1 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,560 We were doing a wiretap on one of the phones that Pablo's talking on, 2 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,520 and Pablo's talking to his wife, Tata, on the phone. 3 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,040 "Hey, how are you, honey? How's the kids?" 4 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,800 And you can hear a guy screaming. He's being tortured. 5 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,320 You hear a guy shriek, like a yell. 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,960 I'll never forget that. 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,760 And so finally, Pablo says, "Hold on just a second." 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,040 And he tries to cover the phone, 9 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,720 and Javier hears him say, "Shut him up." 10 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Then, all of a sudden, it gets deathly quiet. 11 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,480 That's how diabolical, that's how unremorseful this guy is. 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,680 I mean, the guy thought he was invincible. 13 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,080 Medellín, Colombia, 1982. 14 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,480 Pablo Escobar is the head 15 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:41,520 of the most powerful, violent and feared criminal organization in the world. 16 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,520 You know, he was responsible for the vast majority of cocaine 17 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,200 coming into the United States. 18 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,760 These guys were smuggling 2,500 kilos of cocaine 19 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,840 on a daily basis. 20 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,320 The Medellín cartel is raking in over $2 billion a month. 21 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,560 Those Escobar can't bribe, he kills. 22 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:10,199 There are a lot of evil people, 23 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,440 but up until that point I had never encountered anybody like that. 24 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,800 Escobar also has an ardent following. 25 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,560 For us, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a religion. 26 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,680 He was a God. 27 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,600 Those who know the Robin Hood story 28 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,520 know that he fought for and looked out for the poor. 29 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:31,760 But for the DEA, 30 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,320 he's the most wanted criminal in the world. 31 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,080 A lot of times, we'll start at a low level, 32 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,160 but our goal is, we wanna climb that ladder, 33 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,160 to get as high as we can in an organization, 34 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,280 'cause we wanna take out the head of the snake. 35 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,520 Escobar wages a brutal war on his own country, 36 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,280 and he's unafraid to fight to the death. 37 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,640 1949, Pablo Escobar is born into one of the world's most violent countries. 38 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:35,920 Colombia. 39 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,120 Plagued by civil and guerrilla war, 40 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,200 it's a world in which the audacious Escobar thrives. 41 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,600 By his teens, he slips into a life of petty crime 42 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,160 and one struggle over some stolen cash catches the eye of a young man 43 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,640 who will become his most trusted hit man in years to come. 44 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,440 One day, I was on my way to school 45 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:09,120 when I see a scuffle between a policeman and a gangster with a gun in his hand. 46 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,080 He grabs a money pouch from the policeman. 47 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,640 The policeman falls down and whips out his revolver... 48 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:20,920 and shoots. 49 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,800 They managed to get the gangster out on a motorbike. 50 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,400 The guy on the motorbike was Pablo Escobar. 51 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,240 But street crime isn't enough for the power-hungry Escobar. 52 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:47,120 Pablo had that genius ingenuity about him. 53 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:52,560 He knew the street, and he also had that business savvy. 54 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,120 A savvy that'll lead to Escobar's meteoric rise. 55 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,080 In the mid-'70s, he joins forces with three criminals, 56 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:08,800 Carlos Lehder, Luis Ochoa and Jose Gonzalo Gacha, 57 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:14,320 to start buying and selling Colombia's most lucrative product, cocaine. 58 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,320 The Medellín cartel is born. 59 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,720 The cartel sets its sights on a booming new market 60 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,360 a thousand miles away, in Miami, 61 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,640 where cocaine is the drug of choice for Florida's rich and famous. 62 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,480 The 1980s, Miami was the spot. 63 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,240 It was just unbelievable that there was that much cocaine... 64 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,040 honestly, in the world at one time. 65 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,320 If you liked those type of investigations, 66 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,440 there was no better place to be in the 1980s than Miami. 67 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,400 And the Medellín cartel soon devised a creative way 68 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,640 of getting the coke into the US via the Sunshine State. 69 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,680 Carlos Lehder Rivas bought an island in the Bahamas 70 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,480 and paid 5 million dollars a month to the country's president. 71 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,120 Planes arrive from Colombia to the Bahamas. 72 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,040 And from there, 73 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,640 every weekend, boats and small yachts would arrive from Miami 74 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,440 and be loaded with cocaine. 75 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Trafficking was very easy. 76 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,800 They referred to the Bahamas as their trampoline into the US. 77 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,760 While on patrol, Agent Steve Murphy gets a front-row view 78 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,960 of the enormous scale of Escobar's operation. 79 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,120 We come across this aircraft that's submerged in the water. 80 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,680 They point it out to me. I'm like, "My gosh! There's a plane crash." 81 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,240 I'm telling the pilots, "We need to call in boats. 82 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,840 We need to bring in divers. Find out if there are bodies on the plane." 83 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,760 The two pilots were laughing at me. 84 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,480 I told 'em, "What are you guys laughing at? It's not funny." 85 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,200 They said, "You don't even know what you're looking at. 86 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:00,120 Those are narcotics planes. Those are cocaine-laden planes 87 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,840 that the cartels in Colombia fly up into the Caribbean island chain, 88 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,560 the boats come in, they get the load of cocaine off, 89 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,680 they take the two pilots off and away they go, 90 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,480 and they just leave that plane there." 91 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,920 The cartel's abandon 92 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,280 reveals just how much profit their operation's raking in. 93 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,280 To produce a kilo of cocaine in the jungles for those guys 94 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,080 was about $1,000. 95 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,160 Their transportation fees were $4,000. 96 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,440 So your initial investment was $5,000. 97 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,240 And in Miami, in the mid-'80s, 98 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,440 that kilo of cocaine was going for about $80,000. 99 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,120 These guys were smuggling 2,500 kilos of cocaine 100 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,360 on a daily basis. 101 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:08,040 So, if you do the math, your return is in the billions of dollars. 102 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:09,600 And because of that, 103 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,000 they became the largest cocaine empire we had ever seen. 104 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,400 By the early '80s, Medellín is the cocaine capital of the world. 105 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,080 And Escobar protects its profits with extreme ruthlessness. 106 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,240 Escobar's rule was that those who do not pay, 107 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:41,480 if they hadn't already been killed, were made to pay. 108 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,720 They were kidnapped and all their possessions taken away. 109 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,040 This is the main thing that allowed him to rise above the others. 110 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:56,320 His relentless way of enforcing the deal he had done. 111 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,800 He eliminated entire families. 112 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:01,920 He terrorized them. 113 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,080 The DEA ramps up its operation to take down the murderous drug lord. 114 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,040 They send an undercover agent into one of Escobar's week-long parties 115 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,640 who witnesses the brutality firsthand. 116 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,160 He said, "Man, you're not gonna believe what I saw. 117 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,400 You know, we're in the third or fourth day of this thing, 118 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,480 people are blitzed out of their minds. 119 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,320 One of the sicarios comes up and says, 'Hey, Boss,' talking to Pablo, 120 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,200 'Hey, Boss, one of the waiters is stealing your silverware.'" 121 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,240 Well, Pablo's worth $30 billion. 122 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,680 Does he really care that somebody's stealing a knife and a fork and a spoon? 123 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,520 He said, "Well, let me talk to him." 124 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,440 So he brings him up in front of everybody and Pablo talks to him a bit, 125 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,240 and finally, he says to somebody, "Get me some duct tape." 126 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,040 They duct taped the man's hands behind his back, 127 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,680 they duct taped his feet together... 128 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,520 And Pablo kicks him into the swimming pool. 129 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,880 The entertainment for the next several minutes is watching a man drown. 130 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,720 Think about the message that that sends. 131 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,480 That, "I'm untouchable. I will do what I want when I want. 132 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,280 I'm this strong, and I'm this powerful. 133 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,240 If you steal from me, then this is what happens to you." 134 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,600 With US and Colombian authorities both after him, 135 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:49,480 Escobar builds a brutal army of hit men, known as sicarios, to protect him. 136 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:56,880 Jhon Jairo Velásquez, nicknamed Popeye, soon becomes one of the deadliest. 137 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,480 Soon after I started working for the Boss, we were all in this house. 138 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,840 A friend of the Boss arrives and he says, "Pablo... 139 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,000 I want to kill a bus driver who killed my mum." 140 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,120 The Boss says, "Okay, I'll sort it." 141 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,400 And he calls me, "Come here, Popeye. 142 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,000 Do you want to do this job?" 143 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,080 It will be Popeye's first killing of many. 144 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,760 The guy came with me and pointed him out. 145 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,760 Two shots to the head. That was it. 146 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,440 So I'm back at work, and the Boss asks me that night, 147 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,320 "Popeye, why haven't you collected your money?" 148 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,520 I said, "No worries, sir. I just want to be with you." 149 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,720 He laughed and gave me $5,000. 150 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:04,320 He was a leader, and a leader always pays what he owes. 151 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:14,360 It was when I shot that bus driver that I properly entered the criminal world. 152 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,480 Popeye, he admits to arranging as many as 3,000 murders. 153 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,280 He admitted to killing as many as 300 people himself. 154 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:31,200 He's a mass murderer. 155 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,600 Pablo Escobar used to personally recruit all the sicarios. 156 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,960 He would hug 'em, love 'em, kiss 'em, he'd give 'em money. 157 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:47,480 However, he expected their loyalty in return, which he got. 158 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,760 Escobar's motto is, "Plata o plomo." 159 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,600 "Money or lead." 160 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,360 He sends his sicarios out to corrupt a nation. 161 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,720 For example, there'd be a judge who had a criminal investigation on him, 162 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,280 so the sicarios would go see the judge and they would tell the judge, 163 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,800 "Judge, I'm being sent by Pablo Escobar. 164 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,920 Before you kick us out... Now, is this your wife?" 165 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,120 They would show photos of his wife. 166 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,920 They would show photos of his kids at school. 167 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,480 And then they would say, "Mr. Escobar wants you to drop this case. 168 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,600 If you don't drop it, Escobar would kill them." 169 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,840 A lot of people started taking the money, and you know what? 170 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,360 I do not blame them for taking the money. 171 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,480 By 1982, Escobar's at the top of his game. 172 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,280 He's the wealthiest man in Colombia. 173 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,080 And he lavishes his riches on a 7,000-acre estate, 174 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,720 the notorious Hacienda Nápoles. 175 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,800 As an audacious touch, he mounts a replica of the plane 176 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,280 that carried his very first shipment of coke to the US, 177 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,120 a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, onto the front gate. 178 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,760 Look, the Nápoles estate was a paradise. 179 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,560 Literally a paradise. 180 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,720 A paradise built 181 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,520 on the billions earned from trafficking cocaine. 182 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,440 Hacienda Nápoles was a place for fun and a center for crime. 183 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,960 There was time for family, time for fun, and time for war. 184 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,120 He loves bringing people in there to entertain. 185 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,640 He's got all these exotic animals in his own private zoo. 186 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,040 It's kinda like a kids' park type thing. 187 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,200 So this is a place that Pablo loves to show off. 188 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,880 There were parties that lasted five, seven or eight days. 189 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,400 The Boss would have half a beer and smoke half a joint. 190 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:09,520 Pablo Escobar liked there to be fabulous-looking women at his parties. 191 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,240 The Boss had a strong aura. 192 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,800 His energy was so powerful, he'd touch a girl and she would instantly become wet. 193 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,160 He was very powerful. 194 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,240 By the early '80s, the Medellín cartel is supplying 195 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,440 four out of every five lines snorted in the United States. 196 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,440 Escobar thinks he's untouchable in his Colombian hideout. 197 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,960 But he's about to face a new unimaginable foe. 198 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,480 I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear... 199 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,160 President Ronald Reagan makes it his mission 200 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,480 to bring down the narcotics smugglers. 201 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,200 We intend to do what is necessary to end the drug menace 202 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:53,840 and cripple organized crime. 203 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,880 Reagan ratifies an extradition treaty with Colombia. 204 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:04,680 Pablo Escobar can now be tried and jailed in the United States. 205 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,280 It's Escobar's greatest fear made real. 206 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,920 I reject the extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States. 207 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,720 So, Escobar hatches a plan. 208 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,760 Viva Pablo Escobar Gaviria! 209 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,480 Pablo understands the need 210 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,920 to link himself to politics and get into parliament 211 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,040 in order to get parliamentary immunity. 212 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,440 After funding numerous community projects, 213 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,320 Escobar quickly builds up a public following, 214 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,720 which wins him a seat in Congress. 215 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,400 But this isn't his only prize. 216 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,360 Along with his new job comes immunity from extradition. 217 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,040 Once again, he places himself beyond the reach of the US justice system. 218 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,720 But those against him are hunting for the evidence they need to kick him out. 219 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,400 You have a lot of money, right? 220 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,480 Well, I think that's a very personal question, very intimate. 221 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,920 But anyone who is interested in knowing how much money Mr. Pablo Escobar has 222 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,040 can find out from the National Tax Administration. 223 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,720 One brave journalist digs deep into Escobar's past. 224 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,960 Guillermo Cano, the newspaper's editor, he believed 225 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,760 that this man who is in Congress, making decisions, Pablo Escobar, 226 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,920 had been in prison and he remembered the mug shot. 227 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:47,480 The editor of El Espectador publishes the incriminating photo. 228 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:54,480 The immediate reaction of the politicians who had received him into their homes 229 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,480 was to close their doors to him. 230 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,000 The accusations are without foundation... 231 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,120 Escobar is thrown out of Congress. 232 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,240 And Justice Minister Bonilla goes after Pablo's empire. 233 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,360 Armed with intelligence from the DEA, 234 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,640 Bonilla orders a raid on one of Escobar's cocaine factories. 235 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,200 Tranquilandia. 236 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,480 The remote compound has eight air strips, living quarters for 100 workers, 237 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:31,120 and 19 laboratories dedicated to the manufacturing of cocaine. 238 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,440 The enormous scale of the Medellín operation is clear. 239 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,800 Over one billion dollars' worth of coke goes up in flames. 240 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,080 And it triggers one of the bloodiest decades 241 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,000 in Colombian history. 242 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,960 Pablo detested the political class. 243 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,640 He was astonishingly cold-blooded. 244 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,520 And also inexhaustibly determined. 245 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,360 First in line is the justice minister 246 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,800 who ordered the destruction of Escobar's cocaine factory. 247 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,120 He pays the ultimate price. 248 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,760 Nothing could stop him. 249 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,800 The Boss was such a violent man. 250 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,760 Violence poured from his hands. 251 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,320 Bent on revenge, he continues his reign of terror. 252 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:11,120 On December 17th, 1986, 253 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,520 the editor who published his mugshot, Guillermo Cano, is brutally gunned down. 254 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:22,480 Escobar finishes the job by blowing up the newspaper's offices. 255 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,480 Now a wanted terrorist in two nations, he goes underground. 256 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,160 The hunt is on. 257 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:45,200 It was a priority for DEA to start going after Pablo Escobar. 258 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,240 We would get a lot of informants. 259 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,240 If 10 informants walked in the door, out of those ten, two were gonna be good. 260 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:58,720 Those informants that were reliable, we paid 'em a good sum of money. 261 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,640 Knowing he's being watched, Escobar trusts no one. 262 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,040 Even those closest to him. 263 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,080 Wendy Chavarriaga was the Boss's girlfriend. 264 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,080 She was a spectacular woman, over six feet tall 265 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:21,040 with thick black hair and incredible legs. 266 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,160 When Escobar ends the affair, 267 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,800 his mistress seeks revenge through a relationship with Popeye, 268 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,080 who falls head over heels in love. 269 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,760 But that's not all Wendy does to hit back at her former lover. 270 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,240 The Boss calls me and plays a recording down the phone. 271 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,680 It was Wendy talking to some people from the DEA. 272 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,480 Escobar gives Popeye a choice, love or loyalty. 273 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,320 So the Boss says, "Popeye, what are we going to do?" 274 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,240 He need say no more. I will sort it straightaway. 275 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,400 So I made a date at a restaurant. 276 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,520 I'd already told two of my boys, my best gunmen. 277 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,960 Told them what she looked like, the car she was driving. 278 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,520 I arrived and parked. 279 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,680 I call the restaurant and ask to speak to Miss Wendy Chavarriaga. 280 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,280 And I hear the waiter call for Wendy Chavarriaga, and I hear her shoes. 281 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,920 Honestly, it was hard. 282 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,360 But on my heart, I swore an oath of loyalty to Pablo Escobar. 283 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,920 You show Pablo Escobar loyalty through actions, not words. 284 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:10,440 The government of Colombia will do everything in its power 285 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,080 to catch Escobar and his henchmen. 286 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,080 So President César Gaviria plays his ace card against the drug lord, 287 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,960 the threat of extradition to the US. 288 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:26,400 Escobar's ability to generate violence... 289 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,760 was unlike anyone else's in our country's history. 290 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,920 Pablo Escobar feared extradition. 291 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,400 He believed that going to the United States 292 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,600 was the worst that could happen to him or any Colombian. 293 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,400 "I prefer a tomb in Colombia than a jail cell in the United States." 294 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,040 No one is prepared for the scale of Escobar's retaliation. 295 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,840 His plan, 296 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,320 overturn the extradition laws through terror. 297 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:19,080 The world's first narco terrorist has publicly declared war on the country. 298 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,160 It's when he becomes a psychopath. 299 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,720 The body count was going higher and higher. 300 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,680 I'm talking thousands of innocent people. 301 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,800 The women, the children. 302 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,240 The bounties on police officers. 303 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,320 I remember, he would tell his sicarios, "I want body count." 304 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,320 And that was his way of fighting 305 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,160 and showing Colombia that he was gonna win. 306 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,600 Colombia is on the brink of collapse. 307 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,160 President Gaviria marshals his forces, 308 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,480 assembling a group of elite Colombian army and police personnel, 309 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,400 now with the full weight of the DEA behind it. 310 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,080 They're called the Search Bloc. 311 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,560 Their only job was to hunt down Escobar, 312 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,160 to catch him dead or alive. 313 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,280 The man put in charge, Colonel Hugo Martínez. 314 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:33,440 I knew I was going on a very dangerous mission. 315 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,880 I could even lose my life. 316 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,320 Martínez is barely on the job when a fellow officer comes calling. 317 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:49,960 He tells me that Escobar is offering me six million dollars 318 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,040 and would hand it over to me wherever I wanted. 319 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:58,320 All he wanted was prior notice when we were about to try and seize him. 320 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:07,120 I thought it showed weakness on Escobar's side to come and offer me money. 321 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,840 Martínez won't be bribed. 322 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,040 Once we got Colonel Martínez in place, that's when things started happening. 323 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,720 A lot of things were going on. 324 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,280 And the Search Bloc gets its chance to catch the drug lord. 325 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,800 It all began with the interception of a phone call 326 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,840 when Escobar asks for a girl to be delivered. 327 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,120 The girl's destination is Escobar's jungle hideout. 328 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,480 Now, all they have to do is find it. 329 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,880 We took a farmer with us who knew the route to Medellín. 330 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,800 When we flew over the site he says, "That's it. That's the house." 331 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,360 In times of war, the Boss wouldn't just sleep in his underwear. 332 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:56,520 He would wear his Newman jeans, no shirt, and with a gun in his hand. 333 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,720 When we were warned that a helicopter was approaching, 334 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,160 the Boss would grab his gun in three seconds flat. 335 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,240 Escobar has been tipped off, and the raid hits a hail of bullets. 336 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,920 They were firing at us from the ground 337 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,400 and the pilot tells me we are hit. 338 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:21,560 There was a sound like popping corn as the helicopter was hit. 339 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,080 So we made a retreat. 340 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,840 That night, we were all crestfallen. We had lost. 341 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,800 He had gotten away from us. 342 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,560 Escobar escapes, then does what he always does. 343 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,240 Retaliates. 344 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,400 Escobar didn't just kill his enemies. 345 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:54,000 He killed anyone who he felt posed a risk. 346 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,840 Put yourself in the position of the president of Colombia, César Gaviria. 347 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,040 Can you imagine the pressure that's on him? 348 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,360 Where you've got this criminal, 349 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,680 the world's most wanted criminal, the world's first narco terrorist, 350 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,040 has publicly declared war on the country. 351 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,440 Escobar will stop at nothing to assert his power. 352 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,080 Going so far as to plot the assassination of Gaviria, 353 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,480 he tasks a sicario with putting a bomb on the commercial plane he's flying on. 354 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,040 But his intel is bad. 355 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:37,640 Gaviria never boards the plane. 356 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,800 One hundred and ten innocent people are blown to pieces. 357 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:48,840 It was a terrible thing. 358 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,080 It's the only case I know of, in the history of humanity, 359 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,600 where a whole plane is downed just to kill one person. 360 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,240 At that time, our enemy was winning. 361 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,160 We were losing the battle against drug trafficking. 362 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,680 It was a difficult time. 363 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,760 During the late '80s, 364 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,200 Escobar's reign of terror continues to escalate. 365 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,240 Now Escobar plays his cards, 366 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,320 and his cards were the kidnappings to put pressure on the government. 367 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,520 In January 1988, 368 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:30,320 the drug lord orders Popeye to snatch the attorney general, Carlos Mauro Hoyos. 369 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,800 Just after 6:00 a.m., we ambush and kidnap him. 370 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,280 During the kidnapping, they kill his driver and bodyguard 371 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,480 and ferry the attorney general away to a safe house. 372 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,720 Army troops start to swarm the area. More and more troops. 373 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,320 Because they know we have the Attorney General Mauro Hoyos in the area. 374 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,760 The Boss calls us on our radio. 375 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,880 The Boss gives me the order to go in and kill the attorney general. 376 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,960 Before I killed him, I told him why I was going to kill him. 377 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,520 "I am executing you 378 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,800 because you allow the extradition of Colombians to the United States." 379 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,640 The Medellín cartel had some memorable days. 380 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,240 During the Search Bloc's long hunt, 381 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,200 Escobar's sicarios kill 457 police. 382 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,040 But the Colombian government refuses to cave in to the terror. 383 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,400 Then, in 1991, Escobar makes his most unexpected move yet. 384 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,400 If they can guarantee he won't be extradited, 385 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,640 he'll turn himself in for sentencing. 386 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:04,600 It was regarded as a political solution to a problem that we could not solve. 387 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,360 But it's not long before the real motives 388 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720 for Escobar's surrender become clear. 389 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720 He wants to make a deal. 390 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,280 So Pablo comes in, he says, "Okay, you know... 391 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,760 I was in a car one time when there was some cocaine in the trunk, 392 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,040 and I didn't know it was in there, 393 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,920 so I guess I unwittingly participated in the transportation of cocaine. 394 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,200 And that's what I'm pleading guilty to. You got me." 395 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:32,800 And the government said, "Okay." 396 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,240 After all his years of crime and violence, 397 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,080 Escobar only gets five years in jail. 398 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,320 And he has even more demands. 399 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,880 He said, "The first is I'm gonna build a prison, 400 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,360 and I'm gonna pay for it because I don't want 401 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,400 the citizens of Colombia to have to suffer that tax burden." 402 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,120 And the government of Colombia said, "Okay." 403 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,680 Work begins immediately to build La Catedral, 404 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,960 the high security prison a few miles from his Medellín homeland. 405 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,200 Pablo even chooses his guards and inmates. 406 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,320 "My fellow prisoners I'm gonna handpick, and one of 'em's gonna be my brother 407 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,440 and these others are business associates who are actually sicarios," 408 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,160 which translates into assassins. 409 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,480 And the government of Colombia said, "Okay." 410 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,640 And finally... 411 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,880 And Pablo said, "There's one more stipulation. 412 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,760 The government of Colombia and the gringos, 413 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:31,080 no government official can come within two miles of my prison while I'm in there, 414 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,040 because I don't trust 'em." 415 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,880 And the government of Colombia said, "Okay." 416 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,960 He even gets to keep his multi-billion-dollar fortune. 417 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,280 It's the deal of a lifetime. 418 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:53,440 But Escobar's biggest coup comes on June 19th, 1991, 419 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,720 at the same time as the Colombian authorities fly him 420 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,600 to his brand new personalized prison. 421 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,920 The Colombian Congress outlaws extradition. 422 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:11,000 We knew that Pablo Escobar had won, 423 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,880 and the rest of the world had lost. 424 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:25,000 Escobar's new residence is the perfect spot to get back to business. 425 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,920 It was there that the Boss began to restructure 426 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,960 the Medellín cartel's drug trafficking. 427 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,600 La Catedral was a center for crime. 428 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520 Here there was a wall 429 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:39,760 that concealed the secret entrance down into the laundry. 430 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,800 Through here we kept the liquor, the cocaine that people took, 431 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,960 and the weapons and marijuana were in there. 432 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,920 And in this room, we hid people who had entered illegally. 433 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,480 Dealers, prostitutes, anyone who shouldn't have been in the prison. 434 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,360 Up above of all this, there was a disco, 435 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:06,880 a good sound system, we had drinks, the ladies came, there were orgies. 436 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,679 It was the place for sin at La Catedral. 437 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,679 Right under the noses of the guards, 438 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,679 Pablo creates a home away from home. 439 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,719 What I saw was a country club atmosphere. 440 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,480 We go to Pablo's cell, it's a two-room suite. 441 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,159 It has million-dollar paintings on the walls. 442 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,199 It had color-coordinated draperies and upholstery. 443 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,199 He had candles on his coffee table. 444 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,800 You go into the bedroom, 445 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,679 he's got a custom-made bed that's bigger than any king-size bed you've ever seen. 446 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,199 He's got an office built into this room. 447 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,960 His bathroom had a Jacuzzi bathtub. 448 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:54,800 The walk-in closet had a safe hidden behind the drawers that you pull out. 449 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,560 This is a prison. 450 00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,800 Escobar is back in control. 451 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,240 Frustrated, the DEA sets up camp nearby. 452 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,240 The DEA had bought a property over there so they could watch us. 453 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,280 They try tapping the prison's phone system, but... 454 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,720 That whole year that Pablo was in there, we couldn't intercept anything. 455 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,400 That house over there, 456 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,440 that house belonged to Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. 457 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,600 The Boss installed an intercom. 458 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,360 The cable went all the way to the house, and in the house was a room 459 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,120 where important members of the Medellín cartel 460 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,120 would come to talk to Pablo Escobar. 461 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,600 The DEA saw the cable, but assumed it was for electricity. 462 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,280 They never imagined it was an intercom cable. 463 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,760 The DEA never got proof 464 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,600 that Pablo Escobar was trafficking cocaine from here, La Catedral prison. 465 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,160 But then, Escobar makes a huge mistake 466 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,680 that lifts the lid on the cathedral of crime. 467 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,520 He smuggles in two of the original cartel members, 468 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,400 and Popeye is there waiting for them. 469 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,360 Underneath Roberto's cabin, there was a secret room. 470 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:14,120 We put them in there. We cuff them. 471 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,520 Fernando Galeano and Gerardo Moncada 472 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,520 have stolen from their boss. 473 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,560 They are very worried and want to speak to the Boss. 474 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,600 "Popeye, get Pablo!" 475 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,160 When they realize they can't speak to the Boss, they know they are done for. 476 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,760 You could see it in their eyes. They were done for. 477 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,840 They ask for water and a Bible. 478 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,000 We shot them in the head. 479 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:01,640 There was a chainsaw in the Catedral. 480 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,120 We cut them up. 481 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,040 We started to burn the bodies. A huge bonfire. 482 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,120 The Boss sat in a plastic chair, wearing a Russian hat, 483 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,400 just staring at the bodies. 484 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,200 The bodies burned all through the night. 485 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:32,080 The next morning, we broke the bones up with hammers and acid 486 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,200 to make sure there was no trace of Galeano and Kiko. 487 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,000 We were burning the Medellín cartel. 488 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,000 It's the final straw for the government, and they move in. 489 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,120 The government decides to intervene 490 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,400 and move Escobar to another prison 491 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:57,840 because they have information that Escobar is committing crimes and murders. 492 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,120 But Escobar sees them coming. 493 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,320 This is the route we took with Pablo Escobar in 1992 494 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,800 to make our escape. 495 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,560 Pablo Escobar was at the front leading our escape. 496 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:20,400 This was completely covered in fog, and it was 11:00 at night. 497 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,240 The first 200 hundred meters were treacherous 498 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320 as the army were flooding in. 499 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,360 Nine thousand men of the Colombian army came here. 500 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,920 The DEA and the CIA came with the general. 501 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,160 In these mountains, we outsmarted them all. 502 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:48,240 Colombia's most notorious gangster is on the run, again. 503 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,720 But in an extraordinary twist, 504 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,960 Escobar's escape plays straight into the Search Bloc's hands. 505 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,000 It's like we've got a second chance of getting the world's most wanted criminal. 506 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:08,880 We all hated Pablo Escobar. We have another chance of killing Pablo Escobar. 507 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,880 A nationwide appeal for info on Escobar goes out. 508 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,400 And the Search Bloc gets a crucial tip-off. 509 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,680 There was this house on this mountainside, 510 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,880 and the information from the informant was that Pablo was in the house. 511 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,760 We heard the footsteps of the army. 512 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,920 We got inside that house, and what we found in there, 513 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,440 and this was a fetish of Pablo Escobar's 514 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,920 for whatever reason, he liked nice bathrooms, 515 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,880 and there's this little shack with this really nice bathroom. 516 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,160 There's no sign of Pablo Escobar. 517 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:09,640 Incredibly, we crawled and found a sugar cane field and hid there. 518 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,760 Escobar escapes capture, but his time is running out. 519 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:23,360 Even when his network, his militia, commanders and hit men started falling, 520 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:29,720 those who did not fall gave themselves up. 521 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,800 Until he was left all alone. 522 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,680 With the noose tightening, 523 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:41,600 Escobar finally releases his ever-loyal sicario, Popeye, to hand himself in. 524 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,200 I arrive and hand him my gun. 525 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,840 The Boss takes it and says, "Popeye, thank you for everything." 526 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,120 We look at each other and say nothing. I knew I would never see him again. 527 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,480 Next, the drug lord turns to getting his family out of Colombia. 528 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,600 They try fleeing the country, 529 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,920 but are met by DEA Agent Peña at the Medellín airport. 530 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,920 When we stopped them, lot of commotion, 531 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,320 a lot of crying, a lot of yelling. 532 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,920 We basically tore up their visas. 533 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,240 This man couldn't give himself the luxury of sending his family away 534 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,160 and continue to commit outrageous crimes. 535 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,760 The government moves the family here, 536 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,840 to the Tequendama Hotel in central Bogotá. 537 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,800 Fearing they're still in danger, Escobar calls the president. 538 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,960 We took the position that we would not accept any of his terms. 539 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,000 We would only accept an unconditional surrender. 540 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,800 The Search Bloc wire taps the family's hotel... 541 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,080 and waits for Escobar to make his next move. 542 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,600 All the surveillance is left on for about 72 hours. 543 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,320 I am listening in from my headquarters, day and night. 544 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,160 Then, on December 2nd, Escobar calls his son. 545 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:35,280 He's heard the family might get sanctuary in El Salvador. 546 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,000 Escobar comes on the line, talking at 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. 547 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,800 We are very grateful 548 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,480 to the President of El Salvador. 549 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,280 He is treating us in a humane way. 550 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,120 He is not treating us like criminals. 551 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,720 His family effectively became his executioner. 552 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,880 We pin down the area where he's located. 553 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:10,120 The head of the surveillance team 554 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,960 takes a unit to the neighborhood where they've traced the calls. 555 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,360 Agent Steve Murphy is at the Search Bloc's headquarters, 556 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,280 listening in on developments. 557 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,840 He's driving down the street, 558 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,400 he's got his antenna out, he's looking at his meter, 559 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,400 and his meter indicates that the signal's coming 560 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,160 from a row house that he's driving by. 561 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,600 He looks up and sees Pablo Escobar looking out the window. 562 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,240 He says, "I've found him. 563 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:40,120 I think it's Escobar. I saw him through the window." 564 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,480 The troops make their move. 565 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,120 They lined the door of this row house with det cord. 566 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,600 They blew the door off the hinges. 567 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,000 Pablo's on the second floor, he and his one sicario. 568 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,480 They go up to the third floor... 569 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,680 the sicario jumps out the window. He takes off running across the roof. 570 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,400 He's shot. Falls off the roof on the ground, dead. 571 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:13,200 Pablo comes out that window, makes a run across the roof. 572 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,600 He's actually shot three times. 573 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,680 Once in the back of the leg. 574 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,600 Once in the butt cheek. 575 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,920 Third shot was in the ear. 576 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,200 And that was the kill shot. 577 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,920 I was sitting in my office, and I felt huge relief. 578 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,400 The reason we're all smiling in those photographs 579 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,120 is because every one of us knew at that very second, 580 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,520 the very second that Pablo Escobar died, 581 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,640 every citizen in the country of Colombia was safer, 582 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,320 simply because one man was dead. 583 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:09,720 "Viva Colombia!" 584 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,840 Everybody shouts, "Viva Colombia!"