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S1 E15

Narcos · Season 1, Episode 15

Steve Murphy in “Unfinished Business”

[voiceover] Escobar's prison was called La Catedral, but we nicknamed it "Club Medellín." It was the embodiment of "the big lie." It was even built to look old and shitty on the outside. But inside, it was anything but. The other inmates? Escobar's sicarios. Hand-picked killers from his hometown...By the terms of his deal, no cops or military were allowed within two miles of the prison. As much as I fucking hated this guy, I had to hand it to him he had a pretty sweet deal...Escobar hadn't built himself a prison at all. He'd built himself a fortress. But no matter how you decorate it, a cage is still a cage.

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