RReporter
[interviewing] Do you acknowledge that you have committed crimes in the past, or that you ordered someone's death?
That answer, one could only give to his priest. In a confessional.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
RReporter
[interviewing] How do you think the story of Pablo Escobar will end?
Well, one can never know. I can only hope for the best. I would like to die on my own two feet. In the year 3047.
[narrating] You know, in all the years I chased Escobar, I could count on one hand the times we almost had him. And each time, we forgot the two most important things we already knew about him: Close doesn't count, and Pablo is never more dangerous than when you almost have him. With all the cops on the street it was easy to forget this was still Escobar's town. He tolerated it all in the interest of negotiations. Chasing a man and his family out of their home in the middle of the night? That wasn't a negotiation. To Escobar, well, that was an act of war.
[narrating] Pablo Escobar said, "Sometimes I'm God. If I say a man dies, he dies the same day."In his career, this asshole killed thousands of police officers at a rate of over 400 a year. With numbers like that staring you in the face, you have to ask, what possesses a man to put on a uniform that all but guarantees his days are numbered? Most of them were just kids, raised to reach a fork in the road and choose the right path. Fight for the good guys. They were young, they were full of hope, and they thought they were invincible. And those that were left behind would feel their loss the most.
[to Peña] Agent, you and I are like the snake and the cat. If the snake has the chance, it will kill the cat. And if the cat has the chance, it will kill the snake. But there are times when they see a big rat, and they both want to eat it.
I'm writing a letter to the editors of the most important newspapers to tell them how that boy came to me, scared for his life. The world has to know what sort of monster that son of a bitch Carrillo is!
FDFernando Duque
Don Pablo, that's excellent.
Give me that pen. [grabs from his pocket]
[narrating] When Pablo Escobar starts believing the pen's mightier than the sword you know you're getting to him.
The men of always aren't interested in the children of never.
[Tata pulls a small pistol out of her dressing table]
There are 20 men out there...
TETata Escobar
Si, Pablo, 20 strangers.
Let's see. How do you hold it.
[chuckles as she aims at the mirror]
TETata Escobar
What? Are you sure you want to laugh at your wife while she's holding a gun? It's not a joke, Pablo. Those 20 men out there don't care what happens to us. When the time comes, it will just be you and me. And I will be part of this, Pablo.
[to Carrillo] Look at me... Look at me... you asked a child to give me this... [pointing to THE bullet] You can have it back. [shoots him] And this... is for my cousin, Gustavo.
Coward.
Son of a bitch. [shoots him a couple of times]
CMClaudia Messina
This isn't your fault, Peña.
No?
MMessina
No.
I got played.
MMessina
We all got played... We all had the information, it was backed up by Centra Spike...
Stop... Just... You know, you coming here... you say all the right things. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
[narrating] Life goes on, right? And for Escobar, that was a pretty good thing. He remained at large, protected by an army of sicarios, in a city that refused to give him up. Pablo kept his lawyers working overtime, continuing to negotiate his surrender with Colombian Attorney General De Greiff. But it was bullshit. Why surrender when you're holding all the cards? He was free.
Mr. Ambassador, I believe people fall into two categories, basically: those who rely on hope and those who rely on faith, who see a system at work in the world and are devoted to it. It may be religion, but in the case of police work, a method.
I'm guessing that you fall on the faith side.
Correct. We can catch Escobar in any number of ways. But if the one we choose furthers an already strained relationship between the Colombian people and its police, a strain caused by years of corruption and abuse, then we'll have lost. Even if we catch him.
[narrating] Martinez was right, we all need a method. Something to cling to when the shit around us gets so deep, we might go under. Something to guide us home when we feel we've lost our way. If we're lucky, someone gives us a method, and we follow it. If not, we find our own. Pablo's enemies had found their own method. And it was an ugly one. They had opened up a new war against him, striking from the shadows. Showing him that, even in his hometown, he wasn't safe.
[narrating] Centra Spike was still busy gathering intel. The brass was still reviewing and approving it. And it was still finding its way to us. But shit man, you can have all the intelligence in the world, but if nobody's there to act on it, what's it worth? Nothing.
[after visiting with Carrillo's widow] Well, that was rough.
CMConnie Murphy
I just kept looking at her, thinking...
Hey. It's not gonna happen to me, it's not gonna happen to us. You want me to come home?
CConnie
Just make sure you're still you when it's all over.
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