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THE LORD OF THE SKIES
It's an honor to have you, Mr. Secretary.
I appreciate it.
Agents Colon and Saldaña, DEA.
What do I do to get you to see reason?
Speak to Leohnoff himself?
If you want to die.
Don't threaten me, Garañon.
We're honoring Commander Valdes.
If it were up to me and my government
he wouldn't set foot on Mexican soil.
Doesn't look like you and the president get along,
do you, Madam Ambassador? Like oil and water.
Believe me, I love my country.
If I can do anything to keep some other idiot
from winning the presidency, I will.
Hold off on the shipments, Ricario.
At least for a short while.
Not possible and you know it, Diana.
THE LORD OF THE SKIES
I'm strong enough to be left alone.
I don't want to traffic anymore.
Look, Boss, you might be strong enough,
but in order to be left alone, you need more than that.
Or would you rather they kill your sister or mother?
They already killed your husband.
There's got to be a solution.
Tell me, are you willing to take them on?
Because we can pierce the eye of the storm in the US
and from there handle these bastards here
that are threatening you.
Is that what you want?
TELEVISION STATION MEXICO CITY
So that's that.
Okay.
I'm going to change
and head to the Venezuelan Embassy
to meet with Bernardo Castillo.
Good.
I'm sure there'll be lots to talk about at that reception.
At those events, which are always attended
by our most illustrious politicians,
there's always news. So I'll bring something back.
They say one of the guests is the Cuban commander Valdes,
better known as Bloodpool.
They say that?
Let's see what other character I run into.
Finish up the Gomez Labrador stuff.
-Will do. -Goodnight.
Gomez Labrador.
We still have all this to do.
MEXICO CITY
What the press is reporting isn't a lie, sir.
In Coahuila and other parts up north,
things are getting more and more complicated.
In fact, I had the opportunity to interview
several of the families affected by this violence,
-and the truth is... -So we've been ineffective.
- O SEA,
But what is the DEA doing?
In any event, it's a joint failure.
Colon, we were just talking about the situation up north.
My respects, Mr. President.
Hello, gorgeous.
Wasn't the DEA handling that for us?
Unfortunately, we haven't achieved
our desired objectives.
But don't worry. We're not leaving the region.
Oh, that's why you ------- gringos
saddle us with your distinguished anti-drug czar.
Who by the way ought to work very hard, day and night,
because I don't see him around.
Navarro's in the US, sir.
He's already setting up the extraditions
of all the drug traffickers like Casillas.
It's the great dream of everyone like him:
to make Mexicans look like we don't know how to do our jobs.
But American law enforcement does?
You like to go high, don't you, darling?
VENEZUELAN EMBASSY MEXICO CITY
Welcome.
Good evening. Please come in.
Wow!
Did you tell her this was a costume party?
Hi, nice to see you.
Good evening. Come in.
Don't hate, we're doing business with Caridad Sevilla.
Good evening. Please come in.
I can imagine, since she's all about the people.
I know you don't like her
because she was your commander's lover,
but just accept you weren't the only one to have the man.
My dear friend. You look so pretty.
-How are you? -You look amazing.
You two know each other, right?
Oh yes!
I just remembered you saw each other recently at the embassy.
Of course.
You look very good out of uniform, Colonel.
I know, Caridad.
A shame I can't say the same about you.
I don't wear a uniform.
Look, Caridad. How timely.
The press is here.
Madam Ambassador.
Welcome, Carla.
Thank you for inviting me.
Doctor.
Remember, I've got a doctorate.
Don't forget that for your press notes.
Count on it.
Caridad Sevilla. I'm sure you know her.
-Of course. -Nice to meet you.
And Colonel Ambar Maldonado, military attaché
to the embassy.
A pleasure. Nice to meet you.
Likewise.
Welcome, and help yourselves to everything you see.
It's all for our guests.
Champagne, whiskey, tequila. Whatever you need.
And for you, Caridad, some good aguardiente, of course.
I know how much you love it.
Right this way.
Enjoy yourselves.
Have some aguardiente for me, Caridad.
AURELIO'S SAFE HOUSE MEXICO CITY
Where are you from, Pulque?
Culiacan.
They're really good.
They've got filling.
Culiacan, huh?
I was born in Los Mochis, but I grew up in Culiacan.
I studied agronomic engineering.
You attended school?
Yes.
Grandma always insisted I make something of myself,
and look at me now.
Did you graduate?
Yes.
So what happened?
My first job was caring for some poppy crops.
As you know, that's where drugs come from.
One thing led to another, and here I am.
Yes, but you went to school! What happened?
Don't tell me the rest. I've heard it all before.
Luckily she never knew what I was up to.
As far as she knew, I raised potato and corn and sugar cane.
Why trouble her?
That's true.
If she saw you working the fields, she was none the wiser.
She taught me to cook, to set a nice table.
She worked as a servant for a wealthy family,
she liked the good things in life,
and her boss was a chef.
She taught her to cook. She cooked really well.
A chef?
Then what I cook must taste rancid to you.
No way. You cook great.
You've got a nice touch.
Thank you.
I've thought about it a million times, Ricario.
But I don't want to deal with all that bloodshed.
Plus, what are these bastards complaining about?
I've made them millions.
Well, so have I but...
You don't know how much you have, do you?
Not really, no.
Yeah, that's a -------- of money.
Yes, boss, but you've got to be more discreet.
You can't be donating so much to charity anymore.
It'll arouse suspicion.
You're right, but things have run smoothly up to now.
You never know.
I think you should go home. Your father's expecting you.
Leave this to me.
I'll take care of this problem.
Nothing's going to happen. I'll protect you, boss.
With all this mess, what would I have done without you?
The same, probably.
It's your father I'm worried about.
I know you are too.
But you've got bigger you-know-whats
than any man I've ever known.
I honestly don't know if accepting
Begoña Morejon's offer is in your best interest.
The different parties seeking coalitions
had never happened before.
What are you talking about?
The same thing, darling.
Sis, I thought there wasn't a topic
that bored me more than cattle, but politics is awful.
Are you going to accept Begoña's proposal?
I don't think so.
I think I'll maintain my independence.
I'll only work for someone who wants me performing my duties
responsibly and with decency.
There's a press conference tomorrow
in which I'll be stating my position.
I think that's great.
At the end of the day, Morejon only wanted you
to give herself some credibility.
That's possible. She knows I'm all for decency.
Any respectable politician ought to take that stance,
even if he or she isn't.
But everybody here knows us, right, honey?
And that everything we have
we've earned through hard work.
Come on, Dad. So much decency can be annoying.
Luciana's right.
Her mother's prudish act is a real chore,
and you're practically the same.
You'd make a perfect couple.
Bere, you don't know what you're talking about.
Why are you so mean to me?
What I do know is that Luciana is something else.
Maybe I don't think she's so bad after all.
Duh. You're exactly alike.
What are you trying to say?
Nothing, just that I'd rather you be a troublemaker
like the daughter than a prude like her mother.
That's why I love you, darling.
Love you too.
Can you use your cell phone to call somebody?
Obviously. Who do you want to call?
Your father.
Where is he?
You know right now he's drunk off his ass
in Lord-knows-what country.
Luciana, you don't understand the gravity
of this kidnapping, do you?
I'm being very calm.
Besides, all the gentleman wants is to talk to you.
The gentleman?
Talk to him.
How did you turn out this way?
Ladies, we're about to land.
Dad's great at landings,
but I advise you to put on your safety belts.
You're Luzma's brother?
That's right.
Half-brother. Same dad.
Did you know anyone named Victor?
Yes. He was my cousin.
But they killed him.
Just like they killed so many other people in our family,
all thanks to your father's army.
What do you think of that, kid?
COLOMBIAN MOUNTAINS
Milena, it can't be easy to leave your roots.
Our customs, our flavors.
Especially given how close we Mexicans are
to our friends and family.
Except in my case, right? It's a little different.
One of the disadvantages
of being The Lord of the Skies' daughter.
Why?
Because in my family, it's nothing but death.
It hurts to get close to anyone.
To embrace a Casillas is to embrace death.
Javi's a witness to that.
They brought that jet down
because I was supposed to be on it.
With my little brother Isidro and my son.
It wasn't meant for Javi.
Is it that hard?
People who watch these shows and movies about narcos
and think it's all wealth, mansions, fancy cars,
and don't see the reality of what we actually go through
truly have ---- for brains.
It's got to be crazy.
Didn't Pablo Escobar have pink hippos on his ranch?
And how did he end up?
In sandals, fleeing on rooftops.
And why did they catch him?
Because he didn't want to lose contact with his children.
It has to be hard to be part of a family like that.
It is.
- PUES SÍ.
I think life in general is hard,
but ours are a little harder.
More deaths.
Take me, for example.
My mother was killed,
so was Victor, who was like a brother to me,
and as a child, my first boyfriend sold me out
so he could turn my father in.
Sweetie, don't think of that anymore.
Don't think of the people who've betrayed you.
At least I managed to save my little sister.
I almost didn't, but I got her out of Mexico
and living in another country.
Though my older brother didn't have the same happy ending.
He was killed too.
My heart's become hardened from all the deaths I've dealt with.
And I hope that's all there is.
I hope that too.
I don't want that happening to me.
Let's not give them the pleasure.
Let's switch to tequila because I'm becoming a sad drunk.
I'll make mine a triple.
I'm in, can't let my fellow Mexican drink alone.
Right on.
Know what? Let's toast.
To the advantages of amnesia.
Oh yeah?
Yeah.
In your heart, there are no deaths for you to mourn.
Yeah, I'll drink to that.
VENEZUELAN EMBASSY MEXICO CITY
May I have a glass of water, please?
Thanks.
Water?
We can't have people thinking there's a scarcity of booze
at the Venezuelan Embassy.
Then they'll really think there's a crisis.
It's not that, don't worry.
No? Then what is it?
Don't tell me you're in Alcoholics Anonymous.
If you are, sorry, but I don't trust people who don't drink.
I'm a recovering addict who just had an overdose.
Do you distrust members of Drug Addicts Anonymous too?
You're in the DEA, right?
Yes.
Then I was right.
You're the little agent sleeping with Aurelio.
THE LORD OF THE SKIES