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Ralph Zapata and the LFS are a small terrorist organization.

Now all of a sudden they're back on the scene. You think she might be on the

broker's payroll?

Let's see where she's taking it.

We got an ID.

His name's Jacob Monroe.

Well, it was a recent acquisition from a rundown bookstore.

Ophelia, the one I told you about. I've never been.

I'm not afraid of the cancer.

What happened to Jay? Jay is very much alive.

I'm telling you the truth.

I had nothing to do with the LFS or the Pima 12 attack.

Someone is trying to kill the story. And now they're trying to kill me. Then why

didn't you tell me about that? Because I don't trust you.

And now you want me to play like you never abandoned my mother and me. Where

Monroe's op for the CIA?

Mexico City.

She's his daughter.

When I come back, I'll tell you everything.

I'll keep eyes on Isabella. You cover Monroe. We need to figure out where he's

going, who he's talking to. So it is your man going after her. You've already

silenced Mike Fonseca. Service, above all, only applies to those who bank with

us. And if I don't serve you and you threaten me, my clients or my bank...

give you Jay, his life for Isabelle's, and she won't publish.

It's insufficient now.

You'll regret this, Fran. Get it done tonight.

Journalist still the main priority?

Journalist, whistleblower, agent, and Jacob Monroe.

I found Jay locked up. Can you come? Yeah.

What now?

Think you should call your dad.

You are early. And the demand is growing.

And the local suppliers can't do it because of that. Sure, and that's why

sent a fucking charming gringo to fuck me.

To buy all my product for some fucking pennies and then sell it ten times more

expensive. Sir, I assure you, the only reason I'm here is because my client

trusts that the alliance between Soventis shoes and soaps would produce

unprecedented opportunity.

I'm nagging you.

You need cheap soap to sell it very expensive to the whores. And I need a

partner who puts money in it to keep expanding me.

Maybe I'm not my dad, but I'm smart enough to recognize a win -win

Well, it seems to me that you are right in my attempt to attack Navarro.

Sofia!

Come, come.

Look at this gringo.

I'll take care of him.

Sofía De Leon, new head of operations.

Jacob Monroe.

I know. The Americans sent you to put us through our faces, right?

Due diligence is an important part of any deal, especially one of this size.

You can never be too careful with who you choose to partner with. But it goes

both ways.

You are under evaluation as well, Mr. Monroe.

And how am I doing so far?

You're still out, but I'll let you know your score when it's ready.

Jacob.

O al menos intentarlo, ¿no? Hay cosas que sencillamente no son posibles.

How long are you in town for?

Success. Until the deal closes.

Considering the scope of this endeavor, months at least.

Well, then I imagine I need to get used to seeing you around.

Bueno, great stuff. Vamos.

Can I help you?

Can I get a margarita with the spicy salt, please? Thanks.

American, right?

I have a sense for these things.

So what brings you south of the border?

A business legal consultant.

An American doing business in Mexico.

That's got to be a lot of red tape.

That's a pain.

If you'll excuse me, I have some work to finish up. Mr. Monroe, sit down.

Who are you? What is this?

You can call me Costa.

This is a bribery investigation.

A bribery investigation.

I'm a legitimate businessman.

Well, I just spoke to a man named Carlos Diaz who could testify otherwise.

What, the consultant?

I mean, he helped us get set up here, but I haven't had contact with him in at

least a year.

Well, he showed me documents containing your signature authorizing your company

to wire him a quarter of a million dollars.

And wouldn't you know it, that money ended up in the mayor's office.

American companies use Dia to help with the bureaucracy down here. If you're

telling me his methods are... Methods are bribes, Jacob.

And I don't believe that a guy as smart as you're supposed to be couldn't

connect those dots, which makes you an accessory to multiple felonies.

That's ridiculous.

Well, I'm sure I can get a Mexican judge to think it isn't.

What, are you trying to blackmail me?

I want to offer you a job.

I'd just like to start my negotiations from a position of strength.

You see, my organization has reason to believe that your new buddy, Raul

isn't exactly coloring inside the lines.

You're going to help me prove it.

What? I make a call, and you spend the next five to eight in a Mexican prison,

which would be... Well, not like this.

I'm an American. I'll go to the embassy.

Jacob, buddy.

Who do you think my organization is?

CIA? You are smart.

And you put in a little effort.

Welcome to the team.

You'll be hearing from me.

You've reached Isabel de Leon at the financial register.

Leave a message.

That was Durham.

The feds are at his door.

He'll stall as long as he can, but they already have warrants out for six of

your businesses.

What about the trucks?

Chicago County, a matter of time.

Isabel. Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm okay.

Thank God. Where are you?

I'm at the hospital.

Are you hurt?

No, but Jay was.

But he'll be okay.

Listen,

I can explain everything, but...

You have to know I would never knowingly put you in danger.

You won't stop lying and twisting. I am tired of you keeping me in the dark. I'm

not a child. I'm your father. I'm trying to become a better person. Just give me

one last chance.

Fine. I'll send you a location in Tribeca.

Meet me there in an hour.

Um, I'll be there.

Stay safe.

You too.

Look, we'll get a team in place.

You won't get away this time, okay?

Good. Listen, are you sure you want to be wrapped up in all this?

I mean, you can just keep your distance, let us handle it. It's fine.

He's a monster, right?

Do what you need to do.

Sí, disculpa.

No he dormido mucho últimamente.

Ah, sí, esta ciudad es así.

Te chupa el alma.

Llévatela leve, que la he visto tragarse gringos más cabrones que tú.

Lo intentaré.

Si no lo quieres intentar, me avisas.

Yo te puedo llevar a que te chupen el alma.

Sé que estás en una posición culera, pero necesito que le digas a tus jefes.

than to ask for 38 % of my company.

A company that my dad made with his fucking hands seems to me, frankly, like

shit.

I'm authorized to raise another 6 million and raise it to 40.

A good mother.

I have to go.

Send me the proposal by mail and we'll talk about it.

What are you doing?

Oh, this is embarrassing.

I came here thinking that I was fluent in Spanish. I mean, I minored in it, but

sometimes I don't know what the hell Raul was talking about.

So I snuck a peek at some notes from the meeting to fill in the gaps.

Your secret's safe with me.

You know, an American university is only going to teach you stuff in Spanish.

Chorizo, vosotros, all that.

That's why you can't always understand Raúl.

I'm not, I'm completely clueless. I mean, I know everybody's Spanish is

different, but Raúl was speaking something else.

I won't argue with you there.

Can I buy you an horchata?

No.

But I could go for an orange juice.

And I do like how you say horchata.

Gracias.

Oh,

wow. This is amazing.

Because we come from an orange and not a factory.

And it's my favorite place in the city.

Are you looking for something in particular?

Uh, no.

I just like it here.

It's quiet.

Come on. I can help.

My dad really wanted me to learn English when I was little.

But, um, we didn't have money for international schools.

So instead, he's read to me every night from an English copy of Grimm's Fairy

Tale.

Blue with gold leaves on the cover.

I must have heard every story on that book a hundred times.

And then, when I was old enough, I agreed to him to practice.

Did you ever?

I've seen the cartoons.

Oh, please.

Those are watered -down versions.

I'm talking the original ones, where the stepsisters cut off their own toes to

try and fit into the glass sleepers.

Were you one of those morbid kids?

No.

I just liked how those versions had consequences.

You don't get happily ever after if you're an asshole.

After my dad died, I come to his place looking for it. But I guess he didn't

think it was worth keeping.

So that's what we're looking for.

I found versions of it, but not that one.

Turns out there was a run, maybe a dozen copies.

that the publisher sent a print without proving, so they're full of typos,

misprints.

He used to have me point out mistakes while I read them.

My father never read to me, but he did teach me how to read people, though.

So you've been reading me?

I've been trying.

You're harder than most, but I'm not ready to give up.

You know, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. And as you can tell, I could use

your help fitting in here.

It's not my job to help outsiders fitting.

But if a certain outsider were to properly ask me on a date... Would you

to? Yes, I would.

But just let me be very clear.

I've worked my ass off to get where I am.

And I got plans for my future.

I'm not going to mess them up because everyone thinks I'm screwing the lawyer.

If we do this, it stays between us.

Does that work for you?

I'm authorized to make that deal.

He's got a tail.

Would you mind losing him?

My pleasure.

Wait here a moment. I'll be right back.

Given everything going on, isn't us being out in the open like this a little

risky?

We're about to enter into a very important negotiation.

I wanna do so from a position of strength.

Dad, are you on your way?

Is Peter still with you?

Look, I know he helped you and Jay escape last night, but we can skip the

-believe. What do you want?

The man who came after you both last night is here for me.

Now, I bought myself some time, but soon he's going to get into this room, and

he's going to kill me.

I need your help, Peter.

If I was going to help anybody, it'd be him.

I don't believe that.

Ever since I met you, you've made my life hell.

With everything you've done, everything you've made me do. I never made you do

anything, Peter.

I always gave you a choice.

What about Alice?

What about Catherine?

What kind of choice did they have?

The same one Solomon Vega had.

They were all soldiers.

Sometimes there's casualties.

Yeah? Well, it sounds like you're the next one, so good luck.

You're willing to look Isabelle in the eyes and tell her that you won't save

father? You, of all people?

What do you want from me, pity?

I had to walk away from everything that I cared about because of you.

Do you have any idea what that's like?

No, you don't.

Because everything, everyone is just a bargaining chip to you. That's not true.

You're a fucking liar.

Look, I'm not stupid enough to come empty -handed.

I'm offering you something. I'm done making deals with you. I think you're

to want to hear this one.

My name is now out in the open, thanks to you, I imagine.

And those people have every reason to make sure that I don't have a chance to

talk.

You're the only person in the government that I can trust to bring me in safely.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

There's a reason I was drawn to you, Peter.

I can always trust you to do what you think is right, what's moral.

And that makes you easy to predict, to manipulate, but it also makes you

No matter what you want me to think. I don't care what you think.

You get me out of this, and I give you information.

I have access to all the intel you need to take down Zapata, the whole LFS, and

to stop their next attack, which is coming soon.

Prove it.

I can only do that in person.

And if you don't come soon, I'm not going to have the chance.

Please, Isabel.

Please, talk to me.

I can't have the last time I saw you be the last time.

He sounds scared.

I've never heard him like this before.

Please, Isabel.

Please.

Fine.

But I want everything.

Not just the potty and the elephant.

I want every dirty, spook, agent, and politician that you own. And once I've

ripped up your whole operation from the roots, you still go away for life. Do

you understand?

Fine. That's bullshit. Why would you agree to something like that?

I came after my daughter.

And she's the only thing that I care about anymore.

Where are you?

What?

It's like the way you do that.

Do what?

Anything.

Stay right here.

I have a surprise for you.

Your birthday.

I'm supposed to get you a gift.

I know, but it came in last night and, uh, I don't know. The moment

just feels right.

Is that the right way?

Without a mistake?

Hey.

Hey. What?

This wasn't part of the plan.

There are supposed to be feelings.

Maybe we should make a new plan.

Don't do that.

The deal is going to close soon and then you have to leave.

And what if he came back with me?

Don't say that if you don't really mean it.

Sofia, I want to be with you.

Every meeting the pot has had in the last month.

This is a good start.

Start?

Then what have I been doing for the past eight months?

Providing us with a solid foundation.

Now the real work begins.

It's gotta be a joke.

Don't get snippy.

Remember, you got yourself into this situation.

Why are you getting antsy now?

I just want to be done. I want to have my life again. Look, I get it. You're

here by choice.

I'm not your favorite person, but you need to understand.

The work you are doing is important for your country.

You're doing good, and you can keep doing good.

Can you at least tell me what I'm actually doing and why?

So last year, a new player in the arms market shows up on the agency's radar,

someone who can move a lot of firepower very quickly across the borders and

didn't mind doing business with the kind of guys that nobody else would touch. I

mean, we're talking...

terrorist groups, like serious shit.

You think Zapata's a terrorist? Well, it's a big word.

But we do think that when he took over the business from his old man, he

using his company to move heavy stuff.

Assault weapons, anti -aircraft, you name it. Okay, hold on. Maybe he's cut,

like, a few corners. So you think that they would send me?

For a guy who is just cutting corners?

Not a meter mate. Okay, but Raul is not a warlord. Why? Because he's funny and

likes to golf?

For every ten dipshits with a manifesto, there is a guy like Zapata who goes to

country clubs, who gives to charities, and makes it so these fuckers have what

they need to get on the news. That's who Zapata is. Which is why I cannot let

you walk away.

Not anytime soon.

Please, I don't want to do this anymore. Jacob, it would have taken us years to

maybe get one of our guys as close to Zapata as you are to him right now.

And if we play this right, a lot of innocent people don't die at the hands

some fanatic with a Che Guevara poster on his wall.

Isn't that worth something to you?

It's not worth my life, my future. Right, of course.

With your new girlfriend, right?

Sophia?

Who do you think you're dealing with?

Happy birthday, by the way.

I didn't get you anything.

Wait!

I can get proof.

Is that so?

Yeah. I mean, enough to take down his organization for good.

But if I do this, I get to walk away.

Forever. Clean slate.

Okay.

But if we move on this, it's going to be airtight.

A guarantee that if we read in the Federales and they seize the potty

there will be weapons in it.

Anything else?

No deal.

I'm sorry that I didn't tell you earlier, but I thought you'd be safe for

knowing.

When did they approach you?

I don't know the exact date.

Was it before us?

Yeah.

So, every minute.

We've been together, that's been a lie.

I have never actually known the real you.

Oh, Sophia.

All that talk about our future.

Wasn't you all that real?

I'm sorry.

I didn't have a choice.

But this is real.

I love you and you are my future.

Is there a way for us to get out of this?

To start our lives?

But I can't do it without your help.

Are you seriously asking me what I think you're asking me?

It's not fair.

Just hear me.

You need to leave.

Wait.

Thank you again for doing this.

After my dad died, I was on my own, and that was hard.

But I took comfort in the fact that I didn't have anything else to lose.

Now I'm scared.

Sophie, I'm sorry that I... No, I don't need you to tell me you're sorry.

I need you to tell me that we're going to be okay.

Then it's all going to be worth it.

We are.

It will.

I can't lose us, Jacob.

I can't. I know. And soon we're going to be on the other side of this.

And then I'm going to make it all up to you.

I hope you were serious about going back to the States because once they move

on, Raul, we need to get the hell out of Mexico City.

Who knows how many people in the government will see you there. This

enough.

What?

No, I...

I know every customer we serve is.

Those containers will match any of them.

They must be a secret shipment.

I know what it's going to be 100 % concrete for them to move.

It's the only way we get out of this for good.

Do you know where he keeps the keys?

What the fuck are

you doing, Jacob?

We were looking for you. There's a new contract. Fuck!

Go over there and get out of your fucking place. No, I don't want to do

Of course I don't want to do this, unless I'm here. Wait!

The truth.

Yo lo había sospechado y vine a confirmarlo esta noche.

¿Y qué aprendiste, güero?

Que has sido descuidado.

Y yo lo descubrí. Y eso que solo soy una persona común y corriente que desprende

del dinero es solo una cuestión de tiempo antes de que alguien más lo haga

también. Pero si tuvieras el socio adecuado. Qué huevotes tienes.

¿Cómo me vas a ayudar?

Soy un abogado corporativo.

El acobio es parte de mi trabajo.

Yo puedo esconder esto en una estructura llena de fachada que le tomaría un

contador de frente 10 años para que den contigo.

Mira, me caes bien.

Pero eres un puto outsider.

Tienes razón.

Yo no conozco este lugar o este oficio.

Pero si te vas a meter en problemas y aún peor, estás perdiendo dinero.

Soy todo oídos.

Según lo que lograron averiguar, solo estás vendiendo a gente de un lado. No

hace falta ser un traficante de armas para saber que es un mal negocio.

¿Y tú qué crees que van a pensar mis clientes cuando se enteren que estoy

vendiendo armas en ambos bandos? Si supieran.

Yo me puedo asegurar de que no lo hagan.

¿Tú qué ganas en todo esto?

Pienso que debemos.

How do you know this? Because I opened it up and I saw a missile.

Good work.

So what happens now?

Pass it up the chain.

They have the Federalis Intercept, and it's right.

It is. You're a free man, Jacob Monroe.

Page me when it's done.

You have a real talent for this, you know?

Most people don't.

If you ever wanted to entertain a career change, the agency could really use a

guy like you. You think I'd want to work for you? I'm not so bad once you get to

know me.

An exciting life.

I don't want exciting.

I want to never talk to you again.

It's not complicated. Just don't go meet with him.

What would I tell Raul? I don't care.

In three days, we'll be out of his reach.

We're so close. Which is why I can't raise any alarms right now.

Raul just wants to hear himself talk.

Jacob,

I've got a new plan.

I need him both to the backyard, telling stories to our kids at bedtime, and a

man that I love so much to hurt.

Promise me I'm not going to lose that.

You're not.

I'll be back before you finish the kitchen.

Me salgo del trato contigo y con los gringos.

Necesito que le avises a tus jefes.

Y de nuestros otros tratos también.

Chao. Chao.

Estoy seguro que lo que haya pasado lo podremos arreglar. No hay nada que

podamos arreglar porque la cagué.

Bueno.

Descubrí que hay un soprano dentro de mi compañía y está a punto de chingarme.

¿Quién?

Sofía.

Operaciones.

No, eso no puede ser. Digo que lo es. Y yo te digo a ti.

He trabajado junto a ella todo este tiempo. Nunca he visto ninguna evidencia

ella ser algo diferente de una buena trabajadora y leal a ti. Lo puedo

Así que a menos que tú sepas algo que yo no sé, te voy a pedir que te calles.

No me voy a resolver así.

¿Entendido?

Entonces? ¿Sabes algo que yo no sepa?

Perdón por reaccionar de esta manera.

Solo que estoy impactado.

Pensé que la conocía.

Yo también.

Uno nunca termina de conocer a la gente, amigo mío.

But don't worry.

We're getting this over with.

Sophia!

Sophia.

He took Sophia. She's gone.

Kostya.

I don't know what you want me to do about that. Help her, please.

You're the one who brought her into this. Please.

No, you did.

Consider yourself lucky. It could have been you in an unmarked grave somewhere.

Now stick to your word and never talk to me again.

Come on. No, you can't.

I don't know you're not going to screw me over when I get you out of this.

There's a secure online database where the intelligence we need and a hell of a

lot more is stored.

It's encrypted to the point where I can't even access it unless I have this

book. I'll let you hold it.

It's a show of good faith.

So it's a cipher.

Yeah. How's it work?

Well, if I told you that, you wouldn't be very motivated to protect me, would

you? Yeah.

Hey, what's your ETA?

East exit in 30 seconds.

Okay, switch to comms.

Copy.

Hey, you got him?

Got him.

Peter, you coming?

They're here.

Grandma, can we have money for ice cream?

Fine.

But... it'll cost you.

Okay, fine, fine. You're all settled up.

You're a kid.

You're... God, no.

My daughters.

And I take them every chance I can get.

That must be nice.

And what do they call you?

A granny?

Margaret? Agent Miller?

Maybe Costa?

How'd I find you?

Slowly.

And at great expense.

You seem different.

Well, I gave up drinking and got serious about a new career.

Havana, 1998.

I've seen some things since the last time we spoke, but this... Oh, this is

nasty work.

Bravo.

I was acting on orders from the agency.

Maybe.

But if this gets out...

Do you really see the agency taking the blame because I see them hanging you out

to dry? What could you possibly want from me after 15 years?

An explanation?

No, I know what happened.

You use the intel I gathered as leverage to broker the deal with Zapata. The U

.S. and its allies leave Malone and the agency gets weapons for its... ...extra

-critical activities.

Cold War was over.

Budget shrank.

Oversight got tight.

We had to turn to new partners. Like an arms dealer.

Well, once they come to the table, they're more like freedom fighters.

Until the alliance becomes inconvenient, and once it did, well, you're more than

happy to double -cross them. Every time the administration changes, the

priorities change with it.

The president wanted to cut him loose.

He wanted to bury him, actually.

Green led a covert op to take him out.

But the intel was bad. He wasn't there.

His sister and her kids were.

After that, he went deep underground, ratcheted up the violence, but we rarely

heard a peep from him.

Oh, you will.

Eventually.

Well, as much as I love catching up, I have better things to do than reminisce.

Kendall Country Day School.

Do not test my resolve.

What then?

An apology?

Sophia, what happened to her?

One of the terms of the deal was that we give him our mole inside of his

operation. It was her or you.

You were an asset. She was just collateral.

No.

She's my one chance at a family. You should have chosen me.

Well, there was nothing stopping you from outing yourself.

Taking her place, you could have marched him to Zapata's office and told him

everything. Nothing I said would have saved her. I'm sure that helps.

Believing that... I love Sophia more than anything. No.

I think the proof suggests that you loved yourself.

Just a tiny bit more.

Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

He didn't kill her.

Sophia was more useful to him as a scapegoat than she was dead.

He used his connections in the Mexican government to have her go down under a

different name for some of his crimes.

She's alive.

She died in prison two years ago.

But a few months into her sentence, she had a child.

A girl.

I can help you find her.

You'll be hearing from me.

When it rings, you answer.

Isabel.

Isabel.

Don't patronize me. My English is a lot better than your Spanish.

Your mother used to make fun of my Spanish.

I don't know what she told you about me.

She said you weren't worth knowing.

I'd like to try to change that if I can.

This was hers.

We thought we might read it to you one day.

You know, our first date was at a bookstore.

Ophelia, your mother... I don't need fairy tales.

I'm not a child.

I know.

In fact, your teachers tell me you're outperforming students two to three

ahead of you, and every chance they set a new benchmark, you blow right past it.

It's impressive, to say the least.

Listen, there's an international school in the city.

It has an advanced program that feeds right into the best universities in the

world. I have friends there.

People owe me favors.

You could start on Monday. We can't even keep the lights on.

And we're three months behind on rent. How are we supposed to afford that? It's

already been taken care of. And as for rent, the apartment is now owned by a

trust in your name.

So, if you want to upgrade, we can set you up with something nicer, and you can

rent this one out.

Go away.

If you ever want to talk about your future.

If you're ever just curious.

Where's Peter?