"#" "You would like to know how you arrived to this point..." "Even if you do everything right, I mean, every little thing you have got to do, everything, you could still cross the street and..." "#" "Remember, just take a deep breath, relax." "Remember what we talked about, okay?" "Don't let that guy control the situation, okay?" "You want Ned to go with you?" "No." "You sure?" "Yeah." "I'll be right back." "All right." "Hi there." "Can I come in?" "I have an appointment." "I'm Jules Land." "I'm here to see Mr. Santana." "Kerby... (dog growling)" "(squealing)" "(laughter)" "So... you want to learn how to run drugs?" "No...no, like I said on the phone," "I want to learn how you run your business." "From the beginning, you've been " "(laughing and yelling)" "You're the best in your industry." "I want to learn what separates you from the others, why you're different." "Why?" "Why?" "(laughing)" "What would you need?" "Couple of interviews." "With me?" "And your men." "Maybe an opportunity to see a bit of what you do, you know, how you do it." "Only what you're comfortable showing, of course." "I will show you whatever you want." "After all... but, if you betray my trust..." "Santos, he will feed your balls to the dog." "It would be much easier to teach you how I run drugs." "The boats are coming." "I like to watch them as the lights grow." "It reminds me that things take time." "People who think there is a magic bullet... it is never about one thing." "Anyone looking for one thing is looking for a shortcut." "They always end badly." "Jules, come here a minute." "Sure." "You're pulling the plug because it's too good?" "I didn't say I'm pulling the plug." "Who's going?" "Jerry." "I'm sorry, the assignment desk, we all agree." "We have to send someone who's done it before." "How do you know what I can do if you never give me a chance?" "You've got potential, tons, you're just not ready." "So when?" "When do I get my chance?" "Maybe next time, okay?" "Come on, Jules!" "Jerry!" "Good luck." "Asshole." "It's not his fault." "Tom said I get the next one." "And you believed him?" "Jeez." "What about your other idea, the one about the cartels?" "You tell him?" "No." "Good man." "I'm not stupid." "He'd just say it's not in the budget." "Or Jerry's calendar's full." "Yeah." "Why don't you go do it on your own?" "Freelance?" "Yeah." "Right." "I'm serious, what's stoppin' you?" "Everything -- work, money." "The fact that I want to live to see 34." "I mean, this guy's psycho." "The stories my wife tells are..." "Are what?" "Spooky." "So?" "Be careful." "Nah." "What if this is your shot?" "There'll be other shots." "Maybe." "My Spanish sucks." "I don't have the money for something like this." "Find the money!" "Hell, we could drive there in three days, maybe two." "We're talking book deals, speaking fees." "Thank you." "Seriously, man, aren't you tired of this?" "Tired of what?" "Being somebody's bitch?" "I got it." "Okay." "If we do this, we share the by-line." "Great." "My younger brother, Ned, speaks Spanish." "Hi, Dad." "Hi, pumpkin." "Still here?" "Nice costume." "Thanks." "Shouldn't you be at the airport?" "Jules?" "Huh?" "You heard me." "I'm not going." "Sometimes, god sends us signs." "Like he is gently telling us to go forward." "Then, other times, he screams, warning us to stop!" "But we ignore him, too desperate to accept that we should just turn back." "Never ignore the signs." "God might be trying to tell you something." "Don't go!" "You have no idea what you're getting into." "If there's a hell, I promise you, it is that town." "#" "I gotta find a phone." "They got phones?" "Look at that." "How bad would things have to get, huh?" "#" "Buenos Dias!" "Hi!" "What brings you to Mexico, business or pleasure?" "Business." "And where are you headed?" "Las Pesadillas." "You have business in Las Pesadillas?" "Yeah." "What kind of business?" "It's a long story." "I have time." "Could you please open the trunk?" "And how long do you plan on staying?" "We don't really know." "You have business in Las Pesadillas and you don't have a departure date?" "Not yet, no." "That doesn't sound good." "All depends on how things go." "You are in Mexico, and here... nothing goes as planned." "Opportunity is a curse... you want a life of mediocrity?" "Follow the row God plants you in." "You want success?" "Do what you did, take a chance, make it happen." "#" "Hey, Ned?" "Yeah?" "What's a tope?" "A color." "No, that's "taupe," t-a-u-p-e." "And, uh, that sign was yellow and it said "tope", t-o-p-e." "They pronounce it toe-pay." "All right, what's a toe-pay?" "No idea." "What are you doing?" "You want one?" "No, I don't want one!" "Oh, lighten up." "You?" "Is he for real?" "What the hell was that, Vern?" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't see it." "Next time, slow down, you almost killed us." "Where did that come from?" "My bag." "What?" "You brought drugs across the border?" "Give it to me." "What?" "No, no." "Give it to him, I'm not kiddin'." "Give it to him or, I swear, we'll leave you here." "(choking)" "(laughter)" "(sniffing)" "He wants to know if we're problems." "No, sir." "Las Pesadillas." "Las Pesadillas?" "(screaming and taunting in Spanish)" "Shit." "Pay him." "How much?" "Make it 40." "Maybe you were right." "About what?" "Nobody's putti' a gun to our heads." "We don't have to do this." "El exito tiene que ver con la calidad de su gente." "Your biggest mistake?" "Go long, bro!" "Great!" "Learn to throw!" "#" "Ned!" "Ned!" "#" "So how is my niece?" "Oh, she's, she's good." "When she was a little girl, I would bring her here, to this beach." "She was an angel." "You are a good husband?" "From what she tells me, yeah." "She's happy." "Good." "Oh, jeez..." "I burn easy." "Thanks." "So...how will this work?" "Pretty simple." "I'll ask a question, you answer." "If you want something off the record, just say, off the record, okay?" "You get to view the piece before I publish, so if you want to make a change, that's okay, too." "We'll take out whatever you want." "That one." "Okay, then..." "How'd you get your start?" "My start?" "How do you get involved in drug trafficking?" "That...that is a very complicated question." "#" "¡Angelito!" "¿Que paso, mi hijo?" "Is your father alive?" "Yeah." "Are you close?" "Yeah, we're close." "Then you are lucky." "My father was a great man." "He was a simple fisherman, but very wise." "Always pay attention to the advice of your father." "One day, I ask him what to do with my life." "I hoped he would say, be a fisherman." "I wanted him to say this, because we could work together on the boats." "You know what he told me?" "He said I was so disappointed." "But then, he said something I will never forget." "He said not to worry about what to do." "Instead, he told me to work hard, to surround myself with people who share my principles." "He sounds very special." "He was." "I loved and respected my father." "I miss him very much." "People, Jules, it all starts with people." "What if you had to choose a different career, what would you have done?" "Had I not organized the Cartel?" "Yeah." "That is easy, I would have become a priest." "(congregation singing)" "#" "Do not be surprised." "I was following the row God had planted me." "I wanted her from that first day in the church." "To this day, people think it was the money that led me to him." "It was his daughter." "#" "We convinced him to give us the opportunity to prove ourselves." "We told him we would run his drugs." "But for myself and Santos, they were all caught." "It was a game of numbers." "Don Amilkar threw product at the border knowing some would get through." "The man lost 90 percent of his product because he did not think." "How'd you win his approval?" "We presented him the opportunity of a lifetime." "We gave him new ways to run his drugs." "So that's how you do it?" "No, that was the first of many attempts to build a better mousetrap." "Like the birds, most went wrong." "What was wrong with the birds?" "(shotgun blasting)" "So it was back to the drawing board." "#" "We even made his old ways more efficient." "And so exactly a year after that day in the church," "I married his daughter." "(cheers and applause)" "I gave him grandchildren." "(baby crying)" "I took his life." "What?" "Off the record... it still Angers my wife." "#" "Papa!" "(gunshot)" "He suggested I kill my father." "There was only one way I could live with such guilt." "(grunting)" "To be fair, he was right." "It was good advice." "Now, you will excuse me." "Tsk!" "Tsk!" "I have some business to attend to." "That's all right, we're done for today anyway." "We will continue this afternoon, after I return." "We can do that." "Just give me a call." "Here's the number to the hotel." "A hotel?" "No, you and your friends, you stay with my family, in my house." "That's not necessary." "But it is." "I will return shortly." "In the meantime, relax, enjoy the Mexican sun." "When my wife and children have tired of the beach, they will see you back to the house." "Thanks." "#" "16 billion." "Not pesos, but dollars?" "Si." "What's your gross?" "Mucho." "Go ahead, feed him your leftovers, he'll love you forever." "16 billion dollars." "You have a wonderful home, but I wouldn't have guessed that you were so..." "Blessed?" "We live simply." "Comfortably, for sure." "But not the life of your typical billionaire." "It's constraint which keeps me from sharing the fate of Pablo Escobar." "And generosity." "Many hospitals and schools carry my husband's name." "We have many legitimate business ventures " "Casinos, strip clubs, brothels, smoke shops, even a chain of liquor stores." "An outsider would think our portfolio quite diverse." "You're not that diverse." "Well, it depends on your definition of business, but I'd say you're wholesale distributors of debauchery and sin." "And no one does it better." "Did you know, that of the 20 known plants that produce cocaine, only two produce enough to justify commercial cultivation?" "We grow neither." "You will never taste a better flan." "It's why I hired him." "Gracias." "De nada." "You were saying something about production?" "Yes...of the product we export into we produce none of it." "We import our supply from Columbia, Bolivia, Peru." "To put it simply, our passion does not lie in manufacturing, but in creating and maintaining a system of distribution." "Tomorrow I will show you." "(goats whining)" "Livestock wasn't on the list." "(gunshot)" "You know, my product is one of the world's only tried and proven aphrodisiacs?" "But I do not suggest using it to enhance your lovemaking." "The truth is, it suppresses the sex drive." "Do you know why?" "Because it's actually more pleasurable than having sex." "#" "You will never taste a better flan." "(laughing)" "Not livestock... distribution." "We add cobalt and ferric chloride to mask the smell from the dogs." "A long way from birds and slingshots." "(phone ringing)" "Remember that business I left you for at the beach?" "Yeah." "We were unable to find a resolution." "This problem, this man, he ran away." "Smart guy." "He stole from him." "Stupid guy." "You know what he stole?" "We gave this man a choice." "Let our product through, or look for another line of work." "What'd he do?" "Now we speak to him." "Ask him again to cooperate." "Then, if he still chooses not to cooperate..." "#" "(dog barking)" "(girl screaming)" "(gunshot)" "Oh, Jesus!" "(gunshots)" "#" "Some say drugs promote contact with the spirit world." "Now, what do you think of my work?" "Off the record." "What you did was horrible." "Horrible?" "Yes, it was." "Why?" "In the epic battle of good versus evil, between the white hat and the black hat," "I find the black hat fits me best." "Besides, wearing the black hat, it's far more interesting." "Tonight, I have made arrangements for you to see something very special." "You will go with Santos to the boats." "Hey, I don't do very good on boats." "We've seen a lot;" "I don't seem to be " "I don't want to come across as ungrateful, but it's just a lot to process." "Can we do this tomorrow?" "No." "All right then, we'll be ready whenever he is." "Excellent." "Then I leave you in capable hands." "Gracias." "De nada." "Given what just happened, if I were you," "I wouldn't take any more photos." "Yeah..." "I want to go home." "You never said we were going to follow around El Diablo here." "(whistling)" "Come on." "This is stupid." "Come on." "#" "(speaking Spanish)" "What'd he say?" "We've arrived." "Where?" "(speaking Spanish)" "Some kind of fishing lure." "Holy shit!" "I got to get a picture of this." "I don't get it." "What?" "Why did he want us to see this?" "I told you, I don't do too good on boats." "You'll live." "Thank you." "Look inside..." "give me that." "Come outside, check this out." "Be careful." "I'm not going anywhere." "That'll leave a mark." "Would it eat a man?" "Yeah, they'd eat you." "Why is it in your bag?" "I don't know!" "I told him I don't know!" "No, I swear!" "(screaming)" "(whimpering)" "(screaming)" "(sobbing and yelling)" "Ah...oh God!" "Somebody?" "Help!" "Jeez..." "What happened?" "Forgot it was there." "You okay?" "No..." "What's wrong?" "Just hang tight, I'll be back in a second." "I can't understand." "You knew about this?" "I didn't know anything about it, I swear." "Let me find out what's going on here, okay, please?" "Where'd this come from?" "From the train yard." "I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking." "Please, Jules, please, help me, please!" "I don't think sorry's gonna cut it with these guys." "Help me!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Please, I'm so sorry!" "Please, I'll pay you, I swear to God!" "Please, I swear to God!" "#" "Your little project has become an inconvenience." "Ned -- your men " "I know what they did!" "And if I were you, I wouldn't be worrying about your friend." "I'm sorry, things got out of hand." "Yes, they did." "Where's Vern?" "Thank you." "A bullet would have been cheaper... but... a man should only have to pay for his own sins." "The both of you will depart first thing in the morning." "#" "Jules?" "How you feelin'?" "My leg hurts like hell." "I think they set it wrong." "(laughing)" "(crying)" "What am I going to tell my mom?" "Get some sleep, tomorrow we go home." "#" "#" "#" "(yelling in Spanish)" "What's going on?" "What's wrong?" "What'd I do?" "Tell me... was she worth it?" "Was who worth it?" "My wife, was she worth it?" "What?" "!" "Oh, God, I swear!" "We didn't!" "I didn't do anything." "Nothing happened." "No?" "No, no!" "I certainly understand the temptation." "Your body, it screams to you." "You convince yourself that such an opportunity may never again present itself." "So you go ahead, you do it!" "She came onto me, but I didn't take the bait." "Write this down." "No great man... ever complained... of want of opportunity." "It is much like those squid -- it simply grabs for what it wants, motivated by appetite, never knowing when the next opportunity will come." "It has no vision, no comprehension... of what is the long term." "Are you following me here?" "You know what someone should tell those poor little squid?" "(shovels scraping dirt)" "#" "(groaning)" "(gunshot)" "(laughter)" "Oh, God." "(clicking)" "(clicking)" "(gunshot)" "(groaning)" "We'll just have to see how far it gets us." "How far?" "I don't know, ten, 15 miles maybe." "Sure we're going the right way?" "The border is north, that's north." "Maybe we should find a town, get a phone." "Okay, you're driving." "Which way?" "Come on." "What?" "Get on." "Hola." "Hola." "#" "#" "Hey!" "Do not look so surprised, Jules." "Distribution is my business." "Please, don't do this." "Do what?" "Kill us." "You're right..." "Pancho will drive you to the airport." "After all, you did not steal from me." "By now, you should know what I do to those who steal from me." "(pleading in Spanish)" "(gunshot)" "I will miss his flan." "Will you still write your article?" "When you are ready, contact my secretary." "I wish to review your work prior to its publication." "Sure." "Jules..." "I am a ruthless, murdering son of a bitch." "It is what I am." "But you?" "You are a choir boy, not some cowardly bastard who cheats on his wife." "#" "Good or evil, we are what we are." "But what makes us different, you and me, is that I stand by my principles." "You?" "You abandoned yours." "Now look." "You had a vision, a plan, you took a risk, and you failed." "But now, you must ask yourself, despite the failure, was it worth it?" "Huh?" "Was it worth it?" "You're right, maybe I shouldn't have come... but at some point, you can't just sit there." "So you... you go for it." "Please." "I'm sorry." "It was a... it was a mistake." "I love my wife." "Please." "I want to go home!" "(gunshot)" "#" "(answering machine beeping)" "Hey, just calling to let you know, we made it across." "So I don't want you to worry, okay?" "I'll give you a call once we reach Las Pesadillas." "I love you, see you soon." "(answering machine beeping)" "Subtitles by LeapinLar"