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As a federal employee applying for Code 776 retirement benefits, which is a job

-specific disability, you are required to have scheduled therapy sessions and

medical examinations to qualify.

But you can still officially sign off for me, right? So I can get my checks?

Assuming you make your weekly appointments here for evaluations.

I figure with an American presence on the base, I might as well fulfill my

requirements here.

180 over 90.

So I'm a good blood pressure or I'm a bad blood pressure?

It's not cholesterol, Alex.

There's only one blood pressure, and it's too high. Your blood test shows

that you stopped taking your ACE inhibitors and vasodilators. I googled

vasodilator. Three words came up. Sexual side effects.

If you don't take them with your level of hypertension, your heart will become

enlarged. I know. I'm taking time, Mom. No, there's no taking.

Just boom.

Heart failure.

And trust me, that's worse than penis failure.

This is your opinion.

I want you to wear this for a while.

The alarm goes off if your blood pressure rises above 180 or if your

heart rate goes past 170.

I think I... This is your hypertension journal.

Whenever the monitor goes off, take a reading and record it.

Okay. All right. Use it to monitor the things that cause you stress, then avoid

them. Well, that's why I'm here, Doc.

15 years ago, one of my assignments took me to a little isolated beach on this

island. No TVs, no phones.

I always thought it'd be a great place to retire.

So I sold what little I had and bought myself a gift shop.

No stress, no drama.

Just peace and quiet.

This the Paradise Hotel?

Paradise Resort. Paradise Resort.

Hey man, I don't... I don't think this is the right place.

Last time I was here was just a bunch of thatched huts on the beach. Lots of

construction.

Best resort in Pacific.

Guests come from all over world.

I don't understand.

I thought I bought the gift shop outright.

You buy gift shop and apartment.

Hotel on the land it sits on. I manage.

This is not how I remembered it.

You fix?

No problem.

This shop give you lots of money.

So much money.

You fix?

No problem.

Your apartment in back.

Water and electricity get from hotel you pay twice a month you late I

cut off so don't be late

This is how we roll in Manila.

You guys ready?

Remember, I do all the talking, alright?

Gentlemen!

Welcome.

What can I offer you to drink?

Uh, well, do you have an old rock?

An old rock? Yeah. Excellent choice.

This way.

I'll take Hennessy.

Grab a glass.

So this hunk of ice is 10,000 years old.

We sawed it off a glacier on our last trip to Greenland.

So I hear you're the man to speak to about local protection, distribution and

storage. You know what these boys?

They're not working for the Manila boys.

I'm on this island.

That means me.

Me.

And now you're affiliated with me.

You will provide me with local protection and access for my product

before transshipping to the United States.

Anyone else want an old rock?

790 pesos.

Hey sweetheart, can I get a Jim Beam neat or beer beer be just

fine

So it's nothing to do with you.

I

was

really starting to like this place.

Hey, guys.

How are you? Listen, anybody up for a game of snooker?

You know this?

Hey, Amboy.

Shove off. We're busy.

Where's all this mabuhay I've been hearing so much about?

You know here, bitch.

Easy, Lodi. Yeah, easy, Lodi.

You're starting to sweat.

That vein in your forehead's starting to pulsate.

Your left hand's twitching. Your breathing's erratic. I'd say your blood

pressure's, what, 180 over 90?

You know, you should leave before you go out.

I didn't understand what you said. What I did hear was your heart about to come

out of your chest.

You'd be on your way to a coronary or even an aneurysm.

You don't want to die today, do you?

A friend of the American embassy got me this. Apparently, he spent more time

under deep cover than anyone else in the bureau.

Two years attached to Operation Eradication in the Golden Triangle,

Mexico, Colombia, a year and a half in Spain, doing, uh, God knows what.

Apparently, he's some sort of a legend.

So you had drug enforcement special agent doing here? Ex-special agent. He

went local.

They gave him a 7-7-6.

Means they kicked him out.

Agent Walker?

Oh, it's a hypertension journal.

Lots to log.

Why didn't you tell Detective Mendoza and the other detectives that you were a

USDA agent?

It could have been my nerves, because they were yelling at me. You broke up a

sting operation we'd been working on for three months.

You were about to be killed.

All right, I made your partners an undercover as soon as you walked in the

door. Look, trust me, I didn't want to get involved, okay? But when I saw the

hitter sit behind you in the booth, they were there to kill him, not to sell to

him. You sure of that?

Go check the bald guy's jacket.

Left pocket, garrote wire.

In the right pocket's a hunting knife.

Garrote wire? Never seen anybody around here using a garrote.

That's impressive.

How would you like to work with our department?

We don't need any help from outsiders.

She's right, then I can't man you've read my jacket. I got issues look I'm

sorry that I busted up your play from what I've read you have a unique set of

skills and experience at our local She's good. She's great all right. She fooled

me. She can handle this you don't need me Okay, you made a mess out of this

case now. You have to fix it doctors holders.

You know I look

Deeply you are alive breathe out let go breathe in Grateful

the Sun warms you breathe out relax Breathe in fullness all will

be well Breathe

out relax

Dude, are you kidding me? I just got the trim right.

Somebody

just

tried to kill me.

Agent Walker, please have a seat. I don't want a seat. I don't want a seat.

I want to know why I almost had to wear an ascot for the rest of my life.

Somehow word gets out there's an ex-DEA agent on the island?

Are you suggesting that I... Unbelievable, man. You would risk my

life to force me to help you. What kind of a monster do you think I am?

How many guys you got?

But you bring up a good point. Our problem has become yours as well.

Now, until we wrap this all up, you're in danger.

Now, we can offer to keep you locked up to protect you or... Or...

I can help you solve this case.

It's really up to you.

Six gang-related shootings and three dead from overdose in the last four

months. Ever since Frost hit the streets.

It's a synthetic heroin, derivative cut with speed. Makes crack look like

aspirin.

We've now learned that the Manila Boys have infiltrated and recruited two local

gangs for distribution.

Kobe Rodriguez did six years in Quezon City for drug peddling and assault.

He arrived on the island two months ago.

Dropped off the radar two weeks ago. We find him, we choke off the frost

pipeline to the island.

It's crap.

Excuse me?

Oh, I'm sorry. It's heart monitor.

It's a piece of crap. I mean, and it works great, but it's designed to look

like a Mikada.

Problem is, that says made in China.

Mikada's an American brand.

You see, to sell these puppies, they make it look and sound like it's

homegrown. It's not. It's from the Far East. Now, if Joe Schmo finds out where

they're made... That drives the prices down, limiting sales and inviting

unwanted competition.

I'm so glad you're paying attention.

This has the look and feel of a local gang operation, trafficking outside of

Manila. It's not. It's fake.

These drugs are intended for the United States.

You got all this from your watch?

You said it yourself.

Frost is a synthetic heroin.

Now, Asia, they have the ability to manufacture synthetics in legitimate

drug factories.

Right? Smuggled out illegally before the officials even knew it was part of the

infrastructure. I'd say the ingredients are smuggled on the island and cooked

right here. Helps develop the drug and finance production.

They ship it off to Los Angeles, Seattle, dispersed across the states.

So couldn't Kobe Rodriguez still be in charge of all this? My attacker had a

pistol. Instead of shooting me, he tried to garrote me. These guys are trying to

make a statement under orders of their new boss.

And who was that?

An operation like this can only come from one of three places. China, Taiwan,

or Malaysia.

Triads, they don't have time. They're not about to risk coming to some high

-profile resort island on the Philippines.

So you got Taiwan, and you got Malaysia.

All you gotta do is figure out which one.

Oh, and by the way, I'm always paying attention.

Guys, guys, if it's already an established drug house, why don't you

just go up and knock on the front door?

Might I remind you that you're only here to observe and advise.

So if you got something useful to say, say it. All right, okay.

Didn't mean to offend you.

Stakeouts are a very important information-gathering tool.

Once over silent Bob here. Does he ever talk?

I want to have something to say.

Hey, man.

They're moving.

This is the best car you can find.

What? It's nondescript.

That's the problem. It screams nondescript.

Does it offend your fragile sense of masculinity?

Yeah, that's not the point. The point is, never appear like you're trying not

to be noticed. This is a resort island, man. People come here, they want to feel

special. They want to be noticed.

You know who doesn't want to be noticed?

Criminals and undercover cops.

When you're surveilling, you don't want to be the one. You're the number one.

Forget you're a cop.

Forget you're a cop.

How could that go wrong?

We can go.

Making a drop?

Up, up, up, right there.

Malaysian flag.

Pretty sure that boat didn't sail in from Quezon City.

Gang of four? Yeah.

We're up against some pretty bad guys.

They're leaving.

Should we follow them?

No.

We get on that boat.

Okay, let's go. Let's do it.

Hey. Oh, hello. Hey, hey.

Boat's this way.

We're going to a judge. We're gonna get a warrant.

We're going to do this right. You want to do it right?

All right, let's do it right.

All right.

I got to pee.

Where's the head at? Right there. Okay.

Sorry, guys. I apologize. I got to pee. I'll be back.

Ooh, I love it when people are prompt.

Let's see here.

Very nice.

Good job, gentlemen.

Very good. Uh-uh, uh-uh.

I got it.

It's a lot of money.

Who the hell are you?

Me?

I'm just a guy you've been trying to kill.

Guys, seriously, put the guns down, huh?

Violence never solved anything.

Well, I guess in your line of work, sometimes it does, doesn't it?

Where's he going?

Do you think he's on the boat?

My badge on it.

So we just wait for him.

He said look like you want to be noticed.

That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Not true about you guys eating dogs, is it?

I'm only asking because I was hoping you'd be serving lunch.

You have 30 seconds to convince me not to kill you.

Kill me?

You're gonna want to kiss me.

We're going into business together.

Business? Really?

Yeah. Then what kind of business would I be doing with an American DEA agent?

X.

DEA. X.

Why would you do that?

Hypertension. So now you're a criminal?

15 years, I've been in the weeds.

Watching guys like you get richer and richer.

Guys like me, we get beaten, broken.

For what? You know, for nothing.

I've been on the losing end of this drug war for way too long.

Benedict Arnold of the U.S. Drug Enforcement.

I like to think of myself more like, and I'm not a fan, LeBron James, you know? I

take my talents to the best fit.

LeBron James.

That's a good one.

You know, you earned yourself another 30 seconds.

Sell me.

Supply and demand.

You can make great quantities of supply, but it's going to cost you a fortune to

reach the demand. That's where I come in. I ain't the only soldier that

realized that this war on drugs was a joke. I got a network, current and

former DEA agents at the highest level that can move your stuff into the U.S.

Make officials look the other way when your cargo hits the dock, gentlemen.

I am your free pass to the American market.

Sounds expensive.

Yeah.

You pay me. I told you we're on the same side.

Okay? Now, I don't want to work for you. I want to work with you. Me and my guys,

we know all the players.

We know how to reach the demand.

We need access to your supply.

So you buy drugs from me, sell to the U.S.? Yeah. Okay.

And how are you getting all this money?

Money comes from your competitors.

How so?

Seized mountains of money.

Cash. And evidence lockers, lockers that I got access to.

Okay.

If you're really an ex-DEA agent, what were you doing in the beer house?

Man, I was trying to contact you.

I've been trying to get ahold of you, man, but then you send your errand boys

in there, they're getting ready to kill a couple of undercover cops.

I had to do something, all right? I want to work with you. I do.

But none of every cop on this island has a personal vendetta to bring you down.

It's too hot, too much heat, even for me.

How soon can you get your hands on the cash?

How about tomorrow?

Two million sound like a good start.

We should have a drink to seal the deal.

Now you're talking.

So this hunk of ice is 10,000 years old. The purest substance on Earth.

Gracias amigo.

De nada.

Now I want you to see what happened to the last man who disappointed me.

Say hello to Coby Rodriguez.

Now you won't be disappointing me, right?

You're surprisingly strong.

Pilates.

Tell me why I shouldn't arrest you right now. Because tomorrow when he buys $2

million worth of drugs from me, you guys are going to close the biggest case of

your career.

By the way, where are you supposed to get the $2 million in cash?

I gotta think of everything?

Yes.

All of those pieces.

Agent Civic. This is Detective Mendoza.

We'll be taking over the case from here.

Tio's an international criminal. This is beyond your jurisdiction.

My team will be running the investigation going forward.

Alex Walker.

I bet you thought you'd never see me again.

If you didn't want to help, then why did you set up the bar?

To help them, not you.

Oh, what, so you hate your country now?

Here's the thing, Walker.

I don't want you involved.

I don't trust you.

I know what happened in Spain with Todd Carpenter.

And I know about your little episode afterwards.

But I don't have a choice.

Because you already made contact, and we need T.O.

I want a clean record.

I want a special agent pension, not this disability crap. I don't want to have to

have doctors signing off for me to give my checks.

I can make that happen.

I'll call Washington after the bust.

Okay, we're to go for 1,100 hours tomorrow.

Agent Walker!

Come on, it's time.

hours away from taking down a major drug trafficker. Doesn't matter.

Sober you up and bring you back. It doesn't matter!

It doesn't matter!

If we take down Jimmy Taylor or not, it doesn't matter.

You know how many people I've seen die fighting this idiotic drug war?

And for what?

We arrest them, they're right back out on the streets in a couple of weeks.

Trade it for some political favor, or they're like your boy KO, a paid asset,

whatever!

This drug war has gone on longer than World War I, II, Vietnam, both Iraq and

Afghanistan combined.

Are there fewer drugs out there? Are fewer people addicted? You need to calm

down. And what about us, huh? What about the guys on the front line? They don't

throw parades for veterans of the drug war, lady.

There's no celebration!

We're just casualties of this war.

I had a partner in Spain.

Todd Carpenter?

And he was one of the guys that cared too much.

And after watching everybody walk again and again and again...

They got to him.

So he switched teams.

And to prove that he was legit, they gave him an assignment.

Well, he was supposed to kill me.

But he didn't.

Didn't he?

Trusting my partner was the only thing that I had.

Not what I got.

I can't do this, Kai.

I'm sorry.

Can you take me back, please?

Kai, what are you doing?

My cousins grew up in this town.

Five blocks long.

Lucy Reyes was nine years old when she was shot and killed in that corner.

A stray bullet from a drug deal gone bad.

Then three weeks later, her older brother was stabbed in a robbery just at

the end of this block.

Is that why you became a cop?

My mother was a spiritual leader.

She was beloved by the community.

When she died, it was the only way I could think of to honor her.

Kai.

Why are you showing me all this?

Because I don't believe your nerves are shot.

I watched you with Teo. I saw you at that beer house. You have ice in your

veins. Do you want a note from my doctor?

It's not arresting these guys that gives you the shakes.

It's what happens afterwards.

The politics, the bureaucracy.

I don't give a crap about politics.

What I care about are these islands.

The people who live here.

Starting with these five blocks.

Kai, I can't.

I'm sorry.

I just, you know...

I do that too.

You do what?

Ask the ocean for advice.

Guidance. So what you think I'm doing?

I think you chose to come back to this island because you were looking for

something. Something you desperately need.

Inside. Yeah, and what's that?

My boy.

Breathe it in.

It's all around you.

Everywhere you look.

So what are we doing?

These guys with the DEA, Interpol,

okay, they are not like you guys. You guys are cops, all right? Somebody

breaks the law, you go get them. These guys, they haven't been cops in a long

time.

They're soldiers in a fog of war.

And in war, the only thing that is ever clear...

is who is alive and who is dead.

So we do nothing?

I'm gonna hate myself in the morning.

You're not gonna screw this up and have one of your little episodes, are you?

Your faith in me is overwhelming.

We have incoming.

Okay. We are a go.

Show us what you got.

Team one.

Team one in position.

Team two.

Team two in position.

Team three. Team three in position.

How's the anxiety?

Walker, sound check.

Three, two, one, check, check, check. Can you hear me? You guys good?

Good. Okay, remember, code word is avocado.

Don't say it until he's accepted the money, and you can confirm the drugs

he's handing you with a real McCoy. We hear the code word, we'll execute an

ingress. Got it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. Avocado. I got it.

I trust what's in this case won't disappoint me.

What, you had a loss for words?

It's a trap. You set me up.

You're surrounded by U.S. agents, Interpol, local police.

All right, they knew I was meeting with you. They forced me to collect evidence

against you. There's over a dozen guys surrounding this building right now.

Search them.

I ripped the wire off before I came in here, okay? So far, they got nothing on

you. If you listen to me and do what I tell you, they won't.

He's clean.

Jimmy, you gotta learn to reset your default settings from kill everybody

immediately to take a deep breath.

Take it through, man.

Either I am on your side, in which case I'm the only shot you got at getting out

of here, or I am a D.E.A.

Agent and by shooting me it destroys any chance you got a cut in the deal with

these guys that you know You're gonna be offer but either way get that freakin

gun out of my face Why aren't you guys

responding to the radio Zivik is pissed Boy you're on the wrong damn

channel Zivik says they're about to exit the east side want you guys to back up

the team over there Well, I got confirmed with Zivik you do that Tell

him why you're on the wrong channel, too.

So we just leave this post?

Nothing's happening here, as if it's got me and the local PD covering.

Hurry! They're about to move.

Fogos, move! Move!

Aren't I the guy who called Pablo Escobar a Nancy boy and got away with

it? Doesn't he ever shut up? When he got dangled out of a helicopter over a live

volcano. Answers yes, and guess this is gonna be no no you guys you gotta move

faster, okay?

Keep getting rid of all this evidence all this stuff going you gotta move. Hey

come with me grab your boys gentlemen. Let's go Hold

on

Very nice.

Okay, bringing out the salad.

Salad? Are you saying Tio's bringing out the drugs? He's leading to the covert?

How did you always have an exit strategy, Tio?

Just what the doctor ordered.

Can't wait to get a look at the main course.

Breathe in deeply.

You are alive.

Breathe out.

Let go.

Everyone inside, now!

Raise the anchor, start the engines.

Dump the body when we're out of the bay. Yeah, right. That's not gonna look

suspicious, huh? An iceberg floating in Cebu Bay with a dead guy in it? You're

not gonna have to worry about that because you're gonna be floating right

next to it. I'm sick and tired of this. I saved your ass! You set me up.

You're a liability.

You can't be trusted.

What are you gonna do?

What, are you gonna stick me in a little ice sculpture next to the dead guy that

your goons killed?

Oh, no, no, no.

I killed him with an ice pick to his heart. I could feel his life leaving his

body. Through my hands. And now you're next.

Goodbye, Mr. Walker.

On this island, we say paalam.

Paalam. Lower your weapons.

Okay,

okay. Jimmy Taylor, you're under arrest for the murder of Kobe Rodriguez.

I killed him with an ice pick to his heart. I could feel his life leaving his

body through my hands.

Thank you.

is an important day for the Philippines.

The arrest of Jimmy Teo signifies the beginning of a new era for law

enforcement on our islands. Okay?

He's pretty charismatic in front of that camera, isn't he?

You know this won't stand.

This is a multinational narcotics bust. Teo is coming with me.

Narcotics?

Did you find any narcotics? We didn't find any.

Oh, this is a murder rap. Local jurisdiction.

And there's nothing the United States government or Interpol can do about it.

You're going up on charges.

Perhaps.

But he's on our island now, and he's our guest. So I would appreciate it if you

didn't threaten him.

There's a law against it here.

You can forget about your disability pay.

I got my crosshairs on you, pal.

You seem really stressed out.

Still healthy.

Should have that checked out.

Come on.

Starting to look real good in here, Alex.

Oh, thank you.

Probably should have paid a little more attention in shop class in high school,

but... Yeah, I think she's coming along.

You hungry?

Can you take a break?

I gotta eat.

Come on. I think you'll like this.

attention please this is special agent Alex Walker

what's

going on here I said they never threw your parade well here it is

I don't understand.

Five blocks, Alex.

These are the people who live there.

And these are the people you helped today.

What is this?

Mabuhay, Agent Walker.

Pure mabuhay.