Javier Peña quotes from Narcos

Javier Peña

How much do they pay you for your protection?

Bill Stechner

Pay me? [gentle scoff] Let me tell you something, Agent Peña. Maybe it'll make you feel better, but maybe not. We're gonna get them someday. But not your way. For everything you know, you're, uh extremely naive.

Javier Peña

[in the office late at night] You got a partner, right?

Yeah, kind of.

Javier Peña

Good. You're going to Cali...

Javier Peña

So the whole surrender plan is about fucking fundraising! The Colombians get a check and you get to play army men in the jungle?

Bill Stechner

I'm thinking about the next battle, the one that really counts.

Peña

Which means you're willing to lose this one!

Stechner

The Drug War? Oh, come on, man! We lost it! You were there!

Look, you seem like a nice guy, but I get the feeling that just talking isn't your forte. And I'm married, so...

Javier Peña

Happily?

Wow. Look at you now.

Peña

What? I mean, come on. Your husband lets you brave the dangers of happy hour by yourself?

He's traveling for work.

Peña

Oh, can I guess? He's an astronaut? Brain surgeon?

Yeah, uh-huh. A little bit of both.

Javier Peña

So that's it. They bought [sighs] the president.

Arthur Crosby

And for now, they get to keep him.

Peña

[begins to leave, then turns around] We never had a chance.

Arthur Crosby

[turning off the news as Peña walks in] You didn't really call the country that we're guests in a "Narco-Democracy."

Javier Peña

Are you saying it isn't?

Crosby

The State Department's livid.

Peña

Good. They're responsible. We all are.

Crosby

You know any aspirations you had for your career just got dragged behind the barn and shot.

Peña

I resigned from the DEA this morning...

Javier Peña

[narrating] Chepe Santacruz never did make it back to New York. Without the government's guarantee that their sentences would be minimal, Chepe decided that prison wasn't the best place for him to be. And so he released himself, and set out in search of new alliances with partners who could help him rebuild the empire. You won't believe who he chose.

Don Chepe. I was happy to get your call.

Javier Peña

[continues narrating] Predictably, it wasn't much of a partnership. It seems the Castaños expected a larger contribution to their cause than Chepe was comfortable making. So the alliance died quickly, and Chepe Santacruz's wild ride came to an end. Pacho Herrera didn't fare much better staying in jail. Vendettas in the drug game never end. And Pacho's war on the Salazars made him some lifelong North Valley enemies. [a thug shoots Pacho in prison yard as he drinks with a friend] And as for the Rodríguez-Orejuela brothers, political pressure from the US and a disgraced Colombian president, who needed to prove he was tough on narcos, brought back the only effective weapon we have in the war on drugs: extradition.[they are sent on a plane bound for the US] All out of favors, and unlikely to find more, they will spend the rest of their lives in a US prison. The good guys didn't do much better. [el Semana headline: DELATAR SI PAGA (BETRAYAL PAYS)] Back in Colombia, Jorge Salcedo was publicly branded a rat. And in the States, despite testimony that he was instrumental to our efforts to capture and prosecute the Cali godfathers, he still had to plead guilty to felony conspiracy charges. [cut to Jorge Salcedo working at an auto shop and ordering at a McDonald's] And from there, Jorge Salcedo, the guy who had the most to do with bringing down the Cali cartel, disappeared into the Federal Witness Protection Program somewhere in the US. A prison of its own.

It all started there. Before him, we didn't even know we were in a war. Another hot one down there for you, huh? You took down the big players in Colombia.

Javier Peña

Yeah... we'll make new ones.

Don't turn a victory into a defeat, Javier. The Colombian super-cartels are gone. And whoever comes next are gonna be fighting amongst themselves for years. And they're still only going to be a shadow of what Medellin and Cali were. And now it's time to take the fight to the real enemy in The War on Drugs. "Mexico."

Peña

The real enemy?

Let me put in some calls. I'll make this bullshit resignation go away. What else is a guy like you gonna do?

[carrying a large fence post as he calls out to Javier watching a drug shipment cross by boat] You helping me with this or not? I thought I was getting a partner.

Javier Peña

Come on, Pop. Give me that.

Stubborn. You can stand here for an hour and you'll count 20 of 'em going by.

Javier

[switching to Spanish] So do you have to fix the fence every time a storm hits?

Someone has to do it. That's how life works.

Javier

[switching back to English] You thinking of taking them up on it? Mexico. It's different there.

Son, let me tell you...

Javier

Dad. I've done enough. I'm through.

Hand me that cutter.