Dope

Escobar is wanted by American authorities for his alleged role

in smuggling thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States.

There's a bag of powder. Bag of powdered cocaine.

- Hey Larry, he has powder on him. - You're under arrest.

On a weekly basis we intercept at least 1,500 kilograms of cocaine.

- Three, two, one... - Yeah, that's them right there.

Go, go, go!

We are moving about 150 to 200 kilo.

You know, there's a lot of money involved.

If I had to burn, I burnt.

If I had to kill, I kill.

Is there any Opa Loc units monitoring?

They don't want it. They need it.

So we're the doctors.

My name is El Animal. That means the animal.

I do a lot of fucked up shit, but I carry myself

as a businessman.

If you pull out a gun, you have to kill me.

You can't leave me alive.

They know the consequences.

El Animal heads up the US side of a major coke trafficking ring.

Our Caribbean operation is big,

but it's to a level where you can control it.

I receive cocaine from the Dominican Republic.

My job is to make sure that it goes from point A to point B.

We're probably talking about 15 to 20 keys weekly.

In terms of money we're probably talking about 2 million dollars weekly,

clean money.

With the Caribbean connection,

the powder cocaine is always available. That's snow!

It never stop snowing in Miami. It is the Magic City.

El Animal supplies a network of dealers across Miami and beyond.

Everybody pays. Everybody.

I don't give a fuck who you are.

Everybody pays.

If I help you,

and I find out that you're trying to fuck me,

I will come and fuck everybody in your fucking family.

We in the business to make money, and you know we cannot get crossed.

Today is payday.

I'm here to pick up the money.

- That's what it's all about. - Check that.

The dope is good, so the money always has to be right,

and that's just the way it is.

Flush with his customers' cash,

it's time for El Animal to order more coke.

Good evening, Papi.

How's it going?

Good.

This Friday.

Yes.

Ciao.

The shipment's on the way for Friday.

So...

we just gotta play it by ear now.

Wait till Friday, get the phone call,

and we'll take it from there. That's it.

Papi is the inventor of getting it here safe.

Papi is an individual that I met in prison,

and were loyal to each other in prison.

He makes sure that we get

what we need.

El Animal's supplier, Papi, is based 800 miles southeast of Miami.

in the Caribbean's number one cocaine distribution hub:

The Dominican Republic.

Security.

How are you?

Yes, all good. All good. I'm here.

Yes, we're good to go.

Okay.

Around 2:00, 2:30 in the morning? All good.

Okay, good.

Papi and his trafficking gang are expecting

a 100 kilo coke shipment tonight.

Right now the Colombians is actually playing a lot of games,

so my cocaine, I get it from Peru.

As of right now, within a month,

we are moving about 150 to 200 kilos.

Sometimes, it could be 300.

You know there's a lot of money involved.

Papi's paid his Peruvian contacts a million dollars up front,

and right now, all they can do is wait.

Once it reaches my hand, I have my own people that I work with

who takes out everything that comes in.

It's family. They come from the family.

We don't have anyone outside that we don't know about

the we don't know where they come from, because it's not safe.

I've been doing this since I was 13, 14,

but I don't want my children to be in the business.

Just like my father didn't want me in the business,

but once you reach to an age that you are involved in the family,

there's no way that you can be out of it.

Yes, hi. Yes, we’re good to go.

Everything is ready.

Okay.

2:00 a.m., and the Peruvians are making their move.

Papi's coke comes from the Peruvian Andes

where the price of a kilo starts at just $1,000.

The suppliers have already smuggled it over land

to the north coast of Venezuela.

Now, they have to get it 500 miles across the Caribbean Sea.

Just inside Dominican waters,

a local fishing boat collects the million-dollar cargo.

Go!

Follow me.

As the boat docks, the risks soar.

Go, go, go, go.

Go, go, go.

This area is heavily patrolled by the local police.

Go, go, go! Move it!

Rival gangs also stalk the river,

determined to seize any shipments by force.

Quick! Work, work, work!

Go!

Quick, quick, quick!

These are kilos of cocaine.

Mission accomplished.

Each kilo is now worth over ten times its original price.

It's good merchandise.

Okay, good.

How are you?

Everything is in perfect condition.

You can expect it all.

Okay.

I'll call you when it's sent out.

That was the guy. You know what you have to do.

When you're done, call me.

Two of Papi's most trusted men must now traffic the coke 90 miles east

across the Mona Passage

to Puerto Rico, the gateway to the US mainland.

But standing guard is the full might of the US Air and Marine operations.

And they've just scrambled a DHC-8 surveillance plane.

I received information from a trusted law enforcement partner

in regards to a contraband load

that's coming from the northern part of Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.

so what I'm doing is going out,

and I'm searching the normal smuggling routes

or historical smuggling routes, looking for this vessel.

Their intel says the traffickers are using a fishing boat

that has just left port.

The drug organizations, they want to enter Puerto Rico,

because once contraband's in Puerto Rico,

it's considered in United States.

Therefor, anything leaving Puerto Rico doesn't have to go through customs.

They know that if they can get it into Puerto Rico,

It's easier for them to get into the States.

I got a few Targets in the zone.

Just trying to see what's what.

I've a vessel running due north.

Looks like he's directly in the Mona Passage right now,

maybe approximately 40 miles south of Mona Island.

Hey, can you please advise what assets I have available to play?

The suspect vessel is already halfway to Puerto Rico.

It needs to be intercepted, fast.

Back at base, a Blackhawk helicopter is ready for takeoff.

Its crew carry a 50 caliber rifle. ..

capable of destroying a trafficker's boat engine from the air.

Hey Ray, do me a favor. Circle this vessel.

Roger.

Kinda like the type we're looking for right now.

However, this one is blue in color.

So we're going to continue our mission and keep looking for that suspect vessel.

There's another vessel off the nose here.

All right, off the nose just below the horizon,

approximately three miles.

Okay, I have the vessel at 11:00

approximately half mile away closing.

Yeah, that's them right there.

We're gonna try to link up with one of my Marine units

to go in and take a closer look.

We are on a vessel inbound to the Combate area

approximately three miles offshore.

- Okay. - We've got you in sight.

Roger. Good. Copy.

They're about 15 nautical miles from us.

Roger that.

The chopper will guide the Marine unit in

so they can search the suspect vessel.

You always prepare for the worst.

They're protecting the drug, and we're the bad guy for them.

You want to stop them no matter what.

you want to make sure they don't make it to land.

I got two POV's, appears to be one outboard engine.

It's approximately

one mile just to the left of your bow.

Stand by. Forward ten.

Come forward. Nine, eight, seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

Hold your rate, good rate.

Buenos dias.

The boat matches their intel.

Do you have your I.D., sir?

- Where did you come from? - From over there.

We're on our way back.

- Were you diving? - Yes.

- What did you catch? - Lobster.

Nice lobster.

You have to think like a smuggler.

Where would I put that? What place are they not going to check?

And then play that game, so what if?