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Previously on "Queen of the South"...
I deal in nothing less than metric tons.
We'll take the ton.
I shall expect the first payment within the week.
-(giggles) -This is my wife, Kelly Anne.
Hi.
I need you to do something for me.
Camila Vargas is a cold-blooded criminal.
She'll get word soon that we're here
and now we come for whatever she's got left.
Ah.
Where's my mom?
There's something I couldn't tell you over the phone.
I pray that you remember me as the man that I aspired to be.
I'm so proud of you.
Ah.
*
Do you understand there's no way
we can distribute this amount?
I do.
And do you understand that if we don't
get that first payment, a fleet of El Santo's hit men
are gonna be on the next flight to Dallas.
El Santo gave us no choice.
I don't remember asking you a damn thing.
He said take a metric ton or nothing.
I understand it put us in danger.
So why'd you do it?
Because now you have a choice.
With nothing, you don't.
It was a gamble. I made it alone.
Well done, Teresa.
Gonna need a word with you, James.
*
Why is he still alive?
He saved my life when he didn't have to.
Teresa made a direct connection with El Santo.
We take out our man, we risk losing our only supplier.
You're making judgment calls now?
Teresa makes 'em, you pat her on the back.
I make 'em, I'm insubordinate.
She did exactly what I asked her to do and more.
You're defying me.
We're gonna need to prepare this location for operations quickly.
And you're gonna set it up properly.
All right, we'll make a start on the distro.
No, you take care of your new best friend.
El Guero is your responsibility now
until I decided what to do with him.
Teresa is gonna help me set up distribution.
*
I can't stay here.
Not in Dallas. She wanted me dead, Teresa.
That was before Bolivia.
She's happy with what we've done.
No, she's happy with you.
I'm gonna talk to her.
No one's safe with Camila.
Everybody's expendable. You can't see that?
Come on. We got work to do.
Epifanio.
Isabela received a necklace with El Santo's logo on it.
Now, she has no clue what it is, but we do.
Why is El Santo threatening our daughter, Camila?
El Santo's my new supplier now.
I have a payment due to him in a week,
so I guess the necklace is a reminder.
You went into business with this religious lunatic?
You destroyed everyone I did business with
then left me nearly with nothing.
You really think I was not going to rebuild?
She's our child, Camila.
Listen, how much is the payment to this man?
$3 million.
*
Listen, I'm gonna get the cash
to cover your first payment.
Then I'm gonna take the coke you got from them,
move it myself, and pay off that psychotic zealot.
And you are finished in this business forever.
You know by now how well I respond to threats, mi amore.
You don't get to tell me how I earn.
When your earning
threatens the life of my daughter,
you're God damn right I do.
And if you think my threat is empty,
well, you just fucking try me, mi amore.
*
So then you get the guns and you have to kill
all the alien bad guys to save the galactic princess.
That sounds violent.
Maybe that wasn't a good game I gave you.
No way! It's awesome.
All my friends at my new school wanna play it.
I'm glad. Listen, I have to go.
I love you, okay?
Don't let those bad guys get you.
I won't. Bye, Teresa.
Thank you.
Salud.
*
This is probably the best thing I've ever tasted in my life.
Well, at $2,000 a bottle, it should be.
*
I remember that first time Epifanio and I
could afford a bottle like this.
You think it's a better drink.
But then you realize, it's a better life.
*
Epifanio's distributors are ripe to be lured back in
for two reasons.
First, we have a superior product.
It's what coke was in the '80s.
No adulterants, incredible euphoria,
absolutely no come down.
-And second-- -They can't get product
because we blew up Epifanio's tunnel.
Good.
*
I've set up a meeting with a man
that controls the largest region in the Southwest.
Ki-Moon Kim.
He distributes northern Arizona to Houston.
400 kilos a week.
He looks like a kindly grandfather,
but don't let that fool you.
*
He came up in the Korean mob,
deadly and ruthless.
*
This is how you turn $1 million a month
into $5 million a week,
if we succeed.
And Teresa...
we will succeed.
*
I need 3 million cash, and I need it immediately.
(speaking Spanish)
This is your father.
Does she think that I don't know she's with
that pinche Kique Jimenez?
You have more pressing family issues.
We just received word from our Dallas distributors:
Camila is trying to steal them back.
She's got meetings set up already.
One is with our Southwest U.S. distributors, Ki-Moon.
I offered to pull her out of the fire with El Santo
with my money, and she does this.
Anyone who meets with her is declaring their betrayal to me.
It should be dealt with accordingly.
She's just going to keep going.
Your wife put your daughter in danger.
Compa, isn't it time
that we put an end to her right now?
No.
Do what you gotta do to stop Camila's business.
But don't touch my wife.
Is that understood?
Claro, compa.
*
Claro.
She is respectful.
She is.
So the merchandise is of the highest quality, Mr. Kim.
And unlike Epifanio's product,
it can be delivered to you today.
I was assured that Epifanio's delivery issue
will resolve itself shortly.
No, his delay's costing you millions of dollars.
And he's charging you 30,000 a kilo.
You can get ours today at 25,000.
You'd be getting a better product
for half a million dollars less.
And at what price does loyalty become for sale?
All this talk about money.
I apologize profusely.
Teresa's young. I have high hopes for her.
It's difficult to teach this business to those whom you love.
My own son, Ki-Wan... (speaks Korean)
My wife and I worry.
Well, you're fortunate to have the relationship
you have with your son.
I'm ashamed to admit that Epifanio
is attempting to separate me from my own daughter.
Sung-Shil will be saddened to hear.
In the midst of your own family turmoil,
you invite into your home.
-I am honored. -And I am honored to know
that even if you came to say no to me,
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