --> 00:39:59,566 For his own safety, he was appointed Colombian ambassador to Czechoslovakia. 227 00:39:59,650 --> 00:40:04,195 He was slated to leave in two weeks, but a lot could happen in two weeks. 228 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,074 I think it might be a good idea for you to wear this until you leave. 229 00:40:09,660 --> 00:40:12,078 You feel responsible, is that it? 230 00:40:13,664 --> 00:40:15,040 Somewhat, yes, sir. 231 00:40:15,958 --> 00:40:20,253 Are you so arrogant to think you had any influence over my actions? 232 00:40:21,212 --> 00:40:24,382 That I put my life and the life of my family at risk 233 00:40:24,466 --> 00:40:26,677 for American policy objectives? 234 00:40:28,428 --> 00:40:31,473 Let me assure you, Agent Murphy, outside of providing me with the picture, 235 00:40:31,556 --> 00:40:33,224 you... did nothing. 236 00:40:35,019 --> 00:40:37,604 The decision to speak out was solely mine. 237 00:40:37,771 --> 00:40:40,607 And I highly advise you to wear this vest, sir. 238 00:40:50,450 --> 00:40:56,707 I will accept this vest... out of respect for your concern with my well-being. 239 00:40:56,874 --> 00:40:59,960 But I would advise you one thing while you remain in Colombia. 240 00:41:00,044 --> 00:41:01,378 And what is that? 241 00:41:01,545 --> 00:41:05,799 We accept your help, but never your condescension. 242 00:41:06,884 --> 00:41:10,929 When all this is over, Colombians will be the heroes, and the victims. 243 00:41:12,472 --> 00:41:15,350 John Wayne only exists in Hollywood. 244 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,728 Just wear the vest. 245 00:44:15,363 --> 00:44:16,531 He didn't wear it. 246 00:44:19,367 --> 00:44:21,327 Wouldn't have made a difference. 247 00:44:21,995 --> 00:44:25,249 Our strategy had gotten a good man killed. 248 00:44:26,750 --> 00:44:29,920 It was the first time I'd felt guilty about my job. 249 00:44:34,758 --> 00:44:36,676 - As for Suárez... - Hey. 250 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,179 ...he made so much money playing both sides, 251 00:44:39,263 --> 00:44:44,601 he decided to lift our spirits by giving the DEA a token of his appreciation. 252 00:45:00,026 --> 00:45:05,026 Original: explosiveskull @ addic7ed.com Adjustment by HBash