The U.S. government monitored the notorious drug lord "Poison" Veneno through satellite surveillance and positioning systems. After confirming his transaction location, they assigned the mission to Murphy, an DEA undercover agent in Colombia. Restricted by operational constraints in Colombia, Murphy called the police and passed the information to his partner Pena from the manhunt team.
Pena organized a raid on Poison’s transaction site, resulting in a bloodbath. Back in 1973 in Chile, the military arrested and executed over 300 drug traffickers. A drug dealer codenamed "Cockroach" narrowly escaped death and later emerged as the top drug lord. Meanwhile, smuggler Escobar bribed most of the country’s police force, allowing his smuggling business to thrive smoothly. Even when encountering police officers unwilling to cooperate, Escobar could coerce and induce them gently to make them submit.
Cockroach approached Escobar, hoping he would help sell the cocaine he produced. Escobar was intrigued, and the two hit it off immediately. Cockroach took Escobar to visit his production base in Peru, which was still a small workshop at the time. Using his connections, Escobar transported the drugs by car and easily made a profit of over $500,000 from just this one trip. This strengthened the bond between Cockroach and Escobar.
At this time, Murphy was still on a mission in Miami. He met his future wife through a colleague’s prank and fell madly in love with her.
Upon returning to Medellín, Escobar established his own laboratory. Cockroach was in charge of cocaine production, while Escobar and Gustavo handled sales. Gustavo found a man named "Lion" (León) to transport the drugs to Miami and sell them to the wealthy and powerful there.
Soon, Escobar became extremely wealthy. Cocaine flowed continuously from Peru to Medellín, and Lion alone could no longer handle all the transportation. Lion then bribed and recruited airline pilots, pregnant women, and young girls to smuggle the drugs. Later, in just a few months, Escobar established the first drug transportation route from Colombia to the United States. Eventually, Escobar shut down his Medellín laboratory, moved the cocaine-making workshops into Colombia’s lush forests, and expanded production under the cover of the trees.
Drug production and trafficking brought Escobar a steady stream of wealth, which fueled Cockroach’s anxiety and resentment. It also attracted Escobar’s business associates, and soon a massive drug trafficking network took shape.
Murphy, meanwhile, transformed from chasing hippie drug users to a DEA agent who shot and killed drug traffickers. After returning home, Murphy was haunted by the fact that he had killed a minor drug trafficker, but his wife said the boy deserved to die. Upon pressing, Murphy learned that a young girl had been brought to his wife’s hospital, killed brutally due to a drug-related incident. Despite his wife’s best efforts, she couldn’t save the girl’s life.
A shipment of Escobar’s drugs was seized by Herrera, a police officer he had long bribed. Enraged, Escobar rushed to the police station to negotiate with Herrera. Escobar was photographed as a suspect, and the two reached a new agreement—Herrera also betrayed Cockroach.
It turned out that Cockroach resented Escobar for amassing huge fortunes while he was stuck in the forest. He secretly stole cocaine and hired someone from a Colombian pipeline company to sell it. Unfortunately, the pipeline company’s drug-transporting vehicle, carrying 600 kilograms of cocaine, was intercepted by Murphy and his colleagues. Murphy’s colleague was killed in the fight, and Murphy became a hero. Escobar sent men to eliminate Cockroach’s crew and killed over a thousand police officers—details Murphy only learned later.
Gustavo told Escobar the news that Poison had been shot and killed by DEA agents, and asked if he wanted to offer a reward for the capture of Poison’s killers. Escobar remained silent.
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